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Speaker: My sweet mother, who's 84 years old, asked me a couple weeks ago, she said, honey, she likes to call me honey,
Speaker: she said, honey, I noticed a crack in my ceiling my in my closet up up along the edge of the ceiling. What do you think that means? I said, I don't know, Mom, I'm just a preacher.
Speaker: So you might want to call somebody about that. But it did bring back a in my mind a story that I had heard about a family a few years ago who had saved up for a couple years to put some money down on on what would become eventually their dream home.
Speaker: It was nothing extravagant by any means, but it was their home. They had it custom built just the right way. And one morning they came out to discover this crack in the ceiling in their living room up on the ceiling. And they weren't initially concerned. They thought, you know, we're just gonna call our our neighborhood contractor. The contractor came and he looked at it and he said, give me a give me a few minutes, I'm gonna crawl up in the attic.
Speaker: And after a few minutes he came back down with this very serious look on his face. He said, the good news is it's not the ceiling. The bad news is it's your foundation.
Speaker: Something no homeowner ever wants to hear. Because just a few days later in the mail they received an estimate to fix that foundation.
Speaker: He went in the other room and closed the door. He didn't even need to open up the app, his banking app on his phone. He knew the money wasn't there in the account. He knew it was nowhere near that type of amount. $40,000, he said to himself.
Speaker: Now maybe you have faced a $40,000 repair bill yourself, but I bet you've had a $40,000 moment before. It's a moment that you realize that that problem in front of you is larger than any resource that's behind you.
Speaker: And it's in moments like that we all universally start doing the exact same thing. We start doing the math, don't we? How much is this gonna cost?
Speaker: How much do I have?
Speaker: Who do I know? Who can I call? Who can help? Wait, what if this gets worse? We start calculating. Because, brothers sisters, that's what people do when they're trying to gain control of a situation that seems impossible.
Speaker: It's interesting as we jump into chapter 6 today and probably one of the most well-read, most heard-about miracles of of the entire Bible, this feeding of the 5,000. It's exactly where Jesus intentionally leads his disciples into a seemingly unsolvable situation, if I can put it that way.
Speaker: Every single person in this account that we'll hear today, except for Jesus, is focused on the size of the problem.
Speaker: Jesus is focused on something completely different. Matter of fact, he already knows what he's going to do about the situation before the situation even unfolds. It's a beautiful story. It's a beautiful picture. I want to make sure I do it justice and take time as we walk through it. But before we just jump right into verse 1, I want to give you some encouragement.
Speaker: Look with me at verse six. Go to verse six.
Speaker: John quietly tells us something quite remarkable here at the beginning of verse six. When Jesus asked Philip how they're gonna feed all these people, John writes he was testing Philip for he, Jesus, already knew what he, Jesus, was gonna do.
Speaker: I love that verse because it reminds us that before the disciples ever even saw the solution, Jesus already had one in mind. Before Philip started calculating, Jesus already knew.
Speaker: Before Andrew found this little boy's lunch, Jesus already knew. Before 5,000 people sat on this hill, Jesus already knew. So whatever you're facing today as you walk in here this morning and you're sitting here in these pews, Jesus already knew about it And he cares about it.
Speaker: And he's at work. Before you even see that problem of yours solved, he's already at work. And you should take great comfort in that. right, let's walk real quickly through this story. I'm gonna stop at a few really important parts. The trouble, if you've ever studied this before, is it's very recognizable, this miracle.
Speaker: And my prayer for you this morning is that you may hear it with new ears, and I may point out a few things that you have not heard of before. What do we do when we face unsolvable problems? This is where Jesus leads us right here, the beginning of chapter 6.
Speaker: Let's look at verse 1. I'm going to just read. It's only 14 verses, so I'm just going to read straight through and then we'll go back. Verse 1 says, After this, Jesus crossed over to the far side of the Sea of Galilee, also known as the Sea of Tiberias.
Speaker: And a huge crowd kept following him wherever he went because they saw his miraculous signs as he healed the sick. Then Jesus climbed a hill and he sat with his disciples around him.
Speaker: It was nearly time for the Jewish Passover celebration. Jesus soon saw a huge crowd of people coming to look for him. And turning to Philip, he asked, where can we buy bread to feed all these people?
Speaker: He was testing Philip for he already knew what he was going to do. Philip replied, even if we worked for months, we couldn't have enough money to feed them. Then Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, spoke up. There's a young boy here with five ah barley loaves and two fish.
