WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:09.660 Well, Mark sets the scene for the telling of this event by noting how the disciples had recently returned from their evangelistic mission. 00:00:10.220 --> 00:00:16.679 You remember from our study earlier in the chapter, Jesus had sent the apostles out on their first kind of mini mission, 00:00:17.019 --> 00:00:24.920 and they were going about the regions of Galilee, and they were preaching his word, and they were performing his works. 00:00:25.300 --> 00:00:26.020 That's important. 00:00:26.400 --> 00:00:30.500 They were doing it in his name, and that's exactly what the focus of their mission was. 00:00:30.500 --> 00:00:36.420 They preached the gospel of the kingdom, and they performed the works that Jesus had given them authority to do, 00:00:36.540 --> 00:00:39.920 casting out demons and healing the sick and so on. 00:00:40.439 --> 00:00:44.780 And as a result of that, the name of Jesus spread even further than it had already spread. 00:00:44.880 --> 00:00:51.480 In fact, last week, we realized that the name of Jesus spread all the way to the courts of King Herod, 00:00:51.479 --> 00:00:55.339 or King Herod the Tetrarch of Galilee and Perea. 00:00:56.479 --> 00:01:05.239 And Mark uses the arrest and death and execution of John the Baptist really as a way of reflecting the passing of time. 00:01:05.659 --> 00:01:13.719 And now he's returning back to this issue of the disciples' mission as they are now gathering back to Jesus. 00:01:13.719 --> 00:01:18.599 And so if you're just really kind of outlining or sketching out what's actually happening in this chapter, 00:01:19.060 --> 00:01:23.659 Jesus teaches the lesson in Nazareth about rejection, and then he sends the disciples out, 00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:25.079 and he gives them the instructions there. 00:01:25.219 --> 00:01:30.519 And then Mark kind of reflects this passing of time, and he tells this story about John the Baptist, 00:01:30.620 --> 00:01:35.780 how he was arrested and how he was put to death, and how King Herod was struggling over who exactly Jesus was. 00:01:35.780 --> 00:01:39.820 Well, now that he's finished that particular story, he's returning to the disciples. 00:01:40.019 --> 00:01:45.040 The time has passed. Their limited time for their mission has passed, and they're gathering back to Jesus. 00:01:45.240 --> 00:01:48.920 And as they gather back to Jesus, there's really two things that they're doing. 00:01:49.359 --> 00:01:52.180 They're reporting, and they're resorting. 00:01:52.640 --> 00:01:54.680 They're reporting, and they're resorting. 00:01:54.840 --> 00:01:58.260 Let's first look at their reporting in verse 30. 00:01:58.260 --> 00:02:04.620 The apostles returned to Jesus and told him all that they had done and taught. 00:02:05.340 --> 00:02:10.879 So you can probably imagine the excitement on the faces of these men as they gather back, 00:02:10.900 --> 00:02:12.480 and they're reunited with Jesus. 00:02:12.759 --> 00:02:14.400 They're reunited with one another. 00:02:14.719 --> 00:02:17.259 And you can imagine the stories that they begin to tell. 00:02:18.280 --> 00:02:22.340 Excitement about all that God had done through them in preaching the gospel, 00:02:22.460 --> 00:02:25.400 the people that they were able to heal in the name of Jesus, 00:02:25.400 --> 00:02:31.240 and the demons they were able to have authority over because of the authority that Jesus had given them. 00:02:31.319 --> 00:02:37.640 Perhaps even stories of rejection and the times that they did actually have to shake off the dust from their garments 00:02:37.640 --> 00:02:42.340 and pronounce judgment on a particular town or a particular group of people. 00:02:43.080 --> 00:02:46.180 Great excitement as they come back, and they begin to report, 00:02:46.420 --> 00:02:50.379 this is what happened as we were out accomplishing the will of Jesus. 00:02:50.379 --> 00:02:56.900 And we see that this pattern of reporting is actually clear in the New Testament. 00:02:57.780 --> 00:02:59.439 It wouldn't only happen in this case. 00:02:59.519 --> 00:03:00.919 It's actually a very natural thing. 00:03:01.019 --> 00:03:04.460 As we get into the later New Testament books in the book of Acts, 00:03:04.519 --> 00:03:08.439 we see the apostle Paul in particular and the other people who ministered with him 00:03:08.439 --> 00:03:12.300 occasionally and periodically circling back around to their home churches. 00:03:13.060 --> 00:03:14.319 And what were they doing? 00:03:14.319 --> 00:03:19.219 They were reporting and resorting, taking time for rest, 00:03:19.739 --> 00:03:22.539 reporting on all the work that God was doing in other places. 00:03:23.479 --> 00:03:24.819 And missionaries do that still today. 00:03:25.539 --> 00:03:29.539 They send letters or maybe videos or maybe they go on furlough assignments 00:03:29.539 --> 00:03:32.719 and they go around to some of the churches to which they've been connected 00:03:32.719 --> 00:03:35.000 to report on this is what God is doing. 00:03:35.099 --> 00:03:38.180 These are the blessings that we have seen as a result of his hand. 00:03:38.259 --> 00:03:40.919 These are the protections that he has given despite the difficulty, 00:03:40.919 --> 00:03:43.939 and they report back on what God is doing. 00:03:44.979 --> 00:03:49.979 And then we understand that God has built this into the fabric of the church. 00:03:51.159 --> 00:03:54.219 That it doesn't just relate to those who are missionaries 00:03:54.219 --> 00:03:58.939 and those who are going out on particular missions for the gospel's sake. 00:03:59.139 --> 00:04:01.240 This actually applies to each one of us. 00:04:02.659 --> 00:04:03.639 Think about this. 00:04:04.659 --> 00:04:07.859 Our time of gathering Sunday by Sunday, 00:04:08.280 --> 00:04:11.799 there should be some type of element of excitement 00:04:11.800 --> 00:04:15.180 to which we're gathering back again with the people of God 00:04:15.180 --> 00:04:19.199 in order to excitedly share with them what God is doing in us 00:04:19.199 --> 00:04:21.240 and what God is doing through us. 00:04:22.199 --> 00:04:26.759 In fact, we should be so engaged in gospel mission throughout the week 00:04:26.759 --> 00:04:30.400 that every time we gather back together, there is more to share. 00:04:30.540 --> 00:04:34.439 There is more about who we have been able to witness to the gospel with 00:04:34.439 --> 00:04:38.060 and how God has blessed our lives and how he's using our lives. 00:04:38.219 --> 00:04:41.399 The difficulties maybe that we're going through and that we're trusting God for. 00:04:42.660 --> 00:04:44.540 But how seldom does that actually happen? 00:04:46.259 --> 00:04:47.920 We don't have a lot of reports to give. 00:04:48.660 --> 00:04:50.920 And sometimes it may just be out of timidity. 00:04:51.759 --> 00:04:54.199 Sometimes it may be because we're not really all that engaged 00:04:54.199 --> 00:04:56.420 throughout the week in what God has called us to do. 00:04:56.600 --> 00:04:58.120 There's not really anything to report. 00:04:58.120 --> 00:05:00.800 I think about it. 00:05:00.800 --> 00:05:04.819 If this became the fabric of the culture of Lakeside Bible Church, 00:05:05.300 --> 00:05:08.680 every week as we're gathering, we're sharing what God is doing. 00:05:09.280 --> 00:05:13.379 We're talking of God's work in our lives and his work through our lives. 00:05:13.800 --> 00:05:16.180 And it becomes an encouragement in God's mission. 00:05:17.340 --> 00:05:20.840 It becomes exhortation for others to be involved in God's mission. 00:05:21.699 --> 00:05:23.800 It helps us know how to pray for one another 00:05:23.800 --> 00:05:27.259 because our lives are not just about what we want to do. 00:05:28.120 --> 00:05:32.740 Our lives are about Jesus and what he has called us to do. 00:05:33.860 --> 00:05:35.780 And why wouldn't we talk about that? 00:05:36.459 --> 00:05:38.939 So they're reporting and they're reporting excitedly. 00:05:39.019 --> 00:05:40.540 And then they're resorting. 00:05:40.620 --> 00:05:42.139 Look with me at verse 31. 00:05:43.079 --> 00:05:43.879 And he said to them, 00:05:44.300 --> 00:05:48.079 come away by yourselves to a desolate place and rest a while. 00:05:48.459 --> 00:05:52.879 For many were coming and going and they had no leisure even to eat. 00:05:53.899 --> 00:05:56.180 And so despite the excitement from the reports, 00:05:56.180 --> 00:05:57.660 they were weary. 00:05:58.420 --> 00:05:59.480 They were tired. 00:06:00.740 --> 00:06:05.500 Crowds were continuing to press upon them insofar as they were unable to even have a meal. 00:06:05.920 --> 00:06:10.900 They couldn't stop even for just a few minutes to sit down and eat some bread. 00:06:11.840 --> 00:06:15.180 And it's a helpful reminder to us as if we need the reminder 00:06:15.180 --> 00:06:19.019 that life in the church at times can be draining, can't it? 00:06:19.660 --> 00:06:20.620 These men are weary. 