The True Meaning of Jesus's Miracles | Pastor Matthew Chang

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Let's turn with me to Mark chapter six. Okay, Mark

chapter six, Turn to me to verse thirty, and then

all the way to verse forty two. Okay, Um, let's

read through it. I'm gonna read through from verse thirty. Okay,

I'm reading here from NKJV Mark chapter six, Verse thirty.

Then the apostles gathered to Jesus and told him all

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

This is after Jesus had send them two by two

to go into all the villagers, to cast out demons,

to heal people, and to annoy the sick. Okay. And

he said to them in verse thirty one, come aside

by yourself to a deserted place and rest for 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

multitude saw them departing, and many knew him and ran

there on foot. From all the cities. They arrived before

them and came together to him and Jesus when he

came out saw a great multitude, and was moved with

compassion for them because they were like sheep, having no

without having a shepherd. They underlining that part. Okay. Jesus

was moved with compassion for them because they were like

sheep not having a shepherd. So he began to teach

them many things, not just wanting to teached them many

many things. When the day was now fast span, his

disciples came to him and said, this is a deserted place,

and already the hours lay. Send them away, that they

may go into the surrounding country and villages and buy

themselves bread. But they had nothing to eat. But he

answered and said to them, you give them something to eat. Okay,

underline that that's very important. You give them something to eat.

And they said to him, shall we go and buy

two hundred dinari worth of bread and give them something

to eat? Two hundred thenari is about one year's which okay.

But he said to them, how many loaves do you have?

Go and see, and when they had found out, they

said five and two fish. When he commanded them to

make them all sit in groups on the in groups

on the grass, so they sat down in ranks. Okay,

and underlined this part 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 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 the

twelve baskets of full fragments and of the fish. Now,

those who had eaten the loads were about five thousand men. Okay.

I prepare some slices, but I'm going to ask the

XTV to help me jump so that we don't review

certain things, okay, okay. So I'm going to focus on

the miracle on the feeding first, okay. So what can

we learn from quickly from the feeding of the of

the five thousand. First of all, it's not five thousand men, okay,

it's men. But at that time, people don't count women

and children. So if you add women and you ad children,

you're talking about easily twelve to fifteen thousand people. Okay,

to fifteen thousand people. There's a lot of people to

be fed there, okay. And he says that before Jesus

fed them, he was moved with compassion because they were

following him everywhere he come out of the boat, follow him.

They were coming up from different cities, you know, okay,

and they were walking. Okay. It's like I'm telling you,

right if Jesus was here right now, people from Suba,

people from Klana Jaya, people from Damasara Heights from kr

are walking to see. How many of you are planning

to walk here? To see someone walker walk a hey,

And it's not like oh you just look back near

back of Mama put one to know you are water

and you're hoping just to see. You don't know how

you're going to settle your foot. You walk fifteen thousand people,

I don't know how how long you walk in birds

or any other cannibals. Okay, people will walk from cities

to go and see. Okay, really okay, it's it's really

quite amazing things. Okay. So when he's when they came

and he was moving compassion because people from everywhere are

so desperate. Again, the keyword is desperate. So he taught

them many things and it came a very interesting scene okay,

because the disciples said that wow, okay, send them away

because it's late there's no food, you know, and you're

sending somewhere to find food. It is out of good

intent and also logical, but it is also not a

real solution because they come away so far where they're

going to find food. You get me right, Technically it

is a solution for themselves. So that okay, we are

cutting off you know, it's not my responsibility anymore. You

come to see me now, it just mess you, so

no longer my problem. But it is a solution, but

not solution. You get what I'm saying. Yeah, okay, it

is a solution, but not really a solution. Solution for you,

but not solution for them. And then Jesus said something,

you fit them, You go and fit them. Okay, And

so I think I've appreciate this before. I'm gonna share

with you again. So how did the miracle happen? We saw?

First of all, there's a due diligions that needs to happen.

You need to comb through what you have in your house. Okay,

always God wants to perform a miracle. What is the

first thing you need to do. You need to do

your due religions. You need to comb through what you have.

Five loaves and two fish their men together, and then

four past it. There are four key steps to this miracle. First,

the bread and the loaves say the loaves and the

fish were chosen. Okay, they were chosen. And the second

thing is says that that Jesus looked up to their

heaven and gave thanks, blessed it. Now, let me ask

you this question. When did the miracle happen when it

was chosen or when it was blessed or when it

was broken? When did the miracle happen when Gay thanks

all the foods for him? Ready? Everybody? Oh, everybody got

maffling already, everybody got know what is it? When God

know that? But cheese were g ready? Whoa? Everybody got happy.

