It is Fun Month here at TC and this Sunday is Global Sunday! Today we had a very special guest, Pastor Robert Madu! For 10 years he has traveled around the globe, preaching the gospel and taking every opportunity to tell people about the love of Jesus Christ. He is a family man, husband to Taylor Madu, and father to three beautiful children. In addition to his itinerate ministry he serves on the teaching team at Trinity Church in Cedar Hill, TX.
what’s up tc i am so excited that you
made it to this place of grace today
i believe that god has a word for you
and this is week
two of fun month and we are celebrating
global sunday and i just want to take a
moment and let you know right now
that transformation church is what it is
because of
all of the people all around the world
in different time zones different
ethnicities
different backgrounds who call
transformation church
home we’re not just transformation
nation we really are transformation
nations and i just want to let you know
that your impact
representing all over the world is
changing
everything i want to say thank you and
today as we
celebrate global sunday i wanted to
bring in a global speaker
somebody who knows what it is to see
people be transformed all over the world
he’s not just global but he’s my brother
he has stood with me and natalie even as
we were believing god
for this building let me let you see
this so me
my brother rob yes sir we had the spirit
bank event center come on the future the
future home
of transformation you heard it here
first i’m on somebody it’s happening
i see it oh that’s right ladies and
gentlemen today
robert madue is about to bring the word
listen i need you to get your heart
ready to get your mind ready and be
ready to receive what god wants to say
to you today
let’s give it up on transformation
churches stayed
pastor robert madue good
morning transformation nation
come on wherever you’re watching would
you just give god some praise
or just put some praise hands or fire
emoticons in the chat right now
i’m telling you wherever you’re watching
all over the world you need to know
transformation nation
god’s presence is there with you and he
has something special in store for you
today y’all know me
i am expresso elated uh to be here at
transformation nation this
is absolutely phenomenal it’s actually
surreal for me to step
into this arena again as you saw in that
video the last time i was
in this place pastor mike and i were
trespassing
we literally broke into a door to walk
in here
and the fact that a building that we
once trespassed in is now
your church come on that’s proof
positive that we serve a god that does
the miraculous
who does exceedingly abundantly above
all you may ask or think so
uh what an honor it is to be standing in
the middle of a miracle today
and it’s amazing to see all that god has
done but it’s also amazing to see all
the
church statisticians and analysts trying
to figure out how in the world does this
happen in tulsa
oklahoma let me tell you why it’s
happening because of god
and because of god’s favor and his favor
is on pastor mike and natalie todd
and uh not only is his favor on them
they’ve been faithful with
the favor that’s on their lives and i
pray that they are rejuvenated
i love you so much pastor mike is my
brother and right now in the chats i
want you to let pastor mike and natalie
know how much you love them
how much you appreciate them come on
right there let them know that we are
thankful
for their vision for their hearts for
their leadership and they’re coming back
20 times better when they get back from
this moment of just refreshing and i’m
excited
on this global sunday and fun sunday i
brought out the tie-dye sweater today
and uh professor mike told you i am
global i’m global because i’m from the
great country of texas
uh my wife and i live there my beautiful
wife taylor we got three little humans
i’m also global
because you all know me i’m
african-american i say it all the time
i’m for real african-american my father
is from nigeria
he pulled eddie murphy came to america
met my mama who’s american so y’all know
me i’m
african-american so i have to do this on
global sunday you know this american me
talking
at tc i can switch i can switch to
nigerian at any moment
yeah i don’t believe me it is so good to
be here at transformation church
oh god is going to do something in this
fun month
if you believe he hey man don’t you so
you know me
african american i’m excited to share
the word
week two of fun month and i’m so
glad pastor mike showed that video
the last time we were in this building
in fact it’s really been just
a year since god opened up the door for
this
arena i’m glad he showed that video
because i think it’s important
this church remembers the faithfulness
of god that you remember that moment in
fact
i’m gonna give you my title right at the
beginning
don’t forget to remember
don’t forget just type that in the chat
don’t
forget to remember isn’t it interesting
the human tendency
to remember the things we should forget
and forget the things we should remember
oh come on how many know like over the
years i’ve gotten like
so many good compliments and and so many
good like
encouragement on instagram or facebook
or twitter whatever just people just
saying
good things encouraging me but those
aren’t the ones that i have the tendency
to remember
come on i remember when people just went
crazy i remember your handle
if you said something isn’t it crazy how
i remember those comments
more than the encouragement because
sometimes we remember the things we
should forget
and we forget the things that we should
remember
but don’t forget to remember the thing
god wants you to
remember that’s kind of where i want to
go today go with me to mark chapter 8
because jesus
is talking to his disciples about
something
