John 6:1-21 Feeding 5000 - miracles John W (new)

Themes in the Gospel of John

Reasons to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God
The contrast between the light and the darkness
The relationship between the Father and the Son

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Setting the scene John 6

• Miracles

• Jesus Training His disciples

• Reflections on the miracle

• The miracle as a sign for the people, and why they respond the way they do

• What is Jesus is saying to us?

What are the lessons that Jesus is teaching.....

1. He (Jesus) is in control. He is the creator, the Son of God, the bread of all life. Physical obstacles are no problem to him. He is sovereign over everything

2. When we accept Him, we can trust him in the storms and in impossible situations. We need to look to him. He is greater than the problems and the opposition that face you

3. When God works, he chooses to work through his people. What we bring to him, and give to others (in obedience to him) he will bless

God chooses to work through us

1. There is always the hungry multitude (physical and spiritual), there is always a little band of disciples with few resources, and there is always a compassionate Saviour...

2. God chooses to work through his people. What we bring to him he can multiply to meet the needs of many. What we give to others he will bless.

3. When we trust and obey he will work through us to bless others

Genesis 12:1-4 Hold Nothing Back - Ric Sun

Visiting speaker, Ric Sun, teaches us that to become a blessing to the world is to be obedient to the Lord.

What is boldest move you have made for the Lord. How can holding nothing back will become a blessing for the world?

Three lessons from Genesis 12:1-4, Abram left his family and lands as the Lord had told him.

1. An encounter with God

2. A promise from God

3. A response to God

Romans 2:17-3:4 The position of the Jew

Our speaker explains the unique position of the Jew before God and the mistakes that are made regarding assumptions of privilege for having God's word and rituals such as circumcision. He explains that nobody is without sin before God and it is only the shed blood of the Lord Jesus who opens the way for our adoption, and inheritance of spiritual blessing and eternal life.

He also explains that all the promises to Israel will be fulfilled because when God makes a promise he is faithful. To be otherwise denies His nature. Our disobedience and sin do not undermine the faithfulness of God.

Jonah 1: God without borders - Andrew S

We commence a short series on the Book of Jonah. Andrew brings us a rich overview of the power of the Assyrian nation at the time of Jonah and the severity of the Ninevites and suggests reasons to understand why Jonah acted in disobedience to God at the thought that Israel's oppressors might be forgiven and redeemed.

The text instructs us that the Lord God is the the God of the Jews and the Gentiles. Jonah is unique in that it is the only account of a prophet speaking to a Gentile nation for the benefit of the nation, and not for any benefit or instruction to Israel. It is a book of mission.

Andrew explains that the use of a great fish to deliver wisdom of salvation was completely in keeping with the mythology of the Assyrians who believed that all wisdom for civilisation came from seven sages who appeared from the sea. Assyrian iconography and sculpture depicts men in the form of fish giving teaching and instruction.

Andrew also parallels the account of Jesus in the boat in the storm in Mark 4 and Jonah asleep in a boat in a storm. Jesus is sleeps perfectly connected to the will of the Father while Jonah is detached and immune to his circumstances and his role for the salvation of the sailors. The parallel is drawn with out own lives as to whether we are connected or detached from God's will.