GRATEFULNESS SEES NO COMPLAINTS
Exodus 16:1-15
PRACTICE BEING GRATEFUL IN
ALL CIRCUMSTANCES
V:1. The whole Israelite community set out from
Elim and came to the
A. You can take the man out
of slavery, but you make never get slavery out of the man.
1. Freedom comes with responsibility.
2. The first responsibility of freedom is
gratefulness
3. Freedom comes because of the conviction
and labor of someone.
B. The Israelites cried out
to God because of their slavery in
1. They witness the power of God through
the 10 plagues and the
death
of the Egyptian army in the
2. Two months later they complained about
their freedom.
3. In Slavery, all the choices are made for
you.
4. In freedom, you have to make choices and
be responsible for
self and family,
C. Complaining focuses on
you, and gratefulness focuses on God.
1. Complaining blocks your view of the
blessing in front of you.
2. Gratefulness opens the door to the
wealth of God.
3. The same God that brought them out of
slavery will protect
them
in their freedom.
BLESSINGS ARE DESIGNED TO
TEST OUR OBEDIENCE
V:4 Then the Lord said to
Moses, "I will rain down bread from heaven for you. The people are to go
out each day and gather enough for that day. In this way, I will test them and
see whether they will follow my instructions. 5 On the sixth day, they are to
prepare what they bring in, and that is to be twice as much as they gather on
the other days."
A. God hears our complaints
as well as our praise.
1. We must remember that
with
God as free people.
2. Two months earlier, they knew about God But
did not recognized
Him as God of their lives or the
miracles was His
work on their behalf.
3. Before we judge the newly freed Israelites,
consider our
history when we first met Jesus.
4. We heard about Jesus from someone, but
we had to learn to trust
Him.
5. I would be willing to bet, that you
did not have complete trust
in Jesus, two months after you accepted Him as
your personal
savior.
6. It was not until you left home and got
on your own that you
learn to call on Jesus.
B. As for me, I had some years of touch
times, after I tried
all I
knew that didn't work before I decided to trust Jesus
1. I had some growing up time in the Lord.
2.
Their grumbling at Moses was really at the Lord who freed them.
3. That sounds like me.
4. I complained about not having enough
to eat when I had a full
loaf of bread in my hand.
5. I could see the end of the bread, but
could not see the hand that
gave me the bread.
6. You know you are maturing when you
see the last piece of bread,
but trust God to give you another
loaf.
C. Every day, God rains down blessings on
us.
1. The question is, do we see God in the
blessings?
2.
The newly freed Israelites would have to learn to trust God.
3. God started their training by answering
their grumbling
with enough bread and meat for a day for six days in a row.
4. On the sixth day, they were commanded to
gather enough for
the seventh day.
5. This would the start of the Sabbath
memorial.
GIVE GOD THE CREDIT FOR
THE GOOD IN YOUR LIFE
V:6. So Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites,
"In the evening you will know that it was the Lord who brought you out of
A. God gives us pastors to
remind us of His Words and His works.
1. Pastors are given to us to hear God's
instructions for our lives.
2. When we complain against the Pastors,
we are complaining against
God.
B. It is the job of the
pastor to bring attention to the Word, so you can see
The glory of God at work.
1.
God had performed 11 miracles to bring
of
2. They did not see God in the
miracles.
3. Moses gave The Israelites a specific
Word from the Lord
that they would have meat in the evenings and
all the bread
they could eat in the morning.
4. Some time for you to take God
seriously, He will do something
specific to satisfy your need.
START YOUR DAY WITH THE
LORD
V:9. Then Moses told Aaron, "Say to the entire
Israelite community, 'Come before the Lord, for he has heard your
grumbling.'"
10 While Aaron was speaking
to the whole Israelite community, they looked toward the desert, and there was
the glory of the Lord appearing in the cloud.
11 The Lord said to Moses, 12
"I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites. Tell them, 'At twilight you
will eat meat, and in the morning you will be filled with bread. Then you will
know that I am the Lord your God.'"
13 That evening quail came
and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the
camp. 14 When the dew was gone, thin flakes like frost on the ground appeared
on the desert floor.
A. When the Lord speaks, you
will know that it is Him working in
your
life.
1. The Israelites, a million-plus people
was in the desert where there was
no abundant life.
2.
Yet quail covered the ground at night and bread covered the ground
in the morning.
3. Let’s state it again, they were in the
desert, there was nothing to
eat.
4. Birds don’t flock together where there is
nothing to eat.
a. The first miracle was a large number
of birds coming to the ground
where there is nothing to
eat,
b. It is believed that migrating quail
flew at night and hid during
the day.
c. The second miracle is they were in large
enough numbers to
feed a million-plus people.
d. The third miracle is the quail
didn't fly away when humans
came toward them.
5. This was clearly the glory of God.
B. The next event was a
miracle that had never happen before.
1.
In the morning, thin flakes appeared on the ground
after the dew dried.
2. The flakes were in abundance enough to
feed a million
-plus people.
3. God provides what we need to draw us
close to Him.
GOD KNOW HOW TO GET YOUR
ATTENTION
V:15 When the Israelites saw
it, they said to each other, "What is it?" For they did not know what it was.
Moses said to them, "It
is the bread the Lord has given you to
eat.
A. The Lord is the bread of
life,
1. The true bread is the Word of God.
2. Each time we study God's Word we are
eating spiritual
bread.
3. Digesting the spiritual bread
strengthens the mind.
B. Each time we study God’s
Word we ought to have questions
That leads us the deeper
investigation.
1. Reading the Word ought to wet your
appetite for the wisdom of
God.
2. The wisdom of man is full of deceptions,
miss information
and selfish desires.
3. The wisdom of God promotes unselfish
behavior, humbleness, and
the
righteousness of God.
4. When the Israelites saw the work of God,
they wanted to know
what is it, because all they knew was the
evilness of man.
C. They had to labor for food in slavery.
1. But the Lord gave them food at no cost.
2. God's salvation is free to us. All we
have to do is open our
and receive it.
THANK GOD FOR HIS TENDER
MERCIES
Rev. M. Mitchell
Asst. Pastor Of Greater
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