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1 Year Lectionary – Fourth Sunday in Lent – Sunday, March 27, 2022 | Pr. Chris Rosebrough

Welcome to the Teaching Ministry of Kongsvinger Lutheran Church. Kongsvinger is a beacon for the Gospel of Jesus Christ and is located on the plains of Northwestern Minnesota. We proclaim Christ and Him crucified for our sins and salvation by grace through faith alone, and now, here’s a message from Pastor Chris Rosebrough:

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0:27	The holy gospel according
0:29	to saint john the sixth chapter
0:32	[Music]
0:39	after this jesus went away to the other
0:41	side of the sea of galilee which is the
0:43	sea of tiberias and a large crowd was
0:46	following him because they saw the signs
0:48	that he was doing on the sick jesus went
0:51	up on the mountain there he sat down
0:52	with his disciples now the passover the
0:55	feast of the jews was at hand lifting up
0:57	his eyes and seeing that a large crowd
0:59	was coming toward him jesus said to
1:01	philip where are we to buy bread so that
1:03	these people may eat
1:05	he said this to test him for he knew
1:07	what he would do philip answered him
1:10	200 daenerye would not buy enough bread
1:13	for each of them to ha to get a little
1:15	and one of his disciples andrew simon
1:18	peter’s brother said to him well there
1:19	is a boy here who has five barley loaves
1:22	and two fish but what are they for so
1:23	many jesus said have the people sit down
1:26	now there was much grass in the place so
1:29	the men sat down about five thousand
1:31	number and jesus then took the loaves
1:34	and when he had given thanks he
1:35	distributed them to those who were
1:36	seated so also the fish as much as they
1:39	wanted and when they had eaten their
1:41	fill he told his disciples gather up the
1:43	leftover fragrance that fragments that
1:45	nothing may be lost so they gathered
1:47	them up and filled 12 baskets with
1:49	fragments from the barley loaves left by
1:51	those who had eaten when the people saw
1:54	that the sign that the sign he had done
1:56	they said this is indeed the prophet who
1:58	has come into the world perceiving that
2:00	they were about to come and take him by
2:02	force to make him king jesus withdrew
2:04	again to the mountain by himself this is
2:07	the gospel of the lord in the name of
2:09	jesus
2:11	all right y’all remember that claymation
2:12	christmas special the year without a
2:14	santa claus the one with heath miser and
2:16	with snowmiser and their conflicting
2:19	weather patterns and things like this
2:21	how were they brought to heal by the way
2:24	by their mother
2:25	mother nature right
2:27	and when we think about where do the
2:30	good things that we need in this life
2:33	come from
2:34	it is really really
2:37	simple and easy for us to talk as if
2:40	somehow mother nature is the thing that
2:42	provides for us or you know the earth
2:45	just does its thing you know or if
2:46	you’re a little more mystical you could
2:48	talk about gaia right mother earth in in
2:52	kind of foreign language terms but over
2:54	and again we can’t have to come to grips
2:57	with the fact that number one we are
2:59	dependent creatures
3:02	the fact that we have to eat proves we
3:05	ain’t god all right so let’s just get
3:08	that through your head you’re not god
3:10	because you need to eat every single day
3:12	you are dependent on god
3:16	and god is the one who provides
3:18	for you both body and
3:20	soul
3:21	and you’re going to note that we are we
3:24	as christians recognize that we get our
3:27	daily bread from god our father and it’s
3:31	important to note here we live in the
3:32	times when everyone’s saying down with
3:34	the patriarchy ah the cult of liberalism
3:36	you can’t reason with that thing let’s
3:39	just note here that the whole universe
3:41	is run by patriarchy god the father and
3:45	jesus christ god the son circumcised on
3:47	the eighth day after he was born by the
3:49	way
