WEBVTT 00:00:00.020 --> 00:00:08.320 you can't remain free and also be safe. This is the Lifespring One Year Bible Rewind and coming 00:00:08.410 --> 00:00:14.160 to you from Riverside, California and podcasting since 2004. My name is Steve Webb and I'm your OG 00:00:14.400 --> 00:00:19.020 Godcaster. This is the podcast that comes to you every day and we're reading the entire Bible 00:00:19.180 --> 00:00:25.340 together in a year. I'm so glad you are here. It's good to see you. The website is lifespringmedia.com. 00:00:25.920 --> 00:00:28.400 It's National Clean Out Your Computer Day. 00:00:29.000 --> 00:00:34.320 It's time to organize our files, delete old downloads, and give our digital workspaces a fresh start. 00:00:34.380 --> 00:00:39.580 But I gotta tell you, with somewhere around 65 terabytes of files here at LifeSpring Central, 00:00:40.040 --> 00:00:42.540 a day wouldn't be near enough time to do that. 00:00:43.160 --> 00:00:46.340 That's why I rely on a program that knows where all my data is. 00:00:46.720 --> 00:00:49.160 All I have to do is give it an approximate file name, 00:00:49.180 --> 00:00:52.720 and it'll tell me which of about 10 hard drives the file is in. 00:00:53.300 --> 00:00:54.620 I couldn't function without it. 00:00:54.720 --> 00:00:56.660 In case you're interested, it's called Neo Finder. 00:00:56.760 --> 00:00:58.520 And no, I don't have an affiliate link. 00:00:58.920 --> 00:01:00.220 This is also the Law Monday. 00:01:00.580 --> 00:01:02.520 We'll read Exodus 13 through 16. 00:01:02.860 --> 00:01:04.120 I'll have some comments after that. 00:01:04.660 --> 00:01:08.700 And we'll have what I think is a very culturally significant on this date in church history. 00:01:09.060 --> 00:01:09.320 Hang on. 00:01:10.040 --> 00:01:10.400 Let's begin. 00:01:11.340 --> 00:01:13.560 Our Heavenly Father, Lord, we thank you for your word. 00:01:13.660 --> 00:01:20.140 And we thank you, Father, for giving us the ability to, in some small way, understand who you are. 00:01:20.340 --> 00:01:23.040 You've given us that message so that we would know you. 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:26.800 And so, God, I pray that you would teach us more about yourself today. 00:01:27.340 --> 00:01:29.440 I pray this in Jesus' name. Amen. 00:01:32.160 --> 00:01:33.340 Exodus chapter 13 00:01:34.380 --> 00:01:35.840 The Lord said to Moses, 00:01:36.880 --> 00:01:39.180 Dedicate all the firstborn males to me, 00:01:39.860 --> 00:01:44.600 for every firstborn male Israelite and every firstborn male animal belongs to me. 00:01:45.740 --> 00:01:46.740 Moses said to the people, 00:01:47.580 --> 00:01:52.340 Remember this day, the day on which you left Egypt, the place where you were slaves. 00:01:52.860 --> 00:01:56.420 This is the day the Lord brought you out by His great power. 00:01:57.220 --> 00:01:58.940 No leavened bread is to be eaten. 00:02:00.020 --> 00:02:04.040 You are leaving Egypt on this day, in the first month, the month of Abib. 00:02:04.560 --> 00:02:08.840 The Lord solemnly promised your ancestors to give you the land of the Canaanites, 00:02:09.009 --> 00:02:12.300 the Hittites, the Amorites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 00:02:13.220 --> 00:02:15.700 When He brings you into that rich and fertile land, 00:02:16.090 --> 00:02:19.720 you must celebrate this festival in the first month of every year. 00:02:20.460 --> 00:02:26.580 For seven days you must eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there is to be a festival to honor the Lord. 00:02:27.600 --> 00:02:30.440 For seven days you must not eat any bread made with yeast. 00:02:31.480 --> 00:02:34.820 There must be no yeast or leavened bread anywhere in your land. 00:02:35.600 --> 00:02:42.580 When the festival begins, explain to your sons that you do all this because of what the Lord did for you when you left Egypt. 00:02:43.520 --> 00:02:47.740 This observance will be a reminder, like something tied on your hand or on your forehead. 00:02:47.820 --> 00:02:52.060 It will remind you to continue to recite and study the law of the Lord, 00:02:52.540 --> 00:02:55.500 because the Lord brought you out of Egypt by His great power. 00:02:56.160 --> 00:02:59.000 Celebrate this festival at the appointed time each year. 00:02:59.720 --> 00:03:01.860 The Lord will bring you into the land of the Canaanites, 00:03:01.930 --> 00:03:04.880 which He solemnly promised to you and your ancestors. 