WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:03.880 Just beyond the riii- 00:09.300 --> 00:10.140 I said. 00:31.700 --> 00:33.700 Good evening, good evening Brother Paul. Could you open us up with a word of prayer? 00:42.000 --> 00:46.760 Amen. Well, we're just going to go into our announcements right away. I don't know if you guys can tell but I'm not feeling the best 00:47.240 --> 00:50.560 So I'm gonna limit this thing in a little bit. So we're just gonna go 00:51.360 --> 00:55.560 Right into the announcements on our verse of the week is 1st Corinthians 14 40 00:55.560 --> 01:01.380 It says let all things be done decently and in order. That's again 1st Corinthians 14 verse number 40 01:01.380 --> 01:04.660 We're here at our Sunday morning service and I was originally gonna do 01:05.400 --> 01:08.500 the second part of the soul winning series that I was doing but 01:09.200 --> 01:14.800 Yesterday, I just had a really bad headache. I just wasn't feeling really great yesterday. We didn't even go to the soul one yesterday 01:14.800 --> 01:17.800 We canceled it. Everyone is not feeling good. It seems kind of like right now. So 01:19.200 --> 01:22.000 I'm instead just gonna do it with my John sermon and then for Sunday night 01:22.000 --> 01:25.540 I'm either gonna do John again, or I might just do first Samuel 01:26.120 --> 01:28.000 We'll see about that when it comes up though 01:28.000 --> 01:30.680 but yeah, we're gonna go through John chapter number six and then 01:31.280 --> 01:36.040 As far as our salvation so far in 2026, we're still at a hundred and thirty six 01:36.800 --> 01:39.440 which is still a really great number so praise God for that. 01:39.800 --> 01:44.300 Our upcoming events on October 13th, that's this Tuesday. 01:44.300 --> 01:47.200 Yeah, we have the home school day, which is at 11 a.m. 01:47.200 --> 01:50.240 And then on the 17th, which is a Saturday, 01:50.240 --> 01:51.680 we're gonna have the Tri-City Swimming Marathon. 01:51.680 --> 01:54.280 So at least I'm glad that I'm sick this weekend 01:54.280 --> 01:55.940 and not that weekend. 01:55.940 --> 01:58.080 So that's at least a positive, okay. 01:58.080 --> 02:00.640 On October 25th, we have the church picture day. 02:00.640 --> 02:02.840 And then on October 28th to the 30th, 02:02.840 --> 02:05.480 we have VBS with the creation theme. 02:05.480 --> 02:07.800 And the kids memory verse is. 02:07.800 --> 02:14.540 Psalms 51 verse number 10 it says create me a clean heart Oh God and renew a right spirit within me 02:14.940 --> 02:17.600 That pretty much sums up everything that I want to go through 02:18.140 --> 02:22.800 We'll just go into our prayer request and then we'll sing our third song. Let's pray give other God. Thank you 02:22.800 --> 02:24.500 So it's wonderful day. Thank you so much 05:09.500 --> 05:12.500 Let the sun shine again in my heart, song number 47. 05:19.300 --> 05:22.060 Let's sing it together on the first. 05:22.060 --> 05:34.820 I remember the time when I first knew the Savior, when the sunlight a blessing so flooded 05:34.820 --> 05:35.820 my heart. 05:35.820 --> 05:47.060 Oh, the sweetness of first love with Jesus so near me, and I thought such devotion. 05:47.300 --> 05:50.420 would never depart. 05:50.420 --> 05:54.020 Let the sun shine again. 05:54.020 --> 05:57.660 Let the flowers bloom again. 05:57.660 --> 06:04.100 Stir the embers of love in my heart. 06:04.100 --> 06:11.200 Holy Spirit, reprove, then embrace me again. 06:11.500 --> 06:16.600 Let the sun shine again in my home 06:19.000 --> 06:25.960 How sweet were the scriptures, they spoke to me daily. 06:25.960 --> 06:33.320 How they guided my steps, but my zeal did not last. 06:33.320 --> 06:40.320 And the sweet place, a prayer where I met with my Savior, 06:40.320 --> 06:46.640 I neglected, and so soon my joys were all past. 06:47.000 --> 06:50.640 Let the sun shine again 06:50.640 --> 06:54.440 Let the flowers bloom again 06:54.440 --> 06:59.960 Stir the embers of love in my heart 07:09.100 --> 07:13.000 Let the sun shine again in my heart 07:21.400 --> 07:31.880 children when we met with a glad heart in fellowship sweet but the pull of the 07:31.880 --> 07:42.360 flesh and some worldly companions in the paths of sins pleasure attracted my 07:42.360 --> 07:48.520 feet let the Sun shine again let the flowers 07:48.520 --> 07:49.400 Blue 07:49.400 --> 08:01.920 again stir the embers of love in my heart holy spirit reprove then 08:04.800 --> 08:09.120 Let the sun shine again in my 08:11.400 --> 08:18.600 Lord, I come now again for forgiveness and blessing. 08:18.600 --> 08:25.540 As Thy penitent child, I am seeking Thy peace. 08:25.540 --> 08:32.420 For the blood paid, my debt and Thy Spirit within me, 08:32.420 --> 08:39.320 bids become to my Father my wandering to cease. 08:39.400 --> 08:46.440 Let the sun shine again, let the flowers bloom again, 08:46.440 --> 08:53.520 Stir the embers of love in my heart. 08:53.520 --> 09:00.720 Holy Spirit, reprove, then embrace me again, 09:00.720 --> 09:04.880 Let the sun shine again in my heart. 09:06.800 --> 09:07.640 Amen, good seeing you. 09:07.640 --> 09:09.200 This time we'll have our offering. 09:09.200 --> 09:10.040 Amen. 09:10.040 --> 09:11.680 I pray you, I pray God thank you so much. 09:11.680 --> 09:14.040 Again, for this month, we'll say thank you so much 09:14.040 --> 09:14.880 for everything you do for us. 09:14.880 --> 09:16.960 God, I just pray that you would be with this church 09:16.960 --> 09:18.360 if you need to bless us, God, 09:18.360 --> 09:19.400 and I just pray that you'd help us 09:19.400 --> 09:20.960 to continue to get more of what's saved. 09:20.960 --> 09:22.920 I pray that God will always be our focus as a church, God, 09:22.920 --> 09:24.920 and I pray that nothing would ever describe 09:24.920 --> 09:26.480 this as a force and not gold. 09:26.480 --> 09:28.560 I just pray that you, again, be with everybody 09:28.560 --> 09:29.400 that's sick right now, God, 09:29.400 --> 09:31.720 and that you would put your healing hands where we need you. 09:31.720 --> 09:32.560 Do you say I pray? 09:32.560 --> 09:33.400 Amen. 09:33.400 --> 09:34.100 Amen. 10:18.700 --> 10:25.700 Good morning everybody. Welcome to the Shur Foundation Baptist Church. If you could take your Bibles and turn with me to John chapter 6. 10:25.700 --> 10:34.700 John chapter 6 is our text this morning and as always here at our church we read the entire chapter before the preaching. 10:34.700 --> 10:39.700 John chapter 6, the Bible reads. 10:41.400 --> 10:44.280 After these things Jesus went over the Sea of Galilee 10:44.680 --> 10:52.440 Which is the Sea of Tiberias and a great multitude followed him because they saw his miracles which he did them 10:53.020 --> 10:59.920 Did on them that were diseased and Jesus went up into a mountain and there he sat with his disciples 11:00.080 --> 11:03.400 In the Passover a feast of the Jews was nigh 11:04.000 --> 11:11.840 When Jesus then lifted up his eyes and saw a great company come unto him, he said to Philip, 11:12.480 --> 11:19.280 When shall we buy bread that these may eat? And this he said to prove him, for he himself knew 11:19.280 --> 11:25.920 what he would do. Philip answered him, Two hundred penny worth of bread is not sufficient for them, 11:25.920 --> 11:27.840 that every one of them may take a little. 11:28.200 --> 11:33.200 One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, saith unto him, 11:33.200 --> 11:40.200 There is a lad here which hath five barley loaves and two small fishes, but what are they among so many? 11:40.200 --> 11:50.200 And Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place, so the men sat down in number about five thousand. 11:50.900 --> 11:56.900 And Jesus took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, 11:56.900 --> 12:03.140 and the disciples to them that were set down, and likewise of the fishes as much as they would. 12:03.860 --> 12:09.780 When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, 12:09.780 --> 12:11.060 that nothing be lost. 12:11.600 --> 12:17.680 Therefore, they gathered them together and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of 12:17.680 --> 12:25.160 the five barley loaves which remained over and above unto them that had eaten. 12:25.160 --> 12:31.760 Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth, 12:31.760 --> 12:34.400 profit that should come into the world. 12:34.900 --> 12:40.500 When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force to make him a king, 12:40.500 --> 12:47.620 he departed into a mountain himself alone. And when Eve was now come, his disciples went down 12:47.620 --> 12:52.980 into the sea, and entered into a ship, and went over the sea toward Capernaum. 12:53.300 --> 13:00.180 and it was now dark, and Jesus was not come to them, and the sea arose by reason of a great 13:00.180 --> 13:07.780 wind that blew. So when they rode about five and twenty or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking 13:07.780 --> 13:14.420 on the sea and drawing nigh unto the ship, and they were afraid. But he saith unto them, 13:14.420 --> 13:16.420 It is I. Be not afraid. 13:17.200 --> 13:24.200 Then they willingly received him into the ship, and immediately the ship was at the land whither they went. 13:25.500 --> 13:32.860 The day following, when the people which stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was none other boat there, 13:32.860 --> 13:39.940 save the one wherein to his disciples were entered, and that Jesus went not with his disciples into the boat, 13:39.940 --> 13:42.820 but that his disciples were gone away alone. 13:42.820 --> 13:51.260 Howbeit there came other boats from Tiberias, nigh unto the place where they did eat bread, after that the Lord had given thanks. 13:51.260 --> 13:53.420 when the people therefore saw that 13:53.500 --> 13:56.780 Jesus was not there, neither his disciples. 13:56.780 --> 13:59.960 They also took shipping and came to Capernaum, 13:59.960 --> 14:01.620 seeking for Jesus. 14:01.620 --> 14:04.640 And when they had found him on the other side of the sea, 14:04.640 --> 14:08.700 they said unto him, Rabbi, when camest thou hither? 14:08.700 --> 14:11.980 Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, 14:11.980 --> 14:16.680 I say unto you, ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, 14:16.680 --> 14:19.980 but because ye did eat of the loaves and were filled. 14:19.980 --> 14:21.500 Labor not for the meat which pair, 14:21.500 --> 14:27.900 perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man 14:27.900 --> 14:32.300 shall give unto you, for him hath God the Father sealed. 14:32.300 --> 14:37.780 Then said they unto him, What shall we do that we might work the works of God? 14:37.780 --> 14:43.540 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom 14:43.540 --> 14:46.140 he hath sent. 14:46.140 --> 14:46.900 They said. 14:47.600 --> 14:54.200 Therefore unto him, What sign showest thou then, That we may see and believe thee? 14:54.200 --> 14:55.600 What dost thou work? 14:55.600 --> 14:58.220 Our fathers did eat manna in the desert. 14:58.220 --> 15:01.120 As it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat. 15:01.700 --> 15:12.100 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven, but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. 15:12.100 --> 15:18.260 For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world. 