The Sermon You Have What It Takes by David McGee
May 17, 2015
You Have What It Takes (36:26)
Referenced Scriptures: Luke 6:6-11; Romans 11:33; John 5:1-16
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Luke 6:6-11
6) It also happened on another Sabbath, that he entered into the synagogue and taught. There was a man there, and his right hand was withered.
7) The scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, that they might find an accusation against him.
8) But he knew their thoughts; and he said to the man who had the withered hand, "Rise up, and stand in the middle." He arose and stood.
9) Then Jesus said to them, "I will ask you something: Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good, or to do harm? To save a life, or to kill?"
10) He looked around at them all, and said to him, "Stretch out your hand." He did, and his hand was restored as sound as the other.
11) But they were filled with rage, and talked with one another about what they might do to Jesus.
Romans 11:33
33) Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!
John 5:1-16
1) After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2) Now in Jerusalem by the sheep gate, there is a pool, which is called in Hebrew, "Bethesda," having five porches.
3) In these lay a great multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water;
4) for an angel of the Lord went down at certain times into the pool, and stirred up the water. Whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was made whole of whatever disease he was afflicted with.
5) A certain man was there, who had been sick for thirty-eight years.
6) When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been sick for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to be made well?"
7) The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I‘m coming, another steps down before me."
8) Jesus said to him, "Arise, take up your mat, and walk."
9) Immediately, the man was made well, and took up his mat and walked. Now it was the Sabbath on that day.
10) So the Jews said to him who was cured, "It is the Sabbath. It is not lawful for you to carry your mat."
11) He answered them, "He who made me well, the same said to me, ‘Take up your mat, and walk.‘"
12) Then they asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your mat, and walk‘?"
13) But he who was healed didn‘t know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, a crowd being in the place.
14) Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, "Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you."
15) The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
16) For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath.
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This morning I'm going to speak about you have what it takes. You have what it takes. It's you know what's the commercial or whatever it's in there. Let's pray go in there you know if you want do you want the sauce. Don't worry about it it's in there. Well if we think about our life that has already given to us what we need. I remember him doing the of creation. Holly has created this planet and he has made it a big storehouse so that the earth contains everything we need to live on. So as the industrial age and whatever solar from the sun whatever has created everything that we need to live and we say you know people ask well what about the starving in all these countries and well if you really think about it it's either the greed of individuals or it's their religion or the greed of people or their faith is what causes some of the ground some of the droughts and the the death of so many people you know in India they consider it a. That's it. They they do not help their poor and the whole poor of their society is left on taking care of because they believe in reincarnation and that these individuals are have been reincarnated from their previous life somewhere and this poverty that they are going through in this pain that they're going through is part of their progression in the chain every reincarnation. So that when they die they will come back as a higher lifeform if they do the right things in this this place that the rat. So they won't help them and then you couple that. With all the you know that they may be coming back as a rat as a monkey is an animal. So you don't kill rats monkeys animals they have temples to the rats. You know that they have temples to the rats and they have priests to the rats and they will actually sit there in this temple of rats and have them crawl all over them and take care of them like you would take care of a cat or a dog. And of course the animals the cows and things can ramble through streets and whatever you can't touch them or kill them. You can push them away but you know this might be your relative. So if you don't mess with the cows you know in the monkeys and so there was just this this is a real problem. And whenever we are whenever our religion this is Dave Magee philosophy year whenever our Religion interferes with our ability to care for people then we have a problem then we have a problem and I think of years ago there was a group or had individuals in the hospital and they would come in and pray for them and then you would call them back and say you know you're so and so they're not doing well. They would like for you to come back and they said we can do anything we're not coming back. When you need your company back these people need to do while we did what we could. They're still sick and they're not going to get better so we can't do anything for them. And we walk away from them because their faith said one thing and what happened said another soul therefore they wouldn't challenge their faith they would just abandon the people. Sometimes I think we mistakenly have the same approach about ourselves and more about that if we make a mistake has just you know you have just made one too many. Thanks and is done with you. Well if were down with you you wouldn't be in church you wouldn't be alive you would be someplace else. When living so isn't done with us his grace and His mercy are continually reaching out to us and he has placed in us the reserves the storehouse the abilities to do what we do now. You might not be where you need to be just yet in your developmental phase of stages of life. Your I know image in this and boy what is his. A plasma OK here's you know Here's her answer cousin needs and is your niece and her her son just got his doctorate at twenty eight in plasma physics cl maybe you know and actually wanted in some respects it is major and it is measuring the dust that comes from Plaza a plasma in some way out there. Now he was unable to do that whenever