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Jesus feeding the 5,000 is one of the most universally known stories from the Bible.

But Mark and John tell it a little differently.

Today, we're going to continue through Paul's sermon series in the book of Mark, and in this

message, Paul looks at the characters and lessons of this story through a different lens.

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Each review helps us reach more people with the transforming power of Jesus Christ. Now here's Paul with this message from the Gospel of Mark.

Well, I thought I knew what was going to happen next, but I didn't know what was going to happen next.

I was going away for a ministry weekend.

I was going to drive a couple hundred miles.

I had prayed that the Lord would give me safety on the road,

that he would get the car from point A to point B

so that I could make my ministry appointment.

It was about dusk, and all of a sudden, the car that I pray for died.

I was in the proverbial middle of nowhere.

I was so discouraged.

And little did I know that circumstance would be a glorious way that God would answer my prayer.

Because in that moment, he would demonstrate to me his care and his provision in a way that was much more striking, much more beautiful,

much more faith-building than had I gotten from point A to point B.

The passage we're going to look at this evening is really you just don't know what's going to happen next kind of passage. It is the familiar story of the feeding of the 5,000, but I want

you to think about this with me that this telling of Mark has a very different cast to it than in John. In John, the whole move of the feeding of the

5,000 is Jesus' revelation of himself as the bread of life. Remember, it ends with him saying,

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