Heaven Rules Through Us (Part 2) | Pr Jack Ling

You're listening to a message to go from X Church. We hope this message

will light up your team today. I will be speaking from the book of

John John chapter six, right, so you can turn to your bibles.

Will be there, John chapter six. And if you remember what I shared

with all of you before, it was Heaven rules through you. There was

part one, and now it's part two. Part one was let let me

help you remember it was this thing from exoders. You remember there was this

lamb and golds, and then the children were here drawing, right, okay,

And how God used the people or his people all right during that time

in Egypt, and their houses were the place of refuge and deliverance. If

you were just in that house and you followed the steps there about how to

eat, how would be ready you know to go? Then you have you

send a chance to be saved, otherwise you're out of the covering. And

the plague was the first born, every firstborn of every home, even including

animals, had to die, all right, as because of the evil that

has been done all right to the people there by the Pharaoh. So now

part two is this all right, John of the six, So let's start.

Let's start with this, all right. Chapter six, verse one to

three. After this, Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea

of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberius. And a large crowd was

following him because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick.

Jesus went up on the mountain, and there he sat down with his disciples

policy for a while. All right, let's look at some verses here.

The first verse is about Jesus going away from somewhere and coming here Sea of

Galilee, Sea of Tiberius. Is this about he was doing his work with

his disciples, all right? What does he What does Jesus do? He

works, he teaches, he preaches, He heals the sick, he delivers

people out from I mean demons out of people, right, people out of

demons, demons out of people, all right. He heals the sick,

he raises the dead. Right, so he he does miracles. And then

so he was doing all that stuff together with his disciples. And then he

now is coming back to this place. If you remember, this is the

place Galilei is where I believe the miracle of the water into wine happened.

All right, It's kind of like his his his home something like that,

all right, And so he was going away. He was kind of like

wanting to take a break from the work that he was doing. You know,

Jesus gets tired, right, I mean at that time, at that

time he was in human form, physical form, and uh, you know

the story about the Smaritan woman. He gets thirsty tired, right, So

he does, and he was going to, you know, take a break.

And you know, even in the tired his tiredness, he and he

knows it. He knows he's going to get tired, and he also uses

all those tiredness moments for a purpose. He knows how to go about that,

right. Uh and uh so uh, but you know what, he

did such a great job right where he was, that the people started following

him in verse two, right, large crowd followed him from there to this

place because of the signs. Right. And so what happened in verse three

is he goes up a mountain. He keeps saying that, I mean the

word mountain is just he went he went up to a higher place. Right.

There was no like a real mountain there at the time, because if

you study the geography of that place, there's no like a mountain, right,

so it's a higher place. He's just trying to go away. And

what does he do. He doesn't go away alone. He brings his disciples.

He brings his disciples and he sat down. Do you think Jesus just

sits down and does nothing with his disciples. Maybe he has started to relax

for a while, but you know that, I think that what's sat down

with his disciples is not just you know, sitting down and having a drink

and laying around and you know, but he when he when he says sit

down with his disciples, he's definitely doing something with them. He's probably just

maybe reflecting with them, doing a deep brief, maybe preparing them for the

next one's to come, because he knows what's coming next, right, so

he's probably teaching them stuff, and he was preparing them even as they relax.

I don't think Jesus like so intense every moment it's like energy, you

know, it's like guys stopped lying around, you know. I don't think

he was like that. He probably knew they needed to like whind down and

stuff, but he never waited a moment, all right, So even in

the relaxing moment, there's something that can be done. So he's he's he's

reflecting with them and preparing them for the next thing. All right, next

slide. Oh sorry now, uh so, yeah, So Jesus invites us

to go and sit down with him. So I want to encourage all of

us here. All right, Uh, let's go with Jesus and let's sit

down with Jesus. What does that mean? Right, that's where we say

quiet time, That's where we say, come on, let's read this word.

Come on, let's be with Jesus. Let's follow him and glean from

him, learn from him. Let's let's sit down. Let's not be so

fidgetier walking about, running about, so busy, you know, with our

lives and distracted with our phones, that we don't sit down with him,

to sit down with our phones more than Jesus. Right, all right,

sit down on our toilet bowls with our phones. Right. Uh yeah,

that's that's very tempting to do, isn't it right? Just yeah, and

rather than with Jesus. I keep getting reminded of that, Right, every

time I'm sitting down, I'm so tempted to turn on the phone and look

at all the updates, right, that actually really doesn't concern me much.

It's like people updating stuff about them going through them, you know, the

seaside and whatever they're doing, and some concern me. Right, but actually

all these things I know for what? Right actually say, oh really nice,

you're going for days, we're going for that, right, very nice?

