Our Guest Jamie Galloway
JAMIE: You see this big fish come out of nowhere and just “bah!” Spit a man out! Now they’re going show us a sign Jesus and Jesus says “No! No sign except the sign of Jonah!” What is He saying? Not just those signs, I’m not just going to heal, I’m going to do something so outrageous it’s going to capture the attention of an entire nation! If we saw a man spit out of a fish up on the beach you better believe me the whole city’s going to come out to find out what happened!
AUDIENCE: That’s right.
JAMIE: It’s going to change the nation and so it is with Jesus! He wants to do greater works and sometimes we’re asking Him for little works but He wants to do greater works. I’ve come, I been sent commissioned because I believe God wants to give us not just a “works mentality” but a “greater works mentality.” That you would walk in a greater works mentality! Now here’s the deal. Okay. He goes on from there and Jesus honestly is a little irritated because the Pharisees are bugging Him about a sign, and He left them, in verse 13, getting into the boat again and departed to the other side. Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread. Say “bread!”
AUDIENCE: Bread!
JAMIE: And they did not have more than one loaf with them in the boat. Say “one loaf!”
AUDIENCE: One loaf!
JAMIE: Bread.
AUDIENCE: Bread.
JAMIE: One loaf.
AUDIENCE: One loaf.
JAMIE: “Then Jesus charged them saying take heed. Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.” The leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod. He’s warning His disciples about something that’s hidden in plain sight. It’s actually at work and it’s corrupting their vision. Here’s what I want you to see. This is powerful. Watch this! It says “and they reasoned among themselves saying is it because we have no bread.” Where did the bread go? No bread. Say “one loaf.”
AUDIENCE: One loaf.
JAMIE: Say “no bread.”
AUDIENCE: No bread.
JAMIE: What happened to the bread? Now they don’t see the bread. It was there before. Now it’s gone. Who ate it? There was a loaf of bread. Now it’s gone. What happened to them that caused them to no longer to be able to see the loaf that is right in front of their eyes? Jesus says “beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.” Say “one loaf.”
AUDIENCE: One loaf.
JAMIE: Say “no bread.”
AUDIENCE: No bread.
JAMIE: Now does no bread mean one loaf?
AUDIENCE: No.
JAMIE: Does one loaf mean no bread? No! No bread is no bread! I grew up in a family when my father made bread everyone in the house knew bread was in the house! And my father would make fresh homemade bread every Sunday. And every one of us, myself, my two brothers, my sister we would run down, put our hands on that hot bread, burn our hands, cut it and eat it as fast as we could! And we didn’t let anybody else eat it. Even though it was for everybody else we didn’t let anybody else eat it. So imagine 12 disciples in a boat and they all have their eyes on the bread. Scarcity mentality!
AUDIENCE: Mm.
JAMIE: You better believe me they’re all looking at that loaf of bread. Jesus says “beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.” What happens when the leaven of Pharisees and the leaven of Herod grips you? It causes you no longer to be able to see what’s right there in front of your face! You see that person walking past you and they’re needing Jesus, they’re needing a miracle and they’re just another person not even on your radar. You can’t see what’s right in front of your face! I believe there’s someone out there right now that you need a miracle! You need God to show up in your situation! And He’s going to give you, eyes to see what’s hidden in plain sight that you could walk in the supernatural! I believe you’re seeing things around you but you don’t know how to make sense of them. I believe today’s message is going to help you and you’re going to begin to see those things that are hidden in plain sight! God wants to give you, eyes to see. Here’s what the kingdom’s leaven, would do. Remember Jesus talked about the leaven of the kingdom? Matthew 13, Jesus spoke about the leaven of the kingdom. Follow me. The leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod diminishes something. It makes the miracles seem less valuable. But the leaven of the kingdom makes something small a big deal! Here’s what I want you to know. To walk in the supernatural you’ve got to make a big deal about what God is doing in your life! We’ve been trained you know don’t make a big deal about it because we make a big deal about Jesus but the other things are, side issues when it comes to His signs and wonders and miracles. But Jesus says this: “Whatever you hear in secret shout it from the rooftops!” Why does he give us permission to do that yet the religious spirit is trying to prohibit us from identifying what it is He is doing today! I think we’re afraid of falling into error and if you’re afraid of falling into the error you’ve already fallen into error. You’ve already fallen into a trap of deception that keeps you from living in a place of faith and believing. We stick to Jesus and we believe, for miracles, and the supernatural. So here’s what happens. Jesus says “Why do you reason,” in verse 17, “because you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive nor understand? Is your heart still hardened? Having eyes do you not see? Having ears do you not hear? And do you not remember?” Say “remember!”
AUDIENCE: Remember!
