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We have had a great morning already today. We've seen several respond in our early service, and so we're looking forward to how God will continue to move this morning in our service right now. Listen, I have the pleasure to introduce our guest speaker for today. He comes from down south, although he is from God's country originally, another good Louisiana boy who is here with us this morning. I am thankful that our paths crossed. Back in 2015, I had been serving at a church in Pecayune, Mississippi, and the Lord had been stirring my heart, just kind of looking for something more, to serve with a group and a church that maybe was a little more aligned to how I felt like the Lord was leading my life, and God certainly did. He opened up a door for me to serve at a church in Petal, Mississippi called Petal Harvey Baptist Church. The Lord called me there, And that's where I got to meet our speaker for this morning, Dusty Dunn. While we were there, I'm thankful for how the Lord prepared my heart even for the days right now. As he was prepping me for what he knew he would have for my future. And so I can't think that church enough. I'm sure there'll be some some pedal Harvey folks or some pedal residents who tune in to watch this service at some point in time. They love their pastor and so I'm sure they'll kind of check out what that looked like for today. And so if they're watching or they catch up with this video at some point in time I certainly want to say thank you to the folks out at Petal Harvey for loving my family well and Certainly for investing in my life, but listen I can't thank dr. Dusty enough for how he also loved my family well and how he served so faithfully not just petal Harvey But also me as he helped me prepare for where I am today So I am I'm sorry to know that his better half could not be here with us today. Her name is Jenny They've been married for 22 years. He's got three boys, Jax and John and Jeb. Jax was here for the 830 service. I called him the favorite son, although if they watch this, I'm certainly just kidding about that. He served faithfully for the past 13 years as the lead pastor at Petal Harvey Baptist Church. Listen, will you give a warm first Baptist Church south to the welcome to Dr. Dusty Dunn. Thank you, Ben. Good morning. Good morning. I can guarantee you a couple of things. my kids are not watching this service, so it's okay, they're not gonna see that. Take your Bible and I want you to meet me together in the Gospel of John chapter number six. The Gospel according to John chapter number six, I'm privileged to be here. I don't take many Sunday mornings and go away from my church. I do some Sunday afternoons and some weekday stuff, but Sunday mornings, they're tough to give up, they're tough to not be there, but for your pastor and for you, I just, this is exciting for me. In John chapter number six, you and I have the opportunity today to talk about our rhythms a little bit. Now, I think we would all agree every single one of us has rhythms, right? I would imagine that whenever you wake up in the morning, tomorrow is gonna be a different Monday, It's going to be a new Monday. It's going to be a Monday you've never lived before. It'll be the first time you've ever been in tomorrow, and it'll be the last time that you ever get there. But here's what I know. Unless there's an anomaly in your life. Tomorrow morning, you know that on a Monday, you know what time you're going to get up. You know basically what you're going to put on. You know what you got to wear to either go to school or to work. You know that. You know what time you got to leave your house. You know where you're going. you know what you're going to do, you're going to have a different lunch than you had last Monday, you're going to eat in a different place, whatever, but you're going to have lunch, you know when you're going to get off of work, you know when you're going to get out of school, you know what happens when you get home, you know that you're either going to have some kind of ball practice or some event or some activity or maybe Monday nights or free night, but I would imagine this, I would imagine that your Monday tomorrow is going to look a lot like Monday look last week. Now, I don't want to say that rhythms are bad because rhythms can be good. For instance, if you wake up in the morning and part of your rhythm is you know you want to get up and you want to open God's Word and you want to read a little bit and you want to journal a little bit and you want to sing a little bit and you want to spend a little bit of time along with the Lord. That's great. You may not be a morning person in that rhythm. You may be more of a lunchtime person or an afternoon person, but a rhythm of walking with the Lord. That's not bad. That is 100% good, but here's what I think we all recognize. There is a very fine line between a rhythm and a rut. And at times, if you don't inject some life into that rhythm, some change, some energy, some new direction, if you don't do that, the rhythm kind of becomes the problem. The way that a rhythm can become the problem is, if you are so in tune with your rhythm that you're just kind of getting by in the day, but you're not in all of the work of God during those days, that rhythm becomes the right. By the way, do you know why you and I are at church on a Sunday versus a Saturday, like the Jewish people who came before us? Do you know why that transition happened? Because somewhere along the way, believers began moving worship services to Sunday, one day, because in the way that you have a yearly anniversary of your birth, that's your birthday. You have a yearly anniversary of some big event in your life, like a, like a mirror, that's your, that's your, that's your anniversary. Believers have always salt that we are going to worship Jesus on the weekly anniversary of the resurrection of Jesus. for two thousand years you and I have been gathering together and we have and people like us we've been gathering together to worship Jesus on the weekly celebrate every Sunday then is Easter for us but even that haven't you at times walked into church on a Sunday morning knowing that we are going to sing about Jesus and talk about Jesus and worship Jesus but it's become kind of a rut a rhythm a routine in that you show up but you're not really expecting the whole lot? What if today you said, I don't want a rut, a rhythm is fine, but I want energy in that rhythm. The only cure for you getting out of the rut and into a disciplined kind of growing faithful rhythm is you have to center your eyes back on the person and the work of Jesus Christ. That's what the gospel of John is designed to do. So the gospel according to John is the fourth of four or gospel accounts of Jesus' life. