Expiration Date

0:00:02.040 --> 0:00:04.600 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 0:00:04.840 --> 0:00:07.080 Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:10.440 you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:12.479 it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:15.240 see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:21.000 I want to share with you from John chapter six, 0:00:21.160 --> 0:00:24.959 verse forty eight through fifty. And if you want to 0:00:25.120 --> 0:00:27.840 join me on the app that you have on your phone, 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:30.720 or if you brought a physical copy of God's Word. 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:32.880 If not, we'll just put it on the screen there 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:37.240 for you. I'll be sharing from the NIV nineteen eighty 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:41.080 four version. No, I'm serious, there's different ones, so you'll 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:42.720 see a few of the words are different. That was 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:46.040 not a joke, but they change it, they revise it, 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:48.239 and so this may be a few words different than 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:50.320 what you're reading and what I normally preach from. But 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:54.760 listen to this Jesus. It says, I am the bread 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:59.520 of life. Your forefathers ate the man in the desert, 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:04.760 yet they die. But here is the bread that comes 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:09.600 down from Heaven, which a man may eat and not die. 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:12.600 I like that so much when I read it I'm 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:14.560 gonna go back for seconds. Let's go back. Let's go back, 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:16.480 Let's read the whole thing again. That's what you came 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:19.920 for anyway, is the word of God. That thing came 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:22.480 alive to me last night I was preaching it. I 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:25.199 was talking to my pastor, Pastor Craig Rochelle, after church 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:28.080 on the porch. I started pacing all around the backyard 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:31.199 telling him how these verses just have been coming alive 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:33.120 for me. I was preaching to him on the phone. 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:35.160 Whether he wanted to hear it or not. I think 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:37.320 he put me on speaker or mute or something like that. 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:41.160 When cut the grass, but it said, I am the 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:43.840 bread of life. Your forefathers ate the man in the desert, 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:46.280 yet they die. But here is the bread. Somebody said, 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:48.960 here is the bread. Here is the bread that comes 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:51.600 down from Heaven, which a man may eat and not die. 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:55.440 I want to use just as a title today expiration date, 0:01:56.040 --> 0:02:00.480 and touch somebody next to you and say check the label. Amen, 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:10.880 you may be seated. It's so crazy how you can 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:15.520 think you really know somebody for years and then they 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:18.079 just do something that makes you question everything you thought 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:22.520 you knew about them. You sound like you're going through something, 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:31.000 are they sitting next to you? I mean, I can 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:36.840 tell you Holly's favorite movies, her favorite color, her favorite stores, 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:40.480 her favorite brands within her favorite stores. I know a 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:45.760 lot of things about that woman. I know her favorite books, 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:49.560 audio books. I know her favorite book club that she's 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:51.760 having this week, what she's reading for her book club 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:57.160 this week. But even sometimes in the context of a 0:02:57.200 --> 0:03:01.280 marriage that you really think you know somebody, they would 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:07.280 just shock you. The other day, she horrified me because 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:11.120 I thought I knew her so well until I went 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:15.640 in the refrigerator and I pulled out some cheese. I 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:17.359 was just going to eat a few blocks of cheddar 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:23.240 from my low carb lifestyle, says for a snack, And 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:26.480 I looked at it and it said it was expired 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:32.079 three months ago. Fridge was so full, you know, But 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:37.160 I saw that, so as I'm going to throw it away, 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:40.600 she stands in front of me and blocks me from 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:43.760 putting the cheese. She says, oh, oh, you gotta smell 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:49.960 it first, and I'm like, no, babe, I don't. It 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:53.640 says right here on the label it's expired. And she said, oh, 0:03:53.680 --> 0:04:04.200 I feed you expired food all the time, and she said, 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:12.840 the expiration date is just a suggestion. I'm like the 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:18.599 devil is a lie o. Smell it. You know, you 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:23.400 think you know somebody, turns out they're poisoning you trying 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:25.760 to collect that life insurance. Want to see about that 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:36.800 term life insurance. But you know it really should be 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:40.720 in your relationship with God that you think you know him, 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:44.200 you think you know what he's like, and just as 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:48.320 your life experiences accumulate, and just the ways that you 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:50.839 witness Him working in your life that you didn't expect 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:53.520 and that you didn't predict and that did not fit 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:57.080 your preconceived notions of what God was like eighteen years ago. 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:01.920 He doesn't change, but the way that we see him 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:09.680 should and must. It must expand, it must. Y'all won't 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:11.680 like this word because you think it's like an atheist word. 