PRAY AND WATCH THE LORD WORK
Numbers 11:24-35
SUBMIT
YOURSELF TO THE ANOINTING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
V:24 So
Moses went out and told the people what the Lord had said. He brought together
seventy of their elders and had them stand around the Tent. 25 Then the Lord
came down in the cloud and spoke with him, and he took of the Spirit that was
on him and put the Spirit on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on
them, they prophesied, but they did not do so again.
A. Moses had the anointing to handle all
complaints, but he did not have the “want to”.
1. The anointing that was on Moses was shared
with or at least placed on the
70 elders.
2. We found Moses complaining to the
Lord about the complaints he was receiving.
3. We do not find in scripture where
Moses prayed for strength to handle the
Complaints to return to
Egypt.
4. We do not find in scripture where
Moses counseled with the nation on God’s plan
To reach the promised
land.
B. Before we complain we should go to
God in prayer with thanksgiving asking for
His divine guidance.
1. I suggest that God's solution would
have been the same.
2. Select 70 elders, consecrate them for
the job of handling the complaints.
3. The evidence that the Spirit rested
with each of the Elders was their immediate
Prophesying.
4. God has equipped each of us with the
Spirit to serve His people.
C. Let me suggest that even though the
70 elders were anointed with Spirit
That they were not submissive to the Spirit.
1. The text says they only prophesied
once.
2. You are empowered by the Spirit as
long as you are submissive to the Spirit.
3. We all have the indwelling of the
Spirit, but are we submissive to the Spirit.
4. We have been anointed to serve God,
but do we serve Him continuously.
5. We are committed to the job at work
for the paycheck but are we committed
To be good all the time.
DON’T
HINDER THE GIFTS OF OTHERS
V:26
However, two men, whose names were Eldad and Medad, had remained in the camp.
They were listed among the elders but did not go out to the Tent. Yet the
Spirit also rested on them, and they prophesied in the camp. 27 A young man ran
and told Moses, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp."
V:28 Joshua
son of Nun, who had been Moses' aide since youth, spoke up and said,
"Moses, my lord, stop them!"
A. We should not judge people when we
don’t know their stories.
1. Just because people are doing
something different from what we
Are led to do, don’t make
them wrong.
2. Each of us is given gifts according
to God’s divine plan for our lives.
3. We have no reason to complain about
someone’s spiritual gifts.
4. We should never discourage someone
from using their God-given gifts.
B. Two of the elders did not go to the gate
of the tabernacle to meet God.
1. God does not tell us why, and we
should not judge.
2. Notice the two elders who stayed in
the camp were anointed where
They were.
3. When God gets ready to use you, He
will come to you no matter where
You are.
C. We all complain from time to time.
1. We need to be careful who we complain
about and who we complain to.
2. You may be complaining about someone
God has sent to bless you.
3. God's anointed exist at the Church
and outside the church.
4. God's anointed represents the Church
no matter where they are.
BE JOYFUL
FOR THE GIFTS OF OTHERS
V:29 But
Moses replied, "Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all the Lord's
people were prophets and that the Lord would put his Spirit on them!" 30
Then Moses and the elders of Israel returned to the camp.
A. Joshua one of God’s anointed,
complained because he honored Moses and
didn’t
Want anyone to cease his authority.
1. God has more than one preacher
2. We all have a job assigned to us by
the Lord.
3. If we focus on our anointing we want to
have time to be jealous of others.
4. The Word we have received from the Lord
is the Word He expects us
To share with others.
B. When we leave the Church, our job is
to take the Word to the community.
1. Every gift we have been given is for
the community.
2. We receive our assignment in the
temple of the Lord.
3. The temple of the Lord is brought to
the community when we show up.
GOD WILL
PROVE HIMSELF TO YOU
V:31 Now a
wind went out from the Lord and drove quail in from the sea. It brought them
down all around the camp to about three feet above the ground, as far as a
day's walk in any direction. 32 All that day and night and all the next day the
people went out and gathered quail. No one gathered less than ten homers. Then
they spread them out all around the camp.
A. Our complaints to the Lord are
without basis.
1. What God said He will do, He will do
in His time.
2. We never know how God will bless us.
3. Sometimes He blesses us in ways that
are unknown to us.
4. The Israelites had never seen quail
hover above for miles in all directions.
5. They proclaimed all they had in Egypt,
but they never had the abundance
That God provided.
6. God can blow a blessing your way that
you don’t have to work for.
B. Moses complained that there was not
enough fish in the sea to feed the two million people who were gathered in the
desert.
1. Our unbelief is God’s opportunity to glorify
Himself.
2. Our prayer will be answered if we
only believe.
3. God gives us desert times so we know His
miracles when they show up
In our lives.
THE
CONSEQUENCES OF STIRRING UP DISSATISFACTION
V:33 But
while the meat was still between their teeth and before it could be consumed,
the anger of the Lord burned against the people, and he struck them with a
severe plague. 34 Therefore the place was named Kibroth Hattaavah, because
there they buried the people who had craved other food.
A. Everyone in the camp was blessed with
quail.
1. The consequence of rejecting God is death.
2. Those who spread the complaints
against God were struct dead as they ate.
3. You will not enjoy the blessing of
God complaining to Him.
B. It was important that God cleaned the
camp of the trouble makers
For the sake of His nation.
1. A little leaven leavens the whole
dough.
2. In the middle of the desert, God needed
to show His people the blessing of
Belief and the curse of
unbelief.
3. God designs our circumstances to grow
our faith in Him.
4. You tend to call on God when you have
to bury someone you know.
JOURNEY FROM
DEATH TO LIFE
V:35 From
Kibroth Hattaavah the people traveled to Hazeroth and stayed there.
A. The Hebrew name Kibroth Hattaavah means
graves of the longing or lust
1. The Hebrew name Hazeroth means
enclosures.
2. It is God’s design to move us from
the graveyard of life to the place of enclosures.
3. When we are involved in the complaints
of the world, we are in the
Graveyard.
a. In the graveyard are dome and gloom.
b. The graveyard is void of hope and
joy.
c. There is no life in the graveyard.
B. God encloses us in the righteousness of
His armor.
1. We have a choice to complain about
what we don’t have or praise God
For what we do have.
2. We can choose the graveyard or the blessing
of the Lord.
3. We ought to stay in the place of enclosures.
4. In Him we move, we live, and have our
being.
Rev. M.
Mitchell
Asst. Pastor
Of Greater Macedonia Baptist Church
5510 West
Sam Houston Parkway North
Houston,
Texas 77041
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