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Faltering Faith Forgets

Faltering Faith Forgets

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The Kingdom of Heaven is at Hand—The Book of Matthew · Pastor Adam Wood · Matthew 15:32 –39; 16:5–12 · October 12, 2025

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Alright, let's get our Bible, go to the book of Matthew chapter 15. This morning we'll be in Matthew 15 and Matthew 16. We'll start in Matthew 15 verse number 29. Matthew 15 verse 29. Matthew 15 verse number 29. The Bible says this, and Jesus departed from thence and came nigh into the city, the sea of Galilee, and went up into a mountain and sat down there. And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others. And cast them down at Jesus' feet, and he healed them. Notice the word cast. I don't know about you, but when I was reading that I kind of picked up on that word and thought to myself, man, how violent. Because it doesn't say set them down or laid them down, it says cast them down, which is what you do with a rock. Just threw them down at Jesus' feet. Not exactly compassionate, I would say. Verse 31, in so much that the multitude wondered when they saw the dumb to speak and maimed, to behold, the lame to walk and the blind to see, and they glorified the God of Israel. You know yesterday when we were out at the Fall for Greenville, one person, I can't remember who it was, had a conversation with someone, I think it was Ben, if I'm not mistaken, with an atheist type who said that he liked Jesus, and what he meant by that is he liked the humanitarian part of Jesus' ministry, and everybody loves that. Everybody loves the blind to be healed and the lame to walk and the dumb to speak and all of that. Everybody loves that. That's the part, Jesus giving us the things we want to make our life better is the part, and we all enjoy that. I'm not knocking that at all, but really the part that people are not so much interested in is when he starts talking, because that's when there's usually it rubs a little bit. Everybody wants to be healed and everybody wants to be successful and have a bunch of stuff, but when Jesus starts talking is when people start to find other things to do sometimes. Verse 32, And his disciples say unto him, Does that sound familiar to you, to our study in Matthew? Verse 34, And they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets full, and they that did eat were four thousand men beside women and children. And he sent away the multitude and took ship and came into the coast of Magdala. Would you pray with me this morning? And he said unto them, And he sent away the multitude and took ship and came into the coast of Magdala. Would you pray with me this morning? Our Father, we just come to you and want to just once again offer our service to you this morning. Offer the word that we've read here and will read further in just a minute. We just want to offer it to you, Lord, that you would bless even as the bread that was given by the disciples to you, and you blessed it and gave it back. So Lord, we want to offer the bread, the word of God to you. We ask for your blessing as we take it back from your hand that it might help us and bless us, Lord. We need your help and grace this morning. Help us to grow this morning. Help us to know you better. Help us to learn to fellowship and trust you more. As we look at these passages of scripture, Help us, I pray, to see ourselves and our patterns in the disciples that are so clearly spelled out in Matthew here. So Lord, would you guide our study this morning? We pray in Jesus' name, Amen. Now this should sound very familiar to all of us. This is the story of the feeding of the 4,000. And the feeding of the 4,000, it's difficult to pin down exactly how much time had elapsed between the feeding of the 4,000 here and the feeding of the 5,000 in Matthew chapter 14. What we do know, we do know some events that occurred between the two. In Matthew 14, after Jesus fed the 5,000, he crossed the Sea of Galilee, and then he heals a man. And then later he has a conversation with the scribes and Pharisees regarding tradition. We covered that pretty recently in our study. And then after that there was this Canaanite woman that has a daughter who is healed from a devil. And then we just read verse 29 through verse 31 where Jesus healed people, and the time is not clearly given. But what we do know is it hasn't been that long. Well Jesus' ministry was only a few years to begin with. But we're talking by a rough estimate, maybe one month to three months period of time. They crossed the Sea of Galilee a few times, going here, going there, teaching. And some of that time, it takes time to do that kind of thing and to teach and such. And so from one feeding of the 5,000 to the feeding of the 4,000, which has only been a couple of months probably, and the feeding of the 4,000 is when you read verses 33 down to verse number 37, 38, it's almost exactly the same. The words are almost the same. The activity, the process is exactly the same. The difference is there were 5,000 beside women and children. Now there's 4,000 beside women and children. Before there were five loaves and two fish, and they took up 12 baskets full of leftovers. Here there's seven loaves and some fish, and they take up seven baskets full. But the fact that Jesus had them sit on the ground was the same. The fact that he took it from them, gave thanks, break it, and then gave it to the disciples who then gave it to the multitude is the same. They were all filled exactly the same. They didn't let anything go to waste exactly the same. And when I come across passages of Scripture in my own personal Bible study that say the same thing twice, and I know these are two different events, and therefore it's recorded twice, and it's two very significant miracles. But when I see that twice and the Lord just puts the same thing again, it makes me wonder, why did you tell us this again? That's what I ask myself. And I think the reason is found in chapter 16. So let's start in chapter 16, verse number 1. The Pharisees also with the desadducees came, tempting him, desired him that he would show them a sign from heaven. And he answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, it will be fair weather, for the sky is red. And in the morning it will be foul weather, for the sky is red and lowering. O ye hypocrites, can ye discern the face of the sky, but can ye not discern the signs of the times? A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign, and there shall no sign be given it but the sign of the prophet, Jonas. This is again another portion that is repeated in Matthew 12, from Matthew chapter 12. And he left them and departed, verse 5. And when his disciples were come to the other side, they had forgotten to take bread. Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed, and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the desadducees. Now the reason he says this in verse number 6 is because they had just come out of a conversation with those two same groups, the Pharisees and the desadducees. So that conversation had just happened, and so that was fresh on their minds. And so when they got back to private, got back private and they got to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, that's when Jesus brought it up. Because he's still thinking about it. He's still thinking about the fact that these Pharisees and desadducees had asked this tempting question, which was a question with poor motives, but we'll look at that later. Verse 7. And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have taken no bread. Which, when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread? Now pause a second. If there is anything that the disciples should understand at this moment, given the recent past, is that lack of bread is not a problem. There were 12 and 7, 19 baskets left over beside the 9,000, not counting women and children, that had eaten the bread and the fish. There were 19 baskets f...

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