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The Feeding of the 4,000 | Pastor Daniel Batarseh (Gospel of Mark Bible Study Series) · Bible Study with Pr. Daniel Batarseh | Verse by Verse Series | Maranatha Bible Church - Chicago

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  If you have a copy of God's Word in your hands, please meet me in
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  the Gospel of Mark in chapter 8. Brother, thank you for your
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  precious prayer. Forgive me if I pray once again.
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  I think I have permission. Jesus said my house shall be
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  called the House of prayer. Mark chapter 8 We'll read these
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  verses and then we will pray and invoke the name of the Lord and
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  ask for His help because we need the Holy Spirit of God.
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  In Mark 81 we read in those days when again a great crowd had
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  gathered and they had nothing to eat.
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  He called his disciples to him and said to them, I have
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  compassion on the crowd because they have been with me now three
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  days and have nothing to eat. And if I send them away hungry,
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  to their homes, they will faint on the way.
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  And some of them have come from far away.
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  And his disciples answered him, How can one feed these people
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  with bread here in this desolate place?
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  And he asked them, how many loaves do you have?
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  They said seven. And he directed the crowd to sit
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  down on the ground, And he took the seven loaves, and having
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  given thanks, he broke them and gave them to his disciples to
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  set before. The people and they set them
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  before the crowd, and they had a few small fish.
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  And having been having blessed them, he said that these also
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  should be set before them. And they ate and were satisfied.
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  And they took up the broken pieces, left over 7 baskets
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  full, and there were about 4000 people and he sent them away.
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  Lord, this is your word. We believe with every fiber of
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  our being that your word has power.
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  But, Lord, we also know that you promised the Holy Spirit the
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  gift of God. Yes, to indwell us, yes to seal
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  us, but Lord, to empower us to be witnesses, to give us the
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  Spirit of wisdom and revelation, to understand these things and
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  to declare them with boldness and courage.
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  And we pray that in this moment as we are exposed to the voice
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  of God. That we would experience the
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  presence of God and that Lord, the end result of this message
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  would indeed be a simple yet glorious thing.
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  That you would draw us closer to you in an intimate way.
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  What is the point, O God, if we just hear platitudes?
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  What is the point, O God, if we just learn information?
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  But our hearts do not come alive?
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  And so, Lord, we call upon your name in this service, and we ask
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  that you would be merciful to us.
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  And that our eyes would be open, that you would perform a miracle
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  for the soul, and that we would be able to behold the absolute
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  beauty and the infinite glory of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Bring us there, oh God. No charisma, no personality, no
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  craft of a message can do that work.
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  Only the Holy Spirit. And we ask that he would be ever
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  present, Please, oh God, to be in our midst.
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  In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
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  Another miracle. Of bread and fish, yes.
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  And there are some skeptics, some liberal scholars, who would
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  say that this is the same event that you and I studied not too
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  long ago when Jesus fed 5000, not including women and
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  children. And there are others who would
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  rightly acknowledge no, this is a different occurrence, and that
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  is accurate. It is a different occurrence.
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  And though you and I might confess that.
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  We might not know with confidence the purpose of it,
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  especially because it's so similar to the former, but the
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  very fact that this account is tucked in our Bibles should give
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  us enough encouragement to take the time to investigate it with
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  great attention, despite the resemblance.
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  What you and I have here is an invitation from God to consider
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  his. Mind and his heart.
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  And I think what you and I need to do in coming to this text in
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  order to draw as much SAP from it as possible is to compare it
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  with what we studied a few weeks ago.
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  And so as you have your hand there in mark chapter 8, as I'm
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  speaking, you can go to mark Chapter 6 and place your finger
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  there at verse 34, because we are going to go back and forth
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  in order to look at key distinctions between what seems
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  to be so similar. But containing enough contrast
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  for us to see, oh, there is truths for conviction, there are
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  truths for comfort here in this very account.
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  Can I pause here and give you a word of counsel whenever you
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  come to your Bibles? And I pray that you read your
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  Bibles as you read through the systematically from cover to
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  cover, you will indeed come into contact with what seems to be
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  repeating text. You may see something that
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  mirrors, something that you had just read, or something that was
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  in another neighborhood in the word of God.
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  When you come to that point, please resist the temptation to
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  glare over it. Do not bypass it.
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  Do not dismiss it. Recognize that God has put it in
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  there for a reason. And instead of just skimming
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  over those verses just so you can soothe your conscience, say
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  I didn't skip over this part of the Bible.
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  Pause. Pull out the text that you know
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  resembles it, and read it carefully and comparatively and
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  as you do that. You will see things begin to
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  surface and you will begin to see joy filled, life changing,
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  truths that will bless you. And I pray that as you see that
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  discipline being exercised with this very chapter right here,
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  you'd be inspired. That again, whenever you come to
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  a text that seems to be common or familiar or repetitive, it is
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  actually an invitation from God for greater revelation.
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  And so we come. Here and there are four main
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  points that I want to make in light of this text in comparison
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  to the other. And the first thing that I want
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  to bring to your attention is #1.
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  The one who made the predicament known.
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  The one who made the predicament known.
