Thank you.
Welcome to Pure Words Baptist Church. We'll go ahead and get started. Go ahead and pull
out your hymnals and we will open up to our first song in our hymnals. Song number 236.
Song number 236. No not one. No not one. Song number 236.
We'll go ahead and start there on the first. Sing nice and loud.
There's not a friend like the lowly Jesus. No not one. No not one. None else could heal
all our soul's diseases. No not one. No not one. Jesus knows all about our struggles.
He will guide till the day is done. There's not a friend like the lowly Jesus. No not one. No not
one. No friend like him is so high and holy. No not one. No not one. And yet no friend is so meek
and lowly. No not one. No not one. Jesus knows all about our struggles. He will guide till the day
is done. There's not a friend like the lowly Jesus. No not one. No not one. There's not an
hour that he is not near us. No not one. No not one. No night so dark but his love can cheer us.
No not one. No not one. Jesus knows all about our struggles. He will guide till the day is done.
There's not a friend like the lowly Jesus. No not one. No not one. Did
ever saint find this friend forsake him? No not one. No not one. Or sinner find that he would
not take him. No not one. No not one. Jesus knows all about our struggles. He will guide till the day
is done. There's not a friend like the lowly Jesus. No not one. No not one.
Was there a gift like the Savior given? No not one. No not one. Will he refuse us a home in heaven?
No not one. No not one. Jesus knows all about our struggles. He will guide till the day
is done. There's not a friend like the lowly Jesus. No not one. No not one. Amen.
Brother Dardanis you want to pray for us this evening?
Amen. All right so in your hymnals go ahead and split this song number 424.
424. I'm gonna start singing the Christmas song getting to that type of season.
Number 424. Oh come all ye faithful. 424.
We'll start singing there on the first. Oh come all ye faithful, joyful and triumph.
Oh come ye, oh come ye to Bethlehem. Come and behold him, born the king of angels.
Oh come let us adore him. Oh come let us adore him. Oh come let us adore him, Christ the Lord.
Sing choirs of angels, sing in exultation. Oh sing all ye bright hosts of heaven above.
Oh glory to God, all glory in the highest. Oh come let us adore him. Oh come let us adore him.
Oh come let us adore him, Christ the Lord. Yay Lord, we greet thee. Born this happy morning,
Jesus to thee, glory give. Word of the Father, now in flesh appearing. Oh come let us adore him.
Oh come let us adore him. Oh come let us adore him, Christ the Lord. Amen. Good singing. So this
time we'll go ahead and go over the announcements for the evening. Go ahead and pull out your
bulletins. If you didn't grab a bulletin, just go ahead and raise your hand in the air. We'll
have Brother Mo bring them around to you. And on the front page we do have our Bible memory
passage. We are in Romans chapter number eight verse 36. So we're just a few verses away from
finishing this chapter out. So definitely keep working on it if you are working on it.
If you could quote a word perfect to a non-family member, you will receive a prize there at the end
of that of you quoting that chapter. And then on the inside of the bulletin we have our service
times listed. Sunday morning we meet at 10 30 a.m. Sunday evening 5 30 p.m. and we have our
midweek Bible study at 7 p.m. We have our church church-wide soul winning times with respective
leaders and also our stats listed there. So this morning we had a total of 11 salvations to report.
We went out today and then we have another three to add on there. So a total of 14 for the day. So
definitely a good job soul winning. Keep up the good work with that. We have some prayer requests
listed here. We have Brother Edward Gamino with his health. So just be in continued prayer for
him and his health issues. We also have the Artis family and more specifically Sister Terry's father
just be in prayer for his health issues and everything with everything that they're dealing
with. And if you do have any prayer requests email those into the church and Pastor Shelley
will go in detail over all those prayer requests and that midweek service. We could be in prayer
for all you know anything that you might need. So email those prayer requests in.
There on the next page we have some expecting ladies in the church. We have Miss Sarah Gomez.
This says here expecting in December that is the due date December 3rd but you know we're
expecting any day now. So they'll be in prayer for Miss Sarah Gomez and the baby boy stylist.
We have Sister Corinne Darnell expecting in June to be in prayer for her and the growing little
one. We have some upcoming events and guest preachers listed. So today November 14th we
have Brother Chris DeGuro from Faithful Word Baptist Church back with us. Always a blessing
having him come preach for us. November 23rd will be our Thanksgiving service. Just take note that
that is on a Tuesday and not a Thursday. So that Thanksgiving week we are not going to have a
Thanksgiving service which is on Thursday. It's going to be on Tuesday. November 28th we're going
to have Brother Chris back with us. And then December 3rd will be our Christmas caroling and
pizza fellowship. December 5th which will be that following Sunday Pastor Shelley will be preaching
and we have Brother Duncan Urbanic. We have our Christmas candlelight service on the 23rd
and we'll have Brother Chris DeGuro. I mentioned this morning he needs to get a rental house down
here you know here so often. So definitely a blessing having him and his family come down.
And then we'll have Brother Duncan Urbanic back with us and then following Duncan we'll have
the Brother Ben Naim otherwise known as Ben the Baptist. So definitely a lot of preachers to look
forward to and events to look forward to. So definitely jot those on your calendars.
And then if you did miss pictures this morning we are going to be taking pictures again on
Thursday for the yearbook. So if you missed the pictures make sure to be here on Thursday
for the yearbook. And then if you missed those possibly we could work something out but just
try to be here on Thursday to get into that yearbook. But that is the announcements for
the evening. Go ahead and pull your hymnals back out and we'll have Brother Mo and lead us in our
third song. All right turn to song number 107. Song 107, Praise the Savior. We'll sing it out
there on the first. Praise the Savior, ye who know him, who can tell how much we owe him.
