1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:09,880 Hi, teachers. Welcome to session six. We're going to be in Exodus chapter 16. Starting 2 00:00:09,880 --> 00:00:14,840 verse 11, we'll be talking about provision given. Dr. Ben, how are you today, sir? 3 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:20,720 I'm doing great, Miles. You work with teenagers. I do. As we've pointed out, I think in every 4 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:27,920 single session that we've done. But I have a question. Have you ever been leading teenagers 5 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:34,320 maybe to go on a trip, missions trip, camp, whatever, amusement park, various nursing 6 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:40,280 homes, wherever you take teenagers. Wherever you take teenagers. Have you ever been on 7 00:00:40,280 --> 00:00:47,640 that journey and found some of them complaining? Does that ever happen? Oh no, they're always 8 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:52,760 perfect angels all the time. I think what was really clear to me one time is we went 9 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:59,360 to camp and it was like blazing hot and we just got there. And I remember the first 10 00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:03,280 five minutes I started looking at their eyes and then I was like, they're going to start 11 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:06,640 complaining because I was like trying to get all the luggage out because it was, it was 12 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:12,400 hot. And then, then they started complaining like, it's hot, Miles. Make it stop being 13 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:17,320 so hot. And then so what we had to do is like had a quick conversation because for the next 14 00:01:17,320 --> 00:01:20,840 five days I did not want to hear them say, Hey, Miles, it's hot. Can you just do something 15 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:26,120 about that? And it tends to happen. But usually when you nip it in the butt, it helps, but 16 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:33,520 they tend to complain sometimes as do I. I have been in, I've been in like situations 17 00:01:33,520 --> 00:01:39,360 where it's amazing how our expectations rise to like technology. Like you've ever been 18 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:45,000 on a plane and like you get wifi and so like you're doing it and then all of a sudden the 19 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:51,160 wifi goes out and you're like, Oh, stupid wifi. You're the worst, but come back. I need you. 20 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:57,000 It was like two years ago, five years ago, whatever it was, it's like, I didn't even 21 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:02,840 have an internet device that I needed wifi. Now I've got the device and at 30,000 feet, 22 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:08,920 I can talk to my friend. The fact that you're 3000 feet. Yeah, right. Exactly. So like, 23 00:02:08,920 --> 00:02:14,920 it's amazing how like our, our, all of a sudden our expectation is I need an unfettered connection 24 00:02:14,920 --> 00:02:22,920 to talk through this magic window to everybody I know while I'm flying across the nation 25 00:02:22,920 --> 00:02:28,400 on vacation. Like that's, yeah, it's just amazing how quick we are to complain, right? 26 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:35,600 And that's what we kind of find is the case. You know, the last lesson that we talked about, 27 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:40,760 you were telling us about how that God, you know, brought the victory in dealing with 28 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:46,360 the Egyptians. He brought them across the Red Sea. They walk on dry land and they get 29 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:50,960 to the other side and their enemy has wiped out. There's no more army. They're on their 30 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:57,120 way to the promised land and they're rejoicing. They're like absolutely rejoicing, but they're 31 00:02:57,120 --> 00:03:00,280 moved to worship and singing. They're moved to worship and rightly so. And what we talked 32 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:07,640 about in just a few minutes ago as we made the last video is that we tend to think, Oh, 33 00:03:07,640 --> 00:03:12,720 I would do that too. I would, I would in faith follow God's, you know, God out of Egypt and 34 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:16,960 I would in faith, you know, go through the Red Sea and, and I would worship too. But 35 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:21,800 now when they're talking about complaining, Oh man, I wouldn't complain. What a guy just 36 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:24,480 done. I mean, he's so powerful. What are you doing? 37 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:26,080 Read the last chapter. Come on. 38 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:30,600 Right. And, and it's clear that we are not God in the story. We're probably not even 39 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:35,800 Moses in the story all the time. We really are like the children of Israel, you know, 40 00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:39,760 and that's kind of, that's a little bit of the context for today. We see the people 41 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:45,080 grumbling and complaining. And before, you know, I complain, I get, I get tempted to 42 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:51,800 complain a lot and a lot lower situations and like for a lot less than this, I guess 43 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:58,760 is what I'm trying to say. So we can learn about how God provides and that's really 44 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:01,520 what the theme of the lesson is God's provision and how he provides. 