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Bible preaching from the pulpit of Choice Hills Baptist Church in Greenville, South Carolina
All right, tonight, the gospel of John.
John, chapter number six.
I was thinking while the brother was singing.
Thou will keep him in perfect peace whose mind
is stayed on thee because he trusteth in thee.
The being God who gives it and keeps it
and where it's at and as long as our
mind's on the Lord, we can have perfect peace.
All right, John chapter 6.
Tonight we're going to look at, I guess,
two kind of thrust themes,
emphasis from Jesus.
I'll just say Jesus is enough.
Last night was kind of following Jesus and the
things we learn from following Jesus, soul stuff.
Perfect peace, inner peace is soul stuff.
What you got in your garage,
what you got in your billfold, what's in the
401k, what you're married to,
kids you have,
the health you have, but you could lose.
Peace comes from Jesus.
That's soul stuff.
That's inner things that only God can do.
So last night we learned some things about following Jesus.
The first night we kind of learned from Jesus
walking with those two on the Emmaus Road that
Jesus will show up.
And we need to believe that he will show up.
We need to believe his words.
Tonight, I want us to look that Jesus is enough.
But I guess a side truth to that that
we'll see kind of here in John 6 is
that Jesus has a plan.
Jesus has a plan.
So let's dive into John 6 and most everybody
has heard a message or messages plural on the
feeding of the 5 ,000.
It's one of the few stories, miracles, things that
Jesus did that's in every gospel.
So Matthew, Mark, Luke, John all say something about
this particular story.
Some more than others.
This is not the most full narrative.
I picked this one because of the question that
Jesus asked of Philip that's kind of rare to
this one, like barley.
We don't know what kind of loaves they are
in the other three Gospels.
In this one, we find out it's barley.
From that,
again, this is kind of backstory stuff.
Doesn't feed the story much, but it's interesting things.
Good question to be asked, you know, trivia question.
Being that it was barley, which is like the
cheapest bread you know you can get.
The fish were probably dried fish, stinky, nasty,
smelly fish, just a couple of them in this boy's lunch.
Indicates that probably he came from a very poor family.
So if you look at this story of the
feeding of the 5 ,000in every gospel narrative,
you're going to get a lot of different things about it.
So we're looking at John's narrative about this particular
miracle, and it goes down through 14 verses.
And we'll do just like we've been doing every night.
We'll work our way through the passage.
Then when we get to the end of the
passage, we'll have some things for us to think
about and take home from our text tonight.
So tonight, first of all, in these first four
verses, I just want us to look at Jesus
and the multitude.
Inside this multitude are disciples.
In the first four verses,
let's read those and then we'll kind of talk about them.
After these things, Jesus went over the Sea of
Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias, and a
great multitude followed him.
That was not unusual.
That was very common that there would be somebody
around Jesus all the time.
We talked about it last night and this narrative
kind of bears out that a lot of people
followed him because of what it says in verse 2.
Because they saw his miracles which he did on
them that were diseased.
So you got both of the reasons of why
a lot of people follow Jesus was because of
the miracles and the food.
I mean, as shallow as that sounds, that was
a lot of the reasons that these people followed.
And that's kind of borne out in this passage.
If you'll look over in verse 26, as he
goes further with this multitude, as this story continues
past what we saw earlier,
verse 26 says, you seek me, not because you
saw the miracles, but because you did eat of
the loaves and were filled.
So he's kind of identifying some that were there
just for the food.
Right?
Or that was kind of the emphasis.
And then by the time you get to the
end of this particular passage, over in verse number
67, I think it is,
or no, 63,
64.
But there are some of you that believe not.
For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were
that believed not and who should betray him.
And so by the time you get to 67,
68, everybody is gone except the disciples.
And I've always loved what Peter said.
Although Peter said a lot of things, you know,
I mean, Peter was constantly putting his foot in
his mouth all the way up to his thigh.
But he did say some things that were really good.
And here's one of them.
When Jesus responds, when everybody departs after a lot
of great things happen in this chapter, but the
message that he gave them really was straightforward about
what he was there for and what they needed
to do, and they didn't like the words,
and so they left.
And Jesus asked in 67, will you also go away?
And again, those probing questions was not for his information.
He didn't need information, but more for them.
And so Peter says, Lord, to whom shall we go?
Thou hast the words of eternal life.
