WEBVTT 00:02:19.120 --> 00:02:22.479 Blessed be God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. 00:02:22.879 --> 00:02:26.479 Blessed be God's family now and forever. 00:02:26.800 --> 00:02:27.439 Amen. 00:02:27.680 --> 00:02:37.199 Together, Almighty God, to you all hearts are open, all desires known, and from you no secrets are hid. 00:02:37.520 --> 00:02:50.400 Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of your Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love you and wordily magnify your holy name through Christ our Lord. 00:02:50.719 --> 00:02:51.360 Amen. 00:05:05.040 --> 00:05:14.000 Almighty God, you have built your church upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone. 00:05:14.399 --> 00:05:22.720 Grant us so to be joined together in unity of spirit by their teaching, that we may be made a holy temple acceptable to you. 00:05:22.959 --> 00:05:28.480 Through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you in the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. 00:05:28.800 --> 00:05:29.360 Amen. 00:05:29.600 --> 00:05:31.120 Please be seated for the lessons. 00:05:31.199 --> 00:05:35.199 I now invite all of our kiddos, fifth grade and under, to join Miss Emery in the back. 00:05:35.360 --> 00:05:38.240 And she will take you to godly play for those that want to go. 00:05:39.839 --> 00:05:42.399 She's like music for this, shouldn't we? 00:05:42.560 --> 00:05:43.439 Like, no, maybe. 00:05:43.519 --> 00:05:44.240 No, I don't know. 00:05:44.480 --> 00:05:46.079 Like the Pied Piper or something. 00:05:46.319 --> 00:05:47.680 Okay, we got it. 00:05:53.040 --> 00:05:55.360 A reading from 1 Samuel. 00:05:57.279 --> 00:06:05.600 Hannah and El Cana rose early in the morning and bowed down and worshiped before the Holy One of old. 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:09.839 Then they turned back and went to their house at Ramah. 00:06:10.800 --> 00:06:16.319 El Cana knew his wife Hannah, and the Holy One remembered her. 00:06:16.959 --> 00:06:23.680 And it was with the turning of the days that Hannah conceived and gave birth to a son. 00:06:24.319 --> 00:06:34.560 She called his name Samuel, God hears, for she said, From the God who hears have I asked him. 00:06:35.360 --> 00:06:46.800 Now the man Elkanah went up along with his whole household to offer to the Holy One the yearly sacrifice, and on account of a vow. 00:06:47.519 --> 00:07:04.160 Yet Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband, Not until the child is weaned, then will I bring him, that he may be seen in the presence of the Most High and remain there perpetually. 00:07:06.480 --> 00:07:14.079 I will present him as a Nazarite in perpetuity for all the days of his life. 00:07:14.560 --> 00:07:20.319 Her husband, Elkanah, said to her, Do what is best in your eyes. 00:07:20.879 --> 00:07:23.360 Stay until you have weaned him. 00:07:23.920 --> 00:07:28.240 May the faithful God establish the words of your mouth. 00:07:28.639 --> 00:07:32.800 So the woman remained and nursed her son until she waned him. 00:07:32.959 --> 00:07:43.040 And she took him up with her after she had weaned him, along with a three-year-old bull, an Epha of flour, and a jug of wine. 00:07:43.439 --> 00:07:51.199 Hannah brought him to the house of the ever-living God at Shiloh, and the boy was just a little boy. 00:07:51.920 --> 00:07:56.319 Then they slaughtered the bull, and they brought the boy to Eli. 00:07:56.800 --> 00:08:08.319 And Hannah said, My Lord, as you live, my Lord, I am the woman, the one who is standing beside you in this place to pray to the God who hears. 00:08:09.199 --> 00:08:18.000 For this boy I prayed, and the faithful God gave me my asking, what I asked from God. 00:08:18.879 --> 00:08:22.399 Therefore have I bequeathed him to the gracious God. 00:08:23.439 --> 00:08:30.399 All his days will he be a bequest to the God whose name is holy. 00:08:31.040 --> 00:08:37.120 So she left him there, and she bowed down and worshiped the faithful God. 00:08:38.000 --> 00:08:40.240 The word of the Lord. 00:08:51.519 --> 00:08:56.879 Hannah prayed, and she said, My heart exalts in the holy one of old. 00:08:57.120 --> 00:09:00.240 My horn is lifted up in my God. 00:09:07.759 --> 00:09:12.720 There is none holy like the Most High, none besides you. 00:09:16.799 --> 00:09:23.360 Speak proudly no more, multiplying pride, nor let arrogance come from your mouth. 