If you have your Bible, turn over to Matthew chapter 4,
Matthew chapter 4. You know, a couple Sundays ago
when I ministered on the, the bread, right, Kingdom life and
Pastor Marcy last week ministered and I'm going to
cover a couple things that she said last week.
But that Sunday in my mind, I, we, we have a ministry
coordinating meeting that we do the second Sunday of every
month. So in my mind, I was thinking
about that meeting, although we did not have it in December,
because we did a vision casting later that week.
So there was this concept concerning the bread that I was
planning on just bringing to the ministry coordinators and, but
obviously we didn't have that meeting.
So, you know, it's one of those notes that I put in my notes.
See, when I get things by the Spirit, sometimes, you know,
they can come out that day, or sometimes I just marinate,
meditate. We'll talk about that word here
in a minute on those particular things.
And then every once in a while, you know, when you're just kind
of going through, Laura, what do you want me to preach?
I'll start going through some notes of things that I have.
And then some things just pop up.
You know, I mean, the Holy Ghost says you need to go there.
And so, you know, I was doing that today saying, OK, Laura,
what do you want me to do to set up maybe next week, you know,
just talking to him. I'd went out and prayed for a
couple hours in the Spirit and came back and put myself in a
position to hear. And then this popped up and I
like, you know, I'm going to go there.
So tonight's message is the crumbs, the crumbs.
All right, Matthew 44 says this, but he answered and said it is
written, man shall what not live on bread alone, but on every
word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.
All right, few things here. Obviously in this passage of
Scripture number one, man should not live solely based upon
natural means. Man is going to have natural
means that he needs to live on. That's why it says man shall not
live on bread alone. You cannot become so spiritual
that you you bypass physical. We are in a natural body, a
physical body that needs physical things.
God designed us that way, OK? And so he, you're not going to
get so spiritual that you would never have to eat natural food
again. He would sustain you by the
Spirit. It's not going to happen.
OK.
So we just need to understand that there are natural things we
are going to have to do in the earth, but we are not to let
that be our sole thing that we pursue, OK.
So man should not live on bread alone, but on every word that
proceeds out of the mouth of God.
So the number one priority for us in in living on the earth is
to hear from God is to hear from God.
OK, Now we ultimately know that there's a type and shadow here
and Deuteronomy chapter 8, verse one through 3, there was a
reference here of Moses speaking to the Israelites and he said
all the commandments that I'm commanding you today.
This is the Lord speaking obviously through Moses, saying
all the commandments that I'm commanding you today you shall
be careful to do, and that you may live and multiply and go in
and possess the land which the Lord swore to give to your
forefathers. You shall remember all the way
which the Lord your God has LED you in the wilderness these 40
years, that He might humble you, testing you to know what was in
your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.
And let me just stop for a second.
No, we know that God never intended for them to be in the
wilderness for 40 years, OK? And the only reason they're in
the wilderness for 40 years is because they did not do his word
to go on in and possess. They went in to spy out to
determine how we would do it. Not a problem until you decide
God will not do what he says. And that's what they did.
10/12/12 tribe leaders went in, 10 came back saying there's no
way we're going to be able to take this land.
It's not going to happen, cannot happen.
There are giants in the land. We are grasshoppers.
They see us that way. We know we're this way.
There's no way we can conquer Caleb and Joshua on another hand
says we're well able. We can take it.
There's no issue. They have the spirit of faith
right? They're like God said it.
We can do it and you understand what he did to Egypt.
We already have a trial run with his power.
We know what he can do to overturn nations.
There's a really not a problem. You need to quiet down.
We need to rally the troops and let's go on in but the 10
stirred up the whole congregation.
One translation says the nation of Israel and they bait they
rebelled. They said we we can't do it.
So the Lord is like, OK, then for the 40 days that you spied
out the land, that's how many years you're going to stay out
here in the wilderness? But he's staying out as they're
out there. He's still training.
Still training. Unfortunately those who died
never learned the lesson that is verse three.
He humbled you and let you be hungry and fed you with manna,
which you did not know nor did your father's know that he might
what make you understand that man does not live on bread
alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of
the mouth of the mouth of the Lord.
Now that test was pretty quick, right, because he's like, OK,
you're going to they were hungry.
Said we're going to give you some manna be like, what is
that? And so that morning he said, now
listen, God's going to provide bread for you.
Food man is what it was called, OK, and we're going to provide
that for you. And each day you are to pick up
enough to take care of your family.
That's the instruction. So you get enough to take care
of your family, don't get too much, don't get too less, get
enough to feed your family. And you're going to do this
every day until you get to the 6th day of the week.
And on the 6th day of the week, you get to double up.
OK, you're going to be at a double up because on the Sabbath
we're going to let you rest. You don't have to go out and get
food. You're going to have enough for
the two days so that you can rest and remember what I've done
because I want to keep you and remember.
So what I'm doing, if you're following me, follow my voice.
I am a God who does His Word. Well, what happened very first
day? They pick up more and he said
you when you pick it up, eat it all.