You'll be happy. You are happy. You're happy. Everybody be happy.

You know. Did it happen that way? No, it was chosen,

it was blessed. And then Jesus broke the bread. Okay,

broke the bread. Okay. It was from the breaking of

the bread that the miracle happens. And actually it's very symbolic.

It's talking about Jesus. This is symbolizing about Jesus. The

Jesus' greatest ministry is not the teaching. It's not the healing.

Jesus' greatest miracle and gift for us is his broken body.

You know what I'm saying. You know, with healing he

can touch one person. But with his broken body that

died on the cross, everyone can believe on to it.

You get what I'm saying. You know that is a

true miracle. It is a foreshadowing, It is a prophetic.

Uh what you call it? Miracle? Okay? To tell everyone

and to tell us right now what this actually means.

It is out the brokenness. Okay. You can be chosen,

you can be blessed, but if you are not broken,

miracle does not flue. And the same thing with us

as Christians as well. A lot of times say we

are chosen one. God has chosen me. Thank you, God,

You've given me your mercy and your love. Thank you

so much. You know I accept it. You know I

feel blessed. You know I get prayed for. You know

I receive the world and worship. Oh, I feel so blessed. God.

You've given me a job, given me this and then. Yes,

but I tell you can experience in all this, but

no miracles unless you are broken. This is truth people,

unless you are broken. You see you look at look

at our world and look at history. The greatest achievements

or the greatest breakthrough the world have ever experienced, is

when men and women are broken. Look at Mother Teresa,

look at Abraham Linker, look at the people who have

to break through the most difficult social societal problems. It's

what when they gave up their lives to be broken.

You see what I'm saying, it's really broken. And if

you are a lot of people tend to ask me

that I don't know. What's my passion? You know? What

should I do? Should I do coffee? Should I do

be a TikTok influencer? Should be a full time gamer?

You know? So what's a purpose in my life? A

lot of times you won't discover it. You cannot discover

it through another person. Another person's role is not for you.

You get men right, of course, you said, yes, I

must pray, but a strong indication what you are, what

God wants you to do, A strong indication. Okay, God

tends to lead you to the places where you are

most broken. So if you want to say, like, why

is it that you want? And God Lord look into

your life. What has broken your heart before? Not talking

about the girlfriend or the boyfriend. What has broken your

heart before? You see when Jesus saw them, what was?

What did he feel? He was move with compassion because

he saw something. They were like sheep without shepherd. He

was moving compassion. Confession means are to be in the

same shoe, to feel as you feel, to be as

lost as you are lost, to be as hungry as

you are hungry. You get what I'm saying. You know,

Jesus understood that the reason why Jesus broke body was

broken for us because he knows that we are broken.

You get what I'm saying. You know we are broken,

and out of that brokenness he came forth and broke

and allowed him to be broken so that America can

flow through as well. So, if you are asking what

is your purpose in life? Is it to just earn money,

to retire? Is it to do or the next trip?

A lot? A strong hint is to look through your life.

When was the last time you your heart has been so

broken by something? I remember mine, you know, I remember

there was one time helping a family to feed them,

doing a committee work. I remember one time, you know,

I was working and then this guy who were reaching

out to he called me because he could you pick

me up from the uh Un hospital because the wife

has diabetes and no one to help. They had never

seen doctor, so he went there. So I went there

and myself. So I picked him up and then the

wife was real shame into the back of my car.

Then as I drove him, he was very thankful. He

and nothing to give to me. Then I started asking

how his family with foll up before with him before

then I realized that his house is no food, he's

been how the children has been drinking Chinese his tea

for milk, okay Chinese tea for milk, no rice and everything.

And I was like so broken heart because they had

no money to buy to buy what they call the

treatment for the wife as well. So it's very very heartbreaking.

By that moment, I was just so heart broken for them.

And I took him and I I went to the

liquor spit man. I say, you take buy whatever that

you need right now. I don't care about how much.

Then I wasn't earning a lot as well. I was

just a startup not start up, but I said quite

new into my work buy whatever you want, okay, by

whatever I bought rise And then he was so afraid

to buy things and I was like, no, he didn't

want to take right He took the small rice. I said, no,

you take these big rice. You buy you buy this

and buy that, buy milk for children, buy by exs

and stuff like that. So I put it in. He

was like so short, and I put in and like

then I broke him with a car. Thence we came down.

He cried and I know, I said, I don't know

what to do. I only know how to do this

right now. And he thanks me and stuff like that.

