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Exodus chapter 17 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Exodus chapter 17 let's start in verse one and all the
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  congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the
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  wilderness of sin after their journeys according to the
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  commandment of the Lord and pitched in refadim and there was
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  no water for the people to drink.
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  So you're going to see this murmuring and grumbling and
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  complaining and it's not against Moses friends, it's not against
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  Aaron friends. This is against God himself, and
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  isn't it just like humanity whenever we see the mighty hand
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  of God moving all around us, but we are quick to forget all the
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  things that he has done for us in the past and we can't see the
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  nose on our face. We can't see the very miracles
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  and the blessings that he's giving to us today.
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  And here the Israelites are no different.
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  The Israelites, they're quick to forget the man of the quail.
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  They're quick to forget the Sweetwater.
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  They're quick to forget the dry land they walked across.
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  They're quick to get all of the plagues in the land that rescued
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  them from their oppressors, and here we are, and they're being
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  LED through the wilderness. And it should have been a quick
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  journey, but God had much that He wanted to pull out of the
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  Israelites, His people who are called by His name.
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  Verse 2 Wherefore the people did chide with Moses and said, Give
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  us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why do
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  you chide with me? Why do you tempt the Lord?
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  So Moses here has a clear understanding and he knows that
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  God can provide. And just because they cannot see
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  the water, it does not mean that God can't provide in a
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  miraculous way. He can make it rain down and
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  fill water troughs. He can make water come up from
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  the ground. But we're going to see how God
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  chooses to provide for his people.
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  Verse 3 And the people thirsted there for water, and the people
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  murmured against Moses and said, why is this that you have
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  brought us up out of Egypt to kill us and our children and our
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  cattle with thirst. So here they are.
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  They're basically provoking Moses, they're provoking God to
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  action, and we do the same thing.
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  And there is a difference between positive attention and
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  negative attention, and there is attention nonetheless.
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  But we know we do not need to be those that provoke God to act
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  just so that we can see that he is real.
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  And we provoke him with all of our chiding, with all of our
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  provocation in the negative sense, friends.
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  And it's like poking a bear. And then whenever the bear
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  finally turns, we wish that we had never done it.
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  And that is where people are today.
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  They just want to see if God is even real.
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  All they can see is dust on the Bibles.
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  All they can see is a hypocrisy. All they can see is that
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  churches are being shuttered and closed and turned into all kinds
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  of businesses. All they can see is that God is
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  somehow sleeping, or that he is distant, or that he does not
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  care, or that he is not omnipotent.
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  And they just want to, if God is who he says he is, friends, but
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  it'll be too late for them. And you can see here that the
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  people, they're provoking God into action.
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  Verse 4 And Moses cried unto the Lord, saying, what shall I do to
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  this people? They almost be ready to stone
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  me. Moses here is talking to God and
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  he says you can have it. God, I hang it up.
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  These people, they're ready to stone me because there's no
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  water here in Refidem 5 And the Lord said to Moses, go on before
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  the people and take with you of the elders of Israel and your
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  rod wherewith you struck the river, taking your hand and go.
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  So God has a plan. God knows how to provide.
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  God is not slack, nor does he slumber.
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  He is not asleep. He knows all of our needs.
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  He knows how to provide for us. Friends, it is us, it is our
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  hearts, it is our motives that need to change.
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  We need to get to a place when we see the lack, when we can't
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  see God's movement. We need to get to a place on our
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  knees in worship in total, total adoration unto a holy God,
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  knowing that he can do anything, even if all of our circumstances
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  and emotions and everything external, all of the impulses,
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  friends speak against it. We need to be connected to God,
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  to trust in God in the way that Moses does.
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  He keeps going back to the Lord. He's speaking with the Lord.
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  He's conversing with the Lord, and that is what we need to do
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  as well. Six Behold, I will stand before
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  you upon there upon the rock, and Horeb, and you shall strike
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  the rock, and there shall come water out of it, and the people
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  may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of
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  the elders of Israel. So here this is synonymous with
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  Christ. He was struck, and living water
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  flowed out. And we can see here that God
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  tells Moses to strike the rock. And we know that God can and He
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  will provide for His people. He did not lead them out here in
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  the wilderness just to see all all of them die. 7 And he called
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  the name of the place Masa Meribah, because of the chiding
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  of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the Lord,
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  saying, Is the Lord among us or not?
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  That's the whole thing is they want to know if God is even
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  there. Even though they can see this
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  pillar of fire and this cloud by day, pillar of fire by night.
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  They can see the manna and the quail.
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  They could see the bitter waters made sweet.
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  They can see all of the miracles of God, the dry land that they
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  got to walk across, the oppressors swallowed up in the
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  sea. They could see all of these
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  things, friends, the smoke and the lightnings and the pills of
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  Thunder. They've seen all of these things
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  and they still want to know, is God with us or not?
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  And we do the same. God is moving mightily all
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  around us in our midst, performing miracles after
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  miracles after miracles, but we're not satisfied and we want
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  more. And we want to see if God is
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  even real. Far be it from us to be that
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  way. 8 And then came Amalek and fought with Israel and Refadim
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  so we could see this Amalek is a descendant of Esaw.