Don't leave any overnight, right?
He's giving them instruction what to do.
But they're like, I don't feel like eating it all.
I'm not going to. I'll just save that for
tomorrow. Sounds like.
What's the big deal? There's always a big deal when
you do not do God's Word. It's a big deal.
Now you understand, in our dispensation today, we kind of
still treat it like, you know, it's not a big deal not to obey
God. Well, we're undergrad.
It's not a big deal. It's a big deal.
There's never not, it's never not a big deal.
It is a big deal. OK, Now, when I said that I was
a double negative, never. Not So it's never OK for you to
disobey God's word. You hear what I'm saying?
So what we what we want to do is we want to obey God and it's
always in because his words life so obviously they kept some over
and it stonked. So everyone knows.
Listen, when you don't obey God, it stinks prettiest.
Now, unfortunately, not everyone know, but God knows.
It never goes without God not noticing.
And he's merciful. He'll forgive you.
No issue there. You understand.
I don't want you to feel condemned, but I also equally
don't want you to be, you know, lazy in obedience.
We don't want to create. A culture of Saints that's like,
well, that's really not a big deal it.
Is a big deal. And then good news is God will
forgive you if you disobey. He's merciful, he's
compassionate, he's kind. But just because he's that way
doesn't mean I should treat him basically with contempt, so to
speak. And say, you know, what if I do
your word or not? As you know, like, you know, the
old, the first Pirates of the Caribbean.
Movie, you know, with the code, right, that means you saw
Pirates of the Caribbean, right? And he said, well, it's more
like I said, a guidelines. And what we do is we're treating
God's word, who is the king and the ruler of all as really a set
of guidelines. Well, the man, there are
guidelines. Then you're making yourself king
over the king. So every time again, if we're
doing this analogy, you know which again, I didn't say it,
the Lord says it. Man shall not live on bread
alone, but of every word that proceeds out of my out of the
mouth of God and he says I tested you in the wilderness to
determine your heart to determine do you have are you
willing? Will you fully submit?
Because again. If they had.
Taken enough mana, eaten it and left nothing over.
Then the next day they would have gotten more food and there
was multiple ways they were getting really creative on how
to make mana. And so they do this for six days
and then on 6 day they double up and so they have enough for the
next day of which then they leave no leftovers when they get
into the first of the week because we're now back to the
same pattern or just enough for the day.
And what we're doing is we're learning that God's word works.
And anytime we deviated from that stench, right?
And so I mean, we're really, we could always say, you know, when
we find ourselves in a place that we knew God told us to do
something, we didn't do it. We're like, man, I kind of put
myself in a place where it stinks right now, you know, and
it's kind of self-inflicted because, again, God.
Didn't. God doesn't want your mana to
stink or be unproductive or to rot and have worms, right?
So as Pastor Marcy said last week, give us this day Our Daily
Bread. You know, so obviously in the
the bread we, we saw that the Lord is the bread of life, which
is his word. And we need to seek after that
bread. We need to seek after his word
be submitted it. And then Pastor Marcy brought
into the context then how do we eat that bread, right?
Last week was, you know, 1 bottle of time.
How do you personally eat the bread of life?
Well, number one, you have to or she said you need to meditate.
Joshua tells us that you're going to meditate on it day and
night. The word meditate means to chew
on it or to mutter. So not only are you chewing on
it in your mind, you're running the word through, but you're
also speaking it out as well. So that's in essence, you're
eating the bread of life because it's getting in your spirit.
OK, so again, there's this whole context of what they call mental
ascent, which means you can receive God's Word just in your
mind. Now anyone who has just mental
ascent means they don't have revelation and you can quote
something all day long, but you've never made it where it's
governing your life. This is what religion does.
People who are religious have a a mental or knowledge of God's
word, but they do not let it govern their being.
And when you don't let it govern your being, then in essence, you
may have the knowledge of God, but you're not allowing it to
govern how you live and, and, and you have the heart to want
to do it. OK, so in order to meditate on
that, you're chewing on it, you're getting it, you're having
it, because once revelation hits, revelation never hits in
your mind. Revelation always comes in your
heart because the Word is sown into our hearts, which is our
spirit man, OK. And once the Holy Spirit reveals
to our spirit what God is. Saying Then it will illuminate
our mind, it will renew our mind, and now we now have the
spirit and soul in agreement that man, God's Word, is right.
And I'm going to believe that now if my physical man is like
can't happen, we can override with the other two realms.
And that's how it was designed. You could not do it in the
spirit or we're alive to God in the spirit until you were born
again. So your spirit man was dead and
it didn't matter how much you knew about God, it never
assimilated into your life because it was not revelation.
But the minute you became born again, then all of a sudden your
spirit came alive. Now God's Word is alive and it's
life to you. And as you meditate and chew on
it and you receive it in, then it will give revelation in your
mind to where that's how you think.
