Recreate Church, Pastor Michael Shockley—Service, March 26, 2023

2023-04-06

Food and Walking on Water. Today, Pastor Michael is following up on the “Feeding of the Five Thousand”. Jesus and His Disciples were in the woods and the whole point of being in the wilderness area was to get some rest. But the crowd followed them! And during this time, Jesus feed well over 5,000 from just the meager leftovers of someone’s lunch! So, here is this miracle-working man that can feed us every day! If he were a king, he could feed us every day! Let...

Food and Walking on Water.

Today, Pastor Michael is following up on the “Feeding of the Five Thousand”. Jesus and His Disciples were in the woods and the whole point of being in the wilderness area was to get some rest. But the crowd followed them! And during this time, Jesus feed well over 5,000 from just the meager leftovers of someone’s lunch!

So, here is this miracle-working man that can feed us every day! If he were a king, he could feed us every day! Let’s make this man a king!

But, they wanted to make him king for all the wrong reasons!

When the evening came, the boat with the disciples was in the sea and they were paddling like crazy and getting nowhere! They looked out and saw that He who had created water could walk on it!

The disciples all saw Him and were frightened, thinking He was a ghost, but Jesus spoke to them. When Jesus got into the boat, the wind flat-out stopped. The disciples were amazed because they failed to learn from the miracle of the loaves. Their hearts were hardened. These miracles coming this close together should have reminded them that Jesus is the Son of God who has power over everything. He can create food; He can walk on water!

Mark 6:50-52 (CSB Study Bible Notes) 6:50 Jesus reassured the disciples with two commands: Have courage and don’t be afraid. The words it is I are literally “I am” (Gk Egō Eimi), the divine name of God in Ex 3:14 (cp. Is 41:4; 43:10-11; 48:12). Jesus did what God alone could do and used God’s name to identify himself.

6:51 In 4:35-41 the wind ceased when Jesus commanded it to stop; here it stopped when he got into the boat . . . Astounded was the usual reaction to Jesus’s power (cp. 1:22,27; 2:12; 5:15,20,42).

6:52 Mark diagnosed a twofold problem: the disciples had not understood and their hearts were hardened. Hard hearts (spiritual insensitivity) characterized the Pharisees at the synagogue in Capernaum (3:5).

Verses can be found in Mark 6: 45-52 and Matthew 14: 1-12.

Scripture quotations marked CSB have been taken from the Christian Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2017 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission. Christian Standard Bible® and CSB® are federally registered trademarks of Holman Bible Publishers.

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