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Redeemer Bible Church

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The Provision of the Tabernacle

Exodus 25:1-31:18

Introduction
One of the great difficulties of the Bible is that it is an ancient book. It was written
over the course of approximately 1,500 years, ending in the first century AD. And
because it’s ancient we can get the impression that it has nothing to say to a
contemporary audience.

A fancy way of putting this would be to say that the Bible is historically and
culturally conditioned. It was written to an ancient audience by ancient writers dealing
with ancient problems in the ancient world.

But simply because the Bible is historically and culturally conditioned does not
mean that it is irrelevant to contemporary life.

Think for a moment about the best literature. Does Shakespeare have
something to say to a contemporary audience? How about Dostoyevsky’s Crime and
Punishment? How about Nathanael Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter?

Well, we would say that all of these writers and their works, though historically
and culturally conditioned, have something to say to readers today. And this is because
literature (the best literature) addresses themes that are common to the human
condition.

Well, the Bible is no different. The Bible addresses themes that have affected
men and women from the beginning of history. And like any piece of literature, it
couches those themes in ways that are conditioned by the culture and time at which
they were written.

On the other hand, the Bible is vastly different from even the best literature in that
the Bible’s claim is that it is the word of God—it is God’s speech; it is God speaking. So
what it says about the human condition is absolutely authoritative. While the great
authors of literary classics speculate on the issues of life, the authors of the Bible, under
the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, give their audience God’s very mind on the issues.

Another claim of Scripture is that although it was written so long ago, the ancient
writings were actually intended by God to be used by succeeding generations. First
Corinthians 10:11, says, “Now these things happened to them as an example, and they
were written for our instruction, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.” And

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Romans 15:4 says, “For whatever was written in earlier times was written for our
instruction, so that through perseverance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we
might have hope.”

So just because the Bible is an old book doesn’t mean that it has no
contemporary relevance. We don’t believe this about works of literature, so it is no
argument for the irrelevance of the Bible that it was written a long time ago. And
beyond that, the testimony of the Bible itself is that God’s intention in preserving his
word in written form was so that his voice would be heard from generation to
generation.

At the same time and for the same reason that it is often alleged that the Bible is
irrelevant for is oldness, understanding what God meant for us to glean from his word is
not always that easy to uncover.

The Bible is a culturally and historically conditioned book. In order to understand

what it means, we need to understand what it meant. And in order to understand what it
meant we need to put ourselves in the place of the ancients—the ancient authors and
the ancient audience—in order to grasp what was being communicated back then.
Once we understand what the text meant, we are ready to move forward to what it
means for us today.

So keep that in mind as we read this morning’s passage from the very old book
of Exodus. Turn with me to Exodus 25:23-30.
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"You shall make a table of acacia wood, two cubits long and one cubit wide
and one and a half cubits high. 24 "you shall overlay it with pure gold and make a gold
border around it. 25 "You shall make for it a rim of a handbreadth around it; and you
shall make a gold border for the rim around it. 26 "You shall make four gold rings for it
and put rings on the four corners which are on its four feet. 27 "The rings shall be close
to the rim as holders for the poles to carry the table. 28 "You shall make the poles of
acacia wood and overlay them with gold, so that with them the table may be carried. 29
"You shall make its dishes and its pans and its jars and its bowls with which to pour drink
offerings; you shall make them of pure gold. 30 "You shall set the bread of the Presence
on the table before Me at all times.

Now as we just read that, I’m sure you wondering how Romans 15:4, the verse
we quoted just a moment ago could possibly be true. It says, “For whatever was written
in earlier times was written for our instruction, so that through perseverance and the
encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.” How on earth could instructions
for making a table and dishes and pans and jars and bowls give us hope?

Well, the answer to that question is the substance of this morning’s message.
This text does give us hope. Let me try to show you how.

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God Our Provider

The first thing that you need to know (or remember, if you’ve been here for a
while) is that this paragraph is one of many sets of instructions that God gave Moses for
putting together God’s portable home in the wilderness, called the sanctuary or
tabernacle. The instructions take us through seven chapters of Exodus—from Chapter
25 through Chapter 31. The key verse for these instructions is found at 25:8. Read it
with me.
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"Let them construct a sanctuary for Me, that I may dwell among them.

