You may not see it yet, but faithfulness grows a harvest

Ever wonder if your kindness is going to waste? We open with the ache of doing good in silence and follow it to a surprising harvest, where a small act—a couple of tacos—arrives like a flare in the night for friends on the brink. That story becomes a doorway into a bigger theme: seeds take time, and the most important growth is often underground. The payoff isn’t always immediate, but the work is never lost.

From there, we lean into the heart of faith as trust, not superstition. The image of touching a garment is stripped of magic and filled with meaning—healing flows through belief, not fabric. We wrestle with unanswered prayers, and we hear a bracing, tender vision of what it means to praise through pain: a testimony not just of miracles, but of patience, endurance, and a horizon bigger than the body. It’s a call to keep going with God when the timeline disappoints and the outcomes don’t match the script.

Justice and mercy step onto the stage through a courtroom memory and a king’s parable. A guilty man walks free because an advocate knows the judge; a loving and just ruler absorbs the penalty to spare his beloved. The point isn’t loopholes—it’s substitution, love without compromise, and the finality of those words: it is finished. That closure unlocks a different kind of life: service, courage in hardship, and humility when results lag. We close by pushing back on the myth that you are only what happens to you. You can’t always choose your circumstances, but you can choose your mindset, your response, and your next small act of love.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Keep Doing Good
• 1:07 Seeds And Harvest
• 1:45 Waiting And Preparation
• 2:25 The Taco Surprise
• 3:05 Why Small Acts Matter
• 3:41 Faith Heals, Not Touch
• 5:06 A Guilty Man Walks Free
• 5:57 Power And Purpose In Pain
• 7:38 Mindset Over Circumstance
• 9:31 Hard Sayings And Revolution
• 10:41 The Loving And Just King
• 12:52 It Is Finished, Not You

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 0:35

Do not give up. Keep going. Keep doing good. It's not going to waste when you show kindness to people that didn't deserve it. You could think it's going to waste because people are wasting it when you show goodness and they're putting it in a waste bin when you show kindness. But it's not going in the waste bin. Maybe you think it is, but it's not. These seeds that you're planting of being kind, of enduring hard times and continuing with God through hard times. This is leading up to a harvest. When you don't give up doing good at the proper time, you'll reap a harvest of blessing if you don't give up. So keep going. There's so much that is coming your way, but you may not see it right away. You may not see it when you want it because God is preparing you as you sow, as you sacrifice to God, as you continue with him. You may not see anything, but eventually you will. So don't give up. It's worth it. Keep going with God.

SPEAKER_01: 1:34

I called one of my best friends. His name's Andrew. He picked up the phone, and the first thing he told me, Sam, I'm still lying in bed. It was 2 p.m., y'all. Have you ever had one of those days? One of those days where you want to pull the sheets over your face and do absolutely nothing. I thought to myself, if Andrew's still in bed at 2 p.m., he's probably not feeling so great. Maybe there's something you could do to make him feel better. Phone call ends, I go on his social media, and because he's over the age of 35, he still uses this platform called um Facebook. And I came across a post that said, My vote for dinner tonight is hashtag tacos. The simplest idea crossed my mind. I'm like, Andrew likes eating tacos. What would happen if I surprise Andrew with tacos? I go on Uber Eats, I find this taco dinner for two, I purchase it, put a special note for the delivery person that says, hey, these tacos are from your friend Sam. He helps you feel better. You know when you order food on Uber, you could watch the car drive down all the streets, like a little Pac-Man video game? Pac-Man is a game that your teachers and staff played. I finally get the notification the tacos have been delivered. Less than 45 seconds pass before my phone rings. It's a FaceTime call from my best friend Andrew. Sitting beside his wife Emily on bar stools in front of his kitchen countertop. There's a box of tacos open behind them, and they're bawling their eyes up. You ever try to cry and talk at the same time? Andrew's looking at me, sounding like this. I'm like, dude, it's two tacos. Relax. He's like, no, it's not just two tacos. It's all the things you didn't know. You see, you had no idea me and my wife had to shut down our business last week. You had no idea we had to lay on four employees because we can't afford to pay them anymore. We don't know how we're gonna put food on our table for the next six months. Maybe for you it's just two tacos in a box, but for me and my wife, this is a moment of hope we're gonna remember for the rest of our lives. I looked at Andrew, I was like, He's like, Sam, it's not about buying people food. It is simply about recognizing that one of the most meaningful aspects in life is being of service to other human beings. I asked the question Who touched me?