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:16.400 Evolve to include the parts of who He is that 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:19.520 we didn't know about in our arrogance and our pride, 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:22.839 because as we've become broken by the trials of life, 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:25.440 it leaves spaces for God to get in. And he 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:27.479 couldn't get in when we were all sealed up type 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:30.360 by thinking we were perfect. But then when you live 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:33.279 a little while wave at me in the back. When 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:35.840 you live a little while, you get about to that 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:38.040 age where you start to say, well, I thought I 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:41.360 saw everything. I thought I knew who was a good 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:44.799 Christian and who wasn't I thought I knew. I thought, 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:47.080 I thought I knew what God would always do and 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:49.719 what God was always like. But he was just always 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:52.480 surprising them. In the person of Jesus Christ, as he 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:57.599 walked the earth, he was showing them progressively who he was, 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:01.520 and he wasn't changing to be something that he wasn't. 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:03.880 They were just seeing what he had been all along. 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:08.040 That required a sort of rewiring because if you go 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:11.240 off of what they thought in the Old Testament, they 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:14.560 saw a lot of wrath and vengeance because that was 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:18.080 the way that they saw God through that lens. But 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:20.760 as you track through the Redemptive history, the God of 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:25.520 the Bible is revealed as one who not only is 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:27.839 full of love and full of grace, but he is love. 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:32.160 He is grace. See it doesn't say God has love. 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:37.320 God is love. We beheld his glory, the glory as 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:39.000 of the only begotton of the Father, full of grace 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:40.960 and truth. He was always full of grace and truth. 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:44.640 We just beheld it in the person of Christ. But 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:48.000 it's progressive. And there is a reason that God does 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:51.800 not show you everything all at once. It's called mercy. 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:56.520 If he shows you the whole thing, you would die, 0:06:56.760 --> 0:06:59.320 you would give up, you would quit, and you would 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:04.360 be so overwhelm. So because he is kind and because 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:08.279 he is wise, he progressively shows you himself, and he 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:11.840 progressively shows you his purpose for your life. So you 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:14.040 can't figure it out all at once. And if you 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:18.240 are a planner aka control freak, this will stress you out. 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:22.120 It stressed the disciples out. He would not tell them everything. 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:24.480 They would show up to preach you. I'm a preach 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:26.320 a little bit. In fact, it's worse than that, okay, 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:29.040 John chapter six, He's like, let's get away. John the 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:31.960 Baptist has just been beheaded. Things are going crazy. Let's 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:33.920 get away. He didn't tell him there'd be a crowd 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:35.840 waiting on the other side, not because he didn't know, 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:37.720 but probably because he knew they wouldn't go with him 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:40.040 if they knew. So some things God does not show 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:41.880 you about what's waiting for you on the other side 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:43.560 because he knows you won't go if he tells you 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:46.160 what's there, so he'll get you there and then show 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:48.400 you the reason that he came to begin with. Well, 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:51.960 he starts healing people right, he starts blessing, he starts teaching. 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:54.480 It gets late the disciples. I know you've heard this 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:56.679 story before, even if you only went to church once. 0:07:56.720 --> 0:08:00.000 It's like Hall of Fame Bible story. Five thousand men, 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:04.160 women and children, five loaves of bread, two fish, one 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:06.920 little boy who Peter beat up and took his lunch. 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:10.320 I put that in as a it's a speculation. It's 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:13.480 a speculation just thinking about how that boy gave his lunch. 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:16.600 I have kids. I've never seen them voluntarily give it 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:20.800 anything to the Lord and so or anybody. But but 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:24.240 there's there's this sense in which they they were, they 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:27.400 were they were gleaning what they could about the identity 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:31.440 of this Christ that they chose to follow by the 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:35.240 activities that they saw him do. And yet what what 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:39.480 God confusing was that a lot of times people would 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:43.200 get so caught up in what he did that they 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:47.640 would miss the point of who he was. So John 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:51.240 gives us seven statements in his Gospel alone that he 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:54.680 collects that start with the name of God that was 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:58.120 revealed to Moses at the Burning Bush. I am this 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:02.679 is the first one. I am the bread of life. 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:04.560 And how many are grateful that the first thing that 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:11.959 Jesus wanted to be identified with was sustenance carbohydrates. How 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:14.720 many are grateful that the first thing he wanted you 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:18.440 to know is I am not only your provider. I 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:23.880 am your provision. If I'm just your provider, then you 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:26.920 need what comes from my hand. But if I am 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:30.800 your provision, you can trust my heart to know that, 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:34.480 even if it's not coming your way, everything you need 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:38.280 for life and godliness is in me. I am the 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:42.040 bread of life. I am the light of the world. 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:44.079 If you can't see your next step, it's all right. 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:46.760 I'll give you enough light for the next step that 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:49.880 I've called you to take, not the next fifteen hundred. 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:54.160 It is a progressive revelation. I am the gate that 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:56.560 means you come in through me, you go out through me. 0:09:56.960 --> 0:09:59.440 Church is not the gate. Other people are not the gate. 