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Breaking the Bread of My Soul - Bill Johnson (Full Sermon) | Bethel Church – Transcript
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- Bill Johnson explains that the level of revelation God gives is equal to the measure of mystery a person is willing to live with.
- Bill Johnson discusses how biblical mourning must be enhanced with hope to prevent it from leading to unbelief.
- Bill Johnson notes that every loss and disappointment can become a seed that brings increase when journeyed through with the Lord.
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thank you thank you thank you thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks wow well i have no jokes today you know
i could find him if i needed to i wasn't in the mood so it's so good to be here it's uh it's such an incredible privilege to have such large family you know thanks thanks thanks thanks i uh i i'm just uh i'm just glad i'm glad for
the privilege to be with family and friends and and uh i we found i found out during the covid thing that i was addicted to people and that addiction has only gotten worse so you will never get rid of me so so i'm thankful for the the privilege of this morning as well i did not want to miss this morning but i also knew i could not do this four times so this is the only this is the only time i show
up today other than i'm gonna get raptured right when this is over with and i will not be around to clean up any mess that i make so the backslider and heart will always judge god by what he didn't do
but those who run with tenderness for who he is will always define him by what he has said by what he's promised by what he's done and to be as honest as i know how to be i've seen too much of his kindness to think anything other than he is absolutely good always always good
we don't get to we don't get to choose stuff like uh like i i don't want to experience any pain you know that's not an option we get you know it's we're we're we do life in fact let's be really honest he says things like rejoice always pray without ceasing and everything give thanks those verses are completely useless unless you're going to experience loss and disappointment
i mean nobody needs to be taught to rejoice if everything works the way you want it to work right it's like it's pointless so his nature is defined by promise by his history his testimony and that's what we build theology around that's who he is but what about loss that's the mystery that we have the privilege of caring the level of revelation god gives you
will always be equal to the measure of mystery you're willing to live with and the inability to live with mystery is your resistance to childlikeness it's childlikeness that actually gives us access to dimensions and realms of the kingdom that you can't get in any other way there are certain things that he has hidden in the journey for example several years ago i discovered something about
in the valley of the shadow of death i will fear no evil because you're with me and what i found was there are measures of his presence you can only find in the valley of the shadow of death and we we say we love presence and we do we're a people that that gather to celebrate and honor who he is and thrive on just that presence of the spirit of god who is always with us and i i there is no greater treasure than him never will be heaven itself is him
and yet there are aspects of presence you can only find in the valley of the shadow of death it's only in darkness in in darkness of soul in the in the trial of not knowing what's going on and doing everything you know to do and having things not work out like you think they should he's not a vending machine you know i don't get to put a quarter in and get out what i want it's a
relational journey and i've i've experienced i've experienced his kindness his miracles at a level that i i could never earn or deserve and i just don't have the right to reevaluate what he's like because i've experienced laws that doesn't work that way it just doesn't work that way it's
it's it and it's everybody in the room has experienced this so i'm i don't stand here as you know the only guy who's experienced pain i i understand that i i do life with you and i i we wept together and laughed together and i get that but i i just want to tell you that god gives us these special moments or he gives us these opportunities to
to grow down to become more childlike it's it's the simplicity of faith that just trusts him no matter what it's the simplicity of childlikeness that just says you know what he knows what's happening i don't and and i'm going to trust him i'm going to trust him i i don't want my why
to ever take me away from him i don't ever want to be the one who critiques god he he critiques me i want to keep that keep aware of that i i none of us would choose loss pain
disappointment any of that stuff i get that none of us would ever choose that for ourselves we wouldn't choose this for you know your biggest enemy i mean it's just you just not not do that it's not something that any of us would gravitate towards and yet we we don't have options at times and so what am i going to do
is god my friend yeah but he was my lord before he was my friend and my friendship with god can only go where his lordship has already been. i can't go in a friendship with god where i haven't gone in lordship
and one of the things that has been such a valuable thing for us through the years has been the realization and i i just i discovered this quite accidentally uh when my dad died and many of you have heard me share the story but when when he died i was faced with
learning something i had never known at that level before and it was this i've just experienced loss and i have just experienced loss and the disappointment is huge the pain is annoying
it's it is it's just the the questions the what if the all the stuff you know but all of that pain that that discomfort that the questions the all the stuff i'll never have any of that in heaven
i'll never have i will be a worshiper for all of eternity i will glorify him for all of eternity i will bow before the lamb on the throne for all of eternity i will declare his wonders i will celebrate his greatness his grace his kindness for all of eternity but i'll never have the chance to do it with pain that's only in this life and i want to give him the most
priceless gift i can give him and that is joy in loss that is celebration in pain that is giving up my right to understand he gives the peace that passes understanding which means i have to give up my right to understand to enjoy the peace that he has purposed to give me and we're in that place and some of you you have your own stuff going on in your life where this is becomes very a very
painful process but but what we do is we just we just give him thanks and this morning my goodness so wonderful to be with you and our online family and to be able to celebrate the goodness of god it's not uh you know it's not forced it's not it's not hard to do not once you've tasted not once once you've tasted you you never forget the taste of his kindness and it puts everything else in
perspective everything and so the privilege to just offer him celebration and praise it almost sounds contradictory and for some it would sound forced but to honor him as being the healer when you've just lost somebody you love through disease it's but it's not uh it's not fake it's
not hype it's this is who he is this is who he is well why did this happen i don't know he doesn't work for me i i work for him he never owes me an explanation never he often gives him but he doesn't know me i owe him
every day of my life i am indebted to him and so the privilege of lifting hands and voice and in the midst of tears i remember my aunt who was in heaven now about helen i remember her saying once that laughter with tears makes a beautiful rainbow
and that's i don't understand it but i like it so so i'm so i'm just gonna do it i'm just gonna i'm gonna make sure that i laugh while i'm crying my head off you know and uh and just and just oh you're a nice guy do you have any more boxes of this i i need to take some of these home thank you
so to have to grab your moments you know we get certain moments in life that they're they we never get them back again they're at once they come and then they're gone and i never have a chance to steward that moment again is i get one crack at it and uh to take the moment of greatest pain or the great greatest loss or the greatest confusion or whatever and just grab it
and determine i'm going to do i'm going to do the best i can to give him an offering that costs me that's what i'm going to do i'm going to give him an offering that cost me something i'm going to give him a sacrifice that i'll never have a chance to give him again i get one chance at this painful moment
in many ways feel like i feel like the richest guy on the planet because i get to do this with you i get to do this i have so much of my family down here we've been together hour after hour after hour day after day after day some of them moved in with me they did they're everywhere they're
wherever there's a couch there's a body you know it's just been the coolest thing just just to to know that you don't have to do stuff by yourself you know and then i've had so many of our own team you that have have rallied around us and it's just it's priceless it's priceless i am thankful