Message Notes

SSS 4
Book 4
Psalms 90-106
24 March 2024

Psalm 106

32 They angered Him also at the waters of strife,
So that it went ill with Moses on account of them;

33 Because they rebelled against His Spirit,
So that he spoke rashly with his lips.

Psalm 106:32-33

1. Angering God

2. Rebelling against the Spirit of God

3. Moses spoke rashly

HISTORICAL CONTEXT

1Then the children of Israel, the whole congregation, came into the Wilderness of Zin in the first month, and the people stayed in Kadesh; and Miriam died there and was buried there.
2 Now there was no water for the congregation; so they gathered together against Moses and Aaron.
3 And the people contended with Moses and spoke, saying: “If only we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!
4 Why have you brought up the assembly of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our animals should die here?
5 And why have you made us come up out of Egypt, to bring us to this evil place? It is not a place of grain or figs or vines or pomegranates; nor is there any water to drink.”
6 So Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the tabernacle of meeting, and they fell on their faces. And the glory of the LORD appeared to them.
7 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
8 “Take the rod; you and your brother Aaron gather the congregation together. Speak to the rock before their eyes, and it will yield its water; thus you shall bring water for them out of the rock, and give drink to the congregation and their animals.”
9 So Moses took the rod from before the LORD as He commanded him.
10 And Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock; and he said to them, “Hear now, you rebels! Must we bring water for you out of this rock?”
11 Then Moses lifted his hand and struck the rock twice with his rod; and water came out abundantly, and the congregation and their animals drank.
12 Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not believe Me, to hallow Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.”
13 This was the water of Meribah, because the children of Israel contended with the LORD, and He was hallowed among them.

Numbers 20:1-13

1. Location
Waters of Meribah at Kadesh

2. The contention of the people against Moses and Aaron

3. God’s word to Moses

a) To speak to the Rock

b) Water would issue forth

4. A earlier incident

a) Moses was instructed to strike the Rock Exodus 17:1-7

b) Water came from the Rock

5. 2nd Incident at the Waters of Meribah

a) Moses struck the Rock

b) The LORD was angry with Moses

6. The Reprimand from the LORD

a) Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron,
b) “Because you did not believe Me
c) To hallow Me in the eyes of the children of Israel
d) Therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.”

7. The Rock

1Moreover, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware that all our fathers were under the cloud, all passed through the sea,

2 all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea,

3 all ate the same spiritual food,

4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ.

5 But with most of them God was not well pleased, for their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.

1 Corinthians 10:1-5

a) The Manna
The Lord Jesus as the Bread of life

b) The Rock
Representing the Lord Jesus

c) The spiritual lessons were not well-learned!