09/08/2026
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In the wilderness God provided food for His people through manna. He nurtured and fed His sheep by providing bread from heaven. He instructed the Israelites to take some manna out of the wilderness and preserve it so that future generations would know that the Lord God omnipotent had fed His people with bread from heaven (Ex. 16:33) until later when One would stand up and say, "I am the bread of life" (John 6:35). The Old Testament Scriptures pointed beyond the manna that was gathered from the dew of the earth to the manna that comes down from heaven.
There is a divine agreement within the Godhead - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. They are working together in and through the Word. The Spirit does not divorce Himself from the Word. Many want to be led by the Spirit without the Word, but they cannot distinguish between the leading of God and indigestion, because they have nothing concrete against which to check their inclinations and hunches. The Holy Spirit leads and teaches in the Word and through the Word, but never against the Word. "So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God" (Rom. 10:17).
—R.C. Sproul, “The Power of the Gospel: A Year in Romans”