SPEAKER_11: 3:34

It was me. Just the fringe of your garment, only the edge. I promise. You are not unclean.

SPEAKER_07: 3:43

Why my garment?

SPEAKER_11: 3:45

I'm sorry. I know I shouldn't have asked. I was sick. I bled and no one could stop it. But but I believed if I could just touch a piece of your garment. I was right.

SPEAKER_03: 4:00

My daughter.

SPEAKER_11: 4:03

I'm no one's daughter anymore.

SPEAKER_03: 4:06

Daughter. It wasn't my piece of clothing that healed you.

SPEAKER_11: 4:15

But it was instant I felt it right away.

SPEAKER_03: 4:17

I know. But it wasn't this. It was your faith.

SPEAKER_06: 4:26

And the ancients cry. Holy creation cry. Holy You are limited. Holy Holy Holy Fall.

SPEAKER_01: 4:50

As a Christian, this is one of the best things I've ever heard.

SPEAKER_09: 4:54

Watch. When I was 17, I was sitting in a prison cell in Rikers Island in New York. And I was facing a prison sentence for a weapons charge. My mother and my father scratched up enough money to get a powerful Jewish attorney who was friends with the judge. I'm facing time for a weapons charge. Now watch. That attorney goes to the judge, has a conversation with that judge. All of a sudden, I'm still free. I walk out of that courtroom after I've been sitting there for some time. A free man. The only reason I was a free man was because my attorney had a relationship with the judge. Now watch me out. I was guilty of what I was charged. That weapon was under my feet. That weapon was my car. And I deserve to be sentenced for what I've done. But because my attorney had a relationship with the judge, a guilty man walked away free. This is what God did for you and I with the person of Jesus Christ. I am a guilty man because of my sin and so are you. And because of our sin, we deserve judgment. That is that sentence. But Christ, who was friends with the judge, has made a way for people to walk out of the courtroom. Instead, they want to go to pay the price before the judge for themselves.

SPEAKER_10: 5:50

I wanted to ask you a question. Please? You're sending us out with the ability to heal the sick and lame. Yes, that is what you said. Yes. You're telling me that I have the ability to heal. Forgive me, I just find that difficult to imagine. My condition you haven't healed. You want to be healed. I think you're saying what it was about.

SPEAKER_03: 6:29

I need you to listen to me very carefully because what I'm going to say is define your whole life to this point. In the Father's will, I could hear you right now. And you would have a good story to tell, yes. That you do miracles. That's a good story. But there are already dozens who can tell that story. And there will be hundreds more. Even thousands. Think of the story that you have, especially in this journey to come. If I don't hear you, to know how to proclaim that you still praise God in spite of this. To know how to focus on all that matters so much more than the body. To show people that you can be patient with your suffering here on earth because you know you'll spend eternity with no suffering.

SPEAKER_04: 7:26

Remember this. Romans 8 28. If God allowed it, God intends to turn that pain, that hurt, that loss, that difficulty for something good in your life. Now watch this. Because I'm hurting at the moment, I'm not even interested in any good. All I want is to get rid of this. In other words, get me out of this, God. Change this circumstance. But here's what happens: I must be willing to trust Him in the midst of it because I know on the other side I'm going to be able to look back. I don't mean the other side of heaven. I'm talking about now on the other side, I'm going to look back and say, Well, God, you are in that. Well, I can see your hand in that. This is what you were doing. This is, you made me wait, and God, I got some Lord, forgive me for being so impatient. You know what? He doesn't get upset when you say, God, what's what's what's going on? God, very silent, just says, you know, I'm just doing things the way I promised to do.

