MARK 6 (FEEDING THE 5000) | Pr Matthew Chang

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you time. We're gonna do. I'm gonna do a unique structure.

I'm gonna zoom in and then zoom out. Okay, everybody

repay after me. Zoom in, zoom out, Hey, zoom and

zoom out. Okay. So I'm gonna zoom in on one

particular story, and then I'm gonna zoom out into the

whole chapter, and also to highlight some things and also

how you can also next time learn the word as well. Okay,

So turn me to Mark chapter six. Okay, it's better

I show you and then tell you. Okay, I show

you and then tell you Mark chapter six and read

from verse thirty to verse forty two. Okay, this is

the zooming part. First, you're gonna zoom in to a

very familiar passage. Then I'm gonna zoom out. Okay, feeling

the five thousand, How many of you have not heard

of this story? I take it most of you have

heard that. Okay, but we still go through it. Okay,

says Yah. I'm gonna read ahead verse thirty. Then the

apostles gathered to Jesus and told him all things, both

what they had done and what they had thought. Okay.

This is in the context that Jesus had just sent

his disciples two by two to go to different villages

to heal, to cast out demons and the annoying people

with oil. Okay. And so they came back with great report.

There are great things, you know. I'm sure they're like, hey,

I did you see that that? You know? You know,

they were telling him all they were so excited successful

in ministry. Okay. In verse thirty one, and he said

to them, come aside by yourself to a deserted place

and rest a while, for there were many coming and going,

and they did not even have time to eat. So

they departed to a deserted place in the boat by themselves.

But the more altitudes saw them departing, and many knew

him and ran there on foot from all the cities

and arrived before them and came together to him. Hey,

and taking all this part and underlining it. And Jesus

when he came out, saw a great multitude and was

moved with compassion for them, because they were like sheep,

not having a shepherd, so he began to teach them

many things. Again, he didn't he just teach one thing.

He taught me many things for many hours. When the

day was not far spent, his disciples came to him

and said, this is a deserted place, and already the

hours lt hour is late. Send them away, that they

may go into the surrounding country and the villagers and

buy themselves bread, for they had nothing to eat. Underline

this one. But Jesus answered and said to them, you

give them something to eat. Yeah, this is very important sentence.

And they said to him, shall we go and buy

two hundred dinari worth of bread and give them something

to eat? Two hundred dinarry is about one year's wage

for a normal person. But he said to them, how

many loaves do you have? Go and see, and when

they found out they said five and two fish. Then

he commanded them to make themselves sit down in groups

on the green grass. So they sat down in ranks.

Underlying this in hundreds and fifties. And when he had

taken the five loaves and the two fish, he looked

up to heaven, blessed and broke the loaves and gave

them to his disciples to set before them, and the

two fish he divided among them all. So they all

ate and were filled, and they took up twelve basketsfuls

of fragments and of the fish. Now those were eaten.

The loaves were about five thousand men and men. Now,

first of all, we know that there were many people

who followed Jesus at that time. Five thousand men at

that time. They only count men, they don't count women,

they don't count children. So if you added up it

probably anywhere from thirteen to fifteen thousand people easily. Okay,

thirteen to fifteen thousand is a lot of people. And

he says here that Jesus initially did not plan to

meet them, but they came from people. As they were

moving around, people from every city started coming. Imagine, here

is Bu, people from Kabong, you're from a Damasa Heights,

you're from from k Are, people from maybe not, I

don't know where else. People from bj different parts are

started coming out. Fifty hundred thousand everyone started coming out

Okay to meet Jesus. And when they came out, so

many of them so desperate, so far away to come

out Okay, imagine that time there's no cassa. When they

come out and they come up for a long time,

you walk, you know, they walk. You know how many

of you are willing to walk from Kabong to here?

Tell you to walk from here to curve. You also

wonder being sound ready, isn't it? No? No, no, you

went from here to Erit also one readier? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

it's true. It's true. Got shade or not? Got unbrella? No? No,

they walked, you know, okay, they walked. They meet him

because when he saw them, he was what. He was

moved with compassion. He was move with compassion because these

people are lost. He sends them the word compassion means

to be in the same shoe, gain to be in

your shoe, to be in your life when you're broken.

He understood your brokenness, when you are lost. He felt

how you lost, you were, whatever did you felt? He understood,

and he saw them as being lost and desperate, and

he was moved with compassion, and so he made time

with them. He taught them many times. He taught them

for many hours. And then his disciples you know saw

something there. Oh wow, so many people they just did

one ministry. H Gain, they did one ministry, and I

don't think they were prepared for this one. Gain, I

don't think they were prepared for this one. There's so

many people, fifteen thousands, you know, from a few homes

a few cities are to fifteen thousand people. It's a

big jump. And not only that, they saw what was coming,

they saw that if they continue, these people are gonna

empty them. Okay, They're gonna empty them, literally empty them.

It means like even our salary are not enough. You know,

they're gonna empty us. Okay, So they came out with

a solution. There's not really a solution as well. You know,

That's what I'm saying. The solution is to we can't

feed them, Let then go back home, okay, and then

find their own food. But it's not really a solution

because if fifteen people have walked to your place without food,

how they're going to find somewhere else to find. There's

no city at that time they can fit fifteen thousand people.

