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Empowering multimedia ministry for bold Christian living: Weekend Messages, Deep End Podcast, Deep Dive Bible Study. Tim Hatch, Lead Pastor, Waters Church, 26 years of pastoral ministry, book author.
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0:23 Well, hello. Oh, I wish you guys need to pepper throughout the earlier services because this was I don't even have to ask you again to say hello. So tap yourself0:35 on the shoulder. Good job. Good job welcoming pastor Jim. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Welcome. If it's your first time here, thank you for being here at Waters Church. Could be here doing anything. Thank you for tuning0:47 in online or prayer dot com or wherever you're tuning in online. All of the locations, you could be anywhere doing anything today, but you're with us in church. Aren't we glad? We're0:59 glad you're here with us. So welcome. Welcome. So listen. My name is Jim Shackleton. I'm the location pastor of Woonsocket, and it is a yes. Woo that.1:10 Thank you. It's worth the woo. Okay. Just so you know. It's worth it. But listen, welcome to the weekend at Waters Church.1:23 Take out your notes, your note cards here. If you're in house, if you're online, go to watershurch dot guide, and there is an electronic version of this. You can fill in the blanks, print it out, hang it on your wall or1:35 your fridge or your office table or something. But there's a saying here at Waters Church, you might know it, you might have heard it before. If you don't take notes, take notes.1:46 You've all been voluntold. If you've never been voluntold for anything, today is the day. You're welcome. You didn't know you're going to coming to church. If you don't know what voluntold is, that means I1:58 volunteered to tell you to do something. You've been voluntold. You're welcome. So listen, I'm gonna come right out of the gates here with some fill in the blanks in just a minute2:10 here, but I wanna hit you with the book of John. That's where we're gonna go for scripture. And and the book of John, the gospel of John is is 1 of my personal favorites. When I first came to the Lord and and started2:20 really you know, when I was kinda, you know, grown in the Lord and knew, that's the book that just captivated me. It just did. And and at the time, I didn't know it, but but now I look back and I realized that was the2:32 Lord. He just he wanted me there. He wanted me to start there. There's a side of Jesus that's shown, and there's a there's a a lot of miraculous things that happen and and it just it just2:43 captivated me. And and then, you know, I'm a guy. I'm a guy. And sometimes men it's okay to be honest in church. Okay? Sometimes2:55 we need something to slap us upside the head to tell us why. Right? Okay. There's some honest men here today. Again, pepper yourself throughout previous services. But it's3:07 true. Sometimes we we just don't we don't wanna take the long way. We just wanna go, boom. Tell me. What are we doing here? Okay? And that's the book of John. And I and I know this because it tells us this. Okay. So3:19 the very first fill in the blank. The purpose of the book of John. This is the first fill in the blank. I may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the son of God, and that by believing, I may have3:31 life in his name. That's the purpose of the book of John. And it's it's not didn't just come up that with because I'm creative because I'm really not creative. That's what the3:43 Bible tells us. It tells us that in in the book of John chapter 20 verse 31 30 to 31 says, you know, well, before we go to that scripture, there's there's so many things that3:54 Jesus did while he was alive, and a lot of them are recorded. And a lot of miraculous supernatural things were written about in the book of John. And so4:07 I say that because the first verse here, verse 30, it it just it leaves me speechless sometimes. Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples which are4:19 not written in this book. Holy smokes. There's a lot of stuff written in this book. And it says, there's so much more that he did that's not written in this book.4:30 But these are written so that, here it is, you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.4:42 That's the reason the book of John is written. So you do get homework because I have the microphone and you don't. Your homework is go home and read. At least read chapter 6 of4:54 John. But your real homework is to read all of John. And what you're gonna see when you read all of John is this very purpose brought to life off5:05 the printed text of the pages that you're reading. Now we're gonna go into reading the scripture here. Before we go into the scripture reading here today, wanna I wanna explain a little bit of the events leading up to5:17 what we're gonna read. Okay? Literally, night before we're gonna read the scripture. In the night before, there were some happenings. The day before, there were some happenings. Okay? Jesus5:29 went throughout all the sea of gal all the Galilee area. That's North Jerusalem or North, excuse me, North Israel. And he was doing all these signs, healing the sick, and the lame are walking, and