Speaker: But what good is that with this huge crowd?
Speaker: Jesus tells them, tell everyone to sit down. So they all sat down on the grassy slopes. The men alone numbered about 5,000. Then Jesus took the loaves.
Speaker: He gave thanks to God, and he distributed them to the people. Afterward, he did the same with the fish. And they all ate as much as they wanted.
Speaker: After everyone was full, Jesus told his disciples, Now gather the leftovers so that nothing is wasted. So they picked up the pieces and filled twelve baskets with the scraps left by the people who had eaten from the five barley loaves.
Speaker: When the people saw him do this miraculous sign, they exclaimed, Surely he is the prophet that we have been expecting. When Jesus saw that they were ready to force him to be their king, he slipped away into the hills by himself.
Speaker: This is the word of God.
Speaker: It's interesting how verse 1 starts. says, After this, meaning after everything that we read about last week, all of the witnesses that Jesus presented to testify on his behalf, it says, after all of this, Jesus crossed over to the far side of the Sea of Galilee, also known as the Sea of Tiberias.
Speaker: John tells us that Jesus crossed over to the east side of Galilee. This is a quieter, less populated area. Luke, in this same account, which which by the way, this feeding of the 5,000 is found in each of the four gospels, Luke's account tells us that this is near Bethsaida.
Speaker: Normally this would have been a place where you would go out after you have been busy at work and you would go out and rest. It's out in this grassy area. In fact, Mark's gospel tells us that the disciples had just returned from ministry work, and Jesus wanted them to come away while and rest because they hadn't even had enough time to eat.
Speaker: So in your margin, in your notes, I want you to just write one word, and then I'm going to circle back around to it later. I just want you to write the word rest, r e s t R-E-S-T, rest. Write that in your column somewhere there.
Speaker: But before long, the crowds were told, find Jesus. And John says that they were following him because they were seeking out these miraculous signs, these seminaion is this word, right? These signposts that point bigger than something beyond themselves.
Speaker: Many of the people this time were so fascinated with Jesus because he was performing all these miracles. They just wanted to see, hey, what's the next thing he's going to do? this fascination with Jesus.
Speaker: Can't wait to see what he's going to do next. I'll just put a note to myself. there's ah There's a very important difference between being fascinated by Jesus and following Jesus. Two completely different things.
Speaker: Crowds can gather around miracles, but true discipleship follows the Savior. John wants us to see this all throughout his gospel. Now imagine this scene, if you will. Close your eyes for a second. It says, Jesus looked at the hillside,
Speaker: Thousands of people were making their way toward him.
Speaker: John doesn't tell us the exact number yet, but later we'll learn it's about 5,000 men. Matthew reminds us that this number is not including women and children. Most scholars say this will go into the 10,000 to range.
Speaker: So imagine in your mind 15,000 people coming down a hill waiting to see Jesus. Families spreading out their blankets.
Speaker: on the grass, kids running ahead of their parents, people pressing in closer, hoping to hear Jesus teach, hoping to see yet another miracle, hoping to see some new incredible sight.
Speaker: And then almost unexpectedly, Jesus turns to Philip, and imagine him and Philip were sitting side by side, and he says to Philip, hey, where can we buy bread to feed all these people?
Speaker: A seemingly ordinary question. Maybe Jesus wants Philip's opinion. After all, Philip is from Bethsaida. This is his home territory.
Speaker: Perhaps he wants to know what local markets are nearby. But John immediately pulls back the curtain on this question. Why Jesus is asking this question? It says he is testing Philip.
Speaker: For he already knows what he's gonna do. Jesus already knows what he's gonna do, but he asks this question anyhow. And this one question, brothers and sisters, changes everything.
Speaker: Jesus isn't asking because he doesn't need more information. He's asking to reveal something about Philip's heart. This word testing here, pyrazo in the Greek, can either be testing or tempting, depending upon the context, right?
Speaker: Every time in the Bible where this is used and Satan is there, it's always seen as tempting, right? Satan tempts, Jesus tests.
Speaker: Jesus never tempts. He's always just a tester.
Speaker: It's not some cruel test I put. It's a loving one. Jesus already knows the answer. But as we're reading, Philip doesn't know the answer just yet. But but I love that because Jesus kind of says, um hey, Philip, what do you think? what How are we going to feed all these people?
