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We're looking at the experience 
of God, leading his people out 

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of Egyptian, bondage through the
Wilderness and into the promised

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land. 
These are the stories that are 

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found the narratives that are 
found in the books of Exodus 

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Leviticus Numbers and 
Deuteronomy in the Old 

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Testament, the books of the law 
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We're in chapter 15. 
The people have just crossed the

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Red Sea. 
They just engaged in a great 

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worship service and praise and 
Thanksgiving to God with the 

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song of Moses. 
And now there are as listed in 

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your bulletin three episodes. 
We're just going to look at two 

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of them from chapters 15 and 16 
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Now, the word of the Lord, then 
Moses made Israel, set out from 

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the Red Sea And they went into 
the Wilderness of shur, they 

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went three days in the 
wilderness and found no water 

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when they came to Morrow. 
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Morrow, because it was bitter. 
Therefore, it was named 

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tomorrow. 
And the people grumbled against 

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Moses saying, what shall we 
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And he cried to the Lord and the
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threw it into the water and the 
water became sweet. 

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They're the Lord made for them a
statute and a rule and there. 

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He tested them saying, if you 
will diligently, listen to the 

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voice of the Lord, your God in 
do that, which is right in his 

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eyes and give ear to his 
Commandments and keep all his 

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statutes. 
I will put none of the diseases 

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on you that I put on the 
Egyptians for. 

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I am the Lord, your healer then 
they came to elim, Where there 

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were twelve Springs of water and
70 palm trees, and they encamped

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there by the water. 
They set out from elim and all 

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the congregation of the people 
of Israel came to the Wilderness

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of Zin, which is between elim 
and Sinai on the 15th day of the

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second month after they had 
departed from the land of Egypt.

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And the whole Congregation of 
the people of Israel grumbled 

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against Moses and Aaron in the 
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Israel said to them would that 
we had died by the hand of the 

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Lord in the land of Egypt. 
When we set by the meat pots and

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we ate bread to the full For 
you, have brought us out into 

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the Wilderness to kill this, 
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Then the Lord said to Moses 
behold, I'm about to rain bread 

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from heaven for you and the 
people shall go out and gather a

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day's portion, every day, that I
may test them whether they will 

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walk in my law or not, the word 
of the Lord, you may be seated. 

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two episodes in the life of 
Israel quite early in their 

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Journey, actually the trip from 
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of Moab and the east side of the
Jordan, Shouldn't have taken, 

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but a few days. 
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distance. 
It took them 40 years. 

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And the reason it took them 40 
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The Bible tells us in the New 
Testament is because that they 

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did not believe and trust their 
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They did not pursue their goal 
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and the overall upshot is that 
that whole generation who are 

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adults and heads of households 
when they left Egypt, Never 

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entered the promised land. 
In fact, it was only those who 

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were about 20 years old and 
younger Who then grew up in the 

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wilderness and the desert in 
made it into their 30s and about

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40 or so that generation made it
into the promised land under the

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leadership of Joshua. 
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what. 
Transpired the Wilderness story 

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is told in the Book of Numbers. 
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is given to us in the book of 
numbers and then there's an 

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analysis of it, by Moses in the 
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These things were truly written 
for our example. 

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What was God doing with this 
people that he had rescued and 

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saved by Mighty hand out of 
Egypt? 

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And now he's bringing them into 
the promised land, but before 

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they get to the promised land, 
they spend this time in the 

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wilderness, and they would not 
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in the wilderness, if it had not
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condition I don't know if I was 
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I'd probably stop here a little 
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our Wilderness experiences come 
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It's for our Rebellion, it's for
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It's our sinful Condition. 
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The word of God. 
It is our own choices that put 

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us into our predicaments. 
And that keep us from that, 

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great blessing, that land of 
milk and honey that the Lord has

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prepared for us. 
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but ourselves. 
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We blame somebody else. 
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people did here. 
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grumbled and there are other 
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worse down the road. 
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but down the road they go beyond
grumbling and complaining and 

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quarreling they go to full out 
armed Rebellion against God and 

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against his ordained leadership,
that is Moses and Aaron so it 

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gets worse. 
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suggest to you that the longer 
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is in your backslidden 
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The worse, it's going to be for 
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Going to always hold you longer 
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It's going to take you further 
than you want to go, and it's 