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are gonna tell us much the same stories, much the same events. The emphasis of all of those stories is gonna depend on what book and when they're written and how they're written and all that. You can see those clear differences, but they're all in harmony. And what you'll find is that John's goal in what John writes is so that you would understand the person and the work of Jesus in that, Jesus is the Son of God, And Jesus is the Messiah. Now when you and I, when we read the word Messiah in the Bible, when we talk about what is the Messiah, the word Messiah that they would have used in Hebrew, we would use the word Christ. When we talk about Jesus Christ, we are saying Jesus is the Messiah. Same word, interchangeable means exactly the same thing. So the person and the work of Jesus. By the way, John was always very clear about that. When you open up these chapters of John, John is going to put a little note right at the end of the whole book and he's going to tell you why he sat down and why he wrote this. He's going to say this. He's going to say that these things are written so that you may believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and that by hearing these things and knowing these things and believing in these things you could have everlasting life in his name. So, what John's doing, he's both evangelistic and he's apologetic. He is proving to you who Jesus is and then he's inviting you to believe in him. That's what John's doing. That's why if you are dealing with somebody, you've got a neighbor, you want them to come to know Christ and you're looking for a good book for them to read, John is tailor-made to present the case, give all the evidence, draw the claim at the end and then draw the net and say, now are you ready to believe in all of this? That's what the Gospel of John does. Now, I wanna lean into that a little bit. So I want us to think about if Jesus is the Son of God, we can be rational about this. We can be logical even about it. I mean, after all, if Jesus is the Messiah, he is the Son of God and he is the Messiah of God, what does that mean? Why is Jesus in the Gospel of John? Why was Jesus in the three and a half years years of his ministry, and the 33 and a half years of his life. Why was Jesus able to fulfill all of the Old Testament prophecy? About when the Messiah comes, this is what he will do. Why is Jesus able to fulfill all of those prophecies? Because he is the Messiah. Why is Jesus able to walk into moments of life that any of the rest of us could walk into? He could relate to people, he could walk into storms and sickness, and having all of us been through storms, and having all of us known or love somebody who's been going through sickness, how come Jesus can walk into those moments and he can heal or calm? Because he's the Son of God. How is it that Jesus could die on the cross for the sins of the world? It's because he is the Messiah who was sent to be the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. And how in the world could Jesus rise from the dead on the third day? How does he have the power to not only give up his life, but take up his life three days later and come back from the grave because he is the Son of God? All of this is rational. All of this is logical. So here's what I wanna do. I wanna read you a very short story. It's a snippet of stories in the middle of a lot of other moments that you already know. Nothing about today is gonna be fancy. Nothing about today is gonna be gotcha. Nothing about today is gonna blow your mind. Nothing about today is something you haven't already heard before, but here's what I want you to do. I want you to play a detective today. I want you to listen to what John says, and here's what John's going to do. John's going to give us some miracle moments in the life of Jesus, and he presents them almost like taking pearls and putting them across a string to form one necklace, all linked together, but the moments all kind of back up one against the other. And I want you to take all of that. I want you to ask yourself this question. If Jesus is God, and if what that means is that he was living in heaven with God, he is God, he was with God, he was God, he is God. And if he was willing to leave heaven and come on and put on a human body like we are, and if he was willing to live among us like he did, would there be anything extraordinary about his life that would be different from every other person you and I had ever met? Like if God were to put on a body and live among us, us, what are the kinds of things we could expect that he would do if he is God? What are the events that he would be part of that the only explanation for why he could do those things and nobody else can is because he is the Messiah, the Christ, the Son of God. And here's the deal. This is where you're a detective, right? You get to decide them because of all of this is written so that you may know that Jesus Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God, and that by knowing these things, you can believe and have everlasting life, you get to decide. If I'm watching Jesus do what he does, and if he walks like God, talks like God, acts like God, and does what only God can do, then you get to decide, is Jesus God or not? Now listen, this isn't for your mom or your daddy. This isn't for your kids. It's for them too, but this is for you. you. You get to play the detective. You get to decide whether or not you believe. And then you get to decide if you believe, do you believe enough that you're ready to stake your life on it? Now I'm going to give you one quick story. Here's the story. You've heard it before. In John chapter number 6, I'm going to begin reading in verse 15. You can follow along with me. This