SPEAKER_05: 8:14

How do you handle negativity and suffering? Do you complain or do you look at it as a potential blessing in your life? You are 100% in control of the attitude that you bring to things that are out of your control. Secular society and modern society say that you are a victim of your circumstances. You get to choose how you handle your circumstances. And so, for example, okay, our table gets torn down. They break into your dorm room. You have two choices. I'm a victim, feel sorry for me. I want special rights and privileges. Number two, wow, this is making me tougher. I'm gonna grow closer to the people I care about. Boom, mindset shift. You have a choice to do that. And our society now is non-stop about something. You are just the creation of the stuff. No, you are a creation of who you choose to be. You are a creation of the mindset you bring to the game.

SPEAKER_03: 9:11

Which section stands out to you the most?

SPEAKER_08: 9:14

Not to be anxious about your life, of course.

SPEAKER_03: 9:17

Are there any sections that concern you?

SPEAKER_08: 9:21

Anyone who looks at the woman with lust has already committed adultery. Doesn't that make everyone an adulterer? If your right eye causes you to sin, doubt it out. Wouldn't that lead to an entire population of people walking around with only one eye? If anyone were to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. The gate is narrow and hard that leads to life. Depart from me, I never knew you. Do you realize how heavily laden your sermon is with these kinds of ominous pronouncements? I haven't even named half of them.

SPEAKER_03: 10:01

It's a manifesto, Matthew. I'm not here to be sentimental and soothing. I'm here to start a revolution.

SPEAKER_08: 10:08

Well, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.

SPEAKER_03: 10:11

That isn't exactly revolution. Not revolt. I'm talking about a radical shift.

SPEAKER_02: 10:17

Did you think I was just going to come here and say, hey everyone, just uh keep doing what you've been doing for the last thousand years, since it's been going so great.

SPEAKER_07: 10:30

Once upon a time in a far-off country, there was an ancient king who was known to be simultaneously the most loving and just king who had ever existed. Eventually it was discovered that somebody was stealing from the king's treasury, and because the king was just, he issued a decree. He said that when it was discovered he was stealing from his treasury, that a sentence of ten lashes in front of the entire kingdom would be visited upon that person for their as a penalty for their disobedience. The theft continued, and eventually he issued a final decree. Forty lashes would be visited upon the person who was stealing from the king's treasury. But watch this, 40 lashes was a death sentence. So he issued a death sentence. As weeks went by, it was eventually discovered that none other than the daughter of the king was the one who was stealing from his treasury. When that was discovered, a question began to ripple through the kingdom. How could the most loving king who's ever existed kill his own daughter? Some people thought that he would pardon her, but then how would he be just? Some people thought that he would punish her, but then how would he be loving? Well, eventually the king examined it, and he he said, Hey, the law is clear, sin has taken place, justice must fall, the sentence must be passed. And the king's own daughter was brought in front of the entire kingdom. And when she got to the front, she was laid over an executioner's table. She was tied to the table. The executioner ripped open the back of her shirt and stepped back. But just as the executioner lifted his whip to issue the first lash, the king stood up from his throne and he yelled, Stop! Silently, the king walked forward, bent over his daughter, wrapped his body around his daughter on the stump, ripped the shirt off of his own back, looked back at the executioner and said, Now hit her. The executioner objected. King, I can't hit her without hitting you. Now hit her. Forty lashes fell upon the back of the king over the back of his daughter. And the king died. And the girl went free. That was done for you. Because God is just punishment for sin had to be paid, but because God is love, he chose to make that payment himself. And here's the good news: what you must understand is that when Jesus hung on that bloody cross and he pushed up on his nail-pierced hands, choking to death on his own blood, his final words through his choking breath were the words, it is finished. He did not cry out, I am finished. His words were it is finished. And if he's not finished, you're not finished.