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Our loving God and our Father, we thank Thee for the lines of this hymn that speak of the love of the Lord Jesus, human and divine. His glories not only God's Son and manhood. He had His full part and the union of both joined in one form, the fountain of love in His heart. We just pray now as we have Thy word open before us.
This lamp for our feet. This light.
Onto our pathway that we would be built up in our most holy faith to consider those things which are most surely believed amongst us. We thank Thee, our God and Father, for our Lord Jesus Christ, and Lord Jesus, we thank Thee for that wondrous love, that healthy to Calvary's cross, and we pray for a blessing now so we have Thy word open before us to guide in all that is said and to direct.
Our thoughts.
Our Father, to thy well beloved Son, we ask this with confidence and dependence, in the worthy and precious name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen.
Sorry.
Should we continue in Exodus 12?
I think we've kind of to some extent covered what Mark had expressed.
As an exercise, there's obviously much here that we could continue with.
Or should we consider another portion?
Maybe it would be nice to at least cover the Feast of Unleavened Bread that falls right upon the Passover. They're so connected.
We spent some time on that.
So maybe verse 18 to then?
Work.
All right, Exodus Chapter 12.
Starting at verse 18.
In the first month, on the 14th day of the month that even ye shall eat unleavened bread. Until the one and 20th day of the month, at even seven days shall there be no leaven and found in your houses. For whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger or born in the land. Ye shall eat nothing leavened, and all your habitations shall ye unleavened bread.
Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them.
Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the Passover. And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lentil on the two side posts with the blood that is in the basin. And none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning. For the Lord will pass through to smite the Egyptians. And when he seeth the blood upon the lentil and on the two side posts, the Lord will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in onto your houses to smite you.
And you shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons forever, and that shall come to pass, when you become into the land which the Lord will give you, according as He hath promised, that ye shall keep this service. And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service, that ye shall say? It is the sacrifice of the Lord's Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel and Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses.
And the people bowed the head and worshipped, and the children of Israel went away and did. As the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
And it came to pass that at midnight the Lord smote all the first born in the land of Egypt, from the first born of Pharaoh that sat on his throne.
Unto the first born of the captive that was in the dungeon, and all the first born of cattle. And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants, and all the Egyptians. And there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead. And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel, and go serve the Lord, as you have said.
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Also take your flops and your herds as you have said and be gone and bless me also.
And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste, for they said, We be all dead men. And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders. And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses, and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold and raiment. And the Lord gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required, and they.
Foiled the Egyptians and the children of Israel journeyed from Ramses to Sukkoth about 600,000 on foot that were men beside children, and a mixed multitude went up also with them, and flocks and herds, even very much cattle. And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they had brought forth out of Egypt. For it was not leavened because they were thrust out of Egypt and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.
Now the sojourning of the children of Israel who dwelt in Egypt, was 430 years, and it came to pass at the end of the 430 years, even the self same day it came to pass that all the hosts of the Lord went out from the hand of Egypt, land of Egypt. It is a night to be much observed unto the Lord for bringing them out from the land of Egypt. This is that night of the Lord to be observed of all the children of Israel and their generations.
And the Lord said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the Passover.
There shall no stranger eat thereof, but every man's servant that is bought for money. When thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.
A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat thereof, and one house shall it be eaten. Thou shalt not carry forth out of the flesh abroad out of the house, neither shall ye break a bone thereof, and all the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the Passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it. And he shall be as one that is born in the land, for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof. One law shall be to him that is home born, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you. Thus did all the children of Israel. As the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they. And it came to pass the self same day that the Lord did bring the children of Israel out of the land of.
Egypt by their armies.
I think what this?
Feast of Unleavened Bread might speak to us of is that we as believers have a new standard of living that the Lord expects of us, and that is to live out a holy life before Him.
It's interesting that.
Verse 37, to jump ahead of it says that the children of Israel journeyed from Ramses to 2nd.
And I understand it right. I understand that Ramsey's actually means evil is the standard.
And and so this here we have the people that have been sheltered by the blood and have been spared from the judgment.
And now they're on their way out of what would speak to us of the world, Egypt being a type picture of this world and its independence of God.
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And so.
That is normal Christianity is to leave the world behind us and and the the past sins of our life that that that once characterized our, you might say standard of living is now something that we should leave behind us entirely being being delivered really from it and and we should go forward in a on a new path.