I ask you right now, you've got fifteen thousand people here,

Bet you can fit. I think you struggle. Also, you

underste what I'm saying, not so it is not a

reasonable solution at all. Yeah, fifteen thousand. It's not a

reasonable because it's not prepared. Nobody, no cities prepared. You

are not prepared. The city is not prepared. But at

least they're not my problem. That's why is a solution

that's not really a solution, you get mean right, So

they will they won't really have a solution with all

these problems. Okay, But then Jesus said something interesting, you

fit them. Why did Jesus say that, I'm gonna answer

that in a short while. Okay, okay, when with uma,

I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna

come back to this question again. Okay. And then Jesus

ask them, first of all, what do you have? Okay?

So what is the first rule of requirement that you

need to happen When you want Jesus to intervene and

to perform miracles or have a break through your life,

You must do your own due diligence. You must come through,

come through what you have. God always works through what

you have first, because a lot of times it's the

things that we have we forget, you mean, right, come

through what you have? You I mean right. Always, if

you're Elijah and the widow, handful of flower, use the

handful of far you've got oil, use the oil you

cant find those you that five loss Jesus. Always use

what we have because it is it's not just using

what we have is to change how we see what

we have. Under said, it's to change us. Okay, fire

thoughs and two fish okay, And then you can jump

to my slides. Don't show the first few slides on

a hide from them. First show that firelos and two fish. Okay,

So again, come true what you have. And then there

are four stages. First of all, we see that Jesus

he chose the bread, okay, the bread and the filos

of bread and two fish were chosen. And the second

thing he said that is that he took it. He

looked up to the heavens, he blessed it and gave thanks, okay,

and then he broke it. Let me ask you, at

which stage of this process did the miracle happen. Was

it the blessing, was it the choosing being chosen, was

it being blessed? Or was it broken? Most pop will

say it's broken, isn't it? It cannot be there when

you blessed Sunday, open your eyes. Everybody got happy. Me

you already you're happy. You're happy. Everybody's happy. You get

a double cheeseburger, you get a zinger burger, you get nuggets.

You know, oh so cool? Everything appeared ready, No, but

the process was quite unique. Okay, he broke it. Okay,

and I now I need a volunteer. Who should I target?

Just come? Okay? Okay, so now they I mean, let

me ask you, guys, how many they were sitting in?

What is the format they were sitting in? How many people?

Fifties and hundreds? So we have about fifty pass I

guess like here, Okay, you are the first growl of people. Hey,

imagine I'm Jesus, imagine this is Peter. You have an

empty basket in your head, imaginary one. Okay, and I

want you guys, did you have a role to play? Okay?

You have been sitting out for a long time. You

just came up for walk y long, didn't bring food, Hungry,

you got kids, you got whatever, whatever, whatever things you

have responsibilities you have as well. Okay, you're hungry, and

you clearly do not see a big mama or a

buffet line behind me, okay, and then it's just philos

of two fish. And then you see this guy. He's

gonna come to you with one basket. You have to

be realistic. You're gonna do row by row first, you

just do slowly, do the first row. And then I

want you all at the back, especially to give me

your real reaction, real real, authentic reaction, being really hungry,

being like at the edge that you're gonna be angry?

Ready for what reason? You're hungry and you're tired. And

if I go north food, you're gonna walk back another

few more mask go back to Copong to find food

which might not have as well. Okay, So just are

you ready? Are you scared you'll be able to crowd? Right? No,

I want you to imagine all this. Okay, give you

a day. This is the first row, okay, and I

want you to give me a reaction at the back,

give me your life reaction. You're angry to shout it out, Okay,

go go get it. Yeah, Hey, what you're all quiet?

Wanna only one basket? You know at least shout you

know what you're gonna be shouting? Oh why one basket?

Got enough? Or not Hey wait wait wait wait, wait

wait wait wait. Okay, by the time you come here,

finish basket with you? Okay, So, uh, what's your reaction

right now? Hey, come on your morena, I need a

more realistic crowdler. What are you gonna say? What is again?

Are you gonna say? Yeah? There now? So you will

be like, we're going enough? This realistic they're gonna do

see us by fifty they're looking at the other table

like one basket. Wait, going enough, isn't it? It's wrong?

Then Now if you're finish ready and then you see

all these people like not being grouchy angry, how do

you feel? I feel I feel very helpless. I don't

know what to do. Yes, okay, then they'll be like Jesus,

how finish it? I don't know what to do it? Guys,

So you feel scared and feel full? So what are

your options? Okay, that's your only options there. The only

option is to go back to Jesus. You see, it's

not just a miracle. It's the format of the America.

It's how it was delivered. So it was put that

everybody has to watch, everybody has to wait, and you

are put in the position to steal what they Jesus said,

you go and fit them. No, no, this is still

for field wise from me. You go and feed them,

but our provide, but you still feed them. And now

because you finish one row, the rest of the people

is that when I will get mine and they empty

your basket, I'll tell you our ministry are it's a

burden one you know, it's all times. Ah, this is

all nice. Everybody called you pastor everybody called you leader,

everybody or it's a burden. And you know what can't

burden is the time burden that will empty your basket.

And every time you go back, people will empty you,

empty you empty. They will its before you eat. You

gotta be ready to do that. When you're gonna do ministry.

People be offended at you. They will misunderstand you. They

were empty, you will misunderstand. They will say all sorts

of things. There were sometimes some of it. But when

they say you, they will say about me as well,

because they're offended, not just you. By mean, that's why

this is say no, don't be offended. Don't don't be

worried when they what they say against you is offense

about me. I'm paraphrasing, give me, it's about Jesus one. Okay,

it's a very difficult ministry, but this is another subject.

