It works. It works. Okay, everybody cheer.
Yay. Loud cheer. Yay.
Okay, where is everybody? All right, so it’s working. So mark chapter six.
Now this verse 45, there it is up on the, up on the wall. Mark chapter six, verse 45. This really could become one of your all time favorite miracles.
Now one of the questions I’m going to ask you are some miracles more difficult than others for Jesus to do? Yeah, but you talk about creating stars and you talk about healing some sick person, right? So we got all sorts of.
Is Jesus indefatigable? Does Jesus ever get tired? Well, you just said no.
Now you said yes. Which one is it going to be? Is he indefatigable?
So he is fatigable. Right, because we see him fall asleep in the back of a boat. We see him get exhausted, we see him get angry.
When do you get angry? When we’re tired and stuff like that. Right.
So there’s lots, lots of good questions here in Mark chapter 6, verse 45. So immediately he made his disciples. So immediately means something happened right away just after something else.
So what happened right before this? That’s right. The bread and the juice?
No, not the juice, just the bread. Jesus had fed the 5,000 people. There were 5,000 men, there were women and children.
So there’s probably 12, 15,000. We can’t quite know that. Some people have bigger families.
So there’s more than 10,000. And Jesus decorated the hillside, Remember, he decorated the hillside green grass, these orientals, Asian types with lots of bright greens and reds and blues. So Jesus kind of planted pots up on the.
Planted pots of people up on the green. And so he got all these people out, he fed them all the disciples, packed up their stuff, put all their food, all the leftover food. And what did they do with all their pajamas and iPads?
Put them in baskets. They were under their arm because their baskets were filled with food. Off we go.
So, so immediately after Jesus feeds these 5,000 people, he makes his disciples. So who’s in control here? Well, Jesus is in control because he makes his disciples get into the boat.
Don’t miss this part. And go ahead of him to the other side. He makes him get in the boat to go ahead of him.
Now if I said, tommy, get in the boat, go ahead, get on the lake and go. You’re going to think, okay, I got it, I’m going to get the boat. But there’s a piece missing here.
But if I get in the boat and we get in the boat and the boat takes off, Jesus what are you going to do now? Are we going to leave you here? We’re going to get in the boat and leave.
He says, you guys go ahead. And the clear implication here is, I’ll be there later. And they go, how’s that going to happen?
And they answered, well, they don’t know. And we don’t know either. Get in the boat and go.
So go ahead and meet to the other side to Bethsaida, where the Sea of Galilee way up top. They’re going over the other side of the lake. And he dismisses the crowd.
Now, if we were at Cleveland Cavaliers arena over at Oracle or something like that. Oh, okay, everybody, time to go home, right? He didn’t get to do that.
He’s standing there by the seaside. You got 10, 12,000 people spread out, and he has to go tell everybody to go home. So how long does it take him to tell everybody to go home?
How long does it take to tell 10,000 people in groups of 1500 to go home? What’s a thousand divided by hundred or 10,000 divided by 100? That’s a lot, right?
So 10,000 divided by 100 is 100, right? 100 times 100, right. So Jesus has to go to each group one by one.
Okay, you guys can leave now. Okay, you guys can leave now. So you see, it takes longer for these things to happen than it does for us to read that they happened.
Right? It takes longer for these things to happen. They don’t happen instantly just because you send them home.
Now they’re gone. No, he has to take time to do that. So he’s going around telling, go home after he says goodbye to them.
Goodbye to them. He went to the mountain to pray. Whoa.
He had escaped over to this side of the lake to get away so that he could rest. The disciples, they’re going to get a chance to rest, or at least they think they will because they’re getting into the boat. Jesus climbs a mountain.
When’s the last time you climbed a mountain when you were exhausted? He had just created out of his hand all this food for all these people. And we know that Jesus uses energy.
He uses power when he does miracles. How do we know that? Remember the woman who touched his cloak?
He was in the crowd getting smushed. Woman reached up and touches his cloak. Jesus, who touched me, I perceive that power has gone out of me.
He feels the power drain. So we know that Jesus feels power drain. Before he calmed the sea, he was laying the back.
He was zonked out because he was exhausted. From everything he did. And so we know that Jesus gets tired.
And here he is, he’s doing day after day after day, feeding and feeding and creating and creating. And he goes mountain climbing. So he either never, never, never gets tired or He’s a dude.
He’s really a dude. He’s really strong. He is what we would call a man’s man, a person’s person.
He’s a man. He is strong. He would get that strength from.
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