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Welcome to Day 2146 of Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.\nThis is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom\nThe Gospel of John \u2013 14 \u2013 God's Specialities Impossibilities \u2013 Daily Wisdom\nThe Gospel of John \u2013 Part 3 Authentication of the Word \u2013 God\u2019s Specialty: Impossibilities\nToday we continue our Good News series according to John the Apostle. \xa0Last we completed the mock trial of Jesus where He, as a defense attorney, left us with only one logical choice, to accept Jesus as Lord of the Sabbath, and also equal with God. Today we are transported to another time and place in John\u2019s narrative. Today\u2019s passage is John 6:1-21. I am reading from the NLT because it flows so well. I will read it in segments of the passage throughout the message today, so keep your Bibles open to follow along.\n\nSometime after His clash and mock trial with the religious elite in Jerusalem, Jesus returned to Galilee, where events gave Him an opportunity to offer His disciples a divine perspective on earthly challenges. This was a crucial lesson for the men He would later commission with the words, \u201cAgain he said,\xa0\u2018Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I am sending you.\u2019\u201d (John 20:21).\n\nSometimes, life on planet Earth can be a demoralizing struggle. Some challenges loom more significant than our meager resources. Some demands far outweigh our ability to meet them. Some answers float high above our intellectual reach, and some problems are too complex to solve. Let\u2019s face it; the world is huge, and we are small. And to make matters worse, we are naturally predisposed to think only on the horizontal plane. Nothing is impossible for God, yet we habitually think in terms of what we have to offer and what can be accomplished through natural means.\n\nSome might call this a lack of faith or a failure to believe, but not John, the apostle. He remembered a time when a small band of men had chosen to believe in the Son of God and had left everything behind to follow Him, yet frequently, they struggled to understand Jesus\u2019 words and repeatedly failed to comprehend what they saw Him do. Theirs was a completely different problem from the lack of belief Jesus encountered among the religious leaders in Jerusalem. The disciples failed to understand what they saw and heard, yet chose to believe in the Son of God; the temple officials understood better than anyone who Jesus claimed to be, yet chose to reject Him. Disbelief and ignorance are distinct problems, and Jesus handled them accordingly. He condemned disbelief while He patiently transformed the minds of struggling believers.\n\n6:1\u20133\n\nAfter this, Jesus crossed over to the far side of the Sea of Galilee, also known as the Sea of Tiberias.\xa0A huge crowd kept following him wherever he went, because they saw his miraculous signs as he healed the sick.\xa0Then Jesus climbed a hill and sat down with his disciples around him.\n\nLikely six months passed after the events of 5:1\u201347. Again, John provides snapshots, not a chronological timeline. During this time, the Lord continued to minister in Judea and Galilee.\n\nAs He healed the sick and proclaimed the good news, multitudes began to follow. In fact, they didn\u2019t merely follow; they relentlessly dogged His every movement. The other Gospels tell us that the disciples had just completed an extensive preaching tour of their own and needed rest and encouragement (Mark 6:30\u201331), so He took them to a \u201csecluded...