1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:04,500 During those days, another large crowd gathered since said 2 00:00:04,500 --> 00:00:07,500 nothing to eat. Jesus called his disciples to 3 00:00:07,500 --> 00:00:10,700 him and said, I have compassion for these people. 4 00:00:11,300 --> 00:00:14,500 They have already been with me three days and have nothing to 5 00:00:14,500 --> 00:00:17,600 eat. If I send them away home hungry 6 00:00:17,900 --> 00:00:20,700 they will collapse on the way because some of them have come a 7 00:00:20,708 --> 00:00:24,800 long distance. His disciples answered, where in 8 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:28,300 this remote place. Can anyone get enough bread to 9 00:00:28,300 --> 00:00:31,700 feed them? How many loaves do you have? 10 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:34,800 Jesus asked seven. They replied. 11 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:39,500 He told the crowd to sit down on the ground when he had taken the 12 00:00:39,500 --> 00:00:43,200 seven Loaves and given. Thanks, he broke them and gave 13 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:46,100 them to his disciples to distribute to the people and 14 00:00:46,100 --> 00:00:49,100 they did. So they had a few small fish as 15 00:00:49,100 --> 00:00:50,900 well. He gave thanks for them. 16 00:00:50,900 --> 00:00:55,200 Also and told the disciples to distribute them the people at 17 00:00:55,600 --> 00:00:59,900 and were satisfied. afterwards, the disciples picked up seven, 18 00:00:59,900 --> 00:01:05,200 basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over about 4,000 were 19 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:09,700 present After he had sent them away, he got into the boat with 20 00:01:09,700 --> 00:01:13,200 his disciples and went into the region of dalmanutha. 21 00:01:14,700 --> 00:01:19,500 The Pharisees came and began to question Jesus the test and they 22 00:01:19,500 --> 00:01:21,300 asked him for a sign from Heaven. 23 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:28,400 Decide deeply and said, why does this generation asks for a sign? 24 00:01:28,900 --> 00:01:32,200 Truly I tell you. No sign will be given to it. 25 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:36,900 Then he left them got back into the boat and cross to the other 26 00:01:36,900 --> 00:01:40,200 side. The disciples have forgotten to 27 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:43,200 bring bread except for one loaf that they had with him in the 28 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:46,200 boat. Be careful, Jesus warned them. 29 00:01:46,900 --> 00:01:50,500 Watch out for the yeast of the Pharisees, and that of Herod. 30 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:54,900 They discussed this with one another and said it is because 31 00:01:54,900 --> 00:01:58,100 we have no bread aware of their discussion. 32 00:01:58,300 --> 00:02:02,100 Jesus asked them, why are you talking about having no bread? 33 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:05,100 Do you still not see or understand? 34 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:08,800 Our, your hearts hardened? Do you have eyes, but failed, 35 00:02:08,900 --> 00:02:11,300 All to see and ears, but fail to hear. 36 00:02:12,100 --> 00:02:15,100 And don't you remember when I broke the Five Loaves for the 37 00:02:15,100 --> 00:02:17,000 5000? How many basketballs did you 38 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:20,400 pick up 12? They replied and when I brought 39 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:23,400 the seven loaves for the 7000, how many basketballs of pieces? 40 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:27,200 Did you pick up? They answered seven said to 41 00:02:27,208 --> 00:02:33,700 them, you still not understand. I need to start this morning 42 00:02:34,100 --> 00:02:36,600 with an apology and it's an apology to us. 43 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:39,400 At least the specific few viewer here this morning. 44 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:43,300 And I need to apologize to our gluten and wheat intolerant 45 00:02:43,300 --> 00:02:46,300 friends. Because today, we're going to 46 00:02:46,300 --> 00:02:49,500 talk a lot about bread. Bread is going to come up quite 47 00:02:49,500 --> 00:02:52,200 a lot. And I'm really sorry because I 48 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:54,400 know the bread that you're able to eat, is not as good as the 49 00:02:54,408 --> 00:02:56,800 bread. I'm about to Rave about because 50 00:02:56,800 --> 00:02:59,700 breads amazing, isn't it? Bread is just one of the 51 00:02:59,700 --> 00:03:02,400 greatest things. It is phenomenal, whenever it's 52 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:05,200 bread week on Bake-Off, I always want to go and eat the whole of 53 00:03:05,208 --> 00:03:08,300 the nearest bakery, or just go to France, because I always 54 00:03:08,300 --> 00:03:10,900 thought I liked nice bread. I always thought I had nice 55 00:03:10,900 --> 00:03:13,100 bread growing up and then I married Jamie. 56 00:03:13,100 --> 00:03:16,200 And she told me to France and oh my Edward French, bread is like 57 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:18,400 next-level. Good fresh French bread. 58 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:21,600 First thing in the morning, you can't beat it and then we had a 59 00:03:21,608 --> 00:03:25,200 home group dinner and Elena made her for Katya. 60 00:03:25,500 --> 00:03:28,000 Have you ever had a lane can sells for catch you again? 61 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:31,000 That is next level good. Like it's incredible bread and 62 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:34,600 I'm again I have to apologize but bread is fantastic, isn't 63 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:36,800 it? I've been so hungry. 64 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:41,500 Preparing, this sermon And bread is one of our oldest human food 65 00:03:41,500 --> 00:03:43,100 stuff. They found a records back as far 66 00:03:43,100 --> 00:03:47,000 as their Found Records of humans exist in and there is no country 67 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:50,000 in the world where bread isn't a part of their food. 68 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:54,400 Tradition bread is just a universal, incredible, brilliant 69 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:55,800 thing. If you don't like bread, I am 70 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:59,200 sorry for you. But it is no wonder with bread 71 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:02,500 being that kind of everywhere that Jesus uses bread. 72 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:06,200 In this passage particularly as a way of teaching his disciples 73 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:08,100 because that's what he's doing in this passage. 74 00:04:08,100 --> 00:04:10,500 Well actually going to focus loads on the Miracle itself. 75 00:04:10,900 --> 00:04:12,700 We're going to focus on what Jesus is teaching. 76 00:04:12,700 --> 00:04:16,000 He uses bread to teach his disciples. 77 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:20,899 And as we read through this, did you get a bit of a sense of deja 78 00:04:20,899 --> 00:04:24,700 vu? This all feel a bit familiar. 79 00:04:26,500 --> 00:04:28,100 Because it is really familiar, isn't it? 80 00:04:28,108 --> 00:04:31,300 A lot of this stuff feels like it's happened already. 