1 00:00:01,968 --> 00:00:04,304 before we, open up Matthew 2 00:00:04,304 --> 00:00:08,475 nine, I want to highlight a couple in our church. 3 00:00:08,475 --> 00:00:10,844 David and Sandy, open golf. 4 00:00:10,844 --> 00:00:16,049 The, at our men's breakfast we honored had a competition, honored some people. 5 00:00:16,483 --> 00:00:18,351 And one of the, 6 00:00:18,351 --> 00:00:21,554 ones we honored is the person who has been married 7 00:00:21,554 --> 00:00:24,557 to the same person the longest amount of years. 8 00:00:25,025 --> 00:00:26,126 Of those who are present. 9 00:00:26,126 --> 00:00:29,763 And David and Sandy, one that David said 10 00:00:30,130 --> 00:00:33,867 that they've been married 50 years and six months. 11 00:00:34,434 --> 00:00:36,970 And so we honored them. We honored him. 12 00:00:36,970 --> 00:00:38,605 And one of the ways we honor them is 13 00:00:38,605 --> 00:00:41,775 we gave them their own little parking space out front. 14 00:00:42,542 --> 00:00:44,744 And it's on a little sign, says David and Sandy. 15 00:00:44,744 --> 00:00:46,613 50 years, six months, 16 00:00:46,613 --> 00:00:50,950 and we're going to keep that parking space for them for about three months or so, 17 00:00:51,217 --> 00:00:55,321 just as a way to honor them and their commitment to the Lord. 18 00:00:55,321 --> 00:01:00,660 Their commitment to each other 50 years and six months is a big deal. 19 00:01:00,994 --> 00:01:03,296 And one, yeah, you can clap for them. Absolutely. 20 00:01:04,998 --> 00:01:07,634 And so anyway, I want to highlight them. 21 00:01:07,634 --> 00:01:11,805 They're there the, the the mess, the sermon they preach without saying 22 00:01:11,805 --> 00:01:15,842 a word is, is good for us to pay attention to, 23 00:01:16,242 --> 00:01:21,114 especially as married ones who are still going through it. 24 00:01:21,981 --> 00:01:25,018 And every year in marriage, you figure it out again 25 00:01:25,351 --> 00:01:27,954 and every year you figure it out again 26 00:01:27,954 --> 00:01:31,624 and you have to keep figuring it out if you're going to make it 50 years plus. 27 00:01:31,624 --> 00:01:33,526 Right? Right. 28 00:01:33,526 --> 00:01:35,061 And so it's a great message. 29 00:01:35,061 --> 00:01:38,264 They continue to speak to us who ought to honor them, because we honor marriage 30 00:01:38,832 --> 00:01:42,769 between a man and a woman and the and the length and legacy of it 31 00:01:43,036 --> 00:01:47,173 that it speaks to us as a church and to our children and a model for us. 32 00:01:47,173 --> 00:01:49,509 So anyway, you'll see that out there. 33 00:01:50,510 --> 00:01:52,412 I, I was like, David, 50 or 6. 34 00:01:52,412 --> 00:01:54,514 That's awesome man. 35 00:01:54,514 --> 00:01:56,516 So that's your parking space for three months. 36 00:01:56,516 --> 00:01:59,752 And he said, that's fine, we take separate cars to church. 37 00:01:59,752 --> 00:02:01,321 I said, well, that's the secret. 38 00:02:01,321 --> 00:02:02,755 That's the secret right there. 39 00:02:02,755 --> 00:02:05,758 Sometimes you need some space. 40 00:02:05,758 --> 00:02:08,761 Anyway, I don't know who gets the parking space, but they can. 41 00:02:08,761 --> 00:02:09,362 They fit. 42 00:02:09,362 --> 00:02:10,997 They figured out everything else for 50 years. 43 00:02:10,997 --> 00:02:13,066 They can figure that out to, 44 00:02:13,066 --> 00:02:15,969 Matthew chapter nine, 45 00:02:15,969 --> 00:02:18,271 to wrap up this chapter today. 46 00:02:18,271 --> 00:02:22,442 And just just recap, as Bible students, 47 00:02:23,176 --> 00:02:26,779 Matthew and John are two of the four gospels 48 00:02:27,413 --> 00:02:31,518 that were written and recorded by actual disciples of Jesus. 49 00:02:31,751 --> 00:02:34,988 Mark and Luke were not disciples of Jesus. 50 00:02:35,822 --> 00:02:40,193 They told the story the account as they interviewed people about Jesus. 51 00:02:40,193 --> 00:02:42,862 But, Matthew and John are disciples, 52 00:02:44,330 --> 00:02:47,333 each writing from a very different perspective. 53 00:02:47,433 --> 00:02:50,436 John writes from an eternal perspective, 54 00:02:50,503 --> 00:02:54,274 and that's why John doesn't have a birth narrative about the birth of Jesus. 55 00:02:54,641 --> 00:02:57,210 John starts in eternity. 56 00:02:57,210 --> 00:02:59,913 In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, 57 00:02:59,913 --> 00:03:01,014 and the word was God. 58 00:03:01,014 --> 00:03:03,716 The Word of God was with God in the beginning. 59 00:03:03,716 --> 00:03:05,652 So there's no birth narrative in John. 60 00:03:05,652 --> 00:03:07,086 He wants to go all the way back 61 00:03:07,086 --> 00:03:10,089 and talk about Jesus as a messiah for the entire world. 62 00:03:10,390 --> 00:03:13,493 Matthew is a different perspective, same account, 63 00:03:13,493 --> 00:03:15,862 same Jesus, different perspective. 64 00:03:15,862 --> 00:03:19,199 And Matthew is writing from a very Jewish perspective 65 00:03:20,233 --> 00:03:24,837 and highlights Jesus as the Messiah of the Jews, 66 00:03:24,837 --> 00:03:26,339 the one the Jews were waiting for. 67 00:03:26,339 --> 00:03:31,511 Messiah is a translated word from Hebrew, which means the Anointed one. 68 00:03:32,011 --> 00:03:34,981 The Greek translation of that is is Christ. 69 00:03:34,981 --> 00:03:37,951 So Jesus the Christ or Jesus Christ? 70 00:03:37,984 --> 00:03:40,687 That's the way they translate the Old Testament word Messiah. 71 00:03:41,754 --> 00:03:42,388 Matthew 72 00:03:42,388 --> 00:03:47,126 is writing from the Old Testament Jewish perspective as Jesus, as the Messiah, 73 00:03:47,126 --> 00:03:50,530 the King, the Anointed One, the one that had been prophesied 74 00:03:50,530 --> 00:03:54,234 about for thousands of years and and had now come upon the earth. 75 00:03:54,601 --> 00:03:59,072 And as a result, Matthew uses a lot of Jewish verbiage, 76 00:03:59,072 --> 00:04:03,009 language, understanding, and he just kind of writes stuff as if 77 00:04:04,244 --> 00:04:06,913 his Jewish audience knows everything that's 78 00:04:06,913 --> 00:04:10,583 associated with his account, because they did. 79 00:04:11,217 --> 00:04:12,452 We don't. 80 00:04:12,452 --> 00:04:16,489 And so to get the depth and the breadth and the beauty of the book of Matthew, 81 00:04:16,789 --> 00:04:21,561 they require some Jewish historical explanation. 82 00:04:21,561 --> 00:04:24,530 And so I'll do a little bit as we go through Matthew. 83 00:04:24,530 --> 00:04:26,666 But I just want you to understand that that's where 84 00:04:26,666 --> 00:04:28,234 Matthew's perspective is coming from. 85 00:04:28,234 --> 00:04:30,970 It's very, very, very Jewish. And we'll see that today, 86 00:04:32,672 --> 00:04:36,009 at this point in chapter nine, and we'll wrap it up in the next couple weeks. 87 00:04:36,009 --> 00:04:39,812 In chapter ten, we've been through three sections of the book of Matthew. 88 00:04:40,213 --> 00:04:42,015 Matthew one through four. 89 00:04:42,015 --> 00:04:45,952 Matthew presents the person of Jesus revealed to the world, 90 00:04:46,953 --> 00:04:49,956 Matthew 567 91 00:04:50,757 --> 00:04:54,727 and I had to do that because my grandson Miles 92 00:04:54,727 --> 00:04:56,896 is probably going to watch this, and he'll get a kick out of that. 93 00:04:56,896 --> 00:05:00,366 So Miles, Matthew 567 94 00:05:01,501 --> 00:05:04,203 it it deals with the the principles of 95 00:05:04,203 --> 00:05:07,206 Jesus Explained, which is the sermon on the Mount. 96 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:11,244 And then Matthew eight 910, Matthew reveals 97 00:05:11,244 --> 00:05:14,580 the power of Jesus that's revealed into the world. 98 00:05:15,148 --> 00:05:18,151 And so in Matthew eight 910, there's ten 99 00:05:18,151 --> 00:05:21,120 miracles recorded in those three chapters. 100 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:24,524 And we're going to look at the last of those miracles today as we wrap up 101 00:05:24,524 --> 00:05:26,592 chapter nine, before we get into chapter ten. 102 00:05:28,494 --> 00:05:29,862 Matthew nine is not 103 00:05:29,862 --> 00:05:32,865 just about the power of Jesus. 104 00:05:32,865 --> 00:05:36,102 It's also about what kind of people come to Jesus. 105 00:05:37,070 --> 00:05:40,173 And my hope this morning is that we'll see ourselves in one 106 00:05:40,173 --> 00:05:43,443 or multiple of the people who come to Jesus 107 00:05:43,943 --> 00:05:48,848 and who are blessed by his mercy to receive an outpouring of his power. 108 00:05:49,682 --> 00:05:52,385 The big idea for this morning, I want you to get this 109 00:05:52,385 --> 00:05:55,388 is that faith isn't just believe in Jesus can help. 110 00:05:55,688 --> 00:05:59,292 Faith is the result of admitting nothing else can. 111 00:06:02,395 --> 00:06:03,196 Faith isn't just 112 00:06:03,196 --> 00:06:06,199 believing that we believe Jesus can't. 113 00:06:06,399 --> 00:06:10,103 Faith results from admitting nothing else can. 114 00:06:11,270 --> 00:06:14,640 And all of those who come to Jesus that we see in Scripture, 115 00:06:14,941 --> 00:06:18,411 they're going to come to Jesus because there's nothing else in the world 116 00:06:18,411 --> 00:06:20,780 that works. There's nothing else in their life that. 117 00:06:23,082 --> 00:06:23,850 Works. 