Sermon Tone Analysis

It is here where we witness the the miraculous work of Jesus feeding the 5000 people.

IT was an account recorded by all four gospels and even displays another account as well.

The apostles thought it important to share with us this truth.

Second, we learn from this that he can use a very small thing if it is committed to him.

It has been said: “God must delight in using ordinary people with ordinary gifts because he made so many of us!”

Consider Gideon, an unknown young man from the “least” family in his tribe (his own word).

But God only used this ordinary man after he taught him not to depend upon human power (Judges 7).

In the New Testament Paul gave voice to the truth that God does not need the extraordinary when he said:

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”

Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.…

For when I am weak, then I am strong.

(2 Corinthians 12:9, 10)

Paul also explained why God delights to use us in our ordinariness and weakness: “But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us” (2 Corinthians 4:7).

God uses common clay jars like us so that there will be no mistake as to where the power comes from.

We so often think he wants and needs our strengths, and he does use them when they are committed to him.

But what about our barley loaves, our ordinariness, our weaknesses?

The truth is, these are harder to give to God.

If you are eloquent, it is easy to say, “God, here is my eloquence.

Take and use it.”

If you are a good business person, it is simple to say, “God, you can have my administrative ability.”

But it is another thing to give God your weaknesses.

Elizabeth Elliot expresses the idea this way:

If the only thing you have to offer is a broken heart, you offer a broken heart.

So in a time of grief, the recognition that this is material for sacrifice has been a very great strength for me.

Realizing that nothing I have, nothing I am will be refused on the part of Christ I simply give it to Him as the little boy gave Jesus his five loaves and two fishes—with the same feeling of the disciples when they said, “What is the good of that for such a crowd?”

Naturally in almost anything I offer to Christ, my reaction would be, “What is the good of that?”

The point is, the use He makes of it is His blessing.

One final point: Jesus only worked when the loaves were put into his hands in willing consecration.

We are only required to bring what we have.

Will you give?

This is the way the Bread of Life goes out to the world.

John’s account of this miracle says that “The Jewish Passover Feast was near” (6:4).

In addition, the mention of “green grass” in Mark 6:39 verifies the season.

Thus, many among the crowd were Passover pilgrims.

It was just after Israel celebrated its first Passover in the Promised Land with Joshua that the miraculous manna ceased (Joshua 5:10–12).

Now, just before Passover, the Lord miraculously supplied bread.

These associations were certainly in Jesus’ mind.

The vocabulary in this miracle passage had a purposeful resemblance with that used at the Lord’s Table in Mark 14, where many virtually identical terms and phrases were used.

John’s account of the miracle was followed by Jesus walking on water (6:16–24), and then Jesus’ Bread of Life Discourse in which Jesus identified himself as the “Bread of life … the bread that comes down from heaven” (6:25–53, especially vv.

48–50).

The feeding of the 5,000 was meant to instruct us as to the meaning of Communion.

The cup and the bread tell us that Christ’s life was given as an atonement for our sins.

It is from his death and resurrection that we have life.

But the feeding of the 5,000 also tells us that he truly feels for us with compassionate mercy; that he omnipotently provides for us through his creative power; that he fully satisfies us with his bread; and finally that he calls us to give what we have to him, that he might share the Bread of Life with the multitudes who are like sheep without a shepherd.

he feeding of the five thousand is the only miracle of Jesus recorded by all four Gospels (also ; ; ).

Furthermore, and record a feeding of four thousand.

These six accounts of a feeding of a multitude show how important the early church considered them to be.

The miracle dramatically sets forth Jesus as a man of great compassion for human needs and as the supplier of such needs when ordinary resources are insufficient.

It emphasizes the authority of Jesus in the natural world.

Brooks, J. A. (1991).

Mark (Vol.

23, p. 107).

Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers.

It is here where we witness the the miraculous work of Jesus feeding the 5000 people.

IT was an account recorded by all four gospels and even displays another account as well.

The apostles thought it important to share with us this truth.

“Jesus is a man of great compassion for human needs and is the supplier of such needs when ordinary resources are insufficient.”

Even in the Lords Prayer Jesus shows us how we ought to pray and the necessities of life were found in the prayer.

That we would turn to the Lord for the supplies of our needs.

That we would see Him as the source and supplier of our needs and go to Him as such.

Not trusting in the provision but rather in the Provider.

God cares about your needs being met but not just for the sake of your needs being met.

He cares more about you seeing Him as the supplier of your needs.

Not trusting in the supplies He brings but rather in Him who is able to supply.

Yet in our prideful ways we do not turn to the the Supplier of all our needs in our time of need but rather to human strength and effort.

This is not a complement to the church but rather a rebuke.

God can meets our needs and proves himself to be able to do so.

We need to continually remind ourselves that God does not supply and meet our needs for the sake of coming through but that we may always trust in Him.

The Lord knows where you are at and the circumstances surrounding you being here.

Will you seek the Lord who is the provider not for the gifts HE gives but because of the LIFE He has.

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Pray.

If we remember last week, Jesus sends out the twelve disciples to go preach repentance and do mighty works by the power of Jesus who has sent them out.

Sandwhiched in the middle of this story is the death of John the Baptist who was beheaded for standing for righteousness and the Truth of God.

REPORT GIVEN: The disciples return after their missionary journey they have come back and give a report to Jesus of all the things that had transpired.

Jesus calls them to REST:

V.31, Come aside and rest awhile in a deserted place.

For there were many coming and going and didn’t even have time to eat.

Rest is important to ministering.

This truth we see time and time again in the gospel of mark revealing the importance Jesus thought it to be.

It is to easy to get burned out because there are so many coming and going and great things happening but we must pull aside at times.

But in the time of our rest what happens when it doesn’t transpire like we think it should.

What if Gods plans and our plans don’t line up?

The multitude sees Jesus and His disciples getting in the boat and it says that they ran on foot to where the boat was heading.

When Jesus came out and saw the disciples HE had great compassion.

Is this how you would receive such interruption?

The much needed rest ruined by the multitude who came desiring attention.

IT appears that it would never let up.

Yet Jesus’ response was compassion not anger.

Even when it is revealed later of their hearts that they didn’t seek him because of who He was but rather that they may be amazed.

That they may see miracles work.

Many didn’t believe in Him.

What the disciples saw as a nuisance Jesus saw as an opportunity.

He looked and saw them as Sheep without a shepherd.

So He began to teach them many things.

They were misguided uninformed of the truths of life and the path to true life.

They had been weighed down by the tradition of the religious leaders and blinded by their false teachings.

This was the heart of the sermon on the mount.

Where Jesus begins to counteract the teachings of the land with the truth of God.

The day is now far spent and evening is coming and the disciples come to Jesus in V. 35.

This is a deserted place.