81 00:04:31,900 --> 00:04:34,700 It's incredibly similar to what happened back in chapter 6, as, 82 00:04:34,700 --> 00:04:37,500 and if you flick back, you can see there, Jesus fed. 83 00:04:37,500 --> 00:04:42,200 The 5000 here is the 4000 and there are loads of similarities 84 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:45,100 between these two events that are recorded for us by Mark. 85 00:04:45,100 --> 00:04:48,800 So the place that they happen, my desolate Wilderness type 86 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:51,200 Place. Jesus is emotions is compassion 87 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:53,600 even his words. How many loaves do you have 88 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:56,600 everybody's full? And there are loads of Purrs. 89 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:59,800 And at the end, Jesus sends both of the crowds away and the 90 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:03,300 disciples getting a boat. There are loads of similarities 91 00:05:03,500 --> 00:05:07,600 between these two events. So the question is is this just 92 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:09,400 the same story that Mark is repeating? 93 00:05:09,900 --> 00:05:12,500 He's got a bit mixed up. Well, no, because there are 94 00:05:12,500 --> 00:05:14,900 enough differences between these two events that they know that 95 00:05:14,900 --> 00:05:17,400 they're not the same thing. You can probably spot them at 96 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:19,600 another time of different numbers of people, different 97 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:21,900 numbers of fish, and bread, and leftovers, and plenty of other 98 00:05:21,900 --> 00:05:24,500 things. Even the length of time, that 99 00:05:24,500 --> 00:05:27,900 the crowd that Jesus feeds have been, Gather is different. 100 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:30,300 So back in Mark 6, I've just been with Jesus for one day 101 00:05:30,300 --> 00:05:34,600 hearing is teaching here the bin with Jesus for three days seems 102 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:37,200 like they all got some pack up went out and hung out with Jesus 103 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:39,200 for three days at the end of this three days. 104 00:05:39,300 --> 00:05:43,700 Their food is starting to run out so Jesus called his 105 00:05:43,700 --> 00:05:48,200 disciples to him and says I have compassion for these people. 106 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:51,000 They've already been with me three days and have nothing to 107 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:53,100 eat. If I send them home hungry, 108 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:55,200 they'll collapse on the way because some of them are come 109 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:57,000 along. Distance. 110 00:05:58,900 --> 00:06:01,600 And just as we start, these see, Jesus's heart here. 111 00:06:02,700 --> 00:06:05,200 I have compassion for these people. 112 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:09,800 Jesus cares, deeply about the people in front of him. 113 00:06:10,700 --> 00:06:12,300 Yes. He cares about their spiritual 114 00:06:12,300 --> 00:06:14,200 need, that's why he's been teaching them. 115 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:18,600 That's why Jesus came was to teach but he also cares about 116 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:22,300 their physical needs. He's also bothered by people's 117 00:06:22,300 --> 00:06:25,700 bodies. Yes, the physical hunger is not 118 00:06:25,700 --> 00:06:29,400 as big as their spiritual hunger, but he cares about it. 119 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:33,800 And the same is still true today is worth reminding ourselves of 120 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:37,000 that fact. He cares for all of us. 121 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:41,300 Yes, his priority for all of us is our spiritual hunger and our 122 00:06:41,300 --> 00:06:44,400 spiritual needs. But he also cares about our 123 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:46,900 physical hunger and physical needs to. 124 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:52,100 So that is hunger or finances or our health, or our exams or our 125 00:06:52,108 --> 00:06:54,000 stress levels, or our mental health. 126 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:59,600 There is nothing too small in our lives, to Jesus to care 127 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:04,800 about, Jesus care, deeply about, every little bit of your lives. 128 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:07,100 It's so easy for us to think that there are things too small 129 00:07:07,100 --> 00:07:09,500 for Jesus to be bothered about are interested in, so we don't 130 00:07:09,500 --> 00:07:12,400 take them to him. But don't listen to that lie 131 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:15,700 instead. See the care and the compassion 132 00:07:15,700 --> 00:07:19,600 that Jesus has for all aspects of all the people that he meets 133 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:21,400 and then bring everything to him. 134 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:22,900 Pete reminded us last week, didn't he? 135 00:07:22,900 --> 00:07:28,600 That Jesus has because Jesus cares for everyone. and Mark 136 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:34,400 reminds us again of that here But what happens next, in verse 137 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:36,900 4 should come as a bit of a surprise. 138 00:07:38,300 --> 00:07:40,500 When we read verse 4, here's what we should read something 139 00:07:40,500 --> 00:07:44,100 like this, his disciples answered him, are we have seven 140 00:07:44,100 --> 00:07:46,400 Loaves and a willing to serve you again like before. 141 00:07:46,500 --> 00:07:49,900 Here you go, Jesus, we know what you can do with seven loaves. 142 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:55,100 Instead we get this ridiculous response from the Disciples of 143 00:07:55,100 --> 00:07:57,700 its stroppy in it, but we're in this remote place to anyone get 144 00:07:57,700 --> 00:08:02,400 enough bread to feed them. Like what are you talking about? 145 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:05,700 Disciples are your memories really that? 146 00:08:05,700 --> 00:08:12,100 Sure, just a few weeks ago at most you saw Jesus feed 5,000, 147 00:08:12,100 --> 00:08:15,700 plus people with just Five Loaves and two fish. 148 00:08:17,300 --> 00:08:20,200 But they don't remember that. All the they don't even enter 149 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:23,200 into their brains. This new problem has pushed out 150 00:08:23,200 --> 00:08:25,300 any memory of what Jesus has done before. 151 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:29,400 And so, Jesus very patiently, ask them again. 152 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:31,700 Exactly the same question as he asked them last time. 153 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:36,299 How many loaves do you have? How many loaves do you have? 154 00:08:36,299 --> 00:08:38,900 I can imagine that becoming a bit of an in-joke for the 155 00:08:38,900 --> 00:08:41,900 disciples in the years to come Peter sat around, I'm quite 156 00:08:41,900 --> 00:08:43,700 hungry. How many loaves do you have? 157 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:50,200 So the disciples club together and they give seven loaves to 158 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:53,800 Jesus, and he gives thanks, and he hands out the disciples to 159 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:55,900 give out to the hungry crowd, and then does the same with the 160 00:08:55,900 --> 00:09:02,500 fish. but interestingly, as Jesus provides for the crowd who 161 00:09:02,500 --> 00:09:06,900 is it, that he's teaching As Jesus gives the food and 162 00:09:06,900 --> 00:09:10,300 provides this miraculous food for the crowd who is it that 163 00:09:10,300 --> 00:09:14,100 he's teaching because if you're in the crowd and you're right at 164 00:09:14,100 --> 00:09:16,900 the back somewhere and someone hands you some bread and fish 165 00:09:17,100 --> 00:09:19,400 you just going to take enough to eat and pass it on, right? 