00:09:30.399 --> 00:09:41.759 The bows of the mighty are broken, yet the feeble gird on those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. 00:09:43.039 --> 00:09:45.840 Yet those who were hungry are fat. 00:10:01.919 --> 00:10:05.679 The gracious one makes poor and makes rich. 00:10:09.519 --> 00:10:19.600 God raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from heaps of human waste to seat them with nobles and inherit a seat of honor. 00:10:27.679 --> 00:10:34.159 God will guard the feet of the faithful who belong to God, while the wicked perish in shadow. 00:10:39.279 --> 00:10:44.879 The Holy One of Sinai, those who strive against God shall be shattered. 00:10:48.960 --> 00:10:53.600 The fount of justice will judge the ends of the earth. 00:11:37.440 --> 00:11:45.759 Now, sisters and brothers, I could not speak to you all as spiritual, but rather as carnal, as infants in Christ. 00:11:46.000 --> 00:11:52.000 I fed you all with milk, but not solid food, for you were not yet ready for solid food. 00:11:52.399 --> 00:11:57.360 Even now you are still not ready, for you all are still carnal. 00:11:57.679 --> 00:12:05.120 Given there is still jealousy and discard among you, are you not carnal and going around as merely human? 00:12:05.759 --> 00:12:12.879 For when one says, I am Paul's, and another, I am Apollos, are you not merely human? 00:12:13.519 --> 00:12:15.360 What then is Apollo? 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:17.360 What is Paul? 00:12:17.919 --> 00:12:23.919 The minister, through whom you came to believe as the Messiah granted to each person. 00:12:24.799 --> 00:12:29.840 I planted, Apollo's watered, but God produces growth. 00:12:30.399 --> 00:12:35.600 Therefore, neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything. 00:12:35.759 --> 00:12:39.039 Rather, it is God who produces growth. 00:12:40.879 --> 00:12:48.080 The one who plants and the one who waters are alike, and each will receive wages according to their labor. 00:12:48.399 --> 00:12:51.759 For we are God's co-workers, working together. 00:12:52.000 --> 00:12:55.840 You are God's cultivation, God's construction. 00:12:56.559 --> 00:12:58.240 The word of the Lord. 00:15:29.600 --> 00:15:37.759 Great crowds came to him, bringing with them disabled, blind, and mute people, and people missing body parts, along with many others. 00:15:38.000 --> 00:15:40.639 Then they put them at his feet and he healed them. 00:15:40.799 --> 00:15:51.919 So that the crowd was amazed when they saw mute people speaking, people missing body parts made whole, disabled people walking, and blind people seeing, and they praised the God of Israel. 00:15:52.320 --> 00:16:06.240 Then Jesus called his disciples to him and said, I have compassion for the crowd, because they have stayed with me for three days now and have nothing to eat, and I do not want to send them away hungry, for they might collapse on the road. 00:16:06.720 --> 00:16:12.480 The disciples said to him, Why where are we to get so much bread in the desert as to feed so great a crowd? 00:16:12.879 --> 00:16:15.600 And Jesus asked them, How many loaves do you have? 00:16:15.840 --> 00:16:17.919 They said, Seven, and a few small fish. 00:16:18.240 --> 00:16:27.840 Then ordering the crowd to sit down on the ground, he took the seven loaves and the fish, and giving thanks he broke them, gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds. 00:16:28.000 --> 00:16:34.159 And all of them ate and were filled, and they took up the abundance of fragments, seven baskets full. 00:16:34.639 --> 00:16:38.320 Those who ate were women and children, besides four thousand men. 00:16:38.559 --> 00:16:42.960 Then sending away the crowds, he got into the boat and went to the region of Magadon. 00:16:43.519 --> 00:16:45.360 This is the gospel of the Lord. 00:17:08.160 --> 00:17:08.720 Have a seat. 00:17:08.799 --> 00:17:12.319 Yay! Happy Sunday, everybody. 