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Exodus Chapter 16
Good morning everyone.
I am going to be continuing our series through Exodus today!
It is always a joy getting to preach the word of God to you on Sunday mornings.
I am really excited for today’s story and my prayer has been that the Lord would speak to you.
Let’s begin our time by praying.
Father, you are so good to us.
You provide all that we need, you have given us life through your son, Jesus.
Please teach us this morning through your word, give us open hearts to receive your truth.
Help me to speak clearly, I ask that the things I say would be helpful to your people.
In Jesus name, Amen.
We are going to pick up where we left off last week in the end of Exodus chapter 15.
A little bit of a recap, the Israelite people had just crossed the Red Sea and spirits were high!
People are feeling great about being delivered out of slavery and are actually singing a song of praise to the Lord for His deliverance.
God had just crushed his enemies in the sea and everyone is happy, celebrating the victory, things are great.
This is where we are going to pick up the story.
Turn to Exodus Chapter 15, starting in verse 22 we will read to the end of the chapter.
So the Israelite people leave the red see and set out on the their journey through the wilderness of Shur.
They are 3 days into their journey and they haven’t found any water up to this point.
I’m not going to downplay the seriousness of that situation, it’s a real trail to survive the wilderness without water for three days.
This would have been the upper limit of their capabilities.
They finally find water, but it is undrinkable.
This was a major blow to moral, and doubt floods into their minds.
Even though three days earlier they witnessed the mighty hand of God delivering them in the most miraculous way, they are beginning to grumble and complain.
They say to Moses “What shall we drink?”
Moses’ response to this is to cry out to the Lord for provision.
The Lord shows Moses a log, and in the usual fashion, God has Moses perform an act that requires faith by throwing the log into the bitter water.
This turns the water from un-drinkable, to drinkable.
The Lord then uses this opportunity to establish a simple statute and rule for them.
They ultimately arrive in Elim, there they have shade, water, and rest.
This is the beginning of a long pattern we will see in the weeks to follow.
The pattern of an unfaithful, grumbling, complaining people that God continues to show steadfast love toward.
We will see more of that as we dive into Chapter 16, but we first need to understand the parallel between what is happening in these stories and our own lives.
We need to see this story apply to us, because the application is huge!
The Israelite people are post deliverance at this point.
God has rescued them from their slavery.
Those of us who are in Christ are free from our slavery, we have also been delivered.
We are going to talk more about that as we walk through chapter 16, but it is critical that you do not separate yourself from the bigger context that the Israelite people are in as they relate to God in the wilderness.
With that being said, lets dive into chapter 16:
This first three verses really set the stage for the points we are coving in this sermon.
The Israelites leave Elim, and continue their journey through the wilderness.
They are several months into their journey at this point, and we are going to the same pattern I referenced earlier start to unfold.
That pattern is grumbling and complaining, Mosses anger or poor response, and God’s steadfast love for his people.
Their issue at this point in the story is not having enough food.
They begin to grumble and complain, resenting the fact that they were freed from Egypt in the first place.
In fact, they are even making comments about dying in slavery in Egypt with a full belly rather than the discomfort they are experiencing in their freedom.
Read again with me starting in verse 4 to see the Lord’s response.
I am going to have three main points in this sermon, and this leads us to my first point:
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When you grumble, your grumbling is against the Lord.
First and foremost, what does it mean to grumble?
That isn’t a word you might hear as often.
To grumble means “to complain about something is a bad-tempered way.”
So essentially, grumbling is like complaining, but worse… It carries with it a very negative, ungrateful, spiteful, whining, kind of connotation.
Naturally, mosses is very offended by this, but we says something interesting in verse 8.
I want us to look closely at how applies to us, because grumbling might be the most frequently overlooked sin in our day…
Track with me here:
The Israelites were slaves in Egypt, God by his mighty hand set them free from their slavery.
They are no longer slaves, they’re free!
God provided a way for his people.
Does this sound familiar to anyone?
We too were once slaves, dead in our trespasses and sins.
Now we are alive in Christ, freed from slavery to sin.
This is the most incredible thing that we have, Freedom of our slavery to sin! Now we are exiles, on a pilgrimage, to reach the final glory that will be revealed to us in Christ.
You have probably picked up on this by now in the sermon series, but if not, Exodus is a picture of redemption.
A picture of our redemption!
So who are we in this story?
We are the Israelite people.
We have been given SO MUCH by God in our salvation and freedom.
He delivered us with the same mighty hand that parted the Red Sea.
The Israelites were given so much by God, but they grumbled as soon as any hardship that came their way.
Things got a little uncomfortable and they grumble against God.
Essentially saying they don’t want his deliverance they would rather die in their slavery back in Egypt.
Now what’s interesting is that we have the same problem with grumbling, but often for a different reason…
A lot of our grumbling comes NOT from real trials, but from being spoiled to the core.
Most of the time, when I am having trouble pursuing God, it is because I am rich and spoiled.
The same might be true for you… We are christians living in a very wealthy country… If you make $34,000 dollars a year or more you are in the top 1% of wage earners Globally.
We are all very, very blessed.
But you know what’s mind bending and backwards?? Our natural response to this blessing isn’t thankfulness… it’s grumbling!
Things that we really shouldn’t even consider “Problems” become so huge in our lives that we grumble against God.
When our comforts and our idols of abundant wealth don’t please us the way we want we turn against God and grumble!
We aren’t grumbling because we don’t enough food in the desert… We are grumbling because we accidentally burned the meat on the grill.
Or because Netflix isn’t loading fast enough…
Now don’t get me wrong, both kinds of grumbling are bad.
It doesn’t matter if you are grumbling out of an excess of wealth and blessing or extreme hardship.
BOTH are failing to recognize God’s gift of deliverance and his provision for you.
That is exactly the point Mosses is making in verse 8. God has given you so much by delivering you from slavery.
You might think you’re grumbling against some external circumstance or some person, but it is God in his providence that has put you in the situation you are in.
He has a purpose and intent for the things that happen in our lives.
When we grumble, we are grumbling against God.
We should be the most thankful people on earth.
Not even because of our blessings, but because God has delivered us from slavery.
Let’s continue the story in verse 9:
The Lord is so gracious… He hears their grumbling, but in love passes over judgment and cares for them.
He’s choosing in this instance to provide for his people in a miraculous way!
In the evening he brings massive flocks of quail for them to eat, and in the morning bread from heaven called Manna.
This miraculous act of God is also meant to teach a valuable lesson.
Look at what it says in verse 20
The instructions they received was NOT to leave the bread until the morning, but to gather each day what only what they needed.
This is because what God is demonstrating to them is Daily provision.
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