00:03:05.860 --> 00:03:09.600 When He gives it to you, you must offer every firstborn male to the Lord. 00:03:10.600 --> 00:03:13.400 Every firstborn male of your animals belongs to the Lord, 00:03:14.140 --> 00:03:19.380 But you must buy back from him every firstborn male donkey by offering a lamb in its place. 00:03:20.400 --> 00:03:23.380 If you do not want to buy back the donkey, break its neck. 00:03:24.060 --> 00:03:27.060 You must buy back every firstborn male child of yours. 00:03:28.120 --> 00:03:32.800 In the future, when your son asks what this observance means, you will answer him, 00:03:33.340 --> 00:03:37.820 By using great power the Lord brought us out of Egypt, the place where we were slaves. 00:03:38.640 --> 00:03:41.840 When the king of Egypt was stubborn and refused to let us go, 00:03:42.340 --> 00:03:48.240 the Lord killed every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, both human and animal. That is why we 00:03:48.400 --> 00:03:55.640 sacrifice every firstborn male animal to the Lord, but buy back our firstborn sons. This observance 00:03:55.740 --> 00:04:01.580 will be a reminder, like something tied on our hands or on our foreheads. It will remind us that 00:04:01.580 --> 00:04:08.240 the Lord brought us out of Egypt by His great power. When the king of Egypt let the people go, 00:04:08.620 --> 00:04:13.960 God did not take them by the road that goes up the coast to Philistia, although it was the shortest way. 00:04:14.640 --> 00:04:21.100 God thought, I do not want the people to change their minds and return to Egypt when they see that they are going to have to fight. 00:04:21.660 --> 00:04:25.480 Instead, he led them in a roundabout way through the desert toward the Red Sea. 00:04:26.180 --> 00:04:27.700 The Israelites were armed for battle. 00:04:28.880 --> 00:04:34.060 Moses took the body of Joseph with him, as Joseph had made the Israelites solemnly promise to do. 00:04:34.640 --> 00:04:39.780 Joseph had said, When God rescues you, you must carry my body with you from this place. 00:04:41.260 --> 00:04:45.200 The Israelites left Succoth and camped at Etham on the edge of the desert. 00:04:46.160 --> 00:04:50.800 During the day, the Lord went in front of them in a pillar of cloud to show them the way. 00:04:51.560 --> 00:04:55.320 And during the night, He went in front of them in a pillar of fire to give them light, 00:04:55.620 --> 00:04:57.440 so that they could travel night and day. 00:04:58.140 --> 00:05:03.340 The pillar of cloud was always in front of the people during the day, and the pillar of fire at night. 00:05:03.680 --> 00:05:11.320 Exodus chapter 14. Then the Lord said to Moses, Tell the Israelites to turn back and camp in front 00:05:11.320 --> 00:05:17.880 of Pi-Hahirath, between Migdal and the Red Sea, near Baal-Ziphon. The king will think that the 00:05:18.140 --> 00:05:22.980 Israelites are wandering around in the country and are closed in by the desert. I will make him 00:05:23.140 --> 00:05:28.000 stubborn, and he will pursue you, and my victory over the king and his army will bring me honor. 00:05:28.640 --> 00:05:32.900 Then the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord. The Israelites did as they were told. 00:05:34.140 --> 00:05:38.680 When the king of Egypt was told that the people had escaped, he and his officials changed their 00:05:39.040 --> 00:05:44.620 minds and said, What have we done? We have let the Israelites escape, and we have lost them as 00:05:44.620 --> 00:05:51.040 our slaves. The king got his war chariot and his army ready. He set out with all his chariots, 00:05:51.480 --> 00:05:56.880 including the six hundred finest, commanded by their officers. The Lord made the king stubborn, 00:05:57.300 --> 00:06:02.259 and he pursued the Israelites, who were leaving triumphantly. The Egyptian army, with all the 00:06:02.280 --> 00:06:06.500 horses, chariots, and drivers pursued them and caught up with them where they were camped by 00:06:06.500 --> 00:06:11.940 the Red Sea near Pi-Hahirath and Baal-Ziphon. When the Israelites saw the king and his army 00:06:12.240 --> 00:06:17.620 marching against them, they were terrified and cried out to the Lord for help. They said to Moses, 00:06:18.180 --> 00:06:22.900 Weren't there any graves in Egypt? Did you have to bring us out here in the desert to die? 00:06:23.720 --> 00:06:28.659 Look what you have done by bringing us out of Egypt. Didn't we tell you before we left that 00:06:28.680 --> 00:06:33.880 this would happen? We told you to leave us alone and let us go on being slaves of the Egyptians. 