1. Philippians 4:7
June 24, 2012
First Baptist Church
Jackson, Mississippi USA

2. Wiersbe's Expository
Outlines on the New
Testament. Copyright ©
1992 by Chariot Victor
Publishing, an imprint of
Cook Communication Min.

3. *Barclay's Daily Study Bible
(NT)
*J. Vernon McGee's
Thru The Bible
*Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Bible Commentary

4. Matthew Henry Unabridged

5. The MacArthur New
Testament Commentary,
Copyright © Moody Press
and John MacArthur,
Jr., 1983-2007.

7. Philippians 4:7
7 “And the peace of God,
which surpasses all
comprehension, will guard
your hearts and your minds
in Christ Jesus.” Phil 4:7

8. Notice that we entered this
passage in anxiety, with
worry, and we came out of
the passage with peace.
*Between the two was
prayer.

9. Have things changed?
Well, not the circumstances.
The storm may still be
raging, the waves still rolling
high, the thunder still
resounding.

13. Although the storm has not
abated, something has
happened in us.
*Something has happened
to our soul and to our mind.

15. In our anxiety we want God
to change everything
around us.
"Give us this."
"Don't let this happen."
"Open up this door, now!"

16. But we come to the point
where we pray,
"Oh, God, change me!"
Prayer is the secret of
power. We enter with worry,
we can come out in peace.

18. “And the peace of God …
will guard your hearts and
your minds in Christ Jesus.”
God’s peace, like a sentinel,
by Christ’s intervention,
guards and patrols before

19. the heart’s door, preserving
it from the intrusion of
anxious fears
and
alarms.

20. God's peace guards us from
anxiety, doubt, and worry.

22. Phroureo (froo-reh'-o)
means “will guard” –
is a military term used of
soldiers on guard
duty.

23. *The picture would have
been familiar to the
Philippians, since the
Romans stationed troops in
Philippi to protect their
interests in that city.

24. Just as soldiers guard and
protect a city, so God's
peace guards and protects
believers who
confidently
trust in Him.

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28. 19 “When my anxious
thoughts multiply within
me,
Your consolations delight
my soul.”
Psalm 94:19

29. Even if you think you don’t
have very much to offer
God, but you give Him
everything,
it will be enough, more than
enough!

30. Even the smallest amount
placed in His hands can be
magnified and multiplied
beyond what we can
imagine!

31. The Feeding of the 5,000,
(Miracle of the Five Loaves
and Two Fish), is the only
miracle (apart from the
resurrection) which is
present in all four Gospels.

32. John 6:5-13
5 “Therefore Jesus, lifting
up His eyes and seeing that
a large crowd was coming to
Him, said to Philip, “Where
are we to buy bread, so that

33. these may eat?”
6 This He was saying to test
him, for He Himself knew
what He was intending to
do.

34. 7 Philip answered Him,
“ Two hundred denarii (8
months wages) worth of
bread is not sufficient for
them, for everyone to
receive a little.”

35. 8 One of His disciples,
Andrew, Simon Peter’s
brother, said to Him,
9 “There is a lad here who
has five barley loaves and
two fish, but what are these

36. for so many people?”
10 Jesus said, “Have the
people sit down.” Now there
was much grass in the place.
So the men sat down, in
number about five thousand.

37. 11 Jesus then took the
loaves, and having given
thanks, He distributed to
those who were seated;
likewise also of the fish as
much as they wanted.

38. 12 When they were filled,
He said to His disciples,
“Gather up the leftover
fragments so that nothing
will be lost.”

39. 13 So they gathered them
up, and filled twelve baskets
with fragments from the
five barley loaves which
were left over by those who
had eaten.” John 6:5-13

41. All 12 disciples failed the
test- of seeing the power of
Jesus to provide.
Jehovah Jireh – My LORD
shall provide.
PRO - VISION

43. Their faith failed but their
obedience did not fail –
“have the people sit down”.

44. God works through weak,
fallible humans.
Jesus delivered the food
through the 12 disciples.
God used Moses, the most
humble guy on the face of

45. the earth to deliver Israel
from bondage in Egypt.

46. He used Gideon, the
youngest child in the least
important family in
Manasseh (Judges 6:15) to
deliver Israel from the
Midianites.