45 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:07,160 Yes. Yes. So our main point is going to be, we can learn three truths about our need and 46 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:12,000 God's provision that should inform how we live. And that'll bring us to our first point. 47 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:17,640 Complaining demonstrates a lack of trust in God. And we'll start reading in Exodus 16, 48 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:22,880 verse 11. And the Lord's spake on Moses saying, I have heard the murmurings of the children 49 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:28,640 of Israel speak unto them saying, I even ye shall eat flesh and at, and in the morning 50 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:32,960 ye shall be filled with bread, ye shall know that I am the Lord your God. And it came to 51 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:37,600 pass that at even the quails came up and covered the camp. And in the morning, the 52 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:42,240 dew lay round about the host. And when the dew that was lay was gone up, behold upon 53 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:47,440 the face of the wilderness lay a small round thing, a small as the whore frost on the ground. 54 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:51,000 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, it is manna for they 55 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:55,080 wish not what it was. And Moses said unto them, this is a bread which the Lord hath given 56 00:04:55,080 --> 00:05:02,800 you to eat. So you see, you kind of need to go back to verse nine to really get the point 57 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:07,520 of the complaining. But I put it in here because this is God's response to their complaining. 58 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:17,520 Right. If you look it back in verse number, let's see, verse nine in Moses spake on there 59 00:05:17,520 --> 00:05:22,200 and saying to all the congregation of the Lord, Congress and the children of Israel, 60 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:25,960 come near before the Lord for he hath heard your murmurings. Yeah. 61 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:31,240 Mermoring. If you've been with any traveling group, you know, Tina, right? You heard the 62 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:37,440 murmurings. Yeah. I think of what's his name? What's the 63 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:42,440 Looney Tune character? Oh, with the beard and the. Oh, Sam. Yeah. 64 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:49,560 You know, he's like he's grumbling. He's murmuring. So and of course, you've as you 65 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:56,040 lead through the whole thing, the whole past they're talking about murmuring verse seven 66 00:05:56,040 --> 00:06:00,040 in the morning that you see the glory of the Lord for he hath heard your murmurings against 67 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:05,880 the Lord. And what are we that you murmur against us? So Moses is frustrated because 68 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:10,080 they're murmuring against God and then they're murmuring against him like Moses was he doing 69 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:15,360 it. It's all the same thing. And so the Bible says that the Lord hears that and does provide 70 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:22,200 for them. And like I said, you know, we tend to think of ourselves as we would murmur about 71 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:28,760 that. But I mean, how many hours would it take where you don't have a lunch? Oh yeah, 72 00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:31,840 you don't have a meal. You don't have a plan. Doesn't seem like you know what the plan for 73 00:06:31,840 --> 00:06:35,440 the meal is that you would go, wait, where's the food? 74 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:39,200 I'm murmuring by one o'clock if I didn't have lunch. And then I'm murmuring at two because 75 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:43,920 now I'm tired that I ate lunch and when I skip me, I tell Megan, I'm like, Hey, just 76 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:47,560 so you know, I didn't have lunch today. So if you could chop chop on that, uh, 77 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:54,600 does that work? Well, it is not. But yeah, I mean, um, you know, before we just absolutely 78 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:59,960 destroy them, they, there's millions of people in the world, hundreds of thousands of people 79 00:06:59,960 --> 00:07:04,640 in the wilderness. There's no McDonald's. There's no Einstein's bagels. There's no, 80 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:11,160 you know, I'm using Jewish. So, um, so that was good. Yeah. They, they don't have, they 81 