And you want to think that way. So really there were a group of
people. Now, we don't know their names,
but there were a group of people in the wilderness that were
picking up the manna as the Lord said, they were not having
smelly issues. And now you understand this
stuff so stunk so bad that they're like, let's don't do
that again, OK? I mean, it was really so they
didn't want to do it, which again, because we're alive to
God, that's how we we should not want.
To disobey God. So if our disobedience stuck as
bad, stunk, as bad as the manna did, then we would probably do
it less. But if we realize that if we get
the revelation man that stinks to high, yes.
OK, so Pastor Marcy gave us 4-5 things that we are to do in
order to eat. Number one, we are to give
attention to the Word. Come on, y'all doing all right?
I take good notes, people. I did not ask her today.
All I had to do is go to my notes, right?
I'm, I'm doing you service, all right?
Because I'm fixing to get to something that's going to blow
your mind. All right #2 incline your ear.
That means you have to consent and submit to the word #3 let
the word not depart from your sight.
You got to fix your eyes on it. Got to keep it in front of you.
Now again, these are really easy and practical.
It's what I love about Pastor Marcy when she gets in her
teacher mode is they're extremely practical, but they
are powerful because they are the difference between life and
death. I have come through seasons of
great challenge by applying these five things, as simple as
that. And it's it's not rocket
science. But it takes diligence to do
that. And you have to be very
consistent. Look, I'm going to give
attention to the word, which means I'm not going to listen to
anything else. I'm not giving attention to any
other thing. I'm going to incline my hearing
my my ear gait, as she said, my eye gait.
I'm keeping the things that filter in.
It's only the word, the rest. Of it, I take captive and I cast
it down. I'm not going to let it dominate
me. And again, when you've been
around, you know, in ministry or you've been above believer for a
while and you've heard this kind of teaching, this can almost go
like. This.
Yeah, I know. However application we can
determine have you yawned yourself past application?
Because again, you know, there's quite a few seafood restaurants
in our community and salmon is something I.
Habitually eat and I get excited every time and there's some
restaurants I can get the same thing.
Cracker Barrel breakfast, only I've never had anything else
breakfast every time. All right #4 keep the word in
your heart. Keep the word in your heart.
You have to keep it. That means it doesn't stay
there. You know, we almost treat the
Lord or the Word or what we learn here like a lot of the
students in school, and that is you learn enough for the test,
you pass the test and then you forget the information.
Right. You know.
There are a lot of people in our Nation Today that have degrees
that they're not even working in those fields.
And they've been so far removed from when they received that
degree, the bachelor of master of Doctorate of that they are so
out of touch with the field that if they got into it today, they
would be behind, completely behind, even though maybe 20
years ago that was their degree and they can put on their
application. I, you know, I have a bachelor's
in graphic design. Well, you understand if you were
in advertising, marketing advertisement 20 years ago, it's
different today, right? So you have to.
Keep and that's effort, all right, and that's your
responsibility. God's not going to keep it for
you. You have to keep it.
And then the last one was the word is life to those who find
it in essence, feed your spirit. It feeds your spirit.
It is what makes your spirit man alive.
And again, it's easy for me I because of just navigating I can
always tell when my tank spiritual tank is not.
Full. It's a very easy indicator.
Do you want to know if your spiritual tank is full When
something occurs, what comes first?
Flesh or spirit? What comes first?
And then which stays longer now for me, I'm like a time guy, OK,
What do I mean by that? We all get through issues of
life, challenges and life that, you know, it challenges our
flesh and we're having to crucify that thing.
OK. But you want to be a bit like
David. David is not the only person
whoever repented. But what was about David?
He repented quickly, so there was a time frame of repentance.
He did not drag this thing out. He was someone who would quickly
repent when he realized I'm wrong.
I'm going to get that right. So, you know, for if you get
into a situation and all of a sudden you're responding fleshly
and the Holy Ghost is saying you need to make the adjustment, you
know, giving you your 5 practical things of how you need
to eat some bread of life in this situation and you're having
a heart. You're, you're basically
rejecting the plate. Well, what by the time you start
consuming the plate, what's that time period?
And you want to be able to get that thing reduced, because when
you're full, that thing could turn quickly.
You could turn quickly. Because in life, you're going to
get hurt. In life, you're going to have
challenges. Offenses are going to come.
You cannot stop offenses from coming, OK.
However, how you deal with it is going to be how well are you
eating the bread of life? Because the Bible has the answer
to all man's problems and questions.
There's not one that the Word does not cover.
There's not one situation you're in that the Word does not cover.
You just have to seek. All right.
OK, So with that being said, this could be my last review
scripture and that is in John 6 because this is setting us up
John 632. Definitely not to 68, it's only
to 35. I have 68 mine.
John 632 to 35 says this. Jesus said to them, truly,
truly, truly, truly, not lie, lie, truly, truly.
I say to you, it is not Moses who has given underline that
word given you the bread of bread out of heaven, but it is
my Father who gives underline that word you the true bread out
of heaven. For the bread of God is that
which comes down out of heaven and gives underline that word
gives gives life to the world. Then they said to him, Lord
always what give underline that give us this bread.
