Seek Ye First The Kingdom Of God- Part 2 Series

When we are in debt, God knows we are in debt. And we don’t have to work 2 jobs, 3 jobs, or 4 jobs in order to pay the debt. Only simple thing is, seek ye first the kingdom of God. The “First” word is the most important word. It is not, seek ye the kingdom of God, it is, seek ye “First” the kingdom of God. That means we put God first, in everything we do, He truly becomes the Lord of our lives. It’s not just we say Lord Jesus, bless me this day. When we say Lord, is He really the Lord of our lives? Is He really the top priority in our lives? So, that’s what we are going to see. We are going to read from Mark chapter 6 verses 30 to 44.

30 And the apostles gathered themselves together unto Jesus, and told him all things, both what they had done, and what they had taught.

31 And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place and rest a while: for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.

32 And they departed into a desert place by ship privately.

33 And the people saw them departing, and many knew him, and ran afoot thither out of all cities, and outwent them, and came together unto him.

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.

You see the people over here, how the people they came looking for Him and felt that they didn’t have even time to eat and they came after Jesus. When we looked at verse 34, it says, “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.” So if we look at this, we see the priority again. Jesus knew. Do we think Jesus knows?

He knows, Jesus knows that they didn’t eat, they didn’t have time to eat, they all came over there. Look at God’s priority; He is feeding the soul first, before feeding the body. So, that is very important because if you see that verse in Matthew chapter 6, He is saying that “is not your life more important?”. Your soul is more important and People are more important than the house they live in. Same way, our soul is more important than our body and our body is more important than clothing. Do we need clothing? Yes. Do we need to be healthy? Yes. Do we need to be happy? Yes, but what is the most important thing when we ask the question are our souls. Because our soul is going to live forever. So over here, even though Jesus knew they came there without food, they were hungry. What God is doing? He felt very compassionate toward the people, toward their souls first, and He is meeting their spiritual needs first. These people, are hungry, even though they are physically hungry, spiritually they are so hungry, but they are overcoming their hunger and they are coming after Jesus and He is teaching them. He was moved with compassion because they were like sheep not having shepherd and He began to teach them many things. So, we don’t see Him multiplying the five loaves and two fishes over here. He is first teaching them with compassion, he is first teaching them to feed their soul. And after that, He didn’t say “okay, go home, I am here to only feed your soul, everybody gets up and goes home.” He didn’t say that. He is a God who not only meets our spiritual needs, but he also cares about our physical needs. So, God who knows what we need in our soul, He knows what we need in our bodies also. He knows that we are hungry, He knows we are tired, He knows we are sick, He knows we are depressed, He knows all of those things. So Jesus knew that even though the disciples came and said “Lord send them away,” He is saying “ you give them something to eat.” That shows the compassion of Jesus saying that they need something to eat and give it and He knew they are going to bring in something, and He is going to perform that miracle, but that miracle not only shows the power of God, but it shows how much He cares about our needs and also shows that when we seek His kingdom first, how He provides. The people did not say, “Lord, we finished hearing your word, please can you give us some food?” People did not ask him that. Without them asking, by them seeking God, He added, He gave the food as a bonus to them. They all sat. In verse 42, we see “And they all did eat, and were filled.” It wasn’t like He gave little portion here, a little portion there like we see that when people run out of food, they try to divide and share when, not everyone is full, but over here even though, there were five thousand men, that means there were a lot more women and lot more children, so many people they ate, they were full, and they took 12 baskets of fragments. And God is so good. He is a God of plenty; that’s why we read in Philippians that He supplies all our needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. God’s bank account is not empty. God’s basket is not empty. God’s storehouse is not empty. It is always full. So He is going to feed us and give us and meet our needs according to His riches. It is always going to overflow. He is never going to give us something that we are not filled with like we eat half or we get fed half or we get paid half, and for the other half we don’t know what to do. He never does that. When God supplies, it always overflows. So, this is one passage where we see, that when we seek Him, first, more than our food, more than our physical pain and our bodily tiredness, when we overcome that, go after Jesus - He is sure to meet our needs and He refreshes us. He Feeds our souls and our bodies. So God is a very good God.