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Plan #2 What Are We Going To Do? Hidden Manna. Series
Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Apr 7, 2003 (message contributor)
Summary: We study manna in the Old and New Testment. There was a pot of manna in the Ark of the Testimony to remind the people of God’s plan and provisions.
WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO? Hidden Manna!
ENOUGH! SUFFICIENT! When God gives, it is always enough!
By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com This is a two part series!
Don’t forget --- manna was never God’s orginal plan.
God’s first plan was THE PROMISE LAND and MILK AND HONEY!
God has a second plan. If we mess up the first plan, God will love us enough to feed us anyway.
TEXT:
Matthew 4:4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every
word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
Luke 15:17 And when he (prodigal son) came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my Father’s
have bread ENOUGH and TO SPARE, and I perish with hunger!
(Note: Some of this verse is red lettered in a red lettered edition, that means the words were spoken by Jesus!)
And He said unto me, MY GRACE IS SUFFICIENT FOR THEE: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.
Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
Matthew 6:33 But seek ye FIRST the kingdom of God, and His Righteousness; and these things shall BE ADDED
unto you. 34. Take therefore no thought of the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself.
SUFFICIENT unto the day is the evil thereof.
Luke 14:28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down FIRST and counteth the cost, whether he
hath SUFFICIENT to finish it?
DEFINE:
ENOUGH --- having the quantity, quality, and scope to fully meet the need, demands, or expectations;
--- sufficient, fully, --- having the degree that satisfies,
SUFFICIENT: --- adequate, coming up with the required level.
OMER --- an ancient Hebrew dry measurement that was 1/10 of an ephah,
--- by today’s measurement about, almost 1/2 of a gallon.
Someone asked one of the Millionaire Rockefellow family --- HOW MUCH MONEY IS ENOUGH?
The reply was simple: ONE MORE DOLLAR!
Poor and content is enough, and rich enough.
Many of us have strength enough to bear others misfortunes, it is our own we cannot bear!
1. IF YOU DON’T HAVE ENOUGH, YOU MAY BE AT THE PIG PEN!
THERE IS ALWAYS ENOUGH AT THE FATHER’S HOUSE!
Luke 15:17 And when he (prodigal son) came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my Father’s
have bread ENOUGH and TO SPARE, and I perish with hunger!
SELFISHNESS, GREED AND OVERINDULGENCE WILL HURT!
Proverbs 25:16 Hast thou found honey? Eat so much as is SUFFICIENT for thee, lest thou be filled therewith,
and vomit it.
We have had many Preachers of doom and gloom say HOARD UP YOUR SUPPLIES.
With Y2K, the Stock Market, Kuwait, Saddam Hussein, you better stock up on duct tape, food supplies, etc.
How can you have enough to carry you through long periods of time? How could you have food and let your
neighbor go hungry?
I say if you are really worried, GIVE AWAY food and nourishment to those in need. God will remember you!
Matthew 6:11 Give us this day our daily bread.
It is not enough to know, but we must do.
It is not enough to help one up, we must teach them. Many have good minds, they just don’t use them!
2. JESUS NEEDS NO BODY GUARDS, HIS ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
ISLAM IS A RELIGION IN WHICH GOD REQUIRES YOU TO SEND YOUR SON TO DIE FOR HIM.
CHRISTIANITY IS A FAITH IN WHICH GOD SENT HIS SON TO DIE FOR YOU.
God loves you, He watches over HIS WORD TO PERFORM IT!
God’s eyes are going to and fro searching for a place to show Himself strong.
YELL WITH ME, HERE GOD, SHOW YOURSELF STRONG RIGHT HERE!
3. GOD’S PEOPLE HAD PRAYED FOR DELIVERANCE! THERE WAS A PROMISE FROM GOD FOR
DELIVERANCE. WHEN DELIVERANCE CAME, HOW ARE WE GOING TO MAKE IT FREE?
Slavery, bondage, and many dark nights had kept God’s children with their heads bowed low.
When Moses declared by faith LET MY PEOPLE GO, there would be a nightmare of needs to try to solve.
By today’s standards feeding over a million people would take train loads of food.
Pharaoh had ordered the death of God’s children’s sons, God allowed Pharaoh to pay to have God’s deliverer,
Moses, breast fed and educated. God made a way after Moses’ mother built the little basket.
God loves to make a way for His people.
4. GOD HEARS THE MURMURINGS OF HIS PEOPLE!
I have this beautiful picture by Erik Hollander titled JESUS WEPT.
YOU CAN FIND THE PICTURE AT: http://www.telapex.com/~jrnnell/index2.html
The earth is on the left, the moon on the right, and stars throughout the picture.