00:17:14.960 --> 00:17:16.079 Who was here last week? 00:17:16.880 --> 00:17:19.359 Okay, I'm not asking because like I'm checking in on you. 00:17:19.440 --> 00:17:25.039 I'm asking because I told this like really incredible story about me breaking my kids' toys right in front of them. 00:17:25.279 --> 00:17:28.079 And I have this I'm happy to report good news and bad news. 00:17:28.640 --> 00:17:31.759 So the good news is it seems like the sermon was a success. 00:17:32.000 --> 00:17:34.880 I got emails really, truly, I'm really feeling good about this. 00:17:35.039 --> 00:17:38.880 I got emails from a couple of men in particular, and they said, Sean, I want to thank you. 00:17:39.279 --> 00:17:44.880 This week I made this huge gap as a parent, and I looked at my spouse, I said, Well, at least I didn't break the kid's toys. 00:17:46.480 --> 00:17:47.839 So you're welcome. 00:17:48.160 --> 00:17:49.680 The gift that keeps on giving. 00:17:49.839 --> 00:17:51.599 So now I will forever be that for you. 00:17:51.680 --> 00:17:52.480 But here's the bad news. 00:17:52.559 --> 00:17:53.440 I'm not doing that again. 00:17:53.519 --> 00:17:54.880 So I'm just kidding. 00:17:55.039 --> 00:17:56.160 So so there you go. 00:17:56.319 --> 00:17:59.759 So but what's fun is is that we get to build on that. 00:18:00.000 --> 00:18:06.240 So getting to preach kind of back-to-back Sundays, which Mike and I don't normally do, we we sort of get to build on that. 00:18:06.400 --> 00:18:12.960 And so the the reading today from Matthew is a continuation of what we talked about last week. 00:18:13.119 --> 00:18:26.079 So, as a refresher, last week I made the case and the argument that Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew, prior to the interaction with the Canaanite woman, only focused on Jewish people. 00:18:26.640 --> 00:18:31.920 So scripturally, he only said that my mission is for the children of Israel, nobody else. 00:18:32.319 --> 00:18:37.119 And then he goes to this Gentile territory and he has an interaction with a Canaanite woman. 00:18:37.200 --> 00:18:43.920 Now he says Canaanite to show that she is literally, he calls her a puppy, a child of the dogs. 00:18:44.160 --> 00:18:45.519 Like he literally does this. 00:18:45.680 --> 00:18:53.039 He she comes and says, I have a sick kid, and he says, I came only for the people of the house of Israel, I didn't come for the children of the dogs. 00:18:53.279 --> 00:19:13.680 And some interaction happens where she or he they look upon each other, and she says, But even the dogs get the scraps, and Jesus has this moment where he's confronted with his limit and he sees that God's vision is even bigger than what he imagined, and he says, Your faith is amazing, it's great, your daughter's gonna be healed, and then he literally changes his ministry. 00:19:14.240 --> 00:19:20.319 Like from that point on, his ministry is not just to the children of Israel, it's to Gentiles, it's to all the nations. 00:19:20.480 --> 00:19:26.079 He says at the end of Matthew, go forth and baptize to all the nations in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. 00:19:26.319 --> 00:19:32.079 So I made this case that this interaction with the Canaanite woman was this shift in Jesus. 00:19:32.720 --> 00:19:36.640 And so this next thing that happens is we get another feeding. 00:19:37.119 --> 00:19:41.279 Now, some scholars will say, well, this is just a retelling of the same feeding. 00:19:41.359 --> 00:19:42.240 No, it's not. 00:19:42.799 --> 00:19:46.480 It's a very different feeding of 4,000 people. 00:19:46.799 --> 00:19:56.000 So the first one, remember, Jesus is in Jewish territory, only looking to feed Jewish people, and it says 5,000 men plus more, so you're looking at 20,000 people. 00:19:56.400 --> 00:19:56.640 Right? 00:19:56.720 --> 00:20:04.319 They take five loaves, two fish, he blesses it, he breaks it, he feeds, and what's left over are 12 baskets. 00:20:04.480 --> 00:20:06.160 Now, the word basket, it's interesting. 00:20:06.240 --> 00:20:12.079 It's kind of like a little pouch that Jewish men would wear on themselves, and they would put food in there, and they could have a little pouch. 00:20:12.319 --> 00:20:15.200 So it filled 12 of these little pouches, right? 00:20:15.920 --> 00:20:19.119 So now we have another feeding, right? 00:20:19.599 --> 00:20:22.400 Jesus is now in Gentile territory. 