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Numbers chapter 11 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Numbers Chapter 11, let us pray, Our Father who's in heaven,
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  Lord, we come to you today. Lord, we grab a hold of the hem
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  of your garment. Father, we lay at your feet.
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  Father, we ask for forgiveness and healing today.
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  Restore us. Lord, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus that we can walk across fiery stones.
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  Let us walk on the water today. God, I pray.
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  Calm the storms all around us. Lord, I pray in the mighty name
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  of Jesus you'll come and get your glory.
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  Father, envelope us. Lord Holy Spirit, fill us today.
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  Help us not to be grumbling murmurs, Father, but help us to
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  step into the promise, Lord, of what you've already done for us.
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  Lord, you've healed, saved, delivered.
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  God, you have rebuked the Devourer from off of our
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  families. So, Lord, we step into the
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  promise, we step into covenant. God, we're covered by the blood
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  of the Lamb. Thank you, Jesus, for your
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  sacrifice. Thank you, Lord, that you lived
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  the innocent life and took our sins.
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  Lord, thank you for righteousness.
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  Thank you for right standing. Thank you for justification.
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  Thank you for atonement, Father. I pray, Lord, that you'll rebuke
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  the devourer from off of our families, off of our children,
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  off of our houses and finances. Lord, I pray for you to fling
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  open the windows of heaven, Lord, pour out blessings so much
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  that we cannot contain it. Pack down.
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  Father. I pray that we could be people
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  that live open handedly. Lord, I pray that we'll go out
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  into the highways, the hedges of the byways, Father, and snatch
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  those fiery brands from out of the fire.
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  God, clothe them with robes of righteousness.
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  Father, I thank you, God, for another day to come and to
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  worship you in spirit and truth. Thank you for manna, Thank you
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  for quail. Thank you for daily bread.
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  Thank you for living water. God, we're not just dunked in
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  water, we're bathed in the blood of Christ, Lord, and where you
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  are, Lord, we will be or seated with you in Christ in heavenly
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  places. Lord, I pray that you'll come,
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  come soon, Lord. And it's in Jesus Christ, holy
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  and precious and powerful name that I pray.
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  Amen. Let's start in verse one.
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  And when the people complained, displeased the Lord, and the
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  Lord heard it, and his anger was kindled, and the fire of the
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  Lord burnt among them. And consume then that we're in
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  the uttermost parts of the camp. So here we get to see a turning
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  of events. The whole book of Numbers can be
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  structured from organization to disorganization to
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  reorganization. And we've just left organization
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  and we're entering into disorganization.
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  Friends, that's what you're going to see here in this 11th
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  chapter of the Book of Numbers. You're going to see the people
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  start complaining and murmuring. And God hears that even after
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  all the miracles that He's wrought amongst them.
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  And that is why it is so displeasing unto a holy God.
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  When we are ungrateful little children, we need to practice
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  gratitude. We enter in with praise and
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  Thanksgiving. Give Him thanks today for all
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  the things that you've seen in your life, all the promises that
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  He has fulfilled and He's made good on friends.
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  And we can believe and we can know and we can trust that
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  eternity awaits. Even after all of the hardships
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  that we face here on this earth. We can have hope, this blessed
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  assurance that what Jesus did on the cross was enough and we need
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  not complain and are destitute situations that we find
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  ourselves in. We need to know that God is a
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  miracle worker and He can literally do anything and He
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  believes you in that message for a purpose.
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  Verse 2 And the people cried unto Moses, and when Moses
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  prayed unto the Lord, the fire was quenched.
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  So we could see that God's fire by night broke out into the
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  outer parts of the camp, and we do not know exactly if people's
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  lives were demanded of them, or if he just burn up structures,
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  or if he just sent the lightning to set things on fire.
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  But you need to know that Moses prayed unto him, and it was
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  quenched. 3 And he called the name of the place to Bara,
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  because the fire of the Lord burnt among them.
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  We pray for the fire of God to come, the baptism of fire, but
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  we need to be careful what we pray for, because when the Lord
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  breaks out, it's dangerous ground.
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  Friends, that's where healing comes.
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  That's where people get set free.
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  Friends, that's where revival breaks out.
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  Praise God. Hallelujah for the fire of God.
