The Sermon What Do You Find? by David McGee
Sep 02, 2012
What Do You Find? (37:03)
Referenced Scriptures: Matthew 16:1-12
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Matthew 16:1-12
1) The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven.
2) But he answered them, "When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.‘
3) In the morning, ‘It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.‘ Hypocrites! You know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but you can‘t discern the signs of the times.
4) An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and there will be no sign given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonah." He left them, and departed.
5) The disciples came to the other side and forgot to take bread.
6) Jesus said to them, "Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees."
7) They reasoned among themselves, saying, "We took no bread."
8) Jesus, perceiving it, said, "Why do you reason among yourselves, you of little faith, ‘because you have brought no bread?‘
9) Don‘t you yet perceive, neither remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?
10) Nor the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many baskets you took up?
11) How is it that you don‘t perceive that I didn‘t speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees."
12) Then they understood that he didn‘t tell them to beware of the yeast of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
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I'm including in their wine, the Scripture talks about the five thousand and and nutrition, and so on, and I was saying how may times I've spoken on the Scripture, and this time, hopefully without I have something of a different thoughts in a different way to help our understanding seller three Matthew chapter sixteen José has it on the screen here in the title. The message is what you find. What do you find some Pharisees and Sadducees were on him again. Jesus trusting him to prove himself to them. Until then you have a saying that goes red sky at night, sailors delight in red sky in the morning, sailors take warning, you find it easy enough to forecast the weather. Why can't you read the signs of the times anyone wants an generation is always wanting signs and wonders. The only sign you'll get is the Jonas sign. Then he turned on his heels and walked away on their way to the other side. Now they've left them in there, and in this on the boat going across the Sea of Galilee on their way to the other side of the lake. The disciples discovered they had forgotten to bring along bread in the meantime, Jesus said to them. Keep a sharp eye out for Pharisees and Sadducees. He's thinking he was scrolling down for forgetting Brad. They discussed in whispers what to do. Jesus knew what they were doing and saying why all these worried whispers about forgetting the bread runs believers. That's what I was thinking China, the government Sunday school runs. Believers have in Chicago on yet. Don't you remember the five loaves of bread in the five thousand people and how many baskets of fragments you picked up or the seven loaves that bad. Four thousand and how money baskets of leftover she collected as you realize yet that Brad isn't the problem. The problem is used Pharisees inside the cc. Then they got it that he wasn't concerned about eating by teaching the Pharisees Sadducees kind of teaching so yummy. I like the thought go Perkins, that's my my, I stopped and most of the time he you go to Perkins. It was a normal, the normal practice is a normal time so, but there is this week. One time I was there before I started back to my work at the hospital. This is individual, and he was a very angry man, and he was having breakfast. Therewith I think it was his son and jarring their conversations. This individual. The angry man not angry birds angry men. This angry man complained about his kids which she was talking to a complaint about his wife, the government can't complain about the people in the restaurant of the staff of the restaurant. He complained about his car in point about the weather, the complaint and was there wasn't anything even touch on any never stop the disc at rambling on about everything that was wrong in the world and everything that was wrong with him. And so I know you listening to this and after while it's like want you to stop him. I know you be upset over some things, but you get the upset over everything. Wow, I thought of any contacts he had an infection in infection with anger. There is a mental line where there is a mental anger as while at an emotional anger and the children were combined with sometimes a frustration over our life and over our situations are feelings and in the impact there are upon us is all they can be based on the pains of life. The young fairness of life of where we are at the time in the time of life that we can be complaining about it, and then met complaining and then anger can also be combined with fear. Now I'm I have really no idea what this individual is so up set about by his feelings were expressed to his. I think maybe his son and he was these feelings were expressed to everyone else in the restaurant because they knew exactly how he felt because he was busy telling everyone how he felt perhaps he was trying to prove a point that nothing in life is good anymore. Perhaps in his life he has seemingly bypassed all of the good things wrong with the good things had bypassed him and perhaps he's declaring that he is at this point in his life and is not what I thought it thought it would be, and whether it is this individual or ourselves. We can get caught in those situations in the eye of what is going on and not going on the times of our life that have left us or we have left it, and it is seemingly gone by us in the text we have instructed sixty verse one says some of the Pharisees and Sadducees were on him again trusting him to throw himself to them, usually the first reason Sadducees were full of resentment towards Jesus. They had an expectation that the Messiah that everyone was claiming that many people were claiming that Jesus was that they had an expectation about Jesus that he would come a certain way and life would be a certain way for them cause at this executive branch of the religious order, the Pharisees and Sadducees. They had it all figured out they had all outline as to what religion is supposed to be how God wants them how God wants people to live and they were the prime example of it, and they were not afraid to tell you that they were not afraid to tell you that they were the ideal of what God wanted because even in the Scripture talks about the Pharisee that was praying in the street corners is God any. This is his prayer