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  In those days when again a crowd had gathered and they had
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  nothing to eat, he called his disciples to him and said to
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  them. Now go to Mark chapter 6 and
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  verse 35 and you'll see at the feeding, the introduction to the
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  feeding of the 5000 something different and Mark 635 you'll
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  see. And when it grew late, his
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  disciples came to him and said. This is a desolate place and the
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  hour is now late. Send them away to go into the
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  surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves
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  something to eat. It's quite clear, isn't it?
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  When you come to the 4000, you see that it is Jesus who
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  introduces to the disciples A dilemma.
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  When you think back at the 5000, it was the disciples who
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  approached Jesus and made their problem known.
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  And when you. See that you realize that it's
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  it's not uncommon for people, including the disciples, to make
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  their needs known to Christ. What is uncommon though is for
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  Jesus to bring up an issue to his followers.
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  He went to the 12 and he said I have compassion on the crowd
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  because they've been here for a few days and.
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  If they head back, they might faint on the way.
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  Why is that difference important?
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  What do we learn from these things?
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  What do we see with these two references?
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  Well, mark Chapter 6 through the illustration of the disciples
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  coming to Jesus. You and I were encouraged to
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  bring our needs to Jesus. Bring your needs to Jesus.
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  Bring what you've observed to be a problem, and come to the one
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  who can solve it. But when you come to the feeding
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  of the 4000, what you are prepared to know?
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  Is be ready for Jesus to come and test you.
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  The 5000 Come to Jesus with your need.
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  The 4000 believe that Jesus will come to you with a test.
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  Was there a test included in the 5000?
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  Yes, but the emphasis of Jesus testing the faith of his own is
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  in this chapter and this is what we have to understand.
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  Christ is not seeking the advice or or the counsel of His
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  students by approaching them in this way.
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  His goal was to measure the growth, the growth and the
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  strength of their faith. You know when.
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  Jesus gives his test. It's not like how teachers
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  commonly give their exams to their students.
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  The Lord is in need of no evaluation to discover where
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  you're at. So why does he give his test
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  then? Why does the all knowing one
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  bring us through trials? In order to examine our faith.
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  Well, it's just for that. It is for you.
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  Listen carefully. It is for you to discover the
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  quality of your faith. It's for you to see it.
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  It's for you to recognize it. It's for you to be able to
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  observe it and to be able to say honestly where where is my
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  faith? And nothing proves the
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  sincerity. Nothing proves the strength of
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  one's faith more than trials. You can sing beautifully, you
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  can preach powerfully, but when a trial comes, your faith will
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  speak the loudest and they will come and when they do come.
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  It is then that you will know the true condition of your
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  convictions. And oh, when it shines through,
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  I pray that your faith does shine through.
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  There are manifold blessings as a result of it.
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  What are those manifold blessings?
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  Well, #1. When your faith stands, when it
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  is not moved, when it is only strengthened, as it goes through
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  that fire, you're strengthened. You personally will know a
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  greater peace. You personally will know a
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  greater assurance. You know a wise pastor.
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  Made a very brilliant observation when it comes to
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  believers who struggle with the assurance of their of their
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  salvation. And he had said this.
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  That it is. Usually younger people who
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  struggle with where they're at in their stance before a
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  righteous God. And when I heard that, I thought
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  to myself that's actually true when when I've encountered
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  people have said, how do I know I'm saved, it's usually those
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  who are fresh in the faith or those who haven't had much life
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  experience. What do you mean by that?
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  Because when you go through life.
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  Following Jesus, you will encounter various trials.
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  And when you go through those various trials and your faith
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  still stands, your assurance grows.
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  It grows. This is real.
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  This is in me. This is true.
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  This is not fake. This is not shallow soil here.
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  Oh no, this is the real deal. I still love him, though I
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  cannot see him. I still hoping him, though he
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  slays. Me.
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  You're strengthened. What about the other believers
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  who are watching you in your trial and your test?
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  They're encouraged. Look at brother so and so.
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  Still loving the Lord. Still serving the Lord though
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  there's so much trouble in his marriage, though there's so much
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  trouble with their children there.
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  They are still giving everything they have to Christ.
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  Oh, surely if it's possible in them, it's possible in me.
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  What about a watching, unbelieving, skeptical blasphemy
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  world? When they see your faith shine
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  as a result of that fire and draw, and we see their draws
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  being removed by the the surgeon's hand, are they not
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  challenged? Do they not at least question
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  and examine themselves to some degree while they see your hope
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  and the invisible but living God?
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  That's what Peter talks about on First Peter 17 when he says that
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  there is the tested genuineness of your faith.
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  And he said right before that that there are various trials,
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  don't be grieved by them because those trials are means to reveal
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  are you genuine and you see that, The believers see that and
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  the world sees that. And ultimately, at the end of
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  the day, Christ will praise it and commend it as your faith
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  endures until the end. But let's slow down with the
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  verses that we just read. Did you notice how the Lord in
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  verse two of chapter 8 expresses his compassion?
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  Verse two, I have compassion on the crowd.
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  Mark in six with the 5000 mentions Jesus compassion as
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  well, but not directly from the mouth of Jesus.
