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Matthew chapter 14 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Matthew chapter 14, Let's pray. Heavenly Father, we love you, we
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  love you, Lord Jesus, we love everything about you.
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  Lord, teach us your ways today. We sit at your feet today.
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  We are your disciples, Father. Let us produce fruit, Lord.
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  Let us produce a harvest, Father, in the name of Jesus, I
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  pray that we'll be your workers, Lord, that we'll get out of our
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  own way. We'll get out of our own minds,
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  God, and we will put our hands to the plow.
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  We'll lock eyes with you. We'll be found.
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  Faithful God to you, Lord, I pray in the name of Jesus, you
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  supernaturally fill us and fuel us.
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  Holy Spirit, teach us your ways today.
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  We love you, Lord Jesus. It's all about you, Lord Jesus,
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  and it's in your name we pray. Amen.
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  Start in verse one. At that time Herod the Tetrarch
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  heard of the fame of Jesus. Who is this Herod the Tetrarch?
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  History has a lot to say about these characters.
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  Here history proves the Bible. Friends.
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  This is Herod who was ruler over 4 parts, but actually there were
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  only three. It was just a name that was
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  given. The tetrarch means 4 parts 2.
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  And he said unto his servants, This is John the Baptist, He has
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  risen from the dead, and therefore mighty works he does
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  show forth themselves in him. So here his guilty conscience,
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  which Matthew's going to tell us all about.
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  But Herod's guilty conscience was eating at him. 3 For Herod
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  had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for
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  Herodias's sake, his brother Philip's wife.
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  So here Matthew was so slick in how he portrays this whole scene
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  here, and you can actually see these are accurate historical
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  figures that lived and they are proven by sources outside of the
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  Bible. And I want you to know
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  something, friends, that the Bible is an accurate source to
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  go by. And all the miracles, The
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  Walking on the water, the coins in the fish's mouth, the rolling
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  of the stone, it's all proved to be true, friends.
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  The great flood, the Egyptian, the Israelites coming out of
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  Egypt, All of it, friends, is true.
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  And it's real and we can trust it.
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  And here, Matthew being the tax collector, being the detail
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  oriented person that he would have to be to hold that office,
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  he's showing you that there is trustworthy evidence of all of
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  these things that he is showing us.
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  You can put your faith in it, friends.
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  You're not going to be duped by believing every single word in
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  the Bible, no matter what the world says.
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  So here you can see this character, Herodias.
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  She was a a true historical figure and she was the
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  granddaughter of Caesar Augustus.
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  And you can see Herod, his brother Philip, and they, Philip
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  would have been Herodias's uncle and she was married to him.
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  And this was all they kept it in the family here.
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  And John the Baptist knew that Herod the Tetrarch taking her as
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  his wife was wrong and that it was going to bring about the
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  judgment of God upon the Jews in that land.
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  And he was calling it out. And perhaps he didn't just call
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  it out once. Perhaps he made a campaign of it
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  and it bothered Herodias so much.
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  And Matthew's going to tell us what happened, John for 4/4.
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  John said unto him, It is not lawful for you to have her five.
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  And when he would have put him to death, he feared the
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  multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.
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  So here Herod feared man more than he feared God, and a lot of
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  us get into trouble with the fear of man.
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  We fear what men would say about us more than we fear what this
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  good book that we hold in our hands has to say. 6:00 But when
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  Herod's birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced
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  before them and pleased Herod. This was a very promiscuous
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  dance. This is what you still see in
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  your culture of mothers who they have some kind of sick pleasure
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  in seeing their daughters grow up too fast and they don't teach
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  modesty and purity, and they are dressing their daughters in
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  despicable garb and manner and hear Herodias in the nature of
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  our human, our fallen human nature.
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  She has put her daughter to dancing in front of her stepdad
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  and he had guests there and it pleased him so much, this
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  despicable dance that her mother has put her up to.
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  Let's see what he has to say. 7 Whereupon he promised with an
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  oath to give her whatsoever she would ask.
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  So he made this promise in front of all of his dinner guests, and
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  I'm sure they were debaucherous in their drink with alcohol.
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  And he had promised her anything she asked for, and Herodias had
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  put her up to it. And let's see what she asks for
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  A and she being before instructed of her mother said
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  give me here John the Baptist's head in a charger.
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  This was premeditated friends. You can see the debased levels
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  that this woman had gone to. She was kept up at night by her
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  conscience and you can see it has eaten away.
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  It's much like Jezebel. It's much like whenever she was
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  in charge of Ahab. You can see it here how she has
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  charge of Herod, and you can see it all playing out here.
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  And she's using her young teenage daughter to win over the
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  favor of her drunken stepfather. And he could have said
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  absolutely not, but he feared being made a fool in front of
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  these men, his guests, his dinner guests, that he gave in
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  to the sick, monstrous request of this young teenage daughter
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  of Herodias 9. And the King was sorry,
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  nevertheless, for the oath's sake, and them that sat with him
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  at dinner, he commanded it to be given to her.