The sanctuary is a large tent complex with a fenced outer courtyard—the fence
being made of tent curtains—and an inner tent with two rooms called the Holy Place
and the Holy of Holies.

The Holy of Holies is the innermost room. And in order to get into it you would
have needed to enter through the Holy Place first—the Holy Place, then, the Holy of
Holies. In earlier messages, I’ve mentioned that the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies
represent heaven, both the heaven of sky and the heaven of…heaven, which is the
place where God dwells.

So the inner tent is set up in the same way that people from the ground would
have seen their access to God: God is up there in heaven (the Holy of Holies), which is
above the sky. In order to get to God when he comes to dwell in this tent on earth I’d
have to follow the same path: first through the heavens (the Holy Place—the sky) then
up to heaven (the Holy of Holies).

Now then, you may ask, “What does this have to do with the instructions for the
table we just read?” Well, only this—that the table goes in the room called the Holy
Place, the place that represents the heaven called sky.1 This is important to know
because of what the table has on it. Read 25:30 with me.
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"You shall set the bread of the Presence on the table before Me at all times.

So the table that goes in the Holy Place (the heaven of sky) is set with bread
called the bread of the Presence. We’ll get to why it’s called the bread of the
Presence in a moment; for now, I want you to picture what’s going on here. Bread is
set on a table in the sky. There is bread in the sky. That’s odd…or at least, it should
seem odd.

Bread doesn’t come from the sky. It comes from the ground. You plant seeds to
harvest crops to make bread. Bread doesn’t fall from the sky.

Well, at least not all the time. There was a time when God made bread for his
people to fall from the sky. And it’s right here in the book of Exodus. Turn back to
Exodus 16:3-4.

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The sons of Israel said to them, "Would that we had died by the LORD'S hand
in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat, when we ate bread to the full; for
you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger."
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Then the LORD said to Moses, "Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the
people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may test them, whether
or not they will walk in My instruction.

In verse 4, the Lord says, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you. But
this heavenly bread was unusual. It’s not like loaves of pumpernickel and rye fell from
the sky. This bread was different. Jump down to verses 13-15.
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So it came about at evening that the quails came up and covered the camp,
and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp. 14 When the layer of dew
evaporated, behold, on the surface of the wilderness there was a fine flake-like thing,
fine as the frost on the ground. 15 When the sons of Israel saw it, they said to one
another, "What is it?" For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, "It is
the bread which the LORD has given you to eat.

So bread sometimes does fall from the sky.

But this is not the only sense in which bread comes from the sky. There is
another sense in which all bread indirectly comes from the sky, which is even hinted at
in Exodus 16:13-14. Look at these verses again with me.
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So it came about at evening that the quails came up and covered the camp,
and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp. 14 When the layer of dew
evaporated, behold, on the surface of the wilderness there was a fine flake-like thing,
fine as the frost on the ground.

Verses 13-14 say that the manna was like a layer of dew around the camp that
would evaporate over time. What does this remind you of? Well, it should remind you
of rain. It comes from the sky, makes the ground wet, and once it’s gone, crops appear
in its place, which in turn provide food.

So in a manner of speaking, bread does fall from the sky, both literally in terms of
the manna he provided to his people, and figuratively in terms of the rain that the Lord
provides for crops that provide us with food.

So having a table set with bread in the Holy Place (the place that represents the
heaven of sky) doesn’t seem so strange after all.

But what God wants us to understand about this provision above all things is that
he is the one who gives it. He is the one ultimately responsible for it. He is the one who
sustains it. In part, this is why it is called the bread of the Presence.

Turn back to Chapter 25 and reread verse 30 with me: You shall set the bread
of the Presence on the table before Me at all times.

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God’s makes his presence known through his provision of food to human beings
every day through the cycles of agriculture that he invented and controls. The fact that
the earth produces crops through the rain that God sends is an indication of his
presence to provide for us all. God is the great provider and sustainer of life.