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  When compassion is mentioned in Mark chapter 6, it is narrated
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  by Mark. When we come here to Jesus with
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  the 4000, he himself says it. I have compassion on the crowd.
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  And when you compare again these two references, you realize the
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  absolute beauty of the nature and the character of God, namely
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  in his compassion. What was the object of Jesus's
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  compassion? With the feeding of the 5000,
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  we'll go back to Mark 6 and look at verse 34, Mark 634.
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  When he went ashore he saw a great crowd and he had
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  compassion on them because this is the reason why he had
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  compassion, because they were like sheep without a shepherd.
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  And he began to teach them many things.
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  The trigger for the deep seated feelings of care and concern for
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  the people in March chapter six with the 5000 was spiritual.
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  The spiritual need of the people with a heavy heart.
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  The Lord perceived the masses, and he was able to discern that
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  this people, like sheep without a shepherd, are lost.
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  They're lost, they're vulnerable, they're exposed to
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  danger, they are malnourished, and they're in.
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  Trouble. And that's what moved him.
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  And when it moved him, he provided for them by teaching
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  them, he taught them. But when you come to Mark,
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  chapter 8, when Jesus says himself I have compassion, you
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  see that the object of his compassion is a little
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  different. Verse two of Mark eight, I have
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  compassion on the crowd because, well, what is it, Lord?
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  Because they have been with me now three days and have nothing
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  to eat. In the former account, Jesus
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  compassion was for the spiritual need.
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  In the second account, Jesus compassion is for the physical
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  well-being of the people. Why?
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  Because Christ is not merely the shepherd of your soul, He's a
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  provider for your body as well. We must not think for a moment
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  that because we are spiritual people who worship in spirit to
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  our God, who is spirit, that he overlooks the material
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  necessities of your existence. He's keenly aware of all our
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  needs because he is the master of the whole man of all that you
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  are spirit, soul and body. He is Lord.
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  And if anything coming to this passage.
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  We have the right to contemplate on His compassion as you and I
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  manage and engage our day-to-day affairs.
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  You're eating. Your clothing, you're living,
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  you're traveling are not outside of His tender care.
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  We tend to think Jesus is compassionate and sympathetic
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  for my eternity. Not just your eternity, your
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  daily activity. That is the extension of His
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  love. That is the breadth of his care,
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  that he actually can look not just at your empty soul, but he
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  can look at your grumbling stomach and still be moved.
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  In the same way it's hard for you to believe.
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  Well, welcome to the realm of faith.
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  What a glorious thing about the mindfulness of Jesus.
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  And what's so glorious here is that it's not just for the
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  immediate, it was for the future.
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  Notice that Jesus said they've been with me now three days.
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  And if I send them away, hungry to their homes, they will faint
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  on the way. On the way they will faint.
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  I'm. I'm thinking about their
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  tomorrow, Not just their today, their tomorrow.
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  And we need to believe that that he's the shepherd that, yes,
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  walks by our side, but he's omnipresent.
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  He's ahead of us as well. And if you do not believe that,
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  then you're in trouble. Just like the Israelites were in
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  trouble when they didn't believe that as they were being led into
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  the Promised Land. Speaking about that, can I show
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  you something quite amazing about God's leading in the
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  Promised Land? It's not an Exodus.
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  It's not in numbers. It's an Ezekiel.
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  Do you know where that is in your Bible, Ezekiel.
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  We'll go there. Don't be ashamed to go to the
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  index if you need to. Ezekiel.
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  Chapter 20. I remember when I was first
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  walking with the Lord, I heard a preacher and he said turn to the
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  book of Hebrews. And I thought Hebrews Jews.
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  So I went to the Old Testament. The person next to me said no,
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  no, no. A New Testament right side of
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  the Bible. Ezekiel chapter 20, verse six.
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  Look at this wonderful commentary.
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  That's why you got to read the whole Bible, man.
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  You got to see it all. Are you going to miss something?
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  Ezekiel 20, verse six, on that day.
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  This is the Lord speaking on that day.
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  I swore to them. That I would bring them out of
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  the land of Egypt into a land. Now look at this into a land
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  that I searched out for them. A land flowing with milk and
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  honey, the most glorious of all lands.
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  You know what that word searched is in the original and its
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  description is in its definition is to spy out the same word that
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  is used in Numbers 13 when. 12 spies, 1 chief from every tribe
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  were raised up to go into the land of Canaan to spy it out
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  long before those guys went in there.
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  The Lord spied it out himself. He already investigated it.
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  He already determined it. He already prepared it.
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  They were just going to discover it for themselves.
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  And you think about your life. And that car that you prayed
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  about and that house that you finally were able to get in this
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  crazy market and that opportunity, that job that seems
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  to have just fallen, fallen into your lap and you burst out in
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  praise in Thanksgiving. Can I tell you something?
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  God got searched it out for you a long time ago.
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  He's not surprised with you. He's not catching up with your
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  life. He's not overwhelmed with all
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  his children, and he's trying to manage it all.
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  Breaking a sweat while he sits on the throne, He searched it
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  out and all you get to do is you walk through these pads in this
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  life as a Pilgrim is figure it out yourself.
