Alright brethren, let's go to
Exodus chapter 16. Verse 1 says, And they took their
journey from Elam. You remember Elam was a well-watered
garden. Twelve wells and seventy palm
trees There's a picture of communion with God in the truth, under
the gospel. And all the congregation of the
children of Israel came unto the wilderness of sin, which
is between Elam and Sinai. Now they're between communion
with God and the law at Sinai that curses us. They're right
between that place. And it says in the It was the
fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of
the land of Egypt. Really quickly, really soon. And the whole congregation of
the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron
in the wilderness. And the children of Israel said
unto them, Word to God, we had died by the hand of the Lord
in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, when we
did eat bread to the full. For you've brought us forth into
this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger. Now we see several pictures here. We see a picture of the fall.
Elam was a garden where they had communion with God just like
Adam was in a garden. put in a garden and he had communion
with God. But when Adam departed that garden,
he departed that garden in sin. And all who were born of Adam
departed that garden in sin. You and I and all men. The whole
congregation of God's true Israel sinned in Adam. All is elect. And then the believer's journey,
we see that here. They came to Elam and they rested. Those twelve wells and those
seventy palm trees pictured, that was the exact number Christ
chose when He sent out His apostles and the disciples to preach the
gospel. And it pictured the gospel and it pictured being under the
gospel and hearing the gospel and being in communion with God.
We come here and we hear the gospel preached. And we rejoice
and we are strengthened and refreshed. And as soon as we leave here,
we go out into the wilderness of sin. And the whole congregation
sins against God. All of us do. All of us do. But we see here God's gracious
provision. God provided them bread from
heaven. And He provided them Sabbath
rest. And so between them and the law stands Christ. Christ is pictured in that bread
and that Sabbath. And there between them and Sinai
stands Christ. And that's what keeps God from
consuming us. We're accepted in Christ. And
between us and that broken law is Christ who protects us and
whom we're righteous. Now I want to show you two things
from this chapter today. We're going to see a picture
of Christ in the bread and in the Sabbath day. And then secondly,
we're going to look at how God proved them through the bread
and through the Sabbath day. He gave them a test here. We'll
look at that. First of all, God gave them bread
from heaven and God gave them a Sabbath. And both of these
picture the Lord Jesus Christ. The bread and the Sabbath picture
Christ. Verse 4 says, Then said the Lord
unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you. This
bread is a type of God's only Son who God gave Himself. God gave Christ as a gift to
His people just like He gave this bread as a gift to them.
Look over at John 6. John chapter 6. Our Lord said, Well, those people
that were with him, John 6, verse 31, they said,
Our fathers did eat man in the desert, as it is written, He
gave them bread from heaven to eat. Then Jesus said unto them,
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 which cometh down from heaven and giveth
life unto the world. The bread of God is a he. The
bread of God is Christ who comes down. Look down at verse 35. And Jesus said unto them, I am
the bread of life. He that cometh to me shall never
hunger. He that believeth on me shall
never thirst. That's the picture in the bread. He that believes
on Christ will never hunger and he'll never thirst for anything.
For anything you need. Never hunger, never thirst. So
that shows us this is a picture of Christ. And then a second
way we see a picture is God gave them manna when the whole congregation
was sinning against Him. The whole congregation was sinning
against God and He gave them manna. And our Lord Jesus Christ
came when the whole congregation of God's elect were sinning against
Him. Scripture says, when we were
yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. That's who Christ died for, the
ungodly. Totally without strength. God
commendeth His love toward us in that while we were yet sinners,
Christ died for us. This is a beautiful picture of
Christ. And then a third thing we see
here is God gave the manna only for the children of Israel. God
gave His Son only for His elect, the Israel of God. We preach
and we believe that Christ died only for His elect because He
came to make an end of sins. And as I said the first hour,
we preach Him as having fully accomplished that. He made an
end of sins for His particular people. For His people. I didn't catch it in the song
we just sang, Wonderful Grace. I love that song, but that second
verse says He died for all the lost. And that's true if you
look at it in the sense that Paul told Timothy, He's not willing that any should
perish. He's willing that all should
believe. He's talking about all kinds
of sinners. He's an elector from all kinds
of sinners. So if you look at it like that,
it's all kinds of lost elect people. But we'd probably do
better to change it to Christ lost. That's who He came to die
for. He came to die for His people. And then through the manna, that's
how they were made to know the Lord as their God, was through
the manna. Look at verse 10. It came to
pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of the children
of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the
glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud. And the Lord spake
unto Moses, saying, I have heard the murmuring of the children
of Israel. Speak unto them, saying, At evening you shall eat flesh,
and in the morning you shall be filled with bread, and you
shall know that I am the Lord your God. We are made to know
that the Lord is our God through Christ the bread. That's how
He makes us to know the Lord is our God. Scripture says Christ
is all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. And that means to you
and me, we see in Christ everything that God is to us. We see that
in Christ. And when it says, and you are
complete in Him, God sees in Christ everything Christ has
made us complete. So, we're both looking to Christ.