the deaf are hearing,5:40 and the blind are seeing. Okay? Throughout all the land. And he goes to Galilee to Tiberias. It's like the southern part of the Sea of Galilee. And all these people in the region, the Jews, the crowd, they heard5:52 about it. They saw some of it, and they're like, oh, what's going on? We're gonna go follow Jesus. We wanna see more of this. What's he gonna do next?6:05 And so the day before the scripture that we're gonna read, the day before is when there's 5000 men plus women and children in front of Jesus and his disciples.6:17 And they're hangry. They're getting hungry. The people are hungry, physically hungry, and the the disciples are like, oh my gosh. It's gonna take a fortune to feed these people. What are we gonna do? And and this is6:27 where a boy with fish and loaves is brought to Jesus. And Jesus blesses it, and he feeds the thousands that are there. So much so that everyone's got their belly full, they're happy,6:39 and there's 12 baskets of leftovers. Now I love Thanksgiving. What I love more than Thanksgiving is the day after with the with the6:50 leftovers. Yeah? Like that sandwich that has everything. You know, the bowl that you just don't care what's in there, you just warm it up in the microwave and eat it. It's fantastic. And7:02 I think how much more yummy were these 12 baskets of leftovers? But this crowd that followed Jesus wanted to see Jesus, this is what they partook of.7:15 And Jesus they they wanted Jesus to be king. He said, nope. Not now. And he just sneaks out, you know, away from them. So they didn't do that. And he tells the disciples, go get in your boats. Go that way. I'll meet you7:26 over there. Okay. Jesus isn't in the boat. Okay. And the the disciples are rowing and rowing and row row row your boat kind of like that. Too long.7:53 That's the night before the scripture that we're gonna read. And it's very important that we know this context of of what just happened both to the crowd of Jews and to the8:05 disciples before we read this text. We're gonna read in the book of John chapter 6 verse 25 to 35. I'm gonna invite you as well as all locations. Please stand for the reading of God's word here.8:18 So picking up at verse 25, it says this, and when they found him on the other side, the they is the crowd. When the crowd found him on the other side, found Jesus on the other side of the sea, they said to him,8:30 rabbi, where did you when did you come here? Jesus says, truly truly I say to you, you are seeking me not because you saw signs, but because you ate your full of the loaves. Do not do not work for the food8:42 that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the son of man will give to you. For for on him, the father has set us sealed. They said to8:53 him, what must we do? What must we do to be doing the works of God? Jesus answered them, this is the work of God, that you believe in him who he has sent. So they said to9:05 him, what sign do you do? What sign do you do that we may see and believe you? What work do you perform? Our fathers ate manna in the wilderness9:17 as it is written. He gave them bread from heaven to eat. Jesus said to the to them, truly truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my father gives you9:29 the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world. They said said to him, sir, give us this9:41 bread always. Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst. Join me in prayer.9:54 Heavenly father, we thank you for today. We thank you that we can freely come to a place like this and proclaim your truth and grow and learn about you and receive you Christ. We ask that you would honor and bless this10:05 time. I just want to be your mouthpiece heavenly father. Say what needs to be said. It's your precious name we pray. Amen. Amen. Go ahead. Have a seat all10:17 locations. So the Jews, the crowd I'm gonna say Jews and crowd, you know,10:28 interchangeably, potato, potato, please please know that. The crowd, they were more interested in receiving the physical from Jesus than receiving Jesus.10:41 That's what the scripture shows us. And the same people that witnessed the miraculous power of Jesus, the ones that received the supernatural blessing of10:52 abundance of fish and loaves. The sell those same people were the ones that were so focused on the physical and totally overlooked and11:04 missed the spiritual. Totally. So and I say that they were they were so focused on the material that Jesus was giving them, the11:15 physical. I call that the handfuls. They were they were focused on Jesus' handful rather than Jesus and who he is.11:27 And so handfuls. I've got a a demonstration here. Handfuls. I know somebody in the front rows here by the aisle would love a chocolate bar. This is not 1000000 dollars. It says it is. It's not.11:39 It's just chocolate. Who wants 1? Who wants 1? Here you go. There you go. Okay. 1 for this side too. Who's on this11:50 side? I I can't come down. The cameras won't like it. There you go. There. That's all I have. I need the rest for something else. Calm down people. Okay?12:02 But receiving the handful I just gave you, these 2 individuals know nothing more about me.12:14 They don't know my heart. They don't know my