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Adam Mesa is Lead Pastor of Patria Church and speaks to a congregation of 12,000 about how the gospel of Jesus Christ brings purpose to every life. Patria
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The Bread of Life and Spiritual Maturity 0:00 Father, thank you so much for your word. And, we aren't just here to learn, just simply about teachings, God, information. And this thing isn't just0:11 about knowledge.0:16 He's about ready to draw to draw It's about a relationship with Jesus. May we see our sitting in front of0:21 Jesus right now. And he's about ready to draw and so that puts a little bit more of a specialness0:32 information. It's more than knowledge, oh, God. It is Jesus speaking to us. We honor you today in Jesus name. Amen. Well, on Wednesday night, we obviously in the book0:44 of of of Mark. And I'm going to do Mark 1 through 38, but we're not going to read it all. We're going I'm going to break it apart as we go through it today. But when I was a little boy, there was something0:56 called, the Helms bakery man. And, it was a yellow truck that used to come through your neighborhood. And, what they do is they would roll out drawers1:08 and it'd be either fresh, bread or it could be what we call, or and, you would you would eat there. And but the the smell was1:19 overwhelming the smell of fresh bread. Fresh bread. It's called the manna of God. And you and I should be having1:31 that's why it says to in the Lord's prayer in Matthew 6, that we should be asking God, give us our daily bread. Maturity, yes, deals with worship and can come to church1:43 and fasting and so many other things, but your daily intake of the word of God. And that's what we're gonna work through today. We're gonna work through the book of Matthew. I'm excuse me, Mark chapter 8.1:55 There are 6 teachings that go on very quickly that we're gonna run through. Jesus feeds 4000. He teaches about the leaven of the Pharisees and the Herodians. Then he does a healing of the blind man at2:07 Bethsaida. Then he does, Peter's confession of who he is. Then we see Peter who speaks the opposite of Jesus' plan and purpose and he gets rebuked. And he2:19 says, get thee behind me, Satan. Strong terminology. Is that is that is not a statement of his love toward us? Yes. Because sometimes we can talk like the2:31 devil. I know nobody in this church, but in other churches. But I'll say sometimes I could talk like the devil. When I talk like the world, when I talk opposite of God's will, I could talk just the way2:43 the devil is. That's his plan. And then we get into taking up the cross. But there are 3 outside of that, there are 3 things that stand out in this whole chapter. Number 1 is the2:54 instructions of you have to read the book of the Bible, not as a book of suggestions. It's a book of direction for your life, your marriage, your home, how to date, how to make3:06 choices, how to react, how to have victory in your life. It's more than a book of suggestions or options. It's a book of direction that you and I are to listen to when we read, and we're to meditate on, which3:18 means to dwell upon. Heart. And we are to obey. The reality is the instructions of Jesus are3:30 found today as we work through this teaching. You'll see him doing that. And if we follow his instructions, here's the reality. We will succeed, and we will be blessed, and we will be3:42 able to receive. But if we do not receive the word and and and follow the word of God, then you and I are going to experience heartaches and they can be avoided. And last3:54 of all, when we don't listen to the instructions of God, the directions of God, and don't follow just like we do in the world. If you don't follow their directions, you're gonna get in trouble period. You're not that4:05 smart to know how to fix everything and put everything together. Every little thing that's in our life has instructions and has directions to it. So it is the word of God. And that4:17 is our way of honoring. Second thing you'll see in this overwhelming chapter is the emotions of Jesus. Jesus has4:29 feelings, and Jesus feels things. He has desires. He has passions. He has reactions and he has responses based upon our obedience or based upon our4:41 disobedience. Based on how we live, what we do, how we serve, how we be, how we become. Jesus has an emotion related to that. Jesus is not some4:53 dormant God, melancholy God, or feels nothing God. The Bible gives us the true emotions of Jesus and how he feels toward us. And then last of5:05 all, you see the vast activity of Jesus. When you when you see him work through, Dalmanuth, and you see him work through the Sea of Galilee, and all this is in chapter, Mark chapter 8. The city of5:17 the Caesarea Philippi