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at emmausrdonline.org. 
Here's this week's message. 

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We are working through the book 
of Exodus. 

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Derek Grady, would one of you 
just hit the the slides button 

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on the little stream deck back 
there so I can see back there? 

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Oh, OK, cool, cool. 
All right, I will turn around 

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and look this way then. 
That's fine. 

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We are in Exodus 16. 
People of Israel wandering 

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around in the wilderness had 
some pretty miraculous things, 

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got delivered from well out of 
the hands of slavery out of 

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Egypt. 
God made a way through the Red 

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Sea, but they're still kind of 
just out there. 

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They're in the middle of 
nowhere. 

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They're not sure exactly where 
they're going. 

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God's made a path and they've 
got to kind of step by step, day

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by day, follow on after Him. 
They know there's this promised 

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land. 
They know there's this ultimate 

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future in life and deliverance. 
But along the way, they are kind

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of tested and tasked with 
walking in obedience with God 

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and in step with His Spirit. 
So I asked you, there's only two

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answers to this question. 
You can't be like halfway on one

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side one or the other. 
Are you If you see saw a glass 

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of water up here and if it's 
half full, who would say it's 

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half full or who would say it's 
half empty? 

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If you're 1/2 full person, where
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If you're a half empty person, 
where you at right. 

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Some of you did not admit to one
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follow the rules. 
That's fine. 

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Neither did the Israelites. 
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same. 
The Israelites on this journey 

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went back and forth so much 
between seeing God's 

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faithfulness and provision in 
1/2 full. 

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Sometimes they saw it in 1/2 
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much saw it in 1/2 empty way, 
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enough, that there was no hope 
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it. 
In this passage in Exodus 16, we

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see God's provision and plan for
them even when they didn't see 

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the fullness of it. 
And we have by the truth of His 

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Word, by the power of His Word, 
we have the testament to His 

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faithfulness to His goodness. 
And that's our blessing this 

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morning, that we get to look 
back and learn from the lessons 

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that the Israelites lived out. 
We get to see that in His Word. 

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So we are in Exodus 16 today. 
We're going to jump around a 

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little bit because there's a lot
in these 35 verses, but there 

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are a couple themes that I 
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learn and talk about today. 
So we're going to start at verse

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one. 
I'll have it up here on the 

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screen. 
You're welcome to pull out your 

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own Bible or, or if you have the
Bible app or there's Bibles 

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under the chairs in front of you
as well. 

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We are in Exodus chapter 16 and 
we're just going to kind of take

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this little bits at a time. 
They the Israelites set out from

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Elam and all the congregation of
the people of Israel came to the

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wilderness of sin which is 
between Elam and Sinai on the 

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15th day of the second month 
after they had departed from the

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land of Egypt. 
So just a couple contextual 

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things here in in verse one, 
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wilderness of sin, probably more
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sign as in Mount Sinai. 
They're just they're in this 

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region where Mount Sinai, the 
mountain of God eventually where

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Moses would receive the 10 
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They're they're in that region. 
It's not the word for sin. 

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That's just what it's called. 
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Israelites did a lot of sin in 
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in it. 
Not how it's pronounced. 

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Not the same idea, but that's 
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second month after they had 
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congregation of the people of 
Israel, verse 2 grumbled against

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Moses and Aaron in the 
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These people have done a lot of 
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If you remember, when they were 
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cried out to Moses just the same
and said, why did you bring us 

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out here to be killed? 
You could have just left us to 

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be killed in Egypt. 
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This is only 45 days since they 
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since they were delivered from 
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only seeing it, they're only 
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They don't remember the fullness
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deliverance. 
They're back here grumbling and 

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remember, they're not even like 
out of out of food at this 

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point. 
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where like the provisions that 
they brought from Egypt are kind

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of running out and they're kind 
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we might be experiencing hunger.
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They're they're magnifying their
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are minimizing the faithfulness 
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So often I think we find 
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exaggerating the difficulty of 
the current moment, the current 

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tribulation or strife, when 
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the magnitude of God's blessing 
of his goodness for us that he's

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already acted out in the past. 
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Instead of experiencing the 
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we're seeing it as half full 
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Remember even just last week as 
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this, this song of Moses, this 
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praise that they were all 
unified and engaged in together.

