[Music] i will be in the gospel of saint mark chapter 8 verse 14-22 glory to god give it up for the choir and the amazing job they did ministering us this morning [Applause] they were singing like sun beams [Music] beams of light hallelujah thank you thank you jesus [Applause] can i say this one quick thing before we get into the text when i said beams of light my soul quickened because the bible said that when moses came down off the mountaintop his face shone with the glory of god you remember that word shown if you study that word shown it means beams of light he had glory being shooting out of his face and i hate to tell you about the person sitting next to you they got beams of light shooting out of their face because they've been with jesus anybody been with jesus if you've been with jesus you got beams of light if you're online and you got beams of light typing on the line i got beams of light in my house in my car in the living room i got beans beans i got beans i got beans i got beans i got beans i got beans i got beans of light beans of light beans of light the gospel of saint mark chapter 8 verse 14 through 22 there you will find my assignment for this morning we interject the text in the middle of the goings and comings of jesus but i picked up at the time that he is having a private conversation with his disciples about a public display of power friday i had a private conversation with my staff and when you talk to the people who work with you it goes deeper than when you talk to people who come to hear you so in keeping with the concept that i gave you last week about the quilt we're listening at a backside conversation y'all remember the back side of the quilt okay we're listening at a backside conversation that jesus is having with his disciples the disciples had forgotten to bring bread except for one loaf they had with them in the boat i'm going to read that again don't take me away i'm going to read that again because i want to give get your attention to the text give your attention to the text the disciples had forgotten to bring bread except for one loaf they had with them in the boat come on be careful jesus warned them watch out for the yeast of the pharisees and that of herod come on they discussed this with one another and said it is because we have no bread and we're aware of their discussion listen to that aware of their discussion stop a minute right there aware of their just it wasn't that he was there but he was aware isn't that amazing that god is aware of our discussion aware of their discussion jesus says why are you talking about having no bread do you still not see or understand are your hearts hardened do you have eyes but fail to see and ears but fail to hear and don't you remember when i broke the five loaves for the 5 000 how many baskets full of pieces did you pick up 12 they replied and when i broke the seven lows for the 4 000 more loaves less people how many baskets full of pieces did you pick up they answered seven more loaves less people less leftovers he said to them do you still not understand they came to bethsaida and some people brought him a blind man and begged jesus to touch him my subject this morning is blind to the bread blind to the bread write this down because you're going to want to remember this blind to the bread if you're online write it on the line blind to the bread mark 8 14-22 spirit of the living god please come close they have not come to hear me but you if the only one speaking is me then the services fail speak to me out of the volume of the book great god that you are i thank you in advance for what you're about to do have your way in the midst of your people for your god and beside you there's no other let it be not just revelatory but relevant curve it to the continuity of situations happening right in this room speak to people who are watching online in such a way that they feel like you told on them thank you for being aware of our conversation because you are so alert to what we say we know our prayers are heard thank you for listening when we talk in jesus name amen you can rest the rest of the day but i got to go to work [Applause] i want to back away from the text for a few minutes and take a little time and think about how we are introduced to god in the scriptures the bible says in the first book of the bible in chronological order in the beginning god created the heavens and the earth the earth was without form and voided darkness darkness darkness covered the face of the deep and the first thing that god says is let there be light the first thing we see him do is illumination and from genesis to revelations he is in the business of illumination the second thing that we see about him that is quite important is that he does not create in darkness [Applause] he creates in light so if i am a creature who lives in darkness there is no opportunity for creation because i stay in dark places matthew 3 says that men love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil so if i am in darkness it is not me that god has rejected it is that he does not create in darkness and this is the condemnation that goes on to say that is coming to the world because men love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil for they have not believed on the name of our god so believing is light believing is light and it is in the atmosphere of light that god creates