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The Feeding of the Five Thousand
Mark 6:33-44
I. Intro
a.
This past Friday night after biblestudy, Phil said one of his friends said that he as studying through Exodus and he thought it was one of the most boring books in the bible
i.
He said this because it was a stark contrast to the reality of the truth that is revealed in Exodus and all of scripture
b.
When we examine the miracles of Jesus, they are not only divinely directed, but also the surrounding details, the circumstances as well
i.
It is definitely true of the feeding of the 5,000
ii.
It teaches us more than the power of Jesus, there are greater revelations that will not appear at first glance of the passage
1.
That is what should excite a true student of Scripture, to marvel at the inspiration, God is organized, competent, you see the sovereignty of God and His divine purpose being revealed, verse by verse
c. Theological parallels of Jesus and Moses
i.
But it presents Him as the second Moses
a.
Those who attend Friday nights may see the similarity in our passage today
2. We see the place of the occurrence, a “solitary place” literally a desert place which parallels the wilderness
3. Jesus proclaiming Himself to be the Bread of Heaven corresponds to the manna of the exodus
4. The provision of food by Jesus symbolized what it symbolized for Moses- God’s saving grace in rescuing His people from bondage and sustaining them to their destination, the Promised Land.
Reading of the Passage
Opening Prayer
II.
Compassionate Care, v.34
a. Intense word which finds it’s root in the Greek
i.
vicera, the stomach
ii.
NT has the idea of “tender mercy” sympathetic emotion
iii.
Jesus felt this from the pit of His stomach
1.
I often wonder why the church no longer has the compassion for the world, the lost as Christ
a.
When we examine rise of modern society out of the Dark Ages
i.
It was the church that led the Renaissance movement
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Education, higher learning, universities began with the monks, the church
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When we look at hospitals- began with the church
iv.
When we look at orphanages and other social welfare organizations, Red Cross, Salvation Army- the church or Christians
1.
More and more of the social welfare are being shifted from the work of the church and found themselves as secular programs driven by bureaucracy
2. And the church- left inept, laborless
a.
The service for the body, let alone the social needs of our society have become a loveless burden
b. Could it be because we lack the tender mercy that originates from the stomach?
i.
Friday night, after church I stopped for gas, man offered to fill my tank- he seemed like a nice man
1. Did we not give thinking what we give will never be replenished?
a.
If that truly is our mindset, it will become a reality
I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.
"Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.
So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches?
Luke 16:9-11
b.
2.
He looked upon the thousands that have gathered, why have they gathered?
They needed something, someone, the Messiah, they were lost, they were in pain, they were in need
a.
They were like lost sheep, shepherdless sheep, defenseless, lost and unable to feed themselves
3. What did Jesus do?
a. Did he throw His hands up, did he calculate that there was just too much to be asked of Him, that he had a family, that he had work on Monday morning, that he had a paper due the next week
b.
You must realize the situations Jesus and the disciples were in
i.
He had just received news of the death of His cousin, John the Baptist, they had just went away for the burial, then they set off to a remote place w~/o time to even eat
1.
They were so busy ministering
2. As they were coming back, there was even a larger crowd now awaiting them
ii.
End of v. 34 He began to teach them many things
1. Interesting case that came up in Massachusetts in 1928 concerning man who was walking on the docks and fell in
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The sunbather was sued but the planiffs lost- the court ruled that the sunbather had no legal obligations to help the drowning man
b. Cain’s presupposition is true, we are not our brother’s keepers- by law, by default of our sins nature, we are not obligated to help
c.
But the law of Christ states otherwise
This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us.
And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
17If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?
18Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. 1 John 3:16-18
Since you have in obedience to the truth purified your souls for a sincere love of the brethren, *fervently* love one another from the heart, 1 Peter 1:22
c. Regardless if you are a believer or not, if you cannot grasp the tender compassion that Jesus has for you, you will never know who Jesus is
i.
We are taught that the love is not an emotion but action, commitment, but it does not totally negate the emotion- Jesus felt it
1.
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to */sympathize/* with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet was without sin.
Heb.
4:15
d. 9x in the NT it is recorded that Jesus had compassion
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At times of sickness, other times in effects of sin, such as the death of His friend Lazarus
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It was His deep compassion that he went to the cross for you
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It was this deep compassion that drove Him to this crowd
III.
Omnipotent Care, v.35-41
a.
The day was coming to an end
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