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going to cost you more than you 
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That's what sin does in our 
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And so the recount here over and
over is how the people were in a

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spiritual condition. 
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very beginning, does wonderful 
miracles for them saves and 

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rescues them to be sure, 
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And yet, they still complain. 
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stories, the people Grumble and 
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And they realize that it's the 
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that's in charge of their 
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It's the Lord that's going to 
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die. 
They just complain in, like, it 

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would have been better if the 
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Egypt where we could sit by the 
meat pots and enjoy a good meal,

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that another place they talked 
about the onions and the in the 

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cloves And all of the spices of 
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that is when they were finally 
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quail for year after year, after
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then to just gone ahead and let 
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But the Lord tests. 
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He puts things before us. 
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By his good and Provident hand 
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that that kind of test. 
Authenticate. 

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It's the fiery trial of the 
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and produces the pure metal of 
silver and gold, and God starts 

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working with his people from the
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And that's what we see here in 
these two episodes, they're very

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similar. 
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days apart. 
The first one was, they ran out 

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of water. 
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water with you wherever you go. 
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supply, so the canteens were 
empty. 

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The barrels were empty and they 
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their livestock were beginning 
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Rather seriously and so they 
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And when they got to a water 
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Actually, the water was 
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It was an unhealthy water. 
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bacteria-infested water supply. 
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him that he was not going to let
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that they had had back in Egypt 
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Afflicted with Lord is beginning
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the health Law's and he's going 
to give them many of them having

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to do with nothing more basic 
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hygiene. 
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what they need to know, but they
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There was death in these 
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And the interesting thing is, 
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The Lord's going to teach Moses,
how to do all kinds of the he's 

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already worked with him on the 
staff and the snake and, you 

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know, all the things that 
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wilderness when the Lord first 
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And then when he went down into 
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the Red Sea, with the, with the,
the staff of the Lord, the 

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Lord's teaching him, some things
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their actual survival. 
He's going to have to take a 

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water supply, which is death. 
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life. 
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But I studied a little bit how 
to interpret the Bible in 

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seminary and they didn't teach 
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And I'm not trying to say this 
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like some of the old fathers of 
the church where they saw, what 

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the Lord did was he showed Moses
a tree, And it was a tree that 

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made the difference. 
It was a tree, put into the 

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cisterns, the broken cisterns of
death, and brought them to life 

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and made them Sweet Water. 
Good water, pure water, clean 

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water, drinkable water, Living 
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And this of course is a picture 
of Christ and what the Lord did 

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was to establish his law word. 
Listen to what the Lord himself 

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says and the Lord their the Lord
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rule here God establishes a 
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and bringing them the Water of 
Life there. 

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He tested them saying if if you 
will diligently. 

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Into the voice of the Lord, your
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Listen to me the Lord says and 
the Lord never quit. 

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Saying that with the disciples 
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of transfiguration. 
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God said, this is my beloved 
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Hear him. 
We have to listen to the voice 

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of the Lord. 
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his spiritual life in us. 
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That was established that day. 
If you will diligently, listen 

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to the voice of the Lord. 
Your God do that, which is right

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in his eyes. 
The words there's action. 

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You've got to do something. 
You've got to do something 

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that's right. 
You got to do something. 

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That's right in the sight of the
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It's too straight to do that, 
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The sad condition of Israel in a
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every man did what was right in 
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And there was no rule, no 
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in Israel, in those days. 
God Rules by his law word, and 

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we are to pay attention to it. 
And we have slipped so far in so

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many of our churches, by 
preaching a gospel of free 

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Grace, which is a good gospel, 
because the gospel is absolutely

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a truth of the free grace of 
God. 

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Given by the father by the sun, 
coming most willingly, and most 

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enthusiastically poured out in 
our Solar. 

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Souls by the Holy Spirit, the 
whole Triune God saving us. 

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Free gospel. 
Good gospel. 

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True gospel. 
A faithful, God, rescuing and 

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saving and redeeming calling to 
himself an Unfaithful people. 

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That's the way God's always 
work. 

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I said, well, he's had to work. 
That's the way he worked in the 

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days of old, that's how he works
today. 

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He's a faithful, God, and he has
to work. 

