Deuteronomy chapter 8. We began looking at this chapter
last week, and let's look at it some more and review just
a little bit. Here in Deuteronomy chapter 8,
Moses, just a short time after this, was going up on the mountain.
He was going to die. The children of Israel were going
into the land of promise, and Moses was rehearsing forty years
wandered in the wilderness. And that's what the book of Deuteronomy
really is about, a rehearsing of what had happened to them
in the forty years that had happened in the wilderness, and encouraging
them and exhorting them what to do when they came to the land
of Canaan. And we looked at this last week, and here in verse
2, Moses exhorted them to remember how the Lord had led them through
the wilderness. I delivered him out of bondage
and led him through the wilderness." And he wanted them not to forget
that. And he says here in verse 2, "...thou shalt remember all
the way which the Lord your God led thee forty years in the wilderness,
to humble thee, to prove thee, and to know what was in thy heart,
whether you would keep his commandments or no." Wandering in this wilderness,
I tell you, this was a humbling thing. Boy, He made them to hunger
and thirst and brought them into all these dangers and through
all these dangers, and it was a humbling thing for them. Made
them know their selves like they never knew their selves before.
And when we think of our Christian life and we look back on our
Christian life, it's the same way with us, isn't it? It's a
humbling thing, I'm telling you. One of the ways you know that
the Lord has brought you this far when you look back on your
life and you don't have a thing to glory in but Him. I mean,
you can say, I've come this far. Indeed, I have come this far. But you'll have to add what the
Apostle Paul had. Having obtained help of God,
I've come this far. And we can say we love the Lord. We love Him, don't we? I love
the Lord Jesus Christ. But we'll have to add what John
added. I love Him because He loved me
first. Now, He's taught us that, hasn't
He? He's taught us in our hearts what we are. And we know that
without Him, we can't know anything. We can't take one spiritual step. We can't come any further than
He draws us. And when we follow Him, we look
back, and I've been following the Lord now ever since 1973.
I've been following the Lord. And I probably wouldn't have
added this statement to that a year or so after the Lord saved
me. But I tell you what He's taught me about myself. I have
been following Him all these years. And the cause of it, the
reason of it is because He's still drawing me. And that's
what the church says. Lord, draw us and we'll run after
Thee. And it's a humbling thing, isn't
it? He has taught us to put no confidence in the flesh. He has
taught us to glory in the Lord. He that glories, let him glory
in the Lord. And there's been some rough ways,
hasn't there? I tell you, there's been some humility involved in
us looking back. But He's done it so we know our
hearts and glory in Him. And He says here, and He adds
to this, verse 3, And He humbled thee, and He suffered you to
hunger, and fed you with manna, which you knew not, neither did
your fathers know, that He might make you know that man does not
live by bread alone, but by every word of God. He suffered you
to hunger. He suffered you to have need. Now, sometimes, when we hunger after
something of this life, when we've lost a measure of our health,
and we've hungered after good health. If you've lost your health,
you know what it means. And we want good health, we hunger
after good health, or we've lost our finances, and we're just
barely getting by financially, or we've lost some friendships
or some relationships, and some we have have been put in a strain,
and we hunger for these things. And if the Lord turns these things
to our good, what it will enable us to see, there is something
more important than health. There is something more important
than finances. There is something more important
than even our intimate relationships. And that is our inward man. And we realize the joy and the
peace and the satisfaction of setting down and opening our
Bibles. and say, I'd love to have good health. I'd love to
have better finances. I'd love to have this, and I'd
hunger to have these things. But here's something essential
that my soul is fed. The Word of God is my strength. It's my joy. It's my assurance.
