Shadows to Substance: Bread & Water - DJ Dickerson

Well, last Sunday I was out, my family

and I were out of uh town.

[clears throat] We were um I was

preaching a meeting effort in Bumont.

So, appreciate so much those who filled

in for me while I was out and also

filling for kids. He wants you in the

kids Bible class there. Uh but uh

certainly do appreciate uh the efforts

that are put forth and those so capable

that able to do that. And uh so you had

a little break in a sense from the

shadows to substance. Joseph uh preached

on on a wonderful lesson there that kind

of coincided about the fathers and

children uh aspect of it. Uh but we're

going to continue in our series of

shadows of substance this morning. And

I'm trying to figure out how to end this

series. I've been doing this one since I

know uh there's a lot. Uh so I've been

trying to figure out how to kind of

close this one out. Uh Case and I were

having that discussion last night and

there's still several more that I'm

trying to debate on. So if y'all have

any ideas of how long y'all want this

one to go, I can keep going till

probably 2027. I'm not sure yet. But

y'all know how about series of lessons.

I love my series of lessons. Uh but I as

we get our minds focused uh we we think

about

all in this series about how God has

always been a teacher, hasn't he? And

one of the ways that he teaches is he

takes everyday things and and fills them

with eternal meaning. He fills them with

eternal significance, doesn't he?

And for this morning's lesson, you know,

we've been talking about person to

person uh sometimes person to thing and

and things to just all sorts of

different avenues that we've looked

shadows uh to substance

from the Old Testament all the way to

the New. And the ones that we're going

to be considering this morning is

bread and water.

bread and water that actually are a type

and shadow of Christ.

And as I was thinking about this, and

you've heard lessons on on these types

of of things before, I'm sure. Uh bread

and water, they're they're ordinary. I

think we would agree with that. They're

ordinary. They're common. They're quite

familiar to us. Uh simple, I believe.

But I also would I think you would agree

with me that that even though as common

and as simple and familiar as bread and

water is to us that they are also

essential.

Without bread,

strength fades.

Without water, life itself collapses.

So it should not be a surprise to us

that the Lord repeatedly uses bread and

water as actual pictures of salvation.

In the wilderness, taking us back some

time. In the wilderness, Israel learned

a hard lesson. Deliverance from Egypt

did not mean that they could live

without daily dependence on God.

They were free, but they were not yet

home, right? They were redeemed, but

they were still on a journey. And on

that journey, God provided two things

they could not create for themselves.

And what was that? Bread from heaven and

water from the rock. Y'all remember

those?

I submit to you, those were not random

miracles.

They were shadows. Sometimes we miss

that. Sometimes we do. Now, Paul tells

us the wilderness accounts. They were

examples. I want you to go to 1

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Corinthians chapter 10. In 1 Corinthians

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chapter 10, I want to notice verse 6 and

verse 11. There's a whole lot that's

actually packed into chapter 10. I tried

to break it down just a little bit for

time sake this morning, but I would

encourage you to read all of chapter 10.

There's a lot there. I'm going to try to

give you a little bit here from these

particular verses even is in 1

Corinthians chap 10 6 and then 11. Look

at this. Now these things became our

examples to the intent that we should

not lust after evil things as they also

lusted. He's pointing back. Okay, he's

pointing back as I was mentioned in the

wilderness. Now verse 11. Now all these

things happened to them as examples and

they were written for our admonition

upon whom the ends of the ages have

come. Now you go on and and and back up

a little bit verses 1-4 now. So he's

saying these things are examples. Look

at verse 1-4. Moreover, brethren, I do

not want you to be unaware that all our

fathers were under the cloud. All passed

through the sea. They all were baptized

into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.

And all ate the same spiritual food and

all drank the same spiritual drink. For

they drank of that spiritual rock that

followed them. And that rock was Christ.

What I was meant to is look all the

shadows that's found its substance in

the New Testament. That's what he's

doing. The rock was Christ. In other

words, the Old Testament is not just

history. It's preparation.

Don't lose sight of that. I think we

have noted a lot in this series

these types and shadows that point to

this.

So, we're going to walk through these

shadows of bread and water in the Old

Testament, and we're going to see how

Jesus in the New Testament stands as the

substance of the true bread and the

living water. Let's go with bread from

heaven in the wilderness to start us

off. Now, again, this bread from heaven

uh in the wilderness, that was a shadow

of Christ. I want you to go to Exodus

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chapter 16. Let's go back to Exodus

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chapter 16 for a moment.