00:06:34.560 --> 00:06:39.460 It would be better to be slaves there than to die here in the desert. Moses answered, 00:06:40.180 --> 00:06:44.720 Don't be afraid. Stand your ground and you will see what the Lord will do to save you today. 00:06:45.200 --> 00:06:50.040 You will never see these Egyptians again. The Lord will fight for you and all you have to do 00:06:50.050 --> 00:06:56.019 is keep still. The Lord said to Moses, Why are you crying out for help? Tell the people to move 00:06:56.040 --> 00:07:02.160 forward. Lift up your walking stick and hold it out over the sea. The water will divide, and the 00:07:02.480 --> 00:07:08.300 Israelites will be able to walk through the sea on dry ground. I will make the Egyptians so stubborn 00:07:08.500 --> 00:07:13.680 that they will go in after them, and I will gain honor by my victory over the king, his army, his 00:07:13.860 --> 00:07:19.240 chariots, and his drivers. When I defeat them, the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord. 00:07:20.060 --> 00:07:24.140 The angel of God, who had been in front of the army of Israel, moved and went to the rear. 00:07:24.600 --> 00:07:28.800 The pillar of cloud also moved until it was between the Egyptians and the Israelites. 00:07:29.940 --> 00:07:34.020 The cloud made it dark for the Egyptians, but gave light to the people of Israel, 00:07:34.740 --> 00:07:37.640 and so the armies could not come near each other all night. 00:07:38.960 --> 00:07:44.680 Moses held out his hand over the sea, and the Lord drove the sea back with a strong east wind. 00:07:45.220 --> 00:07:48.480 It blew all night and turned the sea into dry land. 00:07:49.110 --> 00:07:53.540 The water was divided, and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, 00:07:54.040 --> 00:07:56.040 with walls of water on both sides. 00:07:56.990 --> 00:08:02.240 The Egyptians pursued them and went after them into the sea with all their horses, chariots, and drivers. 00:08:03.460 --> 00:08:08.580 Just before dawn, the Lord looked down from the pillar of fire and cloud at the Egyptian army 00:08:09.180 --> 00:08:10.300 and threw them into a panic. 00:08:11.010 --> 00:08:15.340 He made the wheels of their chariots get stuck so that they moved with great difficulty. 00:08:16.040 --> 00:08:17.100 The Egyptians said, 00:08:17.600 --> 00:08:21.220 The Lord is fighting for the Israelites against us. Let's get out of here. 00:08:21.840 --> 00:08:29.100 The Lord said to Moses, Hold out your hand over the sea, and the water will come back over the Egyptians and their chariots and drivers. 00:08:30.300 --> 00:08:35.919 So Moses held out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the water returned to its normal level. 00:08:36.780 --> 00:08:40.760 The Egyptians tried to escape from the water, but the Lord threw them into the sea. 00:08:41.289 --> 00:08:47.900 The water returned and covered the chariots, the drivers, and all the Egyptian army that had followed the Israelites into the sea. 00:08:48.700 --> 00:08:49.920 Not one of them was left. 00:08:50.560 --> 00:08:55.760 But the Israelites walked through the sea on dry ground, with walls of water on both sides. 00:08:56.800 --> 00:09:00.340 On that day the Lord saved the people of Israel from the Egyptians, 00:09:01.220 --> 00:09:04.140 and the Israelites saw them lying dead on the seashore. 00:09:04.940 --> 00:09:08.880 When the Israelites saw the great power with which the Lord had defeated the Egyptians, 00:09:09.400 --> 00:09:14.420 they stood in awe of the Lord, and they had faith in the Lord and in his servant Moses. 00:09:15.260 --> 00:09:16.699 Exodus chapter 15 00:09:17.940 --> 00:09:21.100 Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the Lord. 00:09:21.620 --> 00:09:25.540 They said, I will sing to the Lord, for he is highly exalted. 00:09:26.140 --> 00:09:28.840 He has thrown the horse and its rider into the sea. 00:09:29.540 --> 00:09:31.480 The Lord is my strength and my song. 00:09:31.850 --> 00:09:33.220 He has become my salvation. 00:09:34.300 --> 00:09:36.500 This is my God, and I will praise him. 00:09:37.060 --> 00:09:39.360 My father is God, and I will exalt him. 00:09:40.220 --> 00:09:41.380 The Lord is a warrior. 