Jesus says verse 35. Jesus said to them, I am the
bread of life. He who comes to me will not
hunger and he who believes in me will never thirst.
OK, so. The first time we ministered on
the bread, we obviously left with the context.
The bread of life is the word of God.
Pastor Marcy last week talked about, well, how do you eat the
bread of life? Well, you've one bite at a time.
And she gave us practical ways that we can ingest.
Now the next thing is how do you serve it?
Because it's one thing for us to identify what the bread of life
is, how we do personal consumption, but you are
supposed to give it because here in this scripture, notice God
does not keep bread for himself, nor is he which God he's life.
So at the end of the day, he applies everything he says.
God does not go against his own word.
God is not a man that he should, which means God in his
sovereignty, meaning he has all power.
He doesn't say something to you that he is unwilling to keep.
Himself. This is why, when everything's
said and done and we have a new heaven and new earth, all that
are thrown into the lake of fire are those who are with Him.
Everyone. Every.
Creative being will know he's the only just one who is able to
keep his word, period. He's just.
He's just He is a keeper of His word.
So again, when we start the Bible in Genesis 1, he said let
us make man in our image according to our likeness and
let them have dominion. God gave a rulership that He
will not violate because He spoke it.
So that means when the when you know, the devil came into the
garden and deceived Eve and Adam rebelled, God didn't jump in and
say, wait a minute, I'm the ruler.
You can't do that. His word locked him out of the
situation because he won't violate it and he's all
powerful. I mean, he's already kicked out
this, you know, serpent in the garden out of his realm anyway.
Why doesn't he just come down and kick him out there?
Because he's given it and he's bound to his own word.
This is why he comes down and he says, OK, I'm going to have to
bring my seed through man. Because if I gave it to man and
he lost it, then a man must come in order to get it back, because
it's man's. I will not violate my Word.
Jesus then is born, you know, at the proper time.
So God has to come as a man because He will not violate His
Word. This is why you know as well as
I do God desires that none would perish.
Well, just because He has a desire doesn't mean everyone is
not going to perish. So you can't build a doctrine
that there's no hell or there is no, you know, you know, second
death because you know God desires at all would repent.
Well, obviously that's his desire, but he won't violate his
word and make you make him Lord of your life.
He gives you the free will. He does not violate His word
concerning you. So everyone who goes to hell,
God didn't send them, They wanted to go.
He enforces His word to them. You chose not to receive me.
This is the consequence because He won't violate His word
because to Him His word is life and he cannot violate it.
Now there are situations in Scripture when people read this
again, and let's be wise when we read it because again, we know
that he came down. He said, Moses, man, just get
out of the way. I'm gonna smoke these.
People. We'll just eliminate them and
start a whole nother nation with you.
We understand, Moses says. Don't.
He says he changed his mind. What did he change when?
He didn't change his mind he just changed when because he
cannot allow the disobedience to go on without something.
Now God also if you read the law when he gave when Moses is
right, there is this pathway of repentance because he said now
if the nation does these things, then this is the blessing
deuteron 28. If they do these things, if they
don't obey, then this is the consequence occur.
But it says now if they and he talks about he said if they
because they disobey and they get scattered all but if they
will repent, I'll gather. So he gives provision.
SO1 case in point, Hezekiah is a king and the Lord sends the
prophet to him and says tell him he's going to die, get his house
in order. What did God say that?
Absolutely. And is he going to do that?
Yes, unless Hezekiah enacts one of his other words which would
bring in his compassion, and that is repentance.
And he did remember, he throws aside and he began to layout and
repent. And because he repented, God has
another word for a repenter. And again, this is in a
scripture. It says he says, because again,
there was this argument kind of with God.
God says if a person is doing their life and they're doing bad
and they're evil and they're just running, but they repent
and change, then God will forgive them.
And you'll say that's not right Because then he says, if
somebody's following me, obey me, doing great, and then in the
end starts doing evil, then he'll judge them according.
He said that's not right. And it is right, because God
does his word. He's not changing.
He's not. Oh, well, I said that, but I'm
not going to do it. No, I said this.
But now if you do what else I've said, then you can enact me to
move here, 'cause, man, He is merciful.
He is so full of compassion. He is so long-suffering.
I'm so glad he's long-suffering. Amen.
Now, there may be indication during the millennial reign that
that will look a lot different because they'll be physically
present. That judgement will be paid out
in a quicker measure if we read the scripture.
OK, so God wants to give us the bread.
So in essence, the bread of life was never designed to be for you
to consume only. Not only do you you need to
consume it so that you can Jesus Christ said I do the will of my
father first. He ingests the will.
He was a studier of the word. He knew what his father's will
was. He meditated on it, he muttered
it, he kept it. He said anything I'm but then he
knew how to distribute. OK, so when we recognize that
the bread of life, I mean, God is talking to humanity, that he
wants to sustain them, not with just natural, but with his word.
And then we can be an example of what that looks like.
