INSTEAD OF THANKING, WHAT ARE YOU DOING

 Message By Pst Victor Bajulaiye (The Presiding Pst Chapel of Mercy Int'l Church)

Text: Deut. 7:6-8

After spending 430 years in bondage, God sent Moses to deliver the Israelites. Exo.12:31-33

12:31 

And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as ye have said.  

12:32 

Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also.  

12:33 

And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead men.

He divided the red sea for them to pass. Exo.14:21-22

14:21 

And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.  

14:22 

And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.

He turned the bitter water to sweet to enable tem drink water. Exo.15:23-25

15:23 

And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.  

15:24 

And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?  

15:25 

And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them,

He gave them 12 wells of water which they did not dig and 70 palm trees which they did not plant. 

Exo.15:27

And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.

He brought quails and manna from Heaven. Exo.16:11-15

16:11 

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,  

16:12 

I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God.  

16:13 

And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host.  

16:14 

And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground.  

16:15 

And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.

He brought water out of the rock. Exo.17:5-6

17:5 

And the LORD said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go.  

17:6 

Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

YET THEY DIDNT RECOGNIZE GOD INSTEAD,

They always murmur at every point when they are in need.

Exo.5:20-21. 

5:20 

And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came forth from Pharaoh:  

5:21 

And they said unto them, The LORD look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.

They complained that it was because Moses was telling Pharaoh about their release that is making their problem and pain increase.

Exo.14:11-12. 

14:11 

And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt?  

14:12 

Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.

Instead of thanking god,  they were complaining about why he brought them out of bondage.

Exo.15:26. 

And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee.

They murmured about the bitter water.

Exo.16:3. 

And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

They murmured they have no meat to eat.

Exo.17:3-4. 

17:3 

And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?  

17:4 

And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.

They murmured for lack of no water.