It's my health. Desire the sin-sealed milk of
the Word, that ye may grow thereby. And sometimes, sometimes the
Lord brings these things on us just like He did them to let
us see what's important. That man does not live by bread
alone. We don't live by our relationship
as much as we love one another and desire relationships with
one another and desire to be close and intimate. Well, I tell
you, there's nothing like the Word of God feeding our souls,
is there? We realize man does not live by bread alone, but
by every Word of God. And then we come here to verse
4. And we see how the Lord supplied their need. Amazing. Look at
what he says in verse 4. Your raiment waxed not old upon
thee, neither did thy foot swell these forty years. The raiment. Their shoes. The raiment. Forty
years. I don't know. I don't know really how far to take this. I don't
know if he's meaning here that you wore the same pair of shoes
for forty years. if you wore the same clothes
for 40 years? I don't know. I imagine they
had changes of clothes. But it indicates, doesn't it,
just by reading it, that there was a miracle that took place
here. I don't care if you had two or
three pairs of shoes. To go into that desert with two
or three pairs of shoes for 40 years and they look brand new
when you come out on the other side. That's a miracle, isn't
it? And what Moses is teaching them here The Lord can supply
your need. He can supply extra, or He can
make what you have last. Now, He can do either one, hasn't
He? I mean, in His store, He's got so much store. He's got a
storehouse, a supply. He can just keep supplying it,
and supplying it, and supplying it. Or He can take what little
you've got, one pair of shoes, and they'll never wear out. Look
over here in 1 Kings. Chapter 17. The whole Deuteronomy
chapter 8. And look over in 1 Kings. Chapter 17. This is a very familiar
story and all of you are probably familiar with it, aware of it.
This is where Elijah, the Lord, the Lord was speaking to Elijah. This was during the time of the
great famine. It hadn't rained for three and
a half years. Man, it was a bad time. People were starving to
death. This shows us here how the Lord
is able to take just a little and supply the needs of His people. In verse 8, 1 Kings 17, verse
8, the word of the Lord came unto him, to Elijah, saying,
Arise, get thee to Zarepha, which belongeth to Zadon. Now, this
was a Gentile woman. Remember, the Lord mentioned
this woman. He said Elijah wasn't sent to any of the Jewish women,
but he was sent to a Gentile woman. A woman upside down. And
the Lord sent him there to this widow and said, Behold, I have
commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee. Now, here's
the marvelous thing about this. This poor widow woman was starving
to death herself. And look what he said in verse
10. So he arose and went to Serpha. And when he came to the gate
of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of
sticks. and he called to her and said,
Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel that I may
drink. And as she was going to fetch
it, he called to her and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel
of bread in your hand. And she said, As the Lord thy
God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel,
and a little oil in the cruz, and behold, I am gathering two
sticks that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we
may eat it and die." Now, doesn't it seem strange to the Lord of
all places to send a man here to be sustained? But here's the amazing part of
that. Look at it in verse 13. And Elijah said unto her, Fear
not, don't be afraid. Go and do as thou hast said,
but make me therefore a little cake first, and bring it unto
me, And after, make for thee and for your son. For thus saith
the Lord God of Israel, The barrel of meals shall not waste, neither
shall the crews of oil fail, until the day that the Lord sendeth
rain upon the earth." Which was one or two years after this.
And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah, she
and he and her house, Elijah her son and her house did eat
many days. And the burrow of meal wasted
not, neither did the crews of oil fail, according to the word
of the Lord, which he spake by Elijah." Now, wearing a pair
of shoes forty years in the wilderness, that's nothing to the Lord, is
it? And having a handful of meal that you can feed a whole family
plus a prophet for a year or two years with a little oil,
that's nothing to the Lord, is it? It's nothing to Him. He can
take a few fishes and a few loaves of bread and feed 5,000 people
and take up 12 baskets full afterward. It's just nothing to him, is
it? It's nothing to him. Remember that, he told the children. Remember that. And something
else back over here in our text, not only that he supplied this,
the clothes on their back, but he says something else here,
and he said there in verse 4, Neither did your foot swell these
forty years. Now that's another miracle. Now,
if you read your commentaries, especially the modern commentaries,
you may find that they say, well, it was the food that they ate.
You know, they didn't eat any fat. They weren't allowed to
eat fat. The Lord forbid them to eat fat. Probably didn't eat
sugar. No pork. A lot of the things
maybe that would cause your feet to swell. But here's the thing. The Lord can provide the proper
food to keep us healthy, or He can keep us healthy with improper
food. I mean, I don't care how good the food is, if you wander
in the wilderness and march almost daily as these people did for
40 years, I don't care what kind of food you're eating, you're
going to have some swelling of feet. Do your feet ever swell?
My feet swell sometimes. You get the print of your socks
in your legs, you know? But there's never 40 years in
this hot, dry desert. Marching all over that desert.
