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Hey, friends, welcome back to today's episode. We are still in Matthew 14, and we're still

talking about that great event in the ministry of Jesus called The Feeding of the 5,000.

And I mentioned to you yesterday that this miracle is much deeper than we typically give it credit for. So if you think that the miracle is simply

about people being fed, then you're missing the miracle. In fact, the people on that day

thought that the miracle was just about them being fed because the day, they showed up in Copernium, this same

crowd, many of the same crowd, showed up in Copernium where Jesus happened to be at the synagogue,

and they expected him to feed them again. So Jesus did not come to this earth to feed people.

Now, he did that at strategic times. He didn't come to

heal people. And again, he did that at strategic times. But the miracles of Jesus were not

meant to be anything other than exclamation points on his message. So it's the message of Christ that was important. Why? Because

the message of Christ was the mission, that I am come to seek and to save that which was lost.

And these miracles in various ways demonstrated the authenticity of his ministry and the identity, his identity as the

Messiah and as the Son of God. In fact, that's why John specifically chose the miracles he did

in the book of John, including the Feeding of the 5,000 in John 6, to demonstrate that very

truth, that Jesus is the son of God, that Jesus is the Messiah, and we ought to believe on him.

Now, understand that on the day that Jesus fed the 5,000, the groundswell of people on that day wanted to make Jesus their king.

They wanted to anoint him their king. I mean, just as, well, you can imagine. I mean, there's 15,000

people there. This is our king. He's done this miracle. We want him. We're ready to depose Rome and throw down the Herods and set up

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