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:01.760 They don't get to decide what your life becomes or 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:04.520 what it doesn't. I am the Gate. I am the 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:07.040 good Shepherd. I will lead you through the valley of 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:10.120 the shadow of death. It's just a shadow, because I 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:13.280 am the resurrection and the life. Even the things that 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:17.079 have died in your life are subject to resurrection. I 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:20.240 serve notice on dead bones. If the breath of God 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:23.000 hits the bones in the valley, they have to rise 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:27.720 up and live in the name of the Lord. I 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:31.720 am the vine, the true vine. There's imitators, there's substitutes, 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:37.079 but they can't sustain you. I am the bread of life. 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:39.600 And in order to get them to see it, he 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:43.400 has to bring them all the way back to their experiences, 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:47.960 and many of these experiences happen before they weerever around. 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:52.840 And in order to get you to see that God 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:55.560 is your provider, I want to show you something from 0:10:55.600 --> 0:11:00.080 Exodus chapter sixteen that really speaks to me about and 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:03.040 how in some seasons of my life I feel like 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:07.959 the demand is greater than the supply. The disciples weren't 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:11.760 the first one that got put in a situation that 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:15.520 was too much for them. So I'm preaching to people 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:17.640 who are looking at too much in an area of 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:21.480 your life today. And I believe, if nothing other than 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:24.720 the device that is in your pocket, we are living 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:30.520 in a time of too much, too much information. They're 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:34.240 showing us now through studies on compassion fatigue, that by 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:37.160 knowing everything bad that happens in the world, we are 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:40.680 becoming unable to mobilize to do anything about the real 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:43.760 things that we can affect, because we are so overwhelmed 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:48.679 with too much, too much. The Disciples saw the crowds. 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:51.920 They said, it's getting late, Jesus. This is John chapter six, 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:53.800 before he said I'm the Bread of life. This is 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:55.920 what led up to that statement. This is the story 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:59.079 behind the statement. He wasn't just saying something out of context. 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:02.439 He took the bred and multiplied it and everybody was fed. 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:05.880 But before that happened, the disciples tendency was like the 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:08.199 same tendency we have when it's just too much, Send 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:13.840 them away, send them away. It's just too much. I 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:18.200 can't fix it all. It's too much. It's too much debt, financially, 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:20.800 I don't even know where to start digging out of this. 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:25.320 It's just it's just too much. It's too much, too 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:30.880 much on my schedule, it's too much. And then if 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:33.720 the if the spirit of too much stays on you 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:40.120 too long, it'll become the spirit of not enough. And 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:44.359 so then you start evaluating your potential on the basis 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:48.960 of your experiences and and what God is so good 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:51.920 at in moments like these in our lives. If you're 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:53.880 in a moment like that in your life, and I 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:56.840 know I certainly have been where where you start sending 0:12:56.960 --> 0:12:59.960 opportunities away because you don't believe you have the reces 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:02.280 to meet the need, you can relate with this passage 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:07.080 and this statement, I am the bread of life. So 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:09.199 recently and I'm going to share with you exit of 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:12.520 sixteen in a minute. I didn't forget, but I started 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:16.720 noticing that I was turning down things that I believe 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:20.280 God wanted me to do, but it wasn't even because 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:23.760 I was too busy to do them. I started to 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:27.120 feel like I didn't have enough to give, and it 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:30.000 started scaring me that maybe I was going to get 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:32.240 out there to try to do it and I wouldn't 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:35.400 have what people expected me to have. So I started 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:38.160 to send stuff away that God was trying to bring 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:41.080 to me to multiply his provision and to use me, 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:44.400 which is what I wanted. But when you stay in 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:48.640 the spirit of too much long enough, it becomes a 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:51.280 deep feeling of not enough. And I believe that I'm 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:54.240 looking at people today. I believe it's a cultural epidemic 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:56.599 that we have never been in a time where we 0:13:56.679 --> 0:14:00.560 have felt more deprived and depleted and insufficient to face 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:04.680 life's challenges, because we are constantly exposed to the world's 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:13.240 entire need, all at once. So Jesus says, your fathers 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:19.240 ate Manna in the wilderness. Last week, I talked about 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:22.920 the wilderness, and I talked about finding your water in 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:26.760 dry places, that God will always put a rock where 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:30.200 water will come from, even in the driest, most difficult 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:33.520 seasons of your life. And how that when you're too 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:38.720 hungry or to thirsty, you become susceptible to substitutes, which 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:41.240 is why you can be tempted to turn stones into bread. 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:47.440 The Wilderness passage, which Jesus demonstrated by overcoming temptation and 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:51.120 the nation of Israel succumbed to the temptation, is mentioned 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:55.240 in Exitus sixteen. Remember that they came through the Red Sea. 