15:18.260 --> 15:23.060 Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread. 15:23.400 --> 15:29.320 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life. He that cometh to me shall never hunger, 15:29.320 --> 15:36.200 and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. But I said unto you, that ye also have seen me, 15:36.200 --> 15:43.000 and believed not. All that the Father giveth me shall come to me, and he that cometh to me 15:43.000 --> 15:45.480 I will in no wise cast out. 15:45.800 --> 15:51.720 For I came down from heaven not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. 15:51.720 --> 15:57.640 And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me, 15:57.640 --> 16:02.200 I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. 16:02.300 --> 16:13.900 And this is the will of Him that sent me, that everyone which seeth the sun and believeth on him may have everlasting life, and I will raise him up at the last day." 16:13.900 --> 16:17.300 The Jews then murmured at him because he said, 16:17.300 --> 16:20.100 I am the bread which came down from heaven. 16:20.300 --> 16:27.420 And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? 16:27.420 --> 16:30.540 How is it then, he saith, I came down from heaven? 16:31.100 --> 16:35.340 Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves. 16:35.900 --> 16:42.540 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him, and I will raise him up at the last day. 16:43.100 --> 16:48.140 It is written in the prophets, and they shall be all taught of God. 16:48.140 --> 16:53.100 Every man therefore that hath heard and hath learned of the Father cometh unto me. 16:53.820 --> 17:00.620 Not that any man hath seen the Father save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father. 17:00.620 --> 17:06.380 Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on me hath everlasting life. 17:06.900 --> 17:12.020 I am the bread of life. Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness and are dead. 17:12.500 --> 17:18.740 This is the bread which cometh down from heaven that a man may eat thereof and not die. 17:18.740 --> 17:22.160 I am the living bread which came down from heaven. 17:22.180 --> 17:28.820 If any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever. And the bread that I will give is my flesh, 17:29.080 --> 17:31.440 which I will give for the life of the world. 17:32.100 --> 17:38.100 The Jews, therefore, strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat? 17:38.300 --> 17:44.460 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of 17:44.460 --> 17:51.900 man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whosoever eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood, 17:51.900 --> 17:59.500 hath eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood 17:59.500 --> 18:06.140 is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood dwelleth in me, and I in him. 18:06.300 --> 18:12.980 As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father, so he that eateth me, even 18:12.980 --> 18:15.380 he shall live by me. 18:15.380 --> 18:20.860 This is that bread which came down from heaven, not as your fathers did eat manna and are 18:20.860 --> 18:21.940 dead. 18:21.940 --> 18:25.660 He that eateth of this bread shall live forever. 18:25.660 --> 18:29.260 These things said he in the synagogue as he taught in Capernaum. 18:29.600 --> 18:33.760 Many, therefore, of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, 18:33.760 --> 18:37.160 This is an hard saying. Who can hear it? 18:37.160 --> 18:41.360 When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, 18:41.360 --> 18:44.600 He said unto them, Does this offend you? 18:44.600 --> 18:49.760 What then if ye shall see the Son of Man ascend up where he was before? 18:49.760 --> 18:54.560 It is the Spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing. 18:54.600 --> 18:59.600 The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life. 18:59.600 --> 19:02.600 But there are some of you that believe not. 19:02.600 --> 19:08.600 For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not and who should betray him. 19:08.600 --> 19:17.600 And he said, Therefore said I unto you that no man can come unto me except it were given unto him of my father. 19:17.600 --> 19:22.600 From that time many of his disciples went back and walked no more with him. 19:22.800 --> 19:27.880 Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away? 19:27.880 --> 19:32.280 Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? 19:32.280 --> 19:39.440 Thou hast the words of eternal life, and we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, 19:39.440 --> 19:41.720 the Son of the living God. 19:41.720 --> 19:47.480 Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil? 19:47.480 --> 19:50.440 spake of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon. 19:50.700 --> 19:55.180 for he it was that should betray him, being one of the twelve. 19:55.180 --> 19:57.180 Brother Paul, could you pray for the sermon? 20:10.100 --> 20:14.420 Amen. You guys are there in John chapter number six. We're going to look in at verse number one where the Bible says 20:14.900 --> 20:19.620 After these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of tiberias 20:19.700 --> 20:22.500 Tell them my sermon this morning is five loaves and two fish. Let's pray 20:23.060 --> 20:26.180 Here for the god these was one of the day. Thank you so much for everything you do for us god 20:26.180 --> 20:29.620 Thank you so much for the opportunity to preach guys pray right now that you would fill me with your holy spirit 20:29.620 --> 20:31.700 God and help me to edify the people in this room 20:31.780 --> 20:35.300 I just pray that you give me a clear train of thoughts and preaching god and help me to um 20:35.920 --> 20:38.100 Articulate the the things that you lay on my heart god 20:38.100 --> 20:42.900 well I just pray that you'd help me to say what you want me to say and keep 20:42.900 --> 20:46.540 saying what you wouldn't want me to say and I just pray that you would help me 20:46.540 --> 20:49.100 to preach with boldness. In Jesus name I pray, Amen. 20:49.400 --> 20:52.000 Tell me something like I said again is five loaves and two fish 20:52.000 --> 20:55.700 We're here in John chapter number six and as I was kind of telling you guys in the announcements 20:55.740 --> 21:01.760 The original plan for this morning sermon was gonna be to finish off the little sewing series that I have 21:01.760 --> 21:03.920 So what I think I'm gonna do is that next week? 21:03.920 --> 21:08.840 I'm gonna do that which might just work out better anyways because there wasn't a lot of people here this morning 21:08.840 --> 21:12.440 And that's kind of for everybody in the room. So I think that it would be good 21:12.440 --> 21:17.400 I was also talking about maybe doing a little bit of like a soul 21:17.400 --> 21:21.880 winning type seminar between the services. I don't know if it'll be next week or maybe 21:21.880 --> 21:26.520 the week after. We got a lot of events going on lately, but I'd like to do that for the 21:26.520 --> 21:30.800 people that are like new at soul winning or want to get a better grasp on soul winning 21:30.800 --> 21:35.600 because of the fact that it can be daunting to people. And again, I think that'd be a 21:35.600 --> 21:39.760 good resource to have for people that they could just kind of look online and see like, 21:39.760 --> 21:43.520 you know, some soul winning 101. Because obviously my first sermon was kind of me going through 21:43.520 --> 21:45.400 the whole gospel but it isn't really 21:45.400 --> 21:50.480 explain how I would actually preach the gospel. So if we have some interest in 21:50.480 --> 21:54.560 that we might hold that for the people that are not experienced soul-warners. So maybe 21:54.560 --> 21:57.680 we'll do something like like the people that are interested in learning how to do 21:57.680 --> 22:01.480 that they can stay for the soul-warning and then actually just hear that and 22:01.480 --> 22:04.580 then the people that are seasoned soul-warners can go out but we'll see 22:04.580 --> 22:07.760 we'll get some more information on that to come. But again coming back we're in 22:07.760 --> 22:09.200 John chapter number six. 22:09.400 --> 22:11.400 And this is going to be part one of my verse per verse, like I said. 22:11.400 --> 22:15.400 This is a pretty huge, I mean first of all it's a huge chapter in the sense that it's very long, 22:15.400 --> 22:19.400 but it's also just a chapter that is, you know, hotly debated, especially with the Catholics. 22:19.400 --> 22:26.400 They really love this passage, and we love this passage too, but they love it for a different reason, 22:26.400 --> 22:31.400 because they want to use it to twist it to say that you have to go and get communion from them to actually be saved. 22:31.400 --> 22:35.400 In this sermon I'm not going to touch that, I'm probably going to get about 30 verses through, 22:35.400 --> 22:37.400 and then we'll split the next part of that for... 22:37.400 --> 22:41.840 next week because this is quite long like Brother Jason was saying that 1st 22:41.840 --> 22:45.520 Corinthians 15 was like the third longest chapter in the New Testament so 22:45.520 --> 22:48.920 this has got to be at least you know number two or number one right trying to 22:48.920 --> 22:50.600 think like Acts chapter 22:50.700 --> 22:56.840 Seven and number nine are pretty long too, so interesting to me though. But yeah, anyways, we'll get into the sermon 22:56.840 --> 22:59.820 I just quickly want to recap the things that we talked about last week 23:00.320 --> 23:01.580 On last Sunday night 23:01.580 --> 23:05.420 We talked about in John chapter number five when we ended that sermon that Jesus Christ 23:05.660 --> 23:11.760 When he said that he was quicking the dead that can obviously be taken in the three different ways that Jesus Christ literally rose 23:12.100 --> 23:14.700 Lazarus again from the grave that at the end times 23:15.420 --> 23:18.640 Jesus Christ, you know, you're gonna hear his voice and the dead in Christ will 23:18.700 --> 23:24.700 what Bible says, and then also the gospel that he preached to people in this earth. 23:25.000 --> 23:28.620 Quickened people from the dead and so you can see that apply in three different ways 23:28.620 --> 23:31.020 and then the second thing we talked about was the fact that 23:31.820 --> 23:38.520 Jesus Christ's works are what testified of him because he says that he didn't receive testimony from from man 23:38.640 --> 23:44.760 Which I I I had it that to show you like how great the works of Jesus Christ truly were then because John the Baptist was 23:44.760 --> 23:48.160 the greatest born amongst women and even he 23:48.640 --> 23:53.000 Wasn't gonna be counted as a witness for Jesus Christ because he says he doesn't receive man's with 23:53.000 --> 23:58.000 So that highlights how great Jesus' works are, but it also highlights how bad we are as humans. 23:58.000 --> 24:03.000 You know, like that even the best of us couldn't be a witness for Jesus Christ, 24:03.000 --> 24:07.000 that He wouldn't receive their testimony is what I should say. 24:07.800 --> 24:12.000 But I talked about how what did testify of him was his works. 24:12.000 --> 24:14.800 And I didn't bring this up, but Brother Kyle talked me about it after the service. 