In Exodus chapter 16,

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then the children of Israel are newly

freed. Uh but now they are hungry. We

kind of know how this goes, right? Uh

their stomachs, they begin to speak

louder than their faith. Can we put it

that way? Maybe. Uh they complain. And

here's what they say in verse three.

They said to them, "Oh, that we have

died by the hand of the Lord in the land

of Egypt when we sat by the pots of meat

and we ate bread to the full for you

have brought us out into this wilderness

to kill this whole assembly with

hunger." Sounds quite dramatic, doesn't

it? Right? Uh sometimes I think that's

how my kids sound, you know? uh uh we we

get that way ourselves, don't we? Let's

be honest about it. So, it it's amazing

though that when you look at it, how

quickly the people can forget the chains

of Egypt when the wilderness gets

uncomfortable.

That's what happened.

There's a lot of lessons in that for us.

Yet, God does not answer their grumbling

with thunder, does he? How does God

answer? Well, if you remember this quite

familiar, look at verse four. Then the

Lord said to Moses, "Behold, I will rain

bread from heaven for you, and the

people shall go out and gather a certain

quota every day that I may test them

whether they will walk in my law or

not."

This is quite amazing. All right. Every

morning, mana appears.

Love it. They gather it, they eat it,

and they live.

Now,

you ever notice the the lessons that are

all in this one verse and this whole

situation here going on what this mana

is designed to teach them? It's pretty

interesting. First of all, I think the

first one we see is the source.

The source, it came from above. Y'all

see that?

One of the things noted, it wasn't

produced by Israel's strength. They're

on a journey, right? They're in the

wilderness. They didn't produce this by

their own strength. They didn't plan it

and they didn't earn it. A gift.

Oh, you're like, you don't get ahead of

me yet. Y'all are trying to. I'm sure

y'all like I see where you're going. God

fed them because they were helpless and

they were hopeless without him. And

that's exactly the point that Jesus was

making in John chapter 6, wasn't it? Go

John 6 · chapter mention

to John chapter 6. Look at verses 31 and

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then verse 32 as well. Look at this. Our

fathers ate mana in the desert as is

written. He gave them bread from heaven

to eat. Well, what does he do in verse

32? Jesus said to them, most assurely I

say to you, Moses did not give you the

bread from heaven, but my father gives

you the true bread from heaven. There we

go. Jesus is bringing the shadow into

the light. He's saying, I'm the

substance.

Read on.

For the bread of God is he who comes

down from heaven and gives life to the

world. Then they said to him, "Lord,

give us this bread always." And Jesus

said to them, "I am the bread of life.

He who comes to me shall never hunger,

and he who believes in me shall never

thirst." That was our scripture reading

this morning, wasn't it? Mana came down

each morning. And Jesus came down from

where? What's verse 38? Go to verse 38,

John 6. Look at it. For I have come down

from heaven not to do my own will but

the will of him who sent me.

Wow. Jesus came down from heaven.

Mana sustained their bodies

and Jesus sustains the soul.

And it's all connected to the one true

source that is the Lord.

Powerful, right?

What about number two that we'd say?

What else do we learn from this? The

nature,

it was sufficient.

Now, if you notice when you think back

to Exodus, the command that was given in

Exodus chapter 16 of how they were I'm

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going to let me just kind of scroll back

over there to that verse. You know, the

people shall go out and gather a certain

quota every day. All right? And there's

a test that's going on here. Now, as you

kind of go through that passage, God God

didn't just give them enough to survive.

He gave enough to sustain them.

Day after day, the bread was there.

When they were weak, he provided

strength.

Isn't that what Jesus does? Does Jesus

do the same thing? You're interested in

John chapter 6. Let me let me show you

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in verse 35 again. What does verse 35

say again?

He who comes to me shall never

hunger.

See that has the idea again of

sustaining

sustaining.

Now as we saw in Exodus 16 verse4 there

was a limit.

limit. Uh the word quota was kind of

given there, wasn't it? M mana though

understanding we're thinking back in

exception that bread that they were

receiving in Exodus that couldn't give

eternal life. All right. Uh here here's

the hard truth that Jesus states plainly

in John chapter 6. You're still there?

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Look at verse 49.

