I have to remember that it was
Moses that wrote all of this. He was inspired by the Holy Spirit.
Holy men of God speak as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
Moses was inspired by God to write the original down and God
preserved it so that we could enjoy and appreciate a translation
of that today. In the 10th chapter of the book
of Numbers, verses 34 through 36, we read these words. And
it just seems like a high waterline. Just, wow, Moses is right up
here just thanking the Lord. They're finally moving away from
Sinai. They're finally on their travels.
They're finally headed for the promised land. They're finally
fulfilling the purpose of God. Things are going well. And he
has this to say in his prayer as we conclude that chapter.
And the cloud of the Lord, verse 34 of the 10th chapter, the cloud
of the Lord, there's a much to be said right there, the cloud
of the Lord, the cloud of Jehovah, was upon them by day when they
went out of the camp. And it came to pass when the
ark set forward that Moses said, rise up, Jehovah, rise up, Lord,
and let thine enemies be scattered. And let them that hate thee flee
before thee. Verse 36, and when it rested,
he said, return, O Lord, unto the many thousands of Israel.
Return to your people. Come and rest here. What a great
joy. There is more than one message
in those two verses of scripture. High water mark. Moses is just
so glad as the providence of God moves in and among them. If we were not going through
the Bible verse by verse, this chapter, this book, verse by
verse, I would never go to chapter 11 verses 1 and 2. I would skip over it. But since
we're going through it, we're going to go there. So would you turn
with me to the next chapter? And when the people, did you
notice that? Complained. If we were not going through
this verse by verse, I would never stop here. But there is
a message here. And when the people complained,
it displeased the Lord. We'd like to spend some time
looking into the scriptures of why people complain about the
Lord. And we hope We can thank God
for Him taking us away from some of that. Alright. And when the
people complained, it displeased the Lord. Now this is the Lord
God Almighty, this is the Lord Jehovah, this is the Almighty
King, this is the creator of heaven and earth, this is the
one that has led them out of Egypt, this is the one that procured
their safe passage, the one that brought them to the Red Sea,
the one that settled them down there at Mount Sinai, the one
that gave them the pattern for the temple, excuse me, for the
tabernacle, the one that gave them and they built it and it
represented how God was going to save his people. We preach
Christ and him crucified. In that day and time, the Lord
had not come yet. Just as we look back, they look
forward, those who knew something and they pictured it and it was
a type and a shadow in all of those sacrifices and everything
that that tabernacle represented. Lord willing, next week we're
going to take the Lord's Supper and there's no saving factor
whatsoever in it. It typifies, it pictures. There's a shadow here about what
the Lord did for his people. His shed blood and his broken
body on the behalf of his people to secure their eternal salvation. Well, they looked at that too,
as they went through the Old Testament there, through the
book of Numbers, through the book of Leviticus, through the
book of Exodus, and we see those things, the types and shadows
and pictures, they had that before them, just as we do in that. But here, it says they were the
Lord of Glory. heard it, and his anger was kindled,
and the fire of the Lord burned among them and consumed them
that were the uttermost parts of the camp. And the people cried
unto Moses, and when Moses prayed unto the Lord, the fire was quenched.
and he called the name of the place Tibera, because of the
fire of the Lord burned among them, and the mixed multitude
that was among them fell a lusting, and the children of Israel also
wept again and said, who shall give us flesh to eat? We remember
the fish which we did eat in Egypt freely, and cucumbers,
and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic,
but now our soul is dried away. There is nothing at all beside
this manna before our eyes. The manna was as a corander seed,
and the color thereof was the color of the dillium. And the
people went about and gathered it and ground it in mills and
beat it in a mortar and baked it in pans and made cakes of
it. And the taste was as the taste of fresh oil. and when
the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon
it." Well, we're going to stop there in our reading in this
11th chapter of the Book of Numbers, and we'd like to pick out a few
things here. If we go back just a little bit to the Book of Exodus,
we find that everybody that is here complaining was making brick. I doubt seriously that they very
often got a cucumber. And I doubt seriously that they
very often got some leeks or fish. I doubt very seriously
that they got any of that stuff very often. It was not part of
their diet as a slave. They got the off-scouring of
all food. And here they are reflecting
upon what it was like to be in Egypt making brick with straw
and then having the straw taken away from them and they had to
go gather it. But the tale of the bricks was not to diminish
one brick. It was to be held at the same
tally. And here they are talking about
what they had, what peace and glory and honor they had in slavery. And out here, they're in the
middle of the wilderness. God's leading them by a fire
by day or by night and a cloud by day. Moses is leading them. He's overshadowing them. He's
protecting them. And all of these things are happening.