00:09:42.000 --> 00:09:42.980 Yahweh is his name. 00:09:43.720 --> 00:09:46.440 He threw Pharaoh's chariots and his army into the sea. 00:09:46.920 --> 00:09:49.640 The elite of his officers were drowned in the Red Sea. 00:09:50.640 --> 00:09:51.740 The floods covered them. 00:09:52.060 --> 00:09:54.080 They sank to the depths like a stone. 00:09:55.040 --> 00:09:57.720 Lord, your right hand is glorious in power. 00:09:58.420 --> 00:10:00.900 Lord, your right hand shattered the enemy. 00:10:01.720 --> 00:10:04.620 You overthrew your adversaries by your great majesty. 00:10:05.460 --> 00:10:07.100 You unleashed your burning wrath. 00:10:07.360 --> 00:10:09.060 It consumed them like stubble. 00:10:09.880 --> 00:10:12.260 The waters heaped up at the blast of your nostrils. 00:10:12.680 --> 00:10:14.700 The currents stood firm like a dam. 00:10:15.260 --> 00:10:18.200 The watery depths congealed in the heart of the sea. 00:10:19.180 --> 00:10:23.160 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil. 00:10:23.780 --> 00:10:25.960 My desire will be gratified at their expense. 00:10:26.740 --> 00:10:29.540 I will draw my sword, my hand will destroy them. 00:10:30.020 --> 00:10:32.820 But you blew with your breath, and the sea covered them. 00:10:33.420 --> 00:10:35.360 They sank like lead in the mighty waters. 00:10:36.140 --> 00:10:38.220 Lord, who is like you among the gods? 00:10:38.700 --> 00:10:43.680 Who is like you, glorious in holiness, revered with praises, performing wonders? 00:10:44.700 --> 00:10:47.700 You stretched out your right hand, and the earth swallowed them. 00:10:48.580 --> 00:10:51.680 You will lead the people you have redeemed with your faithful love. 00:10:52.260 --> 00:10:54.900 You will guide them to your holy dwelling with your strength. 00:10:56.120 --> 00:10:58.060 When the people's here, they will shudder. 00:10:58.540 --> 00:11:00.820 Anguish will seize the inhabitants of Philistia. 00:11:01.620 --> 00:11:03.280 Then the chiefs of Edom will be terrified. 00:11:03.900 --> 00:11:05.980 Trembling will seize the leaders of Moab. 00:11:06.500 --> 00:11:10.900 The inhabitants of Canaan will panic, and terror and dread will fall on them. 00:11:11.180 --> 00:11:16.780 They will be as still as a stone because of your powerful arm until your people pass by, Lord, 00:11:17.310 --> 00:11:22.720 until the people whom you purchased pass by. You will bring them in and plant them on the 00:11:22.870 --> 00:11:28.020 mountain of your possession. Lord, you have prepared the place for your dwelling. Lord, 00:11:28.370 --> 00:11:33.140 your hands have established the sanctuary. The Lord will reign forever and ever. 00:11:34.140 --> 00:11:37.480 When Pharaoh's horses with his chariots and horsemen went into the sea, 00:11:37.880 --> 00:11:42.680 The Lord brought the waters of the sea back over them, but the Israelites walked through the sea 00:11:42.720 --> 00:11:48.640 on dry ground. Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron's sister, took a tambourine in her hand, 00:11:49.200 --> 00:11:53.880 and all the women followed her with their tambourines and danced. Miriam sang to them, 00:11:54.460 --> 00:11:59.660 Sing to the Lord, for he is highly exalted. He has thrown the horse and its rider into the sea. 00:12:00.840 --> 00:12:05.800 Then Moses led Israel on from the Red Sea, and they went out to the wilderness of Shur. 00:12:06.380 --> 00:12:09.560 They journeyed for three days in the wilderness without finding water. 00:12:10.300 --> 00:12:13.760 They came to Merah, but they could not drink the water at Merah, because it was bitter. 00:12:14.540 --> 00:12:15.840 That is why it is named Merah. 00:12:16.600 --> 00:12:18.000 The people grumbled to Moses, 00:12:18.720 --> 00:12:20.080 What are we going to drink? 00:12:20.800 --> 00:12:23.740 So he cried out to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a tree. 00:12:24.680 --> 00:12:27.500 When he threw it into the water, the water became drinkable. 00:12:28.200 --> 00:12:31.800 He made a statute and ordinance for them at Merah, and he tested them there. 00:12:32.000 --> 00:12:37.940 He said, If you will carefully obey the Lord your God, do what is right in His eyes, pay 00:12:38.160 --> 00:12:43.180 attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, I will not inflict any illnesses 00:12:43.440 --> 00:12:47.360 on you that I inflicted on the Egyptians, for I am Yahweh who heals you. 00:12:48.150 --> 00:12:53.020 Then they came to Elam, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy date palms, and 00:12:53.100 --> 00:12:54.500 they camped there by the waters. 