British Weekly Pulpit Numbers 20:2-13 And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.… 1. Did you ever hear people cry out, "I wish I were dead"? That is what the Israelites said — "Would God we had died!" These wishes were hasty, and as insincere as hasty. No doubt those people would flee from death with terror at the first sign of his approach. It has been well said that "a discontented heart makes a reckless tongue." 2. Now we come to Moses' sin. He did not attend carefully to God's Word, nor obey it, because he was angry. Notice his bitter words. Let us beware of the sin of anger. Look at the fifth of Galatians, and it tells you that "wrath" is one of the "lusts of the flesh." In Proverbs we are told that "he that is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city." Why is a person who conquers himself better than a great general who takes a city? There are three reasons. (1) He is a greater hero; he does a more difficult thing. (2) Because it leaves a happier feeling behind. (3) It pleases God, The more you conquer your sins, the more you will be growing like Christ.Do you know heaven is full of conquerors? And Revelation 12:11 tells us how they conquered: "They overcame by the blood of the Lamb." (British Weekly Pulpit.) Parallel Verses KJV: And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron. |
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