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It wasn't maybe just a week ago 
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of Moses, but we were talking 
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It was still a relatively short 
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reveling in and responding to 
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goodness in their lives. 
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So this is their cry. 
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said to them, would that we had 
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Egypt. 
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Oh man, we had it so good. 
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three square meals a day. 
We got to exercise and do some 

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physical labor. 
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Yeah, it wasn't on the beach, 
but like, it was so pretty good 

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out in the desert. 
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about sitting by the meat pots 
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Meat pots. 
That's a fun word. 

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Pot roast. 
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I don't know. 
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they're they're reflecting on 
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Like I think that's weird. 
We got to just split the C for 

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them. 
Now let's go back and hang out 

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by the meat pots and a good 
chunk of bread. 

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Weirdos indeed. 
They've they've lost sight of 

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the fullness of God back to 1/2 
full mentality. 

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So then the Lord said to Moses, 
Behold, I am about to rain bread

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from heaven for you, and the 
people should go out and gather 

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

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walk in my law or not. 
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prepare what they bring in, it 
will be twice as much as they 

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gather daily. 
A lot of the time we point out 

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what's here. 
In this instance, I want to 

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point out what's missing. 
They go from complaining to God,

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providing there's no point of 
anger or rebuke or correction or

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frustration from God anywhere in
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What that tells me, what that 
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think about my sin, about my 
struggle, about my complaint. 

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Most of it is self-inflicted. 
Most of it is my own selfish 

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rebellion we talked about back 
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Choosing, thinking that my way. 
I got a better plan than God for

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this his, his plan. 
I only, I only see it as half 

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full. 
I got AI got a full plan. 

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I got it all worked out and my 
silliness and my stupidity at 

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times is what brings about this 
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So God's not God's not defending
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He's not saying no, no, no, no, 
I didn't bring this upon you. 

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He just simply says, he tries to
refocus. 

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You guys are missing it. 
You're seeing the situation as 

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half empty, but it's, it's half 
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Watch what I'm going to do. 
He doesn't rebuke them. 

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He hasn't brought struggle into 
your life either. 

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I hear it all the time and I 
understand why people think this

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way. 
Why would God let this thing 

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happen? 
Why would God bring this into my

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life? 
Well, he let's trials and 

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adversities come into our life 
for for the strengthening and 

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perseverance of our faith. 
They do not emanate from him 

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though. 
He does not create them and drop

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little trial bombs into our 
lives. 

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Just be like hey gotcha didn't 
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That's the work of sin and we're
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We're all affected by it. 
Even the most faithful of us, we

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still have to endure it. 
Your struggle didn't come from 

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God. 
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self-inflicted and still he 
meets it with blessing. 

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He still responds and says if 
it's not good, I'm not done this

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blessing of this bread from 
heaven. 

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The Lord said to Moses. 
Once again, we're jumping ahead 

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I've heard the grumbling of the 
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Remember a couple weeks ago 
where God was saving the people 

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from Egypt? 
I have seen the struggle and the

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affliction of my people. 
It's the same idea here. 

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I know, I know what you're 
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You don't have to point it out 
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You know, I I hear you're 
complaining, I hear you're 

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grumbling, but I already know 
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And of course I already have a 
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At twilight you shall eat meat, 
and in the morning you should, 

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you shall be filled with bread. 
And then you shall know that I 

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am the Lord your God. 
You guys have lost sight of this

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again despite my repeated 
provision, but I'm going to 

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provide again. 
I'm going to bless you again so 

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that you remember still here, 
still working for your good. 

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So then we get the details of 
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Verse 13 In the evening quail 
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And in the morning dew lay 
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When the dew had gone up, there 
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wilderness a fine flake like 
thing, fine as frost on the 

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ground. 
When the people of Israel saw 

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it, they said to one another, 
what is it? 

