What God Left Out: Flatbread Faith

and we're about to take off. Look at Exodus chapter twelve with me. Thank you for your spirit Lord. Put that in the chat. Thank you for your spirit Lord. Welcome all over the world. We welcome you. Let us know where you're joining from right now, where you're worshiping from, not watching worshiping. I'm a participator. I'm not a spectator. I want to get in on it, what God is doing in the season. I don't want to be left out.

Look at this scripture. I mentioned it last week. I told you that last week when I preached on comfort food, I had a tupperwaar anointing. And so hopefully your fridge has been stocked this week, and you've been able to nibble on what you need. That's a goal anyway, then, and I want to go back into one of the passages that I mentioned and really really see what God is saying to me. Please help me, Lord, as you lavished your word on me, helped me to access it

now for your people who needed. Exodus twelve thirty seven, the Israelites journeyed from Ramses to Suckott. There are about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children, and many other people went up with them, and also large droves of livestock, both flocks and herts. With the dough the Israelites had brought. With the dough the Israelite had brought from Egypt, they baked loaves of unloven bread. They baked loaves of unloven bread with the dough that

they brought from Egypt. All right, lean into this, it's getting good. You smell the bread, all right, here it comes. The dough was without yeast because they had been driven out of Egypt and did not have time to prepare food for themselves. Now, the length of time the Israelite people lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years, and at the end of four hundred and thirty years to the very day, all the Lord's divisions left Egypt because the Lord kept vigil. Somebody say, God is looking

out for me. That's not my sermon, but I needed to underscore it real quick in case you've been wondering lately. The Lord kept vigil. That means you don't have to watch all the things all the time Lord kept vigil. The Bible said, he doesn't slumber or sleep, so that means you ought to get some rest. Tell somebody take a nap. Take a nap. The storm will still be there when you wake up. Because the Lord kept vigil

that night to bring them out of Egypt. On this night, all the Israelites are to keep vigil to honor the Lord for generations to come. I wanted you to get the full context, but really I want to go off of verse thirty nine, where it says the dough was without yeast because they had been driven out of Egypt and did not have time to prepare food for themselves. And I want to give you two titles that you

can choose from. The first is more descriptive. It says on this title, we could say what God left out? What God left out? If you like your titles a little on the spicy side, we're gonna call this little sermon flat bread faith, Flat bread faith. Serve your word to the people, and use me as a waiter God in Jesus' name, Amen, Amen, what God left out? You never really tell anybody everything, not even yourself, not even God.

Self awareness is an ongoing process. You tell yourself the story that you can live with, the version of events you can live with. But in our own little way, we're all revisionist historians. So when we compile how certain things went down in our life, we do it in a way that will accommodate our pain or our fear too fast. Back up, Lord said, slow down, slow down.

Revisionist history. It's like you leave certain things out, you say a certain part, leave a certain part out, and you kind of stack it in a way that makes you feel better about it. Everybody does this. I do it, you do it. I've done it before. Oh that's staff member left because you know they were this and that

and underperforming. Well, I'm still salty about it. So what you are getting is me seasoning with the details that I like, and then they will say a different well my season was over, and I'm like, no, you were just lazy and quit and didn't want to stick it out. And then there and then they're going back and they're like, well, no, this was going in my life and that was going, and we're all working off of our point of view.

And that's that's that's very important to realize, is that we are all when it comes to how we understand our life doing a revisionist history. And another thing, if you like to write down things that the preacher says not mandatory, it's recommended, we're all reductionists. Wow. And that's when we take something that's incredibly complicated and make it

sound so simple. So, you know, taking something that's so big and difficult to understand and just trying to boil it down to something that especially preaching, Like I'm going to talk a little bit about preaching today because hey, you know that's that's something I care about, aren't you glad? Yeah, it'd be bad if I didn't. But you want to boil it down, make it rhyme, you know, make it start with the same letters and all that. I do that. I like that, but sometimes I have noticed that I

oversimplify what is actually very complicated. I'm preaching to you today. I came over, I came over. I brought a big old casserole over your hunger. So so, so that's one thing. But then I also sometimes overcomplicate what is really pretty simple, and both of those can get me in trouble. When you read the Bible, the biggest mistake that you can make is to think you already know what you're reading.

You miss all kinds of stuff when you take out the parts revisionists, you take out the parts that make you feel uncomfortable, take out the parts that you don't initially understand, or when you try to boil it down to something that is palatable. You can't take all of the tension out of the truth. You can't. Well, you can, but you're not going to have a strong faith that way.