166 00:09:19,500 --> 00:09:21,700 You're not going to know did this only come from Seven Loaves 167 00:09:21,700 --> 00:09:23,900 and some fish? You're not going to know that. 168 00:09:24,700 --> 00:09:26,100 Who is it? That knows that. 169 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:32,000 It's the disciples. Jesus is teaching the disciples 170 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:33,900 and is Jesus provides for the crowd. 171 00:09:34,100 --> 00:09:37,600 The disciples learned this lesson about him and they are 172 00:09:37,608 --> 00:09:40,300 the ones that get to see this miracle firsthand. 173 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:45,300 And they get to see this miracle for the first hand for a second 174 00:09:45,300 --> 00:09:48,900 time. And that is interesting to Jesus 175 00:09:48,900 --> 00:09:53,100 feeds to massive multitudes of people in wildernesses in 176 00:09:53,100 --> 00:09:56,700 desolate places. Now if you know your Old 177 00:09:56,700 --> 00:10:00,100 Testament, that is a direct mirror of the way God provides 178 00:10:00,100 --> 00:10:04,100 for his people in Exodus 16 and numbers. 11 God provides 179 00:10:04,100 --> 00:10:08,700 unexpected food for his people in the middle of nowhere in a 180 00:10:08,700 --> 00:10:11,400 Wilderness and Mark wants us to spot that link. 181 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:16,200 Jesus is doing what only God has done for his people in the past. 182 00:10:18,100 --> 00:10:20,000 Mark wants to make it even more remarkable. 183 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:24,400 Back in chapter 6, The Crowd that Jesus said were from the 184 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:28,500 Jewish area, there were Jewish people but here Jesus is still 185 00:10:28,500 --> 00:10:30,700 in the decapolis, the Gentile area. 186 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:34,000 Jesus is feeding a gentile crowd. 187 00:10:35,100 --> 00:10:38,700 Jesus is showing the disciples at the kingdom of God is for the 188 00:10:38,700 --> 00:10:43,100 Gentiles too. From like conversation, he had 189 00:10:43,100 --> 00:10:45,400 with that woman back in chapter 7, who came to him and has all 190 00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:48,800 the stuff that crumbs and table, while here the crumbs from 191 00:10:48,800 --> 00:10:51,300 chapter 7, turn into full-blown bread. 192 00:10:52,700 --> 00:10:55,700 And the thing that Jesus teaches his disciples here is that the 193 00:10:55,700 --> 00:10:58,500 Gentiles are going to get more than crumbs after all. 194 00:10:59,500 --> 00:11:03,000 The Gentiles get more than crumbs after all. 195 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:08,000 Now that would have been an incredible Comfort to Mark's 196 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:11,100 original readers. A lot of whom would have been 197 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:14,400 gentiles. Even though the Gentiles might 198 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:17,800 have been rejected by the Jews, they haven't been rejected by 199 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:20,500 God, and they are part of the New Kingdom. 200 00:11:20,500 --> 00:11:25,300 That Jesus came to establish. And that's what Jesus teaches 201 00:11:25,300 --> 00:11:27,500 his disciples here. The Gentiles get more than 202 00:11:27,500 --> 00:11:33,800 crumbs after all So after this event again about and I imagine 203 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:38,300 the boat ride in verse 10 is probably a fairly quiet one as 204 00:11:38,300 --> 00:11:40,300 the slightly. Embarrassed disciples realized 205 00:11:40,300 --> 00:11:43,300 just how Daft they'd been how forgetful they've been when 206 00:11:43,300 --> 00:11:48,900 they've seen all this already. But the truth is I'm far more 207 00:11:48,900 --> 00:11:51,200 often like them than I like to admit. 208 00:11:52,700 --> 00:11:59,300 Are you I forget all the time about Jesus power and his care 209 00:12:00,100 --> 00:12:02,500 day in day out. Like last week, Pete reminded 210 00:12:02,500 --> 00:12:04,100 us. Those wonderful truth that Jesus 211 00:12:04,100 --> 00:12:06,800 cares about everyone and has power over everything and he's 212 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:10,900 making all things new But I've shown I forgot on that again. 213 00:12:10,900 --> 00:12:13,900 And again, this week, I have reacted to the things that have 214 00:12:13,900 --> 00:12:18,000 happened for how we respond in slow traffic, but how we respond 215 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:20,000 when he, for doesn't do what I wanted to immediately. 216 00:12:20,500 --> 00:12:23,000 When I get hurt when things, don't go my way big or little 217 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:26,100 things. We can all be like that. 218 00:12:26,100 --> 00:12:29,500 Can't we all forget these truths, we learn so often, 219 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:33,800 despite having seen Jesus care for us and others in the past 220 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:37,400 despite having seen Jesus has power over all things through 221 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:41,300 our lives, new problems like the disciples push those memories 222 00:12:41,300 --> 00:12:44,900 out of our heads. Unlike the disciples, we can be 223 00:12:44,900 --> 00:12:49,100 so quick to either doubt or to forget that Jesus really cares 224 00:12:49,100 --> 00:12:52,400 for everyone and that has power over everything. 225 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:57,200 But that's one of the reasons that Jesus repeats this miracle, 226 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:00,800 he wants to remind the Disciples of what they've already learned 227 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:02,800 before. And I've said this before here, 228 00:13:03,300 --> 00:13:06,000 is that we need that because the Christian Life is a constant 229 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:11,600 cycle of Amnesia, and deja vu. The Christian Life is a constant 230 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:14,900 cycle of Amnesia. And Deja Vu are forgot that I'd 231 00:13:14,900 --> 00:13:19,400 learned that already. And so Jesus repeats this 232 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:22,200 miracle because he knows that's true and that's why God has 233 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:26,000 given us each other. We are so prone to forget this. 234 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:29,200 We're so like the disciples. The forget, these truths that 235 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:33,600 God has given us each other to help each other in services like 236 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:36,600 this but also throughout the week to remind each other of the 237 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:40,800 truth about Jesus that we forget far too quickly, that's part of 238 00:13:40,800 --> 00:13:43,800 what being disciple. Making disciples looks like 239 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:47,200 regularly reminding each other of these truths. 