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verse five and it shall come to pass that on the sixth day they shall prepare that which they bring in and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily in other words the people would go out each day and collect a certain amount of mana and om of Mana or about two liters which was more than sufficient for each person they must not collect more if they were to collect more it would rot but on the sixth day the day before the Sabbath they were to collect twice the amount which means two rers or about four liters and that was in preparation for the Sabbath because they were not supposed to work on the Sabbath we will learn more about that in our next message some Bible critics have tried to explain that this Mana was produced by an excretion from a certain species of insects others explained that this Mana was produced by some kind of a plant by giving all this natural possibility they were downplaying the miraculous aspects of this provision there are some obvious problems with all these theories firstly this manner was not something common look down to verse 15 and when the children of Israel saw it they said to one another it is Manner for they wish not what it was which means they did not know what it was and Moses had to explain to them this was the bread which the Lord ha given to you for food in fact the word Mana means what is it so it is something that was not common not something that they would see from day to day something they had never seen before secondly if they had collected more than they should the Mana would Decay except the double portions they collected on the sixth day only on those specific times those manner would last for two days so it was a miracle thirdly one has to consider the massive quantity take a moment and consider how many insects or plants it would take to produce the manner that will fit an entire nation an entire nation of 2 million but the biggest problem was how long the Mana continued the Israelites ate the Mana for 40 years until they reach the promised land so it was a genuine Divine Miracle as the Bible said this was the bread that came down from Heaven perhaps some of us may be wondering well indeed that was a miraculous provision but today God no longer provides for me like the way he provided the Israelites with Mana from Heaven well it may be true that God does not re man are down from heaven he can if he wants to but his provision for you and me is no less a miracle from providing us with jobs and opportunities to sustaining our jobs to giving us the strength to do the jobs at every step of the way he is providing for us in a most miraculous Way by way of testimony when the Lord first called me to serve him full-time I was supported by a Christian organization which gave me $250 a month at that time my wife heong was serving in a Korean church we were not married yet and she was paid slightly more than me $400 humanly speaking it was impossible to get married to have children to build a family to buy a house to put put bread and butter on the table but step by step God provided for all our needs today as we look back what can we say it was truly a miracle the way he provided for us was truly miraculous some of you here are in your retirements when you look back how God has graciously provided you with jobs sustain your jobs given you the strength to do the work set before you at every step of the way until this very moment whereby you can enjoy your retirements are you not like the Israelites whom God has provided Mana for 40 years he has also provided physical manner for you though in a very different way not only did God provide the manner in the morning he also provided the quails that came in the evening quails only came in the spring and Autumn Seasons they will fly fly low and they would be carried by the wind according to historians quails were a delicacy at that time the people would catch those birds in Nets however for the Israelites these quiles would fly directly to their camps all they needed to do was to go out and pick them the quails came to the right place at the right time and in the right quantity sufficient to feed almost two million people again this was a genuine Divine Miracle you see God not only provided for the children of Israel he provided for them abundantly remember in verse three the children of Israel had complained that they used to sit by their cooking pots in Egypt to eat their meats and bread until they were full until they were satified until they were fulfilled but we know that was an exaggeration now look down to verse eight God used the same word to the fool and Moses said this shall be when the Lord shall give you in the evening flesh to eat and in the morning bread to the fool in other words although the Israelites were exaggerating how they used to eat in Egypt which was not true here God In His Infinite patience promised that he would feed them until they were really satisfied his provision would be aband abundant his provision will be much more than they deserved dear friend that is how gracious our heavenly father is in spite of how we have been so ungrateful and unreasonable to complain and murmur against him he remembers that we are his blood bought children he who has saved us will he suffer his children to be hungry will he not provide for all our needs most certainly he will provide and he will provide abundantly what was God's purpose in performing this miracle it was not simply because his people Beg For It ultimately it was for his glory Glory this brings us to our third and final Point God's glory look at verse six and Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel at even then ye shall know that the Lord ha brought you out of the land of Egypt God had already showed the Israelites who he was by performing the 10 plagues and opening the Red Sea if that was not enough for them to know who he was that he was the one who had brought them out of the land of Egypt he would now provide food for them in the wilderness in a place where there was no vegetation in a place where it was impossible to provide for an entire nation verse 7even and in the morning then ye shall see the glory of the Lord for that he heareth your murmurings against the Lord and what are we that ye murmur against us once again Moses reiterated the fact that their murmurings were not against them peray their murmurings were against the Lord and he had heard their complaints instead of punishing them he would graciously provide for them for his glory therefore Moses commanded Aaron who was his mouthpiece to say to the children of Israel to come before the presence of the Lord look at verse 10 and it came to pass as Aaron spake unto the whole Congregation of the children of Israel that they look toward the Wilderness and behold the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud in other words Aaron gathered the people and pointed them to the Shina glory of God the glory of his presence in the pillar of cloud it was as if Aaron was saying to the Israelites look this is the glory of the Lord whatever God did it was for his glory God has saved you for his glory God has performed all those Miracles whether it be the temp ples or the opening of the Red Sea they were for his glory now he's going to provide for you quails in the evening and the Mana in the morning and they were also for his glory but sadly the