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Can you hear me now…Good.
Paul Marcarelli, does that name ring a bell?
Maybe not!
What about the Verizon Guy (who is now the Sprint Guy)?
The man made famous for appearing in Verizon Commercials during the first decade of the 21st Century.
The commercials would show extremes situations followed by, Can you hear me now…with a response…Good.
Ironically he is now doing commercials for Sprint and I find myself often saying “Can you hear me now…followed by a good”
The cell phone market seems to remain competitive.
With different and similar technology advanced their product.
They all similarly are currently driven by cell towers.
Some stronger and more reliable, hence, can you hear me now.
We are driven by various items in our life.
Various things are desperate for our time and attention.
When you consider your faith in Christ, What drives it?
This morning I want to look at one faith driving mechanisms from .
While not exhaustive, these two mechanisms overflow and drive our faith in a number of ways.
If we examined the
Trust God in Your Time of Need…Not the Mechanic
Now I want to begin and clarify that I am not referring to a professional mechanic that works on your car.
I hope you can trust your mechanic, if you don’t, find one that you can.
What I am referring to is the desire to fix things that seem out of control.
My wife is thinking, nope, not my Justin.
If you go to my house right now, you would see a half taken down shed, a dish washer in its place, but not hooked up, and holes in the wall hidden by a picture where I tried to mount a tv.
While these are things we try and fix and do ourselves, I’m referring to trying everything we can to resolve the situation.
The disciples are about to learn a valuable lesson in faith.
Matthew 14:13
Long day of ministry.
Wiping hands together, dusting off the dust.
The disciples are content by fixing the situation, by being the mechanic and sending everyone on their merry way.
They are probably thinking, Jesus just healed the sick.
Let’s keep going and seeing what else Jesus will do.
Need…is God your need…or is it something else, I need to check my phone, I need to check the news, I need to read the newspaper etc.
No so fast.
Jesus had further plans.
These disciples were trusting their own judgment on what to do next.
They best they could come up with is to send the crowds away.
Jesus was about to show these disciples that they must not trust in themselves and their clever plans, but their faith would be strenghted and they would grow in their faith when they learned to trust Jesus.
Matthew 14:16-
After a long day, the disciples just wanted to resort to everyone buying food for themselves.
Jesus said no…we are going to feed the crowd.
This wasn’t just a crowd that showed up early for black friday shopping spectacular (though i think sometimes we think there are 5,000 people in front of us to pay).
5,000 men, not to mention wives, other women and children.
We are talking about a huge number of people.
The disciples still reveal their ability to not comprehend what is taking place.
Matthew 14:17
Jesus, all we have is five loaves in two fish.
Realizing the size of the crowd.
Jesus, how in the world are we going to feed five thousand men and other people with Five loaves and two fish?
These disciples were trying to take this situation into their own hands.
Their faith was small because all they saw was five loaves and two fish.
The feeding of the five thousand is the only miracle that appears in all four gospels.
These disciples are about to learn a huge lesson in faith.
Their faith is about to be driven to new levels.
Our faith should be growing on a consistent basis.
All these disciples saw was five loaves and two fish.
Jesus is about to reveal to them and the crowd that he is the bread of life.
You see, their faith was strengthened that day.
Physical bodies were fed, but Jesus reveals that he is the bread of life.
Come to me and you won’t be hungry spiritually.
Jesus is saying…Can you hear me now?
Did you know you have a appetite that is always hungry?
If you didn’t, WAKE UP, sin is crouching at the door and it’s desire is to consume you.
Matthew 14:18
These disciples had a great need.
Five loaves and two fish and thousands of people.
Jesus just says, bring them to me.
What Drives your Faith?
What Drives your life?
What is keeping you from hearing from God?
I don’t know what type of need you have right now…Maybe it feels that the world is crashing on your shoulders.
Far too often we look to the mechanic inside of us or other mechanisms in this world when we are in need.
Technology and Social Media
I think social media and technology has crippled our culture…and I hate to break it to you, it probably won’t get any better...
A study reveals that the average person spends over four hours a day on their phone.
Cell phones are checked every 4.3 minutes.
Now I do not feel like I was addicted to my phone (some of you may feel that way).
But over the last few weeks I have began shrinking my phone usage by deleting apps and forcing me to use a computer or my tablet.
While I still check things (it is part of my job), I do feel like I am more alert and focused and not as glued to my phone.
Every sunday morning, today included I get a message on my way to the church that tells me how much screen time I have used.
Sometimes these numbers are shocking…My numbers were in line with the average.
By deleting social media off of my phone in just a few weeks, these numbers have dropped drastically.
Now I am not calling you to do what I am doing, this is something I am working on in my own personal life.
What I can tell you is that technology and social media can be a constant drag and source of anxiety in your life.
Technology and social media may even be keeping you from hearing God.
How can I make such a claim.
I’m studying for this sermon and researching the verizon guy/now the sprint guy (still so confusing).
Ten minutes later I find myself looking at a picture of a baby being criticized for eating a pork rib.
You can’t make this stuff up.
You have every intention to check the sports scores and hours later finding yourself watching videos of people slipping on ice.
You have every intention of checking Pinterest for a new project and then find yourself wrapped up in drama in People magazine.
Far too often we think we need to be the mechanic.
Struggling with pornography, if I just throw out the tv and computer I’ll be good.
Struggling with addiction…I’ll divert my attention to something else.
Whatever your need is…I don’t know what it is…For these disciples, they were about to feed five thousand plus people and all they had was five loaves and two fish....they had great need.
Jesus just said, bring them to me.
Technology and Social Media
Trust God in your great need.
Struggling with addiction…bring it to Him
Struggling with Anger problems, bring it to Him
Struggling with finances, bring it to him.
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