isn't it funny to think about in the new testament the healing that perpetuates itself over and over again is not just men sickle palsy nor just ten lepers but the one that repeats itself over and over again it's the healing of blindness and every time god heals a man from blindness is he not saying let there be light and over and over again just like the father did in creation the son does in redemption he says let there be light and that light illuminated first the physical eyes but could it be possible that the healing of the physical eyes is just a simulation of the healing of the spiritual eyes let's go deeper we have two sets of senses all believers do we have our eyes our ear our mouth our smell our touch all of those natural senses that work in us as human beings but we have a second set of senses that are not physically induced they are our spiritual senses and our spiritual senses are very important paul says i pray that the eyes of your understanding might be enlightened the most graphic display i see of the eyes of your understanding being enlightened happened to the writer himself when he was on the road to damascus he lost his eyesight but he gained his yeah he gained his insight there are plenty of people in the room who have great eyesight but there's a difference between having great eyesight and having great insight these old eyes are growing dim that's why i have these big apparatus on my eyes because i turned 40 and my bible started shrinking that's what i thought happened at first and then i broke down and accepted the fact that no my eyes are getting dim but though my outer eyes are getting dim oh baby my inner eyes are keener than they have ever been in all of the entry of my life for the entrance of my word the bible said giveth light the entrance of thy word giveth light is not talking about sunshine it means the more word i get in the more enlightened i become are you hearing what i'm saying the entrance of thy word giveth light so if the enemy could do anything to stop you from hearing he would do it because if you get it in your ear it comes out through your inner ear are you hearing what i'm saying so so when we when we when we look at jesus when we look at jesus jesus has come to bring light because in him was light and there is no darkness at all there is no darkness at all in jesus jesus has so much light that the sun will lose its job in heaven the bible says in the book of revelation said the face of jesus will light up the world can you imagine a face that would blacken the sun that's what glory looks like that's why glory beams were shooting out of the face of moses and they had to veil his face because carnal people can't stand great lights some of you are hated because you are great yeah yeah yeah yeah that i told you evil men love darkness because their deeds are evil and every time you come into office you come in there with them bright lights on and that's why you get on their nerves because they don't like to see that kind of light because they don't love light they love darkness i thought the light people would shout me down right now you've changed your hair you've changed your clothes you've changed your makeup you've changed your dress and they still don't like it you don't understand it's not what you got on you it's what you got in you that gets on their nerves [Applause] jesus came to bring light into the world just like the father said let there be light let me prove it to you the apostle paul says that the light of the glory of god would shine in our hearts in the face of jesus christ and he is imitating the creation in his declaration that the same thing that the father did in creation the son does and redemption he brings light oh and everything grows in light i'll just fool it with you i ain't got to hear but i'm coming everything grows in light i don't care how healthy the plant is if you put it in a closet it's going to wither because everything grows in light say that with me everything grows in light okay so if i were the enemy i would bring dark people into your life to try to neutralize the brilliancy of your light to stop you from growing to your fullest potential there are some things that can get a little bit of light and still grow but but for full capacity you need bright light let there be light i'll deal with the mud after i create the light i'll deal with the air once i create the light i'll deal with the seas once i create the light but the first thing i need to straighten out this chaos is light [Applause] help me to see not with these but with these they led paul away from damascus blind but enlightened so he prays in ephesians that the eyes of your understanding might be enlightened that you might know what is the hope of his calling and what is his inheritance in the saints and what is his exceeding richness toward us who believe in christ he said i want you to know it i don't want you to be around something and not see it how many times in your life have you said how can i not see that betrayed or denied or belittled by somebody you trusted and you wonder how could i not see that that's right in front of my face and i missed it how can i not see that jesus came to display the glory of god and we beheld the wonder of his glory the only begotten of the father full of grace and yeah so jesus came to reveal what was concealed in the old testament jesus came to be