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[silence] [MUSIC] (piano music) ♪ I am Lord of sea and sky ♪

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♪ I have heard my people call ♪ ♪ All who dwell in darkness stay ♪ ♪ I am will stay ♪ ♪ I will make the star of night ♪

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♪ I will make the darkest night ♪ ♪ Who will make my life today ♪ ♪ Whom shall I say ♪ ♪ Here I am, Lord ♪

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♪ Is this love ♪ ♪ I have heard you calling in the night ♪ ♪ I will come home ♪ ♪ If you need me ♪

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I will hold your people in my heart. I am Lord of snow and rain. I have borne my people's pain. I have wept for love of them.

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They turn away. I will break their hearts of stone. ♪ Give their hearts for love alone ♪ ♪ I will speak my words to him ♪

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♪ Whom shall I save ♪ ♪ Here I am, here I am ♪ ♪ This morning is the dawn ♪ ♪ I have heard you calling in the night ♪

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♪ I will come ♪ ♪ If you sleep ♪ ♪ I will follow all your people in my heart ♪ ♪ I am Lord of human race ♪

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♪ I will make the world where you may ♪ ♪ I will set the peace for me ♪ ♪ Now that we're safe ♪ ♪ On this day God will provide ♪

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♪ Till the heart's peace that is good ♪ ♪ I will give my life to Him ♪ ♪ Whom shall I sing ♪ ♪ Whom shall I sing ♪

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♪ Here I am, Lord ♪ ♪ This is all I know ♪ ♪ I have heard you calling in the night ♪ ♪ I will go on ♪

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♪ If you need me ♪ ♪ I will hold your beacon in my heart ♪ ♪ I will hold your beacon in my heart ♪ ♪ For me, for him, my heart ♪

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(upbeat music) (upbeat music) worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. Come let us worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. Give him the honor, give him the praise. Come let us worship the Lord, let's give Him the praise

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Come let us worship the Lord, in the beauty of holiness Come let us worship the Lord, in the beauty of holiness Give Him the honor, give Him the praise. Come let us worship the Lord, let's give Him the praise.

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worship him, worship him, give my God the glory, give my God the praise. Worship Him, worship Him Come let us worship the Lord, let's give Him the praise ♪ Worship Him ♪ ♪ Worship Him ♪

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♪ Worship Him ♪ ♪ Give my God the glory ♪ ♪ Give my God the glory ♪ ♪ Why don't you give it up to me ♪

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♪ Give my God the praise ♪ ♪ Worship Him ♪ ♪ Worship Him ♪ ♪ Come let us worship the Lord ♪

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♪ Come let us worship the Lord ♪ ♪ Come let us worship the Lord ♪ ♪ Let's give him the praise ♪ [ Music ]

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>> And the first four verses. Exodus, the 16th chapter, and the first four verses. And they took their journey from Elam and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elam and Sinai on the fifteenth day

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the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt. And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. And the children of Israel said unto them, "Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt when we sat by the flesh pots and

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when we did eat bread to the full for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness to kill the whole assembly with hunger. 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 them whether they will

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walk in my law or no." The 12th verse of the same chapter, "At evening ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread, and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God. The subject, Bread in a Starving Land. Bread in a starving land.

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On a train ride from Costa de Sol to Madrid some years ago, there was a passenger that I took particular note of. This man was alone and he had with him a bag that evidently contained his clothing. And there were several other things that I noticed that he had.

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One of them was bread. He had this bread that I have here, very much like this he had as he traveled. And this ride took all day. stopped at every little place, every town, every hamlet village it seemed to stop.

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And from time to time this unknown passenger would take out this bread and take a bite from this bread. He had one other thing, another thing he had was a bottle of water. And from time to time he took a drink from this water.

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And then there was one other thing he had, and that was a huge onion. And I was sitting about two seats behind him. [LAUGHTER] And so I could watch him very closely.

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Bread, water, and onion. That's all the man had. and that was to get him through the trip. I call this the desert diet.

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And many people don't have that. When I compared what this costs today with our standard of living, this man could eat not only all day off of this,

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He could eat possibly several days from this bread. That's all he had. Many of us know what it is to be dependent on a desert diet.

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Just a little. We were coming along, we had nickels worth of bologna of bologna and crackers, or nickels worth of cheese and crackers, or nickels worth of pinto beans. You could feed the family with that when I was coming along. Desert diet.

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Then sometimes when I didn't have any breakfast or money, I had money to purchase something we would get a loaf of bread and cut it in two and then cut it again and put some bologna and then maybe a few slices of pickle. That was called a hobo sandwich and you were fooled. There's a diet and I want to suggest in this

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message that those who would go to Canaan need to be prepared to subsist on a desert diet. If we're not acquainted with the desert diet and know how to exists on the desert diet, we're not likely to fully appreciate the joys of of Canaan. Children of Israel are in the desert and they are

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crying for food, crying for bread in the desert. No supermarkets, no bakeries, no food. And they cry and they murmur. And they say to Moses and Aaron, "Why did you bring us out here

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in this desert to die? They had graves in Egypt that we could have been buried. We could have had a dignified funeral in Egypt. But out here in this desert, we have no audience

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to appreciate us. We're out here alone. Desert is a lonely place. Desert.

