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632 | God’s Math, Part 2 · The Woman at the Well Ministries Podcast

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Hello, friends, and welcome back to another podcast of Woman at the Well Ministries.
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Where we believe that all of us have to come to Jesus like the woman at the well in John chapter 4.
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Our highest priority is making God real in your life. Whether you are listening
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we invite you to sit down with us as we look to the scriptures to learn more
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about God and to strengthen your daily walk with Jesus Christ.
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We hear people talk about little being much when God is in it,
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yet many times when our circumstances seem bleak, we just throw up our hands in defeat.
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Join us in this broadcast of Woman at the Well Ministries as Kim continues to
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discuss God's presence in our problems.
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We will see that when God is added to the equation, things change.
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Things aren't always what they seem because God is not bound by natural laws.
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He is the law. Hello, and thank you for joining us as we continue talking about
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God's math. And we're going to come out of John chapter 6, beginning in verse 1.
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There's a dear deacon in my church that sings a song that I believe tells us
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about the math of God better than anything I know other than the Word of God.
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And that is that it took three nails and one wooden cross, and he built a bridge and made us forgiven.
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And if you look at that a little bit that's something that we can logically
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place our mind around we can see that one plus three equals four,
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but what we have trouble placing our mind around is that that cross on calvary and those three nails.
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Was the place that god chose to hang his son jesus christ,
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and jesus said since there isn't any other way i'm gonna do it And he voluntarily
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put himself upon the cross of Calvary after he spoke to his father in the Garden of Gethsemane.
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You see, it wasn't the centurion soldiers in front of the cross that held him
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on the tree. It wasn't even the three nails.
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It wasn't anything except God had fully explained that Jesus was the only payment for sin.
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And man to this day is still trying to find a way to get there themselves.
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And in John chapter 14 and verse 6, Jesus says, I am the way,
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the truth, and the life. And no man cometh unto the Father but by me.
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You can't work your way in. You can't buy your way in. You can't do enough good deeds.
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He says that all of our works are as filthy rags.
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He says there's none righteous. No, not one.
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And the only way that we're going to get to heaven is through Jesus Christ, the son.
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And that is God's math that you've got to understand. We're going to speak in
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a few moments about God's math.
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That's going to allow us to live an abundant life. that's going to allow us,
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to be pleasing to him as we have faith in him.
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But my friend, if you miss the understanding that there is only one way to heaven,
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and you try to get there some other way, you will spend eternity,
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but it will not be in heaven.
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My friends, this is important stuff.
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And I don't think we've all quite understood it. The laws of math are sure.
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Ask any school-aged child, and they'll tell you that they just can't write anything
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they want down and make that grade.
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You can't devise another way. You can't say, oh, Jesus was good for my grandparents,
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and Jesus was good for my parents.
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And you know those forefathers, they were just so inward-thinking,
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and they were just so close-minded, that that Jesus stuff worked for them.
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But hey i'm hundreds of years later and i'm all that in a bag of chips and i
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don't need that anymore the bible tells us that there's nothing new under the
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sun you're not thinking a thing new they didn't think about hundreds of years ago,
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and that same god that raised lazarus from the dead is knocking on your heart's door.
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He's inviting you to leave your trespasses and sin and raise unto life in Jesus Christ.
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And that doesn't make any sense.
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It doesn't make sense that God died on the cross once for all of us.
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And that I don't have to pay a penalty for my sin. Let me tell you what.
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You borrow money and you owe a debt.
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And there is only one way that you can get over that.
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And that's to pay what you owe. But somebody else can come and pay what you
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owe, but that didn't happen very often.
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But there's no one willing to die for me to pay for my penalties.
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But Jesus Christ died for me before I ever was.
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And he paid a debt I could never pay for a sin he never owed.
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Now that's love that'll boggle anybody's mind and anyone's imagination.
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But it's true. and the bible says without faith it is impossible to please him
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and that we must believe that he is,
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that's our first thing we must believe that he is and we do that through faith,
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and we must believe that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him,
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and my friend that's where we're going to find ourselves in john chapter six,
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the disciples are hanging out with Jesus?
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Jesus had been over to Galilee, and there was a great multitude that followed him.
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And he sees the need. Isn't that just like Jesus?
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That's a beauty of being his child. He never sleeps and he never slumbers.
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And he knows our needs before we even ask.
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We are to pray to him because he wants to see where we're placing our faith.
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He wants to bless us. He's prepared. He's got it already because he sees our needs before we ask.
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When Peter and the boys were in the boat, they saw Jesus walking. He was already there.
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You see right here you're going to see jesus perform an amazing miracle,
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before the people even request because he knows,
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after these things jesus went over the sea of galilee which is the sea of tibiris,
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and a great multitude followed him because they saw his miracles which he did
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on them that were diseased,
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and jesus went up into a mountain and there he sat with his disciples and the
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passover a feast of the jews was nigh,
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when jesus then lifted up.