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:15,560 don't know what the plan is. And so they, they're grumbling, they're complaining and, 82 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:22,200 uh, and, but God responds, um, they, they weren't trusting God. And you know, to the point, 83 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:26,800 you know, we can say, you know, we can give them a little bit of benefit of doubt, but 84 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:32,200 at the same time, um, what did God just done for them? And that really is the legitimate 85 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:37,560 point, right? God had brought them out of the sea with a mighty hand and outstretched arm. 86 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:43,800 The Bible says he, he destroyed their, the gods of the enemies, not that they didn't 87 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:49,160 exist, but he destroyed the reputations. He, he destroyed the army. He destroyed the, 88 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:53,280 the Egyptians. They don't have to worry about another army following after them. And now 89 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:57,560 they're on their way to the promised land and God had provided in all these other ways. 90 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:02,360 Why, it doesn't even make a logical sense that he would get them, do all of that work 91 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:06,800 and then just let them star. Oh man, I forgot to bring the lunchables. You know, like that 92 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:12,600 doesn't even make sense that God would provide if God's been miraculous and, but yeah, we 93 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:16,520 do the same thing, don't we? What are some ways that maybe we get there? 94 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:21,480 Yeah, I think it's, you just start going through your day and you get into your routine and 95 00:08:21,480 --> 00:08:25,640 then things start throwing off that routine of, and then you start thinking you deserve 96 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:30,680 certain things like I deserve to have this. I deserve to have food. I deserve to have 97 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:35,280 shelter. I deserve to have respect. I deserve like, and then we start cause the complain 98 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:40,440 is all about us. Like we're mad because we didn't get what we deserve and it's not about 99 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:46,480 our contentment and what we're honest. Most of us listening to this podcast have rich 100 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:48,840 people problems. Right. Right. 101 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:54,880 We, we, I don't want to tell you, I had Italian for lunch. Yeah. I mean, like in the context 102 00:08:54,880 --> 00:09:00,200 of history, right? You know, oh yeah, I've had having style to your food is even if they 103 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:04,600 like, you just need calories. Like most of the, most of the world, right. I complain about 104 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:08,640 my car breaking down. Well, good thing you have a car. Like, yeah, I don't have to walk 105 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:12,560 everywhere. Right. You know, and we don't look, we take for granted the blessings he's 106 00:09:12,560 --> 00:09:16,600 already given us. Oh my goodness. What he's done. Right. And that's exactly what they're 107 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:20,360 doing. But I love that he doesn't just smite them. You know, he doesn't just say, you know, 108 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:23,760 I just got you out. I could totally do this. Let me get some new chosen people. Right. 109 00:09:23,760 --> 00:09:27,800 But he continues and loves them and provides for them. To the details here, there's two 110 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:31,760 things he provides in the midst of their complaining. One is quail. Quail. Right. 111 00:09:31,760 --> 00:09:40,200 And that is the small bird that doesn't, they're easy to catch is the idea. Yeah. And then 112 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:45,440 also then they have this new bread, you know, this manna, which literally means what is 113 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:50,240 it? I think that I think the text is kind of funny. We do that too, don't we? Sometimes 114 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:56,320 like sometimes if there's not an answer, we just name it the question. Right. And so kind 115 00:09:56,320 --> 00:10:02,760 of how nicknames happen. Right. So anyway, what is it becomes the thing? Well, what are 116 00:10:02,760 --> 00:10:06,000 we eating? It's like, who's on first? Right. You know, what's on second? I don't know. 117 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:13,040 It's on third base. So that's kind of what they do with it. Who, you know, what is it 118 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:19,480 becomes this thing that they start to eat every day. So, so God responds are complaining 119 00:10:19,480 --> 00:10:24,560 and they were lacking trusting in God. And the good news is that God, like you said, 120 00:10:24,560 --> 00:10:28,480 even though they weren't doing their part, right, which is interesting. And that leads 121 