And then he confesses, we believe and are sure
that thou art that Christ, the son of the living God.
But I love that statement, Lord, to whom shall we go?
And to your pastor's point tonight, there's been times
in my life, like the pity parties I share
a little bit, I used to sit on the
back stoop of the fellowship hall there at Emmanuel
and think about just giving up, not pastoring anymore.
Do something else.
Try something else.
Struggling.
But I'm reminded even like in this passage where
Peter understood that through all the difficulties, really the
only thing he had was Jesus.
And Jesus was the only thing he needed.
And it takes a lifetime, like we talked about
last night, to follow Jesus that you kind of
learn those things.
So the first four verses just kind of remind
us and again Jesus in verse 3 went up
into a mountain and there he sat with his disciples.
So it seems like a little private moment where
Jesus is probably talking to the disciples privately.
In the Passover a feast of the Jews was nigh.
So the Passover is on the end of this particular story.
So what he does with bread and then what
he teaches on in this passage, again, it's just
a reminder, and it's not the message tonight,
but I don't want you to miss what's in
John 6 that is alluding to the truth in
the Old Testament.
Not only did the animal provide blood on the
door that saved them miraculously from the death angel,
but it also fed them for the journey.
Jesus says those very things in this passage.
And that's kind of what I've been talking about every night.
He says in the latter part of John 6
that you've got to continually digest me.
Most every time, I'd have to relook at it,
but most every time Jesus talks about come unto
me, all ye that are heavy laden and burdened.
The word come is continual.
It's not just once.
We need to constantly become into Christ.
Constantly finding in Christ all that we need.
So again, these first four verses just really just
introduce us to the followers, be the disciples,
those that were just kind of following him.
Because honestly, it was a great show,
right? You got miracles, you got food.
Now we dive into the story.
Verse 5 to verse number 9 is again,
I'm just calling this Jesus proving.
He asked a question and every time he asked
a question, he's kind of probing in there,
kind of like the questions he asked to Cleopas
and his wife.
He's asking those questions not because he needs the
information, but because they need to hear what they're
going to say.
And Philip and Andrew kind of joins in the
conversation in this text,
they need to remember what they did in this passage.
And so Jesus asked a question.
So let's look at five through nine,
the proving of Jesus or Jesus proving.
When Jesus then lifted up his eyes and saw
a great company coming to him, he saith unto Philip.
So if you go to the other narratives,
you'll know that there's this massive group of people,
thousands of people, at least 5 ,000, but we
know there were women and children.
So you could have 12 ,000, 13 ,000
people. So it's a massive group of people.
And I just think it's neat in this passage,
and you get it more in the other narratives,
that they were there for a long time.
This was not like a 30-minute message.
This was more like some Bible college classes for
a few hours.
So you got this multitude of people really interested.
Most of them, all of them leave, you know,
once he gets to really preaching and the miracles
are over and the food's over.
But they were there for a long time and
he's interested in feeding them.
So again, here's the compassion on the earth side of things.
So again, he's very compassionate for people.
So he says unto Philip,
when shall we buy bread that these may eat?
Now, verse 6, I like verse 6 because verse
6 kind of tells us what's going on in Jesus'
head.
That's one of the things I like about this narrative.
And this he said to prove him.
So he's asking Philip a question about what we
should do with this situation.
All these people are hungry.
It's late in the day.
You learn in other passages.
It was a desert place.
It was late in the day.
And I'm not sure when all the dialogue happened.
But they've already kind of told Jesus, you know,
you just need to send the multitude away.
So there's been a lot of conversations, but maybe
this was on the front end of the conversations
when he probes into Philip's mind to prove him.
Again, not to Jesus, but to himself.
And again,
this goes to last night.
The more you follow Jesus, the more Jesus will
probe into your life where you are.
It's not that he'll find out where you are.
You will find out where you are.
So that's why it's so important that we constantly
are following him so that he can probe into
our lives and see where we are.
But here's the thing I like in verse six,
and we'll come back to this later on in
the thoughts tonight.
For he, Jesus, himself knew what he would do.
Just know, the situation here was already fixed.
The plan to feed this entire multitude was done.
Now, we know because Jesus was in human form,
he was subservient to the Father's will, so miracles
were not just carte blanche.
Jesus just did what he wanted to.
