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Though He is a Spiritual healer and leader, He is concerned with physical needs. Jesus had just sent the disciples out to preach and minister and when they got back He said, “let’s take a break.” However, the people followed them and Jesus “had compassion on them.” Jesus worked miracles and then even fed all of the people. He wanted the disciples to rest, He wanted the people to be healed, and He wanted the people to be fed- why? He cared about their physical needs.
- Internal – What does this passage teach me about myself?
If I am going to be like Jesus and the disciples, I should be willing to delay rest and food to work among people. Jesus told the disciples to take a break because there were so many people they couldn’t even eat. Jesus wanted the disciples to get the rest and food they needed, yet when the people followed them on the retreat He didn’t send them away. Jesus didn’t expect the disciples to go beyond what was physically possible, but He exemplified giving all you can.
- External – What does this passage teach me about other people?
They respond to having physical needs met. Verse 55 tells that when people recognized that it was Jesus they ran through the region gathering the sick. The church has carried on the ministry of meeting physical needs by feeding the hungry, supporting medical missions, etc.
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I feel it is important to remind us that Jesus ministered to physical needs by healing the sick and feeding the hungry, but His overarching purpose was meeting the great spiritual need. Meeting the great spiritual need must be the overarching purpose behind any ministry we do.
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