The Sermon When Division Becomes Multiplication by David McGee
Apr 22, 2012
When Division Becomes Multiplication (35:56)
Referenced Scriptures: Luke 9:11-17; 1 Kings 17:11-15; Ephesians 3:20
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Luke 9:11-17
11) But the multitudes, perceiving it, followed him. He welcomed them, and spoke to them of the kingdom of God, and he cured those who needed healing.
12) The day began to wear away; and the twelve came, and said to him, "Send the multitude away, that they may go into the surrounding villages and farms, and lodge, and get provisions, for we are here in a desert place."
13) But he said to them, "You give them something to eat." They said, "We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we should go and buy food for all these people."
14) For they were about five thousand men. He said to his disciples, "Make them sit down in groups of about fifty each."
15) They did so, and made them all sit down.
16) He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to the sky, he blessed them, and broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the multitude.
17) They ate, and were all filled. They gathered up twelve baskets of broken pieces that were left over.
1 Kings 17:11-15
11) As she was going to get it, he called to her, and said, Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.
12) She said, As Yahweh your God lives, I aren‘t they a cake, but a handful of meal in the jar, and a little oil in the jar: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.
13) Elijah said to her, Don‘t be afraid; go and do as you have said; but make me of it a little cake first, and bring it forth to me, and afterward make for you and for your son.
14) For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, The jar of meal shall not empty, neither shall the jar of oil fail, until the day that Yahweh sends rain on the earth.
15) She went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, ate [many] days.
Ephesians 3:20
20) Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
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Twelve to seventeen living chapter nine versus twelve through seventeenth, when division, multiplication, so whenever you are going to school in the iPhone like my passage no doubt that our division and multiplication. Your essays, not by the woods look at Luke chapter nine verses twelve through seventeen of the day. The twelfth set dismissed the crowd so they can go to the farms and villages. Around here get a room for the night and the bite to eat were out in the middle of nowhere you fade. And Jesus said, and they said we couldn't scrape up more than five laurels of bread and a couple of fish, unless of course you want to go to town on ourselves and buy food for everyone. There were more than five thousand people in the crowd. I found the men, women and children didn't count in those days, those least five thousand men plus women and children upwards of fifteen thousand people are setting down for lunch. Bob Joe fifteen thousand SF SF that a lot die verse fourteen, but he went ahead and is in direct of his disciples set them down in groups of fifty. They did what he said, and soon had everyone seated. He took the five loaves and two fish left. It is nice to have an prayer. Blessed wrote and gave the bread and fish to the disciples to hand up the crowd after the people had eaten their fill. The twelve baskets twelve baskets of leftovers were gathered up while this miracle is one that we have spoken of many times, but this is the one miracle that is a part of all of the four Gospels. Besides the resurrection. This is the only miracle that is a part of all four Gospels, now can you imagine being with Jesus in trying to make an ordinary day out of being with God right now. Think about an ordinary day with Jesus. What is awarded every day with Jesus on it. Everything he does China looks added changes to know this and it says in here that the inverse universe eleven that if there were people in the crowd immediately healed them, and then he was teaching in their out in the blatantly gone out in the middle of nowhere and they had nothing to me. So they wanted out here to this place where Jesus has has brought them together and set them down in groups of fifty in the ever see what happens on Black Friday and Walmart when they keep the doors closed and open on Thursdays this match up people. Well be a magic group of fifteen thousand four, trying to line up for dinner, wine now and motivate everyone is enough for everyone. What so I sent them down in groups of fifty. Then he had the disciples that twelve baskets and victory. He starts dividing. I need some help to wonder who else will put the gun on one of the afraid one down at the low for Wanda. Come on that count near the next, but that I won't ever hear now I want you to do something now, here is a piece of bread. Okay, now I want you to tear and half give someone I know what happens whenever you may have done it gives us a one can someone want away their withdrawing. We divided by now. Then again, now just what this does happen to the gutter. I didn't make it is okay to send half the value that don't happen again, my gosh, just crimes. Well we got a free fifteen thousand people in talking if they get a thousand people live five miles. I want pancakes into sardines are starting here and I want to smell and taste of rhythm and in a lot of yelling inside the Los Angeles. This was a kid in RL, you are citing the how I was even decided I donate so what happened was Jesus that five of this is a kids lunch five flat pancakes. Read and is already and the disciples said the fall. We got my fitness Jesus and they came to Jesus what he did was what he do what he did with Jesus and pray first, and he broke it, and he in the disciples all had baskets and he kept breaking in and breaking it in each basket became full, but it is why is everybody a little problem. Everybody take their fill five thousand men plus women and children fifteen thousand people a full lunch out of five loaves and two fish. Now, why don't we go around and give everybody a piece of bread everlasting