crowds, individuals, friends, strangers, believers and unbelievers. It challenges me of the vast activity of Jesus. His involvement, his participation,5:29 his availability, his accessibility, his visibility, his busyness, his mobility, his moving, his enterprising ness, his venturing, his productive,5:41 his projects and his building. There and do nothing, neither should he expect his followers to sit there and do nothing. In 1 chapter, he's5:53 moving. He's all over the place. And that's the way a Christian should be, active until they go home to be with him. Now, we begin to read. Let's go to Mark and read the first6:04 1. And in those days, and I won't read the whole point, but I'll give you enough to write your notes or to get points to think about.6:10 In those days, there was again, notice the word6:11 again, a large, In those days, there was again, notice the word again, a large crowd and they had nothing to eat. That means they are hungry. They are6:22 starving. He called the disciples and said to them, I have compassion or I'm concerned on the crowd because they've already stayed with me how long? 3 days. Number6:34 next, and they have nothing to eat. If I send them if I send them home hungry, they will collapse on the way, and some of them have come a long6:46 distance. You see all that? And there are about 4000 people there that he fed, and he dismissed. Let's work through this teaching. Number 1, you see the word again.6:59 Again applies to the fact that remember he fed 5000, now he's feeding 4000, which means to me that he's a God that will do it again in your life. He's not a7:10 1 time God. He's not a 1 time healer. He's not a 1 time miracle. He's not like you go to a store and just say, you know what? There's only 1 per customer, and I'm sorry. You're not gonna7:22 get another 1. I remember growing up when I was early in the Christian church, there was a famous song. And, it was called He'll Do It Again. You may not know7:34 how, and you may not know when, but he'll do it again. And somebody needs to hear today that he will do it again. Whatever you need from God that he's done in the past,7:46 he could do it again. And he was able to multiply and make fishes and loaves to feed multitudes of people, he could he could do it again in your life.7:59 The next thing I recognize is that Jesus is so concerned with details. I love the details. He's mindful, he's thorough, and he's aware. It gives you 4 things that he's aware of about these people.8:11 He knew that they were with him 3 days. He knew that they had not eaten in those 3 days and were hungry. He knew if he let them go, they would collapse and not make it home. And he knewBeware of Influences and Spiritual Amnesia 8:23 that some of them had come long distances. Who is this God that knows the details of your life and is concerned about the detail? Oh, God don't care about that. Yes, he8:34 does. He cares about what worries you, what's fears you, what concerns you. He cares about every bill you have to pay, every emotion, every disability, every insecurity. He knows8:46 everything. And if he knew everything about the crowd, you know What you makes you What makes you think he don't know everything about you? He's completely aware8:58 of the details. And last of all, which we didn't read, the Bible says is that he broke the bread and he gave thanks. And then he blessed the bread.9:12 The miraculous thrives in an atmosphere of Thanksgiving and blessed. Yeah. Thrive in an atmosphere of Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving9:24 is an attitude. You'll never you'll you will never you will never participate in the miraculous or thrive in the miraculous. If you are ungrateful9:36 and ingrate, unthankful, unappreciative, a complainer, about everything, then you're probably gonna struggle with the miracles of God in receiving. But miracles thrive9:48 in an atmosphere and an attitude of thanksgiving. And they thrive in an atmosphere of blessed, and blessed is a confession. He had the bread and10:00 he blessed the bread. He blessed it with his mouth. And you need to speak blessings over your marriage, over your health, over your job. That is your confession of faith. I'm not gonna speak curses over my10:12 life. I'm gonna speak blessings over my life. And all of that happened in the story. The second thing that I want you to look at now, and we'll read,10:24 is in Mark. Now, this deals with 11 of the Pharisees and the Herodians. Then he gave them strict orders. Watch out. How many of you know if Jesus says, you better pay attention, you better10:36 be alert, you better better better be watchful, you better be attentive, then how many of you know, you better. It's better than a sign telling you to watch out. He's saying, you better watch10:48 out and