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From the miracle feeding of the 5000, we see a picture of the cross. Just as the bread was broken to give an unlimited supply of food to the multitudes, the body of Jesus was broken to give us an endless supply of life. (see transcript of teaching below)

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Transcript for “Jesus, Our Endless Supply”

Introduction

Welcome to session 5 of Beholding Jesus in His Amazing Grace. This session is entitled, “Jesus, Our Endless Supply.” I believe this may end up being a “Part 1.” We’ll see. 

I am going to talk about the feeding of the 5000, which is the only miracle of Jesus that is recorded in all four Gospels. [Matthew 14, Mark 6, Luke 9, and John 6.} Which tells me that this story is significant. I believe there are many reasons for that, but maybe the most important is the picture it gives us of the cross: the broken body of Jesus providing a continuous supply of His abundant life.

We’ll start with John’s account in John 6 –

John 6:1 – After these things Jesus went over the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias. [Luke’s gospel tells us that He went to Bethsaida, a small town in Galilee]

“After these things” – ok. We’re going to go on a long rabbit trail but it is leading somewhere; I promise! “After these things” indicates an order of events, but John was always less concerned about the order of events and more concerned about revealing something about Jesus, His purposes, and His nature. 

John skipped some events that occurred before the feeding of the 5000, so when he says, “After these things,” he is referring to things that he wanted to reveal about Jesus that actually weren’t in the other gospels and weren’t necessarily in chronological order.

You might have heard that Matthew, Mark, and Luke are called the “synoptic gospels,” meaning they are written chronologically. The synoptic gospels were written within a few years of the resurrection; while John’s gospel was most likely written at the end of the first century AD – much later than the others. 

John did not need to preserve a full historical record of Jesus’ life because that had already been accomplished.

So when we see “after these things,” in John 6:1, we must look at John 5 before we read the feeding of the 5000 and see what John wanted us to know about the nature and purpose of Jesus in John 5, because he is connecting it to the feeding of the 5000.

Chapter 5 begins with the healing of the man at the pool of Bethesda on the Sabbath, and then for the rest of the chapter, we see Jesus being persecuted for healing on the Sabbath and claiming to be God’s Son. Back in John 5 after the healing of the man at the pool of Bethesda- John wrote – 

John 5:18-20 – Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God. 19 Then Jesus answered and said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner. 20 For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that He Himself does; and He will show Him greater works than these, that you may marvel.”

So when Jesus healed the man at the pool of Bethesda, He was doing what He saw the Father doing in heaven. Jesus was revealing a spiritual truth: He and the Father are One.

38 years

So Jesus healed the man at the Pool of Bethesda – a man who wasn’t able to walk and had been in that condition for 38 years. This man is a picture of Israel under judgment. 

The only other place in the Bible that you see the number 38 is in Deuteronomy 2:14.  I want to share the context with you because it will circle back to Jesus, our endless supply. 

We know that the Israelites wandered in the desert for 40 years before they entered the Promised Land.

But two years into their journey from the Red Sea to the Promised Land while they were staying in a place called Kadesh Barnea, Moses sent 12 spies to check out the Promised Land.

After 40 days, they came back. What they saw was both amazing and terrifying. For example, it took two of them to carry on a pole one cluster of grapes! But they also saw giants in the land.

Re-reading this story this past week brought back a very powerful memory from 29 years ago when we were in Philadelphia at a clinic for Mark and I listened to this cassette tape of a testimony over and over and over again. I paced the floor going back and forth, listening and praying.

It was the testimony of a worship leader in Texas whose 10-year-old daughter had been healed of a brain tumor. He told the story of how God led them to the read account of the Joshua and Caleb in Numbers 13 and 14. Those two men were the only ones who weren’t afraid of the giants in the land because they trusted God.

This story helped me tremendously at that time. I was so frail and weak, but I was transformed by the word of God. I became so strong in my faith and in my trust in God. 

So back to the story – there were many times that God had told the Israelites that He was giving them the land of Canaan as an inheritance. For instance, 

Leviticus 20:24 –  But I have said to you, “You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey.” [“Milk and honey” was a poetic description which meant “abundant fertility.” The reference to “milk” suggests multitudes of livestock could find pasture; and “honey” suggests the vast farmland where the bees would have plenty of plants to draw nectar from. And God didn’t just say He would give them a land “with” milk and honey.” He said FLOWING! That tells us that they would be supplied with continuous provision.]