00:06:20.620 --> 00:06:21.000 They're tired. 00:06:21.000 --> 00:06:22.120 They're tired. 00:06:22.600 --> 00:06:25.420 And they have no moment for a break. 00:06:26.519 --> 00:06:30.699 But then we see Jesus is not a heavy-handed taskmaster, is he? 00:06:32.399 --> 00:06:34.379 He understood the men's exhaustion. 00:06:34.959 --> 00:06:40.160 And he insisted that they withdraw for a while to rest. 00:06:41.759 --> 00:06:43.459 We can't pass this up. 00:06:43.459 --> 00:06:46.659 But I want you to notice the two components of this rest. 00:06:48.379 --> 00:06:49.819 They were to be with Jesus. 00:06:51.719 --> 00:06:56.180 And they were to go to a quiet place of solitude. 00:06:56.979 --> 00:07:01.060 Now, the intention of this from Jesus' perspective 00:07:01.060 --> 00:07:04.319 was not to give these men a vacation. 00:07:05.539 --> 00:07:06.899 That's not what this is about. 00:07:09.179 --> 00:07:10.879 It's not that we go, and of course, 00:07:10.879 --> 00:07:12.519 I'm not saying that we shouldn't vacate. 00:07:12.560 --> 00:07:13.420 We need to do those things. 00:07:13.579 --> 00:07:14.839 We need to do that. 00:07:14.920 --> 00:07:17.159 God cares about our physical rest. 00:07:17.219 --> 00:07:17.740 Certainly does. 00:07:17.779 --> 00:07:19.139 That's why he's given us a Sabbath. 00:07:19.480 --> 00:07:20.879 And we need to understand that. 00:07:21.100 --> 00:07:23.079 But that's not what Jesus is doing here. 00:07:23.219 --> 00:07:24.759 He's not saying, you guys have been working hard. 00:07:25.000 --> 00:07:26.219 Let's go for a week to the beach. 00:07:26.540 --> 00:07:27.920 Okay, that's not what he's saying. 00:07:28.600 --> 00:07:29.819 Here's the rest that they needed. 00:07:29.980 --> 00:07:31.019 They needed to be with him. 00:07:31.019 --> 00:07:33.100 And they needed to be with him alone. 00:07:36.060 --> 00:07:37.459 James Edwards said this. 00:07:37.899 --> 00:07:40.040 The gathering of the disciples to Jesus means 00:07:40.040 --> 00:07:42.980 that in the midst of business and busyness, 00:07:42.980 --> 00:07:45.560 they are accountable to him alone. 00:07:46.120 --> 00:07:48.560 And the greater the demands on them, 00:07:48.740 --> 00:07:52.640 the greater their need to be alone with Jesus. 00:07:53.780 --> 00:07:55.520 So don't miss the lesson here. 00:07:56.420 --> 00:08:02.220 We regularly need quiet solitude with Jesus. 00:08:02.220 --> 00:08:06.480 Jesus, no effort in this life, 00:08:06.560 --> 00:08:08.220 no matter how noble it may be, 00:08:08.360 --> 00:08:10.280 should ever prevent us from nurturing 00:08:10.280 --> 00:08:13.920 our personal walk and fellowship with God. 00:08:14.640 --> 00:08:16.280 And if we're not careful, 00:08:17.220 --> 00:08:20.480 busyness will very quickly become the enemy 00:08:20.480 --> 00:08:21.880 of spiritual growth. 00:08:22.980 --> 00:08:25.840 And even good and necessary things like work 00:08:25.840 --> 00:08:28.480 and parenting and even ministry 00:08:28.480 --> 00:08:31.860 can devolve into forms of idolatry 00:08:31.860 --> 00:08:34.399 when we allow those things to become the priority 00:08:34.399 --> 00:08:37.820 even over our personal walk with the Savior. 00:08:39.000 --> 00:08:42.940 We need to resort daily in solitude with Jesus. 00:08:43.420 --> 00:08:45.440 We need time in his word. 00:08:45.820 --> 00:08:47.899 We need time in prayer. 00:08:47.899 --> 00:08:49.980 And we need to make that time. 00:08:50.840 --> 00:08:54.559 We need to find rest in the weekly gathering of God's people. 00:08:54.860 --> 00:08:56.819 That's a part of what our worship is. 00:08:57.079 --> 00:08:59.139 It's a time of spiritual rest. 00:09:00.519 --> 00:09:02.799 Perhaps even it would do some of us good 00:09:02.799 --> 00:09:05.059 to take a day off 00:09:05.059 --> 00:09:07.279 and go away somewhere 00:09:07.279 --> 00:09:09.220 for the sole purpose 00:09:09.220 --> 00:09:11.699 of spending time with Jesus. 00:09:11.700 --> 00:09:14.840 to spend time in his word 00:09:14.840 --> 00:09:16.400 and time in prayer 00:09:16.400 --> 00:09:18.180 and not do anything else 00:09:18.180 --> 00:09:20.320 but refresh ourselves 00:09:20.320 --> 00:09:21.860 in our Savior. 00:09:22.980 --> 00:09:24.140 And it was in this pursuit 00:09:24.140 --> 00:09:25.800 of this rest 00:09:25.800 --> 00:09:28.080 that the story unfolds here. 00:09:29.280 --> 00:09:30.920 And Mark writes in verse 34 00:09:30.920 --> 00:09:33.700 that when Jesus saw these people, 00:09:33.900 --> 00:09:35.480 he viewed them as if they were sheep 00:09:35.480 --> 00:09:36.280 without a shepherd. 00:09:36.780 --> 00:09:38.560 And that's the lens through which 00:09:38.560 --> 00:09:40.900 I want to view the main body of this text. 00:09:40.899 --> 00:09:43.600 that Jesus is the good shepherd 00:09:43.600 --> 00:09:46.720 that all of us desperately need. 00:09:47.439 --> 00:09:48.340 And so let's look at it together. 00:09:48.459 --> 00:09:48.819 Number one, 00:09:49.139 --> 00:09:50.959 the good shepherd cares for the sheep. 00:09:51.340 --> 00:09:54.340 The good shepherd cares for the sheep. 00:09:54.639 --> 00:09:55.840 Look with me at verse 32. 00:09:56.879 --> 00:09:58.220 They went away in the boat 00:09:58.220 --> 00:09:59.919 to a desolate place by themselves. 00:10:00.939 --> 00:10:03.199 Many saw them going and recognized them. 00:10:03.620 --> 00:10:05.699 And they ran there on foot from all the towns 00:10:05.699 --> 00:10:07.079 and got there ahead of them. 00:10:07.539 --> 00:10:08.439 When he went ashore, 00:10:08.539 --> 00:10:09.559 he saw a great crowd 00:10:09.559 --> 00:10:11.819 and he had compassion on them 00:10:11.819 --> 00:10:13.819 because they were like sheep 00:10:13.819 --> 00:10:14.559 without a shepherd. 00:10:15.199 --> 00:10:17.459 And he began to teach them many things. 00:10:18.719 --> 00:10:20.559 And we often think of these voyages 00:10:20.559 --> 00:10:21.679 on the Sea of Galilee 00:10:21.679 --> 00:10:23.019 as if they are being taken 00:10:23.019 --> 00:10:24.639 across the open waters, 00:10:25.139 --> 00:10:27.939 literally crossing the entire length 00:10:27.939 --> 00:10:29.539 or breadth of the lake. 00:10:29.559 --> 00:10:30.779 And there are certainly times 00:10:30.779 --> 00:10:31.239 in the scripture 00:10:31.239 --> 00:10:32.239 where we can be confident 00:10:32.239 --> 00:10:33.379 that that is the case. 00:10:34.039 --> 00:10:35.479 However, most of the time, 00:10:35.559 --> 00:10:36.819 these small fishing vessels, 00:10:36.819 --> 00:10:38.699 as they're traveling from town to town, 00:10:38.700 --> 00:10:40.720 maybe perhaps more than anything else, 00:10:40.720 --> 00:10:41.879 just to get off their feet, 00:10:42.140 --> 00:10:44.520 they would follow the shallow shorelines 00:10:44.520 --> 00:10:46.379 of the Sea of Galilee 00:10:46.379 --> 00:10:47.480 or the Lake of Galilee. 00:10:48.080 --> 00:10:49.759 Luke tells us that they were actually 00:10:49.759 --> 00:10:50.860 specifically heading 00:10:50.860 --> 00:10:53.379 toward the area around Bethsaida. 00:10:54.120 --> 00:10:55.960 And so Bethsaida is just northeast 00:10:55.960 --> 00:10:58.560 of Capernaum. 00:10:59.120 --> 00:11:00.820 And it's reasonable for us to conclude 00:11:00.820 --> 00:11:02.340 based on the movements of Jesus 00:11:02.340 --> 00:11:03.800 and his disciples at this point, 00:11:03.860 --> 00:11:05.600 that where they started 00:11:05.600 --> 00:11:07.820 was somewhere southwest of Capernaum. 00:11:08.180 --> 00:11:09.220 And Capernaum is right, 00:11:09.460 --> 00:11:11.560 almost directly north of the lake. 00:11:11.779 --> 00:11:12.740 And so you can imagine 00:11:12.740 --> 00:11:14.080 they're somewhere southwest of that. 00:11:14.180 --> 00:11:15.279 And they begin to follow 00:11:15.279 --> 00:11:18.060 the shallow waters of the shoreline, 00:11:18.139 --> 00:11:19.820 kind of around the top part of the lake, 00:11:19.960 --> 00:11:21.940 on their way to a desolate place 00:11:21.940 --> 00:11:23.320 near Bethsaida. 00:11:24.080 --> 00:11:26.139 And as they're going past these towns, 00:11:26.259 --> 00:11:27.200 these fishing villages, 00:11:27.420 --> 00:11:28.940 particularly Capernaum, 00:11:29.040 --> 00:11:30.379 where Jesus had really set up 00:11:30.379 --> 00:11:31.160 his home base, 00:11:31.360 --> 00:11:32.980 as they pass through these areas, 00:11:32.980 --> 00:11:35.279 people began to recognize who it was. 00:11:36.060 --> 00:11:37.379 And they started to follow them 00:11:37.379 --> 00:11:38.100 on the shore. 00:11:38.460 --> 00:11:41.159 Now the topography of the Galilean region 00:11:41.159 --> 00:11:42.759 made this easy for them to do. 00:11:42.940 --> 00:11:44.240 So as the ship is slowly 00:11:44.240 --> 00:11:45.580 maybe sailing the shallows, 00:11:45.899 --> 00:11:47.519 more and more people realize 00:11:47.519 --> 00:11:48.920 and recognize who it is 00:11:48.920 --> 00:11:50.440 because they've been following him 00:11:50.440 --> 00:11:51.279 for some time now. 00:11:51.420 --> 00:11:52.840 And they begin to follow along 00:11:52.840 --> 00:11:53.360 on the shore, 00:11:53.460 --> 00:11:55.019 just waiting for him to stop somewhere. 