240 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:51,700 So the question is, what can we be doing on our own in our 241 00:13:51,700 --> 00:13:54,000 families and our home groups and our times together? 242 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:57,200 So remind each other of these truths about Jesus that we 243 00:13:57,200 --> 00:14:03,800 forget far too quickly. But thankfully though the 244 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:07,400 disciples are forgetful. Jesus is so patient, isn't he? 245 00:14:08,500 --> 00:14:10,600 And he's so willing to teach us again. 246 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:13,700 And again, he doesn't snap at the disciples here. 247 00:14:14,100 --> 00:14:16,200 He just shows them again. What they've already forgotten. 248 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:22,300 Jesus cares, so much and is so patient and is so ready to teach 249 00:14:22,300 --> 00:14:26,100 us and show us what he's like again and again and that is good 250 00:14:26,100 --> 00:14:29,500 news, isn't it? But is good news if you know you 251 00:14:29,500 --> 00:14:34,300 need that patience for yourself. And here the disciples get to 252 00:14:34,308 --> 00:14:36,600 learn that the Gentiles, get more than crumbs after all. 253 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:42,100 But so do they They get another loaf of Jesus, his patience and 254 00:14:42,100 --> 00:14:46,200 his teaching for them. And that is very unlike the next 255 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:50,100 group of people that we meet in this passage the Pharisees and 256 00:14:50,100 --> 00:14:52,700 in these three verses the disciples learned by the absence 257 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:56,000 of bread and Jesus teaches the disciples at the Pharisees, get 258 00:14:56,000 --> 00:15:00,400 nothing at all the Pharisees, get nothing at all. 259 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:04,200 Now Mark, doesn't spend too long in this interaction so we won't 260 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:07,000 either but the Pharisees grab Jesus out of the boat and they 261 00:15:07,008 --> 00:15:10,100 demand him to give them a sign from Heaven, a sign that he 262 00:15:10,100 --> 00:15:14,200 really is sent by God. And that might sound like a good 263 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:16,500 thing. I could very easily sound like 264 00:15:16,500 --> 00:15:18,800 the disciples are just the the Pharisees it just this close to 265 00:15:18,808 --> 00:15:23,900 believing just one more sign. But in the gospels demanding a 266 00:15:23,900 --> 00:15:26,100 sign from Jesus is never a good thing. 267 00:15:26,900 --> 00:15:30,100 It is always evidence that the person asking is really an 268 00:15:30,100 --> 00:15:34,500 opponent of Jesus. And these guys demand that 269 00:15:34,500 --> 00:15:37,500 Jesus, give them some proof, some sign that will convince 270 00:15:37,500 --> 00:15:40,900 their big brains of who he is and who he's come from. 271 00:15:42,900 --> 00:15:49,800 And Jesus responds. Is to psi the deep Long sigh his 272 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:52,600 second son, died in just a few verses. 273 00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:56,700 Which is worth knowing Jesus teaches us through his size. 274 00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:59,000 But I think we can work out what this lesson is, right? 275 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:03,000 If you if you go to your mom and dad and you ask for something 276 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:06,300 some food or I don't know what kids ask for these days. 277 00:16:06,300 --> 00:16:07,800 Bitcoin. Is that a thing you're into? 278 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:11,200 I don't know but if you go to your spouse or your boss or your 279 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:13,500 teacher or your mommy, your dad and you ask them for something 280 00:16:13,500 --> 00:16:18,900 and they go That's not a good thing. 281 00:16:18,900 --> 00:16:20,600 Is it? You know that coming? 282 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:23,800 Next is not something good. You know, that that is not a 283 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:27,900 positive response and Jesus size. 284 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:32,000 And he says, why does this generation asks for a sign? 285 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:36,200 Truly, I tell you. No sign will be given to it. 286 00:16:37,700 --> 00:16:40,000 Jesus isn't going to perform for them. 287 00:16:41,100 --> 00:16:43,500 He isn't going to bow down to their whims, they don't get to 288 00:16:43,500 --> 00:16:46,500 set the standard of what is enough for them to be convinced. 289 00:16:47,500 --> 00:16:49,900 He doesn't need to prove himself to them anymore than he has 290 00:16:49,900 --> 00:16:55,100 because he already has how many more signs do these Pharisees 291 00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:58,300 need? They've had plenty of signs. 292 00:16:58,800 --> 00:17:00,400 They just refuse to believe them. 293 00:17:01,500 --> 00:17:07,000 Jesus is the sign. They refused to believe what is 294 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:12,300 right in front of them and demand more. but there is no 295 00:17:12,300 --> 00:17:17,000 greater sign than Jesus, and if he's not enough for them and 296 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:22,500 nothing will be What more sign do you need from me? 297 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:29,800 Jesus says The reality is the Pharisees choose to be blind. 298 00:17:31,500 --> 00:17:35,200 They choose to read blind to be blind and they refuse to see 299 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:37,100 what is clearly right in front of them. 300 00:17:38,500 --> 00:17:42,700 And so unlike the crowd in the first versus the Pharisees, get 301 00:17:42,700 --> 00:17:44,600 nothing at all from Jesus. I mean, he could very easily 302 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:46,400 have created some bread out of bread in front of them, right? 303 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:48,800 You could have performed a sign that's not hard for Jesus to do 304 00:17:49,700 --> 00:17:52,000 it gives them nothing. No bread at all. 305 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:56,500 And the Pharisees turn and walk away, and the disciples followed 306 00:17:56,500 --> 00:18:02,500 Jesus into the boat and sail off. if you're here this morning 307 00:18:03,100 --> 00:18:06,900 or you're watching online and you're waiting for Jesus or God 308 00:18:06,900 --> 00:18:10,100 to prove to you, who he claims to be for a sign to make you 309 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:14,400 feel like the Bible is true and worth obeying what this is worth 310 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:18,800 noticing If the life and the Miracles of Jesus weren't enough 311 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:21,700 for the Pharisees when it was right in front of them. 312 00:18:22,900 --> 00:18:29,200 Won't be enough for you, either. And today, we all have far more 313 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:32,500 evidence of Greater signs and the Pharisees had at this point, 314 00:18:32,500 --> 00:18:35,500 we have proof of Jesus, death and Resurrection. 