And our lives, again, should be characterized by what?
Would be considered holy living.
Not sinful living.
It's very interesting. If you look at the Feast and Leviticus 23, most of them can stand by themselves. There will be a period of sometimes weeks or months between the feasts, between the Passover, the Feast of Netherland bred, there's no time the 14th day to 15th day. So we've talked quite a bit about what the Passover means. It was there the basis of deliverance for the children of of Israel.
And price being our Passover, when we're sheltered by the blood we are delivered to, but then there's no break right away. It goes into that period, perfect period, seven days of unleavened bread. And so, you know, as you said, as soon as we might say belong to the Lord, everything changes. And right away we should go into that seven days, which speaks of our whole life down here.
That should be characterized.
As you said, by a holy living, but it's just interesting to me how how they're so connected.
Person, it's not normal for a person to get saved and then to say I'm going to keep going a little bit, you know, give me a few days before the 11Th feast of unleavened bread starts. Scripture doesn't make allowance for that. You're you're a new creation in Christ. You should be characterized and not having 11 evil connected with that path now.
So it's very practical. Christ has done the word. We've seen in the Passover God's estimation of that, of that blood will pass over. They were delivered in that sense by the blood, but now it was very practical for them. Seven days.
No leavened bread to be eaten, no leavened bread to be found in their houses. It was, you know, individual, but also in a larger sphere. They have to be separated from that which speaks of evil. So that's what God requires from us. This is more has to do with more responsibility.
Josh mentioned this early on in our our meetings that.
When this Passover was instituted back at the beginning of chapter 12 and verse two, it says this month shall be unto you. The beginning of month shall be the first month of the year to you. For the Lord established that this was a new beginning for Israel. And so as Mark was just saying, Passover was instituted as that which would.
Redeem them by blood. And so in verse 18 it says in the first month.
The 14th day of month even he shall eat unleavened bread until the one and 20th day of the month. And Even so, in accordance with that new beginning, after their redemption by blood there was.
There there was a path for them that was acceptable or appropriate.
Were being bought back and set free. Set free to do what their own will.
No thought which was pleasing to the Lord and that relates to Romans chapter 12 verse one. It says I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies in the living sacrifice fully acceptable into God, which is your reasonable service. Those that were sheltered by the blood. It was a reasonable expectation that they would now.
Not eat leavened bread for seven days, which 11 obviously has been brought out, speaks to us of sin. There was.
They were to go forth with the Lord's help, in a path that was.
Set apart not which had characterized them before Drive mentioned Ramseys being a picture of the world Earthly splendor, and now they were going to suck it, which speaks of Booth, which has to do with their characters Hogan strangers.
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So the the manner of life needed to reflect that.
Like the Passover originally was something that was passed by individual household.
But then once they came into the land.
Their destination after the wilderness.
Didn't seem to find their skin is right that the Passover became more blackness training.
A piece for the congregation in Israel, and I was just noticing a couple of verses in Deuteronomy 16.
Deuteronomy 16 verses one and two says Observe the month of a Bib and keep the Passover unto the Lord.
Thy God. For in the month of abit worthy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night. Thou shalt therefore offer, excuse me. Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the Passover unto the Lord, thy God of the flock and the herd, and in the place which the Lord shall choose to place His name there. So first it was more of a household thing, but then it became more of a collective thing. And I just enjoyed the thought that.
The death of Christ should have.
A very special place, both in our homes as well as collectively in the assembly. There should be regular mentions of the death of Christ in our homes through reading the scriptures. And it just amazes me how there are literally hundreds of references to the death of Christ as we go through the scriptures, either directly in the New Testament or through types and illustrations like we've had in the Old Testament.
Or course in prayer. We want to thank the Lord and his families for what He's done at the cross.
Or singing hymns like Brother Evan mentioned last night at the hymn, saying we have a beautiful heritage in, in the hundreds of hymns that we have, many of which really bring out the the death of Christ and glorify him for what he's done on the cross. But then in the assembly we have the Lord's Supper, which someone has said is, is, you might say, our version of the redemption remembrance. We remember the one in whom we have redemption through.
Blood, the forgiveness of sin.