is a true story as it occurred from eyewitness accounts. The guy who wrote this this was there when it happened. Here's what he said. He said, therefore, when Jesus perceived that they were about to come and take him by force and make him king, he departed again to the mountain by himself alone. Now, when evening came, his disciples went down to the sea, they got into a boat, they went over to the other side to our Capernaum, which by the way, if you're trying to figure out what Capernaum was, Capernaum is a city that the ruins of it still exist today. It's a city on the edge of the Sea of Galilee Capernaum means the city of comfort. Capernaum is where Peter, James, and John where that's where they live. It's where they're fishing kind of their business work. There's still a pillar there that day. It's laying across the ground and it's inscribed in Hebrew as it was paid for and bought to hold up the roof of the synagogue. It's still there by James and John, the sons of Zebedee. That's this John. That pillar is still there. You remember the story where Peter was at his house and his mother-in-law is sick and Jesus heals his mother-in-law? You remember that during that same age, Jesus is preaching and the whole house is filled and those four friends bring their paralyzed friend and they crawl up on the roof of the house and they pull back the roof of the house and they drop that friend in the middle of the crowd where Jesus is and Jesus loves their faith and Jesus heals the man. And that house is still in Capernaum. That's where all of this happens. Now here's what it says. But it was already dark. And Jesus had not come to them. Then the sea arose because a great wind was blowing on the sea. And so when they had rode three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and drawing near the boat and they were afraid. But he said to them, it is I do not be afraid. Then they immediately or then they willingly received him into the boat, and immediately the boat was at the land on the other side of where they were going. Now let's pause a minute. So in the book of John, John records for us like a museum curator would put together a display for a historical event. John is going to give us seven miracles in the Gospel of John. They're going to start with Jesus transforming jars of water into wine for an event that he's at. And the implication is, if Jesus can transform water into something else, what can he transform you into? If he can change that, he can change you. John's gonna record seven miracles. Now, we understand that John is gonna build this whole case. He's like a lawyer preparing a case, why? So that by knowing these things, when you hear what Jesus said and you watch what Jesus did and you pay attention to the rhythm of how Jesus behaved, the idea was that if you know those things, then you will have the opportunity to decide whether or not you're gonna believe. That's what John's doing. Now, he also wants you to know this, that although John is only gonna give us seven miracles in this story, Jesus did a ton more than seven miracles. As a matter of fact, John is gonna give us a little tag note right at the end of the book, and he's gonna say it like this. John says, and there were also many other things that Jesus did, which if they were written down, One by one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain all the books that would be written. Think back to Psalm 23, the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. You've heard that at every funeral you've ever been to. There's an odd little line in there where it says, and my cup runneth over. Imagine what John's doing. He's holding eyewitness accounts of all the proof of Jesus' identity, and he takes our cup and he begins to pour. What John is saying, he says, I'm going to give you seven miracles that Jesus did. I'm going to give you seven statements that Jesus said. I'm going to give you seven names that Jesus called himself. That he is the good shepherd. He's the light of the world. He is the living water. He is the great I am. He is the way, the truth, and the life, and no man comes to the Father, except through him. John's building a case. And what he says is he could take all of that proof and start pouring it over into the cup, and it would fill the cup, and it would get above halfway, and it would get to the rim, and it would begin flowing out over everything, and it would just still keep pouring out. Why? Because the evidence is overwhelming as to the identity of Jesus. And here's what you have to know. Even then, as we're processing those, all of those things, John's gonna hit us with what is perhaps the greatest miracle in the history of the world, which is the resurrection of Jesus. Aside from everything else he did, he died on the cross for your sins. He was buried according to prophecy for three days and on the third day he rose from the dead. He was seen for over 50 days after that by over 500 additional eyewitnesses and then the multitude saw him ascend into heaven. And as John is telling us all of these stories what John is doing here he's reminding us that since Jesus is alive It's going to change everything. Why? Because miracles are awesome. Walking on water, raising the dead, feeding the multitudes, miracles are awesome. And listen, we can look fondly back on the miracles, but if the miracle worker himself is dead, the miracles were great historically, but they're over, right? Unless, though, the one who performs the miracles is himself alive. life, then the miracles aren't over because the miracle worker is alive. And if that's the case, nothing will ever be the same. Now prior to Jesus walking on water, which if you're taking notes in your Bible, it's a great place to just go ahead and put right there at verse 15 where it begins the story of Jesus walking on water, that's the fifth of the miracles in the Gospel of John. You'll have to notice though that in order to kind of get there, you have to understand the fourth miracle because we're verse 15 starts walking on the walking on water verse 14 concludes another miracle. Now let me tell you a little bit about that one. So in that fourth miracle here's what happens. Jesus is with His disciples. Now when Jesus is with His disciples that's kind of a broad term. I would imagine that in