Speaker: Think about Philip looking out at the hillside, 10,000 to 15,000 people. And Jesus, who you've been following all this time, says, hey, how are we going to feed these guys?
Speaker: I'll just put my notes. Impossible situation? You bet.
Speaker: But he asks these tough questions. He puts us in these tough situations to reveal something about ourselves.
Speaker: This is the way God teaches. As matter of fact, if you were in your Bible study class today, this is part of that lesson in Gideon. I kind of was chuckling to myself. I sat in Brother Pease's class. Brother Pease probably thought I was chuckling at him.
Speaker: I was just chuckling at the way God works. He teaches this way. He puts us in these situations. He gave Gideon 32,000 men, had 300 men.
Speaker: And then he said, go on out and fight the 135,000 on the other side.
Speaker: Impossible situation? You bet. But this is the way God is teaching us. He's allowing us to stand in those situations where our resources are not enough.
Speaker: Not because he enjoys watching us struggle, not because he's abandoning us, but because there are lessons about his sufficiency that can only be learned when we realize we can't fix the problem ourselves.
Speaker: Some of you are here this morning sitting within a possible situation and you're still trying to figure out how to do it yourself.
Speaker: You and i we'd rather be comfortable. We'd rather feel like we have it all in control. We'd rather feel like we're capable. But we're if we're really honest with ourselves, some of the deepest growth in our Christian walk happens when he places us in these difficult situations that we can't get out of ourselves.
Speaker: Maybe it's a health crisis. Maybe it's a loss of someone that you love. Maybe it's watching your grown son or daughter make these horrible, heartbreaking life choices. Maybe it's a financial burden that you just happen to wake up to one day.
Speaker: put in my notes, these moments are painful. I'm not trying to diminish that. That's not what I'm doing today. But these moments are also sacred moments, if I can use that, because they force us to decide where our allegiance is.
Speaker: It forces us to decide where we put our confidence. Do we put it in ourselves? Hey, um Pastor Patrick, I'm strong enough. I think I can fix this problem myself. Or do we realize it's so insurmountable, the situation that you're in, that the only place you can turn to is God.
Speaker: Am I going to try to solve it to myself or am I going to allow God that privilege, that honor to take this moment and fix it for me and then he gets all the glory and I don't?
Speaker: But maybe you're here this morning and you're overwhelmed.
Speaker: Maybe you've replayed every possible solution in your head and you can't figure out a way from that impossible situation. Maybe you've prayed about it and you're still in that situation. Well, take comfort, brothers and sisters. He knows exactly where you're at.
Speaker: Matter of fact, he already has a solution to that problem that you're sitting under right today. Jesus looks at this hillside full of impossibility.
Speaker: This hillside of need. These people were 10,000 to 15,000 who were all hungry. And he asked this question, but he already knows how he's going to fix it.
Speaker: The disciples don't know, but Jesus knows. They're all concerned about the size of the problem. Let's read on in the story. Two different perspectives I put in my note. Look how differently Jesus looks at the situation. Look how differently the disciples look at the same situation.
Speaker: Jesus sees an opportunity. The disciples see an obstacle. Listen to Philip's response. Philip replied, even if we worked for months, we wouldn't have enough money to feed them. right How much is a denarii? Those of you who are smart and have your Hebrew calculator out right now.
Speaker: A day's worth of the work. Who said that? Somebody up front. Bible teacher, hopefully. It's a day's worth of work. Philip is... telling this almost impossible scenario, he's saying it'd almost take 200 days worth of work to provide even a very small amount of food for everyone here.
Speaker: In other words, I put in my notes, paraphrase Philip as possibly saying, Lord, if we wanted just to provide a small snack to everybody, we'd be working about eight months.
Speaker: When you read your Bible, by the way, I'm going to give you a helpful hint as you study. It's just as important to read what what Jesus is saying and what and what the disciples are saying, it's also important to ask yourself, what's not being said here?
Speaker: Notice what Philip doesn't say. He doesn't say, Lord, what are you planning to do? Instead, he explains why it can't be done. Do you notice that? Philip's response. what What's going to happen here?
Speaker: There's too many people. We can't feed them. Then I put, you and I respond the exact same way, don't we? We look at that bank account, we look at that medical report, we look at that family situation, we look at our ability, and we conclude there's just no way that we can do it ourselves.