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:58.320 They had been in Egypt for a long time, suffering 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:02.240 under slavery. They came through the Red Sea. They dwelt 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:05.040 in a place called the wilderness. That wasn't the name 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:08.160 of it. It was several stops along the way for 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:11.360 a little while after they left Egypt. Apparently they had 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:14.920 some snack packs, but at the point that the food 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:18.400 ran out, they were caught in an interesting situation, just 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:20.880 like the disciples in John six where we're in a 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:24.360 remote place and we don't have enough to do what 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:26.320 we need to do. And I want you to look 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:29.240 at the scripture because it's kind of a test that 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:31.480 some of you are dealing with right now, the do 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:36.440 you trust me now? Test. You get so many opportunities 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:40.440 in your life to trust God again, and every time 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:43.560 you trust him on a different level, in a different scenario, 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:46.680 you see a different dimension of who He is and 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:49.440 what he can do. Now, look at this in Exodus 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:54.920 chapter sixteen, if I can ever find it, Yeah, here 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:57.200 it says the whole israre like community. Right there first 0:15:57.240 --> 0:15:59.040 one the hole is your like community. Set out from 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:01.800 Elam and came to the hazard of Sin, which is 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:05.440 between Elim and Sinai on the fifteenth day of the 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:08.680 second month, after they had come out of Egypt, where 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:11.600 they had been for four hundred and thirty years. In Egypt, 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:15.760 where they initially went to escape of famine, that was 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:18.920 in Canaan, but then in Egypt, the place where they 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:21.520 went to escape the famine became the place where they 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:24.720 were enslaved by Pharaoh. We dealt with that last week. 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:26.640 Watched the message. It's free on YouTube and you have 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:29.560 no excuse not to watch it. Download the podcast, download 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:31.960 the app, and watch the message. But where it brings 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:35.520 us to is they're out of Egypt, but they're not 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:38.960 into Canaan. They are in a place where they need 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:42.240 God's provision, but they have not fully accessed the promise 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:47.080 of God. I call this the disappointment of deliverance. It's 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:49.960 when God brings you out of something, but not all 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:53.480 the way into anything either. It's when you raise your 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:56.960 hand to receive Christ and you still have issues with 0:16:57.040 --> 0:17:00.920 your anger. It's when you believe God touched Darren worship 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:03.640 and you still have bursidis in your right knee when 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:06.440 you go home. It's when God makes you a promise 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:09.840 and speaks a word concerning your daughter and her attitude 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:13.560 gets worse on Tuesday than it was last Wednesday. It's 0:17:13.600 --> 0:17:16.760 the disappointment of deliverance when He brings you out, brings 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:19.600 you through, brings you forward, but now they're in a 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:23.160 stuck place. Really to wonder what will we eat? And 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:26.720 they don't pass the test because instead of gratitude for 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:29.280 the grace of God that brought them this far, they 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:34.639 begin to grumble about what's ahead now list is in 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:40.800 Bible times. We don't deal with this anymore. You know, 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:46.000 the Bible's outdated times have change. But they they came 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:51.159 out of Egypt. Watch this when the expiration date on 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:55.919 their season of suffering had reached the ears of heaven. 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:02.600 Everything you go through in your life, everything that even 0:18:02.640 --> 0:18:05.480 the enemy does in your life, anything you do to 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:10.480 yourself in your life, it can't go on forever. And 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:13.720 here's why it can't go on forever, because you are 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:17.159 not in charge of the calendar of events of the 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:21.360 purpose of God in the world. So even if the 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:24.119 devil is messing with you in your mind, even if 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:26.920 the devil is messing with you in your family, he 0:18:26.960 --> 0:18:29.720 can't just mess with you for as long as he wants, 0:18:30.320 --> 0:18:33.879 as much as he wants. God had to give the 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:37.600 devil permission to hurt job. He didn't just get to 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:39.479 do what he wanted to do for as long as 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:41.840 he wanted to do it. God said, now that's enough. 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:46.320 Somebody shout that's enough. And when God saw his people 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:49.959 struggling in Egyptian slavery at a certain point, he said, 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:53.280 now that's enough. And when he spoke to Moses, he said, 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:56.120 I've seen my people mistreated, and I see how their 0:18:56.160 --> 0:18:58.800 backs are breaking with heavy labor, and I hear how 0:18:58.800 --> 0:19:01.720 they're crying out to me, and that's enough, and I 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:04.760 came down to deliver my people and bring them out 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:08.880 of Egypt. Every season of suffering, every season of struggle, 0:19:09.080 --> 0:19:13.200 has an expiration date. God is suffering. God is in charge. 0:19:13.359 --> 0:19:25.040 The enemy doesn't run my life. So when that ended 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:29.680 and a month passed, they've come through the Red Sea. 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:33.399 But now they need something to eat. And this is 0:19:33.400 --> 0:19:35.760 why I thought Jesus brought it up to say, I 0:19:35.800 --> 0:19:38.600 am the bread of life, just like I did it. 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:42.360 Then watch this just like I did it in that 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:46.520 period of time, just like I took care of you before, 0:19:48.760 --> 0:19:51.760 just like you didn't know how before and I did somehow. 