Exodus Chapter 17

Exodus Chapter 17

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Memory verses for this week:   Job 14:1  Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.  Job 14:2  He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
 
Introduction: We continue our study on Exodus this week. In last week's lesson, we studied about how God fed the Israelites with the manna from heaven.   Even though being fed daily, the people murmured and God provided meat by giving them quails for meat.
 
I.  The Smitten Rock

Exo 17:1  And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the LORD, and pitched in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink.
Exo 17:2  Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?
 
This chapter begins with “AND,” which is a conjunction. Thus we know that the events in this chapter are connected with that which goes before. “Exodus 16 and 17 go together just as John Chapters 6 and 7 go together.   In Exodus 16 we find the Manna and in John 6 the bread of life. In Exodus 17 the water comes out of the rock which is a type of the Holy Spirit.  In John Chapter 7 the Lord Jesus announces the coming gift of the Holy Spirit.  
 
In verse 1 it says that they found no water in Rephidim. The Jews had journeyed according to the command of the Lord but the place to which they came had no water.  Asin previous times, they blamed the hardship on Moses. If they had only realized that God had led them there for a purpose, they might have come to grips with the reality that wherever God guides, He provides.

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