I mean, we walk into the office, we walk into our homes, we walk
into a place of business and you know, we walk in, you know, to a
reunion, whatever the case may be, people would be like, wow,
you should be so well nourished in the word that it's obvious.
And they're like, how are you taking care of you?
What is go? How come your life's like was
what you're eating? But guess what?
You can say do you want some? And you have to learn how to be
at a distribute. OK, now let's look at Mark
Chapter 7. Now Mark Chapter 7, I'm going to
only read the first few verses because we're going to look at
the Matthew account of this specifically, All right?
But I want to look at the Mark because it says some things a
little bit different so we can get a full picture.
Because a lot of times when we read scripture, if we don't
watch out, we just kind of read through it.
And we, we're not imagining like what's taking place here, OK?
Because you know, there's going to be people in the room right
now that are going to be very uncomfortable with what took
place in these passage of Scripture.
If you see it for how it reads, not gloss over it and act like
this did not occur. OK, Mark Chapter 7, verse 24 to
26. Jesus got up and went away.
And I'm going to break it down verse by verse, OK?
Jesus got up, went away from there to the region of Tara, and
when he had entered a house, when he had entered a house,
what's the next statement? Say he wanted no one to know of
it. He entered in the house.
He doesn't want anyone to know he's there.
So what is Jesus's attitude? I don't want to talk to nobody.
I don't want to be around nobody.
I don't want to convert. I sure don't want to minister.
I don't want to do nothing. That's what Jesus wanted.
He entered the house. He wanted no one to know of it.
I don't want nobody know I'm here, OK?
I'm trying to get away. I mean, we all just sometimes
need to get away if we feel like, man, I just need to get
away. Right, OK, but look what it
says. Yet he could not escape.
So you understand, he couldn't escape notice.
So the ones that don't know he's there.
It's not like Jesus. Like we'll bring them on.
Come on, Jesus. Jesus always has time for you.
Well, not in his flesh. There was times in his flesh
your life. And I can.
Can I get a moment here? Right.
Because again, what do we do? Well, if you're pastor, you got
to be available all the time. Well, Jesus didn't want to be
available all the time, right? Right.
I mean, we, we. And if you don't watch out like
friendships, there's all you're like.
You want them available all the time.
OK, verse 20. Five, but after hearing of him,
OK, so he hasn't escaped. Notice.
More than one person knows he's there, but all of a sudden
someone else hears he's her in town and she shows up a woman
whose little daughter had an unclean spirit.
Now this is this is a problem. His daughter has an issue.
She has an unclean spirit, so she's possessed of an unclean.
Spirit, it's not good situation. All right, OK.
What this this woman who has a daughter of an unclean
immediately came and fell at his feet.
So she got in the house, right? I mean, you just set back to
relax and all of a sudden, BAM, somebody's at your feet and
they're asking you to do something.
You're like, it's kind of like my dog.
My dog knows when a particular show.
The news show that my wife and I watch, we record it because I
much rather watch it recorded than when it comes on that way I
can just blow through the commercials.
OK, I just. And again, if they're talking
points silly I can push on too, but it's.
Amazing. I can sit down on my side of the
couch. My wife has a side that has the
chase, OK, And she's there. I'm over here, very comfortable.
I'm telling you, within 60 seconds she is over here by the
glass, by the our glass lighting doors and she starts doing this.
Really now this doesn't matter whether we just took her out 30
minutes ago. This is irrelevant.
It's when that show comes on, it's like she knows the music
montage. I mean, it's like, and and
again, it comes on at a very specific time.
So even if it's two hours later when we get home and we've just
let her out 30 minutes ago and then she here, it's like, I got
to go. She's like that.
I'm like, now I'm going to be honest with you, sometimes I
hold out for my wife. So 9.5 times out of 10, I'm
getting up and I don't have a problem with that.
But there are times you're kind of like, and my wife's gracious,
you know, when she doesn't see me moving and she's still, you
know, doing her little, you know, trying to talk to me as a
human being, right? I'm like.
Then she starts to. No, I got it.
I'll do it right. But I'm like, Jesus, I don't
even want her to know I'm at the house.
I don't want the dog to know I'm home so I don't have to get up
and let her out, right? Because we just did this 30
minutes ago. How is it you're going again?
OK, so after hearing this woman comes in this, her daughter's
got a real big issue. She falls down at his feet.
Verse 26. Now, the woman was a Gentile,
the Saarphoenician of the Saarphoenician race, which means
she was of two nations, OK? She had, she was mixed between
two nations, OK. And she kept asking him to cast
the demon out of her daughter. All right, now let's go over to
the Matthew account. Matthew 15 has this account.
We're going to look at it and we'll finish it on through.
But we'll repeat some things. Matthew 1521 to 28, it says
Jesus went away from there and withdrew to the district and a
Canaanite woman, which is a Gentiles are Phoenician, OK,
She's not from Israel, she's not part of Jesus's nation.