the light of the world i am the light of the world a city set up on a hill that cannot be heard somebody holler light you don't know when you said light you just called jesus if your kidneys are failing touch them and say lights if your lungs are fail and touch them and say light the entrance of thy word giveth light when the word comes in the light comes in and the darkness has got to run for its life if you've been dealing with depression lay hands on your head and say light [Applause] some people can't see what's right in front of them there have been moments i haven't seen what was right in front of me and then moments i was frustrated because i couldn't believe that i didn't see it some people can't see right in front of their own house can't see their own kids can't see their own spouse i listen to my mother tell people things we would never do that i had already done [Applause] can we be real this morning my children would never say something like that and i had cussed miss paige completely out and i looked at her like yeah mommy [Applause] so this light has to be developed in us so the presentation of jesus does not fulfill the mission of creating light so jesus sets about doing miracles and the miracles are done to enlighten us or they make no sense why waste time healing people who are going to die anyway if you're an eternal god and you believe in eternal life then you don't cling to physical life with the same fierceness that we do because we haven't seen anything else but if you know that time is just a sliver in the power of eternity why would i struggle to heal you so you can die again think about it i'm just asking a question why did jesus raise lazarus from the dead when he died again is he not just displaying power power so that unbelievers can believe this sickness let me quote him this sickness is not unto death but for the yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah this sickness is not under that but for the glory of god and that's why i didn't heal him because i need him to die so i can show off how powerful i am and if i tell you what lazarus if you die for me [Applause] so ladder guide to create a platform of impossibility so that when jesus got there he could say roll the stone away lazarus come forth and suddenly they believed on jesus because he's brought light into a light into a dark place [Applause] most of the miracles jesus did were absolutely amazing though for temporal people who needed the woman with the issue of blood untouched for 12 long years unloved unable to be held by her husband her friends her companions no touch no welcoming she was unclean according to the levitical laws and therefore untouchable she is the scarlet letter on her head like the scarlet letter in the story that her scarlet letter isn't a letter on her head but a bleeding from her womb the loneliness must be just as traumatic as the physical condition itself there is no comfort there is no healing and every doctor who tried to heal her had failed and she has also become depleted financially so she is hemorrhaging blood she is hemorrhaging relationships and she is hemorrhaging finances and one touch [Applause] they didn't hear me dr nader one touch no no it wasn't that jesus touched her it was that she touched him you got to stop sitting in church with your legs crossed waiting on jesus to touch you and get radical enough that you go for it and touch him because one touch can stop everything that's leaking out of your life your business your company your health your relationships one touch from jesus can break generational curses and turn your life around one touch for jesus and you still gonna have your legs crossed and sit back and be wonderful when i'm teaching you that one touch from jesus could change your life if you touch him somebody touched me somebody touched me a lot of people brushed up against me but somebody touched me jesus is walking up and down the house at the corridors of this church waiting on somebody to touch him can i hear some glory in this place the same greek word that we see used in scriptures for miracles is also translated signs miracles and signs were done that you might believe they are done to create an atmosphere of faith jesus raised lazarus from the dead that they might believe he didn't raise lazarus from the dead because he was worried about death because he is the lord of death he will take the sting out of death and the victory out of the grave he will rob death of its power and render it totally helpless jesus wasn't worried about death he needed somebody to authenticate the light of who he was roll the stone away look at the drama he didn't have to have the drama he could have fought lazarus awake he didn't even have to be in close proximity he could have raised him from the dead with the thought in his head he said father i know that you hear me but for the benefit of them that don't believe i'm going to call lazarus out loud i could have just sent you a thought and got him up out of the grave but so that they will associate his resurrection with my word i'm gonna call him out loud lazarus one word come forth you think you got a big problem i got news for you baby you don't need but one word from jesus one word one word one word [Applause] the purpose of miracles and signs are for you to believe not for you to be bedazzled by fascinated by but so that he can heal you of the