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  This would have been, and is, one of the most demonstrous
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  attacks on the faith that could ever be thought of.
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  John the Baptist had done nothing wrong.
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  He had run the race well, and here, because he had called them
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  out on their sin, he was murdered. 10 And he sent and
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  beheaded John in the prison. 11 And his head was brought in a
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  charger and given to the damsel, and she brought it to her
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  mother. You know, all of this is being
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  played out in a sick and twisted way, but it is reality and it is
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  what is actually what has happened in history, and it is
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  proven here. 12 And his disciples came and took up the
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  body and buried it, and went and told Jesus.
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  So the disciples went and tried to give him a proper burial.
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  But just remember that the blood of the martyr is the seed of the
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  gospel. 13 And when Jesus heard of it, he departed there by ship
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  into a desert place apart. And when the people had heard
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  thereof, they followed him on foot out of the cities.
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  Jesus was desirous to get alone with the Father.
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  Jesus often withdrew to desolate places.
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  He heard of this, his cousin being murdered, brutally
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  beheaded and brought about and paraded and showcased in a
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  charger which would have been a plate and his head's on the
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  plate. And the daughters giving this
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  gruesome scene being painted out for us on the pages and Jesus
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  his desires to go and be alone with the Father.
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  And here comes the multitudes out. 14 And when Jesus went
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  forth and saw a great multitude, he was moved with compassion
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  towards them, and he healed their sick.
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  Imagine that Jesus desires to be alone with the Father, but he
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  gives in and has compassion. He's moved in his innermost
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  being. He's moved in the deepest parts
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  of himself, and he heals and he gives.
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  Even whenever he's troubled, He gives.
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  And he's still interceding on your behalf, friend.
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  He's never, you are never a problem for Jesus.
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  I want you to know that Jesus is never annoyed with you, Fran.
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  You're never just a distraction to Jesus.
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  He never just wants to move through with whatever it your
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  request is so he can get on to the next thing.
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  Jesus is intentional with us. Jesus takes time with us.
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  Jesus cares about everything. He was moved with compassion.
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  He healed their sick. Imagine that friends.
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  Imagine how Jesus, we're not a disruption to Jesus.
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  We're the thing. We're the main thing at that
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  time for Jesus. 15 And when it was evening, his disciples came
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  to him, saying, This is a desert place, and the time is now
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  passed. Send the multitude away, that
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  they may go into the villages and buy themselves food. 16 But
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  Jesus said unto them, They do not need to depart.
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  You give them something to eat. Jesus told Peter, If you love
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  me, you'll feed my sheep. He's telling the disciples here,
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  He's saying, no, they do not need to leave.
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  And he's testing their faith here.
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  He's showing them that he is God.
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  You know, they had not yet come to that epiphany.
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  They had not yet come to the reality that he was omnipotent
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  and can do anything. He's telling them they don't
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  need to depart. He's about to.
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  He's about to bring forth a miracle.
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  And if they could call back the time of the wedding whenever he
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  turned the water into wine, they would know that he is able to do
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  anything. And their first request should
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  have been, Lord, what do you want us to do?
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  These people are here and they've been here for a while
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  and they're getting hungry. What do you want us to do?
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  Should have been their first response, not send them away.
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  And that is what it looks like when we don't see people as a
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  distraction, when we see them as the main thing that we're going
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  to do for that period of time is to engage with these people and
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  share with them the love of Jesus.
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  That's the main thing, friends, sharing the love of Jesus.
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  Love your neighbor as yourself, and love the Lord thy God with
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  all your heart. They don't need to depart.
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  You give them something to eat. What a charge for us as
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  believers. They do not need to depart.
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  Don't send them away. You ask the Lord God to provide
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  for them and let it flow through you his hands and feet. 17 And
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  they say unto him, We have here but 5 loaves and two fishes.
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  He said Bring them here to me. Bring the little bit that you
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  have. Don't discount the little bit.
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  Don't think that it doesn't matter.
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  Every little bit counts and God can multiply it.
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  Praise God. 19 And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the
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  grass, and he took the five loaves and the two fish, and
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  looking up to heaven he blessed and he broke.
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  And he gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to
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  the multitude. Here is a great banquet.
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  He tells everybody this is a celebratory time.
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  Sit down, let's dine and Sup together.
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  And it's no different today, friends.
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  God is still doing miracles. He can make the bread truck
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  breakdown in front of the orphanage.
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  He can back that up with the milk truck right afterwards and
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  the orphans get fed and we get fed.
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  Friends, praise God, Hallelujah how He brings about our feeding.
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  He is Our Daily Bread. He is the bread of life.
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  He is the wine. He is the bread broken for us.
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  He is the living water. Praise God, Hallelujah there is
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  no lack in His house. Friends, don't waste what He
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  gives you. Don't discount the small things,
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  bring them here to me, he says. Sit down on the grass. 20 And
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  they did eat all and were filled.
