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The Most Dramatic Picnic in History…
▾ Start: The Most Dramatic Picnic in History…
• 1 Entice: The goal was not notoriety…but lunch.
Whatever his name he carried the most famous brown-bag lunch ever.
By
1 Entice: The goal was not notoriety…but lunch.
Whatever his name he carried the most famous brown-bag lunch ever.
By the time we get to the boy and his lunch in , the disciples were in deep water.
Their big day became a big headache as they tried to mollify a hungry crowd.
Acting as good lieutenants they stated their objections (too costly!) to Jesus' simple directive to feed them.
Then they introduced the lad with his pickled fish sandwich and the rest…is History.
the time we get to the boy and his lunch in , the disciples were in deep water.
Their big day became a big
headache as they tried to mollify a hungry crowd.
Acting as good lieutenants they stated their objections (too costly!) to
2 Engage: What were people really looking for, when they came to Jesus?
Jesus' simple directive to feed them.
Then they introduced the lad with his pickled fish sandwich and the rest…is History.
• 2 Engage: What were people really looking for, when they came to Jesus?
What was their real hunger?
We are still asking
What was their real hunger?
that question after 20 centuries.
When they saw Jesus' sign, they misread it.
They wanted to parlay His ability into power
We are still asking that question after 20 centuries.
What is our real hunger?
When they saw Jesus' sign, they misread it.
They wanted to parlay His ability into power and influence.
Because the hungry crowd became a rioting mob Jesus withdrew.
And the Chase was on!
His disciples rowed the waves and he strode them to catch up.
And the mob came on; motivated by a hunger they barely understood they instinctively sought in Jesus the solution to a need they could not name.
and influence.
Because the hungry crowd became a rioting mob Jesus withdrew.
And the Chase was on!
His disciples
3 Expand: In the 21c we are just as blind to our true need as they were.
We chase Jesus like He is a circus clown offering temporary tricks and impermanent nutrition.
The miracles He performed were not for show.
They were signs of God's presence-call it
rowed the waves and he strode them to catch them.
And the mob came on; motivated by a hunger they barely
understood they instinctively sought in Jesus the solution.
• 3 Expand: In the 21c we are just as blind to our true need as they were.
We chase Jesus like He is a circus clown offering
“Emanuel-ness”
temporary tricks and impermanent nutrition.
The miracles He performed were not for show.
They were signs of God's
signs that our aching, internal, spiritual needs could be met but first we had to
presence-call it Emanuelness.
They were signs that our aching, internal, spiritual needs could be met but first we had to
They were signs that our aching, internal, spiritual needs could be met but first we had to hear with ears of faith, see with eyes of belief, and taste the texture of grace.
hear with ears of faith,
hear with ears of faith and see with eyes of belief.
see with eyes of belief, and
taste the texture of grace.
4 Excite: Are you hungry?
Are you hungry?
• 4 Excite: Are you hungry?
Not with an aching belly but an aching heart?
Maybe you are filled now but still remember when
Not with an aching belly but an aching heart?
Maybe you are filled now but still remember when your hunger pains of spiritual longing kept you up at night.
Are you hungry not for spiritual junk-food that makes promises it cannot deliver but with the pure, eternal, filling, everlasting bread of life.
your hunger pains of spiritual longing kept you up at night.
Are you hungry not for spiritual junk-food that makes promises it cannot deliver but with the pure, eternal, filling, everlasting bread of life.
Explore:
promises it cannot deliver but with the pure, eternal, filling, everlasting bread of life.
Your hungry heart can only be filled with Jesus the bread of life.
• Explore: Your hungry heart can only be filled with Jesus the bread of life.
Explain: The bread from heaven can satisfy us because…
• Explain: The bread from heaven can satisfy us because…
1 It is Fresh.
▾ Body of Sermon:
1.1 Seeking the healthy option.
▾ 1 It is Fresh.
vv.
26-27
• 1.1 Seeking the healthy option.
1.2 Seeking the enduring option.
The bread from heaven can satisfy us because…
• 1.2 Seeking the enduring option.
2 It is Filling.
▾ 2 It is Filling.
vv.
28-35
John 6.
2.1 …Because a hearty meal is not "easy."
▾ 2.1 …Because a hearty meal is not "easy."
• 2.1.1
In an age of easy believism we have spiritual famine.
2.1.1
In an age of easy believe-ism we have spiritual famine…Why?
• 2.1.2
Easy believism is the Chinese food of Christian Experience.
You eat your fill and then two hours later you are hungry
2.1.2
Easy believe-ism is the Chinese food of Christian Experience.
You eat your fill and then two hours later you are hungry again.
There was a lot of that along the lakeshore that day.
They want one meal after another.
One more miracle, one peak experience piled upon the next.
Fresh bread is not just about Jesus providing it is about us being filled.
again.
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