00:12:55.240 --> 00:12:56.400 Exodus chapter 16. 00:12:57.000 --> 00:13:01.760 The entire Israelite community departed from Elam and came to the wilderness of Zin, 00:13:02.260 --> 00:13:07.880 which is between Elam and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had left the land of Egypt. 00:13:08.460 --> 00:13:12.760 The entire Israelite community grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. 00:13:13.580 --> 00:13:14.840 The Israelites said to them, 00:13:15.060 --> 00:13:18.260 If only we had died by the Lord's hand in the land of Egypt, 00:13:18.880 --> 00:13:22.180 when we sat by pots of meat and ate all the bread we wanted. 00:13:22.780 --> 00:13:27.640 Instead, you brought us into this wilderness to make this whole assembly die of hunger. 00:13:28.940 --> 00:13:33.380 Then the Lord said to Moses, I am going to rain bread from heaven for you. 00:13:34.080 --> 00:13:37.700 The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. 00:13:38.400 --> 00:13:42.280 This way I will test them to see whether or not they will follow my instructions. 00:13:43.100 --> 00:13:48.740 On the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather on other days. 00:13:50.000 --> 00:13:52.540 So Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites, 00:13:53.520 --> 00:13:57.220 This evening you will know that it was the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt. 00:13:58.100 --> 00:14:02.540 In the morning you will see the Lord's glory, because he has heard your complaints about him. 00:14:02.840 --> 00:14:05.220 For who are we that you complain about us? 00:14:05.640 --> 00:14:06.360 Moses continued, 00:14:07.100 --> 00:14:11.080 The Lord will give you meat to eat this evening, and more than enough bread in the morning. 00:14:11.760 --> 00:14:14.460 For he has heard the complaints that you are raising against him. 00:14:15.000 --> 00:14:18.580 Who are we? Your complaints are not against us, but against the Lord. 00:14:20.060 --> 00:14:27.260 Then Moses told Aaron, Say to the entire Israelite community, Come before the Lord, for he has heard your complaints. 00:14:28.480 --> 00:14:36.000 As Aaron was speaking to the entire Israelite community, they turned towards the wilderness, and there in a cloud the Lord's glory appeared. 00:14:36.900 --> 00:14:41.040 The Lord spoke to Moses, I have heard the complaints of the Israelites. 00:14:41.860 --> 00:14:47.240 Tell them, At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will eat bread until you are full. 00:14:47.840 --> 00:14:54.840 Then you will know that I am Yahweh your God. So at evening quail came and covered the camp. 00:14:55.400 --> 00:15:01.180 In the morning there was a layer of dew all around the camp. When the layer of dew evaporated, 00:15:01.480 --> 00:15:07.160 there were fine flakes on the desert surface, as fine as frost on the ground. When the Israelites 00:15:07.580 --> 00:15:12.020 saw it, they asked one another, What is it? because they didn't know what it was. 00:15:13.060 --> 00:15:16.920 Moses told them, It is the bread the Lord has given you to eat. 00:15:17.720 --> 00:15:19.120 This is what the Lord has commanded. 00:15:20.100 --> 00:15:22.800 Gather as much of it as each person needs to eat. 00:15:23.180 --> 00:15:28.240 You may take two quarts per individual, according to the number of people each of you has in his tent. 00:15:29.180 --> 00:15:30.740 So the Israelites did this. 00:15:31.640 --> 00:15:33.720 Some gathered a lot, some a little. 00:15:34.480 --> 00:15:38.520 When they measured it by quarts, the person who gathered a lot had no surplus, 00:15:39.140 --> 00:15:41.580 and the person who gathered a little had no shortage. 00:15:42.620 --> 00:15:44.720 Each gathered as much as he needed to eat. 00:15:45.540 --> 00:15:46.440 Moses said to them, 00:15:47.080 --> 00:15:49.340 No one is to let any of it remain until morning. 00:15:50.080 --> 00:15:51.340 But they didn't listen to Moses. 00:15:51.980 --> 00:15:55.660 Some people left part of it until morning, and it bred worms and smelled. 00:15:56.380 --> 00:15:58.080 Therefore Moses was angry with them. 00:15:59.000 --> 00:16:00.540 They gathered it every morning. 00:16:01.340 --> 00:16:05.700 Each gathered as much as he needed to eat, but when the sun grew hot, it melted. 00:16:06.500 --> 00:16:10.780 On the sixth day, they gathered twice as much food, four quarts apiece, 00:16:11.100 --> 00:16:14.280 And all the leaders of the community came and reported this to Moses. 