00:20:22.640 --> 00:20:25.119 We we know this because it's a mirror story in Mark. 00:20:25.359 --> 00:20:33.599 It says he kind of in Mark he goes to the decabitalist, but we also know because he's healing people and it says they're praising the God of Israel. 00:20:33.759 --> 00:20:37.440 Now, if he was talking to Jewish people and they were praising God, that would be self-evident. 00:20:38.240 --> 00:20:45.359 But we now know that it is other non-Jewish people because it's saying he's praising that they're praising the God of Israel. 00:20:45.519 --> 00:20:49.119 So he is feeding and healing people that are not Jewish. 00:20:49.359 --> 00:20:54.000 So he's opening up his ministry, the healing reality of God to all of the nations. 00:20:55.359 --> 00:21:14.240 Now I want to like I'm gonna examine the story, but like the thing I'm trying to get my head around is like, what's the thing that Jesus is experiencing that isn't new, that the disciples experienced, that every Christian since then is experiencing, and dare I say we are experiencing. 00:21:14.559 --> 00:21:16.000 Like, what's the wisdom here? 00:21:16.960 --> 00:21:22.799 Now, you've heard me say this before, and I'm probably gonna say it five or six times a year because priests only have five sermons, right? 00:21:22.880 --> 00:21:26.160 So, like, I really only have like five sermons, and I repackage them in different ways. 00:21:26.960 --> 00:21:29.359 I mean, there's maybe more than five, but like not many. 00:21:29.599 --> 00:21:29.920 Okay. 00:21:30.319 --> 00:21:42.480 But the the movement that I think is really holy, it goes back to you know, the Israelites in the desert telling God, can we just go back to when we were enslaved? 00:21:42.720 --> 00:21:44.000 Because this is bananas. 00:21:44.160 --> 00:21:50.079 It was way better, at least we ate there, to God saying, I will feed you every day, there is enough. 00:21:50.319 --> 00:21:51.839 Like that's the first one that we get. 00:21:51.920 --> 00:21:53.119 But we get it over and over again. 00:21:53.200 --> 00:21:59.119 And essentially, we get this movement from scarcity there's not enough. 00:22:01.759 --> 00:22:03.039 To abundance. 00:22:05.359 --> 00:22:07.119 Dare I say abundant life? 00:22:08.799 --> 00:22:10.319 So let me be clear. 00:22:10.559 --> 00:22:13.119 When I say scarcity, here's what I'm not saying. 00:22:13.359 --> 00:22:15.279 I'm not saying pragmatism. 00:22:15.680 --> 00:22:21.839 Okay, because somebody right now, as I keep preaching, is going to say, well, Shon, bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. 00:22:22.000 --> 00:22:22.880 That's right. 00:22:24.000 --> 00:22:25.920 But that is not what I'm talking about. 00:22:26.079 --> 00:22:38.960 See, when I say a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, I'm saying I'm taking a look at a situation with resources and I'm trying to be a good steward, and I'm doing the best I can doing some risk assessments on how to bring life to people and the situation. 00:22:39.440 --> 00:22:41.440 That's not what I'm saying. 00:22:42.000 --> 00:22:46.079 I'm saying that mindset that says there's never enough. 00:22:46.720 --> 00:22:55.680 There's not enough time, there's not enough love, there's not enough forgiveness, there's not enough room at the table, there is not enough money. 00:22:56.559 --> 00:22:58.160 You know what I'm talking about. 00:22:58.319 --> 00:23:01.680 Anyone got up and said, I just did not get enough sleep. 00:23:03.039 --> 00:23:05.920 I do not have enough time in this day. 00:23:06.480 --> 00:23:14.720 I did not do enough today to earn my keep and to show everybody how much I love them or, you know, show the world that I'm grateful for all the blessings that I have. 00:23:14.880 --> 00:23:16.319 There's just not enough. 00:23:16.480 --> 00:23:18.160 We can't let anybody else in. 00:23:18.240 --> 00:23:20.160 I can't take anything else on my plate. 00:23:20.319 --> 00:23:21.279 There's not enough. 00:23:21.359 --> 00:23:23.039 We need to circle the wagons. 00:23:23.200 --> 00:23:30.720 We need to protect what we have because I'm scared I'm gonna lose it, and I don't want to have any more suffering or pain and the people that I love. 00:23:30.799 --> 00:23:32.400 There's just not enough. 