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:58.640 I am just like I was, I am, and just 0:19:58.680 --> 0:20:01.320 like I am, I will be. I haven't been giving 0:20:01.359 --> 0:20:03.159 y'all any love this whole sermon, but this is for 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:07.639 this section, fifth row, this section. I am, I was, 0:20:08.240 --> 0:20:11.439 I will be. I am I was. How you know 0:20:11.480 --> 0:20:13.840 I am because I was? How do you know I 0:20:13.880 --> 0:20:16.160 will be? Because I am? How you know I am 0:20:16.240 --> 0:20:19.639 because I was. There is a testimony in your life 0:20:20.000 --> 0:20:23.080 to the faithfulness of God that will enable you to 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:28.320 trust Him in this season, and you just get to 0:20:28.359 --> 0:20:31.080 do it over and over again. If you trust God 0:20:31.119 --> 0:20:33.359 with one test, you get to trust him with another. 0:20:35.160 --> 0:20:42.119 Algebra two is your reward for passing Algebra one. I 0:20:42.119 --> 0:20:45.600 don't like that. You don't get to graduate. You just 0:20:45.640 --> 0:20:47.920 get to trust him again. I will never forget what 0:20:48.440 --> 0:20:52.760 Holly said to me when Elijah was born. She goes, Oh, 0:20:53.000 --> 0:20:55.760 you don't get to quit worrying about your kid after 0:20:55.800 --> 0:21:00.240 you have them, because you know we're rubbing oil her 0:21:00.280 --> 0:21:03.639 stomach and feeding her avocados or whatever. We you know 0:21:03.960 --> 0:21:08.400 everything prenatal. What to expect when you're expecting. By the way, 0:21:09.200 --> 0:21:15.360 that book sucks, I'm on my money back, but it 0:21:14.520 --> 0:21:21.000 put an expectation on us. It is the disappointment of delivery. Oh, 0:21:21.080 --> 0:21:23.760 I had the kid. Now I got to check on 0:21:23.800 --> 0:21:27.320 them all through the body. I'm worried when they're crying, 0:21:27.680 --> 0:21:31.879 I'm worried when they're quiet. I'm worried. And now not 0:21:32.040 --> 0:21:34.919 only do I get to trust the life of my 0:21:35.040 --> 0:21:40.920 child to God when they're a toddler, because that's scary. 0:21:41.520 --> 0:21:45.360 You run around the house protecting them from everything. You know, Well, 0:21:45.400 --> 0:21:47.800 the first one, I mean we have three by the 0:21:47.840 --> 0:21:52.520 third one figured out. But the first one, you know, 0:21:52.560 --> 0:21:56.400 you're plugging electrical sockets with plastic things. Then you get 0:21:56.440 --> 0:22:00.359 to trust God when they're a teenager, and I'll make 0:22:00.400 --> 0:22:08.360 one of those plastic plugs for their friends. So now 0:22:08.400 --> 0:22:15.480 it's like, hey, trust me now, trust me deeper, trust 0:22:15.600 --> 0:22:19.879 me broader, trust me greater I am because I was 0:22:20.720 --> 0:22:23.560 and I will be too. It's the kind of God 0:22:23.560 --> 0:22:27.960 that I am. The bread of life. Here is the bread. 0:22:30.480 --> 0:22:32.040 And I'm gonna show you two things that keep us 0:22:32.080 --> 0:22:35.639 from trusting him. Now, two things that keep us from 0:22:35.680 --> 0:22:39.040 trusting Now they're in the passage. It says in the desert, 0:22:39.080 --> 0:22:44.040 the whole community grumbled against Moses and Aaron. I wanted 0:22:44.040 --> 0:22:46.280 it to say they were grateful to Moses and Erin 0:22:46.400 --> 0:22:48.440 because of all the courage that it took to lead 0:22:48.560 --> 0:22:51.800 us out of Egypt and stand before Pharaoh and last 0:22:51.920 --> 0:22:54.399 through the duration of the ten plagues. But no, people. 0:22:55.480 --> 0:23:00.800 People tend to forget people tend to focus on what's missing, 0:23:02.200 --> 0:23:06.439 and then they tend to have a selective memory. Because 0:23:06.440 --> 0:23:08.959 sometimes what keeps you you want to take notes, this 0:23:09.000 --> 0:23:11.679 is the only chance you have the whole sermon. What 0:23:11.800 --> 0:23:15.119 keeps you from trusting God in the present is your 0:23:15.160 --> 0:23:22.119 attachment to the past. It's like when you've been in 0:23:22.160 --> 0:23:25.280 Egypt too long and you've been gone for a month 0:23:25.320 --> 0:23:27.520 and you start remembering it different than it really was. 0:23:31.119 --> 0:23:34.119 It's when it's a selective memory. I don't mean to 0:23:34.119 --> 0:23:37.600 start any marital fights here, but sometimes even in a relationship, 0:23:37.800 --> 0:23:40.440 it can be a selective memory of what I said 0:23:40.480 --> 0:23:42.960 and what you said. Well, that's what's happening here. It's 0:23:42.960 --> 0:23:46.119 a selective memory. It's like, watch this, what's what they 0:23:46.160 --> 0:23:49.640 say in the desert? They grumbled verse three. The Israelite 0:23:49.640 --> 0:23:51.480 said to them, if only we had died by the 0:23:51.520 --> 0:23:54.040 Lord's hand in Egypt. Remember they were crying God to 0:23:54.040 --> 0:23:58.000 take them out of Egypt. But now they're saying, would 0:23:58.000 --> 0:24:02.080 have been better to die there? Because there is the 0:24:02.160 --> 0:24:07.159 verse on the screen. Shout the word there there we 0:24:07.320 --> 0:24:12.679 sat around pots of meat. Yeah, when they weren't beating 0:24:12.720 --> 0:24:17.120 you with whips and working you twenty hours a day. Okay, 0:24:17.160 --> 0:24:20.200 so fine. Egypt had a meal plan, but it was miserable. 0:24:23.560 --> 0:24:33.919 But you forget that and you choose familiarity over freedom. 0:24:34.240 --> 0:24:38.160 Wish we were back in Egypt, big old pots of protein, 0:24:39.359 --> 0:24:45.520 the Golden Corral, meat section of Egypt, pots of meat, 0:24:45.920 --> 0:24:55.560 all the food we wanted. A buffet seven talking about Egypt. Now, 0:24:56.119 --> 0:24:59.920 they gave you mud and made you make bricks without 0:25:00.119 --> 0:25:02.240 enough straw, but you don't remember what they didn't give you. 0:25:02.280 --> 0:25:07.600 An Egypt seven puts meal food we want to You 0:25:07.640 --> 0:25:09.920 brought us out into this desert to starve the entire 0:25:09.920 --> 0:25:13.040 assembly Toda. The people you try to help the most 0:25:13.040 --> 0:25:15.000 will often turn on you. But that's a life advice. 0:25:15.119 --> 0:25:18.560 That's not what the message is. Today. The Lord said 0:25:18.600 --> 0:25:25.480 to Moses, all right, I'm gonna kill them all. Now 0:25:25.520 --> 0:25:27.720 watch this. This is how you start out thinking God 0:25:27.840 --> 0:25:31.399 is this is This is for most of us. And 0:25:31.440 --> 0:25:35.119 I'm preaching in the South United States of America. We 0:25:35.119 --> 0:25:38.200 got churches all over. But you see, your first concept 0:25:38.240 --> 0:25:42.520 of God, if you're introduced through religious system, is that 0:25:42.680 --> 0:25:48.639 God is You're not always pictured like Triton on the 0:25:48.680 --> 0:25:53.800 Little Mermaid, like just zapping stuff, and sometimes he zaps 0:25:53.800 --> 0:25:56.080 you and gives you a healing, but sometimes he zaps you, 0:25:57.000 --> 0:26:00.600 gives you diarrhea just like he just and I'll be 0:26:00.640 --> 0:26:02.399 scared of God like oh, I don't want to say that, 0:26:02.960 --> 0:26:05.240 He might buzz me. And you start thinking of God 0:26:05.280 --> 0:26:07.000 like that. But then Jesus comes along. He says, no, No, 0:26:07.040 --> 0:26:09.320 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship 0:26:09.400 --> 0:26:11.399 him in spirit and truth. I am the bread of life. 0:26:12.040 --> 0:26:13.959 The first thing I want to be identified with is 0:26:14.600 --> 0:26:17.280 I provide for you. I am the bread of life. 0:26:18.280 --> 0:26:21.239 You start off thinking of God in this way, but 0:26:21.280 --> 0:26:23.800 then over time you begin to see that grace is 0:26:23.880 --> 0:26:28.720 really that good. And yet, if your attachment to the 0:26:28.760 --> 0:26:31.719 past in the way that you saw God as somebody 0:26:31.720 --> 0:26:34.560 who was just to punish you and keep you in 0:26:34.600 --> 0:26:37.320 line and make sure that you have no fun while 0:26:37.320 --> 0:26:40.800 you're here on this planet, if that is your view 0:26:40.840 --> 0:26:43.640 of God, it is very difficult for you to progress 0:26:43.680 --> 0:26:47.120 in it until you need the grace of God, until 0:26:47.160 --> 0:26:49.040 you get in a season where you can't do enough, 0:26:49.080 --> 0:26:50.879 and you get to a thing in your life that 0:26:50.920 --> 0:26:53.439 you can't overcome, and you get to a place in 0:26:53.480 --> 0:26:56.359 your life where you can't clean it up, and you 0:26:56.400 --> 0:26:58.199 make a mess that so big that you end up 0:26:58.240 --> 0:27:00.399 in the pig pen and you want to eat what 0:27:00.440 --> 0:27:02.360 the pigs eight and all you can do is come 0:27:02.400 --> 0:27:04.479 back home to your father. And then you see him 0:27:04.480 --> 0:27:06.600 on the road and you're like, oh, the whole time 0:27:06.640 --> 0:27:08.879 I was away from you, this is what you were like. 0:27:09.359 --> 0:27:11.840 You were waiting for me the whole time. But you don't. 0:27:12.200 --> 0:27:17.600 You don't see that all at once. It's progressive, and 0:27:17.640 --> 0:27:22.400 so he gives them. Watch this grace for their grumbling. 