Sermon Tone Analysis

Introduction:

Life can seem to leave us wanting the Longer we live.

Often our dreams are shattered, relationships Broken, careers derail or don’t go anything like we dreamed, children struggle, marriages that end in divorce, illness, declining health, cancer, artharidus, and finally death!

John Cougar Mallencamp says in his Iconic song, Jack and Dianne

John Cuger Malencamp says in his Iconic song

Jack he says: "Oh yeah, life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone" Oh yeah He says: "life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone"

Hold onto 16 as long as you can, changes come around real soon make us women and men.

Hang onto your youth.

Growing up and certainly growing old will be hard and dissatisfying.

Can we find deep joy, happiness, after the youthful years have past and perhaps our first loves and best health have left us with aging bodies and forgetful minds?

I’m saying Jesus is Gloriously enough in my title but then in my intro I’m saying what appears to be just the opposite.

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us or let’s us down.

Many preachers today will stand in front of their congregation and tell them that if they have have enough faith God will meet all your worldly desires for comfort wealth and prosperity.

That’s an easy and popular message to preach.

Life fails us or let’s us down.

Many preachers today will stand in front of their congregation and tell them that if they have have enough faith God will meet all your worldly desires for comfort wealth and prosperity.

That’s an easy and popular message to preach.

So easy to preach some of them will hop on their personal ministry funded jets and fly to Africa and Asia and preach this prosperity Gospel to them.

They will then take what little money these people have and fill their bags and planes and fly home richer than when they left and leaving those they preached to with a false gospel and less resources to survive .

There is one big problem with preaching that message and that is that it is absolutely not true and from satan Himself.

These preachers they are preaching this false gospel so they themselves can get rich at the expense of the poor often.

It is evil!

Plain and simple.

Jesus did not come to give you everything you desire but to change your desires.

In our story Jesus is miraculously feeding 5,000 people with 5 barley loafs and 2 fish.

The main idea is found in verese

John 6.

to say don’t simply seek to have your stomachs full but seek the bread of life itself which is Him.

Do not seek the gift but the giver Himself

What if a full stomach and having all our needs and wants met are the worst things for us?

Don’t we see this with children of wealthy parents often it ruins them.

God let’s some pieces of our lives brake and shatter that He can reveal Himself and our real needs.

Is Jesus really enough?

If so, Why doesn’t it aways feel true.

Mellencamps song struck a raw nerve with his audience like a dental probe finding an exposed nerve root.

The root nerve is our desire for satisfaction, Joy, Happiness.

We are created for it.

God has placed in us a deep desire for joy.

Happiness.

This is God given and not wrong.

The reason Mellencamps song strikes this nerve is that we all try to fill this desire in similar and sinful ways.

The very song is about a teenage unmarried couple fulfilling their sexual passions.

Fleeting and empty pleasure.

If we give ourselves to them we find ourselves wanting.

How we go about finding our Joy is what God is challenging in this text here in

Let’s look at the text

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

Why was the crowd following Him?

They Saw Signs he was doing on the sick.

Maybe this miracle worker can help me too?

Why does Jesus ask Philip where they can buy bread?

It says in verse 6 ......To test him.

What kind of test was this?

Note Andrew’s response.

There is a boy with 5 barley loaves and 2 fish, but what are they for so many?

Does Andrew really not think that Jesus can miraculously make food or more food.

Hasn’t he seen Jesus do this and more already.

What is the test here from Jesus?

I think he is once again revealing that they still do not believe in Him and His identity as God.

If they did believe, surely they would know He can do this miracle of feeding the 5,000.

How could the closest to him miss it?

You might think by this time they would say “Hey Jesus, can you just do one of your miracles so these people can eat?

Can you imagine the conversation between Andrew and Phillip?

After the crowds have been feed Andrew and Phillip are gathering all the fragments as Jesus commanded.

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Phillip sets his basket on the ground and sits down with his basket between his legs.

He says to Andrew as Andrew joins him for a short break and is stretching out his lower back from picking up the bread fargments.

Phillip says with a smile “ I guess I overestimated the cost for lunch?”

Andrew smiles widely and says and I grossly underestimated that boys magic bread and fish.

He did it again didn’t he? Yes he did brother!

Why are we so slow to see it coming?

We have watched him with the man at pool, weve seen him heal the soldiers son from miles away, he turns water to wine, leads hundreds to faith in Samaria through a women of bad reputation, I just don’t get it?

How can we be so thick headed?

Andrew laughs out loud.

My wife always said i was slow to see the obvious.

I guess she was right.

Phillip laughs a luagh of acknowledgement.

Well lets get his stuff up and head across to the other side of the sea.

One last question Philip.

Do you think this fish here in my hand ever really swam in the sea or the barley ever grew in a field?

Did he just create this stuff out of thin air.

Only He knows the answer to that Andrew.

Do you realize we are walking around this earth with the God of the Universe.

Why do we get this glorious privedge?

Why did he chose us of all people?

Again brother, only He knows but I will be forever thankful.

Me too

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john 6.15

The King of all Kings here refuses to be their earthy King.

BAck to His Identity and His bigger story.

He is here to reveal Himself as God in the flesh.

They need to see the sign so gatgher trhe bread into the baskets.

They want to maake Him king here but jesus slips away again.

That would serve their immediate needs perhaps but Jesus knew and saw the bigger picture.

He did not need to be their king in this place but for all eternity.

We have a similar response to Jesus when we try and use Him for our wealth, comfort, ease.