00:23:33.279 --> 00:23:36.319 It's this movement of curving in. 00:23:36.960 --> 00:23:39.599 And it's not new and it's not few. 00:23:41.039 --> 00:23:48.480 This, I think, is part parcel what it means to be human is we get stuck in the not enoughness of life. 00:23:49.200 --> 00:23:55.200 There's no way I can give any more forgiveness or energy to anybody else, especially this person. 00:23:55.279 --> 00:23:56.799 There's just not enough. 00:24:00.000 --> 00:24:03.599 Now let me be clear about what I'm talking about when I say abundance. 00:24:03.920 --> 00:24:12.480 What I'm not saying is some glib, modern, last 25 years nonsense of the prosperity gospel. 00:24:12.799 --> 00:24:16.240 I'm not saying some weird lab it and grab it, name it and claim it. 00:24:16.400 --> 00:24:19.359 Jesus wants you to be rich and powerful and have everything that you want. 00:24:19.519 --> 00:24:21.279 I am not saying that. 00:24:22.160 --> 00:24:28.559 And I want to be crystal clear that an abundant mindset doesn't mean you're not gonna have pain or suffering in your life. 00:24:28.720 --> 00:24:30.160 It's not the Jesus lottery. 00:24:30.240 --> 00:24:32.160 You're not gonna get everything that you want. 00:24:33.039 --> 00:24:37.519 That's not what I mean by thinking and living into abundant life now. 00:24:38.559 --> 00:24:44.880 I'm talking about the reality, the disposition of life that creates generosity. 00:24:46.079 --> 00:24:47.599 Now let me be clear. 00:24:47.920 --> 00:24:49.839 Generosity I don't just mean with money. 00:24:49.920 --> 00:24:51.039 Of course, I mean with money. 00:24:51.119 --> 00:24:55.119 We should, we, y'all, we should be generous with our resources. 00:24:55.359 --> 00:25:01.119 We we've got it pretty good, most of us in here, like relative to the world, but I'm not just talking about that. 00:25:01.279 --> 00:25:19.359 I'm talking about the the word where we get genesis, the word where we get generative, the word where we get genetics, the word where we get genes, like the ones in your DNA, not the ones you're wearing. 00:25:21.279 --> 00:25:27.599 I'm talking about the the root word that means the creative possibility of the new thing. 00:25:28.400 --> 00:25:29.920 Anyone do improv? 00:25:31.119 --> 00:25:31.440 Yeah. 00:25:31.680 --> 00:25:32.720 Some improv people. 00:25:32.799 --> 00:25:38.240 So in improv, they got this rule: you want to move from a no to a yes, a yes and. 00:25:39.039 --> 00:25:40.799 It's like the no of life. 00:25:40.960 --> 00:25:41.839 No, there's not enough. 00:25:42.000 --> 00:25:44.960 No, no, no, to a disposition of yes and. 00:25:47.359 --> 00:25:54.880 And like there's wisdom in the tradition where when we do that, somehow we and the world become more alive. 00:25:55.039 --> 00:25:59.359 We experience more what God intends for us as what it means to be a human being. 00:26:00.640 --> 00:26:06.720 The abundant life, when Jesus is saying, I've come to bring life and life abundant in the promise of abundant life, folks. 00:26:06.799 --> 00:26:10.079 I am not, I mean, I'm not only talking about what happens after we die. 00:26:10.240 --> 00:26:19.200 Yes, of course, I do believe, right, that relationally we we continue on in relationship with each other and God and in a relationship of beauty after we die. 00:26:19.359 --> 00:26:19.920 I believe that. 00:26:20.000 --> 00:26:23.279 Even at the grave, we sing allelujah, hallelujah, alleluia. 00:26:23.440 --> 00:26:24.000 I believe that. 00:26:24.240 --> 00:26:26.319 And I don't just believe that. 00:26:26.559 --> 00:26:28.799 I actually don't spend a lot of time thinking about it. 00:26:28.960 --> 00:26:31.680 It just seems like not where I want to put my energy. 00:26:31.920 --> 00:26:46.000 I think Jesus is saying we can experience a life living in a perspective of abundance and yes and possibility now, that we don't have to be imprisoned and trapped in this scarcity, in this no. 00:26:48.400 --> 00:26:49.599 So, how do we do that? 00:26:49.759 --> 00:27:01.200 Like, saints, my friends, like I can't tell you how many stories of miracles of saints that the Christians have held over the years have been about taking something meager and turning into something more. 00:27:01.839 --> 00:27:02.480 Right? 