he was eighteen he was. He graduated high school at sixteen and he was in college when he was very young finished his college degree and finished his doctorate and all of this. Now the idea is he became and where he's going he's not finished with yet. And did he know whenever he was seventeen that he was going to be doing research and in plasma. Not really. Did did you know you would be doing what you're doing today ten years ago. Not really we don't we don't we don't know all of the things that are in front of us but what we do know is is with us at this moment and he is leading us onward and leading us to. Where he wants us to be. Now in Luke Chapter six beginning in verse six Jesus his teaching in the synagogue. He said on another Sabbath he went to the meeting place and taught so Jesus is teaching what Jesus teaches us is very important because it gives us direction for our life not only this life but the life to come. Now whenever he is teaching us he then he comes along in this case he is teaching and he wants the people to understand that who he is and why he has come. But you know he not only has words he has the miracles to back it up. So Jesus has been teaching and there was a man there with a crippled right hand. So we know that it was a crippled right hand. Now whenever I think of this I think of it as an individual that I've seen that had a crippled hand it was like at the wrist and it's crippled right hand. But I've also seen individuals that their entire army is withered to the point that it's nothing that they can do with it's hardly It's something that they wrap around them or hold inside and that's not it doesn't even have the strength to be able to move you know an individual that they're the right arm is something that they just flop. They pick it up hold it put it on a table there is no strength in that arm. So whatever Jesus is saying here is a crippled right hand. I don't know if it's just from his wrist down but he's crippled and his fingers are unfunctional or whether it his entire arm is totally non-functional that this person that I know that their arm is there and they swing it and they put on a table. They can't move it. The only way they can move it is with their other hand. So whether this is the situation or not but we know that this person has a crippled right hand. OK the religious scholars and Pharisees had their eye on Jesus to see if he would heal the man did you ever have people watch you to wait and look for your failure or look for something that is wrong that they are looking for a mistake in the whole the whole framework. I remember a guy I worked at the letter lived at the farm with us and his first you know he he knew that I found out very quickly that we were very religious and went to church all the time and so on and he wouldn't go to church with us and he said well you know I just got one question if I could have this question answered. I go to church and I thought OK what's you know what's the question What's this what's this question it keeps you from going through the doors of a church. What is this one question that keeps your faith from going to accept Jesus Christ. He said Where did Cain get his wife. What do you know. Cain and Abel Cain killed Abel and his kids were together. I said that's your question. Well I kind of laughed and you know we talked about it and went on. And but you see people and if they will find if you find one question you'll find another. If you find one doubt you'll find another because there is an answer. Sometimes the answer isn't what we want it to be sometimes the answers are what we think it will be. Sometimes the answer is completely beyond what we have one individual said you have read. BIG T. bone steak generated T. bone steak. How many of you ate the bone. No you eat the meat and leave the bone. There are things in our life that we just don't understand and so they are. We eat and we understand and take what we do know and know that will help us understand those things that we don't. Well here is these individuals and their walk. They're watching Jesus. They listen to his teachings and they are not interested in his teachings. Their interest is is he going to heal this person on the Sabbath. So the next portion of the verses hoping to catch him in a Sabbath infraction. You see these individuals. We had written laws that just basically it was almost a sin to breathe on a Sunday on a Sa ay on the Sabbath that if you breathed wrong on the Sabbath they were going to call you a heretic and they were going to cause you know all kinds of trouble for you so they're watching Jesus to see if he's going to heal on the Sabbath. But Jesus he knew what they were up to and he spoke to that man with a crippled hand get up and stand here before us. So here is the situation this man Jesus has been teaching these people are standing around you know when I want to go and do next. You know is that's you know let's just watch. I'm sure we're going to catch him in something that's really wrong. And so Jesus tells the man with the withered hand stand up stand here before us. Now here's the challenge. What is he going to do. What are you going to make that person do that he's not capable of doing. You know they can walk on water. Are you going to levitate. Is he going to you know what's he going to do. What's he going to make him happy and what's going to happen next. Well Jesus addressed the Pharisees here he says to these Pharisees let me ask you a question. What kind of action suits the Sabbath best. OK What is there about this day this holy day that is honoring and keeping his commands. What is there about this day that suits this day the best. Doing good or doing evil doing good or doing evil Helping people are leaving them helpless. When we are moved with comp ion moved with an idea to help moved with an idea to become something that we're not learning growing developing whether it be physically spiritually mentally whether it's you know activities whether it's school whether it's learning a new job whatever it is we're learning what is it that we are moved by what takes hold of our heart and helps us look beyond the moment that will will we be helping people or leaving them helpless so that what we are doing hasn't has a motive for making life different or better for someone. He looked around and he looked at each one of those Pharisees and he looked them in the eye. OK Which is it is it better to help or leave people helpless and look at each one of them. OK what in India. I was waiting for an answer. They never answer they didn't say anything that is kind of stood there because if they would have said well leave people helpless you know that