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  Something that he's already established long ago.
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  What a way to live. What a way to live.
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  Not just comfort for the unknown, but when I come to
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  something. That seems to have surprised and
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  shocked my plans, maybe even my prayers.
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  I can be absolutely at rest knowing he searched it out.
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  He knows why this is happening. He already spied it out for me.
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  He's. Ahead of me.
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  So here's the Lord saying, I'm concerned about what's going to
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  happen to them if they faint on the way.
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  So here's the mindfulness of the shepherd.
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  Ahead of your steps, ahead of your plans, ahead of your
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  thoughts, ahead of your worries. He's already there.
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  But did you notice something else in that same sentence where
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  Jesus says I have compassion on the crowd?
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  Go back to it, verse two. I have compassion on the crowd
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  because this moved me tremendously because they have
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  been with me now three days. The compassion of God, the care
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  of God, the mercy of God is for all.
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  It does dispense with common grace to the just and the
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  wicked, but at the same time do you realize that the Lord takes
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  into account those who sacrifice for him?
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  This blessed me, because it shows that Christ sees what you
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  do for him, and it moves him. These people were in attendance
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  for three days in a row. Not 30 minutes beyond the
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  service time, three days in a row.
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  And when you come to crowds in the gospels, they're not really
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  seen in a in a great light usually.
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  But I argue that this is a different case here, this people
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  come with unbroken presence of mind, presence of body, sleeping
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  overnight, exposed to the elements out in the open.
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  Seeing their resources evaporate hour by hour, and yet what is
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  keeping them in place is this deep interest in Christ.
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  And so deep was that interest that it swallowed up their
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  concern for physical bread. This is not the people
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  protesting to Jesus. We've been here 3 days.
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  Do you have something in your lunch box?
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  This is Jesus looking at the crowd and recognizing at what
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  length they were willing to go to be there under his ministry,
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  and then caring for them accordingly.
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  Do you believe that, Jesus? Christ regards what you do for
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  Him good because you should. Because you should.
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  He actually considers how early you came.
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  He actually takes into account how late you stay.
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  Oh, believe that he knows the distance you drove here and the
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  gas that you have to put in your car to get here.
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  He knows when you're doing this out of a pure heart, not under
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  compulsion, but out of genuine desire, not out of convenience,
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  but out of genuine desire to serve him.
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  He sees it. He sees it all.
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  And not only does he see it. He has special feelings in his
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  heart for you. They have been with me here now
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  for three days, But praise God, he knows he doesn't miss it.
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  Others might. He's aware of it.
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  How far, How long, how much? And it moves his heart.
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  Do you want to move his heart? And just love him and put him
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  above everything, even your food, and see the special
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  attention that he will give you. I know that.
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  That that's not. We don't like that stuff, right?
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  No, no, no, no. Don't tell me that.
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  Grace. Grace.
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  Grace. Grace.
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  Yeah. Grace.
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  Good. You can be saved by His grace,
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  but how you know him is not necessarily by grace.
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  You walk with him. You choose to live for him.
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  You make the sacrifices for him. And he considers every single
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  one. So we look first here at the one
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  who made the predicament known. We come down to the second
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  point. The second difference is between
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  the 5000 and the 4000, and it is this the number of resources at
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  hand. Verse four.
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  And his disciples answered him, How can one feed these people
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  with bread here in this desolate place?
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  And he asked them, how many loaves do you have?
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  They said seven. They said 7.
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  When it came to the 5000 and the same question was asked, it was
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  a different response. We have 5 loaves and how many?
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  Fish 2 fish. Fish are included in this, but
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  you come down to verse 7 and it is a number not known to us.
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  And they had a few small fish, so they had fish and bread, The
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  same ingredients, different numbers, though not much of a
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  difference. And so people like to play
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  around with the numbers and try to get some deep mystical
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  meaning and you don't have to go there.
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  It's very simple. The assets are different, but
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  the encouragement you and I can draw is simply this.
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  Whether you have less or more today than you did yesterday,
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  what ultimately makes a difference in your life is not
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  what you have, but whose hand holds it.
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  That's the difference if these resources.
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  Remain in the hands of the disciples, no impact would be
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  made, but the moment that they consecrated what they had to the
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  Christ, anything is possible. Anything is possible, and there
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  should be no doubt that if Christ wanted to, that he could
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  have made bread and fish appear out of nothing.
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  He made this world out of nothing.
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  He spoke this universe into existence, and so why did he do
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  it with bread and fish? Because he wants to teach his
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  disciples then and his disciples now.
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  This valuable lesson Give it all to me and don't rely on your
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  resources. Rely on my creative,
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  compassionate power if you're going to make an impact for
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  anything. These people weren't going to be
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  touched if they trusted in their own wisdom.
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  Even back there with the feeding of the 5000, if they went to the
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  grocery store to try to buy all that they could for these
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  people, it wouldn't be enough. And that's the point.
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  Here are these people who have a need, and here are these
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  disciples who are agents of God's message and heart.
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  How are they going to make an impact?