24:14.800 --> 24:21.900 Maybe I did and I just didn't hammer on it very hard, but also a fulfilling of that as well is that Jesus Christ is fulfilling the prophecies of the Messiah. 24:21.900 --> 24:23.700 Those also testify of him. 24:23.700 --> 24:30.500 But it is also the works and the miracles that he does in themselves that also testify of him too. 24:30.500 --> 24:35.600 But then the third thing that we talked about was the fact that, you know, the Jews pretend like they love Moses. 24:35.800 --> 24:38.640 pretend like they love Abraham, they pretend like they love all these guys 24:38.640 --> 24:42.100 from the Old Testament. But what I was telling you guys last week is that if they would have 24:42.100 --> 24:45.880 been around at the time of Abraham, at the time of Moses, at the time of any of these 24:45.880 --> 24:50.300 great men, David even, they would have been, they would have hated those men. 24:50.300 --> 24:53.620 They would have hated them because if you don't love Jesus Christ then you 24:53.620 --> 24:56.840 wouldn't have loved any of these men because these men weren't even as good 24:56.840 --> 25:01.900 as Jesus Christ and they hate Jesus. So they'll be like, oh yeah we 25:01.900 --> 25:03.800 adhere to Moses and he's like, no you don't. 25:03.800 --> 25:06.800 They say they listen to Moses, but they really don't. 25:06.800 --> 25:09.800 And they say that they love Moses and they love Abraham, but they really don't. 25:09.800 --> 25:13.800 Because if they actually loved those men, then they would have really loved Jesus Christ, 25:13.800 --> 25:16.800 because He's even better than those men were. 25:16.800 --> 25:18.800 But that basically solidifies the recap. 25:18.800 --> 25:21.800 We'll go into verse number one. 25:22.000 --> 25:26.480 of this again it says after these things Jesus went over the Sea of Galilee which is the Sea 25:26.480 --> 25:31.760 of Tiberias and very interesting because obviously nowadays we still refer to this 25:31.760 --> 25:37.840 to as the Sea of Galilee but the reason it's called the Sea of Tiberias is because Herod Antipas 25:37.840 --> 25:45.360 founded a city there after Tiberius Caesar on the west side of the Sea of Galilee so at this time 25:45.360 --> 25:49.920 before the Bible's written obviously this is a bigger deal the Romans name for this is a bigger deal 25:50.000 --> 25:54.560 than the Jews name, but then after the Bible is written, obviously we all refer to this 25:54.560 --> 25:58.340 as the Sea of Galilee and no longer the Sea of Tiberius because the Bible is even more 25:58.340 --> 26:00.800 important than any of the Roman history that's out there. 26:00.800 --> 26:03.880 But if you look on a map nowadays, like if you were just like looking at a map in front 26:03.880 --> 26:07.320 of you right now, Sea of Galilee is still there, it's a pretty big sea actually, I didn't 26:07.320 --> 26:12.400 realize how big it was until I was researching the sermon, and Tiberius, the city of Tiberius 26:12.400 --> 26:17.480 that it's named after, is on the west side of the coast of the Sea of Galilee, which 26:17.480 --> 26:17.980 which I- 26:18.000 --> 26:20.360 bring up for a couple reasons. Number one, it's important to the story as we're 26:20.360 --> 26:23.240 gonna see a little bit later on. But number two, I don't know about you guys, 26:23.240 --> 26:26.840 but going through the biblical like geography, I always find it really 26:26.840 --> 26:31.080 interesting. I think it helps me picture stories a lot better. And I think that 26:31.080 --> 26:34.560 especially with this one right here, there is a reference to it later on of 26:34.560 --> 26:39.080 why I'm highlighting it. I think it's important for the text itself. But again, 26:39.080 --> 26:42.080 like I kind of said last week, if the Bible tells us something, if the Bible 26:42.080 --> 26:46.000 puts something in the text, then it must be important for some reason. 26:46.000 --> 26:50.600 And I believe I can show you why this is in the text, but again, we'll get we'll get past this look at it verse number two 26:51.000 --> 26:54.700 It says in a great multitude followed him because they saw his miracles 26:54.700 --> 26:56.700 which he did on them that were diseased and 26:56.780 --> 27:03.840 Jesus went up into a mountain and there sat with his disciples and the Passover a feast of the Jews was nigh 27:03.840 --> 27:07.380 So this is pretty self-explanatory. I don't think I really need to go into too much about this 27:07.380 --> 27:12.880 the only thing I want to highlight from you are for you from these this verse right here is that it says in a 27:12.880 --> 27:14.000 great multitude fault him because 27:14.000 --> 27:17.040 because they saw his miracles, which were disease, 27:17.040 --> 27:18.500 that'll also come into play later. 27:18.500 --> 27:20.000 So the two things I'm telling you to keep in your mind 27:20.000 --> 27:24.240 is that the Tiberius thing, and also the fact that 27:24.240 --> 27:27.820 these men that are following him out in this story 27:27.820 --> 27:30.440 have already seen Jesus Christ perform miracles before. 27:30.440 --> 27:32.200 So kind of bookmark that in your mind. 27:32.200 --> 27:34.200 But then look at verse number five, it says, 27:34.400 --> 27:39.360 When Jesus then lifted up his eyes and saw great company come unto him, he saith unto Philip, 27:39.360 --> 27:44.000 Whence shall we buy bread that these may eat? And he said to prove him, 27:44.880 --> 27:51.440 or and he said, excuse me, and this he said to prove him, for he himself knew what he would do. 27:51.440 --> 27:54.880 So it's kind of interesting here. Jesus Christ asks Philip a question. 27:55.600 --> 27:57.000 And he already knows the answer to the question. 27:57.000 --> 28:00.200 He's asking him just to prove him is what the Bible says. 28:00.200 --> 28:06.400 And this reminds me a lot of how, you know, God approves Abraham when he asks him to go 28:06.400 --> 28:09.300 and offer Isaac his son in the Old Testament. 28:09.300 --> 28:13.800 Though obviously we know he doesn't actually end up having to do that because God gives him a lamb, 28:13.800 --> 28:16.500 or excuse me, a ram to sacrifice instead of his son. 28:16.500 --> 28:20.700 But the reason I bring this up is because I want you to see that from the beginning of the Bible, 28:20.700 --> 28:23.600 all the way into the New Testament, we see that God proves people. 28:23.600 --> 28:26.240 that he tests people is another word for this. 28:26.240 --> 28:29.840 And so it should be no marvel to us to assume, 28:29.840 --> 28:31.960 or to submit maybe is what I should say, 28:31.960 --> 28:36.080 that God still tests us, God still proves us. 28:36.080 --> 28:38.080 And there's many different reasons for this. 28:38.080 --> 28:40.360 We see with the story of Job, it's to bring him forth 28:40.360 --> 28:43.720 so that he's pure as gold, 28:43.720 --> 28:47.320 and to refine him even more so that he comes forth as gold. 28:47.320 --> 28:49.120 But then also, I think another aspect of this 28:49.120 --> 28:51.400 is just to show us, God is like, 28:51.400 --> 28:51.600 Please 28:51.600 --> 28:53.600 us to see whether we love him. 28:54.000 --> 28:58.000 or if he loves, or if we love the things that God gives us. 28:58.000 --> 29:00.400 Which I kind of told you on, I think it was on Wednesday, 29:00.400 --> 29:02.760 I think I had already written this, 29:02.760 --> 29:04.640 so I was thinking it was in my notes for that sermon, 29:04.640 --> 29:05.960 so I started kind of talking about that. 29:05.960 --> 29:07.440 Okay, that was a mistake, okay? 29:07.440 --> 29:09.160 But I do want to highlight that 29:09.160 --> 29:10.800 because it's important, the text right here, 29:10.800 --> 29:12.760 that he says that he says this to Philip 29:12.760 --> 29:14.720 to prove him, to test him, 29:14.720 --> 29:18.100 and I think that God still does test us nowadays. 29:18.100 --> 29:19.960 So what we should learn from this is that 29:19.960 --> 29:22.000 when God does test us, we ought to... 29:22.000 --> 29:26.880 succeed through the test. We ought to, you know, be accepted and be found, you know, 29:26.880 --> 29:31.280 approved in His sight when He does test us. And like I kind of was talking about on Wednesday, 29:31.280 --> 29:35.520 I think a big way that God does this is through, you know... 29:36.100 --> 29:40.960 Having doors open up in your life and and people really like I was explaining to you guys last week 29:41.060 --> 29:46.640 We'll take things happening in their life with a door that opens up and they'd be like this must be the will of God 29:46.660 --> 29:49.420 But I want to understand this is not always true 29:49.420 --> 29:53.060 And then sometimes even if it is the will of God it might be the will of God not free to accept it 29:53.060 --> 29:56.780 But to see if you'll accept it to test you like he's saying in this story right here, okay? 29:57.060 --> 30:02.040 So but I bring this up because I think it's important that there's just this Christian mindset out there 30:02.040 --> 30:04.040 We're talking as long as the door opens up it 30:04.100 --> 30:05.100 It must be God's will. 30:05.100 --> 30:10.100 It's like, it might be God's will to test you, but this is what I want to submit to you, 30:10.100 --> 30:11.100 okay? 30:11.100 --> 30:14.100 If you get offered something that's going to hinder you spiritually, 30:15.100 --> 30:17.100 That's not going to be God's will. 30:17.100 --> 30:20.100 Obviously there could be seasons of life where different things happen. 30:20.100 --> 30:22.100 I'll throw that caveat out. 30:22.100 --> 30:25.100 But I would say for the most part, if you're going to make a life altering decision 30:25.100 --> 30:28.100 that's going to permanently hinder you from serving God, 30:28.100 --> 30:30.100 that's not going to be God's will for you. 30:30.100 --> 30:35.100 Like, oh, you know, the cost of living is really cheap in Bumsford, Arkansas. 30:35.100 --> 30:37.100 So that's where I'm going to move to. 30:37.100 --> 30:39.100 Is there a good church there? I don't know. 30:39.100 --> 30:41.100 But it's cheaper there at least. 30:41.800 --> 30:45.440 And the opportunity came up, you know, I had a relative die and I could take their home. 30:45.440 --> 30:47.600 It's like, do you really think that that's the will of God though? 30:47.600 --> 30:52.940 If it's gonna actually just pull you from a good church to an area where you don't know if there's a good church. 30:52.940 --> 30:56.640 Now if there is a good church in Bumsford, Arkansas, okay maybe that could be the play. 30:56.640 --> 31:03.240 But listen, we ought to prioritize our spiritual life over anything in our physical life. 31:03.240 --> 31:07.440 Whether it's for money, whether it's for food, whether it's for our hobbies, whether it's for fun, whether it's for anything. 