wouldn't fit who they thought they were but they help people well that have some restrictions. So Jesus was trying to move them from their judge mental self righteousness. He was trying to move them from being so judgmental to helping. They had turned into a judge mental who was not you know the plaque says the eyes of are upon you. OK I got this plaque. Put it in your house. The eyes of are upon you. OK What is he doing. Was he watching for what is looking for. He's watching over you if you fly if you're looking for your faults or is he looking to mark down all the ways that he helps. Can Help is helping you know it's like the joke this guy breaks into a house and he's you know got his little flashlight and he's looking around and and he hears this voice. Jesus is watching you and just startled you know and he shines a light and there's a parrot and you know the wound is in the parrot says Jesus is watching you. Guy Laughs Well this is watching you and the pair and a guy says the parrot what your name is Moses Moses who was dumb enough to name their parrot Moses and the parrot replies the same one who's dumb enough to name their dog. Jesus. He turns and as Jesus the dog coming after him you know. Thank you very much I enjoyed that. So Jesus looks around and he looks at them and he wants them to understand. OK. That is not this judge mental person he is this who wants to be involved in our life and so what does Jesus tell the man he says Hold out your hand. OK everybody just hold out your right hand. OK that's it. The guy who couldn't move his whether it was his hand or whether his entire arm. All he does is and it's healed. Boom right in front of everyone in front of the Pharisees and Sadducees the critics those who are looking to find fault. He did it he broke the Sabbath. How difficult is it to reach out your right hand. All you're doing all you did was listen to me and something miraculous happened. You're a you lifted your head so Nancy I know. I don't usually pick I usually pick on these two up here but you really could you please stand. You K. now what I want you to do is to reach into your commentary and give me twenty dollars. What's what's wrong. The commentary there. Jimmy Carter I'll reach in there and give me twenty dollars. There's not twenty dollars an hour there's not twenty dollars in there. Do you believe in me. Yeah. Do you believe that I would mislead you. OK Open up your commentary and give me twenty dollars. You know go to the front. I'd go to the front. You were the only one I could get to put the twenty dollars in there and you're the only one I knew would give it back to me you know I'm hoping. Yeah Ryan right Ryan I'll take it right now you can sit down. OK The question is everything you know everything Jesus would ask of us. He's already given us before when he asks us to see the natural response is twenty dollars a month. That's not twenty dollars in my commentary you know I don't put it you know I was you would think you know not to say I didn't put it there. There's a twenty dollars an hour your mistake it is making a fool out of me that's what he's doing you know when Jesus tells the cripple to take his hand and extend it out. Is he trying to make a fool of the man or is he going to heal the man. And see in our lives we have that same pastor trying to but you see has already put inside of us everything that we need to do to be who we are. had put inside of Rhonda's niece's son the ability to do this. Measure the dust in the plasma as it is I don't know how that works but he can measure it now. has put that in him but he had to learn and bring that out. has placed in you the abilities to be who you are. I was I was listening to Joel sting kind of my new favorite. Speaker but he was doing this talk show with he and his mother and his mother said. And this is one of the things that I I was really cut back with that this individual Joel. He has he had only ever spoken one time before he felt called him to be the pastor of that church. And when he told his mother that had called him to be the pastor of that church she was like Joel are you sure because when he spoke up the first time he was so nervous and scared he could hardly get behind the pulpit because he had only ever spoken in public once before and he was going to take on this whole thing of the ministry of his father and you see inside each of us there is the ability to do things. And when says I want you to do this we say wow. Nancy open the book. When there was no twenty dollars in my book. But you see we would say to ourselves that that ability isn't in me that ability isn't there because I know I don't have it. That's correct. put it there. put it there put the need whatever you need whatever you have to do with your life in is calling you to do it. is already put within you what is necessary for you to open up. Open up hand extend your right hand and the miracle was taken care of. The miracle happened and. What happens next. They were beside themselves verse eleven. They were beside themselves with anger. They were so angry. These people who were watching Jesus were so angry that this guy's hand was healed. You know you're off course when you can't be happy with the people who are happy when you cannot rejoice with the people who are rejoicing. You need to check the barometer inside the thermostat inside. You need to check it because if you can't rejoice with those who rejoice weep with those who weep. It's time to check in and find out what's going on in your heart. And these people were so angry at Jesus they couldn't find a way to discredit him. They couldn't find a way to make him look bad by what he had just done. They had been watching. They had been listening Jesus knew what they were up to. And he tells the man to stand up for what's so sinful about standing up. What's so sinful about standing in front of everybody. And sometimes whenever we are in the spotlight. When pastor calls you and you have to stand up. I told Tyler and Dylan about that candle they had to have it you know I was going to them that it had again today made for DA are you. When plaster put you in the spotlight. What happens. Well when puts us in the spotlight and sometimes there's no one else around but you know sometimes the spotlight is whenever you. You're all alone. And says stand up. says Stick out your hand go over to your neighbor and help them out. Go to your neighbor and don't criticise your neighbor. Don't criticize them. Help them when says do the little things. You see those are the things that is working at in our lives to help us become to get over that fear factor that we're not capable of doing something. You see what is it that we're