Don’t Grumble!
Complaining is like scratching an itch.
The more you complain about your husband, the worse he gets
The more you complain about your wife, the worse she gets
The more you complain about your job, the worse it gets
The more you complain about your health, the worse you feel.
Proverbs 17:22 (NIV2011) A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
14. Philippians 2:14–15 (NIV84)
Do everything without
complaining or arguing, so
that you may become
blameless and pure,
children of God without
fault in a crooked and
depraved generation, in
23. Matthew 12:43–45
(NIV2011)
“When an impure spirit
comes out of a person, it
goes through arid places
seeking rest and does not
find it. Then it says, ‘I will
return to the house I left.’
When it arrives, it finds the
24. 45 Then it goes and takes
with it seven other
spirits more wicked than
itself, and they go in
and live there. And the
final condition of that
person is worse than the
first. That is how it will
29. Philippians 4:8 (NIV2011)
Finally, brothers and sisters,
whatever is true,
whatever is noble,
whatever is right,
whatever is pure,
whatever is lovely,
whatever is admirable—
if anything is excellent or
praiseworthy—think about such
30. “It is not the
critic who
counts; not the
man who points
out how the
strong man
stumbles, or
where the doer
of deeds could
have done them
better. The credit
31. There is much
that is true,
noble, right, pure,
lovely, admirable
and excellent…
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45. Exodus 16:1–5 (NIV2011)
The whole Israelite
community set out from
Elim and came to the
Desert of Sin, which is
between Elim and Sinai,
on the fifteenth day of
the second month after
46. 2 In the desert the whole
community grumbled against
Moses and Aaron. The
Israelites said to them, “If
only we had died by the
LORD’s hand in Egypt! There
we sat around pots of meat
and ate all the food we
wanted, but you have brought
47. The expression of
their complaint
verges on the
blasphemous. It is
tantamount to
saying that they
wished they had
never been saved by
the Lord but had
perished like so
many of the
Egyptians during the
plagues. They
48. Luke 9:62 (NIV2011)
Jesus replied, “No
one who puts a
hand to the plow
and looks back is fit
for service in the
kingdom of God.”
50. It started when
Moses first went
to Pharaoh and
the Israelites
complained that
he was making
their job harder
instead of easier.
They grumbled at
the Red Sea,
where they
accused Moses of
51. They were even
more bitter at
Marah, but the
complaining didn’t
stop there. The
Israelites wandered
for forty years, and
they grumbled
their way through
most of it. By the
time they reached
the Desert of Sin,
they were an
53. We are NOT just like
them…
•We are on this side of the
cross.
•We are on this side of the
resurrection.
•We are on this side of the
coming of the Holy Spirit.
59. Romans 6:6–7 (NIV2011)
For we know that our old
self was crucified with
him so that the body ruled
by sin might be done away
with, that we should no
longer be slaves to sin—
because anyone who has
died has been set free
65. Galatians 2:20 (NIV2011)
I have been crucified with
Christ and I no longer live,
but Christ lives in me. The
life I now live in the body,
I live by faith in the Son of
God, who loved me and
gave himself for me.
John L. Mackay, , Mentor Commentaries (Fearn, Ross-shire, Great Britain: Mentor, 2001), 284. John L. Mackay, Exodus, Mentor Commentaries (Fearn, Ross-shire, Great Britain: Mentor, 2001), 284.
Philip Graham Ryken and R. Kent Hughes, (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 2005), 423. Philip Graham Ryken and R. Kent Hughes, Exodus: Saved for God’s Glory (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 2005), 423.
Philip Graham Ryken and R. Kent Hughes, (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 2005), 423. Philip Graham Ryken and R. Kent Hughes, Exodus: Saved for God’s Glory (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 2005), 423.
Philip Graham Ryken and R. Kent Hughes, (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 2005), 423. Philip Graham Ryken and R. Kent Hughes, Exodus: Saved for God’s Glory (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 2005), 423.