Not a one of them pulled their shoes off and said, man, look
at how my feet swell. Never did I. So the Lord can sustain our
health, can He? He can make us healthy. Brother
Glenn reminded us last Sunday that John was riding to Galveston.
He said, I pray, it's my wish, it's my desire that your health
prosper. Well, the Lord can prosper our
health, can He? He can do that. Look here now in verse 5. We
went over this, but let's just suggest another thing here, remind
you of this. This is what they were to consider
at present. I made the statement last week.
We shouldn't forget this. Thou shalt also consider in your
heart that as a man chasteneth his son, so the Lord thy God
chasteneth you. We need to be very aware of this,
and I wanted to mention this again, because sometimes when
trouble comes to our life, especially the coldness of our heart, we
do need to be mindful of this. It's the Lord's chastening hand
upon me. Consider in your heart. We considered
this last week some things about chastening. But you know, we're
apt to say sometimes, just like it's said of the wicked, because
in an evil work, Because judgment against the need of work is not
executed speedily, that we think this sometimes, I didn't do anything
wrong, you know. We do something wrong, and we
have a tendency to forget about it. And then when nothing doesn't
happen, we have a tendency to think, man, there must not have
been nothing the matter of that. But then after a while, the Lord
will lay His hand upon us this morning. And the best remedy
to remove His hand is to humble ourselves before Him, thoroughly
acknowledge our sin, and mend our ways." Confess the sin and
mend our ways. Lift up the hands which hang
down, the Apostle said, and make straight paths for your feet.
That's the best way to deliver us from God's rod. Now, let's
go on in verse 7. Read verse 7 through verse 10. For the Lord your God brings
you into a good land, a land of brooks of water. Now, just
imagine this. Here they were in this old hot
wilderness desert for 40 years. And the first thing He says,
He's going to bring in the brooks of water. The depths that spring
out of the valley. There's going to be valleys.
There's going to be hills. The land of wheat and barley. and vines, and fig trees, and
pomegranates, a land of oil, olive, and honey, a land wherein
thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack
anything in it, a land whose stones are iron, out of whose
hills thou mayest dig brass, when thou hast eaten and are
full, then thou shalt bless the Lord thy God for the good land
which he hath given thee." You shall bless Him for the good
land. You'll bless Him for the water
that's springing up in these cold springs. You'll bless Him
for the timber on the hills. You'll bless Him for the beautiful
valleys where you can feed your sheep. All these riches, you're
just going to bless Him for it. You're going to praise Him for
it. You know there's nothing wrong with living in a country
that's as rich as our country has been. I for one am not going
to feel guilty about living in this great nation. Are you? Some
people do. I think it's silly. I think we
ought to be grateful. There is opportunity galore in
this country. We live like kings, don't we?
And I don't feel guilty about it. I praise the Lord for it. I live in a nice house, a warm
house, drive a nice car, got some pretty nice clothes. A lot
of them give to me. But you know something? I thank
God for it. I bless Him for it. And I ain't
going to feel guilty about it. I'm going to enjoy it and I'm
going to bless Him for it. Just like He said right here,
Then you shall bless when you're full, when you can have everything
your hearts desire, bless Him for it. Now, brothers and sisters,
there's nothing wrong with that, is there? That's what He tells
us right here. Look over here in Nehemiah, Old
Deuteronomy Chapter 8. Look, Nehemiah mentioned this.
Several, several hundred years later, when they came back out
of captivity, Nehemiah mentioned this. If you've got your Pew
Bible, it's on page 584, I think. Nehemiah chapter 9, 587. Nehemiah is writing about this. He's thinking about when Moses
was given these commandments. Look here what he says about
this. Nehemiah chapter 9 and look in
verse 21. Yea, forty years did thou sustain
them in the wilderness. He is speaking to the Lord. So
that they lack nothing, their clothes wax not old, and their
feet swell not. We just read that, didn't we?
He is just rehearsing what we just read. Moreover, thou gavest
them kingdoms and nations, And this divided them into corners,
so they possessed the land of Sihon, and the land of the king
of Heshvon, and the land of Og, king of Bashan. Their children
also, lo the flash thou as the stars of heaven, and you brought
them into the land concerning which thou hast promised to their
fathers, that they should go in to possess it. So the children
of Israel went in to possess the land, and thou subduest before
them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave it them
into their hands, with their kings and the people of the land,
that they might do with them as they would. And they took
strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of
goods, wells digged, vineyards, and olive yards, and fruit trees
in abundance. So they did eat, and were filled,
and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness."