Gladly let us render to him all we are and have. Jesus is the name that charms us. He for conflict
fits and arms us. Nothing moves and nothing harms us while we trust in him. Trust in him,
ye saints forever. He is faithful, changing never. Neither force nor gall can sever
those he loves from him. Then we shall be where we would be. Then we shall be what we should be.
Things that are not now nor could be soon shall be our own. All right good singing.
If you would turn in your Bibles. Where's the chapter at? What's the chapter on there?
Proverbs 11. Okay Numbers chapter 11. Numbers 11. We'll have Brother Brandon read for us while
we pass the offering plate. All right we're there in Numbers chapter 11. The Bible reads
and when the people complained it displeased the Lord and the Lord heard it and his anger was
kindled and the fire of the Lord burnt among them and consumed them that were in 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 Lord into the place Tibera because the fire of the Lord
burnt 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 the 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 besides this manna before our eyes and
the manna was coriander seed and the color thereof was the color of delium and the people went
about and gathered it and ground it in in meals and or be in mortar and bake it in pans
and made cakes of it and the taste of it was as a taste of fresh oil and when the dew fell upon the
camp in the night the manna fell upon it then Moses heard the people weep throughout their
families every man in the door of his tent and the anger of the Lord was kindled greatly
Moses also was displeased and Moses said unto the Lord wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant
and wherefore have I not found failure in thy sight that thou layest the burden of all this
people upon me have I conceived all this people have I begotten them that thou shouldst say unto
me carry them in thy bosom as a nursing father bareth the suckling child unto the land which
thou swearst unto their father whence should I have flesh to give unto all of this people
for they weep unto me saying give us flesh that we may eat I am not able to bear all this people
alone because it is too heavy for me and if thou and if thou deal thus with me kill me and I pray
thee out of hand if I have found favor in thy sight and let me not see my wretchedness and the
Lord said unto Moses gather unto me 70 men of the elders of Israel whom thou knowest to be the
elders of the people and officers over them and bring them into the tabernacle of congregations
that they may stand there with thee and I will come down and talk with thee there and I will
take of the spirit which upon thee and will put it upon them and they shall bear the burden of
the people with thee that thou bear it not thyself alone and say thou unto the people sanctify
themselves against the model and ye shall eat flesh for ye have wet in the ears of the Lord
saying who shall give us flesh to eat for it was well with us in Egypt therefore the Lord will
the Lord will give you flesh and ye shall eat you shall not eat one day nor two days or five days
neither 10 days nor 20 days but even a whole month until it came out of your nostrils and
it would be loathsome unto you because that ye have despised the Lord which is among you
and have wet before him saying why can't we forth out of Egypt and Moses said the people among whom
I am are 600,000 footmen and thou has said I will give them flesh that they may eat the whole
mountain and shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them to suffice them or shall all the
fish of the sea be gathered together for them to suffice them and the Lord said unto Moses is the
Lord hand waxed short thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass unto thee or not and
Moses went out and told the people the words of the Lord and gathered these 70 men of the elders
of the people and set them round about the tabernacles and the Lord came down in the cloud
and spake unto him and took of the spirit that was upon him and gave it unto the 70 elders and
it came to pass that when the spirit rested upon them they prophesied and did not cease but there
remained two of the men in the camp that name of the one was Eldad and the name of the other was
Medad the spirit rested upon them and they were of them that were written but when not but went not
out of the tabernacle and they prophesied in the camp and there ran a young man and told Moses and
said Eldad and Medad you prophesy in the camp and Moses and Joshua the son of Nun the servant of
Moses one of his young men answered and said my Lord Moses forbid them and Moses said unto him
envious thou for my sake but God that all the Lord's people were prophets and the Lord would
put his spirit upon them and Moses got him into the camp and he and the elders of Israel
and there went forth the wind from the Lord and brought quail from the sea and let them fall by
the camp as it were a day's journey on this on this side and it and as it were a day's journey
on the other side round about the camp and it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth
and the people stood up all the day and all the night and all the next day and they gathered the
quail and he gathered the least gathered in Homer and they spread them all abroad for themselves
round about the camp and while the flesh was yet between their teeth here it was chewed and the
wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people and the Lord smote the people with a very great
plague and he called the name the place Kibraatava because they were buried the people that lusted
and the people journeyed from Kibraatava and Hazra and abode as Haroth. Let's have a quick word of
prayer. Amen. Well if you look at Numbers chapter 11 we're going to look at verse number one for
right now it says and when the people complain is this pleased the Lord and the Lord heard it right
out to go you can see something the people complain and it displeased the Lord it displeased
the Lord and if you study scripture from Genesis all the way to Revelation if there's one sin that
God does not give you an excuse not that he gives an excuse to to sin but if there's one sin that
people tend to think you know what this is not a big deal that's of complaining I mean when you
look at the story when you look what happened to the children of Israel when when they're in the
desert and they don't have water to drink they start complaining about hey there's not enough
water to drink what are we going to do it seems like that's a legit complaint you know but on the
inside they were getting upset and they weren't necessarily getting upset for the right reasons
they were getting upset because they thought that Moses was taking them the wrong way and they
thought hey you brought us out here to be killed to die we should have just stayed in Egypt what's
going on so they were looking at the leadership and getting upset and they were complaining but
that also displeased the Lord and when you read that story you wonder like hey what in the world
it seems like a legit complaint but it wasn't to God and here they are and here's the children of
Israel are at it again they're complaining and right now we figure out that a it displeases the
Lord and Numbers 11 is a good chapter to teach you a lot about the Lord it can help you even
fight false doctrines for example take a look at the next part of this verse it says in the Lord
heard it and his anger was kindled and the fire of the Lord burned among them and consumed them