118 00:06:23,850 --> 00:06:25,718 Nothing. 119 00:06:25,718 --> 00:06:29,956 And so many times, this is where God wants to get us to 120 00:06:31,190 --> 00:06:35,762 the realization and the admittance that all the other things 121 00:06:35,762 --> 00:06:39,132 that we might rely on and count on fall apart. 122 00:06:40,233 --> 00:06:43,236 And so we have no other option. 123 00:06:43,469 --> 00:06:46,539 It's the words of the disciple more to whom else will we go? 124 00:06:46,572 --> 00:06:48,174 You alone have the words of eternal life. 125 00:06:48,174 --> 00:06:50,510 I mean, if we had an option to go somewhere else, we would. 126 00:06:50,510 --> 00:06:52,111 That's the implication. 127 00:06:52,111 --> 00:06:55,114 And oftentimes when we have options 128 00:06:55,381 --> 00:06:57,917 and we have other plans, 129 00:06:57,917 --> 00:07:00,086 we don't have to go to Jesus 130 00:07:00,086 --> 00:07:02,688 because we trust in our plans. 131 00:07:02,688 --> 00:07:04,957 And so many of our prayers reside on God. 132 00:07:04,957 --> 00:07:06,392 Give me another. 133 00:07:06,392 --> 00:07:07,293 Give me another option. 134 00:07:07,293 --> 00:07:09,662 Give me another, give me. 135 00:07:09,662 --> 00:07:13,566 And and I think sometimes God says, no, I don't want to give you any other options. 136 00:07:13,733 --> 00:07:15,968 I don't want to give you any others. 137 00:07:15,968 --> 00:07:17,670 Because if you have another option, 138 00:07:18,771 --> 00:07:20,807 you'll take it. 139 00:07:20,807 --> 00:07:24,010 And we have to understand that there are times when God lets 140 00:07:24,010 --> 00:07:27,213 everything else in our lives run out 141 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:30,817 so that we will run to him. 142 00:07:30,817 --> 00:07:33,519 And if you've ever been in that place in your world 143 00:07:33,519 --> 00:07:36,656 where everything else that used to you used to count on 144 00:07:36,722 --> 00:07:40,293 that used to be reliable, that when you use as your identity, 145 00:07:40,293 --> 00:07:44,464 that you use as your hope, when all of that is taken away, 146 00:07:45,298 --> 00:07:48,301 sometimes that is God's act of love 147 00:07:49,469 --> 00:07:51,070 because we've built our lives 148 00:07:51,070 --> 00:07:54,073 around these other things, 149 00:07:54,407 --> 00:07:55,675 and we have to get to the point 150 00:07:55,675 --> 00:07:58,678 where we say that I got nothing else. 151 00:07:59,612 --> 00:08:02,181 And that's a that's a scary and a difficult place to get to 152 00:08:02,181 --> 00:08:05,251 because because to answer that question, you have to say, okay, who am I now 153 00:08:06,719 --> 00:08:09,422 when all this other stuff is falling apart, who am I? 154 00:08:09,422 --> 00:08:10,389 I got nothing else. 155 00:08:10,389 --> 00:08:10,957 Everything. 156 00:08:10,957 --> 00:08:14,427 I thought that was who I was of my life. 157 00:08:14,427 --> 00:08:15,595 My hope, my. 158 00:08:15,595 --> 00:08:16,329 It's gone. 159 00:08:16,329 --> 00:08:19,332 So who am I now? 160 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:23,603 And when we don't know who we are in Christ. 161 00:08:24,637 --> 00:08:26,873 It creates crisis. 162 00:08:26,873 --> 00:08:28,741 You follow 163 00:08:28,741 --> 00:08:30,209 Hmhmm. 164 00:08:30,209 --> 00:08:33,212 And so sometimes it is a sheer act of love 165 00:08:33,346 --> 00:08:36,616 for God to say, I'm going to strip everything away now 166 00:08:37,683 --> 00:08:40,686 we're like, oh, wait, wait, that's not I'm not loving 167 00:08:40,753 --> 00:08:43,756 it says, no, no, no, I want your love. 168 00:08:44,090 --> 00:08:47,093 And so it's loving for me 169 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:49,896 so that you will run to me. 170 00:08:49,896 --> 00:08:51,531 And so 171 00:08:51,531 --> 00:08:54,033 chapter nine, starting in verse 18, 172 00:08:54,033 --> 00:08:57,036 I've resisted this as long as I could. 173 00:08:59,772 --> 00:09:01,574 Any of you old people ever watch 174 00:09:01,574 --> 00:09:04,577 Happy Days when it was like, first rule with Fonzie? 175 00:09:04,844 --> 00:09:06,879 Do any of you remember the episode when Fonzie got glasses? 176 00:09:08,114 --> 00:09:08,447 You bet. 177 00:09:08,447 --> 00:09:10,082 Everyone's got glasses. 178 00:09:10,082 --> 00:09:11,017 He's like, that's not cool. 179 00:09:11,017 --> 00:09:13,052 I'm not wearing glasses. 180 00:09:13,052 --> 00:09:17,690 And right, nobody shows my age. 181 00:09:17,690 --> 00:09:20,660 Yeah, well, here we go. 182 00:09:20,660 --> 00:09:23,663 They. 183 00:09:24,430 --> 00:09:27,433 Okay. 184 00:09:27,500 --> 00:09:30,503 Verse 18, and while he was saying these things to them, behold, a 185 00:09:30,503 --> 00:09:33,973 ruler came in and knelt before him saying, my daughter has just died, 186 00:09:33,973 --> 00:09:36,976 but come and lay your hand on her, and she will live. 187 00:09:36,976 --> 00:09:39,979 And Jesus rose and followed him with his disciples. 188 00:09:40,713 --> 00:09:42,915 This ruler 189 00:09:42,915 --> 00:09:47,587 that God is talking about here is a he's the synagogue leader for the area, 190 00:09:47,853 --> 00:09:50,756 and as the synagogue leader, he is the he. 191 00:09:50,756 --> 00:09:54,961 He's at the top of the pinnacle of religion for the for their community. 192 00:09:55,194 --> 00:09:56,762 He's the he's the synagogue. 193 00:09:56,762 --> 00:09:59,665 He has the answers. He has the authority. 194 00:09:59,665 --> 00:10:01,701 He's got the scripture to back him up. 195 00:10:01,701 --> 00:10:04,704 And everybody looked at him like, okay, you're you're it. 196 00:10:04,770 --> 00:10:06,772 And and he's has his daughter. 197 00:10:06,772 --> 00:10:10,509 And other accounts over the Gospels are telling the same account. 198 00:10:10,776 --> 00:10:13,512 They say that she's near death. 199 00:10:13,512 --> 00:10:15,948 Matthew says she's actually died. 200 00:10:15,948 --> 00:10:19,518 And so this synagogue ruler is in crisis. 201 00:10:20,786 --> 00:10:22,088 He, he 202 00:10:22,088 --> 00:10:25,091 he's in absolute cry because this is his child 203 00:10:26,425 --> 00:10:29,295 and she's on her deathbed. 204 00:10:29,295 --> 00:10:31,831 And I want you to understand 205 00:10:31,831 --> 00:10:34,834 that this synagogue leader 206 00:10:35,034 --> 00:10:38,037 had Scripture, 207 00:10:38,104 --> 00:10:41,107 this synagogue leader had the synagogue 208 00:10:41,340 --> 00:10:44,310 had status, had religious authority, 209 00:10:44,477 --> 00:10:47,480 but he had nothing in his life that could help him. 210 00:10:50,082 --> 00:10:53,085 And he realized he was at that point that we just talked about 211 00:10:53,819 --> 00:10:56,889 where God revealed to him all this other stuff 212 00:10:57,690 --> 00:11:00,693 that you think is your security, 213 00:11:00,693 --> 00:11:04,130 that you think is your future, that your ideas are wrapped up. 214 00:11:04,130 --> 00:11:06,399 All this other stuff 215 00:11:06,399 --> 00:11:09,402 does, you know, good right now. 216 00:11:10,503 --> 00:11:11,837 You can't hope in any of it. 217 00:11:11,837 --> 00:11:14,840 He has no answers for you, 218 00:11:14,874 --> 00:11:17,410 and that's why he said this is what God allows us. 219 00:11:17,410 --> 00:11:19,612 Oftentimes 220 00:11:19,612 --> 00:11:21,213 he allows crisis. 221 00:11:23,249 --> 00:11:23,883 So that we 222 00:11:23,883 --> 00:11:27,620 will learn that we have nothing to rely on. 223 00:11:27,620 --> 00:11:28,587 But him. 224 00:11:28,587 --> 00:11:31,557 The synagogue leader is is coming face to face 225 00:11:31,557 --> 00:11:35,127 with all of my religion, and all of my self. 226 00:11:35,127 --> 00:11:37,730 Reliance is worth nothing. 227 00:11:37,730 --> 00:11:40,733 See, religion informs about God. 228 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:44,603 Jesus meets us as God. 229 00:11:45,104 --> 00:11:47,206 And so this religious leader 230 00:11:47,206 --> 00:11:50,943 was relying on all of his religion and all of his self-righteousness 231 00:11:50,943 --> 00:11:54,280 and all of his authority that he thought he had in this world. 232 00:11:55,481 --> 00:11:57,550 And God strips all of that away 233 00:11:57,550 --> 00:12:00,920 through the sickness and death of his daughter. 234 00:12:02,221 --> 00:12:05,324 And if any of you have been through real crisis, you understand 235 00:12:05,391 --> 00:12:08,394 how everything else. 236 00:12:12,131 --> 00:12:15,134 Doesn't do any good. 237 00:12:15,601 --> 00:12:18,571 And this religious leader has no other option 238 00:12:18,738 --> 00:12:21,741 but to reach out for Jesus 239 00:12:23,042 --> 00:12:25,144 and see all of his religion. 