00:27:03.119 --> 00:27:09.759 I mean, this is a core part of what it means for us to follow this risen Lord, to participate in the work of the Holy Spirit. 00:27:09.920 --> 00:27:10.960 So, how do we do that? 00:27:11.119 --> 00:27:13.200 So I've been thinking, I was looking at the story. 00:27:13.279 --> 00:27:18.559 I thought, well, if Jesus was experiencing this, like what can we, what can we learn by looking at his life? 00:27:18.720 --> 00:27:25.200 And and the first thing that came to me was like, you first you gotta believe that it's worth pursuing. 00:27:26.880 --> 00:27:30.799 It's worth pursuing a perspective of abundant life. 00:27:31.599 --> 00:27:39.759 I mean, we can get so tied to this scarcity that we mask as pragmatism that we tell ourselves, oh, we don't want that. 00:27:39.920 --> 00:27:41.680 I don't want to be those people. 00:27:42.160 --> 00:27:43.680 It's not worth it. 00:27:43.920 --> 00:27:52.079 The first thing is we have to identify that yes, there's scarcity and a perspective of scarcity in my life, and I want to move to a perspective of abundance. 00:27:52.240 --> 00:27:58.160 I want to experience what it's like to be in the generative state of abundance in some aspect of my life. 00:27:58.319 --> 00:27:59.839 That's what Jesus did. 00:28:00.319 --> 00:28:13.359 When he had an interaction with the Canaanite woman, I think he was ready and open, and the second thing that I think is interesting is like if we have that, what fuels it? 00:28:13.440 --> 00:28:15.119 What fuels that movement? 00:28:15.759 --> 00:28:20.720 So there's this interesting uh there's a Greek word that is used in this feeding story, right? 00:28:20.960 --> 00:28:25.599 Where so this feeding story is a little bit different than the first one. 00:28:25.680 --> 00:28:33.680 Well, it's a lot different, but it's different because like they stay with Jesus for three days, not one day. 00:28:33.839 --> 00:28:36.319 Like another story, they're with Jesus for one day. 00:28:36.559 --> 00:28:40.000 They stick around and they stay with Jesus for three days. 00:28:40.240 --> 00:28:49.119 And when they it becomes clear that like there's not a lot of food and nourishment, it says that Jesus looks upon them with compassion. 00:28:50.960 --> 00:28:52.799 Splunk nizomai. 00:28:53.359 --> 00:28:54.240 Say it with me. 00:28:56.640 --> 00:28:58.799 It's kind of like onomonopoeia because it is. 00:29:16.400 --> 00:29:17.759 Poor babies. 00:29:18.640 --> 00:29:22.240 I think this is what happened when he looked at the Canaanite woman as well. 00:29:22.880 --> 00:29:24.799 I think he looked at her face. 00:29:26.079 --> 00:29:30.319 See, this is this is where, like, I think we miss it. 00:29:30.480 --> 00:29:35.839 We if you want to build compassion, look at the faces of the suffering people around you. 00:29:36.960 --> 00:29:40.880 Do you have any idea how many interactions I have with people where I don't look at their face? 00:29:41.759 --> 00:29:43.200 I just look past them. 00:29:44.880 --> 00:29:47.279 Jesus looks at the Canaanite woman's face. 00:29:47.519 --> 00:29:59.200 He looks literally at the faces of the people in the crowd, and he has this blank, he has this like moment of saying, their suffering is worth engaging and meeting. 00:29:59.359 --> 00:30:00.640 What can I do? 00:30:02.480 --> 00:30:06.480 I think we need compassion to move us out of scarcity. 00:30:06.720 --> 00:30:16.720 If you find yourself circling your wagons and you're not looking on the face of other people, particularly the suffering, and saying, we don't have enough, we don't have enough room, we don't have enough money, we don't have enough resources. 00:30:17.039 --> 00:30:23.519 I invite you to go spend some time with the hurting among us and see what happens. 00:30:24.559 --> 00:30:26.160 Look at their faces. 00:30:32.880 --> 00:30:35.279 So desire to change, building compassion. 00:30:35.359 --> 00:30:37.279 The next bit that I saw that I think is interesting. 00:30:37.440 --> 00:30:43.440 So sometimes I read that when I'm reading scripture, I'm like, gosh, like the disciples are so dumb. 00:30:44.160 --> 00:30:45.759 I can't be the only one, right? 