So when the spies came back, this is what they told Moses – 

Numbers 13:27-33 – “We went to the land where you sent us. It truly flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. [Giant grapes!] 28 Nevertheless the people who dwell in the land are strong; the cities are fortified and very large; moreover we saw the descendants of Anak there.” [These were giants] 29 The Amalekites dwell in the land of the South; the Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the mountains; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea and along the banks of the Jordan.” 30 Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.” 31 But the [ten] men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.” 32 And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature. 33 There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.” 

Ten spies saw themselves as grasshoppers, and THEN they appeared as grasshoppers to the giants! When actually, the giants had been terrified of the children of Israel because they had heard how God had opened up the Red Sea and delivered them. (Joshua 2:9-11; Exodus 15:14-15) 

However, Joshua and Caleb saw the giants for what they were. They said – 

Numbers 14:7-9 – “The land we passed through to spy out is an exceedingly good land. 8 If the Lord delights in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us, ‘a land which flows with milk and honey.’ 9 Only do not rebel against the Lord, [what is rebelling against the Lord? Not believing!] nor fear the people of the land, for they are our bread; their protection has departed from them, and the Lord is with us. Do not fear them.” [Sadly Israel’s response was one of UNBELIEF:] 10 And all the congregation said to stone them [Joshua and Caleb] with stones. [Which God prevented them from doing]

How did Joshua and Caleb perceive the giants? As bread – what is bread?! Provision! Supply! Those giants were God’s provision!

Boomerang

Many times in scripture we see prophecies and stories of the enemies of God’s people – their kings and rulers – bowing before God’s people, delivering the wealth of the nations, bringing home the captured children, and returning the spoils.

As we read those stories, we need to remember that those enemies represent spiritual forces of darkness because we don’t battle flesh and blood:

Ephesians 6:12 – For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

The ultimate shame on the enemy is what I call the “boomerang effect of God: What the enemy intends for evil, God turns around for good. Like Joseph – who a picture of Jesus – 

Genesis 45:5, NASB – [He said to his brothers who threw him in a pit – a picture of Jesus’s own people turning Him over to be crucified] Now do not be grieved or angry with yourselves, because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life…. [Joseph forgave them, just as Jesus has forgiven us]

Genesis 50:20 – But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive.

Joseph was placed by God in the position to provide the grain – the bread for food – for not only his brothers who had thrown him in the pit and left him for dead, but for everyone. This is a picture of Jesus, demonstrating His love for us at the cross. While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. And from His broken body would be an endless supply of life.

Colossians 2:13-15 – He has made alive together with [Jesus] Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, 14 having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. 15 Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.

When Jesus traded places with us at the cross, He disarmed the enemy from the one weapon he had: the law, the handwriting written against us. Jesus made a public spectacle of satan, as if dragging him through the streets on all fours in a triumphant victory parade.

Today, the enemy may seem intimidating, he and his minions may seem like giants in the land, but not compared to Jesus! The enemy is actually terrified of Jesus – and of us if we just know who we are. Are we grasshoppers in our own sight?

1 Peter 5:8-9 – Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, [“Like a roaring lion” – He’s not really a roaring lion because he’s a toothless foe – Jesus removed his teeth! “Our adversary the devil” literally means your opponent in a lawsuit (antidikos) who FALSELY accuses and slanders you (diabolos). He is -] seeking whom he may devour. 9 Resist him, steadfast in the faith…

What is “THE faith?” It’s the faith to believe that we are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus! It’s knowing that every attack of the enemy is illegitimate for us because Jesus has overcome the enemy’s hold on our lives. He cannot legitimately accuse us! Every accusation has been nailed to the cross.

So I’m just going to read to you a few scriptures about God’s boomerang affect and how what the enemy slings at us comes back on him. And remember – to See this through your New Covenant lenses – our enemy is not flesh and blood:

Psalm 7:14-16, NLT – The wicked conceive evil; they are pregnant with trouble and give birth to lies. 15 They dig a deep pit to trap others, then fall into it themselves. 16 The trouble they make for others backfires on them. The violence they plan falls on their own heads.

Psalm 140:9, NLT – Let my enemies be destroyed by the very evil they have planned for me.

Judges 7:21-22, TLB – [Gideon] Then they just stood and watched as the whole vast enemy army began rushing around in a panic, shouting and running away. 22 For in the confusion the Lord caused the enemy troops to begin fighting and killing each other from one end of the camp to the other, and they fled into the night…

Isaiah 49:25-26, NLT – But the Lord says, “The captives of warriors will be released, and the plunder of tyrants will be retrieved. For I will fight those who fight you, and I will save your children. 26 I will feed your enemies with their own flesh. They will be drunk with rivers of their own blood. All the world will know that I, the Lord, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Israel.”

Jesus is our Redeemer. He is God’s answer to the enemy’s attacks on us. He is God’s ultimate boomerang back on the devil. He was the plan of God before the foundation of the world to restore what was lost in the Garden. 

