John 6:1 - 15

"All the people are filled"

　

by: Pastor Hironori Furuya

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"All the people are filled"

With respect to miracle stories of the Lord Jesus, this is only one story common in four gospels. It tells that many crowds of people followed the Lord Jesus who went over to the other side shore in Sea of Galilee. Everyone expected the miracles the Lord had made for sick persons would also happen to themselves. It shows that the Gospel of the Lord is the one that all people are satisfied just as a panacea works for anyone. When the Lord climbed up the mountain, people also came to him closely from a long distance, sat down and heard him tell the messages. The Lord felt people's expectations, then, the Lord asked Philip where he should seek bread for the crowds. Philip answered right away that it might be insufficient even if he had 200 denarius’s there. Perhaps, he just thought about the "Fallback" plan. As the matter of course, the Lord Jesus knew how he would answer.

On the other hand, Philip suggested the Lord to retain the people who should stay, and let the people who should not do go their home and make it right enough if there was no way to be sufficient. Andrew, a brother of Peter, reported about the five fishes and pieces of bread presented by a child; but referring to the small volumes thereof, he pointed out it would be far from sufficient for as many as 5000 people. Even though Philip could not calculate accurately as Andrew did, he tried to draw the absolute conclusion by showing the evidence of impossibility.

Then, what the Lord Jesus showed was an order that "Let the People sit on the ground." Then, people sat on the grass as they were ordered. The Lord Jesus took the pieces of bread, thanked the God, divided them into people sitting on the ground; he gave them as much as they wanted. All the people were filled with the bread and the fish Jesus directly distributed. And, when they collected bread crumbs that were left over, 12 baskets were filled up. It was exactly a miracle.

Amid the problematic human’s world, the Lord thereby established the promise of shouldering man's burdens and solving them. It means to entrust everything to our Heavenly Father.

In any works humans do, there is no complete satisfaction. However, only the miracles prepared by the Lord Jesus exactly is the one "All the people are Satisfied."

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