3:51	the good things that we
3:53	er we get in this life we don’t earn
3:54	them they’re given by the hand of god
3:56	god our father in fact you’ll note that
3:59	in luther’s small catechism as it
4:01	relates to the lord’s prayer we pray
4:03	give us this day our daily bread
4:06	and our daily bread comes from god the
4:08	father because that’s who we’re invoking
4:10	in this prayer and you’ll note that
4:13	luther in his explanation points out
4:15	this very important fact that unbeliever
4:18	and believer alike
4:20	are all fed by god
4:23	this is most certainly true
4:26	if you are an unbeliever god doesn’t say
4:29	well i’m going to make it so that you
4:30	get nothing
4:32	that’s not how god operates he even
4:34	cares for his unbelieving
4:37	human beings and he also cares for all
4:39	the creatures and all creation so it’s
4:41	in that regard then i would like to
4:43	consider that kind of as our main frame
4:45	as we look at jesus’s miracle here at
4:49	the feeding of the 5 000 and i always
4:51	like the fact that our old testament
4:53	text when this miracle shows up takes us
4:55	all the way back to the exodus and god
4:57	miraculously feeding the children of
5:00	israel in the wilderness it’s a great
5:02	story but i found one other
5:05	cross-reference to our gospel text today
5:08	one that a lot of people are not
5:09	familiar with and in fact i’ve got to
5:12	say i’ve forgotten about it until i
5:14	recently read it but listen to this
5:17	elijah the prophet one of the prophets
5:19	of the old testament
5:21	he was a miracle worker himself and he’s
5:24	a wonderful type and shadow of christ
5:26	and uh in second kings chapter 4
5:29	starting at verse 42 we have a one
5:32	paragraph long description of a miracle
5:35	that really kind of
5:38	sounds a lot like our text today listen
5:40	to this so a man from ba’al shalesha
5:43	bringing the man of god bread of the
5:46	first fruits 20 loaves of barley and
5:49	fresh ears of grain in his sack and
5:51	elisha said to him
5:53	give to the men that they may eat
5:56	but a servant said how can i set this
5:58	before a hundred men
6:00	so he replied give it to the men that
6:02	they may eat for thus says yahweh they
6:05	shall eat and have some left so he said
6:08	it before them and they ate and had some
6:10	left according to the word of yahweh it
6:13	sounds a lot like our gospel text if you
6:15	think about it it’s really interesting
6:17	and so you’ll note this food miracle of
6:19	jesus it points us to several things and
6:22	you’ll see in our text that the people
6:25	when they saw this sign they knew
6:27	exactly who jesus was but they weren’t
6:30	paying attention to the word of god but
6:32	i’m getting ahead of ourselves so our
6:34	gospel text begins with the words after
6:35	this jesus went away to the other side
6:37	of the sea of galilee which is the sea
6:39	of tiberias a large crowd was following
6:42	him because they saw the signs that he
6:44	was doing on the sick you know i
6:46	remember when i used to live in southern
6:47	california you know the only way you can
6:49	get around in southern california is
6:50	with a car is just forget it if you want
6:53	to do anything else so you got to get on
6:56	the freeway but well with six lanes of
6:59	traffic going one way six lanes of
7:01	traffic going another way and people
7:03	zipping in and out well collisions are
7:06	bound to happen right and whenever a
7:08	collision would happen
7:10	everybody
7:12	had to slow down and stop
7:15	and look it was annoying all right we
7:18	had a term for these people we called
7:19	them rubberneckers right these people
7:21	who
7:22	whoa look at that right you know and so
7:26	here what’s this text is describing is
7:28	kind of like signs and wonders
7:30	rubberneckers part of the crowd the
7:32	reason why they were following jesus is
7:34	because well jesus was putting on quite
7:36	the show
7:37	healing the sick and doing the miracles
7:40	that he was doing and then we learn from
