Episode Transcript
Alright, so we finished up.
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Last week we finally got the children of Israel out of Egypt.
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And they are on their way to the Promised Land here.
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Out of Egypt we crossed the Red Sea last week.
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We got them into the Sinai Peninsula.
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Alright, and ultimately I told you last week
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we're going to get them here back to Mount Sinai
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where God originally had met with Moses
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and he told Moses, "You're going to go back
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and you're going to tell Pharaoh, 'Let my people go.'
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You're going to deliver my people out of Egypt
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by his power, of course."
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And then he says, "And you're going to bring them back
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to this very mountain and you're going to worship me here."
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So they're not back to the mountain yet,
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but they're on their way.
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And to get to the mountain,
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God is going to lead them through,
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I like that hat.
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Thank you.
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Yeah.
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God is going to lead them through some very rough territory.
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When you hear the word "wilderness" in the Bible,
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the children of Israel in the wilderness,
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the wilderness is a desert.
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It's not trees like it is here to us,
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it's what we'd call the wilderness.
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But it's a desert.
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And so there's going to be some very rough territory.
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Anyone have any idea with what we've learned so far
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in our study why God would lead them through the desert?
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Why wouldn't he take them through nicer terrain, not you?
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Why would he take them through nicer terrain?
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That's exactly right.
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It would be a test.
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And how so? You're right.
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To see who can weather who wants it more?
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I don't know.
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No, but you got the first part right.
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Strengthen their faith.
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There you go.
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Strengthen their faith.
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They have to rely on God.
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That's it. That's it.
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He's going to bring them through the wilderness
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where there is no natural provision
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to let them know that this journey
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is not going to be provided naturally but supernaturally.
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They didn't get out of Egypt naturally, did they?
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They didn't fight their way out. They couldn't.
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The power was too strong against them.
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God brought them, if you'll remember,
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to the edge of the Red Sea intentionally
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to make it look like they were trapped,
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just so they would see that their deliverance
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is not by the power of man but by the power of God.
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And so he's going to bring them to the wilderness the same way.
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When they came into the wilderness,
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they quickly learned, "We have no water."
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And so God had to provide water.
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And the Bible says that he provided water from a rock.
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And they drank from that rock.
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And the water gushed out and provided sustenance
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to those people through a rock in the desert.
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And that rock was a picture, again, of the Savior,
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the coming Savior, who was the most unlikely source
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because who would, if you were thirsty
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and you saw a water fountain,
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you'd say, "Oh, there's a water fountain over here."
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Or, "They've got bottled water over here.
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I see a little refrigerator. They've got bottled water over here."
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No one would get into the wilderness and say,
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"Oh, well, there's a rock over here.
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We'll go get us something to drink."
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No one would do that.
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So God provided life to them
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to the most unlikely source in the most unlikely place.
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How is that a picture of the coming Savior?
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Well, the Bible says, and I'm going to try to get us to the law this morning,
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so without spending too much time on it,
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the Bible says that God told Moses to hit the rock,
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to hit it with his staff.
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How would that get water?
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The Bible tells us later in the New Testament
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that the rock was a picture of Christ that they drank from.
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When Christ came, he would be smitten for our sins.
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And we would receive life through him being smitten
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from the most unlikely source, in the most unlikely place.
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Where would we receive life from?
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In a place of death. Isn't that amazing?
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Who would say, "Well, you know, I know how we can live.
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We'll go to a cross. That's where we'll live.
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Cross is where people die, not live."
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And so God was showing them through a smitten rock
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in the most unlikely way, the most unlikely source,
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the most unlikely place, "I will provide life to my people,"
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when they need it most.
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Now we're here in Exodus 16.
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We're going to see another illustration of this very thing.
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Verse 1 says, "And they took their journey from Elam,
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and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the wilderness of sin,
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which is between Elam and Sinai."
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Remember, there's our Sinai there where they're going, okay?
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This is where they're going to journey.
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And it's between Elam and Sinai,
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"On the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt."
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They've been out of Egypt for a while now.
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"And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses
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and against Aaron in the wilderness.
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And the children of Israel said unto them,
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Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt,
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when we sat by the fleshpots and when we did eat bread to the full,
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for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger."
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Man, every time you turn around, these guys were griping, gripe, gripe, gripe.
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You'd think after watching God deliver them from the most powerful army in the world,
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giving them water to drink from a rock, guiding them across the desert,
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the Bible says that God guided them, that God's presence was made known to them
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in a cloudy pillar above them.
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At night it burned with fire to give them light.
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In the daytime it was like a cloud.
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Then they followed it.