beware to 2 words of distinction. Why do we get in trouble often? Because we don't watch out and we're not a beware. How many of you know,10:59 sometimes children teenagers get in trouble because they don't listen to what you tell them. You said, now be watchful when you cross the street. Beware of strangers around you.11:12 And God forbid that they don't listen because they think they're all grown up, and then something happens. It could happen for us today. He says, watch out and beware what? Of the leaven. The11:24 word leaven is the word yeast. Yeast can rise and take over like cancer. So remember that. So he's saying beware of this thing that I'm about ready to tell you because it11:36 could spread like wildfire and it could take over your life, and you won't be able to control it. What's he talking about? He says the Pharisees and the Levin of Herod, which is the11:47 Herodians. They were discussing among themselves that they did not have any bread.12:02 Pretty much after he feeds 4000 with 7 baskets left over. And now they're worried about not having enough bread.12:14 Don't you understand or comprehend? Do you have hard in your heart how quickly unbelief could come into our life? Do you have eyes and and not see? And do you have ears and don't hear? And do you12:26 not tell somebody, you better remember. So now we work through this topic of what he's talking about when he talks about 11. Life where we are paying12:38 attention and alert. To what? To what we're watching, to what we're listening. But more than that, he's talking about what is influencing us? What is12:49 affecting us in our lives, what we are hanging around that affects us so that we have stress in our lives, or we feel insecure in our lives, or we feel fearful in our lives,13:01 or worry, or anxiety, or now all of a sudden I'm judgmental, or I'm compromising, or I'm conforming to the ways of this world, or I have a scarcity mentality. Who13:13 is influencing you? It'd be like God telling Adam and Eve, who have you listened to? Who have you been hanging around? And he's saying, you are being influenced or13:25 possibly could be influenced by the teachings of the Pharisees and the Herodians. So pay attention to what you hang around, what you listen to13:37 because it will influence you. It's like 11 that rises up quickly and it takes over. So sometimes you can't watch all the13:48 news that you wanna watch. And sometimes you need to shut off all the Instagram and all the Facebook that you're listening to all the time because you're looking at someone's beauty and then you look at14:00 yourself. You look at someone's perfect edited life, and then you judge yourself. You see all these people getting all this stuff, fast money, and you think you're gonna get that, or that you should do that. Stop it he's14:11 saying. You're being influenced by social media. You see somebody dressed real fine, look a certain way. And so you think that that's acceptable to get men or to have babies. Whatever it is.14:23 Pay attention to what is making you feel and think a certain way. Well then he goes on and says, pay attention to14:35 the leaven of the Pharisees and the Herodians. So what was he saying? Well the Pharisees is the doctrine or the teaching of legalism, ritualism,14:48 tradition, and what we would call just religion. And he says, you gotta watch out for that. Because you could be a Christian, but you could be a very legalistic Christian. And you could be a Christian,15:00 but you're a very traditional Christian in a negative way. And you're a very ritualistic Christian. And that's what the Pharisees were all about. They would dot their i's15:12 and cross their t's, but their heart was not close to God. They'd like to boast about their religiosity, about their spirituality to to become15:23 greater in the eyes for the approval of man. But they didn't do it to the glory of God. And he says, you gotta watch out for all that. Watch out for the teaching of the Pharisees which is very15:35 ritualistic. Very ritualistic, very ceremonialistic. And then he goes on, the the traditions, whatever whatever whatever that that might look like that is so15:47 legalistic in your life. I grew up in a legalistic religion, and people think they're pious and they're holy because of that. But they'll cuss you out15:59 when you walk out of the church and they'll fornicate with every Not everybody, but I know 1 of the people at least I hung around with. But they had the signs of godliness.16:11 And that was the Pharisee. They have the look of godliness. They put something on their forehead. They go and get holy communion. They genuflects. Now, and I'm saying everybody. Now go don't get offended with me16:23 now. But it's all it's outward appearance, not an inward conviction or