that God thank you that I'm not like that wretched sinner over there so they had a very inflated idea about who they were and so when Jesus came along and his teachings and his fulfillment of the Scriptures. They had a resentment towards him, and he was not what they expected the Messiah to be as on the matter what Jesus said or did, it was never good enough. They wanted to prove they wanted Jesus to prove that he was the Messiah, and they kept insisting on a sign. They kept insisting that Jesus do something, but what they wanted Jesus to do wise for him to produce a sign that they would believe now all of the miracles that Jesus had wrought all the negative. This is the miracles that he had performed and the teachings that he had spoken of. They were all assigned as the movie wise for no man could do what he did, unless God was with him. So that's the declaration that is given but the Pharisees wanted a sign of their own choosing. They wanted a sign of their own choosing a lot like perhaps the man in the restaurant and sometimes like us no matter what you have is not good enough, no matter what we've done. It's always falling short and sometimes we look out our faith, and that our faith is something that God must prove himself again and do what we think he should do as God and Joe is that we will understand and that we will believe and the Pharisees and the Sadducees. Their desire was not for Jesus to do something that would prove who he was in. They wanted Jesus to to do there there for their presentation was about tempting him. It was a temptation that they wanted him to fulfill it's almost like Satan whenever he was at Jesus in the desert and the forty days of fasting and an end Satan comes up to Jesus and said, while you know if you're really God when you're even fasting for forty days. This style Featherstone and Brett it all. You deserve the end Jesus reply was that man does not live by bread alone but by every everything comes up out of the word of God Mountain got so there is this temptation and addition and the Pharisees and Sadducees were presenting what they had in such a way and that their needs in such a way that was like. If you're really Godlike individuals that were standing at the cross, dying cases. If you're really got them off the cross. If you're really God, mighty rock. Get off the crossing of the cross. It will probably dislike the individual is very angry at life because life has somehow not been not is to their expectation. So when Jesus. The matter what Jesus would've said or done. The Pharisees were looking to enslave him Jesus spoke of a common practice. It was a very common practice. We've is still quoted in a red sky at night same as the line red sky in the morning there was morning, whether red sky this morning and buddy up early enough to see it is all right by all relevant with light in my bedroom/ F, Loretta. There was a red sky, which is yummy looking that it's obvious why the rate while there is this coloration in the sky that God puts their notes because of the sun and the clouds with the atmosphere and the moisture and all those types of things and lack of the White House. I'm not a weatherman, but we know those local phrases all. Jesus then there was, it was a common focus telling me. Maybe the disciples, it was common for them to be able to interpret. Maybe the weather by what they saw in the sky, but they were not very comfortable, and they were not very keen. Yet looking at the Scriptures in which they were seemingly the experts at and so he challenges them to discern the signs of the times, to discern the signs of the times when I think of the individual who was very angry what was his discernment of the signs of the times is his anger was in his fear was is frustration was that everything was not good anymore. Everything has somehow has to block had it had a really passed by in a certain phase of our lives are we angry are we dear fall about how I've never lastly we talked about the document was no wearing nowhere to be happening. I did say that the home where he and what is worrying me. In the end and the German ancient German word which means to be choked or strangled. This doesn't look up with the third was choked, strangled, constricted that we know about that think thank you that the ministry was to go with Murray is choked finally constructed so worried as the connotation of being child strangled. So when we are worried about the future word about our life, we are seemingly being choked by, and that it is saying it is a very constricting approach that we would have until the Bible says don't worry that but we are to pray about everything and are praying. We are expecting God been to help us in that understanding and the Scriptures is the result of last week said don't be so preoccupied with getting a that you miss out on God 's giving getting has a connotation of raking it in getting what somebody else hast that read that trying to take in an and whatever, but don't be so caught up in getting that you miss out on what God is giving you see what God is getting is so much more important than the accumulation of things having things is not wrong, but the desire of getting without recognizing God 's blessing of giving while I think this is China, where this this idea how anger about life in the flash duration over life in the frustration over what is going on in life and having missed out on opportunities that are now Pastore somehow, life has passed us by, and we are left with outfit must be the week for this week and hospice. There was a patient and she was when in this we start back at it. The hospital this week after all those that embrace a vacation, not healing of my back. I was on vacation. So, this individual was just crying. Crying very intently because the notes say, but think the realization was life is over and I can't get it back. So we prayed and prayed with her and your talk with her. She wasn't able to communicate, but the idea was our life isn't over. We have eternal life with Christ, and so no matter where we are actions in the end stages or phases or years of life. We are in a position of being loved by God, we are in a position that God has had his hand upon us, and that life doesn't come to and because I ceased to breathe life doesn't come to it and because circumstances have passed us by. We believe that God has a plan and a purpose and that God 's plan and purpose is greater than anything we would ever find in life and then anything will never accumulate in life. What's in the problematic gain the whole world and lose his own soul, so there is a security in our life that God promises us if we took of communion that our sins are forgiven because of the death of Christ upon the cross. It is not a manipulative