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| Exodus 15:25-27 |
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Lesson # Exodus 15:25-27 Study Material - Exodus 15:25-27 You must be in fellowship prior to your Bible study, so that the spiritual information you receive can become a source of blessing to your soul and produce spiritual growth. Ex. 15:25-27 25 Then he cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a tree; and he threw it into the waters, and the waters became sweet. There He made for them a statute and regulation, and there He tested them. 26 And He said, 'If you will give earnest heed to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His sight, and give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I, the LORD, am your healer.' 27 Then they came to Elim where there were twelve springs of water and seventy date palms, and they camped there beside the waters. He people complained to Moses. They should have prayed to God. Moses in turn prays to God on their behalf and was directed to a tree, which he threw into the water and that sweetened the water. The principle here is that the work of Christ on the tree, the tree of life, is sufficient to relieve our lives of the bitterness we encounter from time to time. Yet another miracle is performed. Now one tree, even if it had some unique properties for sweetening water, or removing the bitterness from water would not be enough of a tree to sweeten sufficient water for a population of two million people plus untold numbers of livestock. If people used on average, five or ten gallons of water for cooking, washing, drinking, etc., then you can see the huge volume of water (perhaps tens of millions of gallons) required to supply them for perhaps several days. One tree cold not possibly have anything in it to sweeten all that volume. Thus the miracle. And the principle of the Cross. Now for the message that goes along with this instruction. 'If you will give earnest heed to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His sight, and give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I, the LORD, am your healer.' If we will listen, and learn, and follow His will (that which is written in the scriptures), then judgmental disaster will not befall us. This does not mean that we will not encounter problems in life, but that is different. Disasters of judgment are those things that fall all over us and from them we hurt, big time, because we have been negative and out of Gods will for quite some time, ignoring all the warnings that God inevitably issues to us, to get our attention and to get us back into fellowship and back into His will. That is judgment or discipline if you want to call it that. Judgment is typically used when speaking of unbelievers (non-family members). Discipline is generally used when speaking of negative believers (family members). After all the Israelites had been through, they should not have reacted as they did to this little test of no water. Their reaction again is in the feminine. So here in the space of just a few verses we have both sides of the feminine response. The first demonstrated in the song of happiness and celebration. This is a positive response to what God has done. The second is the reaction of bitterness when things are not going so well. The expectations don't match the reality, thus the bitterness, the ridicule, the sarcasm are unleashed on Moses. After all it was Moses who led them out of Egypt, so this must be his fault. An attitude of patience is not generally found in immature believers. That comes with spiritual growth, which comes from repetitive daily study. Infant believers especially, need to be reminded that blessings come with capacity, and that comes from spiritual growth. Of course we all need to have reminders from time to time, but young people (not necessarily young in terms of physical age, but young in terms of spiritual age), often times get ideas of unreasonable expectation, therefore the need to be patient, be quiet, and learn. This will eventually provide a clearer orientation to life, as well as a clearer orientation to God and His grace provisions. The cloud an pillar of fire never left them. It will remain with them throughout their forty years. God is ever before us. We just need to pay attention sometimes to see Him. The Israelites moved on to a place of twelve springs and seventy palm trees, and of course the representations here are to the twelve tribes of Israel which rose up out of the seventy adult males some 430 years earlier. God is faithful. Through four centuries the people did not disappear from the face of the earth. They instead grew up to a huge population from only a start of seventy men. Now they numbered over two million, and despite their enslavement and the many attempts of Pharaoh's to kill off their male infant children. God preserved them. They endured the ten plagues and an attack from Pharaoh's best military units. They witnessed all of these miracles and their own escape. They should have no basis for questioning their situation or Gods purpose for their lives. Tests will come along from time to time. Sometimes they are tests of pain and sometimes they are tests of prosperity. The real issue then is, will you pass the test in silent faith and poise, or fail it in selfishness or complaining? Ok. We have gone far enough in Exodus for now. Time to move on to Leviticus and resume there. Now that book is a real test of patience!!! 
Now is the time to post a prayer. End Of Lesson Study to show thyself approved (mature) unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing (studying/discerning), the Word of truth. |
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