transformation in their lives. They have a relationship with a religion. They don't have a relationship with a16:35 person, and that's what I had. A real I I knew all the jots and tittles of the religion. I studied the religion. I did the duties of the religion.16:47 But it was not a behavior. It was not a a relationship. And then there's the Pharisees I mean, excuse me. Then there's the teachings of the Herodians. The Herodians were politicians.17:00 They were people that trust in man or in a party. And I should leave it at that right now because I think the teachings of the Herodians are getting right into the church right now. And17:12 I shared with you this weekend that that the latest statistics say that people put politic persuasion above faith when it comes to marrying people17:23 now. So it doesn't matter if you believe in Jesus or not. Before, it should be the highest standard not to be unequally I I can't even date you. I I can't even date you. I I'm17:35 disobeying the bible to date a non Christian, let alone marry a Christian. Okay? But now people are choosing, are you a republican? Because I can't17:47 marry a republic. Are you a democrat? I can't marry a democrat. And they'll choose who to marry based on a pull That that is so silly. It is so silly for for that17:59 to be I won't even tell you the conversations that me and my wife have. So you see how holy and hushed got in here? Because18:11 we may disagree but we'll stay married, we love each other, we hear each other's point of view, but that has nothing to do with our marriage. We're not when we go to heaven,18:23 we're not gonna be talking about that stuff. That stuff does not pass in the glory. Doesn't mean we don't pray, doesn't mean that we shouldn't vote, but I'm just saying we make it an idol, we make it a18:35 god. We wear t shirts now, we wear bumper sticker, we stand on the side of places and I I I'm saying too much. Let me shut down now. Shut it down, Diego. Shut it down. And how18:47 quickly There's no love in that. Yeah. How quickly we forget God's power and God's18:58 provisions and God promises because of present circumstances, situations, and conditions. They were hungry, and they just forgot about the miracle that he did not too long ago. And19:10 we forget yesterday's faithfulness and goodness of God because of the present circumstance and the present situation. We let the present noise and sound and voices19:22 drown out yesterday's blessings in our lives. There used to be an old song that would go like this, count your many blessings and number them 1 by 1. I would rename it and say,19:34 recount your blessings and number them 1 by 1. Do you know that, an elephant's memory is long?19:47 Survival of an elephant is his memory? Because in times of famine, where there is no water, He has a memory of where the19:59 ponds are and the holes are. He has memories of trees that bring shade. He has the memory of vegetations, of things that were done decades ago. His memory20:10 can remember where places are to go. We have such a spiritual amnesia based upon today's problems that we forget about how God have brought us through20:22 yesterday, and we can't survive today because we forgot about what God did yesterday. You tell me God's never healed something like this? Think God's never turned a heart like this? God never20:34 provided for something? God's never intervened? He has. And you need to remember that Mark 8 and verse 23. Number 3, moving along. Pick it up, pick it up, pick it up. And heHealing, Faith, and Personal Revelation 20:46 took the blind man by the hand he brought him out of the village spitting on his eyes. Yeah, he he spit on him. Jesus spit on the dude's eyes. And he laid his20:57 hands on the spitted eyes. And he asked him, do you see anything? He looked up and he said, I see people. They look like trees.21:09 In other words, it's blurry. And again, there is the word again, again. Jesus placed his hands on the man's eyes. The man looked intently and his sight was restored21:21 and he saw everything clearly. He's the healing of the blind man. Healing can be instant but sometimes healing takes time. 2 ways in God heals. When he21:33 heals instantly, he just needs your belief. When he heals instantly, he just needs your faith. When he heals instantly, he just does it on his own sovereignly. But when it's done through time, it takes another21:45 recipe. And that recipe may look like a confession of the promise of God. That may be exercising your faith and living out your healing and doing something that the condition told21:57 you not to do. It may look like obedience. God is now telling you to do something, and it may be now you minding your mind because all the thoughts are lying to you telling you you're not22:08 healed. People people