Your fathers ate the mana in the

wilderness and are dead. I mean there it

is. Mana was good but it was temporary.

It could not conquer death. It could not

cleanse sin. It could not transform the

heart. It was exactly as we see in this

series of lessons is it's a shadow and

it was pointing forward to the one who

could do it.

So I I want to submit to you something

here. The world offers and I'm going to

put in quotes air quotes bread.

They offer bread. The world offers bread

that satisi satisfies for a moment. Some

people have called, you know, these kind

of things. They sometimes have used the

idea of money is they call it bread

sometimes. That's a slang that's used.

And you know, you can use that for

anything, money or entertainment or

success or pleasure. But here's the

thing about the world's bread is it

never satisfies.

It never fully fills. It never does any

of that. It is still a gaping hole in

the heart and the spirit. The whole it

never fills the soul. Never does.

The point that Jesus is making is that

Christ himself is the only bread that

fully fills and satisfies.

Now, what's that point us to?

Jesus makes a like I said John chapter 6

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lot here that we're seeing

but he's saying this very point about

daily dependence these are these are

lessons that we we grasping from old

testament of the shadows

physical bread and spiritual faith let's

talk about that for a moment the mana

was not just about food did we ever

catch that when we're reading that in

Exodus chapter 16 it wasn't really just

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all about food although That was

certainly helpful, right? But it

ultimately was about trust.

It was about trust because here's the

thing about the uh when you look at

Exodus 16 19 and 20, the commands that

were given, Moses said, "Let no one

leave any of it till morning."

Notwithstanding, they did not heed

Moses. We we know how they were very

stubborn people. And again, we might

have some things familiar common with

them. But some of them left part of it

until morning and bread worms and stank

and Moses was angry with them. So as as

you're catching up here thinking about

this, well God commanded them to gather

it daily, right?

If they tried to hoard it, it spoiled.

That's what it means when it worms and

stank. Okay? They were hoarding it.

That's not what God wanted them to do.

The lesson was simple. You don't live by

yesterday's bread. You don't live by

yesterday's.

You trust God daily. Today, think about

Jesus prayer. [clears throat] Y'all mind

think about Jesus prayer? Matthew 6:1.

Matthew 6:1

Give us this day our daily bread.

See, here's what I want us to think

about.

We have opportunities today, right now.

This morning, we had Bible class.

Opportunities. Our children learning

in here. the adult class. We had that

this morning. We have this morning

worship service. We have the singing. We

have prayers. We have a miracle of the

Lord's supper. We have all sorts of

scriptures. We're using of of studying

the Bible right now in this lesson,

right? We got a lot that we're engaged

in, a lot of our minds put into gears,

you know. Then what else do we have?

Well, tonight, Lord's willing, we back

together and we'll have another service,

right? Wednesday, Lords, we'll have

another time together Bible study,

right? Then it here's my point that I'm

saying Christianity is not a once a week

snack.

It's not

that's not what Christianity is. It is

daily dependence.

I believe the point is abundantly clear

in what we read and study from the

scriptures is that one cannot survive

spiritually on last year's zeal.

Man, I sure was zealous last year.

You can't live on that one. You can't

you can't sustain on that one. You can't

you can't survive on last month's prayer

life either. And you can't survive on

last Sunday's sermon. If you can

remember what last Sunday's sermon was,

I could start testing right now. Let

start flipping my notes real quick.

Right? See, that's what happens. We got

a daily bread daily.

And we can't survive on yesterday's

Bible study either.

Just as Israel had to go out each

morning, each time, God calls us to feed

on Christ every day. How do we do it?

Well, what did Jesus say when he was

being tempted in Matthew chapter 4?

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Remember that he said, "It is written,

man shall not live by bread alone, but

by every word that proceeds from the

mouth of God."

Jesus himself said, "That is what

sustains us every single day.

through his word, through prayer,

through obedience, through worship,

through faithful living. All of those go

hand in hand, don't they?

Now, I want us to ask ourselves the

question, am I living on something I've

stored up?

Or is it true daily relationship?

Remember, mana spoiled when it was

hoarded.

Faith spoils when it's neglected.

And that happens more times than we'd

like to admit.

Let's talk about water.

Water from the rock. This is another

shadow of Christ, isn't it?

