Worship Call 0813 Sign and testing

Worship Call 0813

Friday February 3 2023

Discipleship

Friends, it is finished! Hebrews 4:3-4  For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, “As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest,’” although his works were finished from the foundation of the world.  For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works. The creation of the world was completed by God in 6 days. He rested on the 7th day, and sanctified it, the Sabbath, Shabbat. When Yeshua died for the sins of the world his followers hurried to take Him down from the cross so they would not violate the commanded time to rest. [Luke 23:54-56] So the Messiah completed His work of redemption just before entering into Shabbat. As He died, He said, "It is finished!" [John 19:30] Finishing His work and entering the grave opened the way for humanity to enter His rest, the rest He entered after creating the world. Friends , Yeshua's "It is finished" is your invitation into His REST. Take time this Shabbat to refresh your awareness of it, the rest that belongs to those who truly believe. Cleanse your conscience through confession, and examine your relationships, knowing His forgiveness is able to restore you completely to peace, joy, and love. Shabbat Shalom! Your family in the Lord with much agape love, George, Baht Rivka, Obadiah and Elianna (Going to Christian College in Dallas, Texas) Daytona Beach, Florida

John 6:1–14

(ESV) — 1 After this Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias. 2 And a large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick. 3 Jesus went up on the mountain, and there he sat down with his disciples. 4 Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand. 5 Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a large crowd was coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat?” 6 He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he would do. 7 Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread would not be enough for each of them to get a little.” 8 One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to him, 9 “There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are they for so many?” 10 Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, about five thousand in number. 11 Jesus then took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed them to those who were seated. So also the fish, as much as they wanted. 12 And when they had eaten their fill, he told his disciples, “Gather up the leftover fragments, that nothing may be lost.” 13 So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves left by those who had eaten. 14 When the people saw the sign that he had done, they said, “This is indeed the Prophet who is to come into the world!”

6 After this Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias. 2 And a large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick. 3 Jesus went up on the mountain, and there he sat down with his disciples. 4 Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand.

have you ever had not a dajavu exactly but a repeated incident where you were given another chance to make maybe a different decision?

I have

and historically I believe here that the people of the book is given an opportunity to remember scripture and to make the right discernment .

If you take the historical account of Moses and lay beside the historical account of Jesus you will be surprized of all the many parallels.

Moses the type of Christ

Incarnation - the people witnessed Jesus and the miracles he performed bringing attention to his authority.

Exodus - the signs that moses presented to Pharaoh

2. Incarnation - people under oppression under rome

Exodus - oppression under Egypt

3. Incarnation - John 6:1 Crossing the sea

Exodus - the red sea crossing

4. INcarnation Jesus went up to the mountain John 6:3

Exodus Moses went up on the mountain

4 Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand.

a year prior to his Crucifixion. a time of ritual that takes our thinking back to the event

After seeing the signs

After the plagues

After the signs of healing the sick

Calling out of Egypt the opposors

Calling out from rome

Crossing the sea

Crossing the sea

Question of what they were going to eat in the wilderness

Question of what they were going to eat here

The people turned against Moses

They will turn against Jesus

Point of doctrine the pattern of history is to teach us lessons that we might avoid the failures of the previous generation.

Would the people meet the same disastorous conclustions as the people headed to the promised land?

The answer will be yes as many will die rejecting the offer of the bread of life.

So much more here than just that Jesus miraculously fed 5000. There is a point

4Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was near.

This was the second Passover that John mentioned. It is a year prior to the Crucifixion.

John 6:5 (ESV) — 5 Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a large crowd was coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat?”

They were near Philips home town Bethsaida. Philip would know where he could find bread.

John 6:6 (ESV) — 6 He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he would do.

πειράζω peirazō 38× to make proof or trial of, put to the proof,

Jesus not tempt one into sin.

