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(Following the Footsteps of Christ) Feeding the Five Thousand
Willie Mullan

William “Willie” Mullan (1911 - 1980). Northern Irish Baptist evangelist and pastor born in Newtownards, County Down, the youngest of 17 children. Orphaned after his father’s death in the Battle of the Somme, he faced poverty, leaving home at 16 to live as a tramp, struggling with alcoholism and crime. Converted in 1937 after hearing Revelation 6:17 in a field, he transformed his life, sharing the gospel with fellow tramps. By 1940, he began preaching, becoming the Baptist Union’s evangelist and pastoring Great Victoria Street and Bloomfield Baptist churches in Belfast. In 1953, he joined Lurgan Baptist Church, leading a Tuesday Bible class averaging 750 attendees for 27 years, the largest in the UK. Mullan authored Tramp After God (1978), detailing his redemption, and preached globally in Canada, Syria, Greece, and the Faeroe Islands, with thousands converted. Married with no children mentioned, he recorded 1,500 sermons, preserved for posterity. His fiery, compassionate preaching influenced evangelicalism, though later controversies arose.
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In this sermon, the speaker emphasizes the importance of not wasting time and encourages the audience to gather up the fragments of time. He uses the story of Jesus feeding the multitude with five loaves and two fishes to illustrate this point. The speaker also mentions the need to gather up the fragments of truth and not leave any of it lying around. He concludes by urging the audience to redeem the time and not waste it.
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805, Bridesmaid dreams of harbours mostly, from his lighthouse evermore, but to us he gives the keeping of the lights along the shore. 805 please. 805 John's Gospel chapter 6 please. John's Gospel and chapter 6 and you'll notice from your notes this evening that this is our 20th week in this series one can hardly believe that we're 20 weeks now following the footsteps of Christ how time goes past and tonight we're going to be with Christ when he said the 5000 that's what we've got to know in the following the footsteps and with John's chapter 6 and it's feeding the 5000 let me say this about this medical this is the only medical of all the medicals and I gave you the number of the medicals the other evening but this is the only medical of all the medicals that's found in each of the gospels Matthew records it Mark records it Luke records it John records it now that's very significant isn't it that this is the only medical that's recorded by each of the four gospel writers you see this medical has something to do with the son of God because John writes about the son of God and this medical has something special to do with the king of Israel for Matthew writes about the king of Israel and this medical has something special to do with the servant of Jehovah for Mark writes about the servant of Jehovah and this medical has something to do with the son of man because Luke writes about the son of man so that you can see that it's a very special medical then I think it's a very, very special medical because this medical has 5,000 witnesses I want you to get the hold of that and I mean that every one of them witnessed it it's not just the crowd you know that the half of them couldn't see in from the back oh no the bread came out for them they thought, they handled it they faced it so we have 5,000 witnesses for this medical great pity for some of the modernists who do not believe in medicals I can assure them there were 5,000 witnesses here yes, so it's very special and we're at John chapter 6 verse 1 just to get this proper connection here after these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee which is the sea of Tiberias sometimes it's called Galilee, sometimes it's called Tiberias because the city of Tiberias is right on the shores of Galilee and I lived in Tiberias for a while and a great multitude followed him I want you to try in your mind's eye to see this multitude following him and a great multitude followed him because they loved him well not on your life it doesn't say that great multitude followed him because of sinners they had need of him not on your life great multitude followed him because they were fleeing from the wrath to come not at all it says a great multitude followed him because they saw his medicals which he did on men that were diseased they just thought that he was a sort of super magician that's all the interest they had and if you have thought of super magicians left in the pulpit bluffing the folk you can still get clouds to follow can't you? because I can take you to where it happens some of the big healing champions in America is a partial bluff shall I say diabolical bluff I know this that they have sent from New York to California three thousand miles away it is and they have brought tramps from California down and out, bums they call them in America and they have brought them in a plane a plane load of them and they train them to go into this tremendous tent in the evening with a white stick or somebody to wheel them in in a wheelchair or somebody to carry them in in a stretcher and if you were in the meeting and the man is weighed up alive and he's got a white stick and he's tapping all round him and he comes up here and