piece of bread here, so males can go rip one of their taking into images that time off. Sorry home. There, give everybody a piece of bread and I go. you ever thought it would be spread by guppies in error. These Brett was noted by all your BMPs. As you can get them all pay and get one personal thing as active as ever they wanted to give outside being him, everybody. Authority copies of a sardine, and the United States residing smell the use on the back so we won't do that. I is not paying junior church now is a web database and the remote empathy, and I have faith and I thought, I decided on a piece of bread in New Delhi on mourners were rear to go around into the within our guys out of all the estate of red only got out last week. No Sanger always so when you look at this miracle is a miracle in which things are divided, but yet never diminished, but the whole concept of the entire sermon. Cleveland all know what thing when that's okay, but it's not that it is the miracle of dividing. But yet when the division is made, there is no loss. In fact it's multiplied so how is it that when in our and our understanding of the vision. When you divide something you are taking it and make even the smaller smaller segments and whenever you take those but you still never get more than what you start with, so no matter how many pieces you may start with know how many large pieces you have five more near enough office I go get some one want you to think that I was multiplying things now a fiber sleight-of-hand. I was thinking that he will have that I get these out and then divided up into back of the hole when you know that and really thought about going out, but all the little pieces, and there are no areas and look at those in the Taliban sleight-of-hand, but we're looking at the hour looking at this and were saying to ourselves, you can divide it. Now, whenever we divided we can never have more because I divided it is still only equals one whole. But when Jesus the I multiply to become more than one started with North America that this is when we talk about things you like to talk about money again putting money and offering UK PM when you give to the church and you get the God are you doing your taking of what you have and you are giving away and leaves you something taken out, but in the divine economy. There is a multiplication in think this is what happens with our belief in God, the God and we can, and multiply snow. We understand that when we take the grain and seed put it in the ground the corn in a kernel of corn ported and grounded for stock rose you have two ears and you have how many hundreds of individual kernels of corn. We understand it, and that type of economy, but we don't understand any economy. The loaves and fishes, isn't it, as it is a miracle that takes place when the disciples are at their wits end. Now I look at this and I'm I'm I'm saying at first. Well, I am today. The disciples said. Now this is one of those things where, as was like all the disciples know what it says. First, twelve to twelve said so. The twelve are together. Jesus is talking. He's healing I'm anything miracles retelling this crowd is a large crowd it out than fifteen thousand people, and Jesus is talking to the whole ten fifteen thousand people and disciples. One eight back. I wonder I'm here wondering along with this whole process. Well, they all get together. Maybe we should tell Jesus. It's getting late in the I know you rock, then he probably lost track of time and he doesn't know that it's late in the day and these people need to go home. It's like the job. I think that the Virginia that if the will and added new Romney did not leave the track time again. If so, why are there other cases and and and and and Jesus is there with them, and I finally always probably lost track of time and money to get a replacement stay in half and placed the soul. The twelve get-together exit gave us people. Jesus didn't like its maintenance. These people need something to and Jesus does the normal day. I should know better than to interrupt you should know better. But what is Jesus. There he tells them it was like I don't recently look at this. It's like Jesus is unaware of the time of day or the need of the people did you think that Jesus doesn't know where you're at what's going on in your life. I thought you know what I have this problem for Jerome set up when we got around this problem have a problem work on the following, at this problem with the government denied at this problem with that problem with that is if God doesn't know, and somehow given everything we know I've frame organizing what about the God, and would bother leaving he wants to hear from and he is not so busy that he doesn't know you, and an item this one story where a person if I had not said this before, but I'm old now and I can repeat things on this individual dies goes to heaven, and the presence of God, and there is talking with God, and saying that he becomes aware that there are other people there around them and their prayers and down to earth and everybody has all these things come aboard. Scotty think how is it that I have your undivided attention. In yet all this around me is going on and and they're all talking to the answer is enough of me that everyone who's ever lived in wealth and well-being approaches me. I can give everyone my uninvited undivided attention. So God knows where we are, what we're doing everything about us at any moment of time past, present or future. He knows all God does not remember the past Thursday and the future God has all knowledge. So when something happens in our lives. God is caught off guard is not a strange how God even know if we have to fill in value to null. This is going on. Jesus didn't. What time is these guys coming up. All they are a long way to get back to their house to find a place for lunch and then find their way in a unique as they become getting when you take a timeout here Lord and call off the this revival for this afternoon as if Jesus wasn't aware what we do the very same thing whenever we tried to inform or think that God doesn't know what's going on, so the crowd of