240 00:12:25,144 --> 00:12:28,848 Told him that to reach God, we climb higher. 241 00:12:30,583 --> 00:12:33,352 And finally he's realizing 242 00:12:33,352 --> 00:12:36,989 that we reach Christ by collapsing lower. 243 00:12:40,826 --> 00:12:43,829 It's falling apart. 244 00:12:44,463 --> 00:12:45,364 And I got no 245 00:12:45,364 --> 00:12:48,367 no other option but to get on my knees. 246 00:12:49,301 --> 00:12:51,237 Jesus. 247 00:12:51,237 --> 00:12:54,240 And admit I got no other option. 248 00:12:55,741 --> 00:12:58,711 And so he comes to Jesus, 249 00:12:58,744 --> 00:13:01,747 says, my, my daughter's dead. 250 00:13:03,115 --> 00:13:06,118 But come and lay your hand on her, and she'll live. 251 00:13:06,485 --> 00:13:09,488 He's given voice to his faith. 252 00:13:09,822 --> 00:13:12,691 It's not just something he's starting to believe in his heart now. 253 00:13:12,691 --> 00:13:15,694 He's giving voice to it. 254 00:13:15,961 --> 00:13:17,897 And in the middle of this happening, 255 00:13:17,897 --> 00:13:20,900 watch what happens. 256 00:13:20,966 --> 00:13:24,303 Verse 20, and behold, a woman who had suffered from a discharge of blood 257 00:13:24,303 --> 00:13:27,506 for 12 years came up behind him and touched the fringe of his garment. 258 00:13:28,174 --> 00:13:30,543 For she said to herself, 259 00:13:30,543 --> 00:13:33,212 if I only touch his garment, I will be made well. 260 00:13:34,380 --> 00:13:35,714 Jesus turned and seen 261 00:13:35,714 --> 00:13:38,818 her, said, take heart, daughter, your faith has made you well. 262 00:13:38,818 --> 00:13:41,153 And instantly the woman was made well. 263 00:13:41,153 --> 00:13:44,156 Now you have this religious man 264 00:13:44,824 --> 00:13:47,827 who, by his estimation, deserves 265 00:13:47,893 --> 00:13:50,896 a touch from God because he's a real religious guy. 266 00:13:51,630 --> 00:13:54,266 Jesus agrees to go help his daughter 267 00:13:54,266 --> 00:13:57,269 and he's Jesus is interrupted by this woman. 268 00:13:58,037 --> 00:14:01,040 What do you think this religious man's thinking? 269 00:14:02,575 --> 00:14:04,443 Woman wait your turn. 270 00:14:04,443 --> 00:14:06,979 Like I got here first. 271 00:14:06,979 --> 00:14:07,680 Like a nice guy. 272 00:14:07,680 --> 00:14:09,615 I kind of deserve this. 273 00:14:09,615 --> 00:14:10,316 After all, I'm. 274 00:14:10,316 --> 00:14:13,085 I'm Jewish, man, 275 00:14:13,085 --> 00:14:14,720 and I'm a Jewish religious man. 276 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:17,723 And so I'm kind of. 277 00:14:17,957 --> 00:14:20,960 And you, after all, are a woman, 278 00:14:21,493 --> 00:14:22,728 And not only that, you're, 279 00:14:22,728 --> 00:14:25,731 like, super unclean. So. 280 00:14:25,831 --> 00:14:27,700 And Jesus interrupts 281 00:14:27,700 --> 00:14:32,571 this Jewish religious man's request to deal with this woman. 282 00:14:33,739 --> 00:14:35,441 Now, this is an interesting thing. 283 00:14:35,441 --> 00:14:37,443 She's got this, this, this issue. 284 00:14:37,443 --> 00:14:40,279 This went on for 12 years. 285 00:14:40,279 --> 00:14:43,249 So she's experiencing social isolation. 286 00:14:43,249 --> 00:14:46,652 She's she is completely ritualistic, unclean, 287 00:14:46,952 --> 00:14:50,089 and she's under financial ruin because Mark chapter five tells us 288 00:14:50,089 --> 00:14:53,192 she's spent everything she had to be healed and the doctors couldn't help her. 289 00:14:53,192 --> 00:14:56,195 So she has nothing left. 290 00:14:57,663 --> 00:15:00,666 Except. 291 00:15:01,133 --> 00:15:04,136 Jesus. 292 00:15:04,169 --> 00:15:05,204 And she comes. 293 00:15:05,204 --> 00:15:07,573 She doesn't make her request. 294 00:15:07,573 --> 00:15:10,576 She reaches out for 295 00:15:10,776 --> 00:15:12,044 she makes no request. 296 00:15:12,044 --> 00:15:12,978 What for? So ever. 297 00:15:12,978 --> 00:15:15,981 But she reaches out for. 298 00:15:17,016 --> 00:15:19,652 And the act of reaching out for provides 299 00:15:19,652 --> 00:15:22,621 a touch point to release her faith. 300 00:15:24,423 --> 00:15:25,824 So the act of her 301 00:15:25,824 --> 00:15:30,562 reaching like she had faith already inside, but it was unspoken 302 00:15:30,562 --> 00:15:35,701 and unaffected on the fact that she reaches out and touches, provides 303 00:15:35,701 --> 00:15:40,172 a touch point to release the faith that she already knew in her heart. 304 00:15:40,472 --> 00:15:42,574 It was just follow me now. 305 00:15:42,574 --> 00:15:45,945 There are many of us who have faith that God can, 306 00:15:46,712 --> 00:15:49,348 and some of us have faith that God will, 307 00:15:50,349 --> 00:15:54,420 but that faith remains isolated and internal 308 00:15:54,620 --> 00:15:58,190 until it expresses itself in a touch point 309 00:15:58,324 --> 00:16:01,327 of public profession 310 00:16:01,927 --> 00:16:04,363 and without the touch point of public profession. 311 00:16:04,363 --> 00:16:08,334 By this woman, that faith would have gone on, activated 312 00:16:08,867 --> 00:16:11,870 those she believed and had faith. 313 00:16:12,571 --> 00:16:15,574 Faith without works is dead. 314 00:16:15,908 --> 00:16:17,943 And so sometimes what? 315 00:16:17,943 --> 00:16:18,711 What the? 316 00:16:18,711 --> 00:16:22,514 It's the need to express the faith 317 00:16:22,514 --> 00:16:25,517 that we have in a touch point that says, 318 00:16:26,051 --> 00:16:28,120 God, I believe, and I'm not going to 319 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:31,123 I'm not going to live in the silo of my own belief. 320 00:16:31,824 --> 00:16:36,095 I'm going to invite other people into the expression of my belief in you, 321 00:16:37,463 --> 00:16:40,833 and provides a touch point to release the faith that she already has. 322 00:16:42,568 --> 00:16:46,005 There was nothing magical about the robe that Jesus wore, 323 00:16:46,972 --> 00:16:51,377 except that it provided the expression to release the faith that she already had. 324 00:16:51,377 --> 00:16:52,077 Let me take this story. 325 00:16:54,146 --> 00:16:54,780 Back quite a 326 00:16:54,780 --> 00:16:57,783 few years, I was doing some ministry in Costa Rica 327 00:16:58,584 --> 00:17:00,486 and I got the chance to preach in. 328 00:17:00,486 --> 00:17:04,056 In the capital of Costa Rica, thousands and thousands of people was a hotbed 329 00:17:04,323 --> 00:17:07,559 for demon ism and witchcraft and possession 330 00:17:07,559 --> 00:17:10,562 and prostitution and drugs. 331 00:17:10,562 --> 00:17:13,432 And I got to preach at the end of this whole big thing. 332 00:17:13,432 --> 00:17:16,668 And all these people accepted Jesus and gave their lives 333 00:17:16,668 --> 00:17:18,270 to Jesus and repented of their sins. 334 00:17:18,270 --> 00:17:20,672 That was just incredible move of God. It was beautiful. 335 00:17:20,672 --> 00:17:24,410 And this one man walked, was ushered up to me because he was blind. 336 00:17:26,211 --> 00:17:29,882 And through the translator, he said, this guy is blind. 337 00:17:29,882 --> 00:17:32,351 He's been going blind progressively for years and years and years. 338 00:17:32,351 --> 00:17:34,053 And he spent all his money he had on doctors, 339 00:17:34,053 --> 00:17:36,655 and they can't help them, and he can't see a thing right now. 340 00:17:36,655 --> 00:17:37,423 Sound biblical? 341 00:17:39,291 --> 00:17:42,294 And I said, well, what do you want from me? 342 00:17:42,494 --> 00:17:45,831 And this guy said, the interpreter said, I believe God wants to heal me right now. 343 00:17:45,831 --> 00:17:48,834 And I believe that he wants to heal me through you. 344 00:17:49,435 --> 00:17:52,438 And I'm like, well, good luck with that, because that's 345 00:17:52,538 --> 00:17:55,541 I'm not ever done anything like 346 00:17:56,008 --> 00:17:59,111 I said, do you believe that God can and will? 347 00:17:59,111 --> 00:18:02,181 He said, absolutely, but I believe that 348 00:18:02,314 --> 00:18:05,317 it's through your prayers with me and said, okay. 349 00:18:06,418 --> 00:18:08,487 So I put my hands on him 350 00:18:08,487 --> 00:18:11,090 and I prayed over him and just kept praying. 351 00:18:11,090 --> 00:18:14,093 But with the authority of the name of Jesus 352 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:16,895 that he would be healed right then. 353 00:18:16,895 --> 00:18:20,666 And when you start to get a little shaky and he just went over backwards 354 00:18:20,666 --> 00:18:22,267 and his friends didn't even catch him, 355 00:18:24,269 --> 00:18:24,870 and he hit 356 00:18:24,870 --> 00:18:27,873 the ground, and I jumped on top of him and kept praying. 357 00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:33,212 And I can't explain it, but this stuff kind of poured out of his eyes. 358 00:18:34,213 --> 00:18:36,949 And I said in English, he didn't speak English. 359 00:18:36,949 --> 00:18:39,785 I said, open your eyes and see in the name of Jesus. 