2019-03-03 Numbers 11
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1 Now the people began complaining openly before the Lord about hardship. When the Lord heard, his anger burned, and fire from the Lord blazed among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.
2 Then the people cried out to Moses, and he prayed to the Lord, and the fire died down.
3 So that place was named Taberah, because the Lord’s fire had blazed among them.
4 The riffraff among them had a strong craving for other food. The Israelites wept again and said, “Who will feed us meat?
5 We remember the free fish we ate in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.
6 But now our appetite is gone; there’s nothing to look at but this manna!”
7 The manna resembled coriander seed, and its appearance was like that of bdellium.
8 The people walked around and gathered it. They ground it on a pair of grinding stones or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot and shaped it into cakes. It tasted like a pastry cooked with the finest oil.
9 When the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna would fall with it.
10 Moses heard the people, family after family, weeping at the entrance of their tents. The Lord was very angry; Moses was also provoked.
11 So Moses asked the Lord, “Why have you brought such trouble on your servant? Why are you angry with me, and why do you burden me with all these people?
12 Did I conceive all these people? Did I give them birth so you should tell me, ‘Carry them at your breast, as a nanny carries a baby,’ to the land that you swore to give their fathers?
13 Where can I get meat to give all these people? For they are weeping to me, ‘Give us meat to eat!’
14 I can’t carry all these people by myself. They are too much for me.
15 If you are going to treat me like this, please kill me right now if I have found favor with you, and don’t let me see my misery anymore.”
Start with John Piper Video
1 Now the people began complaining openly before the Lord about hardship. When the Lord heard, his anger burned, and fire from the Lord blazed among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.
2 Then the people cried out to Moses, and he prayed to the Lord, and the fire died down.
3 So that place was named Taberah, because the Lord’s fire had blazed among them.
4 The riffraff among them had a strong craving for other food. The Israelites wept again and said, “Who will feed us meat?
5 We remember the free fish we ate in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.
6 But now our appetite is gone; there’s nothing to look at but this manna!”
7 The manna resembled coriander seed, and its appearance was like that of bdellium.
8 The people walked around and gathered it. They ground it on a pair of grinding stones or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot and shaped it into cakes. It tasted like a pastry cooked with the finest oil.
9 When the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna would fall with it.
10 Moses heard the people, family after family, weeping at the entrance of their tents. The Lord was very angry; Moses was also provoked.
Is God’s provision enough for you?
Is God’s provision enough for you?
4 The riffraff among them had a strong craving for other food. The Israelites wept again and said, “Who will feed us meat?
5 We remember the free fish we ate in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.
6 But now our appetite is gone; there’s nothing to look at but this manna!”
God promises to provide all that we need.
God promises to provide all that we need.
4 The riffraff among them had a strong craving for other food. The Israelites wept again and said, “Who will feed us meat?
5 We remember the free fish we ate in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.
6 But now our appetite is gone; there’s nothing to look at but this manna!”
Illus: There is a massive divide between between what we think are needs, and what are actually needs.
We all “need” a smart phone. Oh yes, we also need internet and netflix.
Regarding food, we need more than just the staples but organic staples or staples that fit our diets, and frankly we “need” a dietary supplement on top of food.
Oh we do need a place to live, but frankly our place to live has to be greater than four walls, a kitchen and a toilet, but instead need to be at the level of our peers or even of our parents.
We all need a certain size TV, a certain level of truck, a certain rifle, a certain golf club, a certain tablet, you get the point.
We pervert the word need to justify buying things that that are not really needs.
When God says that he will provide your needs, he means your needs, not you perceived fake american needs.
1 “Carefully follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase, and may enter and take possession of the land the Lord swore to your fathers.
2 Remember that the Lord your God led you on the entire journey these forty years in the wilderness, so that he might humble you and test you to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands.
3 He humbled you by letting you go hungry; then he gave you manna to eat, which you and your fathers had not known, so that you might learn that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.
4 Your clothing did not wear out, and your feet did not swell these forty years.
5 Keep in mind that the Lord your God has been disciplining you just as a man disciplines his son.
6 So keep the commands of the Lord your God by walking in his ways and fearing him.
25 “Therefore I tell you: Don’t worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothing?
26 Consider the birds of the sky: They don’t sow or reap or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you worth more than they?
27 Can any of you add one moment to his life span by worrying?
28 And why do you worry about clothes? Observe how the wildflowers of the field grow: They don’t labor or spin thread.
29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was adorned like one of these.
30 If that’s how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and thrown into the furnace tomorrow, won’t he do much more for you—you of little faith?
God does not exist to enable us to worship the idol of materialism.