You'll be weak. Then anytime something happens that doesn't clearly fit your version of the truth, then you won't have any shield to protect you from the attacks of the enemy. I need a little help online. This room's kind of sleepy today. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So we all do it. We all do it. I tell people sometimes how our church started. But I don't tell him everything because you can't tell everything, you know. It's first of all, it would take forever. You can't go all the way back.

And secondly, there are some things I don't even remember. It's like I blocked him out. I had this memory come back to me when I was preparing the sermon of how me and Holly went to this place one time and Nicole went with us. Nicole went with us. We were we drove about eight hours and we drove to preach at at camp and Adrian de Prey asked me to go tag team. He dicipled you in college,

didn't He made you memorize scripture. If you missed a word, what'd you punch you in the jar or something like that. Adrian's this big intimidating god. This He used to throw chairs around on his sermon illustrations. You had to wear a motorcycle helmet to go to Adrian to pray sermon. Great man of God, great passion. I looked up to him. You ever hear Adrian do the four chairs? He had this one sermon he would put sticks down his pants. I still don't know what the thing was about. But

he would. He would he would go gather sticks and shove them down anyway. He is a very powerful man of God. He told me. I blocked some of this stuff out, but it came back to me. He told me, I want you to meet me at such and such and tag team preached this camp with me. That was a dream come true for me. Tim. I thought, well, that's, you know, like getting to play with you know, Lebron or something like that. For me. At the time, I

thought preaching with Adrian. And so we drove out there eight hours and when we got there, y'all, it was the weirdest situation. They said. When we got there, they said, welcome to hobo camp. I said, hobo camp. They said, yeah, tomorrow is the hobo parade. I don't know if it's politically correct to say hobo anymore. I might get shut down. He canceled and all over this or not. But I didn't make it up. I didn't know it was a hobo camp. I just knew. Adrian asked me to go.

He said, meet me out there. I drove out there and he would even there and I asked the lady. The lady running the camp was ninety years old and legally blind, and it was inner house, and there's one hundred and fifty. Am I making this up. It's a whole campground. But then the meeting was in the house and the lady was so nice. There was nothing. I just didn't I didn't know that it was a hobo camp, right,

I didn't know that they were divided. We went to eat in the cafeteria the first day and the kids all start banging their glasses on the table in Unison, because they all come back to the same camp every year. Is my first time they start banging their their glasses on the table and they start singing. I remember the song. How do I remember this? Hatfield's, Yoakums and McCoy's and kettles have gathered together for some fun, fun, fun fun. Some have come by box car, some have come from walking.

Oh there's a travel by their thumb thumb, thumb, thumb. Though we roam a thousand miles away, we will return here for convention data. I don't remember the rest, but I remember that much. And I was so freaked out and Adrian wasn't even there. That's why I went to the lady run. I said, where's Adrew say, don't get here til Sunday. So he gets here Sunday, I'm waiting for him, like, Man of God. You didn't You left out the part where it was a hobo camp and a hobo pray. You left out the part where I

had to do the first two sessions by myself. I didn't have a sermon ready. You left Oh come on, he said, Yeah, I left that part out because I thought if I didn't leave it out, you wouldn't show up. Y'all thought I was just having a random flashback, like pray for pastor he's over caffeinated. No, no, no, no no, no, it came back to me for a reason he left it out. Today, I don't want to talk to you about what God brought the Israelites through the Red Sea,

because I figure you've heard that part before. I don't want to talk to you about who he struck down, the firstborn of Egypt to cause Pharaoh to let his people go with a mighty hand and outstretched arm, because I figure you've heard about that and it's really scary too. Instead, I wanted to mention something that happened when they were leaving that you can skip over. You can skip over

it so easily, but it really speaks to me. It said that when they left Egypt, where they had been four hundred and thirty years, and by way of review, they were not in Egypt because of something they did wrong. They were in Egypt because that was the place God provided for them when God finally brought them out as their situation had changed from one of provision to imprisonment. The Bible records an important detail that says they left with bread. One verse says it was wrapped in their

clothes on their shoulders, and the bread was unleavined. It says specifically the dough was without yeast because they had to leave so fast, they didn't have time to prepare food for themselves. And I was thinking, if God had the foresight and the planning ability to get them ready, to get all of the clothes of the Egyptians, all of the jewelry, all of the things they took, if God could plan out all ten plagues to get his people out, surely he could have had them bake the

