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John 6:10
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Christ tells his disciples to make the people sit down, and as the other Gospels tell us, in groups of one hundred and then of fifty. There is great order. And that is part of this sign. Christ is going to preach to them again, and he is going to preach to them about repentance and remission of sin, and salvation, personal salvation. And even the orderliness will prove to illustrate his word. There is also a practical side to this. Because the people were sitting in groups, the nature of the miracle was all the more obvious: that the bread and the fishes to feed five thousand men plus the women and the children were produced by the power of Christ. If there had been a melee, confusion, crowds of people jostling, it might have been obscured. But order means the marvel of what took place is very plain to everyone. But it is also a lesson because it pictures obedience. The people placidly obey, and they sit in expectation, waiting.
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This placid obedience is a picture of salvation, because to be saved we come to Christ obediently. We simply repent of our sins, and put our trust in him, and see him as Saviour suffering and dying for our sin. We do not work, we do not achieve anything, we cannot. We do not bring or present anything to him. We have nothing to bring. And even the sitting in an orderly manner pictures the passivity of salvation. We come, we yield, we believe, we repent, we do nothing to earn or deserve.
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