that they forgot but they needed to
remember mark chapter 8 where we’re
going to be today
we’re going to start at verse number 14
and land at verse number 21
and it says the disciples had forgotten
to bring bread
except for one loaf they had with them
in the boat
be careful jesus warned them watch out
for the yeast of the pharisees in that
of herod
they discussed this with one another and
said it is because we have no bread
aware of their discussion jesus asked
them why are you talking about having no
bread
do you still not see or understand how
many know when jesus asks you a question
is never for him it’s always for you
he says are your hearts hardened do you
have eyes but fail to see
and ears but fail to hear and don’t
you remember when i broke the five
loaves for the 5 000
how many basket fulls of pieces did you
pick up 12 they replied
and when i broke the seven loaves for
the 4 000 how many basket fulls of
pieces did you pick up
they answered seven he said to them do
you
still not under stand
don’t forget to remember come on let’s
pray before we jump into this word would
you bow your heads a long prayer
god you are awesome speak today
amen don’t forget
to remember ladies and gentlemen
i regret to inform you that the year
2020
still ain’t over is it just me or does
it feel like this year has been going on
for half
a century i mean come on sure every year
has its challenges every year has its
changes
every year has its defining moments
every year has its problems
but not every year has such a sudden
paradigm shift when you are left with
more questions than you have answers
you’re left with more complexity than
you have
clarity you trying to figure stuff out
like am i an entrepreneur
or i’m a homeschool teacher now do i
live at work or am i working from home
so many questions that we have because
of this year 2020
2020 the irony the irony the number that
is associated with vision
and yet this is the year we are seeing
things that we never
saw coming this has been a year for the
record books and if you’re like me
i was having intense prayer also known
as complaining
uh with god and i said god hold on i’m
seeing some stuff
that i didn’t plan for this year and god
said something to me who that i want to
say
to you transformation nation he said
robert don’t forget to remember
you prayed for this year i said hold on
wait a minute no i did not pray for
anything
that i’ve been saying this year he said
no no don’t forget to remember robert
you did pray for 2020. he said you’re
the one that said at the beginning of
this year
that god i want to be changed this year
you’re the one that said at the
beginning of 2020 god i want to go
deeper with you this year you’re the one
that said god whatever it takes for me
to have
more of you this year i want more
i said hold on god i didn’t say any of
that stuff what are you talking about
you know it’s bad when god takes you to
your own instagram page
and remind you of the first sermon you
preached
in 2020. would you play that clip real
quick first sermon of 2020
[Applause]
[Music]
this is
[Music]
this is my year to give more
whatever it takes for me to get more i
want i wasn’t expecting what i’m seeing
right now and then it’s interesting
the disconnect between what we want god
to do in our lives
and what it will take for that to come
to pass oh come on isn’t it interesting
how we say god hey i want to be stronger
but i don’t want to go through suffering
god i want to go deeper in the things of
you but but don’t disrupt me don’t
don’t mess up my schedule god god i want
to be
changed but i don’t want to be
challenged but can i tell you
transformation
god will upset you he will disrupt you
god will wreck your routine and mess up
your schedule
because he is committed to making you
become what he saw
before the foundation of the earth god
will disrupt you oh you can put that
little do not disturb sign if you want
on the door you serve a god that will
kick that door
down because he will disrupt you
he will mess up your schedule that’s
what jesus did on the earth
it was like every day he woke up he was
disrupting things
it’s like every day you woke up the
disciples are like jesus what are we
going to do today
he said the same thing we do every day
we go comfort the disturbed and we’re
going to disturb the comfortable
he was always comforting the disturbed
and disturbing the comfortable he was
always making sure
that ratchet people knew that your
righteousness is not beyond the reach of
god’s grace
and religious people knew that you
aren’t so holy
your breath still stinks you need a
savior too he was always
balancing the tension between bringing
healing to the broken
and making sure the bougie knew they
needed to be broke
and that’s what he’s doing in my text
today i feel like preaching that
transformation nation he uh
he’s been traveling and preaching and
healing the sick and
raising the dead and walking on water
and turning over tables in the temple
and
doing all kinds of signs and wonders
he’s just fed
4 000 people with a few loaves of bread
and he encounters the pharisees the
religious
people and they are probably still
munching on the fish
and the bread that he multiplied and
they have the nerve and audacity
to say to jesus give us a sign
that you’re really sent from god he’s
like are you for real have you not
seen what i’ve been doing what you mean
you need
a son he looks at him says you will
never get
a sign because it’s not a lack of
evidence you just have
unbelief can i just pause right here
if jesus couldn’t convince and change
the minds of people
who were committed to not believing him
how in the world do you think
you’re gonna change the minds of people
who are committed to not believing
in you some people you just gotta say
forget you you always gonna think that
way about me
but that doesn’t stop the call of god on