this fella begins this hallelujah business and puts his hand on him and the fella drops the stick and says I can see and you'd be bluffed you know and there are childs that go to this sort of diabolical magician business so you just be very careful that you're not sucked in because you're not beyond bluffing you know you just be sure but the multitude was not following Jesus here because they loved him they were not following him because as sinners they had a deep dire desperate need of him they were only following him because they liked this exhibition of power they thought him a sort of super magician or a super physician there was no word at all about him as their own personal savior let's get that very clear now before we go any further so it seems that a great multitude followed him because they saw his miracles which he did on them that were diseased and Jesus went up into a mountain there he sat with his disciples and to pass over a feast of the Jews well it used to be called a feast of Jehovah but the Jews had so taken it over and added their own little bits to it it's called a feast of the Jews now when Jesus then lifted up his eyes and saw great company come unto him he sent unto Philip now why Philip? Matthew was there and John was there and James was there and Andrew was there and Peter was there why Philip? why pick Philip up? I don't think there's any real reason for that at all you know I have a school out at the hill and I think we have 27 or 28 now young preachers coming out there and sometimes I pick one out you know because I feel that he's put something down on paper that I can make use of for the rest of them and he goes through a sort of kind of drilling for me but it's good for everybody else and he's got enough a sense to take it I can remember Dr. Ironside coming in in the morning when we were boys and he would say to me do you know the difference between God's message and God's truth? and I always learned when I was a young fellow if I didn't know to say I didn't know I don't think anybody can blame you for your ignorance you know but they can blame you if you try to bluff and I would say no sir I don't know he could pick anybody out I think this is how Spurgeon taught at the school you know he would walk into the school of scholars and he would just take one fellow out just you he would say stand up and preach to me now on today well mind you that's a bit tight going isn't it you would wonder what he would say and he had a little man called Tom Watson there who was only about four feet two and Spurgeon came in one day and said Tom stand up and preach on Secaus and Tom stood up and said Secaus was a little man so am I he was stuck up at me and I'm stuck low and old Spurgeon said you know in that moment of truth he could see the brilliance of Tom Watson he says Tom you'll do and I think the master just picked anyone of them out I think he was going to teach them all a lesson it just happened to be that he took two or three that's all there is in it when people then lifted up their eyes and saw great company come on to him and he says on to Philip when shall we buy bread that these make you know it says in the next verse and this he said to prove him you know he's one to just see what the answer would be and you can see Philip there you can see him Philip answered him 200 penny worth of bread is not sufficient for them and the penny that's mentioned here was a day's pay in those days and it would take 200 days pay to give them just a little Philip said that every one of them might take a little you see the situation here and you can see the interrogation and you can see Philip doing his sums he's calculating this up but let me say this he's calculating without credit don't you do your sums like that when you are faced with a problem son or put all the digits in I don't mind get all the units in or say but put five in and you'll find the answer will be different leave Christ out of your calculations and you're going to be in a bit of a muddle sometimes the Lord proves his people you know I think you can remember when Joshua came to the walls of Jericho and I was down at the walls of Jericho one day and I walked along the top of the walls you know the book says that the walls went down it doesn't say they fell down I hear them all saying they fell down the walls of Jericho had fallen down been a bigger problem for the army you know the walls of Jericho went down they went on down into the earth like that and they're digging them up now and they're all there yet they're finding them walked along there but you know when I was looking at these walls I could see the problem that Joshua had he's coming with his army just out of the wilderness and the walls are high and the walls were broad and he knows he can't go through them and he knows he can't go under them and he knows he can't go over them he's facing a problem but it says in Joshua it says that when he was by the walls of Jericho a man appeared between him and the problem he says to him who are you? he says I'm the captain of the Lord's host if you can always get Christ in between you and the problem it won't look so bad you know in fact it is no problem at all sometimes God proves his people by giving them a problem letting them see the problem seeing if they'll get Christ in between them and the problem sometimes God proves his people by allowing disappointments to come