31:07.440 --> 31:09.740 The kingdom of God should come first and- 31:09.800 --> 31:13.760 then everything else should come second. This is what the Bible teaches us and so 31:13.760 --> 31:16.760 many people just under the guise they like deceive themselves into thinking 31:16.760 --> 31:19.240 that they're doing something righteous because they'll be like well there's 31:19.240 --> 31:23.240 nothing technically wrong with moving to Arkansas. It's like you're right it's not 31:23.240 --> 31:26.880 just moving to Arkansas that's a problem it's moving to an area where you're not 31:26.880 --> 31:30.600 gonna go to church that's the real issue. It's like if they offer me a job right 31:30.600 --> 31:33.040 now and they're like you know really we got a great job for you we'll give you a 31:33.040 --> 31:36.360 million dollars a year you just got to go to Antarctica and study penguins there 31:36.360 --> 31:37.800 it's like 31:37.800 --> 31:40.800 opened up this door for me. It's like, no, I think that if you're going to go to, 31:40.840 --> 31:43.640 you know, Antarctica, study penguins, you know, you're not going to do it. 31:43.640 --> 31:45.360 You're not going to go to church. You're not going to be spiritual. 31:45.360 --> 31:48.680 You're not going to have people that can edify you and sharpen you as iron 31:48.680 --> 31:50.200 sharpens iron. So. 31:50.700 --> 31:56.780 My whole point just saying this is just like, we need to stop just assuming the will of God is whatever is convenient to us. 31:56.780 --> 32:02.100 That's what so many will think, but a lot of times we see in the Bible that the will of God is for us to suffer. 32:02.100 --> 32:07.900 Sometimes the will of God is for us to go through hard times so that we can really prove our faith to God. 32:07.900 --> 32:11.900 And so that we can be refined so that we can truly trust on God. 32:11.900 --> 32:16.100 Like we see in the story of Job, like we see so many different times in the Bible. 32:16.100 --> 32:18.600 But that's what I want to submit to you, that anything... 32:18.700 --> 32:22.700 that's going to hinder you spiritually, this is probably not the will of God. 32:22.700 --> 32:24.700 Amen. 32:24.700 --> 32:26.700 Where are we at? Verse number five, okay, look there. 32:27.400 --> 32:31.660 verse number five obviously I want to say oh this one I want to say before we go to the verse number five though is that in 32:31.660 --> 32:34.500 The Bible we also see in James that God doesn't tempt us though 32:34.500 --> 32:38.060 He doesn't tempt us with sin is what the Bible says, but he does prove us 32:38.060 --> 32:42.980 There is a difference between these things because you have to reconcile what it says right here with what it says in James 32:43.080 --> 32:44.900 But God doesn't tempt us with sin 32:44.900 --> 32:49.820 And he doesn't tempt us with that which you know above that what we're able is what the Bible also says so 32:50.540 --> 32:55.380 You know it's never going to be a situation where you cannot escape temptation if it's you know 32:55.400 --> 32:57.400 if it's laid out before you. 32:57.600 --> 33:02.600 Verse number five it says, when Jesus then lifted up his eyes and saw a great company 33:02.600 --> 33:07.720 come unto him, he said unto Philip, when shall we buy bread that these may eat? 33:07.720 --> 33:14.440 And he said to prove him, for he knew himself what he would do, Philip answered him, two 33:14.440 --> 33:18.720 hundred penny worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may take 33:18.720 --> 33:19.720 a little. 33:19.720 --> 33:22.240 Which this is really interesting because obviously when we think about a penny we're thinking 33:22.240 --> 33:24.320 about like the smallest amount of money. 33:24.320 --> 33:25.600 But in the Bible, a penny is a penny. 33:25.600 --> 33:28.000 equivalent to a day's worth of labor. 33:28.000 --> 33:29.480 It tells us this in Matthew 20, 33:29.480 --> 33:30.320 you don't have to turn there, 33:30.320 --> 33:31.720 but it says in Matthew 20, verse two, it says, 33:31.720 --> 33:33.200 and when he had agreed with the laborers 33:33.200 --> 33:36.540 for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard. 33:36.540 --> 33:38.120 So what Philip is really saying here, 33:38.120 --> 33:39.360 when you look at the Bible context, 33:39.360 --> 33:42.080 is like, even if you were to buy the amount of bread 33:42.080 --> 33:45.000 that you could buy for 200 days worth of labor, 33:45.000 --> 33:47.080 it wouldn't even be sufficient for these people, 33:47.080 --> 33:49.400 for them to basically rip parts off of this bread 33:49.400 --> 33:50.780 and just try to take little pieces of it, 33:50.780 --> 33:53.120 that wouldn't even be enough to feed these people. 33:53.120 --> 33:53.600 So this is a... 33:53.600 --> 33:57.760 huge thing that Jesus Christ is asking right here and that he's questioned them 33:57.760 --> 34:01.040 on right here and then look at verse number eight it says one of his 34:01.040 --> 34:05.760 disciples Andrew Simon Simon Peter's brother say then to him there is a lad 34:05.760 --> 34:10.600 here which have five loaves and two small fishes but what are they among so 34:10.600 --> 34:16.680 many so it is because basically Jesus Christ asked this to prove them he asked 34:16.680 --> 34:19.680 it to prove Philip and also the other disciples clearly from this other people 34:19.680 --> 34:21.600 that are answering but it's kind of safe to say that 34:21.600 --> 34:24.840 failed the test that they didn't actually believe that Jesus Christ could perform this 34:24.840 --> 34:27.040 miracle which is not to say that 34:27.500 --> 34:29.500 They didn't believe in Jesus Christ at all. 34:29.500 --> 34:33.020 But I think what the Bible's trying to show us here is the struggle that we all face in 34:33.020 --> 34:34.020 reality. 34:34.020 --> 34:35.340 That we all believe that God is real. 34:35.340 --> 34:39.060 We believe that it's Jesus Christ alone for our salvation. 34:39.060 --> 34:40.060 We believe that. 34:40.060 --> 34:43.300 And if you look into our hearts, you'd see that we truly have our faith rested upon God 34:43.300 --> 34:44.300 Almighty. 34:44.300 --> 34:48.180 But when it comes to the other promises that come from the Christian life, like that he'll 34:48.180 --> 34:52.380 provide for us, that he'll take care of us, that he's never going to leave us or forsake 34:52.380 --> 34:54.860 us, that's when Christians begin to struggle. 34:54.860 --> 34:55.500 That's when they begin. 34:55.500 --> 35:00.300 to kind of like they don't doubt that God's real but for whatever weirdness is in us as humans 35:00.300 --> 35:04.700 we start to doubt that he's going to come through for us but I think the bible's trying to highlight 35:04.700 --> 35:11.180 right here that you know even the best men that were closest to Jesus at this time had their doubts 35:11.180 --> 35:14.380 and obviously not that he was God but just that he could provide in this situation 35:15.100 --> 35:18.460 But what it's trying to show us is that though this is the case right here, 35:18.460 --> 35:22.220 we should not doubt Jesus Christ because he's able to do anything. 35:22.220 --> 35:25.340 He's got our God as a God that does the impossible. 35:25.340 --> 35:28.460 And this is what this story is here to show us in the Bible. 35:28.460 --> 35:32.380 So when we go through seasons of life, kind of attached to what I was saying earlier, 35:32.380 --> 35:35.660 when we're panicking about, you know, how we're going to pay our bills or, 35:35.660 --> 35:39.740 you know, our health or anything like that, we just need to stop and like, 35:39.740 --> 35:43.020 step back for a minute and think and just like realize like God promised that he would 35:43.100 --> 35:48.020 take care of us if we seek the Kingdom of God first. So as long as we're doing that, 35:48.020 --> 35:51.140 we should have nothing to fear. We should have nothing to worry about. We should have 35:51.140 --> 35:57.220 nothing to stress about because God knows everything and He knows the different struggles 35:57.220 --> 36:00.740 that we have in our life. So I think that that's what He's trying to highlight in this 36:00.740 --> 36:07.020 story that we shouldn't just panic. We shouldn't just panic and we shouldn't doubt the works 36:07.020 --> 36:10.000 that Jesus Christ can do. Verse number 10, it says, 36:10.200 --> 36:12.800 And Jesus said, make the men sit down. 36:12.800 --> 36:15.000 Now there was much grass in the place, 36:15.000 --> 36:18.280 so the men sat down a number about 5,000. 36:18.280 --> 36:20.640 So what's interesting here, it says about 5,000 men. 36:20.640 --> 36:22.800 Doesn't actually list the women and children. 36:22.800 --> 36:24.720 Some people I think think that that's kind of inclusive. 36:24.720 --> 36:26.360 I don't really know, but I know that there's 36:26.360 --> 36:28.000 at least 5,000 people here. 36:28.000 --> 36:29.120 So it's a lot of people. 36:29.120 --> 36:31.320 And on top of it, they have their wives and kids out there. 36:31.320 --> 36:34.000 That's gonna be a huge crowd of people. 36:35.000 --> 36:36.960 But Jesus Christ, 36:37.300 --> 36:41.700 You know, at this time, he's not in a place where, you know, there's a Costco or a Walmart down the road. 36:41.700 --> 36:48.100 Like, this is truly a huge deal. Like, that's what I want to, like, nowadays, if we're like, oh, you know, we have a bunch of people show up for this party. 36:48.100 --> 36:52.100 What are we going to do? Oh, just run to the store real quick. But at this time, that's not going to happen. 36:52.100 --> 36:57.600 And even if they tried to go to some market at this time, that's a lot of bread that they're going to have to buy. 36:57.600 --> 37:02.000 They're not going to be able to carry it to all these people. So how does Jesus Christ intend to feed these people then? 37:02.000 --> 37:05.280 Look at verse 11, he says, and Jesus took the loaves and 37:05.300 --> 37:08.700 And when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples and the disciples to them 37:08.700 --> 37:13.400 that were set down and likewise the fishes as much as they would." 37:13.400 --> 37:17.460 So I think it's interesting here that Jesus Christ doesn't do anything like, you know, 37:17.460 --> 37:18.580 like that would wow your eye. 37:18.580 --> 37:22.220 He doesn't like do something like, you know, that would like attract a lot of attention. 37:22.220 --> 37:27.420 All he does is just praise, he blesses the bread, and then he distributed out the disciples. 37:28.000 --> 37:30.800 and they distribute out to the crowd of people. 37:30.800 --> 37:32.800 It's almost like it's not a big deal. 37:32.800 --> 37:36.400 And the reason I bring that up is because it's truly not a big deal to Jesus Christ 37:36.400 --> 37:38.320 because God is a God that can do anything. 37:38.320 --> 37:41.600 Again, like I was just saying, He is a God that can do the impossible. 37:41.600 --> 37:43.840 He's a God that can take five loaves and two fish 37:43.840 --> 37:47.520 and divide it into 5,000 people and above 5,000 people. 37:47.520 --> 37:50.320 And even if He didn't have the five loaves and two fishes here, 37:50.320 --> 37:52.080 Jesus Christ could have made them out of thin air 37:52.080 --> 37:55.920 because Jesus Christ created this whole world, is what we see from the Bible. 37:56.000 --> 37:59.600 So this like Jesus just prays and breaks it off like it's no big deal 37:59.600 --> 38:04.080 But it's it's because it is no big deal to God and in the Bible says in Jeremiah 32 17 38:04.080 --> 38:09.500 It says our Lord God behold thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm 38:09.500 --> 38:16.160 And there is nothing too hard for thee. So not everything is a light thing to God. There's nothing that's hard for God 38:16.160 --> 38:21.540 There's nothing that's you know too much for him and that should again give us confidence that when he tells us 38:21.540 --> 38:23.620 He's gonna provide for us. He will make it happen 38:24.000 --> 38:28.200 Even if it's through the impossible that's what I want you to see in this story because if you look at the story 38:28.600 --> 38:31.760 Nothing about this to our human understanding makes sense 38:32.760 --> 38:34.660 scientifically mathematically logically 38:34.660 --> 38:38.840 How are you gonna give five loaves and two fish and disperse among 5,000 people? 