intention. They don't know why I give it. They just plucked it. And that's fine.12:26 That's fine. Now, everybody, I need your help welcoming somebody that probably no. I definitely know he did not expect to be on stage with me today. Rick, the stage manager today. Please come out here. Thank you. Thank12:37 you. Where are you? Hello. So it's like this. Yes. Sometimes we need to come to God and approach him to receive from his hand. Other times he reaches it out,12:50 but he can't I just can't I can't get to it right now. I'm close, but not close enough. We're close here and he gets it and he receives the good thing that I have13:02 for him. And sometimes as Christians this is where we stop. As though God's fingertip of blessing is the end of what he has for us.13:14 Are we close to God to receive this? Absolutely. Is there nearness to our maker? Yes. Does he want to give this? Yes. Do does13:26 Rick want it? Yes. And our god wants to give things like this instead of an outstretched13:38 hand only. Amen. Now no. You keep that. I'll give it to you in just a minute. Stay right here. Got something else. So here. Just13:51 here we are. No million dollar bar this time. From the human perspective, it looks empty. It looks empty. What do you have for me?14:03 Well, sometimes he just has something to pull you into him and say this is where I want you. This is where I want to give something to you. I don't want you at arm's length. I want you right here near to14:14 me. But when we're focused on what's in it, we miss what God actually has for us. Thank you, Rick. Appreciate it.14:28 Now the God of the Bible is all powerful. Not like a genie in the bottle all powerful at your beck and call does anything gives you whatever, all that stuff. Okay? Not like the movies of a genie in a14:40 bottle, but the God of the Bible is real. The God of the Bible is all powerful. He does make life out of nothing. He does create out of nothing. He can do14:51 anything, anything, and we don't always understand it. And we're not supposed to. But if he is all powerful, and he15:03 has something in his hand for us, and since he's perfect and good, what's in his hand must be perfect and good, and he is a good father, And he doesn't give it because you've earned it, he gives it15:15 because he's good. He gives to you because he is good and merciful and loving and compassionate. And so if these are true of everything he's of God,15:27 there is 1 question and 1 question only. What will you do with God's handful? Some people will do this.15:39 Peace. I'm out. I don't want it. Some people may say, yeah. Boom. Got it. Kinda like the crowd. I got my full. It was15:51 awesome. I want some more. Pluck out of your hand. And some, there's a third option, and it's the and part of this conversation. See, a handful of God and knowing him more16:02 is not an or or a but conversation. It is an and conversation. Here is what God has for us and more of him.16:16 His blessing in your life and in my life does not end when the hand is empty. And when it is empty by our perspective, we don't know16:27 everything. But he has something for us, though we might not see the goodies. So16:38 handfuls. What are some indicators that you might be in the in the handful category of faith and life and where you're at? 1 indicator16:51 is that you rely too much on Sundays to sustain you through the week. Service is great at all locations, not just here, all locations17:02 and online. All of them are great. All of them are necessary. All of them are spirit filled. All of them are meant for you to receive. All of them. But they're not designed17:15 to sustain you through the hills and the valleys and the mountain tops from Monday to Saturday. And so a handful category might be,17:28 you're like doing a army crawl to get here on every single week. Like, oh, I just need to be filled up again. And yes, we need to be filled up, and yes, Sunday does that. But17:40 again, it's not intended to carry you and sustain you and grow you throughout the whole entire week. Another indicator of maybe17:52 you're in the handful category is that you're chasing the next thing God's gonna do. You're chasing the next healing. You're chasing the next thing to witness the move of18:03 God going. Kinda like the crowd. They heard Jesus was healing, and they wanted to see more of it for themselves. You're chasing Jesus to see what's done in the physical only. You're in18:15 the handful category. Another 1 is simply being a Christian is just something you do on Sunday. You're in the handful category.18:28 Because being a Christian is not something you do, it's something that you are. And so that's how you know you might not be in the handful category. You might not have everything figured out. I don't have everything18:37 figured out. I'm not good at all the things that I'm sharing with you. But your intention and your desire is to not remain in the handful. It is to yearn for something else. And the first indicator is18:49 that Sundays being a Christian isn't something I do on Sunday. It's something that I am. It's who I am all days, not just Sunday. Another indicator is that throughout19:01 the week, I am a child of God every day. I am filled with his spirit. I can