Jack Hibbs Special | What A Message We Have In Jesus Part 01
Jack Hibbs is a pastor and author who is the founder and senior pastor of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills, a non-denominational Christian church located in Chino Hills, California. He has been in ministry for over 30 years and is known for his passionate preaching and teaching of the Bible.
Hibbs is a frequent speaker at conferences and events both in the United States and internationally. He also hosts a daily radio program called “Real Life with Jack Hibbs” which is broadcast on numerous Christian radio stations throughout the country.
In addition to his ministry work, Hibbs has written several books including “Before You Say I Do” and “The Power of Prayer and Fasting”. He is a proponent of biblical values and has been involved in various political and social causes.
Jack Hibbs Special | What A Message We Have In Jesus Part 01
it’s not Jesus Christ and you doing your
best it’s not receiving Christ and then
you walking really really uh obedient
the rest of your life though that’s
wonderful and I’d love to do that
perfectly
that’s not how salvation has gotten it
is salvation by faith in Jesus Christ
plus nothing else nothing else
real life
welcome to real life radio with Pastor
Jack Hibbs I’m David Jay thanking you
for joining us today as we listen learn
and are challenged by God’s word the
Bible
on today’s edition of real life radio
Pastor Jack now continues his series
called The Gospel of Luke with a message
titled Jesus is more than enough you
know this series called The Gospel of
Luke is a series that gives us both the
humanity and the Divinity of Jesus as
only Luke a physician can do here now as
we continue in chapter 9 we’ll discover
how the Jesus of the Bible is all we
could ever need you see the more we
understand and learn from Jesus the more
we’ll want from him Jesus knows our
every concern he is sufficient more than
enough more than adequate more than
satisfactory more than competent and
he’s more than capable of reaching this
Lost World
so today on this part of the message
Pastor Jack tells us that everyone’s
concern in this life is to have a
purpose but for the Christian our
meaning and our purpose in life is not
only to be used by the Lord but to
humbly find rest in him now in his
message called Jesus is more than enough
here’s pastor and Bible teacher Jack
Hughes
father we ask you lord to bless your
word to our hearts father God we pray
that you would allow us to kick off our
shoes put on our sandals
get rid of these shirts and done a robe
and be in the crowd
and listen Lord to what will take place
what it is Lord that you were trying to
teach your disciples then is exactly
true today it’s exactly what we need now
so father may I not blow this and botch
it up
and Lord may we all be hearers of the
word and doers also for we ask you Lord
in Jesus name and all God’s people said
amen grab your Bibles in and turn to
Luke’s gospel chapter 9 Luke chapter 9
verses 10 to 17 and I would have given
anything to have been
In This Crowd at this setting in the
moment of what’s going to take place
before us
it’s absolutely exciting to see why
because of the wording Church those of
you who take notes make sure that you
pay attention this morning jut down some
of these things because the words that
are used are absolutely absolutely
provocative to our understanding they’re
exciting because the words that are used
speak exactly to us as to what’s going
on and the attitudes and in the mind of
the Disciples of the people and of Jesus
himself and I have a smile on my face
because you Gotta Laugh
there are some things coming in this
message this morning that when these
guys get going that is the disciples
Jesus will turn to them and say
something and how he says it and in the
tone that he says it has got to put a
smile on your face
as we look to this
the title of the message this morning is
Jesus is more than enough
and I hope that’s true in your life that
Jesus is more than enough
you know this is a poor guy running
around trying to prove that they found
Jesus’s tomb
they found him as family kids
and listen I got
I gotta and you guys have caught on by
now right
gee
well this stuff comes out always before
what holiday
yeah and then there’s a lull on the
action just before what other holiday
Yeah Christmas
the nuts come out of the woodwork just
before Easter and just before Christmas
to capitalize on TV shows and Book Sales
and then they all just go away and count
their money because everybody wants to
dive into stuff that is absolutely false
but they’ll spin it and they’ll pitch it
in a way that for some people maybe it’s
going to cast some doubt upon why they
don’t believe in Jesus anyway
I’m encouraged by these things why
because Jesus is sufficient enough and
listen when I say that Jesus is
sufficient and that he’s sufficient
enough there’s a couple things I want to
point out this morning
um please understand that when I put
those words together that Jesus is
sufficient and that Jesus is more than
enough I’m I’m thinking in the strict
English language not American language
there’s a big difference we speak
American
there’s a big difference from what we
speak in this time in culture versus
English there’s queen’s English or
proper English and then there’s American
American has words in it like yo
say
things like that those are strictly
American words English has words like
sufficient you know what sufficient
means in English it means that you don’t