7:42	our cross-reference in the gospel of
7:44	mark
7:44	that jesus spent the entire day check
7:48	this out
7:50	teaching them
7:52	you know that’s what jesus does jesus is
7:55	the word of god made flesh and so what i
7:58	love about this text is that this
8:00	doesn’t follow standard conventional
8:03	thinking if you would jesus gets right
8:05	to the important bit and with his words
8:08	he feeds the souls of this crowd
8:13	souls yeah and your souls need to be fed
8:16	you’re going to note that when we talk
8:18	about human beings we recognize that we
8:20	have a body and we have a soul and they
8:22	come together in what’s called a
8:24	hypostasis that’s our theological term
8:27	for that a union of the two and there’s
8:30	not two of you there’s not the body part
8:33	of me and that’s one that’s one me and
8:35	then the soul part of me and that’s
8:36	another me no no there’s one of you body
8:39	and soul coming together and you’ll note
8:42	that scripture constantly teaches that
8:45	our needs as human beings go well beyond
8:49	our bodies and christ knows this so the
8:52	first thing he does with these
8:53	rubberneckers you know these signs and
8:55	wonders rubberneckers he gives him a
8:57	good hot theological meal of the word of
9:01	god and in the gospel of mark we learned
9:04	that it was long the day was far spent
9:06	it was getting towards the evening and
9:08	the disciples were saying to him
9:10	send them away jesus send them away so
9:13	they can go and give some get something
9:14	to eat
9:15	and so we can’t pick up where philip
9:18	says well where are we to buy bread so
9:20	these people may eat jesus had said this
9:26	i want to make sure where are we to buy
9:28	bread for these people so they may this
9:30	is what jesus said and he said this to
9:32	test philip for he knew what he would do
9:34	and philip answered him and i love this
9:36	200 denarii worth of bread would not be
9:38	enough for each of them to get a little
9:40	i call this the mathematics of unbelief
9:43	more proof that math is evil okay
9:49	i always have to get that in there yeah
9:51	and i know i’m doing some proof texting
9:53	but
9:54	death by a thousand cuts just just
9:56	saying okay so pointing that out a
9:58	little mathematical humor there all
10:00	right so this is the the this is the
10:02	mathematics of unbelief and then one of
10:04	his disciples andrew simon peter’s
10:06	brother said to him well there is a boy
10:08	here who has five barley loaves and two
10:10	fish and what are they for so many and
10:12	jesus said have the people sit down and
10:14	the picture here is like a shepherd you
10:17	know having his sheep lay down so or sit
10:19	down so he can care for them and now
10:21	there was much grass in the place love
10:23	the picture here it’s it’s spring it’s
10:25	near the passover time so the men sat
10:27	down about 5 000 in number oh no they
10:30	didn’t even number the women patriarchy
10:32	man it’s so evil
10:35	so then jesus took the loaves and when
10:38	he had given thanks he distributed them
10:40	to those who were seated so also the
10:42	fish as much as they wanted and when
10:44	they had eaten their fill he told his
10:46	disciples gather up the leftover
10:48	fragments that nothing may be lost so
10:50	they gathered them up filled 12 baskets
10:53	with fragments from the five barley
10:55	loaves left by those who had eaten and
10:57	when the people saw the sign that he had
10:59	done they said this is indeed the
11:03	prophet who has come into the world
11:06	what’s the big aha movement well they
11:09	remember something from their time in
11:11	the synagogue hearing deuteronomy 18
11:13	that prophecy that moses gave because
11:16	the lord told him to where the lord said
11:18	i will raise up a prophet like you moses
11:21	and anybody who will not listen to him
11:25	i will require it of him you got to
11:27	listen to that guy and who’s the prophet
11:30	well it’s jesus and with the feeding of
11:32	the five thousand you know a food