that were in the uttermost parts of that camp I mean that's one long verse I mean look how
long just verse one is but right there you can learn a lot about our God a lot about the Lord
and and what you learn right off the go is that he just doesn't like complaining he just doesn't
like complaining and in this situation you know people complain and he burned them up he killed
them for complaining he burned them all up and here's the thing what's up man what you doing
over here he's the guy I was talking about this morning in case y'all wondering listen to the
sermon brother don't worry he puts God number one right he could have just stayed in this hotel and
napped out and be like look the Lord understands how tired I am yeah he can figure out that I'm not
I'm not joking but he's here tonight hey this is right right but here's the thing though he says
that the Lord burned them all up and it's funny because I have two audio bibles you know one is
the most recent one that I just purchased because I figured okay maybe the most recent one is
probably the better one you know that one I liked and I bought it because you can kind of speed it
up and then there's another one that comes with an app that I love to use I use that app to write
scriptures and that's the Dakota app was ever whoever has heard of the Dakota app you know I
think it's on both Android and on Apple's system is a card app but have you ever noticed that he
gives you a free audio Bible have you ever noticed that about it who knows what I'm talking about
in regards with the card app if you ever get a chance to look on your phone in fact if you want
to do it now go ahead and do it I don't mind but if you search the card at t-e-c-a-r-t-a you even
put k-j-v the card up that's a good app you know you can just download it whenever you want and
you can highlight you can save things but one thing that I like is it gives you a free audio
Bible you know and it is the drama Bible a lot of people like I don't like the room I was too
distracting I can kind of understand but this is different this is a really interesting one
because I was always wondering why would they come up with an audio Bible when there's already one in
existence wouldn't that be like a waste of money but then when you listen to both you kind of figure
out oh I see what's going on well let's just say that the audio Bible that they give you for free
that one they don't they don't necessarily sell don't even offer it but here's the thing that one
has a lot of sound effects and when you listen to numbers 11 just right off the go I told my
daughter hey listen to this I had her play it so she can give an amen so I have a witness
so I let her listen to it and the most recent one that I bought that cost me like 40 bucks
it's just the reader it's the drama Bible and he just reads it and he just says and when the
people complain it displeased the Lord and the Lord heard it and his anger was kingled and the
fire of the Lord you know burnt among them and consumed them that were in the outermost parts
of the camp and that's what you hear but the old drama audio Bible I'm like listen to this because
I want to make sure I have somebody that can say amen when we hit play it starts out like with
people murmuring you can hear them in the background and next thing you know you hear
thunder thunders and then lightning and then fire and you hear a lot of people screaming
they're like screaming they're like am I telling them there's like men screaming there's like
females screaming you don't wonder it wakes you up you don't wonder what's going on in this
chapter that audio Bible helps you figure out what's going on in that chapter and then out of
curiosity I'm like I wonder what they did with judges 19. Who knows what's going on just 19
that's where the woman gets raped and so I decided to play it and right now I'm sure some liberals
going to hear it and start emailing to Carter get rid of that you know because here's what happens
in judges they actually have the woman screaming as she's being raped by the sodomite she's like
like it talks about how they abuse the woman and then the woman is screaming like
you know but that's probably why they decided hey let's make a newer drama version because guess
what the new one doesn't have a woman screaming in judges 19 so as you tell little Johnny to
listen to the audio Bible hey if he listens to the old drama one he's going to figure out whoa
you know they hurt this woman even though he may not know what rape is they might ask questions
like why is this woman screaming well they raped her to death is what the story says you know by
hearing numbers 11 if you listen to the takarta hey you'll hear that fire came down and these
people got consumed and they were all killed and then guess what happened says that the people
cried unto Moses and Moses prayed unto the Lord and the fire was quenched so the few things that
we see is that God hates complaining and God hated it so much that he burnt people he burnt them he
killed them and then we see Moses praying and the Lord quenches the fire he stops doing it so hey
prayer does help this is where you pray for people that God is maybe punishing and you're like Lord
be merciful our prayers to help this is something that shows that that a we can help you know
individuals that may not God may not listen to them but they'll listen to us and we're like Lord
be merciful to them help them a you know what be patient with them just let them grow or whatever
the case may be you know and it says and he called the name of the place tabira because
the fire of the Lord burned among them and I want you to focus on that word you know tabira
here's the thing when my daughter was born like he's struggling right now I'm just kidding you
probably have a name for your child yet you have one good well we didn't have one when Christina
was born so he struggled we're at the hospital trying to figure out what name and somebody
decided to name her after this story tabira somebody decided to do it and I'll piss up that
was me and my wife's like what it's like yeah I want to name her tabira and she's like why
because you know what I struggle with complaining I just said to myself I struggle with complaining
the littlest things kind of sets me off and I tend to complain and I want to like every time
I call her for whatever reason remind me not to complain and I told her come on think about it
honey you know if she's around the house we're like tabira tabira just reminds me not to complain
you know and she's like what it's like come on we don't have to call her tabira we can call it tabby
huh how about that one hey tabby tabby hey tabby you know she gets in trouble we're like tabby
just to remind me not to complain and my wife's like no there's gotta be other ways you know that
can help you from becoming a person that complains all the time so I'm like I'm doing it that's it
it's gonna be tibera said girl and then my wife starts crying she's like no she literally started
balling like don't name her tabira no I don't want to explain to people that name
so like all right all right it's like I'll I'll stay with Christina I'm like okay after crying
and crying I'm okay fine you were almost named tabira after this story little girl
but this sermon is not about complaining murmuring or displeasing the lord it's kind of like
it's more it's more of a story that or more of a sermon that's kind of like how could this even be
because the part that blows me away is verse four look at your bible we just saw verse three it says