need anything else
see we think I guess you know it’s
sufficient
we think that’s sufficient and better do
are the same things they’re not the same
meanings the word sufficient is
everything that you need has been given
everything that you require is done
sufficient is more than enough
enough
that word mean to us I guess that’s a
enough you can’t put that legally in the
same sentence like that you can’t put
well I guess it’s uh enough the tone
cast doubt upon whatever it is you’ve
gotten I guess it’s enough the word
enough means again to the satisfying
amounts
it is enough
that means it’s fully adequate Jesus
Christ is sufficient fully enough for us
in this life for anything everything
that we need
you and I will not be making it to
heaven without him why because he is
fully enough
you do not need Church listen oh my
friend if you’re visiting tune in grab
on to this
it’s not Jesus Christ and you doing your
best it’s not receiving Christ and then
you walking really really really uh
obedient the rest of your life though
that’s wonderful and I’d love to do that
perfectly
that’s not how salvation has gotten it
is salvation by faith in Jesus Christ
plus nothing else nothing else you
cannot say oh Jesus thank you for dying
on the cross for me and taking away all
my sin I receive you and boy aren’t you
glad to have me now Lord
because I’m just going to help you right
along the way oh no no way Jesus is
sufficient he is more than enough and
we’re going to be learning that in this
message this morning
um listen Point number one we’ll read it
as we go through Point number one Jesus
is more than enough Luke chapter 9 verse
10 it is this that Jesus meets my every
concern he meets my every need and
they’re going to be finding that out
here in a moment look at verse 10 and
11. it says then that the apostles when
they had returned told him that is Jesus
that what they had done then he took
them and went aside privately into a
deserted Place belonging to the city of
Bethesda but when the multitudes knew it
they followed him and he received them
and spoke to them about the kingdom of
God and he healed all those who had need
of healing the first thing I want you to
see about Jesus meeting my every concern
meeting your every concern is this verse
10 the concerns that I have in my life
and your life about purpose please jot
this down number one thing that the
disciples have just learned and I’ll
refresh your memory here in a moment
remember in that he had sent them out to
serve and to minister he commissioned
them last week and they went out doing
great works by preaching teaching the
word of God and casting out demons and
Healing The Sick So they had been
deployed and it was apparently a very
very successful uh tour that they had
but what we find out here in verse 10 is
that Jesus winds up uh instructing them
regarding concerns of purpose Christian
you and I have a concern of purpose when
it says that he went to the city of
Bethesda look in your map here this is
the Galilee
top right hand corner that little red
dot but Santa it’s just on the right
side of the Jordan River it’s remote in
fact the next picture we’ll show you by
the way we took this last year this next
shot
this is the north end this is from Mount
arbel
look into the North End so our eyes are
actually looking East
across the Jordan River into the land of
Jordan and Syria the town of beceda
would be kind of where you see almost
those two Jetties
oh it looks like a harbor
Jesus would have taken them from that
Shore into that country by the way it
looks just like where we live here today
it looks just like this area like uh the
old Orange County area like Irvine very
very beautiful olive trees banana trees
those are all uh papaya and grapefruit
trees you see there bananas to the north
all of these things going on and so
jesus takes them away he removes them
from the crowd why because there’s an
issue about purpose here and it’s very
very common uh for you and I to struggle
with what we will see the disciples to
be struggling with when it says in verse
10 that the apostles they had returned
you ought to mark that they came back
they’re very much excited and pumped up
because he told they told them what they
had done hey Jesus this is what happened
listen to this and so they began to
speak about it Jesus’s response is
either very common we would think or
there’s something going on
when I say common it could be that
listen the disciples maybe they retired
it was a long time of ministry maybe he
saw that they were tired he’s going to
pull them off to the side maybe that’s
true
maybe that the disciples realized or
when they were telling Jesus what had
happened maybe Jesus is thinking you
know what you need a little bit more
fine-tuning on your ministry skills and
uh maybe he’s going to take them away
for a little uh private course well
that’s possible it doesn’t it doesn’t
say in the scripture
foreign
maybe though
based upon the rest of what we’re going
to be reading maybe that Jesus saw
something in them having come back from
the trip that he needs to get them away
that they might
be reminded of what the real purpose of
life as a Christian and life in the
ministry is all about
the purpose
Christian if you understand oh please
please hear this
if you understand that you as a
Christian
you you love God you read his word you
want to serve him
that’s glorious but you will not
understand full true purpose and
fulfillment until you are being used by
him look a glove looks pretty dead
unless a hand goes inside