And then when I car, I tear and I cry,

and I remember God clearly listening to me. Matt. This

is what being broken means. You know what I'm saying.

We realize that it's not about you, And that's said

what I'm saying. You are truly broken when you realize

that it's not about you. You know what I'm saying,

It's not about you. It's not about my purpose, what

I'm supposed to do, what I will be. It's very

hard to find purpose in life when it's all about you. No, no, no.

A lot of times it is it's not about you.

When you realize that your life is made to make

a difference in other people's life, whether you feel good

or not, you disappear, but they rise up. Very likely

that's why God is calling you to in camera. It's

not about what you're most talented with, the most inclined

war suspended. No, no, no, no, it's more most of

the time, it's really not about you, not about you

at all. Okay, So that is the miracle. Okay. And yet,

and we see that Jesus was getting them to sit

in fifties and hundreds. Why did he see them in

fifties and hundreds more organized? You see Jesus ask them

initially in a miracle, you feed them. And he kept

to his promise. Even though Jesus wasn't doing the miracle,

he got them to so he got them to provide.

So imagine you guys are the first fifty group and

say maybe you should you come up here for one

volunteer you for one. So then you understand what I'm saying. Say,

for example, you are Peter, and I'm Jesus. Okay, and

I broke ready, and I broke and I gave you

the first basket and then you go down. Okay, you

go down and you're gonna feed this. And you guys

have to imagine that you haven't eaten anything. You are feeding.

You are hungry, and you are seeing you should doing

very quickly. Wait so quicker, slow down, slow down, slow down.

You're not giving handouts. Okay, store down, slow down, sow

so down. You must play a bit of realism here, okay, okay.

This is the first group of people who are the

family and the children. Okay, they are eating first. You

guys are hungry. Okay. Now at the back there I

need some volunteers. Now you are hungry, okay, and you

are seeing this guy with one basket and there are

twelve to fifteen thousand people. Give me some reaction. Soon

shot you out, showya give me some reaction, all right,

now on my right, give me some reaction as well.

You got children that are really hungry, Give me some reaction.

Come on, I don't think you'd be saying that you'll

be more desperate. Man, I think you've been sending your

children to go and get food. Lady, Okay, you understand

now how chaotic it is, right, it's chaotic. Sometimes you

have to be really I'm trying to get you guys

to play. It's difficult. You should can't back, come back,

listen to them. Thank you so much. You're doing such

a good job. Thank you so man. Okay, Now imagine you, well,

there's one basket, hold on, hold on no yeah, no yeah,

hold no no no done okay. So imagine that one basket,

by God's grace, can feed one role. Okay, okay, And

the rest of you you're like, is that it right?

Is that it only for the VIP hungry? And now

how would you feel? You should? You hope you have

more bread? Right? But what is what is going to

your mind? Because those these people are angry with you

and they say I'll be going to get fed, and

what a You're going to say? Try my best? Okay?

So is it out of the possibility that he's like,

I hope Jesus has more? Isn't it? Isn't it? You

see the way that he organized. Jesus is not asking

them to line. Now, he says, sit down, you fit them.

Your basket is empty. So what is your only option?

It's two come back to Jesus again. You come back

to me again, and then you walk and this time

you walk your you're not walking like normal, you know

you're walking, you're few and trembling. You know. It's like

I hope if I have because if you're going back

with an empty basket, you might not come back. And again,

you know you there, I might have you for a million,

you know what I mean. I said, you cannot go

back empty handed. Okay, give me and you pray and

hope that Jesus is more. And they said, Jesus, do

you have more? Okay? And then I said, sure, give

you more. And then you walk down again. You go

to the second row again, and then the people are

still complaining, isn't it. Come on, give me some reaction. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.

Now now third time, so you're done redfeating. Second row

still go a lot of people. So what are you

thinking again? Come to me again? Come back again, come

back again. I'm getting you a workout. Right. Sorry, I

know you didn't ask for this, but now let me

ask you this right now, this is very important. Has

something changed in you in regards of how you start

to look at me, look at Jesus right now? You

are my provider? Ah, you see, I mean he believes

right now because the first time he adopted, and he

starts like when I come back, my basket is full

again and I go down. You see, the hungry people

have not changed. The situation has not changed. The people

them somehow hungry. But yet when he's empty, he started

to realize I can go back to Jesus and more

and more. By the tenth round, when you go, the

people the still same. Angry people are like Brian, they

oh and Lucas are like scandalizing and threatening. You are

Are you still as afraid now at the tenth time?

