Let's turn to the book of Mark. We're in chapter 6, beginning at verse number 33 this afternoon. Mark 6, 33. Before we begin, those that are listening to us, Father Maynish, give us a call at 856-261-9018 or email questions at bfdbc.org. Alright, Mark chapter 6, beginning with 32. Let's start with 32. We started with 33. We start with 32. 33 and 34. And they departed unto a desert place by ship privately. And the people saw them departing, and many knew him, and ran afoot thither out of all cities, and out went them, and came in together unto him. When Jesus, when he came out, saw much people, and was moved with compassion toward them, because they were a sheep not having a shepherd. And he began to teach them many things. All right, verse number two. They departed. Where did they go? To a desert. Went to a desert place. And how'd they get there? By ship. By ship. And did a lot of people know about it? No. What's it mean, privately? It was like kept a secret. Kept a secret. They didn't tell the whole world about it. They went quietly. And now notice, It's talking about the apostles in verses 30 and 31. So the they would be the apostles. Then in verse number 33, what did the people do when they saw them leave? Mark 6.33. What did the people do when they saw them leave? They followed them. They certainly did. And many knew him. And how did they get to where they're going? They ran. Ran afoot. And came out of all the cities. There were a lot of people. What does it mean, they outwent them? What does that mean? They went ahead of them. I think they went ahead of them faster than they did the ship. And came together unto Him. Then in verse 34, what did Jesus understand? What were His feelings when He came out of that ship, that boat? What does it mean to have compassion? We loved them. What is it? We had care and love. They had care and love. They had concern for them. The people, were there just a few out there? No, a bunch. A bunch of people moved with compassion toward them. What's the cause given here, why they were moved with compassion? Because they didn't have a shepherd. What is it? They were sheep without a shepherd. They were sheep without a shepherd. As sheep. Why is it as sheep? They were similar to sheep, as sheep, having no shepherds. What kind of sheep would that be with no shepherds? What kind of situation would that be? They would be lost, they wouldn't have any shepherds, no way to follow, just meander. Sheep are naturally dumb animals, too. They will follow whoever they follow. If whoever they're following jumps over a cliff, they'll just keep jumping over and following. So you have to have a shepherd like Jesus Christ, right? A shepherd like Jesus Christ. Yes, Anna? I heard an interesting statement at some point, and I forget who said it, but it had to do with the idea of It was sort of against the purpose driven movement. They were saying that sheep are led and goats are driven. That's good. Sheep are led and goats are driven. That's true. I'm not a shepherd, but I understand that's the situation. Appreciate that. So what does this imply about the care the Lord Jesus had for people that are lost like sheep without a shepherd? that He's always going to receive anybody that calls upon Him. Let us come to Him with open arms, because He's that loving. He sent His Son. Should those who are genuine Christians also be concerned with lost people? Absolutely. Yes, we should. Just like the Lord Jesus. Have compassion upon them. Try to win them to the Lord. Is everyone that's lost and without Christ going to be one to the Lord? No. Why are they not one to the Lord? Pride. Pride is one thing, that's right. They don't believe in Him. They don't believe in Him. They don't think they need a shepherd. They don't believe they're lost. What are the three requirements for a person to be a genuine Christian? What's one? Belief. Well, that's the third one. But before that? Admit that they're sinners. Admit that they're sinners. If they don't believe they're sinners, they're not going to need a Savior, are they? So they have to realize they're sinners and lost and bound for a sinner's hell like the devil and his angels. What's the second thing they've got to understand if it's a good gospel message? Repentance. No, not repentance. Just atonement. How did He save them? They have to realize He came to seek and save the lost and to die on the cross for their sins. He bore the sins in His own body. If they don't understand the Lord Jesus took their sins at the cross, they can't be saved. That's part of the thing. They're sinners, but the Lord Jesus paid for those sins in Calvary. And then the third thing was mentioned early, repeated. What's that third thing? They've got to do if they're going to be genuine Christians. Not repent. Well, see repentance is changing your mind regarding your sin, changing your mind regarding the Savior that He died for your sin. That's repentance, changing your mind. But what's the third thing? What's the third thing? Tammy? You have to trust the Lord Jesus Christ to take your sins away. You have to trust or believe in the Lord Jesus. You have to have faith in the Lord Jesus and Him alone. Not their works. but by their faith in Him, for them to be saved. Otherwise, they're like sheep going astray. And the Gospel message is not always clear. A lot of people, a lot of these Baptists and others, put repentance in here, almost like a work, in order to be saved. Repentance. For repentance, if you're to find it, it means to change the mind. But they think repentance means to change the life. You've got to straighten yourself out before you can be saved. You've got to do good works otherwise you can't be saved. That's a lie. A lot of evangelists are not making that clear these days. It's a terrible heresy really. to God from idols. The direction first was to God. Turn to God from idols. And then God changed their life. That's right. Now, Dr. Schaefer is very clear on this. Dr. Schaefer of the Dallas Seminary. He founded that years ago. He's very clear that repentance or changing of mind is