five thousand men plus women, children, they follow Jesus out here to this remote area and this is some out-of-the-way place in verse eleven says Jesus graciously welcome them and talk to them about the kingdom of God, and those who need a healing field. So he was talking to the people about the kingdom of God very important subject. What is the kingdom of God wasn't like we don't know what he was preaching or teaching specifically that he was talking about the kingdom of the kingdom of God. You see that itself would be an entire sermon and medicine, but we are part of the kingdom of God, because we're part of his family were part of his family and God is part of us and we are part of this divine kingdom, and God knows exactly Eagles prepare a place for us to where he is there. We maybe all of so anything is unusual. We talk about in the divine economy. We think so much of gold Bible says the root of the mysteries will be paved with gold. So, when golden straits that they were going to walk on in heaven, and the idea is to think that we treasure so much. Here are such little value than regarding use of this pavement, K so that we don't get caught up in and are I me and my strategies to possess bigger buying so that we can we can have a bigger splash in our life when he dies with the most toys wins the bumper sticker while the Scriptures, not proverb in the Bible. It's a bumper sticker. He who dies with the most toys wins. So isn't it a great day. They heard the word name was confirmed by the miraculous. It was confirmed by the practice in reading this. Also, I was wondering should every anti-gay and our life be a day in which America will happen. Maybe we look for the miraculous what are we at all. We are dealing with this and how they thought about me trying to make it work. Katie, I very much, and me trying to make a work to know Iowa hospital everyday, Monday through Friday, try to be there by now. Check in check out before do that kind of thing, but I also also know that I have interactions with lots of people may find that staff individuals build underpaid employees of the of the hospital, but I also know that I have interactions with individuals who have come into our program and they are very much either family members, church caring for indolent people who are end-of-life or patients themselves who are in the last weeks, days, months definitely last years of their life and is going to have an impact on them and you might have an impact on those individuals, and so when I'm there I always try to always lift with the only people with an understanding that God is with you. Not because I'm here because I'm reminding you of God 's presence. I'm rebinding of God 's word, and I'm reminding you of our place. We had so is her miraculous event. While it is hollow miraculous event is is believed America for some people, believing his miracle. Now they're very skeptical but for most of us believe it's something that we take for granted that we understand we have a concept of women understanding of God and that and that understanding is based hopefully upon what we been teaching in the Scripture, that our understanding is that God loves me. God forgives me God has planned for me. God is the place for me and he will never leave you nor forsake me, so I'm safe and that I I'm safe in this place where God has been, but also in this place for God has me these dividing things up for me and I'm ing things for him and doing things for God on its things like I'm left holding the bag in the human economy, but in the divine economy& I've so been my return is some forty some sixty, some hundredfold. So I gave this and I end up with mass R Lafon, I put in God 's hands. I pray the gay put it in God 's hands. He has a way of multiplying my division one of the things that the was a real shocker for the disciples and they thought restricting Jesus out Jesus 's time and efforts quarter of thing with a start when what twelve yes, one of the okay let me know that without they score right away. I wrote this article on my plasma wonders whether you are a pastor at twelve o'clock I get out of it on the radio whenever down the disciple side air disciples are there and she just does this because in New Haven was a whole. You know what, even in the vegan is a very found the main bar. So in use on the name you made your wonder if this is the statement says we are part of the answer to every program we pray we are part of the answer to every print we pray and also if we see the need. There is something in some part of us is capable of meeting that need. So if we are able to see it then. Also, there is there something inside of us, whether it's in now. I didn't move the ball on office farming in Africa, but were able to give to missions and get the people to meet the needs over there the weekend going, but we can give our part by giving our part is selling to the kingdom of God. God has a way of what the entity that that so but God has a way of multiplying what we get. So when we feel a new ER when we are unless they pricked, not just inspired feel the divine function to say you gave to do you see our giving is more than just putting something here are giving is giving of ourselves, our words, our talents, our time, our skills or abilities is getting on those things that God has a way of blessing us forgetting what we happy is when a blessing us with more and it may not fit into our economy, but Jesus told the disciples do not think it. I saw what it is vital five. José the wind on this comer will go on Levine, Charlie. These people were smart enough to bring food with them in the club a lot in the thousands of people. What a stupid group of people coming out of his disciples, a few bright. Well, Jesus mean when we did our part, we got this when I fly blows and five loaves and two fishes to know what is that among so many people both within our part, we try to be going the general look at your life and say this all I got to meet my needs is all I got this mean you Lord. I love them to sardines of the converting progress, think, I think of what I do on my back. How does one hear is when you're not how we think