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  Everybody ate, they were filled and they took up the fragments
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  that remained 12 baskets full. So not only did the little boy
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  get back what he gave, but he gave he got back more.
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  And that's what happens in the Lord's house.
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  The little bit that you get somehow God in his God math, God
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  is able to give you back even more than what you give.
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  Friends, do not forget this biblical principle.
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  It is seen right here in the pages of Matthew chapter 14.
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  You can see how there was much leftover and all the little boy
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  had to do is bring it to the Master. 21 And they that had
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  eaten were about 5000 men. Besides the women and children.
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  Perhaps 15,000 people were fed that day and it would have
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  looked like Jesus was amassing this army to overthrow the Roman
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  government. 22 Straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get
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  into the ship and to go before him unto the other side, while
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  he sent the multitudes away. So there was some urgency here,
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  and Jesus says, go, go, go, go, go.
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  There is an urgent sending away of the disciples.
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  These people would have wanted to make Jesus the king.
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  They would have tried to King Jesus right then and there and
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  it wasn't his time, and it would have he knew it was going to
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  come a different way, that he did not come to overthrow the
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  Roman government in the way that they wanted him to or expected
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  him to. He came to be the Savior of the
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  world. He is coming back friends.
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  The second time He's not coming back.
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  Meek as a lamb led to the slaughter.
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  He's coming back with fire in his eyes.
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  He's coming back with A2 edged sword out of his mouth.
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  He's coming back the way that they wanted him to at this time.
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  But it wasn't his time. And he told the disciples, go,
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  go, go, go, go, go out of here. And what happens next?
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  He sent the multitudes away, 23 And when he had sent the
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  multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray, and
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  when the evening was come, he was there alone.
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  So he got what he wanted. If you remember, before the
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  multitudes came, he was trying to get a loan, 24 But the ship
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  was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with the waves, for the
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  wind was contrary. 25 And in the 4th watch of the night, Jesus
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  went unto them, walking on the sea.
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  This was literal, friends. This is not figurative.
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  This is not allegorical. This is literal, Friends, Jesus
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  walking on the water. It's probably around 3:00 in the
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  morning. Between 3:00 and 6:00 in the
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  morning, Jesus is walking on the water.
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  There is a great sea. There's a great storm on the
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  sea, tossing this boat to and fro, and here comes Jesus. 26
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  When the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were
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  troubled, saying It is a spirit, and they cried out for fear.
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  They thought it was a ghost. 27 But straightway Jesus spoke unto
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  them, saying, Be of good cheer it is.
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  I be not afraid. That's what he says to you,
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  friend. Don't be afraid. 28 Peters
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  answered him and said, Lord, if it be you, bid me to come unto
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  you under the water. This is him calling out to the
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  King. 29 And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out
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  of the ship, he walked on the water to go to Jesus.
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  So two people have walked on water before, Friends. 30 But
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  when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid, and beginning to
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  sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me. 31 And immediately
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  Jesus stretched forth his hand, and he called him, and he said,
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  Oh, you of little faith, why did you doubt?
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  And when they were come unto the ship, the wind ceased.
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  And when they were in the ship, come and worship him, and
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  saying, Of a truth, you are the Son of God. 34 And they were
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  gone over. They came into the land of
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  Geneser. And when the men of that place
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  had knowledge of him, they sent out into all the country
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  roundabout, and brought unto him all that were diseased.
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  And they besought him that they might only touch the hem of his
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  garment. And as many as touched were made
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  perfectly whole. Goodness gracious, we've covered
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  a lot of ground there. Peter fell because he was
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  duplicious in his mind. He was not locked eyes with
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  Jesus. And you can see just touching
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  the hem of His garment, you can see the miracle of making it
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  over to the side in moments. Notice there's so much here in
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  this chapter and it has been preached on so many times, but
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  just know that we need to keep our eyes on Jesus and we will
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  not sink. That is the premise here.
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  Jesus says don't be afraid, don't doubt.
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  O you of little faith, increase your faith, friends, raise the
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  faith over your head. Your head's going to tell you
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  that there are so many things that we need to.
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  Think about your head's going to tell you that the reality is
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  everything that you can see and taste and smell and hear and the
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  reality is all around you, the physical world.
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  But Jesus speaks a better word. He says don't doubt owe you a
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  little faith, increase your faith.
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  Know that he can do anything. Know that he is the God of ages.
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  Know that He is able and He is willing and believe with all
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  your heart. Believe with all your mind that
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  God can do anything, that Jesus is God.
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  Believe with all your heart and mind that the Holy Spirit lives
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  inside of you. Believe with all your heart and
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  mind that everything is going exactly according to plan.
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  Let's get out of the boat friends, and walk on the water
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  with Him today. I hope you've been blessed by
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  this chapter. I know I sure have.
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  I'm praying for every single one of you.
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  I love you. We'll see you back here
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  tomorrow. God bless you.