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If you all can think back to your days in school…i know it takes a little more effort for some of you...
BUT if we were to think back to our Elementary School days...
You may remember a teacher saying this:
Ok class, “there’s no such thing as a stupid - QUESTION”
Be sure to “ask - QUESTIONS”
WHY?
Why the incessant need to get us to ask questions?
BECAUSE - questions lead to -
answers…which lead to...
knowledge
Now for me - i LOVE asking questions…i LOVE questioning things...
I don’t care WHAT the topic...
What we’re going to see today is - that Christ Himself employed this same tactic with his disciples...
So let’s get to our text, and see what we find...
So chapter 6 begins by saying - AFTER THESE THINGS, Jesus heads to the other side of the Sea of Galilee
AFTER WHAT THINGS...
What had Christ just been doing - He had just been HEALING people…performing SIGNS and miracles...
You know - typical Saturday stuff for Jesus...
So he and some of the disciples get to the other side…and we read this exchange...
A QUESTION - employed by Jesus...
And this shouldn’t be shocking - Jesus asked MANY questions during His time on earth...
Think of that!
God in the flesh - asking questions...
It was a way for Him to - TEACH...
Let’s look at some questions that Jesus asked his disciples...
Why are you afraid…O you of little faith?
Are you still without understanding?
Who do people say that the Son of Man is?
For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world but forfeits his soul?
Am I not allowed to do what I please with what belongs to me?
For which is greater, the gold, or the temple which made the gold sacred?
Question after Question after Question...
And the purpose of the Questions was to PEAL back the layers of the HEART…so that we could EXAMINE what we find!
And so the QUESTION - became a WEAPON to PENETRATE the limitation of mankind…in that we again - ALWAYS get hung up on - THE PHYSICAL!
And we see this very thing in the Bible..
Listen to this exchange in Matthew
BEWARE of their teaching - which will SPREAD (LIKE LEAVEN) - and destroy
Questions - divine questions meant to pierce our hearts and minds…to change us
So back to our text today - Jesus asks PHILLIP a question...
He asks a question...
for what reason?
To get Phillip to - THINK.
We CAN’T forget what the main point is of this book...
And so LETS ask ourselves a question....
Does Jesus ask us questions today?
He does...
How?
The answer is found in our text…v5
Do you see it?
How does Jesus ask us questions today??
Here it is: A large crowd was coming toward Him
a large, HUNGRY crowd was coming toward Him...
There it is!
THIS is how Jesus asks us questions today!
SLIDE: Divine Questions: Come With Every Situation of Life
Divine Questions
What was the situation - in our text?
It was PASSOVER...
A LARGE number of people (HUNGRY) were coming to Jesus and the disciples...
And the question was asked - by God - How are we going to handle this??
NOW - notice what the slide says - in EVERY situation of life…the question comes!
And on EITHER SIDE OF THIS FENCE - we end up finding that TRIUMPH or LOSS can bring the same sinful reaction
When LIFE is HARD…the divine question comes...
*last week Mackenzie Malone’s wife Sarah (22 years old) - found out she has stage 4 lymphoma...
Recently, Charles’ friend Ritchie passed away...
Rosie is struggling with getting her pace-maker to work properly...
When life is HARD…when it DOESN’T turn out how we had hoped...
When Job’s family was taken out...
When Joseph was sold into slavery…on day 1 in captivity, not knowing how long he’d be there
When Daniel was dumped into the lion’s den
When Jacob worked 7 years to attain Rachel as his wife, only to find out it would cost him another 7 years on top of that
When David’s sin was exposed by Nathan
When Peter’s lack of faith was exposed by the crow of a rooster
When Paul’s persecution of the church became directed at himself
The QUESTION comes!
EVERY situation in life brings with it a DIVINE question...
This is how (1 of the ways) Christ asks us questions today...
SO - when life is HARD and the walls are caving in - the question comes!!
BUT
ALSO - when life is GOOD and the walls seem STURDY - the question comes!!
Even then...
And yet it seems like the ANSWER is an EASY one when things in life are going well...
You get that RAISE...
You get that job you were hoping to get
That guy or girl says - YES i WILL marry you
You find out you ARE pregnant after trying to years
You MAKE the team
You WIN the game
You ACE the test
IT’S ALL going well!
the question comes!
How are we going to HANDLE this - this good news?
AND SO WE NEED TO KNOW...
If DIVINE QUESTIONS COME in EVERY situation of life...
then that means...
SLIDE: Your Response: Reveals Your Heart Toward God
Your Response
We will be more prone to rage against God in the bad times, or elevate ourselves arrogantly in the good times, than we will be to praise Him in the midst of the darkness
And so - HERE in our text - we find an occasion for Jesus to DIG into the heart of PHILLIP…and ask Him...
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