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*INTRODUCTION:*
1.
Our Scripture for today is John 6:1-14 (page )
 
*/After this, Jesus crossed over the Sea of Galilee, also known as the Sea of Tiberias.
2/**/ And a huge crowd kept following him wherever he went, because they saw his miracles as he healed the sick.
3/**/ Then Jesus went up into the hills and sat down with his disciples around him.
4/**/ (It was nearly time for the annual Passover celebration.)
5/**/ Jesus soon saw a great crowd of people climbing the hill, looking for him.
Turning to Philip, he asked, “Philip, where can we buy bread to feed all these people?” 6/**/ He was testing Philip, for he already knew what he was going to do./*
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*/7/**/ Philip replied, “It would take a small fortune to feed them!”/*
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*/8/**/ Then Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, spoke up.
9/**/ “There’s a young boy here with five barley loaves and two fish.
But what good is that with this huge crowd?”/*
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*/10/**/ “Tell everyone to sit down,” Jesus ordered.
So all of them—the men alone numbered five thousand—sat down on the grassy slopes.
11/**/ Then Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks to God, and passed them out to the people.
Afterward he did the same with the fish.
And they all ate until they were full.
12/**/ “Now gather the leftovers,” Jesus told his disciples, “so that nothing is wasted.”
13/**/ There were only five barley loaves to start with, but twelve baskets were filled with the pieces of bread the people did not eat!/*
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*/14When the people saw this miraculous sign, they exclaimed, “Surely, he is the Prophet we have been expecting!”/*
*2.
*Imagine, if you can, looking out on *5,000 faces blank from hunger.
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a.    It's an image that *sometimes becomes reality for me* on Sundays when I preach past a certain time.
b.
Any speaker will tell you that when the tummies are growling, there's really no use talking any longer.
c.    Jesus was fully aware of this on that hillside; he knew that before he could *unveil any more secrets of the kingdom of God, somebody would have to make a run to McDonald's*.
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* *WHAT INTERESTS ME THIS MORNING IS THE QUESTION JESUS ASKS IN :5 AND THE COMMENT OF :6.*
a.    */5/**/ Jesus soon saw a great crowd of people climbing the hill, looking for him.
Turning to Philip, he asked, “Philip, where can we buy bread to feed all these people?” 6/**/ He was testing Philip, for he already knew what he was going to do./*
b.
There was an *obvious need* outside of that inner circle of Jesus and his disciples and Jesus was going to meet that need.
i)        But his immediate concern was his disciples.
ii)      Here was another *teaching moment*.
iii)    This was a *test to refine the Philip’s faith*, not a temptation for evil.
iv)    *THEY WERE THE FUTURE OF HIS WORK *here on earth when he left after his resurrection and ascension.
c.
But this point they are *worn out, tired, and emotionally down.*
i)        They had recently returned from a *mission’s trip.*
ii)      *John the Baptist* had just been beheaded and this had to be emotionally draining on them.
4.      They *needed some R and R* and they get in the boat to go across the Sea of Galilee (called Tiberius here.)
a.
But the annual religious holiday *of Passover* is coming and people are on the move.
b.    *Jesus reputation* has exploded on the scene.
5.      Other versions of the story tell us that Jesus saw these multitudes and was *moved with compassion* on them.
a.    Praise God for a compassionate Jesus
b.
Here is a teaching moment for his disciples.
c.
This story tells us how they responded to this ministry opportunity and gives us insight into our own responses sometimes.
6.      *LET ME PAUSE AND ASK YOU* as an individual and us as a church:
a.
There are people all around us who are spiritually hungry, some physically, some emotionally.
b.    Jesus has given us the command to reach these people.
c.    *Do you find yourself saying to yourself:*
i)        But I *don’t know enough* to help someone else.
ii)      I don’t have *the right gifts* or abilities and I don’t know what my gifts are.
iii)    We are *too small as a church* with too few resources to make much of an impact.
iv)    Maybe there are a few of you that feel *worn out* from all that you’re doing and you wonder how you can do any more.
¨      Sometimes that happens in a church.
¨      Ministry~/church life can be like that
¨      *Mary had a little lamb,*
‘Twas given her to keep,
But then it joined the local church,
And died for lack of sleep!
*7.      *Part of the lesson of this occasion is that *GOD CAN DO A LOT WITH A LITTLE, IF HE HAS ALL OF IT.*
*8.      **Look at how the disciples responded*.
*THE GIFT THAT KEPT ON GIVING*
*John 6:1-14*
 
1.
MARK 6:36 – SEND THE AWAY
a.    Get rid of the problem
b.
For some, ignore it, it will go away
c.    Certainly a wrong perspective
 
*2.
**PHILIP - :7 *
a.
So Jesus turned to a *local disciple*, Philip, who was from nearby Bethsaida, and asked, "Philip where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?"
*i)        **Put yourself in Philip's place.
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ii)      Five thousand hungry hikers were headed toward them, and Jesus told him, *"Philip, this is your problem*.
I appoint you food chairman."
iii)    Philip got that *"deer in the headlights"* look in his eyes and blurted, "Eight months' wages would not buy enough bread for each one to have a bite!"
b.    *I AM SO GRATEFUL FOR THE HONESTY OF GOD’S WORD*.
i)        Now *Philip went on to become a great leader in the early church,* yet his hare-brained comment that day is still preserved in Scripture.
ii)      You would think that scribes would have been tempted to *edit out* some of the embarrassing comments made by the disciples, who had later become the leaders of the early church.
iii)    Sometimes certain *cultures rewrite history* to portray themselves in a favorable light.
¨      However, this definitely is not true in the New Testament.
¨      We discover that the greatest leader, *Peter*, was a liar and a coward, that the *Apostle John* had a nasty temper, and this morning we see the *Apostle Philip *wimp out on that hillside.
*iv)    **The disciples were flawed, ordinary human beings like you and me.
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c.
But that's *part of the Christian message and certainly the message of this story* John has been lead to write for us.
*i)        *In fact, this story is so significant that it is the only miracle that is *mentioned in all four Gospels.*
*ii)      *And it is very simple - *God can do a lot with a little, if he has all of it.*
d.   */7/**/ Philip replied, “It would take a small fortune to feed them!”/*
i)        NIV -*/ /**/Philip answered him, “Eight months’ wages would not buy enough bread for each one to have a bite!”/*
ii)      */Eight moths’ wages” – Lit – 200 denarri/*
e.    Philip looks at the crowd and says *"Lord, I have two words: *im...possible.
Can't be done."
*i)        *Say hello to *Mr.
Pessimist.
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ii)      The sheer magnitude of the crisis overwhelms Philip, and he is quick to give up: "Lord it can't be done..."
¨      5,000 – and that’s just the men
¨      how about those *hungry teens!*
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