The Sermon Multiply What You Have 1,000 Times by David McGee
Jul 06, 2014
Multiply What You Have 1,000 Times (36:22)
Referenced Scriptures: Deuteronomy 1:9-13; Exodus 1:8-10; Philippians 3:13-14; Luke 24:49; 2 Kings 4:1-7
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Deuteronomy 1:9-13
9) I spoke to you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone:
10) Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and, behold, you are this day as the stars of the sky for multitude.
11) Yahweh, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are, and bless you, as he has promised you!
12) How can I myself alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
13) Take wise men of understanding and well known according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.
Exodus 1:8-10
8) Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who didn‘t know Joseph.
9) He said to his people, "Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.
10) Come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies, and fight against us, and escape out of the land."
Philippians 3:13-14
13) Brothers, I don‘t regard myself as yet having laid hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,
14) I press on toward the goal to the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Luke 24:49
49) Behold, I send forth the promise of my Father on you. But wait in the city of Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high."
2 Kings 4:1-7
1) Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant did fear Yahweh: and the creditor is come to take to him my two children to be bondservants.
2) Elisha said to her, What shall I do for you? tell me; what have you in the house? She said, Your handmaid has nothing in the house, except a pot of oil.
3) Then he said, Go, borrow you vessels abroad of all your neighbors, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.
4) You shall go in, and shut the door on you and on your sons, and pour out into all those vessels; and you shall set aside that which is full.
5) So she went from him, and shut the door on her and on her sons; they brought [the vessels] to her, and she poured out.
6) It happened, when the vessels were full, that she said to her son, Bring me yet a vessel. He said to her, There isn‘t another vessel. The oil stayed.
7) Then she came and told the man of God. He said, Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt, and live you and your sons of the rest.
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Whenever they started singing the song little as much when God is in it. I thought you and and and talk about the with the Holy Spirit. I was in use that for an outline County, but the outline for my sermon no idea. I did and I did not discuss this with her, but the whenever whenever we see how the in the sequence of events we don't we don't recognize don't often see things happening in a pattern and of course my wife is over and we look back over life. There will be this pattern that were able to see and know God is with us as well. This is why this and this is why this and all these different things just come into play, and it's like I was perfectly orchestrated this altogether well in our life and the way that we look at things. It just seems like there's interruptions. Now I've got plans, and in his interruptions and what we have to. I think what we have to recognize is that God can take while I heard this, we could quote the winds of adversity. I feel the sales of opportunity. Okay, a ship sailing ship. The winds of adversity. Feel the cells without with opportunities and of course for us. We think of the winds blowing our face, we can get there but you know in sailing. There is, is attacking your going back and forth and using the wind to take you forward and internets that takes some skill which I don't know how to do with a sailing ship, but we know that it takes us. It takes skill to go into the wind and go forward. Going into the wind but you have to go back and forth yet to use a different strategy to take to use it while today I'm looking at they the title my sermon is multiplying what you have a thousand times multiplying what you have a thousand times. Now it society in a good way to illustrate this is your most the time we think of things easier in the form of finances okay if something is to multiply something a thousand times is a lie is a dollar bill will multiplied a thousand times. Everybody has a dog on the offering Gaza multiplied a thousand times. Are you only take up the offering again, and then you can say that now I'm just kidding. I am just using this as an illustration. What bought little as much when God is in it so often. Whenever we think in context of things. No conceptual things that a thousand times would be a thousand times. One is thousand dollars, so it's easy for us to get the in the understanding one will bring a thousand, while in the Scriptures. It has a way of telling us that one will put ten thousand to flight. One soldier can put ten thousand on foot when God is when God is there, God can take one and make it multiplied a thousand times. So, in the Scripture. While in our life, it's easy for us if I said guys going to take what you have that dollar is multiplied a thousand times where we go all the lottery in a way every other lottery. Wishing that's all that will happen in God is diagnosed not in chance this times and seasons, and it all. But this isn't talking about God, the lottery winning God 's lottery put out the dollar and two thousand back, not what it's about. So in the text that will looking at this morning. It's Deuteronomy, chapter one beginning in verse nine. Her not yet bringing in verse nine, and says this notice is Moses talking is in the desert with the children of Israel. There's a few million of them now. And Moses leading the children of Israel, and he says at the time I told you I can do this can't carry you all by myself. So Moses is running into this problem that he's a leader and he's the magistrate. He's the judge is a Supreme Court hears everything to them to the people of Israel and Moses, just as I can't do this anymore. Now it would be easy for us to miss this next section because we're looking at what Moses is going through in the problems that he is facing in. He's about to set himself up with a judicial system bases in the judicial system that we have today with magistrates and no judges and regional judges and court Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Supreme Court in all those Mac while bonuses is the set this up, but before he does that he gives us this little glimpse of what's going on is just a little glimpse of what's going on in that head thank you he is not there for us to see God, your God, I thought it's over. There's a God, your God has multiplied your numbers while you look at you. You rivaled the stars in the sky, and may God the God of your fathers, keep it up and