Now among those who went up to worship at the feast were some Greeks. John 12:21–26 will set the stage for our theme: seeing and savoring Jesus Christ. He’s worth singing to and he’s worth talking about. He’s alive, he comes to you, he speaks to you, he ministers to you, he meets your need, he knows everything about you right now in this room, and he’s here, and he’s magnificent, and he’s glorious. And seven the next.” But Jesus came to me this morning. How many baskets were left over when you started with these crummy fish? Just enough - one for each disciple the first time. I don’t care how much preparation you’ve done. He says, “Piper, I don’t care what sleep you got.
When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?” They said to him, “Twelve.” And the seven for the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?” And they said to him, “Seven.” And he said to them, “Do you not yet understand?” (Mark 8:17, 19–21) “Why are you discussing the fact that you have no bread?. And Jesus heard them talking about how disturbed they were that they don’t have bread.
And so I opened my Bible to the appointed reading, which was in Mark, and with a sense of desperation about whether I would have the physical and mental capacities to do what we have to do here today, I read the next paragraph.Īnd it was the story of the disciples, twelve of them, getting into a boat to go to the other side with Jesus, and they forgot to take bread (Mark 8:14–21).
He, as I sing to my little girl every night, never sleeps.Īnd so this morning, after I was trying to put the final touches on these few minutes together, I said to him, “Okay, I’m going to take some time - I don’t have all the time that I would like to take - but I will take some time just to let you talk to me.” And this is where he does that. And he certainly is more helpful to me than you are because you were all asleep when I needed you last night. I believe that Jesus Christ is as alive - in fact, ten thousand times more alive today - as you are. The following is a lightly edited transcript
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