measure of judging and Jay and doing. It's a matter of receiving because he loves us, and from the perspective of love, we are then building a life that is going to go on for an eternity, and it isn't about what we miss and what has gone wrong. It's where we are at and where we are going and how that God is going to work in our life. My mother and ninety seven couldn't see them here and it was hard for her to get around but she had a prior less than one hundred and twenty people and I said this over again, but just the idea. Jennifer was the one hundred twenty people that she pray for every day whenever my own. There was a need to came up and run install the start. I guess that I'm getting older and dementia setting in the first thing. Another thing I miss most about my life as my mind. So anyhow for the sport as a little joke, but done one of my my one brother wasn't concerned about telling my mother about a certain situation that happened because my mom would get upset and the lady at the facility. The home. Obama will stay said your mother is not going to be upset to mothers going to pray for that person. So my mom and ninety seven can't see very well can hear very well doesn't get around very well, but she is a determined person ninety one and now she was a very determined individual raise your driver Ryan twenty people and she would start with number one and go through a hundred and twenty, she would remember everyone by name. All of us were on that list because she would pray for us so and ninety seven. She was a crying about how life had left her behind. She wasn't angry about what she had missed. She lies seeing the opportunity to pray for where she was and what was going on around her and always making adjustments when she went into the high-rise L shape. She makes it was funny, I thought she would make so and- mom, why in the description waddling like the stupid everybody else does. So always make it for them. She wanted Q&A related, but Aaron, I recommend with herbology like a soup kitchen had given up all the so the neighbors in the hallway and out Montréal 's McGee has registered day now. Now that I moved on all why am I playing in their bowl and she given so no attention make the soup. My dad loved. She went decently needed to like it, but other people like there's another kind of the oh so she always did anything anywhere whenever she couldn't see she would now where to put the things on the stove and how she would make her cookies. She would do it all by field so she can get angry that she couldn't see very well when she she would cause you got in with the blind Association, and you would call her up and she exactly talk right now listening to a book and she hang up now so it will never suggest this type of a person so she was angry getting old and she was angry about what had gone on. She can understand Judeo. She never said she understood why my brother died in my dolomite. My dad that all those things generically talk about them as you always come back with what God has a way of working things out because she had a faith in the present and the future and keep this is where Jesus is looking at the disciples here and he stays. Try think them out. You can you discern the signs of the times do not say that the Messiah has come, challenging these these Pharisees invited Susan and disciples. No wonder did they decide to let God within, and a long want this generation, looking after the sign and only assign the only sign you'll get is a sign of Jonah. What's, don't swallow blackfish. No sign of being in the heart in the belly. The well great fish for three days. Sign Jesus Christ dead in your three days back to life the wellness challenge to decide to the Pharisees and the Sadducees, Spurs versus here with this challenge, given to the Pharisees Sadducees and the disciples. Jesus gets in about a guide of all of the disciples, and he starts the other side verse five and six as they were going to be other side of the lake. The disciples discovered they forgot to bring Brett well, you know, very important to bring Brad McDonald's disclosed she doesn't built there yet, and the restaurant that was over there is closed for remodeling. No, there forgotten to bring lunch that forgot the pack. Traditional fast food and also they were making other people on the other side and then racetracks, expecting them to bring food over with them so they would all have a meal afterwards after they got to the other side. So Jesus is challenging them that they are a captive audience. Here you ever feel like these are all closed in and you just got nowhere to go in the buddy list and do there. No one is listening to you and your prayers. I got to the ceiling and all iconic stuff on here are the disciples there with Jesus and I forgot to bring lunch. Jesus said to them as the crazy thing is, keep a sharp eye out losses on the sea of dollars. Keep a sharp eye out for Pharisees. Instead, for their one for the release complex your yard about. Keep a sharp eye out for the greater efficiency of Galway say galleys of latency across the cake and gave a sharp eye out for the authors of this, I think that having attacking by boat, know their yeast, so they just left the Pharisees and Sadducees. What do they want to Jesus, they pressed Jesus to prove himself to them that they must have a sign of their own choosing. That's what translation have that the Pharisees and Sadducees. There were just pushing Jesus for side. Now everything that Jesus had done was not good enough. They wanted a sign of their own choosing Pharisees, sadness, be aware guys, you forgot your lunch. Be aware of the Pharisees inside. Then he says, I know what you doing why all these where he whispers about forgetting lunch at the picture Pharisees and Sadducees just left on the shore got in the boat headed over the other side forgot lunch. Jesus says watch out for the Pharisees and Sadducees and their only forgot lunch. Jesus Matt Ennis really having problems. How can we divide problems with what brought up the next few verses, the lows and the fishes the five loaves and several loaves that miracle they were Jesus is telling them to be so caught up like the Pharisees and the Sadducees that you have to have your own miracle to prove that who I have you, your you're trying to know I am in the boat and you're talking about not having Brad asked if bread is a problem here. I am the Lord of all creation, Peter Dodge and remember whenever you throughout the night and you pull the Internet nurse on the face you put in, get it. Don't you remember the five loaves and fishes only a few thoughts about it here just just a minute. Don't you remember the five loaves of bread in five thousand people on the fragments that were picked up. Don't you remember