2018-09-05 Mark 8
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In those days there was again a large crowd, and they had nothing to eat. He called the disciples and said to them,
“I have compassion on the crowd, because they’ve already stayed with me three days and have nothing to eat.
If I send them home hungry, they will collapse on the way, and some of them have come a long distance.”
His disciples answered him, “Where can anyone get enough bread here in this desolate place to feed these people?”
“How many loaves do you have?” he asked them. “Seven,” they said.
He commanded the crowd to sit down on the ground. Taking the seven loaves, he gave thanks, broke them, and gave them to his disciples to set before the people. So they served them to the crowd.
They also had a few small fish, and after he had blessed them, he said these were to be served as well.
They ate and were satisfied. Then they collected seven large baskets of leftover pieces.
About four thousand were there. He dismissed them.
And he immediately got into the boat with his disciples and went to the district of Dalmanutha.
God provides for his followers.
God provides for his followers.
God provides for his folowers?
God provides for his folowers?
In those days there was again a large crowd, and they had nothing to eat. He called the disciples and said to them,
“I have compassion on the crowd, because they’ve already stayed with me three days and have nothing to eat.
If I send them home hungry, they will collapse on the way, and some of them have come a long distance.”
Jesus saw that the crowd did not follow for a handout, but instead for the right reasons.
Jesus saw that the crowd did not follow for a handout, but instead for the right reasons.
In those days there was again a large crowd, and they had nothing to eat. He called the disciples and said to them,
“I have compassion on the crowd, because they’ve already stayed with me three days and have nothing to eat.
If I send them home hungry, they will collapse on the way, and some of them have come a long distance.”
Illus: A major theme in scripture is God’s provision for his people.
We need to be clear.... God does not exist to simply give us what we want.
He does not exist to make us rich.
There is a fundamental problem with this line of thinking, God does not exist for us. He does not exist for our wants and desires.
Instead, as we follow God, God provides for what we need. It is not God who follows our directions, but instead, we follow God’s directions and God provides for what we need.
If that’s how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and thrown into the furnace tomorrow, won’t he do much more for you—you of little faith?
So don’t worry, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear?’
For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be provided for you.
We can’t become so callous to those who abuse the system that we do not have compassion for those God calls us to.
We can’t become so callous to those who abuse the system that we do not have compassion for those God calls us to.
In those days there was again a large crowd, and they had nothing to eat. He called the disciples and said to them,
“I have compassion on the crowd, because they’ve already stayed with me three days and have nothing to eat.
If I send them home hungry, they will collapse on the way, and some of them have come a long distance.”
Illus: Confession time, when we look at others in need, how quickly do we judge the motives of people without an ounce of compassion.
Truthfully our hearts look for reasons not to help more than they look for reasons to help.
This goes for strangers, foreigners, friends, family.
Deep down we do not see the abundance God has given us as a way to give, but instead as a treasure to be protected from all abusers.
Illus: (CSB) 17 If anyone has this world’s goods and sees a fellow believer in need but withholds compassion from him—how does God’s love reside in him? 18 Little children, let us not love in word or speech, but in action and in truth.
17 If anyone has this world’s goods and sees a fellow believer in need but withholds compassion from him—how does God’s love reside in him? 18 Little children, let us not love in word or speech, but in action and in truth.
Do you have doubt triggered amnesia?
Do you have doubt triggered amnesia?
His disciples answered him, “Where can anyone get enough bread here in this desolate place to feed these people?”
“How many loaves do you have?” he asked them. “Seven,” they said.
He commanded the crowd to sit down on the ground. Taking the seven loaves, he gave thanks, broke them, and gave them to his disciples to set before the people. So they served them to the crowd.
They also had a few small fish, and after he had blessed them, he said these were to be served as well.
They ate and were satisfied. Then they collected seven large baskets of leftover pieces.
The disciples should have had a Dej-a-vu moment here.
The disciples should have had a Dej-a-vu moment here.
His disciples answered him, “Where can anyone get enough bread here in this desolate place to feed these people?”
“How many loaves do you have?” he asked them. “Seven,” they said.
He commanded the crowd to sit down on the ground. Taking the seven loaves, he gave thanks, broke them, and gave them to his disciples to set before the people. So they served them to the crowd.
They also had a few small fish, and after he had blessed them, he said these were to be served as well.
They ate and were satisfied. Then they collected seven large baskets of leftover pieces.
Illus: God is always faithful. That said, every time life goes out of control we get the case of spiritual amnesia.
This is what I mean, we forget every time God has been faithful every time God has provided, every time God was in control.
Instead we make the problem in front of us far bigger than it actually is.
IN fact, we cease to look to God, because we become so consumed with the issue at hand.
It is not God who falters, it is us.
Illus:James 1:5–8 (CSB)
5 Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God—who gives to all generously and ungrudgingly—and it will be given to him. 6 But let him ask in faith without doubting. For the doubter is like the surging sea, driven and tossed by the wind. 7 That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord, 8 being double-minded and unstable in all his ways.,
Is your belief in God limited by your own doubts?
Is your belief in God limited by your own doubts?
His disciples answered him, “Where can anyone get enough bread here in this desolate place to feed these people?”
“How many loaves do you have?” he asked them. “Seven,” they said.
He commanded the crowd to sit down on the ground. Taking the seven loaves, he gave thanks, broke them, and gave them to his disciples to set before the people. So they served them to the crowd.
They also had a few small fish, and after he had blessed them, he said these were to be served as well.
They ate and were satisfied. Then they collected seven large baskets of leftover pieces.
Illus: We are far more controlling of our lives that we realize. We look for human solutions to problems because we have trouble seeing beyond ourselves.
This shows that we are not living by faith, but instead placing ourselves as the authority and power in our own lives.
God will take you to places where you cannot control the world around you so that you have to see a need for him.
When you get to that place, God will be there to show you that he is able.
Illus:John 20:27 (CSB) 27 Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here and look at my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Don’t be faithless, but believe.”
27 Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here and look at my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Don’t be faithless, but believe.”
In you faithlessness, God is faithful.
In you faithlessness, God is faithful.
About four thousand were there. He dismissed them.
God never ceases to work.
God never ceases to work.
Illus: Great news, our God is a God who is faithful when we are faithless.
He pulled peter out of the water.
He showed Thomas his scars.
He forgave Paul.
He gave grace over and over to the people of Israel.
He swallowed Jonah in a whale.
He brought Elijah out of his doubts.
He forgave peter of his denials.
He gives forgiveness and grace, because when we are faithless, God is faithful.
Illus:Lamentations 3:22–24 (CSB)
22 Because of the Lord’s faithful love
22 Because of the Lord’s faithful love
we do not perish,
for his mercies never end.
23 They are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness!
24 I say, “The Lord is my portion,
therefore I will put my hope in him.”