0:27:24.359 --> 0:27:27.840 They're not even praying correctly, and he still gives them 0:27:27.880 --> 0:27:32.280 what they need. I will rain down bread from heaven 0:27:32.880 --> 0:27:36.360 for you. And this is how you're gonna deal with it. Okay, guys, 0:27:36.440 --> 0:27:39.000 I'm gonna meet your needs. I'm gonna provide for you. 0:27:39.600 --> 0:27:42.080 Here's how. Here's how you're to respond to my provision. 0:27:42.640 --> 0:27:45.640 Now listen closely. This is important. This applies to us. 0:27:47.119 --> 0:27:49.320 It's not exactly the same for us because this is 0:27:49.359 --> 0:27:52.600 a physical manifestation. Most of the ways that we see 0:27:52.640 --> 0:27:56.800 God's provision through the Spirit of Christ is through the spiritual. 0:27:57.760 --> 0:28:00.560 The tangible is important, but it's nothing compared to this spiritual. 0:28:00.920 --> 0:28:04.119 So this is how God provides peace and joy and 0:28:04.200 --> 0:28:07.119 contentment and faith and hope, and all of the stuff 0:28:07.119 --> 0:28:09.760 that really matters, the stuff that doesn't perish, the stuff 0:28:09.800 --> 0:28:12.080 that doesn't get moldy, the stuff that doesn't get old, 0:28:12.080 --> 0:28:13.600 the stuff that you don't have to throw out after 0:28:13.680 --> 0:28:16.840 three months, the stuff that last. He said, I'm gonna 0:28:16.880 --> 0:28:20.639 give you. I'm gonna give you bread from heaven. The 0:28:20.680 --> 0:28:22.840 people are to go out each day and gather enough 0:28:22.960 --> 0:28:26.000 for that day. Somebody say enough. It's in the passage, 0:28:26.000 --> 0:28:29.920 he said, I want you to take enough for that day. 0:28:30.000 --> 0:28:33.720 In this way, I will test them to see whether 0:28:33.760 --> 0:28:37.040 they will follow my instructions. I want to test them 0:28:37.040 --> 0:28:40.400 to see if they trust me. I want to know 0:28:40.440 --> 0:28:44.360 do you trust me? Do you trust me enough to 0:28:44.440 --> 0:28:47.760 believe that I am enough? And do you believe that 0:28:47.800 --> 0:28:51.720 if I am enough, so are you. Because if I'm 0:28:51.760 --> 0:28:54.160 in you and I'm your God, and I made you 0:28:54.840 --> 0:28:57.000 and I put you in a situation, I would never 0:28:57.080 --> 0:28:59.680 put you in a situation that I would not make 0:28:59.720 --> 0:29:04.400 you enough for shot. If it's your word, I'll give 0:29:04.400 --> 0:29:15.240 you a minute, so he said. On the sixth day. Now, 0:29:15.280 --> 0:29:17.680 as they get ready for the Sabbath, I want them 0:29:17.680 --> 0:29:19.760 to prepare what they bring in, and that will be 0:29:19.800 --> 0:29:22.080 twice as much as they gather on the other days 0:29:22.160 --> 0:29:23.880 so that they don't have to work on the Sabbath. 0:29:24.880 --> 0:29:26.560 But it was kind of a system that they set 0:29:26.640 --> 0:29:31.800 up where it was like, get what you need for today. 0:29:32.440 --> 0:29:36.520 Our father word in heaven. How about your name, you 0:29:36.600 --> 0:29:37.960 candom come, you will be done on earth. This is 0:29:38.000 --> 0:29:46.440 in heaven. Give us next week our daily bread, Give 0:29:46.520 --> 0:29:50.560 us last month our daily bread. You see how it 0:29:50.560 --> 0:29:52.560 can be two things. It can be your attachment to 0:29:52.600 --> 0:29:55.840 the past where you remember what you used to eat 0:29:55.880 --> 0:29:59.440 in Egypt. Or it can be your fixation on the future. 0:29:59.480 --> 0:30:02.600 That's the second thing that keeps you from receiving God's 0:30:02.640 --> 0:30:07.760 provision right now. Wish we were in Egypt there we 0:30:07.840 --> 0:30:12.880 had see it and then and then when the Messiah comes, 0:30:13.280 --> 0:30:19.240 then he will then there, back there, then one day 0:30:19.920 --> 0:30:26.440 back there. Then the provision is never then or there. 0:30:27.400 --> 0:30:34.240 It is here and now the provision is always here. 0:30:35.040 --> 0:30:39.680 The bread is always here. And what makes the bread 0:30:39.880 --> 0:30:43.840 enough is who touches it. What made the bread multiply 0:30:44.480 --> 0:30:47.479 was when they put it in Jesus' hands. See, this 0:30:47.560 --> 0:30:50.880 is the principle. It is your proximity to the presence 0:30:50.920 --> 0:30:54.520 of Christ that becomes your provision for the challenges that 0:30:54.600 --> 0:30:58.000 you face. And so if you stay close to Him, 0:30:58.440 --> 0:31:00.960 even if it's in a wilderness, even if it's through 0:31:01.000 --> 0:31:04.520 a mistake, even if it's insurmountable, even if you don't 0:31:04.560 --> 0:31:07.920 know how, if you will stay close to Christ, your 0:31:08.000 --> 0:31:11.440 bread will be blessed, and it will be enough, and 0:31:11.560 --> 0:31:15.200 it will go around, and there will be twelve basketfuls 0:31:15.240 --> 0:31:23.680 of leftovers. He is the bread of life. When they 0:31:23.720 --> 0:31:27.200 set up the Tabernacle, they made a table with acacia 0:31:27.240 --> 0:31:31.320 wood overlaid it with gold. The acacia wood is humanity, 0:31:31.600 --> 0:31:34.760 the gold is divinity. They put twelve loaves of bread, 0:31:34.840 --> 0:31:38.200 six stacks on each side, to represent the covenant that 0:31:38.240 --> 0:31:42.800 God had with his people. Twelve loaves, twelve tribes, twelve disciples, 0:31:42.920 --> 0:31:45.880 twelve basketfuls of leftovers. But they were not in the 0:31:45.880 --> 0:31:49.000 Holy of Holies. They were only close to it. They 0:31:49.000 --> 0:31:51.440 were right outside that place. It was called the table 0:31:51.480 --> 0:31:57.520 of show Bread, or watch this the bread of the presence, presence, 0:31:58.560 --> 0:32:02.080 the bread of the Presence. When it came into the temple, 0:32:02.320 --> 0:32:05.760 it was bread. But when it got close enough to 0:32:05.880 --> 0:32:09.000 the Holy of Holies, where the presence of God was, 0:32:09.480 --> 0:32:13.280 it became blessed. The closer it got to the presence 0:32:13.280 --> 0:32:16.800 of God, the less common it became. When it came 0:32:16.840 --> 0:32:19.520 in it was just a loaf. But when it got 0:32:19.520 --> 0:32:22.600 close enough to the Holy of Holies, where the presence 0:32:22.600 --> 0:32:25.680 of Yahweh is. See, I'm trying to say, you don't 0:32:25.720 --> 0:32:28.120 have to be enough. All you have to do is 0:32:28.160 --> 0:32:32.160 get close enough to the one who is more than enough. 0:32:32.560 --> 0:32:37.960 And I declare, My God shall supply all your knees, 0:32:38.320 --> 0:32:41.120 not one or two, not one day in the sleep, 0:32:41.200 --> 0:32:45.560 by and bye. Here Now is the bread of life. 0:32:46.800 --> 0:32:57.240 Where's my organ? Here? Now here is the bread. That's 0:32:57.280 --> 0:33:00.000 what Jesus said. Here is the breath. Somebody shout here, 0:33:00.000 --> 0:33:04.400 here is the brad. It's not in tomorrow. You cannot 0:33:04.480 --> 0:33:11.280 fight tomorrow's battles with today's strength. You are wasting today's 0:33:11.360 --> 0:33:16.480 grace trying to fight tomorrow's battles. When we were talking 0:33:16.520 --> 0:33:19.720 about something yesterday, she said stop stop, stop, stops. She said, 0:33:20.040 --> 0:33:24.200 she said, I'm getting maggots in my manner. I'm gonna 0:33:24.200 --> 0:33:26.760 show you this. You're like, whoa, that's a weird thing. 0:33:27.320 --> 0:33:29.720 This is how y'all talk, this pillow talk around the 0:33:29.720 --> 0:33:33.120 fernic house. Matter of fact, it is because when I 0:33:33.200 --> 0:33:37.880 preached it right. First thing is oh, man, the past, 0:33:38.080 --> 0:33:41.160 Oh like, I used to have so many friends, but 0:33:41.240 --> 0:33:48.400 now they've all, well, you just gotta leave Egypt. God 0:33:48.440 --> 0:33:52.000 can bring you new friends. God might bring you some 0:33:52.080 --> 0:33:57.400 friends this time and they pick up the check. It 0:33:57.520 --> 0:34:07.960 might be up. I don't know. But when in the wilderness, 0:34:07.960 --> 0:34:10.839 you gotta be able to trust and not be too 0:34:10.840 --> 0:34:14.160 attached to the past. And please don't quit your job 0:34:14.200 --> 0:34:17.759 over this message. I hate it. Everybody always hears what 0:34:17.800 --> 0:34:21.120 they want to hear. I'm talking about the paradigm of 0:34:21.160 --> 0:34:25.120 the past Egypt thinking where they hand you your food. 0:34:25.800 --> 0:34:27.399 So God's like, here's I'm gonna do. I'm gonna rain 0:34:27.480 --> 0:34:30.399 down bread from heaven. And then it happened. He told 0:34:30.400 --> 0:34:32.960 Moses he was gonna do it. Then he did it. Now. 0:34:32.960 --> 0:34:35.959 First he gave him meat in the evening to remind 0:34:36.000 --> 0:34:37.720 them of Egypt. He's like, I'm not doing that anymore 0:34:38.200 --> 0:34:42.800 from now on for the next thirty nine years. This 0:34:42.960 --> 0:34:46.160 what you're gonna eat. Now, when God switches the form 0:34:46.200 --> 0:34:48.880 of provision, your first instinct is going to be to 0:34:48.960 --> 0:34:54.200 resist it because you won't recognize it. When God starts 0:34:54.200 --> 0:34:56.360 doing new things in your life. At first, it'll just 0:34:56.400 --> 0:34:58.840 look like trouble, but you won't recognize it's really training. 