blindness of your doubt your fear your insecurities your intimidations that's your darkness your darkness is in physical darkness we got electricity your darkness is all those dark places inside of you that create fungus of unbelief and doubt and intimidation and depression and fear and insecurity it is into that environment that he performs miracles that you might believe that he can show himself strong that he can show himself god in your life that you can be fully persuaded when the next incident comes that he can stand on his own recognizance having already done so many great things for you it is done so that you will have no doubt that surely god is able [Applause] i got to watch them surely because some went all through me from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet when i said surely demons started to triple when i said surely doubt dissipated when i said shorthand god is able somebody shout surely yet for all the amazing things that jesus did and said and manifests from blind bartimaeus to turning water into wine some refuse to believe if they refuse to believe in jesus then you might not be shocked that some refuse [Applause] to believe in you and their consternation and their degradation and their acrimonious remarks assault your soul and if you're not careful you'll change because of their criticism from form to form to form trying to find something that is acceptable to someone who will never be appeased let me show you what i'm saying john the baptist lived his whole life without worldly comforts and to that the people didn't believe his message because of his lifestyle of self-denial jesus came eating and drinking and they called him a wine bibber unbelief is never satisfied [Applause] so you can keep changing you can you can get rid of all your worldly goods and live like john the baptist and they'll still find something to [Applause] or you can eat drink and be married like jesus jesus up yo first time we meet jesus and john he had a party turning what we ran out of wine i got some come here boys jesus is not this religious jesus that's being taught to you today jesus was bawling he was in a party that lasts several days they ran the party lit so long they ran out of wine and jesus used this first miracle to keep the party going hey i'm in the bible i don't know y'all not something but i'm in the word of god and the contrast between john and jesus is miles apart and they didn't believe either one [Applause] so whether you wear a natural or a weave [Applause] straight hair or no hair whether you hit a tummy tuck [Applause] or an implant in the place of your choice [Applause] can you believe i said that in public pray for me pray for me mother pray for me pray for the girl pray for me pray for me there's still going to be some people who do not believe [Applause] in the texts jesus has performed miracles and he does an accounting of those miracles he said don't you remember how i took two fish and five loaves of bread and fed five thousand this is the strangest miracle to me in the whole bible because jesus is preaching in the wilderness 5 000 men have followed him not to mention women and children the disciples have come to him and said the people are about to faint let's send them away that they might eat jesus says they need not depart which makes me think that he's not through preaching [Applause] jesus says what do you have he takes two fish five loaves of bread sits him down into groups of 50 feeds all 5 000 of them with 12 baskets full left [Applause] and then says go home my problem with this is didn't we ask you to let them go home in the first place and you didn't have to perform a miracle all you had to do was do a benediction since obviously you were still talking anyway and you didn't preach anymore then feeding the 5 000 wasn't the point i love my church when it's quiet i enjoy it when it shows but i really love it when it's quiet when i when my church gets quiet they have zoomed in because some of them have never thought about the ridiculousness of saying they need not depart and then keeping them there and feeding them and sending them home if i was a disciple i said we could have done this in the first place paul later said do you not have homes to eat in just send them home you send them home anyway why why have we confiscated this little boy's lunch [Applause] called child protective services we have taken this little boy's lunch the only lunch his mama gave him and used it to feed people who could go home and eat five thousand men not to mention women and children two fish and five loaves of bread listen that jesus accounting for the stewardship of miracles how are we accounting for the stewardship of miracles how do we record and keep record of what god has done so that god can have a bio in your life so that you are prepared for what god will do based on what god has done the second miracle is slightly more complicated because jesus had a reason to perform this miracle there are four thousand people who have followed him several days into the wilderness and these four thousand people would have fainted trying to get back home for lack of food he uses seven loaves of bread more bread for less people and they have less leftovers they have seven baskets full left hmm interesting more bread for less people you would think would be more leftovers these are hungry people though they are