00:11:55.500 --> 00:11:57.360 And as they go from town to town 00:11:57.360 --> 00:11:58.379 and from village to village, 00:11:58.620 --> 00:12:01.100 more people add to the mass of people. 00:12:01.100 --> 00:12:03.560 And it just becomes this huge crowd. 00:12:03.740 --> 00:12:05.100 And as they sailed along 00:12:05.100 --> 00:12:06.300 and they got closer and closer 00:12:06.300 --> 00:12:07.720 to the regions of Bethsaida, 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:10.300 the crowd really grows considerably. 00:12:11.300 --> 00:12:12.960 And so it's at the point 00:12:12.960 --> 00:12:15.279 where they're actually waiting on the shore, 00:12:15.480 --> 00:12:16.480 not because they knew 00:12:16.480 --> 00:12:17.980 where Jesus and these men were going, 00:12:18.040 --> 00:12:19.460 but they just literally followed them. 00:12:19.560 --> 00:12:21.000 And the men had to stop somewhere. 00:12:21.320 --> 00:12:22.800 And wherever they were going to stop, 00:12:22.879 --> 00:12:23.379 there was going to be 00:12:23.379 --> 00:12:24.220 a whole lot of people. 00:12:25.519 --> 00:12:27.019 And so as they're traveling around, 00:12:27.080 --> 00:12:27.840 they get to the area. 00:12:27.840 --> 00:12:30.840 Thousands of people are now gathered 00:12:30.840 --> 00:12:32.120 to see Jesus. 00:12:32.580 --> 00:12:33.040 Now remember, 00:12:33.399 --> 00:12:35.519 the intention of this trip, 00:12:35.580 --> 00:12:37.220 at least from the disciples' perspective, 00:12:37.220 --> 00:12:39.899 was not to engage in ministry. 00:12:40.660 --> 00:12:43.700 They needed rest and solitude with Jesus. 00:12:43.879 --> 00:12:44.860 And I can imagine, 00:12:46.000 --> 00:12:48.120 because I know my own tendencies, 00:12:48.840 --> 00:12:51.420 that there were feelings of frustration 00:12:51.420 --> 00:12:52.800 that began to grow 00:12:52.800 --> 00:12:54.300 among these 12 disciples 00:12:54.300 --> 00:12:55.220 that were with Jesus. 00:12:55.220 --> 00:12:57.720 Now one option for them 00:12:57.720 --> 00:12:59.040 would have been just to keep sailing. 00:13:00.160 --> 00:13:01.879 Eventually, they're going to come to a place 00:13:01.879 --> 00:13:03.340 where it would be more difficult 00:13:03.340 --> 00:13:04.460 for those people to cross. 00:13:04.540 --> 00:13:06.580 And maybe they would eventually go so far 00:13:06.580 --> 00:13:08.080 as the people would just stop following. 00:13:08.200 --> 00:13:10.060 And perhaps that is what the disciples 00:13:10.060 --> 00:13:11.180 hoped that Jesus would do. 00:13:11.340 --> 00:13:12.600 Just keep sailing. 00:13:12.860 --> 00:13:14.860 Just keep sailing until we have a place 00:13:14.860 --> 00:13:16.960 where we can just be alone. 00:13:17.920 --> 00:13:19.600 But instead of passing on, 00:13:20.720 --> 00:13:22.440 Jesus was determined to minister 00:13:22.440 --> 00:13:23.860 to the people. 00:13:23.860 --> 00:13:25.080 Why? 00:13:26.720 --> 00:13:28.700 Mark says it was because of his heart 00:13:28.700 --> 00:13:30.060 of compassion. 00:13:31.399 --> 00:13:35.320 Because he cared for those people deeply. 00:13:36.419 --> 00:13:38.000 This word for compassion, 00:13:38.139 --> 00:13:38.460 it literally, 00:13:38.800 --> 00:13:40.159 it's the Greek word for guts. 00:13:40.620 --> 00:13:41.539 Like we could say that 00:13:41.539 --> 00:13:42.860 I love you with all my heart 00:13:42.860 --> 00:13:44.399 and it would be the equivalent of saying 00:13:44.399 --> 00:13:46.200 I love you with all my guts 00:13:46.200 --> 00:13:47.419 is how it would have, 00:13:47.480 --> 00:13:48.980 the nomenclature that they would have used 00:13:48.980 --> 00:13:49.899 in that particular time. 00:13:50.039 --> 00:13:51.200 When it says that he's moved 00:13:51.200 --> 00:13:52.519 with compassion at this moment, 00:13:52.519 --> 00:13:54.139 it's the fact that Jesus sees 00:13:54.139 --> 00:13:55.259 all these people on the shore, 00:13:55.379 --> 00:13:56.539 they're looking for him 00:13:56.539 --> 00:13:58.000 and he can't help 00:13:58.000 --> 00:13:59.899 but care compassionately 00:13:59.899 --> 00:14:00.919 for those people. 00:14:01.559 --> 00:14:02.799 He needed rest too. 00:14:03.000 --> 00:14:03.980 But when he saw them, 00:14:04.019 --> 00:14:04.740 he couldn't help 00:14:04.740 --> 00:14:05.919 but feel his heart 00:14:05.919 --> 00:14:07.439 move towards them. 00:14:07.879 --> 00:14:09.120 Feel his heart of compassion 00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:09.879 and those fires 00:14:09.879 --> 00:14:11.379 flare up once again 00:14:11.379 --> 00:14:13.159 in order to go to those people 00:14:13.159 --> 00:14:14.519 and serve those people 00:14:14.519 --> 00:14:15.879 and teach those people. 00:14:16.340 --> 00:14:16.699 Why? 00:14:16.700 --> 00:14:19.280 Because they were like sheep 00:14:19.280 --> 00:14:20.020 without a shepherd. 00:14:21.800 --> 00:14:23.780 No one was leading them in truth. 00:14:25.560 --> 00:14:26.879 They didn't understand. 00:14:27.580 --> 00:14:28.680 They were all looking 00:14:28.680 --> 00:14:29.759 for the wrong things. 00:14:30.360 --> 00:14:31.840 They all said they were looking 00:14:31.840 --> 00:14:32.720 for the same thing, 00:14:32.780 --> 00:14:33.220 the Messiah, 00:14:33.340 --> 00:14:34.420 but they were all looking for it 00:14:34.420 --> 00:14:35.379 in the wrong places. 00:14:35.460 --> 00:14:36.259 They had a misunderstanding 00:14:36.259 --> 00:14:37.460 of what that really was 00:14:37.460 --> 00:14:39.120 and Jesus so moved 00:14:39.120 --> 00:14:40.560 with compassion towards them, 00:14:41.000 --> 00:14:43.340 abandons this moment of rest 00:14:43.340 --> 00:14:44.860 in order to go to these people 00:14:44.860 --> 00:14:46.580 and minister to them. 00:14:46.700 --> 00:14:47.000 Why? 00:14:47.139 --> 00:14:48.440 Because the good shepherd 00:14:48.440 --> 00:14:50.539 cares for his sheep. 00:14:52.279 --> 00:14:54.240 And there's not the only place 00:14:54.240 --> 00:14:54.800 in the Gospels 00:14:54.800 --> 00:14:56.320 that we see this language used. 00:14:57.159 --> 00:14:58.300 Matthew chapter 9, 00:14:58.440 --> 00:14:59.720 36 through 38. 00:15:00.800 --> 00:15:01.600 Matthew wrote, 00:15:01.860 --> 00:15:03.180 when Jesus saw the crowds, 00:15:03.300 --> 00:15:04.800 he had compassion on them 00:15:04.800 --> 00:15:06.820 for they were harassed 00:15:06.820 --> 00:15:07.340 and helpless 00:15:07.340 --> 00:15:10.000 like sheep without a shepherd. 00:15:11.519 --> 00:15:12.920 And in that compassion, 00:15:13.120 --> 00:15:14.139 he turns to his disciples 00:15:14.139 --> 00:15:14.700 and he says, 00:15:14.700 --> 00:15:16.600 the harvest truly is plenteous, 00:15:16.680 --> 00:15:17.860 but the laborers are few. 00:15:18.259 --> 00:15:18.860 Pray therefore, 00:15:18.980 --> 00:15:19.960 the Lord of the harvest, 00:15:20.160 --> 00:15:21.740 that he would send more laborers 00:15:21.740 --> 00:15:22.640 into his harvest. 00:15:23.740 --> 00:15:24.759 One thing that we know 00:15:24.759 --> 00:15:26.060 everywhere Jesus goes 00:15:26.060 --> 00:15:28.540 is his heart of compassion. 00:15:29.660 --> 00:15:31.160 And his main concern 00:15:31.160 --> 00:15:32.259 in this compassion 00:15:32.259 --> 00:15:33.879 was that the people 00:15:33.879 --> 00:15:35.980 were not being led in truth. 00:15:37.600 --> 00:15:38.840 And there's this sense 00:15:38.840 --> 00:15:40.340 of overwhelming compassion 00:15:40.340 --> 00:15:41.920 was the product of his desire 00:15:41.920 --> 00:15:42.860 for them to know 00:15:42.860 --> 00:15:44.080 the truth of salvation 00:15:44.080 --> 00:15:46.100 and the truth of the kingdom 00:15:46.100 --> 00:15:46.740 of God. 00:15:47.139 --> 00:15:48.940 And we know this is the case 00:15:48.940 --> 00:15:50.440 because at the very end 00:15:50.440 --> 00:15:51.060 of the verse, 00:15:51.180 --> 00:15:53.120 his response to their need 00:15:53.120 --> 00:15:54.340 was to do what? 00:15:55.279 --> 00:15:56.039 Teach them. 00:15:57.000 --> 00:15:57.800 Teach them. 00:16:00.919 --> 00:16:02.820 When the disciples saw the crowd, 00:16:03.320 --> 00:16:06.300 they likely saw an obstacle 00:16:06.300 --> 00:16:07.220 to their rest. 00:16:07.220 --> 00:16:10.259 When Jesus saw the crowds, 00:16:10.879 --> 00:16:12.639 he saw another opportunity 00:16:12.639 --> 00:16:14.540 to preach the gospel 00:16:14.540 --> 00:16:16.180 and help the people. 00:16:16.600 --> 00:16:16.940 Why? 00:16:17.379 --> 00:16:18.279 Because he cares. 00:16:19.120 --> 00:16:20.300 He cares. 00:16:21.580 --> 00:16:22.200 Infinitely 00:16:22.200 --> 00:16:24.060 about our souls, 00:16:24.420 --> 00:16:24.879 he cares. 