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But they did not know what it 
was. 

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And Moses said to them, it is 
the bread that the Lord has 

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given you to eat. 
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This this phrase. 
What is it? 

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Hebrew word mano, or more 
commonly said mana, and it 

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literally means what is it? 
That's that's what they called 

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it. 
It's like, what's a McCall it 

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bar? 
Like what it's what is it? 

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I don't know, but that's what 
we're going to call it. 

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God, again, did not act in anger
to their complaint. 

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He did not send them hell from 
heaven. 

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He did not rain down fire and 
strife upon them for the 

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rebellion and even for their I 
mean, they were disrespecting 

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him. 
They definitely were, just as we

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do. 
He showed his mercy and 

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goodness. 
No matter where you're at this 

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morning, He hears your complaint
and it's OK to complain to him. 

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You can bring that to him. 
He can take it. 

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I promise that he can. 
But also know He already knows. 

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The writer of Hebrews tells us 
we do not have a high priest who

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can't sympathize with our 
weaknesses. 

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Jesus went through it all. 
He's faced everything that's in 

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front of you in this moment or 
that will come. 

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You've already made it through 
your worst day. 

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He's brought you through it. 
You're still here. 

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He hears your complaints and he 
responds with goodness and 

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mercy. 
So now as miraculous as as this 

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is and as incredible, that's 
God's provision. 

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This, this bread from heaven is.
I'm going to, I'm going to 

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mattify this a little bit. 
I'm a little bit of a wet 

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blanket sometimes. 
I know that there's actually 

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like a wildly practical, 
realistic explanation for this 

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manna and it still even occurs 
today in, in, in the Middle 

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East. 
This manna is actually a, a 

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secretion from a tree. 
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insects that when, when they 
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this SAP comes out. 
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fine flake like resin that's 
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It's it's natural. 
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That's it. 
That sounds crazy, but it also 

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sounds very familiar that this 
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And I'm not said they're I'm not
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of insects roaming around just 
like bringing this SAP 

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everywhere to leave on the 
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Israelites. 
That's not what I'm saying. 

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But these quail that he also 
provided, they weren't just like

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magical Angel quail that were 
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sudden, these were real birds. 
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migrating birds. 
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natural things that he had 
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already present and around in 
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of Israel. 
So this manna, as much as we 

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have like the Hollywood or 
Veggie Tales version of this 

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just like falling manna from 
heaven thing, it really could 

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have been just just this kind of
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flaky and they and they baked it
into into a little like pie, 

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like pastry things. 
It still happens today. 

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God used something they would 
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blessed them with it. 
He took something that already 

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existed, was already practical, 
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purposes and for his provision. 
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Well, Jesus kind of did the same
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A little boy brought him 5 
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This wasn't magical fairy fish. 
It was fish. 

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It was real fish. 
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multiplied it and used it for 
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the power of Jesus. 
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he that he worked it out and 
provided for him, but he also 

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took what was already 
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was really in existence already,
and he powered it for his 

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purposes and his blessing for 
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The final thought that I have 
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his provision of the food, while
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starvation yet, their physical 
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physical struggle informed and 
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for this people as well. 
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I know there's those of you in 
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A marital conflict or a 
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struggle, a physical ailment, 
any number of things that you 

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are experiencing in your 
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body that is forcing you to look
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We're affected by our physical 
struggle, by our physical hunger

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and thirst, the way our bodies 
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maybe didn't exactly pan out the
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But God's response is to use 
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like the quail, these things 
that were already around them to

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bring abundance and provide 
blessing where we weren't even 

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looking. 
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we're so bad at this. 
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often don't even recognize or 
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We give ourselves too much 
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Hey, that worked out. 
Hey, I figured this out when God

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was already in the wings. 
Just bring in this thing that 

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was already in our life to 
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God meets our knees, often in 
ways that we do not expect and 