Nothing wrong with that, is there? Nothing wrong with that. Temporal advantages. Nothing
wrong with that, brothers and sisters. If the Lord's blessed
you with temporal advantages, He's blessed you to possess some
of this world's goods, there's nothing wrong with that. Nothing
wrong with that. Let me give you four or five
things, though. Listen to these four or five things. Remember
these things. Always seek first the kingdom
of God and His righteousness. No matter if you possess little
of this world's goods, if you have little of temporal advantages,
or if you have abundance. Seek you first the kingdom of
God and His righteousness. First and foremost, worship God
and serve Him. That's the main thing, isn't
it? That's the main thing. And secondly is this, always
be thankful and delight in the gifts which God has given you. If He's given you good health,
delight in that. If He's given you a nice house,
rejoice in that. Whatever He's given you, if you're
seeking Him first, whatever He's given you, then He's given you
that Rejoice in that. Delight in that. Nothing wrong
with that. Thirdly is this. Remember this. Whatever you have,
be generous with it. Be generous with it. The same Lord that gave it to
you can make it last. Be generous. And if it begins
to get low, He can restock it. He has an unlimited supply. Be generous. Oh dear, John Bunyan
wrote a poem one time. I never will forget it. He said,
There was a man, some say was mad. The more he gave, the more
he had. Give, sow beside many waters. Give, give, give, give, give. Be generous. Be generous. He has a storehouse. I was outside
my office. I got a huge tray. I sat out
there. Bird feed. I love to sit there
and watch the birds, because they're close. They can't see
me, but I can see them. All kinds of birds. I mean, the
little brown, tiny birds, and the red birds, and those big
blue birds. And I was watching them eat,
and here come a flock. I mean, a flock. The sky almost
got black. These old blackbirds. Man, they
flew in and covered that big kettle, and I thought, they're
going to eat it all up. But I said to them under my breath.
You know what I said to them under my breath? Just eat your
bellies full. Because I've got a big sack of
things in there. And I've got more than you can
hold. If you don't believe me, try it. That's what I said. Eat
all you want. And if you eat my whole sack
up, I'll go down here at the farm store and I'll take my trailer
and I'll buy a trailer load. Eat! Eat! Eat! That's what I'm
saying. Give! Be generous! The Lord! has a whole sack. He can just
give you more and give you more. Remember that. Be generous. And
remember this, be ready and willing to let it go. Holy, as Brother
Fortner always said, with a loose hand, be ready to let it go when
God's will is accomplished. And don't be greed to let it
go. Because He that gave it to you can take it if He's pleased. Rejoice in it while you've got
it. Be generous about it. Seek the Lord first, and be willing
to let it go. And if it's got such a hold upon
you, and you're ready to leave this world, and you don't want
to leave it, then it's got too big a hold on you. Be ready to
let it go. Remember this, though. Remember
this. There's always a danger in worldly possession. There's
always a danger in having temporal advantages in this world. I want
you to hold VMI 9 there just for a minute and look back at
Deuteronomy chapter 8 just for a minute. Hold Deuteronomy chapter
9 and verse 27, 26 and look back over here at our text in Deuteronomy
8. Here is what the Lord warns them
of. Here is sort of the danger of
these possessions. Back in Deuteronomy chapter 8
and verse 10 again. When thou hast eaten and are
full, then thou shalt bless the Lord thy God for the good land
which he hath given thee. Beware that thou forget not the
Lord thy God in keeping his commandments and his judgments and his statutes
which I command thee this day. lest when thou shalt have eaten
and are full, and have built goodly houses to dwell in, and
when your herd and your flocks multiply, and your silver and
your gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast had is multiplied,
then thy heart be lifted up, and thou forget the Lord thy
God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt from
the house of bondage." That's the first thing, isn't it? Somebody
said there's no harm in Possessed in things. The harm is when things
possess us. That's what we have to be careful.