less in number they are more in appetite all congregations are not the same it's not how many people are present that determines the flow of miracles in a place is how hungry those people are that controls the flow of miracles in a place i was in bible class with 10 of this crowd and we had a hundred percent of glory because god doesn't go by a head count he goes by a hunger count he that hungers and thirsts after righteousness shall be filled if all the people in this room got hungry it would put a demand on the gift that would saturate the place and god doesn't care about numbers he cares about appetite to a house that wanted a lot of bread he sent a lot of manna to a house who had a poor appetite he said little manna how hungry are you how hungry are you or is this just your sunday morning routine [Music] i want to walk through this text and show you some curiosities how could you leave 12 baskets full and seven baskets full is 19 baskets full of fish and bread and walk away from it it just happened and you only got one loaf my first problem with the disciples is they forgot to bring the bread after jesus has invested all of this into you the bible says the disciples had forgotten the bread so the lord told me to ask you [Applause] have you forgotten the bread 19 baskets of bread and all you got is one loaf that is discouraging for any ministry any minister to pour out on this level to a people who only keep that little and all you got to show for all that jesus did in your life is one loaf of bread there are a lot of church folk in this room right now that god has done so many miracles for that you got 19 loaves of bread don't let hell trick you into forgetting the bread that god has already done in your life if i'm talking to you give god a praise [Applause] wait a minute let's go deeper they were with jesus and they still forgot to bring with them what jesus had done they are in the presence of the lord who is keeping an accounting of what he has invested in their life and he recounts the accounting in their presence of how much you should have left [Applause] and you show up after being saved 20 years [Applause] with one measly little mcdonald's loaf of bread [Applause] as old as you are as saved as you are as gifted as you are as many times as god raised you up and brought you out of trouble and brought you out of depression and brought you out of the hospital and brought you out of jail and brought you out of tragedy and brought you out of adversity you mean you come here with one measly little decrepit loaf of bread [Applause] that's the first problem i had with the text we don't keep enough left we forget once we get out of trouble [Applause] to value what's left while we're in trouble we are praying with god feverishly and fervently for god to deliver and then we leave the bread on the boat and we show up with one pitiful looking sad loaf of bread i'm embarrassed how many times have i walked away from a 19 basket full situation with one measly loaf of bread that's pitiful that's sad that you would have so little to show for 40 years of life that god protected you when you were in your mama's womb [Music] that god raised you in an undesirable situation and still brought you through it and raised you up and you came out by his grace and by his miracles that god raised you up and gave you a job sometimes that you weren't even qualified for and put you in a position where you didn't even have experience and now you're sitting in here with your entitled self acting like you deserve to be where you are i don't know whether i believe in giving i don't know whether i believe in time how you wouldn't have nothing to tithe on if you were still getting wick and food stamps and government cheese and powdered eggs and powdered milk and the only reason you are arrogant about your giving is because you left the bread on the boat people who remember say all of my help comes from the lord all of my needs everything i want comes from the lord is there anybody in here that remembers the 19 basketballs [Applause] this is how i tell him when i ask him for something i ask him for things sometimes and when i ask him for something i also tell him but if you don't do it [Applause] and if you don't give it and if you don't send it and if you change your mind you've already done enough you've been so good to me you brought me from such a long way when i think of the goodness of jesus and all that he's done for me my soul cries out hallelujah because i got enough left if you got something left make some noise in this place [Applause] sit down i'm gonna go a little bit deeper with you can i go deeper can i go deeper can somebody say something is about to happen in this place something's about to happen in this place something's about to happen in this place if nothing else i'm gonna go back and get that bread off of my boat i'm gonna go back and remember and stir up the gifts that lie within me if nothing else i'm gonna change my attitude and act like the blessed woman i am and the blessed man i am and the blessed preacher i am i got too much stuff on the boat to show up at the party with one little measly loaf of bread the devil is a liar and jesus speaks to them [Applause] to beware of the leavening of the pharisees beware of the effect of your friends your associates the people you talk to who seek to devalue me in your life jesus calls them leavening