Why because you keep coming back. You're familiar and you

trust the source. You see, the feeding on the miracle

is not so much about just feeding the people. The

miracle is working were in him, that's the miracle. Sometimes

it's not just about feeding them, you know, it's transforming

the disciple. True discipleshit thank you so much, you know

saying what I'm saying. Uh, Jesus Christ, snap out of

hand now. Everybody felt ready happy me already. But they

will be easy, isn't it. But it's not. It's not

about getting the disciples to do it again and again

and again and again. So you see what miracle. You

see what testimony God, It's going to get you to

do it again and again and every time. The lesson

is that every time I need I go back to Jesus.

I go back. And when as I do it, I

start to realize more and more things happening and I believe.

So Jesus wants them not just to feed the deciple,

the the five thousand people. He wanted the disciples to

have a transformation, have a growth, have to believe and

to trust in Jesus more as well. But but would

they transformed were they actually believing? Okay, now this is

where just now what's the micro where are zoomed in?

I'm going to take you guys out right now. So

as I slowly conclude what is we see the miracle.

And then a lot of times when we read the Bible,

we take one story, one miracle, this miracle, this story,

and then we look at them as separate. But I

want to see take you to see the bigger picture.

You know, when we talk about just not the feeding

is missions, no missions. We are supposed to go out Okay,

be scattered, we being being broken. So there are others

for other ethnics can hear as well, but take out

and then zoom out with me if your bibles and

look at the mark chapter six again. Okay, mark chapter six,

and I want you to look at the whole entire

chapter briefly and some of the titles. Okay, I'm gonna

take you now. Now you must understand that a lot

of times when the chapters that are compound, it is

not coincidence. These stories are stitched together, not by coincidence

it all. Most of the time they tell you a story,

they tell you a pattern and something that Jesus is

trying to address. So sometimes if you just single out America,

you miss the whole story, or you miss what happens

after that. If you look at March chapter six, you

see for the first part that Jesus was rejected and Nazareth.

Then you see from verse seven that is the sending

out the twelve. Okay, there's a slight thing, okay, sending

out the twelve and then the third one. So suddenly

it talks about John the Baptist being beheaded. And if

you read the other four Gospels, almost similar patterns. Some

parts they may miss, they take out one or two,

but the pattern is similar. Okay, they they will include

most of the time they're sending out the twelve. They

will include John the Baptist beheaded, and they will include

the five thousand. The five thousand, the miracle five thousand

is included in every gospel. It was rare one included

in every gospel. They included. And then the last one,

Jesus walking on water. How do they even connect? That's

the harpis in it. How do they even connect? And

that's the difference when next time when you read the Bible.

There's a difference between reading the Bible, studying the Bible,

and understanding the Bible. You get me right about People

will just read and understand the scripture, but sometimes you

labor a bit another hour you ask a deeper question.

Are these all connected? And if these are all connected,

what Jesus try to speak and teach us all the disciples? Okay,

that's examine a brief bit, a bit, a bit more. Okay,

I'll do this very quickly. So the first one Jesus

rejected and Nazareth. O you get turned up the slight. Okay,

Jesus had rejected Nazareth. It says that Jesus was there

on Sabbath at the synagogue in his hometown, teaching, and

he was full of wisdom and full of works as well.

But then it became a stumbling block to his own people,

to the people who knew him, knew his brothers, his sisters,

his mothers at his mother's his mother, okay, and they

started to doubt him. They started to what do you

call it, uh, start to become what do they call it?

They were so amazed by the wisdom and the works

that came out with him. And it says he that

if you can tell me much of the sixth and

might as well just read it. And verse two Gay

Marx Chapter six, Verse two he says, when and when

the sabath had come, he began to teach in the synagogue,

and many hearing him were astonished, saying, where did these

men get these things? So it's a man, okay, They

look given me as a stranger. But then from a stranger,

it says that, and what wisdom is this? That he

is given to him, that such mighty works are performed

by his hand. Then they begin to understand that it

is is it not? The carpenter starts with a carpenter

carpenters are not really look that greatly one, okay, the

son of Mary or not just a carpenter. Someone we

might know in the village. And the brother of James, Joseph, Judas,

and Simon. We know their siblings, means we might have

hang out with him before and are not his sisters

with us. Some of them could be married among them

as well, it could be my in law. So what happens?

Then they were greatly offended by him? Do you know why? Okay?

Why were they suddenly offended by him? Because when someone

performs such great miracle, someone has such influence, someone has

such wisdom. Right, when you get to know someone like that, okay,

it forces you to decide who he is. You know

what I'm saying. No, you cannot help the whole day.