we can be bible-believing Christians we
can be just right on but unless God’s
hand is using us to reach the world
there’s a sense of of us missing the
purpose of life
have you noticed
that there’s always these bombardments
of uh invitations join our country club
oh we’ve got an 18 hole oh we’ve got a
30 000 square foot Country Club oh
there’s a new Yacht Club opening up oh
enjoying this and what are the why is
that the push
because listen could it be that the
world is saying listen
you got this you got that you got all
these other things we’ve got them too
we’re still empty and maybe by us
getting together and hanging out we can
find the meaning and purpose of life
come on let’s Golf together I’m not
knocking golfing for those who know how
I can’t I’ve tried impossible
but for those of you who do that’s a
great sport but if you’re going to golf
to find purpose and meaning in life man
you’re going to be sadly disappointed
I was talking to somebody a while back
down in San Diego and they’re just
they’re not Christians they had just
been become a member of the Coronado
Bank Yacht Club and they were all just
you know tooting their horns about how
tremendous that was
um and yet their life has fallen apart
what should a prophet a man if he gains
a doc
at the Coronado Bay Club and loses his
own soul
see that listen truly the believer who
says and listen if you’re not a Believer
this morning you listen to this you want
to have true absolute insane glorious
excitement about living your life then
find out that God’s got a wonderful
purpose for your life and believer God’s
got a glorious work for us to do and
it’s wonderfully meaningful so they came
back and they’re all pumped up and
they’re all excited and they tell Jesus
this is what we did this is what
happened in Mark’s gospel chapter 6
verse 31 Mark’s gospel records the event
this way that Jesus said to them come
aside by yourselves into a deserted
place and rest a while then it says for
there were many people coming and going
and they didn’t even have time to eat
so Ministry pressure Jesus had been
ministering they had been serving they
come back they tell Jesus how it went
and listen
um I don’t know those of you who are
doctors or nurses or or whatever those
of you who are a fireman maybe police
officers when you’re in a caregiving
type of uh uh career it’s really vital
that you keep your heart healthy and
right you want to know why because you
give so much constantly that if you’re
not getting recharged you’re going to be
a bear to be around
you’re not going to be any fun
that’s why so many really good doctors
they take about every four weeks they
take a week off let me say well man we
like to do that listen by the time they
get to the fourth week you want them to
take a week off
can you imagine the doctor said you know
what I’m really fried are you my patient
lay down here and he pulls out a
chainsaw or something like that I never
really had it with people
why don’t you take a break
that’s important and you don’t want to
have a minister a pastor a police
officer or how about an airline pilot
can you imagine you know they work about
11 to 15 days a month and then they have
the rest off man what a Kush job that is
oh no wait a minute no way
can you imagine though the pilot getting
on there hey welcome aboard you know
what I’ve been flying this is my 14th
day I’ve had about had it with this
airplane stuff and I’m sick of people
nobody better act up on this fight I’ll
tell you I’m gonna really let you have
it
welcome aboard
you would not appreciate that if you
give give give give give listen your
very body the Lord demands that we
Sabbath and be strengthened again and be
built up again Jesus sees something in
the disciples number one they’re talking
about what great things they did we’ll
talk more on that in a moment and he
realizes I think you need to take a
break
G Campbell Morgan says that there are
times in Ministry when you can get
people to death
that’s like getting nibble to death by a
duck can you imagine
pulling and pulling and pulling and
pulling and Jesus says you need to come
away
why I thought they had a great
successful Ministry I thought they did
great things they preached and they
raised the dead they did all these great
things you know what
how about this
disappointment I mean that hurts doesn’t
it when you’re disappointed but we’ve
survived disappointments
when things don’t go our way
you know what we may shed a tear but we
survive but listen you know what the
danger is especially in Ministry
when you sense though that when God is
filling your life and using you if you
if you get your eyes off of him for but
a moment you begin to look around and
say my look what’s going on
oh
success can kill you disappointment can
hurt you success can kill you
success can destroy a Ministry it can
destroy listen it can destroy a marriage
if you get your eyes off of how you got
there
it can destroy a company when the CEO
begins to think that he did it all while
all the little worker bees are making
all the money
he can be like Nebuchadnezzar and say
look at the great Kingdom that I have
built and God said oh yeah
and the Lord Yanks that right out from
underneath Nebuchadnezzar’s Faith until
he remembered the Lord God Of Heaven
we need to be careful and it’s I think
maybe most dangerous and things of
ministry why Ministry is a scary thing
because God uses people and if you get
your eyes off the Lord you’ll get Goofy
you begin to think that you had
something to do with it see these