38:38.840 --> 38:39.880 It doesn't make sense 38:39.880 --> 38:46.500 The only way it makes sense is that God doesn't care about our logic that he does as he pleases and he can create and do 38:46.680 --> 38:49.320 Whatever he pleases as he does in this story 38:49.900 --> 38:55.100 So it should show us like even when things don't add up to us, we ought not to lean on our own understanding. 38:55.100 --> 38:57.900 We ought to lean on the power of God. 38:58.540 --> 39:03.420 That you know, even when we're like, man, I'm not gonna be able to like, the first thing that comes to my mind is just like, tie. 39:03.420 --> 39:05.980 Like, oh, I'm not gonna be able to tie this month because I'm not gonna have enough money. 39:06.500 --> 39:09.460 God can give you much more than even the hundred dollars 39:09.460 --> 39:10.820 that you'd be scared to tie it on. 39:10.820 --> 39:13.900 You know, I don't know if I can not take this job, 39:13.900 --> 39:15.380 I don't know what's gonna happen, 39:15.380 --> 39:17.060 like I have to get more money for my family. 39:17.060 --> 39:19.180 It's like, I wanna understand that if you seek 39:19.180 --> 39:22.140 the kingdom of God first, he will provide for you. 39:22.140 --> 39:24.780 He promises that he will provide for you. 39:24.780 --> 39:28.540 So we should not doubt our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. 39:28.540 --> 39:31.140 Then in Matthew 6.31, that's what I've been basically 39:31.140 --> 39:34.500 quoting, he says, take no thought, therefore take no. 39:34.500 --> 39:38.460 of thought saying, what shall we eat or what shall we drink or wherewithal shall 39:38.460 --> 39:42.300 we be clothed? For after all these things the Gentiles seek, for your heavenly 39:42.300 --> 39:46.220 Father knoweth that you have need of these things. God knows that we have 39:46.220 --> 39:49.200 needs. That's what I want you to understand from this. He knows the 39:49.200 --> 39:52.800 struggles that we have and he knows that we need clothes, that we need a place to 39:52.800 --> 39:58.140 live, that we need food, that we need water. He knows all these things, okay? So 39:58.140 --> 40:02.500 when you're going through rough times, don't take that as God forsaking you. 40:02.500 --> 40:04.900 He promised he would not leave or forsake us. 40:04.900 --> 40:09.700 Take that as God either proving you or you know take it for whatever you want it to be. 40:09.700 --> 40:14.700 But this is what I'd say, the worst thing to do in a moment like that is to forsake God and stop serving Him. 40:14.700 --> 40:17.900 At your lowest that's when you should draw closest to God. 40:17.900 --> 40:20.500 Because the Bible says, draw not a God. 40:21.000 --> 40:22.320 He'll draw an eye to you. Yeah 40:22.320 --> 40:26.140 So we need to take these principles of heart and learn that we need to walk by faith and not by sight 40:26.520 --> 40:32.160 Because he says in verse 33 but seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things shall be added unto 40:32.160 --> 40:34.920 You what things the things we need is what he was just talking about 40:34.920 --> 40:39.760 All these things will be added to us if we seek God first don't get that order backwards 40:39.760 --> 40:46.480 It's not like how can I take care of my family and and how can I provide all these clothes and all these toys all? 40:46.480 --> 40:49.000 These gift for my kids and also serve God 40:49.000 --> 40:54.000 It's like no, no, you need to put it like how do I serve God first and then he'll make sure all these things happen 40:54.000 --> 40:58.760 All the other things that we need all the other things that we even not even just that we need because God doesn't just give us 40:58.760 --> 41:02.960 Even what we need we have so much more than just food and rain if we were being honest with ourselves 41:03.320 --> 41:06.240 He gives us above and beyond which I'm gonna get ahead of myself in this sermon 41:06.240 --> 41:12.540 But I want you to see from these this story right here that Jesus Christ if he could you know split the five lows of two 41:13.060 --> 41:15.060 two fishes two thousand years ago 41:15.360 --> 41:17.000 He's the same yesterday today forever 41:17.000 --> 41:21.900 he could provide for us right now the same way. John 6 41:22.100 --> 41:28.440 Verse number 12 it says when they were filled he said to his disciples gather up the fragments that remain that nothing be lost 41:28.620 --> 41:34.380 Therefore they gathered them together and filled 12 baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves 41:34.460 --> 41:41.060 Which remained over and above unto them that had eaten and that's what I was kind of just leading into before I to cut 41:41.060 --> 41:46.100 Myself off right there is that Jesus Christ does not even just provide for these people so that they can all just kind of have 41:46.100 --> 41:50.020 Like a little break off of the bread like it was saying right here. It's over and above even 41:50.100 --> 41:54.900 they can eat so that they have like baskets full that they're taking you know fragments of and 41:54.900 --> 41:59.940 fill these baskets so Jesus Christ went above and beyond supplying these people's needs which I 41:59.940 --> 42:05.060 think points out two things okay number one as I was just showing with all those verses if we seek 42:05.060 --> 42:08.980 the kingdom of God first like these people were doing in this story they were seeking the spiritual 42:08.980 --> 42:14.900 teachings from Jesus so then what does he do for them he gives them their food right in this story 42:14.900 --> 42:18.100 so that kind of is a picture that he provides if you seek him spiritually first of all 42:18.100 --> 42:20.220 provide for you physically. 42:20.220 --> 42:24.380 But also, the thing is about God is that when we sacrifice 42:24.380 --> 42:27.780 something for God, when we trust on God, he doesn't even 42:27.780 --> 42:31.020 just give us an equal amount of what we sacrificed. 42:31.020 --> 42:33.580 He goes above and beyond what we even sacrifice to. 42:33.580 --> 42:34.620 And that's what's beautiful. 42:34.620 --> 42:38.660 That in Psalms 23, verse number five, it says, 42:38.660 --> 42:40.700 thou preparest a table for me in the presence of my enemies. 42:40.700 --> 42:43.140 Thou anointest my head with oil. 42:43.140 --> 42:45.340 David says, my cup runneth over. 42:45.340 --> 42:46.100 like David. 42:46.100 --> 42:49.340 even just have you know just a full cup or a half cup he's like it's running 42:49.340 --> 42:53.500 over which is just showing like God just when he blesses us he blesses us even 42:53.500 --> 42:57.020 more than we can even handle right here even think about the fishes that we see 42:57.020 --> 43:00.020 like the miracle when he's like hey put your nets on the other side okay and 43:00.020 --> 43:03.540 then it put the one net down it's like the fish are breaking out that's what we 43:03.540 --> 43:07.540 constantly see in the Bible that God doesn't just give us back what you know 43:07.540 --> 43:11.460 what we sacrifice for him he gives us above and beyond think about Hannah that 43:11.460 --> 43:14.100 we're just reading about that she gives you know 43:14.100 --> 43:19.140 she lends Samuel unto the Lord, but then we read later on that God blesses her and allows her to 43:19.140 --> 43:24.020 conceive much more children after Samuel because she was willing to give her child unto the Lord. 43:24.020 --> 43:28.740 Or think about the story of Job that he starts off with, you know, a certain amount of cattle 43:28.740 --> 43:32.740 and all these things and with, you know, sons and daughters, but by the end it's doubled. 43:32.740 --> 43:37.780 So God always gives us more than we even give to him in the first place. That's what I'm trying to 43:37.780 --> 43:41.700 show you with these things. And God can provide for us more than we can even handle. 43:41.700 --> 43:42.100 So what? 43:42.100 --> 43:45.020 What our mindset needs to be is just trusting on Him. 43:45.020 --> 43:47.600 That's what this story should illustrate to us as Christians. 43:47.600 --> 43:50.140 Verse number 14, it says, then those men... 43:50.600 --> 43:53.400 when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, 43:53.400 --> 43:57.800 this is of a truth that profit that should come into the world. 43:57.800 --> 44:01.700 When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force and to make him a king, 44:01.700 --> 44:05.100 he departed again into a mountain alone himself. 44:05.100 --> 44:11.900 So again here, notice that it points out that these people had seen the miracles that Jesus Christ had did, 44:11.900 --> 44:13.800 because it said that earlier on in the chapter, 44:13.800 --> 44:17.000 and he's going to bring it up again later on, or at least I should say this, it... 44:17.200 --> 44:19.900 There's a crazy point later on that it's attached to this, 44:19.900 --> 44:22.100 so again, keep those two things in your mind. 44:22.100 --> 44:25.100 But the second thing I want to show you is the fact that... 44:25.600 --> 44:30.320 Jesus Christ, but this was kind of submitting to you guys like I think I feel like a couple weeks ago 44:30.600 --> 44:35.840 That this is one of the reasons why he wasn't just going around telling people that he was the Christ because as soon as they perceive 44:35.840 --> 44:37.840 That he's the Christ that prophet is what it says right here 44:37.840 --> 44:38.680 What do they try to do? 44:38.680 --> 44:43.040 They try to immediately make him a king and I see people kind of question about that and be like wait a minute because 44:43.040 --> 44:46.360 The Jews didn't receive Jesus, but right here they're trying to make him their king 44:46.360 --> 44:50.200 So what's going on, but you gotta understand about this. This isn't like the majority of Jews 44:50.200 --> 44:53.440 It's just like 5,000 Jews or maybe at the most 10 44:53.600 --> 44:57.680 people that are there and they're trying to make him a king when there's like 44:57.680 --> 45:00.320 millions of Jews at this time okay probably like a million or two I forgot 45:00.320 --> 45:03.200 I look at the population before I preach about they owe one or two million Jews 45:03.200 --> 45:06.320 at the time so this is like a little fraction that are just trying to make 45:06.320 --> 45:10.520 him a king and we also see later on that they're not trying to make him a king 45:10.520 --> 45:15.120 because they truly actually believe on him they try to make him a king because 45:15.120 --> 45:19.080 of ulterior motives which the Bible explains later on so I just wanted to 45:19.080 --> 45:21.600 point that out to you that maybe some of the people kind of believe 45:21.600 --> 45:27.620 But we're gonna see later on a majority of these people did not actually trust on him for being the Messiah 45:28.000 --> 45:30.000 verse number 16 look what it says it says 45:30.500 --> 45:36.500 And when Eve was now come, his disciples went unto the sea, and entered into a ship, and went over the sea toward Capernaum. 