>> Now, if hunger is severe,

thirst is deadly. Look at look at uh

Exodus 17. So, we we see parts of Exodus

Exodus 16 · chapter mention

chapter 16. Pretty powerful stuff going

on there. You know, you got the

complainers and all that stuff. Well,

what do you think happens in Exodus

Exodus 17 · chapter mention

chapter 17? Repeat. It's just something

different. Okay. All and the pe uh first

I'm sorry, Exodus chapter 17 3-7. I must

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not put that one up there already.

So, go to Exodus chapter 17 3-7. I must

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have skipped that one on my handouts

there in my charts. Exodus chapter 17

Exodus 17 · chapter mention

3-7.

Let's read together.

And the people thirsted there for water.

And the people complained against Moses

and said, "Why is it you have brought us

up out of Egypt to kill us and our

children and our livestock with thirst?"

So Moses cried out to the Lord, saying,

"What shall I do with this people? They

are almost ready to stone me." And the

Lord said to Moses, "Go on before the

people and take with you some of the

elders of Israel. Also take in your hand

your rod with which you struck the river

and go. Behold, I will stand before you

there on the rock in Ore. And you shall

strike the rock, and water will come out

of it that the people may drink. And

Moses did so in the sight of the elders

of Israel. So he called the name of the

place Massa and Meabah because of the

contention of the children of Israel and

because they tempted the Lord, saying,

"Is the Lord among us or not?" Now,

Israel had no water. You know, they had

the bread issue. They ain't going to

water. They quarrel. This is kind of a

repeat, as I said earlier. And and what

do they automatically do? Well, they're

going to accuse Moses.

They test God. And God commands Moses to

strike the rock. Water pours out. The

rock becomes one of the clearest Christ

foreshadows in the Bible.

Clearest. When you look at 1 Corinthians

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chapter 10, I do have that one before

you in 1 Corinthians chapter 10:es 3-6.

This is what we were noting a moment

ago, weren't we? When he said, "And the

people thirsted there for water." And

the people complained against Moses

said, "Why is it you have brought us up

out of Egypt to kill us and our

children, our livestock with thirst?" We

just read that in Exodus 17, didn't we?

There it is.

And if you notice there that he said, "I

will stand before you there on the rock

in Horeb and you shall strike the rock

and their water will come out uh that

the people may drink. And Moses did so

in the sight of the elders." That's

actually that that passage I was just

reading. I'm sorry I got most my

scriptures mixed up there. 1 Corinthians

1 Corinthians 10:4

10:4 it says, "And all drank the same

spiritual drink, for they drank of that

spiritual rock that followed them, and

that rock was Christ."

So when you look at that of what's being

stated there of what I had before you is

actually from Exodus there chapter 17

and and just listed different with a

title there but in 1 Corinthians 10:4 is

1 Corinthians 10:4

pointing to this spiritual rock the rock

that was Christ that's the substance

part

now when you think about what all of

that means the rock came from the water

came from unlikely place right

because a rock is not where you go

looking for water. I think we'd agree

with that one.

But what happened in Exodus chapter 17,

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as we read, God brought life from what

looked lifeless.

Is that not exactly what God did at

Calvary?

Life came from a place

that looked like defeat.

Salvation came from suffering.

Hope came from a cross.

Y'all see how that is connected?

So, not only did a water come from an

unlikely place, water came at the moment

of need. The fact of the matter is when

we see in Exodus chapter 17, they were

Exodus 17 · chapter mention

desperate just like they said when they

were food. They were desperate for

water.

They were empty. God met them to quench

their thirst. And that's why Jesus says

to the Samaritan woman. He makes this

connection in John chapter 4. Look at

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John chapter 4 and verse 10. Prove all

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things according to God's word, not

DJ's.

Y'all see how I got the charts mixed up

a little bit ago? prove all things

according to his word. John 4:10,

John 4:10

Jesus answered and said to her, "If you

knew the gift of God and who it is who

says to you, give me a drink, you would

have asked him and he would have given

you living water."

What is Jesus telling her?

He's saying

that he is not a water source.

He's telling her he is living water.

Now that water in the wilderness that

was temporary cuz the fact is you go

through the scriptures that they drank

and you know what happened later on as

you go and you read about their

wanderings? They thirsted again.

That miracle sustained him physically,

but it didn't remove spiritual thirst.

In John chapter 4, I want you to read in

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verses 13 and 14 as well. John 14 uh

John chapter 4 13 and 14.