So this fit in the Father's plan, not just
to feed them, but to have impact on his followers.
So there's like two things going on here.
Jesus, the Father's will, they have compassion so they're
going to feed this multitude.
But there's also a bigger plan to impact those
who are following him in real life like Philip.
Now here's another thing about Philip.
Philip's from here.
So Philip knows the area.
Philip knows where Ingalls is.
Right?
Now can I just tell you something?
The more you know can hurt you.
So he's asking somebody from the area and again
you've got to remember who Jesus is and I
don't know how much his omniscience worked.
You know I know this might sound unusual but
I don't know how all knowing he was in
human form because I think sometimes in that whatever,
you know, when he came in flesh to be
human and to feel what we felt, the infirmities,
being tired, being hungry.
So I don't know all about the omniscience,
but it's, again, it's not like he needed info,
but he's asking Philip because Philip's from the area,
what can you contribute to, you know, us figuring this out?
So here's Philip.
Philip answered him, 200 penny worth of bread is
not sufficient for them.
That every one of them may take a little.
So he's already investigating and he's counting heads.
You know, they've already got the numbers,
5 ,000men, and maybe they're guesstimating the rest of it.
And he's already thinking about if we had somebody's
year's salary,
we might give them a little snack.
But that's it.
They've already told Jesus because of the time of
the day and where they were, there's no way
they're just going to round up stuff.
He's saying from the financial standpoint of this,
if we had a year's salary in our pockets
and they didn't, we'd give them a snack.
So it ain't even close,
Lord. It's not even close.
You get money out of a fish's mouth.
We don't have pockets full of money.
So he's calculating.
He's counting heads.
The finances.
We don't have enough.
Then Andrew pops in.
He's not asked.
He just kind of pops in.
One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother,
saith unto him, there is a lad here which
hath five barley loaves and two small fishes.
But what are they among so many?
I mean, we've got some bread, just five dry barley loaves.
Not the high quality stuff.
We just got five really dry barley loaves and
a couple of pieces of fish.
That's all we got.
And they're not close.
You see the heads, you see the numbers.
So there's no way.
In other words, Andrew's just got more bad news.
Now listen, honestly,
everything Philip's saying and everything that Andrew's saying is true.
So it's not like they're lying.
They're not making a mountain out of a molehill.
This is a mountain.
They don't have the finances.
They don't have the resources.
The lad's got a lunch, but what is that among this?
So again, you see where they are.
Please see in this passage what they don't do.
And you can read every narrative.
Go on tonight.
Read all four Gospels with this story, and there's
one thing these men never do.
They never calculate Jesus.
Never.
They never just come to all the investigations and
all the calculations and to say, Lord,
here's the need and it's massive and it's huge
and it's way beyond us and here's what we got.
And we're not lying.
You know where the clock's at.
You know the geography.
Philip's already told you about the lay of the land.
There's nothing we can do.
But you, you can do anything.
You just tell us what to do.
Never happens in this passage.
Never happens in any of the narratives about the
feeding of the 5 ,000.
And it happens a lot.
They're so consumed with the resources and the need.
And I just want you to think on that
for a minute.
The resources and the need.
Let me tell you a couple stories, or at least one.
Back in the 80s, 70s, late 70s, 80s,
I got to ride all over the place with Dr.
Russell Rice and Billy Kelly.
Some of y'all might remember that name.
Camp meeting preacher, Billy Kelly.
All over the place.
And going out of Asheville, North Carolina,
1923, 1926,
there's a big four lane over Sam's Gap now,
but it used to be two lanes, just like
that right there.
And I mean, it was awful.
And it took forever.
But that was the way you went to Bristol Racetrack.
And so thousands of people,
when it was Bristol NASCAR race weekend or whatever,
was coming over that road.
I would have never done this because I would
have thought it was a waste of time.
Not that I'm going to get street preaching or
passing out tracks.
But this man from, I can't remember if it
was Irwin or one of the little small areas
when you get down to the bottom of the
hill before you go to Irwin, then you go
through Johnson City, then you get to Bristol,
then you get to Racetrack.
So you got thousands of cars and it was
a different time.
This guy was not in the 70s.
This was like in the 50s and the 60s.
So people had their windows down because they didn't
have air,
you know.
I grew up with no air, by the way.
You know how I blew dry my hair?
I hung out the window,
going to church.