Don't let things, don't let your temporal advantages and don't
let all your worldly blessings enter your memory and get in
your affection. That's the dangerous part. And
you know that's what happened to these people. Not to this
generation. Man, they were faithful. This
is one of the most faithful generations, I think. of the Jewish people. They were faithful to fight.
Not all together. I know they didn't drive them
all out as they should. But boy, they remembered the Lord. But
you go on to the next generation. And look back at Nehemiah. He
tells what happened to them. Look back at Nehemiah chapter
9 and verse 26. He said they first delighted
themselves in the great goodness of the Lord. In chapter 9 verse
26, nevertheless, they were disobedient. and rebelled against thee, and
cast your law behind their back, and slew your prophets which
testified against them, to turn them to thee. And they wrought
great provocation." That's sad, ain't it? That's sad. But that's
the danger. That's the danger. Having things,
having temporal advantages, that's a good thing. Nothing wrong with
that. But just don't forget the Lord. Just don't forget the Lord.
And he goes on, he goes on here, Just a little bit further in
our text, he goes on and says this in verse 11, Beware that
thou forget not the Lord thy God in not keeping His commandments,
His judgments, and His statutes. Now here we see how it gets into
our memory. It's not that we forget who saved
us. I don't think we'll ever forget
Him, will we? But see what it does? We don't keep His commandments. We've lost the warmth. We've
lost the zeal. His Word, His worship, His service
is not there in our hearts as it was before. It becomes formal. Did you ever get this formal
in your worship? You sit down to read a chapter in the Bible,
but you're just doing it to be doing it. But where's your mind? Where's your heart? We see this
so much, and this is heartbreaking. Spurgeon said, I've never seen
one man leave Christ because of poverty. But I've seen countless
leave Him because of prosperity. And how many times have you and
I seen men who were going to the worship, and they begin to
prosper, and then you seldom see them. And you talk to them,
Oh, I haven't forgot the Lord. No, I haven't forgot the Lord.
Have you forgot His Word? He says, "...forsaken not the
assembling of yourselves together." Have you forgot it? Have you
forgot it? That's the danger, isn't it?
Here's another danger here in verse 14 of our text. Look at
this. "...then thy heart be lifted
up, and you forget the Lord your God." Your heart be lifted up. Well, there's something about
having it so good that we get lifted up sometimes, don't we?
We get independent. Rich people have a tendency to
get independent. They get sort of proud. They
begin to trust in their riches. I can buy anything I want at
any time. I can go anywhere I want to without
any trouble. I've got the means to do it.
But we have to be careful when we get to that place, don't we?
Paul said, warn the rich that they be not what? High-minded. Nor trust in uncertain riches.
If we got all of these things, if we put our confidence, our
trust in them, that's bad. We get lifted up in pride and
depend upon these things. And I tell you something else,
we get so lifted up, we begin to look down our noses at other
people. We have a tendency to forget there are disadvantaged
people. Why don't those rascals work?
Well, I feel that way about most people. Don't you know the Lord
said you always have the poor? Well, you didn't. And Paul said,
Peter said, remember the poor. Always remember the poor. So
there are people that need help. And let's don't get so lifted
up that we forget. That's the danger. And remember this about this,
and we'll say no more about this. There is another danger, and
that's becoming wasteful. Wasteful. You know, we have to
give account of all that we have, all our temporal advantages,
all that the Lord has blessed us with. Paul said we have to
give account to the Lord someday. I don't understand exactly how
that's going to be, but we'll have to give account of ourselves.
And the more we have, the greater opportunity it is to waste, to
be intemperate. Buy things just to be buying
things, and waste it just because we've got it. We have to be careful,
don't we? I think it will help us if we
go back to what we said before. Remember where we got it. It's
the Lord that gives you power to get these things and have
these things. So if it's His, and He's been
pleased to give us a lot of it, let's be good spiritual. Not
be so wasteful. Okay? Verse 15, let's go ahead
and read the remainder of this chapter and then we'll close.
Who led thee through the grey and terrible wilderness wherein
were fiery serpents and scorpions in drought, where there was no
water, who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint,
who fed thee in the wilderness with manna which thy fathers
knew not, that he might humble thee and that he might prove
thee to do thee good at that latter end." Boy, he kept saying
that, didn't he? Humble thee, humble thee, humble
thee. Here's a good way that we can tell something about and judge something
about the Lord's dealings with us. What's the outcome going to be?
