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Exodus 16:3
Excerpted from: Does Doctrine Really Matter? (Part 7)

Their memories were not very long. These people were slaves. You would have the idea here that they were living high off the hog. "When we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full."

Israel murmured in a multitude of places and circumstances during their wilderness journey. And these are, at least, partly recorded for revealing their fears to us. What they feared was what they murmured about! That is how you can tell what they feared. Often, what they feared was that they were not going to be fed.

This leads to something else. It makes the fear a bit more specific. They feared their flesh's demand for gratification was not going to be satisfied. I want you to think about that. Even though God was every day supplying them with the very best food they could possibly eat, their demands for gratification for a wide variety of other things to eat continued. They wanted all of the trimmings. What they were saying was, "God, what you are giving us is not good enough." And what they feared was that they were not going to have their taste buds and their bellies gratified with the variety that they wanted.

Exodus 16:2-3
Excerpted from: The Gift of Milk and Honey

The Israelites here make a ridiculous statement. It is ridiculous! In this verse, they say how good it was to sit around the pots of meat and eat to the fullest. The fleshpots (KJV) were garbage pots. That is what they were, it was garbage they were getting, brethren. Do you think the Egyptians were feeding the Israelites T-bone steaks, cauliflower with cheese sauce, and big baked potatoes, and then for dessert some homemade apple pie and some vanilla bean ice cream? Do you think that early in the morning, when the sun was just rising and the Israelites were getting ready to go to work, that the taskmasters had coffee and donuts for the poor Israelites?

Exodus 16:1-7
Excerpted from: Under Attack By the Amalekites

We see here again that those who had been delivered from God by the mightiest of hands, His hand, and He had provided for them in the wilderness, again were complaining into the second month. We also see in God's mercy that He granted their requests for what they physically desired, but He also began to give them the most important lesson that they would have with them day by day, week by week for nearly 40 years. As it says in verse chapter 16, verse 4, the Lord said to Moses, "Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you. And the people shall go out and gather a certain quota every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in My law or not."

Exodus 16:1-3
Excerpted from: Does Doctrine Really Matter? (Part 7)

Their memories were not very long. These people were slaves. You would have the idea here that they were living high off the hog. "When we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full."

Israel murmured in a multitude of places and circumstances during their wilderness journey. And these are, at least, partly recorded for revealing their fears to us. What they feared was what they murmured about! That is how you can tell what they feared. Often, what they feared was that they were not going to be fed.

Exodus 16:2-3
Excerpted from: Attitudes of Returning to Egypt

The first attitude I want to talk about is from the passage that we just read. This is the attitude of comfort, instead of spiritual growth. Brethren, when Israel longed to go back to Egypt, they showed a lack of faith in God, choosing instead to revert to what they had built up in their minds as comfortable things; the pots of meat and the bread were both things of comfort to Israel were a complete fiction.

Exodus 16:3
Excerpted from: Faith, Government, and the Calendar (Part 4)

Go back to Exodus 16. They are just recently out of Egypt.

Were they upset or what? Were they grumbling or what? Were they griping or what? What were they griping about? They did not find what God was providing them to their liking.

Exodus 16:3-4
Excerpted from: The Laborers: Matthew 20:1-16

You mean to tell me they forgot the pain already? And now, they were entitled to more?

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