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:32,960 us to point number two, point number two. Yes, sir. It's trusting God for our needs 122 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:38,160 is his desire. And we'll see this in verse 16 through 19. Sorry, in verse 16, it says, 123 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:42,640 this is the thing which Lord hath commanded gather of it every man according to his eating 124 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:47,000 and Omar for every man according to the number of your persons, take ye every man for them, 125 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:51,960 which are, which are in his tents. It should have Israel did so and gathered some more, 126 00:10:51,960 --> 00:10:57,280 some less. And when they did meet with it and Omar, he that gathered much had nothing 127 00:10:57,280 --> 00:11:01,440 over and he that got a little had nothing had no lack. They gathered every man according 128 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:07,400 to his eating and Moses said, let no man leave of it till the morning. So what you have here 129 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:16,480 is what they ended up doing. And he God gives them instruct instruction through Moses. Right. 130 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:22,280 Would you explain an Omar? That's okay. You gave me a great definition. So we start with 131 00:11:22,280 --> 00:11:30,320 is a is a unit of measurement. And it seems to be the case in this particular text that 132 00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:36,440 he's saying that it's basically a day's worth of a day's ration of food. Right. Some other 133 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:42,800 translations use the word court. I don't think that I don't think that an Omar is equal to 134 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:48,320 a court mathematically, but it gives us some general sense of it gives us a general sense 135 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:54,480 of around how much maybe a day's eating would be for them. And the reason why we put it, 136 00:11:54,480 --> 00:12:01,640 this idea of trusting God is trusting God for our needs is his desire is that he told 137 00:12:01,640 --> 00:12:07,320 them to just gather exactly what they needed for that day. When Jesus prayed, give us our 138 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:15,200 this day, our daily bread. He was kind of alluding back, I think back to this idea that 139 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:21,200 I have for today what I need for today and that I'm trusting God to provide today. And 140 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:29,200 he did. And I'm thankful for that. And I'm, and I'm not going to put more emphasis on 141 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:33,760 what he provides me than I do on him. I'm not going to trust more in what he provides 142 00:12:33,760 --> 00:12:38,480 me than I do in him. So I'm not killing a bunch of quail and a bunch, and I'm not gathering 143 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:45,520 up more than I need in the manna because not trusting him because he might not do it tomorrow. 144 00:12:45,520 --> 00:12:51,000 Right. I'm worried or I want to take advantage of other people and sell it. You know, I'm 145 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:58,000 going to do enough for today to make it for today. Sufficient is the day. Right. Right. 146 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:03,360 So tomorrow I'm going to trust in God again. And I think that's, that seems to be his desire 147 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:08,000 there is for them to not get ahead of him or to get behind him, but to trust in him 148 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:13,080 and to walk with him and to depend on him and not what he provides. Does this sound 149 00:13:13,080 --> 00:13:19,240 like this could apply? Yeah. Oh, 100%. Yeah. I get so stressed about tomorrow. And I feel 150 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:23,040 like I have to be sometimes like, well, I'm glad God's providing for today, but what about 151 00:13:23,040 --> 00:13:27,240 tomorrow? I need to start thinking about tomorrow. It's not, it is not responsible Miles for 152 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:31,080 you not to have a plan for retirement. Right. You know, it's not responsible for us. Yeah. 153 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:35,280 You're not even, and here the, there is a tension here, right? Cause the Bible does 154 00:13:35,280 --> 00:13:41,080 say a righteous man has a inheritance for his children's children. So there is something 155 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:50,240 to, to managing our stuff and to, and to preparing for the future and all that. But remember 156 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:55,560 they're in a situation where they have to depend on God. God's leading them from slavery 157 00:13:55,560 --> 00:14:00,000 back to a promised land and he had over and over again said, I'm going to promise I'm 158 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:04,720 going to, I'm going to provide for you. I'm your God. You'll be my people. This is his 159 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:11,800 thing to them. And he, what he wants more than any of it is he wants them to trust him. 160 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:16,480 And we have a hard time with that. Yeah. Cause I think I'll be less stressed if I worry about 161 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:21,080 tomorrow, but actually what I'll be is less stress if I focus on God today and all that 162 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:25,320 he's given me today. And then I don't have to worry about tomorrow. That's a tweetable 163 00:14:25,320 --> 00:14:31,160 moment just there. Yeah. But then I, he gives me everything I need today. It's in today 164 00:14:31,160 --> 00:14:35,480 is sufficient and God is always sufficient. He's given me his grace. That's his new morning 165 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:40,000 mercies every day. So when I wake up tomorrow, he's still going to be the same God. Right. 