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(I AM Bread)

OT: wilderness … now what? food?

(manna, showbread )

Cf: ()

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“Whole cong” grumble: If only we had died in Eg where we ate; brought us out to kill us

“Whole cong” grumble

If only we had died in Eg where we ate; brought us out to kill us

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If only we had died in Eg where we ate; brought us out to kill us

I will “rain” food: From hvn, 6 days, w/double portion for Sabbath

“Manna”: “What is it?” “It is the brd the Lord has given you to eat”

From hvn, 6 days, w/double portion for Sabbath

Manna: = “What is it?” “It is the brd the Lord has given you to eat”

“Manna” = “What is it?” “It is the brd the Lord has given you to eat”

Enough: No more, don’t hoard or → bitter, 0 Sabbath (1 day ^bitter)

Enough

No more, don’t hoard or → bitter, 0 Sabbath (1 day ^bitter)

Some went looking: On 7th day anyway; cmd to rest, I will provide

Some went looking

On 7th day anyway; cmd to rest, I will provide

Fed them 40 years in wilderness

Fed them 40 years in wilderness

All the years in the wilderness

Meaning

Meaning

: to test them

Exodus 16:4 LEB

And Yahweh said to Moses, “Look, I am going to rain down for you bread from the heavens, and the people will go out and gather enough for the day on its day; in that way I will test them: Will they go according to my law or not?

Exodus 16:4 NET

Then the Lord said to Moses, “I am going to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people will go out and gather the amount for each day, so that I may test them. Will they will walk in my law or not?

Prove that they will walk in my instruction

Test: “Prove” that they will walk in my instruction

“Prove” that they will walk in my instruction

: You will know …

Exodus 16:6 LEB

And Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites, “In the evening, you will know that Yahweh has brought you out from the land of Egypt,

Exodus 16:6 NET

Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites, “In the evening you will know that the Lord has brought you out of the land of Egypt,

Know that the Lord led you out of Egypt by his hand

Know that the Lord led you out of Egypt by his hand

that the Lord led you out of Egypt by his hand

: You will see

Exodus 16:7 NET

and in the morning you will see the glory of the Lord, because he has heard your murmurings against the Lord. As for us, what are we, that you should murmur against us?”

See the glory of the Lord

: You will be satisfied ...