their way I can see Gideon marching down the road with 32,000 men any man that could muster 32,000 today in Ulster I would think he would be very pleased with himself for they're scattered into little factions now and they all want to be bosses somebody said to me the other day we have all chiefs and no Indians anymore but Gideon had 32,000 and when God weeded them out he was left that afternoon with 300 men my if you were brought down to 300 from 32,000 would be a bit of disappointment you've got to see the Lord then haven't you? sometimes God proves his people by allowing them to face problems by allowing them to have great disappointments by asking them questions about the circumstances of the day and if you just calculate with your own understanding you'll be friend in a fog that's what he did, he's just trying to prove him I want you to see this verse 6, this he said to prove him for he himself knew what he would do oh I love that bit you know oh can I take time to get that bit over to you you know the Lord Jesus knew why these people were following him they didn't block them you know he knew they were just there to see the show it wasn't that they were in love with him and yet although he knew all that about them he knew their needs used at that moment too and before I knew it properly he had already planned for it because I can tell you that he plans for you before you ever think about your problem he had it all set up he knew what he would do he knew that I heard the lady on the radio this morning thoughts for the day it was and she said Jesus had lost his faith it's a great pity they let these people on to open their mouth to reveal their ignorance because what a loss she must have been my what dopes we have to listen to on the radio and what greater dopes we have to look at on the TV what a parcel of them we have who told her of the loss of faith does she not have a bible it's a pity somebody wouldn't give her John's gospel because I think you see that this gospel was written specially to let us know what Jesus knew and they tell every one of you in here that there are no limitations in Christ's knowledge and so he just knew what he would do trying this fella out to see what he is and where this fella is remember all the rest of them are he's just trying them out I wonder how many of you know what we have been through in John's gospel up to now well I'll go over it for you without turning the page in chapter 1 he knew everything about Nathanael when Nathanael came he said to him behold and it's the life in whom is no doubt Nathanael said thanks by me Jesus said before me knew everything about Nathanael astounded him when you come to chapter 2 it says there's a crowd at Jerusalem but Jesus did not commit himself unto them for he knew what was in mind he knew what that crowd was about when it comes to chapter 3 Nicodemus comes into his presence at night with this lovely pious talk we know that thou art a teacher come from God for no man can do these miracles that thou doest and Jesus shut up and said listen you when you talk to me like that you need to be born again he knew this big religious man's need you know when the big religious man didn't know it himself and in chapter 1 he knows everything about Nathanael and in chapter 2 he knew the men that were around him in Jerusalem and in chapter 3 he knows everything about Nicodemus and in chapter 4 he said to the woman go call thy husband she said I have no husband and in this thou sayest right for thou hast had five husbands he was never in Samaria before he had never talked to this Samaritan before she had never been out of Samaria he knows she's had five husbands and he whom thou know hast is not thine husband would you like to look at chapter 5 let me show it to you it's just on your page there it's after a pool of Bethesda isn't it and there's a man lying by the pool and it says in verse 5 and a certain man was there which had an infirmity thirty and eight years now at that moment Jesus Christ is only thirty one or thirty one and a half this man's older than him he's thirty eight and verse 6 says when Jesus saw him lie his aunt knew that he had been there a long time in that place Jesus knew all about him Jesus knew all about Nathaniel Jesus knew all about the clouded Jerusalem Jesus knew all about Nicodemus Jesus knew all about the woman at the well Jesus knew all about the man at the pool Jesus knew what he would do in John 6 now I can go right through the whole chapters of John and do every one of them for you they would take too much time wouldn't it you'd do the rest wouldn't you let me help you with one or two have a look at John 13 John 13 verse 1 now before the feast of the Passover when Jesus knew that his hour was come he knew all about it now I want you to get this bit when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should be part out of this world unto the power which she talked about this morning about him losing his way this woman doesn't read this book just before he went into Gethsemane Jesus knew that his hour was come and that he would go to his house or somebody would tell her he's just a thump they pick up somewhere and let her on the radio that's what you have to live for for the day pray for the day that's what that is have a look at this now it says here verse 3 Jesus knowing isn't that lovely that the father had given all things into his hands he knew