315 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:38,800 You have the evidence of Jesus working all throughout history 316 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:41,900 through his power in his people through the church. 317 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:47,000 You have 100 or so evidences of is working power in this room 318 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:49,900 with you today. You have the evidence of his 319 00:18:49,900 --> 00:18:53,200 word where he shows you himself, if you read it and look for him, 320 00:18:53,600 --> 00:18:58,500 you have signs. Even if you don't understand 321 00:18:58,500 --> 00:19:02,200 them completely. You can follow Jesus before you 322 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:05,600 understand everything, that's what the disciples do isn't it? 323 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:08,100 They don't understand. We're going to see a bit more of 324 00:19:08,100 --> 00:19:10,900 that in a minute but they follow Jesus into the boat. 325 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:15,900 Faith comes by stepping into the boat with Jesus, rather than 326 00:19:15,900 --> 00:19:17,700 standing on the shore in your safety. 327 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:20,700 It's easy to look down on the disciples. 328 00:19:20,700 --> 00:19:25,800 They make it very easy for us. But there with Jesus there there 329 00:19:27,500 --> 00:19:31,500 I would encourage you to do that today in the boat to stop 330 00:19:31,500 --> 00:19:35,000 demanding evidence, that's going to satisfy you and to follow 331 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:38,300 Jesus and like the crowd at the start of the passage be 332 00:19:38,500 --> 00:19:44,500 satisfied. But speaking of the disciples, 333 00:19:44,500 --> 00:19:47,200 the third thing, that Jesus teaches them is that the 334 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:52,500 disciples don't get it at all. The disciples do not get it at 335 00:19:52,500 --> 00:19:56,300 all. For this boat ride is a lot more 336 00:19:56,300 --> 00:19:58,600 chatty, isn't the disciple seem a lot more chatter than the last 337 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:00,600 one? Mainly, it seems because they 338 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:03,500 realize they're only brought one loaf of bread with them and 339 00:20:03,500 --> 00:20:06,000 Jesus, hears, and chatting about this and he uses bread as a 340 00:20:06,008 --> 00:20:08,900 parable as a picture to try and teach his disciples a truth. 341 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:12,300 And he warns them saying be careful, watch out for the yeast 342 00:20:12,300 --> 00:20:14,400 of the Pharisees and that of Herod. 343 00:20:15,300 --> 00:20:18,200 And again, Mark doesn't spend a long time on this so we won't 344 00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:21,100 either but Jesus here is talking about something that the 345 00:20:21,108 --> 00:20:24,000 disciples would have all understood baking bread. 346 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:27,200 Breaking bread is nothing more people did in that culture than 347 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:29,200 they do these days. And they would have tried to 348 00:20:29,208 --> 00:20:32,300 break bread, baked bread without yeast in it. 349 00:20:32,300 --> 00:20:36,500 Particularly, and when bacon it, if any yeast did get into any of 350 00:20:36,500 --> 00:20:40,600 the do, it will ruin the whole batch, it would affect the whole 351 00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:42,100 thing. The tiny little bit of yeast can 352 00:20:42,100 --> 00:20:45,100 ruin all the lows come from one batch of bread of do. 353 00:20:45,500 --> 00:20:48,000 And Jesus is saying that something about both the 354 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:51,400 Pharisees and Herod is just as dangerous as a little bit of 355 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:54,700 yeast in a load of dough. Just a little bit of it. 356 00:20:54,900 --> 00:20:58,300 Can have a big impact so be careful and watch out other 357 00:20:58,300 --> 00:20:59,500 words. Jesus uses. 358 00:21:01,100 --> 00:21:04,000 And putting together from Mark's gospel, what we know about both 359 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:07,200 the Pharisees and Herod, there's not loads they have in common 360 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:10,600 but the one thing they do have in common is that they both on 361 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:13,800 the outside look like they're interested in God's kingdom. 362 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:17,900 But on the inside they refused to want have anything to do with 363 00:21:17,900 --> 00:21:20,900 him in their hearts. They want to look impressive to 364 00:21:20,908 --> 00:21:23,600 the people around them but they don't want to obey what God 365 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:27,600 tells him to do. And so Jesus is warning his 366 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:29,800 disciples to watch out for any outward. 367 00:21:29,900 --> 00:21:33,400 Good behavior. There's nothing to do with real 368 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:36,400 love for God. To watch out for people who are 369 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:40,100 more bothered about appearing to behave, good enough, then they 370 00:21:40,100 --> 00:21:44,700 are about repentance. Beware the face doesn't become 371 00:21:44,700 --> 00:21:47,000 something that's lived out in front of others, when Everyone's 372 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:50,700 Watching has got nothing to do with real heart. 373 00:21:50,700 --> 00:21:55,600 Love for God. If your face looks impressive on 374 00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:59,100 a Sunday but doesn't change the way you treat your mom or your 375 00:21:59,100 --> 00:22:04,600 dad, or your spouse, or how you browse the internet, how you 376 00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:07,600 behave when your Christian friends aren't around, or are 377 00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:13,300 you behave when you're alone? That should be a warning. that's 378 00:22:13,300 --> 00:22:16,400 what Jesus is warning his disciples and us to watch out 379 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:19,500 for the Pharisees in herod's outward goodness in front of 380 00:22:19,508 --> 00:22:23,500 everybody showing off how great they are, but empty unchanged 381 00:22:23,500 --> 00:22:30,200 hearts, that is an example to run away from But that isn't why 382 00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:34,200 Mark tells us this. Instead, he tells us what Jesus 383 00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:37,700 teaches his disciples to show, how little they understand what 384 00:22:37,700 --> 00:22:40,500 on Earth is going on. Have a look at verse 16. 385 00:22:40,500 --> 00:22:42,700 After Jesus says that powerful stuff. 386 00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:45,000 They discuss this with one another and said, it's because 387 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:50,000 we've got no bread. instead of getting the parable instead of 388 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:54,900 seeing what Jesus is saying, they argue about lunch, They're 389 00:22:54,900 --> 00:22:57,500 panicking because I've only got one loaf between 13 of them on a 390 00:22:57,508 --> 00:23:01,200 boat. And again, how stupid can you be 391 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:06,500 disciples like was just happened like a two days ago and most 392 00:23:06,500 --> 00:23:10,500 they miss the point though, only with twelve loaves in total 393 00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:14,200 Jesus is very recently fed over 9,000 people. 