the seven loaves that network that had over four thousand on a basket you collected haven't you realized the bread isn't the problem divine provision isn't the problem jutting is not the problem. Be aware on the east of the Pharisees, so I was I was nine -year-old know what was going on. There's no written record of what happened to these disciples in the boat Quay is nothing there that tells us what the disciples were talking about all we have is is given from the earth, and Kevin were this kind of gassing that they were trusting Jesus inside of themselves and their whispering. We could even do the spinning it. Writing in the multiplied by five e-mail me if you tell us to get a fish out of the sea and young, and there were any unit is approved- approved, like Jesus, I stop stop trying to be like the Pharisees and push me questioning into trying to prove myself over and over and over again haven't you realized that the bread is not the problem. Problem is the yeast and what is the Don Baker, but I remember about my mom. I member my mom with the farm should always bake bread I make the holidays we can bake bread and we had a big pan bracket and she start out with this little thing in the bottom and she put follow word whatever labels like tablecloth special chemical. I still remember like a living thing you know, the only use that for the bread. On one or one block from another cloth. Not but a few hours later while you have a saying anything else. Now is a lie. Oh yeah, I don't understand the workings of yeast, but you put in there and it works it works on its own and what Jesus is saying he aware of these that be aware of the things that sounds so simple and indoctrinating back to intimidate everything that you believe have you ever met people that are him him or their belief they have one crazy thought and it is only contaminated everything that they believe in. Sometimes I run into people who are against God and against the church and then got a little yeast started out with an barracks following against everything, everything that even resembles Christianity or Christ. This person was angry this week- East of anger and what it do it infiltrated everything in his life, his children, his wife, his car claims to play out in the car in the sun for the sunset inhibiting car. I do. I was looking 's lab. We've been looking out there through category hat in the field of Mercedes and something out spam at a gallop. It was like everything was wrong when everything there was little used the yeast of the Pharisees within contaminated that contaminated his thoughts in the east of anger while the Pharisees their doctrine. There ways their beliefs had contaminated the entire Jewish religion. Jesus came to fulfill the promises that were given to the prophets not to fulfill the contaminated aspects of the Pharisees inside. Sometimes we are like the Pharisees and Sadducees. We have contaminated aspects, while less& is this way. I'm not terribly and what about this one about all the poverty in the world and not in the starving children and that the people of it all. God didn't create that we get the greed of individual created that God is working through Christians and Christian organizations to help relieve those things, but sometimes well dictators and governments and religions have contaminated the beliefs in the society. The point that the people suffer of the disciples. The last part of verse losses. They said they got it that he wasn't concerned about anybody's concern about the teachings of the Pharisees and the Sadducees, he was concerned about that kind of teaching, infiltrating their thoughts and their way. Now that all that they did. We spoken about five loaves and two fish NATO five flat pancakes and twos, three five five oh stupid by flat pancakes into starting the first talk about that the kids lunch and Jesus received that lasted gave it to the disciples, name, amount that the five thousand plus women and children. Now what has happened to Christianity, MedNet pygmies nonanswer was interested in what has happened. Thought is that we set in weight for somebody to come and feed us. I've got faith, but do you ever think that God does provide not not knocking that not saying we sometimes is a time to wait, but sometimes there's a time to act upon what God has given us having with you. She denies it is down to near the I told that I need to have felt that the damage totally blind Islamic willing this is something that you shouldn't do this to me after the now one of the aspects of what God does sometimes he takes what we give him and blesses it, it comes back is an idea, though an idea going back to school and getting another job she did. God blessed an idea that we did same thing. She would back-to-school that God was blessing her as a waitress, but now you are legit job at a mass llama. I don't know. I do get a job. I have fired yesterday, after medical assistant judgment back to school. You see what we give to God. Sometimes his loves and fishes. While it's always love the pictures and that we sit down, we but sometimes what we give to God as ourselves, and what he blesses is an idea, an idea to change our future. Not only feed us a meal. God bless ranking a new job. Not too long ago, and others. I'm in Ottawa, leaving the gel start a new business on his own now. So sometimes what happens is when we give what we give to God willing, we like to sit back and let God know what the guys come around and feed us and we pick up the fragments and would always say wow, aren't we lucky, but sometimes God does that. I guess today I went to the game and thinking ill and on somebody a no invite Esquivel and we went in, we had very nice perfectly and that better suits the dissident and went. But anyhow, the only robust that way and we had a wonderful day, but yet that that's a blessing, but yet there are things that God does in our life when we put in his hand. It comes back his ideas and comes back as not only sitting down and eating lunch. It's coming through in your idea of plan a purpose and idea an act of faith. So God has a way of thinking are five loaves and two fishes and blessing them away because of some all are the same as the same value. God has blessed us over and over and over again and then thank you I was easier and easier. That was easy. So we spent so here we are, what idea what five of the division. Everything that God wants us to do is greater than what we have the ability to do because if we have the ability to do it. We don't need his help in God 's manipulative, don't be so preoccupied with getting that you can't see God giving to God is given to us his promises, his blessing is forgiveness. Why is forgiveness so important project. This is important because it lets go