and he called the name of the lord tabira because the fire of the lord burned among them and right
away I mean just look at we just read verse three let's look at verse four and the mixed multitude
so here Moses prays for them the lord stops the punishment and then in verse four it's almost like
it's too hard to believe it says this and the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting
and the trend of Israel also wept again they're doing it again here the lord just burned people
up I don't know how many people he killed they're begging Moses Moses tell God to stop
and he does and what do they do they do it right again that is just human nature
it's like the bible says the dog returns back to his vomit who's ever seen a dog eat his own
vomit I've seen it once has his black labrador and he puked all over our kitchen and we're like
rose he like rust then he sprints back and starts licking it all up I wouldn't even believe that
verse had I not seen it myself would a dog really eat his own vomit again absolutely it will but
that's what we see right away it says it started weeping again and said who should give us flesh
to eat we remember the fish which we did in Egypt freely the cucumbers and the melons and the legs
and the onion I'm trying to use my complaining voice here and the garlic but now our soul is
dried away there's nothing at all besides this manna nothing at all besides this manna before
our eyes go to revelation chapter number three it's like hold up what are you complaining about
it's not that they don't have food is they don't have the food that they want
isn't that crazy it reminds me of this movie it was a comedy movie about these guys that were rich
their dad was the rich guy and they worked for their dad and what happened is one of the kids
mouthed off to his dad so his dad punished them but you know how his dad punished them
by kicking them out of the main mansion and having them live in a guest house
and then what happened was his brother was sad he's just sad and his dad's like what's your
problem why are you crying you kicked out charlie it's like yeah but I kicked him into the guest
house he's like right over there he's like he has everything he needs you know he has a fridge
he has a kitchen he has a food he has tv and then the brother's like yeah but he has no hbo
you guys would probably recognize that movie it's a stupid movie but that's how spoiled these kids
are where his dad punishes one of the kids by kicking them out of the house by letting them
go to the guest house which was bigger than my house and not just that his brother is crying
because he doesn't have not tv he doesn't have hbo and I wonder if that's based on a true story
it has to be it has to be with rich kids they just go crazy but this is kind of the same thing
where it's not that they don't have something to eat it's that they don't like what God's
given them to eat that is wicked it's like my goodness it's the old you know the old whatever
that parents do to kids you know how many children are starving right now in whatever country
you know and you're complaining about your food you know they're right and it's biblical to be
careful complaining about our food listen this please the lord and who knows what he'll do it
but it doesn't just have to be food I mean here they're complaining about moses about everything
about god because the complaints were towards god but you're right there in revelation chapter
number three you know revelation chapter number three says this and unto the angel of the church
and sard is right these things say he that has the seven spirits of god and the seven stars
i know thy works that thou hast named it out live us in our dead be watchful and straightening the
things which remain that are ready to die for i have not found thy works perfect before god
remember therefore how thou hast received and heard and hold fast and repent if therefore
thou shall not watch i will come on thee as a thief and thou shall not know what hour i come
upon thee thou thou has a few names in sardis which has not the farther garments and they shall walk
with me in white for they are worthy what do we see here we see god rebuking the church of sardis
and i bring this up a lot to people that email us talking about how bad their church is and i'm
thinking okay what's the problem well my pastor is not a good soul winner my pastor's pre-trip
my pastor is this my pastor is that and i always ask them is your pastor safe or as you know oh
yeah king james only absolutely well i don't see what was there to complain about i really don't
it's like yeah it would be great if every church was a hot on fire fire breathing church that would
be awesome but that's not reality but that's also not the end of the world because look what it says
down here in verse four says thou has a few names so he's got saying hey hey sardis you know it's
like you guys need to get to work it says right there in verse number one it says you're alive
but you're really dead meaning you're a dead church he says straight to the things which
remain that are ready to die it's like you guys are screwing up a lot of things you know you're
your soul when it is ready to die or has died he says your works are not perfect before god
so god is making very clear sardis is a dead church and it's not a perfect church he says
your works are not perfect before god but he says hey remember repent get it right or i'm going to
come as a thief and i'm going to take away your light thou has a few names even in sardis which
has not defiled their garments so these are the people that didn't complain didn't join in on the
sin and guess what happened when the tune of israel started to to send it up a people started
to join in but not everybody did and everybody did and so guess what that story is there to
help us to realize that a our complaining can affect other people and i've seen it i've seen
it even in my work i like i bring this up a lot you know i have a military background he has a
military background so he can probably tell you more than anybody that one of the biggest people
that we've ever seen complains are the guys in the infantry the infantry guys complain a lot
they join because they want to be hardcore and shoot guns and you know run through the jungle
but when they actually start running to the jungle they're like wow this stuff
it's like it's wet it's cold it's miserable and and it's funny because you would think that they
will want to train but after a while they don't want to train they hate going to the field when
the captain's like all right we're gonna do a 10 mile hike they're like oh man why you know isn't
that how it usually happens and we're like hey relax chill be careful with the complaining hey
the captain if he hears it it's going to get very upset because that's just how it is when people
complain all over the place here guys get upset but also says that moses moses get upset go ahead
and go back to numbers if you can we'll keep it simple numbers 11 11 you know so this morning or
this evening i just want to help you guys this isn't about complaining this isn't about murmuring
the sermon is not about getting right this is just kind of to get you to realize how could
this stuff be these guys got got burned up and right away they go back at it again it's like
what's going on here you know well we'll see what's going on we'll look at the scriptures
the scriptures actually gives you an answer you know but the sermon title is simply this