can lose their healing by going back to Bethsaida. He said22:21 Notice he I didn't read those. So he brought him out of Bethsaida by the hand of blind man. How many of you know blind men, their blind people, their life is around familiarity.22:33 It took faith to have this rabbi, this teacher, this Messiah, lean me out to a place I've never been before. Then he heals me and he tells me, don't go go22:45 back to your house, but don't go back to that town. What was in that town? And so what you need to understand is this, people I've seen it over and over and over. God's healed22:56 them and then they lose their healing. Why? Because they go back to Bassettia. They go back to their former lifestyle. They backslide. They walk in disbelief, and they don't steward the23:08 health that God gave them. They go back to toxic lifestyles. Why would God heal you?23:21 What will you do if God heals you? I don't have the answer. I'm just telling you. Sometimes Jesus has to take you somewhere different and difficult so that he23:33 could heal you, so that you can see, so that you could get vision, and to get something you've never had before. Why didn't he heal him in that town? He23:45 that man had to trust Jesus and let him take hold of his hand and lead him out. And sometimes God needs to do that. He needs to just remove you, take you somewhere you've never been before. So23:57 you'll have vision now and you can see clearly. I know there's been a time in my life when early when we are building this church, forming the vision of the church. I grew24:09 up and we all are a by part of a part by we are who we are today and a by product of our experiences and our associations and our environments. That's who's made up every 1 of you today, me and you. Your24:21 environment, your experiences, and your associations. That's who brings you today, here today. And I had a certain mindset of what I thought Christianity was and how I was gonna do church.24:33 God led me to a church of that was a Christian church, but it believed differently than we believe. And I stood there in that that service by my24:45 talking to myself and I was so judgmental, and I was so critical because I thought I knew what the Christian church should look like. And because it was so different24:57 than what I used to was used to, I I was demeaning it in my mind. And God had to take me out to go there to expose the sin and25:09 the error of my life, and deliver me and heal me and bring me back so that I could start building a healthy church with a different mindset. But if I wasn't willing to go to25:21 a place I had never been before, and be uncomfortable, so the Lord could judge me and rebuke me, I would be the same in this church. I promise you, would not look the way it looks today. Because I could go25:33 through the list of what this church would have looked like. So so, yeah. So next 1. Very quickly. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Next point.25:45 Go to the next question. Jesus went out to his disciple of the village of Caesarea Philippi on a road and he asked his disciples, who do people say that I am? Some say they are John the Baptist, some say they are Elijah,25:55 and still others said, you're 1 of the prophets. But but you, he's asked them, who do who do you say that I am? And Peter spoke up and answered, you are26:07 the Messiah or you're the anointed 1. You are you are Christ. So here are 2 questions that are in this story. Who is Jesus to others and who is Jesus to26:19 you? Who is Jesus to others? Well, here's a list right now. If you were to ask the Jehovah's Witnesses, they would say, Jesus was created. He26:31 was created. He's not preexistent. He was created. Number 2, if you ask a Mormon, they'd say, Jesus is the brother of Satan. If you26:43 ask Hindus, they'd say Jesus is a guru, and he's 1 of many gurus or gods. If you ask Muslims, they'd say Jesus is a prophet. If you ask Jews, they'd say Jesus26:55 is a rabbi or a heretic. And if you ask Buddhist, Jesus is an enlightened being. If you ask the world today, who is Jesus? You'll get those things and you'll get he's a parable teacher.27:07 He's a miracle worker. He's a moral man. He was a revolutionist. And those are what other people are saying. At that point, Jesus stops you and he says, but I wanna ask27:18 you something very personal now. Yes. Who am I to you? Stop talking about who I am to someone, your mama, your preacher, your brother, your sister. I wanna know who am I to27:30 you. Because I can't be anything bigger than you tell me or allow me to be in your life. So tell me who I27:42 am to you. And you gotta come back with answering the question. He is the sacrifice for my sins. He is the substitution for my sins. And he is the sanctifier27:54 from my sins. That's who