not capable of doing. Well this man with a crippled hand he was incapable of using his right hand. He was incapable of using it. What are we incapable of doing. And when we respond to the word something happens on the inside when we respond to the word something happens inside of our heart makes us different. Whenever we feel like we have sinned we ask to forgive us of our sins and live within our heart. There's something miraculous that takes place there's something miraculous that takes place in our lives. We are forgiven when we don't know what to do. And we asked Jesus to help us. And we do something. Maybe it's the same old thing maybe it's not we do something entirely different but is helping to lead us and guide us to our next step. There's an il ration for the story I've been carrying it around here for about four or five weeks and never got to it. But sometimes when we think of what we have we don't have enough. OK we don't have enough. Well for a lot of people winning. On the lottery is the American dream. But for many lottery winners there it is there's a T.V. show coming on about twenty lottery winners that have just gone by. Zonker is with billions of dollars but that's only very few. Most people end up being in bankruptcy and losing everything. Winning the lottery isn't always what it's cracked up to be says Evelyn Adams who won the New Jersey lottery not just once but twice in one thousand nine hundred five in one thousand nine hundred six to the tune of four point five point four million dollars Today the money is all gone and Adams lives in a trailer. I won the American dream but lost it too. It was very it was a very hard fall. It's called rock bottom. Everybody wants my money. Everybody had their hand out. I never learned one important word in the English English language. No I wish I had the chance to do it all over again I'd be much smarter about it says Adams who also lost money at the slot machines in Atlantic City. I was a big time gambler says Adams. I didn't I didn't drop a million dollars but it was a lot of money. I made mistakes. Some I regret and some I don't. I can't go back now. So I just go forward. You see in our lives we think that. And that's that's kind of low at the lottery system is all about that somehow some way we're going to fall into something. Most of the time when we fall into something we fall out of it because we don't know how to appreciate what is the gift that has been. Even to us and so we don't appreciate the miracle that has been given in our own lives whenever we put out our hand put out your hand. DAVID Not as a handout but as giving something to someone else. Put out your hand giving what you have and what you. What part of who you are. That's the miracle that has given us the miracle to become someone and to appreciate how we got where we're at how that we are able to look at life and be thankful. You know one other Scripture that I want to look at is Romans chapter eleven verse thirty three it says Have you ever come on anything quite like the extravagant generosity of Had you ever come across anything so extravagant as the generosity of . No is not some stingy greedy person withholding heath care. He wants to give to his children. But you know what. We can't get it. We can't receive what wants to give. I know I've told this story a long time ago but I am old and senile. No I'm not I'm I'm young and I have a great mind. OK so they don't have to know how to catch a monkey right. You know how to catch a monkey. Grab it. Yeah. Grabbed by the neck right now. How do you catch a monkey is if you put a barrel out in the woods there or whatever. Put bananas on the inside and you drill holes in the side. Big enough for them to stick their paws hand in there. What they will do is they will put their hand in they will grab hold of the banana and they're caught. Why they won't let go. That's why the. A generous generous ness of is so hard to give to us is because our hands are already full and we won't let it go. You see we need to look at things we need to be wise in our understanding of life in the gifts and everything we have we we we need to let go of some things. You know if it's not working let it go. If you haven't war worn something in five years it's time to get it out of your closet or let somebody else wear stuff I were five years ago I can't wear because it's too small. But anyhow I'm waiting to get back into it but I ran into a guy yesterday he said o and he says alone he says well you gained weight. Thank you nice to see you too. How do you ever run into anything quite like the extravagant generosity of this deep deep wisdom of is in the generous this that he has to us. doesn't beat us into getting smart. He gives to us until we're intelligent enough to use it alone. He keeps giving and giving and giving you see he gives us forgiveness until we understand forgiveness he gives us love until we begin to understand how love much love how valuable love is he gives to us wisdom and understanding and insight. He gives all this to us until we begin to understand how much greater our life is of quick it's way over our heads. We'll never figure it out. Is there anyone around who can explain . Anyone smart enough to tell him what to do. Anyone who. Has done him such a favor. The Guard has asked him for his advice. I used to say that has a flat forehead because when I prayed I would tell him what to do and would go Oh David never thought of that but you know that this one here. Anyone who's done such favors for He got us to ask when we pray we are giving to our life in exchange for his answers. We are giving to our sins our failures in exchange for his forgiveness and love and grace and mercy. You see we are giving away letting go of what is wrong to receive what is right and then everything comes from Everything happens through him and everything ends up in him. Everything everything comes from Him The Good The Bad and the not so good everything can find its way. Now is not the originator of everything. I know I need to quit but I like the idea of job security. Satan Satan says Have you considered job you know they're you know look at job and says Have you considered my faith so server job and Satan says I can't touch him like Satan saying this to What are you saying I can't touch him. Why there's a hedge around him. The has put in place Satan can't get to it and the only way. Say thinking get to job is of removes the heads and when removes the hedge it is for His glory and his honor and job goes through the trials and that's why when we pray about our own lives and pray about the lives of others we pray put a hedge around them. We pray put a hedge around our lives to