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Exodus chapter 16 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Exodus chapter 16 verse one And they took their journey from
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  Elam, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came
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  unto the wilderness of sin, which is between Elam and Sinai
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  on the 15th day of the second month after their departing out
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  of the land of Egypt. This is a one month anniversary
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  of the Israelites when they finally got let go from the
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  Egyptians. And here we're going to see that
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  this wilderness of sin is exactly what they're going to
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  do. They're murmuring and they're
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  grumbling is going to culminate here.
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  And you're going to get to see this strange paradox between a
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  people who have been set free and a people who forget about
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  all the works and the mighty promises of God.
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  And we're no different, friends, you and I, We are quick to
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  forget. And there is a, a sin of
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  forgetfulness, Friends, verse 2. And the whole congregation of
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  the Children of Israel murmured. And Moses against Moses and
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  Aaron in the wilderness. So you can see here that this is
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  going to keep creeping up with the Israelites.
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  They have been set free. God has worked many miracles.
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  He did the 10 plagues there in the land of Egypt.
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  He's already LED them across dry land.
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  He's drowned the Egyptians there in the ocean.
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  And now here we see them complaining about there's no
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  water to drink, that there were not enough graves in Egypt.
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  Here you see this complaining and murmuring.
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  This is a constant recurring theme in this time of the
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  wilderness. Verse 3.
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  And the children of Israel said to them, would to God, we had
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  died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat
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  by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full.
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  For you have brought us forth into this wilderness to kill
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  this whole assembly with hunger, so that they've already
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  forgotten the miracles of God that he's wrought in the land.
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  In their presence. They have the pillar of fire by
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  night. They have the cloud by day, the
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  kind of glory of God who's leading them along the path.
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  And here they're murmuring and complaining, and you can see
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  that this is the human condition.
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  Friends. This is not just the Israelites,
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  friends, We cannot just pick on them.
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  We need to know that this is synonymous with the futility of
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  humanity, friends, this is the human condition.
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  This is whenever our hearts are not in the right position.
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  This is whenever we are quick to forget the promises of God and
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  the miracles of God that He has done in our lives.
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  And anytime we start to complain and anytime we start to doubt,
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  we need to go back and we need to wave the Word of God before
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  God and remind Him of His promises and remind ourselves of
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  all the times that God has come through and God will come
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  through in ways that are beyond your comprehension.
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  You cannot even begin to understand what God can do.
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  Friends, He can literally regrow limbs. 4 Then said the Lord to
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  Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you, and the
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  people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I
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  may prove them, whether they will walk in my law or no.
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  News flash, friends, God already knows what you're going to do
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  before you do it. It is US who needs to know the
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  propensity to fall away, our proclivities, friends, to fall
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  away so easily, whenever all of the comforts that we have
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  enjoyed are at stake, whenever anything gets rocked, whenever
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  our doctrine and theology gets rocked, we are quick to fall
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  away friends and we live a life of offence.
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  But here God wanted to show them just how weak and fragile they
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  are. 5 And it shall come to pass that on the 6th day they shall
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  prepare that which they bring in, and it shall be twice as
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  much as they gather daily. So here you need to know that
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  God is going to reign these little wafer like edible seeds
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  on the ground that tasted like honey.
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  This Angel food, the bread of God and he always knows how to
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  provide for his people. I've never seen the righteous
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  begging for bread. Friends 6 And Moses and Aaron
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  said to all the children of Israel at evening, then you
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  shall know that the Lord has brought you out from the land of
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  Egypt. You know, these Israelites were
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  romanticizing the time that they had in Egypt, the 430 years that
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  they spent. And if you go back and you study
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  the beginning of the book of Exodus, you're going to find
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  that Pharaoh was making it harder and harder and harder on
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  them. He would not give them straw for
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  their brick. And he still wanted the same
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  amount of bricks. And they complained back then to
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  Moses and Aaron. And here they are.
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  They've already walked across on dry land.
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  They're away from the bondage of the Egyptians.
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  And all they want to do is go back, friends.
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  And it's no different with you and with me.
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  We get set free, but we romanticize about our sinful
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  life before and we think of how much fun we had.
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  We think about all the things we're missing out on.
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  And here's the reality. God has already parted the sea
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  for you to walk across on dry land, and He is not going to
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  part the sea again for you to go back into slavery and back into
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  bondage to sin. 8 And Moses said, this shall be when the
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  Lord shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the
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  morning bread to the full. For that the Lord hears your
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  murmurings, which you murmur against him.