00:16:26.160 --> 00:16:27.660 He cares for you. 00:16:27.659 --> 00:16:33.919 It's not by happenstance 00:16:33.919 --> 00:16:35.159 that you sit 00:16:35.159 --> 00:16:36.419 in this service today 00:16:36.419 --> 00:16:38.419 when we come 00:16:38.419 --> 00:16:39.139 to a passage 00:16:39.139 --> 00:16:40.620 that specifically deals 00:16:40.620 --> 00:16:41.959 with the compassionate heart 00:16:41.959 --> 00:16:42.620 of our Savior. 00:16:43.719 --> 00:16:45.179 That's not by chance. 00:16:46.480 --> 00:16:47.139 You're here 00:16:47.139 --> 00:16:48.480 because he cares for you. 00:16:49.199 --> 00:16:50.959 You hear this message today 00:16:50.959 --> 00:16:52.919 because he cares for you. 00:16:53.720 --> 00:16:54.740 Because he has moved 00:16:54.740 --> 00:16:57.200 with compassion on you. 00:16:58.060 --> 00:16:59.120 And the compassion 00:16:59.120 --> 00:17:00.440 that he feels for you 00:17:00.440 --> 00:17:02.419 begins with your knowledge 00:17:02.419 --> 00:17:03.600 of the truth. 00:17:04.359 --> 00:17:05.779 He wants you to know the truth. 00:17:06.740 --> 00:17:08.220 The truth of who he is. 00:17:09.059 --> 00:17:10.880 The truth of how he alone 00:17:10.880 --> 00:17:12.859 can provide salvation 00:17:12.859 --> 00:17:14.359 and forgiveness 00:17:14.359 --> 00:17:16.240 and eternal life. 00:17:19.579 --> 00:17:21.259 Charles Weigel knew this well. 00:17:21.799 --> 00:17:22.859 He wrote about it 00:17:22.859 --> 00:17:24.519 in a song in 1932. 00:17:24.519 --> 00:17:25.420 You may know it. 00:17:25.440 --> 00:17:26.099 I'm sure you do. 00:17:27.099 --> 00:17:28.740 I would love to tell you 00:17:28.740 --> 00:17:30.220 what I think of Jesus. 00:17:31.420 --> 00:17:33.119 For I've found in him 00:17:33.119 --> 00:17:33.740 a friend 00:17:33.740 --> 00:17:35.639 so strong and true. 00:17:37.099 --> 00:17:38.460 I can tell you 00:17:38.460 --> 00:17:39.259 how he changed 00:17:39.259 --> 00:17:40.460 my life completely. 00:17:41.379 --> 00:17:42.660 He did something 00:17:42.660 --> 00:17:44.519 that no other friend 00:17:44.519 --> 00:17:45.160 could do. 00:17:45.420 --> 00:17:46.079 And what was it? 00:17:46.119 --> 00:17:46.599 Charles wrote. 00:17:47.440 --> 00:17:49.920 No one ever cared for me 00:17:49.920 --> 00:17:51.379 like Jesus. 00:17:51.380 --> 00:17:54.580 There's no other friend 00:17:54.580 --> 00:17:56.300 so kind as he. 00:17:56.940 --> 00:17:58.220 No one else 00:17:58.220 --> 00:17:59.460 could take the sin 00:17:59.460 --> 00:18:00.120 and darkness 00:18:00.120 --> 00:18:01.280 from me. 00:18:01.960 --> 00:18:03.100 Oh how much 00:18:03.100 --> 00:18:04.000 he cares 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:05.280 for me. 00:18:07.340 --> 00:18:08.560 If there's nothing else 00:18:08.560 --> 00:18:09.720 you get from this passage 00:18:09.720 --> 00:18:10.420 get this. 00:18:10.800 --> 00:18:11.460 He cares 00:18:11.460 --> 00:18:12.440 for you. 00:18:14.060 --> 00:18:15.360 And his main concern 00:18:15.360 --> 00:18:15.760 for you 00:18:15.760 --> 00:18:16.560 is not that you get 00:18:16.560 --> 00:18:17.560 a little bit of bread 00:18:17.560 --> 00:18:18.320 and a little bit of fish 00:18:18.320 --> 00:18:19.060 for lunch today. 00:18:19.059 --> 00:18:20.960 what he cares 00:18:20.960 --> 00:18:23.019 is that you understand 00:18:23.019 --> 00:18:23.859 who he is 00:18:23.859 --> 00:18:24.899 and that you would 00:18:24.899 --> 00:18:26.079 turn from your sin 00:18:26.079 --> 00:18:27.519 and that you would 00:18:27.519 --> 00:18:28.200 believe him 00:18:28.200 --> 00:18:29.019 and trust him 00:18:29.019 --> 00:18:29.919 for eternal life. 00:18:30.000 --> 00:18:30.879 For eternal life. 00:18:32.240 --> 00:18:33.279 That you would follow him 00:18:33.279 --> 00:18:33.839 as Lord. 00:18:35.179 --> 00:18:36.119 Without his care 00:18:36.119 --> 00:18:38.299 we'd all be without hope. 00:18:38.980 --> 00:18:40.019 But the good shepherd 00:18:40.019 --> 00:18:41.079 cares for the sheep. 00:18:41.960 --> 00:18:42.319 Secondly 00:18:42.319 --> 00:18:43.460 the good shepherd 00:18:43.460 --> 00:18:45.079 provides for the sheep. 00:18:45.519 --> 00:18:46.460 The good shepherd 00:18:46.460 --> 00:18:47.720 provides for the sheep. 00:18:47.720 --> 00:18:50.539 So these verses 00:18:50.539 --> 00:18:52.160 verses 35 to 41 00:18:52.160 --> 00:18:52.799 really make up 00:18:52.799 --> 00:18:53.600 the main body 00:18:53.600 --> 00:18:54.200 of the narrative 00:18:54.200 --> 00:18:56.019 and I want to examine it 00:18:56.019 --> 00:18:57.440 with two headings in mind. 00:18:57.860 --> 00:18:59.500 First is a human crisis. 00:18:59.920 --> 00:19:00.799 A human crisis. 00:19:01.140 --> 00:19:01.539 Look with me 00:19:01.539 --> 00:19:02.460 at verse 35. 00:19:02.839 --> 00:19:03.680 And when it grew late 00:19:03.680 --> 00:19:04.600 his disciples 00:19:04.600 --> 00:19:05.319 came to him 00:19:05.319 --> 00:19:05.799 and said 00:19:05.799 --> 00:19:07.640 this is a desolate place 00:19:07.640 --> 00:19:08.600 and the hour 00:19:08.600 --> 00:19:09.460 is now late. 00:19:10.039 --> 00:19:10.920 Send them away 00:19:10.920 --> 00:19:11.779 to go into 00:19:11.779 --> 00:19:12.400 the surrounding 00:19:12.400 --> 00:19:13.100 countryside 00:19:13.100 --> 00:19:13.880 and villages 00:19:13.880 --> 00:19:15.299 and buy themselves 00:19:15.299 --> 00:19:15.880 something 00:19:15.880 --> 00:19:16.940 to eat. 00:19:17.720 --> 00:19:18.600 So at this point 00:19:18.600 --> 00:19:19.700 the teaching 00:19:19.700 --> 00:19:20.339 had probably 00:19:20.339 --> 00:19:20.779 gone on 00:19:20.779 --> 00:19:21.759 for several hours 00:19:21.759 --> 00:19:23.279 and a legitimate 00:19:23.279 --> 00:19:24.120 crisis was 00:19:24.120 --> 00:19:25.500 beginning to mount. 00:19:26.660 --> 00:19:27.920 Daylight was fleeting. 00:19:28.059 --> 00:19:28.680 It was probably 00:19:28.680 --> 00:19:30.299 about four in the afternoon 00:19:30.299 --> 00:19:31.600 this time of year 00:19:31.600 --> 00:19:32.799 somewhere around April. 00:19:33.539 --> 00:19:34.100 The sun would have 00:19:34.100 --> 00:19:34.460 gone down 00:19:34.460 --> 00:19:35.460 around six o'clock 00:19:35.460 --> 00:19:36.100 so we're somewhere 00:19:36.100 --> 00:19:36.640 in the middle 00:19:36.640 --> 00:19:37.539 to late afternoon. 00:19:38.200 --> 00:19:39.259 The disciples can tell 00:19:39.259 --> 00:19:40.279 that the day 00:19:40.279 --> 00:19:41.400 is coming to a close. 00:19:41.579 --> 00:19:42.960 They're in a remote place. 00:19:43.079 --> 00:19:43.740 There's no towns 00:19:43.740 --> 00:19:44.600 or villages near 00:19:44.599 --> 00:19:45.799 and there was 00:19:45.799 --> 00:19:46.319 no place 00:19:46.319 --> 00:19:46.799 for the people 00:19:46.799 --> 00:19:47.679 to get any food. 00:19:48.579 --> 00:19:49.379 So the disciples 00:19:49.379 --> 00:19:50.819 recognized a legitimate need 00:19:50.819 --> 00:19:51.879 but you can't help 00:19:51.879 --> 00:19:52.719 but get the feeling 00:19:52.719 --> 00:19:53.819 that this is more 00:19:53.819 --> 00:19:54.740 than about 00:19:54.740 --> 00:19:55.759 the need of the people. 00:19:56.539 --> 00:19:57.619 You get the sense 00:19:57.619 --> 00:19:58.699 that they saw this 00:19:58.699 --> 00:19:59.359 as a way 00:19:59.359 --> 00:20:00.740 to finally get 00:20:00.740 --> 00:20:01.299 these people 00:20:01.299 --> 00:20:02.119 to go away 00:20:02.119 --> 00:20:03.199 so that they could 00:20:03.199 --> 00:20:03.619 do what? 00:20:03.699 --> 00:20:04.339 Get the rest 00:20:04.339 --> 00:20:05.099 that they wanted 00:20:05.099 --> 00:20:05.819 and really 00:20:05.819 --> 00:20:06.519 that they needed. 00:20:08.359 --> 00:20:08.919 They knew 00:20:08.919 --> 00:20:09.519 as long as 00:20:09.519 --> 00:20:10.659 Jesus kept teaching 00:20:10.659 --> 00:20:11.639 the people 00:20:11.639 --> 00:20:12.019 were going to 00:20:12.019 --> 00:20:12.599 stick around. 00:20:12.599 --> 00:20:14.019 And so they come 00:20:14.019 --> 00:20:14.699 to Jesus 00:20:14.699 --> 00:20:16.679 interrupting 00:20:16.679 --> 00:20:17.480 whatever may have 00:20:17.480 --> 00:20:18.299 been going on 00:20:18.299 --> 00:20:20.419 and then they take 00:20:20.419 --> 00:20:21.500 more of a commanding 00:20:21.500 --> 00:20:22.740 role over Jesus 00:20:22.740 --> 00:20:24.539 and they instruct him 00:20:24.539 --> 00:20:25.439 on what they feel 00:20:25.439 --> 00:20:26.059 he needs to do 00:20:26.059 --> 00:20:26.779 at that moment. 