00:30:45.839 --> 00:30:47.200 Like, I mean, I know I'm dumb. 00:30:47.279 --> 00:30:48.240 I'm I mean I'm pretty dumb. 00:30:48.319 --> 00:30:50.319 Like, I do, I mean, I break my kids' toys in front of them. 00:30:50.400 --> 00:30:50.960 Like, come on, yeah. 00:30:51.039 --> 00:30:55.039 It's like I'm not, like, I'm not the guy that you're, you know, but I'm pretty dumb, right? 00:30:55.200 --> 00:30:57.599 But I look at him, I'm like, are you that dumb? 00:30:57.839 --> 00:30:59.839 Like, look at the story. 00:31:00.480 --> 00:31:04.000 Chapter 15, feeding that we have today. 00:31:04.079 --> 00:31:12.720 Just a couple chapters earlier, probably on the timeline, maybe a couple weeks earlier, Jesus literally feeds about 20,000 people. 00:31:14.000 --> 00:31:21.519 Do you think every single one of the disciples, just a couple of weeks later, went up to him and were like, How are we gonna do this? 00:31:21.759 --> 00:31:24.160 Do you think every single one of them forgot that? 00:31:24.400 --> 00:31:25.279 I mean, he just got done. 00:31:25.359 --> 00:31:28.400 It says literally, he just got done putting body parts back on people. 00:31:28.559 --> 00:31:30.559 They're like, Well, what are we gonna do? 00:31:30.720 --> 00:31:32.240 How are we gonna figure this out? 00:31:32.400 --> 00:31:34.160 I mean, I don't think that's it. 00:31:34.480 --> 00:31:36.079 I don't think that's it. 00:31:36.799 --> 00:31:41.039 I actually think that they went to Jesus and they were probably a little bit more like this. 00:31:41.839 --> 00:31:43.440 How are we gonna do it? 00:31:47.920 --> 00:31:49.680 How do you want to do this one? 00:31:51.440 --> 00:31:53.680 Because with you, all things are possible. 00:31:55.680 --> 00:32:00.000 Now I will tell you, this is the hardest one for me. 00:32:01.279 --> 00:32:03.839 I I clearly I want to be a better person. 00:32:04.160 --> 00:32:05.119 Clearly. 00:32:06.480 --> 00:32:07.359 Not hard. 00:32:08.480 --> 00:32:12.240 I'm not too terribly bad at looking at the faces of others. 00:32:15.119 --> 00:32:21.839 But I have been so beat down and fatigued in possibility in my own life, and I can't be the only one. 00:32:22.880 --> 00:32:28.400 Where I forget that we are called to be people who dream. 00:32:30.960 --> 00:32:32.799 Who dream possibility. 00:32:38.160 --> 00:32:45.279 The thing that we get from the Corinthians reading is like Paul talking to them, and he's like, You're misunderstanding, it's God doing the work. 00:32:46.480 --> 00:32:48.160 God is doing the work. 00:32:50.720 --> 00:33:04.319 But I tell you what, I look at some of my relationships, and I'm so fatigued about holding on to hope, and I'm so fatigued about believing a more beautiful thing is possible, I don't want to be disappointed again, so I'm just gonna stop dreaming. 00:33:05.119 --> 00:33:10.799 I'm just gonna stop believing that all things are possible with God. 00:33:12.000 --> 00:33:14.240 Has anybody seen Ted Lasso? 00:33:15.759 --> 00:33:18.799 Alright, there's this soccer show, it's called Ted Lasso. 00:33:19.119 --> 00:33:20.000 It's really good. 00:33:20.880 --> 00:33:27.839 And he takes this really bad team, and they they, you know, get really good, but they lose at the end of a really important game. 00:33:28.000 --> 00:33:28.480 Sorry. 00:33:28.799 --> 00:33:30.079 Spoiler alert. 00:33:31.839 --> 00:33:32.720 Sue me. 00:33:33.039 --> 00:33:38.480 So but what's interesting, this like really like wisdom teacher who's the bartender, that's her character. 00:33:38.640 --> 00:33:43.440 She comes up and she says, you know, it's the hope that kills you. 00:33:45.759 --> 00:33:47.599 It's the hope that kills you. 00:33:48.400 --> 00:33:58.480 I mean, have you stopped dreaming or believing that it's possible to heal the addiction that's in your life in any way, shape, or form, the relationship that is broken? 00:34:02.559 --> 00:34:05.759 The loneliness and isolation that you're feeling. 00:34:07.359 --> 00:34:10.960 You take a look at the pain and the hurt and the suffering of the world. 00:34:12.239 --> 00:34:21.039 So I I was recommended to go like look at this photo to help create compassion, and it's a little girl wearing a princess dress in the Gaza Strip right now. 00:34:21.599 --> 00:34:26.159 And she's just wearing a princess dress, one that maybe my kids wore, similar. 