tiberia and he brought head of head of uh which is the other place that this chapter mentions and
we'll get to that in a second but if you're right there in numbers 11 11 let's just kind of finish
the story it says the moses said unto the lord wherefore has that afflicted thy servant and
wherefore have i not found favor in thy sight that thou lay is the burden of all these people upon me
and i have conceived all these people have i begotten him that thou should say unto me carry
them in thy bosom as a nursing father you know bear with the sucking child onto the land which
thou swears onto their fathers when should i have flesh to give unto all these people for they weep
onto me saying give us flesh that we may eat i am not able to bear all these people alone because
it is too heavy for me and if thou deal thus with me kill me i pray thee out of hand if i have found
favor you know in thy sight and let me not see my righteousness or here's moses saying hey these
people they're grieving me they're complaining they're complaining is driving me nuts is this
a punishment did you put me in charge because you wanted me to suffer that is not the case
but here moses kind of complaining himself you know let's let's just skip to verse number 16
it says in the lord said unto moses gather unto me 70 men of the elders of israel whom thou knows
to be the elders of the people and officers over them and bring them onto the top of the congregation
so they may stand there with thee and i will come down and talk with thee there and i will take of
the spirit which is upon thee and will put it upon them and they shall bear the burden of the people
with thee that thou bear it not thyself alone and say down to the people sanctify yourselves
against tomorrow and you shall eat flesh for you have wept in the ears of the lord saying who shall
give us flesh to eat for as well with us in egypt therefore the lord will give you flesh and ye
shall eat you shall eat you shall not eat one day nor two days nor five days neither ten days nor
twenty days so it seems like god's going to answer their prayers they're like hey we have
nothing to eat but this manna i wish we had all this stuff we have back in egypt and they're
crying and now moses saying hey god's hurt your christ and he's going to give you this stuff to
eat not one day not two days you know not even five ten days nor 20 days like what's going on
are they being blessed no here's the thing sometimes when you push god too far and you're
pushing and you're pushing and you're pushing he'll just let you do whatever you want he'll
just let you backslide to the point where it says right here in proverbs 14 14 the backslider in
heart shall be filled with his own way god just kind of lets you go you know and we'll talk about
it a little bit but the key example is the prodigal son what happened give me my money
give me my inheritance i'm out of here he's like son everything you have is yours you're with me
no i want out and sure enough what happened he gives him what he wants and sometimes you may
think god is with me why would he be giving me these things you know he's like yeah i know other
people are telling me that i'm wrong but if i was really wrong would god really allow me to succeed
in this manner uh yeah but the ways of man at the end is basically going to be the way of destruction
and here we see the trend of israel we see the nature of god people are complaining whining
whatever and then god just kind of gives them what they want and they're probably thinking
well hey man it's about time you know it's like we knew these things were not something
that that we shouldn't be asking for but let's take a look verse number 20 but even a whole
month until it come out of your nostrils and it be loathsome unto you because that you have
despised now it's getting a little ugly they first might have thought as he's talking oh he is going
to give these things not two three five days not even 10 not even 20 they're probably thinking
great awesome it's about time but now he's saying hey he's going to give you these things
and they're probably thinking well amen until he gets to the part which says this that you have
despised the lord which is among you and have wept before him saying why can't we forth out of
egypt and moses said the people among whom i am are 600 000 footmen and thou hast said i will give
them flesh that they may eat a whole month so the flocks and the herds be slain for them to suffice
them or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them to suffice them and the lord
said unto moses is the lord's hand waxed short thou shall see now whether my word shall come
to pass unto thee or not and moses went out and told the people the words of the lord and gathered
the 70 men of the elders of the people and sent them round about the tabernacles so got to saying
hey you're going to watch me perform this miracle you're going to watch me give these people what
they want so go to verse number 30 let's go to verse number 30 and we'll wrap it up and moses
got him into the camp he and the elders of israel and there went forth for wind from the
lord and brought quails from the sea and let them fall by the camp as it were a day's journey on this
side and as it were a day's journey on the other side round about the camp and as it were two cubits
high upon the face of the earth and the people stood up all that day and all that night and all
the next day and they gathered the quail these are the animals that god gave them so they can eat
their meat that they've been missing out so much on because manna wasn't good enough for him what
god was providing for them it wasn't good enough for them they were spoiled brats in the desert just
whining and complaining about what they didn't have because they were too blind to see what they had
he that gathered least gathered ten homers and they spread them all abroad for themselves round
about the camp and while the flesh was yet between their teeth here it was chewed the wrath of the
lord was kindled against the people and the lord smote the people with a very great plague and he
called the name of that place kebab had to ava because they're there they buried the people that
lusted and the people journeyed from kebab had to ava unto hezirab and abode at hezirab go to
psalm 78 12. so what do we see here we see people complaining what else do do we see we see god
giving them what they want is that an evidence that you're right with the lord god giving you
everything that that you desire no sometimes he'll give you over until your own desires one key
example is the rich man that had all these riches and sure enough he ended up getting more we spoke
about that this morning this guy ended up getting a whole lot more and he's like whoa you know i'm
getting so much more you know my business is growing what do i do i know i'm going to grow
it even more you know i'm going to grow it even more so at the end i can basically retire early
and what does the bible say you fool today your soul is going to be required of thee almost the
same thing if you think about it here's the people are just like trying to to live life
according to their own eyes according according to what they seem as wise they're obviously
complaining god tries to kind of show them that they're going in the wrong direction when he burns
up the people they continue in their ways sure enough god's like okay fine let me try it a
different way this is how much is given to them you know to see what they do gives it to them they