When the death of Christ has that special place in our homes and in the assembly seems like it, it really sets the tone for having that that lifestyle of holiness. Like Mark was saying that that unleavened walk. And it's interesting too that the feast of unleavened bread was was seven days. The only thought I I've heard on that is that 7 is a complete number as we know and.
In this case, seven would represent kind of the whole cycle of someone's life. The whole cycle of our lives as believers. Post conversion should really be characterized by holiness.
Might be helpful too to.
Just to read a few verses in chapter 13. Not sure we'll be able to get that far, but it is interesting to me on that note, Caleb.
Where, you know, we're speaking about yesterday, just our households and, and what we allow in our homes and, and, and of course there's some great instruction here as we've had it. And I'm just looking at chapter 13, verse six in regards to this unleavened bread. It's in seven days.
Thou shalt eat unleavened bread.
And in the 7th day shall be a feast of the Lord. Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days, and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters. So it's incumbent upon us, especially as parents again.
To make sure our homes are a sanctified place that we don't allow the the the standard of Egypt to.
Or the things of Egypt to flood our homes to taint our homes to.
To to corrupt it, if you will. It's so important. I mean, I think this lesson, the Lord is really pressing something home to us here on us, not only as individuals, but as families. And interesting enough that you know, when Mark had this exercise to take up chapter 12, just to reread that verse in verse 26, the children come with questions. What does this service mean?
And as you say, Caleb, which is so good.
And we need to be reminded of this, that to speak often about the death of Christ in our to our kids and, and speak about his work within our four walls and, and, and speak about it often. It is the basis for everything, isn't it? But interestingly enough, in chapter 13, we have something that that we have in verse eight. Again, there's this inter this, this exchange with the with the child again.
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And thou shalt show thy son in that day, saying, This is done.
Because of that which the Lord did unto me when I came forth out of Egypt.
And so we need to live out this standard of holiness before our children too. We speak about the death of Christ, but it should be seen, the effects of it should be seen in my life as a parent so that I might communicate this, this wonderful work that God has done to my children and to show it out, to live it out before them.
Because that's what it says, and thou shalt show thy son in that day. Just doesn't say that you should tell him about it.
He says you need to live it out before your kids and show them and, and and live it out in reality before them and that's there. There's great weight in that.
As you mentioned in that Caleb and Josh versus in Malachi Chapter 3 that we often read in our assembly meetings.
And before me, because, yeah, it's wonderful. And we accomplished these verses in our assembly meetings about how much more are called.
Chapter 3, verse 16 made appeared the Lord speak often one to another, and the Lord hearkened. Invert it in the book of remembrance.
Written before them feared the Lord and that thought upon His name. You know how wonderful it is.
If there's open and and often discourse about the Lords things in our homes and it just becomes the normal that that is what our children go up.
Experiencing that's going to set them in a position for continuing and not heritage.
If we get if we provide that example.
So we've had the individual and then had the house. Speaking of Phoenix.
Deuteronomy 16 I suggest that it goes the next step, Deuteronomy 16 for the following verse after what Caleb read, and there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven days. And it suggests that's the next step being the assembly that you have the individual, you have our own home. So now you have the assembly and from.
13 We have about the Kingdom of heaven, where a woman took leaven and hid in the meal, and it spread, and the main apostles that wrote.
Yeah, Paul in Second Timothy, Speaking of a great house, how there were those that were putting out on sound doctor and then you had the hearers that wanted to hear on sound doctrine.
And then Peter, he warns of false teachers, John warns the false prophets, and Jude speaks of certain men, corrupt and unawares. So there's holiness also required in the House of God.
So we read in First Corinthians chapter 5 at the very first day, but I'd like to read the verses there again. First Corinthians chapter 5 and verse 7 is this directly relates to what we're reading about here says push out there for the old leaven that you may be a new lump even as you are loving Christ for Passover sacrifice for us. Therefore, let us keep the feast not with old leaven.
Neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. And so last week get the impression that these are just Old Testament things. They're very, very direct.
Reference that in this case the Apostle Paul uses back to the that type that we see here from our chapter in Exodus that relates directly to our Christian life.
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And again, what's 11? It's it's that which is speaks of corruption and sin, and that which was characterized of this world or characteristic of this world that we have now been set free from and should not characterize us in our life. And if you were to read further in First Corinthians, it would actually list out a number of those things that are characteristic of 11 That should not be.
As not be once named among us.