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Always with an Unfaithful 
people, but he's laying down the

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principal here. 
Listen to the voice of the Lord.

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Your God do that, which is right
in his eyes. 

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Not in our own eyes, not in the 
eyes of society. 

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But in the eyes of the Lord, 
give ear to his Commandments. 

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And keep all his statutes and 
the Lord promises. 

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The end that kind of obedience 
that kind of diligence in trying

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to please the Lord and walking 
with the Lord and following his 

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ways does not save us but it 
puts us in the place of bliss in

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the place of health and 
prosperity. 

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None of the disease has come 
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If you keep the law of God, you 
stay away from the filth of sin.

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You stay away from the pollution
in the sickening garbage of our 

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sin sick perverse Society. 
The Lord calls his people to a 

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Holiness, which means separate 
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Those are the two key ideas of 
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In this portion of scripture, 
God, calls his people to that. 

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You'll have none of these 
diseases and I don't think this 

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is in your text printed there, 
but I couldn't miss it. 

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It's one of my other best verses
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Then they came to elim where 
there were twelve Springs of 

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water. 
And seventy palm trees. 

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That's an oasis. 
Twelve Springs of water, not 

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just one twelve Springs of 
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for each big clan in Israel. 
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trees. 
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Egypt to start with and now when
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brings them to a place where 
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representing the souls that now 
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their becoming God's people. 
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Sinai. 
You have tears, there very early

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in their Journey. 
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real quickly. 
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And then they set out. 
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hated to break Camp if I was at 
a place where they were twelve 

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Springs of water and all the 
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would sure hate to start 
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down and pulling up the staves 
and the chords and getting ready

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to move on out of there. 
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forever but that wasn't the 
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nice place in the desert. 
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promised land. 
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happy with a nice place in the 
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Give me just a little place 
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where I've got some blessing. 
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The Lord leads us in Green 
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But he also leads us through the
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He's moving his people on. 
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place. 
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And as you move along, they set 
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way across the desert. 
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grumbled against Moses and Aaron
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And this is what the people said
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hand of the Lord, in the land of
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pots and ate bread to the full 
for you have brought us out into

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this. 
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assembly with hunger. 
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God's the one that's going to 
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I'm back in Egypt and starved 
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wilderness and they're hungry. 
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that they've run out of food and
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And this is what Moses does. 
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The Lord said, to Moses behold, 
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heaven for you and the people 
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portion every day. 
Why that I may test them whether

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they will walk in my law or not.
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Scripture that the giving of the
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How the Lord puts his here? 
I'm going to rain down minor 

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bread from Heaven. 
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that Jesus used. 
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starving hungry. 
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life. 
I am the man of the bread of 

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life. 
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You have no salvation without 
Christ, there's no deliverance 

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from The Thirst without the 
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And there's no deliverance from 
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life. 
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people, he provides for them, 
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Listen to what they'll be told 
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Deuteronomy. the Lord says, I 
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hunger. 
That thou mayest know that man 

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does not live by bread alone, 
but by every word that proceeds 

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out of the mouth of God, did you
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giving them? 
Manna was testing to see if they

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were going to pay attention to 
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Lord's mouth that he wasn't just
about them eating something that

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enabled them. 
I'm to survive physically, it 

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was whether or not they were 
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They were going to feast and 
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word of the Lord, loving him, 
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walking walking in his ways. 
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Where are we? 
In our Christian Life. 

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Are we receiving from the Lord? 
The Salvation that he is offered

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by grace? 
In other words, have we come out

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of Egypt and we sacrificed and 
believed in that provision, that

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is The Paschal Lamb. 
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and we see the victory, a great 
Mighty Victory. 

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Have we stood still and seen the
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Some of you don't believe in the
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the Lord do anything for you. 
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You can't see the hand of the 
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It work in the land of the 
living. but some of you have, 

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And the Lord manifests himself 
and the eye of Faith, detects 

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it. 
And the Heart. 

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Delights it The Water of Life, 
the bread of life, the words of 

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life from the very life himself 
in him is life. 

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Can we commend to you today? 
Jesus Christ. 

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Can we call upon you, to forsake
your sin and to turn from your 

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sin and to turn to him in faith?
Come to him, as he is offered in

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the gospel. and then with the 
family of God, Feast upon him in

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the supper,