This theme is continually expressed elsewhere in the Bible. Let’s look at a few
together cf. Job 38:41; Psalm 145:15-16; Matthew 5:45; 6:11, 26; Acts 14:13-17.
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"Who prepares for the raven its nourishment when its young cry to God And
wander about without food? (Job 38:41).
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The eyes of all look to You, and You give them their food in due time. 16 You
open Your hand And satisfy the desire of every living thing (Psalms 145:15-16).
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so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His
sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous
(Matthew 5:45).
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'Give us this day our daily bread (Matthew 6:11).
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"Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into
barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than
they? (Matthew 6:26).
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The priest of Zeus, whose temple was just outside the city, brought oxen and
garlands to the gates, and wanted to offer sacrifice with the crowds. 14 But when the
apostles Barnabas and Paul heard of it, they tore their robes and rushed out into the
crowd, crying out 15 and saying, "Men, why are you doing these things? We are also men
of the same nature as you, and preach the gospel to you that you should turn from these
vain things to a living God, WHO MADE THE HEAVEN AND THE EARTH AND THE
SEA AND ALL THAT IS IN THEM. 16 "In the generations gone by He permitted all the
nations to go their own ways; 17 and yet He did not leave Himself without witness, in that
He did good and gave you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts
with food and gladness." (Acts 14:13-17).

God Is the Provider Even in a Land of Plenty

This is such a phenomenal truth. God provides for us. And he not only provides
for believers, but he also provides for all his creation to sustain what he has made.

This is, I think, an especially difficult truth to remember, living as we do in a

society of overflowing abundance. We know that Jesus teaches us to pray, “Give us
this day our daily bread,” but we have a hard time praying for daily bread when we have
no real sense that the bread won’t be there in the morning. We have plenty of bread.
We have a surplus of bread. We have a surplus of surplus of bread.

Just take a moment the next time you’re in a grocery store to look around in the
produce aisle. Not only will you be blown away by the sheer amount of food that’s
available, but you will be also be impressed by the variety. How many different kinds of

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apples can you choose from? Gala, Macintosh, Honeycrisp, Rome, Courtland, Red
Delicious, Golden Delicious, Winesap, Pink Lady, Granny Smith—need I go on?

Now please don’t misunderstand. I’m not saying this to make you feel guilty.
You shouldn’t feel guilty with so much abundance. You should feel thankful. But it’s not
enough just to have a feeling of thankfulness; you need to express that thanksgiving to
the one who provides your daily bread—the Lord of heaven and earth.

“O Lord, ‘The eyes of all look to You, And You give [us our] food in due time. You
open Your hand And satisfy the desire of every living thing’” (Psalm 145:15-16). “Give
us this day our daily bread” (Matthew 6:11).

God provides for all our needs according to his riches in glory (Philippians 4:19).
And Jesus says that because our God is the great provider, we don’t need to worry
about what we’ll eat or drink or what we’ll wear. We can seek first His kingdom and
God will be anxious for us—anxious to meet our needs.

Do not worry then, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or
‘What will we wear for clothing?’ For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things;
for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first His
kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you
(Matthew 6:31-33).

God is our provider. The tabernacle demonstrates this, that “He did not leave
Himself without witness, in that He did good and gave you rains from heaven and fruitful
seasons, satisfying your hearts with food and gladness” (Acts 14:17).

So you don’t have to worry because God will make sure you get your daily bread,
that he will add these things—food, drink, clothing—to you if you seek first his kingdom.

Provision and Starvation

Now then, I want you to take what I’ve just said to Malawi, Africa. There, our
Christian brothers and sisters have what they call a “starving season.” Every year, the
food runs out, they have no crops left to harvest, and so they boil husks into soup (if you
can call it that) and eat grass so that their stomachs can feel full. And each starving
season, several of their children die.

I learned about this from my childhood pastor who takes, I think, annual trips to
Malawi to train pastors in the bush. One year, after he returned from Malawi, his
congregation raised funds to purchase bags of rice to get the brethren through the
starving season. The next year after the people had received the congregation’s gift,
when Pastor Jim returned to a greeting from a mother holding her child in her arms
saying, “My child lives because of you. My child lives because of you.”