00:16:15.140 --> 00:16:17.740 He told them, This is what the Lord has said. 00:16:18.360 --> 00:16:21.920 Tomorrow is a day of complete rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lord. 00:16:22.760 --> 00:16:25.500 Bake what you want to bake, and boil what you want to boil, 00:16:26.140 --> 00:16:29.080 and set aside everything left over to be kept until morning. 00:16:29.740 --> 00:16:32.480 So they set it aside until morning, as Moses commanded, 00:16:32.940 --> 00:16:35.000 and it didn't smell or have any maggots in it. 00:16:35.720 --> 00:16:39.360 Eat it today, Moses said, because today is a Sabbath to the Lord. 00:16:40.040 --> 00:16:41.900 Today you won't find any in the field. 00:16:42.560 --> 00:16:47.260 For six days you may gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will be none. 00:16:48.660 --> 00:16:53.020 Yet on the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, but they did not find any. 00:16:53.860 --> 00:16:55.020 Then the Lord said to Moses, 00:16:55.960 --> 00:16:58.700 How long will you refuse to keep my commands and instructions? 00:16:59.700 --> 00:17:02.100 Understand that the Lord has given you the Sabbath. 00:17:02.640 --> 00:17:06.439 Therefore, on the sixth day, he will give you two days' worth of bread. 00:17:07.160 --> 00:17:08.680 Each of you stay where you are. 00:17:09.180 --> 00:17:14.000 no one is to leave his place on the seventh day. So the people rested on the seventh day. 00:17:14.730 --> 00:17:20.480 The house of Israel named the substance manna. It resembled coriander seed, was white, 00:17:20.850 --> 00:17:26.260 and tasted like wafers made with honey. Moses said, This is what the Lord has commanded. 00:17:26.959 --> 00:17:32.220 Two quarts of it are to be preserved throughout your generations, so they may see the bread I fed 00:17:32.220 --> 00:17:38.139 you in the wilderness when I brought you out of the land of Egypt. Moses told Aaron, Take a 00:17:38.160 --> 00:17:42.780 container and put two quarts of manna in it. Then place it before the Lord to be preserved 00:17:43.060 --> 00:17:49.020 throughout your generations. As the Lord commanded Moses, Aaron placed it before the testimony to be 00:17:49.160 --> 00:17:55.980 preserved. The Israelites ate manna for 40 years until they came to an inhabited land. They ate 00:17:56.120 --> 00:18:01.140 manna until they reached the border of the land of Canaan. Two quarts are a tenth of an ephah. 00:18:03.020 --> 00:18:06.440 Beloved, I think we can say that the Israelites wanted safety. 00:18:06.940 --> 00:18:10.900 They wanted to be taken care of, even if that meant they'd have to stay in slavery. 00:18:11.060 --> 00:18:12.580 We saw this in Exodus 14. 00:18:13.560 --> 00:18:16.760 But you can't remain free and also be safe. 00:18:17.640 --> 00:18:20.280 If you want to be safe, you'll have to give up your freedom. 00:18:21.020 --> 00:18:24.060 But you say, Steve, aren't we supposed to be slaves to Christ? 00:18:24.700 --> 00:18:25.600 Yes, that's true. 00:18:26.280 --> 00:18:32.100 But his is the only yoke that is light, and in him we have freedom from slavery to sin. 00:18:32.820 --> 00:18:41.780 God is love, and being a slave to him is not the same as being a slave to any other person or entity or anything or anyone else. 00:18:42.500 --> 00:18:46.840 In him is absolute freedom to be who he created you to be. 00:18:47.720 --> 00:18:50.900 In verse 31 of Exodus 14, we're told, 00:18:51.540 --> 00:18:55.820 When the Israelites saw the great power with which the Lord had defeated the Egyptians, 00:18:56.600 --> 00:19:01.400 they stood in awe of the Lord, and they had faith in the Lord and in his servant Moses. 00:19:02.080 --> 00:19:07.240 But in chapter 15, starting at verse 22, we see that they soon began complaining. 00:19:08.300 --> 00:19:12.760 When they had been in the desert for three days and found no water, we're told in verse 24, 00:19:12.960 --> 00:19:16.540 the people complained to Moses and asked, what are we going to drink? 00:19:17.380 --> 00:19:21.360 So Moses prayed and God showed him a piece of wood, which he threw into the water and 00:19:21.360 --> 00:19:22.400 it became fit to drink. 00:19:23.580 --> 00:19:27.260 And then two and a half months after they'd been delivered from Egypt, they complained 00:19:27.540 --> 00:19:29.600 again in chapter 16 about food. 00:19:30.360 --> 00:19:33.060 And that's when the Lord provided quail and manna. 