1 Corinthians 2:8, NIV – None of the rulers of this age understood [this plan] it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. [They had no idea it would backfire on them]

So this is my “boomerang” declaration: Every plan of the enemy will fly like a boomerang back on him, striking him in the head, like David’s stone going straight into Goliath’s forehead. He’ll fall back to the ground, and then he will gnash his teeth when he sees our restoration – and how we’re actually in a better position than we would have been had we never been attacked in the first place.

• SO…..To the degree that the enemy has stolen from us, to that degree and much more we will be restored because of Jesus.
• To the degree that the enemy has destroyed, caused chaos and devastation in our lives, to that degree and much more will our lives be rebuilt because of Jesus
• And as for the revival that we are praying for – To the degree that the lost have believed lies and fallen under deception, to that degree and much more they will know and believe the truth because of Jesus 

God’s restoration is always much more. And He will restore years that the locusts have eaten!

Back to the Giants

Back to the giants in the land in Numbers – God had promised the land to His people, so all they had to do was go in and take it because God was on their side.

God had delivered the Israelites from the Egyptians to bring them into the Promised Land, and it was not His desire for it to take forty years for them to reach it. According to Deuteronomy 1:2, it was a trip that should have taken eleven days. But because of their lack of trust and their rebellion, they wandered in the desert for forty years.

So two years into their journey, Moses sent the spies in. And then for the next 38 years they wandered in the desert because of their unbelief until every man over the age of 20, except Joshua and Caleb, died in the desert. [Numbers 14:29-30] Then Joshua and Caleb led the next generation into the Promised Land.

About 2.5 million people had been delivered from the hands of the Egyptians through the Red Sea – 600,000 men, not including woman and children [Exodus 12:37], but only 2 men out of all those original 600,000 men over 20 actually entered the Promised Land.

Deuteronomy 2:14 – [Moses said] “And the time we took to come from Kadesh Barnea until we crossed over the Valley of the Zered was thirty-eight years, until all the generation of the men of war was consumed from the midst of the camp, just as the Lord had sworn to them.” After the spies were sent out, it took thirty-eight years for all of the men twenty and over to die in the desert.

The Promised Land of rest

In Hebrews 4, the writer likened this Promised Land of the Israelites to our Promised Land of God’s rest when we cease from our works and place our trust in His grace to supply us with everything we need.

Hebrews 3:19-4:1 – So we see that they could not enter in [into the Promised Land] because of unbelief. [Unbelief in God’s promises to give them rest from their enemies and the unlimited supply of all their needs] 1 Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His [God’s] rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it. [The only thing to fear is fear of coming short of God’s rest.]

What does God’s rest look like? Let’s look at the Promised Land of the Israelites and just imagine:

Deuteronomy 26:9 – He has brought us to this place and has given us this land, “a land flowing with milk and honey.” [Abundant fertility!]

Deuteronomy 6:10-11 – When the LORD your God brings you into the land of which He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, [according to the covenant of grace which offered a righteousness of faith purely based God’s goodness – it was a promise – ] to give you large and beautiful cities which you did not build, houses full of all good things, which you did not fill, hewn-out wells which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant…

A friend of mine always says, “The reason there were giants in the land was for giant provisions!”

All of this speaks of a finished work! Everything was done for them! All they had to do was walk into it and enjoy it! Even their food would be easy to harvest.

The food of Egypt was garlic, leeks, cucumber, onions – ground food. They would have to bend down to dig for them with back-breaking labor. 

But the fruit of the Promised Land – vines, figs, olives, pomegranates, grapes – were there for the taking.

This land that was given to them was a picture of the rest we have in Jesus and His finished work! It’s a picture of grace.

After all these things…

So about 1500 years after Joshua and Caleb led Israelites across the River Jordan into the Promised Land, Jesus encountered this man with an infirmity for 38 years.  

Like the Israelites who faced the giants in the land, this man had been intimated by those who were stronger than he – those who could get to the water before he could. He may have been lying on a mat, but he wasn’t at rest. And then on the Sabbath, the day, Jesus showed Him what real rest is: 

John 5:8 – Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up your bed and walk.” 9 And immediately the man was made well, took up his bed, and walked. And that day was the Sabbath.

Like the Israelites under judgment who wandered for 38 years before entering the Promised Land – a land flowing with fruitfulness and provision – this man  – with one word from Jesus – began a brand new life at Bethesda, which, by the way, means “House of Grace.”