disciples went out following the Lord
and God did a great thing that’s what
they need to remember we went out
following the Lord God did the great
thing
and so he’s going to minister to them
about purpose also this verse 11 Jesus
meets wherever you need and that we’re
concerned about reaching the lost
if we are truly Believers we will do
something Christian something to reach
the laws to minister to them to help
them to bless them
there is no way I believe this and you
may disagree that’s totally fine and I
understand that my my position on this
is really hard
I believe that if the if I’m going to
heaven
and I believe that that’s real I cannot
be content to have non-believers living
around me not knowing the way to heaven
verse 11 says but when the multitudes
knew that they were going away for a
break they followed him and look what
Jesus did did he grab the microphone
like the airline pilot no he received
them that’s a witness and he spoke to
them about the kingdom of God that’s a
witness and he healed those who had need
of healing that’s a witness
the disciples are learning and listening
Jesus says come away they get in a boat
in fact listen to this Mark’s gospel 6
32 says that as they departed into a
deserted place in a boat by themselves
the multitude saw them departing and
many of them knew him and they ran on
foot around the shore through the cities
and they arrived before the disciples at
the shore when they came
I am sorry but that is funny
let’s take a break oh Peter says all
right let’s take a break all right guys
good job let’s get the boat
stick it up they’re getting the boat
they’re gonna go take a break
you imagine about a mile off off from
Shore they see this cloud of dust on the
shore
what is that there’s a herd of people
they’re running I wonder where they’re
going and as you’re sailing
they’re going right to
they’re going right we’re they’re
stopping right there that’s exactly
where we’re going
by the time they get out of the boat
there’s a big big bit of ministry that
has to take place still
there’s something going on about an
attitude here we shall see in a moment
Jesus number one shows them that he gets
out of the boat and he receives them you
want this word in the Greek means to
receive he makes them feel welcomed
Jesus Christ makes people feel welcomed
the word means that he made them feel at
home that he made them feel we would use
the word special
Jesus instead of them saying man come on
give the boys a break will you they’ve
been he he welcomes them
secondly he speaks to them about the
Kingdom of Heaven the kingdom of God
he said what was it he said we don’t
know what he said exactly
but we know that when he preached the
kingdom of God whatever Parable whatever
teaching he gave there would have been
certainly something that you know very
well that he would have had woven into
his message always in church I’ll tell
you what it is in a second
it’s something that we need to have in
every bit of ministering that we speak
to people about as well when we’re
sharing Jesus with people listen
carefully don’t miss this whenever you
read that Jesus Christ spoke about the
kingdom of God he would have inserted in
there John chapter 3. Marvel not that I
say unto you you must be born again
don’t be surprised about that he would
have told them every time he preached
about the kingdom of God you must be
born again listen the word means born
from above he says that which is born of
flesh is of the flesh that’s us skin but
that was a born of spirit is born from
above it’s born of the spirit
you and I came into this world being
born through our mommies in this
physical world we came through the water
of child birthing
now we need to be Jesus said born from
above or the English is born a second
time born again this is so vital listen
that there is no gospel preached without
saying it
you can tell somebody do you believe in
God you can ask them yes I do oh that’s
great
but if they’re not born again Jesus said
unless you are born again you will not
see the kingdom of heaven
that’s vital well Pastor you know what
they go to the First Baptist Church they
must be going to heaven they go to
Calvary they must be going to heaven
they’re they’re this they must be going
to heaven no no no don’t ever assume
that ask them are you born again do you
know what it means
listen I don’t need to tell you how many
people in churches have never even heard
the term be born again even though the
letters are written and read in John
chapter 3 spoken by Jesus himself there
is no heaven without being born again
says God and yet ministers
churches they don’t bring it up
this is anathema
unbelievable so Jesus preached to them
the kingdom you must be born again
maybe they would have heard that
and then he healed them he healed those
that needed healing says the scripture
it’s amazing
the second point we see this morning is
the verses 12 to 14 and Jesus is more
than enough this way my friends even
when
we can’t see a way out even when we
can’t see the answer to what we’re
facing you’re going to see this here in
a moment what are you going to do maybe
in your life today you love God you’re
following God but there’s a situation in
your life you can’t see the answer you
can’t see the way out of this
well number one realize this like this
needs to be something that you and I
need to be reminded of maybe we do we
need to look for God in the midst of the
situation that we’re in that look for
God to be in the midst of where we’re at
oh just for fun I know I said I wasn’t
