This is Spoken Gospel.

We’re dedicated to seeing
Jesus in all of scripture.

In each episode, we see
what’s happening in a Biblical text

and how it sheds light
on Jesus and his gospel.

Let’s jump in.

Israel has made it out of Egypt.

They are now traveling to Mount Sinai, where
God first spoke to Moses in the burning bush.

But on their way, they begin to
complain that they are hungry.

They start blaming Moses and even regretting
the fact that God freed them from slavery.

Despite their lack of appreciation
and faith, God is still faithful.

He sends bread from heaven in the
morning, and quail from heaven in the evening.

The people are allowed to gather
as much as they need for their family,

but they were not to
keep any food overnight.

God wanted them to trust that he would
provide what they needed every day.

There was one exception to the
rule of not keeping any leftovers.

On the seventh day of the
week, the people were to rest

from all their work,
even just gathering food.

This day of rest was called the Sabbath.

It was a weekly reminder that the people can rest
from their work because God will provide.

So, on the day before the Sabbath,
they were allowed to gather

twice as much as they needed
to keep it for the next day.

But even with this double
provision, people still went out

and searched for more
food on their day of rest.

They didn’t trust God to provide.

In the Gospel of John, Jesus teaches
that there is a truer bread from heaven

when he says,
“I am the bread of life.”

The truest bread from heaven
is Jesus himself.

It is his body that he
gave for us on the cross.

For the Israelites ate the bread
from heaven, but still grew old and died.

But anyone who eats Jesus,
the true bread, will never die.

That is because Jesus
died to give us his life.

But how do we eat Jesus?
We believe in him.

This truth leads us to finally take a
true Sabbath rest every day of our lives.

We don’t have a scarcity of
salvation, we're fully saved in Christ.

We don’t need to hoard up merits
or favor with God for a rainy day

when we happen to
sin more than usual.

Jesus’ blood is new every
morning and purifies us daily.

We can enter into a perpetual
Sabbath rest.

We can rest from our laborious work.
We do not have to earn our salvation.

We can rest in the
fact that it is finished.

I pray that the Holy Spirit gives you eyes
to see the God who always provides exactly

what his people need because
he wants to give them peace.

And that you would see Jesus as the bread
of life who brings us our final Sabbath rest.