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How can this happen? I mean, if God is our provider and if Jesus himself
promised that if we seek first the Father’s kingdom and righteousness we will not need
to worry about food or drink or clothing—they will be added to us—if we don’t have to
worry about these things, why did our Malawian brethren starve? Why do they starve
every year? Was it that they were not seeking first the kingdom of God? Hardly!

Turn with me in your Bibles to 2 Corinthians 11:23-28.

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Are they servants of Christ? --I speak as if insane--I more so; in far more
labors, in far more imprisonments, beaten times without number, often in danger of
death. 24 Five times I received from the Jews thirty-nine lashes. 25 Three times I was
beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked, a night and a day I
have spent in the deep. 26 I have been on frequent journeys, in dangers from rivers,
dangers from robbers, dangers from my countrymen, dangers from the Gentiles,
dangers in the city, dangers in the wilderness, dangers on the sea, dangers among false
brethren; 27 I have been in labor and hardship, through many sleepless nights, in hunger
and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure. 28 Apart from such external things,
there is the daily pressure on me of concern for all the churches.

If there has been anyone who sought the kingdom first, it was our beloved
brother Paul. In fact, the reason for his sufferings was precisely because he was
seeking the kingdom first. With that in mind, look closely with me at 2 Corinthians
11:27: I have been in labor and hardship, through many sleepless nights, in
hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.

The Apostle Paul says that he was in hunger and thirst, often without food.
But this is not the only place that we learn that Paul went without necessities.

Turn to Philippians 4:12.

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I know how to get along with humble means, and I also know how to live in
prosperity; in any and every circumstance I have learned the secret of being filled and
going hungry, both of having abundance and suffering need.

Paul says that he had learned the secret of being filled and going hungry,
both of having abundance and suffering need.

1. So then, what does Jesus mean when he says that the Father knows what we
need and will add to us the food, drink, and clothing that everyone else is living for?
Well, in light of the reality of suffering want, I take Jesus to mean that the Lord will
provide us all we need to do what God has called us to do. It means that God will give
them all they need to seek first his kingdom and his righteousness. It clearly does not
mean that believers will never starve.

2. Getting back to Paul, tradition tells us that he was executed for his faith in
Rome; he didn’t starve to death. But he did go hungry. He did suffer need. He often
went without food. And we know that not only Malawi, but other places in the world are

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filled with people starving to death, Christians and non-Christians. God is the provider,
but people still starve to death.
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3. Paul went hungry. Our brethren in Malawi and around the world go hungry.

4. The Bible is not naïve about this. It is very realistic about life in this world.

5. In fact, from the first book of the Bible (Genesis) to the last (Revelation) we
read of famine ravaging the world. People have been starving ever since Adam fell into
sin.
6. Suffering is real, including the suffering of starvation.

Suffering Is Real
I feel like I need to say this because too many Christians, especially us American
Christians tend to give the impression that once you become one of us, once you
become a Christian, suffering evaporates. But this couldn’t be further from the truth.

Famines, diseases, murderers, rapists, pedophiles, wars—they go on and on.

Just because you become a Christian doesn’t mean that all your problems go away,
that you’ll never starve to death, that you’ll never be in a crippling accident, or that you’ll
never be diagnosed with an incurable disease, that you’ll never lose your job, or that
you’ll never wonder where your next meal is coming from.

The Christian life takes suffering seriously. From the perspective of our faith,
suffering is not an illusion. Starvation is not a figment of our imagination that the power
of positive thinking can eliminate. Even Christians starve…and starve to death.

So here’s the rub. If God is our provider, if the bread of the presence
demonstrates that the Lord sustains and provides for his creation, how is it that he lets
people, even his own people, die of starvation?

Well, there’s a general answer and a specific answer.

The General Answer to Starvation

The general answer is that God allows starvation because he has some good
purpose for it. The consistent teaching of Scripture is that God is perfectly and
completely good. It also consistently teaches that he is all-powerful. Therefore if he
allows something as awful as starvation he must have some morally commendable and
good reason for it.

Now this might seem outrageous. Imagine your child starving to death until her
belly swells and the rest of her body wastes away to nothingness while you look
helplessly on.