You won't be able to say It forces you to

decide who he is. You know what I'm saying now,

It forces you. If suddenly your childhood friend are suddenly

I do all this thing, You'll be asking who is

this guy? Really? You know what I'm saying now, So Jesus,

while doing all this thing, it forces them and so

they start to do trace back and they start to

find all this familiarity, they have, all this history they

had from their experience, and because of that they undersaid,

is he really the Messiah? Or is he someone that

we know and is just trying to play a fool

with us? Do you know what I'm saying? You see,

when someone is so great and they are close to you,

what happens? They start to reflect you. You're wanna saying

what I'm saying. Some of you might I know what

I'm saying here. Sometimes you go back to your old hometown,

or your go to your old schooler like fifty years,

or they haven't seen each other so that I said, hey,

how are you doing? How are you doing? How like? Oh,

you're doing better, he's doing worse. We all like to

compare one, isn't there Ah, I used to like you,

Now you don't like me. I say, you didn't get

me a all these other things. You know, we compare.

Oh see last time I was lasting in class. Now

I'm so much better. Right now I'm the top already.

We tend to compare. We like to compare. But someone

who is so close to you grew up so you

and then they are so great, what do you do?

You start to discount the person. You downgrade the person

because people say, if he is so great, how come

you are not? It's great, it's him. And this is

similar to like Able and Kine, oh able and Kine.

Remember Abel was accepted, Kane was not. How So, when

someone is great and doing great, it cannot help. What

happens is there's a comparison. It's a reflection happening. What

did I do with my life? And because of that,

they became offended with him. How can you be so great?

So they reject the suppressed. You get me right, they're suppressed.

They're suppressed about him. And and what do they do? Okay,

they're suppressing and what do they do? Uh? And they

say offender? And Jesus said, a prophet is not without

honor except in his own country, among his own relatives

and his own house. A prophet will receive honor everywhere

except in his own country. Normally are profits in the

same generation, in the same pier. They will be hated,

they will be cast out, and some a lot of

times they are killed. The next generation is the one

that buries them and remembers their great work, the great hypocrisy. Huh,

and say what I'm saying now, and this is the

and this is the this is the history of the prophets,

you know, hated by their own generation, but the next

general niation will remember and bury them. You mean, right,

is very very very very sad and hypocritical. And then

he says that now he could do no mighty works

as there, except that he laid his hands on the

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

And he went about the villagers in the circuit teaching.

So he couldn't do great mighty works then, except for

maybe healing a few people. Now this is where you

gotta really hold on. Okay. So Jesus saw something, Okay,

saw unbelieved in his hometown, people who knew him best.

Then what did Jesus do? In the second one, he says,

he sent out the twelve disciples. Immediately he must understand

it's all connected. One Now he's so unbelieved, and he started,

he begins to have a plan. His plan is sending

out the disciples two by two, saying that you go

into every city and villages. Okay, and then what did

they do? What what message did they preach? He preached

they preach repentance. You must repent. Okay, they preach, and

then he says that you were always where sandals and

don't wear two tunics. Why what does it mean? Why sandals?

The only time you wear sandal is when you are

on on holy ground. Okay, Moses have to take off

his sandals because he was on holy ground. That's why

I say, you're not going to be accepted every time. Okay,

you gotta wear your sandals. You've gotta be ready. You

may be in and he may be out very quickly.

This sandals, two tunics? Why you have normally people wear

normally people. If you're a richer, you're better, more affordable,

you wear two tunics. It's like we wear our coat.

We have a shirt and we have our coat. The

outer coat is more for like to show your formality

or sometimes if you are really rich, you're shore you're

being more pompous or being more elaborate and stuff. Later,

when Jessa said, you don't need your coat, you don't

need your outer garment. You only need your insight on

his word. You are not there for formality or any celebration.

You're just to go in and out immediately. You get

what I'm saying, you are not there to make a celebration.

You're not there to really have any cute meat agenda.

You're just there to meet the needs. If they accept you,

they accept you. Thatt's it out and they get me right.

You're not to make a royalty of anything as well. Okay,

So that was why I did, and then it said okay,

then it moves to a very interesting talks about John

the Baptist beheaded pastor so confusing talk about being rejected,

sending disciples, and suddenly talk about John the Baptist beheaded.

This is the part where I just struggle, you know,

I was like, Jesus, why are trying to tell me?

I really don't understand. You know. I tried looking online,

so oh I never tell me or so not. So

I labored and labor. Then I understood something. You know

why they talk about John the Baptist beheaded, and then

immediately after the beheading, it was what they're feeding the

five thousand and before was the sending of the twelve.

