Exodus II Ex Outline Week 3

Outline 3:

Intro/Welcome

Source of Strength (food, sin, grace?)

Runner’s High

Prop:Not about the manna but the giver

Pray

Grumbling

Grumbling about desires

Longing for Egypt

App: Where do we long for Egypt (=sin, comforts of who we were)

Grace

God responds by giving, but giving with instruction

To test them: Notice grace first then test

Why?

To Know Him

to see his glory (through manna)

Know that he has heard you

App: Do we have an honest relationship with God?

Gifts

God gives meat and manna

Daily Provision: Test - do you trust me?

leave none overnight — Some don’t

App: do we follow God’s simple instructions?

Weekly Provision: Test - do you trust me?

gather none on the sabbath

add: A genuine miracle

App: do we rest/sabbath?

God’s Goal

Deut 8:2-3 - Humble, Test and Teach

Man lives by the word of God (daily provision, weekly rest)

It’s not about the gifts but the giver

Jesus the true bread

NT — Jesus quotes this agains the enemy

We live by the Word of God

Jesus is the Word of God, the true bread from heaven

Closing

Are we abiding in Him, his real presence with us?

This is your source of strength, the giver not the gifts.

Outline 2

Intro/Welcome — Runner’s High

Pray

Grumbling: Longing for Egypt

Grace: God’s Response

Gifts: Meat & Manna

Giver: It’s about the giver not the gift

Exegetical Outline

They travel From Elim to Wilderness of Sin (Exod 16:1)

Exactly 1 month after leaving Egypt (Passover was on the 14th day of 1st month)

God is leading them according to the story he is writing.

Grumbling (Exod 16:2)

The ENTIRE Israelites community grumbled

NOT needs but wants (desires) (Exod 16:3)

Remembering Egypt: Meat and Bread

It’s about the food they craved (Psalm 78:18, John 6:26)

What about slavery?

We long for the pleasures of Sin. We forget so easy when life gets hard.

God instructs Moses (Exod 16:3-5)

I will meet their desires — I will test them though.

Will they follow me b/c of their carnal desires?

Follow his Torah! (instruction)

Or b/c of they trust me and are grateful?

John 6:26

God answers their grumbling through Moses (Exod 16:6-7)

Moses’ Response:

You will know that I am (The Lord, Yhwh) that bought you out of the Land

You will see the glory of the Lord — BECAUSE he has heard your grumbling

So God’s response to their grumbling is to help them know that it was He who brought them out, that saved them.

You will see his glory (his presence through his provision) because he has heard your cries.

Word Biblical Commentary, Volume 3: Exodus Comment

Yahweh will bring at evening an experience that will prove his Presence in the exodus from Egypt, and in the morning, an experience of his כָּבוֹד, his “glory” = his Presence.

BECAUSE your grumbling is against THE LORD not us. (Exod 16:7b, 16:8b)

All of our grumblings are ultimately against God the Creator, the Provider of all things.

Harkens back to Creation — Evening/Morning patter

Exodus 7. More Grumbling: About Food (16:1–9)

In vv. 6–7 an evening-morning pattern is predicted, recalling again the Gen 1 creation account with its evening-morning format of the days of creation.

APP: Don’t just deal with your leaders or your relationships — are you dealing with God?

How will they see his glory? (Exod 16:8)

Meat at night (crucifixion?) and bread in the morning (resurrection?)

The Glory of the Lord = giving meat and manna

The giving of meat and manna will precisely answer their desires “literally to satisfy them”

Exodus 7. More Grumbling: About Food (16:1–9)

“When the LORD gives you meat to eat in the evening and bread in the morning, to satisfy you” (i.e., both the meat and the bread would satisfy the Israelite appetites).

God manifests his presence (Exod 16:11-12)

Appearing in a cloud:

Exodus Manna and Quail (16:1–36)

The last time the Lord appeared in a cloud was in 14:24 as they were making their way through the sea. The cloud was then a sign of God’s presence with and protection of his people, just as it is now.

The Lord’s Provision:

I have heard your (I am here)

I will satisfy your wants (carnal) through meat and bread

Why? — Then you will KNOW that I am the Lord (Exod 16:12, 6)

God actually provides (Exodus 16:13-15, Psalm 105:40)

Meat = (quail) at night — enough to feed 100,000s

Manna in the morning — Bread from Heaven

The Israelites say what is it? = manna

they didn’t recognize God’s bread from heaven just as they didn’t recognize Jesus when he came.

God tests their trust in him.

Moses passes on the Lord’s Instruction (Exod 16:16ff)

Instruction 1: Gather each day, leave none overnight (Exod 16:17-20)

some did not listen (Exod 16:20) — Moses angry.

Instruction 2: Gather 2x as much on Day 6, Rest on Day 7 (Exod 16:21-27)

Miracle: the bread left over on day 6 did not stink as it did any other day

Some did not listen and went out to gather on day 7 — The Lord Responds

How long will ya’ll refuse to follow me? (Exod 16:28)

Understand this: I have given you the Sabbath — Rest (Exod 16:29)

The Lord is teaching them.