00:19:34.040 --> 00:19:38.760 Note that even though God provided, there were some that did not follow the rules about 00:19:38.890 --> 00:19:40.540 how much manna they were to gather. 00:19:41.440 --> 00:19:44.040 So God provides, and we still grumble. 00:19:44.620 --> 00:19:47.400 We are a forgetful, ungrateful lot, aren't we? 00:19:47.920 --> 00:19:52.720 God provides clothes, and when a new fashion trend comes around, we become dissatisfied 00:19:52.980 --> 00:19:53.720 with what we have. 00:19:54.460 --> 00:19:57.900 God provides a place to live, and we become dissatisfied with the neighborhood. 00:19:58.420 --> 00:20:00.480 We want a bigger house and a nicer neighborhood. 00:20:01.580 --> 00:20:04.020 God provides transportation, a car or whatever. 00:20:04.520 --> 00:20:09.060 And when a new model comes out, we just have to have the newer, shinier, faster car. 00:20:10.080 --> 00:20:14.160 God provides a spouse, and we become impatient with their idiosyncrasies. 00:20:14.980 --> 00:20:18.920 God provides a church, and we soon don't like the pastor or the people. 00:20:19.920 --> 00:20:20.800 Why do we do that? 00:20:21.440 --> 00:20:23.880 What is it about us that makes us so ungrateful? 00:20:24.960 --> 00:20:30.740 I don't think there's an easy answer to that, but I think part of it is that we get our eyes off of God. 00:20:31.680 --> 00:20:34.760 We instead focus on our situation instead of Him. 00:20:36.060 --> 00:20:39.540 I believe that this is one reason we're told in Hebrews 10.24, 00:20:39.880 --> 00:20:44.140 and let us be concerned about one another in order to promote love and good works, 00:20:44.760 --> 00:20:48.420 not staying away from our worship meetings, as some habitually do, 00:20:48.920 --> 00:20:53.000 but encouraging each other, and all the more as you see the day drawing near. 00:20:53.920 --> 00:20:58.420 Beloved, our worship services are supposed to be where we encourage one another and remind 00:20:58.740 --> 00:21:03.660 ourselves what the Lord has done. We need to develop friendships with other believers and 00:21:03.880 --> 00:21:10.220 bear one another's burdens, as it says in Galatians 6.2. We are a prideful, forgetful lot. 00:21:10.760 --> 00:21:14.680 That's why so many that fall away from regular fellowship with our brothers and sisters 00:21:15.460 --> 00:21:19.340 soon fall away from God. They think that they're able to stand on their own, 00:21:19.740 --> 00:21:21.920 but none of us can sustain as an island. 00:21:23.080 --> 00:21:25.580 The Lord never intended us to live in a cocoon, 00:21:26.100 --> 00:21:27.440 but He does say the phrase, 00:21:28.000 --> 00:21:31.160 fear not, more than any other phrase in the Bible. 00:21:31.800 --> 00:21:33.920 Your life is in His hands. 00:21:34.480 --> 00:21:35.780 Your days are in His hands, 00:21:36.360 --> 00:21:38.040 and nothing is going to change that. 00:21:38.600 --> 00:21:41.180 He will call you home on His appointed day, 00:21:41.740 --> 00:21:44.100 not a day sooner, not a day later. 00:21:45.340 --> 00:21:48.080 Live the life that He's called you to, and fear not. 00:21:48.620 --> 00:21:49.300 What do you think? 00:21:49.580 --> 00:21:55.060 Comment on the show at comment.lifespringmedia.com or email me at steve at lifespringmedia.com. 00:21:55.120 --> 00:21:59.060 And if you comment on the show notes page for this episode, maybe you can get a conversation 00:21:59.400 --> 00:22:05.520 started with other commenters. We all want to hear from you. Tomorrow, our reading is 2 Samuel 1-4. 00:22:11.640 --> 00:22:14.920 Today's verse of the day is Exodus 15-18. It's a short one. 00:22:15.520 --> 00:22:17.480 The Lord will reign forever and ever. 00:22:18.080 --> 00:22:18.500 That's it. 00:22:18.980 --> 00:22:20.500 Exodus 15, 18. 00:22:27.760 --> 00:22:34.040 Commenting on last Friday's episode, S3E 110 on Jeremiah 17 through 21, where I talked 00:22:34.200 --> 00:22:37.340 about the scourge of abortion, Joy Kurtz sent this comment in. 00:22:37.600 --> 00:22:42.220 She said, yes, we need to lift the name Jehovah Jireh for deliverance from our sin of killing 00:22:42.560 --> 00:22:43.080 innocent babies. 00:22:43.580 --> 00:22:44.160 Amen, Joy. 00:22:44.620 --> 00:22:44.760 Amen. 00:22:44.820 --> 00:22:46.480 Thank you for sending that in. 00:22:55.300 --> 00:23:00.980 You know, there are no ads, no paywalls, and no algorithm manipulation schemes going on here. 00:23:01.210 --> 00:23:05.760 The LifeSpring One Year Bible Rewind only exists because of the LifeSpring family members who 00:23:06.000 --> 00:23:11.100 believe scripture matters and faithfulness matters. 