And when it comes time, the first thing they do after leaving that
Mount Sinai is complaining about God and about Moses. And it tells
us there in verse six, but now our soul is dried away. There is nothing at all beside
this manna before our eyes. Now, we're not gonna spend time
to spend a lot of time on this this morning about the manna.
There's a message there about manna. Manna is a representation
of Christ. And you know, I've heard in my
ministry a number of times, is this all you're going to preach? Is this, and it's just the same
as those in Israel at that time saying, is this all the food
you're gonna give us? They did not lose their strength.
They had every vitamin, every mineral, everything that they
could have to have a healthy diet. And it is a representation
of Christ. It is a picture. It's a type
and a shadow. Every bit of about it is it.
And here we have people complaining about Christ and Christ alone. And yet that is the message that
we have to deliver today. It is Christ and Christ alone. You know, this is brought up
a number of times about the complaints of Israel, is mentioned a number
of times in scripture. Turn with me, if you would, over
to the book of the Psalms. The Psalm 77, if you would. In
Psalm 77 and 78, we have some thoughts here. And let me say
this before we start this. There is a mighty difference
between complaining to God and complaining about God. We are
encouraged to bring our complaints to God. We're encouraged to bring
our prayer to God. We're encouraged to bring our
thoughts to God. We're encouraged to do that.
But oh, woe be it to us when we complain about God. It shows a very terrible part
of our heart when we complain about God and about God's way.
Here in the book of Psalms, Psalm 77. Join me there in Psalm 77. Psalm 77 and verse one. The scripture says, to the chief
musician, Jadushlem, Psalm of Asaph, I cried unto God with
my voice, even unto God with my voice, and he gave ear unto
me. In the day of my trouble, I sought
the Lord. My sore ran in the night and
ceased not. My soul refused to be comforted. I remembered God and was troubled. I complained, and my spirit was
overwhelmed. Selah. Thou holdest my eyes waking. I am so troubled that I cannot
speak. I have considered the days of
old and years of ancient times. I call to remember my song in
the night. I commune with my own heart.
My spirit made diligent search. Will the Lord cast off forever? Will he be favorable no more? Is his mercy clean gone ever?
Doth his promises fail evermore? Isn't he on a high plane? My
goodness, verse after verse just like this, and yet if we're really
honest with ourselves, there have been moments that are just
like that in our life, when it didn't look all that good for
us. Here, let's move on though. What
got him out of that pit? ''Hath God forgotten me?'' Verse
9, ''To be gracious, hath he in anger shut up his tender mercy,
Sheila?'' And I said, this is my infirmity, but I will remember
the years of the right hand of the Most High. I will remember
the works of the Lord. Surely I will remember thy wonders
of old. I will meditate also on all thy
work and talk of thy doings. Now, what brought him out of
that pit? What brought him to a place where he could cry out
and say, Lord, I will remember all your good works for me. I'll
remember what you've done for me. I will remember as the children
of Israel could have done and Moses did, Joshua and Caleb did. They remembered. Who opened up
the Red Sea? Who's going to bring water out
of the rock? Who is going to feed this multitude
of people? Who is going to overshadow them?
Who's going to be with them? Who's going to lead them? God
Almighty is going to do all of those things just like he does
for the church today. I'll remember the works of the
Lord. Surely I'll remember the wonders of all. I'm going to
stop and think about what God has done in the past. He will
continue to do it in the future, and I am in his hand. Lord, Let
me look at you instead of looking at me. Now in the next chapter,
next Psalm, Psalm 78, would you turn there with me? Now I had
in starting with verse 19. Here we have a group that is
complaining about God. There's a big difference between
complaining to God and complaining about God. You know, in the last
few months, I've heard several people share with me, my God
would never do what you just said. They're complaining about
God. God is God. And we're going to read some
verses about that. But notice with me here in Psalm 78. Psalm
78, verse 19. The scriptures share this, verse
19, it says, yea, they spake against God. They said, can God
furnish a table in the wilderness? Behold, he smote the rock, the
waters gushed out, the streams overflowed. Can he give bread
also? Can he provide flesh for his
people? Therefore, the Lord heard this
and was wroth, so a fire was kindled against Jacob. Anger
also came out against Israel, because they believed not in
God and trusted not in," what? His salvation. Here's the problem
we face. As we follow Israel, as we hear
them crying out, murmuring to God, murmuring about God, murmuring
about Moses, murmuring about the purpose of God. What was
the heart of the problem? It tells us right here. They
had not trusted God, they trusted not in his salvation. God had
never given them a heart to understand and to appreciate Almighty God.