multiply you another thousand times blessed you, just as he promised. Now the children of Israel are complaining. There's too many of them. There's too many of them were too many problems and their they don't see that what they are and this massive group of millions of people in the desert is a promise fulfilled. The one person that says I will give you a child, and that your descendents will be us as numerous as the stars in the sky. The sands of the sea W ill B is as you okay, so he's looking at this in thank and ended children's reminding them of the promise is reminding them of the promise that he had given them as and whenever to one descendent, the one man, this number is there, and Moses, then, is telling them this is it, and I can carry off by myself. Your troubles and burns and quarrels. Likewise, an understated because it is whole idea of setting up a judicial system which people can hear the complaints and problems of other people. Now we can get lost in the promises fulfilled in our life we can get lost in the promises fulfilling that we look at our life. What is it that I know none of you none of us complain at all. Yet, we remember beyond that were spiritually mature, the widow complaining about anything in a enough stuff in your sometimes people call you doughnuts that you know that I walked in this morning. What does you off once they get of the all you feel like it, don't I don't feel I have found that in our meeting about, I'll feel like it, don't. But anyhow, when weight we start looking at complaints we start looking at how God has blessed us and where we were we complaining about were complaining about adversities and adversities is the wind that feels the sale of opportunity. What where why is it that we wanted in our lives to God 's given us that we now have a problem with what was the prayer that we are praying for that we now have that we can complain to God about so is it a problem. See, that's the challenge in Moses is asking the people that God has blessed you are promised that God has given to Abraham and our promises in your life. And here you are complaining about what's going on in your life in your the fulfillment of a promise is our youngest. The whole things going on here and as we look you are as the stars of the heaven for multiple you been multiplied, God make you a thousand times more here you are multiplied beyond right almost beyond recognition, and I'm saying that God multiply you a thousand times if we know if we look at this if we don't, cope with the problems that we have how we ever going to be in place to receive the blessing of what God wants of the Stowe upon if God is going to bless us a thousand times more than what we've got. What's how to handle that because we can handle the blessings already given us how great our Moses 's desires. How much are they enlarged when he prays that they might be a made a thousand times more than ever now we look back at this if you add up the entire Jewish nation entire Arabia Arab nation, you have the descendents of Abraham, and at this time mulls this is our present problem of multiplying a thousand times more while I'm embarrassed there's a lot of people here and when they are talking about this when the promise is initiated with Moses shooting when the promises initiated with Abraham. He doesn't have a child, yet, and so we see all these companies have a lot of all the world only in your things going on in divisions and all that going on in the nation and a people, and it's all part of them having to grapple with you. They are as an individual who they are as a family who they are as a nation who they are as establishing themselves. It's all winds of adversity that are filling the sales of opportunity. So our faith and hope are to be as large as the promises of God, our faith and hope. Need to be as large as the promises of God. This kind of goes along with member this every couple weeks ago about the war against bringing the binoculars, you know, and we're looking back and Kassie was God. Back then. Now she just sitting back there texting that had she's tweeting my sermon on them to run on this young getting with her, but when I went away look back in the Scriptures. It's like looking backward through binoculars, you know, we see how God did all this at a distance, way back in time but we need to recognize I thought it was way back in time is that God is right with us now, so the same God. It was with Abraham, the same God was Moses, the same God is with us. Things haven't changed. So our faith and needs to be as large as the province so the Lord bless you, as he hath promised you when you had nothing and you pray and God has given you now sell them again. The Lord bless you as he has promised you and why not hold as God has promised that but I hope that God is going to do a thousand times more than we are now well you think about the nation of Israel Pharaoh, the nation of Israel went from a few families are to a point in which an end. This is an exit is one nine one eight nine and ten, and it changed everything came to power in Egypt to did not know Joseph it took. He spoke to the people in alarm. There are way too many of these Israelites for us to handle. We've got to do something. Let's devise a plan to contain them less if there is a war they should join our enemies and just walk off and leave us. So there were so already, thousands of people may have millions of people that were the pride and all that came out of that small family going to eat going to Egypt. As such, such a thing became in there that I just know these people are just too much and that is a walkoff leave us so here they are with Moses complaining about their number and complaining about the problems that they have a complaining to Moses that he's not doing a good enough job, take care of them complaining about too many things going on in her life complaining about how that they come into our life, and complaining that we can handle them. Okay, Philippians, chapter three verse thirteen and fourteen. Paul says it this way, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to the things which are on ahead, I press toward the goal. The prize of the upward calling of God in Christ Jesus, you see, we have to realize there are some things we have to let go of their son things in life we have to let go of him and him to give you ever will who's there, beside pilot areas where the time I got at roughly one meter thanks I got it had down there. He's he's he's he's praying I can tell, I could tell from your brain. I can take off your shoes. Now rub your feet back and forth what happens when you do that, why got friction whatever happens, that's me, didn't work now and it's more what happens in your home, forgetting those things which are behind, when the children of Israel forgot about the promises that have brought them to this place of blessing are you friction up enough moon. Nope. Anyhow, I