360 00:18:39,785 --> 00:18:42,187 And he opened his eyes. 361 00:18:42,187 --> 00:18:44,690 I can see trees, I can see birds. 362 00:18:44,690 --> 00:18:45,491 I see you. 363 00:18:45,491 --> 00:18:48,160 And God completely healed him that day. 364 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:50,329 Completely 365 00:18:50,329 --> 00:18:53,332 incredible move of the spirit. 366 00:18:54,700 --> 00:18:57,703 Here's thing, it wasn't me. 367 00:18:58,737 --> 00:18:59,671 It was his faith. 368 00:18:59,671 --> 00:19:02,808 But had he not acted on that faith as the touch point, 369 00:19:04,409 --> 00:19:07,412 that faith would have done him no good 370 00:19:07,579 --> 00:19:10,582 to understand? 371 00:19:11,283 --> 00:19:14,286 Many of us, and I believe God can absolutely. 372 00:19:14,753 --> 00:19:17,289 But you leave it siloed in your own heart, 373 00:19:18,924 --> 00:19:21,660 and you don't ever reach out as a touch point of your faith. 374 00:19:21,660 --> 00:19:24,663 You know why we have these people who say they'll pray with you 375 00:19:25,831 --> 00:19:28,467 for you to say, this is the faith that I have, 376 00:19:28,467 --> 00:19:31,003 and I want you to touch the throne of God with me. 377 00:19:31,003 --> 00:19:32,571 Well, we will find mercy and grace 378 00:19:32,571 --> 00:19:35,040 to help us in the time of need, what the Scripture says. 379 00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:37,509 And so you are my touchpoint before the throne. 380 00:19:37,509 --> 00:19:40,512 So let's approach God together in prayer right now. 381 00:19:45,250 --> 00:19:47,553 To understand that 382 00:19:47,553 --> 00:19:50,522 it almost sounds biblical. 383 00:19:54,960 --> 00:19:57,963 So she reaches out for the tassels. 384 00:19:58,163 --> 00:20:00,132 There's nothing in the Bible that says 385 00:20:00,132 --> 00:20:03,602 if you reach the tassels of a Jewish rabbi, there's power there. 386 00:20:03,602 --> 00:20:06,138 There's there's there's nothing necessarily in that. 387 00:20:06,138 --> 00:20:11,476 And what we may see from her is that she's it's just this superstitious belief. 388 00:20:13,011 --> 00:20:14,880 It's kind of bad theology. 389 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:16,682 On one hand, 390 00:20:16,682 --> 00:20:19,051 it's superstition at best. 391 00:20:19,051 --> 00:20:22,020 If you just look at the what she's doing. 392 00:20:22,754 --> 00:20:25,757 But it's a faith to reach out, 393 00:20:26,358 --> 00:20:29,928 and it's a faith that releases her faith. 394 00:20:32,297 --> 00:20:33,665 It's interesting. 395 00:20:33,665 --> 00:20:34,833 There's 396 00:20:34,833 --> 00:20:37,903 there's something else going on here, though, that I want to point out to you 397 00:20:38,670 --> 00:20:41,673 that it might not be just pure superstition. 398 00:20:41,974 --> 00:20:46,378 There's a there's a Bible verse in the book of Malachi, Old Testament, 399 00:20:46,945 --> 00:20:50,415 I like to say he was the first, I tell you, Prophet Malachi, I see 400 00:20:51,984 --> 00:20:54,753 Malachi says this, but for you who fear my name, 401 00:20:54,753 --> 00:20:59,391 the sun of righteousness shall rise with what healing in its wings 402 00:20:59,858 --> 00:21:02,861 you shall go out leaping like calves from the stall. 403 00:21:04,129 --> 00:21:07,399 When Malachi writes this healing in, it's in his wings. 404 00:21:08,166 --> 00:21:08,567 What do you. 405 00:21:10,602 --> 00:21:14,039 In in the Jewish conscious or Rabbi, if they would wear these shawls, 406 00:21:14,039 --> 00:21:14,239 and in 407 00:21:14,239 --> 00:21:17,809 each of the four corners of the shawl, there would be four threads of blue yarn, 408 00:21:18,210 --> 00:21:20,345 and that would remind the Rabbi of the priority 409 00:21:20,345 --> 00:21:23,348 and prominence of the Word of God in the law of God. 410 00:21:23,348 --> 00:21:27,719 And they would wear this as stand, and that the the edge of the garment 411 00:21:27,719 --> 00:21:30,355 would have these four tassels on the four corners 412 00:21:30,355 --> 00:21:33,358 to remind them of the priority in the Word of God. 413 00:21:33,392 --> 00:21:37,829 That word for tassel is literally the Hebrew word sits it. 414 00:21:38,430 --> 00:21:44,503 Okay, now I learned this from a brilliant man named Chuck Missler back in the 90s. 415 00:21:44,503 --> 00:21:48,273 So 30 plus years ago I learned this from him. 416 00:21:48,307 --> 00:21:51,310 I thought, this is this is so like God to do this. 417 00:21:51,543 --> 00:21:54,546 And it's it's interesting for me because I'm old and I start 418 00:21:54,613 --> 00:21:58,216 hearing all these new podcasters and insta pastors and stuff. 419 00:21:58,483 --> 00:22:01,420 They're they're talking about this stuff as if they discovered it 420 00:22:01,420 --> 00:22:04,389 on, like a bunch of plagiarists that you didn't discover any of this stuff. 421 00:22:04,389 --> 00:22:07,626 And so my mind goes back to and this is what Chuck Missler, 422 00:22:07,859 --> 00:22:12,464 he said this, that word sets it that, that literally. 423 00:22:13,765 --> 00:22:15,967 That's a Hebrew word for 424 00:22:15,967 --> 00:22:18,970 not just wings, but corner. 425 00:22:20,906 --> 00:22:23,442 That word means both of those. 426 00:22:23,442 --> 00:22:26,445 And so when you look at Malachi four two, 427 00:22:26,945 --> 00:22:29,481 he will rise with healing in his wings. 428 00:22:29,481 --> 00:22:33,151 Another translation he will rise with healing in his corners. 429 00:22:34,519 --> 00:22:37,022 What did the woman reach out for? 430 00:22:37,022 --> 00:22:40,025 The corner of his garment? 431 00:22:40,559 --> 00:22:43,762 Because she knew perhaps, the prophecy of Malachi 432 00:22:43,995 --> 00:22:48,200 that one would rise with healings in his corners 433 00:22:49,034 --> 00:22:52,637 and her reaching out for the corner of his garment 434 00:22:52,904 --> 00:22:56,475 was a proclamation that I believe that you are 435 00:22:56,475 --> 00:22:59,945 the Messiah that's been prophesied about for hundreds of years. 436 00:23:00,212 --> 00:23:04,516 And this is my statement of faith, that I believe you have the authority 437 00:23:04,616 --> 00:23:08,253 to do what it is I need, that I believe you can do. 438 00:23:08,453 --> 00:23:12,424 And it wasn't a superstitious only belief to reach out for the corner. 439 00:23:12,491 --> 00:23:15,694 It was a proclamation of faith that Jesus, you 440 00:23:15,694 --> 00:23:19,331 and you alone are my source of help and healing. 441 00:23:20,766 --> 00:23:23,769 To understand. 442 00:23:25,637 --> 00:23:27,005 So she wasn't just superstitious. 443 00:23:27,005 --> 00:23:30,542 She was making a statement that you are the Messiah. 444 00:23:32,844 --> 00:23:35,614 And you made that statement. 445 00:23:35,614 --> 00:23:38,617 You are the Messiah and you alone can help. 446 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:44,423 It is on the way, ready to raise up this 12 year old girl. 447 00:23:44,423 --> 00:23:47,726 And he stops to heal a woman with a 12 year issue. 448 00:23:51,062 --> 00:23:52,964 And one of the things I learned from that is this. 449 00:23:52,964 --> 00:23:56,635 That God's never too busy to respond to desperate faith. 450 00:23:57,803 --> 00:24:00,338 He's never too busy. 451 00:24:00,338 --> 00:24:02,641 He might have to strip everything else away in your life first, 452 00:24:02,641 --> 00:24:05,644 but you'll get desperate. 453 00:24:08,780 --> 00:24:11,783 And God usually steps in when we reach out. 454 00:24:12,284 --> 00:24:15,287 Not before. 455 00:24:15,554 --> 00:24:16,988 And so I want to encourage you, friends 456 00:24:16,988 --> 00:24:19,991 today, reach out. 457 00:24:21,059 --> 00:24:23,361 With someone else as a touch point to your faith. 458 00:24:24,830 --> 00:24:27,833 And perhaps by the mercy of God. 459 00:24:29,034 --> 00:24:29,935 See, the. 460 00:24:29,935 --> 00:24:33,071 The lesson that I learned in this part is weak. 461 00:24:33,071 --> 00:24:36,274 Faith in the right Savior is stronger than strong faith in anything 462 00:24:36,274 --> 00:24:39,277 else. 463 00:24:39,511 --> 00:24:40,912 This woman, perhaps 464 00:24:40,912 --> 00:24:44,749 superstitious faith, probably some bad theology, 465 00:24:45,784 --> 00:24:48,553 perhaps. 466 00:24:48,553 --> 00:24:51,556 But weak faith on the right Savior. 467 00:24:53,458 --> 00:24:55,560 That's what gets it done. 468 00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:58,530 Look at verse 23 through 26. 469 00:24:58,630 --> 00:25:01,633 I promise we're going to get through it. 470 00:25:03,368 --> 00:25:05,203 And when Jesus came to the ruler's house, 471 00:25:05,203 --> 00:25:10,075 he saw the flute players in the crowd making a commotion and said, go away. 472 00:25:10,075 --> 00:25:11,810 The girl isn't dead. She's sleeping. 473 00:25:11,810 --> 00:25:13,078 And they laughed at him. 474 00:25:13,078 --> 00:25:16,248 But when the crowd had been put outside, he went in and took her by the hand, 475 00:25:16,381 --> 00:25:17,449 and the girl arose. 