00:20:27.199 --> 00:20:27.639 I don't want to 00:20:27.639 --> 00:20:28.919 disparage the disciples 00:20:28.919 --> 00:20:29.859 in a way 00:20:29.859 --> 00:20:30.659 that's unnecessary 00:20:30.659 --> 00:20:32.439 but I can't help 00:20:32.439 --> 00:20:33.159 but read this 00:20:33.159 --> 00:20:33.919 with flashbacks 00:20:33.919 --> 00:20:34.839 to chapter one. 00:20:35.919 --> 00:20:36.240 You remember 00:20:36.240 --> 00:20:36.980 in Capernaum 00:20:36.980 --> 00:20:37.639 when all of those 00:20:37.639 --> 00:20:38.359 people were coming 00:20:38.359 --> 00:20:39.339 to Jesus for healing 00:20:39.339 --> 00:20:40.459 and he healed people 00:20:40.459 --> 00:20:41.359 all throughout the night 00:20:41.359 --> 00:20:42.119 and he gets up 00:20:42.119 --> 00:20:42.959 super early 00:20:42.959 --> 00:20:43.659 the next morning 00:20:43.659 --> 00:20:44.240 before everybody 00:20:44.240 --> 00:20:44.919 else gets up 00:20:44.919 --> 00:20:45.419 and he goes 00:20:45.419 --> 00:20:46.199 into a solitary 00:20:46.199 --> 00:20:47.000 place to pray 00:20:47.000 --> 00:20:48.019 and then everybody 00:20:48.019 --> 00:20:49.059 is trying to find him 00:20:49.059 --> 00:20:49.939 and the disciples 00:20:49.939 --> 00:20:50.939 finally find him 00:20:50.939 --> 00:20:51.679 in order that they 00:20:51.679 --> 00:20:52.459 can control his 00:20:52.459 --> 00:20:52.839 movements 00:20:52.839 --> 00:20:54.240 and then he shocks 00:20:54.240 --> 00:20:54.859 them and he says 00:20:54.859 --> 00:20:55.619 no we're going 00:20:55.619 --> 00:20:56.119 to go to other 00:20:56.119 --> 00:20:57.079 towns because 00:20:57.079 --> 00:20:57.979 I came to teach 00:20:57.979 --> 00:20:58.419 and we need to 00:20:58.419 --> 00:20:59.119 go teach them 00:20:59.119 --> 00:20:59.979 also. 00:21:00.399 --> 00:21:00.719 And so we get 00:21:00.719 --> 00:21:01.719 flashbacks here 00:21:01.719 --> 00:21:02.979 the disciples 00:21:02.979 --> 00:21:03.759 are frustrated 00:21:03.759 --> 00:21:04.939 they're tired 00:21:04.939 --> 00:21:05.819 and they're weary 00:21:05.819 --> 00:21:07.559 but Jesus knew 00:21:07.559 --> 00:21:08.219 the needs of the 00:21:08.219 --> 00:21:08.719 people better 00:21:08.719 --> 00:21:09.219 than anyone 00:21:09.220 --> 00:21:10.100 but they still 00:21:10.100 --> 00:21:10.579 felt that it 00:21:10.579 --> 00:21:11.420 was necessary 00:21:11.420 --> 00:21:12.779 to take action 00:21:12.779 --> 00:21:13.480 that seems 00:21:13.480 --> 00:21:14.299 to undermine 00:21:14.299 --> 00:21:15.140 Jesus' 00:21:15.400 --> 00:21:16.279 authority here. 00:21:17.100 --> 00:21:17.559 Now let's look 00:21:17.559 --> 00:21:18.079 at how Jesus 00:21:18.079 --> 00:21:18.680 responds 00:21:18.680 --> 00:21:19.539 verse 37 00:21:19.539 --> 00:21:20.819 but he answered 00:21:20.819 --> 00:21:21.200 them 00:21:21.200 --> 00:21:22.660 you give them 00:21:22.660 --> 00:21:23.620 something to eat 00:21:23.620 --> 00:21:26.180 and they said 00:21:26.180 --> 00:21:27.799 shall we go 00:21:27.799 --> 00:21:28.420 and buy 00:21:28.420 --> 00:21:29.720 200 denarii 00:21:29.720 --> 00:21:30.600 worth of bread 00:21:30.600 --> 00:21:31.539 and give it 00:21:31.539 --> 00:21:32.259 to them to eat 00:21:32.259 --> 00:21:33.940 and he said 00:21:33.940 --> 00:21:34.579 how many loaves 00:21:34.579 --> 00:21:35.100 do you have 00:21:35.100 --> 00:21:35.779 go and see 00:21:35.779 --> 00:21:37.299 and they had 00:21:37.299 --> 00:21:37.879 found out 00:21:37.879 --> 00:21:38.259 and said 00:21:38.259 --> 00:21:39.579 five and 00:21:39.579 --> 00:21:40.379 two fish 00:21:40.379 --> 00:21:42.980 now can you 00:21:42.980 --> 00:21:43.539 imagine the 00:21:43.539 --> 00:21:44.399 immediate reaction 00:21:44.399 --> 00:21:45.139 on the disciples 00:21:45.139 --> 00:21:46.639 face when 00:21:46.639 --> 00:21:47.180 Jesus told 00:21:47.180 --> 00:21:47.639 them to feed 00:21:47.639 --> 00:21:48.119 the people 00:21:48.119 --> 00:21:49.460 the whole 00:21:49.460 --> 00:21:49.960 reason that 00:21:49.960 --> 00:21:50.379 they tried 00:21:50.379 --> 00:21:50.839 to instruct 00:21:50.839 --> 00:21:51.480 Jesus anyways 00:21:51.480 --> 00:21:51.960 is because 00:21:51.960 --> 00:21:52.519 they couldn't 00:21:52.519 --> 00:21:52.859 feed the 00:21:52.859 --> 00:21:53.180 people 00:21:53.180 --> 00:21:55.180 and they're 00:21:55.180 --> 00:21:55.660 trying to get 00:21:55.660 --> 00:21:56.440 Jesus to send 00:21:56.440 --> 00:21:56.920 these people 00:21:56.920 --> 00:21:57.579 away in order 00:21:57.579 --> 00:21:58.000 so that they 00:21:58.000 --> 00:21:58.359 can get 00:21:58.359 --> 00:21:59.200 some dinner 00:21:59.200 --> 00:21:59.720 and you can 00:21:59.720 --> 00:22:00.660 sense that 00:22:00.660 --> 00:22:01.420 their frustration 00:22:01.420 --> 00:22:02.139 reaches its 00:22:02.139 --> 00:22:03.000 peak at this 00:22:03.000 --> 00:22:04.160 point and it's 00:22:04.160 --> 00:22:04.899 not very difficult 00:22:04.900 --> 00:22:05.580 to sense the 00:22:05.580 --> 00:22:06.320 sarcasm in 00:22:06.320 --> 00:22:07.560 this right 00:22:07.560 --> 00:22:10.620 Jesus looks 00:22:10.620 --> 00:22:11.040 at them and 00:22:11.040 --> 00:22:12.060 says you 00:22:12.060 --> 00:22:12.380 give them 00:22:12.380 --> 00:22:12.860 something to 00:22:12.860 --> 00:22:14.860 eat a 00:22:14.860 --> 00:22:15.759 denarii was 00:22:15.759 --> 00:22:16.700 a day's 00:22:16.700 --> 00:22:17.780 wage for a 00:22:17.780 --> 00:22:18.840 common laborer 00:22:18.840 --> 00:22:20.040 and so 200 00:22:20.040 --> 00:22:20.700 denarii would 00:22:20.700 --> 00:22:21.320 have been like 00:22:21.320 --> 00:22:22.000 two-thirds 00:22:22.000 --> 00:22:23.220 year salary 00:22:23.220 --> 00:22:24.960 these men just 00:22:24.960 --> 00:22:25.740 got back from 00:22:25.740 --> 00:22:26.640 a mission trip 00:22:26.640 --> 00:22:27.540 where Jesus 00:22:27.540 --> 00:22:28.200 told them 00:22:28.200 --> 00:22:29.019 don't take 00:22:29.019 --> 00:22:29.620 anything with 00:22:29.620 --> 00:22:30.240 you they 00:22:30.240 --> 00:22:31.040 have no money 00:22:31.040 --> 00:22:32.200 there's no 00:22:32.200 --> 00:22:32.820 money that these 00:22:32.820 --> 00:22:33.540 men have so 00:22:33.540 --> 00:22:33.980 it's not that 00:22:33.980 --> 00:22:34.320 they're coming 00:22:34.320 --> 00:22:34.780 to Jesus 00:22:34.779 --> 00:22:35.359 and saying 00:22:35.359 --> 00:22:36.200 all we have 00:22:36.200 --> 00:22:36.819 here is 200 00:22:36.819 --> 00:22:37.660 denarii do you 00:22:37.660 --> 00:22:38.160 think we should 00:22:38.160 --> 00:22:39.359 go and and 00:22:39.359 --> 00:22:40.079 buy some bread 00:22:40.079 --> 00:22:40.559 for all these 00:22:40.559 --> 00:22:41.240 people with this 00:22:41.240 --> 00:22:42.139 money that's not 00:22:42.139 --> 00:22:42.539 what they're 00:22:42.539 --> 00:22:44.299 saying they're 00:22:44.299 --> 00:22:46.099 saying this is 00:22:46.099 --> 00:22:48.420 absurd we have 00:22:48.420 --> 00:22:49.539 no food we have 00:22:49.539 --> 00:22:50.619 no money we have 00:22:50.619 --> 00:22:51.680 no provisions how 00:22:51.680 --> 00:22:52.539 are we supposed to 00:22:52.539 --> 00:22:53.319 feed these people 00:22:53.319 --> 00:22:55.220 this is sarcasm on 00:22:55.220 --> 00:22:56.559 their part this is 00:22:56.559 --> 00:22:58.099 frustration on 00:22:58.099 --> 00:23:00.440 their part they 00:23:00.440 --> 00:23:00.839 didn't have the 00:23:00.839 --> 00:23:01.500 kind of money it 00:23:01.500 --> 00:23:02.240 would take and 00:23:02.240 --> 00:23:03.039 even if they did 00:23:03.039 --> 00:23:04.059 there was no place 00:23:04.059 --> 00:23:04.720 to buy it 00:23:04.720 --> 00:23:05.619 they're in the 00:23:05.619 --> 00:23:06.440 middle of nowhere 00:23:06.440 --> 00:23:08.299 so Jesus moves 00:23:08.299 --> 00:23:08.859 to his second 00:23:08.859 --> 00:23:10.740 instruction and 00:23:10.740 --> 00:23:11.159 he says well 00:23:11.159 --> 00:23:11.759 tell me what you 00:23:11.759 --> 00:23:13.339 do have go and 00:23:13.339 --> 00:23:14.819 find out and 00:23:14.819 --> 00:23:15.399 they come back 00:23:15.399 --> 00:23:16.079 John tells us 00:23:16.079 --> 00:23:17.279 that it's Andrew 00:23:17.279 --> 00:23:18.119 Simon Peter's 00:23:18.119 --> 00:23:18.819 brother that comes 00:23:18.819 --> 00:23:20.039 back and he has 00:23:20.039 --> 00:23:20.659 with them the 00:23:20.659 --> 00:23:21.259 lunch of a little 00:23:21.259 --> 00:23:22.859 boy there's five 00:23:22.859 --> 00:23:24.659 small cakes and 00:23:24.659 --> 00:23:27.460 two fish so do 00:23:27.460 --> 00:23:27.980 you see what 00:23:27.980 --> 00:23:28.899 Jesus is trying to 00:23:28.899 --> 00:23:29.579 get across to his 00:23:29.579 --> 00:23:33.659 disciples here there 00:23:33.659 --> 00:23:34.599 was a crisis at 00:23:34.599 --> 00:23:36.399 hand and they 00:23:36.399 --> 00:23:37.240 were powerless to 00:23:37.240 --> 00:23:38.159 help that's the 00:23:38.159 --> 00:23:40.220 point why did he 00:23:40.220 --> 00:23:40.699 say give them 00:23:40.699 --> 00:23:41.319 something to eat 00:23:41.319 --> 00:23:41.899 because he knew 00:23:41.899 --> 00:23:42.480 they didn't have 00:23:42.480 --> 00:23:43.059 anything to give 00:23:43.059 --> 00:23:45.379 them to eat he 00:23:45.379 --> 00:23:45.839 knew they didn't 00:23:45.839 --> 00:23:47.939 have any money he 00:23:47.939 --> 00:23:48.439 knew there were 00:23:48.439 --> 00:23:49.659 