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I believe:
The church is plagued with dissatisfaction.
The church is focusing more on being welcoming and entertaining than it is on worshiping God.
The culture is pushing back on Christianity with such force that we must purify and reform ourselves, else be found to be hypocrites.
Read 2 Peter 2.
We see the greatest example of this in Exodus 16 and 17.
Summarize Exodus 16:1-17:7.
v1-3 The people grumble in the wilderness.
v4-8 The Lord speaks to Moses.
v9-12 Moses and Aaron instruct the people.
v13-18 God gives quail and bread.
v19-21 The people disobey and anger Moses.
v22-26 The people gather for the Sabbath.
v27-30 The people disobey and anger God.
v31-36 The description of manna.
v7:1-3 The people grumble again.
v4 Moses cries out to God.
v5-6 God instructs Moses.
v7 Moses obeys.
When we’re dissatisfied, we grumble.
Why do we grumble?
We desire our own way, for our preferences to be satisfied over the will and work of God.
We grow angry at one another when we perceive someone else as receiving a blessing we deserve.
We are not people of prayer, bringing every need to God, but we are instead people of covetousness.
We try to satisfy our ever-growing desires instead of being satisfying to our creator.
We place ourselves at odds with God because we would rather be favorably seen by the world than be holy before God.
When we grumble, God shows kindness.
Referring to Ho 14:4 “4 I will heal their apostasy; I will love them freely, for my anger has turned from them.”
Spurgeon, “Morning and Evening,” Oct. 22 AM - It is blessed to know that the grace of God is free to us at all times, without preparation, without fitness, without money, and without price!
“I will love them freely.”
These words invite backsliders to return: indeed, the text was specially written for such—“I will heal their backsliding; I will love them freely.”
Backslider! surely the generosity of the promise will at once break your heart, and you will return, and seek your injured Father’s face.
When we’re dissatisfied, we rebel.
We reject His perfect provision and try to do things on our own.
When we rebel, God disciplines us.
Jesus Rebuked Peter
Illustration: Jokingly using this about not having any more children.
When we’re dissatisfied, we make factions.
We see it in Acts 6, 1 Cor 3, the Pauline epistles (primarily of the Judaizers), Eph 2 (the circumcision and the uncircumcision), James 2, 5 the rich and the poor.
When we divide the church, God judges.
The church is under attack by a spirit of dissatisfaction.
We want a standard for our church facilities, but do not hold the same standard for the true church, the saints of God.
We want a comfortable theology, not one that challenges us.
The church rebels against holiness.
We accept and even endorse unrighteousness under the banner of “nobody’s perfect.”
We welcome the sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, practicing homosexuals, thieves, greedy, drunkards, revilers, and swindlers.
But Paul says in 1 Cor 6:11 “11 And such were some of you.
But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.”
And some have done worse:
Pr 26:11 “11 Like a dog that returns to his vomit is a fool who repeats his folly.”
The Good News is that as we heard from Spurgeon earlier, God invites the backslidden to return and freely lavishes His love upon the repentant.
Your prayer this morning should be for:
“Who’s your one?”
Repentance for backsliding.
Healing among our church body.
Opportunities to serve one another.
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