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  Friends, this has been 430 years since the Genesis account Where
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  Jacob and Esau departed and went their own separate ways.
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  And we know that Joseph and all of Jacob's children came down
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  into Egypt, and then they're let go and now they're moving in
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  Canaan. And we see Esau's descendants
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  come and they want a war and they want to fight with them.
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  When we find out later in Scripture that they did it very
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  slimy, they came from behind and they started to attack the women
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  and the children from the back. And we could see that God did
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  not take it lightly and He recorded it.
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  And He said that He would forever deal with the Amalekites
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  because of how they dealt with their brother, how they dealt
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  with their relative there while they were crossing over into the
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  Promised land. 9 Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out, men, and
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  go out and fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top
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  of the hill with the rod of God in my hand.
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  So here we could see that Joshua gets mentioned for the first
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  time and he is like a general in God's army.
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  He's going to amass together troops and they're going to go
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  out and fight against the Amalekites.
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  And we can see here that God has already called the rod, Moses's
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  rod. And now we can see that Moses
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  calls it God's rod. And what they're doing is
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  they're actually giving each other respect.
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  They're actually giving each other honor, friends.
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  And you can see here that they're going to go out and
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  fight against the these very cantankerous enemies who are not
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  fighting fair. They're not hitting them head
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  on. They're coming from behind and
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  taking out the weak ones. 10 So Joshua did as Moses had said to
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  him and fought with the Amalek and Moses and Aaron and her went
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  up to the top of the hill. So we know that Aaron was
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  related to Moses, but perhaps her was as well through Miriam.
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  11 And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, the
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  Israelites prevailed. But when he let down his hand,
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  Amalek prevailed. So somehow, someway, this
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  holding up his hands in an act of worship was a way that God
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  was allowing the Israelites to conquer over the Amalekites.
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  But then whenever Moses got tired and he let down his hands,
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  the Amalekites started to get the victor.
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  But Moses's hands were heavy, and they took a stone and put it
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  under him, and he sat on it. And Aaron and her stayed up, his
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  hands, one-on-one side, the other on the other side.
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  And his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
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  So these two grown men are holding up Moses's hands, and
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  anytime his hands were held up, the Israelites prevailed against
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  their enemy. And it's happened all the way
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  until the going down of the sun. 13 and Joshua discomforted
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  Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
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  So Joshua got the advantage over the enemies. 14 And the Lord
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  said to Moses, write this for a memorial in a book.
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  Rehearse it in the ears of Joshua, for I will utterly put
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  out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
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  So here we see that God instructs Moses to start writing
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  these things down. And perhaps that is the very
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  book that you and I hold in our hands.
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  How amazing is our God that God right here is instructing Moses
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  to start writing the Pentateuch, friends, the very beginning of
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  all inspired scripture, and we see it recorded here in Exodus
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  for us to go and to look at the moment.
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  And he tells Moses to recite it in the ears of Joshua.
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  And that is something that we need, friends.
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  We need to call to remembrance all of the times that God has
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  come through for us. We do not need to have the sin
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  of forgetfulness of all of the times, of God's many blessings
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  upon our lives. And if we'll go back and look at
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  all the times that it could have went evil for us, but God stood
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  in the gap and God rescued us from the hands of the enemy,
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  we'd go back. And we call those things to
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  remembrance. We stir them up within our
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  minds, and it is great encouragement for the days to
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  come. 15 And Moses built an altar and called the name of it
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  Jehovah Nisi. Because God is our banner.
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  He's over us. Friends, We lift up the God of
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  Israel, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
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  We lift them up over our health, over our wealth, over our bodies
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  and over our families, over our children and over our nation,
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  over the globe. He is the banner.
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  He is the all sufficient sacrifice.
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  He is our All in all, our only one who is worthy of all
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  adoration and attention. Friends, we give him all due
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  respect and honor because He is the banner over it.
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  And we wave the flag over our houses.
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  We wave the flag over our workplaces.
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  We wave the flag over the schools and over the government,
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  over the courtrooms and over our children.
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  Friends, we wave the flag of Yeshua and we proclaim Him as
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  the highest in the land. He is the name that is above all
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  names. Regardless of if mankind wants
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  to admit it or not. It is the only thing worth
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  worshipping is God Almighty, the God of the Jews.
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  I hope you've been blessed by this amazing chapter.
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  God's word. We'll end on 16.
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  For he said because the Lord has sworn that the Lord will have
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  war with Amalek from generation to generation, they will be
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  completely done in the entire nation of Esau.
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  And the Edomites, friends, are completely wiped off the face of
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  the map. And it is not for us to try to
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  figure out God's ways. We just say yes and Amen.
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  And when God says in verse 16 that the Amalekites will be
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  completely gone, that is what is exactly what has happened in the
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  land. I hope you've been blessed by
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  this amazing chapter in God's Word.
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  I know I sure have. Let's say a quick prayer.
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  We thank you Father, for this day.
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  We thank you God for all your many blessings.
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  We thank you for your Word. God come and get your glory in
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  our lives. We thank you for another
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  opportunity to come and worship you in spirit and truth.
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  It's in Jesus name that I pray, Amen.