going to do this anymore but raise your
hand if you’re a Christian
I love that
according to the word of God the Lord
who will never leave you or forsake you
is right in the middle of the situation
of your life
now the disciples are going to find this
out Anew here in a moment was this
written 2000 years ago for our education
or was it written for us 2 000 years ago
for our learning there’s a big
difference one goes into the head and
one has lived out in our lives
it’s not Jesus Christ and you doing your
best it’s not receiving Christ and then
you walking really really uh obedient
the rest of your life though that’s
wonderful and I’d love to do that
perfectly
that’s not how salvation has gotten it
is salvation by faith in Jesus Christ
plus nothing else nothing else
real life
welcome to real life radio with Pastor
Jack Hibbs I’m David Jay thanking you
for joining us today as we listen learn
and are challenged by God’s word the
Bible
on today’s edition of real life radio
Pastor Jack now continues his series
called The Gospel of Luke with a message
titled Jesus is more than enough you
know this series called The Gospel of
Luke is a series that gives us both the
humanity and the Divinity of Jesus as
only Luke a physician can do here now as
we continue in chapter 9 we’ll discover
how the Jesus of the Bible is all we
could ever need you see the more we
understand and learn from Jesus the more
we’ll want from him Jesus knows our
every concern he is sufficient more than
enough more than adequate more than
satisfactory more than competent and
he’s more than capable of reaching this
Lost World
so today on this part of the message
Pastor Jack tells us that everyone’s
concern in this life is to have a
purpose but for the Christian our
meaning and our purpose in life is not
only to be used by the Lord but to
humbly find rest in him now in his
message called Jesus is more than enough
here’s pastor and Bible teacher Jack
Hughes
father we ask you lord to bless your
word to our hearts father God we pray
that you would allow us to kick off our
shoes put on our sandals
get rid of these shirts and done a robe
and be in the crowd
and listen Lord to what will take place
what it is Lord that you were trying to
teach your disciples then is exactly
true today it’s exactly what we need now
so father may I not blow this and botch
it up
and Lord may we all be hearers of the
word and doers also for we ask you Lord
in Jesus name and all God’s people said
amen grab your Bibles in and turn to
Luke’s gospel chapter 9 Luke chapter 9
verses 10 to 17 and I would have given
anything to have been
In This Crowd at this setting in the
moment of what’s going to take place
before us
it’s absolutely exciting to see why
because of the wording Church those of
you who take notes make sure that you
pay attention this morning jut down some
of these things because the words that
are used are absolutely absolutely
provocative to our understanding they’re
exciting because the words that are used
speak exactly to us as to what’s going
on and the attitudes and in the mind of
the Disciples of the people and of Jesus
himself and I have a smile on my face
because you Gotta Laugh
there are some things coming in this
message this morning that when these
guys get going that is the disciples
Jesus will turn to them and say
something and how he says it and in the
tone that he says it has got to put a
smile on your face
as we look to this
the title of the message this morning is
Jesus is more than enough
and I hope that’s true in your life that
Jesus is more than enough
you know this is a poor guy running
around trying to prove that they found
Jesus’s tomb
they found him as family kids
and listen I got
I gotta and you guys have caught on by
now right
gee
well this stuff comes out always before
what holiday
yeah and then there’s a lull on the
action just before what other holiday
Yeah Christmas
the nuts come out of the woodwork just
before Easter and just before Christmas
to capitalize on TV shows and Book Sales
and then they all just go away and count
their money because everybody wants to
dive into stuff that is absolutely false
but they’ll spin it and they’ll pitch it
in a way that for some people maybe it’s
going to cast some doubt upon why they
don’t believe in Jesus anyway
I’m encouraged by these things why
because Jesus is sufficient enough and
listen when I say that Jesus is
sufficient and that he’s sufficient
enough there’s a couple things I want to
point out this morning
um please understand that when I put
those words together that Jesus is
sufficient and that Jesus is more than
enough I’m I’m thinking in the strict
English language not American language
there’s a big difference we speak
American
there’s a big difference from what we
speak in this time in culture versus
English there’s queen’s English or
proper English and then there’s American
American has words in it like yo
say
things like that those are strictly
American words English has words like
sufficient you know what sufficient
means in English it means that you don’t
need anything else
see we think I guess you know it’s
sufficient
we think that’s sufficient and better do
are the same things they’re not the same
meanings the word sufficient is
everything that you need has been given
everything that you require is done
sufficient is more than enough
enough
that word mean to us I guess that’s a
enough you can’t put that legally in the
same sentence like that you can’t put
well I guess it’s uh enough the tone
cast doubt upon whatever it is you’ve