The Lord may be putting some of you through the fire. He may
be trying your soul. Isn't that better than leaving
you alone? What do you think the outcome
would be if the Lord leaves you alone? If the Lord don't guide
you? If He don't humble you? If He
don't chasten you? What's the outcome of that going
to be? That's bad, isn't it? That's death. That's bad, isn't
it? Here's the way we judge of these things. Man, He's humbled
me. He's took my health. He's took my friendships from
some people. He's put me through the fire.
He's tried me sore. He's chastened me sore. He's
brought me low. Why has He done that? What will the end of that be?
He's done this and He's humbled you and He's brought you through
this wilderness because He loves you. And He's looking to the
end of the way. He knows what you would be if
He didn't chasten you, if He didn't humble you, if He didn't
lead you. He's doing that because He's
purposed for you a good end. See that? He led you through
this desert to do thee good when at thy latter end. I think it would always be heaven
to us if we could always be laying on our deathbed. always be laying on her deathbed
in her mind. How would I feel about my trials
if tomorrow I was laying on my deathbed? I'd say it helped me, wouldn't
it? The Lord tried my faith, and by trying my faith, He made
me to see it's real. That's going to help me when
I come to die in it. And that's one of the things He taught these
people by bringing them through this wilderness, humbling them
and making them suffer. He taught them something. I'm going to suffer now. I'm
going to submit to the Lord now. I'm going to deny myself now.
I'm going to follow Him more fully now. This is going to be
for my good in the end. Paul said these temporal trials
that we're facing. These temporal afflictions that
we have. It's just that. It's temporal.
But they work for us. A far more exceeding and eternal
way to glory. I don't understand this, but
afflictions, if God's grace is in them, and God's providence
is working in our heart, these afflictions are working for us. These awful trials and hungers
and the wilderness that we feel ourselves in, they work for us.
A far more exceeding and eternal way to glory. And I think when
we come down to die, and our end of this world, we're going
to look back and see. What helped us most is our wilderness journey. And the last reason he did this,
not just for their good, to give them a good end, but he said
there in verse 17, And thou say in thy heart, My power and the
might of my hand hath gotten me this well. If the Lord don't humble us and
give us a wilderness journey and try us sore sometimes, and
keep us hungry and humbled and down, when He gives us something,
we're apt to say, I got this by my own power. I earned this. Sort of like free will. Can you
just see free will in here? My power. My hand got this. The Lord cannot endear for us
to stand before Him and boast in ourselves. He wants us to
stand before Him and be humble and give Him all the glory and
acknowledge, Lord, I am what I am by Your grace. Everything
I have, You gave it to me. He cannot endear for us to brag
about the power of our wills and how we have power to gain
anything. What can we gain? What can we
do? We couldn't come to Him. When you look at this passage,
can you imagine The power of free will? That's why he brought
these people through this wilderness. That's why he shut them in there
at the Red Sea. That's why he shut them up. He's
going to wing them for bragging about the power of their free
will. Why don't you go out in the ocean? We'll drown. Why don't
you turn aside and climb these mountains? We can't. Why don't
you turn back and fight Pharaoh? Where's your will? Where's your
power? Can't do nothing, can you? We've been there, haven't
we? What if somebody came up and told some of you, when the
Lord had brought you along and left you crying, God, be merciful
to me a sinner. What if somebody came to you
and told you, exercise the power of your will, man. Now, if you'd
have exercised something, it wouldn't have been the power
of your will. Probably been a smack across the man's face. That's
silly, ain't it? And the Lord strips us of that.
And the way He strips us of that is making us humble and keeping
us beggars. You look at these great prophets,
how humble they walked before the Lord. Look at Daniel chapter
9 and read his prayer sometime. Look at those great apostles,
how they humbled themselves before the Lord. They were nothing.
And He said, without Me, you can do nothing. All you have,
all you are, all you hope to be is found in Me. And in yourself,
you're nothing. And you can do nothing. But that
comes by experience, doesn't it? That comes by being out in
the wilderness. And the Lord working these miracles.
Giving you water out of the rock. And feeding you with manna from
on high. We'll begin there next. Well,
not next week. It'll be a couple of weeks now,
won't it? A couple of weeks. Well, the
Lord bless you.