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The significance of the fourth sign in the Gospel of John is that Jesus is able not

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only to give life but to sustain the life that he gives. This is the only

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miracle of Jesus apart from the resurrection that is recorded in all

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four Gospel accounts. The scene is absolutely impossible in the eyes of

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men, but to Jesus it is merely an opportunity to display his absolute

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power. He uses this occasion, brothers and sisters, to showcase his ability to

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overcome any and every situation. Walk with me around the text. They are out in

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this wilderness. They are out beyond the sea of Galilee. Jesus has already healed

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a man on the Sabbath day in chapter 5 by telling him to rise, take up your bed,

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and walk. There was a nobleman's son who was at the point of death, and he came

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and found Jesus, and Jesus didn't even go home with him. He just spoke the word,

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and the boy was healed. He was at a wedding feast in Cana of Galilee, and an

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embarrassing situation arose when they ran out of wine, and Jesus told him to

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fill some ordinary water pots with ordinary water, and between the dipping

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and the sipping, it becomes extraordinary wine. Jesus is Lord over nature.

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He's Lord over creation. Jesus is not only Lord of life, but he can sustain the

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life that he creates. They are out in this desert place, and Jesus is on the

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other side of the lake, and the crowds are following him. The crowds are fronging him.

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He can't get any break. He can't get any rest. He has no surcease from the press of

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the crowd. I want you to get this. The Bible says the crowds are there, not for

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the word, but for the miracles. What did you come here for? I wish I had somebody

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to help me preach. What motivated you to get up this morning to come to church?

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Are you here because God's been good to you? Or is there some ulterior motive,

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some reason to be seen, some hookup you want, some kind of

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in the back of your mind agenda that you have going on? Because if you came here

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for the wrong reason, God came bless you. But if you woke up with your mind

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stayed on Jesus, and if you're here because you need God not only to give

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life, but to sustain the life that he gives, Jesus is available to make that

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happen. The crowds are pressing him, and Jesus has been talking and teaching them

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all day long, and in the middle of the day, he could have chosen that opportunity

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to raise the question. Where can we buy bread to feed all these people? But Jesus

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waits, Mark says, until evening time. Matthew says the day is far spent. Jesus

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waits until all the HEBs are closed, and everybody is aware that something's got

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to happen. In the Gospel of Matthew, one of the disciples said, Lord send these

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people away. Let them go buy some food. Jesus said, no, you feed them. But in

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John's Gospel, Jesus waits until the last minute to ask, where can we buy bread to

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feed these people? Yes, Philip. Philip? Where can we buy bread? It makes sense that

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Jesus would first ask Philip where they might purchase bread, since Philip was

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from nearby Bethsaida, and he would know where the local grocery stores were and

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what time they closed. The issue for Philip and the disciples is not a matter

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of where to buy bread, but how can we buy enough bread to feed all these people?

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The situation is hopeless. There are 5,000 men not counting the women and the

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children. It's an overwhelming situation. But brothers and sisters, hear me this

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morning. Man's extremity is God's opportunity. We who are followers of

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Jesus should always work at the level of our own inadequacy, so that if the Lord

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does not come through, we fail miserably. Let me see if I can make that make sense.

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Anything that you can do that does not require the Lord's help, you get the

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credit for it. But you need to undertake something that's so big that only God has

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to step in and turn it around for you. Wish I had a witness here. Well, let me see

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if I can put it this way. I need somebody who has been in an overwhelming

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situation. Your stuff almost took you under. You were so worried you couldn't

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sleep at night. You were so distressed that you were distracted on your job. You

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were so bothered that every time you turn around what you had to face was right

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in your face and it overwhelmed you almost to the point that you didn't

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want to pray. I'm not talking to some weak 90 pound Christian now. I'm talking

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to somebody who's been in the trenches with God, who's had some sleepless

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nights, some worrisome days. I wish I had two or three believers here. You've had

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some stuff to wake you up in the middle of the night and say, Lord, if you don't

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come through, I don't know what I'm gonna do.

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Some child has broken your heart. Some relationship has stressed you to the

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limit. Some pain is almost more than you can bear. We see you on Sunday morning,

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but we have no idea what you're going through. You are in some overwhelming

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situation. You are between a rock and a hard place, but if that's your situation

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this morning, stay with me. Don't leave before there have been addiction. I've

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got some good news for you this morning.

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It's an overwhelming situation.

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Now over 20,000 people, it's dark, stores are closed, there's nowhere to buy bread.