of all of our past failures your past failures cannot dictate to you, your feud not as a Christian, because God doesn't remember them our past successes are not to determine our future because our best is still in front of us, so, God 's work in our lives, and he wants us to take our whatever it is, and put it in his hands and allow him to bless it and don't allow the yeast of the Pharisees that type of thinking of what God do not approve yourself one more time, or I want to believe the home allowed to use of the Pharisees to infiltrate your thinking because God has a way of loving you, keeping you blessing you and working through your life in a very real way, and then you believe that, say, amen Shake some as handheld guidelines and so you know what reallyI'm including in their wine, the Scripture talks about the five thousand and and nutrition, and so on, and I was saying how may times I've spoken on the Scripture, and this time, hopefully without I have something of a different thoughts in a different way to help our understanding seller three Matthew chapter sixteen José has it on the screen here in the title. The message is what you find. What do you find some Pharisees and Sadducees were on him again. Jesus trusting him to prove himself to them. Until then you have a saying that goes red sky at night, sailors delight in red sky in the morning, sailors take warning, you find it easy enough to forecast the weather. Why can't you read the signs of the times anyone wants an generation is always wanting signs and wonders. The only sign you'll get is the Jonas sign. Then he turned on his heels and walked away on their way to the other side. Now they've left them in there, and in this on the boat going across the Sea of Galilee on their way to the other side of the lake. The disciples discovered they had forgotten to bring along bread in the meantime, Jesus said to them. Keep a sharp eye out for Pharisees and Sadducees. He's thinking he was scrolling down for forgetting Brad. They discussed in whispers what to do. Jesus knew what they were doing and saying why all these worried whispers about forgetting the bread runs believers. That's what I was thinking China, the government Sunday school runs. Believers have in Chicago on yet. Don't you remember the five loaves of bread in the five thousand people and how many baskets of fragments you picked up or the seven loaves that bad. Four thousand and how money baskets of leftover she collected as you realize yet that Brad isn't the problem. The problem is used Pharisees inside the cc. Then they got it that he wasn't concerned about eating by teaching the Pharisees Sadducees kind of teaching so yummy. I like the thought go Perkins, that's my my, I stopped and most of the time he you go to Perkins. It was a normal, the normal practice is a normal time so, but there is this week. One time I was there before I started back to my work at the hospital. This is individual, and he was a very angry man, and he was having breakfast. Therewith I think it was his son and jarring their conversations. This individual. The angry man not angry birds angry men. This angry man complained about his kids which she was talking to a complaint about his wife, the government can't complain about the people in the restaurant of the staff of the restaurant. He complained about his car in point about the weather, the complaint and was there wasn't anything even touch on any never stop the disc at rambling on about everything that was wrong in the world and everything that was wrong with him. And so I know you listening to this and after while it's like want you to stop him. I know you be upset over some things, but you get the upset over everything. Wow, I thought of any contacts he had an infection in infection with anger. There is a mental line where there is a mental anger as while at an emotional anger and the children were combined with sometimes a frustration over our life and over our situations are feelings and in the impact there are upon us is all they can be based on the pains of life. The young fairness of life of where we are at the time in the time of life that we can be complaining about it, and then met complaining and then anger can also be combined with fear. Now I'm I have really no idea what this individual is so up set about by his feelings were expressed to his. I think maybe his son and he was these feelings were expressed to everyone else in the restaurant because they knew exactly how he felt because he was busy telling everyone how he felt perhaps he was trying to prove a point that nothing in life is good anymore. Perhaps in his life he has seemingly bypassed all of the good things wrong with the good things had bypassed him and perhaps he's declaring that he is at this point in his life and is not what I thought it thought it would be, and whether it is this individual or ourselves. We can get caught in those situations in the eye of what is going on and not going on the times of our life that have left us or we have left it, and it is seemingly gone by us in the text we have instructed sixty verse one says some of the Pharisees and Sadducees were on him again trusting him to throw himself to them, usually the first reason Sadducees were full of resentment towards Jesus. They had an expectation that the Messiah that everyone was claiming that many people were claiming that Jesus was that they had an expectation about Jesus that he would come a certain way and life would be a certain way for them cause at this executive branch of the religious order, the Pharisees and Sadducees. They had it all figured out they had all outline as to what religion is supposed to be how God wants them how God wants people to live and they were the prime example of it, and they were not afraid to tell you that they were not afraid to tell you that they were the ideal of what God wanted because even in the Scripture talks about the Pharisee that was praying in the street corners is God any. This is his prayer that God thank you that I'm not like that wretched sinner over there so they had a very inflated idea about who they were and so when Jesus came along and his teachings and his fulfillment of the Scriptures. They had a resentment towards him, and he was not what they expected the Messiah to be as on the matter what Jesus said or did, it was never good enough. They wanted to prove they wanted Jesus to prove that he was the Messiah, and they kept insisting on a sign. They kept insisting that Jesus do something, but what they wanted Jesus to do wise for him to produce a sign that they would believe now all of the miracles that Jesus had wrought all the negative. This is the miracles that he had performed and the teachings that he had spoken of. They were