Do you see something happening there? John the Baptist came

before Jesus to tell people who Jesus is, to pave

the way. John the Baptist beheading marks the end of

his ministry, and the ministry now belongs to the disciples.

The sending out the twelve before John the Baptist was

their internship, their internship, but the internship cannot step into

the full time role because there was something someone doing it.

It was John the Baptist. So now John the Baptists

have officially retired early. Okay, Now Jesus comes in and

says that you are going to come in and I'm

going to prepare you to feed the five thousand. Now

you understand, you understand now the context of the feeding

the five thousand mile John the Baptist nom already but

a lot of foreshadowing. There's a lot of profecty things

I can tell you. John the Baptist is also a

hint of how the disciples will also have to endure. So,

but now the role has been vacated very clearly. Is

a passing of the bottom on. John the Baptist stepped

away the disciples. But the disciples are very young. It's

like you're you're recruiting a fresh grad or a graduator

into a manager's roleing on into John the Baptist's rolling

on such a heavy role. You get mean right? How

you know they were preaching the same thing, repentance. John

the Baptist was preaching repentance as well. John the Baptists

were so great. But these twelve jokers fisherman text collectors,

who are always squabbling abore themselves, is not going to

take over his mentor. But yet, of course they've got

mentor that Jesus. Jesus is going to mentor them to

take on this role. And then the first thing they

have to do, Jesus say, now Jesus knows that Jean

Baptists had died because the John Baptist disciples told him.

Jesus hurd that what did he do? He didn't go

and mourn, He didn't go and visit the funeral. What

is to do? He said? Now the work has to

be done. Now I have to prepare my disciples. And

that's say why I'm saying, you know, this is the story.

Jesus prepares them by saying, hey, look at these people

ship without shepherd, and yet my disciples don't understand what

is happening. The people are hungry, and my disciples are

telling me to send them home. They don't see what

I'm seeing. You see, you see when you are trying

to be a minister, right, it's not just about casting

demons out. You see in the very beginning of the

Feeding the five thousand and you say, say in verse thirty,

the apostles, after they went to the villager's right, they

came back. They were so amazing, you know, oh, cast

out demons, heal people. They were telling just says, yeah,

my ministry is successful. Who you know, my homeless multiply

I do this. Yeah, Jesus, no, stop, like give me

I they were absorbed, but Jesus like good, okay, good good.

But now they go five thousand. They will not prepare

for the five thousand. You know why. They were okay

to heal, but they were not ready to feed. This

burden was too much for them. You get me, right.

It's one thing to do ministry and one thing to

be burdened with the people want to know it gave

me right, and this is the ministry that Jesus is

called to bear the burden of the people. When I'm

not asking the church at to fIF five thousand people,

I'm saying it not. But what I'm saying to you

is this that the ministry is to the needs of

the people, the urgent needs of the people. And are

you able to see that they are sheep without shepherd

and when as you are when you go into the ministry.

It's not because I got talent. You go into ministry

because you know there is a need. You know Jesus

is calling, and you know that you are seeing what

Jesus is seeing, and you know before you see anything

for yourself, you're going to be emptied. Yeah, being a

pastor is not great. Like, well, I got title. I

want people will say hi, high pastor, high pastor. It's

a burden. It's a burden. Seriously, it's a burden. Being

a parent is a burden. Be a parent child? Yeah,

so cute take photo. I think that's the best part

of being a parent, is it. It's a burden. You

come here. A lot of people want ministry without the burden.

They want the glory without the burden. But it's a burden.

How lonely it is. How much the people will empty

you first? You got me right before you have anything.

You know, they will empty you first. And the disciples

send them away, let them eat their food. We will

do the rest of mystry, but we will not be

empty to we you're gonna take our two hundreds in

narrea salaria, We're gonna be empty. Cannot do. But you

say that you fit them. That's why the center. You

fit them. Then they realize this is the job requirement.

You got me right. They're just like, this is the

job requirement. What do we get involved when we started

following Jesus is that that you don't understand your job

requirement and when you're in your working on Oh my goodness,

this is the real job requirement. This is what we

are following Jesus for. Not miracles and not but to

be burdened, but to be you know. But he said,

you now doing your role first day at work. You

don't know how to do it? Jesus. How then Jesus

say that you feed them? Then what you have give

to him. So Jesus shows the miracles, give to them.