So I'm just saying, had their windows down and
he would preach.
He found him a little intersection and he would preach.
But you ain't heard the whole story.
He don't talk plain.
He had a hair lip.
So whatever was wrong with his lip just messed
up the words.
He was not articulate.
He was not professional.
His resources looked laughable.
But he preached.
Years he preached.
So he dies.
Right?
And he had family.
And some of them thought it was crazy because
nobody's going to understand you.
We don't understand you and we know you.
But he said, the Lord wants me to do it.
So at his funeral,
the preacher who was preaching the funeral met about
five or six people and he said, is this
so-and -so's funeral?
I used to know the man's name.
I should have wrote it down on a piece
of paper so I remember it.
Is this so-and -so's?
Yes, it is.
This one serves our, we want to go.
I said, well,
why? Because in 1962,
we was coming over this mountain and we thought
he was an idiot.
This idiot was preaching.
But what we heard the Spirit of God used
in our hearts in about three weeks, four weeks,
five weeks, six weeks, six months, two years later,
we gave our heart to Christ.
The word opened our heart.
Listen, the preacher got behind the pulpit and this
is a small church and it's packed.
And he said, would anyone else in the room
today stand up if this man's ministry at some
intersection of 19, 20, whatever the roads would you stand up?
And multiple people stood up all over the auditorium.
Look, I didn't tell you that story like to overwhelm.
I'm just telling you all God's interested in is
you taking what he's given you and let him use it.
Or you can spend your whole life thinking I'm
a nobody and I can't and I don't have
enough and I've failed.
Peter, I done told you his story.
Listen, there would be so many YouTube videos.
He went viral in about 30 seconds after cussing
right after the crucifixion,
right? Would he not have been viral?
I didn't know him.
Who does God use?
Imperfect, broken people that are willing to love him,
follow him, believe him, and get up when you
fall and just do what he wants you to do.
So you have a choice.
So let's look at that phrase in verse six.
And that'll be my last little thought in verses
10 through 14.
Jesus has a plan.
So in verse six, he tells us he's already
got a plan.
He's got Philip and he's got Andrew and he's
got all of them basically to say we can't do anything.
Needs too big.
Resources too small.
They don't even bring up Jesus.
They just got to go home.
I love, I think it's Matthew where he says,
tell him to sit down and give them to eat.
It's almost like we just told you we ain't got nothing.
Right?
So they sat down, verse 10.
And then Jesus took the loaves.
And when he had given thanks, he distributed to
the disciples and the disciples to them that were sat down.
And likewise to the fishes as much as they would.
When they were filled,
he said unto his disciples, gather up the fragments
that remain that nothing be lost.
And I've heard all kinds of things said about that.
He didn't want to be wasteful.
And I get that.
I got no problem with that.
But I think it's just a staggers in verse 13.
It just don't make no sense.
Right?
Therefore they gathered them together and filled 12 baskets
with the fragments of the five barley loaves which
remained over and above unto them that had eaten.
I don't even know how to make application of
that other than this is just over the top.
Right?
I mean they start off with this and this
and they end up with that.
I mean, I always want to know where it goes.
Who got this?
I would have sent it home with a boy
just to blow his mama's mind,
right? Right?
You send him with this little bag lunch and
come back with 12 baskets,
right? Some said he gave them to the 12 disciples.
I wouldn't.
They didn't believe nothing.
I'd give them to somebody else.
But it's over the top,
right? But let's focus the process.
The process.
Three simple little things is in verse number 11.
You got to admit, before we look at that
process, you got to admit it had to get
fun at some point,
right? I mean, I don't know how it happened,
okay?
You got five loaves.
I mean, I don't know.
If I'd have been one of the disciples,
I'd have been over there pinching little pieces off.
I don't know.
We're going to have to make this go.
We're going to have a lot of ticked off people.
So they were pinching off little bitty pieces at a time.
I don't know what they were doing.
I'm just trying to put my brain in theirs.
That's what I'd have been doing.
I'd have been trying to ration those five out
and keep looking at the crowd.
So I don't know where the miracle took place
other than this process.
But it had to get fun at some point
in the process.
The process in this passage is first, it's all
about the resources and what you do with them.
First, they gave them to Jesus.
So Jesus gets the five loaves and he gets
the two fishes.
So he's got them.
Whatever they'd been doing with them,
planning, they give it all to him.