Exodus 12 NET

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,“This month is to be your beginning of months; it will be your first month of the year.Tell the whole community of Israel, ‘In the tenth day of this month they each must take a lamb for themselves according to their families—a lamb for each household.If any household is too small for a lamb, the man and his next-door neighbor are to take a lamb according to the number of people—you will make your count for the lamb according to how much each one can eat.Your lamb must be perfect, a male, one year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats. You must care for it until the fourteenth day of this month, and then the whole community of Israel will kill it around sundown.They will take some of the blood and put it on the two side posts and top of the doorframe of the houses where they will eat it. They will eat the meat the same night; they will eat it roasted over the fire with bread made without yeast and with bitter herbs. Do not eat it raw or boiled in water, but roast it over the fire with its head, its legs, and its entrails. You must leave nothing until morning, but you must burn with fire whatever remains of it until morning. This is how you are to eat it—dressed to travel, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. You are to eat it in haste. It is the Lord’s Passover. I will pass through the land of Egypt in the same night, and I will attack all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both of humans and of animals, and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment. I am the Lord. The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, so that when I see the blood I will pass over you, and this plague will not fall on you to destroy you when I attack the land of Egypt. This day will become a memorial for you, and you will celebrate it as a festival to the Lord—you will celebrate it perpetually as a lasting ordinance.For seven days you must eat bread made without yeast. Surely on the first day you must put away yeast from your houses because anyone who eats bread made with yeast from the first day to the seventh day will be cut off from Israel. On the first day there will be a holy convocation, and on the seventh day there will be a holy convocation for you. You must do no work of any kind on them, only what every person will eat—that alone may be prepared for you. So you will keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread, because on this very day I brought your regiments out from the land of Egypt, and so you must keep this day perpetually as a lasting ordinance.In the first month, from the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, you will eat bread made without yeast until the twenty-first day of the month in the evening. For seven days yeast must not be found in your houses, for whoever eats what is made with yeast—that person will be cut off from the community of Israel, whether a foreigner or one born in the land. You will not eat anything made with yeast; in all the places where you live you must eat bread made without yeast.’ ” Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel, and told them, “Go and select for yourselves a lamb or young goat for your families, and kill the Passover animals.Take a branch of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and apply to the top of the doorframe and the two side posts some of the blood that is in the basin. Not one of you is to go out the door of his house until morning. For the Lord will pass through to strike Egypt, and when he sees the blood on the top of the doorframe and the two side posts, then the Lord will pass over the door, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you.You must observe this event as an ordinance for you and for your children forever. When you enter the land that the Lord will give to you, just as he said, you must observe this ceremony. When your children ask you, ‘What does this ceremony mean to you?’—then you will say, ‘It is the sacrifice of the Lord’s Passover, when he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt, when he struck Egypt and delivered our households.’ ” The people bowed down low to the ground, and the Israelites went away and did exactly as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron. It happened at midnight—the Lord attacked all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the prison, and all the firstborn of the cattle. Pharaoh got up in the night, along with all his servants and all Egypt, and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was no house in which there was not someone dead. Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron in the night and said, “Get up, get out from among my people, both you and the Israelites! Go, serve the Lord as you have requested!Also, take your flocks and your herds, just as you have requested, and leave. But bless me also.” The Egyptians were urging the people on, in order to send them out of the land quickly, for they were saying, “We are all dead!” So the people took their dough before the yeast was added, with their kneading troughs bound up in their clothing on their shoulders. Now the Israelites had done as Moses told them—they had requested from the Egyptians silver and gold items and clothing. The Lord gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, and they gave them whatever they wanted, and so they plundered Egypt. The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Sukkoth. There were about 600,000 men on foot, plus their dependants.A mixed multitude also went up with them, and flocks and herds—a very large number of cattle.They baked cakes of bread without yeast using the dough they had brought from Egypt, for it was made without yeast—because they were thrust out of Egypt and were not able to delay, they could not prepare food for themselves either. Now the length of time the Israelites lived in Egypt was 430 years.At the end of the 430 years, on the very day, all the regiments of the Lord went out of the land of Egypt. It was a night of vigil for the Lord to bring them out from the land of Egypt, and so on this night all Israel is to keep the vigil to the Lord for generations to come. The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover. No foreigner may share in eating it.But everyone’s servant who is bought for money, after you have circumcised him, may eat it. A foreigner and a hired worker must not eat it. It must be eaten in one house; you must not bring any of the meat outside the house, and you must not break a bone of it. The whole community of Israel must observe it. “When a foreigner lives with you and wants to observe the Passover to the Lord, all his males must be circumcised, and then he may approach and observe it, and he will be like one who is born in the land—but no uncircumcised person may eat of it. The same law will apply to the person who is native-born and to the foreigner who lives among you.” So all the Israelites did exactly as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron.And on this very day the Lord brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by their regiments.

Exodus 16:12 NET

“I have heard the murmurings of the Israelites. Tell them, ‘During the evening you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be satisfied with bread, so that you may know that I am the Lord your God.’ ”

Be satisfied so that you will know that I AM the LYG

Be satisfied so that you will know that I AM the LYG

Exodus 16:30 NET

So the people rested on the seventh day.

Exodus 16:33 NET

Moses said to Aaron, “Take a jar and put in it an omer full of manna, and place it before the Lord to be kept for generations to come.”

→ may see (“showbread”)

Keep a jar on the tabernacle Holy Place→ may see (“showbread”)

Psalm 78:22–25 NET

because they did not have faith in God, and did not trust his ability to deliver them. He gave a command to the clouds above, and opened the doors in the sky. He rained down manna for them to eat; he gave them the grain of heaven. Man ate the food of the mighty ones. He sent them more than enough to eat.