0:35:00.920 --> 0:35:04.799 Send the crowds away. You can't deal with this. This 0:35:04.840 --> 0:35:09.440 is unfamiliar, so they wake up. Let's go verse thirteen. 0:35:09.480 --> 0:35:12.960 I think that'll be enough. The evening quail came and 0:35:12.960 --> 0:35:15.000 covered the camp. In the morning, there was a layer 0:35:15.040 --> 0:35:18.200 of dew around the camp. Bring me my box while 0:35:18.239 --> 0:35:21.400 I read this next verse. When the dew was gone, 0:35:22.040 --> 0:35:29.799 Bible said thin flakes like frost on the ground and 0:35:29.880 --> 0:35:33.280 appeared on the desert floor. Now I never saw Mana, 0:35:33.480 --> 0:35:40.480 but it said thin flakes like frost. I was just 0:35:40.560 --> 0:35:45.640 picturing the Bible. I never ate Mana, but it said 0:35:46.000 --> 0:35:52.920 thin flakes like frost. Touch somebody say they're great, but 0:35:53.000 --> 0:35:54.280 he put it. Can you do it on the camera? 0:35:54.719 --> 0:35:59.360 And the people were like, huh, never saw this before. 0:36:01.640 --> 0:36:04.840 I mean, we know how to eat in Egypt. In Egypt, 0:36:04.840 --> 0:36:14.400 we had a meal card. But sometimes you don't know 0:36:14.440 --> 0:36:18.040 how to receive something that God has given you, because 0:36:18.080 --> 0:36:21.160 when you've never seen it, it's hard to receive it. 0:36:24.040 --> 0:36:26.560 Do you ever wonder why you sabotage yourself sometimes when 0:36:26.560 --> 0:36:32.160 you're starting to succeed at something, because when frustration and 0:36:32.239 --> 0:36:38.200 failure is familiar to you, you will recreate it without 0:36:38.239 --> 0:36:43.640 even knowing that you're doing it. Sometimes we surround ourselves 0:36:43.680 --> 0:36:49.520 with people who treat us crappy because being treated crappy 0:36:49.600 --> 0:36:55.799 to us is emotionally familiar. So when somebody treats you nice, 0:36:55.840 --> 0:37:06.160 you're suspicious what do they want? And like for me, 0:37:06.200 --> 0:37:08.239 I have a hard time believing that people could just 0:37:09.200 --> 0:37:15.840 like me. It's hard for me to believe because I 0:37:15.880 --> 0:37:18.200 think at some point during my life I was like, well, 0:37:18.239 --> 0:37:22.480 if I preach good, or you know, if I can 0:37:22.560 --> 0:37:25.840 generate a job, like I have all these staff members 0:37:25.880 --> 0:37:29.319 that I'm responsible for. So there's this feeling like you 0:37:29.360 --> 0:37:32.680 start thinking you're the bread after a while, and you 0:37:32.719 --> 0:37:34.560 start thinking if it wasn't for what you did. So 0:37:34.600 --> 0:37:36.520 then when somebody tries to really love you for who 0:37:36.560 --> 0:37:40.560 you are, you're like, h hold on, now this is 0:37:40.600 --> 0:37:43.600 too close. And watch this. When the bread came from 0:37:43.640 --> 0:37:47.440 heaven that God was trying to provide, and it rained 0:37:47.440 --> 0:37:50.719 down and covered the ground, Look at the Israelite's reaction 0:37:50.840 --> 0:37:53.560 when they saw it verse fifteen. They said to each other, 0:37:55.040 --> 0:37:58.880 what is it? They did not know what it was. 0:38:00.080 --> 0:38:06.120 They never saw it before. Some of us are resisting 0:38:06.160 --> 0:38:09.319 the resource that God is sending into our life at 0:38:09.320 --> 0:38:12.920 this moment, because we do not recognize it as His 0:38:13.040 --> 0:38:18.000 presence and his provision. Some of us right now have 0:38:18.719 --> 0:38:21.600 what we have been asking God for in a form 0:38:21.840 --> 0:38:24.920 that we don't recognize. That is before us. And the 0:38:24.960 --> 0:38:28.760 trick is this, that God will give you this day 0:38:28.920 --> 0:38:34.560 your daily bread, not there in Egypt, not then when 0:38:34.600 --> 0:38:40.360 Messiah comes. But here is the bread. I am the breadth, 0:38:40.360 --> 0:38:43.560 the bread of presence. Is this, God give me the 0:38:43.600 --> 0:38:46.200 grace in this moment now. If I try to reach 0:38:46.360 --> 0:38:49.319 back to my past mistake, I'll miss it. If I 0:38:49.400 --> 0:38:52.560 try to reach forward into my future and fixate on 0:38:52.680 --> 0:38:55.560 that and try to plan everything out, I will miss it. 0:38:55.760 --> 0:38:58.960 But here is the bread. That's the word. Here is 0:38:58.960 --> 0:39:01.399 the bread. Somebody say, here, here is the bread. Look 0:39:01.440 --> 0:39:03.280 at the person next to you say, here is the bread. 0:39:04.560 --> 0:39:06.799 And so you're pointing to the provision and you're going, 0:39:06.840 --> 0:39:09.319 what is it. In fact, the reason they called it 0:39:09.440 --> 0:39:13.919 mana is because in Hebrew, manna is an ambidextrous term. 0:39:14.239 --> 0:39:17.520 It means what is it, and it also means what 0:39:17.560 --> 0:39:20.640 it is, So they didn't know what to call it 0:39:21.239 --> 0:39:25.080 because it was new. When God does something new, in 0:39:25.120 --> 0:39:28.759 your life. At first, you don't know what to call 0:39:28.840 --> 0:39:32.360 it or how to receive it. And what keeps you 0:39:32.440 --> 0:39:36.480 from receiving it. Sometimes is your past and sometimes is 0:39:36.520 --> 0:39:40.560 your future. So they named it mana. What is it? 0:39:40.880 --> 0:39:43.560 What it is? What is it? I don't know is 0:39:43.600 --> 0:39:46.160 what it is? But I know one thing I know. 0:39:46.280 --> 0:39:50.239 I am so whatever it is, I am is in 0:39:50.280 --> 0:39:53.320 the middle of it, working it out for a purpose 0:39:53.560 --> 0:39:58.960 that is beyond my human perspective. Here is the bread. 0:40:00.160 --> 0:40:04.359 Here is the bread. And then some of them thought 0:40:04.400 --> 0:40:07.680 they were smarter than God, you know, because the Bible 0:40:07.719 --> 0:40:11.480 says when they saw it, even though they didn't recognize it, 0:40:12.400 --> 0:40:15.879 Moses said to them. He explained, it is the bread 0:40:16.320 --> 0:40:19.319 that the Lord has given you to eat. And this 0:40:19.440 --> 0:40:22.640 is what the Lord has commanded. Each one is to 0:40:23.000 --> 0:40:27.000 gather as much as he needs. It's the power of enough. 0:40:28.440 --> 0:40:32.280 Each one is to gather as much as he needs. 0:40:33.040 --> 0:40:36.560 Taken omer, half a gallon for each person you have 0:40:36.640 --> 0:40:41.719 in your tent. And the Israelites did as they were told, 0:40:42.560 --> 0:40:46.360 give us this day our daily bread. Some gathered much, 0:40:46.560 --> 0:40:49.640 some little, And when they measured it by the omer, 0:40:50.840 --> 0:40:55.200 he who gathered much did not have too much. I 0:40:55.320 --> 0:41:01.560 like that it's not too much. It's enough. I am 0:41:01.840 --> 0:41:04.920 the bread of life. It didn't have too much, And 0:41:04.960 --> 0:41:08.399 he who gathered little did not have too little. It 0:41:08.440 --> 0:41:13.480 was enough. It's enough. Somebody say it's enough, make the confession, 0:41:13.560 --> 0:41:17.480 say it's enough. And just all over every area of 0:41:17.520 --> 0:41:19.759 your life where the enemy has been speaking too much 0:41:19.880 --> 0:41:22.800 or not enough. I want you to look at whatever 0:41:22.800 --> 0:41:24.400 God put in the ground in the form of his 0:41:24.480 --> 0:41:26.560 grace and his provision in this season enough your life, 0:41:26.560 --> 0:41:31.840 and declare, it's enough. He's enough. I'm enough. It's enough. 0:41:32.320 --> 0:41:35.920 He's enough. I'm enough. Get the lesson to your neighbor. 0:41:35.960 --> 0:41:40.480 It's enough, he's enough. I'm enough. Now. The reason I'm 0:41:40.560 --> 0:41:43.799 enough is because he's enough. And so if he's enough 0:41:43.840 --> 0:41:46.719 and I'm enough, it's enough. It's not too much, it's 0:41:46.760 --> 0:41:50.120 not too little. It's enough. But some of the Israelites, 0:41:50.640 --> 0:41:52.920 some of them look at verse nineteen. No one is 0:41:52.960 --> 0:41:55.359 to keep any of it till morning. Some of them 0:41:55.640 --> 0:41:59.080 paid no attention to Moses. They kept a part of 0:41:59.120 --> 0:42:02.200 it until the morning. But what's what happened in the morning. 