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His eyes and saw a great company coming to him he saith unto Philip when shall
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we buy bread that these may eat,
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he knew that he had been talking to them he knew they'd been following him he
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realized that they had walked he understood how these people worked,
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he understood their needs he understood that they had expended,
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energy and was going to need nourishment you ever think about that in this passage
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of scripture how beautiful it is that the god of the universe who's been
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doing miracles and he's been changing people's lives and he's been working for
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the kingdom of god has enough compassion emotion knowledge capability
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and interest in these people who are following him to
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see their very basic needs,
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and you think he can't see yours,
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you're wrong he knows exactly how much money you have in the bank he knows exactly
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how much money you need he knows exactly how much you've got coming in,
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he knows exactly the condition of your body he knows exactly what you're going
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to need to feel better he knows exactly how well you need to feel in order to
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do the task that he's given you,
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he knows exactly the needs that you have before you even know it.
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Several years ago i changed homes and we moved and i thought for the life of
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me that i chose the home i really had worked at it and i had prayed about it
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and i had looked and i thought this was the home i had chosen,
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nine years after i moved here i had a need.
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My mom was unable to get out of the house and go to the doctor anymore and she
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was in her last final stages of life, still praising God,
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just a few houses down,
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was the physician who was willing.
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To visit my mom in her home, to take care of the needs that she had.
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You don't think that nine years before that there was a God on a throne
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and a Savior watching over his children who made sure that we were sitting in
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the very place that we needed to be, that we might have the needs that he had already provided?
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If you can't believe that, close the book and walk away because his grace is
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sufficient and his knowledge,
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is unmatched and he knows the need you have and he's interested in it he was
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interested that there was going to be a young daughter,
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who was trying to do all that she could to provide for the mother who had done
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all she could to provide for her
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she knew that there was going to be a saint of god who was going to be laying
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in a bed that was going to need some help from this earth, but he had already provided.
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I didn't even know enough to have even asked, but the day I had to make the
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phone call, he'd already talked to that physician's heart.
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You see, the problem you face is not unlike the one I did.
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You've got a problem, and you need to understand in order for your faith to
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be growing and your faith to be strong you need to know that he already understands
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it and that he's interested in it,
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now jesus is busy at this point in scripture and all these people are following him.
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And he's not thinking about doing something big and heroic he's thinking about
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feeding the people he says where can we get enough bread for these people to eat.
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This he said to prove him, for he himself knew what he would do.
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He wanted to make sure everybody else understood. And I think he wanted me to understand.
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Yes, I feel that close to him.
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I think he wrote a lot of things in there just for me. And if you're his kid,
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you're going to think the same thing.
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Because he knows what you need. And you know what? We need this same verse, me and you.
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We need to know it and understand it. We need to live it and apply it.
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And we need to shout it to the mountain tops.
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My God isn't dead like Buddha. You can't go visit his grave and find him there
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like you could Confucius or any of the other isms and shisms and crazy religions.
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No, if you go to the tomb where my Savior was, he isn't there.
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Because on that third and glorious morning, he arose.
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And that same God's interested in me. he's interested in what i need enough,
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to plan it nine years ahead i believe he planned things before i was even born
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and i believe he put me in a family he did that my feet might be where they
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are that i might do his will and his work.
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Philip answered, 200 penny worth of bread is not sufficient for them.
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I mean, he's like, can you see the people following you? How many of us are like that?
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Lord, there's just not enough you could give me to get me out of this mess.
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That evening, no, he says that every one of them may take a little.
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He's like, I couldn't get 200 penny worth and feed just a little bit to every
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one of them, let alone try to fill them up, let alone trying to give them the
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nourishment that you're talking about, Lord.
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But one of the disciples i think old simon peter's brother had a clue,
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andrew says hey there's a lad here which has five barley loaves and two small fishes,
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but what are they among so many you see who he asked the question to,
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he sees the plight he sees the problem he's got a clue that something could
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take place they've been following jesus who's been doing miracle after miracle after miracle
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and all the first guy philip is saying listen we had 200 pennies which apparently
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they probably don't have we couldn't buy enough to give these people just a little bit,
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but now andrew's a little bit clued in,
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he says this kid out there's got a lunch.
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But what is that among so many? I believe Andrew said that question directly to Jesus.
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And I believe that in the situation that you're in right now,
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it may look that overwhelming.
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And if you add up academically, you may not be able to get any answer that works for you.
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But I am thankful to God that my problems are not dependent on the laws of earth and nature.
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I am thankful to God that my problems are not dependent upon my ability to fix
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them, upon my ability to gain the resource.
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But my problems belong to him. That's what little David said.
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He said the battle is not mine. It belongs to the Lord.
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The Bible says that obedience is better than sacrifice.
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And that if we ask, we shall receive. If we seek, we'll find.
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If we knock, it'll be opened unto us.