Speaker: So he starts with, Philip does, just can't be done. That's the first way we often respond to the impossible situation. It just can't be done.
Speaker: What I want you to realize here is Philip is sitting next to Jesus, the Son of God, who does miracles all the time.
Speaker: And he's saying, in effect,
Speaker: this can't be done, Jesus. And you want to go, it can be done. Jesus can do it. I put in my notes,
Speaker: He didn't factor Jesus into the equation. I think you and I, we do this often. The reason we think some of our situations are impossible is because we don't factor Jesus into that.
Speaker: One author put it this way. He put, faith begins where our calculations end. Don't you like that? Faith begins where our calculations end.
Speaker: The Christian faith has never asked us to pretend that problems don't exist. As matter of fact, the Bible tells us you and I will experience problems. but it caused us to view those problems through a different biblical lens, a different perspective.
Speaker: I want you to know that the disciples' math was not incorrect. They have ah few fish and a few pieces of bread, and he's looking out of this vast hill of 15,000 people.
Speaker: The math wasn't wrong, but their perspective was. They had Jesus here all along. He already knew what was gonna happen. got to love Andrew's response.
Speaker: Look with me at verse 8. It says, basically, before Philip can even finish speaking, his brother Andrew jumps in.
Speaker: Hey, wait! Wait, Philip! Wait, Jesus! There's a young boy here with five barley loaves and two fish.
Speaker: Imagine if he had just stopped right there. Sometimes I like to interject, sometimes stuff into the scripture. I know we're not supposed to do that. But if you really use your imagination, you think about the scene. What if Andrew just said, look, we just have five and two.
Speaker: Jesus, have at it. I can't wait to see what you're going do with this, Jesus. Isn't that what we're supposed to do? Jesus, look what little I have. I can't wait to see what you're going to do with it.
Speaker: Matter of fact, if you were listening real close when we prayed over the offerings today, Lord, take the little bit that we have, that we give, and multiply that for the good of your church. right It's the same concept. Lord, we're giving this small amount in your hands.
Speaker: If Andrew just would have stopped there, would have been great, but then he says, we only have five barley loaves and two fish. What good is that? We don't have much, but we're going to bring it to Jesus.
Speaker: and see what Jesus does with it.
Speaker: By the way, five barley loaves is not like a a loaf of bread that you and I think. Barley is like a poor man's bread. It's like a small little biscuit. So you basically have five little bitty biscuits. And these fish, these two fish, this word is really like a sardine.
Speaker: Two little skinny, dried up, pickled sardines. Hardly a meal for a little boy, definitely not a meal for thousands of people.
Speaker: Philip talks about what we don't have. Andrew's a little bit better. He says what we do have, but he still has a little bit of doubt. Not sure what this is going to mean. How is this possibly going to feed this crowd?
Speaker: But let's go ahead and place this little bit that we have in the hands of Jesus.
Speaker: I wonder how often we talk ourselves out difficult situations.
Speaker: We talk ourselves out of obedience because what we think we have is too small.
Speaker: I can't teach a Bible study class. I don't know enough about the Bible. My testimony isn't very dramatic. Who's ever going to listen to me? I don't have enough money to make a difference, so I'm not going to give any money.
Speaker: I'm too old. I'm too young. I'm just one person. I don't know what to do with kids, more or less youth. How can I be used in this church?
Speaker: have you ever noticed that God has a very long history of using the ridiculously inadequate people all throughout the Bible? And he does miraculous things with them.
Speaker: He doesn't call to qualify, but he qualifies those who he calls. Five loaves, two fish, it's never about the amount. It's about putting that amount in the hands of the Savior, the only person who can fix this impossible situation.
Speaker: question, brothers sisters, not whether or not you have enough. It's about what you're going to do with that amount that God has given you.
Speaker: What seems inadequate in our hands becomes more than enough in His, and that's exactly if you look at verse 10. Verse 10, by the way, i highlighted in my study Bible. Sometimes there are certain verses that when they're taught to you, you go, man, I've never even seen that, and and I put just a special little mark next to mine.
Speaker: Verse 10 is one of those passages that Look with me.
Speaker: Verse 10 says, everyone, this is Jesus, it's in red letters if you have a red letter Bible. Jesus says, tell everyone to sit down. And so they all sat down on the grassy slopes and the men outnumbered, were alone numbered about 5,000. In my notes I put interesting little detail, a couple little details here.