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  And what are we? Your murmurings are not against
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  us, but against the Lord. That's what you need to
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  understand when we shake our fists at the ways of God, when
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  we don't understand that His ways are higher and His thoughts
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  are much grander than anything that our finite soda can sized
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  minds can try to come up with. Whenever we don't understand why
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  He leaves people sick, why people die, why there is
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  disease, when we don't understand the poverty, when we
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  don't understand the big picture, and we get offended and
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  we fall away. It is not that we are
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  complaining and murmuring against the church.
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  It's not that we're complaining and murmuring against the words
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  in the Bible. We are actually complaining and
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  murmuring against the Creator of everything seen and unseen, the
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  only uncreated. There is only one true living
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  God, and that is who we complain against when we are offended and
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  fall away. 9 And Moses spoken to Aaron, say unto all the
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  congregation of the children of Israel, come near before the
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  Lord, for he has heard your murmurings.
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  So here Moses says to Aaron, Go and tell the people that God has
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  heard all of their complaining, and God's going to do something
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  about it. And isn't it just like God to be
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  long-suffering? Isn't it just like God to know
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  how to give good gifts even whenever we do not deserve them?
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  We deserved hell, friends, but He still gave us Jesus Christ as
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  the only way unto him. And anyone who places their
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  faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and confesses him as the Son of
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  God and believes that God raised him on the third day will be
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  saved in. And it came to pass, as Aaron
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  spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that
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  they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the
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  glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud.
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  Here's what you need to know. God is feeding them.
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  He's giving them quail in the evening.
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  He's giving them this dew from heaven, the bread of God, sweet
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  like honey, wafers of coriander seed in the morning, and here
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  he's coming, and he is revealing himself in this Shekinah glory.
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  11 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 12 I have heard the
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  murmurings of the children of Israel.
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  Speak to them, say, at evening you shall eat flesh, in the
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  morning you shall be filled with bread, and you will know that I
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  am the Lord your God. So here God descends, and he
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  reveals and manifests inside of this Shekinah glory.
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  And he speaks unto the children of Israel.
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  These are his first born, the beloved. 13 And it came to pass
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  that evening the quails came up and covered the camp, and in the
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  morning the dew lay round about the host.
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  So God here in his wonderful provision is making sure that
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  his people who are called by his name are taken care of.
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  He's left them in Egypt for 430 years to multiply and to become
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  this great nation, and he's not about to see them waste away.
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  And they did not trust God, and they did not trust his
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  spokesman, Moses and Aaron. And they were murmuring and
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  complaining and they were romanticizing about their time
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  and bondage and slavery. And we are no different. 14 And
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  when the dew that was gone up, behold, upon the face of the
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  wilderness, there lay a small round thing, as small as the
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  hoarfrost on the ground. So this was about the size of a
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  coriander seed, Friends. 15 And when the children of Israel saw
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  it, they said, one to another, It is manna, for they did not
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  know what it was. And Moses said unto them, This
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  is the bread which the Lord has given you to eat.
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  And they said, What is it? Which is the connotation of the
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  word for manna? They did not know what to call
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  it, so they just said, What is it?
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  And that's what it was called. And here we can see that God
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  called it food for the angels. 16 This is the thing which the
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  Lord had commanded. Gather of it every man according
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  to his eating, and Omer, for every man according to the
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  number of your persons, Take you every man for them which are in
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  his tents. So we need to know that God
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  still provides for the birds of the air and the lilies of the
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  field. And how much more important are
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  you, friend? But you still have to get up and
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  go get it. He didn't just drop it into
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  their mouths. He doesn't just drop the food
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  into the mouths of the birds, Friends, They've got to leave
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  the nest and go and get it. And it's no different for you
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  and for me. We are to be out in the harvest.
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  We are to be out doing what we can, friends, putting some feet
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  to your belief. 17 And the children of Israel did so, and
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  gathered some more and some less. 18 And when they did meet
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  it with an Omer, he that gathered much had nothing over,
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  and he that gathered little had no lack.
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  They gathered every man according to his eating.
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  So that is what you need to know whenever you are in the presence
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  of God Almighty. There is no lack, friends, when
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  you've been indwelled with the Holy Spirit, you need to know
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  that God's going to clothe you, God's going to give you food to
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  eat. That is a done deal.
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  You can rest on that. You can bank on that.
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  You can build your life on the promises of God that with food
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  and clothing be content. 19 And Moses said, let no man leave of
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  it till the morning. So he's saying, don't be greedy.
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  Don't try to gather too much for the next day.
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  Each day you have to go out and get it. 20 Notwithstanding they
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  did not listen to Moses, some of them left off, left of it until
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  the morning, and it bred worms and stank, and Moses was wroth
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  with them. That's what you need to
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  understand, friends, is that we cannot be greedy.
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  We must live open handed. Freely you have been given, and
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  freely you shall give. Friends, do not let your left
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  hand know what your right hand's doing.
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  You need to understand the ways of God is not clench fisted.