So you've got not choice. But you come back to

come back to me. Then what would you ask Jesus?

Do you have more? Isn't it? It's as simple as that,

isn't it? Then I give again, pastor you. Then you're like, oh,

she still got more. Then you go to the third again.

Now everybody give me a reaction again, Yeah, go umbowered

uh uh give you. Then you come back, finish again,

you come back again. Now do you still have more? Now?

Let me ask you, by the time you do it

for the fifth time, six times, seven times, is there

anything that changed? I know that there will be more

because a time of the time when I come back,

Jesus gets more. Are you more worried? More confident? Now?

Thank you so much? And you see, sometimes you miss

the power and the meaning of the of the miracle

all the miracle. Yes, the feeding was powerful, but there

was another deep miracle happening. As to who to Peter

and the disciples. You know why in ministries like this,

when you serve the people, when you try to minister

to the world, they will empty you. But every time

you're supposed to come back to Jesus and to ask

for the first time and the second time, you don't

know your death like how. But after you see Jesus giving, delivering, answering,

providing again and again, it becomes second nature to you

to have nothing. You are okay to be empty. You ready,

You're no longer worried to be offended or to be

emptied out, or to have nothing by having no solutions.

Some of you you are parents. You don't have all

the solutions and know but because you'll practice so much,

you say, just go to Jesus then, and you will

do that from the beginning of your life until the

end of your time, when you're on your grave, or

that not on your grave. You're but you're not on

your dying better. Oh, still trust Jesus. That's how we

begin and this is how we will end. You know

I'm saying what I'm saying now, it's still the same

ya coming back to Jesus. My basket is empty, but

you will make me fool. That is why at the

end of the day, how many baskets will full? They

will empty you one time, two times, five times, ten times,

twenty times, you will do the same thing again, and

they were empty you. But yet at the end of

the day, when all is said and done, when your

ministry is done, your bucket basket will be full. Wow, amazing,

isn't it. It's prophetic, you know, it's very very prophetic.

You know what what what this message is really all about? Okay,

so Jesus chose the bread, he blessed it. But it

is all the breaking that the miracle happened. We are

all like the bread. Atially. The miracle is, first of all,

is prophetic about a few things and a few levels.

First of all, the first level is about Jesus. Jesus

was the chosen one. He's the anointed one, the blessed,

the baptism and all the voice of God, the Father

came on this, my son, who in whom I am,

Well please everybody witnessed it. A blessed one. But yeah,

his ministry was not here to heal and to provide.

His ministry was to be broken. Yet me right, he

can heal one person, he can heal one village. But

out of his brokenness all can be saved. By belief.

You geta means that's a true miracle. It'slf the brokenness

of the body, the true breadth that be broken. So

that miracle is prophetic about who Jesus is, and it's

also prophetic about our lives as well. A lot of

us want to find what God, what's your plan for me?

What's your destiny for me? And I have to tell

you right now that a lot of times it has

nothing to do with your strength here, has nothing to

do with your your previous background, your skills, nothing to

do what I've encountered. Most of the time, where God

wants you to be is where you are most broken.

You unders saying what I'm saying, Not where you are

most talented, not where you're most comfortable. Why Because it's

not about you. It's not about you, you know what

I'm saying, what I'm saying, It's never about you. You

look at people who are most done the greatest things,

I know, great breakthrough, Abraham Linker and Moisa people what

what what what? What? What did it cost them? Everything?

And yet why did they do it? Because their hearts

were broken? You know? And give me give you an example.

Like when I was remember in my homes, there was

one time early earlier years with the community were there

was one family we were supporting. I think the wife

was diabetic and had to go into the hospital in

and out of law. This one time I got a call.

I was halfway working, uh this, this father called me

to go to um to help because they don't know

who to help or to ask for. So I, honestly,

I tell you, I was not feeling generous and ministries

like okay, let's do it, Okay, let's go anyway, okay.

But when I arrived there, he was at the roadside.

You know, they were like looking at like a family

that was lost and then just got done in the

middle of the road there. I was like, oh, why

they with a wheelchair, the wife in the wheelchair and

like you know, almost like you know, sick. So I

picked them up. I put in my car and ask

him like, how's your family and say wow, they told

me the trouble. I said, house with children or what's

it been eating? Said the kid had not been having

proper meal and milk, and all I think like just

you and one one one year, two years no milk.

They give them Chinese tea to drink instead of instead

of milk, they give them Chinese tea, no rice, hardly

things to eat. A lot of times it's just the meal.

It's just water and suegar. That's it. Okay, that's all

they have. And as he said, and they in my car,

I tell you all my preaching vistment and went out

of the window. There was only brokenness, and my heart

just went off for them so much. There was no

one in the car, and it was just me and them,

and I decided that and then the moment that I

just knew, I just took them. I went to the

latest spin Mark. I said, you come out with me, okay,

I wanted. There's a few bocks in my car. Don't

know how you appeared there, there was there. I say,

take off to two bocks, come out with me. You

get whatever you need. I don't care how much it

costs you get. They took a five five kilo rights,

I say, don't take the fighter, get the twenty kilo on.

She was scared to spend my nanny. I took him

and you take you take two of them, and blah

blah blah. Put it inside there. He was like shot

and look at me and said and drove back to

his apartment. Near in Arada Mansaradha and then you take

you take, okay, just and he cried, It's like, I

know it so one moment where it was you know,

I think he at one moment he was so lost

and then he did expect this. But in my heart

I was like, I don't. I don't feel great. You

know why, because I know you will run out again.