start eating the animals and while they're eating them what happens it says right there that while
they're eating them the wrath of the lord was kindled against them and the lord smart the people
with a very great great plague so first he burns them now he's killing them with a plague you know
he's sending the coronavirus so he sends the coronavirus to basically destroy these people
you know because god is sick of them and that can kind of be america in a way where we have so much
and yet we complain people are complaining about america how bad america is and it's like how could
you complain about america so bad that america is so racist you know it's just crazy it's like
everything seems to just be about race homosexuality whatever you know it's like it seems
like the people that hate this country you know they hate it for all the wrong reasons and as bad
as this country is i mean do you guys really want to live anywhere else i mean people died on planes
trying to leave afghanistan how crazy is that you know people are crossing who knows what you know
all through mexico from haiti trying to get to the us because as bad as the us is we really don't have
a lot to complain about or nothing to complain about because america is pretty it's pretty good
you know but i wonder how many christians because they don't have that dream job or whatever
you know wonder how many of them are kindling god's god's wrath you know because they can't see how
good they have it that's the key problem here is that these people can't see how good they have it
and i guess if there's something to get from this sermon it's not not to complain you guys already
know that you know my brother over here you know with uh with the red t-shirts sorry forgot your
name he's like i remember you last time you're talking about the roaches yeah that sermon was
about complaining you're like so he hasn't forgotten about the roaches and then the other
brother's like yeah something about the hotel right i'm like hey you guys definitely remember
stuff amen friends the lord you know so those sermons were about complaining those servers
about being careful this sermon is like how can we end up getting to that point because this story
that we see in numbers is repeated in psalms let's just take a look at it really quickly you know
i'll finish up in about 10 minutes but the book of psalms mentioned numbers but we can get something
out of it as well so if you're right there in psalm 78 let's take a look it says marvelous things
that he and the side of their fathers in the land of egypt in the field of zoan he divided the sea
and caused them to pass through and he made the waters to stand as a heap in the daytime also he
led them with a cloud and all the night with a light of fire so here the book of psalms is showing
us just how good god was to the children of israel let's look at verse 16 and he brought them streams
also out of the rock and caused waters to run down like rivers and they sent yet more against
them by provoking the most high in the wilderness and the tempted god in their hearts by asking for
meat for their lust so this is referring to numbers 11 says yay they spake against god they
say can god furnish the table in the wilderness behold he smote the rock that the waters gushed
out and the streams overflowed can he give bread also can he provide flesh for his people therefore
the lord heard this and was rough so a fire was kindled against jacob so this is what we saw in
numbers 11 1 why is this why is it being repeated because it's super important to god he didn't have
numbers 11 shouldn't have been enough why is he talking about it again and then he also brings
it up in the new testament because he doesn't want us to fall into the sin where we can't see
how good we have it and we start to complain a little in our lives and be careful the bible says
you all know that verse right hey he lets me fall you guys heard that what did you know that one of
the things that is telling you to be careful is complaining murmuring so that verse is not like
just referring to a be careful that you don't lie you might fall into adultery it has a list
of things to take heat of that's not just a self-contained verse it mentions a few things
before it and it's telling us see these things i just talked about and we'll look at that verse
he's like take heat lets you start doing these things so these things are things that god is
highlighting because these things may be little but they'll end up being big they'll end up being
bigger sins that will cause you to harm your life and let's just continue it says that a fire was
kindled against jacob and anger also came up against israel because they believed not in god
and trusted not in his salvation though he had commanded the clouds from above and opened the
doors of heaven and had rained down manna upon them to eat and have given them of the corn of
heaven and man did eat angel's food he sent them meat to the full and he cast an east wind to blow
into heaven and by his power he brought in the south wind he rained flesh also upon them as dust
and feather fowl likes as the sand of the sea and he left it or and he let it fall in the midst of
their camp round about their habitations so they did eat and were filled for he gave them their own
desire look at that their own desire and what guy didn't give them what he wanted to give them he
wanted to give them manna you know but that wasn't enough for them they started to complain they
complained so much he gave them their own desire that's familiar sounds like that verse we just
talked about where the backslider is filled in heart shall be filled with his own ways
why is that important because sometimes we may think that a everything's working out well you
know yes the direction i'm going is not one that people have told me it's the right way to go but
hey if it was that bad you know why would it be working out so well is that whole gain is gone
on this mentality you know where people think well look look how much i have even though their
career is a wicked career you know i think the rock is a perfect example he has millions of
dollars for movies right the rock is this famous actor y'all probably know who i'm talking about
doyne johnson or whatever i just walked by a liquor store back in tempe because i was going
to the store because it's just right across the street i went with my kids to buy some double-a
batteries to put them on pastor anderson's mic and as i'm walking because i didn't want to drive so
i took my kids we crossed the street just went to to the store to buy some batteries he passed his
liquor store and it's a big poster of the rock and the rock already heard that he gets paid the
most out of all the actors something like that like he makes like 20 something million a movie
i think he made like 70 something million off the movie and you would think okay you know the guy
has a lot of money you know i'm sure he's probably just gonna stick to acting no this poster was him
basically selling tequila i guess he opened up a tequila brand you know he opened up some kind of
tequila company i forgot what it's called so it's him with all his tattoos just kind of like a cup
of tequila or whatever you know and i'm pretty sure he's going to make millions yay if not
hundreds of millions of dollars doing that but i'm sure it doesn't take a genius to google like
the damage of alcohol or to google you know the destruction of alcohol or to google something
it wasn't hard because i know i did it one time like hey you know whatever something the bad