give us wisdom and understanding in all of this thing. Help us to extend our right hand. That's what we need to do to find the healing that needs to take place in our bodies in our mind in our soul in our spirit. The wounded places of our heart need to be healed. Then asks us to stand up like you did to Nancy. Stand up and inside and give me your Give me a twenty dollar bill that inside of the book. Well I don't have it. But you see what calls you to do. It's already in there. He wouldn't ask you for it if it wasn't there. So we stand by. So. What's asking of us. He's asking for us to be and all things give thanks to be grateful people to be thankful people to be blessed people you know to honor be honor honoring others and honoring with our lives. To allow his greatness to be part of who we are are thinking you know our hearts are doing are going out. You know being able to speak to people. Well I can't speak for what I can't do this what whatever asks us to. Do it's already in there. Father thank you for your blessings. Thank you for the gifts you've given us. And Lord just let the truth of your word filter into our hearts and minds that we might change we might become what you want us to be. Thank you Lord for this day. Thank you for your love your grace your mercy. We receive it and then we receive it in Jesus' name amen amen. You Have What It Takes This morning I'm going to speak about you have what it takes. You have what it takes. It's you know what's the commercial or whatever it's in there. Let's pray go in there you know if you want do you want the sauce. Don't worry about it it's in there. Well if we think about our life that has already given to us what we need. I remember him doing the of creation. Holly has created this planet and he has made it a big storehouse so that the earth contains everything we need to live on. So as the industrial age and whatever solar from the sun whatever has created everything that we need to live and we say you know people ask well what about the starving in all these countries and well if you really think about it it's either the greed of individuals or it's their religion or the greed of people or their faith is what causes some of the ground some of the droughts and the the death of so many people you know in India they consider it a. That's it. They they do not help their poor and the whole poor of their society is left on taking care of because they believe in reincarnation and that these individuals are have been reincarnated from their previous life somewhere and this poverty that they are going through in this pain that they're going through is part of their progression in the chain every reincarnation. So that when they die they will come back as a higher lifeform if they do the right things in this this place that the rat. So they won't help them and then you couple that. With all the you know that they may be coming back as a rat as a monkey is an animal. So you don't kill rats monkeys animals they have temples to the rats. You know that they have temples to the rats and they have priests to the rats and they will actually sit there in this temple of rats and have them crawl all over them and take care of them like you would take care of a cat or a dog. And of course the animals the cows and things can ramble through streets and whatever you can't touch them or kill them. You can push them away but you know this might be your relative. So if you don't mess with the cows you know in the monkeys and so there was just this this is a real problem. And whenever we are whenever our religion this is Dave Magee philosophy year whenever our Religion interferes with our ability to care for people then we have a problem then we have a problem and I think of years ago there was a group or had individuals in the hospital and they would come in and pray for them and then you would call them back and say you know you're so and so they're not doing well. They would like for you to come back and they said we can do anything we're not coming back. When you need your company back these people need to do while we did what we could. They're still sick and they're not going to get better so we can't do anything for them. And we walk away from them because their faith said one thing and what happened said another soul therefore they wouldn't challenge their faith they would just abandon the people. Sometimes I think we mistakenly have the same approach about ourselves and more about that if we make a mistake has just you know you have just made one too many. Thanks and is done with you. Well if were down with you you wouldn't be in church you wouldn't be alive you would be someplace else. When living so isn't done with us his grace and His mercy are continually reaching out to us and he has placed in us the reserves the storehouse the abilities to do what we do now. You might not be where you need to be just yet in your developmental phase of stages of life. Your I know image in this and boy what is his. A plasma OK here's you know Here's her answer cousin needs and is your niece and her her son just got his doctorate at twenty eight in plasma physics cl maybe you know and actually wanted in some respects it is major and it is measuring the dust that comes from Plaza a plasma in some way out there. Now he was unable to do that whenever he was eighteen he was. He graduated high school at sixteen and he was in college when he was very young finished his college degree and finished his doctorate and all of this. Now the idea is he became and where he's going he's not finished with yet. And did he know whenever he was seventeen that he was going to be doing research and in plasma. Not really. Did did you know you would be doing what you're doing today ten years ago. Not really we don't we don't we don't know all of the things that are in front of us but what we do know is is with us at this moment and he is leading us onward and leading us to. Where he wants us to be. Now in Luke Chapter six beginning in verse six Jesus his teaching in the synagogue. He said on another Sabbath he went to the meeting place and taught so Jesus is teaching what Jesus teaches us is very important because it gives us direction for our life not only this life but the life to come. Now whenever he is teaching us he then he comes along in this case he is teaching and he wants the people to understand that who he is and why he has come. But you know he not only has words he has the miracles to back it up. So Jesus has been teaching and there was a man there with a crippled right hand. So we know that it was a crippled right hand. Now whenever I think of this I think of it as an individual that I've seen that had