be filled with his spirit all days of the week, not just the Sunday of the week.19:13 God is exalted in my life on the mountaintop and in the valley and everywhere in between. Is when you're coming out of the handful life and you want something more19:26 of God. The biggest indication that that you're not in the handful category is that you want God for19:37 God. Not because of what's in his hand, not because of his promises. You want him because of him. In which case,19:50 you may be at the point where even if there's no other handful extended to me, I'm okay with that. You've already done enough and I will praise and exalt your name for all the days of my life.20:04 Does it mean you have everything figured out? No. But it's a good indicator that you're looking for something more than the handfuls of God.20:17 So there's there's a couple things that this passage points out, and I I think that there's there are pathways to receive more than God's handfuls20:29 because that's what the Bible says. He didn't just that's why it can't why why this book was written because there's a handful. The handful is the message of Jesus Christ so that we could live happily20:41 ever after throughout Sunday? No. So that we may know and believe and have life in him. You see, that's the more of God. So the pathway20:53 to receive more of God than God's handful, number 1, is to receive the message of Jesus instead of indulging your emotions. Receive the message of Jesus21:04 instead of indulging your emotions. I call this the feelings farm where we're concerned about how we feel and where our emotions are going and how they're going to lead us and we rely on them too much to steer our21:16 decisions and our in our character and our in our in our hope and all of that. We're so much more care to fostering and farming our emotions that we miss the message of21:27 Christ. And this is in the crowd. The crowd starts in verse 2. I've already shared with you that Jesus was doing all these signs and that's why the crowd wanted to see more of him.21:40 Wow. Look at all this stuff he's doing. I wanna go see it. I have to see it. What's gonna happen next? The crowd did not21:52 just see, they received the supernatural power of God through the fish and loaves and the feeding. They were part22:04 of the miracle. They received the miracle. I think I'm a very visual person And so sometimes that's where I go and I try to I I try to visualize myself chasing22:15 Jesus and the disciples say, okay. Okay. So everybody sit down. We're gonna feed you. And I'm kind of a cynic and God's healing me and take me out of that and be like, okay. You're gonna feed all this. Look at all of us.22:24 Hello. Like, I eat a lot. And so then I I try to imagine Jesus blessing these puny fish and these puny loaves and then sending the disciples out to22:36 the seated crowds, and it's just 1 after another after another. Like, I'm gonna try dumping it out and see what's full again. I mean, there's some emotion to witnessing the22:48 power of God when he moves. In verse 14, the crowd was was there with him. And when the people saw23:00 the sign that he had done, they said, indeed, this is the prophet, capital p, prophet. Not a prophet, capital p, the prophet. The awaited 1 for them.23:12 They said they said the people saw what he had done. They said this indeed is the prophet who is to come into the world. So now imagine this dude that just fed all of us23:24 and while we've heard for generations from grandpa grandpa grandpa story synagogue, synagogue, synagogue is there's a messiah coming that will save you, and they experience this, and they say, wow, this must be the23:34 prophet. There's some emotion in there. And they're inquisitive. They go back and forth. What are the good works I need to do? Well, this is what you need to do. I want this bread of life that23:46 you talk about. What do we need to do? And then it it's all like good emotions up here, and then Jesus says, well, I'm the bread of life. Everybody23:59 does not like that. Does not like it. Verse 34, they wanted what Jesus explains. And then verse 41 and 42,24:11 they didn't like what Jesus explains. Emotions, emotions, feelings far. But the message that was missed is what the whole crowd missed in this24:22 whole interaction. And it's so prevalent in the message in the scripture here. And guys you're gonna like this because there's no hidden trick.24:34 There's no long road to understand what the message is. It's it's right here. This is the message through this time. You don't have to look any further. Verse24:46 29, this is the work of God that you believe in him who sent. Who he sent. Verse 35 Jesus says, I am the bread of life whoever comes to me shall not hunger and whoever believes in me shall never24:58 thirst. That's the message in this time. Verse 37 he goes on, all that the father has given to me and, will come to me and whoever comes to me I will never cast out. Jesus25:10 is saying this message of Christ. Verse 40, for this is the will of my father that everyone who looks on the sons and believes in him should have eternal life and25:22 I will raise him up on the last day. Verse 47 to 48, Jesus says, truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life. Verse 