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Things Appointed Acts 17: 30-31

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Murmuring Numb.

16: 1-3

MURMURINGNumbers 16:1-3

Korah’s Rebellion

Numbers 16:11 “grumbling”

Things that led to public confrontation“took action” (v.1)

“rose up before Moses” (v.2)

“assembled together” (v.3)

Called Korah’s rebellion (v.32; Jude 11)

What Murmuring IsStrong’s Concordance (#1112)

“a grumbling; grudging; murmuring”

Thayer’s Lexicon

“a secret debate; secret displeasure not openly avowed”

Vine’s Dictionary “a) the sense of debate among people

b) of displeasure or complaining (more privately than in public)”

What Murmuring Is

Examples In Scripture

John 7:12-13 “grumbling”

1 Peter 4:9 “complaint”

2 Corinthians 9:7 “grudgingly”

Jude 16

“grumblers”

1 Corinthians 10:10-13A command

Look to Israelite example (Numb. 16)

God does not approve of murmuring.

Take heed that we do not fall.

Temptation (v.13)

Murmuring Is The Wrong Way

Matthew 5:23-24GO – be reconciled

Matthew 18:15-18GO & SHOW

GO & SHOW again, with witnesses

Tell it to the church

1 Timothy 5:19Receive = to accept, to not reject

Consequences Of Murmuring

Galatians 5:19-20

Strife – a quarrel, wrangling (1 Tim. 6:3-5)

Factions – a choice; a part or disunion

Dissensions – disunion, i.e. dissension

Disputes – intrigue, (by implication) faction

Galatians 5:21

Romans 16:17

Divisions = disunion, same as Dissensions above

Those Who Listened To Korah Also Died

They were drawn into sin

through his murmuring

We can be drawn into error

in a similar way

Murmuring – The Facts• A grumbling, grudging, secret

displeasure not openly avowed• A method used by false teachers to

gain support• The wrong way to handle things• Has disastrous results• We must not murmur