Our scriptural text today is coming from Numbers chapter 20, verse 2 through 5 in the new living

translation of scriptures. Notice there these words, there was no water for the people to drink

at that place, so they rebelled against Moses and Aaron. The people blamed Moses and said, if only we had died in the Lord's presence with our

brothers, why have you brought the congregation of the Lord's people into this wilderness to die,

along with all our livestock? Why did you make us leave Egypt and bring us here to this terrible place?

This land has no grain, no figs, no grapes, no palm granites, and no water to drink.

I want to talk today simply from the subject acres of diamonds, acres of diamonds. Here the children of Israel were mumbling

and grumbling. And I want you to understand that they were mumbling and grumbling after they had

witnessed God do all of the ten incredible plagues that he brought against the Egyptians in order to liberate them.

The children of Israel here were mumbling and grumbling after God had parted the Red Sea and they had already come through on dry land.

And they were still mumbling and grumbling.

Now sometimes if your attitude is not right, no matter how much people do for you, it still won't make them feel any better towards you.

If people feel entitled, if they are narcissistic, you can never do enough.

And this is the way that the children of Israel were toward the God

who had been so faithful to demonstrate signs and wonders in bringing them out of over 400

years of bundage in Egypt and God brought them out and here they were complaining that they

were in a place that was destitute, that was a barren land,

and that they had no palm granites and all of the luxuries that they had back in Egypt,

longing to enjoy some pleasures while they were still incarcerated, while they were still in bundage.

And this reminds me of the story that is entitled, The Acres of Diamonds,

that was a story that was brought to us by a man by the name of Dr. Russell Conwell.

He happened to be a Baptist minister.

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