51, I am25:34 the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats this bread, he will live forever. I don't know how much more obvious Jesus could be in his messaging.25:47 But it was totally missed by the whole entire crowd because they were focused on feelings farm rather than those message points. They thought they knew25:59 who it was and how it was they were gonna receive the messiah. That when he came and proclaimed and did the supernatural, they didn't believe.26:14 Number 2, the second pathway to receive more than God's handful. God receive God's handful and more of him and more of him.26:26 This and is critical because God is not just here to give you things from his hand and say, peace. Good day, have a good day. I'll see you next week. Same bat channel, same bat time. He extends his hand so that26:38 we know more of him, more of his goodness, more of his grace, more of his mercy, more of his love, and of his compassion, and just how much I was bad and what I26:49 deserve outside of Christ and what because of Christ I do not have as my future. I have life because of Christ. You see, so do you if you're in Christ.27:02 Your old life is dead and gone. You have new life in Christ. That's the more of the equation. The27:13 handful is receiving Jesus as your savior. That's not the end. That's the start. So the scripture here in27:25 verse 35, it says this, Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me shall not hunger and whoever believes in me shall never thirst. But I said to you that you have not seen me and sorry. I have27:37 said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe. All that the father has the father gives me will come to me and whoever comes to27:49 me, I will never cast out. The handful is come to Christ and more of him is that he'll never cast you away28:01 from him. For I've come down from heaven not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me. And this is the will of him28:13 who sent me that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day. I tried to be smart when I did this28:24 preparation, And I I looked at the word hunger and and bread and thirst, and I looked up like the original text and the definition of it. I was like, yeah, I'm on to something. And you know what I28:36 found? It means hunger and bread and thirst. That's what it means. That's all it means. And I say that because sometimes we28:48 we over we we overindulge that there's got to be a deeper something here, but it's really just something simple that really hits us deep. Jesus is29:00 the satisfaction of our spiritual hunger. Jesus quenches every ounce of spiritual thirst we have. Everything.29:14 Just like he fed the the crowd to the full and there were leftovers, he feeds your spirit and he and he quenches your spiritual thirst and hunger, and guess what? There's leftover of29:25 God. So the issue in this story is not that Jesus did a miracle to people that didn't deserve it.29:37 Okay? Obviously, you know, Jesus doesn't do anything wrong. Him doing the miracle was right. It was the right thing. The issue isn't that he did it to, you know,29:50 thankless people. The issue is that the miracle was meant to point these people to him as the Messiah, and they didn't take it.30:01 That's the issue. They wanted their hangry feelings to go away and totally30:12 bypassed the starvation of their spirit. That's the issue with the story. They30:24 wanted no. No. They stopped at this, and they were meant to continue pursuit. Friend,30:37 wherever you are, any location and online, God is reaching his hand out to you now, today, and it is not the end of what he has30:48 for you. It's meant for you to continue pursuit of the savior of the world. That's why.31:01 So the next fill in the blank under 0.2 is this 1. It's kind of a mouthful, but but run with me on this. God has more than a handful for me. He wants me to know31:13 him intimately. God has more than a handful for me. He wants me to know him intimately. And we see that in this passage.31:25 Jesus knew the people. He lived with the people. He grew up with the people. All of that. Sometimes we as people and we as Christians, we fall into this trap31:37 that we think that God doesn't understand me or know me or know what I'm going through, so he'll never be able to get me through it. He's not the answer. That's the false belief that we31:49 as people, even Christians, if we're being honest in the room, we struggle with it.32:04 You must not know what I'm going through. That's why you didn't answer it. You must not know because you didn't give me what I think I need in it. But friend, I'm here to tell you that the god of the32:16 bible is the creator of heaven and earth, and he knows things intimately for the simple reason that he made them. He made them.32:29 You don't need to beseech the throne of God so that he knows you more. You don't need to do that anymore. He already knows you very, very well.32:42 How do I know this? Psalm 1 39 verse 13, New Living Translation says this, you, God, made all the delicate inner parts of my body and knit me together in32:54 my mother's womb. If he did all that, I'm confident that he knows you right now. Confident. And33:06 the issue is that not