394 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:19,100 So what if there's only one loaf of bread in your boat, don't you 395 00:23:19,100 --> 00:23:20,700 remember? Who's in the boat with you 396 00:23:20,700 --> 00:23:24,300 disciples? But instead, they're so 397 00:23:24,300 --> 00:23:28,200 distracted by their own mistakes, that they forget about 398 00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:33,600 the power and the care of Jesus. The disciples are so distracted. 399 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:36,500 By this own mistake, whether it's mistake, they've made that 400 00:23:36,500 --> 00:23:40,500 they forget about the power and the care of Jesus. 401 00:23:41,500 --> 00:23:43,300 And so they start to bicker among themselves. 402 00:23:43,300 --> 00:23:45,800 It seems like while they think Jesus isn't listening. 403 00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:50,800 But he is listening. And so he really gently far more 404 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:53,000 gently than I think I would have been questions. 405 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:56,500 I'm to try and wake them up. Why are you talking about having 406 00:23:56,500 --> 00:24:00,500 no bread? You still not see or understand 407 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:04,500 but your hearts hardened by Jesus is trying to teach them, 408 00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:06,100 actually, they're worried about the not going to have enough 409 00:24:06,100 --> 00:24:08,900 food. They don't think that Jesus is 410 00:24:08,900 --> 00:24:10,700 going to care for their physical needs. 411 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,000 They don't think Jesus really cares about them. 412 00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:15,100 And so Jesus reminds them of everything. 413 00:24:15,100 --> 00:24:17,500 They've seen him do in just the last few weeks. 414 00:24:17,700 --> 00:24:21,300 Just think for a second. He says about your lunch Panic. 415 00:24:22,100 --> 00:24:23,800 Do you think it's really the problem? 416 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:28,200 You feel like it is Am I going to let you starve? 417 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:33,300 And that question, are your hearts hardened? 418 00:24:34,500 --> 00:24:36,400 Well, the truth is Mark has already told us that they are 419 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:40,800 back in chapter 6. There is something stopping 420 00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:44,600 these disciples seeing and understanding who Jesus is for 421 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:49,500 them. and they're unclean sin filled heart that Jesus talked 422 00:24:49,500 --> 00:24:54,200 about in chapter 7, if blinded them Spiritually. 423 00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:57,200 These guys are blind. They can't see the truth. 424 00:24:57,200 --> 00:24:59,300 That is right in front of their eyes. 425 00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:03,500 They don't get it. Everything they've seen Jesus do 426 00:25:03,500 --> 00:25:04,800 so far. Should have meant that their 427 00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:07,400 hearts were full of faith. That even with one loaf 428 00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:09,900 everything we've got enough bread because we've got Jesus. 429 00:25:10,700 --> 00:25:12,900 But instead, their hearts are hardened, they can't see the 430 00:25:12,900 --> 00:25:18,400 Messiah for the Miracles. It's ready to rebuke of them. 431 00:25:18,500 --> 00:25:21,700 Jesus quotes. Jeremiah chapter 5 verse 21, 432 00:25:22,500 --> 00:25:25,400 then Verse 18, that's where Jesus quotes Jeremiah 5:21 and 433 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:28,500 he reminds them that they shouldn't be worried about the 434 00:25:28,500 --> 00:25:30,200 bread. All by that shouldn't be a 435 00:25:30,208 --> 00:25:33,000 thing. They're worried about instead, 436 00:25:33,100 --> 00:25:37,000 they should now have seen and heard enough to know they're in 437 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:40,500 a boat in a relationship with the God who created the entire 438 00:25:40,500 --> 00:25:44,000 universe. Jesus is saying, haven't I shown 439 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:47,900 you in so many ways. My love, and my care and my 440 00:25:47,900 --> 00:25:52,800 power for you disciples, you can trust me. 441 00:25:55,100 --> 00:25:57,300 And to do that a bit more. He reminds them of the, to 442 00:25:57,300 --> 00:25:59,500 feeding Miracles. Yes. 443 00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:02,000 Jesus fed the crowds till they were satisfied with. 444 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:05,900 Read that twice in the two accounts, but there was more 445 00:26:05,900 --> 00:26:08,500 than enough left over for the disciples to eat too. 446 00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:14,500 How many leftovers did you get? Jesus asks He does that to 447 00:26:14,500 --> 00:26:17,000 remind them, that his care. And his power weren't just for 448 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:19,700 the crowds but for the disciples as well. 449 00:26:21,100 --> 00:26:25,200 Not just for the needy people around them for these needy 450 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:28,900 disciples to, they thought that Jesus had come to minister to 451 00:26:28,900 --> 00:26:31,500 others, he come to minister to them. 452 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:35,400 And they need his divine power and divine compassion just as 453 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:39,200 much and they have it in basketfuls. 454 00:26:41,500 --> 00:26:43,600 He's trying to teach them an equation that I know I need to 455 00:26:43,608 --> 00:26:45,800 remember. I found some maths in Chris to 456 00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:48,100 try and think of all people in the room says gluten, 457 00:26:48,100 --> 00:26:50,200 intolerant, people and mathematicians all covered. 458 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:53,600 But this is an equation I think we all need to remember because 459 00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:58,000 it's so easy to forget this. The try and keep it as simple as 460 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:00,500 possible and it picks up again from what Pete reminded us of. 461 00:27:00,500 --> 00:27:02,500 Last week that Jesus cares for everybody. 462 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:06,400 He has Divine God, like compassion but he also has 463 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:10,700 divine power over everything. and when you add that together, 464 00:27:11,100 --> 00:27:16,700 divine power plus Divine compassion equals everything we 465 00:27:16,700 --> 00:27:20,400 need, Everything we need. That's what he's been. 466 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:23,300 Minding, his disciples divine power plus. 467 00:27:23,300 --> 00:27:27,300 Divine compassion means we have everything we need. 468 00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:32,200 And I need to be reminded of this so often. 