bread the night before. So the only thing I can think is that God didn't want them to take yeast from Egypt into the place of their promise when we're praying over a new year, I told you I was going to focus on room to receive. Everybody, say room to receive, say it out loud, like with your mouth and your vocal cords and your larynx and stuff. Room to receive, room to receive. Put as many o's as you want in the word. Room, room to receive. That's

why I give God a great, big praise. I want him to have a whole lot of room to run around and do what he wants to do. And I found out sometimes you can have a big room that's cluttered. You can have a big gift that's cluttered. You can have a smart mind that's cluttered. You can have a

good relationship that's cluttered. But God is doing something in this text that I wonder has He been doing in your life, my life, this church, this ministry, is that rather than God demonstrating his power through what he adds, he gives his people a lesson in leaving it out, taking a deep breath and shout, leave it out. One two three. You weren't ready, I'll do it again. One two three, leave it out, leave it out, he said, get up in a hurry, out of Egypt, and they

didn't even have time to let the bread rise. That's what the yeast does, It makes the bread rise. And before the bread could even rise, they had to get out. They didn't even have time to prepare for a global pandemic, I mean for the exodus. Sometimes my mind goes back and forth, like a do ad on TikTok or something. It's going back and forth. So I want you to ask a question today, and this could be very good homework, or we could just do it right now. Let's do

it right now. Let's do right now. We've got time, right, we got time. You got anything better to do than hear the word of the eternal God who sits on the throne and having above all principle, these and authorities. Sorry, so let's do it right now. What is God leaving out in my life right now to lead me to where he called me all along? And I want to do it over under a couple of different headings. I want to talk about it from disappointments, that's number one.

I want to talk about it through deficiency, and then I want to talk about it through deletions. Feed them back to me real quick. Disappointments put it in the chat next one deficiency and three deletions. They left Egypt with bread with no yeast, and they went into a place where they had no knowledge of how to survive. Remember, they went into the wilderness. God gave amana. All of that is awesome. You know, when I read the Bible sometimes I think the more important things that we learn

are in the spaces where nothing is written. And I want to give you a few examples of that, because in your life, a lot of times it will not be the obvious things that will leave the greatest clues to what God has called you to do. One example that I thought of that was when God told Moses his name, he said I am And I figured out over time that God didn't get tongue tied about what came next. He wanted to leave it open. We want to limit God right. We want a picture of God

that we can hang in our kitchen. We want a picture of Jesus that looks just like somebody with our same last name. But when God left that blank, he wanted you to know that He will not be confined to something that you can call him with human language, or a picture that your eyes can perceive. Let me show you this. In the New Testament, Acts chapter one is kind of like Numbers twelve or Exodus twelve, because

it's a picture of a nation in transition. It's the same thing in Acts one, it's the same thing in the New Testament. Jesus is leaving, the Holy Spirit is coming, and life is happening in that transition. Life happens in the transitions, Life happens in the car, Life happens on the way to stuff, Life happens with something that came up on your caller idea and you don't even know what number that was. Life happens good and bad in places you didn't know to look. And so this is

a This is a parallel that God gave me. They were coming out of Egypt. God was bringing his church out of a religious system in Acts chapter one. So they're standing there talking to Jesus, who they've walked with in Acts one, and look at verse six. They gathered around and asked him, Lord, are you x one six at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel. But God was not going to restore what they had before. He was going to replace it with something much better.

I gotta get this through to somebody. God. God, God, God is not going to restore the earlier version of your life. God is not going to make things back like they were. He doesn't do that. That's not his thing. Jesus. I'm not saying that Jesus was like eight d or anything like that, but he couldn't do the same miracle the same way. He's spitting and touching and speaking, and it's it's not gonna be like it was now now.

When they asked him this, they said, Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel? I want you to notice what he said back to them, It's not for you to know the times of the dates Father set by his own authorny. He reveals his power not by the details that he puts in, but by the details that he left out. He could have told him the answer to that. You think he didn't know and you didn't have a plan for it. You think God is like, oh, I didn't see this thing

happening over there in China. This is a real game changer. What are we gonna do? Gabriel, Hey, Michael, get your war clothes on. There's a really got caught off guard. Goodness of sam Bush on the no no, no no, no, no, no. That blank space right there, that's the place where we learn to believe. See, if we know something, we don't have the opportunity to believe it. I don't have to believe what I know. I have to believe what God spoke. You want another one. God is often revealed by what

he leaves out more than what he puts in. You really want another one? I got about three hundred of these, all right, let me give you another one. When they talk about Abraham in the Bible, he's known as the father of faith, the father of many nations, right, and it gives this little reductionist verse, revisionist history. It says