my life i’m going to be
everything that god has called me to be
and i don’t need your endorsement
or your favor to do it and all of a
sudden he leaves the religious
pharisees and then he gets on a boat
with his disciples and as they’re
getting on the boat the disciples
remember hold on we only brought one
loaf
of bread and jesus looks at them and
says
watch out be careful they’re like what
storm coming he’s like no be careful
of the yeast of the pharisees
and the yeast of herod and disciples are
looking on the boat talking about what
what is jesus ain’t nobody on the boat
but you
and us what are you talking about there
you’re fearing it fair herod is not on
this boat the pharisee’s on his boat
what do you mean
the yeast of the pharisees and that of
herod and i love it because this right
here
is classic jesus it’s classic jesus a
lot of people say oh it would have been
cool
to like hang out with jesus i wish i
could have been with the physical jesus
no you don’t no you don’t you would have
been confused you would have thought he
lost his mind you wouldn’t understand
the words that were coming out of his
mouth
because jesus was fully god and he was
fully man come on you know he wasn’t
just a good man he was a
god man he was god manifested in the
flesh it was humanity and divinity
coming together in one body and anytime
you got humanity
and divinity in one body how many of the
conversations are gonna be
interesting the conversation’s gonna
make you scratch your head
cause sometimes deity is talking and
sometimes humanity is talking
and he’ll leave you clueless trying to
figure out what in the world is he
saying
you know one of my favorite ones in john
chapter 2 john chapter 2
he’s at a wedding first miracle he’s at
a wedding and his mama comes up to him
and says jesus they just ran out of wine
jesus looks at his mama and says what
that got to do with me
one it’s not my time it’s not my time
leaves her in suspense she just looks at
the attendance of like look
just do whatever he tells you to do what
in the world is jesus talking about when
he says it’s not
my time and she said something about
wine
it’s because he was fully god and he was
fully mad
and he understood on a human level yes
they ran out of wine at the wedding
and it was the groom’s responsibility to
get the wine
but jesus also understood that i am the
savior of the world
i’m a groom also and i have a bride
and i have a responsibility as well and
when you said wine
my mind went to the blood that is going
to be shed
for all of humanity so that’s why i said
it’s not my time
because when you said wine i’m thinking
about my blood
that’s going to be shed and my blood has
got to be enough
to cover the sins of the world
this is this is the power of the gospel
this is the power
of god in flesh and he’s doing it again
on the boat because they got one loaf of
bread
and he said be careful of the yeast of
the pharisees and that of herod and
they’re like what is he talking about
he’s like no y’all don’t understand you
have one loaf of bread on the boat
but you have another loaf of bread on
the bar
you holding bread but you also looking
at bread
i am the bread of life and bread said be
careful
of the yeast of the pharisees and that
of hair what what is yeast
yeast is a fungi just a little bit of
yeast is a fungi that if you put
in the dough of bread it will affect and
contaminate
the entirety of the bread just a little
bit of yeast
will mess up the whole loaf of bread in
the bible
yeast is a metaphor for unbelief it’s a
metaphor for sin
it’s also a metaphor for pride because
whenever you put the yeast in the bread
it’ll start to
rise it’ll be puffed up it’s a metaphor
for pride he said be careful
of mixing pride sin unbelief not in that
bread you’re holding
in the bread you’re looking at if you
mix it with the bread it’s going to
contaminate
the bread be careful of the yeast of the
pharisees
the religious system and of herod the
political system
because if you start mixing religion and
politics
with the bread of life it’s gonna
contaminate the bread
if you think transformation is gonna
come through your religious
works and what you do or through voting
your particular candidate in the office
that’s not how transformation comes i
have a kingdom that i came to bring
and i am the true bread of life and the
bread
i am is enough oh i feel like preacher
there i love how the bible is for
today and the disciples were still
confused
he said hold on is he is he mad because
we didn’t bring another loaf of bread
yeah see we should have brought another
loaf of bread because it’s not going to
be enough for us
on the boat he’s like no i’m not talking
about that bread i’m talking about
me this okay you think i’m talking about
provision no i’m talking about me
i have the purity of who i am but since
you’re confused and you’re talking about
provision
let’s go to provision real quick okay
let’s go to provision okay when we took
the five lows
and we broke it for the five thousand
how many leftovers did you have
they were like 12. okay when we took the
seven loaves and we broke it for the
four thousand
how many leftovers did you have there
were like seven he said okay
so the first time we fed more people
with less amount of bread
and you still had leftovers you got one
loaf on the boat 12 of y’all
i think we gonna be all right you know
why cause you got me
on the boat and because i’m the bread as
long as you have me
you got every single thing you need
oh they didn’t understand but jesus had
to break down
how many times he did the miracle
of the feeding of the multitude now
right here i want to pause
not just for a water break
but i want to pause and file a complaint
i want to file a complaint
uh not with the cdc i want to file a
plan with the ssc
sunday school committee okay because uh
i’m raised in church