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certainly in ways that we could 
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But there's a catch, and it's 
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But he talked about testing them
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law, follow His plan. 
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Jumping up ahead to the end of 
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7th day, some of the people went
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none. 
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ground. 
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Moses, how long will you refuse 
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laws? 
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Sabbath. 
Therefore, on the 6th day He 

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gives you bread. 
For two days remain each of you 

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in His place. 
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on the 7th day. 
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day. 
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particularly bad at. 
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God in this passage gives us a 
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reliance. 
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beginning. 
He created Adam and Eve going 

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back to Genesis, He created Adam
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He did. 
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over the earth, subdue it, 
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But that was the 6th day. 
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Sabbath. 
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He gave Adam all this stuff to 
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Adam's sitting there. 
I, I got to name all these 

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animals. 
I, I got to, I got to cultivate 

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the fields. 
I got to get busy with my wife 

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and start populating the earth. 
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And that first day after his 
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a day of rest. 
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all, he rested. 
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Sabbath to put Him first so that
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from our work. 
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aside that day, and you know it,
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It's just supposed to be a 
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It's supposed to be one day a 
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Whatever day sets you up, best 
to take away and set it aside 

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for God to come to church, to 
gather with His people, to spend

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time reading His Word in prayer 
with yourself, with your family,

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with those closest to you. 
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So that the rest of your week is
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time that you spent with Him. 
The time of teaching and 

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reflection and strength that He 
has been infused in you for your

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work. 
So that you can rest for your 

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work, for your calling, not get 
to Friday and and have worked 

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for the weekend to get away from
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He designed Sabbath that we 
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he already had a plan. 
He gives you bread for two days.

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He's already laid out a day for 
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He's already given you, equipped
you with everything that you 

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need. 
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We choose to fill each and every
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When the best thing for us is 
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time with Him. 
In the rest of this passage, the

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Israelites, they tried to 
circumvent this. 

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There were some of them who who 
gathered up, who gathered up 

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extra mana on some of the days 
when he told them to only gather

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it for one day. 
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the one day and that extra 
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God said no, each day has enough
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Let tomorrow worry about 
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Even the Sabbath is that day. 
Focus on the things that matter.

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Focus on me this day, and let 
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So what can we take from this? 
We're supposed to rest for our 

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work, not from it. 
Out of His provision, He's 

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already given you everything for
life. 

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He poured out his Son on the 
cross for your life, for for 

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your eternal life, for your 
sake. 

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Of course he can meet your daily
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He's already met your eternal 
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So of course the day-to-day 
things he's already got handled.

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I also think there's many of us 
and the Israelites we're we're 

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looking for this too. 
I think there's many of us that 

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are waiting on a miracle. 
We want a miracle in our lives, 

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and we prioritize this miracle 
that we want more than the daily

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bread that we need. 
We think God's going to swoop in

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with this miraculous bailout. 
And yeah, sometimes he does. 

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He still works in that way in 
big, powerful moments. 

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But I think a lot more often 
He's provided the mana that was 

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already in our life, and we just
didn't notice how to use it. 

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He's brought the flocks of 
provision to us and we just 

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weren't willing to see it. 
We want a big, bold miracle, but

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we don't have the discipline to 
take in the daily bread when 

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we're rooted in the daily bread.
There's everyday miracles in our

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lives, but we got to start here.
God even set it up as a test. 

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Will they follow my law? 
Will they rely on my daily 

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provision? 
They literally had bread. 

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Jesus is the word. 
We're going to take the Lord's 

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Supper here in just a minute. 
He said this is my body, this 

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bread is my body. 
This wine is my blood. 

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We get to take that in and 
remember Him. 

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That's a big, beautiful, 
miraculous moment. 

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But He's also this body too. 
He's also this bread, this daily

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bread right here. 
And we get to be faithful to 

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this each and every day because 
it's exactly what we need each 

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and every day. 
Don't be focused on waiting for 

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the big beautiful miracle, 
taking the daily bread. 

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