The Ultimate Church Picnic Matthew 14 Mark 6 John 6 Luke 9

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The Ultimate Church PicnicMatthew 14 Mark
6John 6 Luke 9
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The Ultimate Church Picnic

• Who showed up for the picnic?
• The Hungry Multitude

Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was
near. John 64
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The Ultimate Church Picnic

• Who showed up for the picnic?
• The Hungry Multitude

Therefore when the people saw the sign which He
had performed, they said, This is truly the
Prophet who is to come into the world. So Jesus,
perceiving that they were intending to come and
take Him by force to make Him king, withdrew
again to the mountain by Himself alone. John
614-15
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The Ultimate Church Picnic

• Who showed up for the picnic?
• The Hungry Multitude

What they waited for, was a Kingdom of God - not
in righteousness, joy and peace in the Holy
Ghost, but in meat and drink - a kingdom with
miraculous wilderness-banquets to Israel, and
brutal miraculous triumphs over the Gentiles.
(Alfred Edersheim, The Life and Times of Jesus
the Messiah, vol. 2, p. 28)
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The Ultimate Church Picnic

• Who showed up for the picnic?
• The Hungry Multitude
• The Reluctant Servers
• The Messiah-Chef

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The Ultimate Church Picnic

• What was the point of the picnic?
• People are hungry
• Christ alone satisfies
• In the right hands, five loaves and two fish is
  more than enough