Then it tells us in the passage that he
blesses it,
right?
It says he blesses it,
praise. So he's got them, the resources.
He blesses the resources, but then he returns the resources.
Now, they had to go back and forth in this process.
So all I know is they just kept going
and the food was just there.
It never ran out until they were full.
But even when they were full, they still had leftovers.
Twelve baskets.
The resources given to Jesus, the resources blessed by
Jesus, and the resources returned to the disciples.
The disciples gave the food to the people.
Let me give you three things to think about tonight.
Three simple little thoughts.
Number one out of John 6.
See Jesus.
See Jesus.
Don't see your resources.
Don't see the need.
You can't help but see the resources.
You can't help but estimate yourself.
I was talking to a young man this afternoon
and he was in my youth department when I
was down at Oakwood years ago.
I was there from 1990 to 1999.
I'm remodeling the house down in Anderson and he
reminded me of the Bible studies we used to
have in the house.
He said, I sat right here.
I said,
okay. And he used to have these wars that
would go on in his mind and he used
to think he was the only one that did that.
I said, no, you're not the only one that does that.
We all do that.
We all size ourselves up.
You can spend your whole life looking at what
you have, what you possess.
Y'all, this entire room is just five barley
loaves and two small fishes.
That's all we are.
I might be half a fish and two pieces of bread.
But see, it really doesn't matter about the resources,
nor does it matter about the need.
I get overwhelmed sometimes.
I know who I am.
I've lived every page of my life, every chapter,
good ones and the bad ones.
I know I'm not sufficient, efficient, any of those
words for what I do.
God lets me do what I do, helps me
do what I do for all these years,
but I'm telling you, it's nothing to do with me.
It's not about resources or need.
Need's always going to be bigger than us.
What God calls you to do, what God leads
you to do, it's always gonna be bigger.
But don't see the resources.
You can't help but see them, but try not
to see them.
Don't see the need.
Don't be consumed with what you cannot manage.
See Jesus.
Get him into the story of your life because
he's already there and he already wants to be there.
Third thing,
or second thing,
get in his plan.
Jesus tells us in the front end of this
story in verse six, he already knew what he
was going to do.
He already had a plan.
Were they going to be part of it?
God wants you.
God could, Jesus could have just manufactured the food.
He could have just blinked his eyes and everybody
would have had a hot plate.
Right?
Meat and three.
Right?
And sweet tea.
They're like that.
No problem.
Why do you go through this process?
Why do you go through these questions?
God wants us to see that we're not the resources.
We can't meet the need.
But he can and he wants us in it.
Does not need us.
Most people maybe that drove by that little man,
I'm going to try to find out his name
before tomorrow night,
drove by that little man and thought that man's a fool.
Probably some Christian people.
I might have been one of them if I'd
have done it.
1950s, I was born in 59.
See, he's just wasting his time.
We had this fella, and I don't have time
for too many stories.
His name was Bud Brown.
I do remember Bud's name.
Bud Brown sat right under the balcony at Oakwood.
We kind of had a wraparound balcony in the
back, and Bud sat underneath it.
And Bud was kind of a quiet fellow.
Didn't hear much from Bud.
And I didn't really get to know him.
I knew that he had a track ministry.
Just he had a track ministry.
It wasn't Oakwood's ministry.
It was his.
It wasn't on Tuesday night at the church.
He had a ministry.
He followed Jesus.
He didn't just do stuff when the church was
doing it on Tuesdays and Saturdays.
It was his normal routine.
There was a bus stop on 29.
Came from Atlanta to Charlotte back in the day.
It was probably busier than it was back in the 90s.
But the bus still stopped at the Hardee's.
That was the breakfast stop from Atlanta, breakfast,
then on to Charlotte.
And he was there every morning and every evening
passing out tracks,
passing out tracks,
talking about Jesus.
He's an old guy.
Well, old Bud, when I got to really know Mr.
Brown, was when he got hit by a car.
When he got hit by a car, I mean,
I've never seen so many appendages laid up and
cast and everything.
And he's like in his 70s,
right? So he's gotten out and he's on a
walker because I saw him at the services one
Sunday with a walker working his way in and
I'm sitting in my office early one morning at
Oakwood and I said I wonder if Bud's over
at Hardee's and you can walk to Hardee's from
Oakwood and so I just walked over and I
went through the buildings kind of hid you know
and kind of peeked over and here was Bud
on his walker,
legs still kind of bandaged up with his elbows
passing out tracks.