that he does not know you. The issue is that we need to flip this, and we need to know him the way he knows us.33:19 James 4 says this, draw near to God and he will draw near to you. There is nothing more complex after or before that scripture.33:32 Draw near to God, he will draw near to you. It is that simple. He does answer. He does respond. I'm kind of a33:45 weirdo. I really like the medicine commercials on TV. You know the ones that they try to sell you something for that thing and then33:56 all the fine print of warnings and how this medicine will heal you but then it might also kill you because you may be allergic to it. How do you know if you're allergic to it34:08 unless you take it? Sorry. Like I said, I'm a weirdo. I'm it's it's so humorous to me. And I say that because there's none of that fine print in that scripture.34:20 None of it. It is that. Draw near to him, and he draws near to you. Second Corinthians 5,34:32 therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away, behold the new has come. Now if God is able to take death and make it life,34:44 then I'm pretty sure the life giver knows a thing or 2 about the life he's giving and that he's created. You see, God34:56 knows you. Yeah. Even that part of you. And he still wants you to know35:08 him intimately. We are not designed to be separated from God. We are designed to be with him always.35:21 So the third thing here for pathway to receive God, receive true life when I believe in Jesus. You need to receive. You do receive true35:33 life when you believe in Jesus. You see the pathway to know more about God, more than the handfuls of God. Okay? Each 1 of these starts35:44 with receive because that's the only thing we need to do to know more of him, is receive from him. That's35:56 it. That's very complex. There's a lot to that can go on there, but we just receive. We receive. Verse 4036:08 says this, for this is the will of my father that everyone that looks to the son and believes in him should have eternal life and will raise him up on the last day. And I tried to be smart on this 1 again,36:20 and I found something. In the scripture it says it says, everyone who looks on the son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I36:32 will raise him up on the last day. And the since I I started reading and preparing this, looks on the son just captivated me. What does that mean? It's just look sounds weird to me. Looks on the son36:43 and believes. Why why are you talking like that? And that's what I looked up, and that's what in in the original text, the look on the sun means to it means to, like like, be36:55 fixated or to or to gaze on for the purpose of analyzing. For the purpose of analyzing. So37:06 we we look at the son in a way that we're fixated, and that we we analyze this Jesus. And we when we look at him like this to analyze him,37:19 and we believe we will have eternal life. Now this.37:30 Speaking the truth sometimes doesn't mean that it all turns out, you know, unicorns and butterflies. And that's shown here in this in this scripture here in verse 68, it it closes. Jesus37:42 is in Capernaum saying this message about I am the bread of life. He's not in the marketplace. He's not in the hospital. He's not where all the sinners are. He's in the synagogue in Capernaum37:54 where all the religious people are. And that is where he has the message that I am the bread of life. I am what you're looking for.38:07 And and verse 68 says this, after this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him. No longer. Feelings farm38:19 versus message. Verse 67 says this, so Jesus turned to the 12, the 12 disciples. Do you wanna go38:30 away as well? And Simon Peter says this, Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, and we have38:42 believed and have come to know that you are the holy 1 of God. And I point this out specifically because sometimes38:54 we we over glorify and we add things to the bible that aren't there because we it makes us feel good. Let's let's be let's call a duck a duck. Okay? But when we we see the times that Jesus called the39:05 disciples to follow him. I mean, hope my if I'm the only 1 that I'm sorry, but I have this sometimes I've fallen victim to this irrational thought that they just believe right away.39:17 Oh, rabbi, you're the son of God. Yeah. I'll follow you. But it wasn't like that. And that's what this scripture shows us. It says that we have come to39:28 believed. We have believed, and we have come to know that you are the son of God. So friend if you're here today at any39:40 location or online pray dot com wherever you are. If you're in that category of you're still looking on the son of God Jesus Christ and analyzing him and you still have yet to come to believe or maybe you believed and39:52 you're kind of like, don't yet know just yet. I don't know like know that he's the son of God. It's okay because the disciples were in the same spot.40:03 And you're in the right place to learn and continue analyzing and looking upon the son of God to believe. So40:15 keep on doing it. Keep on coming back. Keep on tuning in and hearing of this Jesus of the bible. Matthew 11 says this, JesusShow more
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