children of Israel would soon forget this important truth when they take their eyes away from the almighty God they take their eyes away from the glory of God they will only focus on the provisions only on the physical manner dear friend God did what he did he did the way he did it for his glory not just for the children of Israel but for all of us as well God has saved us for his glory each time God takes care of us and protects us from from danger it is for His glory each time God enables us to repent and to believe in his promises it is for His glory each time God strengthens our hands that we may do the work set before us it is for His glory each time God did things in such a way that seems imp imposs it is for His glory and we see more and more of his glory if we do not give glory to God something is terribly wrong if we do not give glory to God what more would it take us to give glory to him may the Lord forgive us we must always give glory to all the things that God has done in and through our lives although the man was a physical Miracle there is something more important than that the purpose was to teach the spiritual lesson that the Israelites must depend on God 100% they must depend on him absolutely that God was their source of life that was why Moses said in Deuteronomy 8:3 maybe you can turn with me to Deuteronomy 8:3 allow me to read for you and God humbled thee and suffered thee to hunger and fed thee with manner which thou knewest not neither did thy fathers know that he might make thee know that man does not live by bread alone but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord th Man live these words immediately remind us of what our lord Jesus said to Satan in the wilderness Jesus had fasted for 40 days and 40 nights as 100% men he was hungry and so the devil tempted him to turn the stones into bread but Jesus answered it is written man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God Matthew 4:4 Jesus knew our deepest need is not something physical but it is something spiritual what we really need is God and if you and I have God and His word that is what we need that is what we need to have in life God and His word this truth was best illustrated by Jesus when he performed the miracle of the Five Loaves and two fishes which I think most of us are familiar with the feeding of the 5000s remember after the people were fed they wanted to follow Jesus but he knew that they wanted to follow him for the wrong reasons they wanted to follow him because of the physical bread therefore Jesus said to them you must not seek the physical bread but rather you must seek after the food the bread that endures to eternal life which only the son of men will be able to give you the people were puzzled because they were still thinking about the physical bread they were still thinking about the bread their forefathers had eaten in the wilderness in the book of Exodus so they said our forefathers did eat of the Mana in the wilderness as it is written he gave them bread from Heaven the same verse we have read a moment ago quoted by the Jews in Jesus time because they were focusing on the physical bread that was when Jesus said to them in John 6:32 to35 let me read for you verse 32 of John 6 verily verily I say unto you Moses gave you not that bread from heaven but my father giveth you the true bread from heaven for the bread of God is he that cometh down from heaven and giveth life unto the world Jesus was talking about himself obviously he could do much more than just multiplying physical bread he was the bread the spiritual bread from Heaven that gives life to the world although the people were still unsure of what Jesus was talking about they said to him Lord if this bread could give us life then give us this spread that was when Jesus said I am the bread of life he that cometh to me shall never hunger and he that believeth on me shall never thirst your forefathers did eat the manner in the desert but they were all dead in other words do not look to the physical bread the physical bread that would only enable you to survive from day to day but look to the phys spiritual bread the one who offered himself on the cross of Calvary and shed his Precious Blood to give you salvation and eternal life the spiritual man is none other than the Lord Jesus Christ dear friends Aaron pointed to the shakina glory of God the glory of his presence in the cloud that they could look up to but instead the Israelites only look to the physical bread that was the reason why later on they went out and they failed the test they gathered as much as they could and all those men rotted decayed they were meaningless likewise you and I must not only look to the blessings we have received whether it be our jobs or our houses our resources or the things we have accumulated praise God for all these blessings we have received but we must look to God himself once we forget him then everything would be meaningless do not look to the physical bread but look through the spiritual bread that is our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for those of you who have not truly believed in the Lord Jesus Christ once this life ends and you swing into eternity you will be lost forever and ever there's only one who can save you Jesus said he who comes to me will never hunger he who believes in me will never thirst come to Jesus today today is the day of salvation do not procrastinate believe in him and you shall be saved Jesus said him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out do not reject believe in him for those of us who believe in him we must always look to him not to the physical things in this world because all these things no matter how good and alluring it may be to our eyes soon they will perish only God and His glory will last forever and ever let us pray Our Father in heaven we thank thee for enabling us to consider this portion of scriptures indeed help us oh Lord to be reminded of these three important lessons that so often we are just like the Israelites we have always been murmuring and complaining in good times we forget the in difficult difficult times we are prone to complain we are just like the Israelites but even in our sin of complaining we learn this most important lesson that is thy patience Thou Art so patient to us oh Lord in spite of us Thou Art so good and patient forgive us and we also learn of thy provision thou provides for all our needs but so often we forget that thou art the one who has blessed us so abundantly often times we think it is our hands that wrought all the good things we have but truly it is the almighty God who has blessed us us with so much good things and we also learned that the purpose the reason why thou has wrought such a good work in our lives is for thy Glory thou has saved us for thy Glory thou has led us provided for us protected us in every situation for thy glory and as we live through each day of Our Lives we see more and more of thy glory and help us not to take our eyes away from thee and thy Glory help us always to focus on thee help us not to be like the Israelites who only look through the physical bread and forget get the spiritual bread help us always to focus on Jesus the one who came for us died on the cross shedding his Precious Blood which is able to wash away all our sins we look to him and him alone the author and the finisher of our faith we pray all this in Jesus name amen