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  Not in your own strength. Not in your own ideas, Not by
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  bar barring marketing schemes from the bestselling Christian
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  book. No, from looking at him, keeping
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  your eyes on him, believing him, putting it all at his hand, and
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  trusting that he could do miracles with it.
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  Where? Where was the focus of the
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  disciples? Look back at verse four.
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  And his disciples answered him. How can one feed these people
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  with bread here, in this desolate place?
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  That's where their focus was. This is a wilderness.
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  There's no jewel anywhere near here.
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  There's nothing that we can do to make this happen.
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  And that's the point, Disciples. You're looking at the wrong
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  thing. Look at the one who's done it
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  before and keep your eyes there. Keep your eyes there.
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  The one who calls into existence of things that do not exist
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  according to Romans 4. The one who actually can make it
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  all happen in a moment. This is a desolate place.
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  I thought about, you know, they believe that about the region
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  that they were in. And we can say the same perhaps
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  of the city of Chicago. This is a desolate place.
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  We're so grateful for this church opening the doors to us
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  to be able to meet here regularly.
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  But we have plans, God willing to have our own place.
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  How are we going to do that with this kind of a market?
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  How are we going to do that with a government that doesn't give
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  property so easily, especially if it's tax free, tax exempt in
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  some way. This is a desolate place.
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  With all the craziness and inflation, even if that time
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  comes, how will we pull out the resources to ensure a purchase
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  or a plan that will keep us out of trouble in the future?
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  Well, don't look at the desolate place.
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  Don't look at the lack of resources.
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  Don't look at the opposition. Look to him and keep your eyes
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  there. These disciples didn't for some
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  reason, and some people have so much trouble believing that the
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  disciples doubted at this time. That they reinterpret this whole
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  story because they think to themselves how you saw the same
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  this like the mirroring scenario, right?
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  It's Part 2. This is, this is copy paste.
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  There is no way that the disciples were doubting Jesus
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  here to the point where they reinterpret verse 4 to mean that
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  they were kind of sarcastically nudging to Christ.
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  How are we going to feed these people unless somebody does it?
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  That's how they interpret this verse.
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  How do you read that? Is it so hard to imagine that
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  the disciples lost sight of the faithfulness of Christ so
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  quickly? Answer No, it's not.
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  It's not difficult because you and I know very well, if we're
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  honest with ourselves, that we don't learn things the first
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  time around. I've seen it.
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  You. Can preach a message on
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  forgiveness and it takes 10 more of them before it says oh OK
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  yeah, forgiveness. Seen it for myself, reading the
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  scripture, dealing with situations.
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  It doesn't always happen the first time around.
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  Let me see here that these disciples, believe it or not,
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  didn't get it. Spiritual amnesia is not
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  uncommon among the Saints. You know, Jesus says something.
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  So convicting to one of his disciples, I want to show it to
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  you. It's in a different gospel.
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  And John chapter 14, the disciple Philip asked Jesus a
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  question and Jesus answers something that.
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  Should move us in, John 14-8, Phillip said to him, Lord, show
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  us the Father, and it is enough for us.
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  Jesus said to him, Have I been with you so long and you still
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  do not know me? Phillip, whoever has seen me has
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  seen the Father. How can you say, show us the
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  Father? What a question.
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  Have I been with you so long? And you still don't get it,
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  Philip, after all the miracles, after all the teachings, after
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  all my sayings, after all the parables, and it still hasn't
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  registered yet. If you've seen me, you've seen
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  him. Lord, spare me.
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  I don't want the Lord to have to say that about me.
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  Daniel, have I been with you so long?
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  That you still don't understand who I am.
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  It's been 10 years, son. It's been 10 years.
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  And yet you can hear this and it can convict you.
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  And if you're not careful, that conviction can translate to
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  condemnation and your hope is slaughtered.
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  Don't go there. Because even in this you and I
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  are encouraged. You're saying, how can you
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  encourage not to be lighthearted about your stagnation, not to be
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  lighthearted about? Your unwillingness to move with
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  urgency and growth and grace and the knowledge of the Lord Jesus
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  Christ to be encouraged in this, that even when the disciples
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  should have responded so much differently, right, if they
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  really did believe Jesus. I mean, this is what I would
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  expect. How can these people be fed,
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  right? How can these people go home
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  hungry? Lord, Lord, we've seen you do
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  this. We seemed just give us the word.
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  Do you want to know what's in our pockets?
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  You want to know what's in our bags?
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  You want us to go look around and see how many bread and fish
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  are here? You say the word.
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  We trust you, Lord. That didn't come out of their
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  mouths. Doubt.
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  Unbelief. And what does Jesus do?
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  Does he scold them? Does he sigh and put him aside?
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  Says, you know what? I can't trust you guys.
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  I'm going to deal with this myself.
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  You clearly didn't get the lesson.
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  No. Look here.
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  Verse 6. And he directed the crowd to sit
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  down on the ground, and he took seven, the seven lows.
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  And having given thanks, he broke them and gave them to his
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  disciples to set before the people.
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  He still used them, despite their limitations, despite their
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  mountainous doubt. They should have had mountain
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  size, not mustard seed faith. They should have had mountain
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  size faith. After all they were exposed to.
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  And what did they give him? A question of unbelief.
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  And what does Jesus do? He works with them still, and he
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  uses them to be extensions, vessels of his love.
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  Why does God do that? Why does he even use us at any
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  capacity? And I'll give you an answer,
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  because the Apostle Paul gave the answer when he talked about
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  how God used him. In Ephesians 3/8 he writes to
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  me, though I am the very least of all the Saints.
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  This grace was given to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable
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  riches of Christ. Paul loved to teach on grace.
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  He loved to preach on grace. But the idea of grace was not
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  limited to salvation. Paul understood that the very
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  fact that he was a minister was an expression of God's grace.
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  You tell people, right? I'm sure maybe you've said it to
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  your own family member or loved one or your husband or whatever.
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  Maybe a dear friend that you can speak freely with and the Lord
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  uses them. There's fruit in their lives and
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  there's greater exposure and their ministry.
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  And brother, be careful, don't let it get to your head, sister.
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  Be careful. God has gifted you.
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  His hand is clearly on your life.
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  Just be careful. Don't don't get puffed up.
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  And I'm sure that's sound advice.
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  That is sound advice and it's possible, even in your spiritual
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  pursuits, to become arrogant and prideful.
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  But you know what Paul is showing me here?
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  This is what he's showing me. The more God used them, the more
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  humbled he was. The more the Lord used him, the
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  more he was aware of the grace of God, because he understood
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  this. This doesn't make sense for me
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  to be in this position. And so whatever God did through
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  him and only brought him lower. How is that possible when you
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  understand? His Holiness, His righteousness,
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  His standards, our unworthiness, our inconsistencies, our sin,
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  our temptation to rebel against them.
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  And yet still He makes us participations into his purposes
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  and plans. So any episode in which God uses
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  you, and at least in Paul's mind, He was brought lower and
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  lower and lower. God doesn't need us.
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  He does. But in his great delight and
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  pleasure, he wants to. And it's a gift for you to
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  enjoy, to see what God can do through you so that he can
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  receive all the glory. It's a grace.
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  It's a grace. These disciples here are are
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  even experiencing God's grace in the midst of their doubt #3 Not
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  just the number of resources, but the amount of leftovers
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  gathered. Look here, verse 8.
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  And they ate and were satisfied. What a phrase.
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  And they took up the broken pieces left over 7 baskets full
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  mark. Chapter 6 when they had fed the
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  5000 plus Jesus sends them out to get leftovers and they they
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  grabbed the pieces and they were how many baskets?
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  12 good 1212 baskets. Why?
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  Because when they went to that region, they went for a retreat,
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  and the retreat was suspended in order to serve strangers and as
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  they sacrificed to serve these people.
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  God honored them and gave them each a basket.
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  I'm taking care of you. I didn't forget about you.
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  They could have felt that the Lord brought us out here so that
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  we can rest, rest with Him. We just came back from traveling
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  and preaching and and now what do they come to?
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  They see the hills covered with people.
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  And it's very easy, very easy, to see your schedule interrupted
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  and see your plans obstructed because of ministry, because of
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  serving the Lord, because of opportunities to be like Christ,
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  and that costing you something. And you think the Lord's
• 36:47
  forgotten me. And no, 12 baskets each in the
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  hand of those disciples. But then you come here.
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  They're serving people. And you're thinking O K12
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  baskets are show up, that's what's going to happen, right?
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  No, there there's 5 short, there's seven baskets.
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  And I must admit, this might be more challenging for us English
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  readers, because if you read the Bible in Greek, if you knew how
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  to read it, and you had a Bible that was spelled out in the
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  original manuscript, you would see it without question.
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  The word for baskets is two different words and Jesus.
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  Even communicates that here in Mark chapter 8 Scroll down to
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  verse 19 when he speaks to the disciples.
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  In another scene he says in Mark 8/19 when I broke the five lows
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  in the 5000, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you
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  take up? He's speaking about Mark chapter
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  6. They said to him 12 and the
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  seven for the 4000, how many baskets full of broken pieces
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  did you take up? And they said to him 7.
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  So right there, if you believe it's the same occurrence, how do
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  you explain this? He's talking about two different
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  things. Side point.
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  How many baskets when he talked about the five and the two, that
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  word baskets is different than the word baskets when he says
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  how many for the 4000 And the word for baskets for the 4000 is
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  a basket much larger than what they had in Mark chapter 6.
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  In fact, it's the same word that Luke used in Acts Chapter 9
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  verse 25 when Paul and Damascus. Was able to escape by being
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  placed in a basket and was brought down scaling the wall.
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  It's the same word there. That's not the word used in mark
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  chapter 6. And the word mark chapter 6 is
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  coffee, coffees, notes, I believe.
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  And here we see that the word for the bigger baskets is
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  spuris. I'm not here trying to give you
• 38:47
  a Greek lesson. I barely can pronounce the words
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  OK. What I'm trying to show you here
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  is something quite important. There's something that you can
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  take out of this, right? Even though these baskets were
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  fewer in number, the container size proves that they were taken
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  care of amply. They were more than OK, all of
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  them were covered. And I meditated on this and I
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  thought, well, the Lord could have just given them 12
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  personally sized baskets like he did earlier.
