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group was fifty. If you had that in your hand and the smallest group
was fifty people, what would you do? Would you give it to one
person? Would you try to break it? It doesn’t look like enough. It
doesn’t feel like enough. It never feels like you have enough Jesus.
But that morsel was a picture of the adequacy of Christ. At the end,
if God had said, “Pick up everything you handed out,” it would
break your back. You wouldn’t be able to carry what you handed
out. But at the moment it doesn’t feel like enough or look like
enough.

I study to teach. It never feels like I have enough. But when I look
back over the years at how much God has given, I couldn’t carry it
all. Here’s what Jesus said, “Hand it out and then come back for
more. Give yourself until empty and bring your basket for more.”
How to obey an impossible command; give yourself out empty and
keep coming to Jesus. That was the lesson of the loaves. Now our
Lord Jesus is going to test them to see if they learned the lesson of
the loaves; to trust Jesus to do the impossible.

We know that something very spiritual is going on because Jesus
did something here that He never did before and that He never did
again. It’s a very strong word in the original language. Matthew
14:22, “And immediately He made the disciples get into the boat,
and go ahead of Him to the other side, while He sent the multitudes
away.” He made them get into the boat. He forced them. That’s
the word. Maybe they said, “We’ll help you clean up.” He said,
“Get in the boat.” Maybe they said, “We’ll wait for You.” He said,
“GET IN THE BOAT!” And it was with such a force, that they had
no choice. They had to get into the boat.

Mark 6:45 teaches the same thing. “And immediately He made His
disciples get into the boat and go ahead of Him to the other side to
Bethsaida, while He Himself was sending the multitude away.”
Here was the command, “You go in the boat and I’ll meet you at the
other side. I’m going to meet you at Bethsaida.” Now, these were
fishermen. They may have made that trip many times. It would be