raised in church okay uh i’m talking
about old school church sunday morning
sunday night vacation bible school
tuesday night prayer meet oh school
church i’m talking about old school
church i’m taught
children church is on the front row with
a coloring book oh
school church okay i’m talking about i’m
talking about you only celebrate
halloween you celebrate hallelujah night
and dress up as a bible character okay
oh school church just showing up in your
ezekiel outfit okay
oh old school church and in all my years
of going to church and sunday school
i don’t even remember anybody telling me
that the miracle
where jesus multiplied the fish and the
bread
and fed the multitude that miracle
happened
not once but twice he did that miracle
twice yes once where he took the little
boy’s fish
and bread but he did it again twice and
nobody ever told me
that miracle happened twice some of
y’all watching right now you’ve been
saved your whole life
you didn’t even know that that miracle
happened twice do you know how many
times
i could have got extra goldfish and
graham crackers if i knew
that miracle happened not once but
twice he fed the 5 000 and then a few
months later
he did that miracle again and he fed 4
000 and there’s even a debate in
theology
where scholars think that mark messed up
and he’s mentioning
the same miracle twice but jesus totally
refused that thought
because he says as we read in mark
chapter eight now remember when i fed
the five thousand
and then i did it again and i fed the
four
thousand and so many people focus on the
feeding of the five
oh but i want to pause today and i want
to thank god
not for the feeding of the 5 000 i want
to thank them for the feeding of the 4
000 because the feeding of the 4000 says
to me
that if god did something great in your
life once
that if god ever opened up a door in
your life
once that if god ever healed you before
once
that if god ever came through before
once how do you know then he can do it
again
the same god that did it once
oh i feel like preaching in here can do
it again
oh don’t you let the difficulty of this
season
make you doubt the faithfulness of your
god
come on some of you you know the history
you have with god
if he’s brought you through before he
will bring you through right now
if he’s opened up a door before he will
do it again
oh i need somebody who’s feeling me
right now in the chats would you just
type
he’ll do it again he will do it again if
he did it before
he will do it again some of you need to
review the history
of god turn off cnn and fox and abc and
nbc
and hijk elemental p and just start
reminding yourself
of god’s faithfulness in your life if he
brought you through in your past
he’ll bring you through in your present
he did it
twice he did it twice i love this
feeding of the multitude
because hear me it is one of the only
miracles
outside of the resurrection that is in
all four gospels
every single gospel writer mentioned
this miracle
that means jesus did not want us to
forget this miracle
not only that it lets us know that if
this is the only miracle mentioned where
he fed
thousands of people if it’s the only
miracle mentioned besides the
resurrection
that lets me know that jesus is not just
concerned with the condition
of my soul he’s also concerned about my
circumstance
that god didn’t just care about my soul
and spiritual food
how many know he cares about my physical
needs as well
he cares about what’s keeping you up at
night god cares about the spiritual
and the physical he cares about your
needs this miracle reveals
not just god’s greatness but his
goodness that if something matters to
you
guess what it matters to god actually
scratch that
if it matters to you it matters more to
god
he doesn’t just care about your soul he
cares about
your need as well look at jesus
who had the power to attract thousands
of people with his preaching
so much so that when he fed the 5000
they forgot to eat for a day
he was preaching so good when he fed the
four thousand they forgot to eat
for three days he was preaching so good
so you think you can preach
you know you preaching good when for
three days people forget to eat cause
they just
listening to the words coming out of
your mouth that right there
is the litmus test for good preaching
where people like forget chick-fil-a
forget chipotle let me just listen
to this sermon but even in the middle of
his preaching and captivating thousands
he looked out and said wait a minute i
can’t just keep preaching
they’re hungry they need food
that means jesus cares about your need
that is a message to us today that he
cares about what you need
your physical needs not only is a
message it is a mandate to the church as
well
that we cannot just be concerned with
the condition of people’s souls
if we don’t meet their needs the church
has got to be a church in this day and
age
where we are concerned not just with the
transformation of soul
but we are meeting the actual needs of
people
thank god you’re a part of a church
that’s going to do both we’re going to
preach the gospel around the world but
we’re also going to meet your needs
in actuality because it’s both
it’s both and and that’s why god wants
us
to participate in the miraculous so we
can transform souls but we can also meet
needs and some of us are praying about
stuff we need to get up off our knees
praying
and start doing something about it
i love what the great theologian howard
thurman says
he says that the power of prayer is
directly connected
to your willingness to be a part of
god’s answer
i’m going to say that again the power of
prayer is directly connected
to your willingness to be a part of
god’s answer
that means god has always been and will
always be looking for people
to participate in the miracle he wants
to manifest
i’m preaching billy y’all are talking in
the chats i dare you to just put a