got static charge that I antistatic guard to see what happens is when you get home smells pretty good. Yeah, I said I thought it would jump you tell me some nice smells good to go back to so static. God, what happened. Still, we remember the things that we need to let go of and sometimes in our life and were going through more ready to complain about problems we are attracting things that we don't want to use freebies we are beset by sins that are no longer remember we want problems. Whenever you start doing something right and you don't keep the heat down me in the wash. You don't allow the blood of Jesus Christ to cleanse you from sin and keep cleansing you from sin. We become static and where we can statically start attracting things to us that we really don't want and we don't need that are part of us and so Paul says I've got a fur I'm going to forget those thing which are behind, now you see when God has done a lot of stuff in our life. We become complacent. We become we grumble and complain you know I rather be back in Egypt, least we could eat back in Egypt were to make captains and take us back to Egypt. Let's go back to sin. Let's go back to the way things were. Whenever we couldn't when we know what was I happen it was utterly bad all the time, not just some of the time is ugly, bad all the time that ever beat us and bullies would be to our always negate us go back to Egypt, while whatever were walking through life we come alongside people and what happens. Some of their sin. All I remember when I used to do the trouble you now have. We don't get it relevant to the static from normal life if we don't allow ourselves to be renewed in God 's presence, we can we attract these problems to us and we forget about the promise made to us and we become distracted from where were at no and I am not a dumb number don't do this unilaterally, not guilty of this one young texting and driving while July. The text and drive this dangerous wiser dangerous as a distraction. You're going to run off the road because you're too busy to know while I can text the block used to be in a walk and chew gum. Now you can walk contacts don't know why could you run into things and so our ability to write anything longer distracted really escalates unless we get, keep the distractions away forgetting those things which are behind, while I do I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward calling what is God calling you to do if we hear we are in this present fact that present text in this positive place, knowing that God is with us and he is helping us and he wants us he wants to bless us with promises of our life and we are too busy getting caught up in the static static, whatever that may be the difficulties that we find ourselves in and Paul says I'm not. I'm not. I don't have this altogether. I don't have this altogether yet see there's a difference between self accomplishment and God fulfilling promises in self accomplishment. There is there is the ability to do things that I have natural talents to do the thing when I grew up on the farm. I had natural talents to be an ox enough. I always I can work really hard and my inner blade. My dad never evaluate all, they were all glad we got day because if you work hard enough below one of the things we just want to work again so but that was that was okay, now I cannot mow my grass but we find that things are changed and what was what had been really isn't what should be. I can remember, but I can't be that anymore about to be what God wants me to be here now. And God has a legacy we could complain about what we can't do that. Recognize God is about doing something and everyone of us have those abilities we have middle as much when God is in it. My goals and my desires were too small. I would come you would be football coach phys ed teacher. Yes, Jim, everyday, no. I thought I wanted to do, but not dramatic, although I could have been yelled the teacher who lived in Ali, the teachers you know, go to school every three months off the summer play around both summary and out in the job. My wife's not appreciated the files on the enemy, but I get either type teachers, I'll dock, but you shape no matter what. That would've been your matter how great of a coach I could have been it was still too small for what God 's promise for my life is an established law because God can add a thousand times what you think you can be when God blesses what you are who you are, it becomes something exponential exponential like that when I looked it up exponential is rapidly growing rapidly becoming greater in size, quantities raised expeditiously the children of Israel when they move into Egypt exponentially exploded as a nation. They were protected by the Egyptians and they were slaves, but they were protected and they just blew out as a nation in a slave captivity, they became a nation, but from that captivity, they became the nation of God free free nation under God in our life, we can be thousands times greater than what we can do on our own with God now God has created us for a purpose, a divine purpose God has created us for divine purpose. We are not to get mired down in the day we live with the winds of adversity, pulling in our sales saying I can't make any headway in this win that we need to learn how to go into the wind and attacking and trying out going back and forth in this and is using that using the adversity to our advantage, not to our destruction. God will not allow that God is the one that adversity because you see what happens in adversity, as we began to become static with what's going on in our life and we attract the wrong things. Whenever we become static. So we've got to allow the adversity to take us forward. Not become static and are in our life and allow things to cling to us that are not supposed to be there forgetting what is behind one politico forgiven and letting go, leave and forgetting about forgetting what is behind the press on towards the goal press on towards the goal. Let the past go open up your vision. She would God want you to do how he wants to do it in the planning flowers. I'm now up to five or six flats of flowers. We had some that we planted died already, they got mold on them. This was unfortunately I gambled on the deck. The deck. I think they're gone. I did the amount plant more of, but we live our lives too long as annuals planted bloom and I planted blooming. We need to be perennials planted bloom come back to life is still in it never goes it just continues to grow, so we need to allow that to take play but we need to hurry up and we need to recognize that by the company by the coming of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is God 's presence inside of us initiating that the good that he wants to do to publish it. We can't do this on her own so that before I send you the promise of my father. I said upon you, and allow that you told him to stare