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THINK ON THESE THINGS (Philippians 4:8)

November 14, 2021 BULLETIN for the

Feeding The 5,000

AM Sermon - Daniel Schramm
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Happy News! Connie Payne was baptized into Christ on Friday, November 12, 2021. Please welcome her into our family here.
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Today’s Scripture: “11 And the people, when they knew it, followed him: and he received them, and spake unto them of the ”. Luke 9:11–12 (KJV 1900)
Wisdom for Today: “ thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat;
And if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, And the Lord shall reward thee.”.Proverbs 25:21–22 (KJV 1900)
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God’s Plan of Salvation

Hear Romans 10:17
Believe Mark 16:16, Hebrews 11:1-6
Repent Acts 2:38, II Corinthians 7:10
Confess Romans 10:9-10, Matthew 10:32-33
Be Baptized Mark 16:16, Acts 22:16
Remain Faithful………...Matt 24:13; Rev 2:10; James 1:12

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth…”
–Romans 1:16 KJV

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ELDERS:
Ed Maxwell (907) 373-5583 ed@churchofchristwasilla.com
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Daniel Schramm (907)355-4088 schramm_03@yahoo.com
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Bill Beebe (907) 841-9261 bill@churchofchristwasilla.com

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“I was glad when they said unto me, Let us

go into the house of the Lord.” Psalm 122:1

The Five Thousand
By: Bill Beebe
The interesting thing about the miracles of Jesus is that they served a purpose other than the obvious. The miracles of Jesus included, in summary:
Miracles to demonstrate His power over the natural world, examples of these miracles include:
Turning water into wine (John 2:3-10)
Walking on water (Matthew 14:28-29)
Calming the storm (Mark 4:35-41)
Miracles to demonstrate His power over disease and human suffering
Healing the blind (John 9:1-7)
Healing the lame (Matthew 15:31
Heling the lepers (Luke 17:12-19)
Miracles to demonstrate His power over death
Raising the girl from the dead (Luke 8:53-56)
Raising Lazarus (John 11:1-44)
But the one thing that we do not see are miracles to encourage people to follow Him. Or course, when He performed miracles multitudes did in fact follow him. Bu the miracles He performed were not staged nor artificial in any way. They were true miracles whose purpose was to convince men that this was, indeed, the Son of God. We understand, or should, that Jesus could have healed every person on earth had He chosen to. But that was not His mission. The miracles He did perform were designed to o usher in a new way that God was going to deal with humanity and to close out the period of laws that God gave the Israelites through Moses.
So what about the two miracles where Jesus fed thousands? In Luke 9:10-17 we see Jesus feeding a crowd that included 5,000 men. We will never know he actual size of the crowd because we are not told how many women and children were there this time. But there are things we can discern from a careful reading of this passage:
Jesus didn’t perform miracles in an effort to get a lot of people to listen to him. This passage suggest that Jesus took his closest disciples and went to a private place so hat He could talk with them without disruptions.
But when the people heard about Him being in the garden, they went there as well
Then Jesus took advantage of them being there to teach and then heal those who needed it (Luke 9:10-11)
When the day was almost over His disciples came and said send the multitude away so that they can find food. But Jesus told the disciples to feed them. They only had five loaves of bread and two fish
It seemed that the people didn't know that a miracle was taking place around them.
What does all this teach us today? Some very important lessons are taught here that impact the way we conduct evangelism today. First, we do not need to use gimmicks to bring people to the gospel. Jesus didn’t advertise the fact that He would heal the sick there or that He would feed them. He was in a deserted place when they found him and he began to teach. Notice in verse 11 Jesus first spoke to them about the kingdom of God, then he healed them and finally he fed them.
So today our first duty is to speak about the kingdom of God and allow that to be the thing that brings people to hear us. But it would not be sinful to have refreshments that cold be distributed AFTER the teaching is finished. But like Jesus, this shouldn’t be the major draw. The major draw should be that we will preach and teach the clear facts of salvation found in the Bible. That is what we need to use to draw people to our worship services and Bible classes.

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