bound up with the faith. It's all part of the Gospel. You have to change your mind regarding your sin, first of all. That's repentance. I'm a sinner. And change your mind regarding the Savior. He died for my sins on the cross. And then, trust the Lord Jesus as you should. So it's all together. You've got to change your mind on a few things, so that's what repentance is. But not repentance as a work. So that's what a lot of people call repentance. So repentance comes after salvation, right? It's not required for salvation, isn't it? Well, repentance should come before salvation. In other words, first of all, you've got to define repentance. Change your mind. That's right. If he rears again, in Latin, penis from penis, which is to think, to think again, have a different change of mind. And in the Greek it's meta, nous, metanoia, which is change, and then nous is mind, change of mind. So you've got to change your mind concerning your sin, if you're a sinner, and Christ died for your sin. That's the change of mind if you define it that way. But if you try to define repentance in the wrong way, you've got to change your life and do good works. That comes after it, not before. That comes after salvation. You can't do good works until after you're finished. What is Ephesians 2, 8, 9, and 10? Let's say it together. For by grace you are saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, but of the gift of God, not of works, as any master's host. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained, that we should walk in them. So works follow. I think I understand what what you mean is to repent in the sense of salvation is what you said it's the process of agreeing that you are a sinner Changing your mind about that you are a sinner and that you do need a savior and that the Lord did die on the cross for you. That is your change. You're changing your mind. You're repenting. You're changing your mind. You're turning your mind. That's repentance. And then once you go through the whole process and you trust in Jesus and you become saved, that's what she was trying to say, born again. You're born again after you become saved. Well, after you go through the whole process, you're considered born again. When you become saved, that's what she was saying. That's the proper understanding definition of repentance. Not the false one, but the evangelists are all wet on that. The story of the Lord and John R. Rice, the whole gang is wrong on that. Repent. Repent. That's Paschadam. I understand, we understand born again, but born again is not based upon baptism or any type of work. It's not based upon any type of work. Right, that's right. Nicodemus asked the Lord Jesus Christ a question, how can a man be born when he's old? In John 3.16, later on in the chapter, he said, For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that He should believe in Him, not in anything that you've done. He's meant that they should not perish but have everlasting life. Acts 16, when the Philippian jailer asked Paul and Silas, he said yes to the question, sirs, what must I do for you to be saved? He didn't listen to a whole bunch of works. He said, believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved in thy house. That's right. If the house believes, and the house did believe, then there was sin. That's right. Yes? So you're saying repentance has to be required before salvation? Well, if you define it right... Admitting you're a sinner, that's repentance? Yes, yes. If you define it right, you'll see metanoia. Meta is a change. Metanoia, change the Greek word, change the mind. If that's how you define it, then you must change your mind regarding your sin and regarding your Savior before you're going to trust the Savior as your own. But if you define it wrong, If you say repentance is do good works, change your life, that's not required before salvation. That type of repentance that all these evangelists are defining it as. Pastor Dan. Oh, excuse me, Hannah, I'm sorry. Hannah. Oh, Tammy, I'm sorry. Oh no, I was just going to say what you said. Then Jill had a hand up, didn't she? Yeah, okay. I was just going to say what you were saying, and so then I put my hand down because you started saying it, about changing your mind about your own sin, or about your sinfulness, about the fact that you are a sinner, and changing your mind about the Savior. So, you already said it. Well, that's good, I'm glad you're with me. Repetition is the mother of learning. What's the Latin for that? Repetitio mater estudiorum. Repetitio mater estudiorum est. Repetition is another word. Okay, who told that to me? My mother. My mother, okay. Go ahead, Michele. People's households do become saved, but it's up to the individual household in those households to be saved. Yes. We're taught in the wrong way, and they think, I can't remember if it's the word, Oh, that's a good idea. We're going to get into Lordship Salvation. That's good. We're going to get into Lordship Salvation and Household Salvation. Pastor Dan and Anna. I'm in Lordship Salvation with a cancer of the patents. That's why I have to define it properly. Sometimes the Lordship group Like John MacArthur, he's a Lordship Salvation guy. Heresy on that particular issue. You're saying that you have to clean your life up first. Right. You've done all these things first, and then and only then you can return to Christ. Can a sinner clean up his life? No. No. He's got to be saved first. What's the order of the Bible as far as Lordship Salvation? Salvation. Salvation, then Lordship. You save first, then you make Jesus your Lord. You can't make him your Lord and do all these good works until you're saved. Right. You can't minister until you're saved. That's right. Go ahead, Anna. There was a halfway covenant. Okay, tell us about the halfway covenant. I forget what year it was. I forget most of the details, except that it was something to do with that if your parents were members of the church, you could become a member of the church. You just have to make a confession. We're getting into that