Jerusalem and wait for the presence of the spirit to come upon them the power of the Holy Spirit will suffice. The power of God will suffice is a limitless much when God exhibits when God touches our life. Things change. We were in wedding unknown writing July fourth, my second cousin was her daughter was married and make the present that that was referring to. She called me about six months ago and she was crying and she was very distraught. She had breast cancer and she was undergoing chemo and her best friend that she met in chemo where they both were in this fight to survive and beat their cancer while six months ago her friend leave the cancer had returned and it was very rapidly growing, going through her body and so she was in the hospital and there was all these grim reports and things, and we talked and then my cousins and her friends don't darken the church door, and but I began to tell them about God and begin to explain her about prayer and how that we can do these things and ill pray, believe that God will be with Aaron Halpern help her friends and yell pride with them. Jim's a piece and then on Friday, she told me she said, you know, my girlfriend was in the hospital and the Chaplin came by pray for her. Anybody pray for, and laid his hand on her head and she said, when he put his hand on my head. This warm feeling just went through my entire body and I knew I be okay and eight. She's never been to church Juno what was she was asking my cousins out what was said her cancer is in God, but it stopped growing. They just has stopped growing, they've done more tests that they did a number of tests they just they discharged from the hospital and she still am watching over her cancer isn't gone, but it's not growing it's not changing. It's been my blinders is just kind of froze there and it will live to see the promise of God. Why is it that here's this person never been in charge 's can have a chaplain walked by and pray for her and suddenly God touches her life because God 's grace and mercy is great. Sure, than what we think we are. We aren't. We are humbly coming before God and asking him for his blessing. We are humbly coming before God and believing that he can take what little I have entrusted and bless it and make it exponentially greater than what I am Abraham, I'm going to bless you and your descendents as many as the stars in the sky got. I don't have a son, I'm a child, but exponentially in the last story is in second Kings chapter four. One day my the wife of a man of the profits called out to Elisha, your servant my husband is dead, you will know what a good man. He was devoted to God, and now the man to whom he was intact is on his way to collect by taking my two children as his slaves. Notices. Whenever we start looking at life, and we start, I get all the right this is nothing works for me. She says. I wonder how I can be of help. Tell me what do you have in your house seat whenever we are static. We attract the wrong thoughts. We tracked the wrong perspectives we lose sight of what we have, we lose sight of what we had an here were saying, multiple, multiply a thousand times what you have. First of all I got. We you have to figure out what it is that you have often not that good. I'm not that bright. I don't have this, I don't notice it. What you don't have. What do you have a license asked this lady. What do you have and what is you have shown little crews of oil left enough to make a few pieces of bread so I got in the house and nothing more, and Elisha says to the woman go and get all the containers you can find in your town, bring them to your house. Now I got this less than this amount of oil and guy says go get all the containers in the in town grew in your house, locked the door and pour into that container for what you have into those other containers. How many containers would you go get him. Educators would you go and pick up from your neighbors by God about this. I now go get about the same amount. NFS is little as much of God, that whenever we listen to one word from God one word. The word of God was spoken in the world came into existence when God speaks to our heart where he says takes the little that we have, and multiplies it takes the little that we have and makes it greater than Moses said that you know your bed a thousand times a files a claim may be multiplied a thousand times a day. You, while a thousand times thousands and millions and then we put a million times one to ten exponentially. So the prophet says, take go and get command and lock the door. I was wondered by one twenty one or to lock the door number one. How long do you think it's going up for about about half order of this into every container. You can find this article gushing out and this is the dislike of the systems abandoning it, and it also places, though, and don't bring in other container. Every container that was filled. I must than a quarter of what's in this container. Why, because she went and got what she had static will try to blog on his bunch of stuff clinging to me that will rid of going take what you have allowed God to bless it, his words spoken to your life over what he's going to do with this little thing that we have and she went and got to fill up all the container. She had when both prophet Elisha what happened in licenses sell everything you have a cell that and so that and pay off your debt and use the rest a little files in times what you have what you have the we are praying looking for God to dump something out of the sky. Where is this skinny assign him a sign, and although they take what you have. Allow God to bless it with his promise not to make God bless our God as well, unless the guy will tell you what you can bless you with. Take what you have allow him to bless it and see what happens if the we are part we are part we are part of it is that we are part of every miracle God will perform in my life. We are part of every miracle God will perform in mark in my life does not go to do this for you. He's due to do with you, even if it's only a quarter of a teaspoon, you're going to get the containers you to do the pouring and euro watch. Multiply. We are part of every miracle that God will perform the Holy Spirit is the exponential factor God will do a work in our life, one word spoken from God can create the universe, one word spoken by God to your life can take this little quarter thing and fill as many oil fill as many containers as you have enough faith to bring into your house and see the difference exponentially and is not by your abilities. It's by his grace in his mercy is to make it happen. You believe that the KLS. This group you believe that have to do that is God speaking to us. That's not a thought just that God 's word, speaking to our life. Allow God 's word to speak your life and see what happens. Allow God to speak your life and see what happens and this week. This week, something is