Now imagine that you were God. Could you think of any good reason why you
couldn’t accomplish your purposes without children starving to death? It seems

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outrageous that a good God would allow this to happen, even if it meant something
good would come of it.

But all this presupposes that the child was innocent, that the child didn’t deserve
to starve to death. And in one sense, no child deserves to starve to death—I can’t think
of anything a child could do that would warrant being starved to death. But there is
another sense in which every child deserves to starve to death.

That’s hard to say. But it’s true. It’s hard, but it’s true. Let me explain.

Starvation and Sin

The Bible teaches that the reason there is starvation—the reason there is any
form of suffering in the world—is the result of the fall. Starvation (lack) is an effect of
our fall into sin.

When God made man, he put him in a garden to cultivate and keep it, and also in
order to test him. God’s test was what we might call “the obedience test.” God said,
“You can eat from every tree in the garden except from the tree of the knowledge of
good and evil. If you eat from that tree, you’ll die.”

Well, man (and woman) failed the obedience test. In fact, they failed miserably.
They rebelled against God by disobeying his clear command.

Now when they failed, they didn’t simply fail for themselves, they failed for us.
Adam was our representative in the garden. So when Adam and Eve fell, we fell.

So the result of their fall into sin was that they came under divine punishment,
which included, among other things, the fact that we would die. Other things that the fall
affected include suffering like starvation, disease, mourning, crying, and (increased)
pain. Suffering therefore is an effect of the fall.

But it’s not an effect in the sense that a falling apple is an effect of gravity. When
Christians talk about the effects of the fall, we are talking about consequences of the
fall, consequences for our disobedience. Put another way, when Christians talk about
the effects of the fall, we are talking about the punishment for our disobedience.

So then, the fact that we starve is ultimately our own fault. But not in the sense
that I as an individual did anything in particular to warrant starvation in particular, but in
the sense that starvation is one of the punishments we deserve for disobeying God in
the Garden of Eden.

In case this sounds too harsh to you, let me direct you to the words of the most
compassionate, loving, gentile man who ever lived—the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Turn in your Bibles to Luke 13:1-5.

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Now on the same occasion there were some present who reported to Him
about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. 2 And Jesus said
to them, "Do you suppose that these Galileans were greater sinners than all other
Galileans because they suffered this fate? 3 "I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will
all likewise perish. 4 "Or do you suppose that those eighteen on whom the tower in
Siloam fell and killed them were worse culprits than all the men who live in Jerusalem? 5
"I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish."

The people’s line of questioning moved something like this: how do you explain
the death of innocent people? Jesus’ answer is as profound as it is shocking: “I tell you,
unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.”

Jesus is saying that there is no such thing as an innocent person. If a tower falls
on a man and he dies, he’s is getting what he deserves. If people are murdered even
as they worship, they are getting what they deserve. If we starve to death, we are only
getting what we deserve.

Even those kids in Malawi? Well, are they sinners? If the answer is yes, then
yes, they are getting what they deserve.

Even the Apostle Paul? Well, was Paul a sinner? If the answer is yes, then yes,
he got what he deserved.

How about us? What if the Lord were to cause the sources of all our abundance
to dry up and our children were to begin starving? Would we deserve to die? Well, are
we sinners? If the answer is yes, then yes, we would only get what we deserve.

Okay, you can take a breath now.

So when I say that the general reason why God allows starvation is not told to
us, only that if he allows it, he must have some morally commendable and good reason
for doing it.

But there is also a specific answer to the question that goes to why God allows
people, even his own people, to go hungry. And the answer is found in the true
significance of the bread of the presence.

A Specific Answer to Starvation

As we’ve seen, the bread of the presence teaches us that God is our provider
and sustainer, sovereign over all agriculture. But it also teaches us more than that. It
teaches us about what we really need, but only in Jesus Christ.

Turn with me in your Bibles to John 6:1-13.