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  It's not trying to think about tomorrow.
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  Tomorrow has enough worry in itself.
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  You need to understand that God's ways are day by day, and
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  this is where you can see that they erred grievously by trying
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  to be greedy and it stank and had worms whenever they woke up
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  the next day 21. And they gathered it every
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  morning, every man according to his eating, and when the sun
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  grew hot, it melted. So they only had a limited time
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  each day to go out and to gather it, because if they were lazy
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  and did not get up together and it was gone. 22 And it came to
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  pass that on the 6th day they gathered twice as much bread to
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  OMERS for one man, and all the rulers of the congregation came
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  and told Moses. So here's what you need to
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  understand is that right before the Sabbath day rest, which this
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  will be the first time that it's mentioned, but right before the
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  Sabbath day rest, they were to gather twice as much, and they
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  thought it was significant enough to come and to tell Moses
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  what was going on. 23 And he said to them, This is that which
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  the Lord has said, Tomorrow is the rest of the holy Sabbath
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  unto the Lord, Bake that which you will bake today, and see
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  that which you will seethe, and that which remains over lay up
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  for you to be kept until the morning.
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  So here you can see that on the very last day they were to
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  gather twice as much, so that on their Sabbath they could rest.
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  24 And they laid it up till the morning as Moses bade, and it
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  did not stink, neither was any worm in it. 25 And Moses said,
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  Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath unto the Lord.
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  Today you shall not find it in the field.
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  So God was showing them through these miraculous signs of
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  provision, that He is a God of a six day work week.
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  And we are to rest on 1/7 day. Friends, 26 six days you shall
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  gather it. But on the 7th day, which is the
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  Sabbath in it there shall be none.
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  And you know, we would do well to only work six days out of the
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  week and allow our minds and our bodies to take a complete
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  Sabbath once a week and do nothing. 27 And it and it came
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  to pass that there went out some of the people on the 7th day
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  together, and they found none. So perhaps these people did not
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  take God serious. Perhaps they did not take the
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  words of Moses serious, and they thought, I'll just go out on the
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  7th day like I always have. And they were sorely displeased
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  to find that there was nothing on the ground for them. 28 And
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  the Lord said to Moses, How long do you refuse to keep my
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  commandments and my laws? So you can see here that God
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  wants them to take him seriously.
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  And we would do well, friends, to remember all of the promises
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  that are contained in this book. 29 C For that the Lord has given
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  you the Sabbath. Therefore he gives you on the
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  6th day the bread of two days. Abide you every man in his
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  place. Let no man go out of his place.
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  On the 7th day he sang Rest. It's good for you. 30 So the
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  people rested on the 7th day. 31 In the House of Israel called
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  the name of it Manna, and it was like coriander seed, white, and
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  the taste of it was like wafers made with honey. 32 And Moses
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  said, This is the thing which the Lord commanded philanomer of
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  it to be kept for all for your generations, that they may see
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  the bread where I have fed you in the wilderness with, when I
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  brought you forth from the land of Egypt.
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  So this little jar was to be placed in the ark of the
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  covenant, where God's manifest holiest of holy presence SAT. 33
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  And Moses said it to Aaron, Take a pot and put an Omer full of
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  manna in it, and lay it up before the Lord, to be kept for
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  your generations. 34 And the Lord commanded Moses.
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  So Aaron, as the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up
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  before the testimony to be kept. So you can see here that they
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  understood the gravity and the weight of what they were being
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  asked, and they did it with haste, and they did it in the
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  way that God asked them to. 35 And the children of Israel did
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  eat manna 40 years until they came to a land inhabited.
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  They did eat manna until they came to the borders of the land
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  of Canaan. So God made sure to take care of
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  them. He made sure not to let them go
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  by the wayside and to waste away.
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  We'll live on. 36 Now an Omer is the 10th part of Anipa, so you
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  need to know that these. Our real measurements, this is a
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  real account, real time, and this is not just some storybook
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  for us to feel good about our lives or feel good about what's
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  next. This is the reality, friends.
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  This is his story. I hope you've been blessed by
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  this amazing chapter in God's Word.
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  I know I sure have. We'll say a quick prayer.
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  We thank you, Lord, for this time together.
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  We thank you, God, that you showed up.
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  Thank you, Lord, for all of the promises contained in the book.
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  Lord, I pray that you'll help us to let these words absorb into
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  our being, into our mind. We thank you, God, for being the
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  God that you are, for being good and holy and righteous and true
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  and just. We thank you, Lord, that you're
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  fighting our battles. We thank you, God, that you've
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  given us this inspired word. We thank you that it is alive
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  and active God, and we step into the promises that you've given
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  us. We love you, Father, We love
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  everything about you, and it's in your holy and precious name
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  that I pray. Amen.