circuit. How so of salvation? It's going back to the 1600s, I think, maybe 1700s. Congregationalists and a certain breed of Presbyterians merged together. And they came to agree that the meaning of the minds was if your children could be members as long as your parents are members of the church. Consequently, in a generation, the church was filled with lost people. And now Jonathan Edwards enters the scene. When he's got a church full of members who are not regenerated. I mean, it's one thing to have people attend the church who are not regenerated, but to be members of the church, and so I end up making reference to the halfway covenant, kind of a household salvation. I just want to say, when I got saved, I didn't know all these verses, but I think the Holy Spirit knows a lot because I knew that I was saved. But I knew my whole family was not saved. No one was saved in my family. So it must come from the Holy Spirit telling you to pray for your children. I think common sense would tell you that I don't know if it's common sense or what, but the Lord told you that you have to be saved individually. As a Roman Catholic, how were you saved, Kat? I was saved through the Bible. How? What do you mean how? Well, tell me how you were saved. Well, I read the Bible and went to Bible study. But that's all you did? No, that was like the beginning. It was in my eyes. And then the verse that we just said came on about how much I'd be born again. And then I started thinking about that. And then I prayed because I didn't think that I would ever have that. But then one night I asked the Lord to be my savior. So you trust the Lord by faith. That's what saved you, wasn't it? That was how it was. Jacob, go ahead Jacob. I have a question for Pastor Dan. History of Fundamentals is a class that we did two summers ago. I wanted to ask again about, I think I do remember this wrong, about the New England theology and Jonathan Edwards, but that, you know, that we are sinners because we sin, not we sin because we're sinners. I just wanted to ask you, but if I'm right on this, that this was the first Jonathan Edwards, but that was the second. I think I remember that right, but I just wanted to clarify that yesterday in terms of the current understanding of that. Is that the New England Theology? The New England Theology? Yes, sir. The second Jonathan Edwards. The second Jonathan Edwards? Here, try to answer. Let's wave to Jacob in Texas. Texas, hard to hear. The second half of the networks, we'll talk about that later. That's kind of confusing me right now. But as far as the statement about, do we sin because we're sinners, or are we sinners because we sin? See, society as a whole says, people, mankind, are sinners because they sin, because they do all this wrong stuff, which implies, this is the false theology, which implies that there are some people who think they can perfect themselves, in the sense of being, by all their nice good works, they don't need salvation. It's all about them, it's all about what they do. So what is the biblical answer to that sin versus sinners? The biblical answer is, We sin because we're sinners. Now, Phil brought up the idea that we were born that way. My mother conceived me. Does that mean conception in sin? No. What does it mean? In sin, as David said in Psalms, sin nature starts at conception. Adam and Eve were the first sinners. Yes. That's right, they were the first parents and the first sinners, that's right. And then we carried through Adam and Eve till today. That's right, because they're inheritance. And Adam all died from Adam, all sin. Was the Lord Jesus connected to Adam in that sin relationship? No. No. What made him different? What? What made the Lord Jesus different than this Adamic line? His miraculous, if you would, conception. His miraculous deception, the virgin birth of Christ, that's right. Jill brought up the subject of household salvation. How would you define household salvation, Tammy? Before I answer and respond to that question, I was just briefed on Romans 5, 12. Wherefore, it is by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin. So death passed upon all men, for that all is sin. For that all is sin, that's good, Romans 5, 12. So what is household salvation then? So getting back to what Linda was saying, Seminal headship is perhaps the best view of looking as far as how sin was passed upon humanity. Seminal headship, alright. As opposed to other views. Seminal headship is probably the best way of looking at it. That's when Christ, the Lord Jesus Christ, was exempt from that because he was outside the line of Joseph. Right. Joseph was not his human father. Mary was his human mother, but Joseph was not. He had no hemi father. He had no hemi father. He had no hemi father. God the Father was the Father of the Holy Spirit. It's just a stand-in. Alright. And so, we have to be certain that we cannot keep the keeping of the so-called sacraments, as the institution of Rome calls them. You cannot keep the sacraments and obtain salvation. Right. They falsely teach that, don't they? Falsely teach that, yes. Even the sacraments doesn't, and the belief of the purgatory is another false doctrine of the institution of Rome. It's either, when someone dies, either spend, it's either two places, heaven or hell. Those are the two places. It's as far as I was going to say, as far as that's concerned, People believe that if the parent is a believer, the children are believers. That's called household salvation. Anna and then Bob. Going back to the headship, I wonder if someone can give a brief explanation of the different kinds and why seminal headship is the best. Your dad talked about Seminole Headship and the other one, but didn't name the other one. The other one is Federal Headship. Federal Headship. What's the difference? Federal Headship is, there's elements of, there's perhaps elements of both of them that perhaps could be supported, but as far as you have to pick between the one or the other, I would go with Seminole. Federal Headship is out of the act that is a legal