We're both looking to Christ. And when He brings you to behold
Christ, He makes you see His glory. Light has shined out of
darkness in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of
the glory of God in the face of Christ Jesus. This is where
we find out the Lord is our God in Christ the bread. And then
fifthly, this is important, to the natural eye, this bread was
nothing. It says there in verse 14, when
the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the
wilderness there lay a small round thing as small as the hoarfrost
on the ground. This was just a little tiny thing
and it was nothing to the natural eye. And Christ Jesus has nothing
attractive about Him to our natural flesh. There's nothing attractive
about Him to our natural flesh. There's no form nor comeliness
when we shall see Him with the natural eye. There's no beauty
that we should desire Him. Blind religious folks in John
6, those folks that were around Christ, when He told them He's
the bread, you remember what they said? They said, isn't this
Joseph's son, the carpenter, who we know? We know his mother
and his father. and they murmured amongst themselves.
Because to them, to their natural eye, there was nothing attractive
about Christ. There was nothing about His natural
form that would make them think He is the true bread. And so that's why they didn't
know what the manna was until the Lord revealed it to them
by Moses declaring it to them. Look here in Exodus 16, 15. And when the children of Israel
saw it, they said one to another, it's manna. That means, what
is this? What is this? And here it tells
us, for they wished not what it was. And Moses said unto them. See, the Lord used Moses to speak
to them. Moses said unto them, this is
the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat. You see, we
don't know Christ by nature. There's nothing attractive in
Christ by nature. But our Lord has pleased Him
to send an earthen vessel preaching Christ the bread, and through
the gospel that exalts Christ, He reveals to us who Christ is. He spoke in a lot of different
ways in time past. But He has spoken in these last
days to us by His Son. And He has given Him the glory
of sending that Gospel, the glory of sending the Spirit, the glory
of giving us repentance and faith. This is all for the glory of
Christ. This is what Christ does. And
I've told you before, I know I'm hanging on to an experience.
If I see this in the Scripture and I deny the Word of God to
defend my experience, that means I'm holding on to an experience.
not Christ. This is what Christ does. He
makes us let go of everything that's not honoring to Him and
lay hold of Him. That's what He does. Paul said,
I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power
of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth, to the Jew first
and also to the Greek. For therein, in the gospel of
Christ, is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to
faith. And so they just lived by faith.
Look here at the seventh thing. There was enough manna for each
person. Each person had enough manna.
It says, verse 18, when they did meet it or measure it with
an omer, that was a measurement, he that gathered much had nothing
over, and he that gathered little had no lack. They gathered every
man according to his eating. Now this was a miracle. This
was a miracle of God's grace. And you can look at Cuba, for
example. If men try to do this naturally
themselves, there's going to be some that have little and
there's going to be some that have much. But when God works
this by grace, those that gather little and those that gather
much, it's all put together and measured out, an armor to each
man, and everybody has plenty. Everybody has plenty. That's
the difference between grace work in this and the natural
man work in this. And I was reading about the Omer. And that's, if you measured,
if you took an Omer and you related it to like our measure, how we
measure corn, for example. This would have been six gallons,
three pints, and three solid inches per man to make bread
every day. six gallons, three pints, and
three inches per man to make bread every day. That's how much
an almirah would be. Some have estimated this that
for all the children of Israel, we don't really know how many
there were, but for all the children of Israel, it would amount to
94,466 bushels every day, every morning. That's a lot of manna. That is a lot of manna. And they
said, and you know they ate for 40 years. And somebody estimated
for 40 years it would be 1,379,203,600 bushels that God provided. But
here's the point, there was enough for everybody. There was plenty for everybody.