a crippled hand it was like at the wrist and it's crippled right hand. But I've also seen individuals that their entire army is withered to the point that it's nothing that they can do with it's hardly It's something that they wrap around them or hold inside and that's not it doesn't even have the strength to be able to move you know an individual that they're the right arm is something that they just flop. They pick it up hold it put it on a table there is no strength in that arm. So whatever Jesus is saying here is a crippled right hand. I don't know if it's just from his wrist down but he's crippled and his fingers are unfunctional or whether it his entire arm is totally non-functional that this person that I know that their arm is there and they swing it and they put on a table. They can't move it. The only way they can move it is with their other hand. So whether this is the situation or not but we know that this person has a crippled right hand. OK the religious scholars and Pharisees had their eye on Jesus to see if he would heal the man did you ever have people watch you to wait and look for your failure or look for something that is wrong that they are looking for a mistake in the whole the whole framework. I remember a guy I worked at the letter lived at the farm with us and his first you know he he knew that I found out very quickly that we were very religious and went to church all the time and so on and he wouldn't go to church with us and he said well you know I just got one question if I could have this question answered. I go to church and I thought OK what's you know what's the question What's this what's this question it keeps you from going through the doors of a church. What is this one question that keeps your faith from going to accept Jesus Christ. He said Where did Cain get his wife. What do you know. Cain and Abel Cain killed Abel and his kids were together. I said that's your question. Well I kind of laughed and you know we talked about it and went on. And but you see people and if they will find if you find one question you'll find another. If you find one doubt you'll find another because there is an answer. Sometimes the answer isn't what we want it to be sometimes the answers are what we think it will be. Sometimes the answer is completely beyond what we have one individual said you have read. BIG T. bone steak generated T. bone steak. How many of you ate the bone. No you eat the meat and leave the bone. There are things in our life that we just don't understand and so they are. We eat and we understand and take what we do know and know that will help us understand those things that we don't. Well here is these individuals and their walk. They're watching Jesus. They listen to his teachings and they are not interested in his teachings. Their interest is is he going to heal this person on the Sabbath. So the next portion of the verses hoping to catch him in a Sabbath infraction. You see these individuals. We had written laws that just basically it was almost a sin to breathe on a Sunday on a Sa ay on the Sabbath that if you breathed wrong on the Sabbath they were going to call you a heretic and they were going to cause you know all kinds of trouble for you so they're watching Jesus to see if he's going to heal on the Sabbath. But Jesus he knew what they were up to and he spoke to that man with a crippled hand get up and stand here before us. So here is the situation this man Jesus has been teaching these people are standing around you know when I want to go and do next. You know is that's you know let's just watch. I'm sure we're going to catch him in something that's really wrong. And so Jesus tells the man with the withered hand stand up stand here before us. Now here's the challenge. What is he going to do. What are you going to make that person do that he's not capable of doing. You know they can walk on water. Are you going to levitate. Is he going to you know what's he going to do. What's he going to make him happy and what's going to happen next. Well Jesus addressed the Pharisees here he says to these Pharisees let me ask you a question. What kind of action suits the Sabbath best. OK What is there about this day this holy day that is honoring and keeping his commands. What is there about this day that suits this day the best. Doing good or doing evil doing good or doing evil Helping people are leaving them helpless. When we are moved with comp ion moved with an idea to help moved with an idea to become something that we're not learning growing developing whether it be physically spiritually mentally whether it's you know activities whether it's school whether it's learning a new job whatever it is we're learning what is it that we are moved by what takes hold of our heart and helps us look beyond the moment that will will we be helping people or leaving them helpless so that what we are doing hasn't has a motive for making life different or better for someone. He looked around and he looked at each one of those Pharisees and he looked them in the eye. OK Which is it is it better to help or leave people helpless and look at each one of them. OK what in India. I was waiting for an answer. They never answer they didn't say anything that is kind of stood there because if they would have said well leave people helpless you know that wouldn't fit who they thought they were but they help people well that have some restrictions. So Jesus was trying to move them from their judge mental self righteousness. He was trying to move them from being so judgmental to helping. They had turned into a judge mental who was not you know the plaque says the eyes of are upon you. OK I got this plaque. Put it in your house. The eyes of are upon you. OK What is he doing. Was he watching for what is looking for. He's watching over you if you fly if you're looking for your faults or is he looking to mark down all the ways that he helps. Can Help is helping you know it's like the joke this guy breaks into a house and he's you know got his little flashlight and he's looking around and and he hears this voice. Jesus is watching you and just startled you know and he shines a light and there's a parrot and you know the wound is in the parrot says Jesus is watching you. Guy Laughs Well this is watching you and the pair and a guy says the parrot what your name is Moses Moses who was dumb enough to name their parrot Moses and the parrot replies the same one who's dumb enough to name their dog. Jesus. He turns and as Jesus the dog coming after him you know. Thank you very much I enjoyed that. So Jesus looks around and he looks at them and he wants them to understand. OK. That is not this judge mental person he is this