One again Speaking of the connection between the Passover and the unleavened bread. The power to lead that life lies in the fact that they had just partaken that land that had been slipped.
And so you can't disconnect them either way. And the Passover should have its natural response in a life live for Christ. But then that life of holiness cannot be lived without having to pass over all the time before us. So if we want to, you know, live a morally upright life without.
Spending time feeding on Christ, it's going to be something we do in our own strength and it's not going to be successful.
So again, just showing the connection between both of them, the life of holiness should be the natural response. As you you know, the verse you read in Romans 12 Says, therefore it's because of what he's been explaining in the first eight chapters of Romans, that our life should be dedicated and consecrated to Christ.
And so here to that seven Days of Unleavened Bread is in response to what they had just had before, in the blood and feeding on the land that was.
There's a principle that's brought out with this, not maybe as directly as other things, but it's sanctification that's being set apart. But there's set apart from 11:00, but it's set apart to the Lord. And those things go together and you can't say one is greater than the other. They're both important, but there is a reality to the Christian life needing to be.
Set apart from.
To 11 and seven Part 2, the Lord. The other thing that I was thinking of in regards to this.
We turn over to John, Gospel of John.
Chapter 19, before I read the verse, just give a little bit of context. So then my thought is here, Mark just mentioned that this needs to be something that is the natural response of the heart and not a legal thing. The problem with legality or trying to do this in my own power is that.
There comes in a separation between what we are taking up with and what draws our hearts out to do that thing.
We see that picture so vividly expressed in the Jews in John chapter 19.
They just slew the Passover lamb. Verse 31 of John chapter 19. The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation.
That the body should not remain on the cross on the Sabbath day, for the Sabbath day was in hi. David sought Pilate. That the legs might be broken, that they might be taken away. And a little earlier it actually makes reference. The preparation is talking about the Passover, but really the Passover had already happened. And so they were actually in what you would say would be the time of the Feast of Unleavened Bread where they should be.
Have separated from all of them. That was evil and here they are.
Concerned about the view of the body of the Lucy that's hanging on the cross during that time. And they had no concept that they were deeply involved with the evil that was associated with crucified the Son of God. That is a real danger that we can lose sight if we're trying to do these things and they're not based in reality, we lose sight of what they mean.
And we're doing them for simply.
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An expression of of holiness that's not based in reality. And it can take us so far away from the basis that they were established in to the point where, like the Jews, they're concerned about the image of this one hanging on the cross. Let's get it down. And they're supposed to be separated from all of that.
I.
Take a moment.
Sing for all the anointing.
Sinners, Friend.
Here we hear us in.
Wonderfully.
If I see me.
See.
Me. Not within the world.
And to me.
God's mind is turning.
To our land for wisdom.
Where do you unders daily?
Mercy.
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As a checkpoint in our reading here, perhaps it'd be good just to look at what's going on. We have the children of Israel.
Leaving in verse 31 They rise up and they go forth, their flocks, their herds, and they were spoiling the Egyptians down. In verse 35 they borrow the Egyptians jewels and silver and gold and raiment. We have spoken tonight or this morning here about leaving Egypt and we find they are heading out now and we see here in verse.
Verse 37.
There's 600,000 foot that were men. So we know there are 600,000 men and then it says besides children. So there were children in addition to that. So they're very well could have been a million company heading out. But the question is we've been talking about leaving Egypt and what were they leaving behind is the question because here in the days and weeks earlier.
We saw God lay down plagues upon them.
And I asked the question, was there anything in Egypt of any value at this point?
Right, so the lice had gone in. There was piles of frogs stinking. Blood had gone through the rivers.
Boils on the animals.
There was just now we really read yesterday, we read that not one household was was saved in the Egyptian nation of death. So the first born were dying and it was, you know, someone asked me yesterday, there have been two first borns in a house. Absolutely. And I said first born of cattle as well. So in a household you may have two or three or four if you had cows in there too.
Death is everywhere. The locust had eaten everything. That hail had destroyed everything.
Was there anything left in Egypt to stay for?
And I asked the question, is there anything of this world to go back to? But our hearts are just like the Israelites because no sooner had they been out in the wilderness, what was it, a couple, a month or a week or two, it was like four or five weeks. And what were their hearts lusting for? The leaks in the garlic or leeks in the onions, Right. Let me ask a question. Were there any leeks and onions in Egypt at that point?