45:36.500 --> 45:40.100 And now it was dark, and Jesus was not come to them. 45:40.100 --> 45:43.500 And the sea arose by reason of a great wind that blew. 45:43.500 --> 45:51.500 So when they had rowed about five and twenty, or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing nigh unto the ship, and they were afraid." 45:51.500 --> 45:58.500 So, this is, when I was saying this, I was like, this is so interesting, because I was like, Jesus Christ goes into a mountain again, alone. 45:58.500 --> 46:02.500 to pray but it's like did he tell them he was gonna meet them and they were just gonna take off? 46:02.500 --> 46:06.500 Like I don't really understand what was going on here maybe like maybe he just wanted to 46:06.500 --> 46:10.500 meet them in Capernaum and walk there and they were just gonna take the boat. It's kind of 46:10.500 --> 46:14.500 a little puzzling to me. Especially at a time like man they don't have any phones 46:14.500 --> 46:18.500 or anything like that to communicate just like you can't be like hey pick me up at Capernaum. 46:18.500 --> 46:22.500 It's like I mean you gotta plan out pretty well I guess but I can't exactly 46:22.500 --> 46:26.500 tell what is going on here or if they just kind of were like hey Jesus is 46:26.500 --> 46:27.540 coming back I guess we're gonna go to 46:27.540 --> 46:31.260 Comparative and maybe they would have came back I don't know but besides that 46:31.260 --> 46:35.000 okay the disciples it says that they go out 46:35.100 --> 46:40.940 About five and twenty or thirty furlongs which I think that wording there is super interesting because obviously 46:41.400 --> 46:46.740 The Bible could give us the exact detail here if it wanted to but he says about five and twenty or thirty furlongs 46:46.740 --> 46:52.600 So just kind of bookmark that in your brain because that'll be important a second the fact that it says about okay 46:52.620 --> 46:55.360 But they leave they leave Jesus Christ 46:55.900 --> 46:58.180 Whether they plan that out or not. I'm not exactly sure 46:58.260 --> 47:02.820 It's probably likely that it was they go out into the sea they go out five and 47:03.100 --> 47:08.660 or 30 furlongs and then a storm comes upon them on the Sea of Galilee also 47:08.660 --> 47:13.060 called the Sea of Tiberias and they're terrified obviously at this moment but 47:13.060 --> 47:16.000 before I move on from that I want to point out the furlongs okay 47:16.400 --> 47:21.260 Furlong which we don't I mean maybe we do use but I'm ignorant to it. Okay, but a furlong is 47:21.880 --> 47:26.400 606 feet or 660 feet depending on who you ask I guess 47:26.900 --> 47:29.200 Maybe it's just like a cubit where it's like a little bit different or whatever 47:29.200 --> 47:34.680 But basically what they say it is is that it's an eighth of a mile is what a furlong is and so to put that in 47:34.760 --> 47:36.880 perspective if you went to a running track 47:37.300 --> 47:38.620 You have all the lanes, right? 47:38.620 --> 47:41.140 If you were in the inside lane and you ran half a lap, 47:41.140 --> 47:44.180 that would be a furlong, if you kind of stretched that out. 47:44.180 --> 47:47.180 But I'm bringing this up because the reason, 47:47.180 --> 47:49.020 or when I was always picturing this story, 47:49.020 --> 47:50.140 when I was reading through the Bible, 47:50.140 --> 47:52.380 I kind of imagined that they're very close to Jesus 47:52.380 --> 47:53.860 when he walks out into the sea on them. 47:53.860 --> 47:56.060 And maybe that's just because of the Christian movies 47:56.060 --> 47:57.460 I watched when I was growing up. 47:57.460 --> 47:59.580 When they have all these animated series of Jesus Christ, 47:59.580 --> 48:02.060 they always have them right there, close to him. 48:02.060 --> 48:03.620 But when you do the math on this, 48:03.620 --> 48:05.300 because it's 25 to 30 furlongs, 48:05.300 --> 48:09.520 Jesus basically walked out three and a half miles to go and meet them on the sea, which 48:09.520 --> 48:12.800 is like, it's pretty crazy, okay? 48:12.800 --> 48:18.400 That's a huge distance that he's walking out to see them, the 25 to 30 furlongs, okay? 48:18.400 --> 48:20.080 But that'll come important in a second as well. 48:20.080 --> 48:21.080 Just look at verse number 24 right now though. 48:21.080 --> 48:25.040 It says, but he said unto them, it is I be not afraid. 48:25.040 --> 48:29.840 Then they willingly received him to the ship and immediately the ship was at the land whether 48:29.840 --> 48:31.280 they went. 48:31.280 --> 48:31.780 So... 48:32.200 --> 48:37.880 This is like a lot to like kind of digest here, but this is like so he walks out three and a half miles to them 48:38.120 --> 48:41.640 While the sea is boisterous while there's a storm going on and they're they're terrified 48:42.200 --> 48:47.000 And the bible says when that when they first see him they're they're terrified which kind of makes a little sense 48:47.080 --> 48:50.280 Okay, well, they're like, you know, what's going on? They know this is not something you see every day 48:50.760 --> 48:55.880 Uh, but then it says that they willingly receive him into the boat and then as soon as he's in the boat it says 48:56.200 --> 48:58.040 The ship was immediately 48:58.040 --> 49:00.200 Wither they were going and if you remember they were going 49:00.200 --> 49:02.240 The second point of capermin. 49:03.000 --> 49:06.360 Basically, because I'm going to prove this to you a little bit, but just for now take 49:06.360 --> 49:07.360 my word for it. 49:07.360 --> 49:13.040 Basically, they start off in Tiberias, which is the west side of the Sea of Galilee. 49:13.040 --> 49:17.480 And Capernaum, if you were looking at a map again, it would be like Tiberias is on the 49:17.480 --> 49:20.920 west side and then Capernaum is up here on the north, basically is where it's at. 49:20.920 --> 49:24.440 So they're going there and it says when Jesus comes out to the boat, they willingly receive 49:24.440 --> 49:30.960 a man and then it just like instant teleports to the other side of the shore, into Capernaum. 49:31.000 --> 49:34.200 So it's like what's going on here? Well, obviously there's a lot of pictures that are going on here 49:34.200 --> 49:38.520 I think and I think it's pretty obvious even my non picture seeing self can see this 49:38.520 --> 49:38.800 Okay 49:38.800 --> 49:43.520 so it's got to be kind of obvious right the first and most obvious picture that we can see is 49:43.680 --> 49:49.420 That this should show us that even when we are going through trials and tribulations our life when we're going through a storm in our life 49:49.760 --> 49:53.560 Jesus Christ when we need a most he'll meet us there and he'll help us through the storm 49:53.640 --> 49:58.760 It's a beautiful picture right here that that Jesus Christ even though they left without him, even though it was 49:59.000 --> 50:03.280 he was walking through three and a half miles of a super stormy sea, 50:03.520 --> 50:05.040 he still meets them on the other side. 50:05.160 --> 50:08.240 He still meets them at their boat and he transports them to the other side. 50:08.760 --> 50:12.920 So it should show us that even when we don't understand how God's going to help 50:12.920 --> 50:16.480 us, when we don't understand how God's going to save us, he will save us. 50:17.600 --> 50:20.320 But then the second thing, obviously, cause it's about saving even too. 50:20.700 --> 50:25.260 There's a good picture for salvation as well that because they willingly receive him into the boat 50:25.260 --> 50:29.660 after that he teleports him to the other side right and he saves them which should show us 50:29.660 --> 50:33.580 that if we accept Jesus Christ willingly into our heart he'll save us as well. 50:33.900 --> 50:38.860 But then the third picture I think is a picture of the end times, which I think is really cool. 50:38.860 --> 50:41.660 I don't know if you guys ever listened because this is not my idea. I'm not this smart. Okay. 50:41.660 --> 50:45.420 Pastor Anderson preached a sermon on this. It must have been a long time ago. I couldn't even 50:45.420 --> 50:49.180 find the sermon. I was trying to find it. It wasn't his oldest sermon on John 6, but it must 50:49.180 --> 50:53.020 have been maybe the second one that he had preached on it. But I couldn't find it again. Dang it. I 50:53.020 --> 50:57.020 was struggling to find it. But he talked about how there's a picture of the end times. And this blew 50:57.020 --> 51:01.260 my mind when I was listening to him preach about this when I was a kid. So I did the math on it 51:01.260 --> 51:01.900 like by myself. 51:01.900 --> 51:05.660 for this sermon just so I wasn't just completely stealing his works maybe it 51:05.660 --> 51:08.140 was a good thing I couldn't find it sermon okay but it's interesting here 51:08.140 --> 51:12.140 because it gives us the furlongs and not only does it give us the furlongs it 51:12.140 --> 51:15.820 tells us where they were at and where they were going because there it'll show 51:15.820 --> 51:19.460 you a little bit later on the passage that they were in Tiberius okay and again 51:19.460 --> 51:22.380 I'll prove that to you just take my word for it for right now but they're going 51:22.380 --> 51:26.220 to Capernaum when you actually like map it out you plot it out and you look how 51:26.220 --> 51:29.900 far this distance is Capernaum from Tiberius is about 51:29.900 --> 51:34.260 seven miles okay if you if you if you map it out this obviously there's 51:34.260 --> 51:38.500 different points you can measure from so some will say like 6.3 or I saw 51:38.500 --> 51:41.580 something that even said like eight miles but you know kind of the average 51:41.580 --> 51:45.820 is seven miles and you see here that when you did the math with the furlongs 51:45.820 --> 51:52.340 they're at 3.5 miles into this seven mile trip across the sea right so you 51:52.340 --> 51:55.300 can see there that and what passengers and pre-dense remember that I thought was 51:55.300 --> 51:57.900 really interesting is like it's like a picture of like the 51:57.900 --> 52:03.820 the end times with the final week of Daniel's 70th week that you have like, you know, after 52:03.820 --> 52:08.220 the three and a half years of tribulation, Jesus Christ comes back and he teleports us 52:08.220 --> 52:09.220 up to heaven, right? 52:09.220 --> 52:10.220 He raptures us up to heaven. 52:10.220 --> 52:11.780 So it's the same thing in this story. 52:11.780 --> 52:14.820 Like he meets them three and a half miles out and then he transports them to the other 52:14.820 --> 52:18.260 side and then they're on the other side because that would picture as well that we come back 52:18.260 --> 52:20.620 at the end of the seven years of Revelation, right? 52:20.620 --> 52:22.220 So I thought that was pretty cool. 52:22.220 --> 52:25.860 Obviously, they didn't have the miles back then, but no matter... 52:25.900 --> 52:28.700 which way you calculate it out it makes sense because math is universal which 52:28.700 --> 52:32.420 makes sense so even if they didn't have the miles you still have that when you 52:32.420 --> 52:36.180 add up the furlongs okay if you just transported that all over to furlongs it 52:36.180 --> 52:39.820 would be that they were about 50% through the sea and then he transports 52:39.820 --> 52:42.780 them to the other side so either way you slice it right there I think that that's 52:42.780 --> 52:45.600 really cool and I also think that's what I brought up earlier 52:45.900 --> 52:49.580 why it says about 25 to 30 furlongs. 