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  But the idea here is that his provision may not always look
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  the same. It may not always look the same
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  in every season, but one thing you can guarantee that it is
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  always, always, always enough. Always.
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  God didn't take care of me the same way he did in college that
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  he is now. But you know what I can rejoice
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  in? He took care of me all the way
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  through. And it's the same for you.
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  It's the same for you. We look here and we think, okay.
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  The packages might be altered from time to time.
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  Things might shift, things might be different, but the purpose is
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  the same. To never leave us.
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  To never leave you in your need as long as you serve him with
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  your heart. So one.
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  And since it's 12, the other seven.
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  But here's the same result. They were taken care of.
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  Things might have shifted recently, right?
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  Things might have been taken. Things might have been replaced.
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  It might not be what you thought it would be, but one thing is
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  for certain, he's behind it and he has compassion for you.
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  Which brings us to the final point of our message today.
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  We talked not just about the one who made the predicament known,
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  not just the resources at hand, not just the amount of the
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  leftovers that were gathered, but finally the people that were
• 40:41
  ministered to verse 9. And there were about 4000
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  people. And he sent them away and he
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  sent them away. Mark chapter 6 tells us how many
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  5000 not including woman, not including children.
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  Here we have 4000 people. Okay the number is different.
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  No no, no, no, no. Read carefully.
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  Where is Jesus? And where his disciples,
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  geographically speaking, you would know if you were here last
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  week. That's why you got to come to
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  church every week you come here in Mark Chapter 7.
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  Let's be reminded in verse 31. Then he returned from the region
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  of tire and went through side onto the Sea of Galilee in the
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  region of the Decapilis. That's where they're at and
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  there was no mention of them transitioning from that place.
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  And what is the Decapilis? It is the tent city region
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  heavily populated with Gentiles. Jesus heals a deaf mute man.
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  And it might be that that was the cause for the multitudes to
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  flood towards him. And that's what we're seeing
• 41:47
  here, Mark, Chapter 8, that was common, a miracle brings about
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  the masses. And so you have these crowds
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  that come to Jesus, and here's the thing, he has compassion on
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  them. But who are they?
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  They're not Jews, at least primarily.
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  The 5000 Jews Jews, John Chapter 6.
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  They recognized him as the prophet that Moses spoke about
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  and they wanted to make him king.
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  Gentiles still has compassion. He didn't treat them any
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  different. Yes, the the focus of his
• 42:29
  ministry was for the Jews, at least during his time.
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  It would be different when the apostles would be sent out.
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  But here we see a glimpse of what's to come, Jesus having
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  compassion on all. Not some.
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  Not the chosen people who had the privilege of knowing the
• 42:44
  oracles of God, the manifestations of God, the
• 42:47
  messengers of God. No, even these pagans, these
• 42:52
  idol worshippers, we'll be able to taste something of the
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  compassion of Jesus because it was always there from the
• 42:58
  beginning. You know what that word
• 43:00
  compassion is in the original, to be moved in one's bowels.
• 43:05
  A deep seeded feeling of sympathy that you can actually
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  feel in your gut. Not just I feel bad for them.
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  You know, I have some extra virtue in me today.
• 43:19
  Let's just perform a miracle. No, he was moved and it was
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  turning him inside. And you think about the Jews,
• 43:28
  They they had so much privilege, their history and the resources,
• 43:33
  the divine literature that was. At their disposal.
• 43:36
  And Jesus has compassion. You know, you could have grown
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  up in church and testified to that same kind of experience.
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  You've known it, you've heard it, You've seen it, You've
• 43:46
  memorized it. You're trying to fight to stay
• 43:49
  awake because you're so familiar with the scene.
• 43:54
  And just like the Jews who had so much just by their heritage,
• 43:57
  Jesus still has compassion on them.
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  And we tend to think, right. We tend to think that Jesus
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  favors those and he moves in those lives that had parents who
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  are faithful, have a lineage of people who are ministry serving
• 44:16
  Him. No.
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  You come here and you realize he has compassion even on those who
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  have no connection whatsoever to him.
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  It's very hard to preach to the Gospels and not get
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  evangelistic. Very hard.
• 44:33
  So just give me a couple minutes and we'll get packing, putting
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  our shorts and going to the picnic.
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  But this isn't this isn't a job 1-2.
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  This isn't. We're not playing games here,
• 44:45
  right? And in these days, there is no
• 44:48
  time to play any games. In the days that we're living
• 44:51
  in, not one service should be wasted.
• 44:55
  I heard a pastor say when he started his church with his
• 44:58
  ministers. We will never, ever have a
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  throwaway service. Never.
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  Just let's just get this through.
• 45:03
  I'm tired this week. Never.
• 45:07
  Souls hang in the balance, and I come to you in the name of the
• 45:12
  Lord Jesus Christ to proclaim to you the compassion of God for
• 45:17
  your soul. Christ has a heart filled with
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  compassion for you, and he longs for you, not just to know
• 45:28
  satisfaction in this life. There is a satisfaction that
• 45:32
  goes beyond that reaches deeper than your pockets being full and
• 45:38
  your body being free from disease.