476 00:25:17,449 --> 00:25:20,452 And the report of this went through all the district. 477 00:25:20,752 --> 00:25:23,889 So he that Jesus goes to the finally gets to the ruler's house 478 00:25:23,889 --> 00:25:25,624 and respond, probably like finally. 479 00:25:26,791 --> 00:25:29,127 And the girl's dead, 480 00:25:29,127 --> 00:25:31,663 and she's all these mourners outside. 481 00:25:31,663 --> 00:25:35,066 Now, by Jewish law, you had to have at least one flute player. 482 00:25:35,066 --> 00:25:38,303 And like a couple people who would wail on your behalf and 483 00:25:38,637 --> 00:25:41,373 and that was like you had to mourn and they would hire 484 00:25:41,373 --> 00:25:45,010 professional mourners to, to because it was part of the law. 485 00:25:45,710 --> 00:25:48,880 And, and if you were wealthy, it hire a bunch of mourners 486 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:51,483 to make it look like you really loved your loved one who had passed. 487 00:25:51,483 --> 00:25:53,652 And that's what Jesus is seen here. 488 00:25:53,652 --> 00:25:56,655 And he walked up, shot up. 489 00:25:56,888 --> 00:25:58,590 She's not dead. 490 00:25:58,590 --> 00:26:00,525 She's sleeping. 491 00:26:00,525 --> 00:26:03,094 What did they do? 492 00:26:03,094 --> 00:26:05,230 They laughed at him. 493 00:26:05,230 --> 00:26:06,798 They just laughed at him. You know why? 494 00:26:06,798 --> 00:26:09,801 Because sometimes unbelief often sounds like logic. 495 00:26:10,802 --> 00:26:13,805 They had more faith in death than they had in Jesus. 496 00:26:14,372 --> 00:26:17,309 And so logically they're like, well, Jesus, that doesn't make any sense. 497 00:26:17,309 --> 00:26:18,209 She's dead. 498 00:26:19,144 --> 00:26:21,179 Please understand 499 00:26:21,179 --> 00:26:24,182 that unbelief often sounds like logic, 500 00:26:24,482 --> 00:26:29,087 and people try to logic you out of God's move 501 00:26:30,422 --> 00:26:32,657 because it doesn't make sense. 502 00:26:32,657 --> 00:26:35,660 Do you understand? 503 00:26:40,599 --> 00:26:41,199 Something. 504 00:26:41,199 --> 00:26:43,501 What does Jesus do there? 505 00:26:43,501 --> 00:26:44,035 I'm believe. 506 00:26:44,035 --> 00:26:47,038 Sounds like logic. So what does he do? 507 00:26:47,339 --> 00:26:48,773 Look at your Bibles. 508 00:26:48,773 --> 00:26:51,776 What do you do? 509 00:26:54,746 --> 00:26:57,415 Before he took. But, 510 00:26:57,415 --> 00:27:00,418 before he took her by hand, he did something. 511 00:27:01,519 --> 00:27:03,355 He kicked them out. 512 00:27:03,355 --> 00:27:05,090 He said, shut up. 513 00:27:05,090 --> 00:27:07,726 Get out. 514 00:27:07,726 --> 00:27:09,761 If I understand, this is really important. 515 00:27:09,761 --> 00:27:13,398 Now, sometimes faith requires removing other voices. 516 00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:18,503 Sometimes faith requires removing other voices. 517 00:27:18,770 --> 00:27:21,773 And we let so many other voices in our head 518 00:27:22,574 --> 00:27:25,577 that try to convince us and tell us 519 00:27:25,677 --> 00:27:27,912 that that might have been the way it was back then. 520 00:27:27,912 --> 00:27:30,982 But today's today stuff changes. 521 00:27:31,716 --> 00:27:33,752 There are some times when God says, listen, 522 00:27:33,752 --> 00:27:37,355 you can't hear me right now because you got so many other voices 523 00:27:37,355 --> 00:27:41,026 in your head, and sometimes you got to kick them out. 524 00:27:41,426 --> 00:27:44,996 There are some voices in your life, some voices in my life, 525 00:27:45,063 --> 00:27:49,601 that we have to kick out of our head and out of our life. 526 00:27:49,701 --> 00:27:54,873 Some of it will mean quit listening to other voices here all the time. 527 00:27:54,906 --> 00:27:58,910 Some of it will mean there are some relationships you got to get rid of. 528 00:28:02,647 --> 00:28:03,181 Because faith 529 00:28:03,181 --> 00:28:06,184 requires removing those other voices 530 00:28:06,451 --> 00:28:09,154 to understand. 531 00:28:09,154 --> 00:28:10,422 And once you remove 532 00:28:10,422 --> 00:28:13,992 those other voices, then he did what if you're going to 533 00:28:14,392 --> 00:28:17,395 take her by the hand and heal her? 534 00:28:18,663 --> 00:28:21,766 Some of you cannot hear the voice in authority of God, 535 00:28:21,766 --> 00:28:23,735 because you got other voices speaking in your head, 536 00:28:23,735 --> 00:28:26,738 and you will never experience the hand of God raising you up. 537 00:28:28,740 --> 00:28:31,743 Because you got a bunch of lies rolling around 538 00:28:32,510 --> 00:28:35,113 that sound like logic. 539 00:28:35,113 --> 00:28:38,116 It's really just unbelief. 540 00:28:39,751 --> 00:28:40,151 You with me? 541 00:28:40,151 --> 00:28:43,154 So far? Yes. 542 00:28:44,389 --> 00:28:44,622 Verse 543 00:28:44,622 --> 00:28:47,759 27 and as Jesus passed on from there to blind men followed him. 544 00:28:47,992 --> 00:28:50,995 That's just funny to me. 545 00:28:55,266 --> 00:29:00,505 How? Can you imagine this or do this route? 546 00:29:00,505 --> 00:29:02,741 They kind of took, like, have you seen Jesus? Have you seen Jesus? 547 00:29:04,909 --> 00:29:07,212 And, I'll come back to that. 548 00:29:07,212 --> 00:29:09,347 It's not that funny, but call out. 549 00:29:09,347 --> 00:29:11,082 Have mercy on us, son of David. 550 00:29:11,082 --> 00:29:14,986 When he entered the house, the boatmen came to him and said again, 551 00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:18,690 Jesus waits until he gets inside, 552 00:29:18,690 --> 00:29:21,693 and they gotta find their way through the door like, 553 00:29:22,127 --> 00:29:25,263 I don't know, I just I wonder what Jesus was like. 554 00:29:25,263 --> 00:29:28,266 Watch this man, watch this. 555 00:29:28,566 --> 00:29:31,236 They're looking for me. 556 00:29:31,236 --> 00:29:32,904 Let's go inside. 557 00:29:32,904 --> 00:29:33,605 Yeah. Okay. 558 00:29:33,605 --> 00:29:35,774 Get you like Jesus knows what he's going to do. 559 00:29:35,774 --> 00:29:36,808 But can you like. 560 00:29:36,808 --> 00:29:39,677 I just imagine Jesus having fun with people sometimes. 561 00:29:39,677 --> 00:29:42,280 I like. 562 00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:45,283 I just can't imagine Jesus like. 563 00:29:46,251 --> 00:29:46,718 No. Knock it. 564 00:29:46,718 --> 00:29:48,119 Shut the door. 565 00:29:48,119 --> 00:29:49,120 All right? 566 00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:53,391 I just I just think I like, at some point, 567 00:29:54,058 --> 00:29:55,860 like, you're the son of God, you know, we're going to the cross. 568 00:29:55,860 --> 00:29:59,130 You gotta have fun along the way at some point, you know, I don't know, 569 00:30:00,465 --> 00:30:02,767 when I, 570 00:30:02,767 --> 00:30:04,803 he said to them, do you believe that I am able to do this? 571 00:30:04,803 --> 00:30:06,271 They said to him, yes, Lord. 572 00:30:06,271 --> 00:30:07,372 And he touched their eyes, saying, 573 00:30:07,372 --> 00:30:09,607 according to your faith, be it done to you. 574 00:30:09,607 --> 00:30:11,643 And their eyes were open. 575 00:30:11,643 --> 00:30:14,412 And Jesus sternly warned them, see that no one knows about it. 576 00:30:14,412 --> 00:30:17,415 But they went away and spread them throughout all the district. 577 00:30:17,582 --> 00:30:20,552 So you got these two blind guys? 578 00:30:21,519 --> 00:30:23,788 I seriously thought, well, how do they follow Jesus? 579 00:30:23,788 --> 00:30:25,757 They're blind. And this is what I thought. 580 00:30:25,757 --> 00:30:28,760 This is why I thought they stayed close enough to Jesus to hear him, 581 00:30:30,495 --> 00:30:33,498 both his voice and his footsteps. 582 00:30:34,365 --> 00:30:35,233 They were close enough 583 00:30:35,233 --> 00:30:38,236 to Jesus to hear his whisper. 584 00:30:38,670 --> 00:30:40,538 And they were close enough to just hear his footsteps. 585 00:30:40,538 --> 00:30:42,941 That verse should be first Peter 221, not 27. 586 00:30:42,941 --> 00:30:43,908 I want to make that correction. 587 00:30:45,677 --> 00:30:47,879 The Bible says faith 588 00:30:47,879 --> 00:30:51,049 comes by hearing, and hearing by Scripture. 589 00:30:52,517 --> 00:30:54,185 You got to stay close enough to Jesus 590 00:30:54,185 --> 00:30:57,188 to hear his voice. 591 00:30:57,689 --> 00:31:00,325 If any of you are thinking, how do I hear the voice of God? 592 00:31:00,325 --> 00:31:03,328 I'm going to tell you, you read the Bible 593 00:31:03,528 --> 00:31:04,863 and you stay so close to him 594 00:31:04,863 --> 00:31:07,866 that you actually walk in his footsteps. 595 00:31:12,637 --> 00:31:14,239 See the lesson? 596 00:31:14,239 --> 00:31:19,344 The lesson is this faith is simply walking toward his book. 597 00:31:19,344 --> 00:31:22,347 It's. 598 00:31:24,582 --> 00:31:25,316 And what is it? 599 00:31:25,316 --> 00:31:28,319 They cry out. 600 00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:32,490 What title do they use in addressing Jesus? 