Bill Belew

All right.

Wait. Anybody in yet?

I don’t know. We’ll see if anybody can maybe tell.

Everybody that this is live now.

What’s up, guys?

Now they’re watching merchandise. Somebody go to. Go to Facebook Inbound Church to see if you can see it there, please.

Okay. It’s a video game.

I’d be going by now, too.

So.

Hey, I see it.

You see it.

I mean, one person watching.

I don’t know if it’s me.

All right, I got somebody looking here. Hello, everybody. Now, see, now I need to have a video editor because all this nonsense at the beginning is gonna have to get cut off.

Right?

You can do it.

Oh, my God.

Well, because it’s an echo.

Okay. Yeah, it’s only. It’s only a few seconds.

Like, 20 seconds late. Okay, this is a test.

Yeah. Make a face, Olivia. Look at it.

I can see. Olivia Mendoza.

You’Re terrible.

All right, they’ll either come or they won’t. At least I’m recording this. But I’m gonna leave some editing.

Free editing from people who are my friends. Okay? Do I have any friends in the room here?

All right, great. Because we’re not. We can’t.

You know, all that nonsense. We’re like. We gotta get rid of that.

Oh, wait.

I hope somebody joined.

Yeah, that’s. Yeah, Uncle Jerry. All right.

See, it’s just gonna work. That’s right. See?

Hey. Say, hey, Uncle Jerry. Hey.

So, as we know, the power is not in who shows up at the time, but then who watches it later. So, Jane, you missed this part. This was fun.

You know? You know how many people. How many people watched this last week?

There were, like, eight of us here, right? Eight or nine of us. How many people watched it during the week?

7, 707. Look at my eyes. Oh, look at.

Watch the eyes. Watch the eyes. Okay, so now you see the problem we have, and we have to figure out which button we pushed to get that going.

All right, Mark, chapter six. Every week. I guarantee I can tell you this is my favorite part, but this is one of my favorite.

All right, this is Jesus feeding the 5,000. Jesus feeding the 5,000. So those of you guys are online, go to Mark, chapter six.

I put a link in the. In the. Right, right, right, right.

You can go here to see Mark, chapter six. And then in a little bit of time, I’m going to ask you to watch this video while we watch it. But I can’t show it up here.

Mark, chapter six. One of Jesus most famous miracles. Right?

During the period of the cold war. Remember Russia and the Soviet Union and all that stuff? Who was the last president of the Soviet Union?

That’s right.

But then Jesus was alone, and his twelve. Who are the twelve?

The apostles. And then we have the apostles. So what is different between apostles and disciples? Exactly.

The apostles are the twelve. Apostles equals sent. To sent. The sent. Jesus chose twelve and sent them. The disciples equal students.

Nothing special. The crowd is students. The crowd is disciples. The twelve are sent for a job. So these are the special twelve.

Those around him with the twelve ask him. Sometimes, they could not understand Jesus.

That’s interesting. Jesus is perfect. But his teaching is not perfect.

Sometimes they cannot understand.

What do you do when people do not understand you? When you are talking and someone does not understand.

I can’t understand what you mean. What do you do? How do you explain yourself to other people?

So Jesus asked them a question. He answered,

The secret of the kingdom of God is yours. The twelve, you have the secret. Everything comes in parables.

Sometimes they look, they do not perceive. Perceive is understand. They look, but they do not understand.

They listen, but they cannot understand. They might turn back.

Sometimes people will not understand. Even Jesus. Sometimes people will not understand.

Even I try so hard. Even you try so hard. Even you do your best. The people do not understand. And Jesus must give up.

Jesus says to them, a lamp is not under a basket. A lamp is a light, a burning light. We do not put the light under the basket.

Of course, that’s stupid. We do not put the light under the bed. Of course, that’s stupid. We, you, me, I, we have a light to tell the story about Jesus. Who are you telling about Jesus?

So, we have good news. I know something about Jesus. I want to tell other people about Jesus.

If you do not tell people about Jesus, you are a light under a basket. Topic idea.

When do you waste your skill? When do you waste?

I know something. I have a secret. I am excited. I want to… When do you keep a secret?

Topic idea. When do you keep a secret? So the lamp, it’s hidden, we will reveal. We should tell. Nothing concealed.

Don’t hide into the light. If you have ears, listen. He said to them, pay attention.

By the measure of your use, if you know something, if you know, you must tell.

If you know, you must tell. The kingdom of God. Stop.