Abraham believed God and it was credited to him for righteousness. Now, for someone who's been studying the Bible like I have these twenty and some years, twenty and some you like that leaving it open, let you know exactly how long he said. He did a lot more than believe God. He lied about who his wife was, He has sex with Hagar, who was supposed to be cleaning the house. He did a lot more than You don't like the

real Bible, do you? Oh? You like that airbrush. You want me to leave this stuff out that you don't like about your Bible heroes. No, here's the thing about it. All that was left out when Paul wrote Romans, and I was going, why why did God leave that out? And I figured out that Abraham's life was not defined by his failures, not by God. It was defined by his faith. You got it? Are you getting it? So when Paul gets ready to describe Abraham, he doesn't mention

the things we might mention. Oh, then they went bankrupt, and then and then they're kind of over there. He mentions none of that. He said he believed God. That's what counts. That's what matters. That's what will be said after the fact, even with the ups and downs. Leave it out. Leave it out. Last week I was preaching about the prodigal son, and I was mad at the dad and the story right because the younger one took his money and wasted it. Let's go to that passage

real quick, Luke fifteen. I love the Word of God, Skinner, I love it. I love it. I love it. My hardest parted in finding out something to preach. My hardest part is figuring out what to leave out because this thing is so good to me. I told Abby last night. She came in, she said, you got your sermon ready? I said, no, I got three. She said, you'll find one verse to bring them all together. You always do. Did you say that? Or am I making it up?

She was a prophet because I didn't know. I didn't know what it had to do with Yeaston bred and the prodigal son. I'm like, I guess they both have food in them, but what else? Watch this? You ready? Whoa luke fifteen? Luke fifteen? So the younger brother he goes out and he's doing his you know, younger brother stuff. And he's out there, you know, spending everything he had, trying to be independent from the father. You know, I want my freedom. It's not really free, It's not really free.

When the devil tempts you, he leaves a lot of stuff out about what it's going to cost you. You think God's the only one who leaves stuff out. The devil has the same strategy. He will tell you all about the feeling. I gotta go back real quick. I gotta go back real quick. When they were saying we wish we were back in Egypt, remember from last week. Remember, and they said we had in Egypt. You also had an unreasonable quota of bricks that you had to make

with not enough straw. You left that out out. You left that out. And there's a way our memory gets selective, all the good old days. I should probably leave this out. We could take that out later. I don't know what that was. But look at me, I'm printing the Bible. Now. You remember how the fish tasted, but you forgot how the Pharaoh treated you. You're leaving something out. You're leaving something out. You're leaving the wrong stuff out, all right.

So the younger brother, he's like, oh god, I'm hungry. I'm hungry. I remember my father. We used to eat around there, We ate good around there. I'm going back to my father. I'm not gonna beg like this anymore. And you get there, right, You're like, I'm gonna do this different. I'm gonna set some prime. I'm sick of this. I don't want to live this way. Right Like when we say go back to your father, what does that mean?

I don't want that to be abstract for you. It means going back to who you truly are, being known by your identity, not seeking after it by trying to add status and stuff and layers and personas and busyness and think that that's somehow going to fulfill your life is not gained the world and lose your soul. So that's what it meant. When he came to his senses and came back to his father, and he had a speech ready, he wrote a whole speech, father, I have

sinned against Heaven, against you. I'm no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants. Verse twenty Luke fifteen. He got up and went to his father, And what's what happened? While he was still a long way off his father's sa him was filled with compassion. He ran to his son. Can you believe this undignified decision of a great wealthy man who has hired servants to run toward his son who

wasted his money. I see the son getting his speech ready because he didn't expect to see his father until he rounded the corner. But before he could get all these things out of his mouth, I'm not worthy, Make me a servant. I'm so horrible. Before he could get to any of that, the father said to his servants. Quick, bring the best road, put it on him, put a ring on his finger, sandals on his feet. Way to have a speech to give you where I'm going to relist all the bad things I did. Huh. I hear

God saying leave that out. That's not what this moment is about. That's not why I'm convicting you so I can just so that I can just crush you under the weight to bad decisions. I know you got a lot of those thoughts too, But if I'm hearing God right, he's saying, lead that out. Wow, I don't know you by those things that you identify yourself by. Lead that out. Stop introducing yourself to the next season of your life with the resume of your regrets from the last one.