11:34	miracle with a multitude of jews in the
11:37	middle of nowhere sounds like our old
11:40	testament
11:41	in fact it really is a lot like our old
11:44	testament text these food miracles are
11:46	important and here’s the reason why kind
11:48	of pull back just a little bit here go
11:51	all the way back to the garden of eden
11:53	and then where god is handing out
11:55	punishments for human beings disobeying
11:59	the command of god and eating of the
12:01	tree that god commanded them not to eat
12:03	well to the woman he gave pains and
12:06	labor and a conflicting will with her
12:08	husband but then to the man he said by
12:11	toil and sweat of your brow you will eat
12:14	your bread
12:16	and so you’ll know god still provides
12:19	for us
12:20	but no longer do we get to walk around
12:22	gardens naked and just grab lunch off of
12:26	a tree
12:27	instead we’ve got to well
12:30	work
12:31	and work and work hard and you’ll note
12:34	that the world that we live in requires
12:36	us in order to put bread on the table
12:38	to get up in the morning and sing that
12:41	song hi ho
12:44	all right
12:46	and off we go
12:47	and after putting it a long day at the
12:49	office or the shop or wherever you work
12:52	or in the farm
12:53	you go home
12:55	you eat the bread of your toil
12:58	and then you go back
13:00	to bed
13:01	and then you wake up and you do it again
13:05	and then you do it
13:06	again
13:08	and then you do it again
13:10	right yeah yeah and if you work at
13:12	walmart you get time off of purgatory so
13:15	you know i’m just saying
13:20	but all of that
13:22	note then that god still is the one who
13:25	provides for us but we we have to work
13:28	to do
13:29	uh to put the food there god causes the
13:31	plants to grow he’s the one who feeds us
13:34	and with these miracles
13:35	god feeding his people
13:38	he is again revealing who he is he’s the
13:40	one who gives us these gifts and we need
13:43	to recognize and thank god appropriately
13:47	for the food that he provides us and
13:49	then you’re going to note in in our old
13:51	testament text you know always and again
13:53	i find this fascinating there’s like
13:55	there’s a little bit of a tie-in all the
13:57	way to the lord’s supper because when
14:01	the god caused the manna to finally fall
14:03	that word manna is so weird because in
14:06	the hebrew
14:07	manna just means what is it so you can
14:10	see them coming out of their tent that
14:12	first morning it looked like it had
14:13	snowed right but thankfully it wasn’t
14:16	bitter cold you know and
14:18	and so they looked on the on the floor
14:20	of the you know the desert and they saw
14:22	the manna there and they said this they
14:25	said mana
14:27	mana
14:29	you know and you have to say it like
14:31	that because in hebrew if you want to
14:32	say a question it’s all in your
14:33	inflection so mana what is it and that
14:36	became its name and i think it’s
14:38	interesting that in the the next part of
14:41	john 6 which is not part of our gospel
14:43	text
14:44	jesus then takes this miracle of the
14:46	feeding of the 5 000
14:48	and says i am the bread that comes down
14:51	from heaven
14:52	my flesh is true meat my blood is true
14:56	drink and the jews went
15:00	right that’s what they did and so is to
15:02	this day when you have the lord’s supper
15:05	you have to ask christians man what is
15:08	it right
15:09	well it is what jesus said it would be
15:12	it says he said it’s his body and his
15:14	blood given and shed for the forgiveness
15:15	of our sins
15:17	and so you can see this connection then
15:19	jesus shows by this miracle that not
15:23	only is he the prophet
15:24	the prophet foretold by moses but that
15:27	he is he is in fact our god he is the
15:31	one who meets our needs of body and soul
15:34	in deuteronomy chapter 8 we actually
15:37	have a little bit of a theological
15:38	commentary given by god as it relates to
15:41	the manna and here’s what the lord says
15:44	in deuteronomy 8 starting at verse 1.