And in Christ the Lord, we have plenty. We get everything we
need in Christ the Lord. Of His fullness have we all received
grace for grace. And the Lord said, and my grace
is sufficient for thee. It's sufficient. And then look
at this next thing. The manna was good to eat. The
manna was good to eat. It says there in verse 31, And
the house of Israel called the name there of manna. And it was
like coriander seed. That is the shape of it. It was
white. And coriander seed is not white. So coriander seed has to do with
it was round, I think. And it was tiny. And then it
was white, color of a pearl, they say. And the taste of it
was like wafers made with honey. You know what Scripture says
about Christ and His finished works? To the believer, they're
sweet to our taste. Scripture says His rule over
us is sweeter than honey and the honeycomb. And then in Numbers 11 and 8,
it says the manna tasted like fresh oil. Here it tasted, they
said it tasted like wafers made with honey. After they got it
prepared and made into bread, it tasted like fresh oil. You
know, when you hear the gospel preached, the Lord makes it taste
different every time you hear it, so that it's continually
new, and it's continually good to the taste. It never grows
old to the believer. He makes it new to us every time
we hear it. Just like the obvious taste of
the manna changed, and the taste of Christ the bread changes.
Last week, I think it was last week, I had four different people
contact me and tell me that they thought I was eavesdropping on
them in their house from the message. And I told Melinda,
and I bet you every person would tell you a different part of
the message that spoke to them. Christ gives us each the bread
and it's each what we need. And He keeps it new, new every
day. Look here in the next thing,
and the manna was laid up before the Lord for all their future
generations. It says in verse 32, Moses said,
This is the thing which the Lord commandeth. Fill in armor of
it to be kept for your generations, that they may see the bread wherewith
I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from
the land of Egypt. Verse 34 says, And as the Lord
commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the testimony to
be kept. This is a picture of Christ before
the Lord, before the Lord of glory. Christ Jesus is raised
up and He's seated with all His people. He's right there before
the Lord as a testimony that the work is finished. It's done. And Christ is going to be preached
and exalted to all generations until every last one of God's
elect is called out. so that all generations can see
that it's the Lord God that gave the manna, that gave us this
bread, this life, freely by His grace. We're going to be made
to see it. The Lord's not slack concerning
His promises. Some men count slackness. But
as longsuffering to us, we're not willing that any should perish,
but that all should come to repentance. That means they're going to all
come to repentance. Whatever God's willing, that's what He
brings to pass. That's why Peter said, you account
that the longsuffering of the Lord is salvation. It is. So impute it to be so. Because
He's waiting, that means He's going to call all His people.
This gospel is going to be preached to all future generations. And
I think there's something here too that He's given us the Lord's
table so that we have a visible remembrance. When we see that
broken bread, just like when they would see that omer of manna,
they were reminded, all the future generations were reminded that
the Lord gave that manna. And we see this bread, broken
bread, and we're reminded that our God gave Christ Jesus His
Son, whose body was broken for us. And then here's the next
thing. The children of Israel ate manna
until they reached the promised land. It says in verse 35, next
to 1635, And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years
until they came to a land inhabited. They did eat manna until they
came unto the borders of the land of Canaan. We're going through
this journey right now. We're in the wilderness of sin
and we're going to wander through this journey the rest of our
days. being led of the Lord. But every
step of the way, He's going to feed His people the manna from
heaven. Christ Jesus the bread. He said,
He that believes on me will never hunger and he will never thirst.
He's going to feed us this bread till we get to the promised land,
till we get to heaven's glory. He's going to feed us the gospel.
Well, there was something else God gave that pictured Christ.
He gave a Sabbath day. In verse 25, it says, God provided
twice as much bread on the sixth day. He gave twice as much manna
on the sixth day. In verse 25, Moses said, Eat
that today, for today is a Sabbath unto the Lord. Today you shall
not find it in the field. Six days you shall gather it,
but on the seventh day, which is the Sabbath, in it there shall
be none. Now brethren, the Lord gave the
Sabbath to give them rest. That was what the Sabbath was
for. To give rest to the children of Israel. They didn't have to
work that day. They didn't have to work. They
didn't have to go out and try to gather the manna. It was given
to them freely. They didn't have to work. That's how it pictures Christ.