that you know and that he was come from God and went to God he hadn't lost his way it's the pity of this woman isn't it they think she's on her way to hell yet that's no case to be on in the morning thought for the day I hope you don't swallow this stuff in the morning my dear friends it annoys me to see some of these cases that get on they're so dark and far away from God they could help nobody the Lord never lost his way he knew that he came from God he knew that he was going back to God get him in here or Godfather or Godfather Godfather never puzzled him he knew he would manage it all right my dear friends it does annoy you now look at every chapter sometime and find the knowledge of Christ you see this is the plan of repotency there's no confusion about him he just knows what he will do and there's no hesitation about it and there's no limitation about it and we're back at John chapter 6 and verse 8 says one of his disciples Andrew Simon Peter's brother says unto him there is a lab here which hath five barned loaves and two small fishes and if they'd only shut up there it would have been a great thing but they had to go on blathering but what are they among so many now Andrew has to be commended for searching out at times he's Andrew the finder you remember it was Andrew that found Peter and that's a wonderful thing and although there were 5,000 people here spread over this mountainside it was Andrew who found the lads with the five loaves and two fishes he's Andrew the finder but then he's Andrew the failure you see I think if you look at Philip you can see that his eye is on the multitudes he'll never see them I think if you look at Andrew his eye is on the meat five loaves and two fishes but what are they he just sees the meat the other fellow just saw the multitude neither of the two of them saw the master of all the reproach betide him don't be keeping your eye on the crowd too much you know or on the meat either think you keep your eyes on the master or you'll make a fool of yourself never lose sight of Jesus old W.P. Nicholson used to say every night all pilgrim bound for the heavenly land never lose sight of Jesus don't let the multitude or the meat or the money keep your eyes on the master and so you can see that Andrew was the finder but he was the failure I think it was a lovely thing he said there is a lad here you know I learned lessons from that I love to see the lads at the meeting the lad in the middle of the two boys there the lads in the meeting because you know it was a lad who went up the mountain with his father Abraham and Abraham said to the servants while I and the lads were yonder in Russia it was a lad who submitted to giving his body a living sacrifice it no mistakes about that you know it was a lad who sacrificed everything he had that day that the needs of the clod might be met remember it was a lad that lifted the hands of Samson put them on the pillars Samson said to him put my hands on the pillars it was a lad that did that I won't ever despise the lads and don't leave them at home while the lads bring them to where they'll get something to go on on won't forget that it was Andrew who found a lad David was just a lad when he met Goliath yes I think that you can see the proving of Philippians and the plan of the potentate and the answer of Andrew now we're at verse ten we come to the command of Christ and Jesus said make the man sit down very thrilling to me you know first of all I can see the grace of our Lord Jesus you know he knew all the unbelief that was in all these apostles and all around them this fella he can only see five rows and two fetters what are they and the other fellow is calculating it up and he says we'll never do it and although he saw the unbelief in their hearts and he knew the coward were not in love with him it was grace that said make the man sit down oh yes you know the Lord blesses us not because of us but in spite of us that's what I always believe I don't think that the Lord blesses here because of me I think he blesses here in spite of me that's what I think you know I can see the grace of the Lord Jesus and what's more I can see the patience of the Lord Jesus and sometimes it hits me very hard because I've got very little patience with a whole lot of folk very little we talked him in the other night into the vestry where he says you know I'm doing very well these days with the Lord I'm going on great he says it's just a wee thing I'm going to court on Thursday and I owe £30 if I could get that I says clear off you're mooching for £30 and you're trying to use the Lord to get it get out I have no patience with those boys none at all I have no time for folk like that maybe I should have more but I haven't I know my Lord could see into the hearts of men just like that and sometimes I can see and I just haven't the patience they don't think they should be allowed to use the meeting just for their own amusement yes and yet the Lord was very patient here with them you know this is the Lord's command isn't it make the men sit down you know I don't know if all the apostles jumped to attention or not maybe Philip went away beside Peter and said what's this all about it's 1,000 folk here you know some people always go to question what the Lord says we fellow said to me once why why could Adam not eat of the tree simply because the Lord told him not to do it another fellow said to me why had