601 00:31:32,757 --> 00:31:34,959 Son of David, son of David? 602 00:31:34,959 --> 00:31:37,729 That's a Jewish messianic title. 603 00:31:37,729 --> 00:31:40,331 It's the first time it's used in the New Testament. 604 00:31:40,331 --> 00:31:41,332 Son of David. 605 00:31:41,332 --> 00:31:45,103 And what they're doing is I believe we believe that you are the Messiah. 606 00:31:45,303 --> 00:31:47,038 You are the Lord. 607 00:31:47,038 --> 00:31:48,606 You are the one we've waiting for. 608 00:31:48,606 --> 00:31:50,275 You are the one. 609 00:31:50,275 --> 00:31:54,045 This is their confession and profession publicly of faith. 610 00:31:54,545 --> 00:31:57,548 They have come to faith in Christ now. 611 00:31:57,548 --> 00:31:59,350 That's why they use that title. 612 00:31:59,350 --> 00:32:02,520 It's very Jewish and it comes with an incredible statement 613 00:32:02,587 --> 00:32:06,291 that we are yours because you alone are God. 614 00:32:07,492 --> 00:32:09,027 And the moment they make that 615 00:32:09,027 --> 00:32:12,030 profession of faith, their request is what? 616 00:32:13,831 --> 00:32:17,101 Son of David, what have mercy, have mercy us. 617 00:32:17,201 --> 00:32:22,407 They make a profession of faith, and then they say, have mercy on us. 618 00:32:23,274 --> 00:32:26,277 They do not ask for healing. 619 00:32:26,945 --> 00:32:29,948 They never asked for sight. 620 00:32:30,181 --> 00:32:32,750 What they said was, we believe that you are 621 00:32:32,750 --> 00:32:35,753 the Son of David, the Messiah, the Anointed One, 622 00:32:36,521 --> 00:32:37,655 and so have mercy. 623 00:32:37,655 --> 00:32:40,725 They trusted themselves to the mercy of God. 624 00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:45,363 They didn't just ask for God's hand. 625 00:32:45,697 --> 00:32:48,700 This for me is profound. 626 00:32:52,337 --> 00:32:53,905 Then this is they said, God, 627 00:32:53,905 --> 00:32:57,442 I trust your plan for my future in Christ. 628 00:32:58,042 --> 00:33:00,011 I trust your love. 629 00:33:00,011 --> 00:33:01,746 I trust your heart. 630 00:33:01,746 --> 00:33:04,749 Be according to me, according to your mercy. 631 00:33:04,983 --> 00:33:07,986 That's enough for me. Wow. 632 00:33:08,619 --> 00:33:10,488 What would we say their greatest need was? 633 00:33:11,622 --> 00:33:13,324 Sight. 634 00:33:13,324 --> 00:33:16,327 They knew their greatest need was mercy. 635 00:33:17,895 --> 00:33:19,497 And they were willing to trust 636 00:33:19,497 --> 00:33:22,500 the mercy of God rather than make a request. 637 00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:25,603 They didn't say, we're following you, Jesus. 638 00:33:25,603 --> 00:33:28,306 We're blind because we're following you. 639 00:33:28,306 --> 00:33:30,174 We deserve sight. They didn't say that. 640 00:33:30,174 --> 00:33:33,011 All they said was, give us everything that your mercy will allow, 641 00:33:33,011 --> 00:33:36,014 and that'll be enough. 642 00:33:37,548 --> 00:33:40,551 Can you say that? 643 00:33:40,985 --> 00:33:42,987 God, I have this list. 644 00:33:42,987 --> 00:33:44,555 This is my prayers. 645 00:33:44,555 --> 00:33:47,091 This. I want your hand to move. 646 00:33:47,091 --> 00:33:47,658 Rather. 647 00:33:47,658 --> 00:33:49,894 Can you say you know what God? 648 00:33:49,894 --> 00:33:52,463 You know. 649 00:33:52,463 --> 00:33:55,466 Give me all that your grace allows, and your mercy allows. 650 00:33:55,700 --> 00:33:57,502 See, here's the lesson to learn. 651 00:33:57,502 --> 00:33:58,503 If there's mercy. 652 00:33:58,503 --> 00:34:01,472 Seekers receive more than miracle seekers. 653 00:34:06,110 --> 00:34:08,246 Book of Lamentations says your mercies are new every morning. 654 00:34:08,246 --> 00:34:10,848 Father, I'm going to wake up today. Thank you. 655 00:34:10,848 --> 00:34:12,450 Give me all that your mercy is going to allow. 656 00:34:14,352 --> 00:34:17,722 Let my life exhibit how great your mercy is. 657 00:34:18,489 --> 00:34:21,492 That'll be enough. 658 00:34:22,693 --> 00:34:23,227 And Jesus 659 00:34:23,227 --> 00:34:27,131 says, what to them do you believe in? 660 00:34:27,131 --> 00:34:28,132 What do you believe? They're like? 661 00:34:28,132 --> 00:34:30,802 Yeah. Then what do you say 662 00:34:30,802 --> 00:34:32,003 I bring you? 663 00:34:32,003 --> 00:34:34,105 Yeah, according to your faith, in other words. 664 00:34:34,105 --> 00:34:37,108 Yes. Well, then, since you believe. 665 00:34:38,276 --> 00:34:41,045 So Jesus is response in our lives is not determined 666 00:34:41,045 --> 00:34:44,048 by the size of our faith, but the object of our faith. 667 00:34:45,883 --> 00:34:46,984 He doesn't say, well, 668 00:34:46,984 --> 00:34:50,388 because you believe a whole bunch, you know, healing sites. 669 00:34:50,388 --> 00:34:50,555 Good. 670 00:34:50,555 --> 00:34:53,658 That's a lot of faith because you believe enough, I will. 671 00:34:53,658 --> 00:34:54,792 He doesn't say that. 672 00:34:54,792 --> 00:34:59,330 Don't anybody ever convince you or tell you that your faith just isn't big enough. 673 00:34:59,497 --> 00:35:02,233 Jesus said you got the faith the size of a mustard seed. 674 00:35:02,233 --> 00:35:04,969 You can move a mountain. It doesn't take much faith. 675 00:35:04,969 --> 00:35:08,339 The issue is not the size of your faith or the amount of your faith. 676 00:35:08,372 --> 00:35:10,808 The issue is the object of your faith. 677 00:35:10,808 --> 00:35:14,278 And you said, since you believe in me, you didn't talk about the size. 678 00:35:15,413 --> 00:35:17,748 He talked about the object 679 00:35:17,748 --> 00:35:19,750 because of your view, because you believe in me. 680 00:35:19,750 --> 00:35:22,753 Absolutely. 681 00:35:23,654 --> 00:35:26,657 It's beautiful. 682 00:35:26,991 --> 00:35:29,994 And some of you tried to muster up more faith, 683 00:35:30,528 --> 00:35:33,564 and you're thinking by you mustering up faith, God will respond. 684 00:35:33,631 --> 00:35:35,433 That's nothing but a religious response. 685 00:35:35,433 --> 00:35:38,703 And it fails before God because it's about what you can produce. 686 00:35:40,671 --> 00:35:42,640 Rather than saying, God, I don't have much faith, 687 00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:45,643 but my faith is in your son. 688 00:35:46,010 --> 00:35:49,013 Be to me according to your mercy 689 00:35:49,313 --> 00:35:50,882 to understand. 690 00:35:50,882 --> 00:35:53,851 Do you see how revolutionary this whole thing is? 691 00:35:55,052 --> 00:35:57,121 So some of you might get it free today. 692 00:35:57,121 --> 00:36:00,458 I only in danger of having a whole new transformed 693 00:36:00,458 --> 00:36:03,461 life. 694 00:36:06,264 --> 00:36:08,466 Verse 23 or 32 and 34. 695 00:36:08,466 --> 00:36:12,303 As they were going away, behold, a demon a a man was who was mute 696 00:36:12,336 --> 00:36:13,237 was brought to him. 697 00:36:13,237 --> 00:36:17,241 And when the demon it be cast out, the mute spoke, and the crowds marvels. 698 00:36:17,241 --> 00:36:20,244 And never was it anything like this seen in Israel. 699 00:36:20,311 --> 00:36:22,613 But the Pharisees said, no, he does it by can't by. 700 00:36:22,613 --> 00:36:23,781 But he's possessed himself. 701 00:36:23,781 --> 00:36:25,783 Oh, come an explanation. 702 00:36:25,783 --> 00:36:27,418 He cast out demons because he's got a demon. 703 00:36:27,418 --> 00:36:29,353 That's what they say. That's how they explain it. 704 00:36:29,353 --> 00:36:30,688 Now this is he. 705 00:36:30,688 --> 00:36:32,890 This is part of the Jewishness of Matthew that we don't understand. 706 00:36:34,025 --> 00:36:34,659 Jesus 707 00:36:34,659 --> 00:36:38,029 cast out this demon, and they're they're like, what? 708 00:36:38,029 --> 00:36:41,632 That has never happened in our whole nation's history before. 709 00:36:41,999 --> 00:36:45,570 Well, yet did we've seen it in the book of Matthew. 710 00:36:46,237 --> 00:36:49,240 Why do they say that? 711 00:36:51,242 --> 00:36:51,642 Good. 712 00:36:51,642 --> 00:36:53,044 Okay, I'll tell you why. 713 00:36:53,044 --> 00:36:55,880 Because they're Jewish. 714 00:36:55,880 --> 00:37:00,351 Religiousness said that in order for a demon to be cast out, 715 00:37:00,451 --> 00:37:03,421 you had to call out that demon by name. 716 00:37:04,021 --> 00:37:07,258 You had to call it out by its name so you can have authority over to 717 00:37:07,258 --> 00:37:08,025 cast it out. 718 00:37:08,025 --> 00:37:11,529 Well, a mute demon, a press man can't speak. 719 00:37:12,964 --> 00:37:16,701 So you will never know the name of the demon because the demon is muted. 