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When Queen Mary I took the throne and attempted to restore Roman 00:25:36.860 --> 00:25:43.280 Catholicism, Hooper refused to recant his Reformed beliefs. His death became a defining moment of 00:25:43.560 --> 00:25:48.340 Protestant resilience, cementing the theological identity of the Church of England for generations 00:25:48.820 --> 00:25:55.838 to come. And now, what happened on this date in 1964? I was nine years old, and while it may seem 00:25:55.880 --> 00:26:02.280 like a purely secular event, the Beatles' first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show really marked 00:26:02.280 --> 00:26:10.640 a seismic shift for the American church. As 73 million people tuned in, 40% of the entire country, 00:26:11.680 --> 00:26:17.920 the cultural center of gravity, shifted. For generations, you see, Sunday night belonged to 00:26:18.160 --> 00:26:22.920 churches. They called it sometimes the gospel hour, and it belonged to youth fellowship, 00:26:23.160 --> 00:26:28.080 which happened on Sunday nights as well. It was the second service that defined the week. 00:26:28.720 --> 00:26:34.720 But that night, pastors across the country looked out at a sea of empty wood and hushed sanctuaries. 00:26:35.500 --> 00:26:39.460 One Midwest pastor recalled a jarring silence of his youth hall that night, saying, 00:26:39.680 --> 00:26:45.580 We usually had 40 teenagers for a Sunday night fellowship. That night, we had four. The rest 00:26:45.580 --> 00:26:51.718 were at home, glued to a television set, worshiping at a different altar. A common refrain among the 00:26:51.740 --> 00:26:55.720 older generation was captured by a teacher in a religious school who told her students, 00:26:56.420 --> 00:27:02.300 the Beatles are a fad. You won't even hear their names in six months. I guess she was wrong. And 00:27:02.440 --> 00:27:07.300 that sentiment was echoed in many sermons that month, characterizing the band as noise rather 00:27:07.420 --> 00:27:12.800 than music. And in the Bible Belt, the reaction was often even more severe. One evangelist warned 00:27:12.840 --> 00:27:17.638 his congregation, if our young people are more excited about four long-haired boys from Liverpool 00:27:17.660 --> 00:27:21.700 than they are about the gospel of Jesus Christ, we have failed in our mission. 00:27:22.799 --> 00:27:28.260 It wasn't until 1966 that John Lennon said that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus, 00:27:29.000 --> 00:27:34.760 but the seeds were sown this night in 1964. Years later, reflecting on the shift, 00:27:35.300 --> 00:27:41.160 one retired minister said, February 9th was the night we realized we no longer owned Sunday 00:27:41.500 --> 00:27:46.400 evening. The world had moved into the living room and the church was left in the sanctuary. 00:27:47.740 --> 00:27:53.400 Many historians say that the British invasion accelerated the decline of traditional Sunday evening worship services 00:27:53.750 --> 00:27:57.560 as the glow of the television began to compete with the light of the sanctuary. 00:27:58.200 --> 00:28:01.220 So, it wasn't just music. It was the medium. 00:28:01.830 --> 00:28:08.660 The Beatles' arrival coincided with the moment television replaced the church as the primary hearth of the American home. 00:28:17.120 --> 00:28:18.280 I'd love to hear what you have to say 00:28:18.760 --> 00:28:21.540 comment on the show at comment.lifespringmedia.com 00:28:21.840 --> 00:28:24.820 or email me at steve at lifespringmedia.com 00:28:25.420 --> 00:28:27.000 I'll read some of your comments on the show 00:28:27.460 --> 00:28:29.720 and I do really truly want to hear from you 00:28:30.460 --> 00:28:31.800 and now until tomorrow 00:28:32.240 --> 00:28:33.560 may God bless you richly 00:28:33.900 --> 00:28:35.300 thank you so much for being here 00:28:35.880 --> 00:28:36.560 I'm Steve Webb 00:28:38.260 --> 00:28:38.740 bye 00:28:38.960 --> 00:28:44.800 All the programs in the Lifespring Media family are made possible by your value-for-value support. 00:28:45.540 --> 00:28:45.880 Thank you. 00:28:47.860 --> 00:28:51.420 The Lifespring One Year Bible Rewind is a Lifespring Media production 00:28:51.750 --> 00:28:55.280 hosted by Steve Webb, the OG Godcaster since 2004.