Your fathers have tempted me, we read in Psalm 95, as time
after time in the Psalms, the psalmist is brought to the historical
position of what Israel was like going through the wilderness
wanderings. You know, there's never been
a people in all the world that was so carefully taken care of
as national Israel. And yet we find them constantly
complaining because God did not give them a heart to believe.
He didn't deal with the Hittites. He didn't deal with the Jebusites.
He did not deal with the Hivites. He dealt with this people, the
children of natural lineage of Abraham, and he was with them
constantly. He overshadowed them, he protected
them, he brought them out of great danger, he placed them
in a place, and yet they continuously complained. In fact, the Lord
said, ''These 10 times have you complained against me.'' What
was the problem with this group of people? They had not been
given salvation by the Lord. They could not see past the end
of their nose. They could only see a physical
sight. I appreciated that verse we heard
read there in the book of Luke this morning. The kingdom comes
not by ocular vision, comes not by observation. When God's doing
his work, it's not something great and outside everybody notices.
It's in the hearts of his people. It's there where there's real
work is done. The Lord shares in the psalm,
but they murmured in their tents. Can we say they were kind enough
to go murmur in their tents, but that's really where the heart
is observed. I'll go home and that's where
I can be free to murmur against God all I want to. And yet we read here, God knew
what was going on in their tents. The heart is far from me. The
heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked.
There is no way in this world that we would, if we were promised
to go downtown And a million dollars would wait for us right
there. And we trusted the person that said that would go downtown
and get it. And yet the Lord says there's
glory for eternity. But why won't people take it? Because they don't trust him.
They have no reason to. They murmured in their tents.
The record of the people was grumbling and complaining. And
I just had to ask the question, what causes someone to complain
against God? What is there? Well, I have noticed in my own life
that I have murmured and complained at certain times. And you know
what? It was over. I thought I knew
better than the person that was telling me what to do. I thought I was better. I thought I was, I should be
in that position. And then I wouldn't murmur. Well, the reason we find in the
scriptures that people murmured against God is that we think
that we're better than God. That we have more knowledge than
God. That, well, it really turns out he's not doing what I want
him to do. If he'd do what I want him to do, I'd be no murmuring
against it. Well, we find out God shared,
go back with me to the book of the Numbers again, would you?
Book of Numbers chapter 23. The book of Numbers chapter 23. The murmuring came about as a
result of the people thinking that they should be in charge
and not God. that they should be taken in on consideration
when God makes his decisions, that they should be allowed to
be heard. And here in the book of Numbers
chapter 23, verse 19, God is not a man. In religion, we think God is
our equal, that God needs help. That God needs something, and
we're there to offer that something. And that's what's sold today
in religion. That God cannot do what he wants
to do until you consent to it, and then he will do it. Well,
that's not the God of the Bible. That's the God of murmurs and
complainers. That's the God of Israel of old,
and not the God of Moses, and not the God of Caleb, and not
the God of Joshua. It is the God of natural man,
that God needs to do what I want him to do. If he does that, then
I can be happy. But if he doesn't do that, I'm
going to complain against him. Well, I have found that I complained
or murmured when I didn't think that the person in charge should
be where he is. Well, that's where we are. Here
in the book of Numbers chapter 29 and verse 19, God is not a
man. Well, we're thankful because
it goes on to say that he should lie, neither the son of man that
he should repent. How many times have you heard
someone say God needs to change his mind or We're going to get
this great prayer group over here, and the more prayer warriors
over here that we can get to pray about an incident, he's
going to change his mind about what needs to be done. He's going
to take away the disease of this person, or he's going to do whatever,
if we can get more people to pray. God's never changed his
mind, and the church is so thankful for that, because if he did change
his mind, just think, he might change his mind about me or you. I am God, I change not, therefore
ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. Now that's a solemn warning,
so we're thankful he does not change. I'm not a man, God is
not a man that he should lie, neither is the Son a man that
he should repent. Hath he said and shall not it be done? And hath he spoken and shall
he not make it good? God speaks, things happen. Now,
there's going to be those on the side all over the board that
say, I don't like it, I don't like it, and I don't like it.