because who you hang with affects how you rise can i say that for the people in the back who you hang with affects how you rise so jesus called the pharisees leavening and said be careful because they will dilute or pollute you down to one loaf of bread and then he does his accounting thing he says do you remember how you had five thousand yes lord and i took two fish and five loaves of bread and fed five thousand then he said how much did you have left oh my god god is concerned about not how many you fed [Applause] how much do you have left now this is important i got four principles i'm going to give you real quick when i'll be done the first principle is the principle of multiplication jesus does a miracle to teach them that you don't have to have enough to work with for me to meet the need [Applause] yeah i say unto thee this day in this house and amongst this people i will take the little that you will sacrifice to me and when i touch it i will multiply it do not be afraid of their faces and what they do not have do not be afraid of how they look at you stop counting what's in your bag i am going to bring you into a season of multiplication i will take what you have and you will be shocked at what i am able to do with you you are not coming into addition you are not coming into subtraction you are coming into multiplication and all those that receive that word gave him a crazy praise i dare you to praise him i dare you to praise him i dare you to praise him while you're praising him he's multiplying you while you're praising him he's multiplying it while you're praising him he's renewing your strength while you praise him he's adding on to you why you praise him he's blessing it and breaking it and increasing it and serving it typing on the line i'm going into multiplication i'm going in the principle of multiplication it's happening in my life it's happening on my job it's happening in my finances it's happening in my body it's happening in my strength it's happening in my social environment i'm meeting people i thought i would never meet because god is taking me into the principle of multiplication press down shaken together running over supernatural who can receive this word who can receive this word [Applause] jesus didn't do this miracle just to be doing it he didn't do it because he likes to make lunch for grown people jesus did it so they would step into the principle of multiplication and understand not only are you enough you are more than enough if you turn it over to god god is going to bring you into increase like you've never seen before who am i talking to i'd like to know who i'm talking to [Applause] the principles multiplication multiplication you can either write nine down nine times and come to 81 or you can multiply and say 9 times 9 is 81 and be done with it god said he's going to get you there faster he's going to get you to the same place at a faster rate who am i talking to god is picking up the pace in this season god is picking up the pace in this season you're gonna have to step into multiplication you're adding it up too slow you're going over the same thoughts over and over and over again and you think you're thinking but what you're doing is worrying sit down i'm gonna give you the next point i'm almost two the second principle is the principle of sacrifice [Applause] in order to go into multiplication you have to go into sacrifice if the little boy didn't give his lunch there would be no multiplication if the widow didn't give her pot of oil she would have had nothing to live off of when the prophet came to the other widow's house and said if you bake a cake for me first what he's trying to get her is not that he wants to bread he's trying to get her into multiplication he says if you sacrifice i'll take you in the multiplication the problem with the church today we like to shout we like to dance we like light shows we like parades and banners but we don't like to sacrifice but the entryway into multiplication is to go in the sacrifice and i don't care if there's nobody in here but little boy if you want to go into multiplication i dare you to go in the sacrifice i'm gonna sow for what god's about to do in my life i'm gonna so far it's next in my life can you prove it by the bible yes sir if you sow sparingly you'll reap sparingly if you sow bountifully you'll reap bountifully god said i won't bring you into multiplication while you hoard your stuff back because if you're gonna save yourself i don't need to save you who am i preaching to did you see how many more people shouted off of multiplication than they did sacrifice that's why you're stuck you like to shout off the idea but you don't walk into reality everybody who wants to walk into reality is trying to figure out what can i sacrifice what can i sacrifice cause i gotta get in on this multiplication and i gotta be ready to sacrifice what can i sacrifice make 30 seconds of praise in this house [Applause] two fish and five loaves of bread touch seven people and tell them i gotta get in on it i gotta get in on it i gotta get in on it i got to get in on it if i'm going to be in multiplication i got to get in on sacrifice if i can't shout off a sacrifice i can't shout off a multiplication you can't have one without the other jesus don't have nothing to work with until you give up something you got for something he's got but god said if you'll