Christ is our Sabbath. Christ is our Sabbath. He gives
us rest from all our works. Colossians 2.16 says of the Sabbath
days, they were a shadow of things to come, but the body is of Christ. That means those Sabbaths were
pictures and types of what was to come. And Christ is what it
was. Christ is the picture. He's what
it pictured. So Christ is our Sabbath. We
which have believed do enter into rest. It says, And he that
has entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from all his
works, like as God ceased from His. In the beginning God worked
six days creating the world, and on the seventh day He rested.
You know why He rested? Because there was nothing else
to be done. You know why we rest in Christ? There's nothing else
to be done. Why did Christ sit down at God's
right hand? There was nothing else to be done. That's why we
rest in Christ. He's our Sabbath rest. He said,
come unto me all you that labor and are heavy laden. Are you
being made to keep a Sabbath day? Is that heavy burden being
put on you and you've been made to keep a Sabbath day and try
to keep the law and your life's made bitter with hard bondage
just like Pharaoh and his taskmasters did to Egypt? Christ says, you
come to Me, you'll find rest. You come to Me, you'll find rest
for your soul. Because My yoke is light and
My burden is... My yoke is easy and My burden
is light. You know what His yoke is? If you'll read that article
I wrote today, He loosens the yoke. He lightens the yoke for
us. His light and easy yoke It's
faith in Christ. We believe unto righteousness. We're not working unto righteousness.
We believe unto righteousness. And by His grace, by the love
of God being put into us, we love one another. We love Him
and we love those that love Him. This is the light and easy yoke.
We walk by faith. We walk by faith. So both of
those pictured Christ. Now secondly, here's the second
point. It's Christ by which God tests
whether sinners will obey Him or not. It's by Christ that He
tests whether sinners will obey Him or not. That's right. I was reading something. I think it was right here. Well,
this is out of David Edmondson's article. It says, "...as we were
allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak,
not as pleasing men, but God which trieth our hearts." He
tries our hearts. He tests our hearts and proves
our hearts. How is that? Every sinner is
either disobeying God by walking under the law of works, Or we're
obeying God by walking under the law of faith. One or the
other. Every sinner is. And it's what
we think of Christ that is the test that proves which way we're
walking. Christ is the test. Let's see
this. There are two simple lessons
taught here in this manna on this Sabbath day. One is this. And those who disobey God do
so by not depending upon Christ alone. They do not walk by faith
depending upon Christ's full provision every day. Something else is their life.
Something else is their life. Look here with me in Exodus 16,
19. And Moses said, Let no man leave
of it till the morning. Let me go back here just a minute.
Go back to Go back to verse 4. Let me show
you how. I didn't just make this up. The
Lord said, I'm going to rain down from heaven for you and
the people should go out and gather a certain rate every day
that I may prove them whether they will walk in My law or no.
I'm going to prove them whether they're going to obey Me or not.
And the law He's talking about, you remember the law of Sinai
has not been given right here. The law he's talking about is
the law of faith, walking by faith. Remember Paul said, what
is it that excludes boasting? Is it the law of works or the
law of faith? And it's the law of faith whereby
we obey God, not the law of works. So, look at this now, verse 19. Moses said, let no man leave
of it till the morning. Notwithstanding, they hearkened
not unto Moses, but some of them left of it until the morning,
and it bred worms and stank, and Moses was wroth with them.
They disobeyed the clear word of God. The word came to them
clearly, and they didn't believe God. God promised He was going
to provide manna for them every morning. Every morning. And faith
would believe that. Faith would say, okay, I trust
He's going to provide me bread tomorrow. But they didn't believe
God. And so they went out. Some of
them went out to gather bread the next day. And some of them
left it till the morning. They left what they had gathered
up. They gathered up some extra and saved it up and left it till
the morning. And it bred worms and it stank. Without faith,
brethren, when a sinner will not believe on Christ, he will
not live upon Christ. God makes the manna to breed
worms and stink. Christ is made a saver of death
unto death. When a man won't believe Christ,
he makes the very gospel itself, Christ himself, he makes to be
a saver of death unto death. And we cannot live on yesterday's
manna. We cannot live on yesterday's
manna. We can't hear of Christ yesterday
and say, well, I heard Him yesterday. I don't have to hear Him today.
