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The Gift of Christmas Presence

If we continue to eat of only our resources we will be malnourished

The dollar a day diet two teachers

Oatmeal

Tortillas and beans tang

Lost fourteen lbs.

*Experiencing him on the inside and not just on the outside*

It is the great gift

Our search for him is the conclusion of a search he started for us before we were born

2 chronicles 4:19

And Solomon made all the vessels that /were for/ the house of God, the golden altar also, and the tables whereon the *shewbread* /was set;/

Or the bread of the presence

The bread with a face lehem  pawneem

*niv19* Solomon also made all the furnishings that were in God's temple: the golden altar; the tables on which was the *bread of the Presence*;

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*19* Solomon also made all the things that /were/ in the house of God: even the golden altar, the tables with the *bread of the Presence* on them

We have a need for him just like bread

*Not only knowing about him but knowing who he is personally*

Born in the house of bread…beth lehem house of bread

*Joh 6:48*  I am that bread of life.

*Business hinders our pursuit of God’s presence*

*Mar 3:20*  And the multitude cometh together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.

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Joh 6:7  Philip answered him, Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may take a little.

*Self centeredness is robbing us of powerful blessings*

Mar 8:17  And when Jesus knew /it,/ he saith unto them, Why reason ye, because ye have no bread?

perceive ye not yet, neither understand?

have ye your heart yet hardened?

My self centeredness is going to suck every last drop of goodness from me

 

*Jesus has resources that are not apparent to the world*

*Joh 4:32*  But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of.

Joh 4:33  Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him /ought/ to eat?

Joh 4:34  Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.

Joh 4:35  Say not ye, There are yet four months, and /then/ cometh harvest?

behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.

Joh 4:36  And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.

Joh 4:37  And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.

Joh 4:38  I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.

*The word of God should never be in short supply in this country!*

Mat 4:3  And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.

*Mat 4:4*  But 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.

 

 

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*Our needs are important to God*

Mar 2:23  And it came to pass, that he went through the corn fields on the sabbath day; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of corn.

Mar 2:24  And the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful?

Mar 2:25  And he said unto them, Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was an hungred, he, and they that were with him?

Mar 2:26  How he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the shewbread, which is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave also to them which were with him?

Mar 2:27  And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:

Knowing that this time is for us we are not for this time

This is a great principle in respect to the Sabbath Day and its meaning.

The Law was really made for man and not man for the Sabbath.

Another great principle is that the Lord Jesus is the Lord of the Sabbath.

Mar 2:28  Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.

shewbread

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Plural (but always used as a singular) of an unused noun (פּנה pâneh, /paw-neh'/; from 6437); the /face/ (as the part that /turns/); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (/before/, etc.): -  + accept, a (be-) fore (-time), against, anger, X as (long as), at, + battle, + because (of), + beseech, countenance, edge, + employ, endure, + enquire, face, favour, fear of, for, forefront (-part), form (-er time, -ward), from, front, heaviness, X him (-self), + honourable, + impudent, + in, it, look [-eth] (-s), X me, + meet, X more than, mouth, of, off, (of) old (time), X on, open, + out of, over against, the partial, person, + please, presence, prospect, was purposed, by reason, of, + regard, right forth, + serve, X shewbread, sight, state, straight, + street, X thee, X them (-selves), through (+ -out), till, time (-s) past, (un-) to (-ward), + upon, upside (+ down), with (-in, + stand), X ye, X you.

The bread with a face was born in the house of bread

The bread of presence

A symbol of the Christ who was to be

The bread of life

*Mark 2:26*

*The shewbread (**τοὺς ἄρτους τῆς προθέσεως)*

Lit., /the loaves of proposition, /i.e., the loaves which were /set forth /before the Lord*.

The Jews called them the /loaves of the face, /i.e., of /the presence of God.

/The bread was made* of the finest wheaten flour that had been passed through eleven sieves.

There were twelve loaves, or cakes, according to the number of tribes, ranged in two piles of six each.

Each cake was made of about five pints of wheat.

They were anointed in the middle with oil, in the form of a cross.

According to tradition, each cake was five hand-breadths broad and ten long, but turned up at either end, two hand-breadths on each side, to resemble in outline the ark of the covenant.

The shewbread was prepared on Friday, unless that day happened to be a feast-day that required sabbatical rest; in which case it was prepared on Thursday afternoon.

The renewal of the shewbread was the first of the priestly functions on the commencement of the Sabbath.

The bread which was taken off was deposited on the golden table in the porch of the sanctuary, and distributed among the outgoing and incoming courses of priests (compare /save for the priests/)/.

/It was eaten during the Sabbath, and in the temple itself, but only by such priests as were Levitically pure.

This old bread, removed on the Sabbath morning, was that which David ate.

 

—Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament*/When Abiathar was high priest/* (/epi Abiathar archiereōs/).

Neat Greek idiom, in the time of Abiathar as high priest.

There was confusion in the Massoretic text and in the LXX about the difference between Ahimelech (Abimelech) and Abiathar (2 Samuel 8:17), Ahimelech's son and successor (1 Samuel 21:2; 1 Samuel 22:20).

Apparently Ahimelech, not Abiathar was high priest at this time.

It is possible that both father and son bore both names (1 Samuel 22:20; 2 Samuel 8:17; 1 Chron.

18:16), Abiathar mentioned though both involved.

/Epi/ may so mean in the passage about Abiathar.

Or we may leave it unexplained.

They had the most elaborate rules for the preparation of the shewbread (/tous artous tēs protheseōs/), the loaves of presentation, the loaves of the face or presence of God.

It was renewed on the commencement of the sabbath and the old bread deposited on the golden table in the porch of the Sanctuary.

This old bread was eaten by the priests as they came and went.

This is what David ate.

For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings [Hos.

6:6].

The people were merely going through a form.

My friend, you can go to church on Sunday and be as fundamental as you can be.

You may criticize the preacher, criticize the choir, criticize everybody -- maybe they deserve it, I don't know -- but God's desire is that you put His Word into shoe leather, that you allow it to get down where the rubber meets the road, and that there be an evidence of mercy in your own heart and life.

Don't think that going to a church banquet is somehow a substitute for truly eating the Bread of Life or of enjoying a big porterhouse steak from the Word of God.

No church function is a substitute for really studying the Word of God.

 

—J.

Vernon McGee's Thru The Bible*/Was prepared/* (/kateskeuasthē/).

First aorist passive of /kataskeuazō/.

See Hebrews 3:3.

For the furniture see Exodus 25; Exodus 26.

Three items are named here: the candlestick (/hē luchnia/, late word for /luchnion/) or lampstand, necessary since there were no windows (Exodus 25:31-39); the table (/hē trapeza/, old word, Matthew 15:27) for the bread (Exodus 25:23-30; Leviticus 24:6 of pure gold); the shewbread (/hē prothesis tōn artōn/) as in Exodus 25:30; Exodus 40:23; Leviticus 24:5-9.

Probably a hendiadys for the table with the loaves of God's Presence.—Word

Pictures in the New Testament