little praise hand in there
and i want to look at this miracle if we
can all of that was my introduction
i want to look at these two miracles of
the feeding of the 5000
and the 4000 so we can remember what we
need to remember
i want to do like those pictures you
ever seen those pictures where it’s the
same picture
and you got to circle what the
difference is yeah i want to do that
with these two miracles
because the first thing i noticed in
both miracles
is that you had a whole lot of people
and you also had a problem
you had a whole lot of people and you
also had
a problem don’t forget to remember
that you are called to problems because
you are called to people
a whole lot of people come on it says 5
000 but that’s not including the men
women and children
it’s probably 15 000 people
there that day 4 000 of us in the other
crowd and because you’ve got a whole lot
of people
you got a problem because you cannot
separate
people from problems you are called to
problems because you are called to
people
some of you in this season you’re like
i’m so sick of people i just want to be
by myself i’m tired of the drama
i’m just going to isolate myself and i
want to fool with people
the problem with ice to letting yourself
is you still got to be with you
you can’t run away from you come on
that’s what this shelter in place order
really did for a lot of people
some of us found out that we were
running away from ourselves
and we were keeping ourselves busy with
our careers so we would never have to
face ourselves
but when everything shut down some of us
were forced to
look at ourselves and you’re like i
don’t even like me
you know why because people and problems
cannot be
separated they are together you call the
problems because you call the people
and defeating the 5000 he had they had
the disciples had to put the groups of
people in groups of 50 and 100. can you
imagine
20 000 people you got to put in groups
of 50 or 100
how long was the setup for this miracle
just one two three four five six
is your head put you about to mess up my
account put your hand up and down for
one two three four five
is that your child then what is he over
here for god can you imagine how long
the setup people people people yes i
know people are frustrated
but in this season it’d be awesome if we
could have grace for people
especially difficult people you know why
because you’re one of them too
you call the problems because you’re
called to people i also found it
intriguing
in both miracles compassion
started the miracle it was the
compassion
of jesus and in the feeling of the 5000
the bible says that jesus
was moved with compassion feeding of the
four thousand
jesus verbally says the only time he
verbally says
i have compassion compassion started you
know why
because don’t forget to remember
compassion
activates the miraculous you want to
start seeing miracles in your life
start getting compassionate some of you
if god answered your prayer request
it would only benefit you but if you
want to see god start doing the
miraculous
in your life start asking god for
compassion
it was compassion and both of the
miracles that caused
jesus to move he had to move in one
instance he moved his body
in the other instance he moved his lips
and said i have compassion
but compassion will not give you the
luxury of apathy
you’re gonna have to do something if you
have compassion
because compassion hear me is when care
and action
collide oh god give us a church give us
believers
who have compassion who care about
somebody besides themselves compassion
started the miracle
i love it in the 4000 because jesus
looked out and he said something
interesting he said i can’t send them
away hungry
he said because if i send them away
hungry he said some of them will faint
along the way
because some of them have come from a
far off they come
from from afar off that means jesus and
his compassion
in a multiplicity of thousands of people
he knew with specificity
where some of them came from he knew
their address
that lets me know you can’t have
compassion
unless you have clarity on where i’ve
come from ah you can’t have compassion
unless you care enough to know what i’ve
been through
and the things i had to endure come on
i’m the only one ever been in a
circumstance where you talk to somebody
and they’re talking to you crazy like
they’re going off on you and while they
talking your heart is palpitating
sweat is coming down your face cause
they talking to you like they forgot you
ain’t always been saved
and uh they forgot that you know some
words that are not in the king james
bible you ever had one of those moments
you’re like oh they don’t understand
that i will go off on you and you almost
want to go off on the person you’re
about to respond a certain way
but don’t you just wish in that moment
that a pause button could be pushed
and all of a sudden you could just get
clarity on where they came from
how they grew up who was in their life
who wasn’t in their life maybe even just
what they went through that day
and all of a sudden your reaction and
response would change why
because you got clarity on where they
came
from you cannot have compassion unless
you care to know people’s story
and where they came from because
compassion activates
the miraculous in both miracles i’m
almost done and both miracles i noticed
watch this
they asked the wrong questions asked the
wrong questions feeding on the 5000
they said it would take six months wages
to feed all these people are we to spend
that much money to feed all these people
wrong question feeding of the four
thousand the disciples said
well where can we even find bread for
these people in this place
wrong question see don’t forget to
remember
to always ask the right question
see they looked at the magnitude of the
problem and they asked the wrong