I know you will run out again. And to me,

I did nothing. I did nothing. The only thing I

could feel was brokenness for them. And I've always had

a heart tender half of us for poor people because

you can imagine the nights when you don't have a phone,

the nights when you had to disappoint your own children

because you've got nothing to feed them. It's it's heartbreaking,

you know what I mean, right, And it's these moments

that we give the most. It's not when you have

the best, you know you I'm saying here, And when

it's that moment when you SA said, this is what

I've caught you to become, To be broke for my people,

it is always the greatest miracle that will ever throw

out of the greatest work that you will do out

of your life. It is out of your brokenness. And

if you want to find your purpose, ask yourself, God,

what breaks my heart? Not what is my strength? Because

when you find your brokenness and you realize that, you

begin to disappear and others come up. It's not about you.

I understand what I'm saying. It's never about you, Okay,

there's always been. Jesus came down, it was about him,

know about us, He had usked in mind when he

was on the cross. You know what I'm saying. Why not?

It is always God's love for the rest. You know

what I'm saying. You gotts say what I'm saying. You know.

So that's how I always tell people. You want to

you want to find your destiny, look back and reflect

on what breaks your heart. That is where likely, very

likely God is pressing. Okay, so now I'm just name

and I'm going to zoom out to my time. Yes,

I'm on time. So I've talked about Mark chapter six,

and you will imagine that Jesus had healed this five thousand,

and not heal by the fit fed this five thousand,

after such great miracle, Ah, their eyes would have opened.

This is what Jesus was doing. You would think that

the disciples we have been blessed would have believed or

did they? Sometimes when you look at one story here

and you don't piece the rest, you miss out a

big picture. I'm going to show you right now, Mark

chapter six, okay, and you look at some of the

titles that are containing this chapter God Slight Here, you

see that Jesus first of all, talks about Jesus being

rejected in Nazareth. Then suddenly they talk about Jesus sending

out the twelve Okay. Interesting, Then John the Baptist beheaded?

Why is Mark writing this in the same chapter? Know,

what is this going to? How does he even connect?

Then now that dead beheading talks about the five thousand?

How does this connect? You know, it's like a weird series. Okay.

Then after I talk about Jesus walking on water? Is

there a coincidence? Is there a meaning that the Bible

is trying to weave and teach us so that we

don't just look at the feeding the five thousand and

it's like, oh yeah? Or is there a warning behind

all these things? Okay, So let's look a bit now,

Jesus being rejected in Nazareth, what did we learn here?

He says there that Jesus was there. I'm not gonna

go through. I'm gonna do a real quick one. Hey,

Jesus went met to his hometown, okay, and he was

doing he was preaching on Sabbath, okay, on the Sunday

at the synagogue, and the people, most likely his friends

or his uncles or his close by, recognize him. And

then it's like then they was so amazed, it says

there in verse two, and many hearing him were astonished,

saying where did these men get these things? And what

wisdom is this which is given to him? That such

mighty works are performed by his hands? They were amazing. Now,

great word, great works. It's wow. But then they stopped. Now,

when you see a person that you are familiar with, okay,

imagine you go back to your hometown. Imagine thirty years ago,

I don't know how old you are. Like imagine like

you go back to your primary years and you picked

one friend that you think are probably at that time,

you think like it probably the last in the class one,

or like you know, or probably like what's very insignificant

now being someone very powerful, very influential and doing great

mighty things. Someone in order doing, and in Jesus is

this is even more okay, very very powerful. Okay, when

you see that person like that, what does it forces

you to do? Whoa This guy is a prime mini story. Oh,

this guy is like when you see someone you're so

close in proximity, it forces you to decide who that

person is. You know, you see what I'm saying. It

forces you to decide you see my old friend or

is he someone more? You know what I'm saying. You

can't help because they're doing great things? Who is he?

So it causes you to ask the identity? It does

the things, ask you the identity, and so it begins.

They begin this process and then they start to ask.

Then they stop in saying that could this be the Messiah? Instead,

they started to go to the flesh experience, and the

flesh says it in verse three, is this not the carpenter?

They do not look at what he preached, They do

not look at what he did. They look at your

past resumey. They look at you as a carpenter first.

Isn't that what the world does. They look at us

a competitor first, not what you preacher, like I said,

That's why I said when I said earlier, God, may

your word be true, even if it comes up from

the mouth of a donkey. If your word is a

donkey's mouth, word is true, It's true or not, doesn't matter.

It's a donkey, doesn't matter the donkey come from where.

You know, whether it's true or not. You get what

I'm saying here, It's very, very, very important. But they

look at he's a competitor, the son of Mary. Oh

isn't their son of Mary marry that one who had

a dubious relationship hums out somehow had a virgin baby. Ah,

she's probably had a pre marriage. You know, give me

an ostracized ready, start to look at your family background. Oh,

and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon. Are

these the people we play with, whether good and bet

they might be naughty. We don't know as well, And

they are not their sisters here with us, so that

there were are the necess well or some of their system.

But I'm married with us as well. We might know

you could be my brother in law. So if all

this being circle and being influenced by the flesh, they

had to decid who Jesus is. And they decided he

was not the Messiah. And the moment you decide and

you settled in your heart that it cannot be any

time anyone greater than the person I used to know.

They became offended because the person I used to know,

how can he say such a thing? Why can he

do such a thing? How can he have right and

authority over me? You know see what I'm saying here?

You see? Ah, there's another reason also why they get offended.