And so so what right? Like yeah, unless I see someone you

know sharing about their depression stuff, Okay, then maybe you reach out and

yeah. So anyway, uh sit down with Jesus more than any other thing.

Okay, let's let's continue to do that because it's a battle. Right.

It's easier said than done, right, but only you know, only

you know what you need to do to put into action to do that.

Amen, now move on. Okay, so now the passover. Okay,

my numbers, they're been wrong. It supposed before right now, the passover,

the feast of the Jews was at hand. Lifting up his eyes then

and seeing that a large crowd was coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip,

where are we to buy bread so that these people may eat? Okay,

passive for a while. So, uh now what I learned from this

is Jesus or God wants to involve us God wants to involve us. All

right, hey going to the Yeah, I want, I want. The

Bible says, yeah, So he solved the problem coming and you know that

Jesus he can. He can solve the problem all by himself. We know

this by now. Why he's God. He created all things. He created

all things before even humans existed. Right, so what this little thing about

people hungry? Five thousand people is nothing to him. He can feed millions,

so this is really a small job. But h and he can he

can make you know, the best food appear. You know, I don't

know what's the best food to you? Right? Uh? Some of you

like sushi, or some of you like pizzas or whatever. He can make

it all appear right in front of you and eat it, or just make

make it all appear in your stomach. You cannot taste that. They're on

said, right, it just appears all inside your stomach. You're fool,

right, or your hunger is gone. He can do all those things.

But what does he do? He looks at this guy called Philip, and

then he asked a question, and say, where are we to buy bread

so that these people may eat? Why does he ask this one Philip is

actually the local boy here. So there's this place called best Cider right in.

Actually this story is in all four Gospels, which is a very means

it's a it's a very important story. Okay, so you read all the

other gospels, you can see the different notes there. So Best Sider is

where they're they're at, and Philip is from there, and he's a local

guy. So you know, we look to the local guy who knows where's

the best place right to eat? You know, if you go to Clang,

you go like, who's from Clang? Who's wan Klang? You know

the best wood? Actually Clang people don't know, I mean the local people.

The local people don't know where the best food is. Well, I'm

talking about myself because I lived in this place called Quantan for years and when

people come up to me right and ask me where to eat in Quantan,

I say my house because for many many years I eat in my own house.

So I won't really know where to go, right, But the Pang

people seem to know. The Pining people eat out a bit more, maybe

the Clang people, so maybe they know, so uh yeah, in a

way. But but the local people know, right, they know they hear

of the place they probably went to. So Jesus looks to Philip and ask

where where to buy it? You know, for these people. Now,

I just want to say that again, God wants to involve us. God

wants to involve us. He can do everything by himself, but he wants

to involve us. So that's why we were serving. We're actually getting involved.

And why do we need to get involved? Why does God want to

involve us? I've got this question, you know, in my Bible class

from some of our my students say, because I'm learning learning about Moses.

Let's say, and then the question always past, why why does God want

to use Moses? Why don't you just do it all himself? He's I

mean, it's powerful, right, just doing himself a pear to Pharaoh face

to face, and Pharaoh be shaking, right, But why does he use

Moses? Right? And it's true, rights, that's a good question.

Why don't you settle all himself? Then we won't need to exist as sorry?

Actually right? So? But then so, but then God does it

because he wants to involve Moses. He wants Moses to learn something, he

wants He's in his he loves the development of our selves of his people,

that we learn and we grow and we progress, all right. He loves

that. So that's why he involves us because he doesn't need to learn.

He doesn't need to learn any anything. He's done, right, he's PhD

or PhDs all right. But we are the ones who need to learn.

So that's why he's merciful enough to give us the grace to learn by our

involvement. Amen. Right, Um, yeah, you know when when we

do music right and we can we can imagine all we want from Afar and

say, I think that's how the Khan is played. Until we sit on

that kahan and start to go boomleg bump, and edy of that beat is

off. Like I thought you thought it was easy. Oh yeah, now

I know. Now I've got to keep the beat. Now my hands actually

on the thing, and I've got I have to keep it because no one

else is going to keep it except me. I'm the con guy. Right.

So then you now have the experience and feel of everything right, and

you go like looking at all these like Jamie Oliver Cookie like, ah,

that's so easier. And then you start buying ingredients You're like, oh,

can't find that ingredient. So what what to do now if I if I

don't use the ingredient that Jamie Oliver used, is it going to taste the

same? And so now you know now you now you feel it when you're

in it, right, same thing with swimming. Right you can see all

the Olympic swimmers say yeah, yeah, yeah, but then you start drumming

in what they're like, help me, right, So it's it's really when

you're in the thick of the action that you actually see with your own eyes,

feel with your own hands, with your own emotions. And that's where

you might say I need help. I need to learn, I need to

get better, I need to improve. Amen. Yeah, So that's why

God involves us. He really doesn't need any of us. We need him.