representative. Whereas, and this does tie in with the household salvation, kind of, because it's the division between two different sectors of theology. Samuel's headship is, we were actually in Adam. As to the seed. As to the seed. As to the seed. When he was there. So we were making the decision with him when he chose to sin against God. Samuel's headship. Genetically, yes we were, but we were there. I have a question to ask him. Yes, go ahead. Well, um, then how did, um, the flood, well, the flood didn't wipe out everybody, obviously, because Noah and his family survived. So did that, so did that still get passed on because Noah and then survived? Noah, he was the son of... So even though all those other people died, even though he was righteous in the eyes of God, and God let him survive, he was still a sinner because only Jesus Christ was holy. That's right. That's Adam's sin. What about Adam's blood versus the Lord Jesus' blood? If sin has passed through the bloodline, what about the Lord Jesus' blood? Pure. Pure. Why was it pure? Virgin birth. Virgin birth. What's true according to doctors? What's the blood source in birth? The Father. Did the Lord Jesus have a human father? No. So the bloodline of Adam was not part of the Lord Jesus for virgin birth. Yes, Linda, you had something to say. Joseph was his father. Stepfather, stepfather. And then, what we were talking about Noah, right? Yes. Joseph was not his real father, he just helped. When Noah built the ark and it flooded the world, wasn't that supposed to be baptized and wash the sins away? Well, that's what some people teach. You baptize over a generation. Is that true or false? Pass it on. They were inside the ark and the ark was inside the water. The ark was the instrument that delivered them from that water. It kept them alive. So the only way someone can be saved is by the body of Jesus Christ. There's parallels with the Ark, the deliverance of the Ark, and the deliverance of Christ. Yes. But baptism regeneration is not biblical. Many people teach that. Baptism does not save. Right. Yes, Lynn. How did they atone for their sins while they were in the Ark? How did they atone for their sins in the Ark? Well, apparently they didn't have any sacrifice because they didn't have all the instruments, so they waited for an hour a year. Anna and then President. But as soon as they disembarked, shortly after they disembarked, they had no way to sacrifice. What provision did Noah make for sacrifice? Seven pairs of clean animals as opposed to just two. Just two of the unclean animals. That's right. Are we ready for Household Studies? What is it? Define it. Is it a scripture or not a scripture? I want to talk about Fanny Crosby. Blind Fanny Crosby. Fanny Crosby was not, say, born again until she was an adult woman in her 30s. She went to church all the time to memorize scriptures. She was blind, did I mention that? She knew the Bible. She was trusted by her family. But she thought she was saved. I don't know if she knew that word. She thought she was a Christian, and she'd go to heaven. Because her mother was a good Christian, and her father was a grandfather of all these people. She was a strong... I had it before, some kind of Presbyterian. I had it when I went to Christian school. Strong Presbyterian. Calvinistic Presbyterian. And she did not know she was lost because she thought she was going to heaven because her mother was a good Christian. And it wasn't until she received Jesus Christ to save herself as a sinner that she was saved. Which I think is true of many, many people. All right, so what verse of scripture do they take? Go ahead. What verse is scriptural? Go ahead, Tammy. Well, I'm not sure if this is the exact verse, but this would be one that they could use in Acts 16, 30, and 31. And they brought them out and said, sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. And they take that as a promise from the Lord that their whole house will be saved. That's right. Now, if they read the context, and thy house, It says in verse 32, And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house. And he took them in the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes, and was baptized he and all his house straightway. And when they had brought them out into his house, he said, Meet before them and rejoice, believing in God with all his house. All his house believed. That's what made them saved. Not because the parents were saved. I've seen the first print in 714 news, where the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband, else were your children unclean, but now are they whole? It could be saved if they believe the gospel and the wife or husband tells them about the Lord. So stay with them, if one is saved, the other is lost. Yes? I have a few verses to share. In Proverbs 14, 12 it says, There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. A lot of times what we think is right, no matter how good we are, no matter how nice of a person we are, no matter how much we do or sacrifice or give to people. We can't do it in our own power. Nothing that we do. We're just unfilthy rags like it says in Isaiah 64 6. Everything we do, all of our works are unfilthy rags. And it's only by faith and trust in Christ because it says without faith it's impossible to please Him. and in Hebrews 11, 6. And then our works are what follows our faith. It's only possible to do right, to be the right person, to do the right righteousness with the right intention, the right heart, and the right motives by faith and trust in Christ. Because He, the Holy Spirit will change us. Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Therefore, if any, you know what I mean? Faith must precede good works. And then it talks about, like we said earlier, Ephesians 2.10, where his work makes sure it's created unto good works. It's not by works. We're only able to do right with the right motives, the right intentions, the right part with Jesus Christ by our side because the Holy Spirit will be doing the work and taking it off of us and we won't be doing it. And it says in Philippians 2.13, What does it say? Philippians 2.13. Is it 4.13? I get all things through Christ. Philippians 2.13. It says, sorry, I'm not there. I'll get there real quick. For it is God. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure, only to please Him, only by His power and strength, and without faith it is impossible to please Him, so only by faith. Everything must revolve around faith and trust in Christ. Right. So we've covered Lordship Salvation, I believe. We've covered also Household Salvation. Those are both unscriptural terms. As I said before, Don McArthur is one of the pioneers in leading people astray on Lordship and Salvation. He's written a whole book on it. He's got a whole commentary on the whole Bible on it. He's got a seminary in California on it. And he says you have to make Jesus Lord of your life before you can be saved. Salvation by works. That's the Salvation by works. It's a terrible thing. Any other questions or comments on that particular subject? So he had compassion on them sheep without a shepherd as sheep without a shepherd. And so the Lord was concerned about them. And what did he begin to do in verse 34? He started to teach them. He began to teach them many things. Now, are all people teachable? What does that mean? Teachable. What does it mean to be teachable? Receptive. Receptive. Why are some people so hard-headed they won't receive things? Why? Pride is one reason, that's right. Know-it-all. They know-it-all. Nobody would tell me anything. I know everything. But this is a very important thing. Teachability. We have to teach them. Not that all people received this teaching. When He was on earth, He taught a lot of things. For instance, in John 14.6, let's say that. Lord Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father but by Me. That's what He taught them. Did they all agree with that? No. A lot of people as Jews, they just rejected it. They didn't believe it. And a lot of people today, they're unteachable. They don't want to hear it. They don't believe it. Only by Christ I can go to heaven. Oh, no man cometh to the Father but by me. Tammy. Proverbs 12, 1. Whoso loveth instruction, loveth knowledge, but he that hath approved it is rich. He hath approved it is rich. That's good. So, He taught them, and the Lord Jesus was a teacher, and He gave His Word to the people. Even though they don't receive it, He had to teach them anyhow, even if they didn't receive it. Let's read 35, 36, and 37 together. send them away, that they may go into the country round about, and unto the villagers, and buy themselves bread, so they have nothing to eat. And he answered and said unto them, Give me them to eat. And they said unto him, Shall we go and buy two hundred penny worth of bread, and give them to eat? See, wouldn't it be for thirty-five, sixty cents? Those are the three verses? Yeah, okay. What does it mean, the day was far spent? What's on there? It's getting late. Getting late. And what do the disciples suggest? They go to the village and get something to eat. Okay, this is a desert place, no place to go to the village. How much did they have to spend in verse 36? How much do they suggest? I don't know all the details, dollars and cents. Thirty-six. Thirty-six, yes. Round about the villages? Thirty-seven was tight. Thirty-seven was tight. Thirty-seven, okay, thirty-seven. And they thought they should, they came at What did the Lord suggest to these hungry people in verse 37? What did He suggest to them? Well, before that, on verse 37, what did He suggest in verse 37? Did they have enough food to take care of all these people? How many were there, we'll see later on. How many? Pass it on. 5,000 men plus women and children. Pass it on. Close to a day's wages. Tell us how much. Well, if it's 200 penny worth. Well, 200 days' wages, yeah. Oh, 200 days' wages. What penny worth is a day's wages? 200 days' wages. Brian's not clear what a day's wages would be. In our terminology, we can think of how much we would make in a day. We all make different amounts of money in a day, but people make different amounts. But still, even at the low end, it's a lot of money. Just to give an illustration, what are the communists going to pay those rioters on next Monday at the Republic Convention, what they're going to give them per day. $80. $80 a day. That's the wages they're going to pay, which is pretty good wages, I'm sure. They were glad to get it, so they could ride in and stroll for a bit. So this is what, they said, give them to eat, and that was their suggestion, to go and get Pennyworth to eat. And then in verse 32, excuse me, go on. I have a question for you, sir. Who's saving them on the way? Who's going to be going to the Pentagon? Somebody said send them away and they could eat in the village, I guess. Well, verse 35, it says the disciples came unto him and told him to send them away. Probably the disciples, right? Right? The disciples said, yes, send them away, go buy their own bread. See, they're hungry. That's fine. That's hard to understand. Yes, it is interesting. Tammy? So it would take someone over half a year to work for all the money that they would need to even buy the bread, if it was available, which it doesn't seem like it would have been available if they had spread out and gone to these different villages. Did the disciples have the compassion the Lord Jesus had? No. What was he going to do? They wanted 200 penny works. Yes, shall we spend $200? Penny worth. So, who do the disciples want to take care of their food? Jesus. No, no. Who do the disciples want? The people. You get your own food. You're hungry? Go buy your own bread. What does the Lord Jesus have to do? What is his solution? What is the Lord Jesus' solution? The apostles would do it. The apostles would do it. How was he going to do it? How did he do it? Miraculous. He jumped in the head. He took a head. So I realized, but just simply saying, give me them to eat. Okay. Yes. Then he told them to sit in groups of 20. Oh yeah. Later we'll see that in groups. That's right. It