166 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:43,800 And then the next day and the next day, and he's still providing this, this manhood and 167 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:49,040 I can just trust that and be at peace. And that leads us to this last point, right? Where 168 00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:55,520 he says the last point being trusting God for our needs will work out for us. What do 169 00:14:55,520 --> 00:15:01,040 you think? Yes, sir. So we see this in verse 17, chapter 17, chapter 17. Ooh, that was 170 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:04,600 a good catch. We should go to chapter 17, turn the Bible's there. All right. Chapter 171 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:09,560 17, Exodus 17, starting in verse one, we'll go through verse six. And all the congregation 172 00:15:09,560 --> 00:15:13,880 of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of sin after their journeys, according 173 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:18,480 to the commandment of the Lord and pitched in Rehepidim. And there were no water for 174 00:15:18,480 --> 00:15:22,560 the people to drink. Wherefore, the people did shide with Moses and said, give us water 175 00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:27,240 that we may drink and Moses said to them, why chide you with me? Wherefore, do you tempt 176 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:31,440 the Lord? And the people thirsted for water and the people murmured against Moses and 177 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:36,400 said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us out of Egypt to kill us in our children 178 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:43,040 in our cattle with thirst? Yes, you figured out my plan. You're exactly right. Yes. And 179 00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:47,040 Moses cried into the Lord. Verse four, saying, What shall I do unto these people? They'd 180 00:15:47,040 --> 00:15:52,200 be almost ready to stone me and Lord send to Moses, go on before the people and take 181 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:56,480 with thee the elders of Israel and thy rod where thou smote the river, take in thy hand 182 00:15:56,480 --> 00:16:01,600 and go. Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock and whorem, and thou shalt smite 183 00:16:01,600 --> 00:16:05,320 the rock and there shall come water out of it that the people may drink. Moses did so 184 00:16:05,320 --> 00:16:12,040 in the side of the elders of Israel. So the problem before was we don't have any food. 185 00:16:12,040 --> 00:16:17,680 We're so hungry now God provides for them and they're learning to trust them every day. 186 00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:25,520 Right. Then they're like thirsty. Yeah. I have some water with this man. Moses, where's 187 00:16:25,520 --> 00:16:30,240 the water? Why did you know did you brought us here to die? You brought us? That's what 188 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:34,480 you want. You figured out your plan. This whole time you wanted us to die. And you know, of 189 00:16:34,480 --> 00:16:38,760 course he's saying, Why are you chiding me? Why are you tempting the Lord? And the truth 190 00:16:38,760 --> 00:16:44,680 to the matter is, Miles, it's kind of an understatement. After watching the Nile turn to blood, you 191 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:50,240 know, locus, you know, boils, you don't want to be tempted. God. Yeah. Yeah. Right. They've 192 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:57,560 seen his power. Yeah. Yeah. So but that's what happens. They do it. And then God tells 193 00:16:57,560 --> 00:17:06,040 Moses to to smite the rock and he does and God provides the water. Right. So I think, 194 00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:12,840 I think kind of the point I was trying to make in this whole lesson is about God's provision 195 00:17:12,840 --> 00:17:19,520 and how God provides for us and what that does with our relationship with him. I think, 196 00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:23,600 like we said, the first thing we need to think about is if I'm complaining, that needs to 197 00:17:23,600 --> 00:17:32,800 be a dashboard light warning saying, Are you not trusting God? Right. I think that that 198 00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:37,640 God is God is not going to be a debtor. The Bible says, I've never seen the righteous 199 00:17:37,640 --> 00:17:45,560 forsaking nor is seed begging for bread. God is a God who provides. And even if like the 200 00:17:45,560 --> 00:17:52,720 worst thing happens, the economy, it all goes to just to waste and we just don't have anything. 