15:46	the whole commandments that i command
15:47	you today he’s speaking to the children
15:49	of israel as they’re getting ready to go
15:51	into the promised land you shall be
15:53	careful to do so that you may live and
15:54	multiply go in and possess the land that
15:57	the lord swore to give to your fathers
15:59	and you shall remember the whole way
16:01	yahweh your god has led you these 40
16:03	years in the wilderness that he might
16:05	humble you
16:07	now
16:08	in the types and shadows we recognize
16:10	that the wilderness wanderings of israel
16:13	that 40 years and all the temptations
16:15	and all the difficulties that they went
16:17	through
16:18	that that is a type and shadow of our
16:20	very lives in our existence in christ as
16:22	christians from the time between our
16:25	baptism
16:26	and are finally going into the heavenly
16:28	kingdom which is really truly the
16:30	promised land that was promised the new
16:33	heavens and the new earth and so you
16:35	will note that even our testings and the
16:37	difficulties that they go we go through
16:40	like the children of israel in the
16:41	wilderness they humble us as well and so
16:44	he said and i humbled you and i let you
16:45	hunger and i fed you with manna which
16:49	you did not know nor did your fathers
16:51	know so that he might make you know that
16:54	man does not live by bread alone
16:57	but man lives by every word that comes
17:00	from the mouth of god
17:02	and so the scriptures reveal here that
17:04	these food miracles show us that god
17:08	understands our true needs go beyond
17:11	what we need for our body and that god
17:14	cares for us both body and soul
17:17	and that’s really one of the big themes
17:19	that we see in here and it is our duty
17:22	then to pray praise and give thanks to
17:24	god and honor him and recognize that all
17:27	these good things come from him it’s
17:30	really easy for us to think otherwise
17:33	and so with that then you’ll note that
17:35	the people of israel in jesus’s time
17:38	seeing him multiply the loaves and the
17:40	fishes they recognize that jesus was the
17:43	prophet but they didn’t listen to him
17:47	the reason i say that is because
17:49	deuteronomy says
17:51	when he shows up you must listen to him
17:55	and they basically said to jesus we just
17:57	need you to be quiet now we’re going to
17:58	make you king
17:59	it doesn’t work that way that’s not why
18:01	christ came
18:03	in the first in his first average to set
18:05	up an earthly kingdom in fact jesus
18:07	makes it clear his kingdom is not of
18:09	this earth
18:10	not of this earth period
18:13	let’s just get that clear our job as
18:16	christians is not to somehow take the
18:17	kingdom and drag it down to earth and
18:20	turn planet earth into the kingdom of
18:22	god and anybody who preaches that way is
18:25	a liar and somebody who is very very off
18:29	topic and not following the true mission
18:31	of christ the mission of christ is to
18:33	make disciples of all nations and christ
18:36	himself will bring the kingdom with him
18:38	with the new heavens and the new earth
18:40	our job is not to create the kingdom of
18:42	god here on this earth and so you’ll
18:45	note the people in jesus’s day they
18:47	wanted to make jesus king
18:50	to set up the kingdom of god here on
18:52	earth here and now under the sinful
18:54	condition but jesus is not that kind of
18:56	king
18:57	so rather than listen to him they wanted
18:59	to force him to do something for which
19:01	he did not come in his first advent and
19:03	so we would be wise to take that into
19:05	consideration ourselves
19:07	and
19:08	in that then let me throw in just a
19:11	little bit more regarding our theme
19:14	and that is is that the scriptures are
19:16	full of biblical texts
19:18	where they show us that the good things
19:21	that we receive we receive truly from
19:24	the hand of god i consider psalm 104 in
19:28	this regard psalm 104
19:31	is a wonderful text that i like to use
19:34	to kind of shove up the nose of the
19:36	deists have you ever run into a deist
19:38	these are people who legitimately
19:40	believe that god well he created the
19:43	universe sure he wound it up like a
19:46	clock and spun it off into space and god
19:48	has no interaction whatsoever with the
19:51	creation
19:53	a text like this begs to differ and not
19:55	only that our gospel text also begs to
19:58	differ because there was god in human
20:00	flesh
20:01	caring for feeding
20:03	teaching and healing his own people in