Testing is the opportunity to exercise what has been given in the way revelation and teaching. The disciples had seen much and had been taught much up to this point

Points of testing

Passing

Failing

For he Jesus knew what he was about to do. Oh it is easy for Jesus just to go ahead and do it but to what benefit would the believer such as Phillip and the other disciples have by way of application. Jesus does it they see the miracle and they are left in awe but no better for the missed opportunity of exercise in faith.

John 6:7 (ESV) — 7 Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread would not be enough for each of them to get a little.”

The disciples had a substantial amount in the treasury between 6 and 8 months salary for one man. But it would only equate to a snack if that much for the five thousand.

Jesus presents the problem that would be reasoned out in the minds of his disciples and not reaching an understanding Jesus would then take care of business and at the same time provide for them a sign. That which would bring their thinking back to where it should have been.

Andrew at this time is looking for an answer as he takes inventory.

John 6:8–9 (ESV) — 8 One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to him, 9 “There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are they for so many?”

Mark 3:21–22 (ESV) — 21 And when his family heard it, they went out to seize him, for they were saying, “He is out of his mind.”

21When His own people heard of this

αὑτός autos 5,597× self, very; alone,

His close relations Family, or those who are closely associated with Him. Could be mother brothers and sisters.

Yes, Mother Mary. Yes, regardless of what she may have witnessed throughout her sons life may have had much talking to by negative influences that made here forget those things she once treasured in her heart bringing doubt.

The family and its reputation may have been the targets as it was not just the reputation of Jesus but His Brothers and sisters were feeling the pressure of their brother’s ministry. And since Jesus was constantly busy with ministry the Mother’s heart was being grieved over the attacks that the family was receiving. So it is not far in the stretch of imagination to see how even the sympathetic mother toward her other children would come to see her own son restrained.

Even today families become worried about their own reputation when a member of the family goes “Christian.” To the extent that they are willing to see harm come to the family member in order to maintain that reputation.

Again Jesus leads the way when it comes to what the followers will have to face by way of persecution, even from their own families.

Luke 14:26–27 (ESV) — 26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. 27 Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.

they went out to take custody of Him

The religious and political officials thought best not themselves to apprehend Jesus but conspired with those who were close to Jesus to arrest him on the grounds that He was a mad man, and was under demon influence.

22 And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem were saying, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and “by the prince of demons he casts out the demons.”

The conspiracy by the religious leaders and the Herodians had begun, as so often happens now with pastors and the wolves within the church as they look to destroy the reputation of the pulpit. These days the popular medium is Social Media.

People more apt to believe the lie than they do the truth. But then there are those who asks, “what about the Miracles? What about the healing and the causing the blind to see and the lame to walk?’

Matthew 10:25 (ESV) — 25 It is enough for the disciple to be like his teacher, and the servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign those of his household.

10:25 Beelzebul A deity in the ancient Near East. The name means “Baal the Prince” (see 2 Kgs 1:2–6). This figure is later identified with Satan and the demons.

Now with that negative press there would come those who began to disassociate with Jesus lest they themselves be ostrasized by the community as being associated with the Satan Beelzebul.

Mark 3:23–29 (ESV) — 23 And he called them to him and said to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan? 24 If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. 25 And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. 26 And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but is coming to an end. 27 But no one can enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man. Then indeed he may plunder his house. 28 “Truly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the children of man, and whatever blasphemies they utter, 29 but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin”—

23And He called them to Himself and began speaking to them in parables,

Jesus never operated predictably and this one thing that must have frustrated and infuriated the enemies of Jesus.

They could never maneuver Jesus in a predictable pattern.

Instead of seeking to regain and hold on to his own reputation by such words as

You don’t understand

You are being lied to

Let me make it clear

He begins to speak in parables confusing his opposition even more.

παραβολή parabolē 50× a placing one thing by the side of another; a comparing; a parallel case cited in illustration; a comparison, simile, similitude,

this marks the time of the falling away. This marks the time that those who had a great zeal for the Lord