going to happen and you're going be faced with the only adult couple of opportunity and we're either going to become static and grumble and complain or worry. I take this little cup of opportunity and world report into the containers that we believe God wants us to have fulfilled them to overflow. It's not an adversity. It's a couple of opportunity and then lets them little or as much when God is in it. Little is much when God is in these words, spoken your father. We are so privileged to be your children got you want to do so much in our life. And we're so static we can get rid of the things that cling to us, God, let your love, your forgiveness, your blood. Oh God, cleanse us from all evil, make and renew a right spirit within us renew our hearts and our minds, renew us Lord to think your thoughts and to believe Lord your promises and to receive of your word to us that we might fulfill your plan that you and I performed a miracle in our lives that level is not the little that we look at cons so much. Whenever you touch it, speak to our hearts this day into our lives this week we are about to complain, remind us of the static of disbelief and board the favor of a promise, and then I can get you to be a little more vocal amen and amen bless youWhenever they started singing the song little as much when God is in it. I thought you and and and talk about the with the Holy Spirit. I was in use that for an outline County, but the outline for my sermon no idea. I did and I did not discuss this with her, but the whenever whenever we see how the in the sequence of events we don't we don't recognize don't often see things happening in a pattern and of course my wife is over and we look back over life. There will be this pattern that were able to see and know God is with us as well. This is why this and this is why this and all these different things just come into play, and it's like I was perfectly orchestrated this altogether well in our life and the way that we look at things. It just seems like there's interruptions. Now I've got plans, and in his interruptions and what we have to. I think what we have to recognize is that God can take while I heard this, we could quote the winds of adversity. I feel the sales of opportunity. Okay, a ship sailing ship. The winds of adversity. Feel the cells without with opportunities and of course for us. We think of the winds blowing our face, we can get there but you know in sailing. There is, is attacking your going back and forth and using the wind to take you forward and internets that takes some skill which I don't know how to do with a sailing ship, but we know that it takes us. It takes skill to go into the wind and go forward. Going into the wind but you have to go back and forth yet to use a different strategy to take to use it while today I'm looking at they the title my sermon is multiplying what you have a thousand times multiplying what you have a thousand times. Now it society in a good way to illustrate this is your most the time we think of things easier in the form of finances okay if something is to multiply something a thousand times is a lie is a dollar bill will multiplied a thousand times. Everybody has a dog on the offering Gaza multiplied a thousand times. Are you only take up the offering again, and then you can say that now I'm just kidding. I am just using this as an illustration. What bought little as much when God is in it so often. Whenever we think in context of things. No conceptual things that a thousand times would be a thousand times. One is thousand dollars, so it's easy for us to get the in the understanding one will bring a thousand, while in the Scriptures. It has a way of telling us that one will put ten thousand to flight. One soldier can put ten thousand on foot when God is when God is there, God can take one and make it multiplied a thousand times. So, in the Scripture. While in our life, it's easy for us if I said guys going to take what you have that dollar is multiplied a thousand times where we go all the lottery in a way every other lottery. Wishing that's all that will happen in God is diagnosed not in chance this times and seasons, and it all. But this isn't talking about God, the lottery winning God 's lottery put out the dollar and two thousand back, not what it's about. So in the text that will looking at this morning. It's Deuteronomy, chapter one beginning in verse nine. Her not yet bringing in verse nine, and says this notice is Moses talking is in the desert with the children of Israel. There's a few million of them now. And Moses leading the children of Israel, and he says at the time I told you I can do this can't carry you all by myself. So Moses is running into this problem that he's a leader and he's the magistrate. He's the judge is a Supreme Court hears everything to them to the people of Israel and Moses, just as I can't do this anymore. Now it would be easy for us to miss this next section because we're looking at what Moses is going through in the problems that he is facing in. He's about to set himself up with a judicial system bases in the judicial system that we have today with magistrates and no judges and regional judges and court Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Supreme Court in all those Mac while bonuses is the set this up, but before he does that he gives us this little glimpse of what's going on is just a little glimpse of what's going on in that head thank you he is not there for us to see God, your God, I thought it's over. There's a God, your God has multiplied your numbers while you look at you. You rivaled the stars in the sky, and may God the God of your fathers, keep it up and multiply you another thousand times blessed you, just as he promised. Now the children of Israel are complaining. There's too many of them. There's too many of them were too many problems and their they don't see that what they are and this massive group of millions of people in the desert is a promise fulfilled. The one person that says I will give you a child, and that your descendents will be us as numerous as the stars in the sky. The sands of the sea W ill B is as you okay, so he's looking at this in thank and ended children's reminding them of the promise is reminding them of the promise that he had given them as and whenever to one descendent, the one man, this number is there, and Moses, then, is telling them this is it, and I can carry off by myself. Your troubles and burns and quarrels. Likewise, an understated because it is whole idea of setting up a judicial system which people can hear the complaints and problems of other people. Now we can get lost in the promises fulfilled in our life we can get lost in the promises fulfilling that we look at our life. What is it that I know none of you none of us complain at all. Yet, we remember beyond that were spiritually mature, the widow complaining about anything in a enough stuff in