recent was now he wants us to know that we have something to get it out in the book of first Kings chapter seventeen talks about the lady who was down to her last bit of oil and meal, and in Elijah the prophet said he came to hurry physiognomy something to read. She says I'm sorry it's either. If I make mine affected the oil. I have in the meal that I have either not for what piece of bread and then my son and I are going to die from it starts that that's all we had a light just as don't be afraid. Go home and do as you have said. But first make a small cake of bread for me. From what and bring it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son that you spent with your God, and I want you to make something for me. First name Elijah is not being greedy here telling and humanity something for me. He's selling them as a prophet of God that there is a miracle here waging if you'll just block if you'll just be obedient to what I say and the jar of flour will not be used up in the job and oil will not run dry until the day the Lord gives us in on the land. She wedded it as Elijah told her so. There was food every day for Elijah for the woman and her family now prior to this is out in this little no parties being fed by the ravens and NL. The ravens are bringing invertebrate, but the brook dries up and the ravens stopped coming, and Elijah say what he is doing God and God sent down here. Even droning around here long enough to go out there and on the show you what to do so. Jeff is forced to leave where God is bringing in ferrets and takes into a place where there is no throat and the only thing that will be there is the last piece of bread for a woman or child in the noumena die, but a divine permission licenses you make me peace first and that bit of meal and oil will never run out. The divine economy runs different than we do. So when we place what we have in God 's hands, and there's a lot of symbolism in this one talks about the firstfruits in the first offerings in the time and all that and in and in what and when I'm trying to incorporate and impress upon us is that we need trust God for every aspect of our lives that we get a little give a lot. It's based upon what we had. It is the amount is given given from what we have and when we get from what we have. We need to believe that God is going to take this gift that we have in the gift that we are giving. We have to believe I want us to believe myself for all of us that whatever we put our time, talent ties whatever IR person who we are our lives, our jobs, our families whenever were praying about them dedicated to God, asking God to take care of them and and interacting with them and blessing them, and pray descriptors over the way doing all that is best solid job will be warn us with this. That's the divine economy, and it takes. I think the beginning of what I have departed in the divine economy and we don't get because I say so we don't, because God spaced around parts because God is in charge of our lives, and I'm believing that God will bless our lives to multiply and take this time low. You wonder how many& you, it's that it's a divine miracle out there, but it takes a slow decay. These pieces of bread and the case what we give him. And whenever we give it to God, we pray about it. We pray about. We don't listen to other people you listen to me you listen to the spirit that is inside the spirit of God when God spaced to walk in obedience that obedience is not all or nothing. It is God always deals with with us in portions and portions like ten percent ten percent to me is different than ten percent. You ten percent of the billionaire is different than ten percent of the person who doesn't have no that has no job and whatever the what the window with the Windows 98 less than a penny. She gave less than the training. Jesus said she's given more than anyone else's but money in a pot and that in her basket. God knows we get the cruse of oil so lonely place will be half in God 's hands. It changes to the God of more than enough. Ephesians three twenty now unto him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think that was my switch from God is able to do, God is able to do, God is able to do more. God is able to do more than we ask he's able to do more than we think. I been challenged by that. This week I'm a must have thought of things in which thought of things following, we can't. We can't, we can't. We can't why we always say we can't maybe not today why we say we can God I want to do wrong things alone make wrong decisions. But God doesn't have that word in his vocabulary. Your think God tells us that we can't do is that we can't do things we didn't just be destructive to us I would destroy us, and God would do extravagant extravagant in the downside of extravagance is. I mean, my mind whenever I believe that I and mine is mine and you can't have it. Then I want to get more of this. I want to start back here and working in my container out your hungry are not given you a crime for my dental what happened in all disappear. Don and gain the whole world and lose his own soul. What are the property to the divine economy is that were giving of what we've got. And maybe I only have a crown, but you know what God will honor that gift young. Maybe I'm not the brightest, the job will take my talents. He will take my time, he will bless and he will take what we give him, and we need to take it to him in prayer and ask him to be with us, and that I will be with us and he went it would take this piece that I have given Jesus lifted his face to heaven, he pray, father, we don't know exactly what his prayer was, we pray, father, bless this great, and he began to break it and he gave and I think each day we began a day, God, this is your day. I ask you to block this that I am entering in each aspect of the day each minute of the day each hour of the day, I ask you to bless it and divided and given to those around that I can see how I've been here, of who I am and it's going to come back in my line, pressed down, shaken together, and running over John. His book about personal success. He talks about that the road to success