• 45:39
  No, you have a spirit that is fractured, that is disconnected
• 45:45
  from the living God who created you.
• 45:48
  But Christ came as the bridge. Christ came as the Great
• 45:52
  Physician. Christ came to heal you.
• 45:56
  Not just to open your eyes, not just to even open your ears to
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  make you walk, but to bring you back to life from the core of
• 46:05
  your being. He has compassion for you.
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  He's not indifferent in heaven. He's not trigger happy waiting
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  to send you to an eternal torment.
• 46:17
  He's not looking for you to trip, so he has one more reason
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  to pour out his wrath on you. No, no, no, no.
• 46:25
  He left glory. And he came into the stinking,
• 46:29
  filthy, putrid world that saw the holiest man who has ever
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  lived, that who did nothing but good, who never made a mistake,
• 46:39
  who never slipped, who had never done anything wrong.
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  And they spat on him, and they dragged his name in the mud and
• 46:49
  they dragged his body through torture.
• 46:51
  And they nailed him there like an ornament and celebrated his
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  death, gambled for his clothing, blasphemed him until his final
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  breath. Why?
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  Because he's filled with compassion.
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  And he has compassion for you. You.
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  Yes, here in 2023 with your with your nice job and your nice car
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  and. With your privileges here in the
• 47:18
  United States of America, even here now the living Christ is
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  moved for you, and He wants you. He doesn't want to just use you.
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  He doesn't just want you. As a servant, He has a myriad of
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  angels who sing in perfect pitch, who don't hesitate to
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  obey Him. Seraphin who cover their face,
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  who cover their feet, and with two other wings, who are flying
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  ready to move at the. Moment he gives him a command.
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  He doesn't need your service, but he wants your heart.
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  Because out of love the God who is self-sufficient who is?
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  Not lonely, who doesn't need anything from you.
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  Still wants you for what? He loves you.
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  Well, why? I don't know.
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  He loves you, and he wants you, and he wants intimacy with you.
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  He wants you to be in heaven with him forever and ever.
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  And though we see through a glass dimly, he wants you to
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  walk with him. In this life, you were created
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  to walk with God, not for a career, not to find the most
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  beautiful wife or husband you can find.
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  Not so that you can stuff your closet with clothes and get the
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  newest edition of that phone. That's not your purpose.
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  That's not why you're here. To know God and to enjoy him
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  forever, to glorify him and in glorifying he would be blessed.
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  And you. Will be satisfied because that's
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  why you were created. And in the name of the Lord
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  Jesus Christ, this gospel, this good news, it was just rounded
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  to in one single way, repent and belief.
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  Recognize what your sin has done.
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  Recognize what your sin will bring you to recognize what sin
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  is, turn from it. Because he took the sin, your
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  sin, the sin of the city of Chicago, the sin of the state of
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  Illinois, the sin of every state of this nation, the sin of the
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  world. Upon his shoulder.
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  And God poured out his wrath on his Son in your place, so that
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  you would buy faith, a repentant faith, would drink the cup of
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  his fellowship and know his pleasure.
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  His mouth was dry and was thirsty, so that you would know
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  living water. His brow was pierced with
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  thorns. So that your mind could be
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  renewed and renewed and renewed. His hands were pierced so that
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  whatever you've done with those hands would be cleansed.
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  His feet were penetrated so that wherever your feet have gone
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  where they shouldn't have gone, he will remember no more.
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  This is the gospel. This is the good news.
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  There is no other God like this God, and there is no other way
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  to be saved but through his name.
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  And so I invite you today to receive Jesus Christ as your
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  Lord and Savior. I invite you today to realize
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  that everything can change today.
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  Even if you have to miss that picnic, we're going to have
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  plenty more. Give your life to him, Sit down,
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  ask questions if your heart is already convinced and convicted,
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  and cry out to the living God. Cry out and trust that as you do
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  with a sincerity. And with humility, the Spirit
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  bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.
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  You will know when you've been born again.
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  Lord, we thank you for the service.
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  We thank you for bringing us in this place.
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  We thank you for the lessons from the miracle of the feeding
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  of the 4000. Thank you that your word has
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  been beautifully authored by the perfect one.
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  There is not one corner of this Bible.
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  Not one period mark. Not one word that is by
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  accident. Everything has been placed for
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  our instruction and our insight concerning you.
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  We pray, Lord, that as we worship you, that our hearts
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  would be given to you in a fresh way for the heart that is not
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  surrendered to you yet We pray that today would be the day
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  where they can say not physically but spiritually.
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  I was hungry, but now I'm satisfied I was empty, now I'm
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  full. I was lost, but I'm found.
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  I was confused, but now I see His compassion.
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  Lord, may that be the testimony of those in here who don't know
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  you. And Lord, for those who know
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  you, we thank you. That you've searched it out for
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  us, that we can leave here more encouraged.
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  That our tomorrows are taken care of, that you care for us in
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  every way possible, and that there is no God like our God.
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  In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
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  Oh, we just stand. Yes, stand.
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  You can get excited. It's the House of God and
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  worship the Lord. Jesus.
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  The.