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  For in the mixed multitude that was among them, fella lusting
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  and the children of Israel also wept again and said, who shall
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  give us flesh to eat? So we can see here that when the
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  Israelites were being LED out of Egypt, it wasn't just the
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  covenant people, God's chosen people.
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  We see a mixed multitude of Egyptians and perhaps other
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  ethnicities following them out. They could see that God's mighty
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  hand was upon them. And now we can see that they
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  have actually become a stumbling block to the covenant people of
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  God. And all they're thinking about
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  is all their carnal pleasures and they're wanting to go back
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  into slavery and bondage. They're wanting to go back so
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  that they could eat all of the niceties and the pleasantries,
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  friends. And we're no different when God
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  calls us into ministry, when we are in the beautiful place of
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  God's protection and promise. We desire and lust and go a
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  whoring after our sinful past, and we romanticize about it.
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  Far be it from us. 5 We remember the fish which we did eat in
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  Egypt freely, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions
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  and garlic. Look at how these carnal
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  pleasures have a stronghold upon them.
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  And we're no different, friends. Don't get it twisted.
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  Don't look down upon them. You and I are no different,
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  friends. It's all about perspective.
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  It's about keeping things in perspective.
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  And if we do not, we're going to get LED astray.
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  And the problem with deception is that it's so deceiving and we
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  don't realize that we're being deceived, friends.
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  That's why we must realign our hearts and our minds daily with
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  God Almighty. We must get under the yoke of
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  Jesus. We must keep the Word ever
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  before us. Meditate upon it, friends.
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  Safeguard yourself from the deception of the enemy who comes
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  in, and he wants the flesh to win out.
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  He wants you to quench the Spirit, Friends. 6 But now our
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  soul is dried away. There is nothing at all besides
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  this manna before our eyes. Look at how they're complaining
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  about the angelic food, friends. Look at how God is giving them
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  everything that they need, and they're complaining against this
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  miraculous feeding from God. No wonder God is so sore
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  displeased. 7 And the manna was this coriander seed, and the
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  color was the color of bedelium. 8 And the people went about,
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  gathered it and grounded in mills, beat it in a mortar,
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  baked it in pans, made cakes of it, and the taste of it was as
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  the taste of fresh oil. So here you can see that God has
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  a supernatural way of, of feeding us and giving us
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  provision. And we see that even with Elijah
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  the the Ravens can come and feed us.
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  We see even with the widow the oil that just keeps getting
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  poured out, never ending supplies.
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  God has supernatural ways. He can take a fish and some
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  loaves and feed thousands upon thousands upon thousands.
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  Nothing is impossible for our God.
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  And here you can see this dew falls on the ground, and they're
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  able to collect it and they're able to feed themselves from it.
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  But it wasn't enough for them. They lusted and hoard after the
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  things of man, the things of the world.
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  And if we're not careful, we will too.
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  We see that the taste of it was probably what we would think of
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  as a doughnut. 9 And when the dew fell upon the camp in the
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  night, the manna fell upon it. 10 And Moses heard the people
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  weep throughout their families, every man in the door of his
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  tent. And the anger of the Lord was
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  kindled greatly. Moses also was displeased.
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  So you can see these people are weeping not because of any kind
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  of godly sorrow, but they're weeping because they're whoring
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  and lusting after the things of the world.
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  What a ridiculous notion we do it to. 11 And Moses said unto
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  the Lord, Why have you afflicted your servant, and why have I not
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  found favour in your sight, that you laid the burden of all this
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  people upon me? He's no different.
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  He's relegating himself, he's degrading himself back down into
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  victim mentality. Far be it from us to have this
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  victim mentality. We are the royal priesthood of
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  God Almighty. We have sonship and adoption
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  friends, and every good thing is available unto us.
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  Far be it from us to go back to our vomit and to think of things
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  on a worldly scale. We have to have the lofty
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  position, the high position of who we serve and whom and who's
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  we are. Friends, We need to know that we
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  know that we know that we know that God can literally do
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  anything. And here Moses is being beat
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  down, beat down and beat down unto the place where he feels as
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  if he is out of sorts and out of joint. 12 Have I conceived all
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  these people? Have I begotten them that you
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  should say unto me? Carry them in your bosom, as a
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  nursing father bears the sucking child unto the land which you
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  swore unto their fathers. So here Moses is murmuring and
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  complaining against a holy God, and he's saying that I actually
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  conceive all these people. You've thrusted them upon me.