OK, From that region came and began to cry out saying have
mercy on me. Lord, son of David, my daughter
is cruelly demon possessed. Now how is her daughter demon
possessed? Cruelly now?
She's talking to who? Who's she talking to?
Come on, who's she talking to? Jesus.
We're talking love embodied in the flesh.
Jesus, who already has this thought?
I really don't want nobody to know I'm even in the house.
However, people are here now and now this lady's here and she's
not even from Israel. She's in none of our tribe.
She's by all right what they call a heathen.
She's a gentile. There's this is problematic.
Just culturally OK. And she is crying out the other
mark count communicates how she repeatedly is saying this right.
So it's not just a one time that's Jesus.
I'm going to ask one time and that's it.
No, she's repeatedly saying this very distressed, crying out,
most likely emotionally distraught and and why wouldn't
you be? Your daughter is cruelly demon
possessed. Look what it says in verse 23.
But he what he did not answer her a word.
You're Jesus did not answer her a word and he's righteous and
just. He loves this woman way more
than you do and any calls you're covering.
He didn't say a word. This is mind blowing in him.
He did not answer her a word and his disciples came and implored
to him saying because they noticed he's not talking to her,
he's not responding to her and all she's doing is continuing to
yell, making a scene. I mean if you're not going to
converse then send her away. But she just keeps shouting at
us. Now he's going to talk to her.
But he answered and said and he's talking to the woman.
He said I was sent only to the lost sheep of the House of.
Israel, are you hearing me? So in this is like.
I have an assignment and you're not in that assignment.
But she came and begged, began to bow down, saying, Lord help
me. All right, let's keep reading.
So it goes. And he answered and says it is
not good. Now he's talking to her.
Now look what he says to her. It is not good to take the
children's what? The children's what?
Now? What is the bread?
Because he didn't answer her a word he says.
It is not good to take the children's bread, meaning the
word of my nation, and throw it to the dogs.
Oh yeah, I don't. Want to hear this?
OK, are we talking real dogs here?
So who's he talking to? The Gentiles, the nation she's
of. In essence, he's saying I'm not
giving bread to you. A dog, Jesus.
Said this now. I'm going to tell you right now
people would be on CNN right now, Fox News, we'd be all up in
the uproar that Jesus would talk to somebody or anybody would
talk to somebody like that in an uproar because God, Jesus knows
the value of the bread of life because the bread of life is not
to be consumed on personal pleasures or your own wants.
We know this because it says, why do we have all these
quarrels? And James and he says, listen,
you have not because you ask not, but when you ask, you ask a
miss. So you're asking me for an
answer, but when you ask me for the answer, you're asking a
miss. You really just want my word so
you can get a blessing, but you don't want me.
See, this is the problem Jesus had with his own nation.
He says, man, I'm working miracles doing all this stuff.
And yet you're missing the whole point.
You're you're not wanting me. I am the word.
So he says it's not good to take the children's bread and throw
it to the dogs. Now this woman is way.
I mean, this lady is on a next level because believers can't
even function like this. Believers can't even function
like this. We know the world doesn't
function like this at all. I mean, the minute you say
something to somebody that it's an uproar, you're going to post
it everywhere, all over social media.
You're going to lambast them and all the stuff.
And then you're going to post all their texts that they text
to you. I mean, you're just going to rat
them out. You're going to just man.
And then it happens. Even in the church, Jesus says
this. She doesn't go out and say, oh,
that Messiah, you know, this Jesus, this one who raised the
dead and healed the sick enough. He didn't do nothing for me.
I went and asked him. My daughter was cruel as as did
look at her. She did and he would do nothing,
wouldn't even talk to me. He called me a dog.
But man, she was beyond that because at the end of the day,
she knows this. His bread gets results.
And I don't. I don't care what you think
about me. I need your bread at the end of
the I don't care what you think about me.
I am no. Good.
I know what where I come from, where I know what state I'm in.
I'm just I know this. Your bread heals.
It does it. It does it.
So she says to him, this is powerfully what she said, but
she said yes. Most of may more people would
denounce Jesus at this point. I mean, because they've
denounced their brothers and sisters.
I mean, they'll, they'll, they won't walk in unity that we've
been talking about, you know, because maybe said somebody said
something away or referred something to such a wall.
I can't even I mean this woman, if anyone can be offended at the
Lord Jesus Christ and hold him to his own words.
But this is bigger because when she stands in his friend, she
said she knows this, he's right, he's righteous, He's just and
anything he says about me and directs he's right on.
And I'm sure not going to wear my feelings because I I need
results. When you need results, you'll
crucify your flesh. You will put your own thinking
down. You will make some adjustments,
she says. Yes, Lord, you're supreme and
authority, You're righteous. But even the dogs feed on the
crumbs. Which fall from the master's
table. Jeez.
How many people have just disassociated with a local body?
Church just disassociated. Well, you know, they preach this
and they preach that, you know, I got it.
I can't believe they would say that.
I mean, this woman's like, I don't care.
