Running to Jesus Instead of Studying Him

Before The Noise

Chad Prather

Religion, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

5.0 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

The crowds in Gennesaret didn't hold a conference. They didn't form a committee. They didn't debate theology. They saw Jesus, and they ran.

In Mark 6:53-56, we encounter one of the most overlooked yet powerful scenes in the Gospel of Mark. Fresh off the heels of the disciples' confusion on the stormy sea, ordinary people immediately recognize what the disciples are still struggling to understand: Jesus is enough.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, welcome to Before the Noise, the place where we slow down before the chaos kicks in every weekday. Join us for more at BeforeThe Noise.com. Let's go. Hey, guys, good morning. It is Wednesday, right? It's the third of June. I always have to look, check, make sure. Welcome to Before the Noise. My name is Chad Brather. If you're new here, I'm glad you guys are here. If you're watching on Rumble, let me see those dancing bananas. If you're on Facebook, you're probably wondering what a dancing banana is. Don't worry about it. I'm glad you guys are on Facebook as well. Glad you're watching on X, watching on YouTube. Welcome to the family. These are our devotional thoughts we do every morning. And obviously, I'm on, I'm not in the studio show I'm just happy to be with you guys
0:39.1	hopefully you guys if you can hear me okay let me see blow up that chat a little bit let me see
0:42.9	what you got going on everybody doing okay this morning everybody doing well ran into some great
0:47.1	friends last night that I had not seen in a long long time and it was a pleasant surprise on
0:52.5	some of them so you know what cherish the people that you have in your life and the friends and the family that you got,
0:58.0	love on them a little bit.
0:59.0	And maybe today is the day you need to give somebody a call or maybe get in a car, go over
1:03.0	and see them, drive by, give them a hug.
1:06.0	It's a refreshing thing.
1:08.0	You know, we kind of get lost in these screen culture that we live in.
1:14.1	And I hope we can get away from that a little bit.
1:17.0	It's up to us.
1:17.9	It's truly up to us to get back to a place where relationships and community and communing with one another matters.
1:25.6	I was up a little while ago, and I scrolled over to check a couple of headlines on social
1:31.4	media and immediately got convicted and jumped right off of that because you just start
1:37.6	going down the rabbit hole to see what people have to say, and it's not always good, is it?
1:41.9	All right.
1:42.8	So we are, we're in Mark chapter 6. We're going to read just three verses this morning. We'll see how far we get. I don't know. Maybe we'll take the whole hour. Maybe we won't. I never know. I say that, and then I go, I'm long-winded. But I'm glad you guys are here. Mark chapter 6, we're going to pick up in verse 53.
2:02.3	And I figured I started to go into chapter 7 today, but I thought, well save that.
2:06.6	Start up tomorrow, start fresh.
2:08.4	But anyway, I'm looking at you guys in the chat.
2:10.2	You look great.
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