So – “after these things” – we get to John 6, verse 2 and the beginning of the story of the feeding of the 5000 – 

John 6:2 – Then a great multitude followed Him, because they saw His signs which He performed on those who were diseased. [In Matthew’s account of the feeding of the 5000, we see something very beautiful about Jesus – Matthew wrote “He was moved with compassion for them, and healed their sick.”] 3 And Jesus went up on the mountain, and there He sat with His disciples. 4 Now the Passover, a feast of the Jews, was near.

The Holy Spirit inspired John to mention that this miracle feeding of the 5000 happened during the time of the Passover. What a sad disparity. In John 5, the Israelites rejected their Passover Lamb, and now He has gone to the mountains to celebrate the Passover.

And He’s gone to Galilee where there were many Gentiles. This is a picture of Jesus being rejected by His own people and then taking the gospel of the kingdom to the Gentiles.

“To test them”

John 6:5-6 – Then Jesus lifted up His eyes, and seeing a great multitude coming toward Him, He said to Philip, “Where shall we buy bread, that these may eat?” 6 But this He said to test him, for He Himself knew what He would do.

Jesus knew He was going to provide. He knew He was going to feed all those 5000 men and their wives and children. 

But He put Philip in a position to face an impossibility and TO TEST HIM!

John 6:7 – Philip answered Him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, [Two hundred denarii all the money they had] that every one of them may have a little.”

One denarii was a day’s pay for a laborer.  Philip was saying – “Even if I worked for six months, I wouldn’t earn enough to give these people a crumb of bread!”

Here is Phillip in the presence of Jesus, who is INFINITE supply, INFINITE power, and the IMMEASURABLE riches of God’s grace, but all he could see was scarcity and limited resources. 

John 6:8-9 – One of His disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to Him, 9 “There is a lad here who has five barley loaves and two small fish, [Marks account tells us that Jesus ASKED what they had. He said: “How many loaves do you have? Go and see.” (Mark 6:38) He’s leading them with questions because He’s a because He’s a very patient teacher. Andrew said – ] but what are they [five barley loaves and two small fish] among so many?”

Philip saw the limited resources, and Andrew saw the magnitude of the need. But neither one of them was looking to Jesus. They had seen Jesus do miracles – like turning water into wine. But Like the 10 spies who had witnessed God open up the Red Sea, all they could see was impossibility. 

Broke and gave

John 6:10 – Then Jesus said, “Make the people sit down.” Now there was much grass in the place. [Sitting down is a picture of rest and a posture of receiving. While WE rest, HE supplies.]

Mark’s account adds the word “green” – they sat on the green grass. This makes me think of lying down in the green pastures that David spoke of. Green speaks of something living and fresh. Grass is what the Shepherd feeds the sheep.   I think of “green grass” as the fresh revelation of His love and grace that He feeds us from His living word. 

Mark 6:41 – [In Mark’s account, we read -] And when He [Jesus] had taken the five loaves and the two fish, He looked up to heaven, blessed and broke the loaves, and gave them to His disciples to set before them [the people]; and the two fish He divided among them all.

As I told you all in the last series, “Let’s Keep the Amazing in Grace” – in the past I used to teach that when the disciples distributed the loaves and fishes, that it multiplied in their hands – as if they were doing the miracle! But actually, that wasn’t correct. If we look in the original Greek, we will see why:

“Broke” is in the aorist Greek verb tense, meaning it was an instantaneous, one-and-done act. Whereas “gave” is in the imperfect tense – meaning it was a continuous act.

Jesus broke the bread once, and He never broke it again. However, the act of giving the bread was continuous. 

Do you see what this means? The miracle of the multiplication happened in Jesus’s hands between the breaking and the giving.

All the disciples had to do was take it from Him and disperse it. All the people had to do was sit and take, take and take some more – with 12 basketfuls left over! I feel like I am one of those disciples taking His bread and feeding it to you.

Those four verbs in Mark 6:41 – taken, blessed, broke, and gave are also the same 4 verbs used in describing what Jesus did at the last supper – He was speaking of what would happen at the cross:

Matthew 26:26 – Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, “Take, eat; this is My body.”

In the feeding of the 5000, Jesus was giving us a picture of what happened when His body was broken at the cross. That one act would never be repeated – it was one sacrifice for sins forever – but the life flowing from that one act would be continuous and everlasting – flowing like milk and honey.

One of the definitions of economics is “the allocation of scarce resources.” But with Jesus and the economy of heaven, there is no such thing scarce resources. There is endless supply. Jesus Himself is Our Endless Supply.  

When we look to Jesus for everything, that’s true faith.  Faith is so often taught in such a way that it becomes a barrier between us and Jesus.