Leave that out. Leave it out, leave it out, leave it out, leave it out, leave it out. You know when you go in your mind and you're like, I think God is calling me to do but da da da leave that out. Go back to the first thing you said and make a little sandwich with the last thing God has said, and leave out whatever you put in between, because that's the space for you to believe. Right. I thought you were going to talk about this ointment.

I am talking about disappointment. The Father had every right to be disappointed in the sun, but he left that out. He left that out. And I wonder why are we so quick to put stuff back on people that God is leaving out. God doesn't talk to them like that. God doesn't see them like that. God doesn't judge them like that. And we do leave it out next time this week, you get a little something in you. It feels real good. Right, you're gonna say something bad about

somebody you know, Oh, well, they're good, you know. And I heard shine to leave it out. I hope y'all make a meme out of me. I hope y'all make a meme out of me. Leave it out, leave it out, leave it out, leave it out, put your little speech off, put your little self righteous thing. And so we don't know what to leave out. And God's trying to send us right the Holy Spirit, but we need too many details.

And because we will not leave the details in the hands of God, we cannot receive what He has given us for this moment. So there come moments in your life, And I wonder are you in one right now, right now where God is saying I'm calling you out of Egypt. But you can't wait for the red to rize. You can't wait for everything to be perfect. You can't wait for everything to be convenient. You can't wait for everybody to cheer you on. You can't wait till it makes

total sense. You can't wait till it comes on paper. You can't wait till you have the facts. You can't wait until you have more strength. You can't wait until you have more wisdom. You can't wait till you have the trophy. You gotta celebrate right now. You gotta go right now. You gotta have faith, flat bed, flat bread faith. Almost have flat bed like a big truck backing up beat beat, beat, beat, beat, beat, with the blessings of God. But does he have anywhere to put him? Flatbred faith,

flatbread faith. I don't know what to call the sermon, But do you have anywhere for it? Or are you scrolling? At the same time I'm preaching and you don't even have a place in your heart? The thorns are growing at the same time the seed is hidden the soil. Jesus of Nazareth, come and preach to these people. I need you, Lord, It's amazing. Well God sends to your life, and you know he does. For he sends, he takes something away, and in between. Your job is to believe

that something better is coming. She said, I'm leaving you in the body. I'm sending my spirit. I want you to go. What verses it? Star? What versues it? Give me? Acts one? Fourteen? Is it? Maybe fourteen? He said, wait for the Holy Spirit. Leave a blank for the part that you don't know about right now. Oh God, how's my kid going to turn out? And what college are they going to go into? They're three? Your baby is three. You can put Duke Jammy's on them all you want,

but they might go to you. N see, you can't control that. It's a regional joke. But on fourteen fourteen? Acts one fourteen? What is it? Star? A bunch of names? They together joined together. They all join together constantly in prayer, along with with the woman and Mary. No, because that's who was there, Mary and the mother and all that other people. Go back to the thirteen maybe when ye when they arrived they went upstairs to the the room. Why did they go to the room to what? He said?

They went to the room to receive. Do you have room to receive. Do you have the right people in place? Because I do want to preach a sermon one of these weeks here early in the year about seasonal people, and I will, God permitting, I will, God permitting, I will. But let's start with the place. You know, you're the temple. Crazy to me, however many times I read the scripture, I just miss it until I make more room in

my heart to receive it. You know, It's like I read this verse a million times where it said you are always with me. All that I have is yours. And I love that verse. You're always with me, all that I have is yours. It's like a great thing to pray. Right, God, you are always with me. All

that I have is yours. And just when JJ and gregging them, they had their campus pastor meeting the other day, and I zoomed on in the h I was thinking, in the room where it happens, in the zoom where it happens, well, lin Manuel, annoying the apostle lin Manuel. Miranda once said, I want to be in the zoom where it happens. Well. When I was talking to y'all, the verse came to me, you were always with me all I have is yours. When I told you that verse, I left something out. I left out who said it,

because it sounds like something we say to God. I wrote a song with some friends, but I started it in my basement one night. I don't like the way my voice sounds that much, Like sometimes it sounds good in a certain range, but in other parts. I just don't like to hear it that much. But it's okay in a certain range, you know. And I said that that way on purpose because one time I said on stage I'm not a singer, and Holly said, next time you talk about that, leave that out. Did you ever

say you're not a singer again? I got scared, like God might give me nodules or throat cancer or something if I said it. I was like, okay, I'm to leave that out. But the fact is I have to go in this big echoe room to sing, and then I'll send these memos to Chris. He can tell you and and different people. And I wrote the thing that said I am available. I hear you call I am available.