every generation of anybody who's ever heard anything about Jesus these these kinds of people are still alive and by the way they're in this room this morning. There are strangers. They may have been invited by somebody. They were there on the side of the field where Jesus is teaching these people. They don't know much about Jesus, but they're a little bit interested and they came by invitation. And so they're strangers, but they're listening. Some of you are like that. Others are kind of acquainted with Jesus' work. They've heard a little bit about it. And they're really ready to see if they get to see anything for themselves. ourselves. In the same way, if you and I were driving down the road and there was an accident that took place where we ought to be, kind of have our hands at ten and two and go on down the road. We would kind of start slowing down. We would pause. We would try to catch a glimpse of what's going on. There are people like that. They don't know Jesus yet, but man, they've heard that if you just catch a glimpse, you want to see something impressive. Then there were disciples. These people knew Jesus. They followed Jesus. They trusted Jesus. Some of you like that. And then there were those who were closest to Jesus, they were the apostles. None of us are apostles, but we can love Jesus with all our heart, our mind, our soul and our strength. So all of these groups of people still exist. Well at some point during this teaching occasion, Jesus was having compassion on the people and he wanted to feed them. And so everybody looks around, nobody's brought any lunch, they're in the middle of the wilderness, they've not eaten. It kind of makes you remember what it was like when the Israelites were led around in the wilderness for 40 years, and they didn't have anything to eat. So what did God do? He rained down bread from heaven, and he fed them with manna. So Jesus in the middle of that wilderness, there's somebody who's evidently brought a sack lunch. He's got two small Galilean fish. They're not big, they're small, they're sardine-sized. This is not a big meal. And it says he's got five loaves of bread. They're not like loaves of bread that we have that are long and you chop them all out. It's not in that. They're biscuit sized wafers. So he's got five biscuit sized wafers and he's got a couple of sardines and he's got a multitude. Now the Bible says that there were, it gives us a number. It tells us that there were 5,000 men there and you say, well, was it only guys? No. It wasn't only guys. The guys were just the only ones that were counted. You say, well, that sounds a little unfair. why wouldn't they count the women and the children there that day? Because remember when Jesus was born? When Jesus was born and Joseph took Mary and they went to Bethlehem, they went for a census. Why? Because the census required that the men be counted. So they just were in this habit. We count the guys. But here's the deal. If it's 5,000 men, if we just assumed that every man had a lady and every couple had a baby, and we would say, well, that doesn't really compute or work them with averages. Because we know that maybe there was some lady who brought a friend and so it was a couple of them coming. We know one guy was probably single. We know that one couple probably had one kid and one couple probably had five kids. But we're just working with averages. If there's 5,000 men, let's go say there's at least 5,000 women. And if there's 5,000 couples, we're at least going to say 5,000 kids. Jesus is feeding anywhere in the neighborhood of 15 to 20,000 people. The story of Jesus walking on water that was going to answer a question. As a question you didn't know you had until you get here. Look at verse 15. Verse 15 says it like this. It says, therefore when Jesus perceived that they were about to come and take him by force and make him king, he departed again to the mountain by himself to be alone. Now here's the deal. When you see those other stories, now this story is recorded in other gospel books, you're going to find this in the Book of Matthew, you're going to find it in the Book of Mark and when you're finding those stories, the stories end in a really weird way, if you read them outside of John. Because at the end of Jesus feeding those multitudes, which was an incredible miracle, it's reminding every Jew who knew the story of God providing bread for his people in the wilderness, and what has Jesus been telling these people in the gospel of John, he keeps telling them, he says, he says, I am the bread that has come down from heaven. He is the manna, and they're making these connections, right? So, in this story, in Matthew and Mark, it says that Jesus is pushing his disciples, which is weird, because he's physically grabbing them, he's held out his arms, he's grabbing Peter, James and John, and all the other guys, and he's moving them to the boat that they came in, he's physically pushing them in the boat, he's grabbing the boat, he's wading out into the waters of the Sea Galilee, and he's pushing that boat out into the middle of the water, and you're reading that story and you go, why would Jesus leave such an incredible moment. Why is he leaving in such a hurry when something great has just happened? Because verse 15 says, he perceived that they were about to come and take him by force and make him king. How did Jesus know they were about to do this? There's the they, the mob, the crowds, the fed. How did Jesus perceive that? Why? Listen, because he's the Son of God. And as the Son of God, he knows everything. You see, when you're reading through this, it's easy to see the moments where where Jesus is doing miracles like he's walking on water, he's raising the dead, he's feeding them all to these, easy to see those kind of miracles. Let me tell you another miracle that's happening in this story that we often bypass, that Jesus knew what was going on in these people's hearts. He knew what they were thinking, he knew what they were feeling, he knew what they were planning, he knew what they were motivated to do, and he knew where all of this is going. Now here's the sobering part of this. If Jesus knows their hearts and minds like this, then you don't have any secrets from him either.

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