And then what do we see? The last one? As

I close here, Jesus walk on the sea. Why suddenly

Jesus go and walk on the sea. You never see

the connection? Now why Jesus work on the sea. That's

read a bit okay. Mark Chapter six, verse forty five. Immediately,

he says, he says the word immediately, you know, after

feeding the five thousand, after doing all this miracle, after

thinking that they have been properly. But they call it

in turn or what they call it, brief about their job,

or understanding what ministry is about, or understanding that their

competency is nothing, but their sufficiency is found in Christ.

He would have thought they understood it. But then he

says that immediate after that he went he made his

disciples to do another thing, another test. First day you

go to a lot of tests. He made them to

go into the boats and go before hto the other side.

Now he went for one side to the other side

of Bessada, to canoe, not very far, about a few km,

you know, rowing, very simp very simple. And this is

about six o'clock. They say that the evening he says

that they got four watches six to nine, in the evening,

nine to twelve, twelve to three, and three to six.

Then the day begins again four watches, okay, Now, he

says here and when he has sent them away, he

departed to the mountain to pray. So they he sent

them to to to row across he himself. He will

go to the mountains to pray and he will meet

them on the other side. Okay. It's like saying that, hey,

j one, right now, I want you to drive, try

to my right to essess to guy there, and I

tell pass that I mean I will meet you there personally, okay,

and say what I'm saying. Okay, say you guys, all

of you take the car me. I will walk there

and I will meet you there. I'm not Jesus, Okay,

I'm just give you an example. I will walk there

and I will meet you, says to the Duriam place. Okay, okay,

I will meet you there. Okay. This is what happened.

And then it says there in verse forty seven, now

when evening came and the boat was in the middle

of the sea and he was alone in the lane.

Then he saw them straining and rowing for the wind

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

he came to them walking on the sea and where

I passed them by. So it says in the evening,

around six to nine o'clock he told them, you go

ahead and meet me. Okay. I told you guys to

meet me around say at eight o'clock eight pm tonight.

It's from six o'clock towards I told you, okay, then

I wait there until until ten o'clock, eleven o'clock, twelve o'clock,

twelve o'cot second watcher, the fourth watchat is three o'clock already,

you know, in the night, in the morning. In the morning,

it's like, hey, you guys, take how many hours are

just to go from here today? Nine hours are then

I was imagining Jesus is there already on the other side, okay,

he said, looking, And then you guys are still stuck

there halfway through. You all cannot moving on your battery

dying traffic jam. You men, you're stuck there en for

so long. And he says that this don't still rowing,

And then I know, there's what we know and not

doing all. You must understand how these people had just

cast out demons and healed people. Hey, telling Jesus how

much they've done and all, and they had just fifive

thousand people and all seeing great miracles and all. But

yet that cannot cross the sea. You know, did you

see something here? And now? Why can't they cross the sea?

And you have to ask yourself, is this similar to

the people earlier that rejected Jesus because of their unbelief. Oh,

is it possible that they have cast out demons heal

people and watch Jesus feed five thousand, that they still

unbelief or do not believe, and because of the unbelief,

they still couldn't cross the sea. Have you realized that before?

Do you think? Is it what I say? I surmise

that what does the Bible say? The Bible says that

in verse fifty and in verse forty nine. And when

they saw him walking on the sea, they supposed it

was a girlst ah, Okay, for nine hours we've been

straining a traffic gem star here suddenly someone are not

going no be done? Hi saying, oh you know you're

so stressed out and frustrated. Already nine hours just to

get through the traffic gem dry hours just to paddle

through this wind and storm. They would try that. They

were like, something is wrong. Something is you know, something

is not like you not crossing this this this air

and this there's this waters. And then he said that.

But immediately he talked to them and said be of good, said,

be a good cheer. It is I do not be afraid.

Then he went into the boat to them. Then he

stepped into the boat and the wind seas, and they

were greatly amazed in themselves beyond measure and marble. Before

this day had never said this on before that there

had never been marveled. And we believe in now. And

then verse fifty two reveals finally, it reveals what for

they had not understood about the Thovese because of their

heart was hardened. Wow, now you see the sequence. Things

happen here. Things happen now for a reason. You know.

Sometimes are you go through a testinger And Jesus figured

five thousand. He said, while we've done a lot of

things already. Yes, we're ready, we understood the message, past

prays already, Yeah to training years. Okay, ready the moment

we're supposed to go there, we can't even do anything.

We stray. We do it forgot to pray you, forgot

to rely on God. We can't even cross the sea.

You can't even get from a fifteen minutes location and

not just get it right. You know, you know why,

because we have never understood who really Jesus was, even

the disciple can see all these things. I still did

not believe, you know, quite amazing, really really quite amazing.