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You'd think with all that, after watching God provide for them so well,
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that the next time they came up on something difficult, they would say,
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"Well, we'll trust God."
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But that's not always what people do.
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A lot of times we're very pathetic creatures,
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and we panic and we don't trust God as we should.
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And here they are, "Oh, you should have stayed in Egypt."
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For some of these people you could get them out of Egypt,
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you couldn't get the Egypt out of them.
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And that's just the way it is.
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But they say, "We're going to die of hunger out here."
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So let's look here now.
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Verse 4, "Then the Lord said unto Moses, 'Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you.'
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I'm going to make bread rain from heaven."
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Now, here's how it's going to rain.
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When it says "rain from heaven," it doesn't mean it's actually going to come from heaven
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where God dwells.
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This bread didn't come from the third heaven.
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It came from the firmament.
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Remember how God put some of the water in the firmament
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and left some on the ground?
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And we have clouds.
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Well, in the morning time, what happens with the water above the firmament?
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A lot of that, because of the temperatures, it goes to the ground.
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And we call that what?
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Dew.
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So what's going to happen is, in the dew, with the dew anyway,
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God's going to cause bread to fall to the ground in the morning.
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It's going to be all over the ground.
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And then it's going to go away with the dew.
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So let's go ahead and look here.
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It's going to be a miracle.
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Look back here if you would.
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In verse 4, "The Lord said unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you,
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and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day."
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That means they're going to go out every morning and get a certain amount
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that I may prove them.
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That means that I may test them whether they will walk in my law or no.
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"And it shall come to pass it on the sixth day.
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They shall prepare that which they bring in,
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and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily."
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So for six days, they're going to go out,
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they're going to gather their bread off the ground.
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And then on that Friday, they're going to take their bread and get twice as much.
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So Sunday through Thursday, they're going to gather a certain amount.
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On Friday, the sixth day of the week, they're going to gather twice as much.
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That way they wouldn't have to go out on the seventh day and work
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for the next day, because that's going to be a day of rest, as we'll see in chapter 20.
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But right now, that's the way that God has told them to gather this bread.
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Let's go ahead and look here now in verse 6.
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"And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel,
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that even there is in the evening, that ye shall know the Lord hath brought you out
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from the land of Egypt.
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And in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of the Lord,
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for that he heareth your murmurings against the Lord.
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And what are we that ye murmur against us?"
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In other words, why would you complain against us?
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We're not in charge of this, God is.
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Verse 8, "And Moses said, 'This shall be when the Lord shall give you
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in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the fool,
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for that the Lord heareth your murmurings, which ye murmur against him."
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Again, in what are we?
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Your murmurings are not against us, but against the Lord.
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"And Moses spake unto Aaron, say unto all the congregation of the children of Israel,
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'Come near before the Lord, for he hath heard your murmurings," or your complaints.
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And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of Israel,
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that they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud.
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And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 'I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel,
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speaking to them, saying, 'At even ye shall eat flesh,
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and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread, and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God.'
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And it came to pass, at even, or in the evening, the quails came up and covered the camp,
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and in the morning the dew lay round about the host."
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The host means the armies of Israel.
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"And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness
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there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoarfrost on the ground.
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And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another,
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'It is manna, for they wist not, or they knew not what it was.'"
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All right, so let me break that down for you.
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The dew comes down, with that comes the bread that they're calling manna.
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And when the dew evaporates, all that's left is the bread on the ground.
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And it says that it's small as the white frost.
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It's all over the ground.
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"Manna was not little fluffy pieces of bread that fell down."
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They didn't walk out and go, "Oh, look at this heavenly bread. It didn't work that way."
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It was small, tiny, like little seeds.
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And if you could think of it like little pieces of grain, that's how it came down.
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It was more like grain, instead of like already processed fluffy bread.
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And the Bible says in other places they had to mill the manna
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to turn it to flour to make it into bread.
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Make sense? All right.
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So this is not fluffy pieces of bread. They're just popping up, putting their mouth.
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It's more like grain. It's very small.
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It comes down in the dew. The dew evaporates. The manna's left for a time.
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It won't stay there permanently. It eventually goes away too.
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They called it manna, the Bible says, because they didn't know what it was.
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And the word manna means, "What is this?"
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That's literally what it means.
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They're going out there, "What is this?" all over the ground, you know.
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So they called it manna, which means, "Man, we've never seen anything like this before."
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Okay. So they had quell in the evening, at least this particular day.
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They had manna that morning.