gotten I guess it’s enough the word
enough means again to the satisfying
amounts
it is enough
that means it’s fully adequate Jesus
Christ is sufficient fully enough for us
in this life for anything everything
that we need
you and I will not be making it to
heaven without him why because he is
fully enough
you do not need Church listen oh my
friend if you’re visiting tune in grab
on to this
it’s not Jesus Christ and you doing your
best it’s not receiving Christ and then
you walking really really really uh
obedient the rest of your life though
that’s wonderful and I’d love to do that
perfectly
that’s not how salvation has gotten it
is salvation by faith in Jesus Christ
plus nothing else nothing else you
cannot say oh Jesus thank you for dying
on the cross for me and taking away all
my sin I receive you and boy aren’t you
glad to have me now Lord
because I’m just going to help you right
along the way oh no no way Jesus is
sufficient he is more than enough and
we’re going to be learning that in this
message this morning
um listen Point number one we’ll read it
as we go through Point number one Jesus
is more than enough Luke chapter 9 verse
10 it is this that Jesus meets my every
concern he meets my every need and
they’re going to be finding that out
here in a moment look at verse 10 and
11. it says then that the apostles when
they had returned told him that is Jesus
that what they had done then he took
them and went aside privately into a
deserted Place belonging to the city of
Bethesda but when the multitudes knew it
they followed him and he received them
and spoke to them about the kingdom of
God and he healed all those who had need
of healing the first thing I want you to
see about Jesus meeting my every concern
meeting your every concern is this verse
10 the concerns that I have in my life
and your life about purpose please jot
this down number one thing that the
disciples have just learned and I’ll
refresh your memory here in a moment
remember in that he had sent them out to
serve and to minister he commissioned
them last week and they went out doing
great works by preaching teaching the
word of God and casting out demons and
Healing The Sick So they had been
deployed and it was apparently a very
very successful uh tour that they had
but what we find out here in verse 10 is
that Jesus winds up uh instructing them
regarding concerns of purpose Christian
you and I have a concern of purpose when
it says that he went to the city of
Bethesda look in your map here this is
the Galilee
top right hand corner that little red
dot but Santa it’s just on the right
side of the Jordan River it’s remote in
fact the next picture we’ll show you by
the way we took this last year this next
shot
this is the north end this is from Mount
arbel
look into the North End so our eyes are
actually looking East
across the Jordan River into the land of
Jordan and Syria the town of beceda
would be kind of where you see almost
those two Jetties
oh it looks like a harbor
Jesus would have taken them from that
Shore into that country by the way it
looks just like where we live here today
it looks just like this area like uh the
old Orange County area like Irvine very
very beautiful olive trees banana trees
those are all uh papaya and grapefruit
trees you see there bananas to the north
all of these things going on and so
jesus takes them away he removes them
from the crowd why because there’s an
issue about purpose here and it’s very
very common uh for you and I to struggle
with what we will see the disciples to
be struggling with when it says in verse
10 that the apostles they had returned
you ought to mark that they came back
they’re very much excited and pumped up
because he told they told them what they
had done hey Jesus this is what happened
listen to this and so they began to
speak about it Jesus’s response is
either very common we would think or
there’s something going on
when I say common it could be that
listen the disciples maybe they retired
it was a long time of ministry maybe he
saw that they were tired he’s going to
pull them off to the side maybe that’s
true
maybe that the disciples realized or
when they were telling Jesus what had
happened maybe Jesus is thinking you
know what you need a little bit more
fine-tuning on your ministry skills and
uh maybe he’s going to take them away
for a little uh private course well
that’s possible it doesn’t it doesn’t
say in the scripture
foreign
maybe though
based upon the rest of what we’re going
to be reading maybe that Jesus saw
something in them having come back from
the trip that he needs to get them away
that they might
be reminded of what the real purpose of
life as a Christian and life in the
ministry is all about
the purpose
Christian if you understand oh please
please hear this
if you understand that you as a
Christian
you you love God you read his word you
want to serve him
that’s glorious but you will not
understand full true purpose and
fulfillment until you are being used by
him look a glove looks pretty dead
unless a hand goes inside
we can be bible-believing Christians we
can be just right on but unless God’s
hand is using us to reach the world
there’s a sense of of us missing the
purpose of life
have you noticed
that there’s always these bombardments
of uh invitations join our country club
oh we’ve got an 18 hole oh we’ve got a
30 000 square foot Country Club oh
there’s a new Yacht Club opening up oh
enjoying this and what are the why is
that the push
because listen could it be that the