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hot, arid, desert. Well, the children of Israel are now in the first stage of the freedom journey, the journey from Egypt to Canaan.

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And I suspect this food that they left Egypt with has run out. They've been gone now maybe a little over a month. And the food is gone.

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And you know when you're traveling, it seems that you get hungry so soon. You can't wait for another meal to be served. You're relaxed and hungry.

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I used to say to our children that when we were traveling in the car, they looked like they only wanted to stop at the restrooms and restaurants. They get hungry, so they're hungry. And they don't have the food that they'd like to have, and so they murmur, they find fault with their leaders, Moses and Aaron.

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with their leaders, Moses and Aaron. So we wished we had been left in Egypt because in Egypt we had flesh pots. In other words, in Egypt we not only had some bread,

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but we had flesh pots, pots filled with meat. And when I was coming along, if you didn't have anything else but meat and bread, that was the meat, but you must have some meat.

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My father insisted that you must have meat. One times it was what we called dry salt bacon. Maybe you all don't remember that. Where you take the bacon, it was salty,

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and you put it on and let some of the salt get out of it. and then you would fry it. And it was so meager but it was food. I went to school one day and the teacher wanted its pupils to report on what they had for breakfast. So Marvin what did you have for breakfast? I said well I had some

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some syrup, some biscuits, and some dry salt bacon. And all the kids laughed. And I went back home that evening and at night I told my mother, she said, "Don't worry about that." She said, "Many of them had the same thing you had." So you were just honest about your So we've all been exposed.

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We've all been exposed. Those of us who came up a few years ago, we've been exposed to the desert diet. So we're not expected to make the journey

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through the wilderness on empty stomachs. There is a special diet for the wilderness journey. The children of Israel complain, they criticize, they murmur against Moses and Aaron when things are not

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going as expected. They yearn for return to Egypt. Isn't that strange that when they were in Egypt, they were crying because of their bondage?

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And when they are out of Egypt, just a month or so out of Egypt, They are yearning to return to Egypt. Well, the cry for food. And do you know one of the problems we have as a people

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and as a nation is about food? Obesity is our problem. We consume fast, fatty foods from the time of our childhood to the grave.

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And we suffer from diabetes. We drink and smoke to our own detriment. And we have not only diabetes, but we have other ailments, kidney ailments, lung cancer, colon cancer,

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to in disproportionate numbers as far as our race is concerned. So our consumption is killing us. We cry for bread in the wilderness. And we cry for bread to feed our children.

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And we feed them on a diet that contributes to malnutrition and disease. Those who participate in this march toward freedom must be concerned about the diet in the wilderness.

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There is a critical need for bread. There is a distressful cry from the multitude for bread. Bread. Bread.

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Bread. We cannot live without bread. Bread is the staff of life. Bread is the strength for our weakness.

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So the cry of the multitude to heaven is give us this day our daily bread. Bread for today. Bread for tomorrow.

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Bread for the journey. How can we have bread in the wilderness, this barren, unproductive region? Where shall we find bread?

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Shall we look to the government for bread? The bread we need for the journey is not in government grants and proposals. We live in a world where nations beg for bread and take the money and purchase weapons of destruction.

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And so the cry continues, "Bread! Bread!" The multitude cries for bread. They come crying to the church for bread. And we have an answer.

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Break thou the bread of life, they say to us. And God has given us an answer. There is in this experience the promise of bread. God says to them when Moses and Aaron present the request of the

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multitude for bread. He says, "Behold, I will rain bread from heaven." Bread will come. It will come to you in abundance. I will rain down bread from heaven. In other words, God God controls the heavens and the earth, and it is God who says, "I will rain down." This is heaven's gift to the people of God.

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"I will rain down bread from heaven." This is heaven's promise. It will come from God and this promise will be fulfilled in a marvelous way, not just one day, but every day.

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Every day God will provide the bread we need, the strength we need for the journey we face. promises to provide bread for every day. So the God who promises bread also provides, not only just promises, but he provides. God causes dew to come upon the earth and to produce a horror forest called manna. The children asked, "What is this?

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What is this?" And Moses tells them that this is the bread of the Lord. This is the The bread that he has provided for you to eat. Gather every person according to what you need to eat. Some gathered more than they needed.

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And the bread that they thought would be left over, they were putting it on deposit for the future. They found that it had worms in it. couldn't, this is the kind of bread we can't use in that manner. God give us

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bread and this bread that God provides is not bread that passes away. Bread that the unknown passenger had. It just lasted for a few days, if that long. But the bread that God gives is bread that lasts from one day to the next day because God renews, he renews our strength. And we find ourselves being

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supplied with the need every day. You remember the story of that widow, Elijah came to there and she just had a little meal in the barrel and Elijah said, "Well make the first cake for me. She was about to cook that and she was gonna eat it along with her son and they would die. He said we'll make the first cake for me

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and she did and she went back day after day and found more meal in the barrel. God has a way. God has a way of providing bread. He has control. We're talking about servants of the kingdom of God and when you're in the kingdom of God you're the kingdom of the one who controls. He controls the rain, he controls the

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harvest, he controls every day. He is in control. So the bread that they need is provided by the one who led them out of Egypt and he has promised to satisfy "that hunger and thirst after righteousness shall be filled." It's just a long day.