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Jesus asked Philip, where can we buy some bread to feed all these people? Now

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brothers and sisters, I'm trying to get through here, but if you think the

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disciples were befuddled, what do you think would be the situation if Jesus

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asked that question at Lilligro?

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The first thing we would do would get a committee on bread, and then fight over

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who the bread committee chad person is going to be. And then after we get that

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worked out, we're going to buy wheat bread, a white bread, and after we get that

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worked out, are we going to get the bread from HEB? Are we going to get it from

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Randall's? And then the next question is how much bread we going to give out?

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Because ain't you got some bread yesterday?

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Somebody ought to help me preach it. We analyze and analyze and analyze until

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our analyzing makes us paralyzed and we can't make any decision.

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Forget the committee on bread, go buy some bread. Stop worrying about who gets

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the credit and buy the bread.

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An overwhelming situation. But that overwhelming situation is now met by an

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insufficient supply. Where can we buy bread to feed all these people? Philip

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said, all we have in our little treasury is 200 denarii. But it would take a

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year's wages to feed all these people. All we have is 200 denarii. That very

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word 200 is a word that's mixed with something that doesn't work.

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Because when you read Joshua chapter 7, Achan had 200 shekels of silver that he

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stole from the Babylonians that caused there to be sin in the camp and God

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destroyed Achan and his whole family because of the number 200.

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Absalom in 2 Samuel, Absalom, David's son was so handsome the Bible says that

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was not even a blemish on him. Absalom weighed his hair every day and it weighed

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200 shekels. But that very hair got caught in a tree and hung him because he

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betrayed his own father. 200 is insufficient. And everything they brought Jesus

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that day was insufficient. Andrew in his naivete, Andrew is trying to fix an

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unfixable situation. Andrew meant well. Andrew had the right mind saying, Andrew

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said we can't buy no bread but I know I know where we can get some. There's a

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little boy here and he's got two fish and five barley loaves and if Andrew had

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left it right there he would have been the hero in the story. But he had to go

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a step further. He said there's a boy here with two fish and five loaves. Andrew

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shut up that's enough. But no, Andrew was on the bread committee at Lily Grove.

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And so Andrew says we have a boy here with two fish and five loaves but what

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is that among so many? He gave a good bucket of milk and kicked it over because

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if he had left it at the supply, Jesus could work with that. But Andrew had to

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put Andrew in it and said we got a boy here with two fish and five loaves but

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that's not enough for so many. Jesus said bring it to me. I want you to get

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this shout. Everything that day they brought to Jesus was not enough. Andrew

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did not find a grown man. He found a child and brought him to Jesus and in

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Andrew's mind that's not enough. The boy had some little sardines, some little

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salted fish. Two of them. Not enough. Five little barley loaves, little flat loaves

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of barley. What we would call today Peter bread. And if the insufficiency

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does not need to be pressed further barley is the bread of the poor. Rich

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people eat wheat. Poor folk ate barley bread. It was hard to digest. It was not

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of a good grain. It was not of a good quality. It was not the best bread. It's

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not enough. It's inadequate. It's insufficient. A boy, two fish, five loaves.

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I imagine his mama let him go to church that day and the mama being a mama

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figured church might have lasted longer than it usually should have lasted. And

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so she packs him a sack lunch. Maybe the boy had eight fish and ten loaves.

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But the choir sang so long. And the pastor preached so long that that boy got

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hungry like little boys in church do and started eating the little lunches

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mother packed. I don't know that I'm just putting that in there because that

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could have happened because if that had been me I would have ate some of my lunch.

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And by the time Jesus needed it all he had left was two fish and five loaves.

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I'm encouraged to tell somebody this morning bring Jesus what you got left.

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Sometimes I'm tired Lord bring that to Jesus. My heart is broken sometimes Lord

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bring that to Jesus. My child won't speak to me. Bring that to Jesus.

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Lord I'm running on empty. Bring that to Jesus. Lord this my last little money.

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Bring that to Jesus because somebody ought to help me testify. You ain't getting

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paid till Friday but you don't have enough gas on Tuesday. God will let that car

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keep running till you get to your payday. I wish I had a witness here. God knows

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how to take a little and make it match but you got to put it in the master's hand.

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There's a boy here. Two fish. Five little flat-barley loaves. But what is that?

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Among so many. Jesus said bring it to me. Have you any rivers that you think are

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uncrossable? Have you any mountains that you cannot tunnel through? God specialized.