0:42:03.719 --> 0:42:07.640 In the morning, because they did not trust God to 0:42:07.640 --> 0:42:15.920 give them enough for today? Who the man I had maggots, 0:42:17.719 --> 0:42:24.760 because God's presence and provision is always in today. Your stress, 0:42:25.760 --> 0:42:32.200 your ulcer, your your your sleeplessness. Much of it is 0:42:32.280 --> 0:42:36.480 because you are letting maggots get in your manna. See, 0:42:36.480 --> 0:42:39.279 here's what happens. So Bob turns to Judy and he's, 0:42:39.320 --> 0:42:42.560 like Moses said, there'd be more in the morning, but 0:42:42.800 --> 0:42:44.879 maybe just in case, put a little of that right 0:42:44.880 --> 0:42:47.759 there in your pocketbook, and just in case. You know, 0:42:47.800 --> 0:42:49.680 we can't eat all of it today because we've never 0:42:49.680 --> 0:42:52.319 seen this before, and it's hard to trust that there 0:42:52.360 --> 0:42:56.480 will be enough for tomorrow. But that's exactly what faith is, 0:42:57.600 --> 0:43:01.000 you see it. That's exactly what faith it is. It 0:43:01.120 --> 0:43:05.279 is to deal with today and to trust for tomorrow. 0:43:05.920 --> 0:43:12.000 Strength for today, bright hope for tomorrow. Blessings all mine 0:43:12.160 --> 0:43:17.360 with ten thousand beside. Great is thy faithfulness, Great is 0:43:17.480 --> 0:43:22.160 thy faithfulness. Morning by morning. When I wake up tomorrow, 0:43:22.400 --> 0:43:25.640 there will be manna. When I wake up Tuesday, there 0:43:25.680 --> 0:43:29.480 will be more when I wake up Wednesday. In my weakness, 0:43:29.480 --> 0:43:33.080 he is strong. When I wake up Thursday, He'll see 0:43:33.120 --> 0:43:36.880 me through. When I wake up Friday, He's fighting for me. 0:43:37.239 --> 0:43:40.279 And I can rest on the Sabbath because He is 0:43:40.320 --> 0:43:48.880 the Bread, and I break the spirit of not enough 0:43:49.200 --> 0:43:53.400 off of your life. Today. I break the spirit of 0:43:53.520 --> 0:43:56.600 I can't and I'll never I break that spirit. In 0:43:56.640 --> 0:43:59.719 the name of Jesus. Here is the bread. He is 0:43:59.760 --> 0:44:08.799 the bread, and He's given you right now an opportunity 0:44:08.840 --> 0:44:14.719 to trust him on the next level and to discover 0:44:15.760 --> 0:44:22.919 who he is all over again. He doesn't change. It's 0:44:22.960 --> 0:44:26.080 just the more you experience where you're in a desert 0:44:26.120 --> 0:44:32.200 place and when Lazarus dies and you wonder why would 0:44:32.239 --> 0:44:35.840 God let something die that you love? But then you 0:44:35.880 --> 0:44:39.160 see him show up and call Lazarus out of the tomb. 0:44:40.040 --> 0:44:42.880 Because you already knew that he was a healer, but 0:44:42.920 --> 0:44:46.080 now he wants to show you I am resurrection. You 0:44:46.200 --> 0:44:51.040 understand that everything in your life is designed to show 0:44:51.080 --> 0:44:54.759 you not only who God is, but who you are 0:44:54.760 --> 0:45:00.400 in Him. Now. The reason He lets us need things 0:45:00.920 --> 0:45:03.359 is so that we don't get confused about where our 0:45:03.400 --> 0:45:08.000 help comes from. The reason he wants you to get 0:45:08.040 --> 0:45:14.200 it every morning, all those little plans you stay up making, 0:45:14.239 --> 0:45:16.600 all those little things you scribble down about what if 0:45:16.640 --> 0:45:19.160 and what this, and that the stuff that's gonna screw 0:45:19.239 --> 0:45:21.560 up your life is going to hit you from behind anyway, 0:45:22.360 --> 0:45:27.839 pray about it, praise God through it. You can't keep 0:45:27.880 --> 0:45:31.720 the man until tomorrow. You can't eat in Egypt anymore. 0:45:31.800 --> 0:45:33.840 This is a new place, This is a new season. 0:45:34.080 --> 0:45:36.560 God has given you what you need for the season 0:45:36.640 --> 0:45:41.160 you're in. Here is the bread. Here is the bread. 0:45:42.480 --> 0:45:45.120 So in every moment I'm looking for it. Oh, here 0:45:45.200 --> 0:45:47.719 is the bread. There I go again, going out here 0:45:47.719 --> 0:45:51.200 thinking about here is the bread. Here I am again 0:45:51.280 --> 0:45:54.160 replaying five minutes ago, five months ago. Five no, no, no, 0:45:54.280 --> 0:45:56.280 Here is the breath. Somebody say, here is the bread. 0:45:57.320 --> 0:45:59.960 When I put this message online, I'm gonna call it expiration, 0:46:00.480 --> 0:46:03.160 but you know the real messages. Here is the bread. 0:46:04.200 --> 0:46:07.720 Stop trying to eat stuff that has gone sour. Stop 0:46:07.840 --> 0:46:11.160 thinking in ways that you have outgrown. Stop coming down 0:46:11.200 --> 0:46:13.919 to a level of who you used to be. Here 0:46:14.080 --> 0:46:22.960 is the bread, the bread of the presence. Stand up. 0:46:23.000 --> 0:46:28.040 I want to pray for people. Oh. I want you 0:46:28.080 --> 0:46:31.880 to get this message. I don't want you to chew it. 0:46:31.920 --> 0:46:34.120 I want you to swallow it, digest it, get it 0:46:34.160 --> 0:46:36.880 deep down so it can strengthen you. Here is the bread. 0:46:37.960 --> 0:46:39.759 The presence of God is everywhere. It just takes you 0:46:39.760 --> 0:46:43.040 a while to recognize it. He's always been there. You're 0:46:43.080 --> 0:46:46.040 just starting to see him now. You start to see 0:46:46.040 --> 0:46:50.439 that he was there in the heartbreak, he was there 0:46:50.480 --> 0:46:54.919 in your childhood. You see him now. He was always there. 0:46:56.400 --> 0:47:00.160 Remember when they walked down the MIAs road, they were like, hey, 0:47:00.400 --> 0:47:03.680 who are you? And he didn't tell him he was 0:47:03.719 --> 0:47:06.479 resurrected from the dead Luke twenty four. And it says 0:47:06.480 --> 0:47:10.280 they were kept from recognizing him until he did something 0:47:11.000 --> 0:47:15.640 with the bread, and when he broke it, they saw him. 0:47:15.960 --> 0:47:19.719 He is what he hell, and he is what you need. 0:47:20.320 --> 0:47:22.040 He doesn't just have what you need. He is what 0:47:22.080 --> 0:47:25.319 you need. He's that thing inside of you that won't 0:47:25.400 --> 0:47:31.239 let you give up. He is that invisible that that wonderful, 0:47:31.800 --> 0:47:36.560 nameless grace that turns horrible things like the cross into 0:47:36.600 --> 0:47:41.160 a triumph called resurrection. He is the bread and he 0:47:41.239 --> 0:47:43.680 is providing for you right now. But you might not 0:47:43.840 --> 0:47:46.920 see it because it looks different than what you're used 0:47:46.920 --> 0:47:51.839 to get. What you need, gather it, Gather it from 0:47:51.880 --> 0:47:54.960 the people that are in your life. I know sometimes 0:47:55.040 --> 0:47:59.479 you get lonely. I do too. Oh you pastor you're 0:47:59.520 --> 0:48:02.160 assuming people come on. It's different to talk to people 0:48:02.200 --> 0:48:07.319 than be with people. Everybody gets lonely. But here is 0:48:07.400 --> 0:48:12.080 the bread. Here is the bread. Father. To the best 0:48:12.080 --> 0:48:15.040 of my ability, I broke the bread today. You are 0:48:15.080 --> 0:48:18.280 the bread. I'm not. You know what they need. I don't, 0:48:20.320 --> 0:48:24.320 Holy Spirit, I pray that you would do that supernatural 0:48:24.360 --> 0:48:26.279 thing that I've seen you do so many times I 0:48:26.320 --> 0:48:30.680 lost count where you take what was said and make 0:48:30.719 --> 0:48:36.240 it exactly what each person needed to hear, whatever continent 0:48:36.280 --> 0:48:39.680 they stream from, whatever campus they drove to make it 0:48:40.120 --> 0:48:44.319 the bread that they need for this season. So if 0:48:44.360 --> 0:48:46.920 it means that they're dealing with new pressure for success, 0:48:47.480 --> 0:48:50.879 be the bread. If it means that they're dealing with 0:48:50.880 --> 0:48:54.879 failure or rejection, be the bread. Feed them what they 0:48:54.920 --> 0:48:59.919 need for the season that they're in. Our Father, who 0:49:00.239 --> 0:49:05.200 in heaven, Hallow it be your name, Sacred, be your name, 0:49:06.000 --> 0:49:10.359 Holy is your name. As our bread gets closer and 0:49:10.400 --> 0:49:14.480 closer to your presence, may it multiply, May it multiply 0:49:14.600 --> 0:49:21.040 in your hands. Give us this day, this moment, this second, 0:49:21.719 --> 0:49:27.680 this bread, our daily bread. Thank you for joining us. 0:49:28.040 --> 0:49:30.520 Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 0:49:30.560 --> 0:49:34.080 this ministry. Is because of you that this ministry is possible. 0:49:34.520 --> 0:49:36.680 You can click the link in the description to give 0:49:36.800 --> 0:49:40.960 now or visit Elevationchurch dot org slash podcast for more 0:49:40.960 --> 0:49:44.760 information and if you enjoyed the podcast, you can subscribe. 0:49:45.040 --> 0:49:47.120 You can share it with your friends. 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