open up what's in your hand he'll open up what's in his hand somebody help me shout [Applause] yeah you just open up a door you just open up a door you just open up a door every time you sacrifice you're coming into multiplication god's gonna take the level you sacrifice on and god's gonna multiply oh y'all don't hear what i'm saying surely blessings i will bless you and multiplying i will multiply thee this is no maybe this is surely somebody sounds surely somebody's out surely somebody shouts surely [Applause] yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah and i'm not just talking about money i'm talking about time i'm talking about energy i'm talking about loyalty i'm talking about commitment i'm talking about focus i told my son-in-law i said this is not just a building to me this is blood this is sweat this is tears i can see myself climbing up in the rafters going up in the roof climbing on the top of the building scared and still going reaching and moving in the construction dirty dirtied up my clothes messed up everything but i was willing to throw everything in it so i could reap something out of it come on somebody no i'm not just going to hand you something cause you want it if you don't sacrifice you can't get into multiplicity [Applause] you can't show me in the bible jesus multiplying anywhere there wasn't sacrifice [Applause] everywhere you turn the gateway to multiplicity has always been sacrificed stop trying to find a shortcut stop trying to work your way around it you can't hoard to yourself and multiply yourself in fact if you hoard it god will blow on it and you will lose it he said i'll punch holes in your pocket you'll make more but you'll have left less you have less left because hoarding won't bring you into multiplicity point principle number three i'm almost done am i helping anybody [Applause] if you got a degree you had to sacrifice to get it if you got a master's you had to sacrifice to get it if you got a doctorate you had to sacrifice to get it if you got abs in your stomach you had to sacrifice to get it there is no multiplicity without sacrifice when are we going to learn you can't get there by wishing [Applause] number three the principle of profitability jesus asked them what i asked my son when he first started working i didn't ask him how much money did he make i didn't ask him what he was driving i didn't ask him was that a louis vuitton bag i said how much money you got saved [Applause] he told me i said that's ridiculous because i measure your strength by your strategy to become profitable and it's not just jakes it's jesus jesus called him an unprofitable serving [Applause] until you value what you have left more than what kind of fun you had oh y'all ain't gonna shout now y'all not gonna shout now y'all not gonna shout now we are living in a society that values fun more than profitability jesus asked them a question for all you saw me do in your life the doors i opened the jobs i gave the talent i gave you the friends i brought in your life the relationships i gave you the way i brought you into places that you would have never been before i want to ask you a simple question what have you got left profit is what you have left when the transaction is over i'm not asking you how many transactions did you make what do you have left and i'm not just asking you about money what do you have left you keep praying to me about what you lost i am tired of hearing about what you lost i want to hear what do you have left because you haven't lost anything if you got something left from it i'm just gonna stand here and wait on you to get it if you went through a divorce and you learned something out of it you haven't lost anything you got something left if you had to sell your house but you increase your knowledge you got something left you all don't hear what i'm saying if you made a bad choice but you became a wise woman you got something left are there any profitable servants in this room make some noise up in this place god is not asking you what you lost what you lost would be what they ate he never asked him what did they eat and you keep praying about losses and god is counting leftovers [Applause] you keep talking to god about you getting older and the years you lost god is counting what you got left what are you going to do with what you got left your age is profit that's why i decided to weigh my wear my gray hair because i wanted to show my prophet i'm not going to hide my prophet i went through hell to grow this gray hair i went through death and nearly got shot i had to have this gray hair i went through high water and disease and affliction to have this gray hair and no i'm not gonna be ashamed of it and i'm not gonna die my prophet i want you to see that i made it through some stuff i've been in some storms i've been in the rain i've been in the fire i've been in the flood i've been operated on i've been under anesthesia i've been sick under death and i rose up out of sickness and i'm still here i am a profitable servant somebody shout in your profitability your boyfriend tried to kill you your first husband tried to kill you your community tried to kill you but the more they tried to stomp on you the more they afflicted you the more they attacked you the more you grew profitable servants make some noise [Applause] i'm trying to tell you stop spending what you have left and start