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May 18 - Exodus 16 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello, friends. It's shown here and it is the
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  18th of May. It is Thursday.
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  And did you know that today is international Museum day?
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  Today is the day that people are encouraged to visit a museum.
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  Now, I get it. Well, It's like notice I realize
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  and you probably don't have time to get to museum.
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  But at some point today, when you make yourself a cover and
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  sit down for break, did you know that?
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  You can actually visit some of the world's great museums
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  online, if you just have a quick search for online Museum, tours
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  for free, you will find some incredible things and maybe you
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  could do that today. But you and I are going to do
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  something even better because we are not going to go to a museum
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  of artifacts. We are going to travel back in
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  time to a story, which is alive with the spirit of the Living
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  God inside you and me. Holy moly.
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  How good is that today? We will continue to read the
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  story of the Israelites making their way through the desert.
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  And today, God shows them how on Earth.
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  He's going to provide catering that this many hungry mouths
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  when they are in the middle of nowhere.
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  So get your stomach rumbling, ready to eat.
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  Have some food as we go with the Israelites all the way back in
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  time in Exodus chapter 16. Then the whole community of
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  Israel set out from elim and journeyed Into the Wilderness of
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  sin between elim and Mount Sinai.
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  They arrived there on the 15th day of the second month.
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  One month after leaving the land of Egypt there to the whole
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  community of Israel complained about Moses and Aaron if only
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  the Lord had killed us back in Egypt.
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  They moaned there. We sat around pots, filled with
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  meat and ate all the bread we wanted.
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  But now you have brought us into this Wilderness to starve us,
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  all to death, then the Lord said to Moses, look, I'm going to
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  rain down food from heaven. For you, each day, the people
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  can go out and pick up as much food as they need for that day.
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  I will test them in this to see whether or not.
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  They will follow my instructions on the sixth day.
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  They will gather food and when they prepare it, they will be
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  too. Twice as much as usual.
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  So Moses and Aaron said to all the people of Israel by evening,
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  you will realize it was the Lord who brought you out of the land
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  of Egypt in the morning. You will see the glory of the
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  Lord, because he has heard your complaints, which are against
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  him, not against us. What have we done that?
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  You should complain about us, then Moses added.
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  The Lord will give you meat to eat in the evening and bread to
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  satisfy you in the morning. For he has At all your
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  complaints against him. What have we done?
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  Yes. Your complaints are against the
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  Lord, not against us. Then Moses said to Aaron
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  announce this to the entire community of Israel, present
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  yourselves before the Lord, for he has heard your complaining.
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  And as Aaron spoke to the whole community of Israel, they looked
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  out toward the Wilderness there. They could see the awesome glory
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  of the Lord in the cloud, then. The Lord said to Moses, I have
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  heard the Israelites complaints. Now tell them in the evening,
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  you will have meat to eat. And in the morning, you will
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  have all the bread you want. Then you will know that I am the
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  Lord, your God. That evening, vast numbers of
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  quail flew in and covered the camp.
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  And the next morning the area around the camp was wet with
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  Dew. When the do evaporated a flaky
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  substance as fine as Frost blanketed the ground, the
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  Israelites were puzzled when they saw it, what is it?
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  They asked each other. They had no idea what it was and
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  Moses told them. It is the food, the Lord has
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  given you to eat. These are the Lord's
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  instructions. Each household should gather as
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  much as it needs. Pick up to Courts for each
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  person in your tent. Said the people of Israel did as
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  they were told some gathered a lot.
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  Some only a little but when they measured it out, everyone had
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  just enough. Those who gathered a lot had
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  nothing left over and those who gathered only a little had
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  enough, each family had just what it needed.
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  Then Moses told him do not keep any of it until morning, but
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  some of them didn't listen and kept it until morning.
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  But by then it was full of maggots and had a terrible
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  smell. Moses was very angry with them.
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  After this, the people gathered the food morning by morning,
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  each family, according to its need.
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  And as the sun became hot, the flakes, they had not picked up
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  melted and disappeared on the sixth day.
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  They gathered twice as much as usual for Courts for each person
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  instead of two. Then all the leaders of the
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  community came and asked Moses for an explanation, he told them
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  this is what the Lord commanded tomorrow will be a day of
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  complete. Rest, a holy Sabbath day, set
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  apart for the Lord. So bake or boil as much as you
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  want today and set aside what is left for tomorrow.
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  So they put some aside until morning.
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  Just as Moses had commanded and in the morning the leftover food
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  was wholesome and good without maggots or oh Moses said eat
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  this food today for today, is a Sabbath day.
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  Dedicated to the Lord, there will be no food on the ground
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  today. You may gather the food for six
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  days but the seventh day is the Sabbath.
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  There will be no food on the ground that day.
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  Some of the people went out anyway on the seventh day but
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  they found no food. The Lord asked Moses, how long
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  will these people refuse to obey my commands and instructions?
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  They must realize that the Sabbath is the Lord's gift to
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  you. That is why he gives you a
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  two-day Supply on the sixth day so there will be enough for two
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  days on the Sabbath day. You must each.
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  Stay in your place. Do not go out to pick up, food
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  on the seventh day. So the people will not gather
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  any food on the seventh day the Israelites called the food Munna
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  and it was white like coriander seed and it tasted like honey
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  wafers And then Moses said, this is what the Lord has commanded
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  fill. The 2 quart, container with
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  manner to preserve it for your descendants.
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  Then later generations, will be able to see the food I gave you
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  in the wilderness. When I set you free from Egypt,
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  Moses said to Aaron, get a job and fill it with two quarts of
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  manner, then put it in a sacred place before the Lord to
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  preserve it for all future Generations.
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  Aaron did just as the Lord had commanded Moses, he eventually
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  placed it in the Ark of the Covenant in front of the stone
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  tablets inscribed with the terms of the Covenant.
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  So the people of Israel ate Manna for 40 years until they
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  arrived at the land where they would settle.
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  They ate Manna until they came to the border of the land of
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  Canaan. The container used to measure
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  the manor was an Omer which was one-tenth of an ephah IT held
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  about to Quartz. Jesus.
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  So often, we pray that you would give us our daily bread Here, we
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  hear of you doing. Just that for your people.
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  And thank you that you do give us our daily bread that you
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  provide employment. For many of us, you provide an
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  income, you provide, the means to feed ourselves, you give us
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  bodies able to produce you. Give us communities able to
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  support you. Give us a society's able to
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  share Thank you, Lord, for the way that you provide for us,
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  help us see every good gift as just that as a good gift from
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  you. We are so grateful that you
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  provide for us in so many different ways in a thousand
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  ways that our minds Boggle with the warm sunshine, on our
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  shoulders, with the friendships in our lives, with the love of
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  our families. With the food in our bellies and
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  the clothes on our back. We thank you, Lord.
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  And it's in your name that we pray.
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  Amen.