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Have I got a witness? God specialized. God specialized. In things that seem impossible.

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And he can do what no other power. He's a doctor in a sick room. He's a lawyer in

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a courtroom. He's a friend when you're friendless. He's a bearer. He's a problem

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solver. He's a heavy load sharer. He will do it for you. Yes he will. Yes he will.

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Tell somebody around you. I don't know what you're going through. But put it.

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Put it. Put what, Reverend? The quietest thing that ever was in a while. This and that.

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Whatever this is, whatever that is, put it in his hand. Stop worrying about it. Stop crying over it.

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Stop getting stressed out about it. Stop losing your hair over it. If God be far out.

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Who can be against us?

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I'm finished. But they brought it to Jesus.

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Jesus said, make the men sit down. Because if you can get that brother's street.

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If you can get that man to go to church. His wife will go to church. His children will go to church.

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I wish I had some man here to help me shout right here. I need a real man here who does not mind

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testifying that when God's been good to me, I don't care if you see me cry. I don't care if you see me

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raise my hand. I don't care if you see me in church giving God glory. I'm not too cool to tell God thank you.

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If you can shout for the rockets. If you can shout for the Superbowl. If you can shout for the Astros.

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Who walked you up this morning?

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Lady, lady, sister. Don't marry no man who can't cry.

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He's going to make you cry.

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Don't marry no man who's to embarrass to show emotion.

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No, when God's been good to me, I've got so many sins God has forgiven.

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I've got so many doors God has opened and so many doors I need God to open that I'm not going to get

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dressed on no Sunday morning and come all of this way to the house of God and sit down with my arms folded

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because I don't want you to think that I'm not cool.

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If the Lord has kept you, you ought to say something. If God had made a way for you,

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you ought to say something. Let everything

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praise the Lord left the redeem

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of the Lord say so.

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He brought it to Jesus.

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He put it in his hand

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and he gave thanks.

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He lifted it up and gave thanks.

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And when he brought it down, RCH Linske says the more he gave, the more he had to give.

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He gave and he gave and he gave and he gave and listen to what the text says.

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Everybody ate until they were satisfied.

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God won't stop blessing you until you satisfy

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because God knows how to keep on giving and keep on giving and keep on giving and keep on giving

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that you say, Lord, I asked you for this, but you gave me that.

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When you learn how to show appreciation

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and when you live with a heart of gratitude and a spirit of thanksgiving,

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God will just send stuff your way that you're not even looking for because you're thankful over

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what he did the last time. It doesn't have to be new. It doesn't have to be fresh. It's just a

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blessing from God. Somebody here ought to help me testify. You know you made it on some stale bread.

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You know God kept you over some leftovers. You know God made a way when you had to wear

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some hand-me-downs. If God was good in your hand-me-down days, you ought to thank God in your

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nautstrom days. If God was good in your hoopty days, you ought to thank God in your Mercedes days.

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If God was good in your project days, you ought to thank God in your 18 square

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thousand square foot house. I need somebody here who can help me testify

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and you know where you came from and you're not in here this morning trying to be bougie and act

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like you always had it like that. I need to talk to my black brothers and sisters in here this

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morning. I'm grateful to the Lord for the many of you who wore your HBCU paraphernalia and for all

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of us who were blessed to rub our head inside the wall in a college classroom or in a dormitory.

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Thank God for that. But don't forget the nickels and dimes. These schools were built with quarters

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and dollars by poor people with no education and now here we are with six figure salaries

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and our schools are about to lose their accreditation because we support the tailgate

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but not the school. See how quiet you got right there? We support our fraternity and our sorority

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but not the school that we were pretending to have sorority members of.

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See how quiet you got again.

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Didn't you hear Donald Trump insult us yesterday?

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Talking about the reason black folk are with him because of his mug shot.

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Maybe you didn't hear that fool. Well go go listen to it. He said black people are with him because

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of his mug shot and he's selling these three hundred ninety nine dollar tennis shoes and he

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know black folk gone by because Trump said black folk like tennis shoes. Black folk like mug shot.

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The racist nerve of him. I know a whole lot of people who've been to jail

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but I know a lot more people who ain't been to jail. Just because you black don't mean you took

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a mug shot. I wish I had somebody to help me preach. The reason that is an A.K.A. and a Delta

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Sigma Theta is because they would not let you in white fraternities and sorority.

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The reason that is a grambling in the southern is they wouldn't let you in LSU and Louisiana Tech.