only five pieces of 00:23:49.659 --> 00:23:50.799 bread and two 00:23:50.799 --> 00:23:51.759 fish that are out 00:23:51.759 --> 00:23:52.379 there in the crowd 00:23:52.379 --> 00:23:54.379 he knew it that was 00:23:54.379 --> 00:23:56.679 the point you can't 00:23:56.680 --> 00:23:58.980 feed them it's an 00:23:58.980 --> 00:24:01.220 impossible task they 00:24:01.220 --> 00:24:02.460 can't feed themselves 00:24:02.460 --> 00:24:04.840 there's nothing and 00:24:04.840 --> 00:24:06.220 nowhere for them to 00:24:06.220 --> 00:24:08.740 go Jesus wasn't 00:24:08.740 --> 00:24:10.680 losing his mind and 00:24:10.680 --> 00:24:11.600 nor was he trying to 00:24:11.600 --> 00:24:12.380 push the disciples 00:24:12.380 --> 00:24:14.259 buttons he was 00:24:14.259 --> 00:24:16.380 making it clear no 00:24:16.380 --> 00:24:17.220 one could meet the 00:24:17.220 --> 00:24:18.160 needs of those people 00:24:18.160 --> 00:24:21.060 except him that's the 00:24:21.060 --> 00:24:23.080 point you can't help 00:24:23.080 --> 00:24:25.060 these people but I 00:24:25.059 --> 00:24:27.519 can now I want to 00:24:27.519 --> 00:24:28.179 note before we move 00:24:28.179 --> 00:24:29.879 on this was not a 00:24:29.879 --> 00:24:31.139 lack of faith on the 00:24:31.139 --> 00:24:32.579 disciples part sometimes 00:24:32.579 --> 00:24:33.659 we think that we think 00:24:33.659 --> 00:24:34.839 that they bring this 00:24:34.839 --> 00:24:36.480 this lunch to Jesus and 00:24:36.480 --> 00:24:37.519 I think it's Andrew 00:24:37.519 --> 00:24:38.339 that says what are 00:24:38.339 --> 00:24:39.339 these among so many 00:24:39.339 --> 00:24:40.279 okay I don't think 00:24:40.279 --> 00:24:42.139 that's that's a lack 00:24:42.139 --> 00:24:43.339 of faith thinking 00:24:43.339 --> 00:24:44.339 that Jesus can't do 00:24:44.339 --> 00:24:45.099 anything with this 00:24:45.099 --> 00:24:45.679 this is just 00:24:45.679 --> 00:24:46.339 frustration because 00:24:46.339 --> 00:24:46.919 they don't want him 00:24:46.919 --> 00:24:47.559 to do anything with 00:24:47.559 --> 00:24:48.279 it really is what it 00:24:48.279 --> 00:24:49.980 is think about 00:24:49.980 --> 00:24:50.519 everything they've 00:24:50.519 --> 00:24:52.879 seen they've seen 00:24:52.879 --> 00:24:54.359 Jesus cleanse lepers 00:24:54.359 --> 00:24:56.000 that's impossible 00:24:56.000 --> 00:24:57.519 but he did it 00:24:57.519 --> 00:25:00.039 they've seen Jesus 00:25:00.039 --> 00:25:01.219 heal sick people 00:25:01.219 --> 00:25:01.859 everywhere that they 00:25:01.859 --> 00:25:03.559 went they've seen 00:25:03.559 --> 00:25:04.619 Jesus cast out 00:25:04.619 --> 00:25:06.000 demons they were on 00:25:06.000 --> 00:25:06.819 a boat thinking 00:25:06.819 --> 00:25:07.659 they were about to 00:25:07.659 --> 00:25:08.919 die and Jesus says 00:25:08.919 --> 00:25:10.219 three words and all 00:25:10.219 --> 00:25:11.579 of nature obeys his 00:25:11.579 --> 00:25:12.779 voice they've seen 00:25:12.779 --> 00:25:13.879 all of that just 00:25:13.879 --> 00:25:15.199 after they watched 00:25:15.199 --> 00:25:16.059 him raise a little 00:25:16.059 --> 00:25:17.179 girl from the dead 00:25:17.179 --> 00:25:18.379 okay there's no 00:25:18.379 --> 00:25:19.139 question in their 00:25:19.139 --> 00:25:20.439 mind of what Jesus 00:25:20.439 --> 00:25:21.959 can do this isn't a 00:25:21.959 --> 00:25:24.099 matter of faith it 00:25:24.099 --> 00:25:24.699 wasn't that they 00:25:24.699 --> 00:25:25.779 doubted Jesus's 00:25:25.779 --> 00:25:26.919 ability to feed the 00:25:26.919 --> 00:25:28.099 people it's that they 00:25:28.099 --> 00:25:29.319 didn't care if he did 00:25:29.319 --> 00:25:33.199 or not they were 00:25:33.199 --> 00:25:34.959 exhausted they were 00:25:34.959 --> 00:25:36.639 hungry they were now 00:25:36.639 --> 00:25:38.199 hangry and they were 00:25:38.199 --> 00:25:39.339 so caught up in their 00:25:39.339 --> 00:25:41.199 circumstance that they 00:25:41.199 --> 00:25:42.199 just preferred that the 00:25:42.199 --> 00:25:43.179 people try and find 00:25:43.179 --> 00:25:44.039 provision in another 00:25:44.039 --> 00:25:47.500 place now how many of 00:25:47.500 --> 00:25:49.719 us have that same 00:25:49.719 --> 00:25:52.699 tendency we know that 00:25:52.700 --> 00:25:54.380 Jesus can save people 00:25:54.380 --> 00:25:55.380 and we know that Jesus 00:25:55.380 --> 00:25:57.420 will save people and 00:25:57.420 --> 00:25:58.400 he'll save anyone who 00:25:58.400 --> 00:25:59.440 comes to him genuinely 00:25:59.440 --> 00:26:00.559 in faith and repentance 00:26:00.559 --> 00:26:02.580 but do we care if he 00:26:02.580 --> 00:26:05.000 saves people and do we 00:26:05.000 --> 00:26:06.559 care if they come 00:26:06.559 --> 00:26:10.100 God forbid that we ever 00:26:10.100 --> 00:26:11.980 get so wrapped up in our 00:26:11.980 --> 00:26:13.519 own circumstances that we 00:26:13.519 --> 00:26:14.960 would sooner send people 00:26:14.960 --> 00:26:16.779 away to find help on 00:26:16.779 --> 00:26:18.059 their own than actually 00:26:18.059 --> 00:26:19.600 make the effort to lead 00:26:19.600 --> 00:26:20.840 them to the Savior that 00:26:20.839 --> 00:26:24.899 can save their soul but 00:26:24.899 --> 00:26:26.220 we're too tired to do 00:26:26.220 --> 00:26:27.819 that we're too exhausted 00:26:27.819 --> 00:26:29.279 to do that there's other 00:26:29.279 --> 00:26:30.759 things we'd rather do and 00:26:30.759 --> 00:26:31.939 we'd just sooner Jesus 00:26:31.939 --> 00:26:32.980 send them to somebody 00:26:32.980 --> 00:26:36.279 else no he was a 00:26:36.279 --> 00:26:37.459 compassionate shepherd 00:26:37.459 --> 00:26:39.179 he's a compassionate 00:26:39.179 --> 00:26:41.379 Savior and he demands 00:26:41.379 --> 00:26:43.240 that we be the same 00:26:43.240 --> 00:26:44.740 compassionate toward 00:26:44.740 --> 00:26:47.079 those whom he can save 00:26:47.079 --> 00:26:49.539 so there's a human crisis 00:26:49.539 --> 00:26:50.639 and now there's a divine 00:26:50.639 --> 00:26:52.899 solution divine solution 00:26:52.899 --> 00:26:54.279 look at verse 39 then 00:26:54.279 --> 00:26:55.319 he commanded them all to 00:26:55.319 --> 00:26:56.480 sit down in groups on the 00:26:56.480 --> 00:26:57.859 green grass so that they 00:26:57.859 --> 00:26:59.019 sat down in groups by 00:26:59.019 --> 00:27:00.319 hundreds and by fifties 00:27:00.319 --> 00:27:03.139 taking the five loaves and 00:27:03.139 --> 00:27:05.200 two fish he looked up to 00:27:05.200 --> 00:27:05.940 heaven and said a 00:27:05.940 --> 00:27:06.980 blessing and broke the 00:27:06.980 --> 00:27:08.159 loaves and gave them to the 00:27:08.159 --> 00:27:09.960 disciples to set before 00:27:09.960 --> 00:27:11.819 the people and he divided 00:27:11.819 --> 00:27:13.440 the two fish among them 00:27:13.440 --> 00:27:16.200 all so they he's 00:27:16.200 --> 00:27:17.399 established the fact that 00:27:17.399 --> 00:27:18.159 the people can't help 00:27:18.160 --> 00:27:19.259 themselves he's established 00:27:19.259 --> 00:27:19.980 the fact that the 00:27:19.980 --> 00:27:21.060 disciples can't help them 00:27:21.060 --> 00:27:23.000 either so it all relies on 00:27:23.000 --> 00:27:25.759 Jesus now it always relied 00:27:25.759 --> 00:27:30.500 on Jesus he takes control 00:27:30.500 --> 00:27:32.519 and after organizing the 00:27:32.519 --> 00:27:35.200 people in smaller groups he 00:27:35.200 --> 00:27:36.820 initiated a solution that 00:27:36.820 --> 00:27:38.820 only the almighty God could 00:27:38.820 --> 00:27:41.320 accomplish it was an act of 00:27:41.320 --> 00:27:44.440 creation you realize that we 00:27:44.440 --> 00:27:45.660 don't know exactly how he did 00:27:45.660 --> 00:27:47.400 this we don't know exactly the 00:27:47.400 --> 00:27:49.500 the the process by which he 00:27:49.500 --> 00:27:50.779 multiplied all of this food 00:27:50.779 --> 00:27:52.140 all we know is that it was an 00:27:52.140 --> 00:27:53.860 act of creation well there's 00:27:53.860 --> 00:27:56.440 only one creator what does that 00:27:56.440 --> 00:28:00.120 say about Jesus he is the 00:28:00.120 --> 00:28:00.620 creator 00:28:00.620 --> 00:28:04.600 notice the sequence of this 00:28:04.600 --> 00:28:09.040 miracle he took the bread and 00:28:09.040 --> 00:28:12.300 he blessed it and he broke it 00:28:12.299 --> 00:28:18.039 and he gave it now it's probably 00:28:18.039 --> 00:28:20.000 not an unusual table manner for 00:28:20.000 --> 00:28:23.399 first century Jews but there's 00:28:23.399 --> 00:28:26.940 foreshadowing in this there's 00:28:26.940 --> 00:28:28.220 another passage where Jesus 00:28:28.220 --> 00:28:30.740 followed the same sequence it's 00:28:30.740 --> 00:28:34.399 in Matthew 26 says now as they 00:28:34.399 --> 00:28:35.740 were eating this is the last 00:28:35.740 --> 00:28:41.480 supper Jesus took the bread and he 00:28:41.480 --> 00:28:46.160 blessed it and he broke it and he 00:28:46.160 --> 