JESUS WALKS ON WATER AND BRINGS PEACE TO TROUBLED HEARTS!

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN

INTRODUCTION

Jesus walks on the sea
Jesus Is The Christ!        
When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone.

 II. The WITNESS OF JESUS’ MINISTRY
23. What was the effect of this miracle upon the crowd?

After Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand

When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone.

Jesus Walks on Water

And when even was now come, his disciples went down unto the sea,
And entered into a ship, and went over the sea toward Capernaum. And it was now dark, and Jesus was not come to them.
And the sea arose by reason of a great wind that blew.
So when they had rowed about five and twenty or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing nigh unto the ship: and they were afraid.
But he saith unto them,

It is I; be not afraid.

Then they willingly received him into the ship: and immediately the ship was at the land whither they went.

Comments by
F.B.Meyer
John 6:15-21

23. What was the effect of this miracle upon the crowd?

JESUS BRINGS PEACE TO TROUBLED HEARTS

The most conclusive proof that our Lord was no weak fanatic or enthusiast is afforded by the calm temper which refused the eager impulse of the crowds to make Him king. Here the temptation of the wilderness was repeated; and only one who was filled with the unwavering determination to do God’s will, could have refused this short cut to Messianic empire. Notice these withdrawals of our Lord to the calm of nature’s stillness and the bosom of God. If he needed such spaces of undisturbed meditation and communion, surely we do.
He knew when he pressed the disciples into the boat, that the night would be full of storm, but He did not hesitate to expose them to its peril; he was conscious of His ability to turn that storm to the highest use by coming to their help. His advent is often delayed, but he always comes. Delays are not denials. He is as near in the storm as though already in the boat. The storm-waves are His pathway. Be not afraid! The people hurried across the Lake in the early morning, conveyed in the boats which had come to take them off; but as Jesus sorrowfully perceived, their object was to receive His gifts and not Himself.

By Philippus Schutte

New Covenant Israelite! "And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert grafted in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;  Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee."  Rom 11:17 -18

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