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Thursday August 14th, Matthew 14: 22 Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowd. In Matthew 4 we hear: 1Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. 2After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. 3The tempter came to him and said, "If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread." Mark’s version doesn’t lead Jesus, but rather drives Jesus out in the desert to be tempted. Here, Jesus drives the disciples out to the world to be tempted. Go to the other side, go to the gentile side, and see if God is not there also. In Matthews’s time the church was struggling with the chaos of defining the church. Matthew tells this story to let them know that the Kingdome is in the chaos. Where is the Kingdome Chaos in our day? Is the church safely tied up to shore or out in the world announcing the Kingdome? This section began with, “the Kingdome is like…..the unclean mustard, the unclean leaven, the unclean pearl, the unclean net and the unclean crowds gathered to hear the word and eat. Now the disciples are being sent into the unclean world on “the other side”. What do you call unclean? The Kingdome is calling!!