I don't like the way he does his business. Well, that is not
going to change God. In fact, he just shared with
us in the scriptures time and time again that the natural man,
the natural heart is at variance with this God that is going to
do all things after the pleasure and purpose of his own will.
We find a message that the Lord shares with us. Mike's gonna
get to it in a couple years in Luke chapter 19. Their parable
is brought up about a man who has a vineyard. And the people
in that vineyard share this. Let's just go over there and
read that. Luke chapter 19, verse 12. Luke chapter 19 and verse
12. We read here the words of natural
man's heart, whether we say it out loud or not. This is the
word of those folks when God had given them absolutely everything
necessary for their well-being and their happiness. They got
him out of jail, got him out of slavery, took care of them,
drowned the entire Egyptian army. They're not gonna have to worry
about the Egyptians ever again. There's no account for a long
time before they run into anybody that wants to kill any of those
folks. He's watching over them. And yet in their heart, they
say what we find here in Luke 19, verse 12. Luke 19 and verse
12. It says, And he saith, There
was a certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for
himself a kingdom, and to return. And he called his ten servants,
and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy till
I come. But his citizens, Did you notice
the next word? But his citizens hated him. and sent a messenger unto him
saying, we will not have this man reign over us. The citizens
hated him and sent back a message. You know, that's just what the
children of Israel did because they didn't know any different.
Their heart was not in tune with God. And they sent back a message.
We're not going to have you rule over us. We're going to murmur
and complain. We know better than you do. We
are smarter than you are. Oh my, and it just continues
to go on throughout the scriptures. Now what do people complain against
God about? You know, I'm just going to share
some of the complaints I've heard. I probably made them. When I
was in religion, I probably made these complaints. Because they're
not very palatable to the natural man. We want it different than
this. You know, the first thing that
I'm going to direct you to about why people complain or what they
complain about is found in the book of Malachi. Would you back
up to the last book of the Old Testament? The last book of the
Old Testament and the first chapter of the last book of the Old Testament
and verses 1, 2, and 3. There's going to be 400 years
between the writing of this and Christ coming. So this message
is going to go out through the known world at that time. This
message just does not stop when Malachi gets through reading
and writing it. It is the gospel. It is the message. This is how
God does his business. And we have countless thousands
of people murmuring against this and saying, I don't believe it.
Well, when we say that about God, we're saying serious things. I don't believe his word. Well,
listen to this, the burden of the word of the Lord to Israel
by Malachi. Now, what does that mean? This
is the message that God gave to Malachi to deliver to Israel. Take it or leave it. But this
is the message, just like the word of God is the message. And
thousands upon thousands and millions upon millions refuse
to hear the word. But it's still the word. I have loved you, saith the Lord. Oh, hallelujah. Boy, that sounds
good. I just saw a sign the other day.
God's with you. God's near you. God loves you. I wanted to ask him, have you
ever read Malachi chapter one, verse two and three? Because
I find in here that God didn't love this man less. The word
is just what he wanted there. Why do people murmur against
God? I have loved you, saith the Lord,
yet ye say wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's
brother, saith the Lord? Yet I love Jacob. Now look at
the first four words of the next verse. Why do people murmur against
God? I have loved Jacob, and I hated
Esau. Now, Paul is used to write in
the book of Romans about this very incident. In fact, it's
a quote from this passage of Scripture. a very uncomfortable
verse of scripture if we don't know something about God. that
God would love some and hate others. And yet that is the truth
of what the Bible says. And Paul was led by the Holy
Spirit to go on beyond that and say before they were born, before
they had done any good or evil, don't get in your mind that Jacob
was better. He did things more honorable
to God because all you have to do is read about him just a little
bit and you find out he was a slippery, slippery guy. In fact, his name
means supplanter. He was a thief. And before Esau had done anything
wrong. Now, why in the world would God
hate Esau? I remember a preacher saying
in a message one time, I read it, he's been long since dead
and gone. But he said in a message he could
completely understand why God would hate Esau. But for the
love of God, how could God ever love Jacob? Now that's the question. How could he ever love Jacob?
By grace and grace alone. And how could he ever hate Esau?