things about alcohol it was just a cheesy search and it brought up how billions of dollars are
wasted a year cleaning up alcohol related incidents whether it's deaths on the freeways
whether it's vehicles being fixed because insurance have to fix these vehicles when
people are in duis lawyers all that stuff it was all combined and what did it show just how
damaging alcohol is to the united states how much money is costing the united states so i'm pretty
sure that these people that go into businesses they don't just think you know what i think i'm
going to i'm thinking i want to start this business i'm pretty sure they're looking all
the good and they look at all the bad they research it like crazy to see if this is a
business that they want to open up you know brother adri is i'm sure you got the same thing
before you open up your business you look at all the pros and the cons and figure you know what
hey i looked at everything i possibly need to look at i'm ready to start my own business hey
it makes sense let's do it and i'm pretty sure one of the things that he thought when he was
taking a career was hey i don't want to pick something that's going to cost me this thing
against the lord i'm pretty sure he did that before he got into plumbing i'm pretty sure it
wasn't just like well what's available out there the first thing that he finds that's what he's
going to go with but this is the thing the rock is obviously probably making millions of dollars if
not hundreds of millions of dollars and he's thinking hey if it was that bad why would god be
blessed it's just the same thing with these people hey if it's that bad why is god giving us quill
you know because he's going to give you your heart's desire and then punish you might as well
do it you know before he comes down hard on you but he says that he filled them with their own
desire it says they were not in straits from the lust you know but while their meat was yet in
their mouths the wrath of god came upon them and slew the fattest of them and smote down the chosen
man of israel for all this they sin still and believe not his wonder wondrous works it's that
guy that keeps getting chastised over and over and over and he cannot get a clue you know i know of
someone who knows better and yet continues to disregard the things of god where his mother is
coming to me saying hey you need to talk to such and such he said he just doesn't want to come to
church he's like he just he's just getting back into his old ways you know he thinks he's fine
because he hasn't landed in the hospital yet but he's continuing in his old states and i'm like no
problem let me see if i can talk to him try to get him back into church and i believe the guy is
safe because he's a sincere dude what's the point of lying to me every time i ask him hey you know
you're safe i know i'm saying brother i'm just weak right now at least he's admitting that he's
screwing up and needs to do something about it but i'm sure that things are going well in this
life not probably everything but some things and at that point he probably thinks well if it was
that bad you know god would have punished me severely by now if i was really that bad no
god sometimes gives you your own desire and then later comes down on you and then you can't blame
him because you got god's word right here over and over again if you have your bibles go to
first corinthians chapter number 10. first corinthians chapter number 10 while you go there
i'm just going to talk about the rich guy the rich guy that had everything he says i will say to my
soul thou has much good laid up for many years take thy knees eat and drink and be married
this gives god's blessing the guy says but god said unto him thou fool this night thy soul should
be required of thee then who who should those things be which thou has provided you know so
that's the guy that god tells us don't be like him don't be a guy that's out of my will he's
prospering he thinks i'm with him he's like no hey i'll give him a chance to get right but if he
doesn't i'm going to come down on him but now we can see a little bit as to why why do people end
up becoming these individuals they can't really see how good they have it and they start to
complain and that's the thing that i want to talk about tonight is like hey let's not be these people
that just can't see how good we have it and we start to let you know murmuring creep into our
hearts but it says in first corinthians 10 1 moreover brethren i will not i would not that ye
should be ignorant how that all our fathers were under the cloud and all passed through the sea
and were all baptized on samosas in the cloud in the sea and that all eat the same spiritual meat
and did all drink the same spiritual drink for they drank of that spiritual rock that followed
them and that rock was christ but with many of them god was not well pleased for they were
overthrown in the wilderness now these things were our examples to the intent that we shall not lust
after evil things as they also lusted neither be ye idolaters as were some of them as it is written
the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play not to let us commit fornication as some
of them committed and fell in one day three and twenty thousand neither let us tempt christ as
some of them also tempted and were destroyed as serpents neither murmur ye that's what was
happening in numbers 11 they were murmuring they were complaining they were crying underneath their
breaths about how bad they have it and how good they had it in egypt and here it says hey don't
be fornicating watch out for these things neither murmur ye as some of them also murmured and were
destroyed of the destroyer now all things happen unto them for examples and they are ready for
admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come wherefore this is what i was talking about
they him that thinking he stand to take he lets he fall people quote it like crazy but when you
ask him give me examples of what god's referring to murmuring doesn't come out murmuring isn't one
of the top things they'll bring up they'll bring up hey let's just make sure we don't start
drinking alcohol as we fall don't think that it's okay to start smoking pot unless you fall or
whatever but murmur is one of the ones that's in this list go to luke 15 11 we'll wrap it up with
luke 15 11 that's the story of the prodigal son you guys know the story the son came to his father
he said hey give me my give me my portion of goods that follow me and it says that hey you know he
wanted to leave and that's basically what happened the father gave him his portions he took off
wasted all his substance with righteous living and then he messed up his life so bad that he kind of
you know started coming back to his senses and he ended up saying to himself you know what am i
doing you know how many higher servants of my father's have ready enough and to spare and i
perish with hunger i will arise i will go back to my father and would say unto my father i have sin
against heaven and before you know thee and this is an example what can happen us as well well
we'll push god enough he'll probably just get out of our way and let us fall so the faster we fall
the faster we can get right with him and that's one of the reasons why he will let you end up
doing those desires that are your own desires like hey you know what he knows what he ought to do i
keep telling him i have people tell him he read in the bible he just right now does have the faith
to trust me and he's just going basically by what his heart is telling him to do so i'm just going