is that you help as many people as you can become successful and you will be successful. Likewise help as many people as you can achieve success, you will find success. Likewise in our lives, we are helping as many people as we can, along the road, and that as we give. We ask God to bless our day. And you know what they may only need a crown. The mail, you need a piece they may need a big piece, but you know what sometimes they just need your presence and encourage her some and to bring stability to a very unstable place. God has a way of blessing them, and you gave them of what you got. We ask God to take that and make it a blessing to them to be just a few words when you know what I'll be thinking about you when you know what, if we look at it this way, you know what I don't know when I'll pray about it and ask God to help that in itself is encouragement be encouraged, because God places you in my heart different times during the week, and I pray for you. I pray that God would bless you have and that you continue to multiplied in your lifeTwelve to seventeen living chapter nine versus twelve through seventeenth, when division, multiplication, so whenever you are going to school in the iPhone like my passage no doubt that our division and multiplication. Your essays, not by the woods look at Luke chapter nine verses twelve through seventeen of the day. The twelfth set dismissed the crowd so they can go to the farms and villages. Around here get a room for the night and the bite to eat were out in the middle of nowhere you fade. And Jesus said, and they said we couldn't scrape up more than five laurels of bread and a couple of fish, unless of course you want to go to town on ourselves and buy food for everyone. There were more than five thousand people in the crowd. I found the men, women and children didn't count in those days, those least five thousand men plus women and children upwards of fifteen thousand people are setting down for lunch. Bob Joe fifteen thousand SF SF that a lot die verse fourteen, but he went ahead and is in direct of his disciples set them down in groups of fifty. They did what he said, and soon had everyone seated. He took the five loaves and two fish left. It is nice to have an prayer. Blessed wrote and gave the bread and fish to the disciples to hand up the crowd after the people had eaten their fill. The twelve baskets twelve baskets of leftovers were gathered up while this miracle is one that we have spoken of many times, but this is the one miracle that is a part of all of the four Gospels. Besides the resurrection. This is the only miracle that is a part of all four Gospels, now can you imagine being with Jesus in trying to make an ordinary day out of being with God right now. Think about an ordinary day with Jesus. What is awarded every day with Jesus on it. Everything he does China looks added changes to know this and it says in here that the inverse universe eleven that if there were people in the crowd immediately healed them, and then he was teaching in their out in the blatantly gone out in the middle of nowhere and they had nothing to me. So they wanted out here to this place where Jesus has has brought them together and set them down in groups of fifty in the ever see what happens on Black Friday and Walmart when they keep the doors closed and open on Thursdays this match up people. Well be a magic group of fifteen thousand four, trying to line up for dinner, wine now and motivate everyone is enough for everyone. What so I sent them down in groups of fifty. Then he had the disciples that twelve baskets and victory. He starts dividing. I need some help to wonder who else will put the gun on one of the afraid one down at the low for Wanda. Come on that count near the next, but that I won't ever hear now I want you to do something now, here is a piece of bread. Okay, now I want you to tear and half give someone I know what happens whenever you may have done it gives us a one can someone want away their withdrawing. We divided by now. Then again, now just what this does happen to the gutter. I didn't make it is okay to send half the value that don't happen again, my gosh, just crimes. Well we got a free fifteen thousand people in talking if they get a thousand people live five miles. I want pancakes into sardines are starting here and I want to smell and taste of rhythm and in a lot of yelling inside the Los Angeles. This was a kid in RL, you are citing the how I was even decided I donate so what happened was Jesus that five of this is a kids lunch five flat pancakes. Read and is already and the disciples said the fall. We got my fitness Jesus and they came to Jesus what he did was what he do what he did with Jesus and pray first, and he broke it, and he in the disciples all had baskets and he kept breaking in and breaking it in each basket became full, but it is why is everybody a little problem. Everybody take their fill five thousand men plus women and children fifteen thousand people a full lunch out of five loaves and two fish. Now, why don't we go around and give everybody a piece of bread everlasting piece of bread here, so males can go rip one of their taking into images that time off. Sorry home. There, give everybody a piece of bread and I go. you ever thought it would be spread by guppies in error. These Brett was noted by all your BMPs. As you can get them all pay and get one personal thing as active as ever they wanted to give outside being him, everybody. Authority copies of a sardine, and the United States residing smell the use on the back so we won't do that. I is not paying junior church now is a web database and the remote empathy, and I have faith and I thought, I decided on a piece of bread in New Delhi on mourners were rear to go around into the within our guys out of all the estate of red only got out last week. No Sanger always so when you look at this miracle is a miracle in which things are divided, but yet never diminished, but the whole concept of the entire sermon. Cleveland all know what thing when that's okay, but it's not that it is the miracle of dividing. But yet when the division is made, there is no loss. In