If we have to have enough faith for Him to supply us with His grace, then faith becomes a barrier. But true faith is not looking at our faith – looking at our own hands to supply a miracle. Faith is simply saying, “Jesus alone is our supply.” 

Faith is not a bridge to Jesus. Jesus is the bridge. 

Endless supply

John 6:10-13 – [verse 10, cont – ] So the men sat down, in number about five thousand. [So we have 5 loaves, and 5000 men. 5 – the number of His endless supply of grace! Matthew’s account says 5000 men “besides women and children.” Add the women and children and you have about 20,000] 11 When He had given thanks, He distributed the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples to those sitting down; and likewise of the fish, as much as they wanted. [Then there is a detail in John’s account that is not recorded in any other Gospel – the reason He told them to gather the fragments – ] 12 So when they were filled, He said to His disciples, “Gather up the fragments that remain, so that nothing is lost.” 13 Therefore they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves which were left over by those who had eaten. 

Jesus said, “Gather up the fragments that remain, so that nothing is lost.” After I taught on the feeding of the 5000 back in the fall, I became fixated on this question: why would Jesus, who could multiply bread, be concerned with fragments left over?

And if everyone ate as much as they wanted, why did they need to gather the fragments? If everyone ate as much as they wanted, then what would they do with the fragments? Was it just to show that Jesus could provide more than enough? No. Because He gave a reason to gather the fragments: “So that nothing is lost.” 

There can only be loss if a thing has value. The opposite of loss is profit. Every fragment profits. every fragment has value.

I believe these fragments are revelations of Jesus – pieces of the Living Word. Every fragment – every glimpse – we have of Jesus profits us and supplies us with life.

Matthew 4:4 – [Jesus said – ] “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.” [Jesus Himself is the word of God for us. Jesus proceeded from the bosom of the Father. Jesus is our Bread from heaven.]

Even seeing Him as the “bread from heaven” is a revelation in and of itself. How often did I read about the feeding of the 5000 and never knew that Jesus Himself is the bread that the five loaves represented?

John 6:51 –  [Jesus said] “I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.”

John 1:14, 16 – And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth [grace – unmerited favor, and truth – the reality of who God is] … 16 And of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace.

The Word became sinless flesh so that He could be our Lamb of God. He had to become like us in every way, taking on human flesh so that He could be our sacrifice for sins forever. 

His body was broken for us at the cross to release an Endless Supply of grace upon grace and superabundant life and rivers of peace and living water.

And I believe with all my heart that the more we know Jesus in His grace, the more grace we will receive.  Before healing, Before provision, Before deliverance from our enemies is revelation of Jesus and His finished work on the cross because that’s where grace was first released. 

Emmaus – 4 verbs

I want to go back to those four verbs: took, blessed, broke, and gave – they are the same four verbs used in Luke’s account of the two on the Road to Emmaus after Jesus expounded the scriptures to them, and then He broke bread with them:

Luke 24:30-31 – Now it came to pass, as He sat at the table with them, that He took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them. 31 Then their eyes were opened and they knew Him; and He vanished from their sight. 

Jesus took, blessed, broke, and gave the bread to them, and then they knew Him –  “knew” is epiginōskō. “to know thoroughly” – to have full knowledge – to have deep revelation. When they took the bread and ate it, their eyes were opened, and they had full understanding of who He was.

Luke 24:32 – And they said to one another, “Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?” [When He opened the scriptures to them, their eyes were restrained from recognizing him, but their hearts still burned within them at the revelation of Jesus. It was more important that they see Him in the word than they see Him in the flesh.]

The more we know of our wonderful Jesus, the more our hearts will burn within us. 

The word became flesh and dwelt among us. Everything He did – everything we are learning about Him in the Gospels – is still true today. He is still our endless supply. There is nothing impossible with Him, and He will always provide more than enough. 

His restoration of everything we have lost is always much more – 120%, double, 30-fold, 60-fold; 100-fold! 

And we can take and take some more.   The people ate as much bread as they wanted. And the fragments were lagniappe – definition – An extra or unexpected gift or benefit. 

This reminds me of Marianne’s dream that there are three types of people. Those who don’t believe that God would be generous with us because we don’t deserve it. They refuse His grace.

Then there are those who take the gift, open it, see the $1,000,000 check on the top and receive it gladly. They are thankful, but they don’t look any further. The check itself is enough for them. 

But then there are those of us who keep digging in the gift bag and find that there is unlimited treasure. There are unlimited fragments. There is “bread enough and to spare” in the Father’s house. There is “music and dancing” in the Father’s house. 

Those who have the proper view of the nature of the Father as revealed in Jesus keep pulling out more and more and more and find that there is no end to the grace that He supplies. 

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