No, I would say that land was completely ravaged. There was no crops that were popping up at this point.
But our hearts still yearn for the leeks and the garlic.
And so today as we talk about this leaving behind of Egypt and taking on and we've been mentioning about the Feast of Unleavened Bread, which was to be a feast that they were to take up with.
That had a specific principle to it.
Yet their hearts still yearned for the for heading back to Egypt. In fact, they get all the way to the doorstep of Canaan, right as they traveled all the way up there. I don't know. It took a month or two before they got to to the front door of Canaan, right? They sent in the the spies. What's the first thing they do when they come back? This is too big. 10 of the 10 of the 12 spies give this bad report and they want to rise up. And what?
Go back to Egypt.
Is there anything left in Egypt to go back to?
And why was God pulling him out of Egypt? Because he wanted, and we took this up in the Tabernacle expressed very importantly, He wants to dwell with them by himself and all of them around him. And that's where he could do it, out in the wilderness.
So the question is.
Where does he want to dwell with me? If I head back into Egypt, can he dwell with me? We know that Abraham, we Abraham, prior to this, he went down into Egypt. Isaac went down into Egypt. Do we ever learn about God speaking to them when they're in Egypt? No, they had an altar. We see people. There's a clear delineation when God speaking to them as they come to and from Canaan. The question is, yet our hearts still yearn to go back to Egypt. Is there anything in Egypt to to?
Actually, there. No. It's all under curse. This whole world is going to burn up.
Is there anything here that my heart satisfies for? But my heart is naturally attracted to things in Egypt. But at the essence of it all, it's all burned up here very soon. And the Egyptians are the Israelites. The Hebrews could look back and there wasn't a flake of green grass left. It's important to get perspective of of these things. When we talk about separation. There is a there is an importance of the separation because what you're separated unto is greater what you're separated from, if you can say it that.
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Right. Timmy just brought that up.
Jehovah wanted to separate them unto himself out in the wilderness.
It's not that the Lord didn't have.
Better things for them.
You know, they wanted that leeks and onions. What characterized the leeks and onions they grew in the earth?
That isn't what the Lord had for them. We had the corn, he had the the the fruit of the vine. That speaks of heavenly things that they grew from above the earth and and so sometimes we might get the wrong impression that when we're called to be.
Set apart from these things when we're called to leave those things behind that.
That we're losing something. No, we're not losing anything. The Lord has offered us something so much better. The problem is when we take up with those things, it displaces that which would be better and heavenly, and it robs us. It robs us of our heavenly blessing.
And to compare that, Tim, it's beautiful. You brought that up. And those 10 spies came out, They had grapes on their shoulders that were so big, they had to take two men to carry those out, right? And they, they is a land flowing with milk and honey. God had so much more for them in that new place that he was trying to bring them to. But no, they were wanting to go back to, to Egypt, right Then at that point, they wanted to go back to Egypt.
The diffusion supply.
Agents 583 were sometimes darkness, but now are you light and the Lord?
Walk as children of light.
That's really He has not called us to something he hasn't given us the power to do. And so from the very beginning, the first day in creation, God divided. He created the light, He called it good, and he divided the light from the darkness and so.
God has called us out of darkness into light and darkness.
Interrupts communion, says what Communion hath light with darkness, and so if there is any darkness.
It interrupts communion. If we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another.
The problem is appetite.
What's our appetite for Remember? I can't remember which brother.
Read earlier about the children of Israel saying we loathe this light bread.
The loaf that's light bread. What?
So.
Chapter 70. Psalm 78.
Speaking of this.
Manna.
So they did eat and were well filled where he gave them their own desire. I'm sorry back up verse 25. Man did eat angels food. He sent them meat to the full. They were provided heavenly food.
But they loved that light bread because their appetite was still in Egypt. And so it really depends on what we're feeding on. That's what develops our appetite.
If we.
If just to use a very practical example.
If if I eat.
Sugary sweet stuff.
And then I go eat a carrot.
The cut does not taste very good, right in comparison to that sugary sweet stuff, because the sugary sweet stuff overwhelms the flavor that we find in the hair. But if I'm not eating any of that sugary sweet stuff and I eat a carrot, it actually tastes sweet.
And then we want to eat more of that, right? So.
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There's a ton of practical.