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The reason there is a TSU is because they didn't want you at the University of Houston.

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Talk back to me if you can. God has brought us a mighty long way

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and if anybody ought to be able to thank God thank you that when I had a little bit you kept me

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but now that I got a lot I want to bless your name. I'm through.

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They brought it to Jesus and everybody ate and was satisfied.

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Then Jesus said to the disciples who did the distribution gather up the fragments.

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The disciples who had been doing the feeding had not eaten.

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They were serving and they had not eaten.

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Jesus said when everybody is finished and satisfied your work is not finished yet.

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Gather up the fragments, the leftovers so that nothing be lost.

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The disciples who had not eaten did what Jesus said and when they got through gathering

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fragments there were 12 baskets of food. You missed that.

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The people had a meal

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but the disciples had a banquet

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because when you do what God says he'll never let you go lacking.

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12 baskets of fragments.

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You might think Jesus was being kind of frugal by telling them to pick up the leftovers.

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Don't let anything be lost. The reason Jesus said that is from the Old Testament book of Ruth.

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It was the custom of the Jewish people to leave a little corner

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in the field so that the poor folk could glean.

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They always left a corner for the poor.

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I'm tempted to say something right here.

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Just like the bread committee would have met about feeding the hungry.

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There's a crowd of folk around here

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who would look at this corner analogy

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and say you're going to kill that corner.

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There's a lot left in there.

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You want this corner because if you don't

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I got it.

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That ain't the corner I'm talking about.

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You have to always make sure that when you count your blessing you count somebody else in your

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blessing because if you always give it out you ain't going to lose nothing.

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God will see to it that it'll always come back to you.

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Have I got a witness here?

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And when Jesus got through feeding the multitude and the disciples got their basket of fish and

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bread the people would not leave the field without recognizing what just happened.

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Somebody said should.

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Somebody said truly.

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This man must be a prophet.

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When God has been good to you, when God has made a way for you,

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don't just leave with your blessing in your hand.

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Don't just leave with God's goodness in your pocket.

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Stop in your tracks and say surely.

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Surely it was nobody who did this for me.

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But God himself and when God has done something wonderful for you,

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you ought to make your way to God's house and not be ashamed to tell God I thank you

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for all you've done for me. I praise you for your many old blessings.

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I give you the glory for all you have wrought in my life.

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Is there anybody here this morning?

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God I thank you in you.

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Is there anybody here this morning? God of hallelujah you need to get rid of.

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Is there anybody here?

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God I thank you Jesus.

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You just can't wait to get out.

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Is there anybody here?

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Glad God came to your rescue.

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Glad God opened the door for you.

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I see you in the balcony. You can shout up there too.

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You can shout down over here to my left.

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I know God has been good to you.

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Don't act like you don't know who kept you.

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Don't act like you don't know who brought you.

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Don't act like you're embarrassed to tell God thank you.

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Thank you Jesus for all you've done for me.

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Thank you Jesus for the many ways you've made.

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Thank you Jesus for the many doors you've opened.

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Thank you Jesus for the many prayers you've answered.

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Thank you Jesus you've been my mother and my father.

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My sister and my brother.

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Thank you Jesus when my enemy tried to assail me.

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Thank you Jesus.

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You put a fence all around me.

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Thank you Jesus.

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You protected my children.

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You protected my family.

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Thank you Jesus when I was sick and couldn't get well.

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You were a doctor for me.

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Thank you Jesus.

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Is there anybody here?

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No God's been good to you.

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If you're not ashamed to tell God thank you.

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If you're not embarrassed.

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If you don't mind why don't you grab somebody.

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Tell them you don't know like I know.

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You can't tell it like I can tell it.

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Let me tell it what the Lord has done for me.

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He brought me.

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He kept me.

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He never left me.

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He dried my tears.

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He answered my prayers.

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Ain't he alright?

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Ain't he alright?

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See yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I know he's alright.

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Shirley.

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Shirley.

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Shirley.

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Shirley.

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This must be the Son of God.

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One Friday on a hill called Calvary.

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He died.

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Didn't he die?

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But early Sunday morning he got up.

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Didn't he get up with all power in his hand.

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Shake somebody's hand.

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Tell him Shirley.

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Shirley.

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Shirley.

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Shirley.

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What you need.

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God's got it.

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What you want.

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God's got it.

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Won't he do it?

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It's錢 and he's all right.

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It matters not what you have left.

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Bring it to Jesus.