Out Of Egypt: Lessons From The Wilderness: Bread from Heaven

Speaker: Pastor Lee Cummings
Date: May 2, 2020

God is once again calling His Church to remember. Remember who we were created to worship. Remember where we were when He came for us. When we again find ourselves pinned down by impossible circumstances and hear the echoes of accusation pursuing us, we must remember that it is He who is fighting for us, leading us and bringing us into a land flowing with milk and honey. In this hour, it’s time for us follow the fire by night and cloud of His presence by day.

In this sermon titled Bread From Heaven from our Lessons From the Wilderness series, Pastor Lee Cummings brings a powerful word that asks the question: are you going to listen to the voice of God or the voices of this world?

Focus Scripture

Exodus 16:1-4,11-15 (ESV)

“They set out from Elim, and all the congregation of the people of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had departed from the land of Egypt. 2 And the whole congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness, 3 and the people of Israel said to them, “Would that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots and ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger. 4 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I am about to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not.

11 And the Lord said to Moses, 12 “I have heard the grumbling of the people of Israel. Say to them, ‘At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. Then you shall know that I am the Lord your God.’” 13 In the evening quail came up and covered the camp, and in the morning dew lay around the camp. 14 And when the dew had gone up, there was on the face of the wilderness a fine, flake-like thing, fine as frost on the ground. 15 When the people of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, “It is the bread that the Lord has given you to eat.”

Sermon Highlights

• The wilderness became a training ground to develop Israel into a people that could actually possess the Promised Land.

• The miracle of the manna was a lesson that they had to learn to successfully navigate the rest of the journey through the wilderness and into the Promised Land.

• The manna test: will you listen to the voice of God over all other voices?

• You were created to be led by God daily, not occasionally.

• You were created to live in dependency.

• You were created to leave a testimony.

• Will you listen to the voice of God over all other voices?