Psalm 78:22–25 NET

because they did not have faith in God, and did not trust his ability to deliver them. He gave a command to the clouds above, and opened the doors in the sky. He rained down manna for them to eat; he gave them the grain of heaven. Man ate the food of the mighty ones. He sent them more than enough to eat.

Sent b/c of their unbelief

He sent them enough to be satisfied

Rained “food from heaven”: “From heaven” is frequently mentioned w/

“From heaven” is frequently mentioned w/

Claim (???)

I AM the Bread of Life ()

Crowd wanted sign to blv: Me! From hvn!; “No. U know, ~ manna from hvn”

Me! From hvn!; “No. U know, ~ manna from hvn”

That wasn’t from Moses, but Dad

That wasn’t from Moses, but Dad

That wasn’t from Moses, but Dad

This bread is from heaven to give life

This bread is from heaven to give life

This bread is from heaven to give life

“We want! Always!”

I AM - it’s me - I’m the manna ...

I AM - it’s me - I’m the manna: … from heaven to give life

… from heaven to give life

Believe in me → never hunger/thirst

Believe in me → never hunger/thirst

I came down from heaven to give eternal life ~manna

I came down from heaven to give eternal life

~manna

Miracle to back up claim (???)

Fed the 5000 () ~manna → I AM BoL

Passover AKA? Feast of Unleavened Bread (^manna, but ~reminder)

(^manna, but ~reminder)

Crowd followed: “You’re just here for the miracle bread”

“You’re just here for the miracle bread”

Shift: which bread (cek?): ^Work for the bread that perishes, but which the SoM will give

^Work for the bread that perishes, but which the SoM will give

V. 6: To “test” D’s (prove) ~Manna in wilderness to test

~Manna in wilderness to test

Xmas: How does Bread show up in Xmas narrative (???)

[hard one]

Zechariah (): What should he have seen? (showbread); absent b/c disobed

What should he have seen? (showbread); absent b/c disobed

Where JC born?: Bethlehem = “house of bread” → poetically beautiful

Bethlehem = “house of bread” → poetically beautiful

(Impact:) Are you Hungry?

JC: if take this bread, ^hunger; RS?

Like ; : Unsatisfied soul; wilderness; really want to fully blv

Unsatisfied soul; wilderness; really want to fully blv

Do u have a hunger in ur soul? [viz] JC came, still h; we want! Always!

[viz] JC came, still h; we want! Always!

JC came to > give —> BE

> give us the brd of life - manna / BE: ^I give, but I AM!

Never hunger: You will: know the Lord led you / see his glory / be satisfied

You will: know the Lord led you / see his glory / be satisfied

B/c Who: ^~crowd & miracle bread; being in Him; He = BoL

^~crowd & miracle bread; being in Him; He = BoL

How JC will Complete u:

Story of Alcoholic: ready; , hidden

(I AM Light)

OT: Israel became nation with a global purp

(truth, draw Gentiles)

Cf.

God reveals so all see his royal power; he = deliverer

Isaiah 60:1–5 NET

“Arise! Shine! For your light arrives! The splendor of the Lord shines on you! For, look, darkness covers the earth and deep darkness covers the nations, but the Lord shines on you; his splendor appears over you. Nations come to your light, kings to your bright light. Look all around you! They all gather and come to you— your sons come from far away and your daughters are escorted by guardians. Then you will look and smile, you will be excited and your heart will swell with pride. For the riches of distant lands will belong to you and the wealth of nations will come to you.

RE Israel

Light shine = God’s glory vs. darkness that covers the earth

vs. darkness that covers the earth

Nations will come to your light; In-gathering

In-gathering

Israel was supposed to be this: Never fulfilled it

Never fulfilled it

Isaiah 42:6–7 NET

“I, the Lord, officially commission you; I take hold of your hand. I protect you and make you a covenant mediator for people, and a light to the nations, to open blind eyes, to release prisoners from dungeons, those who live in darkness from prisons.