52:49.580 --> 52:51.580 Because I think it's kind of picturing the fact that 52:51.580 --> 52:53.080 we don't know the day or the hour. 52:53.080 --> 52:54.780 So he's not giving you the exact, he's like, 52:54.780 --> 52:58.120 ah, because then you could be like, oh yeah, he's coming. 52:58.120 --> 52:59.020 This day, right? 52:59.020 --> 53:01.620 So he's like, it was about 25 to 30 furlongs. 53:01.620 --> 53:03.120 Because no man knows the day or the hour. 53:03.120 --> 53:04.420 So I thought that was pretty cool. 53:04.420 --> 53:05.460 Again, that wasn't my finding. 53:05.460 --> 53:06.300 That was Pastor Anderson's. 53:06.300 --> 53:08.000 I'm not smart enough to find that. 53:08.000 --> 53:10.460 But nonetheless, it's really cool. 53:10.460 --> 53:12.100 But this is the proof that there are Tiberias, okay? 53:12.100 --> 53:13.540 Look what it says in verse number 22. 53:13.540 --> 53:13.900 Cause my 53:13.900 --> 53:17.060 way I didn't mention that but these places are still on the map nowadays so 53:17.060 --> 53:19.700 you can still look at like it's really odd when you look on Google Maps you'll 53:19.700 --> 53:23.380 see a bunch of Jewish names and then you'll see Tiberias you're like oh okay 53:23.380 --> 53:27.260 well it's still there and it hasn't moved and then Capernaum is still there 53:27.260 --> 53:31.220 as well that's that the north shore of the Sea of Galilee and then so basically 53:31.220 --> 53:35.460 they're traveling like diagonally like northeast to get up to Capernaum or 53:35.460 --> 53:38.620 wherever but this is where they were at it says in verse number 22 he says the 53:38.620 --> 53:41.260 day following when the people which stood on the other side of the sea saw 53:41.260 --> 53:41.900 that there was 53:41.900 --> 53:47.120 none other boat there save the one where into his disciples were entered and that 53:47.120 --> 53:51.340 Jesus was went not with his disciples into the boat but his disciples were 53:51.340 --> 53:55.820 gone away alone how be it there came other boats from Tiberias nigh into the 53:55.820 --> 53:59.180 place where they had where they did eat bread after the Lord had given things so 53:59.180 --> 54:04.400 notice right there it says there came other boats from Tiberias right so their 54:04.400 --> 54:08.840 boat was previously at Tiberias is what this is saying which is again the city 54:08.840 --> 54:09.900 on the west side 54:09.900 --> 54:12.900 of the shore of the Sea of Galilee. 54:12.900 --> 54:16.640 So that shows where they were at. 54:16.640 --> 54:17.900 So that's what I was saying like. 54:18.200 --> 54:21.320 I mean, it just makes me wonder how many times God puts in places like this in the Bible 54:21.320 --> 54:24.120 so that we can find cool pictures like this. 54:24.120 --> 54:27.960 Because obviously that picture with the Sea of Galilee, we wouldn't use this as our primary 54:27.960 --> 54:29.880 proof for the rapture, right? 54:29.880 --> 54:32.680 That's not going to be the first verses you go to to prove that to someone, but it is 54:32.680 --> 54:37.160 just cool how the Bible, when you're taking things right, the pictures line up perfectly. 54:37.160 --> 54:38.600 It makes a lot of sense. 54:38.600 --> 54:40.000 It's super beautiful. 54:40.000 --> 54:44.040 But it shows you that they're in Tiberias right here and that they end up in Capernaum. 54:44.040 --> 54:46.200 So they teleport from there. 54:46.200 --> 54:47.760 I feel like a lot of people miss that too. 54:47.760 --> 54:49.440 Like the first time I read through it too, 54:49.440 --> 54:50.280 I was kind of like, 54:50.280 --> 54:51.500 am I just misunderstanding what this is saying? 54:51.500 --> 54:53.980 It's like, no, it's just, that's literally what happens 54:53.980 --> 54:55.400 for a picture for us. 54:55.400 --> 54:56.580 I think it's pretty cool. 54:56.580 --> 54:57.840 Verse number 24 though, it says, 54:57.840 --> 55:00.720 when the people therefore saw that Jesus was not there, 55:00.720 --> 55:02.880 neither his disciples, they also took shipping 55:02.880 --> 55:06.080 and came to Capernaum seeking for Jesus. 55:06.080 --> 55:07.960 And when they had found him on the other side of the sea, 55:07.960 --> 55:11.200 they sent to him rabbi, when camest thou hither? 55:11.200 --> 55:11.800 So. 55:12.100 --> 55:14.900 It's interesting, this makes me think even in hindsight, 55:14.900 --> 55:16.400 maybe I didn't catch this when I was typing this, 55:16.400 --> 55:17.940 this is probably why the disciples did this, 55:17.940 --> 55:19.580 because they're trying to like lose this crowd, 55:19.580 --> 55:20.580 it kind of seems like, 55:20.580 --> 55:22.420 because they're just kind of stalking Jesus, 55:22.420 --> 55:23.940 which is kind of funny. 55:23.940 --> 55:25.920 So they don't see Jesus leave with the disciples, 55:25.920 --> 55:26.900 so they don't follow him at first, 55:26.900 --> 55:28.380 but then they're kind of like put two together. 55:28.380 --> 55:31.380 They're like, wait a minute, if they went to Capernaum, 55:31.380 --> 55:32.980 Jesus must have gone to Capernaum, 55:32.980 --> 55:34.460 but they're like, we didn't see him leave though, 55:34.460 --> 55:35.500 that's so weird. 55:35.500 --> 55:37.340 But they didn't see him leave because he came down 55:37.340 --> 55:40.100 and walked across the sea, which is pretty cool. 55:40.100 --> 55:45.820 It also calls him rabbi here, which I want you to notice this, that Jesus Christ tells 55:45.820 --> 55:50.500 us to call no man father and he tells us to call no man rabbi, and yet he never corrects 55:50.500 --> 55:52.500 someone when they call him rabbi. 55:52.500 --> 55:55.420 He never corrects anybody when they bow down and worship him. 55:55.420 --> 55:56.420 And you want to know why? 55:56.420 --> 55:58.280 It's because he is God. 55:58.280 --> 55:59.280 That's why. 55:59.280 --> 56:02.940 This should be a huge proof to us, but again, people miss these things. 56:03.700 --> 56:08.700 Right here these people are confused, they don't know why, you know, how Jesus got there, 56:08.700 --> 56:10.700 they don't realize the miracle that he had just performed. 56:10.700 --> 56:14.700 But this is really interesting, look what Jesus says to them in response, he says in verse 26, it says, 56:16.100 --> 56:21.620 Jesus answered them and said verily verily I say unto you ye seek me not because ye saw the miracles 56:21.620 --> 56:24.540 But because ye did eat of the loaves and were filled 56:24.720 --> 56:31.020 He says labor not for the meat which perisheth but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life which the Son of Man shall 56:31.020 --> 56:32.780 give unto you 56:32.780 --> 56:34.780 For him hath God the Father 56:35.300 --> 56:39.480 Sealed so this sheds some light onto what we saw earlier that you know earlier 56:39.480 --> 56:41.100 I was saying like you know they're trying to make him a king 56:41.100 --> 56:44.060 But they're not trying to make him a king because they actually want to serve Jesus 56:44.100 --> 56:48.660 Christ make them their Lord and make them the Messiah. They just want to serve him because 56:48.660 --> 56:51.900 he's given them a handout basically. He's given them the food. He says they didn't come 56:51.900 --> 56:55.620 for the miracles. They didn't come for the spiritual teachings. They came just to have 56:55.620 --> 56:58.780 their bellies filled, which there's no new thing under the sun. People still do this 56:58.780 --> 57:02.420 nowadays. People just mooch off of churches. And that's what's funny to me. People all 57:02.420 --> 57:07.980 the time, again, they'll say like, whoa, WWJD, what would Jesus do? Well, sometimes Jesus 57:07.980 --> 57:11.260 Christ would tell people to buzz off because they're just mooching off of them, right? 57:11.260 --> 57:12.100 It's like that in the- 57:12.100 --> 57:13.500 That's exactly what they're doing right here. 57:13.500 --> 57:15.760 They're just trying to mooch off of Jesus Christ. 57:15.760 --> 57:17.260 They're just trying to get some free food. 57:17.260 --> 57:18.460 They're trying to get a free meal. 57:18.460 --> 57:21.280 And again, people still do this to this day. 57:21.280 --> 57:23.520 Like people will call up churches 57:23.520 --> 57:24.760 just to try and pray on them 57:24.760 --> 57:26.680 and take advantage of their kindness 57:26.680 --> 57:29.580 and out of their charity. 57:29.580 --> 57:30.420 And they'll just be like, 57:30.420 --> 57:33.080 oh, can I have some money for groceries 57:33.080 --> 57:35.200 without even the decency to show up to church 57:35.200 --> 57:36.860 and ask for them in the first place. 57:36.860 --> 57:38.160 Isn't that so bizarre? 57:38.160 --> 57:39.740 Such a weasely thing to do. 57:39.740 --> 57:40.100 like. 57:40.100 --> 57:42.900 And like, because Jesus Christ is the one that pointed out, 57:42.900 --> 57:45.460 we have no problem helping people that are actually in need. 57:45.460 --> 57:46.580 We love to do these things. 57:46.580 --> 57:49.620 It's a great thing to help someone who's actually in need. 57:49.620 --> 57:51.740 But the problem nowadays is, we can't even 57:51.740 --> 57:54.100 tell the difference between someone who's really in need 57:54.100 --> 57:56.100 and who's a drug addict pretending to need help, 57:56.100 --> 57:57.780 because people just are constantly 57:57.780 --> 58:00.860 seeking to look for a handout and to take advantage of people 58:00.860 --> 58:03.700 that have a good heart and want to be giving. 58:03.700 --> 58:05.460 So it's super annoying. 58:05.460 --> 58:07.620 But Jesus Christ, that's why I was bringing it up, 58:07.620 --> 58:08.100 Jesus Christ. 58:08.100 --> 58:12.020 had no problem helping with people either. He just helped thousands of people. It's 58:12.020 --> 58:16.060 not the issue of helping people out. It's the thing that they're just, they have the 58:16.060 --> 58:20.620 audacity to come and waste his time and basically just use Jesus as like a dispensable food 58:20.620 --> 58:24.980 machine. It's like without even caring about the spiritual teachings that he's talking 58:24.980 --> 58:29.260 about. I think it's a good picture to us to show us that as Christians we should help 58:29.260 --> 58:33.580 people out when they're in need, but the focus should be on when they're in need, not just 58:33.580 --> 58:33.900 Thanks for watching! 58:34.000 --> 58:37.740 fall for this trap of allowing, just enabling people 58:37.740 --> 58:38.920 in the lifestyle that they live 58:38.920 --> 58:40.240 and just constantly giving them money, 58:40.240 --> 58:41.560 constantly giving them food, 58:41.560 --> 58:43.160 especially in our culture nowadays, 58:43.160 --> 58:45.760 the government already gives all these people money 58:45.760 --> 58:46.640 every month. 58:46.640 --> 58:49.640 So how much more money could they possibly need from us? 58:49.640 --> 58:51.160 I mean, and we already are giving to these people 58:51.160 --> 58:53.320 because the government's taking our money 58:53.320 --> 58:55.920 and literally just making them have our money, 58:55.920 --> 58:58.760 which is just, so people will ask all the time, 58:58.760 --> 59:01.120 Christians are so ungiving and all kinds of things, 59:01.120 --> 59:02.000 it's like, what are you talking about? 