We need to be involved because we need to grow. We need to

learn. All right, tell your neighbor that what Tell your neighbor what you

need to learn? You need to grow. I need to learn. There's

more humble, right, I need to grow. Okay, let's move on.

Ah. So yeah, he can do it all alone, but he

involves us so we can learn. Next one, Okay, now he said

this to test him for he himself knew what he would do exactly right.

He knew what he was gonna do already, but he just asked Philip anyway,

because he's the local boy. He's the expert, right, he's the

expert. He knows the places, and indeed he gives an expert answer.

He gives an expert answer. Philip answered him two hundred denar worth or bread

will not be enough while using mathematics, you know, numbers, giving the

numbers, okay, will that be worth? Not enough for each of them

to get a little very good answer, you know, but you know this

is a very human answer. Humans we always think about the minimum, like

you know, how much the minimum can I give, you know, to

survive? How much minimum can I distribute to survive myself because I don't have

all the money. And also to help them survive is survive and survive survival.

We're going with that. But you know, God doesn't think that we.

He created everything, he's got of abundance and he can give more than

survival. And then anyone here your survive, I think just surviving. Right,

time to look to God. Let's look to God, and I want

to speak over all of us. You're not just gonna survive. You're not

just gonna survive. You're gonna have abundance. Amen, You're gonna have abundant

students, I know you'll your pocket money, it's limited, right, so

speak you're gonna have abundance. But but yeah, but it comes to the

yeah offering, all right, Well, of course you know he comes to

everything else. All right, you gotta you gotta follow Jesus, right,

gonna do the right thing. Because if you get abundance and you don't know

how to use it, it's all gonna go. All right, it's gonna

go. So God wants to give us abundance, not just survive. Amen,

So let's move on. Is the next. Yeah, don't allow our

limited thinking to limit God. Yeah, because we it's it's natural. Yeah,

right, don't feel bad about that. It's natural. Even the expert

Philip right, whose local boy there, and he's smart guy. Right,

he gives a minimum answer, and that's sometimes what we do. And Jesus

hears it and go like, okay, good answer. Let me give you

my answer. Let me give you my answer. Amen, all right,

and let's let's okay. Next one one of his disciples, Andrew, how

many Andrews are here in the house, only one. And then there's Anderson,

son of Andrew. Okay, one of his disciples, Andrew, this

is a very important namer Andrew huh okay. Simon Peter's brothers said to him,

there is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish.

But what are they for so many? Why didn't he's asked the boy's namer?

Because it's just a boy, okay, something like that. So in

a way, you know, And another other version says, a lad,

it's like the names are not important some kayla okay, right, so boy,

but no matter how unimportant we think we are, right, God is

gonna use us. God's gonna use you. Right, a boy here who

has what five bally loaves and two fish, very specific bally loaves, right,

not any other type, right, not artisan like Andrew here does,

right, okay, not wheat. Let me tell you, actually it's true.

In those days, people who are better off they ate wheat loaves.

Bally loaves is kind of like for animals and poorer people. So they eat

that all right. It's still edible, still edible, but it's you know,

they give it to the animals also and then the two fish. Interestingly,

right, I idea we are reading lah the word fish here. There's

there's the four Gospels, right, I believe three of them use another word

for fish, which is like the general word for fish, but this one

here specifically uses the word for like tiny fish, like sad sad fish.

Huh, he can belize, Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's really like

not not tirila, you know, not tuna. You know, it's sad

fishes, he can belize, right, yeah, I love cambilize though,

I love it all right, and chovies and chovies, all right, So

it's really small little fish. They're trying to emphasize this. This guy,

this lad has no name bally loaves that's used for animals, and two little,

tiny, sad looking fish. And that's why Andrew says, so what

can we do? But you know, Andrew, Andrew is this guy in

the Bible, right he brings people to Jesus. He brings people to Jesus.

First, he brought his own brother Peter to Jesus. I think it's

found in chapter one, I believe, right of John. He brings Peter

to Jesus. And you know, Peter is so blessed just because Andrew brought

him to Jesus, all right, And now what does he do? He

brings this boy to Jesus, all right, he brings this boy to Jesus.