I just want crumbs. Oh y'all don't want to hear
this? I mean, man, when you, when you
know that the master has all the answers, you'll go past certain
conversations and you'll come and you're like, man, I don't
care if all I get out of service today are crumbs because man, a
crumb will absolutely change your life.
I mean, you start just eating crumbs.
It has the power to break demonic strongholds of your
life. Wow.
Just get a crumb, man. Yeah.
People want to come and give me the revelation.
Yeah. You need a crumb.
I mean, a crumb would do some awesome things in your life,
man. Wow's right.
Yes, Lord. But even the dogs.
You're right about us. You're right about me.
You're right about my whole race, but even the dogs feed on
the crumbs which fall from the master's table.
Then Jesus said to her, Oh woman, before he didn't even
talk to her. He didn't even talk to her.
Oh woman, your crumbs can get you faith.
That is great. I mean, you don't need a whole
Revelation loaf. I mean you just need crumbs.
Crumbs will get you into great faith.
Listen, that means you can come into a service that you have
eaten the the loaf or bread of revelation concerning faith
healing, prosperity, authority of the believer, a multiplicity
of subjects. And then you come in, you're
like, man, I want another loaf. And the Lord's like, listen, I'm
giving you some crumbs today. That is from the loaf I've
already given you. But yet we disdain those crumbs.
But we want another loaf. But crumbs will get great faith
in you. So instead of getting offended
at the Master because through his fivefold ministry, he's
ministering truths to number one, maybe 'cause things to come
to your remembrance, to continue to strengthen you, to give you a
meal you've already had 100 times before.
But my gosh, man, if you get it for what it is, you'll remember
the first time you tested that sweet potato casserole in your
life. Bro, please give me another
portion. Attitude determines everything.
Crumbs, man, crumbs, crumbs. In essence, I understand that
this is being served to someone else, but if I can just get.
A crumb of revelation. I don't even have listen with
Saints today they had like. You don't put me at the table.
I'm not coming. This one was like I'm under the
table. I just, I don't care.
I don't care. I don't care whether I'm in the
back or the front. I don't care what they
recognize. I mean I'm under the table just
waiting for it to fall because when it does I'm going to grab
it like it's the only thing worth.
Eating. Man, this is awesome, right?
Jesus said to her, old woman, your faith is great.
It shall be done for you as you wish.
And her daughter was healed at once.
I said. Her daughter was healed at once.
I said her daughter was healed at once.
If she would have been offended by his lack of attentiveness, if
she would have been affected by his silence, by him ignoring
her, then if she then when he finally spoke, he's like, the
word you want is for my nation, not you, She would have got
offended. All that.
She would have left and her daughter still would have been
cruelly demon possessed. However, she knows the value of
the bread of life and just a crumb from it.
Just a crumb. Listen, it may not be for me
specifically, but if I could just get a Chrome, I know it had
changed me. Are you hearing me now?
Why do I say that? Because I'm a prophecy a little
bit. I got this by the Spirit.
Now I'm using the Scripture because again, any prophecy that
doesn't have some context in Scripture is not real prophecy.
OK, when I say that I'm talking about unction of the Spirit
through the gifts of the Spirit. OK, I'm prophesying.
Many of you. Says the Spirit of the Lord, are
not giving away your crumbs because you've not valued what
you already know. The spirit of the Lord says, I
want to remind you of a of the prophet who went to the widow
during the famine, Elijah, and when he went to her house, he
says, make me some bread first. She says, I only have enough to
make me a little bit and my son a little bit and then we're
going to die. He says, make it for me first,
says the word of the Lord, and if you'll do that, then make
y'all some this thing's not going to run out.
And by faith the crumb of the meal they had multiplied every
day till the famine was over. The Spirit of the Lord says, do
you not remember how small, how small the amount of bread was
used to feed 5000 men? Do you remember how many small
in comparison amount of bread or loaves were used when feeding
the 4000 men? He said the things you already
know, what you think you don't know, but what you do know.
There's enough power in what you know that there are people
you're encountering today, and you're embarrassed to give
crumbs. But the crumbs you give, what
seems insignificant to you. God can multiply.
In fact, let me just say it this way.
Jesus says as I am in the earth, so are if he was the bread of
life, which was the carrier of the word of God.
You are a carrier of the Word of God, which means God can
multiply as little as you think you are into something so
significant it can just. Keep coming off you and out of
you. And touch whomever you come.
You have an endless supply of the bread of life to feed
people, even if all you're giving away is crumbs.
So it doesn't matter whether you have graduated from Bible school
and been in ministry or or or or been in the church for 30 or
4050 years. Doesn't matter no matter how
many books you've read, how many times you've gone through the
Bible, because even if you were born again yesterday, you have
enough in your testimony that it can multiply.
Don't be ashamed of it. Give your bread away because
what you have, God can multiply. God can cause a word you say to
your Co worker to multiply in their ears for the next month.