Wasn't many notes, but it was just a thought. And a little while later we got together with some friends and some different things came together and the song is something that we recorded. We sang it earlier in the in the service that I was in the part of the song that really touches me says, here I am you can have it all. And that's a great prayer.

In fact, right now where you are, just put your pen down and take in notes, your phone, all that, and just lift your hands like like like like this, like lift it, lift it up and say, here I am you can have it all, as a song of render. Now put your hands down. I love something out in the text that wasn't something that someone said to God. It was something that the father said to the son. And when I show you this, it's going to flip

how you're going to be living this week. In Luke fifteen thirty one, the father said to the son, the older brother, the one who wouldn't celebrate, not the one who wasted money, but the one who was wasting his life. He said, my son, you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. So I was thinking, the next time we sing available, we can sing the same words, but we can sing them instead of with our hands like this, Here I am you can have it all.

Now I want you to do this with me. We can sing them with our hands like this, because that's what the Father is saying to you. You are always with me, and all I have is yours. All I have is yours. Some of the clothes Elijah wears are from my closet. That's all right. All I have is yours. The ones in your closet are mine too, if you want to get technical about it. All I have is yours.

And have it changed my thing? Because I always thought it was this this, this, this, you know, like you can have it God, And God's like, yeah, that's a real good deal for me. You can have it. Oh God. God's like, thanks, well, I'll bargain my blood for your broken. But if you flip it and you say here I am, here I am, you can have it all. What if God is saying that to you while you're saying it to him. The power of that point was in what

I left out. I didn't tell you that the Father said it to the son, so you thought you were supposed to say it to the father. No, no, no, it's by grace. God's bringing you into a grace space. Everything that's being removed is making room for you to receive.

There was no yeast in the loaf. God didn't want Egypt's yeast in your life for this next season, and he wanted them to eat it, to eat the Passover meal every year right to remember not only what God brought them out of, but it was to remind them to have flat bread faith that if you don't have enough, that's all right, you can still eat flat bread. Y'all are too luxurious. I'm telling you right now, y'all need a bubble bath blessing. Look at me, some people need

a yeast roll. Word of God. It's got to be buttered like you wanted. You ever go to Quincy's with a big fat yeast roll, wasn't it. Quincy's was a Quincy's. Some of y'all need the yeast roll blessing. Some of y'all need the Christy kream blessing. But how many of y'all got flat bread faith and that kind of faith? Watch this, somebody somewhere is didn't this cause that's like I didn't have enough. But somehow this is the fish

and the loaves in the New Testament. This is David with one I see David showing up to the battle lives. I see you showing up to your life with one stone, five foot seven, looking small next to a nine foot philistine. But I got flat bread. I got cheese and bread for my brothers, and I got a rock, gotta knockout a bear, and I gotta praise that will stut depressing. Flat bread faith, flat bed for flat bed, flat bread. You know what I'm talking about. Get God to praise.

No no, no, no, no, no stop. You think we're praising him because of what God gave us. We're praising God because of what he took out, what he removed, what he proomed from Lord Room. We got flat bread faith. We're going into Canaan, Egypt. This is not our emotional home, and the wilderness is not our destination. Flat bread faith. What God leaves out is what makes you a masterpiece. They said six hundred thousand left Egypt, and they didn't count the women and children or the rabble. But it

was the rabble. They didn't count what they left out of the number that cost them in the wilderness. You see how it works. That's what God leaves out. I'm not a great singer, you know that's awesome. I'm not a great singer. It made me surround myself with great singers. See how it goes. I told we had a board meeting the other day where we oversee the direction of the future of the church, and it was amazing to

celebrate what God has done. In a global pandemic, with the inability to open most of our campuses to full capacity, God still grew us how I don't know. He left out what I thought we needed, and he gave us what we didn't know to ask for. True for you too. And I told Holly it was all these numbers and chunks as our CFO. And he started the church with me chunks, and Amy started the church with me in Holly.