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And so God was showing them that, "Look, if you'll look in verse 15,
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"When the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, 'It is manna,
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for they wist not what it was.' And Moses said to them, 'This is the bread
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which the Lord hath given you to eat.'"
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Now, these people were grown.
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They were sheep herders. They were cattlemen, sheep, goats, cows.
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They weren't, I mean, they were farmers, but at this particular time in Egypt,
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they were mostly cattlemen.
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But I tell you what, they knew like us, you don't get water from a rock
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and you don't get bread from the sky.
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But in this case, once again, God says, "I'm going to rain down bread
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from heaven for you so you won't die."
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All right. So this is amazing.
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"This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat."
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Now, if you keep your place in Exodus and turn to the Gospel of John, chapter 6,
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the Gospel of John, chapter 6,
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Matthew, Mark, Luke, John,
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Gospel of John, chapter 6.
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You're one time to turn there and I'll tell you what verse to go to.
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Gospel of John, chapter 6.
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Once again, everything in the Old Testament points to the promised Savior.
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It's one seamless story that points to the coming Savior.
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Gospel of John, chapter 6, it looks like everyone's there.
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Now, Jesus has a great, great following whenever He's here,
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just like God had a great following coming out of Egypt.
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They estimated there were two million Jews,
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two million that followed God across that Red Sea into the desert.
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That's a lot of mouths to feed. That's bigger than Austin, Texas.
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And so Jesus had a very large following as well.
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But just as not all the people that followed God out of Egypt believed Him,
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not all the people that followed Jesus believed Him either.
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They were very critical of Jesus, especially the religious crowd.
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So don't ever trust someone just because they wear religious garments
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or they call themselves a preacher or a priest or a minister or something like that.
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If you look here, the religious leaders were asking Jesus to show them a sign.
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If you look in verse 30, they said therefore unto Him,
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because they didn't believe He was the Christ,
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"Watch signs show us thou then that we may see and believe thee.
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What does thou work?
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Our fathers did eat manna in the desert.
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As it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat."
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Now, here's what they're saying. They're saying, "Hey, Jesus,
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why don't you perform some great miracle for us like God did for our forefathers
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when they were in the desert?"
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The Bible says He gave them bread from heaven to eat.
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We just read that scripture.
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So maybe you can make bread come down from heaven for us too,
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and we can see manna come down and then we'll really believe you're the Christ.
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Now, watch how Jesus responded to these critics, and this is absolutely marvelous.
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Verse 32, "Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, or truly, truly, I say unto you,
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Moses gave you not that bread from heaven, because Moses couldn't.
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It was God that did it. But my Father gives you the true bread from heaven."
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Ah, now watch what Jesus is doing.
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He's saying, "Now, first of all, it wasn't Moses that gave you that bread. It was God.
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Second of all, my Father has given you the true bread from heaven.
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You've seen the true manna come down from heaven."
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Watch what he says now.
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Verse 33, "For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven
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and giveth life unto the world."
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Do you see what Jesus was saying there?
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He says, "You want to see the manna that God has sent down from heaven?
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You're looking at Him."
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The true bread is not the little white thing on the ground that they ground up
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into flour made bread out of and ate.
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What happened the next day after they ate that manna?
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They were hungry again.
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They had to go back out and get more again.
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That manna could sustain life in the desert for a day.
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It could not give life for all eternity.
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God's promise to Abraham was that his family would overcome death and live forever.
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He said they would inherit the land forever.
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The promise would be to Abraham and his seed forever.
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And so the manna couldn't get it done. Why?
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Their fathers that ate the manna were dead.
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So you need bread that you can eat and live forever, Jesus is saying.
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If you want to see the true manna, you're looking at Him.
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Now look what Jesus said.
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He says, verse 33, "For the bread of God is He which cometh down from heaven
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and giveth life unto the world," not just the Jews, but the whole world, thank God.
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Verse 34, "Then said they unto Him, Lord, evermore give us this bread."
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If you've got bread like that, give it to us.
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Verse 35, "And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life.
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He that cometh to me shall never hunger, and he that believeth on me
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shall never thirst." See how He's going back to the water and the rock too.
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"But I said unto you that ye also have seen me and believe not.
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All that the Father giveth me shall come to me, and him that cometh to me
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I will in no wise cast out. For I came down from heaven not to do mine own will,
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but the will of him that sent me. And this is the Father's will which has sent me,
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that of all which He hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.
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And this is the will of Him that sent me, that everyone which seeth the Son
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and believeth on Him may have everlasting life, and I will raise Him up at the last day."
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You see what Jesus is saying? If you'll come to me, I'm that bread, you can eat me and live.
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Now, how do we eat Jesus? How do you eat a man?
