### Bible Study Outlines

Volume 4, Lesson 12
by C.I. Scofield

## Wilderness Experiences, Part II

### Hunger and Thirst (Exodus 16,17)

1. Tested by hunger

1. The murmuring people
   - Exodus 16:2,3 -- "Would to God we had died... when we did eat bread to the full"
   - Numbers 11:4,5 -- "We remember the fish... cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick"
2. The answer of grace
   - Exodus 16:4 -- "Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you"

   Manna is a wonderful picture of Christ, as the "Bread of Life."

   - John 6:32,33 -- "The true bread... He which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life"
   - John 6:48 -- "I am that Bread of Life"

   Just like the manna, He seemed "a small... thing" (Exodus 16:14), but He had the Spirit's fullness. Every precious word that fell from His lips "was as the taste of fresh oil" (Numbers 11:8). He is the food of every believer who meditates upon Him and His words.

- Tested by thirst

1. The people's response
   - Exodus 17:1 -- "There was no water"
   - Exodus 17:3 -- "And the people murmured"
2. The answer of grace
   - Exodus 17:2 -- "Wherefore do ye tempt the Lord?"
   - Exodus 17:5,6 -- "There shall come water out of it, that the people may drink"
   - 1Corinthians 10:4 -- "That Rock was Christ"
   - Ephesians 2:1-6 -- "You hath He quickened [made alive]... children of disobedience"

   Again, a wonderful and lovely type of Christ as the giver of "the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus" (Romans 8:2) to an unworthy but needy people.

3. Life through grace
   - John 4:10 -- "He would have given thee living water."
     A free gift (compare Romans 6:23 and Ephesians 2:8).
   - Romans 5:20 -- "Grace did much more abound." An abundant gift.
4. Bestowed by the Spirit
   - John 4:14 -- "The water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life"

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