said a little over here. So 200 frames. So they said, look, let's read 38, 39, and 40 together. And he saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? Go and see. And when they knew, they say, Five and two fifties. And he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green grass. And they sat down in ranks by hundreds and by fifties. All right, verse 38. What did the Lord Jesus tell them to do when He said, Give ye them these? What else did He say in verse 38? What question did He ask them? How many loaves of bread do we have? Now, did they know immediately? What do they have to do? When they knew, they say five, five what? Five loaves, and how many fishes? Two fishes. So then what did he tell them to do in verse 39? Alright, just anyway, in company on the green grass, and they sat down, what does it mean in ranks? Excuse me, in length. I just wanted to mention, I think it's in Matthew, it does mention that this food, this food that he miraculously changes, or miraculously enlarges, the original food that they got came from a little boy's lunch. That's true, that's true. That's right, the other gospel would make that clear. So, sit down in ranks. What does that mean? Like a certain amount, like per gallon. Okay, hundreds and fifties. In other words, it had to be organized. Yeah. Organized. Kind of like the military. Like a military organization. Pastor Wade? Yes? Ranks and referrals into order of importance? Well, could be. Could be order of importance. What does R.I.P. mean? R.H.I.P. What does that mean? R.H.I.P. Rank has its privilege. Rank has its privilege. Of course, that's what they say in the military all the time. What does that mean in the military? You better know your insignias. You got the higher rank, you got more privileges than the lower rank. So it could be ranks as a military term, that's correct. Well, when we went overseas, the officers got the best places, and the others were lower. We got below. But the rank had the privileges. Now, speaking of the Navy, let's go for the Navy. The Navy's out for five years now. Speaking of the Navy, I think you're in the Navy. Vessel is ready to sail. Who's the last one to get on board? Is it the captain? The captain, okay. Yeah, yeah. What does he do when he gets on board, first thing? Salutes the man. Salutes the man, that's right, absolutely. And he's the captain, so he shouldn't be saluting, but Alex should salute him anyway. Salutes the ship. Salutes the ship. And there's a quartermaster there. So let's read verse 41, 42, and 43. And when they had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, they looked up to heaven and blessed and drank the loaves. and gave them to his disciples, who sent before them, and the two fishes provided the among them all. And they did all eat, and were filled, and they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments and of the fishes." By the way, getting back to the captain again, I believe when the people left, he was supposed to stay on the ship until all the rest departed. See, that's the opposite, see? And so he's the last one to leave, first one to get on. So that's interesting. So the men are first, And if it's a star, whatever it is, let them off first. You didn't have options. Yeah, that was a very serious error. Very serious error. Very serious error. I was a passenger ship and he was a dying captain. Yes. All right. So, I think he has to tell you that that's a fact. All right. So, verse 41. When He had taken the five loaves, what did He do with the five loaves and two fishes? First He looked up to heaven. Then what did He do? Blessed. And then what did He do? Break the loaves. Now, can sinful people bless really anything? Who's the only one that can bless them? God Himself, Lord Jesus, God the Son of God. So you see, He blessed them. That's what I have against a lot of people before they eat, let's say, the blessing. I don't go along with it. We can thank the Lord for the food, but it's only God that can bless. He's the one that can bless. He's the source of blessing. You may differ with me, I'll let you in, that's fine. But I prefer to say thank you for the food, and not to bless the food. I just wonder what the, bless the Lord of my soul and all that is within me, bless the soul in me instead. Well, the word of... he blessed in a sense of praise. That's a synonym for praise the Lord. That's a praise... that in that sense of praise. Well, so what's the distinction? Well, here, when he blessed the food, in other words, he sanctified and he set apart. Anna? When people pray, don't they say, bless us, this food? So they're saying, bless, so it's addressed to... it's in the second person, bless, it's a request. Yes. Bless us, to us. I believe David, I believe he wrote that, I believe he was the psalmist that wrote that, and he was actually speaking to himself. Like, bless the Lord, oh my soul. So he was like talking to himself. I mean, that's what I believe. You can straight me out on that. And also about the healing, where he was like professing that. Just tell me that, Kathy. Just tell me that, Kathy. So it says in this verse 41, blessed, does that mean he's thanking the Lord for bread or is he blessing the Lord as far as he's praising Him? I'm just trying to understand. It says in blessed. He's probably putting His blessing upon the food. He can do it because He's God. You don't have to agree on that. That's just my personal opinion on blessing. I just want to repeat that because I didn't hear about your personal belief. Well, my personal thought is I prefer to thank the Lord for the food before we eat. Thankfulness. I don't refer to people and say, say the blessing. as if we can bless anything. You're the Lord's only one that can bless you. So, that's my own personal view. You can do what you want. You can continue to say the blessing all you want. I'd rather not. Thank the Lord for the food. All right. Dread Lynn and then Anna. Well, I think some people believe when they say that exactly what you think, but some people don't mean that when they say let's say the blessing