And I was telling Holly afterwards how my eyes went blurry while he was going through the numbers just a blessing. I was blurry with the blessings of God and a little zoned out to me. I like words more than numbers. But that's another thing I said one time preaching, I said, I'm not a business man, I'm a preacher. Holly said, leave that out. You are a businessman. You're everything God

called you to be. He built a great ministry. Dog's annoying you so I never said it again until just now to tell you that I've never said it again. It's not true. And I was telling Holly when we were we went on a walk just to decompress before I started getting into the sermon, and Holly I said, Holly, it's amazing that God sent us chunks. And Amy, I said,

it's just amazing, I said, I told her this. I said, even what makes him get on my nerves is what makes him so great for us to partner in the gospel. Sometimes you'll run up to me talking about I'll be working on a book or a song or something and be like, are we ready to put it on Spotify? I'm like, on Spotify, I hadn't even finished the verse yet. I don't even have a second verse. That's what makes us great is what God left out of me. What God left out of me, he put in him. Now,

don't get me wrong, You're complete in Christ. So if a person leaves you, God is always faithful. That's not what I'm saying. But when we said the disappointment, when we said the deficit, that's just the way you frame it. Yes, the place of the deficit will be the place of deposit. That's why we carry the unlovened bread. That's why we still eat it, just to remember, Oh God, well I didn't have I didn't have yeast in the bread. Then

I don't have money in the bank. Now I don't have this wis here, I don't have this experience here. That's why you carry around that bread, and that's why you eat it to remind yourself that God's presence is often most evident in what he left out. We love to celebrate what he gives us. If he gave you a new house, praise him. I've received God's blessings in my home and my cars and all of those things. But sometimes what he left out makes it special. And

sometimes you got to leave with what you have. I don't mean to leave your church, leave your marriage, leave your home. You'll quit misinterpret in my scripture before I can even post it on Facebook. I'm saying that in you, that's the grace space. What is that space for you? I'm not good at that. I didn't learn that. I didn't have a dad to teach me that that's the grace space. Beautiful what God leaves out. I think of

it musically, you know, I'm a songwriter. And it took me a long time to say that, but because I didn't think I was good at everything. But God surrounds you, like like LJ came from Toronto. I needed someone who came and knew all of the hymns, and God sent us l J. Praise God for him. He's amazing. You're amazing. And all the people who used to sit on a piano playing when I was preaching, you know, they were great too. But then God sent an LJ, and he's awesome.

Play me real quick. I know this is way beyond your capabilities. I don't know all the right terms, but just play like a major scale. What key is that the what are the actual notes? D Let's just do the numbers one, two, three, four, five six. I can play the notes, so don't always know what to call one, two, three, four five? When did you played again? That's the major skill? Play again one two three four No, no, no no, no, do it again. First one. That's the first one. That's

a major scale. K D. Leave out play one the one in the four right, Uh play the other ones. Mum hmmm, do it again, five, six, and uh again drop the five. Uh that's the six. Do the six, one four six six. Oh that sounds like something. Uh uh again, just the one, four and six done. Uh uh, may see grace one four, sax six. Nuh then grace, do all the notes again. That's a scale. Leave out the other ones to do the one force. That's a song. What turned the scale into a song wasn't what we

put in. That's what we left out. God said, I brought you out of Egypt, out of shame, out of sin. Leave it there, leave the rabble there, leave the regret there, leave it out, leave it out for Christ, our passover lamb has been sacrificed. So now, first Corinthians five seven says, let us eat the unleavened bread and get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened badge. Here's the anointed part. As you really are. All that other stuff, somebody make this confession, that's Egypt,

that's not me. All that take slop that's on you when you come round, leave that out. Take that off, and leave that out for this next season of your life. All you need is the robe from your father's closet, the ring on your finger, and somebody. Get ready for some unloving bread, because I am about to feast this year on the faithfulness of God. How many of you have that flat bread faith, that one stone faith that I know who I am and I'm chosen faith. Yeah,

that little boy with five loaves and two fish. If you've got flat bread faith, if you've got a praise that is not dependent on a circumstance, give it to him right now. Come on. It's a grace space. That's where grace goes. That's where the annoyance goes. That's where the wisdom of the spirit goes. Right there, right there

in your ignorance, that's the space for grace. Right there in your uncertainty, that's the space for grace, right there in your addiction, that's the space for grace, right there in your heartbreak. They left you because they were not of you. And God is bringing something better in the grace space, the grace space that you are always with me, and all that you have is mind. So whatever you didn't put in me, you want to fill it yourself. Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go,