fact it's multiplied so how is it that when in our and our understanding of the vision. When you divide something you are taking it and make even the smaller smaller segments and whenever you take those but you still never get more than what you start with, so no matter how many pieces you may start with know how many large pieces you have five more near enough office I go get some one want you to think that I was multiplying things now a fiber sleight-of-hand. I was thinking that he will have that I get these out and then divided up into back of the hole when you know that and really thought about going out, but all the little pieces, and there are no areas and look at those in the Taliban sleight-of-hand, but we're looking at the hour looking at this and were saying to ourselves, you can divide it. Now, whenever we divided we can never have more because I divided it is still only equals one whole. But when Jesus the I multiply to become more than one started with North America that this is when we talk about things you like to talk about money again putting money and offering UK PM when you give to the church and you get the God are you doing your taking of what you have and you are giving away and leaves you something taken out, but in the divine economy. There is a multiplication in think this is what happens with our belief in God, the God and we can, and multiply snow. We understand that when we take the grain and seed put it in the ground the corn in a kernel of corn ported and grounded for stock rose you have two ears and you have how many hundreds of individual kernels of corn. We understand it, and that type of economy, but we don't understand any economy. The loaves and fishes, isn't it, as it is a miracle that takes place when the disciples are at their wits end. Now I look at this and I'm I'm I'm saying at first. Well, I am today. The disciples said. Now this is one of those things where, as was like all the disciples know what it says. First, twelve to twelve said so. The twelve are together. Jesus is talking. He's healing I'm anything miracles retelling this crowd is a large crowd it out than fifteen thousand people, and Jesus is talking to the whole ten fifteen thousand people and disciples. One eight back. I wonder I'm here wondering along with this whole process. Well, they all get together. Maybe we should tell Jesus. It's getting late in the I know you rock, then he probably lost track of time and he doesn't know that it's late in the day and these people need to go home. It's like the job. I think that the Virginia that if the will and added new Romney did not leave the track time again. If so, why are there other cases and and and and and Jesus is there with them, and I finally always probably lost track of time and money to get a replacement stay in half and placed the soul. The twelve get-together exit gave us people. Jesus didn't like its maintenance. These people need something to and Jesus does the normal day. I should know better than to interrupt you should know better. But what is Jesus. There he tells them it was like I don't recently look at this. It's like Jesus is unaware of the time of day or the need of the people did you think that Jesus doesn't know where you're at what's going on in your life. I thought you know what I have this problem for Jerome set up when we got around this problem have a problem work on the following, at this problem with the government denied at this problem with that problem with that is if God doesn't know, and somehow given everything we know I've frame organizing what about the God, and would bother leaving he wants to hear from and he is not so busy that he doesn't know you, and an item this one story where a person if I had not said this before, but I'm old now and I can repeat things on this individual dies goes to heaven, and the presence of God, and there is talking with God, and saying that he becomes aware that there are other people there around them and their prayers and down to earth and everybody has all these things come aboard. Scotty think how is it that I have your undivided attention. In yet all this around me is going on and and they're all talking to the answer is enough of me that everyone who's ever lived in wealth and well-being approaches me. I can give everyone my uninvited undivided attention. So God knows where we are, what we're doing everything about us at any moment of time past, present or future. He knows all God does not remember the past Thursday and the future God has all knowledge. So when something happens in our lives. God is caught off guard is not a strange how God even know if we have to fill in value to null. This is going on. Jesus didn't. What time is these guys coming up. All they are a long way to get back to their house to find a place for lunch and then find their way in a unique as they become getting when you take a timeout here Lord and call off the this revival for this afternoon as if Jesus wasn't aware what we do the very same thing whenever we tried to inform or think that God doesn't know what's going on, so the crowd of five thousand men plus women, children, they follow Jesus out here to this remote area and this is some out-of-the-way place in verse eleven says Jesus graciously welcome them and talk to them about the kingdom of God, and those who need a healing field. So he was talking to the people about the kingdom of God very important subject. What is the kingdom of God wasn't like we don't know what he was preaching or teaching specifically that he was talking about the kingdom of the kingdom of God. You see that itself would be an entire sermon and medicine, but we are part of the kingdom of God, because we're part of his family were part of his family and God is part of us and we are part of this divine kingdom, and God knows exactly Eagles prepare a place for us to where he is there. We maybe all of so anything is unusual. We talk about in the divine economy. We think so much of gold Bible says the root of the mysteries will be paved with gold. So, when golden straits that they were going to walk on in heaven, and the idea is to think that we treasure