8-09-2009 Closed Captioned Sermon, Jesus IS The Prophet

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This captioned message, based on John 6:1-15, tells us the Way to have peace in our daily lives. To contact Pastor Dave, go to: www.ziontorrance.info

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Text from the HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION, used by
permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers. The sermon text
is recorded for us in John's Gospel where we read
the first 15 verses from
Chapter 6. Sometime
after this, Jesus crossed to the far shore
of the Sea of Galilee (that is, the Sea of Tiberias),
and a great crowd of people followed him
because they saw the miraculous signs he had
performed on the sick. Then Jesus went up
on a mountainside and sat down with his disciples.
The Jewish Passover Feast was near.
When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him,
he said to Philip, "WHERE SHALL WE BUY BREAD
FOR THESE PEOPLE TO EAT?"
He asked this only to test him, for he already
had in mind what he was going to do.
Philip answered him, "Eight months' wages would not buy
enough bread for each one to have a bite!"
Another of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother,
spoke up, "Here is a boy with five
small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far
will they go among so many?"
Jesus said, "HAVE THE PEOPLE SIT DOWN."
There was plenty of grass in that place, and the men
sat down, about five thousand of them. Jesus
then took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed to
those who were seated as much as they wanted.
He did the same with the fish.
When they had all had enough to eat, he said to his
disciples, "GATHER THE PIECES THAT ARE LEFT OVER.
LET NOTHING BE WASTED." So they gathered them and
filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley
loaves left over by those who had eaten.
After the people saw the miraculous sign that
Jesus did, they began to say, "Surely
this is the Prophet who is to come into the world."
Jesus knowing that they intended to come and make him
king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by himself.
This is the Word of our Lord.
Let us pray:
Glorious and Gracious God, may the words of my mouth and the
meditation of each of our hearts be acceptable in
your sight, our only source of hope and comfort.
Amen.
Pastor Dave
motions for
the congregation to be seated.
Dear Followers of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
The account that John records for us today is
one of those familiar accounts
one of those that we have
poured over in Sunday School classes, one of those that
we haven't even thought of as adults.
The feeding of at least 5,000 people
by Jesus, when he took the small gift ...
of five barley loaves and two small fish ...
and fed soooo many people
that there were leftovers even that needed
to be gathered.
It was a tremendous showing of God's power.
God's power through His Son, Jesus Christ. That miracle
speaks clearly to who
Jesus was. And to what He had come to do.
And there were people who after that event had even
wondered if He was The Prophet.
The Prophet of God
who had come into the world to share
the message of God with God's people.
To bring to them the news of God and
to tell them what God wanted from them.
The Prophet that the Jewish people knew
was going to be someone like Moses who would be raised up
from among themselves. Someone like Moses
that we heard in our Old Testament lesson who came and
brought the people all the commands of God.
Laid them out before them and said: This is what
the Lord expects of you.
This is what you are to do.
And the people gathered there that day responded:
joyously and joyfully: This is what we WILL do.
We will keep the commands of the Lord.
The Prophet is the One who was to come to
God's people and share with them the
knowledge of God, the Word of God and the message of God.
And we see that's exactly what
Jesus did. For the past weeks
in our sermons, we've seen the crowds
that came to Jesus. We've heard of those people who
flocked to Him, who followed Him in boats or
walked around lakes just to
spend time with Him.
Because of the miracles that He was doing because of the
power and the authority that He taught with, they came to
hear Him, they came to understand what it was ....
what message He was bringing to them. And we see that
happening once again as John
describes this LARGE crowd of people that ... at least
FIVE THOUSAND PEOPLE ...
CAME OUT to
HEAR JESUS SPEAK!
And Jesus looked
on those people and He had
compassion on them. Jesus looked
on those people and
He had love for them.
He was concerned about them. Even concerned with
their daily needs. Where were He and the disciples
going to get FOOD to FEED these people?
He already KNEW what He was going to do, but He
came to Philip, to test him. He came to Philip
and said: So where are we gonna get FOOD for all
of these people? God wanted
His disciples to THINK! To use
their God-given common sense
as to WHO was going to be the one to make the solution
for the day. He
comes to Philip to test him. Do you think Philip passed?