We have to hear Him every morning. We have to hear Him every day.
We have to walk with Him every day. And Moses' anger here is
a picture of God's wrath against those who do not believe on Christ. You see, but those that obey
God, living only upon Christ through faith, they depend upon
grace for today. We depend upon grace for today.
Look at verse 21. They gathered it every morning,
every man according to his eating, and when the sun waxed hot, it
melted. God provided manna every morning, and they gathered it
first every morning. Now this is what it is to walk
by faith, brethren. Remember Christ said, seek ye
first the kingdom of God. That doesn't mean first in order
of different, you know, I'm going to put Christ first and secondly,
I'm going to go bowling. And thirdly, I'm going to...
No, no. It means seek Christ first all the time. Whatever
it is you're doing, Christ is first. He's preeminent. And they
went out there in the morning and the first thing they did
was seek Christ. They sought the manna, first
thing. And He'll provide every lesser thing you need. He'll
provide grace. He'll provide grace for tomorrow.
Don't worry about tomorrow. He'll provide grace for tomorrow.
And walking by faith in Christ, every man finds all that he needs
according to his eating. God makes Christ a Savior of
life unto life to us. It said every man according to
his eating. They all had plenty. Every man
gathered according to what he could eat. And brethren, in Christ,
In Christ, we have plenty, and God makes Christ a savor of life
unto life to us. It's a savor of death unto death
to the unbeliever, but a savor of life unto life to the believer.
And when the sun waxed hot, it melted. When the sun waxed hot,
it melted. What does that tell us? They
had to get up that morning and get the manna, because as soon
as the sun got up, it was gone. If you didn't get up and get
the manna that morning, you were going to go hungry the rest of
the day. What did the Lord say? He said, Seek ye the Lord while
He may be found. Call upon Him while He is near.
Don't wait. Don't wait to the latter part
of the day. Don't wait to the latter part
of your life. Seek Him now. Seek Him today while He may be
found. So the first lesson is this, obedience to God is to
walk by faith in Christ. The just shall live by faith. That's what Scripture says. Christ
said, as the living Father sent me and I live by the Father.
How did Christ live? He lived by faith, trusting the
word of the Father, trusting the covenant the Father made
to Him. He was made a servant and He walked as a servant, trusting
the Father, believing the Father. And He said, ìSo as the Father
has sent Me, and I live by the Father, so he that eateth Me,
even he shall live by Me.î Thatís walking by faith. And thatís
totally opposite to what people tell us in this world when theyíre
going around saying that you have to go back and live by the
law. No! We live by Christ. He leads us,
guides us. corrects us, rebukes us through
His Word, through His Gospel. And we follow Him. We trust Him. Here's the second lesson. Obeying
God is to rest in Christ our Sabbath. That's obeying God. That means adding none of our
works whatsoever. Now, Moses declared to them that
God would provide twice as much manna on the sixth day. so that
they could rest from all their works on the seventh day. And
those who obeyed believed God and they rested in the Sabbath. Look at verse 24. And they laid
it up till the morning as Moses bathed, and it did not stink,
neither was there any worm therein. See, when you're obeying God,
He makes Christ a savor of life unto life to you. It was God
who was in control of whether or not it spread worms and stinks. And God's in control of who He
makes this bread life to and who He makes it death to. But
when you obey God, it's life to you. Look here. And Moses
said, eat that today for today is the Sabbath unto the Lord.
Today you shall not find it in the field. Now, this is what
faith believes. That in Christ, God has provided
us complete and total wisdom, righteousness, sanctification,
and redemption. We don't lack anything that we
need in Christ. He is everything we need to be
accepted of God, so we rest in Him. I'm not trying to add my
works to Christ's work. When He gives you faith, faith
will be accompanied with good works, because God always works
that in His people. But it's not from a motive of
legality. It's not a motive of feeling
like I have to do this or else I can't be saved. That's not
it. It's not from a motive of being,
well I've got to do this because the church is watching, people
are watching. We don't want to do anything
before men that's going to bring dishonor to Christ, but it's
because we love Christ. But it's not that we want to
put on a good show and we want people to see us and brag on
us. That's not it. This is from a
new heart that He gives you. A new heart. God tries the heart.