And what's going to happen to this boy? He's gonna he's gonna experience

a miracle. So I want to encourage all of you be like this Andrew,

bring someone to Jesus. Andrew don't know everything yet. He's probably bad

in this theology. I don't know that this kidding, all right, not

this Andrew, right, you probably don't know it so much. But what

he knows is I'm going to bring someone to Jesus. Bring him to Jesus,

all right, bring him to church, right? And and when they

meet Jesus, their lives change. Amen? Amen? So happened on Andrew?

And this Andrew? That Andrew. They're doing food food, Yeah,

yeah, yeah, yeah. I want to tell you one more thing.

I wanta tell you one more thing. Okay, broken English, perhaps,

but actually don't we are you know? If not we all of us,

if not most of us are five loaves, or rather five balley loaves and

two tiny fish. Most of us, if all of us, are five

baly loaves and two tiny fish. Right, we're not much, we're not

much. Salve of us, a bit more honest to ourselves. Where she

just like that, just so so right, my boy, you'd like to

do that. How was the pizza? We're all like that. We're five

baly loaves and two fish. Not much, can't do much, can't give

much. But you know that's enough. That's more than enough for Jesus because

we know the story, right, what's going to happen. It's more than

enough for Jesus. Turned to your other neighbor. You haven't turned to a

and say you're more than enough for Jesus. Yeah, you are more than

enough for Jesus. Right, yes, you think you are just five loaves

and two fish. Hey, but it's enough. It's more than enough for

Jesus. Okay, let's go on, let's go on. Here we go.

Okay, Jesus said, have the people sit down. Have the people

sit down now there as there was much grass in that place. So the

men sat down, actually all of them are men and women, men,

women, children, all sat down, so they were there. I think

you've heard this before. It says five thousand, because those days they just

counted men. They didn't have time to count so many things, so they

just counted men first. But it represents women and children, so that amounts

to ten thousand plus because yeah, all right, okay, they were not

very good at math and sold, so they counted only until five digits.

Sorry for four digit my maths is out. Okay, So anyway, Uh,

what's what's this about? Have the people sit down? That's the first

in stress of instruction, Jesus gives, right, meaning he takes that five

loaves and two fish, and then he tells the disciples, get them to

sit down. Do you know he didn't promise I'm gonna feed you. He

didn't say, yeah, I'm gonna do something. He said, oh,

five loads, two fish, next one. Get them to sit down,

and not knowing what's going to happen, right, the disciples like just guessing,

I guess he's gonna do something with that, all right, or I

don't know, all right, but but they I think they've seen enough what

Jesus does, and so he's okay, let's just go faith. It's faith,

right, they go there goes. They're like leaders. They're like leaders.

The homes leaders, homes leaders and they say guys. Sit down,

sit down, sit down, many of them who were standing, and they

go like, what was this about? To sit down? Sit down?

Telling me to sit down? All right? And you know how many of

us know that a lot of men have ego, and they'd be like,

why are you telling me to sit down? What are you gonna do?

I don't know, feed you. I guess with what you know, right,

there's no promise, but I guess they also no Kate Jesus, I

saw him do stuff. That's why I followed him here. Okay, okay,

let's see what's gonna happen. They sit down. They sit down,

all right, and the disciples, the leaders had to lead, right,

sit down, sit down, sit down, all right? And everyone sat

down. In other versions, they say they sat on in groups. Sounds

like homes to me. Sounds like homes to me. I know you're not

part of homes. You're not part of the group. You're not sitting down.

You gotta sit down, all right. Everyone find homes to sit down,

all right. You know in Bahassa. In Bahassa, where you go

to someone's house, they say, sire dodo the ruma inny I stay in

this house, Sire do dot means sit I sit in this house? Literally

in Bahasa, si do do? I mean? Sometimes? But sire do

do you rum any I sit down in this house? Are you part of

our homes? Come on, everyone, all right, you gotta sit down,

all right? When Jesus tells us to sit down. So now it

requires humility. And you know, some people may not want to sit down.

Why I don't know why not? Whatever reason I said, sit down,

Yeah, it's okay, I'd like to stand all right. Maybe some

problem now problem sitting down? Okay, I understand. I think Jesus understands

that. Okay, guy, go promise sitting down. Let me heal him

first. Okay. But you know it's it's an instruction direction, you know,

discipleship sit down in groups, they sit down and uh, what's what

happens next? Next? For the week? Yes, okay, disciples had

instruct them to sit down. Those who won't humble themselves will go away hungry.

Let me tell you why those who don't won't humble themselves to sit down,

to be part of it, to join in, to listen to the

instruction, they're gonna go hungry. Why let me show you it's actually written

in the verses in the next versus the next verse, please UXTV excuse me.

Jesus then took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he

distributed them to those who were seats. Did you even ever notice that?