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  It is your responsibility, God. 13 Why should I have flesh to
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  give unto all these people? For they weep unto me, saying,
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  Give us flesh that we may eat, so all they can think about is
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  their carnal pleasures. 14 I am not able to bear all these
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  people alone. It is too heavy for me.
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  And that's exactly right. We got to get to the place where
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  we are 100% reliant upon God. And too many of us, friends, we
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  have become reliant upon manna. We've become reliant upon
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  finances. We have no place for God.
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  We tip our hats to them, but in the reality, manna has become
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  our God. 15 And if you deal thus with me, kill me, I pray out of
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  hand, if I have found favor in your sight, then let me not see
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  my wretchedness. He needs to see his
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  wretchedness. We need to see our wretchedness.
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  We need to see our need for a Savior.
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  We cannot save ourselves. And here look at how Moses is
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  just saying, Take Me Out, God. And do we not do the same,
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  friends, when things get too heavy for us?
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  But perhaps that's exactly where God would want us to be backed
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  against the corner where we have to rely upon him and him and him
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  alone. Friends, it's the best and most
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  beautiful place that a human being could ever get to, is a
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  place where we see our need for repentance. 16 And the Lord said
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  unto Moses, Gather unto me 70 men of the elders of Israel,
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  whom you know to be the elders of the people, officers over
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  them, and bring them unto the Tabernacle of the congregation,
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  that they may stand there with you.
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  So here God is going to institute what we know as the
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  Sanhedrin. This was still being played out
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  in the days of Jesus. This was the 70 elders of Israel
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  and 1 high priest, the leader. And that is what is being
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  modeled here in this verse. This is the first institution of
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  that. And you see here that the Spirit
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  of God is going to fall upon them.
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  And these weren't to be made into elders.
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  These were people who were already known as the leaders of
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  the land. 17 And I will come down and talk with you there,
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  and I will take of the Spirit which is upon you and put it
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  upon them that they shall bear the burden of the people with
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  you, that you bear it, not yourself alone.
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  So you can see here that the weight of responsibility is too
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  heavy for just one person. And this is speaking to the
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  problem of putting a pastor too high up on a pedestal.
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  They will fail you 10 times out of 10.
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  When we elevate a man to a position that he has no place
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  being in, we will be sorely disappointed every single time.
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  And that is why we need to spread the responsibility out so
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  that people can bear each other's burdens.
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  And love covers a multitude of sin, we cannot bear it alone. 18
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  And say you unto the people, sanctify yourselves against the
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  Morrow, you shall eat flesh. For you have wept in the ears of
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  the Lord, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat?
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  For it was well with us in Egypt.
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  Therefore the Lord will give you flesh that you shall eat.
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  You got to be, You got to be careful what you ask for
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  friends, sometimes what we ask for the the blessings can turn
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  themselves into burdens. And here God is saying, Sure, if
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  you want flesh to eat, I will give it to you, but it'll be so
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  much so that you become sick of it. 19 You shall not eat one
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  day, nor two days, nor five days, neither 10 days nor 20
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  days, 20 but even a whole month, until it comes out of your
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  nostrils. And it be loath some unto you,
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  because that you have despised the Lord which is among you, and
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  have wet before him, saying, why we came forth out of Egypt.
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  We're complaining and wanting to go back to our sinful lifestyle.
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  God has LED us across dry land, He split the Red Sea.
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  We're over in the wilderness, we're not yet in the promised
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  land, and we desire and horror and lust after our sinful past.
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  We romanticize about all the disgusting things that we used
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  to do, and it is displeasing unto God.
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  And he's telling them that, yes, I'll give you this flesh to eat,
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  but you will be sick of it, so much so it'll spew out from your
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  nostrils. 21 And Moses said, The people among whom I am are
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  600,000 foot men, and you have said, I will give the flesh that
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  they may eat a whole month. Here Moses is doubting God's
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  provision and we can see that God is able to do anything.
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  And so here Moses is calling God into the courtroom and he is
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  questioning his Providence. And this 600 foot men would be
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  likened to a multitude of over 2 million people. 22 Shall the
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  flocks and the herds be slain for them to suffice them, or
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  shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them to
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  suffice them? They're in the wilderness,
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  friends. There's no sea.
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  You can see that Moses is being facetious here.