00:34:27.519 --> 00:34:28.960 And she just looks terrible. 00:34:29.039 --> 00:34:42.159 She's in rubble, she's emaciated, and she's getting ready to get some bread, and she just looks at it like it's a like a feast that she's never had. 00:34:43.679 --> 00:34:48.960 How is it even possible, God, to dream healing and beauty, and wholeness? 00:34:50.000 --> 00:34:59.920 How can I live in abundance and wonder when I look at that, when I look at the world, when I look at the own brokenness of my life? 00:35:01.199 --> 00:35:03.360 I think this is the hardest one. 00:35:04.960 --> 00:35:16.480 Is to be people who genuinely believe that the generative movement of the Holy Spirit can create new things that are beautiful. 00:35:20.480 --> 00:35:22.159 And then what do we do? 00:35:23.360 --> 00:35:31.440 So the last bit that I saw is like what's interesting in the feeding of the 5,000, uh, they had, you know, seven, five loaves and two fishes. 00:35:31.599 --> 00:35:32.880 They're like said big fish. 00:35:33.039 --> 00:35:33.599 Fish. 00:35:33.840 --> 00:35:38.320 But with this one, what's interesting is they only have two meager fish, is what it says. 00:35:38.800 --> 00:35:42.719 They have they have the seven loaves and two meager fish. 00:35:43.519 --> 00:35:48.400 And that's what that's what Jesus uses to feed these 16,000 people or so. 00:35:49.440 --> 00:35:51.119 So I was thinking about that. 00:35:52.079 --> 00:36:16.719 Like maybe the the last bit in this process of moving or thinking about how we move from scarcity to abundance is we set our sights, we we have compassion, we begin to dream that it is possible because God is the one doing the work, and we believe in a God of miraculous things and big healing and possibility, and the way that we participate in that work is we join God in dreaming the world into place. 00:36:18.960 --> 00:36:21.519 And then we offer what we have. 00:36:23.039 --> 00:36:25.199 As meager as it may be. 00:36:26.880 --> 00:36:31.199 I mean, some people right here may be like, I'm in a place of overflowing abundance. 00:36:31.360 --> 00:36:36.960 The word abundancia in Latin basically means overflowing cup. 00:36:37.360 --> 00:36:38.559 Overflowing cup. 00:36:40.400 --> 00:36:45.920 Maybe you're in a place right now where you feel like every aspect of your cup is overflowing, and this is good, this is easy. 00:36:46.000 --> 00:36:46.960 I'm overflowing. 00:36:47.119 --> 00:36:47.920 Thanks be to God. 00:36:48.079 --> 00:36:49.280 Let it flow. 00:36:49.679 --> 00:36:52.880 Dream big, engage the suffering of the world. 00:36:53.119 --> 00:36:54.400 But maybe you're not. 00:36:55.519 --> 00:36:59.199 Maybe you're in a place where all you have is two meager, stupid fish. 00:36:59.360 --> 00:37:01.280 And you're like, God, I pretty much hate you. 00:37:01.440 --> 00:37:05.920 I just looked at this photo of this girl in Gaza, and you stink at your job. 00:37:07.280 --> 00:37:08.800 But here's what I got. 00:37:09.519 --> 00:37:10.800 Here's what I got. 00:37:11.039 --> 00:37:12.320 So can you use that? 00:37:14.880 --> 00:37:16.079 Can you use that? 00:37:16.239 --> 00:37:21.119 And the wisdom of the ancestors and the testimony of the faithful is that God can. 00:37:21.760 --> 00:37:22.719 That God can. 00:37:25.679 --> 00:37:31.920 So I don't I don't know where you are in in your life right now, and it's not as simple as I'm either abundant or I'm scarce. 00:37:32.000 --> 00:37:34.079 I mean, uh it's not that simple, right? 00:37:34.159 --> 00:37:36.239 But I could I can't preach all day. 00:37:37.119 --> 00:37:48.320 What I'm saying is, is like how are we in our own lives trapped in a scarce mindset that's not enough, that's limited? 00:37:49.360 --> 00:37:59.440 And what does it mean for us to take the next step in moving and becoming vulnerable to a perspective of abundance? 00:38:01.039 --> 00:38:03.119 I don't know what that means for you. 00:38:04.159 --> 00:38:11.360 But I I I do know that the wisdom of the tradition is that that's that's what it means to be human. 00:38:11.440 --> 00:38:13.119 That's where life can be found. 00:38:14.480 --> 00:38:16.000 That's where life can be found. 00:38:17.920 --> 00:38:20.639 And so maybe we just take that journey together. 00:38:21.840 --> 00:38:22.239 Amen?