And one when you grow up with someone whom you

think like just the same stature as you are, and

they become very great, and suddenly they come by beside you,

and then everyone starts to surround you. You know what happens.

You begin to get measured, so I siblings unfortunately, right

true or not? You get measured. You get measured, and somehow,

when in measuring one thing will happen. What happens? One

get accepted, one doesn't. If everyone can accept him he's

the same as you are, that means I'm not accepted

at all. And so they got offended because Jesus came

from the same of them. He's a carpenter, son of Mary.

Why is he and why is he doing such more

powerful things. They start to discount him and bring Jesus

down to his to their level, even when the words

that he preached and the works that he did was

from heaven that brought him down to that brought him

down to earth. So much. This is what men can

do to Jesus, Wanner, Okay, this is what unbelief will

do to Jesus. You will bring something from heaven down

to earth, all the way until you do no longer believe,

and all the way until you get offended. And this

is the same thing that happened between Cain and Abel.

Abel was accepted Cain was not brothers, and then the

hate will turning to murder. Oh, it's always the same problem,

isn't it. That is why Jesus say in there a

non prophet is except no say in verse four, a

prophet is not without honor except in his own country,

among his own relatives, in his own house. Most of

the prophets at the time day before and most of

the time in the assaying generation means the appears at

that generation of twenty years are when he speaks to

these people, are prophets will get killed, will be rejected

by them. Proverbs are killed by their own generation. Then

the next generation, their sons and daughters will be the

one to bury them and then write great stories about them.

That's why they are sinful. Get mean, right? How come

your fathers kill them, and your sons sons bury and

celebrate them, and you claim yourself to be holy and

sons and daughters of Abraham and Moses hypocrits if I'm saying,

you know, and Jesus is highlighting there about them as well. No,

you will kill me, and you will, you will reject me.

But yet your next generation will someone celebrate me. This

is not what we want. Okay. Then in verse five

he say that he could do no mighty work there,

except that he laid his hands on a few sick

people and healed them, and he marveled because of their unbelief.

Then he went about the religis in a circle and teaching.

So he marveled at the unbelief because with course of

the unbelief, he could do no great miracles. It's not

because Jesus couldn't do anything. It doesn't have the power.

But miracle. You must understand. Miracle is not about all

the responsibility of God. You know, the power source is

there every plot point is there, but belief is what

gets you to plug it in. You know, with all

the power, It's like, we have all the power, we

paid it actually there, but yet this room is too

dark because no one believes. Man, you know what I'm saying.

What I'm saying that we can have all the power,

but yet this room will still be dark because nobody

believed to plug it in. He marvels, like, it's like

this hotel comes in. I asked why this plays all

that one? Don't you paid for money? Ready? If I

so that because nobody on the light, Oh you'll be

so marvel You'll be so amazing. Marveled this for Jesus

marveled he couldn't do anything. We give it every day,

but yet you are not on it because of unbelief.

The darkness of hearts scarier. Huh. So you see now,

I'm telling you now, Jesus saw the rejection in Nazareth,

and immediately, what did Jesus do? He sends out the twelve.

He sends out the twelve two by two, and it

gets them to go to different villages. They are rejecting me.

I'm sending you out right now to do the miracle,

not just me, but you second hand and know before

that Jesus were doing personally. Now he sends you out,

see my authority that goes with you, and he's trying

to teach his disciple something. For the first time they

are actually doing some actual work. It's like they are

in internship right now. Okay, they're in internship. Hey, we

get to do a bit of Jesus. Well, who know

you go out? He says that that you only wear sandals, okay,

white sandals, because you take off your sandals on holy ground.

Where you wear your sandals means what it's unholy ground,

you may and not may not be accepted. That's why

you're gonna be ready to move in and move out.

The second thing to two Nicks. Why to Tuo Nicks,

it's like you're wearing a coat there. You got your

inner shirt and you got a cold as well. Okay,

you wear two tu NICs. Okay, your inner tunic is

what you will always have. Your autotunic is for your

formality and you know your identity and sometimes you stay

a bit longer as well. But Jesus says, your ministry

will not be about that. For my day. It's not

about you. Your ministry is're gonna go in and go out.

You do what you do. You accept it accepted. You

don't have to, you know, earn whatever acceptance from them.

You just go in the authority and in the name

of Jesus, you just do what even need to do. Okay.

So there's a very very important thing. He goes out

and they cast they did many things, They healed many people,

they cast out demons, they annoy the people successful. Okay,

and then we hear that Mark start to talk about

John the Baptist beheaded. No. I was laboring through this

message the whole night, you know, I couldn't unders. Then

I was like, why why MA put John the Baptist here?

Say?

Is there a coincidence? You know? I was like, yeah, no, no,

I'm just gonna skip it. When I felt like, Holy Spirit, no,

I'm mad, you stay and I stay on for another

hour on the passage, I was like, oh my goodness,

I want to move on. Ready, I want to I

want to watch something else ready. You know, it's like

this is all wrong already, you know it pictures also,

sometimes you know, at least I mean like sometimes I

give up certain things now okay. But then I saw

something and I understood maybe this is what it's all about.

You know, why did they talk about John the Baptist

being beheaded? Why it was included here? John the Baptist,

his first role was to come to be the compass

or to fulfill the office until Jesus comes and takes over. Okay,

to point to people who Jesus was, to preach the

message of repentance, so that when Jesus comes with the

matches or the gospel, they will believe. You know what

I'm saying, Not to prepare the ground. Okay. Now, John

the Baptist has died. This office is empty. Before that

was the disciples casting out demons, sending two by two.