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If we live as he has commanded us to live, there won't be iniquity in our heart,
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and he'll hear our prayers and he'll supply every need and we can do all things
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in his strengths but see that requires living that faith,
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and jesus said make the men sit down now there was a lot of much grass in the
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place so the men sat down a number about 5 000 that means there was 5 000 men
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and they didn't count the children and they didn't count the women,
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we've got five barley loaves and two fishes.
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Now i don't know if you've ever done any fishing and you've ever done any cleaning
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of fish or you've ever messed with fish at all,
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but they says he's got two small fishes and i don't care by the time you cut
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the tail off and time you cut the head off and you kind of you don't have much
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you know two little fish like two little bluegill or two little panfish isn't even enough for
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a regular grown man to eat and be full,
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no matter how you slice it up me or you can't get two small fish defeat a small family.
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But it wasn't a problem for Jesus. And Jesus took the loaves.
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Remember, he said, I am the bread of life.
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And Jesus took the loaves. And when he had given thanks, you ever think about
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being thankful for what you have?
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You may not think it's enough. Oh, but when he's in it, it's enough.
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You ever thought about being thankful for that food you have,
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the widow woman who was making the meal and cruise oil and putting it together
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for her son and her to eat she gave thanks,
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maybe you need to stop there for a while and just park and be thankful for the
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home and the house and the job and all the things that you have,
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and for this moment that you and i are sharing it's a gift.
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He distributed to the disciples and the disciples took them to them that were
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set down and likewise of the fishes as much as they would you ever notice how
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god just doesn't give you just a little bit to get by listen to what he said,
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he said that he distributed to the disciples and the disciples to them that
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were set down and likewise other fishes as much as they would they got to eat
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their field as much as they wanted, they got to get.
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God doesn't skimp on his blessings, my friend. God gives over in abundant,
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pressed down, mashed down, and running over.
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God supplies your every need in abundance.
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Our cups are just so stinking small that we can't get it.
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Now they're so crammed full of the world, so crammed full of the doubt.
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He supplies abundantly. When they were filled, he said unto the disciples,
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Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.
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Two fishes, five loaves of bread,
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five thousand men, not counting women and children,
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eating their full and then the lord said boys you go pick up the fragments that nothing be lost,
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you might feel like a fragment hey that's all right with me i can be a fragment,
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because just as the ninety and nine were safe and he went for the one,
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he stayed and picked up the fragments making the statement in his own words,
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that nothing be lost you're important to him the fragments were just as important,
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as the full mill deals he set out.
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Oh my friend that's god math you know what the world says you're worth 30 billion,
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have that big list people's names on it i never look at the list to see if mine's
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on there i know it's not but one day,
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i'm not gonna have to look at the list in heaven either,
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because he's gonna call my name,
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and he's not gonna be shocked when it's me that stands there because he knows
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me by name and he's gonna look in that big old book of his called the lamb's
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book of life and my name's there.
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And glory be the God that blows my mind, because that's math beyond degree.
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I have nothing to give to an almighty God, yet he gave all to me.
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I don't care if society thinks I'm a fragment, because he said that nothing be lost.
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And he said I'm no respecter of persons. So when I stroll all over heaven with you,
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you'll never know whether I
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was one of the 5,000 or whether I was the fragment that couldn't be lost.
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But I'll have a home not made with hands eternal into the heavens,
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ever to live with my Savior.
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How about you? He wants to gather you in his basket of love.
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He wants to provide for you the life-giving nourishment of his sin-forgiving blood.
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But you've got to believe.
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How about that problem you have? You really think it's too big for God?
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He paid the penalty for your sins before you were even in existence.
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Now that's God math that he could flow enough blood.
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You see, but one drop of his blood covers all of our sins. That's God, man.
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And he can slice up two fishes and five loaves and feed a multitude of people.
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But the ticket was they were following him. And when Andrew talked about,
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could this be, it was him he was speaking to. He didn't look to himself.
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He didn't look to the fellow disciples. He didn't look to the left,
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to the right, to the north, to the south.
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He looked unto Jesus, from which cometh his help.
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And it was Jesus who had already taken care of their needs.
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Jesus has provided. Therefore they gathered them together and filled twelve
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baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves which remained over and
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above unto them that had eaten.
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Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did,
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said, Some of you have seen the miracle that Jesus has done in your life.
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You've seen two plus two equal twelve. You've seen one man forgive the sins of many.
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You could write me or call me or talk to me and tell me just as many or more
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the same we could talk for days about how god's math has changed and ruled our lives,
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but some of us are keeping quiet about it and today i just want to tell you,
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when they saw the miracles that jesus did than they said.
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So as God continues to work his miracles in your life and touch your situations,
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I encourage each of you, tell others about it.
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And I beg of you, tell me about it.
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I want to see God's hand in your life and my life.
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I want to see the things he does. Because without faith, If it is impossible
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to please him and you must believe that he is, that he is a rewarder of them
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that diligently seek him.
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And I know in whom I am persuaded.
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I know in whom I have believed and am persuaded that he is able to keep that,
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which I have committed unto him against that day.
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May God have his richest blessing in your life today and always.
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