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MASTERY AND MYSTERY - from Sunday, August 5, 2018

8/5/2018

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​Feeling in control, we're happy, believing we have mastery. However, we don't handle mystery too well. When the material and literal are replaced by the spiritual and poetic, we have to set aside our desire for mastery and embrace the mystery.

In the wilderness, the Hebrews have run out of provisions. They start complaining about God, never apparently thinking to ask God for help, or believing that God would provide for them (as God had done repeatedly in the exit from Egyptian bondage). They fantasize about sumptuous meals back in good ol' Egypt - meals that surely never happened - wishing they were back in slavery! They're sure they're going to die in the desert wilderness.

God hears their whining and belly-aching and tells Moses the divine plan. In the evening, they'll have quail galore for meat, and in the morning, more bread from heaven that they could eat. Why does God give-in so easily? Is this any way to manage a disagreeable people?

In John's gospel, Jesus had fed five thousand, walked on water across to Capernaum, and thought he was done with those people - the five thousand - who wanted to make him king. Yet they track him down in Capernaum and want more.

Is Jesus going to put on a magic show for them? 

He tries to teach them a lesson about himself and about how God is providing something amazing here. They just don't get it. The more important question: Do we get the lesson?

Get some answers and learn more by watching the sermon video below.

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9/3/2018 11:34:41 pm

We often consider science most of the time-- to see it to believe. We only believe once we experience it or we see it right before our eyes. But people from the past, especially from the time where Jesus is still on earth, his miracles and his power are more easy to believe in since he was present at that time. But still, people that were described in the Bible, still had a hard time believing God being omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient. What more the people of our time? Faith is what must we hold on to.

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