question i wonder right now are you
worried because you’re asking the wrong
questions
because worry is often the byproduct
of asking the wrong questions some of
y’all are so stressed right now you know
why
because you’re looking at the magnitude
of the problem and you’re asking the
wrong questions
and worry is the byproduct of asking the
wrong question
okay somebody like give us some
scripture for it robert i’ll give you a
scripture for it okay
go to matthew chapter six matthew
chapter six real quick this is jesus
talking matthew chapter six
i want you to see the words of jesus in
matthew chapter six look at what he says
in matthew chapter six
i want you to see it well jesus says he
says so do not
worry don’t worry here comes the
questions
saying what shall we eat or what shall
we drink or what shall we wear
for the pagans run after all these
things and your heavenly father
knows that you need them but seek first
his kingdom
and his righteousness and all these
things will be given to you as well
do you see that worry is connected to
asking the wrong
questions some of you in this season
you’re stressed cause you’re asking the
wrong questions what if i lose the house
what if i lose the car
what if i lose the job what if there’s
another shutdown what if i got to be at
home with my kids and teach them online
what if this happens what if that
happens what
you just sneezed what if i got it what
about this what about that
wrong questions i’m not saying you
shouldn’t have wisdom
i’m not saying you shouldn’t have
concern but sometimes you’re asking the
wrong
questions stressing at night asking the
wrong
questions and it’s producing worry in
your life
you got to ask the right question can i
give you the right question
can i give you the right question jesus
asked it in both both miracles here’s
the right question
jesus says how many loaves do you have
that’s the right question how many
loaves
do you have that is the right question
what question
should i be asking in a global pandemic
how many loaves
do you have i want somebody to type that
in the chats right now
how many loaves do you have that’s the
question
you ought to ask yourself is how many
loaves do you have
i like that question because that
question doesn’t lead to worry
that question leads to work it makes you
start looking
and trying to figure out what is it that
god has
given me it makes you start looking for
what do i have
left it shifts your focus from what you
lost
to what you still have with you come on
somebody
how many loaves do you have oh
that’s the question you gotta ask
yourself in this season
not what you’ve lost not what’s walked
away
but what do you have left how many
loaves do you have
oh i’m feeling this sermon are y’all
recording this i’m gonna watch you later
it’s blessing me
how many loaves do you have
see that question will make you be
thankful
for what god has given you how many
loaves do you have
okay let me let me give you an
illustration you know pastor mike he
always got an illustration
so let me come to tulsa with the
illustration how many loaves
do you have see this is my bread i got
this bread i had to bring this bread
to tulsa this is my bread because some
of y’all are judging it you don’t like
it but
it’s okay it’s wonder bread might not be
your brand might not be gluten free
but guess what it’s mine it’s what i
have it’s what i have and some of you
even right now
just as an illustration y’all just go to
your pantry and see what bread you got
what do you have what do you have see
some of you don’t like this
because it’s easier to complain about
what you don’t have
it’s easier to look on instagram and
like pictures of other people loads and
go oh they got a raise during the
pandemic when i lost my job
it’s easier to look at what other people
have instead of taking
inventory on what god has given you
oh yes you lost your job but you still
got your mind
yes you lost some things but you’re
still here you’re still
standing how many loves
[Applause]
do you have i love this and some of
y’all judging my illustration cause you
don’t like this bread and you’re like oh
that’s all you got that’s the only bread
you could bring
and some of you talking about why you
ain’t got no fish look i didn’t have any
fish to bring okay
just had to bring the bread and not only
that
jesus never even asked for fish
he never asked for fish read both the
miracles when you get home
he never asked how many fish do you have
he asked how many loaves do you have
that means it was in the process of
looking for the loaves
that they found out i got some fish too
oh it was in the process of searching
out what you do have
that you found out you had something
else i feel
like having church in here today is
there anybody in this season
that has found some things you didn’t
know you had you didn’t know you could
pray like you’re praying right now
you didn’t know you could worship like
you’re worshiping right now but if you
start looking for the loaves
i promise you you’re gonna find some
fish because the fish was just
extra if you look for the loaves
you’ll find the fish he never asked
how much fish you got she said how many
loaves you got
in the process of looking for the loaves
they found out i got fish too
watch this even after they found it
they still realized it’s not enough
it’s not enough can you imagine
looking out at 20 000 plus people
and only having a few fish and bread and
knowing that what’s in your hand is not
enough am i the only one that’s ever
looked at the demand on your life
and looked at what’s in your hand and
come to the alarming conclusion is
it’s not enough i don’t have what it
takes to be the father he’s called me to
be i don’t have enough
to be the leader you don’t have enough
to be the mom you don’t have enough to
be the student
it’s not enough and can i tell you it