your sometimes people call you doughnuts that you know that I walked in this morning. What does you off once they get of the all you feel like it, don't I don't feel I have found that in our meeting about, I'll feel like it, don't. But anyhow, when weight we start looking at complaints we start looking at how God has blessed us and where we were we complaining about were complaining about adversities and adversities is the wind that feels the sale of opportunity. What where why is it that we wanted in our lives to God 's given us that we now have a problem with what was the prayer that we are praying for that we now have that we can complain to God about so is it a problem. See, that's the challenge in Moses is asking the people that God has blessed you are promised that God has given to Abraham and our promises in your life. And here you are complaining about what's going on in your life in your the fulfillment of a promise is our youngest. The whole things going on here and as we look you are as the stars of the heaven for multiple you been multiplied, God make you a thousand times more here you are multiplied beyond right almost beyond recognition, and I'm saying that God multiply you a thousand times if we know if we look at this if we don't, cope with the problems that we have how we ever going to be in place to receive the blessing of what God wants of the Stowe upon if God is going to bless us a thousand times more than what we've got. What's how to handle that because we can handle the blessings already given us how great our Moses 's desires. How much are they enlarged when he prays that they might be a made a thousand times more than ever now we look back at this if you add up the entire Jewish nation entire Arabia Arab nation, you have the descendents of Abraham, and at this time mulls this is our present problem of multiplying a thousand times more while I'm embarrassed there's a lot of people here and when they are talking about this when the promise is initiated with Moses shooting when the promises initiated with Abraham. He doesn't have a child, yet, and so we see all these companies have a lot of all the world only in your things going on in divisions and all that going on in the nation and a people, and it's all part of them having to grapple with you. They are as an individual who they are as a family who they are as a nation who they are as establishing themselves. It's all winds of adversity that are filling the sales of opportunity. So our faith and hope are to be as large as the promises of God, our faith and hope. Need to be as large as the promises of God. This kind of goes along with member this every couple weeks ago about the war against bringing the binoculars, you know, and we're looking back and Kassie was God. Back then. Now she just sitting back there texting that had she's tweeting my sermon on them to run on this young getting with her, but when I went away look back in the Scriptures. It's like looking backward through binoculars, you know, we see how God did all this at a distance, way back in time but we need to recognize I thought it was way back in time is that God is right with us now, so the same God. It was with Abraham, the same God was Moses, the same God is with us. Things haven't changed. So our faith and needs to be as large as the province so the Lord bless you, as he hath promised you when you had nothing and you pray and God has given you now sell them again. The Lord bless you as he has promised you and why not hold as God has promised that but I hope that God is going to do a thousand times more than we are now well you think about the nation of Israel Pharaoh, the nation of Israel went from a few families are to a point in which an end. This is an exit is one nine one eight nine and ten, and it changed everything came to power in Egypt to did not know Joseph it took. He spoke to the people in alarm. There are way too many of these Israelites for us to handle. We've got to do something. Let's devise a plan to contain them less if there is a war they should join our enemies and just walk off and leave us. So there were so already, thousands of people may have millions of people that were the pride and all that came out of that small family going to eat going to Egypt. As such, such a thing became in there that I just know these people are just too much and that is a walkoff leave us so here they are with Moses complaining about their number and complaining about the problems that they have a complaining to Moses that he's not doing a good enough job, take care of them complaining about too many things going on in her life complaining about how that they come into our life, and complaining that we can handle them. Okay, Philippians, chapter three verse thirteen and fourteen. Paul says it this way, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to the things which are on ahead, I press toward the goal. The prize of the upward calling of God in Christ Jesus, you see, we have to realize there are some things we have to let go of their son things in life we have to let go of him and him to give you ever will who's there, beside pilot areas where the time I got at roughly one meter thanks I got it had down there. He's he's he's he's praying I can tell, I could tell from your brain. I can take off your shoes. Now rub your feet back and forth what happens when you do that, why got friction whatever happens, that's me, didn't work now and it's more what happens in your home, forgetting those things which are behind, when the children of Israel forgot about the promises that have brought them to this place of blessing are you friction up enough moon. Nope. Anyhow, I got static charge that I antistatic guard to see what happens is when you get home smells pretty good. Yeah, I said I thought it would jump you tell me some nice smells good to go back to so static. God, what happened. Still, we remember the things that we need to let go of and sometimes in our life and were going through more ready to complain about problems we are attracting things that we don't want to use freebies we are beset by sins that are no longer remember we want problems. Whenever you start doing something right and you don't keep the heat down me in the wash. You don't allow the blood of Jesus Christ to cleanse you from sin and keep cleansing you from sin. We become static and where we can statically start attracting things to us that we really don't want and we don't need that are part of us and so Paul says I've got a fur I'm going to forget those thing which are behind, now you see when God has done a lot of stuff in our life. We become complacent. We become we grumble and complain you know I rather be back in Egypt, least we could eat back in Egypt were to make captains and take us back to Egypt. Let's go back to sin. Let's go back to the way things were. Whenever we couldn't when we know what was I happen it was