Noah to build the ark when there was no rain simply because the Lord told him to do it why do believers get baptized simply because the Lord teaches it why do women cover their heads and shut their mouths when they're in the church of God because the Lord tells you to do it that's why see them wandering in places into the church of God now no hats on they don't care they'll not do it here that's wandering I don't mind a non-saved person coming I have no jurisdiction over you but if you're a member here you'll obey the word of God or you'll get out just because the Lord told you to do it that's all there's no whys above it you don't need to question the Lord if he says command them in to sit down and you need to command them to sit down you just leave the thing in his hands obey the Lord he was testing the obedience of all I think there's something more to learn from that you know our God is the God of order he's not the author of confusion I was preaching at a certain place and a certain man came up to the meeting to argue with me he goes to a meeting and he says you know we really rejoice in the Lord and I says what do you do? he says you know if you can play a mouth organ you bring it and he says if you can't do anything you can bring the bin lid and you can plop it and I'm told that they walk around there with accordions and mouth organs and bin lids and bugles and the noise that's going on I said to him I'll tell you this before long you know where you'll be in the lunatic asylum and I'll tell you that's where he is tonight that's the sad bit of it yes you can't go on like this you know our God is the God of order he is not the author of confusion that is nothing but confusion that's not God at all and put your head away he says make them sit down because you know if you're going to be blessed you'll have to sit down at his feet there's things to learn here yes I want you to get this I think you can see the proving of Philip and the plan of the potency and the answer of Andrew and the command of the Christ I want you to see the marvel of the miracle you know I think this is marvelous it says verse 11 and Jesus took the loaves if we love give them up five loaves two fishes and when he had given thanks leaving us an example to follow isn't it and watch this very carefully distributed to the disciples I think I can see these twelve apostles standing around and waiting for their peace to come and the disciples for them that were sat down and likewise gave the fishes as much as they would there's a tremendous truth here and I learned it when I was a young fellow you see if I'm to feed this flock and I've been doing this for twenty years and we have barricades and we have bus flights and we have Belfast in flames and we are now almost wet tonight and we have the clouds still I know that a few have been tendered this evening and we understand that but I know that if I'm to feed this class that I will need to go to Christ and get the stuff from him and I will need to take it for you in a way that you can get a hold of it I mustn't throw it over you you know that's why the milks are put out for you so that you can grasp it and when you've got that I've got to go back again to him because I have nothing more to give you I'll go down the street tonight and I'll talk to myself on the way down Lord you'll have to help me for the next Tuesday that will come because don't you think that I have a dogmas reason you know I look on myself as a sort of telegraph boy Mr. Edgar who's one of the managers of the post office I can remember him when he was a telegraph boy you know almost clear as anything I can remember him on an old red bicycle and I can remember him laying the bicycle against Dr. Warnock's window it was next door to the post office and I can see Harry Edgar clear today he was a young fellow, smaller than Joseph on this red bicycle he was the telegraph boy he just took the telegrams and if they were sad and sorrowful ones he had to take them and if there were good news about somebody winning the pools maybe they hadn't got any pools in those days but you know what I mean well he took the telegram sometimes I think I'm just a telegram boy and I need to go to the Lord to see what he wants to say sometimes I feel I'm like a butcher well he really is in the meeting he's a baker and he is sitting there two are in here and it isn't a baker not very much is it well he takes the bread and takes it on I need to go down to the bakehouse and get it ready for you I'm just a baker around here or you can put it another way you know the apostles were weeping on the clouds they went through the kitchen to where Christ was then they came out and were weeping on the clouds, it's a whisper around here but don't ever get any ideas about me you're getting any food, I must have got it from the Lord we just thank him don't bother about the telegram boy or the baker, or the waiter because when he's delivered what he has he's bankrupt until he goes back to the Lord again this is how the Lord blesses his people he has picked some of us out you know and given us the job of weeping on his people what a blessed job it is but you need to have food for them you know it's not bin lids they need it's bread and I want you to get the hold of this I want you to get this you know and that's the importance of this performance there are lessons for us to learn it says this, verse 12 where