20:06	his own creation whom he’s had mercy on
20:08	psalm 104 starting at verse 10 says this
20:11	yahweh you make springs to gush forth in
20:13	the valleys and they flow between the
20:16	hills
20:17	they give drink to every beast of the
20:18	field the wild donkeys quench their
20:21	thirst besides them the birds of the
20:23	heavens dwell they sing among the
20:26	branches from your lofty abode you water
20:29	the mountains and the earth is satisfied
20:31	with the fruit of your work you cause
20:33	the grass to grow for the livestock and
20:35	the plants for man to cultivate so that
20:38	he may bring forth food from the earth
20:40	listen to that god causes the grass to
20:42	grow he causes the sugar beets the
20:45	edible beans the wheat and the corn to
20:48	all grow so that we can cultivate them
20:51	so that we may bring forth our food
20:53	wine to gladden the heart i have to put
20:55	that in there it’s it’s actually in the
20:57	text you norwegians will just have to
20:59	get used to that okay wine to gladden
21:02	the heart of man oil to make his face
21:04	shine bread to strengthen man’s heart
21:07	the trees of yahweh are watered
21:09	abundantly the cedars of lebanon that he
21:11	planted i love that picture have you
21:13	ever
21:14	seen like a wonderful little patch of
21:17	like a forest or a grove or whatever and
21:19	maybe taking a little walk into the
21:21	trees and stuff like that go this is
21:22	really amazing this text says god’s the
21:25	one who planted it it wasn’t some random
21:28	act of just nonsense it was god himself
21:31	who plants these little forests and the
21:34	big ones too in them the birds build
21:37	their nests the stork has her home and
21:39	the fir trees the high mountains are for
21:41	the wild goats the rocks are a refuge
21:44	for the rock badgers he made the moon to
21:46	mark the seasons the sun knows it’s time
21:49	for setting you make darkness and it is
21:52	night when all the beasts of the forest
21:54	creep about the young lions roar for
21:58	their prey seeking their food from god
22:02	that is an amazing picture if you think
22:03	about it i mean i’ve only seen lions in
22:06	the zoo right or maybe you know back in
22:09	the back in the day maybe maybe at a
22:11	circus you know with the old lion tamers
22:13	right and but i’ve seen those
22:15	documentaries where you know they send
22:17	people to africa i remember you know
22:20	marlin perkins and mutual of omaha’s
22:22	wild kingdom y’all remember that you
22:24	know and you can you can hear the lions
22:28	roar and you can see the the beautiful
22:30	documentary footage of these lions these
22:32	beasts out in the middle of the savannah
22:34	roaring and things like that but i never
22:36	thought of it until god’s word taught me
22:38	to think this way that when a young lion
22:40	roars like that
22:42	he’s seeking his food from god
22:46	it’s a very interesting thing even the
22:48	animals seek their food from god so when
22:51	the sun rises they steal away and they
22:53	lie down in their dens man goes out to
22:56	his work in his labor until the evening
22:59	oh lord how manifold are your works in
23:02	wisdom you have made them all the earth
23:04	is full of your creatures
23:05	here is the sea great and wide which
23:08	teams with creatures innumerable living
23:11	things both small and great there go the
23:14	ships and leviathan which you form to
23:16	play in it these all look to you to give
23:18	them their food in their due season and
23:21	when you give it to them they gather it
23:22	up and when you open your hand they are
23:25	filled with good things when you hide
23:27	your face they are dismayed when you
23:30	take their breath away they die
23:32	and return to the dust when you send
23:35	forth your spirit they are created and
23:37	you renew the face of the ground
23:40	as we here in minnesota and north dakota
23:43	are experiencing the spring thaw the
23:46	finally see the fields again still
23:48	patches of of snow out there i it was
23:51	amazing i just i noticed this the other
23:53	day that the farmer before the snow came
23:56	was able behind our church to plow his
23:58	field and get the furrows ready in
24:01	anticipation of the coming spring is
24:03	soon we’re going to be putting seed into
24:05	the ground for the harvest that’ll come
24:07	and you’ll note that this text talks
24:09	about the god that god is the one each
24:11	year who renews the face of the ground
24:14	so that we can have the good gifts of
24:16	our bread and our wine
24:18	and our meat and all the things that we
