A Miracle At Supper Time

C-Notice His Provisions: John 6:9B

This was not big loaves like Colonial bread but more like small round pancakes or biscuits. These fish were more like sardines.

It wasn’t the size of the lunch that counted, it was getting it into the hands of Jesus.

Some say my lunch is not big enough. What counts is that it is submitted to Jesus.

God took nobodies and turned the world upside down in the book of Acts. But they gave all they had.

The lad gave all that he had, he didn’t hold back any part of his lunch.

David gave what he had, a sling, but it was enough to slay the Giant.

I read a story about a pastor of a small, rural church in Scotland. He had been forced out by his elders, who claimed they saw no fruit from his ministry. The village in which the pastor served was a difficult place. People’s hearts were cold and hostile to the truth. During the time the pastor served, there had been no conversions and no baptisms. But he did recall one positive response to his preaching. When the offering plate was passed during a service, a young boy placed the plate on the floor, stood up, and stepped into it. When asked to explain, he replied that he had been deeply touched by the minister’s life, and while he had no money to give he wanted to give himself wholly to God. The boy who stepped into the plate was Bobby Moffat, who in 1817 became a pioneer missionary to South Africa. He was greatly used of God to touch many lives.

Does Jesus have all of you?

III-NOTICE THE POWER THAT IS DISPLAYED:

“and Jesus” (that is the difference)

A-We See The Sitting: 39-40

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.

JESUS SAID, “MAKE THE MEN SIT DOWN.” Jesus’ words were 180 degrees the opposite to what the disciples had originally recommended. The disciples had recommended that Jesus “SEND THE MULTITUDE AWAY, . . . " (Luke 9:12)

IT KEPT CHAOS AWAY from the crowd. If you have watched relief organizations distribute food to hungry people on TV, you are aware that hungry multitudes can easily

overwhelm the distributors.

EVERYONE HAD THE PRIVILEGE TO OBSERVE the miracle firsthand. The bread was handed to them personally.

When I come to Church, I don’t want to come something like a honky tonk or a ball game. I want to worship the Lord in Spirit and in Truth. I want thing to be done in decency and order like the Bible says.

B-We See The Supplication: 41

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.

It would be easy to pass over the fact that Jesus gave thanks. It would be wrong to do so considering that John, the human author of the Gospel of John mentioned the fact twice (John 6:11,23). Matthew, Mark, and Luke ALL THREE reveal that Jesus looked up to heaven and gave thanks to the Father (Matt 14:19; Mark 6:41; Luke 9:16). Jesus was demonstrating in word and deed that God is THE SOURCE OF ALL LIFE and blessing.