Cast Thy Burden Upon The Lord

* 1 Cor. 10:10 “ Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of …”

C) Why is complaining so vicious in content today? Why is it such a blow against God?

* First, because complaining is unmanly. * Lam. 3:39 “Wherefore doth a living man complain,”

* 1 Cor. 16:13 “Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.”

* Here’s what Paul is saying … You are God’s creation … Grumbling and griping are unmanly.

* You are a man, an heir of salvation, saved by grace through faith … You’re God’s workmanship,

created in His image … And grumbling does not become your manliness.

D) Second: There is something satanic about grumbling! * Why do I say that?

* Because of Heb. 13:15 “By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually,

that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.”

E) It is totally impossible to have a revival at any church where grumbling is prevalent!

* Who am I to put the Almighty God under cross-examination?

* Am I in a better position than He to judge what is and is not good for me?

* How far can I see into the future? * Who am I to strike out against God?

F) Listen … One disfigures his manhood when he whines and whimpers!

* Even in the torment and crucifixion, Jesus never allowed that to happen to Him.

* 1 Peter 2:23 says, “Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened

not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:”

* No wonder Pilate said, “Behold the man!” * COMPLAINING IS UNMANLY.

* God help me not to be a complainer because I want to be a man like Jesus.

G) Third: Complaining is also a sign of ingratitude! * Oh, how easily we forget God’s blessings!

* One day God blesses us; the next day we forget all about those blessings.

* A politician met an old friend on the street and said, “I sure hope you’re going to vote for me.”

* The friend said, “No!” * The politician asked, “But was not it me who got your daughter a job

when she graduated from high school?”

* “Wasn’t it me who helped you pay your hospital bill? So why don’t you vote for me?”

* The friend replied, “Because you haven’t done anything for me recently.”

H) Unfortunately, a lot of Christians are like that politician’s friend!

* We forget God’s blessings so quickly! * Psa. 103:2 exhorts, “Bless the LORD, O my soul, and

forget not all his benefits.” * “All his benefits” includes all His blessings!

* All ingratitude is unlovely, but especially unlovely in Christians.

* There is no relief from our burdens in complaining and self-pity.

I) Three: We’re not to despair in the midst of our burden! * Despair will not lift one burden.

* David was in the depths of despair when he said in Psa. 55:4-5 …….

* A desire to escape the burden will not help us in our burden-bearing.

* David said in v.6-7 ……. * Have you ever felt like that?

J) Have you ever looked out the window and watched the little birds and said …….

* “Oh, if I had wings like those little birds, I could fly away into the wilderness and get away

from everybody and everything?”