John 6

I have two thoughts this morning.  The first is that I blogged yesterday that all that are in the graves shall hear His voice and will come forth or be resurrrected (John 5:29).  But just before that, the Savior teaches -

"Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live."  (New Testament | John 5:25)

I believe that this is a different event in hearing the voice of the Lord.  For in this case, it states that those that "hear" or in my mind, hearkens shall live.  In other words, the hour is coming when the Savior will visit the spirits in prison or the spirit world.  And those that will hearken and repent may have eternal life for Peter taught much the same saying -

"For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison..." (New Testament | 1 Peter 3:18 - 19)

The second thought is in regards to John's record of the feeding of the 5,000.  First, king Benjamin taught -

"...the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father."  (Book of Mormon | Mosiah 3:19)

It seems the natural man many times wants the world to provide everthing for them.  After the Savior had provided food for the 5,000 we read -

"Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world.
15 ¶ When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king..."  (New Testament | John 6:14 - 15)

I wonder if their intent was not spiritual but they perceived the Savior would provide for them temporally. for after the Savior and disciples had left during the night across the Sea of Galilee (the Savior walked) -

The day following, when the people which stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was none other boat there, save that one whereinto his disciples were entered, and that Jesus went not with his disciples into the boat, but that his disciples were gone away alone;
23 (Howbeit there came other boats from Tiberias nigh unto the place where they did eat bread, after that the Lord had given thanks:)
24 When the people therefore saw that Jesus was not there, neither his disciples, they also took shipping, and came to Capernaum, seeking for Jesus.
25 And when they had found him on the other side of the sea, they said unto him, Rabbi, when camest thou hither?"  (New Testament | John 6:22 - 25)

It was the Savior's response to them that caused me to wonder if their only interest was temporal welfare for -

"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."  (New Testament | John 6:26)

This seems the nature of many men in our day who they vote or would have those that rule over them.