let's go, let's go, let's go. And no, I don't have enough yeast. Yeah, but I don't even want Egypt's yeast. I'm moving forward toward Canaan's grapes. I told you last week there is always a funeral before the feast. And what God is removing from you right now, it was just taking up too much space. I'm not driving a mac truck of a Bible verse over your pain. I'll never I would never do that. Yes we cry, yes we heard, Yes we struggle. I'm doing some of that

right now in my life. I call that grieving Egypt. That's all right. But so now I'm gonna let the grief of Egypt cost me the grapes of Canaan. Nah. Uh uh uh huh. There are hired men in my father's house with food to spair, and here I am starving to death. Get it out, get it out, get the resentment out. This year. Yeah, they treated you bad,

they treated you like crad. What you're gonna do beat them up in the mental gymnasium of your own misery, and eventually they're gonna get a transported signal that you're mad. And it's gonna now you're gonna get an ulcer, an ulcer, an ulcer, and a doctor bill. So all the rabble, all the things we mentioned, all the things. When God is bringing something that we love that we want, we lose something in the in the process. Wow, but all that he has is yours. All that he has is yours.

So you lack nothing you like? Not that I know. I didn't get to all my d's that I said. I don't even remember the last one I said. But lift your hands right now, everyone's standing. I think we need to receive this message actively. Yeast is an active ingredient, So activate your faith for a moment. I'm serious this man. Your imagination is so crowded and cluttered it's ridiculous. God gave you a big life, a big vision, but some

stuff's gotta go now. And I don't know what what flesh this will wear for you what I'm about to say, But why every time that God makes space in your life to do what you asked him to do, why do you fill it right back with something he didn't give you before he can send it. Why do you keep cramming your day like that? What are you doing starving to death? Your father has plenty of food, Just make room. Why are you already leaving the service in

your mind? Why are you already back, You're already closing YouTube, You're already Why why not let this be a great space? Why are you standing looking into heaven? Jesus asked the disciples. The Angel said the same, Jesus, He's coming back. You focused on the wrong thing. Why do you want to go back to Pharaoh's fish when you can have canaan scraps. But in the meantime, listen, this is where we are. We're in between, right. We don't have it yet. He

promised it, but we're not really experiencing it yet. That's all right. That's why I gave you the flatbread. Flatbread travels better. You can eat it and remember that the Kingdom of Heaven is inside of you. Lift those hands again, but not like you're giving God something. Read it. Lift it like you're reading it from his perspective, where Heaven said, all that I have is yours. I want you to keep your hands lifted. We rush so bad, and our rush robs us of our revelation. God's trying to show

you something. Right now, lift your hands. I want one of my singers just to begin to minister to you. Right now, whatever is in your heart, make a throne, Make a throne, Make a space, make a space, make a praise, make a praise. Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord. Right here right, that's it. You can have it. An that's the voice of the Father over you. You ride.

He didn't leave you. He's here in the valley, in the mountain you you can have it in the winter, in the spring, you can shime you see ever press that god. You ride, right, He says, you can have my joy. You can if you make room for it. Yeah here I am. Yeah, he didn't leave you. I promise you. He's running towards you. You can have his piece. You can have this jorn, you can have his healing. You can have freedom. Why would you go back to fish? You can have freedom. Come on, you gotta believe this.

This is how he feels about you. This is what he says. To make room for it. Get the shame out, get the yeas stock, give the leaven out, get the unbelievable. Use your horse, say the Father says, receiving. It's amazing. For zep. You can have it. Get the ring. Get the ring. You're the thing. That's a lot, Sonny, that's my sorrow. Honey, say we the whos she really is. That's my son. You can happen, you can wear it, you can walk, and you can receive them in the

light name of Jesus. Received this lesson, received this life. It's yours. It's yours. Go. I know I already preached a lot of scriptures, and I promise you I'm not going to pile more on you. But one thought that I had was when Paul said, one time, make room in your hearts for us. He said that to the church that he didn't get to personally be with, but he wanted to share in God's Word with them, And

I feel that way about you. If we've never personally met, it's still such a privilege to partner with you in the gospel and to hopefully provide you with words that come from God so that you can do what He's called you to do and be all that He's called you to be. Just want to let you know we love you and thank you for sharing, thanks for giving. Your faithfulness is amazing. I feel so grateful to be

the pastor of this movement. I'm excited about what God is speaking to us as the year has already started so strong, as we're making room to receive. Have you done that in your life? How can you do that this week? How can you apply what you just heard in the message in a way that will give God the opportunity to lavish you with this grace. I pray that for you, Holly, and I love you. We'll see you next time.