all assigned as the movie wise for no man could do what he did, unless God was with him. So that's the declaration that is given but the Pharisees wanted a sign of their own choosing. They wanted a sign of their own choosing a lot like perhaps the man in the restaurant and sometimes like us no matter what you have is not good enough, no matter what we've done. It's always falling short and sometimes we look out our faith, and that our faith is something that God must prove himself again and do what we think he should do as God and Joe is that we will understand and that we will believe and the Pharisees and the Sadducees. Their desire was not for Jesus to do something that would prove who he was in. They wanted Jesus to to do there there for their presentation was about tempting him. It was a temptation that they wanted him to fulfill it's almost like Satan whenever he was at Jesus in the desert and the forty days of fasting and an end Satan comes up to Jesus and said, while you know if you're really God when you're even fasting for forty days. This style Featherstone and Brett it all. You deserve the end Jesus reply was that man does not live by bread alone but by every everything comes up out of the word of God Mountain got so there is this temptation and addition and the Pharisees and Sadducees were presenting what they had in such a way and that their needs in such a way that was like. If you're really Godlike individuals that were standing at the cross, dying cases. If you're really got them off the cross. If you're really God, mighty rock. Get off the crossing of the cross. It will probably dislike the individual is very angry at life because life has somehow not been not is to their expectation. So when Jesus. The matter what Jesus would've said or done. The Pharisees were looking to enslave him Jesus spoke of a common practice. It was a very common practice. We've is still quoted in a red sky at night same as the line red sky in the morning there was morning, whether red sky this morning and buddy up early enough to see it is all right by all relevant with light in my bedroom/ F, Loretta. There was a red sky, which is yummy looking that it's obvious why the rate while there is this coloration in the sky that God puts their notes because of the sun and the clouds with the atmosphere and the moisture and all those types of things and lack of the White House. I'm not a weatherman, but we know those local phrases all. Jesus then there was, it was a common focus telling me. Maybe the disciples, it was common for them to be able to interpret. Maybe the weather by what they saw in the sky, but they were not very comfortable, and they were not very keen. Yet looking at the Scriptures in which they were seemingly the experts at and so he challenges them to discern the signs of the times, to discern the signs of the times when I think of the individual who was very angry what was his discernment of the signs of the times is his anger was in his fear was is frustration was that everything was not good anymore. Everything has somehow has to block had it had a really passed by in a certain phase of our lives are we angry are we dear fall about how I've never lastly we talked about the document was no wearing nowhere to be happening. I did say that the home where he and what is worrying me. In the end and the German ancient German word which means to be choked or strangled. This doesn't look up with the third was choked, strangled, constricted that we know about that think thank you that the ministry was to go with Murray is choked finally constructed so worried as the connotation of being child strangled. So when we are worried about the future word about our life, we are seemingly being choked by, and that it is saying it is a very constricting approach that we would have until the Bible says don't worry that but we are to pray about everything and are praying. We are expecting God been to help us in that understanding and the Scriptures is the result of last week said don't be so preoccupied with getting a that you miss out on God 's giving getting has a connotation of raking it in getting what somebody else hast that read that trying to take in an and whatever, but don't be so caught up in getting that you miss out on what God is giving you see what God is getting is so much more important than the accumulation of things having things is not wrong, but the desire of getting without recognizing God 's blessing of giving while I think this is China, where this this idea how anger about life in the flash duration over life in the frustration over what is going on in life and having missed out on opportunities that are now Pastore somehow, life has passed us by, and we are left with outfit must be the week for this week and hospice. There was a patient and she was when in this we start back at it. The hospital this week after all those that embrace a vacation, not healing of my back. I was on vacation. So, this individual was just crying. Crying very intently because the notes say, but think the realization was life is over and I can't get it back. So we prayed and prayed with her and your talk with her. She wasn't able to communicate, but the idea was our life isn't over. We have eternal life with Christ, and so no matter where we are actions in the end stages or phases or years of life. We are in a position of being loved by God, we are in a position that God has had his hand upon us, and that life doesn't come to and because I ceased to breathe life doesn't come to it and because circumstances have passed us by. We believe that God has a plan and a purpose and that God 's plan and purpose is greater than anything we would ever find in life and then anything will never accumulate in life. What's in the problematic gain the whole world and lose his own soul, so there is a security in our life that God promises us if we took of communion that our sins are forgiven because of the death of Christ upon the cross. It is not a manipulative measure of judging and Jay and doing. It's a matter of receiving because he loves us, and from the perspective of love, we are then building a life that is going to go on for an eternity, and it isn't about what we miss and what has gone wrong. It's where we are at and where we are going and how that God is going to work in our life. My mother and ninety seven couldn't see them here and it was hard for her to get around but she had a prior less than one hundred and twenty people and I said this over again, but just the idea. Jennifer was the one hundred twenty people that she pray for every day whenever my own. There was a need to came up and run install the start. I guess that I'm getting older and dementia setting in the first thing. Another thing I miss