saving what you have left because god watches what you got left more than he watches what you lost it shocked me that in the bible he sent a man into wailing and gnashing of teeth and outer darkness not for adultery whoremongering cheating going to strip clubs gambling all that stuff is wrong but that isn't what he sent him there for he sent him to hell for not being profitable he said you are unprofitable servant you are not worthy of the kingdom god is serious about what you got left and if you're gonna be his disciple you got to watch what you got left [Music] the principle of blindness number four my last principle the principle of blindness anybody glad they came to church this morning the principle of blindness this is what the devil does to to keep us from seeing the value of what we have left he makes us blind to what we have left by showing us what we lost he wants you to go blind to your own worth your own talent your own skills your experiences your wisdom is all part of your profitability he doesn't want you to see it he don't mind you seeing it in other people he doesn't want you to see it in yourself it is the principle of blindness lest you behold the wonder of his glory the enemy is trying to strike you blind so jesus says can you not see why do you think i did the miracles i'm trying to teach you the value what you have left one loaf of bread one little stale testimony like that's all i ever did for you [Applause] so here we are in the text where jesus is obviously annoying with his disciples they're in a staff meeting and the ceo is hot because the bottom line is unprofitable the profit isn't just the bread it didn't make them smart they did not see the point of the miracles they're not any better than the pharisees the bible said you're like a man who walks over and looks into a looking glass and walks away and forgets what manner of man he saw did you not learn anything through the things you suffered the principle of blindness it is no accident my brothers and sisters as i prepare to close it is no accident that at the end of the scathing rebuke they brought unto him a blind man [Music] a blind man out of bethsaida a blind man that had to be taken out of his comfort zone in order to be healed if you're going to break the spirit of blindness and the darkness that is starting to cover the earth again you've got to be willing to come out of your comfort zone in order to do it the blind man coming out of messiah is a picture of a church that is willing to come away from this world and operate in the principles of the kingdom in order to have our eyes open that we might be enlightened and seek clearly and not be deceived into seeing men walking as trees because you're so busy trying to fit in the culture you can't change the culture you keep telling me about the culture i keep telling you about christ you gotta come out of bethsaida you got to come out of bethsaida so you can see what god has done the blind man in the bethlehem is no more blind physically than the disciples are spiritually after all they were following a jesus that they didn't even know who he was three years with him and they're still debating who he is three years with him and they're still fighting for position i want to sit on the left hand i don't want to sit on the right three years with him and they're still talking about rome and setting up a kingdom on earth three years of hearing word that they didn't hear of seeing miracles that they didn't see of coming to church and learning nothing it's not that the bread is not being served here i'm gonna say it again it is not that the bread is not being served here it is not that we're not taking two fish at five loaves of bread every sunday and feeding the multitude every week and feeding the nations every week and feeding people in other countries and around the world every week the question my brothers and sisters is are you blind to the bridge have you gotten so used to being around jesus that you are dealing with loaves and you ought to be carrying baskets i am serving a basket god but i'm dealing with a loafy people who are satisfied to have a loaf when you are your arms ought to be carrying baskets baskets of blessings baskets of miracles baskets of deliverance baskets of wisdom baskets of glory when are you gonna open up your arms and get away from loaves and start carrying baskets or are you [Applause] like the blind man of bethsaida or the disciples whose hands touched the miracle their hands literally touched the miracle they literally put the baskets on the boat and yet remain blind to the bread my prayer for the 21st century church is that we would stop handling jesus [Applause] that we would stop fondling jesus and that god would open our eyes and that we would not be blind to the bread stand up on your feet [Applause] don't forget the four takeaways in case you didn't get one of them the principles of multiplication number two the principles of sacrifice number three the principles of profitability and the principle of blindness if there is a person watching me online right now and something in your spirit leaped when i talked about multiplication but your sacrifice doesn't look like your faith you're a loafy person shouting about a basket god and you are blind to the bread thank you for loving to hear me preach but that don't mean nothing if all you walk away with is a loaf [Music] you