Speaker: Why does he tell everybody to sit down? That was the first question I asked myself. and why does he talk about the grassy slopes? The pastor taught me this a long time ago, and I thought, why I have never even heard something like that that's so true?
Speaker: He tells everybody sit down. He gives them this command, sit down. And we know in in Mark's account, it says sit down in groups. And he gives specific group numbers to sit down in. And it says that everybody sits down.
Speaker: Right? It speaks to order and obedience. The blessing comes after The obedience. That was my first point that somebody taught me.
Speaker: Many of us want the blessing first before our obedience. In God's calling, you know you need to step into obedience first and then let me show you what I can do with that obedience in your situation.
Speaker: He tells everyone to sit down and they sit down and then John adds this beautiful little detail that they sat down on the green grass.
Speaker: What is the connection, you may say, just write out to the column in your Bible or in your notes, Psalm 23.
Speaker: Psalm 23 tells us, says, The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. And he leads me beside still waters. Brothers and sisters, green pastures, green grass, is always an image of rest.
Speaker: The crowd had been following Jesus and here he makes them recline on the grass to rest before the meal. He's acting like that good shepherd that David is talking about here in Psalm 23.
Speaker: You'll remember we talked about at the very beginning, I had you write the word rest out there in the column. it's this It's the same idea that they the disciples had just come back from ministry and they were exhausted and tired and Jesus says, hey, I'm to take you out to this green grassy area and we're going to sit down and we're going rest. And it says then the crowd comes and he has these people sit down on the green grass.
Speaker: And now picture this, all these people are sitting, they're all grouped in orders And the conversations begin to quiet and the kids stop running around and the stopples are looking at five and two and they're thinking, how in the world is this ever going to feed all these people?
Speaker: The problem's still there, but something has changed because that little bit of food is now in the hands of the only person that can fix this problem, that's Jesus.
Speaker: That's where the turning point happens. Look with me here verse 11. Everything has been building to this moment. The crowd is seated. The disciples are waiting. The little boy's lunch is in Jesus' hand. Nothing about this circumstance suggests that the miracle is getting ready to happen. But right then we see Jesus does something. Verse 11.
Speaker: He took the loaves. He gave thanks. And then he distributed them to the people. And afterwards, he did the same with the Does that sound familiar to anybody? that sound familiar to anybody?
Speaker: What if I read it this way?
Speaker: Jesus sat with his disciples at the table and he took the bread and he broke it. And he gave thanks. And he passed it out to disciples and said, take this and eat. This is my body. It should be shed for you for all so that sins may be forgiven.
Speaker: Do this in remembrance of me.
Speaker: He's sitting here with this crowd. He takes this bread. He breaks it. He gives thanks.
Speaker: Don't rush past those few words right there. He gives thanks. He offers thanks first before the miracle even happens. Do you notice that? He's thanking God the Father for this miracle that's already going to happen before he gives thanks. And he says...
Speaker: Lord, thank you for what's already going to take place. Place my confidence in what the Father's provision means. And he hands it out to the disciples. Now picture this.
Speaker: The disciples have this little bit of provision.
Speaker: doesn't say exactly how the miracle plays out. The scripture doesn't tell us. John's account definitely doesn't tell us. We don't know whether or not the bread was multiplied in the baskets. We don't know if if as the people were reaching in and grabbing it that it just kept refilling. The miracle itself is not John's concern here.
Speaker: it's It's the one performing the miracle that's the concern here. It's not the method. But what he does tell us is something super remarkable. They go and they hand out to all 15,000 people.
Speaker: And look what it says. Everyone ate. Not just a few. Not just the people in the front, but the back row Baptist got a full fill too.
Speaker: And they ate as much as they wanted. This Greek word, I love this word, it means stuffed to the max. It's like when you go to the Chinese buffet afterwards.
Speaker: You guys, I know, I've seen you looking around right now, see your face. You sit there in that content, you're like, I can't stuff anymore in my mouth. That's this picture here. They were stuffed, they were satisfied, nobody walked away hungry.
Speaker: And then Jesus gives the disciples this final instruction. He says, hey, go and gather up all the leftovers so that nothing else is wasted. And so they picked up the pieces and 12 baskets were filled.
Speaker: Isn't that interesting other detail that he includes there?
Speaker: 12 baskets. Coincidence, perhaps? I don't think so. It's hard not to know, so there are 12 disciples.