to let him continue and let him do what he wants and the end result is that god wants you to just
fall so he can get you back up and get you back on track you know but obviously there's another
part to this story and that's the part of the brother where he hears all this music he figures
out his brother is back and they killed the fatted calf and he gets upset it says in verse 28 if you
can meet me right there in verse 28 and he was angry it would not go in therefore came his father
out and he treated him and he answered he said to his father lo these many years do i serve thee
another transgress i at any time thy commandments and yet thou never gave this me a kid that i might
make merry with my friends but as soon as this thy son was come which has devoured thy living with
harlot and has killed for him and thou has killed for him the fatted calf and he said out to him son
thou are ever with me and all that i have is thine it was me that we should make merry and be glad
for this for this thy brother was dead and is alive again and was lost and is found so what do
we see here we see a story of a guy that's upset he's complaining he's complaining to his father
his brother's back instead of rejoicing and having the right mindset he's upset he's complaining and
we see what's going on his dad says hey what are you talking about thou are ever with me all that
i have is thine why is he doing this he's trying to remind them how good he has it why is he upset
because he has forgotten how good he has it what was the issue with the people in numbers 11 they
have forgotten how much god has done for them in the wilderness feeding the manna everything saving
them from the egyptians crossing the red sea all the promises god gave them we're going to give you
guys a better land a land flowing with milk and honey but yet they got to the point of being
murmurers complainers despisers of those which are good which was moses what was their problem
they have forgotten like it even said how much god has done for them they are forgotten how good
they have it and when we stop and think about it when we start to complain it's because we have
forgotten how good we really have it starting with salvation starting with a match in heaven
starting with being you know saved and going to be with christ forever and ever amen you know
those are the things we tend to forget and we need to start doing what the song tells us to do
counter many blessings name them one by one you see what i'm talking about they see how much the
lord has done sorry i know i screwed it up but that's really how you fixed it that's what the
father is doing he's trying to remind him hey count your blessings you're ever with me remember
what he did to the people in numbers 11 what are you guys complaining about it's like oh my god
it's called re-understanding this and that it's like hey that should be enough but no it wasn't
because they really thought they had it worse than they really should because it started to
get prideful and arrogant and think that they should have it better than they really should
have it and that was the issue and how do you get to that point well here's a clue john 8 12 says
this then spake jesus again unto them saying i am the light of the world he that follow of me
shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life and what was the problem with the
trend of israel they just didn't believe god they didn't trust him so guess what i highly doubt they
were following him to the teeth i highly doubt they would if they don't even trust god because
that was the problem guys saying hey you guys provoked me you guys didn't trust me you guys
didn't believe me so you really think that they were making an effort to retain everything that
moses had taught him highly doubt it and here it makes it very clear that if we follow the lord
guess what we're not going to walk in darkness we're not going to be blind walking down the wrong
path and this is the problem that we see with everyone else including the prodigal son's brother
is that he couldn't see clearly he couldn't see clearly he had forgotten how good he had it
therefore he started wanting to complain to his father and his father i'm going to fix this by
reminding you how good you have it count your many blessings name them one by one so when you
get when you get to the point of complaining realize yes it's a serious sin and catch yourself
like whoa what am i doing why am i even complaining i'm safe i'm born again i have eternal life you
know if god never gives me another blessing you know what i'm good i really am good what
else could we possibly need and that would cheer you up and get you from becoming this complainer
because guess what you may not see it but we're all going to see it and guess what you
may not be able to see this it's going to annoy everyone everyone but the worst person to annoy
is god that's the one guy you do not want to annoy forget about me forget about your pastor
forget about your church members it is god remember said it displeased the lord and moses
was also agreed you know so let's not remember or let's remember that hey when you start thinking
man you know what it's like life ain't life ain't great right now we can always just stop
and count our blessings and like it says right here get back to following the lord get it get
out of darkness be able to see clearly and realize how good we have it so we don't complain about
how bad we we actually have it which we really don't we really stop and think about it so tonight
what am i wanting you guys to remember remember those two cities where he burned them up and he
hit them with a plague and by all means don't name your child tiberia okay just read numbers
11 and you'll be fine let's pray dear god thank you for everything that you've done lord thank
you for these stories in the bible lord they're in there over and over and over again for a reason
and it's just to help us to stay right that's the whole purpose of these stories to scare us and
help us to realize who you really are unlike the jehovah's witnesses who keep bringing this stupid
thing up that how could a loving god burn anyone well you did it in numbers 11 and we know you're
a loving god but they clearly don't know who you are but father for us help us to continue to
follow you so that we're not in darkness so that we can see clearly and so we can always see how
good we have it and keep ourselves lord from becoming like the children of israel numbers 11
so i ask you to just help us to do that in the name of your son just christ amen
all right pull out your handles and turn to your last song
we're going to do another christmas song here we're going to do song 426
on 426 i heard the bells on christmas day we're gonna sing it out there on the first
i heard the bells on christmas day their old familiar carols play
and wild and sweet the words repeat of peace on earth goodwill to men
i thought how as the day had come the belfries of all christ and dumb had rolled along the broken
song of peace on earth goodwill to men and in despair i bowed my head there is no peace on
earth i said for hate is strong and marks the song of peace on earth goodwill to men
then held the bells more loud and deep god is not dead nor doth he sleep the wrong shall fail
the right prevail with peace on earth goodwill to men till ringing singing on its way the world
revolved from night to day a voice a chime a chance sublime of peace on earth goodwill to men
all right good singing you're all dismissed