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  And the cattle that they did have, they needed to hold on to
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  so that they could breed them. They were not able to just slay
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  all the cattle, because then they would have none. 23 And the
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  Lord said to Moses, Is the Lord's hand waxed short?
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  You shall see now whether my words shall come to pass to you
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  or not. Look at how long-suffering God
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  is unto His servant Moses. 24 And Moses went out.
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  He told the people the words of the Lord.
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  They gathered the 70 men of the elders of the people, and set
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  them round and about the Tabernacle. 25 And the Lord came
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  down in a cloud, and spoke unto him, and took up the Spirit that
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  was upon him, and he gave it unto the 70 elders.
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  And it came to pass that when the Spirit rested upon them,
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  they prophesied and did not cease.
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  They probably were speaking in tongues.
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  Friends, this is way before any of the giftings came about that
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  we see in the New Testament. We can see all the way back here
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  as the same God and they prophesied about even though
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  they were not given the Spirit of prophecy.
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  What an amazing God that we serve.
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  And you can see here it was His stamp that He has chosen this.
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  7020 26 But there remained 2 of the men in the camp.
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  The name of the one was El Dad, in the name of the other Medad.
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  And the Spirit rested upon them, and they were of them that were
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  written, but were not out unto the Tabernacle, And they
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  prophesied in the camp. So geographical space is nothing
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  to a God who lives outside of space and time.
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  And just because they were not able to gather unto the
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  Tabernacle did not mean that they would not receive the
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  Spirit. God can literally do anything.
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  27 And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad
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  and me, Dad, prophecy in the camp. 28 And Joshua the son of
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  Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his young men, answered and
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  said, My Lord, Moses forbid them, because they were not able
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  to come to the tent of the Tabernacle, but they still
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  received the Spirit. Here the zealousness of Joshua
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  has shown, and he's saying, Moses forbid them because they
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  did not come when they were told to. 29 And Moses said unto him,
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  Do you envy? For my sake I wish the God that
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  all the people, all of the Lord's people, were prophets,
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  and that the Lord would put his Spirit upon them.
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  Look at the heart of Moses here. He says that he wishes that
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  everyone would receive the same Spirit.
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  Perhaps they would not be murmuring and grumbling as we
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  see them. 30 And Moses got him to the camp, he and the elders
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  of Israel. 31 And there went forth a wind from the Lord, and
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  brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it
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  were a day's journey on this side, as it were a day's journey
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  on the other side, round and about the camp, as it were two
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  cubits high upon the face of the earth.
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  So here we can see that God was able to bring plenty of quail
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  into the camp. He has supernatural ability to
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  lead migrations and flocks. He has the supernatural ability
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  for fish to be caught that have coins in their mouth.
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  He has a supernatural ability to make to make the axe head float.
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  He has the supernatural ability to allow us to walk on the water
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  friends. He can reverse diseases.
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  He can restore sight to the blind.
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  He can call the dead back to life.
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  This God that we serve, there is nothing that he cannot do.
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  Never forget it. Keep the faith. 32 The people
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  stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next
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  day, and they gathered the quails.
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  He that gathered least gathered 10 homers, and they spread them
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  all abroad for themselves round and about the camp. 33 And while
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  the flesh was yet between their teeth, here it was chewed the
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  wrath. The Lord was kindled against the
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  people, and the Lord struck the people with a very great plague.
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  34 And he called the name of that place Kibrath Hakaba,
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  because they were buried, the people that lusted.
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  So here again you've got to be careful what you ask for.
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  And you can see here that God provided for them, but at the
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  end of the day, it was to their demise.
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  And that is the problem is that sometimes we ask for things and
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  we do not realize what we're asking for until it's too late.
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  We'll end on 35 and the people journey from Kibrath Hatavan to
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  Herzara and they abode Azara here, friends.
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  We see this turning point where the Israelites have started to
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  go down this dark path of questioning God and questioning
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  leadership. And here we can see that just
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  because they were put together in their ranks and files that
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  there was still much work to do. And there is still much work to
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  do in our lives. Don't forget it.
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  The process of sanctification is a lifelong event, friends, and
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  there is nothing better in this life than to serve God while you
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  were young and to accept your lot in life.
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  Never forget it. I hope you've been blessed by
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  this amazing chapter, God's Word.
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  I know I sure have. I'm praying for every single one
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  of you. I love you.
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  We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.