Because he was never covered by the blood. His sin was never
forgiven. He never intended for him to
be paid for. Now that's God. Alright, so why
do people complain against God, the God of heaven? Because of
what he says. Jacob have I loved, Esau have
I hated. And what he is. Complain about God because of
what he is, or who he is. Turn with me if you would to
the book of Ephesians chapter 1. Ephesians chapter 1. Those
folks complained. They complained about the manna. And today, before that and after
that and today, people complain about the very workings of God
in Christ Jesus. He said this, I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd giveth his
life for the sheep. And people are repulsed by that. Why? Because they're murmuring
against God and God's business. I could do a better job. I would
love to be in charge and tell God what to do. Well, we're not
in charge, and we're not going to tell God what to do except
with this lip. In the book of Ephesians chapter
Chapter 1 and verse 11, we read this, in whom also we have an
inheritance being predestinated according to the purpose of him,
of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own
will. And you know, to the natural
man, that is repulsive. that God would work all things
after the counsel of His own will without taking us into consideration
and asking us, what do you think? I was asked to be on a committee
one time, found out that there was going to be 14 people on
the committee. How much can be done with 14
people on the committee? I read a book one time about
them digging the Panama Canal, and they had a great committee
to take care of it. Before it could actually be completed,
there was one man appointed to do the job, and then it got done. Well, just think, if we were
all involved in our redemption, how many different voices there
would have to be heard And God would have to give in to all
of them. And yet he says, I work all things after the counsel
of my own will. And my own will is I will save
all my people by grace and nothing else. I will not enter into the
equation what you have done. because we have done nothing
that is appropriate before God. What does God demand? For by
grace are you saved through faith and that not of yourselves. And we murmur against that. We're
not in the equation. We're not part of it. And then
when God saves us, we say, thank you, Lord, because I would have
never made the right choice. Aren't you thankful that some
of the choices that we made didn't go through just in a physical
realm? One time I wanted to be a truck
driver. I don't have anything against truck drivers. And the
fellow that was the pastor of the church, I told him about
it, and he says, you have two of the best qualifications for
becoming a truck driver, Norm, that I know of. And I said, oh
my goodness. I said, what are they? And he
says, you have a lead foot and a feather brain. I'm thankful. But all of those
requests I made didn't come true. All kinds of them. I'd have been
in, you don't know what would have happened. Well, anyway,
we find out that everything God requires, He provides. The church says, thank you, Lord.
Thank you for taking care of all of the requirements. He requires
absolute perfection every day, 24-7 of our life. Absolute perfection. You can't think a wrong thing.
You can't do a wrong thing. You can't see a wrong thing.
You cannot have anything wrong if you're going to meet God on
your own. works, but we know that we can't. So he's taking
care of that. He has Christ as our perfection,
as our righteousness. It's going to require a payment
for sin. Oh my goodness, what's that going
to entail? Your life for eternity without
hope of ever getting out of it. That's what those on the left-hand
side are doing. They're paying for their own
sin and never get it paid for. Well, what about me? I took care
of the church on the cross one time for all my people, and they
will always be perfect before me. Well, we still have sin in
us. I know that. He said, I know that, but I want
to take care of that in time. I'm keeping you humble. Did you hear what we just read
there about the Apostle Paul? He saw things that he couldn't
even talk about. And if he got to thinking about
talking about them, a thorn in the flesh was given to him to
keep him humble. He says, oh Lord, please let
this leave me. Could you just get this over
with? And the Lord responded by saying, my grace is sufficient
for you. And the Lord said, I am made
strong in your imperfection and weakness. You see me as the strong
partner. And then Paul says, OK, I'll
just be weak for that. Another thing. that people just
murmur about and complain is the words that the Lord Jesus
shared with Nicodemus one time. Nicodemus is a ruler among the
Jews. He's got it all figured out.
In fact, he's been promoted to the top captain's point. He's
got so much figured out of how to approach God by his works
of righteousness. He keeps the law. He does all
of the sacrifices. He does everything that's necessary.
