Section 4
Luke 9:16 says, "And taking the five loaves and the two fish, looking up to heaven, He blessed and broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the crowd." The loaves were from the disciples, and they brought them to the Lord. After being blessed and broken by the Lord, they were given back to the disciples for distribution to the crowd, to whom the loaves became a great satisfaction. This indicates that the disciples were not the source of blessing; they were only the channels used by the Lord, who is the source of people's satisfaction.
Luke 9:17 says, "And they ate and were all satisfied; and they took up that which was left over to them of broken pieces, twelve baskets." This not only displayed the Man-Savior's power of deity as the Creator, as the One who calls the things not being as being (Rom. 4:17), but also signified the bountiful and inexhaustible sup ply of His divine life (Eph. 3:8; Phil. 1:19). Fur thermore, the twelve baskets of broken pieces indicate that the resurrected Christ is unlimited and inexhaustible, and also that the Lord's pro vision for us is abundant, more than sufficient to meet all our need.
The ministry of the Man-Savior was a minis try of jubilee. Through the twelve He had begun