they were filled would you like that sir you know it was it was Philip who talked about a little wasn't that just like him he says you know we could only give them a little or it was and it was Andrew who said but what are they what are they yes you know Philip says that every one of them may take a little oh that's not the way the Lord feeds his sheep not to pity and for Andrew to say what are they amongst the many you know the five loaves and two fishes in the hand of the lad was only an afternoons meal but the five loaves and the two fishes in the hand of the Lord is a different thing they were filled I want you to get this let's get the hold of this it's the word when that thy master when they were filled he said unto his disciples so you see when he said it and you see to whom he said it he's not talking to the clove now he's talking to the twelve apostles and you can see what he said he said gather up the fragments that remain that nothing is lost therefore I gathered them together and filled twelve baskets did you get the hold of that because you know these fellows were just waiters for a while and they were running to the clouds and running back to the Christ and running to the clouds and running back again I'll tell you you know when you do the Lord's work the way he wants you to do he'll give you a basket home for yourself there were twelve baskets full yes Peter there's one for you now you did well there's one for you there are twelve baskets because I've always found that if I put my nose in the book with the one determination of getting the master's message to feed the people of God I'll get a pick for myself too maybe I'll even get more yes I think that's very true so you're not wasting your time I want you to notice the saying of the Savior here gather up the fragments oh I think you could preach on that you young preachers I think you could preach it like this gather up the fragments of time do we waste time? do we let it lie around us at times? you're not there if you're going to be any use for the Lord you'll have to gather up the fragments this time is shorter I got a letter from Dublin once they said the meeting had forty minutes of free time I don't understand that language I'm absolutely ignorant about what free time should be so I rang, I said see oh he says we just fool around and maybe some of them have seen and all that I said it's not me you're looking for I'm not coming to that meeting I haven't any time to waste this book that I read others says that I'm to redeem it gather up the fragments of time you know I sleep in another room from the rest of all the family shut up not because I'm a queer case because if I wake at four in the morning I put the light on and start the Bible and I'm not disclosing anybody else I can't afford to waste time I'll tell you this if I was looking at the book at the closet at four in the morning I shouldn't tell you that yes you're not to waste time gather up the fragments do you see and you say gather up the fragments of truth you know when you begin to expand this book make sure that you don't go and leave some of it lying around young Geoffrey got up the other Sunday morning at our morning meeting and he preached on Calvary do you think everybody was filled and I was filled preached on the man of Calvary preached on the midnight of Calvary when the darkness was over the light preached on the message of Calvary and after the meeting I said to you know this we were at the table this morning and I wondered why you left out the memory of Calvary and I'll tell you what he said sitting there I'll tell you what he said he says pastor I'm stupid now he's far from stupid he's a blessed young man who's coming on and who's got better days but I was trying to teach him that there were fragments that he had left lying around you have to gather up the fragments of truth don't leave them lying around have another look at it have another look at you again when you've done your best sometimes when the Lord breaks the message up for you and you're filled you're almost partial it up have another look now second look, third look, fourth look for the fragments there need to gather up all the fragments of truth and you need to gather up all the fragments of trust you need to trust the Lord I was going to Castle Dunnington last week when they singed him up on the board council for the day he looked at it you know never said nothing there was a person beside me talking away I had to close my eyes and said Lord I need another plan a plan's a small thing for the Lord you know well give me a freaky thing if I need it don't I he says Lord I need a plan I had felt for a long time I should go to Castle Dunnington and I felt I had the message of it so I walked down the stairs and said to the girl at the desk is this thing off for the day, yes where's the nearest place and the next plan Birmingham, that's a good deal put me on to Birmingham so I got the plan and when I'm on the plane I close my eyes and say Lord there was a man to meet me at Castle Dunnington I don't know how he's going to know to go to Birmingham but you've got to send him don't be afraid to trust the Lord and when I get off at Birmingham the boy with the car's there gather up the fragments and cry in there get all the trust into it don't be afraid to ask him for a plan that's nothing to ask him for a man to be sent from Castle Dunnington to Birmingham