will never be enough
it will never be let me just mess up all
your self-help stuff it will never
be enough if it is in your hands
you got to get it out of your hands your
life is not
enough in your hands if it’s in your
hands that means you’re trying to
control it
and if 2020 hasn’t taught you anything
it ought to teach you
you cannot control some things the only
thing i can do
when i feel like the demand on my life
is more than what i have
is to get it out of my hands and put it
in the hands of god
and say take this marriage take this kid
take my finances
take this business i don’t know what to
do i don’t have enough
they put in the hands of jesus and he
took it
that’s where the miracle starts is when
you put it in his hands
and he took it and he blessed it
and he broke it and then he gave it
right
back to them to feed the multitude
can you imagine looking at 20 000 people
and giving it to jesus knowing it’s not
enough and all he does he takes it
he says thank you breaks it and gives it
right back to you and says okay go feed
them
you’re like hold up you want to bless
this a little more it’s a lot of folks
out here
come on how many you know the
multiplication did not happen in the
hands of jesus
the bread did not multiply in jesus
hands that wouldn’t have taken
faith that as soon as they handed it
over to jesus the bread would have just
started popping and growing now they
would have been excited then no
what jesus will do is just bless your
little bit
he’ll bless what’s not enough he’ll
bless the thing you’ve discarded and
just give it right back to you
and now it’s still the same but at least
it’s blessed
and now he gives it to them to pass out
think about this this miracle is not
efficient
you got 20 000 people and 12 dudes have
to feed
everybody jesus you could do better than
that you could have just wiggled your
nose
and just made everybody be full you
could have set up an in-n-out fish and
bread stand
and just got everybody through how long
is it gonna take
for these 12 dudes to pass it out to
thousands of people no
they have to take their time you know
why because multiplication happens
through interaction i want you to
interact
with every person you hand the bread to
and i want you to see it get down to
almost
nothing and right when it’s down to
almost nothing i want you to see me
provide
again come on anybody in this season
you’ve been down to nothing
but you saw god show up and come through
again
the blessing is through the interaction
can you see him talking to people
as they’re handing the bread saying is
that your son he cute
there you go and just passing the bread
this is why the enemy wants us divided
because he understands that
multiplication happens
through not isolation but interaction
interaction and as they passed it was
enough don’t you let the enemy divide
your marriage in this season
don’t you let them break up
relationships because multiplication
happens
through interaction come on i speak to
myself let’s talk to the married people
i was preaching before i got married i
was preaching while i was married i was
doing some things while i was married
but can i show you three things
i wasn’t able to do until i got married
to the beautiful taylormadeu
put that picture up real quick of my
three little humans real quick
of my beautiful come on that right there
oh i couldn’t do that by myself
that was multiplication hello through an
interaction
and the enemy wants us divided because a
house divided cannot stand
but if you start connecting with people
it’s amazing what multiplies and they
passed it out
and they had leftovers but here’s my
issue
with the pharisees excuse me with the
disciples
is i get the first time while you were
nervous
i get the first time why you were
stressed because it’s the first miracle
my question is how come just a few
months later
when it’s another crowd why are you
stressing the second time
after you already had history of god
doing it before
he had already done the miracle before
the second time you saw the crowd
you should have looked out and said oh i
already know how we’re going to do this
it’s about to go down come on somebody
get the bread get the fish we’ve done
this before
why are you stressing when you’ve seen
jesus do it before
well maybe it speaks to the fact that
many of us are stressing right now
and we’ve seen jesus perform before and
come through before
but i actually think it’s deeper than
that way deeper
because i found it interesting in the
feeding of the 5000
the issue seemed not to be
the bread but the price of the bread
they did the math they said it would
cost us
thousands to feed these people the issue
was the price
feeding of the four thousand the issue
wasn’t the price
it was the people and the place
they said where can we find enough bread
for these people
in this place which made me think about
what was that place and who were those
people
the feeding of the 5000 happened
near galilee in bethsaida in
jewish territory but the feeding of the
4000
happened in the region of the decapolis
don’t miss this
in gentile territory
the feeding of the 4000 happened in an
area they didn’t want to go
with people they didn’t want to deal
with and jesus
forced them to go over there to a place
and a people
they thought they were better than that
they had spent their whole life staying
away from
he said this is a field trip to show you
that if you’re going to be my witness
to jerusalem judea samaria and to the
ends of the earth
you cannot think the bread which is me
the bread of life
is only for people that walk like you
think like you talk like you and vote
like you
now this brand is for the entire world
and because it’s for the world you don’t
get to pick who you pass it out to
so i’m gonna take you and do it again
not just to show you my provision
but to show you that i am enough for the