Sabbath = “cease and desist”

This is the Giving of the Sabbath — the first instruction to Rest.

God’s first lesson was to trust him for basic needs of life

Trust him for daily provision (Manna days 1-6)

Trust him for weekly rest (Manna day 7)

So the people rested (Exod 16:30)

Epilogue: Exod 16:31-36

bread called manna = what is it? (lit. what?, what do you want for breakfast? exactly)

Preserve 2 quarts so future generations may see the manna (bread) i fed you when I brought you out of Egypt

place it in a jar to keep it.

Was it preserved? Was it kept in the Ark of the Covenant until the destruction of the temple?

doesn’t matter b/c the True Bread from Heaven Came (John 6)

Why?

Deut 8:2-3 Remember that the Lord your God led you on the entire journey these forty years in the wilderness, so that he might humble you and test you to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands.

3 He humbled you by letting you go hungry; then he gave you manna to eat, which you and your ancestors had not known, so that you might learn that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.

This is exactly the verse that Jesus quotes back to the devil.

Satan tempts Jesus to prove his identity — turn these stones to bread

Jesus answered Deut 8:3

Meaning perhaps this is the greatest temptation, the deepest lie

That you can live on something other than the word of God.

The Word of God provides all things, life itself.

Jesus says the words I have spoken to you are spirit and life. John 6:63

Spiritual warfare begins with this temptation.

the first and greatest temption

Deut 8:16 He fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your ancestors had not known, in order to humble and test you, so that in the end he might cause you to prosper. (to do you good in the end, esv)

Three Reasons for the Manna:

To humble us — because we are prideful.

To test us — to show us what we don’t know and what we do know

To teach us — Man does not live on bread alone but on the Word of God

It was never about the manna, but the giver of the manna.

This is why he tested them.

John 6

Union with Christ:

John 6:56 ESV

56 Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.

John Calvin: My Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. When he adds these words, the meaning is," The manna which Moses gave to your fathers did not bring heavenly life, but now heavenly life is truly exhibited to you."

John 6:54

54. He who eateth my flesh. This is a repetition, but is not superfluous; for it confirms what was difficult to be believed, That souls feed on his flesh and blood, in precisely the same manner that the body is sustained by eating and drinking Accordingly, as he lately testified that nothing but death remains for all who seek life anywhere else than in his flesh, so now he excites all believers [162] to cherish good hope, while he promises to them life in the same flesh.

And indeed it would have been foolish and unreasonable to discourse about the Lord's Supper, before he had instituted it. It is certain, then, that he now speaks of the perpetual and ordinary manner of eating the flesh of Christ, which is done by faith only.

John 6 55

For when he declares that his flesh is truly food, he means that souls are famished, if they want that food. Then only wilt thou find life in Christ, when thou shalt seek the nourishment of life in his flesh.

Dwelleth in me, and I in him. When he says that he dwelleth in us, the meaning is the same as if he had said, that the only bond of union, and the way by which he becomes one with us, is, when our faith relies on his death

John 6 57

It must be observed, however, that he points out here three degrees of life. In the first rank is the living Father, who is the source, but remote and hidden. Next follows the Son, who is exhibited to us as an open fountain, and by whom life flows to us. The third is, the life which we draw from him. We now perceive what is stated to amount to this, that God the Father, in whom life dwells, is at a great distance from us, and that Christ, placed between us, is the second cause of life, in order that what would otherwise be concealed in God may proceed from him to us.

Exodus II week 3 from Notes

Intro:

Where do you find strength to go on?

Is it in your breakfast is it in the food you eat? Is it in the sent you indulging to cope with the fine pleasure to find some form of comfort? Is that gonna give you strength sustaining strength

Wife is home, the weather this is tough, but the word on this as a place to meet God, maybe you’re in the world are Ness, I think our church is in the wilderness we’re here to meet God led by shape I am

Have you ever experienced a runners high, can you get Joy through exerting effort and it is increasing power sustaining

What is God doing in this text

Three things from Deuteronomy Luna line

How are you because you’re prideful

To test you to show us what we do and don’t know how we’re living

And the teachers that man does not live by bread alone but by every word that comes from mouth of God

It was never about the mana it was about the giver of the matter

Gods gifts are always meant to point back to the giver not gift them selves

We have a tendency to love and trust in cherish the The gift rather than give her, but life is not found in the gift it’s found in the giver.

This is i’m at the teachers who is the source of life, where do we get a life where do we get strength, not from gods gifts but from God himself through his word through Jesus Christ

It’s not about the word, it’s about the giver of the word

This is why God was testing his people, to teach them this very fact that it’s not about the gift it’s about the giver of the gift. Will they follow him rather than follow their own wants and desires

notes

No other culture in the ancient world celebrated a weekly day of rest.