Slavery for Cucumbers

After generations of slavery, God delivered Israel from Egypt with undeniable power. Yet shortly after gaining freedom, the people began to complain and even longed to return to slavery for the comfort of familiar food. Israel’s complaints about manna are met with a merciful response from God. God delivers His people.

• Israel’s willingness to exchange freedom for comfort
• How complaining reveals misplaced trust
• God’s provision of manna and meat—and the consequences of rejecting it
• Moses’ burden and God’s merciful provision of help
• The danger of assuming God’s power is limited
• The connection between Israel’s wilderness struggle and Christian freedom today
• Why believers are warned not to return to a yoke of slavery

Sermon Notes
Numbers 11:1 The people complain of adversity and the Lord consumed some of them with fire
Numbers 11:2 & 3 Moses prayed and the fire stopped
Numbers 11:4 – 6 People complained that in Egypt they could eat fish, cucumbers and other things
Numbers 11:7 – 9 Manna described and how it was harvested
Numbers 11:10 – 15 Moses wants to die because of the people and the burden he is carrying
Numbers11:16 & 17 To lift the burden God initiates the Sanhedrin
Numbers 11:18 – 20 The Lord says that the people are to consecrate themselves and they will be given meat to eat
Numbers11:21 & 22 Moses doubts God’s power
Numbers 11:23 The Lord says “Is His power limited?”
Numbers 11:24 – 30 God places His Spirit upon the elders
Numbers 11:31 –33 The Lord gives them meat, but while they are chewing it the Lord struck them with a plague
Galatians 5:1 Christ set us free, do not becomes slaves again