entire world
and everybody needs bread old people
need the bread of life
young people need the bread of life
democrats need the bread of life
republicans need a bread of life
independent neither bread of life
young old black white red yellow blue
everybody needs
the bread we took them on a field trip
to break their ideology to break them
because if you’re going to pass out the
bread you got to know this bread is for
everybody
and you don’t get to pick who you want
to give it to
the feeding of the 4000 was the moment
where he was doing to the disciples what
he did with the bread
he took him he blessed them
then he broke them so that he could use
them
to spread the gospel around the world
that’s what god is doing with you
right now some of you in a breaking
season you know why god is breaking you
right now
because he’s about to use you like
you’ve never been used before
after this year i’m telling you the
people you’re going to be able to reach
after 2020
that’s why you can’t quit that’s why you
can’t kill yourself that’s why you can’t
give up
yes it’s breaking you but he’s not
breaking you to kill you
he’s breaking you so he can multiply you
and use you more
everybody needs the bread
i found this out this year can i confess
to you
this year has been a breaking for me
it’s been a breaking season up until
2020 i didn’t have a point of reference
for people dealing with anxiety attacks
and dealing with depression found myself
in a dark place when everything was shut
down and wasn’t able
to travel was really in a bad place and
even got to a place where all of the
tension and racial injustice it made me
want to throw in the towel i’m just
being honest
i wanted to quit i said god i’m sick of
this what’s the point and
just found myself and not in a good
place and i had to remember i had to
remember i took a trip
on father’s day i went to pittsburgh
texas
that great metropolis pittsburgh texas
because i remember my mom told me about
the church
that my grandfather built in pittsburgh
texas
i brought a picture of the church look
at this mega church
in pittsburgh texas that little bit of
church i drove there on father’s day
in the season where i was depressed and
in a season where i had anxiety
and i sat in that little bitty church
and i reminded myself
how my mom said my grandmama used to lay
her hands on me and said god’s gonna use
you to preach the gospel
around the world i reminded myself of my
grandfather that prophesied over me
even when i was just a young child you
don’t know their names oh yeah they
don’t have an instagram account
they didn’t have more than 50 people in
that little church
but can i tell you every time you hear
robert madue preach you hear harold
tutman preach
and fannie mae tuttman preach because of
their faithfulness
what god did then he’s doing through me
now
and that’s why you can’t quit and that’s
why you can’t throw in the towel in the
breaking season because god just wants
to use you more
the breaking it’s not to destroy you
it’s to multiply so that more people can
get bread
so you can tell somebody how you get up
when you’re depressed so you can tell
somebody how you raise those kids
when it’s just you by yourself on a
little budget so you can tell people
how you kept preaching when people are
leaving your church so you can tell
people what happened
in the breaking i won’t ever hear bowed
when every
eye closed just think in your living
room in your kitchen wherever you are
just have a moment
i want to pray for people who’ve been
through a breaking
the break is not to destroy you it’s so
that god can multiply what he wants to
do in your life
don’t forget to remember his
faithfulness
he brought you through that he’ll bring
you through this
your history with god gives you strength
to stand today
father i pray for every person watching
around the world right now who’s in a
breaking season god
thank you that the breaking is not to
destroy them
god you’re just going to use them more
so they can comfort other people with
the comfort they have been comforted
with god
thank you that the breaking is always to
multiply to feed more people
if you’re watching this right now and
you’ve never given your life to jesus
you’re hungry you’ve been going to other
things
to fill you up maybe this season where
things have been shut down and things
you used to go to to feel
aren’t doing it anymore can i tell you
there is a savior his name is jesus
he is the bread of life he is enough
you never made that commitment or
surrendered your life to jesus i want to
give you that opportunity
right where you are say god i’m coming
home
i’m tired of running other things to
fill me up i come to you
would you just write where you are with
your hands lifted just right there i
know you might have people at the watch
party
even watching with you it don’t matter
just zone them out lift up your hand
right where you are
i want you to pray this prayer say dear
jesus thank you so much
for loving me enough to pay the price
for my sin jesus i believe
you’re the son of god you lived for me
you died for me you’re coming back for
me
i cannot do life without you
forgive me of my sin make me brand new
from this moment forward i’m walking
with you
in jesus name amen amen come on if you
prayed that prayer
i know tears are coming down your face
but i dare you to just celebrate right
where you
are because that’s what the angels in
heaven are doing right now there is
rejoicing
happening even when one sinner comes
home
i want you right where you are and even
in the chat there’s actually a number
coming on the screen
that you can text if you prayed that
prayer for the first time or just type
in the chat said today today
i surrendered i gave my life to jesus
what an incredible moment what an
incredible day
don’t forget to remember
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