Speaker: 12 men who just moments earlier were convinced there wasn't enough to feed everybody, and now they each get to carry a basket of food home themselves.
Speaker: Overflowing provision. Everybody ate. Jesus doesn't provide just enough. he provides abundantly. just put, what a lesson to you what a lesson to me.
Speaker: He blesses abundantly.
Speaker: Just look at the church finances here. He blesses abundantly.
Speaker: For those who have been here at this church for a very long time, well before I got here, I'm looking to some of you guys for a head nod. Have we ever had this type of money at this church in reserves?
Speaker: Ever. God blesses abundantly.
Speaker: I put in my note, R.C. Sproul, famous comment, God is never stingy with his grace. Don't you love that? I love R.C. Sproul like that. He doesn't measure it out by the teaspoon. He pours it out by the tons load.
Speaker: He supplies over and above. He exceeds our need. He exceeds our failure. His wisdom exceeds our understanding. His strength exceeds our weakness.
Speaker: Maybe you're here this morning and you think, my problem is so big there is no way Jesus can fix that for me. To that, I say, you bet he can. Not only will he restore, not only will he fix, not only will he bless you, he will do it abundantly.
Speaker: And he'll do it in such a way, brothers and sisters, if you'll simply hand it over to him like Gideon did in your lesson this morning if you were at Bible study. Brother John said there's no way anybody could take credit for that situation because there was only 300 men and they routed 135,000 people.
Speaker: What a testimony to God. If we would simply hand that over to him, Lord, I trust you with this situation. I know it doesn't seem like my marriage can be fixed. I'm going hand that situation over to you.
Speaker: In the natural, it looks like we both want to strangle each other and divorce is imminent. But I'm going hand that over to you. And Lord, when that marriage is fully restored, you get all the glory. What a testimony that would be.
Speaker: I'll just put lastly, look at how the crowd responds in verse 14.
Speaker: The crowd saw all these things that he he did, these miraculous signs, and they claimed they exclaimed, surely this is the prophet that we have been expecting. Surely this is the one.
Speaker: right Surely this is the prophet in deeron Deuteronomy 18 that God had promised to raise
Speaker: And yes, they're right. In a sense, he is that prophet, but he's infinitely more. He's not just some prophet spokesman for God. He is the eternal son of God.
Speaker: That was your homework, by the way, last week. John 20, The purpose statement of John. These miracles were performed and recorded so that you would believe that Jesus is the Son of God.
Speaker: And that through Him you would receive eternal life through His name. What do we do with this story today, brothers and sisters? How do we apply it for your life and my life? I'll just put...
Speaker: It might mean for some of you that your greatest need in life, that thing you brought in today, is not really what God is concerned about. Yes, you might need healing. Yes, you might need wisdom. Yes, you might need provision. Yes, you might need a restored relationship. You might need reconciliation.
Speaker: But perhaps Jesus brought you here this morning so that you could hand those over to him. So you could hand that problem over to him. so that you can be encouraged by him so that he can carry that heavy lifting that you were never meant to carry. The greatest gift is often just himself.
Speaker: Soon as you realize that, then your circumstance will change. And he'll start changing you as you walk through that circumstance. How do we practically apply this? Well, I put, how about we choose one problem that we are all struggling with, one real problem that may seem impossible this morning.
Speaker: Mine I don't normally do this, but to tell you what I wrote down for me this week as I've as i've been praying about this. It deals with my grown kids and not knowing the Lord. So I just put this down, and I put each morning, and this is what I've done, sit in quiet, deliberately placing this problem into Jesus' hands before my day begins.
Speaker: and and pray something like this. Lord, I can't solve this. Matter of fact, you never asked me to. Today I'm choosing to trust your wisdom instead of my calculations. Here is my problem, fill in the blank.
Speaker: Help me to be faithful with what you've given me and leave the outcome in your hands.
Speaker: It's amazing when I did that this week, by the way, that the peace that I felt over that situation in my in my family was Doesn't necessarily need mean my grown kids are going to change just like that.
Speaker: They could. Maybe I'll have four phone calls by the time I get out of the pulpit today. Wouldn't that be great? Wouldn't that be a testimony?
Speaker: Whatever that problem is that you've carried in today, Jesus is asking you to hand that over to him. His power is sufficient. Sit back and let him take that $40,000 problem that you think is too big for you,
Speaker: and simply wipe it off. Jesus is enough.
