Water from the Rock for Undeserving People

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Sermons, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, 163859, Desiring God, John Piper, Preaching, Christianity, Messages, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 7 August 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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God promises us his life-sustaining presence, even as he leads us into waterless regions of suffering and loss.

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0:00.0	I invite you to turn to Exodus chapter 17 versus 1 through 7th, Exodus 17.
0:09.1	It is important that you see this text with me and not just hear it.
0:14.7	So get your phone or your print Bible.
0:24.7	The people of Israel have been enslaved for hundreds of years in Egypt.
0:31.8	The time for their deliverance had come.
0:34.0	God had sent Moses after 10 plagues and a mighty deliverance at the Red Sea.
0:40.2	The people have entered the wilderness.
0:42.8	They in camp at Mara.
0:45.2	They move from Mara to Elim.
0:47.0	They move from Elim to Dofka.
0:49.1	They move from Dofka to Alush.
0:51.4	And from Alush to Refidim, you can read those stages in Numbers 33.
0:57.1	And we meet them in Refidim.
1:04.4	And according to the previous chapter 16 of Exodus, they entered this region only six weeks
1:15.1	after the dividing of the Red Sea.
1:20.2	It says, though, everybody in this room saw God divide the Red Sea on May 1st, 2022.
1:33.4	This generation in Israel had seen some of the greatest miracles in the history of the
1:39.6	world.
1:43.1	We meet them in chapter 17 verse 1 through 7 at Refidim.
1:52.6	And the drama unfolds in these seven verses in four scenes.
1:56.9	I'm going to read them one at a time.
2:01.4	Every one of them is brimming with implications for your life.
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