who wants to be involved in our life and so what does Jesus tell the man he says Hold out your hand. OK everybody just hold out your right hand. OK that's it. The guy who couldn't move his whether it was his hand or whether his entire arm. All he does is and it's healed. Boom right in front of everyone in front of the Pharisees and Sadducees the critics those who are looking to find fault. He did it he broke the Sabbath. How difficult is it to reach out your right hand. All you're doing all you did was listen to me and something miraculous happened. You're a you lifted your head so Nancy I know. I don't usually pick I usually pick on these two up here but you really could you please stand. You K. now what I want you to do is to reach into your commentary and give me twenty dollars. What's what's wrong. The commentary there. Jimmy Carter I'll reach in there and give me twenty dollars. There's not twenty dollars an hour there's not twenty dollars in there. Do you believe in me. Yeah. Do you believe that I would mislead you. OK Open up your commentary and give me twenty dollars. You know go to the front. I'd go to the front. You were the only one I could get to put the twenty dollars in there and you're the only one I knew would give it back to me you know I'm hoping. Yeah Ryan right Ryan I'll take it right now you can sit down. OK The question is everything you know everything Jesus would ask of us. He's already given us before when he asks us to see the natural response is twenty dollars a month. That's not twenty dollars in my commentary you know I don't put it you know I was you would think you know not to say I didn't put it there. There's a twenty dollars an hour your mistake it is making a fool out of me that's what he's doing you know when Jesus tells the cripple to take his hand and extend it out. Is he trying to make a fool of the man or is he going to heal the man. And see in our lives we have that same pastor trying to but you see has already put inside of us everything that we need to do to be who we are. had put inside of Rhonda's niece's son the ability to do this. Measure the dust in the plasma as it is I don't know how that works but he can measure it now. has put that in him but he had to learn and bring that out. has placed in you the abilities to be who you are. I was I was listening to Joel sting kind of my new favorite. Speaker but he was doing this talk show with he and his mother and his mother said. And this is one of the things that I I was really cut back with that this individual Joel. He has he had only ever spoken one time before he felt called him to be the pastor of that church. And when he told his mother that had called him to be the pastor of that church she was like Joel are you sure because when he spoke up the first time he was so nervous and scared he could hardly get behind the pulpit because he had only ever spoken in public once before and he was going to take on this whole thing of the ministry of his father and you see inside each of us there is the ability to do things. And when says I want you to do this we say wow. Nancy open the book. When there was no twenty dollars in my book. But you see we would say to ourselves that that ability isn't in me that ability isn't there because I know I don't have it. That's correct. put it there. put it there put the need whatever you need whatever you have to do with your life in is calling you to do it. is already put within you what is necessary for you to open up. Open up hand extend your right hand and the miracle was taken care of. The miracle happened and. What happens next. They were beside themselves verse eleven. They were beside themselves with anger. They were so angry. These people who were watching Jesus were so angry that this guy's hand was healed. You know you're off course when you can't be happy with the people who are happy when you cannot rejoice with the people who are rejoicing. You need to check the barometer inside the thermostat inside. You need to check it because if you can't rejoice with those who rejoice weep with those who weep. It's time to check in and find out what's going on in your heart. And these people were so angry at Jesus they couldn't find a way to discredit him. They couldn't find a way to make him look bad by what he had just done. They had been watching. They had been listening Jesus knew what they were up to. And he tells the man to stand up for what's so sinful about standing up. What's so sinful about standing in front of everybody. And sometimes whenever we are in the spotlight. When pastor calls you and you have to stand up. I told Tyler and Dylan about that candle they had to have it you know I was going to them that it had again today made for DA are you. When plaster put you in the spotlight. What happens. Well when puts us in the spotlight and sometimes there's no one else around but you know sometimes the spotlight is whenever you. You're all alone. And says stand up. says Stick out your hand go over to your neighbor and help them out. Go to your neighbor and don't criticise your neighbor. Don't criticize them. Help them when says do the little things. You see those are the things that is working at in our lives to help us become to get over that fear factor that we're not capable of doing something. You see what is it that we're not capable of doing. Well this man with a crippled hand he was incapable of using his right hand. He was incapable of using it. What are we incapable of doing. And when we respond to the word something happens on the inside when we respond to the word something happens inside of our heart makes us different. Whenever we feel like we have sinned we ask to forgive us of our sins and live within our heart. There's something miraculous that takes place there's something miraculous that takes place in our lives. We are forgiven when we don't know what to do. And we asked Jesus to help us. And we do something. Maybe it's the same old thing maybe it's not we do something entirely different but is helping to lead us and guide us to our next step. There's an il ration for the story I've been carrying it around here for about four or five weeks and never got to it. But sometimes when we think of what we have we don't have enough. OK we don't have enough. Well for a lot of people winning. On the lottery is the American dream. But for many lottery winners there it is there's a T.V. show coming on about twenty lottery winners that have just gone by. Zonker is with billions of dollars but that's only very few. Most people end up being in bankruptcy and losing everything. Winning the lottery isn't always what it's cracked up to be says Evelyn Adams who won the New Jersey