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Jesus talking there at the woman at the

well. He says, "Whoever drinks of this

water will thirst again, but whoever

drinks of the water that I shall give

him will never thirst. But the water

that I shall give him will become in him

a fountain of water springing up into

everlasting life. You see, some are

trying to quench thirst

with sinful wells. That's what I call

them. Sinful wells.

Think about that. Relationships

of of of addiction, pride, anger,

materialism. But those wells never

satisfy. They do not fill the void. Only

Jesus provides the water that becomes

what do he say? A fountain into

everlasting life. Because those sinful

wells that that Jesus is talking about

regarding uh this water, he said you

drink of this water, you're going to

thirst again there at the well. So when

you make an application,

he's saying you can be involved in all

sorts of things of this world and guess

what? It's never going to quench. It's

never going to satisfy. It's never going

to fill

because those things don't translate

into eternity. They don't.

But Jesus does.

I shall give him this water,

living water that he is will become in

him a fountain of water spring up into

everlasting life. That translates into

eternal life.

So, we're taking bread and water and I'm

I only have a for my time limited this

morning. I'm giving you just quick some

points here from Exodus 16 and 17 and

what we see in several passages in the

New Testament how this type and shadow

and when you look at this wilderness

pattern there's a lot that's in the

wilderness pattern that I could

definitely preach another series on that

one for that matter

between redemption and rest

this is one of the most I I I believe

when you when you consider the typology

that we've been talking about,

this is quite significant

because when you look at Israel's story,

that account that we have recorded for

us in the Old Testament is is a

spiritual map. Have you ever considered

that way? It's a spiritual map.

Like let's let's make some points here.

Egypt represented what? bondage,

captivity

to sin. I want you to consider this

Red Sea. They passed through the Red

Sea. Y'all saw that 1 Corinthians

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chapter 10. Remember they all passed

through that Red Sea on dry ground to

the other side. What was that called?

Deliverance, wasn't it? Through that

water. That was deliverance by the Red

Sea. By God's power, they did.

What's the wilderness represent?

The journey of faith.

That's the journey of faith.

Where were they heading?

Promised land. What's the promised land

mean to us? That means eternal rest.

You can go through all of those things.

Israel was redeemed, but the fact is

they weren't home yet, were they?

And you know what that means for us?

That's us.

Their story is our story.

We've been redeemed through Christ, but

we've not yet entered heaven,

eternal rest. We We still live in a

world that's full of dryness and hunger.

And we are in the wilderness of

temptation, trials, greed, and spiritual

warfare. And it's a journey of faith.

Well, let me ask you,

what do we need on this journey? You

know what? I'm glad you asked. Bread and

water.

That's exactly what we need. We need

bread and water. And you know who that

bread and water is? It's Jesus Christ

>> because he is the one who sustains us

until we reach home.

I don't want us to misinterpret the

wilderness.

Trials don't mean God abandon us.

What trials represent just as James

James 1 · chapter mention

chapter 1 goes in to talk about as well

is it often means God is training,

teaching and molding us to depend on

him. Is that not what they were needing

in Exodus 16 and 17 and on as they were

journeying in that wilderness?

Dependence upon God.

Absolutely.

Well, friends, let me just mention this

as well. Jesus multiplies bread. And

when he does that, he's he's pointing to

his own body.

Think about this. Jesus fed the

multitudes. Y'all remember that? Feeding

the multitudes. It was not only the

compassion that he had to feed them, but

it was revelation. He was showing

something. He was showing what kind of

savior he is. one who provides.

And John chapter 6, like I said, John 6

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has a lot and I said read all of that

later on, but John 6, if you notice,

Jesus takes this miracle so much deeper.

In John 6 and verse 51, he says, "I am

the living bread which came down from

heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he

will live forever. And the bread that I

shall give is my flesh which I shall

give for the life of the world.

What bread just became

was a picture of the cross

because bread is broken to be shared

and Jesus body was broken to save us.

Does that tie into anything that we're

thinking of this morning

for the table?

Do this in remembrance of me. Matthew 26

26. And as they were eating, Jesus took

bread, blessed, and broke it and gave it

to the disciples and said, "Take, eat.

This is my body." It was broken to be

shared

for all.

Representing his body. And the very

first day of the week, as we see from

the scriptures, reminds us that the

bread of life was offered so we could

live.

