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THE CULTURE OF COMPLAINT
"Then they set out from Mount Har by the way of the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; and the people became impatient because of the journey. The people spoke against God and Moses, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no food and no water, and we loathe this miserable food." The Lord sent fiery serpents among the people and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died. so the people came to Moses and said "We have sinned, because we have spoken against the Lord and you; intercede with the Lord, that He may remove the serpents from us." And Moses interceded for the people. Then the Lord said to Moses, "Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a standard; and it shall come about, that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, he will live." And Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on the standard; and it came about, that if a serpent bit any man, when he looked to the bronze serpent, he lived."
How Does This Passage Apply To Us Today?
Philippians 2:14-15
"Do all things without grumbling or disputing; so that you will prove yourselves
to be blameless and innocent, children of God above reproach in the midst of a
crooked and perverse generation, among who you appear as lights in the world."
James 5:9
"Do not complain, brethren, against one another, so that you yourselves may not
be judged; behold, the Judge is standing right at the door."
"For, the one who desires life, to love and see good days, must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit. He must turn away from evil and do good; he must seek peace and pursue it. For the eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous, and His ears attend to their prayer, but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil."
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