48. He used David, the
unknown shepherd boy to
kill Goliath and deliver Israel
from the Philistines.

49. God uses the weak things of
the world to shame the wise
(I Cor 1:27).
Everyone ate as much as
they wanted that day.

50. God always provides ample
( not only a taste as Phillip
had said in v 7).
Jehovah Jireh – my LORD
shall provide!
PRO - VISION

51. No waste as Prov 25:16 says:
16 “Have you found honey?
Eat only what you need,
That you not have it in
excess and vomit it.”
Proverbs 25:16

52. Twelve basketfuls leftover,
Jesus takes care of His
workers.

53. The other Gospel writers tell
us that the disciples advised
the Lord Jesus – “lets send
them away”.
They wanted to be on the
board of directors.

55. They said, "Why don't You
send the multitude away?"
Our Lord answered,
"We're not going to send
them away. We're going to
have them sit down and

56. we're going to feed them"
(Luke 9:12-15).
These men who had elected
themselves to the board of
directors found themselves
waiters, serving the crowd.

58. And that is what they should
have been doing all the
time.
If you have fifteen thousand
people to feed, that is
certainly a liability.

59. If you have five loaves and
two fish and also the two
hundred denarii (8 months
of wages), then these are
your total assets.

60. If a committee would have
handed in a report that day
with those assets and those
liabilities, they would have
said, "There's nothing we
can do about this."

61. Someone has called a
committee a group of
people who individually can
do nothing, and collectively
they can decide that
nothing can be done.

63. A committee is also a group
of people who keep minutes
but waste hours.
So here is the committee
report: to feed them would
be impossible!

65. But what we need in this
equation is what is called
the mathematics of a
miracle!
We need Jesus!
If you have the five loaves

66. plus the two fish plus Jesus,
then we've got something!
Without Him, you don't
have anything at all.
John 15:5 (vs) Phil 4:13
Nothing (vs) Everything!

67. When you add Jesus to the
side of the assets, you have
more than enough!
In fact, you have twelve
baskets of leftovers which
means everyone had plenty.

68. There were twelve baskets
of sandwiches that weren't
even touched.
Do you know what this
means?

69. The grace He used would be
the one that was used in
every home: "Blessed Art
Thou, O Lord, our God, Who
causest to come forth bread
from the earth.”

71. We ought to give thanks to
God for our food, for it is a
mercy to have it, and we
have it from the hand of
God, and must receive it
with thanksgiving (1Tim4:4).

72. 1 Timothy 4:4-5
4 “For everything created by
God is good, and nothing is
to be rejected if it is received
with gratitude; 5 for it is
sanctified by means

73. of the word of God and
prayer.”
1 Timothy 4:4-5

74. When the people had eaten
their fill, Jesus instructed His
disciples to gather up the
leftover fragments.
Why the fragments?

75. At Jewish feasts the regular
practice was to leave
something for the servants.
That which was left was
called the Peah; and no
doubt the people left their

76. usual part for those who had
served them with the meal.
Of the fragments, twelve
baskets were taken up.
No doubt each of the
disciples had his own basket.

77. A basket was two gallons,
bottle-shaped and no Jew
ever traveled without his.
Twice Juvenal (3: 14; 6: 542)
talks of "the Jew with his
basket and his truss of hay."

78. (The truss of hay was to use
as a bed, for many of the
Jews lived a gypsy life.)
The Jew with his inseparable
provision-basket was a
notorious figure.

79. He carried it partly because
he was characteristically
acquisitive, and partly
because he needed to carry
his own food if he was going
to observe the Jewish rules

80. of cleanness and
uncleanness.
From the fragments each of
the disciples filled his own
basket.

81. “Qui panem contemnit in
gravem incidit
paupertatem”- was a usual
saying among them:
“He who despises bread falls
into the depths of poverty”.

82. Though Christ could
command supplies
whenever He pleased, yet
He would have the
fragments gathered up.

83. See how large the divine
bounty is; it not only fills the
cup, but makes it run over;
bread enough, and to spare,
in our Father's house!

84. The fragments filled twelve
baskets, one for each
disciple; they were thus
repaid with interest for their
willingness to part with
what they had for public

85. service.
2 Chronicles 31:10
10 “Azariah, the chief
priest of the house of Zadok,
said to him, “ Since the
contributions began to be

86. brought into the house of
the Lord, we have had
enough to eat with plenty
left over, for the Lord has
blessed His people, and this
great quantity is left over.”