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by: Lowell Harrup

06/23/2025

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Two people can go through the same experience and learn opposite lessons. The disciples had just participated in the amazing miracle of 4000 men (plus women and children) being fed from seven “loaves” of bread and a few small fish. Prior to this they had witnessed 5000 being fed with 5 loaves and 2 fish. Yet they interpreted a warning about Pharisees as being a concern by Christ for lack of food (v15). 

Of all the lessons they could have learned from their experiences, two are obvious:   It’s not what they had with them that was important, it was who was with them. And it was not how much they had with them, but how little. Those are operational principles of the Kingdom that have not changed.

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Two people can go through the same experience and learn opposite lessons. The disciples had just participated in the amazing miracle of 4000 men (plus women and children) being fed from seven “loaves” of bread and a few small fish. Prior to this they had witnessed 5000 being fed with 5 loaves and 2 fish. Yet they interpreted a warning about Pharisees as being a concern by Christ for lack of food (v15). 

Of all the lessons they could have learned from their experiences, two are obvious:   It’s not what they had with them that was important, it was who was with them. And it was not how much they had with them, but how little. Those are operational principles of the Kingdom that have not changed.

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