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God’s Provision in the Wilderness Exodus 15:22-27

God’s Provision in the Wilderness Exodus 15:22-27. Israel’s e xodus is the story of their salvation. A foreshadow of the salvation God offers us through Jesus Christ.

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God’s Provision in the Wilderness Exodus 15:22-27

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  1. God’s Provision in the WildernessExodus 15:22-27 • Israel’s exodus is the story of their salvation. • A foreshadow of the salvation God offers us through Jesus Christ. • The exodus of Israel points ahead to the greater exodus we can all experience through faith and trust in the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. • The exodus also gives us a pattern for the Christian life. • 1 Corinthians 10:11 (NIV) These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.

  2. We, too, pass through the Red Sea, through the desert, across the Jordan into the promised land. With Israel we fall into doubt and unbelief and through punishment and repentance experience again God’s help and faithfulness. All this is not mere reverie but holy, godly reality. We are torn out of our own existence and set down in the midst of the holy history of God on earth. There God dealt with us, and there He still deals with us, our needs and our sins, in judgment and grace. • Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  3. God takes Israel on a journey into the wilderness. • God is more interested in the journey we are on than simply getting us to the destination. • Deuteronomy 8:2 (NIV) Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the desert these forty years, to humble you and to test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. • We are imperfect, sinful human beings not always keen to learn.

  4. The Wilderness Cycle: • 1. Enjoying Abundance • The Israelites had just experienced God’s abundant faithfulness. • Exodus 12:35–36 (NIV) The Israelites did as Moses instructed and asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and gold and for clothing. The Lord had made the Egyptians favorably disposed toward the people, and they gave them what they asked for; so they plundered the Egyptians.

  5. They responded with celebration • Exodus 15:21 (NIV) • “Sing to the Lord for he is highly exalted. • The horse and his rider he has hurled into the sea!” • When we experience God’s abundance we respond with praising & thanksgiving

  6. 2. Creating Expectations • We start to expect that God’s abundance will just keep coming. • Have you ever found yourself creating expectations of God? • 3. Suffering Disappointment • Exodus 15:22–23 (NIV) - Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea and they went into the Desert of Shur. For three days they traveled in the desert without finding water. When they came to Marah, they could not drink its water because it was bitter.

  7. 4. Responding with Complaints • Where was God now? • Isreal’s problem: They never asked God to meet their need! • Asking demonstrates dependence. • Matthew 7:11 (NIV) If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!

  8. Exodus 15:24 (NIV) So the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?” • Psalm 106:7 (NLT) Our ancestors in Egypt were not impressed by the Lord’s miraculous deeds. They soon forgot his many acts of kindness to them. Instead, they rebelled against him at the Red Sea. • God’s people had forgotten everything he did for them.

  9. 5. God’s Gracious Provision • God turns what is bitter into something sweet. • Exodus 15:25 (NIV) - Then Moses cried out to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a piece of wood. He threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. • Moses took the matter to the Lord in prayer! • God met their need! • Exodus 15:25b (NIV) - There the LORD made a decree and a law for them, and there he tested them.

  10. The purpose of our wilderness experience • God does it to test our faith. • Exodus 15:26 (NIV) He said, “If you listen carefully to the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in his eyes, if you pay attention to his commands and keep all his decrees, I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, who heals you.” • Exodus 15:27 (NIV) Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees, and they camped there near the water.

  11. We all go through these wilderness experiences. • Don’t get caught in the cycle where expectations lead to disappointment, discontentment, complaining. • Philippians 4:12 (NIV) I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. • God promises to be there for us through the wilderness!

  12. Going through the wilderness was not meant for Israel’s salvation but for their sanctification to make them a holy people • Our difficult experiences also teach us to be more and more like Christ • God isn’t interested in just getting us to heaven, he wants us to meet him on the journey through the wilderness • Philippians 4:19 (NIV) My God will meet all [my] needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.

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