720 00:37:16,701 --> 00:37:18,369 The man. 721 00:37:18,369 --> 00:37:21,105 So that man, that mute possessed man 722 00:37:21,105 --> 00:37:24,842 was, was, was cursed for the rest of his life. 723 00:37:24,842 --> 00:37:27,812 There was no hope. There was no way out. 724 00:37:28,012 --> 00:37:32,350 Nobody had authority to do anything because he was a mute, possessed man. 725 00:37:32,550 --> 00:37:36,020 They could not know the demon's name, so they could not cast him out. 726 00:37:36,354 --> 00:37:41,425 And so when Jesus cast out this demon not using any name but his own, 727 00:37:43,027 --> 00:37:45,663 they're like, what is going on? 728 00:37:45,663 --> 00:37:47,932 And who is this man? 729 00:37:47,932 --> 00:37:51,902 So much authority to understand? 730 00:37:52,603 --> 00:37:57,842 They marvel at their thought in the power of Jesus, and in my mind, 731 00:37:57,975 --> 00:38:02,913 I go immediately to Philippians two, verses nine, ten and 11, 732 00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:08,686 which says, Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him 733 00:38:08,686 --> 00:38:14,792 Jesus the name that is above every name, even things that don't have a name, 734 00:38:15,293 --> 00:38:18,896 so that the name of Jesus every knee should bow 735 00:38:18,896 --> 00:38:22,800 in heaven and on earth and under the earth in hell itself. 736 00:38:22,900 --> 00:38:28,439 And every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. 737 00:38:28,639 --> 00:38:31,642 That's the one. That's the object of faith. 738 00:38:31,642 --> 00:38:35,579 That's the one that I say, God, I trust you in the authority of His son. 739 00:38:35,746 --> 00:38:38,582 Be it to me, as you have said, according to your mercy. 740 00:38:38,582 --> 00:38:39,550 That's enough. 741 00:38:41,919 --> 00:38:43,754 Everything that has a name 742 00:38:43,754 --> 00:38:46,757 must bow before the name of Jesus. 743 00:38:49,660 --> 00:38:51,062 And in these passages, 744 00:38:51,062 --> 00:38:56,667 God waits for the expression of the faith that I claim as a touchpoint 745 00:38:56,767 --> 00:38:59,770 to release the authority of the name of Jesus, 746 00:39:00,738 --> 00:39:03,107 to move 747 00:39:03,107 --> 00:39:06,110 in miracle ways. 748 00:39:06,811 --> 00:39:09,814 It's incredible. 749 00:39:10,681 --> 00:39:13,117 This is the cloth 750 00:39:13,117 --> 00:39:16,120 from which our faith is cut. 751 00:39:17,822 --> 00:39:20,791 Is this the Jesus you believe? It? 752 00:39:25,730 --> 00:39:28,833 And Jesus went throughout all the cities and villages teaching their synagogues 753 00:39:28,833 --> 00:39:30,501 and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom 754 00:39:30,501 --> 00:39:32,903 and healing every disease and every affliction. 755 00:39:32,903 --> 00:39:35,039 When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them 756 00:39:35,039 --> 00:39:38,042 because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without shepherd. 757 00:39:38,743 --> 00:39:39,310 But then he said, 758 00:39:39,310 --> 00:39:42,012 his response, the harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. 759 00:39:42,012 --> 00:39:43,080 Therefore pray 760 00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:46,851 earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest. 761 00:39:47,251 --> 00:39:48,619 He looks at all these people, 762 00:39:49,787 --> 00:39:52,156 and he's so overwhelmed with compassion 763 00:39:52,156 --> 00:39:55,159 because he sees how much they need. 764 00:39:56,427 --> 00:39:59,864 And the Bible uses word his rather harassed. 765 00:40:00,931 --> 00:40:03,501 And what that means is they're torn apart. 766 00:40:03,501 --> 00:40:05,803 They're skinned alive. 767 00:40:05,803 --> 00:40:09,340 The this is this tense and relentless torment 768 00:40:10,007 --> 00:40:13,010 and spiritual abuse that they're they're living under. 769 00:40:13,310 --> 00:40:16,414 Then they're harassed. 770 00:40:16,414 --> 00:40:17,782 They're helpless men. 771 00:40:17,782 --> 00:40:20,151 They're cast aside, they're dejected. 772 00:40:20,151 --> 00:40:22,920 They're unable to help or heal themselves spiritually. 773 00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:24,422 They got no hope. 774 00:40:24,422 --> 00:40:27,691 They just jump through these religious hoops hoping that God will, you know. 775 00:40:30,060 --> 00:40:32,296 They're sheep without a shepherd means this. 776 00:40:32,296 --> 00:40:35,199 They're without guidance. They don't know where to turn. 777 00:40:35,199 --> 00:40:36,500 Lost. 778 00:40:36,500 --> 00:40:37,701 Don't know what the path is. 779 00:40:37,701 --> 00:40:41,472 Someone please tell me they're suffering under religious leaders 780 00:40:41,472 --> 00:40:43,507 who have failed in their spiritual duty 781 00:40:43,507 --> 00:40:45,576 to point of the Jesus and the power of the kingdom. 782 00:40:47,311 --> 00:40:50,314 And Jesus looks at them. 783 00:40:51,615 --> 00:40:54,018 And he says, listen, 784 00:40:54,018 --> 00:40:56,821 these fields are ripe, man. 785 00:40:56,821 --> 00:40:59,690 There's so many people around us 786 00:40:59,690 --> 00:41:03,093 that need to know about me. 787 00:41:03,093 --> 00:41:05,029 Jesus says, 788 00:41:05,029 --> 00:41:08,032 and the power of the kingdom of God. 789 00:41:08,065 --> 00:41:10,201 The fields are ripe. 790 00:41:10,201 --> 00:41:13,871 And so what he's saying, he said, the time to wait is gone. 791 00:41:15,005 --> 00:41:18,008 Now. Is it time for action? 792 00:41:18,609 --> 00:41:20,978 He says, so, you guys, you pray that the Lord of the harvest 793 00:41:20,978 --> 00:41:24,181 will send workers out into the harvest field to to reap. 794 00:41:25,082 --> 00:41:27,985 And we're going to see just in a couple chapters here, 795 00:41:27,985 --> 00:41:30,988 those who prayed that prayer, those the ones he sent out. 796 00:41:32,256 --> 00:41:34,825 So be careful. 797 00:41:34,825 --> 00:41:36,660 You pray for harvest workers. 798 00:41:36,660 --> 00:41:37,528 Guess what? 799 00:41:37,528 --> 00:41:40,531 Tag you're it. 800 00:41:44,468 --> 00:41:47,505 Did you realize that unharvested produce or dies in the field? 801 00:41:50,708 --> 00:41:51,942 Every person in 802 00:41:51,942 --> 00:41:54,945 chapter nine came to Jesus for different reasons, 803 00:41:55,212 --> 00:41:58,215 but none of them left the same. 804 00:41:58,249 --> 00:42:00,918 And so the question that I'm left with that you're left with is, 805 00:42:00,918 --> 00:42:03,921 which of these people do we must identify with in our life right now? 806 00:42:04,722 --> 00:42:07,091 The religious person who's realized 807 00:42:07,091 --> 00:42:10,094 your religion has no solution. 808 00:42:10,528 --> 00:42:13,197 The desperate woman who suffers 809 00:42:13,197 --> 00:42:16,200 year after year after year with no relief. 810 00:42:17,234 --> 00:42:18,602 The blind who just 811 00:42:18,602 --> 00:42:21,605 said, Lord, I just need your mercy 812 00:42:21,639 --> 00:42:24,642 and that'll be enough. 813 00:42:24,842 --> 00:42:28,946 Is it the one who is left with with only problems and no hope? 814 00:42:28,946 --> 00:42:31,949 Because nobody's been able to help? 815 00:42:32,883 --> 00:42:34,485 Is it just the confused crowd? 816 00:42:34,485 --> 00:42:37,488 I just don't know. God. 817 00:42:38,022 --> 00:42:40,457 So different people 818 00:42:40,457 --> 00:42:42,426 came, a different problems. 819 00:42:42,426 --> 00:42:43,794 But they came to the same conclusion. 820 00:42:44,962 --> 00:42:47,932 Jesus. 821 00:42:48,999 --> 00:42:50,868 When everything else runs out, 822 00:42:50,868 --> 00:42:53,871 the friend too is that you? 823 00:42:54,438 --> 00:42:56,807 I want to give you a chance to run to Jesus today. 824 00:42:56,807 --> 00:43:00,277 But let me wrap up with this the next thing, and I want to take 825 00:43:00,277 --> 00:43:03,280 a little bit extra time for this, because this is for our church 826 00:43:04,715 --> 00:43:06,650 in the last two decades. 827 00:43:06,650 --> 00:43:10,154 This is just been my experience on the ranches and the last two decades, 828 00:43:10,354 --> 00:43:14,425 our community has been in a no growth scenario, no growth. 829 00:43:14,792 --> 00:43:17,761 And that's why many of us moved out here. 830 00:43:19,730 --> 00:43:21,832 Maybe extrapolate the data. 831 00:43:21,832 --> 00:43:25,369 Maybe 20 years ago there was one birth every week. 832 00:43:26,203 --> 00:43:29,206 That's no growth. 833 00:43:29,640 --> 00:43:31,809 But now 834 00:43:31,809 --> 00:43:34,812 our little community explosive growth. 835 00:43:35,779 --> 00:43:38,782 And many of you are here because of that explosive growth. 836 00:43:39,917 --> 00:43:40,618 And that's good 837 00:43:41,652 --> 00:43:42,653 GBU, ISD, 838 00:43:42,653 --> 00:43:45,689 our school district, if it's not the fastest, it's 839 00:43:45,723 --> 00:43:49,827 one of the fastest growing school districts in the state of California. 840 00:43:51,128 --> 00:43:54,131 It's unprecedented what we're going through right now. 841 00:43:54,398 --> 00:43:57,735 One pray for our board and our superintendent, our teachers. 