89 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 2 - Part 1 - Book 8 - Manna God's Same Grace Saves Us

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 2 * PART 1 * BOOK 8 MANNA: GOD'S SAME GRACE SAVES US AND KEEPS US Exodus 16-19 Exodus 16:1 "And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month...." Exodus 16:3 "And the children of Israel said unto them (Moses and Aaron), `Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt (they are already getting squeamish about where Moses is taking them), when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full;....'" Exodus 16:4 "Then said the LORD unto Moses, `Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove (or test) them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.'" So let's skip down to verse 14, and the appearance of the manna. The whole idea with manna, is that this is the very bread of God. Remember in John's Gospel, Jesus spoke of himself as the Bread of Life. Now, also in this account between verse 14 and 22, God institutes a law that on the sixth day they shall gather how much manna? Exodus 16:16 "This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, `Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to the number of your persons; take ye every man for them which are in his tents.'" Exodus 16:22-26 I have instructed my classes over the years, don't ever call Sunday the Sabbath. We know beginning back here, God is dealing with Israel, and He does set up the seventh day as the day of rest and worship. It will be incorporated into the Ten Commandments, but we always have to remember that the very high point of God's dealing with man, centers in not only Christ's death, and burial, but in His resurrection. We have become believers after His resurrection. This is the message that Paul is given on Mt. Sinai, as I pointed out before. Just as sure as God gave the Law to Moses on Mt. Sinai, and took it down to the children of Israel, I feel God took Saul of Tarsus from Damascus, down to Sinai and we know according to Galatians that he spent three years down there by himself. We are on resurrection ground, and not on the legal ground of the Mosaic system. Now, the Sabbath is a controversy with so many people and groups. There is one group that shouts from the house tops that the reason America is having problems is, we have forgotten about the Sabbath. Remember, Paul never instructs us to keep the Sabbath, because now it is the first day of the week, because it was on the first day of the week that Christ rose from the dead. So, here in Chapter 20, Paul is out ministering to the Gentiles. Let's go to verse 6: Yes I'm sure, because that was under the Law, and it's also interesting that out of all the Ten Commandments that Paul refers to throughout his letters, the only one he makes no mention of is the Sabbath. I Corinthians 16:1 Remember, Paul was instructed by Peter and James back in Acts 15, when they finally agreed to let Paul go to the Gentiles without making legalists out of them, or Judaising them, but to be sure to remember the poor here in Jerusalem. And you remember why they were poor don't you? So those Jewish believers lived well for a while, but they ran out of money. I Corinthians 16:1,2 I don't want people to misinterpret me. If you do, then you are putting them back under the Law. And Paul never says that. He says, "But when you give, give as God has prospered you." You are not under a mandate to give, but rather with your own free conscience as it is led by the Holy Spirit to give as God has prospered you.), as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come." I guess Paul felt like I do on this matter. Turn with me to Romans Chapter 14. It was that one hour a week, when people thought that they were fulfilling their obligation to God. I like what Paul says here: Romans 14:5 "One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike." Let's read it without the italic.) Do you just become a Sunday Christian? Could you sit down with someone and help them pray the sinner's prayer? What was the sinner's prayer? God be merciful to me a sinner. We are actually amiss to say to God, be merciful to me. I can remember years ago, hearing an elderly lady in our church talking about some poor lost individual, and I can still here her as she said, "Oh, if only that poor man could pray through." Pray through what? What was he supposed to pray through to somehow approach God. Here again, Paul writes to us believers: Colossians 2:13 #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible