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Youth Worship 1st February 2025 : The mixed multitude yielded to intense craving

Text: Numbers 11:1-15
1 February 2025

YOUTH WORSHIP 1 February 2025
Text: Numbers 11:1-15
Title: “The mixed multitude yielded to intense craving” Numbers 11:4

A COMPLAINING SPIRIT

1Now when the people complained, it displeased the LORD; for the LORD heard it, and His anger was aroused. So the fire of the LORD burned among them, and consumed some in the outskirts of the camp.

2 Then the people cried out to Moses, and when Moses prayed to the LORD, the fire was quenched.

3 So he called the name of the place Taberah, because the fire of the LORD had burned among them.

Numbers 11:1-3

1. Complaining

a) Uncalled for
b) Displeasing to the Lord

2. Chastisement from God

a) Fire from the Lord
b) Some were consumed by the fire

3. Contrition expressed

a) Crying out for mercy
b) The ministry of intercession
c) The anger of the Lord was withdrawn

INTENSE CRAVING

4 Now the mixed multitude who were among them yielded to intense craving; so the children of Israel also wept again and said: “Who will give us meat to eat?

5 We remember the fish which we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic;

6 but now our whole being is dried up; there is nothing at all except this manna before our eyes!”

7 Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its colour like the colour of bdellium.

8 The people went about and gathered it, ground it on millstones or beat it in the mortar, cooked it in pans, and made cakes of it; and its taste was like the taste of pastry prepared with oil.

9 And when the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it.

10 Then Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, everyone at the door of his tent; and the anger of the LORD was greatly aroused; Moses also was displeased.

Numbers 11:4-10

1. The Mixed Multitude

a) Some had left Egypt with the children of Israel
b) They affected the children of Israel adversely

2. Remembering Egypt

a) Favourite food
b) Intense craving
c) Despising the Manna God had provided
d) Weeping and veiling the spirit of complaining

3. Two responses

a) The anger of the Lord
b) Moses was also displeased

AFFECTED ADVERSELY

11 So Moses said to the LORD, “Why have You afflicted Your servant? And why have I not found favour in Your sight, that You have laid the burden of all these people on me?

12 Did I conceive all these people? Did I beget them, that You should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a guardian carries a nursing child,’ to the land which You swore to their fathers?

13 Where am I to get meat to give to all these people? For they weep all over me, saying, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat.’

14 I am not able to bear all these people alone, because the burden is too heavy for me.

15 If You treat me like this, please kill me here and now—if I have found favour in Your sight—and do not let me see my wretchedness!”

Numbers 11:11-15

1. Moses’ prayer to God

a) Affliction felt
b) Burden of ministry
c) Reviewing God’s charge

2. Moses in despair

a) “I am not able to bear”
b) “The burden is too heavy for me”
c) “Please kill me here and now”
d) “Do not let me see my wretchedness”

3. A sobering glimpse of Moses

He is but human after all!

LESSONS FOR US TO LEARN

1. Beware the danger of complaining

2. Beware the problem of a mixed multitude

3. Beware of internal-personal human weakness