The Far Spent - Desert Place Teaching
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Scripture Reading:
Mark 6
34 And Jesus, when he came out, saw much people, and was moved with compassion toward them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd: and he began to teach them many things.
35 And when the day was now far spent, his disciples came unto him, and said, This is a desert place, and now the time is far passed:
36 Send them away, that they may go into the country round about, and into the villages, and buy themselves bread: for they have nothing to eat.
37 He answered and said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they say unto him, Shall we go and buy two hundred pennyworth of bread, and give them to eat?
38 He saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? go and see. And when they knew, they say, Five, and two fishes.
39 And he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green grass.
40 And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties.
41 And when he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven, and blessed, and brake the loaves, and gave them to his disciples to set before them; and the two fishes divided he among them all.
42 And they did all eat, and were filled.
43 And they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments, and of the fishes.
44 And they that did eat of the loaves were about five thousand men.
Jesus was moved with compassion for people
He sees them as a sheep without a shepherd
Wandering around
Lost
No direction
In danger
Here He begins to teach them many things
When the day was far spent … in a desert place … the time far passed
He taught them yet one more lesson
The lesson many of us need to be reminded of again & again.
The Far Spent - Desert Place Lesson
I. Mark 6:34-44 Jesus organized for a miracle
A. He knew the need
B. He knew the supply
C. He knew the way
1. He brought order
2. He gave structure
3. He made the miracle doable
A. put the people into groups
B. made them sit down in grass
C. in ranks (rows) of hundreds & fifties
Note:
Jesus orders our lives for miracles just like He did here
So we can contain it
So we can handle it
So we can get the greatest benefit from it
So we can learn from it
There is no hap-hazard approach to Kingdom business
Jesus has a plan
John 6:6 And this he said to prove him: for he himself knew what he would do.
At times we are his disciple
At times we are the child with the little basket of food
At times we are the multitudes sitting on the grass eating
Jesus’ hope is that one day, we would learn to be the one
Filled with compassion
Sensing the need
Knowing the supply
Charting a way
Meeting the need of multitudes wandering in their desert places
II. The Far Spent Lesson
A. The Life Of Christ Revealed
Matthew 14:19 And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.
Matthew 26:26 And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.
Mark 14:22 And as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it, and gave to them, and said, Take, eat: this is my body.
Luke 9:16 Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them, and brake, and gave to the disciples to set before the multitude.
Luke 24:30 And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them.
B. Your Life’s Greatest Hope
* The same hand that takes you to bless you …. Is the same hand that breaks you to give you.
III. The Emmaus Walk
A. Luke 24:35 And they told what things were done in the way, and how he was known of them in breaking of bread.
B. Any Jesus, other than the …
Taken
Blessed
Broken
Given … is not the real Jesus!
C. Any Gospel message, other than the …
… is not the real Gospel message!
D. Any other life … Any other way …
Note: No Cross - No Crown!