I was like, whoa, wow, it's actually very explicit. Those who

were seated only got it, don't know, standing or walked away. Maybe

they didn't. They're like, what you're doing, They walk away, go

home? Whatever, they didn't get it. It's those who were seated,

right, they distributed to them. No, I want to rewind bit here

here all right? Given thanks? You know just that I was saying,

many of us are five bally loaves and two fish, two tiny fish.

But you know, Jesus gives thanks for us once we're in his hands,

once we're in his hands. Right when you're not in the sense, I

don't know where he gives thanks. Maybe maybe he's still grateful, But when

you're in his hands, he gives thanks. Thank you Lord, thank you

Father for the five loaves and fish in my hands. For what he gives

thanks because firstly they're in his hands and he's thankful for whatever they are at

right now, they're five looks two fish. But he's so thankful for what

they are going to be, what they are going to become. They're going

to be. They're gonna be able to feed the multitude the five thousand and

beyond. Right, so he gives thanks when you're in his hands. And

then uh so, yeah, you know, those who seated got it.

And then look at this. So also the fish as much the bread and

a fish as much as they wanted. Let everyone say that as much as

they wanted. This is an amazing buffet. Right, although his humble food

lies bally Loaves. He didn't say he transformed into something else, all right,

but but you know Jesus makes it. It's quality bally loaves. I'm

sure it's quality fresh bally loaves. And even the the eCOM Billies was crunchy

and nice taste thing. I believe it. Okay, that's what I believe.

Okay, so right, he doesn't and it's as much as they wanted.

This is very significant. You know why in those days they had no

McDonald's, they had no pizza hut, no every no grab driver. Right,

Okay, of course there's this some cartoon, right if they were hungry,

right, they're called grab fill, right, But then this one us.

In those days, food was not enough. In those days, people

were struggling to make sure they ate enough because there was no mass production of

food, right, industry revolution not there yet, right, No no gardinia,

right, no bun massive you know, baking of buns. Every big

piece of food that you can get is so precious and valuable. So in

those days it's hard to get enough to eat. Nowadays, we're trying not

to eat it too much. We're trying to eat too much, just too

much food. Right, yet there's a lot of people still hungry, right,

and we're throwing. Okay, I don't feel bad, but it's true.

In those days, people are struggling to eat enough and to be able

to eat as much as they wanted. That itself was a miracle. That

was a miracle. Jesus did such an amazing miracle that day. They ate

and ate and ate got he still got more. Okay, And I'm not

used to this, like, I mean, you think non stop here,

and I'm so fool. I've never experienced this in my life. All right,

And you know that boy he had five loaves and two fish. I

don't know how big would the piece of stuff. Maybe too much for a

boy, right, maybe growing boy. Okay, But that day he ate

and ate and ate and ate, all right, it was so much.

He ate too much. He ate like we are we ate today, all

right? And uh, that was day Jesus traveled in time, you know,

like he brought everyone to the future. It's probably say, you know,

in the future two thousand years from now, everyone's gonna eat like this.

It's gonna be like buffets and all stuff like that McDonald's. I don't

know, okay, But he brought us to the future. And what's what's

next, what's next? Come? Jesus is thankful a right for the five

loaves two fish in his hands, That's what I was saying, and for

what it is and what it will be, because it's gonna feed so many

more. And today I think we're talking about it was spiritually we feel like

we're just five loaves and two fish, smarting enough for Jesus. He's gonna

take you, and he's gonna multiply you. You're gonna do more than you

think you thought you could do. Amen, moving on, moving on,

And when they had eaten their phil he told his disciples gather up the left

over fragments, that nothing may be lost. So they gathered them up and

filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five bally loaves left by those who had

eaten. So, um, what what is this about? You know?

After he had given them too much to eat earlier, they were like,

oh you know, Phil right, there was there was streuss, there was

leftovers. And I love this verse because it says, gathered up the left

over. Right, Jesus doesn't waste anything, all right, And I love

that that party says that nothing may be lost, nothing may be lost.

You know, salivers here, salvers here. You don't even think you're like

five those and two fish. You think I'm just like a leftover. I

think some leftover. Nobody looks at me, nobody remembers my name, nobody

notices me. You feel like a leftover? Just guess what. God wants

to gather you up, all right, so that you won't be lost,

so that you won't be lost. And he wants to gather up anyone or

anything that seems to be a leftover. Why, because there's more, there's

more to be fed, right, I don't I can you can only imagine

what he did with a leftover brela. I don't think he threw it in

the sea right, even at a fit the fish okay, fine, fine,

all right, But to get it up so much more all right?

And something was going to be done with the leftover that day. The disciples

experienced a miracle and Heaven ruled through them that day. Amen. We hope

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