|
|
|
P.O. Box 25759 1411 Rim Road Fayetteville, North Carolina 28314 Office Phone: 910-868-5686 |
|
|
 |
Numbers 11:1-9; Hebrews 3:7-19; Mark 15:16-32
March 26, 2006
The Rev. Kong Namkung
I. The reasons of complaints
II. God’s responses to the complainers
III. What do I do?
(Phil 2: 14, “Do all things without Murmuring and arguing, so that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation.”
11:1 Now the people complained about
their hardships in the hearing of the LORD, and when he heard them his
anger was aroused. Then fire from the LORD burned among them and consumed
some of the outskirts of the camp. 2 When the people cried out to Moses,
he prayed to the LORD and the fire died down. 3 So that place was called
Taberah, because fire from the LORD had burned among them.
4 The rabble with them began to crave other food, and again the Israelites
started wailing and said, "If only we had meat to eat! 5 We remember the
fish we ate in Egypt at no cost — also the cucumbers, melons, leeks,
onions and garlic. 6 But now we have lost our appetite; we never see
anything but this manna!"
7 The manna was like coriander seed and looked like resin. 8 The people
went around gathering it, and then ground it in a handmill or crushed it
in a mortar. They cooked it in a pot or made it into cakes. And it tasted
like something made with olive oil. 9 When the dew settled on the camp at
night, the manna also came down. NIV
Hebrews 3:7-19
7 So, as the Holy Spirit says:
"Today, if you hear his voice, 8 do not harden your hearts as you did in the
rebellion, during the time of testing in the desert, 9 where your fathers tested
and tried me and for forty years saw what I did. 10 That is why I was angry with
that generation, and I said, 'Their hearts are always going astray, and they
have not known my ways.' 11 So I declared on oath in my anger, 'They shall never
enter my rest.'"
12 See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that
turns away from the living God. 13 But encourage one another daily, as long as
it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness.
14 We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly till the end the confidence
we had at first. 15 As has just been said:
"Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the
rebellion."
16 Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out
of Egypt? 17 And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those
who sinned, whose bodies fell in the desert? 18 And to whom did God swear that
they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed? 19 So we see that
they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief. NIV
Mark 15:16-32
16 The soldiers led Jesus away into the palace (that is, the Praetorium) and
called together the whole company of soldiers. 17 They put a purple robe on him,
then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on him. 18 And they began to
call out to him, "Hail, king of the Jews!" 19 Again and again they struck him on
the head with a staff and spit on him. Falling on their knees, they paid homage
to him. 20 And when they had mocked him, they took off the purple robe and put
his own clothes on him. Then they led him out to crucify him.
21 A certain man from Cyrene, Simon, the father of Alexander and Rufus, was
passing by on his way in from the country, and they forced him to carry the
cross. 22 They brought Jesus to the place called Golgotha (which means The Place
of the Skull). 23 Then they offered him wine mixed with myrrh, but he did not
take it. 24 And they crucified him. Dividing up his clothes, they cast lots to
see what each would get.
25 It was the third hour when they crucified him. 26 The written notice of the
charge against him read: THE KING OF THE JEWS. 27 They crucified two robbers
with him, one on his right and one on his left. 29 Those who passed by hurled
insults at him, shaking their heads and saying, "So! You who are going to
destroy the temple and build it in three days, 30 come down from the cross and
save yourself!"
31 In the same way the chief priests and the teachers of the law mocked him
among themselves. "He saved others," they said, "but he can't save himself! 32
Let this Christ, this King of Israel, come down now from the cross, that we may
see and believe." Those crucified with him also heaped insults on him. NIV
Print
This Page |
Bookmark
This Site! |
Email
a Friend! |
E-Cards
Questions, suggestions and problems concerning the Cornerstone United Methodist Church Website should be directed toward the Cornerstone Webmaster at: webmaster@cornerstoneumconline.com
This Website Has Been Visited
Since Beginning
Operation.
Thanks for Stopping By!
