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John 6 – A Tough Chapter for Jesus

John 6 – A Tough Chapter for Jesus. Starts with 10,000-15,000 following Him Ends with only twelve (including Judas) What happened?!!.

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John 6 – A Tough Chapter for Jesus

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  1. John 6 – A Tough Chapter for Jesus • Starts with 10,000-15,000 following Him • Ends with only twelve (including Judas) • What happened?!!

  2. When evening came, His disciples went down to the lake, where they got into a boat and set off across the lake for Capernaum. But now it was dark, and Jesus had not yet joined them. A strong wind was blowing and the waters grew rough. When they had rowed three or three and a half miles, they saw Jesus approaching the boat, walking on the water; and they were terrified. John 6:16-19

  3. “It’s a ghost!” they said, and cried out in fear. But Jesus immediately said to them, “Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.” “Lord, if it’s You,” Peter replied, “tell me to come to You on the water.” “Come,” He said. Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus. But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out, “Lord, save me!” Matthew 14:26-30

  4. Immediately, Jesus reached out His hand and caught him. “You of little faith,” He said. “Why did you doubt?” Then He climbed into the boat with them, and the wind died down. They were completely amazed, for they had not understood about the loaves, and they worshipped Him, saying, “Truly, You are the Son of God.” Matthe 14:31-33, Mark 6:51-52

  5. Lesson 1: Believe that miracles are possible.

  6. What strikes us as a possible sign of cultural dilemma is the gulf between technological optimism and literary pessimism. Amidst great scientific achievements of which the human person should be proud, we hear some of the most passionate indictments against the human person as well as laments for the human condition among literary artists. Carver Yu

  7. Technocism: The belief that any problem in society can be fixed through advancements in science and technology.

  8. Technicity • World hunger? We just need better technology to help us grow higher quantities of more nutritional food and better technology to distribute it. • Crime? We just need to implement the technologies of security cameras and alarm systems, which will make us safer.

  9. “The heart desires wonder and magic … technology is what man uses to supplant the desire for wonder.” Ravi Zacharias

  10. “Miracles represent the common ground on which religion and science seem to make rival claims … any belief in miracles if flatly contradictory not just to the facts of science but also to the spirit of science.” Richard Dawkins

  11. “Science and religion can comfortably coexist as long as they operate in separate realms.” Stephen Jay Gould

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  14. Your accomplishments for the Kingdomwill rise in proportion to your faith in miracles. Kingdom productivity belief in miracles

  15. Why Not to Believe in Miracles • A miracle is a violation of the known laws of nature • We know these laws through repeated and constant experience • The testimony of those who report miracles contradicts the operation of known laws • Consequently, no one can rationally believe in miracles. David Hume, Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

  16. “If it might happen one day, then it could have happened before … if it happened in the past, we call it a miracle, but if it happens in the future, we call it scientific progress. Either way, it’s possible, not because nature’s laws are necessarily overthrown, but because we have no complete knowledge of what those laws are.” DineshD’souza

  17. Why Not to Believe in Miracles • A miracle is a violation of the known laws of nature • We know these laws through repeated and constant experience • The testimony of those who report miracles contradicts the operation of known laws • Consequently, no one can rationally believe in miracles. David Hume, Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

  18. Why You Must Believe in Miracles • A miracle is a violation of the known laws of nature. • Scientific laws are empirically unverifiable. • Thus, violations of the known laws of nature are quite possible. • Therefore, miracles are possible. DineshD’souza, What So Great About Christianity

  19. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus,the Author and Perfecter of our faith… Hebrews 12:2

  20. Lesson 1: Believe that miracles are possible.

  21. “Lord, if it’s You,” Peter replied, “tell me to come to You on the water.” “Come,” He said. Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus. But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out, “Lord, save me!” Matthew 14:28-30

  22. Lesson 2: Falling isn’t failing.

  23. “Lord, if it’s You,” Peter replied, “tell me to come to You on the water.” “Come,” He said. Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus. But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out, “Lord, save me!” Matthew 14:28-30

  24. Salvation is found in no one else, for there isno other name by which we can be saved. Acts 4:12

  25. Disciples are afraid Jesus climbs into the boat Disciples aren’t afraid anymore

  26. Why? • God is love (1 John 4:8) • God is perfect (Matthew 5:48) • Perfect love casts out fear (1 John 4:18)

  27. Then He climbed into the boat with them, and the wind died down. They were completely amazed. Mark 6:51

  28. Jesus So Far… • Cast an evil spirit out of a man (Mark 1) • Healed Peter’s mother-in-law and others (Mark 1) • Drove out a lot of demons (Luke 4) • Healed a man with leprosy (Matthew 8) • Healed a paralyzed man (Mark 2) • Healed a man’s hand on the Sabbath (Matt 12) • Healed so many people that everybody with diseases was pursuing Him (Mark 3)

  29. Jesus So Far… • Healed the son of a government official (John 4) • Healed a bleeding woman (Mark 5) • Healed the lame man by the pool (John 5) • Raised a little girl from the dead (Luke 8) • Just finished feeding 15,000 people with five loaves and two fish (John 6)

  30. Lesson 3: Believe the storm is under Jesus’ feet.

  31. About the fourth watch of the night He went out to them, walking on the lake. He was about to pass by them, but when they saw Him walking on the lake… Mark 6:48

  32. Parerchomai verb: to pass by

  33. Then Moses said, "Now show me your glory.“ And the LORD said, "I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim my name, the Lord, in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. But," he said, "you cannot see my face, for no one may see me and live.“ Exodus 33:18-20

  34. Then the Lord said, "There is a place near me where you may stand on a rock. When my glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft in the rock and cover you with my hand until I have passed by. Then I will remove my hand and you will see my back; but my face must not be seen.” Exodus 33:21-22

  35. He alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea. Job 9:8

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