And every time we take the Lord's

supper, we're declaring my life depends

on his sacrifice. We don't live just by

bread alone, but by every word that

precedes the mouth of God. We live by

the bread of life that translates into

eternity.

And what else can I say about the waters

other than this is the open invitation.

Come to the waters.

Isaiah 55 is one of the most beautiful I

I'd say invitations in the Old

Testament. And we see it repeatedly.

Isaiah 55. And notice verses 1 and two.

Isaiah 551 and two.

Oh, everyone who thirsts, come to the

waters. And you who have no money, come,

buy and eat. Yes, come buy wine and milk

without money and without price. Why do

you spend money for what is not bread

and your wages for what does not

satisfy?

Listen carefully to me and eat what is

good and let your soul delight itself in

abundance.

Y'all ever notice that invitation is

used?

He says it's free. It's without money.

It's urgent. It's satisfying. And it's

lifegiving. And it's life sustaining.

Jesus echoes Isaiah's invitation in the

New Testament passage of John 7 and

verse 37.

On the last day, that great day of the

feast, Jesus stood and cried out,

saying, "If anyone thirsts, let him come

to me and drink."

Look at the connection we have from

Isaiah 55 to Jesus himself who is the

living water of John 7:37.

John 7:37

The point that's being made is salvation

although freely given

must be received God's way and that's

through obedient faith. That's exactly

what we say.

a lot of things that we see in the

scriptures.

And as I have given yet again, we have

the charts front and back. You have

those in the back. There's some more

copies. I know the other ones went

pretty quick this morning, handouts, but

in the back, you'll also see a handout

that's front and back. I usually put

these on the chart as well. It's just

hard to see them before you. A lot of

the Old Testament shadow, New Testament,

that is substance that is Jesus. And of

course, the scripture references that go

along with that. a lot of what we've

looked at. There's other uh passages

there that you'll also consider. Take

those copies, go home and study those

even further. The front the one of the

pages that has to do with the man of the

bread that we talked about this morning

and the second one has to do with the

shadowing substance that is the water

that we also considered uh briefly this

morning.

The mana was good

but again it could not give eternal

life. The water from the rock was

miraculous, but it couldn't remove sin.

What were all these things that we

talked about this morning? Exactly that.

They were shadows and they were

substance. the shadows that led to the

substance that is Jesus,

the physical

uh bread and water, the temporary

provisions, the shadow of the sustained

Israel in the wilderness, the required

daily gathering. And what did all those

things mean right there? The substance

is spiritual life in Christ, eternal

satisfaction sustains Christians on the

journey to heaven and requires daily

faith and obedience. all of those right

there.

I'm asking this

morning

and our invitation,

are you hungry for something more than

this world can offer?

Are you thirsty for a peace that does

not fade away?

Are you hungry for forgiveness?

Are you tired of chasing satisfaction

that never lasts? All those wells of the

world.

Jesus is the bread of life and Jesus is

the living water. And Jesus says, "Come

to me."

That's the invitation that he still

gives today.

And you can have that just as we saw in

those scriptures. And it's God's plan of

salvation. It's going to be received on

his terms, not mine and not yours. It's

on his. You believe that Jesus Christ is

the son of God. If you say yes, I

believe that he is. You do something

about that. You come to him. He says,

"You come to me. Those that are weary

and heavy laden, and I will give you

rest." That's in Matthew chap 11, isn't

it? And you know what? We believe. We

repent of our sins. We confess him to be

the son of living God. And we are

immersed. We are buried in baptism to

rise and walk in newness of life.

And as we rise from that watery grave in

newness of life, as Romans 6:3 and4

Romans 6:3

says, we're fed by the by the by the

bread of life and we are refreshed by

the living water. And we rise again to

begin a life sustained by the one who

never runs dry.

You can do that this morning. You can be

washed in the blood right now. cleansed

from that old sinful ways. How thankful

we are of all the shadows that have

pointed us to Jesus Christ, the

righteous, the substance that he is.

If you're already a disciple of Christ,

a Christian, and and maybe trying to

live on spiritual leftovers, don't work

that way. Realize that you come back to

the table because the bread of life

still satisfies and you can do that. We

we pray on your behalf. love to help you

in any way we possibly can. Whatever

your spiritual need,

you can come. As we stand, as we sing

the song that's been selected for us,