59:02.000 --> 59:06.920 about. Like not only do we give from our the government forcing us to give 59:06.920 --> 59:10.280 people these people money which we wouldn't if they weren't forcing us 59:10.280 --> 59:13.300 because the Bible says if a man shouldn't work neither should he eat. 59:13.800 --> 59:19.800 But we also, on top of that, the churches are still, even if they don't agree, lockstep with us, are giving people tons of money. 59:19.800 --> 59:26.800 Just, I don't know. It's really crazy. So this should just show us though, that Jesus wasn't just constantly handing out handouts to people. 59:26.800 --> 59:32.800 I mean, He was doing this to people that were in need, but when He perceives that these people are just trying to leech off of Him, 59:32.800 --> 59:40.800 He tells them, like, you didn't seek Me because you saw the miracles, you sought Me because you wanted to have your belly filled again. 59:40.900 --> 59:43.900 But then look what it says in verse 27 again, it says back to what he said, he says, 59:43.900 --> 59:48.900 labor not for meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, 59:48.900 --> 59:53.700 which the Son of Man shall give unto you, for him hath God the Father sealed. 59:54.200 --> 01:00:00.780 And this is kind of an interesting verse because this would kind of maybe be a verse that someone would throw at you to say like, 01:00:00.780 --> 01:00:03.040 Oh, see you have to do good works to get this eternal life. 01:00:03.160 --> 01:00:06.860 But look how awesome the Bible is it clarifies itself in the next couple of verses. It says in verse 28, 01:00:06.960 --> 01:00:10.840 Then said they unto him, what shall we do that we might work the works of God? 01:00:11.160 --> 01:00:17.020 Jesus answered and said to them, this is the work of God that you believe on him whom he hath sent. So it's like 01:00:17.520 --> 01:00:22.160 It's like a what is like a play on words basically that he's doing. He's like, oh, yeah, here's the work that you- 01:00:22.200 --> 01:00:27.080 to do, you need to believe on God so that you can work the works of God. So obviously 01:00:27.080 --> 01:00:30.520 that would apply to salvation and it would apply also to just doing the works of God 01:00:30.520 --> 01:00:35.600 in the first place. So that should show us that this idea that, you know, Judas Iscariot 01:00:35.600 --> 01:00:40.280 is going out and getting thousands of people saved is garbage because without faith it's 01:00:40.280 --> 01:00:45.200 impossible to please him. And without faith you cannot work the works of God is what it 01:00:45.200 --> 01:00:49.580 says right here. And without faith you're not going to be saved because that's like 01:00:49.580 --> 01:00:50.200 the ironic day. 01:00:50.200 --> 01:00:55.020 He's like here's here's the like take this like the the paradox. No, I don't know so paradox 01:00:55.020 --> 01:00:58.360 I don't know what you'd say it is but like the the continent of the Bible does where it's like 01:00:58.780 --> 01:01:03.760 Like it's like backwards of what you think it is. Like if you want to do great works, here's what you need to do 01:01:04.100 --> 01:01:07.360 Focus on your faith first. So I think that's really awesome right here 01:01:09.100 --> 01:01:13.700 Where we are here verse number 30, okay a lot of philosophers will go through it says then or they said therefore into him 01:01:13.700 --> 01:01:17.940 What sign show us thou then that we may see and believe what? 01:01:18.340 --> 01:01:23.860 Doest or what does thou work? So that's why I pointed out to I had to do those times where the Bible says 01:01:24.300 --> 01:01:26.180 You know they saw the miracles 01:01:26.180 --> 01:01:27.620 So this is what's going on right here 01:01:27.620 --> 01:01:31.340 These people saw him performing miracles on healing the people that were diseases that earlier 01:01:31.540 --> 01:01:37.100 Then these same people they get fed by the by the feeding of the five thousand Jesus Christ does and they see that 01:01:37.100 --> 01:01:41.300 miracle and not only do they see that miracle they literally taste the miracle 01:01:41.300 --> 01:01:45.740 they are partakers of that miracle and then when Jesus Christ says this to them 01:01:45.740 --> 01:01:48.820 they're like well what shine show us now that that work is the word of God it's 01:01:48.820 --> 01:01:52.500 like what are you guys talking about like didn't you see the other miracles I 01:01:52.500 --> 01:01:56.780 was doing like so but this should show you the fact that there are some people 01:01:56.780 --> 01:02:00.640 that even if God Almighty came down from heaven right now and appeared to them 01:02:00.640 --> 01:02:03.860 they would not believe on him because there's some people that it's just never 01:02:03.860 --> 01:02:05.100 enough that they would 01:02:05.100 --> 01:02:08.420 always need another miracle. They'd always need another prophecy because 01:02:08.420 --> 01:02:11.740 when we see looking Bible we see thousands of prophecy thousands of 01:02:11.740 --> 01:02:15.340 miracles that are fulfilled and it's still not enough for people. So what 01:02:15.340 --> 01:02:19.100 would be enough for them? It just nothing. There would never be enough for them. So 01:02:19.100 --> 01:02:22.260 that's what teaches out soul winning. Like I know that we like there's some 01:02:22.260 --> 01:02:25.020 people that we kind of will wrestle with sometimes and people that are willing to 01:02:25.020 --> 01:02:29.860 hear we should we should partake in that that explain the gospel to them but 01:02:29.860 --> 01:02:33.020 there's some people that we understand that no matter how good we 01:02:33.100 --> 01:02:37.300 preach the gospel to them, no matter what argument we gave them, they just would never 01:02:37.300 --> 01:02:41.620 believe in the first place because they've shut off their ears from hearing and they've 01:02:41.620 --> 01:02:44.420 hardened their heart from believing on Jesus Christ. 01:02:44.420 --> 01:02:49.300 So because think about this as well, Jesus Christ, not even everybody that he preached 01:02:49.300 --> 01:02:53.860 the gospel to is getting saved, not even everybody that he's performing miracles for, we're getting 01:02:53.860 --> 01:02:54.860 saved. 01:02:54.860 --> 01:02:57.380 So if that's the case with Jesus, we should know that we're not going to get everybody 01:02:57.380 --> 01:02:58.700 saved that we talk to. 01:02:58.700 --> 01:03:00.580 And it's not always our fault. 01:03:00.900 --> 01:03:01.900 because... 01:03:02.100 --> 01:03:05.900 There's just people out there that will not believe no matter what you showed them 01:03:05.900 --> 01:03:11.020 It reminds me a lot about the you know the the rich man and with Lazarus where it's like, you know 01:03:11.020 --> 01:03:16.180 Send send, you know someone back from the dead and preach to them and then they'll believe he's like if they don't believe most 01:03:16.180 --> 01:03:20.780 In the prophets they they're not gonna believe even if someone rose again from the grave and appear to them 01:03:20.780 --> 01:03:24.820 They still would not believe so what what we should learn from that is this 01:03:25.660 --> 01:03:30.080 People should not be seeking for miracles. They shouldn't be seeking for signs. They shouldn't be seeking for 01:03:30.100 --> 01:03:33.780 wonders, they should be looking to Jesus Christ and his death, burial and 01:03:33.780 --> 01:03:38.340 resurrection and believe on that and just take his word for it and believe 01:03:38.340 --> 01:03:39.500 and be saved. 01:03:40.200 --> 01:03:42.600 In summary for these things, I just say this, okay, 01:03:42.600 --> 01:03:46.000 sorry I'm a little bit disoriented compared to what I usually be, but 01:03:46.000 --> 01:03:50.600 in summary, we learn a lot of just interesting things, but the biggest thing, 01:03:50.600 --> 01:03:52.800 I feel like the biggest theme throughout the beginning of this chapter has been this, 01:03:52.800 --> 01:03:55.700 is that we need to trust that God can provide for us 01:03:55.700 --> 01:03:57.800 no matter what's going on in our life. 01:03:57.800 --> 01:03:59.900 No matter if it makes sense or not, 01:03:59.900 --> 01:04:03.700 no matter if it's scientifically possible, logically impossible, 01:04:03.700 --> 01:04:08.200 because God is a God that defies all logic, and all science, and any- 01:04:08.200 --> 01:04:11.360 Anything that you could submit against him, he defies it all. 01:04:11.360 --> 01:04:15.320 Because he creates these things, he sets them in order so they don't apply to him. 01:04:15.320 --> 01:04:21.560 Even the concept of time itself doesn't affect the timeless God that we serve. 01:04:21.560 --> 01:04:23.520 A God who's from everlasting. 01:04:23.520 --> 01:04:27.160 So above all things, we need to walk by faith and not by sight. 01:04:27.160 --> 01:04:32.760 And if we find ourselves worrying too much about our carnal needs in this life, we need 01:04:32.760 --> 01:04:35.400 to take a step back and realize this is the God we serve. 01:04:35.400 --> 01:04:36.200 The God that walks... 01:04:36.200 --> 01:04:40.760 on the seat of the disciples and saves them. The God that divides the five loaves and the two fishes 01:04:40.760 --> 01:04:46.280 to all this crowd of people, the 5,000 that were met with him, this is the same God that we serve 01:04:46.280 --> 01:04:50.200 because Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, forever. So keep that same confidence in him. 01:04:50.200 --> 01:04:52.680 Let's pray. Dear Father God, thank you so much for this wonderful day. Thank you so much for 01:04:52.680 --> 01:04:54.920 everything you do for us, God. I just pray that you would... 01:04:55.600 --> 01:05:00.800 Be with us when we go out so when later today god, I just pray that you would um help this message to have edified the people in this room 01:05:00.800 --> 01:05:03.200 God, I just pray that we would walk by faith and not by sight god 01:05:03.200 --> 01:05:07.520 I just pray that we would trust in you above everything else in this world god 01:05:07.520 --> 01:05:11.460 I just pray that we wouldn't lean on our own understanding god, but that we would trust 01:05:11.900 --> 01:05:17.020 your principles and your word God because we know once you say something it's already as good as 01:05:17.020 --> 01:05:21.500 done because you cannot lie. I pray that you would be with us for the second service and that you'd 01:05:21.500 --> 01:05:25.020 bless everybody and help people that are sick right now to recover. Just stay praying, amen. 01:05:26.540 --> 01:05:28.700 Last song will be song number 155. 01:05:35.000 --> 01:05:37.400 Doxology, song 155. 01:05:45.600 --> 01:05:47.600 1.55 on the 1st. 01:05:47.600 --> 01:05:53.600 Praise God from whom all blessings flow. 01:05:53.600 --> 01:05:59.600 Praise Him all creatures here below. 01:05:59.600 --> 01:06:05.600 Praise Him above ye heavenly host. 01:06:05.600 --> 01:06:09.600 Praise Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. 01:06:14.300 --> 01:06:18.300 from whom all blessings flow. 01:06:21.900 --> 01:06:23.800 Here be 01:06:28.900 --> 01:06:29.900 family 01:06:32.100 --> 01:06:34.100 Father, Son and Wife 01:06:37.800 --> 01:06:39.800 Any good to say with the Ryan? Could you close the word prayer? 01:06:53.000 --> 01:06:55.000 for everybody's health in Jesus name, amen.