lottery not just once but twice in one thousand nine hundred five in one thousand nine hundred six to the tune of four point five point four million dollars Today the money is all gone and Adams lives in a trailer. I won the American dream but lost it too. It was very it was a very hard fall. It's called rock bottom. Everybody wants my money. Everybody had their hand out. I never learned one important word in the English English language. No I wish I had the chance to do it all over again I'd be much smarter about it says Adams who also lost money at the slot machines in Atlantic City. I was a big time gambler says Adams. I didn't I didn't drop a million dollars but it was a lot of money. I made mistakes. Some I regret and some I don't. I can't go back now. So I just go forward. You see in our lives we think that. And that's that's kind of low at the lottery system is all about that somehow some way we're going to fall into something. Most of the time when we fall into something we fall out of it because we don't know how to appreciate what is the gift that has been. Even to us and so we don't appreciate the miracle that has been given in our own lives whenever we put out our hand put out your hand. DAVID Not as a handout but as giving something to someone else. Put out your hand giving what you have and what you. What part of who you are. That's the miracle that has given us the miracle to become someone and to appreciate how we got where we're at how that we are able to look at life and be thankful. You know one other Scripture that I want to look at is Romans chapter eleven verse thirty three it says Have you ever come on anything quite like the extravagant generosity of Had you ever come across anything so extravagant as the generosity of . No is not some stingy greedy person withholding heath care. He wants to give to his children. But you know what. We can't get it. We can't receive what wants to give. I know I've told this story a long time ago but I am old and senile. No I'm not I'm I'm young and I have a great mind. OK so they don't have to know how to catch a monkey right. You know how to catch a monkey. Grab it. Yeah. Grabbed by the neck right now. How do you catch a monkey is if you put a barrel out in the woods there or whatever. Put bananas on the inside and you drill holes in the side. Big enough for them to stick their paws hand in there. What they will do is they will put their hand in they will grab hold of the banana and they're caught. Why they won't let go. That's why the. A generous generous ness of is so hard to give to us is because our hands are already full and we won't let it go. You see we need to look at things we need to be wise in our understanding of life in the gifts and everything we have we we we need to let go of some things. You know if it's not working let it go. If you haven't war worn something in five years it's time to get it out of your closet or let somebody else wear stuff I were five years ago I can't wear because it's too small. But anyhow I'm waiting to get back into it but I ran into a guy yesterday he said o and he says alone he says well you gained weight. Thank you nice to see you too. How do you ever run into anything quite like the extravagant generosity of this deep deep wisdom of is in the generous this that he has to us. doesn't beat us into getting smart. He gives to us until we're intelligent enough to use it alone. He keeps giving and giving and giving you see he gives us forgiveness until we understand forgiveness he gives us love until we begin to understand how love much love how valuable love is he gives to us wisdom and understanding and insight. He gives all this to us until we begin to understand how much greater our life is of quick it's way over our heads. We'll never figure it out. Is there anyone around who can explain . Anyone smart enough to tell him what to do. Anyone who. Has done him such a favor. The Guard has asked him for his advice. I used to say that has a flat forehead because when I prayed I would tell him what to do and would go Oh David never thought of that but you know that this one here. Anyone who's done such favors for He got us to ask when we pray we are giving to our life in exchange for his answers. We are giving to our sins our failures in exchange for his forgiveness and love and grace and mercy. You see we are giving away letting go of what is wrong to receive what is right and then everything comes from Everything happens through him and everything ends up in him. Everything everything comes from Him The Good The Bad and the not so good everything can find its way. Now is not the originator of everything. I know I need to quit but I like the idea of job security. Satan Satan says Have you considered job you know they're you know look at job and says Have you considered my faith so server job and Satan says I can't touch him like Satan saying this to What are you saying I can't touch him. Why there's a hedge around him. The has put in place Satan can't get to it and the only way. Say thinking get to job is of removes the heads and when removes the hedge it is for His glory and his honor and job goes through the trials and that's why when we pray about our own lives and pray about the lives of others we pray put a hedge around them. We pray put a hedge around our lives to give us wisdom and understanding in all of this thing. Help us to extend our right hand. That's what we need to do to find the healing that needs to take place in our bodies in our mind in our soul in our spirit. The wounded places of our heart need to be healed. Then asks us to stand up like you did to Nancy. Stand up and inside and give me your Give me a twenty dollar bill that inside of the book. Well I don't have it. But you see what calls you to do. It's already in there. He wouldn't ask you for it if it wasn't there. So we stand by. So. What's asking of us. He's asking for us to be and all things give thanks to be grateful people to be thankful people to be blessed people you know to honor be honor honoring others and honoring with our lives. To allow his greatness to be part of who we are are thinking you know our hearts are doing are going out. You know being able to speak to people. Well I can't speak for what I can't do this what whatever asks us to. Do it's already in there. Father thank you for your blessings. Thank you for the gifts you've given us. And Lord just let the truth of your word filter into our hearts and minds that we might change we might become what you want us to be. Thank you Lord for this day. Thank you for your love your grace your mercy. We receive it and then we receive it in Jesus' name amen amen. You Have What It Takes