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- Gary: Today, we are talking about greed through the manna in Exodus chapter 16. The Israelites are in the wilderness, and God provides food for them. Moses tells them to gather according to what each person needs. He also tells them not to keep any of it until morning. But some refuse to listen. They hold on to the leftovers. And by morning, those leftovers are full of maggots and begin to smell. Later, God specifically instructs them to save enough for the Sabbath. So the lesson isn't that preparing for tomorrow is wrong. It's about whether they'll trust his instructions. That gives us a way to examine greed in our own lives. Sometimes the urge to accumulate comes from fear. What if I don't have enough? What if somebody else gets ahead? What if everything I've built disappears? Those fears can feel very real, but they can also become excuses for choices that hurt people.