world is saying listen
you got this you got that you got all
these other things we’ve got them too
we’re still empty and maybe by us
getting together and hanging out we can
find the meaning and purpose of life
come on let’s Golf together I’m not
knocking golfing for those who know how
I can’t I’ve tried impossible
but for those of you who do that’s a
great sport but if you’re going to golf
to find purpose and meaning in life man
you’re going to be sadly disappointed
I was talking to somebody a while back
down in San Diego and they’re just
they’re not Christians they had just
been become a member of the Coronado
Bank Yacht Club and they were all just
you know tooting their horns about how
tremendous that was
um and yet their life has fallen apart
what should a prophet a man if he gains
a doc
at the Coronado Bay Club and loses his
own soul
see that listen truly the believer who
says and listen if you’re not a Believer
this morning you listen to this you want
to have true absolute insane glorious
excitement about living your life then
find out that God’s got a wonderful
purpose for your life and believer God’s
got a glorious work for us to do and
it’s wonderfully meaningful so they came
back and they’re all pumped up and
they’re all excited and they tell Jesus
this is what we did this is what
happened in Mark’s gospel chapter 6
verse 31 Mark’s gospel records the event
this way that Jesus said to them come
aside by yourselves into a deserted
place and rest a while then it says for
there were many people coming and going
and they didn’t even have time to eat
so Ministry pressure Jesus had been
ministering they had been serving they
come back they tell Jesus how it went
and listen
um I don’t know those of you who are
doctors or nurses or or whatever those
of you who are a fireman maybe police
officers when you’re in a caregiving
type of uh uh career it’s really vital
that you keep your heart healthy and
right you want to know why because you
give so much constantly that if you’re
not getting recharged you’re going to be
a bear to be around
you’re not going to be any fun
that’s why so many really good doctors
they take about every four weeks they
take a week off let me say well man we
like to do that listen by the time they
get to the fourth week you want them to
take a week off
can you imagine the doctor said you know
what I’m really fried are you my patient
lay down here and he pulls out a
chainsaw or something like that I never
really had it with people
why don’t you take a break
that’s important and you don’t want to
have a minister a pastor a police
officer or how about an airline pilot
can you imagine you know they work about
11 to 15 days a month and then they have
the rest off man what a Kush job that is
oh no wait a minute no way
can you imagine though the pilot getting
on there hey welcome aboard you know
what I’ve been flying this is my 14th
day I’ve had about had it with this
airplane stuff and I’m sick of people
nobody better act up on this fight I’ll
tell you I’m gonna really let you have
it
welcome aboard
you would not appreciate that if you
give give give give give listen your
very body the Lord demands that we
Sabbath and be strengthened again and be
built up again Jesus sees something in
the disciples number one they’re talking
about what great things they did we’ll
talk more on that in a moment and he
realizes I think you need to take a
break
G Campbell Morgan says that there are
times in Ministry when you can get
people to death
that’s like getting nibble to death by a
duck can you imagine
pulling and pulling and pulling and
pulling and Jesus says you need to come
away
why I thought they had a great
successful Ministry I thought they did
great things they preached and they
raised the dead they did all these great
things you know what
how about this
disappointment I mean that hurts doesn’t
it when you’re disappointed but we’ve
survived disappointments
when things don’t go our way
you know what we may shed a tear but we
survive but listen you know what the
danger is especially in Ministry
when you sense though that when God is
filling your life and using you if you
if you get your eyes off of him for but
a moment you begin to look around and
say my look what’s going on
oh
success can kill you disappointment can
hurt you success can kill you
success can destroy a Ministry it can
destroy listen it can destroy a marriage
if you get your eyes off of how you got
there
it can destroy a company when the CEO
begins to think that he did it all while
all the little worker bees are making
all the money
he can be like Nebuchadnezzar and say
look at the great Kingdom that I have
built and God said oh yeah
and the Lord Yanks that right out from
underneath Nebuchadnezzar’s Faith until
he remembered the Lord God Of Heaven
we need to be careful and it’s I think
maybe most dangerous and things of
ministry why Ministry is a scary thing
because God uses people and if you get
your eyes off the Lord you’ll get Goofy
you begin to think that you had
something to do with it see these
disciples went out following the Lord
and God did a great thing that’s what
they need to remember we went out
following the Lord God did the great
thing
and so he’s going to minister to them
about purpose also this verse 11 Jesus
meets wherever you need and that we’re
concerned about reaching the lost
if we are truly Believers we will do
something Christian something to reach
the laws to minister to them to help
them to bless them
there is no way I believe this and you