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People are tired and they're weary. It's been a long day. They've worked hard following in the steps of the Master. And there, as we put it, worn out.

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And the disciples said to Jesus, pronounce the benediction. Let these people go home. We don't have enough money to buy bread. Even if there were accommodations out here in the wilderness, we still don't have the money to buy enough bread.

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Let them go home. But Jesus said, "See what they have." And they searched and they found a lad with five barley loaves and two small fishes. And Jesus says, "Give it to me."

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"Give it to me!" And they give it to him and he blesses it. And he blesses it and it multiplies. 5,000 are fed, not counting the women and children.

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And if it's like today, the women outnumbered the men. 5,000 of them. And everyone was served and everybody had enough. Because when you eat at the table of God,

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When you're fed by the hands of God, there is plenty. - Oh yes, oh yes. - There's plenty, everybody had enough. And not only did they have enough,

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but they had some leftovers. - Yes. (audience laughing) - They had some leftovers,

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and there were 12 baskets. This boy had his little picnic lunch, so to speak, but the multitude is fed with it, and 12 baskets, one for each one of the disciples.

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- Yes, Lord. - They had enough left for each one of them to have a take home. Jesus arranges it.

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- Yes, Lord. - When we take what we have and present it to him, when we submit ourselves fully to him, God can take the lives that we have

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and make them wonderful blessings. That's what he can do for us. So God provides. He provides through Jesus Christ.

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So Jesus has bread enough and to spare. And we celebrate it. We celebrate this in our communion service. We celebrate the fact that he prepares a table for us

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in the wilderness. Many, many of us are going through the wilderness right now. Lonely experiences, burning heat of the sun, and we're worn, we're weary, we're tired,

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and yet, somehow God comes. He comes, he breaks in, and he rains down bread from heaven. Bread from heaven. And when God, you know, the rain,

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he's the one who controls the rain. Some people would like, you know, to control our blessings, but God controls it. - Right.

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- And the rain just keeps falling, and many times when we don't know what to do, don't know how we're going to get a blessing, that somehow God just has a way of slipping a blessing to us.

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I remember we were in a very critical condition in our family, and I was a youngster, and we didn't know how we were going to make it, and my mother got on the streetcar, and she saw a five-dollar bill. And mother insists that that $5 bill was not there when she first got on the streetcar.

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She just said, "God put it there." We needed it so badly and yet we didn't know how we were going to make it and said somehow there's no name on it, no identification, just $5 over there. So God has a way of raining down blessing from heaven.

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Bread, yes, bread. - Bread enough and to spare. - Yeah. - Bread.

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Thank God that he gives us the strength that we need. - Todd, yes. - But there's bread rained down from heaven and we need not give up on the journey.

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I know sometimes we get weary, But don't give up on the struggle. Bread is available. Strength is provided.

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The promise is made. The promise is kept. So be not dismayed. No matter how starving

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may be the conditions that surround us, but be not dismayed. For God is the leader. When we sing God be O thou great Jehovah, pilgrim through this barren land, I am weak,

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but thou art mighty, hold me with thy powerful hand. They say bread of heaven, bread of heaven, feed me till I want no more. Bread of heaven, bread of heaven, feed me till I want no more. We extend now the privilege of the church, the blessed opportunity to accept this God

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who comes to us through Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. We invite you to come. (piano music) [MUSIC PLAYING]

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(piano music) ♪ I, the owner of great Jehovah ♪ ♪ Build from truth His seventh land ♪ ♪ I am leader of the almighty ♪

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♪ Holy with my companion ♪ ♪ Prayer of heaven ♪ ♪ Feed me till I want no more ♪ ♪ Prayer of heaven ♪

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♪ Feed me till I want no more ♪ ♪ Open now the crystal fountain ♪ ♪ Press the healing waters forth ♪ ♪ Let the mighty, cloudy pillar ♪

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♪ Lead me on my journey through ♪ ♪ Strong deliverer ♪ ♪ Be thou still my strength, my shield ♪ ♪ From his words ♪

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♪ He has still my strength ♪ ♪ On his shield ♪ ♪ Let I tread the verge of Jordan ♪ ♪ With my anxious fears subside ♪

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♪ There he grew the swelling current ♪ ♪ And be safe on Dania's side ♪ ♪ Songs of praises ♪ ♪ I will ever give to thee ♪

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♪ Songs of praises ♪ ♪ I will ever give to thee ♪ ♪ To thee ♪ [ Music ]

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[INAUDIBLE] responsibility for all the church, church, young people, and everybody. [INAUDIBLE] [inaudible] [MUSIC PLAYING] [CHOIR SINGING]

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