00:28:51.720 gave it and he said take eat this 00:28:51.720 --> 00:28:54.779 is my body and he took the cup and 00:28:54.779 --> 00:28:56.279 when he had given thanks he gave it 00:28:56.279 --> 00:28:59.279 to them saying drink all of it for 00:28:59.279 --> 00:29:01.579 this is my blood of the covenant which 00:29:01.579 --> 00:29:04.079 is poured out for many for the 00:29:04.079 --> 00:29:08.240 forgiveness of sins say what is this 00:29:08.240 --> 00:29:08.759 all about 00:29:08.759 --> 00:29:16.139 when Jesus broke the bread on the 00:29:16.139 --> 00:29:18.619 night of his arrest he was 00:29:18.619 --> 00:29:20.699 symbolizing how his body would soon 00:29:20.699 --> 00:29:22.679 be broken for the sins of man 00:29:22.679 --> 00:29:28.819 when he looks up with these 5,000 00:29:28.819 --> 00:29:30.679 people or more gathered around him 00:29:30.679 --> 00:29:32.799 and he takes these five lobes and 00:29:32.799 --> 00:29:34.200 he looks up to heaven and he blesses 00:29:34.200 --> 00:29:35.460 it and then he breaks it and then he 00:29:35.460 --> 00:29:36.779 gives it to the disciples to 00:29:36.779 --> 00:29:38.539 distribute out to all of the people 00:29:38.539 --> 00:29:41.079 he's foreshadowing this supper he's 00:29:41.079 --> 00:29:42.759 foreshadowing the fact that he 00:29:42.759 --> 00:29:45.000 himself is the one that will be 00:29:45.000 --> 00:29:49.859 broken for those people listen this is 00:29:49.859 --> 00:29:52.000 not about how we should be willing to 00:29:52.000 --> 00:29:55.379 give Jesus our lunch it's about him 00:29:55.379 --> 00:29:58.899 giving us what he has to offer it's 00:29:58.899 --> 00:30:01.019 not about how he will meet our material 00:30:01.019 --> 00:30:03.200 needs if we just trust him it's about 00:30:03.200 --> 00:30:05.599 how he alone can meet our eternal need 00:30:05.599 --> 00:30:08.839 of salvation from sin and death this 00:30:08.839 --> 00:30:11.079 miracle is not about Jesus providing 00:30:11.079 --> 00:30:13.799 5,000 people with bread it's about how 00:30:13.799 --> 00:30:16.000 he has provided eternal life for an 00:30:16.000 --> 00:30:19.519 innumerable number of people in fact this 00:30:19.519 --> 00:30:22.019 is exactly how Jesus himself interpreted 00:30:22.539 --> 00:30:25.639 the miracle in John chapter 6 the very 00:30:25.639 --> 00:30:27.940 next day John says Jesus and his 00:30:27.940 --> 00:30:29.759 disciples go to another place and the 00:30:29.759 --> 00:30:32.640 people find him and they ask him for 00:30:32.640 --> 00:30:35.840 more bread and he says you didn't you 00:30:35.840 --> 00:30:38.320 didn't care to find me today to see a 00:30:38.320 --> 00:30:43.039 sign you just want more food and they 00:30:43.039 --> 00:30:47.080 essentially said yeah give us some more 00:30:47.080 --> 00:30:51.320 food listen what Jesus said John chapter 6 00:30:51.320 --> 00:30:54.039 verse 29 he answered them this is the 00:30:54.039 --> 00:30:57.000 work of God that you believe in him whom 00:30:57.000 --> 00:31:00.180 he has sent and then they said to him 00:31:00.180 --> 00:31:03.599 then what sign do you do that we may see 00:31:03.599 --> 00:31:08.519 and believe now wait a minute they were 00:31:08.519 --> 00:31:12.799 part of the 5,000 the day before they saw 00:31:12.799 --> 00:31:15.259 this sign they're not looking for a sign 00:31:15.259 --> 00:31:18.399 they're tempting Jesus they're placing they 00:31:18.399 --> 00:31:20.819 can play against any potential pride that he 00:31:20.819 --> 00:31:23.500 may have to provide them with more food they 00:31:23.500 --> 00:31:25.939 go on and they say what sign do you do that 00:31:25.939 --> 00:31:28.720 we may believe what work do you perform our 00:31:28.720 --> 00:31:32.539 fathers ate manna in the wilderness as it is 00:31:32.539 --> 00:31:34.139 written he gave them bread from heaven to 00:31:34.139 --> 00:31:36.659 eat in other words hint hint Jesus the sign 00:31:36.659 --> 00:31:38.559 we'd really love you to perform is why don't 00:31:38.559 --> 00:31:41.460 you give us manna from heaven what did Jesus 00:31:41.460 --> 00:31:46.740 say truly truly I say to you it was not Moses who 00:31:46.740 --> 00:31:49.359 gave you the bread from heaven but my father 00:31:49.359 --> 00:31:52.619 gives you the true bread from heaven for the 00:31:52.619 --> 00:31:56.679 bread of God is he who comes down from heaven 00:31:56.679 --> 00:31:59.459 and gives life to the world and they said 00:31:59.459 --> 00:32:02.399 oh this is what we're talking about Jesus 00:32:02.399 --> 00:32:06.539 thank you give us this bread always they say 00:32:06.539 --> 00:32:14.819 Jesus says I am the bread I am the bread of 00:32:14.819 --> 00:32:18.859 life whoever comes to me shall not hunger and whoever 00:32:18.859 --> 00:32:23.579 believes in me shall never thirst they say just give us 00:32:23.579 --> 00:32:27.059 some more bread and he says listen the bread of God is he 00:32:27.059 --> 00:32:30.480 who who he has sent to give life to the world they say oh yeah 00:32:30.480 --> 00:32:33.000 this is what we're talking about and he says no you don't get 00:32:33.000 --> 00:32:39.179 it I'm the bread I'm the bread believe me and you'll never 00:32:39.179 --> 00:32:42.779 hunger believe me and you'll never thirst and he's not talking 00:32:42.779 --> 00:32:46.619 about a physical hunger he's not talking about a physical thirst he's 00:32:46.619 --> 00:32:51.759 talking about their spiritual soul believe me and your soul will never be 00:32:51.759 --> 00:32:56.460 hungry again believe me and your soul will never thirst again the miracle 00:32:56.460 --> 00:33:03.359 yesterday wasn't about feeding you it's about me I am the bread 00:33:03.359 --> 00:33:12.479 people often come to Jesus seeking the goods that may come from his hands but what we all truly 00:33:12.479 --> 00:33:14.419 need is Jesus himself 00:33:14.419 --> 00:33:25.219 we got all these churches and these pastors that are trying to manipulate people into thinking if you 00:33:25.219 --> 00:33:30.419 will just come here if you will come and submit yourself here God will give you everything that 00:33:30.420 --> 00:33:40.580 you want no we won't no we won't but he'll give you everything that you need because what you need is him 00:33:40.580 --> 00:33:51.420 material gain and success are not guarantees of the gospel nor does Jesus always provide it to 00:33:51.420 --> 00:34:11.940 those who come to him in faith these were prosperity gospel seekers in John 6 he is the guarantee of the gospel and all who come to him in faith and repentance will receive eternal life that's you 00:34:11.940 --> 00:34:25.599 later in John 6 he says all that the father gives me will come to me and whoever comes to me I will not cast away ever 00:34:25.599 --> 00:34:28.820 come to him 00:34:28.820 --> 00:34:37.480 not for more money or for success or for happiness because you may not get any of those things 00:34:37.480 --> 00:34:39.820 come to him 00:34:39.820 --> 00:34:40.420 come to him 00:34:40.420 --> 00:34:40.420 00:34:40.420 --> 00:34:41.740 for him 00:34:41.740 --> 00:34:44.659 because when you have him 00:34:44.659 --> 00:34:46.420 you have a life 00:34:46.420 --> 00:34:47.860 real 00:34:47.860 --> 00:34:49.159 eternal 00:34:49.159 --> 00:34:50.719 life 00:34:50.719 --> 00:34:55.199 thirdly the good shepherd is sufficient for the sheep 00:34:55.199 --> 00:34:56.800 cares for the sheep 00:34:56.800 --> 00:34:58.740 he provides for the sheep 00:34:58.740 --> 00:35:02.980 remember we're framing this around the good shepherd because of what Jesus noticed 00:35:02.980 --> 00:35:04.480 they were without a shepherd 00:35:04.480 --> 00:35:09.760 and he is the shepherd that they needed he's the shepherd that we need and he's sufficient 00:35:09.760 --> 00:35:11.099 for the sheep 00:35:11.099 --> 00:35:12.579 look at verse 42 00:35:12.579 --> 00:35:15.400 and they all ate and were satisfied 00:35:15.400 --> 00:35:21.860 and they took up the 12 baskets full of broken pieces and of the fish and those who ate the loaves 00:35:21.860 --> 00:35:23.940 were 5,000 men 00:35:23.940 --> 00:35:27.780 now I don't have a lot to say about these verses except to note 00:35:27.780 --> 00:35:30.760 that every person that came to Jesus 00:35:30.760 --> 00:35:32.920 was satisfied 00:35:32.920 --> 00:35:37.600 every person that came to Jesus 00:35:37.600 --> 00:35:38.740 was satisfied 00:35:38.740 --> 00:35:43.620 5,000 men ate that day according to Mark 00:35:43.620 --> 00:35:47.840 Matthew's quick to point out that there were plenty of women and children there as well 00:35:47.840 --> 00:35:50.860 we don't know exactly how many people were there 00:35:50.860 --> 00:35:52.240 there's lots of suggestions 00:35:52.240 --> 00:35:53.360 we don't know 00:35:53.360 --> 00:35:54.900 what we do know 00:35:54.900 --> 00:35:56.760 is that everybody that was there 00:35:56.760 --> 00:35:57.660 left 00:35:57.660 --> 