most about my life as my mind. So anyhow for the sport as a little joke, but done one of my my one brother wasn't concerned about telling my mother about a certain situation that happened because my mom would get upset and the lady at the facility. The home. Obama will stay said your mother is not going to be upset to mothers going to pray for that person. So my mom and ninety seven can't see very well can hear very well doesn't get around very well, but she is a determined person ninety one and now she was a very determined individual raise your driver Ryan twenty people and she would start with number one and go through a hundred and twenty, she would remember everyone by name. All of us were on that list because she would pray for us so and ninety seven. She was a crying about how life had left her behind. She wasn't angry about what she had missed. She lies seeing the opportunity to pray for where she was and what was going on around her and always making adjustments when she went into the high-rise L shape. She makes it was funny, I thought she would make so and- mom, why in the description waddling like the stupid everybody else does. So always make it for them. She wanted Q&A related, but Aaron, I recommend with herbology like a soup kitchen had given up all the so the neighbors in the hallway and out Montréal 's McGee has registered day now. Now that I moved on all why am I playing in their bowl and she given so no attention make the soup. My dad loved. She went decently needed to like it, but other people like there's another kind of the oh so she always did anything anywhere whenever she couldn't see she would now where to put the things on the stove and how she would make her cookies. She would do it all by field so she can get angry that she couldn't see very well when she she would cause you got in with the blind Association, and you would call her up and she exactly talk right now listening to a book and she hang up now so it will never suggest this type of a person so she was angry getting old and she was angry about what had gone on. She can understand Judeo. She never said she understood why my brother died in my dolomite. My dad that all those things generically talk about them as you always come back with what God has a way of working things out because she had a faith in the present and the future and keep this is where Jesus is looking at the disciples here and he stays. Try think them out. You can you discern the signs of the times do not say that the Messiah has come, challenging these these Pharisees invited Susan and disciples. No wonder did they decide to let God within, and a long want this generation, looking after the sign and only assign the only sign you'll get is a sign of Jonah. What's, don't swallow blackfish. No sign of being in the heart in the belly. The well great fish for three days. Sign Jesus Christ dead in your three days back to life the wellness challenge to decide to the Pharisees and the Sadducees, Spurs versus here with this challenge, given to the Pharisees Sadducees and the disciples. Jesus gets in about a guide of all of the disciples, and he starts the other side verse five and six as they were going to be other side of the lake. The disciples discovered they forgot to bring Brett well, you know, very important to bring Brad McDonald's disclosed she doesn't built there yet, and the restaurant that was over there is closed for remodeling. No, there forgotten to bring lunch that forgot the pack. Traditional fast food and also they were making other people on the other side and then racetracks, expecting them to bring food over with them so they would all have a meal afterwards after they got to the other side. So Jesus is challenging them that they are a captive audience. Here you ever feel like these are all closed in and you just got nowhere to go in the buddy list and do there. No one is listening to you and your prayers. I got to the ceiling and all iconic stuff on here are the disciples there with Jesus and I forgot to bring lunch. Jesus said to them as the crazy thing is, keep a sharp eye out losses on the sea of dollars. Keep a sharp eye out for Pharisees. Instead, for their one for the release complex your yard about. Keep a sharp eye out for the greater efficiency of Galway say galleys of latency across the cake and gave a sharp eye out for the authors of this, I think that having attacking by boat, know their yeast, so they just left the Pharisees and Sadducees. What do they want to Jesus, they pressed Jesus to prove himself to them that they must have a sign of their own choosing. That's what translation have that the Pharisees and Sadducees. There were just pushing Jesus for side. Now everything that Jesus had done was not good enough. They wanted a sign of their own choosing Pharisees, sadness, be aware guys, you forgot your lunch. Be aware of the Pharisees inside. Then he says, I know what you doing why all these where he whispers about forgetting lunch at the picture Pharisees and Sadducees just left on the shore got in the boat headed over the other side forgot lunch. Jesus says watch out for the Pharisees and Sadducees and their only forgot lunch. Jesus Matt Ennis really having problems. How can we divide problems with what brought up the next few verses, the lows and the fishes the five loaves and several loaves that miracle they were Jesus is telling them to be so caught up like the Pharisees and the Sadducees that you have to have your own miracle to prove that who I have you, your you're trying to know I am in the boat and you're talking about not having Brad asked if bread is a problem here. I am the Lord of all creation, Peter Dodge and remember whenever you throughout the night and you pull the Internet nurse on the face you put in, get it. Don't you remember the five loaves and fishes only a few thoughts about it here just just a minute. Don't you remember the five loaves of bread in five thousand people on the fragments that were picked up. Don't you remember the seven loaves that network that had over four thousand on a basket you collected haven't you realized the bread isn't the problem divine provision isn't the problem jutting is not the problem. Be aware on the east of the Pharisees, so I was I was nine -year-old know what was going on. There's no written record of what happened to these disciples in the boat Quay is nothing there that tells us what the disciples were talking about all we have is is given from the earth, and Kevin were this kind of gassing that they were trusting Jesus inside of themselves and their whispering. We could even do the spinning it. Writing in the multiplied by five e-mail me if you tell us to get a fish out of the sea and young, and there were any unit is approved- approved, like