201 00:17:52,720 --> 00:17:57,480 The truth of the matter is, if I die to be with God is to be far better. Heaven is not 202 00:17:57,480 --> 00:18:05,480 a place of lack. Yeah. So even if even if it may seem like I'm not getting what I need, 203 00:18:05,480 --> 00:18:11,680 even physically and on this earth, you know, you think about martyrs that, you know, been 204 00:18:11,680 --> 00:18:16,840 persecuted, been in jail, not had food, been mistreated to be absent from the bodies to 205 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:23,160 be present with the Lord. And ultimately that lack will be taken care of. But even even 206 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:28,480 that kind of trump card that trumps all of our desire for to say, Oh, you know, God's 207 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:32,920 not going to be, you know, to trump the idea that we think God's failing us. The truth 208 00:18:32,920 --> 00:18:39,280 of the matter is, it doesn't even get to that place very often. Like God, God over and over 209 00:18:39,280 --> 00:18:44,640 again provides for his people. He my God shall supply all your need according to his riches 210 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:54,880 and glory. That's not that's not something that we don't have practical connection to. 211 00:18:54,880 --> 00:19:01,120 He God really does take care of us. Right. And when we trust him, he tends to provide 212 00:19:01,120 --> 00:19:08,160 and that's the kind of God we have. And sometimes that we may be in the midst of like, now, 213 00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:14,880 the thing we have a hard time with is what distinguishing between needs and wants. It's 214 00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:21,160 like, what is it? You know, man, that Wi-Fi in the in the plane. Yeah, that's it gets 215 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:27,160 to need really quick. You know, and how do I know that? Because my expectations lead 216 00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:33,320 me to complaining when they're not fulfilled. And so the truth of the matter is we just 217 00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:38,800 describe problems in marriages. We just describe problems in parental relationships. We describe 218 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:48,440 problems in between employees and and and employers like all of us tend to trust in 219 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:53,040 things other than the Lord. Right. And it's it's encouraging how committed 220 00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:57,800 he is to them in even through this food. Even through it. Yeah. And it makes me wonder, 221 00:19:57,800 --> 00:20:02,200 what if they just asked humbly for it before they even complain? Because the first thing 222 00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:07,400 seems like Lord, you're not providing. And like he does. I try to get Lord's mind is 223 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:11,840 an impossible thing to do. But it's just him saying, could you you can ask you can ask 224 00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:15,560 for water? I've given you everything else. But because he's not rewarding their complaint, 225 00:20:15,560 --> 00:20:18,600 he's just saying, I'm taking care of you. And let me show you how I'm going to take 226 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:23,800 care of you. And I it's it's encouraging a sense sense to see the Israelites because 227 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:27,960 it makes me feel like I'm not a complete weirdo in the sense of like, Oh, I do the same thing. 228 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:33,600 Right. It should convict me also to move forward and see, OK, I don't want to be like the Israelites. 229 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:38,760 I want to and why is it so easy for us to see the problem when we're looking through 230 00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:44,440 the window, but have a hard time seeing it in the mirror? Oh, yeah. You know what I mean? 231 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:49,520 In the story goes, man, these guys, these people are they're just like not grateful. 232 00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:53,560 They're not, you know, these are not people that I want to hang out with. These are. 233 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:57,840 Well, it's easy to see the speck in their eye, but then like the giant log in yours. Yeah. 234 00:20:57,840 --> 00:21:04,160 But I get there, right? And sometimes sometimes even like the good Christian part of us, you 235 00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:11,280 know, we know that like complaining out loud is unbecoming. So we we couch it maybe in 236 00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:17,320 a prayer request or you know what I mean? Or we or we or the other thing is we say it 237 00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:23,520 in here and in here and then and then something happens and it comes out and we're trying 238 00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:28,200 to keep it in, but out of the abundance of the heart of the mouth speaks, right? And 239 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:35,400 so that's again, why I think the dashboard lights analogy is so important that like probably 240 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:40,440 what's cut is the abundance that's coming out. So it's the overflow. So that means there's 241 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:47,240 what comes out is usually a picture that there's a whole lot more of that in there. Yeah. So 242 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:52,280 we've got to we've got to be able to deal with that on our own and to root that out. 243 00:21:52,280 --> 00:22:01,360 And so what's the anecdote? What is the antidote to a heart that doesn't trust and is complaining? 