All God wants you to do is bring what
you got and give it to him.
Get in his plan.
That's all he wants you to do.
I don't care what it is.
He's got a plan and he wants you in it.
He don't need you in it.
He can create the universe.
He didn't ask us.
He didn't check in.
There's no conference room.
He didn't make conference calls on how he did that.
Right?
He don't need me.
He wants me.
I'd rather be wanted than needed anyway.
He wants me with all my imperfections.
He wants me with all my stuff.
And no matter how many times I fall,
how many times I quit in my head,
and I'm ashamed, and he's probably grieved,
he lets me get right back up and go
right back to doing it.
Jesus wants you to be consumed with him,
the man in the boat.
God's in the boat.
God can feed multitudes.
You just give him what you've got.
If it's broken, bring it to him.
If it's sin, bring it to him.
You can't shock him.
You can't get him to forsake you.
There's nothing you can say to him.
I could take you to Psalm 73.
He's one of them Asaphs.
What I understand from the name Asaph, it was
a group of people, not somebody's name.
So it was one of them Asaphs.
They were good people.
They came back when the Babylonians let them come back.
They came back the first time.
We're going back.
Now you got to remember there's probably a couple million Jews.
Only 50 ,000 came back.
Well them Asaphs was one of them.
They was the Bible toting bunch right there.
In Psalm 73.
You know what Asaph tells God?
He says this holy living stuff.
Now I'm paraphrasing.
Obviously that's not King James Bible,
right? But this holy living stuff ain't worth it.
He said the thoughts in my head so grieved
me that I couldn't speak them.
I'm telling you Jesus wants you in his plan.
His plan's way bigger, way better than yours.
He'll do stuff that will make no sense and
you'll stand and remember like last night, you'll have
a front row seat to what God's doing.
It won't be second hand.
It'll be first hand.
was there when he fed him.
I was there when he walked on the water.
I saw it.
I felt it.
I lived it.
God ain't done doing that.
Last story.
I don't know why I've told so many stories tonight.
Is this on Facebook where you can see it?
My wife will tell me, you've told too many stories.
So praise the Lord it's not.
Nobody tell her.
She might be here one night.
Don't tell her.
I went on this missions trip and I'm done
with this one.
I was at Oakwood at the time.
We took about 30 some kids to Philadelphia.
We were working in the inner city,
Philadelphia, and outside of Philadelphia,
Coatesville, I think was maybe the name of the town.
And everything that could go wrong with the mission
trip went wrong.
The guy that I talked to,
supposed to have his place to stay,
didn't. So I kind of fired him.
But then we didn't have nobody to do anything.
So we had to find our own place.
And it was okay.
The guys didn't have hot showers all week.
But you know.
It woke up every morning.
You know.
Quickest showers I ever took.
So a lot of stuff went wrong.
But boy a lot of stuff went right.
Look.
Because this is my story.
I sat on a dock on a Thursday night
and I was really wanting to shut up,
quit talking because we got to drive back to
Oakwood in the morning.
So about eight o'clock,
we had a meal.
And we just kind of usually talked every night.
But last night of the mission trip, we'd always
kind of like have a,
what the Lord's done in your heart?
Wow.
From 8 o'clock to 4 o'clock in
the morning, I listened to ninth graders and tenth
graders and juniors and seniors confess sin.
Tell me, preacher, we just came because we wanted to come.
From that dock, And this ain't nothing about me.
I was just there.
I was in his plan.
God's the one doing the miracle.
I got no miracles.
You got no miracles.
We're nobodies.
We're barley loaves.
We're two small fish.
It wasn't even, they were that big.
No, they were making how small they were and
it was true.
But God will do amazing things.
There's from that dock, and there's about 30 of
them, but there's nine off that dock that's serving
Jesus somewhere tonight.
And I was there.
What you gonna miss?
Because you keep thinking, I'm a nobody.
I can't talk or whatever.
You never will be enough.
The need will always be bigger.
But it ain't about who you are.
It's about who he is.
So you bring him what you've got.
And he'll put you in his plan.
And you'll have a front row seat to it.
Heads are bowed, eyes are closed.
Pastor, you come.