Jesus, I stop stop trying to be like the Pharisees and push me questioning into trying to prove myself over and over and over again haven't you realized that the bread is not the problem. Problem is the yeast and what is the Don Baker, but I remember about my mom. I member my mom with the farm should always bake bread I make the holidays we can bake bread and we had a big pan bracket and she start out with this little thing in the bottom and she put follow word whatever labels like tablecloth special chemical. I still remember like a living thing you know, the only use that for the bread. On one or one block from another cloth. Not but a few hours later while you have a saying anything else. Now is a lie. Oh yeah, I don't understand the workings of yeast, but you put in there and it works it works on its own and what Jesus is saying he aware of these that be aware of the things that sounds so simple and indoctrinating back to intimidate everything that you believe have you ever met people that are him him or their belief they have one crazy thought and it is only contaminated everything that they believe in. Sometimes I run into people who are against God and against the church and then got a little yeast started out with an barracks following against everything, everything that even resembles Christianity or Christ. This person was angry this week- East of anger and what it do it infiltrated everything in his life, his children, his wife, his car claims to play out in the car in the sun for the sunset inhibiting car. I do. I was looking 's lab. We've been looking out there through category hat in the field of Mercedes and something out spam at a gallop. It was like everything was wrong when everything there was little used the yeast of the Pharisees within contaminated that contaminated his thoughts in the east of anger while the Pharisees their doctrine. There ways their beliefs had contaminated the entire Jewish religion. Jesus came to fulfill the promises that were given to the prophets not to fulfill the contaminated aspects of the Pharisees inside. Sometimes we are like the Pharisees and Sadducees. We have contaminated aspects, while less& is this way. I'm not terribly and what about this one about all the poverty in the world and not in the starving children and that the people of it all. God didn't create that we get the greed of individual created that God is working through Christians and Christian organizations to help relieve those things, but sometimes well dictators and governments and religions have contaminated the beliefs in the society. The point that the people suffer of the disciples. The last part of verse losses. They said they got it that he wasn't concerned about anybody's concern about the teachings of the Pharisees and the Sadducees, he was concerned about that kind of teaching, infiltrating their thoughts and their way. Now that all that they did. We spoken about five loaves and two fish NATO five flat pancakes and twos, three five five oh stupid by flat pancakes into starting the first talk about that the kids lunch and Jesus received that lasted gave it to the disciples, name, amount that the five thousand plus women and children. Now what has happened to Christianity, MedNet pygmies nonanswer was interested in what has happened. Thought is that we set in weight for somebody to come and feed us. I've got faith, but do you ever think that God does provide not not knocking that not saying we sometimes is a time to wait, but sometimes there's a time to act upon what God has given us having with you. She denies it is down to near the I told that I need to have felt that the damage totally blind Islamic willing this is something that you shouldn't do this to me after the now one of the aspects of what God does sometimes he takes what we give him and blesses it, it comes back is an idea, though an idea going back to school and getting another job she did. God blessed an idea that we did same thing. She would back-to-school that God was blessing her as a waitress, but now you are legit job at a mass llama. I don't know. I do get a job. I have fired yesterday, after medical assistant judgment back to school. You see what we give to God. Sometimes his loves and fishes. While it's always love the pictures and that we sit down, we but sometimes what we give to God as ourselves, and what he blesses is an idea, an idea to change our future. Not only feed us a meal. God bless ranking a new job. Not too long ago, and others. I'm in Ottawa, leaving the gel start a new business on his own now. So sometimes what happens is when we give what we give to God willing, we like to sit back and let God know what the guys come around and feed us and we pick up the fragments and would always say wow, aren't we lucky, but sometimes God does that. I guess today I went to the game and thinking ill and on somebody a no invite Esquivel and we went in, we had very nice perfectly and that better suits the dissident and went. But anyhow, the only robust that way and we had a wonderful day, but yet that that's a blessing, but yet there are things that God does in our life when we put in his hand. It comes back his ideas and comes back as not only sitting down and eating lunch. It's coming through in your idea of plan a purpose and idea an act of faith. So God has a way of thinking are five loaves and two fishes and blessing them away because of some all are the same as the same value. God has blessed us over and over and over again and then thank you I was easier and easier. That was easy. So we spent so here we are, what idea what five of the division. Everything that God wants us to do is greater than what we have the ability to do because if we have the ability to do it. We don't need his help in God 's manipulative, don't be so preoccupied with getting that you can't see God giving to God is given to us his promises, his blessing is forgiveness. Why is forgiveness so important project. This is important because it lets go of all of our past failures your past failures cannot dictate to you, your feud not as a Christian, because God doesn't remember them our past successes are not to determine our future because our best is still in front of us, so, God 's work in our lives, and he wants us to take our whatever it is, and put it in his hands and allow him to bless it and don't allow the yeast of the Pharisees that type of thinking of what God do not approve yourself one more time, or I want to believe the home allowed to use of the Pharisees to infiltrate your thinking because God has a way of loving you, keeping you blessing you and working through your life in a very real way, and then you believe that, say, amen Shake some as handheld guidelines and so you know what really