may disagree that’s totally fine and I
understand that my my position on this
is really hard
I believe that if the if I’m going to
heaven
and I believe that that’s real I cannot
be content to have non-believers living
around me not knowing the way to heaven
verse 11 says but when the multitudes
knew that they were going away for a
break they followed him and look what
Jesus did did he grab the microphone
like the airline pilot no he received
them that’s a witness and he spoke to
them about the kingdom of God that’s a
witness and he healed those who had need
of healing that’s a witness
the disciples are learning and listening
Jesus says come away they get in a boat
in fact listen to this Mark’s gospel 6
32 says that as they departed into a
deserted place in a boat by themselves
the multitude saw them departing and
many of them knew him and they ran on
foot around the shore through the cities
and they arrived before the disciples at
the shore when they came
I am sorry but that is funny
let’s take a break oh Peter says all
right let’s take a break all right guys
good job let’s get the boat
stick it up they’re getting the boat
they’re gonna go take a break
you imagine about a mile off off from
Shore they see this cloud of dust on the
shore
what is that there’s a herd of people
they’re running I wonder where they’re
going and as you’re sailing
they’re going right to
they’re going right we’re they’re
stopping right there that’s exactly
where we’re going
by the time they get out of the boat
there’s a big big bit of ministry that
has to take place still
there’s something going on about an
attitude here we shall see in a moment
Jesus number one shows them that he gets
out of the boat and he receives them you
want this word in the Greek means to
receive he makes them feel welcomed
Jesus Christ makes people feel welcomed
the word means that he made them feel at
home that he made them feel we would use
the word special
Jesus instead of them saying man come on
give the boys a break will you they’ve
been he he welcomes them
secondly he speaks to them about the
Kingdom of Heaven the kingdom of God
he said what was it he said we don’t
know what he said exactly
but we know that when he preached the
kingdom of God whatever Parable whatever
teaching he gave there would have been
certainly something that you know very
well that he would have had woven into
his message always in church I’ll tell
you what it is in a second
it’s something that we need to have in
every bit of ministering that we speak
to people about as well when we’re
sharing Jesus with people listen
carefully don’t miss this whenever you
read that Jesus Christ spoke about the
kingdom of God he would have inserted in
there John chapter 3. Marvel not that I
say unto you you must be born again
don’t be surprised about that he would
have told them every time he preached
about the kingdom of God you must be
born again listen the word means born
from above he says that which is born of
flesh is of the flesh that’s us skin but
that was a born of spirit is born from
above it’s born of the spirit
you and I came into this world being
born through our mommies in this
physical world we came through the water
of child birthing
now we need to be Jesus said born from
above or the English is born a second
time born again this is so vital listen
that there is no gospel preached without
saying it
you can tell somebody do you believe in
God you can ask them yes I do oh that’s
great
but if they’re not born again Jesus said
unless you are born again you will not
see the kingdom of heaven
that’s vital well Pastor you know what
they go to the First Baptist Church they
must be going to heaven they go to
Calvary they must be going to heaven
they’re they’re this they must be going
to heaven no no no don’t ever assume
that ask them are you born again do you
know what it means
listen I don’t need to tell you how many
people in churches have never even heard
the term be born again even though the
letters are written and read in John
chapter 3 spoken by Jesus himself there
is no heaven without being born again
says God and yet ministers
churches they don’t bring it up
this is anathema
unbelievable so Jesus preached to them
the kingdom you must be born again
maybe they would have heard that
and then he healed them he healed those
that needed healing says the scripture
it’s amazing
the second point we see this morning is
the verses 12 to 14 and Jesus is more
than enough this way my friends even
when
we can’t see a way out even when we
can’t see the answer to what we’re
facing you’re going to see this here in
a moment what are you going to do maybe
in your life today you love God you’re
following God but there’s a situation in
your life you can’t see the answer you
can’t see the way out of this
well number one realize this like this
needs to be something that you and I
need to be reminded of maybe we do we
need to look for God in the midst of the
situation that we’re in that look for
God to be in the midst of where we’re at
oh just for fun I know I said I wasn’t
going to do this anymore but raise your
hand if you’re a Christian
I love that
according to the word of God the Lord
who will never leave you or forsake you
is right in the middle of the situation
of your life
now the disciples are going to find this
out Anew here in a moment was this
written 2000 years ago for our education
or was it written for us 2 000 years ago
for our learning there’s a big
difference one goes into the head and
one has lived out in our lives