They couldn't step over and take over John's role because

he was still alive. Now when he expires or being removed? Okay,

now who takes over? Disciples? But you must understand that

there's a problem here. No, these are interns, you know,

these are interns of He's asking interns had to take

on the general manager role. And hey, how long have

you been working here? What was my first day? First

time working? Ah? So yo? Who are you taking over?

John the Baptists who had been you know, you know,

doing just recently beheaded Ah twelve disciples taking over. This

was there intentionally in all four gospels. It was there

mentioned by no coincidence, okay, in this sequence to clearly

have a demarcation where the transition of the ministry had

transitioned from the disciples to John the Baptist. And he

begins with the sending out the twelve disciples and now

into the feeling of the five thousand. That's why Jesus

when when when the when? The when? John's followers told

Jesus he didn't went back there, No, what did he do?

What did Jesus do? He trained them? He said, you

feed them? Why he said that Jesus is knowing thatact. Now,

this role is vacant. Somebody must feel it. And Jesus said,

you guys need to He didn't say it, but he's

like preparing it. You guys needs to be ready for it.

And he's sending out them two by two they come back. Yes,

you know, we're doing some great things. He didn't know

that there was a there's a vacancy back at the

office ready, you know, you know, there's a big role.

You know, tough, rolling on, and then they suddenly they

see five thousand men and fifteen thousand people feeding. They're like,

this is too much, Jesus, too much. I don't know

how to feed this. And they said, no, you feed

them because they were not prepared for that role. They

didn't understand. But jes says, say, okay, don't worry. Every

intern I bring in, I will personally train them as well.

He was always with them. Now you see a sequence there, Okay,

see a sequence there. But then the last part I

want to add here, what does it have to do

with Jesus walking on the water. Why does he do

with Jesus working on past me? I follow you? No, okay,

I follow you, I follow you. This is this whole

thing is about training ground. Okay, it's about training ground. Okay.

So my question is to you, Jesus is training them.

Jesus perform a great miracle. But my question is did

they believe what they transformed? There was supposed to be transformed,

But did they transform? Now? Look at here, that's how

close here the last miracle that happened here map checked

the six verse forty five. Immediately he made his disciples

to get into the boat. He's says yer immediately means

after feeding the fight, doesn't sat He immediately send them

there means we know that these are all connected. We

know already. It's not a coincidence that they put the

word immediately. Okay. The author is trying to tell us

something there. Okay. He made his disciples get into the

boat and go before him to the other side to

say that. It's like, uh, okay, it's like I you know,

I may I'm gonna have a lunch with you guys.

We're gonna have lunch at the curve. Okay, We're gonna

have lunch at the curve. Okay. You know where the

curve is are, Okay, And you guys, uh drive take

your car go there, take one car, Okay, with somehow

we have a figure out a car. You guys go. Okay,

I're gonna meet you there. I'm gonna walk there. I'll

meet you guys there. This is what just is telling them.

And he was meeting on the boat, and this boat

to dry to sell truth doesn't take very long, probably

like maximum half an hour to one hour, about four

to five miles. The fast boat is a lot faster,

and the wind even faster as well, typical time okay,

and he says its forty six, and we send them away.

He departed to the mountains to pray. There are versions.

They say that they want to make him kicking and

stuff like that, but we stick to this one first. Now,

when evening came, the boat was in the middle of

the sea and he was alone on the land. Then

he saw them straining at rowing for the wind was

against them. Now about the fourth watch of the night,

he came to them walking on the sea and would

have passed them by. Now let's pause that for a

one so we know it's not a far distance. It's like,

you guys, go ahead there and I will meete there.

When they started at that time, it was around evening

because everybody just ate they're going back, so we know

it's around okay. The first watch of the night is

around six to nine quarters okay, six to nine, second

watches from nine to twelve, twelve to three, the third

one and the last one jo three to two six

in the morning. Okay. So the first watch he sent

them out, we can estimate from there. So he waited

for he was there ready, he waited for them. He

couldn't see them and they are still in the middle.

He could see them from curveside. I can see you guys.

You all are like struggling. Hear no, die young sampan,

die young sampun. You know, still cannot fighting against the

wind and stuff like that, all struggling. Remember, these people

had just cast out demons, healed people, and watched Jesus

five thousand people, and yet they cannot get across a

simple link. Is he a coincidence? Why couldn't they get

across the lake such a simple way? And Jesus was

across their waiting, waiting and waiting, waiting. First day at

the job. I'm not just asking to do any difficult thing.

You know, you witness you watch the demonstration already. But

yet you couldn't even get from one leaf to another.

You get me right, They couldn't do it at all.

This is a very powerful ministry lesson here you have

to watch. And also for each and every one of

us here, I want to understand about uh family, about

life as well. Hello, It's okay. It's a very very

important thing in life. You will encounter things you do

in life. You want to raise a child as well?

You were like, hey, I want to raise a child.

Why so hord just a small distance? But I couldn't

do it. You understand what I'm saying. You know a

lot of people say, oh Jesus and the boat, Yes,

but when you read the whole text right, she was like,

what is wrong with these guys? You give me right?

It shouldn't be not crossing mine, Jesus told them, straining

and straining, and Jesus said it was okay. Fourth hour,

mid the fourth watch ad Mensa, from six to nine,

around six to nine, they were badling all the way

until three four o'clock in the morning. They still have

been got on crossing now for six hours at Lisa,

they've been doing it in vain. You know, six hours paddling.