He looks on the heart. And so those who obey believe
on Christ His Son and we rest from all our works. We rest in
Christ. From any work that we would look
to to save us, we rest in Christ. We are not looking for a work
to make us holy. We are not looking for a work
to make us just. Christ is all. Christ is all. But those who disobey, they do
not rest in Christ. They add their works to Christ.
Look here in verse 27. It came to pass that there went
out some of the people on the seventh day, far together, and
they found none. And the Lord said unto Moses,
How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws? See,
refusing to rest in Christ. If a person refuses to rest in
Christ, he refuses the law of faith, and he refuses God's commandment,
which says, this is the work of God, that you believe on Him
whom He has sent. If we refuse to believe Him,
and refuse to heed that commandment by His grace, then we're under
the law of works. And when you're under the law
of works, it means you're trying to add something to Christ. and
trying to add something. And when you do that, just like
they went out there and they started working and they didn't
find any bread. When you're working for salvation
and working for righteousness and working for holiness and
trying to make yourself better, better, better, better by your
works, you're not going to find any life. You're not going to
find the bread. Because there's no bread in that.
Christ is not in that whatsoever. How long refuse you to keep my
commandments and my laws? Go to Romans chapter 10. Look at this with me. Here's the test. Look here. It
shows us this is the test. Look at verse 1. Brethren, my
heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they might
be saved. That means they were not saved. They were not. For I bear them
record, they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
You see folks out in religion and they're zealous, there's
no doubt. But let me tell you something, you can be sincerely
wrong just as much as you can be sincerely right. Zeal is not
what makes it right or wrong. They were ignorant of God's righteousness
and going about to establish their own righteousness and have
not submitted, have not bowed and believed the righteousness
of God. How did Paul know that? How did
he know they hadn't bowed and believed the righteousness of
God? Look at the next verse. For Christ is the end of the
law for righteousness to everyone that believeth. That's how you
know. Everybody that believes, they
know the law. This is the end to which the
law brings me, is to Christ. To now live under Him and follow
Him and walk after Him. And that's how Paul knew that
his brethren in Israel were dead. It's because they weren't living
under Christ. They weren't following Christ.
They were still trying to live under Moses. Everyone that believes,
Christ is in the law for them. Go over to Galatians 3.11 and
this is what's so clear and I don't understand how people could keep
on denying this, but look how clear this is. Verse 11, ìNo man is justified
by the law and the sight of God. It's evident for the just shall
live by faith.î Now, don't let somebody come along and say,
well, see, he's talking about being justified. He's not talking
about being sanctified. He's talking about being sanctified. He's talking about living how
you live. And God calls that being justified. Look at it. He said, that no
man is justified by the law in the sight of God. It's evident,
for the just shall live by faith. And the law is not of faith.
But the man that doeth them shall live in them. But Christ has
redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for
us. For it's written, Cursed is everyone
that hangeth on a tree. That the blessing of Abraham.
Now, you remember what we've been seeing in Romans 4? What's
the blessing of Abraham? Imputation of Christ's righteousness
to us freely through faith. That's the blessing of Abraham.
And there's something else to it too. that that blessing might
come on us Gentiles through Jesus Christ, and that we might receive
the promise of the Spirit through faith. That's to be led of the
Spirit, so that we walk by the rule of faith and love as Abraham
did, not having the law of Sinai. You see that? He's given us free
righteousness through faith in Christ, and He's given us the
Holy Spirit whereby we're led now and we walk. That's what
Paul meant when he said, I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless
I live, yet not I, but I live by the faithfulness of Jesus
Christ living in me. I live by His faithfulness correcting
me and teaching me and guiding me and leading me. And that's
how I follow Christ. And in that new man, where the
fruit of the Spirit is, there's no law against it. And in the
old man, he says, all that believe have already crucified the flesh
when we died in Christ. So this is how we walk. We've
been brought to the end for which the law was given. That's Christ.
And we rest in Him. And now we live under Him. We
live under Him. So obedience to God is to be
under the law of faith, seeking Christ preeminently every day,
living upon Him alone, resting from all our works. And brethren,
just as we never have life for our souls except we feed upon
Christ our bread, so we never have rest for our souls except
we trust Him alone as our Lord and Savior. He is the bread and
He is our Sabbath. Amen.