244 00:22:01,360 --> 00:22:05,600 What's the antidote, Miles? I would say there's a sense of contentment, 245 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:09,440 you know, if you go to Philippians of just saying Paul says, I know how to be a base. 246 00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:13,160 I know how to bound. He says, and then he later says, I can do all things through Christ 247 00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:17,520 which strengthens me. And that's not a flex on him like, look what I can do. He's saying, 248 00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:21,680 Christ takes care of me. He's strengthening me. So and when the Israelites start thinking 249 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:24,520 that things actually start going well, and they have no reason to complain because like, 250 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:29,000 well, God's always providing it's a shift in what we're thinking about. The flex would be, 251 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:35,800 I can do everything on my own and God's good. God's lucky to have me. Yeah. Right. That would 252 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:41,880 be the flex. But what Paul says is, is by Christ that I can I can endure all of this. Right. 253 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:47,080 And be be content and actually joyful through it. And once you have a content in heart and then 254 00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:51,840 you don't have a reason to complain. And that's where the point I want to be right. Even if I 255 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:55,480 search for a reason to complain, I can't find one because I got too many blessings around. Right. 256 00:22:55,480 --> 00:23:00,800 And that's just a change, like you said, in the heart. And I think it's encouraging in some sense 257 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:04,280 that I can work through it because as soon as I as soon as that complaining comes out, 258 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:08,040 that needs to be a warning to me. Like you said, a dash of light. Okay, I got to get this taken 259 00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:12,960 care of. I think sometimes I just, I think in just our culture that we say it's okay if I 260 00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:17,360 complamptious venting, you know, right? But that should be a sign. Hey, something's off. Have you 261 00:23:17,360 --> 00:23:20,880 talked about it? It's even described as therapeutic. And it's like, yeah, actually, 262 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:24,960 I don't know that it is. It doesn't make anything better. Right. I never leave better after I've 263 00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:29,560 complained actually leave worse. And I actually leave others feeling worse as well. And like, 264 00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:32,920 just like Moses, he's not feeling better after their complaining. You know, he's like, stop 265 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:37,240 chiding me. What did I do? He's like, I got you guys out and I didn't even do anything. It was 266 00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:41,480 the Lord. It cracks me up because they're like, they start, it's there's even moments where they 267 00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:45,960 start remembering, you know, like, do you remember the onions? They were so good. And they're like, 268 00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:51,680 describe the salad bar back in, you know, Egypt. When we know like, what was going on in Egypt? 269 00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:55,880 Those, they were getting beat. They were like, they were having to get struck. Like they remember 270 00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:59,200 the onions. They don't remember the straw. They remember the straw. They remember the onions. 271 00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:03,080 You know, right? And so now you're counting your blessings. They're like, now you're counting 272 00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:08,560 your former blessings. Yeah, when you were asleep. Yeah, exactly. And don't you remember like, 273 00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:13,960 you're, you're sacrificing to win in the long, you're going to a land of milk and honey. So 274 00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:18,840 forget the onions. You know what I mean? Like, yeah, that's good. So yeah, there's, there's a lot 275 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:26,800 there. I do think this is a really applicable lesson. And at every age range, you can go to 276 00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:34,240 where that age range tends to find lack of trust in God, you know what I mean? So I think that's, 277 00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:41,000 I think that's a real good application to this lesson. So hey, thanks, Miles. Teachers. Do a 278 00:24:41,000 --> 00:25:04,080 great job this week. Have a good one.