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#8 Verily, Verily
The Revelation of False Followers
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Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled. (John 6:26)
  It is only God who can examine the heart of man. It is difficult for an individual to be truthful when they examine their own heart, and their own moral character. Sin has blinded the heart to the very truth of God. The depth of the darkness of sin blinds man to God, and the darkness of sin blinds man to the truth of the condition of his own being. Those who came to the Lord Jesus as documented in John 6:26, witnessed many of the miracles that the Lord Jesus performed, and still they were blind to His deity as the Son of God. They didn’t seek Him for who He was, or because of His miracles, they were only looking for gain because they had been fed by Him. The natural man wanted the natural part of the world. After all that they beheld they still wandered in darkness, and all I can say is, How great is that darkness, and how sad is the trail of Adam. He stumbles at sin, and gropes in the darkness even when the Light is in his presence, even today, at this very moment that I am writing these words, Light is being ministered all over the world in many different ways, in many different tongues, and in many different words. Yet, this world of darkness does not respond to the Lord Jesus Christ.　
  The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ is bombarding Adam twenty-four hours a day, in all sorts of ways, yet darkness still rebels against God. Those who gathered to the Lord Jesus Christ, in this verse, were men, women, and children were numbered as more than five thousand of those who were fed in John 6:10. Pay close attention to the words of the Spirit of God, He only numbers the men, and not the women and children. The miracle was never performed before or since. Even today, with all the technology, what soup kitchen can put out 5000 meals plus in a moment of time, without all the tools of the modern facility, and without being notified prior, and then add the difficulty of only five barley loafs and two small, yes, small fishes as the entire food source. This would be impossible, and to add to this, ALL were filled, and there were twelve baskets full left over. Mortal men cannot comprehend such a miracle. This is why it was not performed by mortal men. It was performed by the immortal Himself. He moved over the darkness of the deep and He fed five thousand plus. My . . . . my . . . ye of little faith. They sought Him not because of the divine miracles (plural) for they had witnessed many miracles of the Lord Jesus Christ on both sides of the sea of Galilee. Yet, darkness prevailed. They could not see past Adam’s sin. Their own nature, and the sin that had beset them had closed their eyes to the very Creator who had created them. When the Lord told Cain, sin lieth at the door, it was SIN that was between Cain and God. As long as this sin was there, Cain could not cross over to God, and God could not cross over to Cain. And yet, Cain refused to obey God, and his sin blocked the door. But this is not unusual, for we see it here in John Chapter 6, and even today, it is not unusual for Adam to have heard the gospel, the bread from heaven, the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, and even go away sad. They were filled for a moment in time with the truth, then the ravens, the birds of the air, the ministers of Satan came and plucked the very words out of their hearts. In John Chapter 6, there was no root within them. They had nothing in them to bear fruit for God. They wanted what God could give, but they did not want to surrender themselves to God. They did not hear the voice of the Shepherd, for they were not His sheep. I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. (John 10:14)
  There is an eternal bond, from before the foundations of the world, between the Shepherd and His sheep. This bond can NEVER be broken. The identity (is to agree) on both parties: the Lord knows His sheep, and the sheep know their Lord. This takes in the foreknowledge of God concerning the individual who is called by His name recorded in Psalm 139. In Acts 2:23 we have the determinate counsels AND the foreknowledge of God. There is nothing done in secret, all things are open to Him with whom we have to do.
 The voice of Peter, by the Spirit of God, resonates this thought of the Father and the mutual omniscience of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in revealing the thoughts of God to man. And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. (Matthew 16:16) And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. (Matthew 16:17) It was God the Father who revealed the Son of God to Peter. Being with the Lord Jesus, and seeing all the miracles, Peter, as a child of Adam, could not behold the Son of God in Jesus Christ. His heart was still veiled by sin that would not be lifted until AFTER the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. It was the same with this multitude in 6:25, in all this gathering, who knows how many, for God does not supply a number, but there is an absence of a number, NOT ONE of these who saw the miracles, and who were fed by the bread of heaven bowed down and worshiped Him as the Son of God. Yea, God Himself.
 Week after week, you enter into your church, you drink of the word of God, and before you get to the door, you have forgotten all that you have heard because sin lieth at the door. You only go for the bread and the two small fishes, and when you go beyond the door, you go out empty into a world of darkness that wants to engulf your soul. In John Chapter 6, they could only remember the food that delighted them at that time. It was their stomach and not their heart that directed their feelings. They wanted the material world of Adam, and not the miraculous world of God. Each one who was on this side of Galilee KNEW of the miracles, they were fed, they were full, and yet, it was the material aspect of the miracle that they desired. They murmured in their hearts against God for there was no love of God in them because they had a material God. They only came for the bread, and not for the divine Person Himself.
  In the sixth Chapter of the gospel of John, the Spirit of God not only uses words, but He also employs numbers. Let us look at the words Verily, verily, and the numbers.
1. Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled. (John 6:26)
2. Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. (John 6:32)
3. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life. (John 6:47)
4. Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. (John 6:53)
 We begin in Chapter 6 with the number of man (6). Man (6) is exposed in this Chapter. One of the things that is exposed is the love of man for the things of the world, and not for the things of God. In this sixth (6) Chapter Verily, verily, is mentioned four (4) times, which is the number of the world, both man and the world, at this point, needs to be delivered. There is a comparison with the 6th Chapter of the gospel of John with the 13th Chapter of the book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ. In John Chapter 6 man rejects the Son of God as the Son of God, only looking to Him as a provider. In Revelation 13, mankind accepts the man of sin (whose number is 6 – 6 – 6) because he indulges mankind and encourages them to sin in his kingdom of darkness.
  There are two Chapters in the gospel of John where Verily, verily is mentioned four times, besides John 6, the other Chapter is in the book of John in Chapter 13.
1. Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him. (John 13:16)
2. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me. (John 13:20)
3. When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me. (John 13:21)
4. Jesus answered him, Wilt thou lay down thy life for my sake? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, The cock shall not crow, till thou hast denied me thrice. (John 13:38)
 John 13 is a chapter of betrayal and denial, both with Judas as the betrayer, and Peter as the denier, showing that the worst and best of man (in Adam) cannot be trusted.
  In John 6:25, we have the selfish heart with the attitude of, What can God do for me? They only want God for the food that filled them. How many times have you seen the greed of Adam in the church itself only wanting God for what God can give them? These followers of material gain seek not the mysteries of salvation IN Jesus Christ, but in the material goods of the world. As Judas, they want to hold the bag because the worlds’ goods are all that matters to them. Let’s move on with the same thoughts to Chapter 6 verse 32.
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