so much. Here are such little value than regarding use of this pavement, K so that we don't get caught up in and are I me and my strategies to possess bigger buying so that we can we can have a bigger splash in our life when he dies with the most toys wins the bumper sticker while the Scriptures, not proverb in the Bible. It's a bumper sticker. He who dies with the most toys wins. So isn't it a great day. They heard the word name was confirmed by the miraculous. It was confirmed by the practice in reading this. Also, I was wondering should every anti-gay and our life be a day in which America will happen. Maybe we look for the miraculous what are we at all. We are dealing with this and how they thought about me trying to make it work. Katie, I very much, and me trying to make a work to know Iowa hospital everyday, Monday through Friday, try to be there by now. Check in check out before do that kind of thing, but I also also know that I have interactions with lots of people may find that staff individuals build underpaid employees of the of the hospital, but I also know that I have interactions with individuals who have come into our program and they are very much either family members, church caring for indolent people who are end-of-life or patients themselves who are in the last weeks, days, months definitely last years of their life and is going to have an impact on them and you might have an impact on those individuals, and so when I'm there I always try to always lift with the only people with an understanding that God is with you. Not because I'm here because I'm reminding you of God 's presence. I'm rebinding of God 's word, and I'm reminding you of our place. We had so is her miraculous event. While it is hollow miraculous event is is believed America for some people, believing his miracle. Now they're very skeptical but for most of us believe it's something that we take for granted that we understand we have a concept of women understanding of God and that and that understanding is based hopefully upon what we been teaching in the Scripture, that our understanding is that God loves me. God forgives me God has planned for me. God is the place for me and he will never leave you nor forsake me, so I'm safe and that I I'm safe in this place where God has been, but also in this place for God has me these dividing things up for me and I'm ing things for him and doing things for God on its things like I'm left holding the bag in the human economy, but in the divine economy& I've so been my return is some forty some sixty, some hundredfold. So I gave this and I end up with mass R Lafon, I put in God 's hands. I pray the gay put it in God 's hands. He has a way of multiplying my division one of the things that the was a real shocker for the disciples and they thought restricting Jesus out Jesus 's time and efforts quarter of thing with a start when what twelve yes, one of the okay let me know that without they score right away. I wrote this article on my plasma wonders whether you are a pastor at twelve o'clock I get out of it on the radio whenever down the disciple side air disciples are there and she just does this because in New Haven was a whole. You know what, even in the vegan is a very found the main bar. So in use on the name you made your wonder if this is the statement says we are part of the answer to every program we pray we are part of the answer to every print we pray and also if we see the need. There is something in some part of us is capable of meeting that need. So if we are able to see it then. Also, there is there something inside of us, whether it's in now. I didn't move the ball on office farming in Africa, but were able to give to missions and get the people to meet the needs over there the weekend going, but we can give our part by giving our part is selling to the kingdom of God. God has a way of what the entity that that so but God has a way of multiplying what we get. So when we feel a new ER when we are unless they pricked, not just inspired feel the divine function to say you gave to do you see our giving is more than just putting something here are giving is giving of ourselves, our words, our talents, our time, our skills or abilities is getting on those things that God has a way of blessing us forgetting what we happy is when a blessing us with more and it may not fit into our economy, but Jesus told the disciples do not think it. I saw what it is vital five. José the wind on this comer will go on Levine, Charlie. These people were smart enough to bring food with them in the club a lot in the thousands of people. What a stupid group of people coming out of his disciples, a few bright. Well, Jesus mean when we did our part, we got this when I fly blows and five loaves and two fishes to know what is that among so many people both within our part, we try to be going the general look at your life and say this all I got to meet my needs is all I got this mean you Lord. I love them to sardines of the converting progress, think, I think of what I do on my back. How does one hear is when you're not how we think recent was now he wants us to know that we have something to get it out in the book of first Kings chapter seventeen talks about the lady who was down to her last bit of oil and meal, and in Elijah the prophet said he came to hurry physiognomy something to read. She says I'm sorry it's either. If I make mine affected the oil. I have in the meal that I have either not for what piece of bread and then my son and I are going to die from it starts that that's all we had a light just as don't be afraid. Go home and do as you have said. But first make a small cake of bread for me. From what and bring it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son that you spent with your God, and I want you to make something for me. First name Elijah is not being greedy here telling and humanity something for me. He's selling them as a prophet of God that there is a miracle here waging if you'll just block if you'll just be obedient to what I say and the jar of flour will not be used up in the job and oil will not run dry until the day the Lord gives us