some people mean i'm asking i'm asking god to bless the food which is different right yes i think when the roman catholic preach blessed the way for the oath of the bread of the wine they're they're the host They're making that change, the body. So they've got different ways of using that term. So I'll be right there. A lot of times, like we go along with what Lynn said, like a lot of times people will say, let's bless this into our body. I hear a lot of people say, let's bless this food into our bodies. But the Lord Jesus blessed and break, to break the loaves. He's invited them, he has cash in his pocket. Well, in the R.C. church, I was told to bless the Lord. What's R.C.? Bless us, O Lord, for these thy gifts. So they're not actually saying, bless us. They're saying, bless us, O Lord, for these thy gifts. So it's not like, I don't know, it doesn't seem to be a good word. It's a nice prayer, I think, because you're not asked to be blessed But it seems to me, when I've seen the masses of the Roman Catholic priests, it seems to me that what they say converts the bread to the body, converts the wine to the blood. See, it's what they say. Some things they say. I don't remember the details. I'm not a Roman Catholic. This is what I was talking about. They say it's a house. My parents say that. And it's before they eat. They say what? They pray what Mrs. Weber said before they eat at home. And a lot of times, when I was growing up, I never understood what was being said because it was said so quickly. It was like, I was thinking, what is that? Because it was by road. At that time, I guess, when he was doing that, they were multiplying. The walls were multiplying. I don't know if they know, but as he wrote it, or as he passed it on in Roman Catholic. So that blessed, that blessed is a very special kind of blessing, I think. And Roman Catholic Church, do you know what I'm saying? By like, wrote in all that stuff? Like just, you know, saying it where it's meaningless, where it's mean. I mean, when I used to be a Roman Catholic, for one thing to say, oh, it's in there, and I just, this is like, I'm not going to anything as dead as a doornail. This entire church and I, I'm just repeating things for the sake of repeating, like, bringing my heart, I'm not even like, you know, receiving anything. I'm just repeating what I'm told. Like, I'm sorry. You know, please be obsessed. I was thinking about blessing more generally. I was thinking about how, um, In Isaac, he would bless Esau, then he would bless Jacob, then he would bless Esau in a certain way as well. And then Jacob blessed Ephraim and Anas and then his 12 sons. So what was that about? Well, that's the Old Testament. In the Gospels, in Matthew, for instance, Matthew 5, blessed are the poor, for he shall inherit the earth. That word blessed is vicarious, which means happy, rejoicing, blessed in that sense, or happy, conditioned. So it has different meanings in different situations. So anyhow, yes. I agree with you as far as dividing, giving more. That's what I feel like the blessing is. It's multiplying. That's what a lot of times a blessing is, because you know how God's just great. He blesses abundantly, and when He gives something, it's always... That's what I feel like it is, like a miracle, giving a lot. So He did bless, then He'd break. What's the third thing He did in verse 41? He gave it to the disciples. He set before them, the disciples. He gave to the disciples, rather, and then set before them. And what did he do with the two fish? Yes, Anthony? He's going to perform a miracle. He's going to do 5,000 people with five loaves of bread and two fishes. Yes, 5,000. Let's get to that. 5,000 men, plus women and children. Not just 5,000. 5,000 men. Besides. So later on we'll see. 5,944. Yes, we haven't got the 44 yet. Plus the women and children. So that's been 10 or 15,000 people. This is just the males. That's right. Look what follows the word blessed. and break the loaves. That means he's going to live a lot more. And what did he tell the disciples to do in verse 41? They were the ones who were to distribute these loaves and the two fishes. He divided the two fishes also among them all. Now, what would have to happen to be able to divide the two fishes among them all? 15,000. What would have to happen? What would have to happen? It had to be multiplication. It had to be a miracle. Those had to be divided and passed down. And the two had to become 15,000. How many there were? 5,000 men plus women and children. So, the same with the loaves. The five loaves. They had to multiply and so on. So they told them to distribute them among them all. And verse 42, Anna. Very good. It's right there. Very good. So, then in verse 42, how many of them ate? There wasn't a single person left. What was the result of their eating? What does that mean? They had plenty to eat. Nobody complained. It was a satisfactory meal. Satisfactory meal. And they had leftovers. They had leftovers too. And the verse, did we read 43 yet? No. Let's read 43, 44, and 45 together. And they took out 12 baskets full of the fragments and of the fishes, and they did as each of the loaves were about 5,000 men. And straightway he constrained his disciples to get into the ship, and to go up to the other side, before, as I say, that follows the same way as the people. All right? Is that three? All right. So here he is in the Sea of Galilee. Right here is the Sea of Galilee, where they went over to the other side. That's where they went. So 41, 42 rather, 43. Cook up 12 baskets full of fragments. What was in the fragments? Bread and fish. Well, you sure? What was in the fragments? What's the last part of verse 43 say? Bread. And of the fishes. So, what was in the fragments? Bread. Bread, and then of the fishes. Separate situations. So, then in verse 44, About how many men? 5,000. Now if they had women there and children, how many men do you think were married? Maybe 5,000. Maybe 5,000. That's 10,000. That'd be 10,000. And how many children might the average home have if they were there all together? Two. At