God does not exist to enable us to worship the idol of materialism.
4 The riffraff among them had a strong craving for other food. The Israelites wept again and said, “Who will feed us meat?
5 We remember the free fish we ate in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.
6 But now our appetite is gone; there’s nothing to look at but this manna!”
Illus: There is a ideology which is not the gospel that pretends to be the gospel here in America. It is called the prosperity gospel.
The prosperity gospel is a fake gospel that leads people away from Jesus. It teaches that if you follow God, He will give you your material desires, your career aspirations, your best life now. It is when we use God for self help, good vibes, motivation devoid of the cross of Christ.
One prominent prosperity preacher said, “I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams pray for the big things.. he's not a small God, this God is incredible,”
Sounds good, doesn’t it? Deep within our own selfish desire we want God to fill our wants and desires as if his is a blessing gumball machine.
This kind of false teaching takes our selfish materialistic idolatry and turns God into a divine sugar daddy.
I have seen this foolishness everywhere I have served, and it is an epidemic here in the miss-lou.
Our being drawn to this shows deeply that we share the sin of the Israelites, God should satisfy our souls, but instead we look for our own cheap desires to satisfy us.
1 “Carefully follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase, and may enter and take possession of the land the Lord swore to your fathers.
2 Remember that the Lord your God led you on the entire journey these forty years in the wilderness, so that he might humble you and test you to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands.
3 He humbled you by letting you go hungry; then he gave you manna to eat, which you and your fathers had not known, so that you might learn that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.
4 Your clothing did not wear out, and your feet did not swell these forty years.
5 Keep in mind that the Lord your God has been disciplining you just as a man disciplines his son.
6 So keep the commands of the Lord your God by walking in his ways and fearing him.
Are you a complainer?
Are you a complainer?
6 But now our appetite is gone; there’s nothing to look at but this manna!”
7 The manna resembled coriander seed, and its appearance was like that of bdellium.
8 The people walked around and gathered it. They ground it on a pair of grinding stones or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot and shaped it into cakes. It tasted like a pastry cooked with the finest oil.
9 When the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna would fall with it.
Complaining exposes a heart unsatisfied by God.
Complaining exposes a heart unsatisfied by God.
6 But now our appetite is gone; there’s nothing to look at but this manna!”
Illus: Lets just get this out there. We are ALL complainers. We all look around at what does not satisfy our expectations and will let others know what is wrong .
The problem is not just complaining, it is the heart underneath the complaint.
Think with me for a moment, we are living in the single most opulent time in the history of the world and we complain more than any other time in the history of the world.
Lets talk church for a moment…
We argue about worship style, need more conveniences, demand tailor made programs...
As a church we work harder and harder adding conveniences to keep you coming back...
All the while there is a elephant in the room we are not dealing with. If you are coming to church because of the music style, if you come to church because of the conveniences they offer, if we must constantly add or more preferential treatment to keep you coming back, then what satisfies your soul and leads you to church is not the transformation of God.
You are unsatisfied with God and looking for the style/building/programs/preferences of the church to fill a void only God can fill.
1 What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don’t they come from your passions that wage war within you?
2 You desire and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and wage war. You do not have because you do not ask.
3 You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
4 You adulterous people! Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? So whoever wants to be the friend of the world becomes the enemy of God.
There is a difference between provision and preference.
There is a difference between provision and preference.
6 But now our appetite is gone; there’s nothing to look at but this manna!”
Illus: If God satisfies you and he provides what you need, then what do you really have to complain about.
Will you take some time to watch and see what you complain about.
When you see yourself about to complain ask yourself… is this a preference, or a need?
More importantly what does this show about the contentment of my heart?
Does God really satisfy me, or am I looking for satisfaction in this preference.
5 Keep your life free from the love of money. Be satisfied with what you have, for he himself has said, I will never leave you or abandon you.
6 Therefore, we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
An attitude of ingratitude angers God.
An attitude of ingratitude angers God.
10 Moses heard the people, family after family, weeping at the entrance of their tents. The Lord was very angry; Moses was also provoked.
You can’t worship your preferences and also worship God.
You can’t worship your preferences and also worship God.
Illus: I have a challenge for you starting this week. Starting this Wednesday March the 6th and going all the way till Easter on April the 21st, I want you to go without. I want you to find something that you would genuinely miss in your life and give it up.
There is a question I want you to answer as you give up something that you miss, does God satisfy you, or do you look for secondary “needs” to satisfy you?
Will you take the challenge to go without, will you allow God to define what really satisfies you?
15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16 For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride in one’s possessions—is not from the Father, but is from the world.
17 And the world with its lust is passing away, but the one who does the will of God remains forever.