00:35:58.540 full 00:35:58.539 --> 00:36:00.500 full 00:36:00.500 --> 00:36:05.000 and as we consider this in light of its gospel meaning 00:36:05.000 --> 00:36:07.259 we need to recognize 00:36:07.259 --> 00:36:09.480 that Jesus alone 00:36:09.480 --> 00:36:10.880 is sufficient 00:36:10.880 --> 00:36:12.619 to satisfy 00:36:12.619 --> 00:36:14.059 fully 00:36:14.059 --> 00:36:16.320 the need of our souls 00:36:16.320 --> 00:36:19.699 those people ate bread that day and they got hungry again 00:36:19.699 --> 00:36:24.519 but anybody that comes to Jesus 00:36:24.519 --> 00:36:26.259 he's sufficient 00:36:26.259 --> 00:36:28.639 so that you will never again hunger 00:36:28.639 --> 00:36:30.099 and thirst 00:36:30.099 --> 00:36:34.039 no person ever comes to him in faith 00:36:34.039 --> 00:36:36.519 without being totally satisfied 00:36:36.519 --> 00:36:39.000 we sing about this 00:36:39.000 --> 00:36:42.219 I rejoice in my redeemer 00:36:42.219 --> 00:36:44.460 greatest treasure 00:36:44.460 --> 00:36:47.280 wellspring of my soul 00:36:47.280 --> 00:36:50.160 I will trust in him 00:36:50.160 --> 00:36:51.100 no other 00:36:51.100 --> 00:36:52.500 my soul 00:36:52.500 --> 00:36:53.740 is satisfied 00:36:53.740 --> 00:36:54.940 in him 00:36:54.940 --> 00:36:56.180 alone 00:36:56.180 --> 00:36:57.700 we sing that 00:36:57.700 --> 00:37:03.320 it's an interesting note about the 12 baskets that were remaining 00:37:03.320 --> 00:37:09.800 I don't think that this was Jesus's way of throwing the whole ordeal back in the disciples face 00:37:09.800 --> 00:37:11.700 I don't think this was an I told you so moment 00:37:11.700 --> 00:37:13.480 I don't think that's what he's doing 00:37:13.480 --> 00:37:16.260 I really think it's just an earnest reminder 00:37:16.780 --> 00:37:17.780 to them 00:37:17.780 --> 00:37:19.880 of his identity 00:37:19.880 --> 00:37:22.000 who he is 00:37:22.000 --> 00:37:23.760 because they didn't get it 00:37:23.760 --> 00:37:26.120 we know they didn't get it 00:37:26.120 --> 00:37:28.440 because when we come to the next passage next Sunday 00:37:28.440 --> 00:37:29.900 Mark plainly says 00:37:29.900 --> 00:37:31.100 their hearts were hardened 00:37:31.100 --> 00:37:33.640 and they did not understand about the loaves 00:37:33.640 --> 00:37:36.580 and we'll deal with that then 00:37:36.579 --> 00:37:38.599 but they didn't get it 00:37:38.599 --> 00:37:40.059 but this is just another reminder 00:37:40.059 --> 00:37:43.420 earlier they had acknowledged the lack of provision 00:37:43.420 --> 00:37:47.579 but now they were forced to see the abundance that was left over 00:37:47.579 --> 00:37:52.279 yet another sign that the man that they followed 00:37:52.279 --> 00:37:53.840 was not only a man 00:37:53.840 --> 00:37:56.279 he is God 00:37:56.279 --> 00:37:59.500 he is the Messiah 00:37:59.500 --> 00:38:02.480 now tell me 00:38:02.480 --> 00:38:05.299 who fed the 5,000 00:38:05.300 --> 00:38:08.820 Jesus did right 00:38:08.820 --> 00:38:14.300 who gave the people the food 00:38:14.300 --> 00:38:17.560 the disciples did 00:38:17.560 --> 00:38:19.680 did you notice that 00:38:19.680 --> 00:38:23.560 Jesus didn't walk through each group of 150 00:38:23.560 --> 00:38:27.300 with that little bit of fish and bread 00:38:27.300 --> 00:38:29.180 and hand it to the people 00:38:29.180 --> 00:38:29.880 that's not what he did 00:38:29.880 --> 00:38:32.900 he probably stayed in one place 00:38:32.900 --> 00:38:35.599 and he gave it to his disciples 00:38:35.599 --> 00:38:37.740 and they took it to the people 00:38:37.740 --> 00:38:39.440 now 00:38:39.440 --> 00:38:42.599 they didn't make the food 00:38:42.599 --> 00:38:44.320 what'd they do 00:38:44.320 --> 00:38:46.840 they just took it to the people 00:38:46.840 --> 00:38:50.039 they couldn't force the people to eat 00:38:50.039 --> 00:38:53.180 all they could do 00:38:53.180 --> 00:38:55.980 was take what Jesus had given them 00:38:55.980 --> 00:38:58.079 to somebody else 00:38:58.079 --> 00:39:02.319 this is what each of us are called to do 00:39:02.319 --> 00:39:05.380 we don't make the food 00:39:05.380 --> 00:39:09.059 we can't feed anybody 00:39:09.059 --> 00:39:12.639 we're just the servers 00:39:12.639 --> 00:39:16.119 we take what he has given 00:39:16.119 --> 00:39:18.559 and we give it to everyone else 00:39:18.559 --> 00:39:20.279 now 00:39:20.279 --> 00:39:22.719 how good of a server are you 00:39:22.719 --> 00:39:25.480 it's not the point of this passage 00:39:25.480 --> 00:39:26.679 but I can't help it 00:39:26.679 --> 00:39:29.360 I can't help it 00:39:29.360 --> 00:39:32.760 because we always think of the fact 00:39:32.760 --> 00:39:34.260 that Jesus fed the 5,000 00:39:34.260 --> 00:39:36.280 but Jesus didn't hand a piece of bread and fish 00:39:36.280 --> 00:39:37.099 to anybody there 00:39:37.099 --> 00:39:39.360 except for the people that already belong to him 00:39:39.360 --> 00:39:41.539 guess what 00:39:41.539 --> 00:39:43.340 if you know Christ 00:39:43.340 --> 00:39:44.860 you belong to him 00:39:44.860 --> 00:39:46.740 so take this gospel meal 00:39:46.740 --> 00:39:48.740 and give it to somebody else 00:39:48.739 --> 00:39:54.899 miracle took place 00:39:54.899 --> 00:39:56.079 because Jesus saw 00:39:56.079 --> 00:39:57.319 the people as sheep 00:39:57.319 --> 00:39:58.079 without a shepherd 00:39:58.079 --> 00:40:00.199 and he knew that he was 00:40:00.199 --> 00:40:01.699 the only one sufficient for them 00:40:01.699 --> 00:40:03.319 so I think it'd be helpful 00:40:03.319 --> 00:40:04.179 for us to close 00:40:04.179 --> 00:40:05.279 in John chapter 10 00:40:05.279 --> 00:40:06.419 you can turn there if you want 00:40:06.419 --> 00:40:10.119 John chapter 10 00:40:10.119 --> 00:40:13.239 beginning at verse 14 00:40:13.239 --> 00:40:23.819 Jesus said 00:40:23.819 --> 00:40:24.899 I am the good shepherd 00:40:24.899 --> 00:40:27.319 he just plainly states it 00:40:27.319 --> 00:40:29.500 I'm the good shepherd 00:40:29.500 --> 00:40:31.879 I know my own 00:40:31.879 --> 00:40:33.959 and my own know me 00:40:33.959 --> 00:40:36.219 just as the father knows me 00:40:36.219 --> 00:40:37.179 and I know the father 00:40:37.179 --> 00:40:40.699 and I lay down my life 00:40:40.699 --> 00:40:42.379 for the sheep 00:40:42.380 --> 00:40:44.480 that's how he feeds us 00:40:44.480 --> 00:40:46.200 you realize that 00:40:46.200 --> 00:40:47.920 that's the food 00:40:47.920 --> 00:40:53.360 and I have other sheep 00:40:53.360 --> 00:40:55.140 that are not of this fold 00:40:55.140 --> 00:40:58.460 I must bring them also 00:40:58.460 --> 00:41:01.160 and they will listen to my voice 00:41:01.160 --> 00:41:03.740 so there will be one flock 00:41:03.740 --> 00:41:05.440 one shepherd 00:41:05.440 --> 00:41:08.599 for this reason the father loves me 00:41:08.599 --> 00:41:10.220 because I lay down my life 00:41:10.219 --> 00:41:12.359 that I may take it up 00:41:12.359 --> 00:41:13.119 again 00:41:13.119 --> 00:41:16.079 no one takes it from me 00:41:16.079 --> 00:41:18.339 but I lay it down 00:41:18.339 --> 00:41:19.239 of my own accord 00:41:19.239 --> 00:41:21.219 I have authority 00:41:21.219 --> 00:41:22.059 to lay it down 00:41:22.059 --> 00:41:24.179 and I have authority 00:41:24.179 --> 00:41:25.319 to take it up again 00:41:25.319 --> 00:41:27.959 this is the charge 00:41:27.959 --> 00:41:29.159 I have received 00:41:29.159 --> 00:41:30.399 from my father 00:41:30.399 --> 00:41:32.599 what makes him 00:41:32.599 --> 00:41:33.399 the good shepherd 00:41:33.400 --> 00:41:36.039 that he laid down 00:41:36.039 --> 00:41:36.639 his life 00:41:36.639 --> 00:41:37.619 for the sheep 00:41:37.619 --> 00:41:41.000 his death 00:41:41.000 --> 00:41:43.180 is our death 00:41:43.180 --> 00:41:47.280 and because he has authority 00:41:47.280 --> 00:41:48.480 to take his life 00:41:48.480 --> 00:41:49.240 up again 00:41:49.240 --> 00:41:50.800 as he did in his resurrection 00:41:50.800 --> 00:41:51.940 he has authority 00:41:51.940 --> 00:41:52.980 to give life 00:41:52.980 --> 00:41:53.880 to all 00:41:53.880 --> 00:41:55.079 who will come to him 00:41:55.079 --> 00:41:56.019 in faith 00:41:56.019 --> 00:41:59.780 he said 00:41:59.780 --> 00:42:00.780 there are still people 00:42:00.780 --> 00:42:02.179 not of the fold of Israel 00:42:02.179 --> 00:42:03.900 that he intends 00:42:03.900 --> 00:42:05.179 to bring into his flock 00:42:05.179 --> 00:42:08.000 are you one of them 00:42:08.000 --> 00:42:14.219 do you hear his voice 00:42:14.219 --> 00:42:17.059 because he said 00:42:17.059 --> 00:42:18.259 my sheep 00:42:18.259 --> 00:42:20.039 hear my voice 00:42:20.039 --> 00:42:22.179 and they know me 00:42:22.179 --> 00:42:24.960 do you hear his voice 00:42:24.960 --> 00:42:27.840 if you do 00:42:27.840 --> 00:42:30.139 harden not your heart 00:42:30.139 --> 00:42:32.440 listen 00:42:32.440 --> 00:42:34.720 and believe 00:42:34.720 --> 00:42:36.559 and obey