Messiah for Israel

RE Messiah = as a covenant; Within a person

Within a person

Light to the nations: What Israel was supposed to be

What Israel was supposed to be

Open blind eyes, release prisoners: from the darkness of dungeon

… from the darkness of dungeon

Isaiah 49:6 NET

he says, “Is it too insignificant a task for you to be my servant, to reestablish the tribes of Jacob, and restore the remnant of Israel? I will make you a light to the nations, so you can bring my deliverance to the remote regions of the earth.”

Messiah for Israel

“My servant”: (Messiah)

(Messiah)

Restore remnant: Create new r’ship between God and his people

Create new r’ship between God and his people

Light to nations: (new “his people”)

(new “his people”)

Bring deliverance (again)

Claim (???):

I AM the Light of the World ()

Of Israel? NO! The World!

Follow me → never walk in darkness: (~never hunger) & have light

(~never hunger) & have light

Lest you die in your sins

Many believed

I AM - it’s me - I’m the Light: completing what Isr was supposed to be

Completing what Isr was supposed to be

Miracle to back up claim (???)

Healed a blind man ()→ I AM the LoW

Dialog

How? // JC

Where? // I dunno

How??? // That guy

(To ‘rents:) How? // Ask him!

You’re his D, we’re D’s of Moses! // That’s funny - was blind, but u dunno

That’s funny - was blind, but u dunno

John 9:39–41 NET

Jesus said, “For judgment I have come into this world, so that those who do not see may gain their sight, and the ones who see may become blind.” Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard this and asked him, “We are not blind too, are we?”Jesus replied, “If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin, but now because you claim that you can see, your guilt remains.”

JC came to give sight to blind, blind those who “see”; sin rem

Why heal blind man?

John 9:3 NET

Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but he was born blind so that the acts of God may be revealed through what happens to him.

→ G’s acts may be revl’d; v. 5 while in W

Xmas: How does this Light show up in Xmas narrative (???)

Zecharaiah ()

JC = Sunrise, will shine on those in darkness

Simeon ()

Be a Light to the Gentiles & glory of Israel

Star / Magi ()

Not the light from Isa, but poetically beautiful

(Impact): Are you in Darkness?

JC: if follow, ^walk in darkness

Like Isa;

Blindness, darkness of dungeon, nd deliver; rem in sin

Surrounded by darkness: evil people, evil systems, or just blindness and untruth; lies

JC came to > give us light / BE: ^I give, but I AM!

^I give, but I AM!

Never walk in darkness: ^remain in sin; delivered; see his glory

^remain in sin; delivered; see his glory

B/c who: Being in Him; He = LoW

Being in Him; He = LoW

How JC will Cmplt u:

^bulb; reveal & dispel drknss;

: ~children

John 1:1–13 NET

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was fully God.The Word was with God in the beginning. All things were created by him, and apart from him not one thing was created that has been created.In him was life, and the life was the light of mankind.And the light shines on in the darkness, but the darkness has not mastered it. A man came, sent from God, whose name was John.He came as a witness to testify about the light, so that everyone might believe through him. He himself was not the light, but he came to testify about the light. The true light, who gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.He was in the world, and the world was created by him, but the world did not recognize him. He came to what was his own, but his own people did not receive him.But to all who have received him—those who believe in his name—he has given the right to become God’s children —children not born by human parents or by human desire or a husband’s decision, but by God.

Concl

JC: I AM Xmas Bread & Light:

JC = our Bethlehem & Star shining against backdrop of darkness

RV:

OT → I AM → miracle → Xmas → Xmas = came to BE

Begins w/faith in who JC is

→ cont's w/faith → prayer @Cross

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CANDLE 2: Bethlehem and Peace

Intro

Kids

Relight

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