842 00:43:59,336 --> 00:44:02,339 But because of that, what that means over the next ten years, 843 00:44:03,374 --> 00:44:05,409 our school district will explode to over 844 00:44:05,409 --> 00:44:08,412 7000 new students. 845 00:44:09,046 --> 00:44:12,983 7000 just in the Riverstone 846 00:44:12,983 --> 00:44:19,423 and Tesoro communities alone, over 35,000 new residents 847 00:44:20,257 --> 00:44:24,061 just in those two communities, not counting the Hill, Liberty Acres 848 00:44:24,061 --> 00:44:27,064 and all these others that are, I've already been approved. 849 00:44:28,666 --> 00:44:30,501 In the next ten years, our little community 850 00:44:30,501 --> 00:44:35,072 will explode to 50 to 60,000 people total. 851 00:44:37,808 --> 00:44:39,009 Of that growth, 852 00:44:39,009 --> 00:44:42,246 7,070% of the students will be elementary school, 853 00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:45,683 30% will be junior high and high school. 854 00:44:47,851 --> 00:44:50,854 It's unprecedented. 855 00:44:51,689 --> 00:44:53,957 For every 100 people that move in our community, 856 00:44:53,957 --> 00:44:57,127 40 of them will be school age kids. 857 00:44:59,630 --> 00:45:02,633 You know what that means. 858 00:45:05,736 --> 00:45:08,839 The fields are ripe for harvest. 859 00:45:10,474 --> 00:45:13,477 If anything else popped into your head before I said that, 860 00:45:13,944 --> 00:45:16,947 you need to change your perspective. 861 00:45:19,516 --> 00:45:20,984 Now, not all of them will be harassed 862 00:45:20,984 --> 00:45:23,987 and help us like sheep and our shepherd, but many of them will be. 863 00:45:27,324 --> 00:45:28,125 The fields are ripe. 864 00:45:28,125 --> 00:45:29,493 Did you know that the number one 865 00:45:29,493 --> 00:45:32,329 contributing factor after someone comes to faith 866 00:45:32,329 --> 00:45:37,301 in them, continuing in community of faith and in continuing in their faith, 867 00:45:37,634 --> 00:45:40,637 is their connection with people at a local church. 868 00:45:40,938 --> 00:45:43,941 So number one factor. 869 00:45:44,608 --> 00:45:47,611 So what that means for us. 870 00:45:48,512 --> 00:45:50,814 One, as soon as God 871 00:45:50,814 --> 00:45:53,951 allows it, we need to hire a full time connections pastor. 872 00:45:56,120 --> 00:45:58,455 A full time person whose job 873 00:45:58,455 --> 00:46:02,693 is from first exposure to 874 00:46:03,694 --> 00:46:06,697 small group involvement and ministry. 875 00:46:06,697 --> 00:46:09,700 That's their job. 876 00:46:09,700 --> 00:46:12,703 And we gotta hire that person A.s.a.p.. 877 00:46:13,537 --> 00:46:16,073 Fully committed to that. 878 00:46:16,073 --> 00:46:20,244 And it means we need to move our to a full time children's lead 879 00:46:20,778 --> 00:46:24,782 with a full time children's ministry, including a midweek program. 880 00:46:24,782 --> 00:46:29,253 Like in a want to type thing, we have to 7000 kids. 881 00:46:29,253 --> 00:46:32,222 70% of my elementary. Are you kidding? 882 00:46:32,689 --> 00:46:34,424 But listen, 883 00:46:34,424 --> 00:46:39,163 the parents of that, those kids will not be the ones running that program. 884 00:46:39,163 --> 00:46:42,166 Primarily. 885 00:46:45,769 --> 00:46:48,772 Do you hear what I'm saying? 886 00:46:49,139 --> 00:46:53,443 And we have to move in an increase next gen ministry, especially serving 887 00:46:53,443 --> 00:46:56,713 our junior high and high school kids because one person can't do it all. 888 00:47:00,951 --> 00:47:01,985 The fields are ripe for harvest. 889 00:47:03,487 --> 00:47:06,490 Pray a little harvest for harvest workers. 890 00:47:06,590 --> 00:47:09,593 Tag your it 891 00:47:09,793 --> 00:47:11,028 and we will do all of this. 892 00:47:11,028 --> 00:47:12,029 I want you to stand financially. 893 00:47:12,029 --> 00:47:16,400 We will do all of this on 80% of what comes into this church, 894 00:47:16,834 --> 00:47:19,336 because we've already agreed off the top 10%. 895 00:47:19,336 --> 00:47:23,774 The church plants 10% to our local and foreign missions work. 896 00:47:24,274 --> 00:47:27,277 We live and function off of 80%. 897 00:47:27,744 --> 00:47:29,379 We say all the time, you don't give to us. 898 00:47:29,379 --> 00:47:30,180 You give through us. 899 00:47:30,180 --> 00:47:33,150 I don't know of another church in this country, 900 00:47:33,750 --> 00:47:37,321 American church that does all of its ministry, 901 00:47:37,421 --> 00:47:41,291 everything facility, staff, program, everything off 80%. 902 00:47:43,694 --> 00:47:45,429 You guys are amazing 903 00:47:45,429 --> 00:47:48,432 and God is doing amazing things. 904 00:47:49,533 --> 00:47:52,135 So Matthew nine is not only referring 905 00:47:52,135 --> 00:47:55,138 to at referencing the miracles of God, 906 00:47:55,239 --> 00:47:58,942 it's also about the responsibility of God's people and God's church. 907 00:47:59,376 --> 00:48:00,244 The fields are right. 908 00:48:01,411 --> 00:48:01,712 See, the 909 00:48:01,712 --> 00:48:04,715 problem is not the size of the harvest. 910 00:48:04,882 --> 00:48:07,885 The problem is the workers not doing their job. 911 00:48:10,120 --> 00:48:11,889 To understand. 912 00:48:11,889 --> 00:48:14,758 Understand? Yes, 913 00:48:14,758 --> 00:48:17,995 we must press into the harvest and a harvest. 914 00:48:18,061 --> 00:48:20,063 In this harvest. 915 00:48:20,063 --> 00:48:23,467 So if you have not yet 916 00:48:25,269 --> 00:48:27,571 established the fact that Jesus 917 00:48:27,571 --> 00:48:30,540 is the Lord and pledged your allegiance to him, that's step one. 918 00:48:30,707 --> 00:48:35,412 And the moment you do that, you become God's 919 00:48:35,412 --> 00:48:38,415 Plan A for someone else to do that 920 00:48:39,549 --> 00:48:42,452 through the local church. 921 00:48:42,452 --> 00:48:45,222 See, the fact that we are a growing community 922 00:48:45,222 --> 00:48:49,293 means that that growing community is our God given assignment. 923 00:48:49,293 --> 00:48:52,262 Now. Follow. 924 00:48:56,366 --> 00:48:59,369 Why don't you pray with me? 925 00:49:01,471 --> 00:49:03,407 Please. 926 00:49:03,407 --> 00:49:06,176 First things first. 927 00:49:06,176 --> 00:49:08,946 Jesus, you are Lord. 928 00:49:08,946 --> 00:49:12,115 If you've never made that statement yet, I want to encourage you in this moment 929 00:49:12,683 --> 00:49:17,020 to admit that Jesus is the Lord 930 00:49:17,020 --> 00:49:20,891 and the Savior of your life and your eternity, 931 00:49:22,259 --> 00:49:22,559 that he 932 00:49:22,559 --> 00:49:25,562 died on the cross and rose from the grave so you could be forgiven. 933 00:49:26,330 --> 00:49:28,432 And I want to invite you in this moment 934 00:49:28,432 --> 00:49:31,435 to make that decision and that assertion. 935 00:49:31,768 --> 00:49:34,638 Jesus, I believe that you are the only way 936 00:49:34,638 --> 00:49:37,641 I am ever made right with God. 937 00:49:37,808 --> 00:49:40,777 I accept what you did on the cross. 938 00:49:40,777 --> 00:49:43,780 I accept the forgiveness that you offer, 939 00:49:44,247 --> 00:49:47,351 and I pledge my allegiance to you 940 00:49:47,351 --> 00:49:50,354 and you alone. 941 00:49:50,721 --> 00:49:53,724 Today I choose to be your disciple. 942 00:49:54,191 --> 00:49:57,194 Make that decision. 943 00:49:58,295 --> 00:49:59,963 Once you've made that decision, 944 00:49:59,963 --> 00:50:02,966 now your prayer is according to the Bible. 945 00:50:03,300 --> 00:50:05,435 God, send me out 946 00:50:05,435 --> 00:50:08,438 as your worker into your field. 947 00:50:11,708 --> 00:50:12,843 Because I know you. 948 00:50:12,843 --> 00:50:15,846 I want everybody else to know you. 949 00:50:16,279 --> 00:50:19,750 And I choose this day to be your worker in harvest. 950 00:50:22,652 --> 00:50:25,622 Tell him, say God, you know my needs 951 00:50:26,223 --> 00:50:29,192 and I trust your mercy. 952 00:50:29,493 --> 00:50:30,861 Give me all that 953 00:50:30,861 --> 00:50:33,864 your mercy and grace will allow. 954 00:50:34,197 --> 00:50:37,200 Because I come to you 955 00:50:37,634 --> 00:50:40,637 and you alone as my help. 956 00:50:41,838 --> 00:50:43,440 Father, we love you. 957 00:50:43,440 --> 00:50:45,142 Thank you for your word. 958 00:50:45,142 --> 00:50:49,546 Thank you for what you're doing in my life, in our lives, in our church. 959 00:50:50,580 --> 00:50:53,550 Give us faith to follow more passionately. 960 00:50:54,551 --> 00:50:57,554 We pledge allegiance to you and Kingdom. 961 00:50:58,688 --> 00:51:00,057 Your kingdom come. 962 00:51:00,057 --> 00:51:03,060 Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 963 00:51:03,527 --> 00:51:05,629 In your name I pray, Amen. 964 00:51:05,629 --> 00:51:07,964 It's an I love you. I'm proud of you. 965 00:51:07,964 --> 00:51:11,535 Thank you for hanging with us as our went super long this week. 966 00:51:11,535 --> 00:51:14,004 Read Matthew nine and Matthew ten to get ready for next week. 967 00:51:14,004 --> 00:51:16,973 You got it? Yeah. One more song, Ali. Thank you.