469 00:27:33,700 --> 00:27:36,200 Because we also easily forget these truths. 470 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:39,400 Don't we? And we doubt God's power or we 471 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:44,100 doubt his care for us. And we forget that Jesus cares 472 00:27:44,100 --> 00:27:48,500 about everyone and has power over everything and that that 473 00:27:48,500 --> 00:27:52,300 affects so much of our lives. So we have everything we need 474 00:27:52,300 --> 00:27:53,800 and whatever circumstance worrying. 475 00:27:56,400 --> 00:27:58,900 So one example of how forgetting that affects me, maybe it 476 00:27:58,900 --> 00:28:01,800 affects you as well. When I forget either one of 477 00:28:01,808 --> 00:28:04,700 these two things just don't pray. 478 00:28:05,900 --> 00:28:08,600 I don't pray about situations instead, I try and sort out my 479 00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:12,000 own bread level situations by myself rather than trusting in 480 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,900 the bread of life. The one who has provided and 481 00:28:14,900 --> 00:28:18,400 will provide everything we need primarily through his death and 482 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:21,400 Resurrection, but who loves to provide for everything we need 483 00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:25,600 physically too. We forget that divine power 484 00:28:25,700 --> 00:28:29,200 plus, Divine, compassion equals everything we need and we are 485 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:32,600 far more like the disciples than we like to admit. 486 00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:37,200 And that is what Jesus is reminding his disciples of in 487 00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:41,300 this boat trip but they don't get it, they don't get it at 488 00:28:41,300 --> 00:28:44,800 all. And Jesus says, in verse 18 that 489 00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:47,200 they don't get it because spiritually they're blind. 490 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:52,200 Like Jesus has already performed incredible Miracles and provided 491 00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:54,700 for them and cared for them so much again. 492 00:28:54,700 --> 00:28:58,000 And again, already saving them from deadly storms and deadly 493 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:02,800 hunger, they can't see it. They're not able to put two and 494 00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:06,300 two together and get for Jesus is saying they're spiritually 495 00:29:06,300 --> 00:29:09,100 death, and they're spiritually blind. 496 00:29:09,900 --> 00:29:13,300 They can't make themselves here and they can't make themselves. 497 00:29:13,300 --> 00:29:16,200 See, and understand, they need help. 498 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:20,300 Disciples. Just don't get it at all. 499 00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:26,900 Yet. That is good news. 500 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:30,600 Because that is why, Mark tells us this story. 501 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:34,800 The exactly this moment in his gospel. because in chapter 7 502 00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:39,900 last week who was Jesus able to heal, You're allowed to answer 503 00:29:39,900 --> 00:29:44,500 that. The guy was deaf and if you look 504 00:29:44,500 --> 00:29:47,900 ahead to just after this passage in Mark chapter 8 who is Jesus 505 00:29:47,900 --> 00:29:49,800 able to heal, spoiler alert for next week. 506 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:55,100 Sorry Richard a blind guy. And if these are all spiritual 507 00:29:55,100 --> 00:29:58,200 signs, pointing to spiritual truths, and the disciples are 508 00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:00,100 deaf and blind. What is it? 509 00:30:00,100 --> 00:30:03,600 They need, they need someone to heal their blindness and their 510 00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:06,800 deafness. Thankfully, that persons in the 511 00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:10,800 boat with him. Jesus came to open their ears 512 00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:14,000 and their eyes to understand the truth of who he is, and what 513 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,300 he's like, and how much he cares for them. 514 00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:22,600 Jesus is willing and able, he came to heal the Blind and the 515 00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:25,600 deaf and he's going to do that for the disciples. 516 00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:30,200 They don't get it at all yet, but as John's flagged up, they 517 00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:34,600 will soon. And Jesus still at work, he's 518 00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:38,700 not finished with them. That's good news, isn't it? 519 00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:44,700 Because Jesus still has Divine compassion and divine power, 520 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:48,200 even now. And so we can all be confident. 521 00:30:48,700 --> 00:30:50,800 He will provide everything we need. 522 00:30:51,700 --> 00:30:54,000 And therefore, we can be confident that we can go to him 523 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:56,800 in prayer about big things, and small things, and no matter what 524 00:30:56,800 --> 00:31:00,200 those things are, we can come to him, we can go to him in prayer 525 00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:02,900 for those people who that, we know and love, who are still so 526 00:31:02,900 --> 00:31:06,100 blind. And he refused to see or can't 527 00:31:06,100 --> 00:31:09,900 see the truth of Who Jesus is because he is able to open the 528 00:31:09,900 --> 00:31:13,200 eyes of the blind to see the truth of who he is. 529 00:31:14,300 --> 00:31:16,800 And we know that because he did it for these disciples. 530 00:31:17,900 --> 00:31:21,700 We've done it for us so we can be confident that he can and 531 00:31:21,700 --> 00:31:26,500 will do it for others, too. I said earlier when we doubt and 532 00:31:26,500 --> 00:31:28,200 forget these things affects our prayer life. 533 00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:31,700 And I was asked this week, if Jesus was to give me everything, 534 00:31:31,700 --> 00:31:35,300 I prayed for in the last week, how many people would be saved? 535 00:31:37,300 --> 00:31:39,700 It's Jesus was to say, down and answer every prayer with 536 00:31:39,700 --> 00:31:41,300 positive answer. You've asked for, in the last 537 00:31:41,300 --> 00:31:43,400 week, how many people would be saved? 538 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:48,300 Not really challenge me. Because the truth is, I don't 539 00:31:48,300 --> 00:31:51,300 pray about things, I don't think God either got power over it or 540 00:31:51,300 --> 00:31:55,300 that he cares about it. How is our prayer life? 541 00:31:55,300 --> 00:31:59,000 For those who don't know. Jesus, have we forgotten that 542 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:02,400 he's both got power and Care over all things. 543 00:32:03,700 --> 00:32:05,200 Are you more like me and out too? 544 00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:08,200 Often his power and his care, and his desire to save because 545 00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:12,100 we all risk being like the disciples, panicking over, what 546 00:32:12,100 --> 00:32:14,200 we can do with the bread, we have, when we should just turn 547 00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:16,700 them, ask for help. I'm the one who can feed 548 00:32:16,700 --> 00:32:19,100 thousands, through God's power working in him. 549 00:32:19,100 --> 00:32:20,600 That's what we want. Quality Bible club, right? 