utterly bad all the time, not just some of the time is ugly, bad all the time that ever beat us and bullies would be to our always negate us go back to Egypt, while whatever were walking through life we come alongside people and what happens. Some of their sin. All I remember when I used to do the trouble you now have. We don't get it relevant to the static from normal life if we don't allow ourselves to be renewed in God 's presence, we can we attract these problems to us and we forget about the promise made to us and we become distracted from where were at no and I am not a dumb number don't do this unilaterally, not guilty of this one young texting and driving while July. The text and drive this dangerous wiser dangerous as a distraction. You're going to run off the road because you're too busy to know while I can text the block used to be in a walk and chew gum. Now you can walk contacts don't know why could you run into things and so our ability to write anything longer distracted really escalates unless we get, keep the distractions away forgetting those things which are behind, while I do I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward calling what is God calling you to do if we hear we are in this present fact that present text in this positive place, knowing that God is with us and he is helping us and he wants us he wants to bless us with promises of our life and we are too busy getting caught up in the static static, whatever that may be the difficulties that we find ourselves in and Paul says I'm not. I'm not. I don't have this altogether. I don't have this altogether yet see there's a difference between self accomplishment and God fulfilling promises in self accomplishment. There is there is the ability to do things that I have natural talents to do the thing when I grew up on the farm. I had natural talents to be an ox enough. I always I can work really hard and my inner blade. My dad never evaluate all, they were all glad we got day because if you work hard enough below one of the things we just want to work again so but that was that was okay, now I cannot mow my grass but we find that things are changed and what was what had been really isn't what should be. I can remember, but I can't be that anymore about to be what God wants me to be here now. And God has a legacy we could complain about what we can't do that. Recognize God is about doing something and everyone of us have those abilities we have middle as much when God is in it. My goals and my desires were too small. I would come you would be football coach phys ed teacher. Yes, Jim, everyday, no. I thought I wanted to do, but not dramatic, although I could have been yelled the teacher who lived in Ali, the teachers you know, go to school every three months off the summer play around both summary and out in the job. My wife's not appreciated the files on the enemy, but I get either type teachers, I'll dock, but you shape no matter what. That would've been your matter how great of a coach I could have been it was still too small for what God 's promise for my life is an established law because God can add a thousand times what you think you can be when God blesses what you are who you are, it becomes something exponential exponential like that when I looked it up exponential is rapidly growing rapidly becoming greater in size, quantities raised expeditiously the children of Israel when they move into Egypt exponentially exploded as a nation. They were protected by the Egyptians and they were slaves, but they were protected and they just blew out as a nation in a slave captivity, they became a nation, but from that captivity, they became the nation of God free free nation under God in our life, we can be thousands times greater than what we can do on our own with God now God has created us for a purpose, a divine purpose God has created us for divine purpose. We are not to get mired down in the day we live with the winds of adversity, pulling in our sales saying I can't make any headway in this win that we need to learn how to go into the wind and attacking and trying out going back and forth in this and is using that using the adversity to our advantage, not to our destruction. God will not allow that God is the one that adversity because you see what happens in adversity, as we began to become static with what's going on in our life and we attract the wrong things. Whenever we become static. So we've got to allow the adversity to take us forward. Not become static and are in our life and allow things to cling to us that are not supposed to be there forgetting what is behind one politico forgiven and letting go, leave and forgetting about forgetting what is behind the press on towards the goal press on towards the goal. Let the past go open up your vision. She would God want you to do how he wants to do it in the planning flowers. I'm now up to five or six flats of flowers. We had some that we planted died already, they got mold on them. This was unfortunately I gambled on the deck. The deck. I think they're gone. I did the amount plant more of, but we live our lives too long as annuals planted bloom and I planted blooming. We need to be perennials planted bloom come back to life is still in it never goes it just continues to grow, so we need to allow that to take play but we need to hurry up and we need to recognize that by the company by the coming of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is God 's presence inside of us initiating that the good that he wants to do to publish it. We can't do this on her own so that before I send you the promise of my father. I said upon you, and allow that you told him to stare Jerusalem and wait for the presence of the spirit to come upon them the power of the Holy Spirit will suffice. The power of God will suffice is a limitless much when God exhibits when God touches our life. Things change. We were in wedding unknown writing July fourth, my second cousin was her daughter was married and make the present that that was referring to. She called me about six months ago and she was crying and she was very distraught. She had breast cancer and she was undergoing chemo and her best friend that she met in chemo where they both were in this fight to survive and beat their cancer while six months ago her friend leave the cancer had returned and it was very rapidly growing, going through her body and so she was in the hospital and there was all these grim reports and things, and we talked and then my cousins and her friends don't darken the church door, and but I began to tell them about God and begin to explain her about prayer and how that we can do these things and ill pray, believe that God will be with Aaron Halpern help her friends and yell pride with them. Jim's a piece and then on Friday, she told me she said, you know, my girlfriend was in the hospital and the Chaplin came by pray for her. Anybody pray for, and