Do you take six hours to walk to the curve?

If you takes his work hours work the curve for us?

There's something wrong with that. Even I be asking why

is wrong with them? You know? What did they do?

You know? Or they forget you or something in all

so Jesus decides to on that hour tree in the

morning startart walking in front of them. And you must

be understanding that the disciples in the boat there must

be wondering why is going on three to six hours

been doing this? We can't get across. Jesus is not

in the bar, but we can't get across what is

going on? Did they stop to pray? Did they stop

to ask? What did they learn from the ministry or

going out to by two seeing Jesus and Nazareth being

rejected and yet from the feedling of the disciples they

can apply in the situation. Nothing. It means the whole

day of internship of training that learn nothing. You get

what I'm saying. They learned nothing. But yeah, they was

like what is going on? And then when Jesus approaching

they so they thought like, ah, there's all goals and

not happen. Sometimes when you wake up the night and

you look at that suddenly the face computer, Ah you

wake up up? What is that? That's how you feel like,

you know what I'm saying. Sometimes I wake up and

now and you go to the kitchen. Now, sometimes that

is the hardest thing to go to the kitchen. Okay,

you know what I'm saying. I don't want to stay

in the corridor. Quick, clean off the door and run.

Now.

I was like that, Okay, last time I used to

hate going down to to I used to have a

two story house. I hate going down and be the

lout and the off and run. I don't want to

look at everything, you know, I scared of something will

catch me in the dark. You know. It's like, oh,

then you see that they were frightened. Who is this?

And then they sold Jesus and then they sold you

justus in immediately What did they say? Immediately He talked

with them and said to them, be of good cheer.

It is I. Do not be afraid. Now, this is

a very important thing that had to happen to the disciples,

just as it happened to the villagers, because they see

right now, not not after the feeding of the five

thousand and but after this miracle. They finally asked who

is Jesus? Who is Jesus? Really? He says, here, and

then they went up from there. You know it is I.

Then there's in verse fifty one say then he went

up into the boat to them, and the wind ceased,

and they were greatly amazed for the first time. He

says that they were greatly amazed. Before that he were not.

They were not amazing. They try to do whatever they did.

They were bolsting about what they did and then defeating

the five thousand. They were okay, but for the first

time they were greatly amazed in themselves beyond measure. Finally

they were changed and marveled. And then we get to

the final verse that make make everything, all the chapters,

all the stories tied together. What is that for? They

had not understood about the loves because their heart was

hard scarier the means are I see us growl people

from the from the villages will hardened. You can be

so hardened that you get offended with Jesus and there's

another grow of people. You can hang out with him.

You can be sent out by Jesus two by two

doo doo and cut out demons by his name. You

can be even watching him and taking the basket from

him and feeding five thousand people and still not believe.

And Jesus had to take them through all these things

to do one main thing before they take over the

role or the position or the office of John the Baptist.

John Baptist is one main thing above them all. John

Baptists believe Jesus is the one that was sent Behold

the lamb of God who takes away the scene of

the world. He didn't spend time that he knew. Behold,

you see who I'm saying or not unbelieving so much power.

That's why I said today as the closest partner. People

don't harden your hearts. You don't say what I'm saying

this whole entire chapter. Don't harden your hearts. Don't harden

your hearts. People don't be like the villagers. Don't make

it takes so long for you to really see who

Jesus really is. You can do many things, you know,

but yet you still unbelieve. Just they have unbelief, you know,

So it's an unbelieve that very deadly. You want to know.

You know what I'm saying, you know and sometimes not

just about who? Do you say if Jesus caught you,

he said, ask you to serve, he said, as you

to give? You can I'm saying, you know? Has he

asked you to spend more time with him? Do you

really believe? See it? If you can do all these things,

but yet in your own life you can struggle just

to cross the lake. You can struggle in your work,

you can struggle just to wake up in the morning.

You can struggle just to even settle your children or

have a good marriage. You can't it just for some reason,

you are starting in the middle of the lake. You

get what I'm saying, You know, after all this breakthrough,

you know, because of unbelief. I want to speak specially

with families. You know. I don't know why I tell

you this message. And I just came out this fresh

in the morning. At half of it, especially the first

part last night. I prepare for this money, as I pray,

I gossa teach these to the people. There is a

case where you sow so much and get so little,

especially for families. You sow so much and yet you

get so little. Especially to mothers. You so so much

and you get so little. Fathers and now fathers and mothers,

we both have different problems. Mothers have a lot of fear.

Fathers have a lot unbelief. Okay, this is coming from

my own experience. Mothers have a lot of fears. Fathers

have a lot unbelief. I deal with mothers today. This

is the word that came out, this money. There's a

place where you're so so much, where you get so little,

and because of your fears and all the things that you,

but you have your child becomes about you. You don't

realize it, but children are a heritage and a present

from the Lord. A lot of times we will say God,

I will serve you when my when I earn something

and now freetirement these and the this and there, and

I will serve you. And I actually heard that from

many people who tell me, because you know why, that

was taught by the previous generation of Christians. Be careful

what you solve for the next generation, because it passed

on to the next generation. Be very, very very careful people.

That is why there are church traditions when I know,

but sometimes there are church tradidren that are not sanctioned

one and they teach like, hey, you do later on

yourself later. Now we have to correct that. You get

what I'm saying, you not because the past generation taught that, Like,

but you work as much before then only use of God.