least two. Probably more. Probably more. So two times that would be 15,000 would be conservative. Is the Lord able to provide that many months of peace? He can provide salvation to those who trust Him here on this earth, anywhere in the whole world. From the beginning of His sacrifice on Calvary, and He's able to fulfill, even to the end of the earth, He's able to exceeding abundantly above all that we ask to think. It's a miracle of working God, absolutely. And so then, in verse 45, What does straightaway mean again? Immediately. Immediately. What does it mean he constrained his disciples? Constrained. Sometimes it means stopping. What does it mean something else? Sometimes it means stop. What else might it mean? Compelled and encouraged. See compelled, so this would be compelled. Now, do sometimes people need to be compelled to do things? Are they always willing to do things? No. The disciples apparently didn't really want to do anything, but he could encourage them. What color would you look? Constrained? It says strongly encouraged at the bottom. Strongly encouraged. That's what the Greek word for it is. Strongly encouraged. And what did he want them to do? Get into the ship. Okay, so he wanted to get them into the ship. Now he came by ship. Cats? No, it's his watch. Oh, watch your hair. Okay, I just mistook that for a hat. He got into a ship. Was it a big ship or a little ship? Small ship. Probably a small ship. Anna? One was 25. What is it? One was 25. 25, okay. 45. 45, okay. So his disciples got into the ship, right? Yes. And Christ remained and he was sending away the people. Okay. Right? That's good. We haven't got that part of that version. You're right. He sent away the people, that's right. Got into the ship. And what do you want the people, these disciples to do? In verse 45. The other side, what city? The city, is that east or west? Is that east or west of Galilee? I already showed you, I just wanted you to know if you remember what I said. Here's the city of Galilee. Here's the city right here. The north and east side, the other side would be over there. Alright, so Bethsaida, that's where they had the disciples to go. What did the Lord Jesus do while they were in the ship? Sent them away. Sent away the people. Why do you suppose he sent them away? Because they needed to go home. They needed to go home. The whole show was over. He wanted some peace. He wanted some quiet. That's right. And did we read 46 yet? Well, let's read 46, 47, 48. And when they had sent them away, he departed into the mountains to pray. And when evening was come, the ship was in the midst of the sea, and he alone on the land. And he saw them toiling in a rye. for the wind was contrary with the thunder then and about the fourth watch of the night becometh unto them walking upon the sea and what is passed by them." Is that three verses? Yes. So 47, what time of day was it? 46. Oh, 46, I'm sorry, 46, all right. What did they do with the people? Sent them away. Sent them away. And what did they do then? Went to the mountains. Went to the mountains. There was a mountain in Bethsaida apparently, well at least where he was, I don't know whether it was in Bethsaida or not. And he went to pray. And then in verse 47, what time of day was it here? It was probably evening. Oh, excuse me, I'm sorry, Vonn. When we were in the Holy Land, I remember when we went up to the Mount of Olives that they set aside for us. Oh yes. It was just a raised hill. And I remember the grass was so thick. Yes, they did show us that, didn't they? I don't remember, but I think that's a refreshment of memory. Yes, interesting. So, what time of day is even in the Jewish calendar? What is the Jewish day like? It starts sundown the day before. What time of day? 6 p.m. And it ends what time? 6 p.m. The day starts at 6 p.m. In other words, at 6 p.m. tonight, it would be Monday in the Jewish calendar. So it was even. It starts at 6 in the morning or 6? No. No, 6 p.m. It starts at 6 p.m. Then it goes to 6 p.m. the next day. The next day, that's right. 24 hours. 24 hours, that's right. Just like your day. That's right. Ours starts at midnight. At night. Anna? In creation, it talks about the evening and the morning. Yes. So you have the evening, you have the evening, and then you have the morning. Yes. So you have darkness. Even in the morning, the first day. But us, we have a dark period, then a light period, then another dark period. Right. We're so clean. Yes. So how many days of creation were there? Seven. Seven. Even in the morning, first day, second day. Not seven. Six. Six. What happened to seven? They rested. They rested. Okay. So in verse number 47, where was the ship at this time? Right in the midst of that Sea of Galilee. It's right in the middle of the sea. Right there in the middle. Where was the Lord Jesus at this time? He was still on the land, still on the land, and in the midst of the sea, in the midst of the sea, and where was the Lord Jesus again? He was still on the land, in the land, verse 47. And then in verse 48, what did he observe about these disciples? What does it mean, toiling? They were having a hard time rowing against the wind. They were fighting against the wind. There was a storm coming. So whatever mountain he was standing on, he wasn't going to see it. They were to see how the waves into the Sea of Galilee and he wasn't going to be able to see them. And what else is true about the Lord Jesus I say? So did he even need to be anywhere before I could see him? Because I have to see anywhere, just like God can see us no matter where he is. Millions and millions of miles away. Yvonne? When we were there, I remember the guide said that the storms came suddenly on the deck. Yes, because it's not too deep. It's very shallow. So real fast, it comes up real fast. So he was on the land. He saw them toiling or in rowing. What's the word for me here in the first 48? Because. Wind was contrary. What does that mean to have a contrary wind? In other words, you're trying to go east, the wind is going west. It's just absolute Buckingham.