laid his hand on her head and she said, when he put his hand on my head. This warm feeling just went through my entire body and I knew I be okay and eight. She's never been to church Juno what was she was asking my cousins out what was said her cancer is in God, but it stopped growing. They just has stopped growing, they've done more tests that they did a number of tests they just they discharged from the hospital and she still am watching over her cancer isn't gone, but it's not growing it's not changing. It's been my blinders is just kind of froze there and it will live to see the promise of God. Why is it that here's this person never been in charge 's can have a chaplain walked by and pray for her and suddenly God touches her life because God 's grace and mercy is great. Sure, than what we think we are. We aren't. We are humbly coming before God and asking him for his blessing. We are humbly coming before God and believing that he can take what little I have entrusted and bless it and make it exponentially greater than what I am Abraham, I'm going to bless you and your descendents as many as the stars in the sky got. I don't have a son, I'm a child, but exponentially in the last story is in second Kings chapter four. One day my the wife of a man of the profits called out to Elisha, your servant my husband is dead, you will know what a good man. He was devoted to God, and now the man to whom he was intact is on his way to collect by taking my two children as his slaves. Notices. Whenever we start looking at life, and we start, I get all the right this is nothing works for me. She says. I wonder how I can be of help. Tell me what do you have in your house seat whenever we are static. We attract the wrong thoughts. We tracked the wrong perspectives we lose sight of what we have, we lose sight of what we had an here were saying, multiple, multiply a thousand times what you have. First of all I got. We you have to figure out what it is that you have often not that good. I'm not that bright. I don't have this, I don't notice it. What you don't have. What do you have a license asked this lady. What do you have and what is you have shown little crews of oil left enough to make a few pieces of bread so I got in the house and nothing more, and Elisha says to the woman go and get all the containers you can find in your town, bring them to your house. Now I got this less than this amount of oil and guy says go get all the containers in the in town grew in your house, locked the door and pour into that container for what you have into those other containers. How many containers would you go get him. Educators would you go and pick up from your neighbors by God about this. I now go get about the same amount. NFS is little as much of God, that whenever we listen to one word from God one word. The word of God was spoken in the world came into existence when God speaks to our heart where he says takes the little that we have, and multiplies it takes the little that we have and makes it greater than Moses said that you know your bed a thousand times a files a claim may be multiplied a thousand times a day. You, while a thousand times thousands and millions and then we put a million times one to ten exponentially. So the prophet says, take go and get command and lock the door. I was wondered by one twenty one or to lock the door number one. How long do you think it's going up for about about half order of this into every container. You can find this article gushing out and this is the dislike of the systems abandoning it, and it also places, though, and don't bring in other container. Every container that was filled. I must than a quarter of what's in this container. Why, because she went and got what she had static will try to blog on his bunch of stuff clinging to me that will rid of going take what you have allowed God to bless it, his words spoken to your life over what he's going to do with this little thing that we have and she went and got to fill up all the container. She had when both prophet Elisha what happened in licenses sell everything you have a cell that and so that and pay off your debt and use the rest a little files in times what you have what you have the we are praying looking for God to dump something out of the sky. Where is this skinny assign him a sign, and although they take what you have. Allow God to bless it with his promise not to make God bless our God as well, unless the guy will tell you what you can bless you with. Take what you have allow him to bless it and see what happens if the we are part we are part we are part of it is that we are part of every miracle God will perform in my life. We are part of every miracle God will perform in mark in my life does not go to do this for you. He's due to do with you, even if it's only a quarter of a teaspoon, you're going to get the containers you to do the pouring and euro watch. Multiply. We are part of every miracle that God will perform the Holy Spirit is the exponential factor God will do a work in our life, one word spoken from God can create the universe, one word spoken by God to your life can take this little quarter thing and fill as many oil fill as many containers as you have enough faith to bring into your house and see the difference exponentially and is not by your abilities. It's by his grace in his mercy is to make it happen. You believe that the KLS. This group you believe that have to do that is God speaking to us. That's not a thought just that God 's word, speaking to our life. Allow God 's word to speak your life and see what happens. Allow God to speak your life and see what happens and this week. This week, something is going to happen and you're going be faced with the only adult couple of opportunity and we're either going to become static and grumble and complain or worry. I take this little cup of opportunity and world report into the containers that we believe God wants us to have fulfilled them to overflow. It's not an adversity. It's a couple of opportunity and then lets them little or as much when God is in it. Little is much when God is in these words, spoken your father. We are so privileged to be your children got you want to do so much in our life. And we're so static we can get rid of the things that cling to us, God, let your love, your forgiveness, your blood. Oh God, cleanse us from all evil, make and renew a right spirit within us renew our hearts and our minds, renew us Lord to think your thoughts and to believe Lord your promises and to receive of your word to us that we might fulfill your plan that you and I performed a miracle in our lives that level is not the little that we look at cons so much. Whenever you touch it, speak to our hearts this day into our lives this week we are about to complain, remind us of the static of disbelief and board the favor of a promise, and then I can get you to be a little more vocal amen and amen bless you