The Real… Pastor Fonda Hinkle November 29, 2009. God Made Provision From Beginning Genesis 1:11-12 (King James Version) 11 And God said, Let the earth.

The Real…

Pastor Fonda Hinkle

November 29, 2009

God Made Provision From BeginningGenesis 1:11-12 (King James Version)

11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

God Gave A ChoiceGenesis 2:8-9 (King James Version)

 8 And the LORD God

planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

God Instructs Noah

Genesis 6:21 (King James Version)

21 And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.

Food & Obedience Often Go Hand In Hand

Genesis 9:3-4 (King James Version)

 3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.

 4 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

Food for the Birthright?Genesis 25:27-34 (King James Version)

 27And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.

 28And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.

 29And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:

 30And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.

Food for a Birthright?

 31And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.

 32And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me?

 33And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob.

 34Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.

Food for a Birthright?

This goes deeper. By selling his birthright (rights to the family name and a double portion of the inheritance), Esau was indicating that he didn’t respect God’s order of things. God had established the law of the birthright.

(see Duet. 21:15-17)

Jacob Uses Food to Acquire the Blessing of Isaac

Genesis 27:9-10 (King James Version)

 9 Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he loveth:

 10 And thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death.

Food Used to Bring About Forgiveness and Reconciliation

Genesis 42:10 (King James Version) 10 And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants

come.Genesis 45:1-7 (King James Version) 1 Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and

he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren.

 2 And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard.  

Food Used to Bring About Forgiveness and Reconciliation

 3 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence.

 4 And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.

 5 Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.

 6 For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.

 7 And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

In Exodus 12:1-28 we read about the Passover meal with very specific food:

• Lamb without blemish• Unleavened bread• Bitter herbs

Food Is Made Holy Upon Consecration Then To Be Eaten by the Congregation!

Exodus 29:31-34 (King James Version)

 31 And thou shalt take the ram of the consecration, and seethe his flesh in the holy place.

 32 And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

 33 And they shall eat those things wherewith the atonement was made, to consecrate and to sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat thereof, because they are holy.

 34 And if ought of the flesh of the consecrations, or of the bread, remain unto the morning, then thou shalt burn the remainder with fire: it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.

God Sent the “Bread of Heaven” (Manna)

Exodus 16:4-5 (King James Version)

 4 Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.

 5 And it shall come to pass, that on the sixth day they shall prepare that which they bring in; and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.

God Provided Meat

Exodus 16:11-13 (King James Version)

 11 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,  12 I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel:

speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God.

 13 And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host.

Jesus is the Rock with Living Water for Those Who Accept His Salvation!

Exodus 17:6 (King James Version)

6 Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

Dietary LawsDeuteronomy 14:3-20 (King James Version)

 3 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

 4 These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,

 5 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.

 6 And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.

Dietary Laws

 7 Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you.

 8 And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcase.

 9 These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat:

 10 And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you.

 11 Of all clean birds ye shall eat.  12 But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the

eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,

Dietary Laws

 14 And every raven after his kind,

 15 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,

 16 The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,

 17 And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,

 18 And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.

 19 And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.

 20 But of all clean fowls ye may eat.

Food for the PoorLeviticus 19:9-10 (King James Version)

 9 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest.

10 And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God.

• Ruth gleaned in Boaz’ field showing her humility and love

Food & A Test of Faith• In Numbers 13, we read

about the spies who spied out the land of Canaan, the land of promise, flowing with milk and honey.

• The grapes were so large it took two men to carry them upon staffs. The pomegranates were plentiful and fig trees were full of fruit of which they brought back samples to show Moses.

• Only Caleb and Joshua were convinced that they could conquer the land that was occupied by giants. They proclaimed their faith in God—again, a test of faith.

Man Shall Not Live by Bread Alone

Deuteronomy 8:3 (King James Version)

 3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live

Food (Naboth’s Vinyard) Used to Show Respect

• In 1 Kings 21 we read that Naboth refuses to sell his vinyard because he respects his inheritance.

God Prepares a Table for UsPsalm 23 (King James Version)

 1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.

 2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.

 3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

 4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

 5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.

 6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

Man Shall Not Live By Bread AloneMatthew 4:1-4 (King James

Version)

 1Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.

 2And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.

 3And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.

 4But 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.

(also in Luke 4)

Jesus’ 1St Miracle—Water Into WineJohn 2:6-10 (King James Version) 6 And there were set there six

waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.

 7 Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim.

 8 And he saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast. And they bare it.

 9 When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was: (but the servants which drew the water knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom,

 10 And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now.

Jesus Feeds the Multitude!

• Mark 6:30—44, Luke 9:10—17, John 6:1—14

Water—Everlasting Life!John 4:13-14 (King James Version)

 13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:

 14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

The Lord’s Supper—His Body & Blood1 Corinthians 11:23-25 (King James Version)

 23 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:

 24 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.

 25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, this cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.

Jesus Used Food to Show ForgivenessJohn 21:10-14 (King James

Version)

 10 Jesus saith unto them, Bring of the fish which ye have now caught.

 11 Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land full of great fishes, an hundred and fifty and three: and for all there were so many, yet was not the net broken.

 12 Jesus saith unto them, Come and dine. And none of the disciples durst ask him, Who art thou? knowing that it was the Lord.

 13 Jesus then cometh, and taketh bread, and giveth them, and fish likewise.

 14 This is now the third time that Jesus shewed himself to his disciples, after that he was risen from the dead.

Jesus Used Food to Show ForgivenessWhen true reconciliation occurs in eastern cultures, a meal is always shared (breaking of bread). Jesus conveys two things here:

1) The disciples are known as “sons of God”; and

2) 2) He forgave Peter Completely

153 is recognized as a numeric value for both “The Lord God who Forgives” and “Sons of God”

Feed My SheepJohn 21:15-17 (King James Version)

 15 So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs.

 16 He saith to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my sheep.

 17 He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.