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After these things Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee (or
Tiberias). 2 A large crowd followed Him, because they saw the signs which He was
performing on those who were sick. 3 Then Jesus went up on the mountain, and there
He sat down with His disciples. 4 Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was near. 5
Therefore Jesus, lifting up His eyes and seeing that a large crowd was coming to Him,
said to Philip, "Where are we to buy bread, so that these may eat?" 6 This He was
saying to test him, for He Himself knew what He was intending to do. 7 Philip answered
Him, "Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, for everyone to
receive a little." 8 One of His disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to Him, 9
"There is a lad here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these for so
many people?" 10 Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." Now there was much grass in
the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand. 11 Jesus then took the
loaves, and having given thanks, He distributed to those who were seated; likewise also
of the fish as much as they wanted. 12 When they were filled, He *said to His disciples,
"Gather up the leftover fragments so that nothing will be lost." 13 So they gathered them
up, and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves which were left
over by those who had eaten.

Jesus feeds five thousand (something like 20,000 if you include women and
children) by supernaturally providing a meal for the hungry, fulfilling the symbolism of
the bread of the presence by providing for people’s physical needs.

But there is more to the symbolism of the bread than just provision of physical
food. Jump down to verses 32-33, 35.
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Jesus then said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, it is not Moses who has
given you the bread out of heaven, but it is My Father who gives you the true bread out
of heaven. 33 "For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives
life to the world.”
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Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me will not
hunger, and he who believes in Me will never thirst.

The deepest hunger we have is hunger for God. God has placed that hunger in
every member of the human family. The hunger for food and God’s provision of bread
is meant to point us to the deepest hunger we have as creatures made in God’s image
and likeness—hunger for him.

Since Jesus Christ is God in human flesh, the true God-Man, our hunger for God
is satisfied in a relationship with him.

1. The fact that God is our provider shows us that he does not want us to remain
under punishment.

2. It shows that he is compassionate, that he doesn’t take pleasure in seeing us

suffer.

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3. Instead, he takes suffering seriously by sending the provision of Christ to

meet the deepest lack we have, the one that is the source of our physical starvation—
our theological starvation.

So the provision of bread in the tabernacle points us to something deeper: the

bread who is Jesus Christ. The bread we really need. The one who alone satisfies the
hunger we have for God.

Conclusion
So if I have Christ, even though I starve to death, I have everything.

In John 6, Christ provides real food for real people who were really hungry in the
real world. But he also provides true food for people whose physical hunger was meant
to alert them to a deeper need—their need for God.

Just because people starve to death does not mean that God does not provide
for them; for he has given his Christ to the world. If they trust in him, they will have all
they need.

So then according to his goodness, God may choose to glorify the truth that
Christ is enough by allowing one of us to starve to death. But know this. Our life is not
here. It is hidden with Christ in God. We may starve to death here, but we will never be
susceptible to starvation in the New World, when Jesus comes back to make all things
new. You may starve now, but ultimately, because Jesus has definitively reversed the
effects of the fall, you will never starve again forever.

1. Only Christians can be comforted by this. Only we can be comforted by the

reality that even if God were to choose to withhold food and drink, clothing and shelter,
he is enough. For to us, to live is Christ, and to die is gain. We have freedom to live for
God.

2. So if you’re struggling right now to make ends meet you don’t have to worry
about what you’ll eat or drink or wear.

3. But not because he will certainly provide for your food and covering in the
here and now. For his glory, to magnify his all-sufficiency, he may choose to withhold it.
Of course, he may also, to demonstrate the same all sufficiency, choose to provide you
with your daily bread in the here and now. Either way, the Lord is our provider.

4. Either way, we can say with all confidence, “You open your hand and satisfy
the desire of every living thing” (Psalm 145:16).

5. Either way, we will always have all we need to live for the one in whose
presence is fullness of joy and pleasure forever.

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6. I don’t want to leave you with the impression that this is easy to believe—it
isn’t. Most of us have no idea what it’s like to look helplessly on as our children starve.
But my prayer is that even in the mundane sufferings of our fallen existence, we would
learn the lesson that Christ is sufficient, that Jesus has been given to us so we have all
the provision we need.

Redeemer Bible Church

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Exod 25:1-31:18: The Provision of the Tabernacle © 2006 by R W Glenn