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Yesterday<\/a> I observed that the Philistines ran an elaborate experiment to prove that God was real, but they did not follow that discovery with worship and obedience. I noticed that the disciples were guilty of much the same thing in Mark 8. Jesus had just fed the 4,000 and been challenged by the Pharisees to produce a \u201csign from heaven.\u201d (Feeding 4,000+ people isn\u2019t enough?) In the boat with his disciples, Jesus warns them metaphorically about the Pharisees:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWatch out for the yeast of the Pharisees.\u201d (Mark 8.15, NIV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The disciples, not all that bright, are trying to figure out what he\u2019s talking about and can conclude only that they are in trouble for not bringing more bread. Here is Jesus\u2019 rather stern response:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Knowing what they were thinking, Jesus said to them, \u201cWhy all this fussing over forgetting to bring bread? Do you still not see or understand what I say to you? Are your hearts still hard? You have good eyes, yet you still don\u2019t see, and you have good ears, yet you still don\u2019t hear, neither do you remember. When I multiplied the bread to feed more than five thousand people, how many baskets full of leftovers did you gather afterward?\u201d \u201cTwelve,\u201d they replied. \u201cAnd when I multiplied food to feed over four thousand, how many large baskets full of leftovers did you gather afterwards?\u201d \u201cSeven,\u201d they replied. \u201cThen how is it that you still don\u2019t get it?\u201d (Mark 8.17 – 21, TPT)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We know that God can help us and that he has helped us in the past, but we sometimes don’t apply that truth to the challenge we’re facing right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. (Isaiah 41.10, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yesterday I observed that the Philistines ran an elaborate experiment to prove that God was real, but they did not follow that discovery with worship and obedience. I noticed that the disciples were guilty of much the same thing in Mark 8. Jesus had just fed the 4,000 and been challenged by the Pharisees to … Continue reading Seeing but not Applying<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-QN","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3275,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273\/revisions\/3275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}