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What Jesus is talking about is talking about faith.
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If you'll look here in verse 40, "And this is the will of Him that sent me,
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that everyone would sith the Son and what? Believeth on Him."
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You see that? May have everlasting life. So Jesus is truth.
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When a person understands that Jesus is the bread that came down from heaven,
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to give us life from the most unlikely source, when we believe the truth of Jesus dying for our sins on the cross.
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And when you see the word "believe on" like this in the Scripture, that word "believe" means to rely.
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Does the devil believe in Jesus when we think of the word "believe"? Yes.
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Does the devil rely on Jesus? No. That's the difference.
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So when you see the word "believe," think of the word "relie" or "trust."
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So when you see "believe on," Jesus is saying "relie on."
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When I understand that I'm a sinner, that I have offended a holy and a righteous God because of my sin,
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there's no way that God can accept me the way I am.
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I then rely on the truth that Jesus died for my sin and provided a way for me to be delivered,
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just like the Passover lamb. He became my Passover lamb.
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He took my guilt, my punishment, and my place that I might go for.
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When I rely on Him for doing that for me, I then can have everlasting life.
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You see? That's what Jesus said.
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And I'll live forever because He said I will raise Him up that relies on me at the last day.
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So my body will die, but it will be raised up again, and death will be overcome.
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All right? So how do we eat the bread of life?
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We believe the truth of it. Our mind digests that fact, and having reliance on that fact, we live.
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It's not physical bread we need. It's spiritual bread.
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Let's continue to read here, please.
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Look here in verse 42, and they said, "Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know?
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How is it then that he saith, 'I came down from heaven'?
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Well, he did come down from heaven. He was a virgin-born son of God. He was God the Son. He came from heaven."
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Look here now in verse 43, "Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, 'Mirm not among yourselves.
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No man can come to me except the Father which has sent me, draw him, and I will raise him up at the last day.'
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So to come to Christ, you must be drawn like a horse would draw a carriage.
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You have to be drawn to Christ in order to come to Him.
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How are we drawn to Christ?" He goes on and explains.
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In verse 45, "It is written in the prophets, and they shall be all taught of God."
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So how do we get drawn to Christ by being taught about Him?
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When someone teaches you the truth of the gospel, the truth of what Christ has done,
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having heard that truth, when you believe the truth you've been taught,
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that is God drawing you to His Son through the preaching of the gospel.
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Does that make sense? They shall all be taught of God.
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But some people, they can hear a man speak and they won't believe.
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They didn't believe Jesus.
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When a person believes the teaching of God and they come to the conclusion that what Jesus did is true,
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they have then come to Christ.
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How do we come to Christ? By faith, by believing it's true.
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If you teach me something and I finally understand,
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I finally come to the realization of what Jesus has done for me,
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I have now come to Jesus.
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And having come to that conclusion and relying on the truth I've heard,
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I now believe on Him, I have everlasting life, and I'll be raised up at the last day.
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That's the bread of life.
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Let's go ahead and dig in a little bit deeper here.
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Let's bite in a little bit deeper here.
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How about that? Since we're talking about the bread of life.
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Verse 45, "It is written in the prophets, and they shall be all taught of God,
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every man therefore that hath heard and hath learned of the Father cometh unto me."
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That's exactly what I just explained.
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You hear, you learn, and by doing so you come. Isn't that beautiful?
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And He says, "Whoever comes, he'll no way cast out.
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Anyone can come to Him, anyone can come to this truth and rely on Him and be everlastingly saved.
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He'll never reject anybody.
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He doesn't teach you the truth without the purpose of saving you by the truth He's taught you."
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Man, that's good.
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All right, let's go on now.
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Verse 47, "Verily, verily I send you, he that believeth on me hath everlasting life."
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Now, watch this.
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"Not shall have everlasting life."
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Not may get everlasting life.
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Not hopefully could possibly have everlasting life.
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Or, but what? "Has hath" means "has."
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It's a present possession.
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And He doesn't say, "Whoever believes on me has life."
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Whoever believes on me has a long life, a good old age, look ahead of him,
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but has what kind of life?
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Everlasting life.
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Now, how long is everlasting?
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It's forever. It lasts forever.
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Someone that says, "Well, you can believe on Christ as your Savior and still do bad later in life
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and mess up and make a mistake and then you can go to hell."
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Or, "You can believe on Christ as your Savior, but if you're driving down the road,"
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I asked a woman before who believed that you could trust Christ as your Savior,
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but you still had to live good enough to be saved.
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Man, if living good enough to be saved, we can't live good enough.