And it's not any thing about it. It's really not

quite amazing because even you think about it, the people

in their hometown are after spending so long with Jesus,

are do not believe in on you know, see what

I'm saying. So my, my, my finally encreation here is

my time is up. I know I have do a

rush already. Don't harden your hearts. Understand what I'm saying.

Don't harden your hearts. God is faithful to always give signs,

you know, to do one miracle after another, to take

you from one place to another, so that this office

that has been given to you you can fulfill it

to the completion. Yes, it's difficult, but yet a lot

of times we harden our hearts. It's all about us.

It's all about us. It's all about our canality, our

things that we want to do a lot of things.

But don't harden your heart. What is God speaking to

you right now today, addressing right now in your life

that what is it that is so hard in your life?

I tell you it's so hardened. You say, oh, I

only believe that you and Jesus appear writing from me.

I tell you Jesus can appear righting for it, and

you still don't believe. That's how hardened we are. You're

not you know what I mean? Right? We are so

sinful and so so self deceptive. We are so so

stubborn now that these things and will not change us.

You know, so today we have You know what God

has been telling you. If you're supposed to serve yourself,

if you've got talents, you're supposed to give your talents,

start giving excuses. If you're supposed to leave one person,

you live that person. You're not being supposed to be

a read relationship, leave that relationship. You know I'm saying here,

not before one day. Even your own the people from

your own home now reject you, will reject me, your

own hearts. Even if you want to revisit that old

memory you have with Jesus, that will not convert you.

You know that's how scary it is. You know what

I'm saying, and not it's so important that we heed

right now that what is God call? It's not like God? Yeah,

maybe you know I'm gonna enjoy this right now, or

maybe my plan is I set on my life set

on my family everything first, Then I serve you. I

know people well meaning, and I know that there are

sometimes we have generations before I say you're going to

do that out there? When you have all money, you

go and soft God let me. I got a problem

with that with one thing. Every morning when you wake up,

do you really take your breath for granted you think

that you're going to live to tomorrow, next Monday, next year? Really,

who gives you that? Do you know? Every breath is

a privilege? You know? I just want not one family

survive and knows cancer the teeth. They're so thankful. They

used to have plans, want to do this, they want

to do now. I just want to go to Bible study.

You're saying what I'm saying, you not. I have a

problem with that because you're sore, presumptuous that you have

the days ahead. Did God approve that? No? Every day

to day you wake up, your breath is a privilege

is a blessing. What have you done? How have you

been accountable to say things like that? You know what

I'm saying? Or not? You ought to solve now to

the abssability. Your children, they are a blessing from God.

Sometimes you give so much you get so little back

because you do it on your own. I tell you

you'd be like the disciples. You can solve so much

to your children, but yet you can't even get the

boat across fifty minutes. It's true. Your children need Jesus.

Your children need your parents to follow like Jesus. You

know what I'm saying. No, they need to see you

as a parent, be like Jesus, to serve, to give

to empty, then they will follow. The feeding doesn't come

from you, your munitures a hand as a tool. The bread,

the true breath from Heaven, comes from Heaven. That's how

your family will be feed people. You know what I'm saying.

You not not because you fit them with tuition, with classes,

with enough sleeping time. I'm sorry i'll offend people here,

but it's true. What makes you say that is not

God's hands to one. They'll raise your children. That's the truth.

So don't be presumptuous, and don't harden your hearts, but

soften it so that God can minister, so that you,

yourself and your family can receive that salvation. Amen, come,

let's raised together, hallelujah. I don't mean to score. I

tell you, like I said, the messages came up to there.

Tell you whatever that I'm preaching, it just came up

this morning. It didn't I didn't have not a gender.

I just came up. But this is the word of

the Lord. Don't harden your hearts. Soften it up before

the Lord. Ask the Lord to minister, said, Lord, I'm

so fearful. I'm fearful for my own self that if

you not hear, if I do not soften, Lord, that

I might be out of reach. Lord, please have mercy.

Don't let me drift away. Lord, don't let me be

so stubborn, so dismissive, so offended, just like these people are,

that I cannot be rich. But Lord, have mercy. Today

I choose. I thank you that you continually work in me,

and I want to hear you today, harle and Lawyer,

wherever you are. I know I have to step away

right now. I'm going to ask you, you guys, to

wherever you are, to lift up your hands. I need

you guys to come before the Lord right now. Come

and commit yourself to the Lord. Come and pour out

your hearts and your thoughts and surrender to him.

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