24:20	need so may the glory of the lord endure
24:23	forever may the lord rejoice in his
24:25	works who looks on the earth and it
24:26	trembles who touches the mountains and
24:28	they smoke i will sing to yahweh as long
24:31	as i live and i will sing praise to my
24:34	god while i still have my being may my
24:36	meditation be pleasing to him for i
24:38	rejoice in yahweh let sinners be
24:41	consumed from the earth and let the
24:42	wicked be no more blessed be the lord o
24:45	my soul
24:46	praise yahweh
24:48	and so we recognize that this is a major
24:51	theme of scripture but we sinful human
24:54	beings
24:55	not only do we not recognize that the
24:57	good things that we have come from god
24:59	sometimes we’re not content with them
25:01	we are guilty of coveting
25:03	the good gifts that god has given to
25:05	other people
25:06	and not recognizing the good that god
25:08	has given us and we engage in idolatry
25:11	by believing that we are independent
25:13	that somehow we are not dependent on the
25:15	good things of god and so we give honor
25:18	and glory and praise to things that are
25:20	not god for the good gifts that we have
25:22	and this is all sin
25:24	a breaking in the first commandment a
25:26	breaking of the ninth and the tenth
25:28	commandments and each and every one of
25:30	us is guilty along these lines and worse
25:32	we have anxiety as it relates to the
25:36	things that we need in this life
25:38	jesus even in the sermon on the mount
25:40	chastises people he says you worry about
25:44	what am i going to eat what am i going
25:46	to wear you know and he says the pagans
25:48	seek after these things
25:50	god your father knows that you need them
25:53	don’t be anxious about this instead seek
25:56	first the kingdom of god
25:58	and his
26:00	jesus’s righteousness which is given to
26:02	you as a gift the call of christ is to
26:05	repent of our sins to repent of our
26:07	unbelief to repent of the false
26:10	narrative that we have that god has it
26:12	out for us that somehow his desire is to
26:15	kill us it’s just like the false
26:17	narrative of the children of israel in
26:19	the wilderness oh the reason why you
26:21	brought us out here is to kill us from
26:23	hunger oh my goodness
26:25	right
26:28	are we there yet
26:30	stop touching me
26:31	yes it’s the same thing
26:36	and so
26:37	we recognize
26:39	that
26:39	here jesus is merciful kind
26:42	giving
26:44	abundantly so far more than we can
26:46	either ask or imagine or even what they
26:49	asked or imagine they realized who he
26:52	was and they wanted to set up the
26:53	kingdom of god here on earth but like i
26:56	said that’s not what christ came to do
26:58	christ came instead to fulfill the law
27:00	perfectly for us at no point did jesus
27:03	ever commit the sin of idolatry at no
27:06	point did he ever doubt the father’s
27:08	love for him at no point did he fail to
27:11	give thanks for the good gifts that god
27:13	had given him and nor did he ever covet
27:15	somebody else’s stuff
27:17	jesus kept the law perfectly for us
27:20	because it’s his righteousness that we
27:22	are clothed in seek first the kingdom of
27:24	god his righteousness and all these
27:26	things they’ll be added to you because
27:28	god knows that you need them and so
27:31	you’ll note that christ in coming he
27:33	kept the law for us but even better than
27:35	that he took our sin upon himself and
27:39	since we’re talking about exodus it’s
27:41	important to note that jesus is our
27:43	passover lamb who was slain it is his
27:45	blood
27:47	on us that when the destroyer comes sees
27:50	his blood and passes over us so that
27:53	rather than perish and die like we
27:54	deserve
27:56	we instead are allowed to live set free
27:59	from slavery and then given an
28:02	inheritance in the new earth in the
28:03	world to come
28:05	all of this because christ carried our
28:07	sins in to the cross he bled and died
28:10	for you and i and all of the different
28:12	ways in which we break god’s command or
28:14	worse slander him by our
28:18	grumbling which is what we do
28:21	so see the hand of christ here in his
28:23	mercy repent of your idolatry and your
28:25	coveting and be satisfied with the good
28:28	gifts that god has given you and rightly
28:30	so in faith because we have the holy
28:33	spirit and our forgiven and our children
28:34	of god properly give thanks for the good
28:37	gifts that god gives you in the name of
28:39	Jesus amen

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