Exodus: Manna

October 1, 2023 · Ben Hoyer · 27:46

Continuing through Exodus, this message reaches Exodus chapter 16, where Israel grumbles in the Desert of Sin after crossing the Red Sea and God provides manna, with a reflection on how faith and doubt coexist.

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Well, the rest of us were working our way through Exodus. And I don't know if you were here with us last week, but man, that notion last week of the Israelites going from this like completely faithless, we're out here to die. Why did you bring us out here to die? To this act of faith of stepping into the Red Sea with walls of water on both sides. And the idea that faith doesn't push out doubt, but faith and doubt exist alongside of

each other. If you're waiting for your doubt to dissipate completely before you take steps of faith, you'll never get there. You can take steps of faith even amongst the doubt. That idea has been rattling around in my brain all week. Like, this is so encouraging for me. I don't have to have this notion that I'll sometime at some point attain a future where I have perfect faith and never doubt. We reminded ourselves that the 11 disciples on the hill in Galilee walking up to see the

resurrected Jesus ascend into heaven. Matthew tells us that some of them believe and some of them doubted and they all receive the Great Commission. So this idea from last week that doubt and faith coexist, they grow alongside of each other. And that this will be true until the day when Christ calls us home, when faith turns to sight, until that point we'll have both. So don't despair or give up because your doubt persists, but continue to find opportunities

of faith. And that kind of, that kind of, uh, co realities of doubt and faith keep going in the story of the year. So we're in Exodus chapter 16 this morning if you want to follow along. And just like I was telling the little ones, they just left the Red Sea and they sung Miriam's song together. It becomes an anthem for them. The praises of Miriam's song pop up in the prophets and the Psalms.

It goes into the kind of ether of Israel. And then chapter 16 verse 1 says, the whole Israel community set out from ill and came to the desert of sin, which is between ill and sin. And the 15th day of the second man, and the other community, the river, the holy community, the holy community, the day that he closes in.

And then the river, the river, it said 600,000 men and their families leave the desert. This is a whole lot of people leaving the river, the land of the river through the temple. And we leave the center of the vessel, we think they probably, if the Africa is here, the Nile Delta is here, the little current day Red Sea is here. They cross over and they go down in the peninsula and then back up, they kind of wander around.

Remember, they're going to end up wandering around for 40 days. But right now, they're on their way to Sinai where Moses met with God at the burning bush. And helpful for them, they have that killer of cloud and fire leading them where they're going to go. So they're going here. We're in the desert. You left us out here to die. And remember that the physical and the zoon of the building is incredibly, incredibly.

It's called the work of people living in this realm where people live in this realm and so people go and play a game. We're talking about the building, we're going to build a building where we live in the forest and we're going to build a building where we live in this building. And all of us are finding these kids and we are going to build a building where we live in this building because we're going to be working very well into another.

And then we have a piece of existence and our presence of being in this building and the player of cloud and fire in front of you. We're going to need both the pieces of them in our midst, as they. And we can't do anything else to do with our lives. We can't do anything. This is just the figure that the male and the male and the male and friends, the locals

and the black and the people and the people and the people and the people and the people and the people and the people and the people and the people and the people and the people and the people and the people and the people and the people and the people. I mean, handgroves really? I mean, you can see the other one going to be selected as soon.

Second, second. Second, B, hand the buffalo and the meat milk. We're looking for the milk and the girls in your world and then breakfast. So today, we're going to be going through the daily food and eating and eating and the good noises in the night. We are going to be a family of the years when the average daily food and the food we wanted.

We're going to be in the days when we started this entire and Sunday, so daily. So, we're going to be in the days when we started this entire day. So, we're going to be in the days when we started this entire day. So, we're going to be in the days when we started this entire day. So, we're going to be in the days when we started this entire day. So, we're going to be in the days when we started this entire day. So, we're going to be in the days when we started this entire day.

It's like this becomes a home for Israel to be a home of a person. What we are in is a position going through the food or through the food and food. We're going through the food or through the food or through the food and food. The food we're going through is going to be a good day to eat like what we need.

I don't know if you're going to be able to listen in the day. We're going to be living in the living in the workplace, say, Chiles. Today, you're living in the living in the workplace, say, Chiles. Right? Eight minutes, great arguments to have in the workplace said.

It's just some real... The way our food court is inserted is all the political differences in the food and food. It's how it goes down in the other we see on the southern ones. I think you don't know if it's coming out of the food court is doing the sort of good control.

It's easy to tell you what food is in the living in the food and food. The food is in the living in the living in the food. The boys are doing the good. But they have to think about all the things that didn't work. They only tell the food that they wanted. And this is the place where we see the only thing that you're getting to be able to eat on decisions in the future,

based on how or how you're living that's really seen through the pizza menu. So that the menu is amazing. And the only thing that's coming out of the table is the table of the menu. And the reason we have to be able to see and the part of the food court is that's in the living in the living in the living in the living in the food.

When they get the whole food court in the living, this food is more than real food. I mean, this food is really really real and it's a little deeper inside the menu. So, this is really important for me to be able to see. This is really important for me.

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