in on the land. She wedded it as Elijah told her so. There was food every day for Elijah for the woman and her family now prior to this is out in this little no parties being fed by the ravens and NL. The ravens are bringing invertebrate, but the brook dries up and the ravens stopped coming, and Elijah say what he is doing God and God sent down here. Even droning around here long enough to go out there and on the show you what to do so. Jeff is forced to leave where God is bringing in ferrets and takes into a place where there is no throat and the only thing that will be there is the last piece of bread for a woman or child in the noumena die, but a divine permission licenses you make me peace first and that bit of meal and oil will never run out. The divine economy runs different than we do. So when we place what we have in God 's hands, and there's a lot of symbolism in this one talks about the firstfruits in the first offerings in the time and all that and in and in what and when I'm trying to incorporate and impress upon us is that we need trust God for every aspect of our lives that we get a little give a lot. It's based upon what we had. It is the amount is given given from what we have and when we get from what we have. We need to believe that God is going to take this gift that we have in the gift that we are giving. We have to believe I want us to believe myself for all of us that whatever we put our time, talent ties whatever IR person who we are our lives, our jobs, our families whenever were praying about them dedicated to God, asking God to take care of them and and interacting with them and blessing them, and pray descriptors over the way doing all that is best solid job will be warn us with this. That's the divine economy, and it takes. I think the beginning of what I have departed in the divine economy and we don't get because I say so we don't, because God spaced around parts because God is in charge of our lives, and I'm believing that God will bless our lives to multiply and take this time low. You wonder how many& you, it's that it's a divine miracle out there, but it takes a slow decay. These pieces of bread and the case what we give him. And whenever we give it to God, we pray about it. We pray about. We don't listen to other people you listen to me you listen to the spirit that is inside the spirit of God when God spaced to walk in obedience that obedience is not all or nothing. It is God always deals with with us in portions and portions like ten percent ten percent to me is different than ten percent. You ten percent of the billionaire is different than ten percent of the person who doesn't have no that has no job and whatever the what the window with the Windows 98 less than a penny. She gave less than the training. Jesus said she's given more than anyone else's but money in a pot and that in her basket. God knows we get the cruse of oil so lonely place will be half in God 's hands. It changes to the God of more than enough. Ephesians three twenty now unto him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think that was my switch from God is able to do, God is able to do, God is able to do more. God is able to do more than we ask he's able to do more than we think. I been challenged by that. This week I'm a must have thought of things in which thought of things following, we can't. We can't, we can't. We can't why we always say we can't maybe not today why we say we can God I want to do wrong things alone make wrong decisions. But God doesn't have that word in his vocabulary. Your think God tells us that we can't do is that we can't do things we didn't just be destructive to us I would destroy us, and God would do extravagant extravagant in the downside of extravagance is. I mean, my mind whenever I believe that I and mine is mine and you can't have it. Then I want to get more of this. I want to start back here and working in my container out your hungry are not given you a crime for my dental what happened in all disappear. Don and gain the whole world and lose his own soul. What are the property to the divine economy is that were giving of what we've got. And maybe I only have a crown, but you know what God will honor that gift young. Maybe I'm not the brightest, the job will take my talents. He will take my time, he will bless and he will take what we give him, and we need to take it to him in prayer and ask him to be with us, and that I will be with us and he went it would take this piece that I have given Jesus lifted his face to heaven, he pray, father, we don't know exactly what his prayer was, we pray, father, bless this great, and he began to break it and he gave and I think each day we began a day, God, this is your day. I ask you to block this that I am entering in each aspect of the day each minute of the day each hour of the day, I ask you to bless it and divided and given to those around that I can see how I've been here, of who I am and it's going to come back in my line, pressed down, shaken together, and running over John. His book about personal success. He talks about that the road to success is that you help as many people as you can become successful and you will be successful. Likewise help as many people as you can achieve success, you will find success. Likewise in our lives, we are helping as many people as we can, along the road, and that as we give. We ask God to bless our day. And you know what they may only need a crown. The mail, you need a piece they may need a big piece, but you know what sometimes they just need your presence and encourage her some and to bring stability to a very unstable place. God has a way of blessing them, and you gave them of what you got. We ask God to take that and make it a blessing to them to be just a few words when you know what I'll be thinking about you when you know what, if we look at it this way, you know what I don't know when I'll pray about it and ask God to help that in itself is encouragement be encouraged, because God places you in my heart different times during the week, and I pray for you. I pray that God would bless you have and that you continue to multiplied in your life