Benefit considering these things, but that which we feed on is what is going to give us the appetite for more of that. If we are feeding on the things of this world and we have those desires, that's what we're going to want more of. If we're feeding on the things of Christ, we're going to see his beauty, we're going to be attracted to Him, and we're going to desire more of those things.
So what's a way that the Lord can put us on a diet from the things of this world?
A very common diet is to lay you on your back.
In a health problem.
You can't be going everywhere, you can't be doing everything. Your energy is down and you find yourself with your own self and the Lord Lord speaking clearly. So the Lord does want to put us on a diet, so to speak, if we can't do it ourselves. And one way to do it is to have a health problem that you find your communion growing greater because the things of this world aren't so the people or whatever the events are, whatever it may be going on, you just don't have the energy.
To leave your bed.
Or he provides signs like that. Yeah, where?
This is nothing more than an alarm clock because it doesn't work for anything else.
Maybe our appetites get refocused a little bit because of the opportunity to be set apart and the thing for this world, hopefully.
Get a reset what is valuable.
Sunday school class.
And I don't know if you've experienced where you didn't have an appetite to read the word of God.
But he told us, if you don't have an appetite to read the word of God, read it.
Been thinking of an illustration for the children.
Of what we're talking about, I suppose there's probably not a child in the room that doesn't know what cotton candy is. Can anybody tell me what what the ingredients are in cotton candy?
Sugar and air, right? Little food gathering.
It looks like it has some substance to it, but there's really nothing there.
And if you eat a bunch of cotton candy, what, what's going to happen to you?
You're going to feel sick, right? You might have a little bit of energy for just a short amount of time, but you're going to crash and burn, right? And.
Where do you normally find cotton candy?
At the fair right? What else is at the fair T?
Elephant ears and all kinds of stuff that's really horrible for you.
And and then there's all these rides, right? You kids know what I'm talking about, that they're going to make you sick to your stomach. That's what this world offers. To think back to a book that I read as a child, and it's a good book to go back to Pilgrim's Progress, guys, remember that book?
And pilgrims going on his journey and he and he comes to a place called Vanity Fair.
And they try to entice him into that. And this world would like to try to entice us into it. And sometimes it's our hearts that.
Are are enticed by that because it it has an appearance, it has a temporary pleasure, but there's consequences associated with that. If you go to the fair and you eat all that cotton candy and all that greasy stuff, you're going to fill rotten, you're going to feel awful.
And that's what this world does. If we feed on this world, it's nothing but cotton candy and greasy food, and we're going to feel terrible.
On the flip side of that coin, I love the verse.
That says the blessing of the Lord. It maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.
Children. Young people.
I can tell you by experience that if you feed on this world, you're going to feel sick.
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But if we feed on Christ is what the the unleavened bread is speaking to us of. It's feeding on Christ. It's feeding on those things that pertain to Christ. It's his, it's that.
Fine flower and that oil and the water, the mixture of which creates that unleavened bread and it it's food for our souls.
Any adds no sorrow with it.
It's only pure blessing.
And I desire that for myself. I desire for each one of you in this room that we would recognize what the world offers for what it is. It's garbage.
It's absolute garbage. There are pleasures of sin for a momentary season.
But there's consequences associated with it. But when we feed on Christ.
There's no consequences with it, it's only blessing.
Solomon figured that out, didn't he?
He took up with everything that there could be taken up with from this world in his summation of it was vanity of vanity. All is vanity and vexation of spirit. That's the thing. It's not just empty, but it has a consequence of vexation to our soul. You look at Lot, it says that that righteous man vexed his soul daily because he was taken up with the things of this world.
The opposite of that Psalm 37. Four.
Delight thyself also in the Lord, and He shall give thee the desires of thy heart.
The God and Father, we thank you so much for these very practical truths that Thou hast brought before us this morning. We thank Thee for Thy work of weaning and willingness.
Away from the things of this world and.
To divine things help us, Father, by their grace, to have an appetite.
For that which is of thyself.
The boys of my beloved son.
All the fullness that thou hast for us, Father, we rob ourselves so often.
Of these things, the goodness.
And the satisfaction of them.
And we just.
Seek Thy grace to help us as we go from this place where it's so easy to appreciate these things.
Back into a world where?
The vanity.
Once again, cast this attraction before us. Preserve us. Help us father the assets in the name of a beloved son of Jesus, Amen.