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LOAVES, FISHES & LOST SOULS
TEXT: Mk. 8:1-9 (Please read this passage before proceeding)
THESIS: To apply the principles of the feeding of the 4000 to the need to reach the lost around the world.
INTRO.:
A. This is Jesus’ second miracle of feeding thousands with a meager supply of fish and bread. He knew that skeptics would deny His miracles so He performed this fantastic feat on two separate occasions. He had thousands of witnesses because He wanted to be sure that no one could continue in unbelief and go to hell unless they leaped over wall after wall of proven facts.
B. His feeding multitudes with bread and fish which seemed impossible demonstrated how He can save a lost world with a seemingly impossible measure of wonderful mercy and grace. We may never understand how Jesus multiplied the elements in the hands
of the disciples, nor may we ever understand how He can dispense mercy and grace to the vilest of sinners through us, but He can and
does!
C. Just as He used His disciples to satisfy the physical needs of multitudes with their meager supply, so too He wants to use us who are still in the flesh, and with very little to offer humanly speaking, to satisfy the spiritual needs of a lost world.
TEXT: Mk. 8:1-9 (Please read this passage before proceeding)
THESIS: To apply the principles of the feeding of the 4000 to the need to reach the lost around the world.
INTRO.:
A. This is Jesus’ second miracle of feeding thousands with a meager supply of fish and bread. He knew that skeptics would deny His miracles so He performed this fantastic feat on two separate occasions. He had thousands of witnesses because He wanted to be sure that no one could continue in unbelief and go to hell unless they leaped over wall after wall of proven facts.
B. His feeding multitudes with bread and fish which seemed impossible demonstrated how He can save a lost world with a seemingly impossible measure of wonderful mercy and grace. We may never understand how Jesus multiplied the elements in the hands
of the disciples, nor may we ever understand how He can dispense mercy and grace to the vilest of sinners through us, but He can and
does!
C. Just as He used His disciples to satisfy the physical needs of multitudes with their meager supply, so too He wants to use us who are still in the flesh, and with very little to offer humanly speaking, to satisfy the spiritual needs of a lost world.
