Thank you. Have you ever taken a wrong turn and missed your destination on a road trip because you weren't paying attention to the signs and how they were directing you?

Today on Truth for Life, we'll see how some of Jesus followers

came to the wrong conclusion when they failed to understand the significance

of the signs Jesus performed.

Alistair Begg is teaching today from John, Chapter 6.

Verse 11, for what we are about to receive, says Jesus, may the Lord make us truly thankful.

Perhaps he prayed, we thank you for this food and for those who prepared it, namely one little boy's mother at the moment,

presumably. He gave thanks, and then he distributed it, and then it multiplied, and in that process of multiplication, there was the participation of all who were

present. And I take it, one of the questions, when you read a passage like this, is, well, how did

this take place? How did that happen? When did it happen? If your mind goes in that direction,

if the multiplication only took place in the

hands of Jesus, and there were 20,000 people there, the person who was 20,000 on the list of waiting,

would be there to well-past midnight because it was only going to take place when Jesus had it

in his hands. So I assume that the multiplication was taking place miraculously as people

pass the material from one to another. It's not that God is doing a trick, like sending stuff down or showing that it's hanging on trees.

No, he's working in the natural in a way that is phenomenally supernatural.

And if you think about it, we would be surprised if that were not the case. Notice what we're

told. So all they sat down and when they had eaten their fill, and when they had enjoyed

as much as they wanted, Jesus said, gather up the leftover fragments

that nothing may be lost. I wish I was... I'd like to have been present to hear the conversation

between the disciples. From the initial question, do you know anywhere that we could get food for

this crowd? No, that's not a possibility. We do have a boy. He's got a small thing here.

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