And he comes to the Lord and says, we know that thou art a
man sent from God because no man could do the things that
you're doing unless God be with him. You know what the Lord's
response to that was? You must be born again. Now,
I don't know about you, but right now when I hear the word born,
it takes it out of my control. How many of you had the ability
of taking care of your own birth? A man, a fool, wrote a book on
how to be born again. All he had to do was read a biology
book and find out it's impossible. You're not going to have a birth
unless other people have the control of it. And when it comes
to spiritual things, we are born again or born from above. were born from God. Over there
in the book of Matthew, it talks about the veil of the temple
being entwined from top. Now, it wouldn't have been easy,
but it would be possible if two men, strong men, had grabbed
that veil and started at the bottom and ripped it from bottom
to top, but it was ripped from top to bottom. That same word
is the word born again from the top. We must be born from the
top. We must be born from God. And
he alone can do that. And we're not involved in it. We're the recipient of it. We're
not the participant in it. People murmur about that. I'm
going to describe, I'm going to give my own definition of
birth, is what we say. If I work hard enough, God must
give me the new birth. Well, Another great complaint, murmur
about God, is that He is a he. He's a he. You know, originally, the he
that was in charge of the family was to provide everything for
the family. all the comforts, the protection. Just take that and look at what
God intended when He is the He that is the groom for the church. He provides all the comfort.
He provides all the wealth. He provides all the protection.
He provides everything. He's got an umbrella over us
because that's who He is for us. He is going to present all
of his church spotless. He's going to do that. I love
what we find over there in the book of Isaiah chapter 40 verse
22. It says, and it is he that sitteth upon the circle of the
earth. Then we read, he does according to his will in the
armies of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth, and
none can stay his hand or say, what doest thou? I look to this
one as my almighty protection. He's provided everything I need. He's provided every spiritual
blessing. He's in charge. He's the one
that ruled. He's overall. He's the caregiver
for the church. He's the provider for the church.
He's a sustainer for the church. That's what I am to be as a husband
and I'm a poor at it. And then I have a young fellow
that I've been working with, visiting with for about two years.
And you know, this is what he murmurs about. That man by nature
is spiritually dead. He complains about it. He murmurs
about it. That's not possible. There needs
to be part of us that still is alive. And that's our will. We have a free will. Well, if
we look at the word that is given in the book of 1 Corinthians
chapter 50 and verse 2 in Adam, all die, that word means I've said this many times, only
in religion do we ever discuss the meaning of die or death.
Everywhere else we agree on it. The horse died, okay. The cat
died, okay. It's dead. Even though we wish
it wasn't, it's dead. My grandfather died. I would
have given anything if I had 10 more years with him. But he
died. And the Bible says that by nature,
by the fall, we're dead. And that is so dead that we cannot
reach out to God and do anything that is appropriate. He's the
one that has to give us life. By his own will, begat he us. By his own will, he raised Lazarus
from the dead. By his own will, he walked up
to a cemetery and had a stone rolled away And those sisters
were right. If you were close to that door,
you knew he was dead. Because they confessed in this
heat, in this part of the world, he already stinketh. Only the
Lord got close to that door after those guys rolled the stone away
from the door. And you know what his command
was? Lazarus, come forth. I heard a message just recently
about at that same passage Jesus said, Jesus wept. You know, there's
all kinds of things that are said about that. And this preacher
said the reason he wept is Lazarus is already in glory and I'm going
to have to bring him back and he's going to have to go through
this death again. He's probably closer to the truth than anywhere
else. He brought him from glory back to that body and he's going
to have to go through that whole thing again. but he stood in
the opening of that tomb, breathing, at the astonishment of two sisters,
at the astonishment of the disciples, but just regular, normal work
for Christ. He's about that business today,
of raising his people to newness of life. The people murmur, That's
not what I want done. That's not how I want it done.
I don't want it that way. They murmured about the manna. One other verse before we close
is found in the book of Numbers. Numbers 24, I believe it is. Oh, 21. Numbers chapter 21. It's an interesting word used
in this about the manna and the view that the people had towards
manna. There's one thing that everyone
that I know of here has requested of me. Always present the manna. Always present the manna. Always
present Christ. Always declare Christ. I know
it's redundant, but that's just the way it is. It's what rejoices
people's hearts that know Christ, is to hear about him. Well, here
the people speak against God and against Moses. Wherefore
have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness?
For there is no bread, neither is there any water, and our soul
loatheth this light bread. Our soul loatheth this manna. Well, I hear that from people
when you talk to them about Christ and the way God saves his people.
I loathe this. Murmur against it. I pray to
God that God will do for you what he did for me and cause
me to have an appetite for Christ and Christ alone. Brother Mike.