that's nothing if I mean business for the Lord that's simple gather up all the fragments and you know you need to gather up all the fragments of Thanksgiving too some of our young ones come to me bless them and say Pastor, I can't pray enough you know I think that the first thing we learn the children I hear them with all we want you know if I would give her something her mother would say thank you and she would make her say thank you and it's just perfectly right to now there's a whole lot of things that you could thank the Lord for you could close your eyes and say thank you for saving me thank you for keeping me thank you for your love thank you for your grace thank you for your mercy thank you for your compassion thank you that you're the great shepherd of the sheep thank you that you're my great high priest thank you that you're my advocate thank you that you're the captain of my salvation thank you that your name is wonderful and comforting you know I can go on forever so long I'm really bothered at all you close your eyes when you try to thank the Lord you see how you get on you're not be stuck enough you're all booked full full gather up the fragments of Thanksgiving there's a whole lot there you know I want you to see this just before we stop this evening you see the proclamation of the people here it says this verse 14 then those men when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did said this is of a truth that facets that should come into the world verse 15 says when Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force to make him a king he departed again into a mountain himself alone you know these people that were only looking for these sort of super miracles that's all they wanted you know they're quite willing to say you know this is not prophecy this is the one that Moses talked about the great teacher there are people who come to me and say you know the Lord the great teacher and there are people who want to take him you know and make him king of their country for their own ends not because they're in love with him or anything just for their own ends why even the disciples for the very last moment said will God at this time restore the kingdom to Israel they were only Israelitish nationalists friend I want you to get this some people call him prophet, great teacher some people would like him as a king for their own ends there's no word about priests here you know our Lord Jesus was prophet, priest didn't he see if you're going to claim him as priest you have to see him offering that one sacrifice for sins forever that's when you really claim him are you a sinner to me now when Jesus died for you through the Holy Ghost he gave himself without spot to God he made a sacrifice and the only sacrifice for sins forever you would need to claim him as you a priest who made the sacrifice for you then we'll talk about his teaching then then you can crown him king of your life that's how it goes no bible class next Tuesday I'm teaching on Easter Monday at Fort Stewart Convention there are two sessions there one at three o'clock one at half past six on Easter Tuesday I'm teaching at the Newcastle Convention I'm the last speaker there on Wednesday and Thursday and Friday I'm preaching at the Cook Convention so you'll know where I am you may pray for me and I trust that you'll have a very happy time over Easter and then on the Tuesday after Easter Tuesday we'll be back in the class again and I hope there'll be more peaceful times singing two verses just now of 815 815 Go labour on, spend and dispense thy joy to do the Father's will it is the way the Master went should not the servant set it still somebody asked me the other night Mr. Moon can I buy twenty of these books you can buy a hundred of these books if you want to don't be a bit afraid we have plenty of them this evening first two verses, 815 Go labour on, spend and dispense thy joy to do the Father's will it is the way the Master went should not the servant set it still Go labour on, if not for God I am lost in every way when He comes, each day He comes and my life is lost again Dear Lord, part us in thy fear and with thy blessing take us to our homes in safety through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen
(Following the Footsteps of Christ) Feeding the Five Thousand
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William “Willie” Mullan (1911 - 1980). Northern Irish Baptist evangelist and pastor born in Newtownards, County Down, the youngest of 17 children. Orphaned after his father’s death in the Battle of the Somme, he faced poverty, leaving home at 16 to live as a tramp, struggling with alcoholism and crime. Converted in 1937 after hearing Revelation 6:17 in a field, he transformed his life, sharing the gospel with fellow tramps. By 1940, he began preaching, becoming the Baptist Union’s evangelist and pastoring Great Victoria Street and Bloomfield Baptist churches in Belfast. In 1953, he joined Lurgan Baptist Church, leading a Tuesday Bible class averaging 750 attendees for 27 years, the largest in the UK. Mullan authored Tramp After God (1978), detailing his redemption, and preached globally in Canada, Syria, Greece, and the Faeroe Islands, with thousands converted. Married with no children mentioned, he recorded 1,500 sermons, preserved for posterity. His fiery, compassionate preaching influenced evangelicalism, though later controversies arose.