One word, one word, 1 phrase, one act of kindness out of from
God that the Lord says listen, buy their lunch and tell them I
care about them. Listen I'm just gonna buy you
lunch. The Lord want me to do this,
said he cares about you or the Lord just wanted me to do it.
That's all you say. You just give an acknowledgement
where you heard it and why you're doing it.
And God can take that one word, that crumb, and pound on the
heart of that person night and day by the remembrance of the
Holy Ghost. And one person, someone you
think there's no way they would ever give their lives to God.
That one action, that one crumb has demonic or has the ability
to crush demonic strongholds. There's nothing that the enemy
can do. That a crumb can't set free.
Wow. Say Hallelujah.
Say Amen. Hallelujah.
Thank you, Jesus. I said thank you, Jesus.
Well, Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord.
Let me close with a warning. OK, There's a warning for
withholding bread, even crumbs. We find this in Luke chapter 16
verse 19 to 25. I won't read the whole account.
This is not a parable. This is an actual occurrence and
the reason it's not a parable because number one, it doesn't
start. You know, the Kingdom of God is
like, or that Jesus spoke a parable saying, OK, another
thing is any place that he said the Kingdom of God is like or
you know, another parable or he spoke this parable.
He always used general terms. He never used natural names.
In this case, he talks about real people.
So again, if you would, if you thought this is a parable, then
you have to conclude that Abraham never existed.
He's a fictional character. OK, says Now there was a rich
man, Jesus said, And he habitually dressed in purple and
fine linen, joyously living a splendor every day, living in
splendor every day. And a poor man named Lazarus was
laid by his what by his what by his what?
His gait covered with sores. Now what did Lazarus?
Long, for at his gate he longed to be fed with the crumbs which
were falling from the rich man's table.
But he wasn't at the table. He wasn't even under the table,
he was at the gate and it says that even dogs were coming and
licking his sores. The poor man died and was
carried away by the angels to Abraham's bosom.
That was paradise doesn't exist anymore because Jesus split that
open and pull those people out. OK.
And the rich man also died and was buried in Hades.
He's in hell. Or the grave, he's in torment.
He lifted up his eyes, being in torment and saw Abraham far away
and Lazarus in his bosom. Verse 24.
And he cried out and said, father Abraham, the guy knew who
Abraham was, recognized in the spirit, who he was.
There's no indication that this was during Abraham's time.
He said have mercy on me and send Lazarus so that he may dip
the tip of his finger in water and cool off my tongue, for I am
in agony in this flame. Now notice he's asking for
Lazarus that he passed at the his gate every day so
positionally. In fact his spiritual position
has not changed. Even though he's in torment, he
is still only thinking of himself.
So agony. Anyone who goes to the lake of
fire in the end will not have ever have a change of heart.
They'll still be selfish. OK, But Abraham said.
Child, remember that during your life you received your good
things and likewise Lazarus bad things.
But now he is being comforted here and you are in agony.
Ultimately he says, listen, I couldn't come over there if I
wanted to. You can't come over here.
We got this thing in between US. In essence, the righteous dead
was in paradise. The unrighteous dead is holding
for the the weighted Great White Throne judgement trial that is
to come at a later. Date that has not happened yet,
OK? The point here is he said,
listen, Lazarus had his bad things.
You know what was bad about Lazarus?
The bad things he received is that he had a rich man go past
him every day at his gate. He knows he's hungry and he is
eating his bread. And he never once even thought
or considered to offer him a crumb.
Everyone in this room that is born again, you're carrying
bread. You're carrying bread if we
never give. Then we are.
Rich people that are eating the bread of life to ourselves,
we're filling ourselves to the full, but we're not even willing
to give crumbs to those that we see day in and day out.
And at the leading of the Holy Ghost, he says give them
something. Now there's some that he, the
Lord, can say, don't even talk to him, because I wasn't going
to talk to that woman either. Listen, if the Cyre Phoenician
woman had quit asking, she would have left without anything.
She wanted it so bad that her faith was revealed sometimes.
I'm going to give you another scripture.
We are casting our pearls before the so there's some people you
don't need to give a crumb to until they're exhibiting their
faith. But if you know someone has a
need, and you can meet the need, and you sense in your spirit
you're supposed to, then even if all you have is a crumb they're
wanting. It.
A lot of times we don't distribute because they're like,
man, I, I can't help them. But what you do have is really
all they want because the Lazarus didn't want to be at the
table. He was longing just for the
crumbs. And there's many out there that
do not believe, like the Phoenician woman who did not
argue with Jesus. You're right.
But even the. Dogs.
You're right about me, Lord. You're right.
I don't deserve the words that
you speak to your nation. I get that.
I'm not in covenant. I'm outside.
I'm an outside. That's true.
But I would want to be. I would make you my Lord.
I know you are Lord, and I'm born in this nation.
If I could have been born in yours, I would have been.
But I know you're Lord nonetheless.
And man, when she demonstrated her faith and said, you know,
even the dogs eat crumbs, just give me a Chrome.
So sometimes you think, man, I got to do.
They just want the Chrome. And you have that.
Let's pray.