550 00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:24,200 We want children to come along, who are spiritually blind and 551 00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:26,700 have their eyes open to see the truth of who Jesus is and then 552 00:32:26,700 --> 00:32:29,300 families and Karen and part to be changed as a result of that. 553 00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:36,000 We need to be praying for it. But even more brilliantly if we 554 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:40,000 have messed up again. When we forget to pray or refuse 555 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:43,700 to pray, we can still be confident of Jesus, divine 556 00:32:43,700 --> 00:32:48,900 compassion for us again. He's so patient with his 557 00:32:48,900 --> 00:32:51,200 disciples, right? I'd be tempted to check them 558 00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:52,400 out. The boat at this point. 559 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:56,300 That's not what Jesus Does. His compassion. 560 00:32:56,500 --> 00:33:00,400 It's not just for the crowds around and about it's also for 561 00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:03,400 the disciples ice, also, for you and me. 562 00:33:05,500 --> 00:33:09,300 It's so easy to trust. Jesus is Love and his patience 563 00:33:09,300 --> 00:33:13,200 and his care and his compassion and his forgiveness for other 564 00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:16,700 people. But then forget that is equally 565 00:33:16,700 --> 00:33:20,400 true of you and me too. So imagine that his patients 566 00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:24,700 with us is actually wearing pretty thin by now actually he's 567 00:33:24,900 --> 00:33:27,500 very disappointed in us to forget him what he's like again 568 00:33:27,700 --> 00:33:30,500 and trying to sort out our own lives on our own again and 569 00:33:30,500 --> 00:33:32,400 failing to resist temptation again. 570 00:33:33,100 --> 00:33:35,100 Forgetting to pray about things again. 571 00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:39,100 We all prone to suspect sometimes that he's just getting 572 00:33:39,100 --> 00:33:43,300 irritated by us. and we imagine that instead of his loving 573 00:33:43,300 --> 00:33:46,700 compassionate, gentle questioning We got one of his 574 00:33:46,700 --> 00:33:52,700 disappointed size. But that isn't how Jesus works 575 00:33:52,700 --> 00:33:56,000 for people who are desperate to follow him, just look at the 576 00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:57,400 disciples. They don't get it at all, they 577 00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:00,400 don't understand but despite their constant not getting it 578 00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:03,400 nurse. Jesus is so patient and bears 579 00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:06,100 with them right. He continues to teach them and 580 00:34:06,100 --> 00:34:09,100 show them what they need to see about what he's like. 581 00:34:10,199 --> 00:34:12,199 And then we'll see again. Further, spoiler alert. 582 00:34:12,199 --> 00:34:14,800 We'll see after the cross. That he sends these slow 583 00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:17,300 disappointing man out and then changes the world through. 584 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:23,400 The truth is Jesus is not looking for self-reliant Heroes. 585 00:34:24,699 --> 00:34:26,900 He's after helpless week bread eaters. 586 00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:32,000 We'll get in a boat with him. Jesus isn't looking for 587 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:35,300 self-reliant Heroes, he just want helpless weak, bready, as 588 00:34:35,300 --> 00:34:37,300 who are willing to get in the boat with him, no matter what, 589 00:34:37,300 --> 00:34:41,000 people who know they're blind, but it cling to Jesus anyway, 590 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:46,800 because he is the bread of life and he will never ever turn away 591 00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:50,500 anyone who comes to him asking him to help them, no matter how 592 00:34:50,500 --> 00:34:51,699 Daft. They might seem. 593 00:34:51,699 --> 00:34:56,800 Jesus is the very image of God in human form and he's showing 594 00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:59,200 us what. God the father is like to God is 595 00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:02,600 gracious and compassionate. Passionate he is slow to anger 596 00:35:02,700 --> 00:35:06,700 and rich in loving kindness. God is not quick to anger and 597 00:35:06,700 --> 00:35:11,200 slow to love. Slow to anger, and quick to 598 00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:14,400 love, and Jesus shows that again and again. 599 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:20,200 This morning. Whether we're a Daft disciple or 600 00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:25,000 a greedy, Gentile, or stubborn Pharisee, we all need the same 601 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:28,100 thing. We need a powerful savior, a 602 00:35:28,100 --> 00:35:31,900 savior with divine power, and divine compassion, who can open 603 00:35:31,900 --> 00:35:36,200 blind eyes, and unblock deaf ears, and it provides for all of 604 00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:38,500 our needs, and who loves to open blind eyes. 605 00:35:38,500 --> 00:35:42,200 If they'll just come to him and admit their need, because not 606 00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:45,000 even sinful. Stubborn Hearts is a problem. 607 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:49,900 Jesus can't defeat And that's good news in them. 608 00:35:51,100 --> 00:35:53,700 It's good news for us. It's good news for the people. 609 00:35:53,700 --> 00:35:56,800 We love, it's good news for the world around us, so let's be 610 00:35:56,800 --> 00:36:02,500 people who are praying for that. Our mission hasn't changed and 611 00:36:02,500 --> 00:36:07,400 Jesus hasn't changed either. He still has divine power and 612 00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:10,500 divine compassion and he will provide all that we need. 613 00:36:10,500 --> 00:36:13,900 So let's trust in him. A seek out ways to be reminding 614 00:36:13,900 --> 00:36:16,900 each other of those truths and we forget them because as 615 00:36:16,900 --> 00:36:20,500 disciple making disciples, we forget that so often and we need 616 00:36:20,500 --> 00:36:21,100 help. Don't lie. 617 00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:04,600 Our mission hasn't changed and Jesus hasn't changed either. 618 00:36:05,100 --> 00:36:09,400 He still has divine power and divine compassion and he will 619 00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:11,500 provide all that we need. So let's trust in him. 620 00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:15,000 A seek out ways to be reminding each other of those truths and 621 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:18,200 we forget them because as disciple making disciples, we 622 00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:20,800 forget that so often and we need help. 623 00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:21,100 Don't lie.