Many times in your life you may have heard the story of Jesus's Miracle of the feeding of the 5,000. Many pastors use this to demonstrate the power of faith or that god will always provide. Although I may touch on these subjects they are not the main reason for my lesson today. I will be applying the verse John 13:34-35 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
If you have your bible please read along with me I am using the ERV of the bible and I verify content with the KJV
Mat 14:14-21 ERV When Jesus got out of the boat, he saw a large crowd of people. He felt sorry for them, and he healed the ones who were sick. (15) Late that afternoon, the followers came to Jesus and said, "No one lives in this place. And it is already late. Send the people away so they can go to the towns and buy food for themselves." (16) Jesus said, "The people don't need to go away. You give them some food to eat." (17) The followers answered, "But we have only five loaves of bread and two fish." (18) Jesus said, "Bring the bread and the fish to me." (19) Then he told the people to sit down on the grass. He took the five loaves of bread and the two fish. He looked into the sky and thanked God for the food. Then he broke the bread into pieces, which he gave to the followers, and they gave the food to the people. (20) Everyone ate until they were full. When they finished eating, the followers filled twelve baskets with the pieces of food that were not eaten. (21) There were about 5000 men there who ate. There were also women and children who ate.
I’m sure the conversation went something like this “Hey Jesus, we are going to have to stop this revival you got going here because none of these people live around and its getting late and none of them have eaten yet” Jesus then looked across the crowds of people and thought “What if I send them away and they don’t have the money to buy food in the nearby town?”
In the crowd there we not just 5000 there were 5000 men plus their families so the total count could have been 15 or 20 thousand there. I’m sure if he had told them to go get dinner some of them may have sat there hungry because there homes were many hours away and they had no money to go in town and buy food. Jesus look at his disciples and said they don’t have to leave we will feed them. Then one of them said to him . Jesus we only have a few loafs of bread and a couple fish. Then Jesus said don’t worry I'll take care of it. Jesus would not sit and eat while watching other suffer. Jesus didn't give with the thought that these people would someday pay him back. He didn't check to see if they took more than what they needed to eat right now.
He didn’t ask why these people didn’t have any food or money to buy some. He didn’t say to some you spent your money on silk when cotton would do, or you spent all your money on wine. He did not say I know any food I give you you will just sell to buy wine so you don’t get any. Jesus gave out of Love and without conditions and he gave in abundance. Jesus and the disciples were not rich they only had what others had given to them. Sometimes its hard not to look at others and decide if they deserve the money you gave then. I often here people say the government is taking money out of my check to pay for welfare, food stamps, Health Care or other programs. Would you rather have them take money out for these programs and know that there are people out there abusing them or would you rather not pay for them and know that children are dying on the streets because they have no home or food?
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