Might have a problem with that. I have a problem

with that. You know. My problem is that what makes

you think you have tomorrow? What really makes you think

you have tomorrow? I just witnessed one family with nose cancer.

Before they were coming to they were like coming to

my homes I don't feel like coming, No feel like coming.

Some days they you know, they they look interested, they

show up, they don't want to show up. Sudden they

got nose cancer third stage. I did not cease to

pray for him. I tell you, he don't even come

to our church. I did not cease to pray. But

I still meet up with him because he's a human being.

I care. I pray for him also, I pray for him.

Suddenly he life transformed. Every day he quit his job,

spend time with his family, going for Bible class. I

have a Bible class in in in in in exta.

They ala say, want to study, but don't want to study.

People two people when to show up, but I still teach.

They take things for granted. But now because because God

changes like so much. His wife also left the job.

He said, spend time, spend time king. They don't realize

your breath every morning he waits. It's it's a privilege.

You don't realize. Your moment with your children is a privilege.

The fact that you can have them, it is a privilege.

But what did you do with them? Because what you

saw with your children, God requires an the counter soul.

You mean, right, and now he was delivered. You know

what he's saying. Now, I want to go for a

Bible study because I want to do this. I want

to thank her, thank you so much. I want to

go for I want to go for homes. I don't

care whether they teach great. I want to go. Man.

You see, it's amazing at how people change her when

their breath is slowly taken away from them. You know

it's true or not, It's amazing how people change her.

What's I have a problem with that? What makes you

think you have tomorrow? What makes you think you have

so much time that you can plan? And then with arrogance,

how your family will be? We just attended another peer

of house card their arrest pass away claim fellow I

know him pastor also recently did he a pass away?

What makes you think good or bad? Think you have control?

You know what I'm saying and not it is foolish

to think like that. I'm sorry. I probably today I

will offend a lot of people, but this is God's

worth this morning and give them me a we plan

for our kids. And you say like, hey, I will

stick to mine. Okay, the church to follow me. I

am the center because I know what's best for me.

I know, I know because I raise kids with her.

I tell you, when you raise your kids, there will

be many people who will tell you many things. You

will read, things you will say, you must do, whatever

kind of milk you must have, how many of hours

you sleep you must have, how many to be sure

you has these? And then people will tell you how

to raise your kids. It is a battleground. And I

tell you it's hard. One of the hardest thing to

tell people how to how to how to bi bigly

now teach parents are because a lot of families get offended.

You will never been a parent before. You're never children before.

I tell you again, even out of the mouth of

a donkey, if it is true, you need to believe

not saying what I'm saying, even out of the mouth

of donkey. You need to open up your heart unless

you want to repeat what is here again that you're

had on your hearts. And one day you will find

yourself struggling and rowing in the middle of what happened?

What happened? And she just said it is I And

you're like, oh, now for me and my house. I

decided Jesus is Lord and we will suff him. You

know what I'm saying. Don't be mistaken. Don't just take

everything from the past generation, you just take it as

it is. Ask Lord, what is it Pastly tell God

can use my voice, God can use your voice. Your

voice to your voice, and you can get offended by

you gotta ask is it true? And that thing itself

will save your life. You will save your family. This

might be my last message. I will say it, but

you gotta tell the truth. You come in right, are

even out of the mouth of donkey. You have to

believe you come saying no. You can be so close,

but yet so far. You can sow so much, you

get so little. So we must understand how children do

not belong to us, belongs to God. My childrens sometimes

they stay five six hours. I'm not saying that I'm

the model. I don't know. Sometimes I tell you when

I tell you when I when I'm go into ministry,

and I sometimes open home for later. People are telling

me why you do that? You are irresponsible? Here we

go tell me. And there are times I really got

into it. I was I was like, oh God, why

have I done? Had I disappointed my chuldor and that

fear of disappointing, of missing out for my children. It's painful.

But yet this place of being confused is exactly where

God wants you to be so that he can finally

get into the boat. But a lot of times we

wouldn't even cross that lake. Ah, God you put in

the place of this go regardless whether that your spouse

is your husband or your wife, you as an individual,

individual person, as a parent. What is God saying? What

is God saying? What have I learned? Am I gonna be? Like?

Just like the rest of the village is rechecking because

I know him? I think I know him? And you

discome God. Don't your time of as being a parent

at this as this young atre and all you try

is your hardest time. I do not deny that it

is your hardest time because they demand so much of you.

Like how your baskets will be empty, parents, your baskets

will be empty, I guarantee you not once many times

you feed empty, feed empty feet empty. But yet if

you come back to Jesus, your baskets will be Oh

do you believe that? Do you believe that or not?

How many times will I see have to do that

to make you convinced that the basket will before you

see I'm saying or not. I did not plan this

artists in the morning, I tell you how many times,

but yeas to disbelieve. So now we cannot harden our hearts.

But cannot harden our hearts. The things that you go,

the places that you go that I tell you you

will be uncharted when Jesus took them, where did he

took them to places that are uncharted? You will be

the first among many mothers. You'll be the forms about

many deads, first amount of many of your peers. But

Jesus is in the boat, and the same what I'm

saying comes stand out together. I don't mean to offend people.

I know this is offense. If I hear it, probably

I'll be off But I promise God before every time

I preach, I have to preach his word. I preach

as it is my last message. I preach as if

I probably won't see you guys again. I have to

preach it like that one. You know that is the

only way, because God requires an acme from me, and

God will require account from everyone who hears this as well. Amen,

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