Companionship is what makes every journey enjoyable.

Today we continue our journey with Jesus.

Join Scott Pauli as we make brief stops in the Gospel according to Mark.

We trust you will enjoy the journey.

Do you ever feel like you're having to learn the same lessons over and over and over again?

I tell you, in my own Christian life, I find so often that it's in the basics, it's in the simple things, it's

foundational truth so often that I most often forget. That's what you find in Mark

chapter number eight when Jesus performs his second feeding of thousands of people. You remember that

in Mark chapter six he fed 5,000 plus, and they took up

12 baskets of the fragments. And at the end of that story, the Bible says of the disciples that they

considered not the miracle of the lows, for their heart was hardened. You know, the truth of the

matter is, we so often see God work and we see His blessings, but we miss the point.

You see, Jesus doesn't perform miracles just to perform miracles.

The miracles have a message.

He's trying to teach us something.

So in Mark chapter 8, he performs a very similar miracle.

Now, it's a different setting.

This time it's not 5,000, it's a different setting. This time it's not

5,000, it's 4,000. This time, instead of 12 baskets left over, one for each disciple, there's

seven baskets left over, a picture of perfection. Let's just read this miracle together. Mark

8, verse 1, says, in those days, the multitude being very great and having

nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples unto him, and saith unto them, I have compassion on the

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