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If we could live good enough to be saved, then the Bible says Jesus wasted His time coming down to die for us.
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What was the whole point of the Gospel?
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The only reason He came was because we weren't good enough to be saved.
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And so I asked this person, "What if you're driving down the road
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and everything seems to be fine in life, you think that you're living good for God,
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and then suddenly as you're going down the road, a dirty thought comes in your mind.
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And before you have a chance to tell God you're sorry,
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a vehicle crosses the center strap and hits you with that dirty thought in your mind.
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Are you going to go to heaven?"
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You know what she said? "I don't know."
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Now that's sad.
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That's someone who doesn't understand this teaching here, which is really, really sad.
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But He says, "Has everlasting life."
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Now if you can rely on Jesus and still die and go to hell,
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did you ever have everlasting life?
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No, it's not possible.
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The Bible calls hell the second death.
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This is eternal death, and there's a big difference between eternal death and eternal life.
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Nobody is in hell that relies on the Lord Jesus Christ.
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It's not possible.
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Again, there's a whole point of Him coming.
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He says, again, look in verse 47, "Verily, verily, I say unto you,
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he that believeth on me hath everlasting life."
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Verse 48, "I am that bread of life."
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He says, verse 49, "Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness and are dead.
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This, or me, is the bread which cometh down from heaven,
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that a man may eat thereof and not die.
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I am the living bread which came down from heaven.
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If any man eateth this bread, he shall live forever."
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Watch what He says now.
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"And the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world."
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Where did He give His flesh for the life of the world?
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Right here.
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When He was smitten like the rock, smitten for our sins.
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Verse 52, "The Jews therefore strove or argued among themselves,
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saying, 'How can this man give us his flesh to eat?'"
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They kept thinking that He was going to go bite His arm or something, you know?
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They weren't getting it.
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Verse 53, "Then Jesus said unto them, 'Verily, verily, I say unto you,
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Except you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood,
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he have no life in you.
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Whoso eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood has eternal life,
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and I will raise him up at the last day.
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For my flesh is meat or food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
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He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood dwelleth in me, and I in him.
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As a father hath sent me, and I live by the Father,
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so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
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This is the bread which came down from heaven, not as your fathers did eat manna and are dead.
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He that eateth this bread shall live forever."
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Now, that's some good, strong teaching by Jesus right there.
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He's just letting them know they'll all be taught of God.
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That's the only way you can come to Him, is to be taught of God.
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These people aren't taught... God's trying to teach them,
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but they're not believing what God is telling them.
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So they're not receiving God's teaching.
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They never come to the conclusion that Jesus is the Savior.
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They never are putting the Old Testament teaching
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of the innocent substitutes that died for the guilty and how they went free back then.
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They're not putting it together.
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They're not putting it together when Jesus said,
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"You have to eat my flesh and drink my blood."
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They're not remembering how they took the blood of the Passover lamb
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and put it on the doorpost to get out of Egypt.
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They're not remembering once they shed the blood of that lamb in their place,
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that God had them do what with the lamb?
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He had them eat the lamb hiding behind the blood that was shed in their place.
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In all of that eating the lamb and everything,
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when they ate the lamb, that lamb, they lived by the food they ate,
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that physical food.
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The lamb that died for them gave them temporary physical life.
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By shedding its blood and being consumed by those people.
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But this lamb that comes would shed his blood on a cross.
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By eating this truth, relying or believing on him,
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he kept telling them, "This is how you eat. You believe on me.
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You believe the truth. You consume the truth.
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Then you'll live forever."
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With that, it's a good place to come to a conclusion.
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Now, next week, what we're going to do is get to the mountain of Sinai
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and we're going to look at God giving them his law.
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I thought we might get there this morning, but the bread was just too good.
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We just had to keep eating it.
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So, Lord willing, next Sunday, we will get them to Mount Sinai
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and we'll dig deep into God's Ten Commandments,
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why he gave them, what they mean to us,
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and how they are used to give us eternal life.
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Not by obeying them, but by God teaching us how we need this right here,
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the Lord Jesus.
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That's the purpose of those Ten Commandments.
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The Bible calls them our school master to bring us to Christ.
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We'll look at that, Lord willing.
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Next week, and I've always enjoyed going over the Ten Commandments,
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you cannot miss the Ten Commandments lesson.
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If you miss that, you're not going to understand the course as you should.
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So, if for some reason, one of you are sick or have to work,
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please make sure as soon as you can, watch the Ten Commandments lesson
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and then you can finish the rest of the studies after that.
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Any questions?
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All right, Lord willing, we'll see you next door.
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