We couldn't get enough money
if we had months of wages to give any
one of these people, each one of them ... a bite.
Is that our response
so often to God's tests in our life? I don't
wanna be tested. God You should know that I love You.
God You know I'm smart. You know I'm one of the best
children You ever had.
Just like Philip ... I dunno what we're gonna do.
We can't do it. When standing in the presence
of the Son of God ...
do we even think to let the Son of God do His work!
He could just as easily have turned
to Jesus Christ and said: On our own
we can't do this. But YOU can.
Hadn't he SEEN
what Christ was doing?
Hadn't he witnessed those miracles? Hadn't he been there
as those crowds came up? For what purpose and
for what reason?
Isn't it amazing how often those who are so close
to Christ ...
can push Him so far away.
Or rely on their own sensibilities
and their own minds to figure out
what needs to be done. But yet Jesus has
compassion on people. He has compassion on Philip.
He has compassion on Andrew
who points to this little kid
with a few loaves of bread and some fish.
Shrugging shoulders.
.... Whatta we gonna do?
Doesn't say: Jesus do the work.
But yet Jesus had compassion
not only on His disciples,
but all of those thousands of people that were there
and He said: Have them sit down.
You who won't turn to Me,
I will SHOW you what I can do.
I will SHOW you my love.
You have all of those people go and sit down and
we're gonna start passing out food.
I wonder what went through Philip's mind
as Jesus
kept providing bread
and kept providing fish for all of those people that
Philip thought they couldn't feed. Or Andrew who said:
Here we got this little kid with this little offering
that Jesus Himself turned into
a miraculous feeding of at least five thousand people.
And the people KNEW
where that food came from.
The people KNEW that Jesus
had performed a miracle among them. They wanted Him
to be king. They wanted to make Him a king by force. They
wanted to come to Him and set Him up as their earthly ruler.
But that's not what Jesus had come for.
That wasn't the great miracle
that He wanted them to see.
Because the miracle that He had come to perform
was the miracle of His resurrection from the dead.
Having sacrificed Himself
for humanity's sins
and in love for them that He had given them
His life. Shed the blood.
That goes back to that Old Testament lesson
for God's people. Yes, they wanted to do the will and
the work of God
but yet, they still needed to make sacrifices
for their sins. They STILL needed
to SHED blood. And it was
the Father who SHED the Son's blood on the Cross of Calvary
so that everyone's sins would be forgiven.
So that everyone's sins would be washed away.
And then the miracle
was that Jesus Christ was raised to life!
THAT was the miracle Jesus
came to perform! The miracle
of bringing faith in Him to people's hearts
so that they would have eternal life.
Not that He was JUST here to take care of
their physical needs, their daily needs ....
to make sure that people weren't hungry ... or thirsty,
but that people were satisfied on the Word and
the Will of God.
He came as their Lord and Savior and He showed that
to people in His compassion and by His miracles.
And we remind ourselves today
to TRUST in that compassion. To TRUST
in those miracles. To turn to God
in the times in our life when He may be testing us.
Not to rely and trust in ourselves but to fall
at His feet and say: God, do Your Work.
Accomplish what You will.
I stand here as Your child.
I stand here saying I am going to follow Your commands
because of the miracle that You have performed
by creating faith in me.
Because of the blessing of eternal life, I am going to
put into practice each and every one of Your commands and
live in that faith.
As the Apostle Paul reminded us in our lesson
from the Letter to the Ephesians:
Live a life
worthy of the calling you have received.
We have the love and compassion of God
poured out on us each and every day.
We need to live in that love.
We need to look at people with the compassion of Christ.
Not to see a problem of thousands of people
who are gathered together and the logistics of everything
that is going on but to calmly say and turn to God:
God, take care of this.
Handle this!
YOU WHO CAN DO ANYTHING, can
get me through this.
To TRUST Him to do His Will and ALLOW Him to do that Will.
To work WITH the Holy Spirit
through His strength and His power in our daily lives.
To turn to God's Son as the TRUE PROPHET.
Not as an earthly king
but as the One who came as the King of Kings
to be Lord of our eternal life.
Who gives us, and satisfies our need
of a Savior and comforts us with His love.
Let us call on that Prophet
in every day of trouble. Let us call on Him in thanks
and praise for all of the blessings He has done.
He IS our compassionate and loving God.
Let us RESPOND in kind.
Amen.
Let us rise.
Now may the peace of God which goes beyond
all of our understanding keep your hearts
and your minds and especially your lives
in the one true faith unto life everlasting.
Amen.

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