Jesus is to me. He is the preexisting God. He is God and he's always been God. He's created the heavens and the28:06 earth. He's the second person in the trinity. He came to this earth. He suffered. He died. He went down to hell. He was raised from the28:18 dead. He walked this earth for 40 days. He ascended. He's seated at the right hand. He's coming back for a rapture church. Then he's coming back for a second coming. Then he's coming back for a28:30 millennial reign. And then he'll throw Satan and the antichrist into the lake of fire. And then he'll create a new heaven and a new earth where we will rule with him forever. Amen.28:42 Well, I didn't know all that. Well, now you do. And you better know that because when those people knock on your door, they know who he is to them. Yeah. And most28:54 kids, don't answer the door. Don't answer the door. Walk away. And we have the good news, the gospel and don't can't even share it. Don't know how to articulate it. We just say you're going to29:06 hell. Now where where was I? We need a little bit more than you're going to hell kind of message. So we need to understand that he is that to us.29:18 And number 5, here we go. We're almost done. He says this, then he began to teach them that it was necessary for the son of man to suffer many things and be rejected. See, most most religions29:30 don't believe that their Messiah would suffer. They don't believe that their Messiah would die. They don't believe their Messiah would go to hell, or they don't believe their Messiah would be29:41 resurrected. Some do, but those those are trigger points that when you go to them, you have to ask them that question. You have to ask them that question. So then he began to do teach you to suffer many things and29:53 be rejected by the elders, chief prescribes, and be killed and rise 3 days. So he's telling them about his future death. And he spoke openly about this but Peter took him aside. I almost have to laugh. Peter took him30:05 aside and began to rebuke Jesus. Come on now. Just a few moments ago, you said, thou art Christ, son of the living God. Who would you submit Now now30:17 you gotta be rebuked, but turn it around, look at this, have you rebuked Peter, and he said, get the I mean, these things are like, shut up. You're acting really weird right now. Shut up you stupid fool. He said, get the30:28 behind me Satan. You are not Here's the key thing. This is the key part. You are not thinking. You are not talking. You are not acting30:40 about God's concerns, but you're more concerned about yourself, the ways of this world, and human logic, and you're leaning on your own understanding. You think you know30:52 better than me. So how vulnerable can you and I be? How quickly we can we can quickly go from faith to doubt,31:04 hope to fear, revelation to ridiculousness, to holiness, to the flesh.31:17 Environment in 20 seconds. I think we can almost beat the chameleon in how quickly we can vacillate, and be flaky, and be fickle, about who Christ31:29 is to us. But we recognize we we will be in this place where we have to be rebuked by the Lord when we do lean on our own understanding opposite of God.31:40 And we do rest on our own logic of how to do something outside of the will of God or the plan of God or reject reject God's will and God's ways for our lives, then we31:52 stand to be rebuked. What are some of those things look like today? Well, you could live together. You're gonna eventually get married. You love each other.32:04 That that's what people do today when they lean on their own understanding, their own reasoning today. They stand to be rebuked. You could live together. You could have you could have sex outside of marriage. Ain't32:15 nothing wrong with that. You stand to be rebuked by Jesus today. You could abort a baby. That's human logic today. That's the world we're living in today. We stand to be rebuked by32:27 Christ. You don't have to come to church to be a Christian. You stand to be rebuked today by Christ. Self indulgence. Whatever you feel like, whatever you wanna do, don't deny yourself. You'll stand to be rebuked by the32:34 Lord. You can don't deny yourself, you'll stand to be rebuked by the Lord. You can borrow all you want. You don't have to pay it back. Come on. Just file bankruptcy, you know, just whatever. Just use the32:46 system. Come on, man. It's the ways of the world. You stand to be rebuked by the devil. Yeah. Alright. Be rebuked by God. An entitlement mentality. I deserve this. I deserve that. I32:58 don't I don't want nobody to help me other than God. He's giving me a mind. He's giving me strength because there's a price to pay when you when I hold my hand out and you put something in it. You owe me, man. 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