Sermons on Exodus 16:4:

Are We Never Satisfied?

Contributed by The Rev Deniray Mueller on Jan 30, 2018

why are humans never satisfied?

Take my words and speak through them, take our ears and hear through them, take our hearts & set them on fire with love for you. Amen. Let’s set the scene: As the Israelites left Egypt, we would expect them to be overjoyed and relieved because their prayers for deliverance were finally answered, ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 16:2-15, Matthew 20:1-15, Numbers 11:4-6

Denomination: Episcopal

Sometimes Leaving Makes More Sense Than Staying

Contributed by Ezekiel Ette on Sep 30, 2017

Indecision and False Hope is not from God, People talk about the good old days as an excuse to stop discovering the new. God has a plan for us even when we do not know the future.

A few years ago when we first started out fresh from college, we had many dreams. Some wanted to get more education and some talked about making money. Others wanted to live in the big city far away from their parents and some wanted to stay close to parents. Some were not comfortable with change ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 16:1-16

Denomination: United Methodist

Daily Strength For The Journey Lesson 12 Series

Contributed by Elmer Towns on Mar 27, 2017

Yesterday's strength is not enough.

A. INTRODUCTION – EXODUS 16:2-4 1. Grace. When Israel complained (16:3), God promises, “I will rain bread from heaven” (v. 4). 2. Criticism proves people are sinful and evil. They couldn’t trust God. a. God sent 10 “miracle plagues” to destroy the gods of ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 16:2-34

Denomination: Baptist

Gratitude's Nemesis: The Grumble Series

Contributed by Lanny Smith on Nov 23, 2021

Ingratitude results in grumbling - which is bad for you and the folks around you.

Gratitude's Nemesis: The Grumble lanny smith Living a Life of Thankfulness / Exodus 16   • Consequences of complaining • Man robbed a Wendy’s in Atlanta by grabbing the cash drawer in the drive-thru. Called back. Twice. Complaining that there better be more than $586 in there the next ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 16:3-9, Romans 1:18-21, 1 Corinthians 4:7, Romans 12:1-2

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Coming In First

Contributed by Travis Voeltz on Jun 30, 2020

Who do you love the most…? And, how much do you love that person…? Now take that love you have and ask yourself…what would you do if God suddenly told you to sacrifice that person…?

Open What do you love the most…? I read on article in USA Today that listed the 20 most popular things people are buying today. Some of the 20 listed were: cloth face coverings, hand sanitizer, mother’s day flowers (I’m guessing this wasn’t on Father’s day), active dry yeast, toilet paper, the ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 22:1-14, John 3:16, James 1:13, Exodus 15:25, Exodus 16:4  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Methodist

Manna In The Morning Series

Contributed by Bob Marcaurelle on Mar 12, 2016

Life of Moses 13The message shows how the manna that fell in the wilderness is a picture of Jesus, the bread of life and our daily walk with him, pictured in the Lord's instructions about it to Israel.

MESSAGE 13 MANNA IN THE MORNING Exodus 16 D. Steps to Sinai 1. The Murmuring 2) Over Food (Ch. 16 We have seen how unbelieving and ungrateful the Hebrew people were. In hard times they replaced praying with griping. But in spite of this, God stretched out His hands and gave ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 16:1-36

Denomination: Baptist

A Test Of Obedience

Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Jul 11, 2015

The rhythms of deliverance, discontentment, provision, testing, disobedience, & deliverance; and daily bread, daily work, Sabbath, & commemoration.

A TEST OF OBEDIENCE. Exodus 16:2-4; Exodus 16:9-15. In this passage, we join the children of Israel just six weeks into their wilderness journey. The ten plagues, the first Passover, the deliverance out of Egypt, and the parting of the Red Sea all lay behind them. Yet now, here in the ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 16:2-4, Exodus 16:9-15

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Man's Hunger And God's Provision Series

Contributed by Manny Salva Cruz on Apr 27, 2015

Many people in the developing countries particularly children are going to bed without food. What is the mission of the Christian church to address this problem of man's hunger? Here in Exodus we will look at the promise that God is our Great Provider.

HUNGER AND GOD'S PROVISION SCRIPTURE READING: Exodus 16:1-35 INTRODUCTION: Exodus chapter 16 is the chapter that talks about the Israelites two months after they have came out of Egypt and out in the Desert of Sin. They started grumbling against Moses because they were hungry and without food ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 16:1-35

Denomination: Nazarene

Grumbling In The Camp

Contributed by Shawn Miller on Sep 7, 2014

As the Israelites left Egypt, we expect them to be overjoyed and happy because their prayers for deliverance were finally answered, but instead we find an ungrateful and irreverent nation. How often we grumble between Egypt and the promised land.

Grumbling in the Camp Introduction: There is always something to complain about, even when there isn't. We can find a grievance if we want to. No matter how unreasonable it is. We grumble when its too hot, we grumble when it's too cold. We grumble when it rains. We grumble when it snows. We ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 16:1-36

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

What God Provides When We Are The Mess?

Contributed by Gerald Roberts on Sep 23, 2014

The sermon shares how God continues to find value in us even when we are the mess.

What God Provides when we are the mess? Exodus 16:2-15 1. The Lord brought you out of Egypt This is what Israel was brought out of .What was in Egypt? A. Enslavement of the People B. Taskmasters were in Egypt C. Task Master set affliction 11So they put slave masters over them ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 16:2-15

Denomination: Methodist

Hearts Of Stone Series

Contributed by Gordon Pike on Mar 13, 2022

There are several places in the Bible where God has promised to give us new hearts … hearts for Him alone … but in order for Him to give us new hearts, hearts of flesh, hearts for Him alone, He has to break our hearts of stone.

[Note: The theme for this Lenten series is "stone." I have stones at the church and each week the people are asked to pick up a stone and hold it during the service and then place it at the foot of a wooden cross placed at the front of the sanctuary. Each stone has a meaning. On the ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 32:1-20, Exodus 15:26, Exodus 16:4, Exodus 16:12, Exodus 19:8-11, Exodus 24:5-7, Matthew 15:18-19, Jeremiah 17:9, Psalm 81:11-16, Jeremiah 31:31-34  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: United Methodist

When God Teaches His People To Obey (Exodus 16:1-33) Series

Contributed by Garrett Tyson on Feb 23, 2022

God breaks his people from a slave mentality, and teaches them a better way to live.

Let's start today by rereading last week's little passage, Exodus 15:22-27: (22) And Moses led Israel from the Sea of Reeds, and they went out to the wilderness of Shur, and they walked three days in the wilderness, and they didn't find water, (23) and they came to Marah/Bitter, and ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 16:1-33

Overcome When God Provides Series

Contributed by John Dobbs on Oct 8, 2021

When you come to a place where the answer is unclear, the options are exhausted, and the next step is obscured by impossibilities, then watch for the provision of God.

We Overcome When God Provides Exodus 16:1-18 Introduction When you come to a place where the answer is unclear, the options are exhausted, and the next step is obscured by impossibilities, then watch for the provision of God. This is the predicament of the children of Israel. They ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 16:1-18

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Eighteenth Sunday In Ordinary Time, Cycle B-- New Manna

Contributed by Paul Andrew on Jul 31, 2021

Complaining became the rubric under which the journey was interpreted.

In our First Reading we heard Exodus 16:2, “The whole Israelite community grumbled against Moses and Aaron.” It reminds me of the story of a lady who was a veritable fount of complaints. Her pastor came by to see her one day and she began to enumerate some of her complaints: “The neighbor’s ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 16:2-15, John 6:24-35

Denomination: Catholic

A God Who Satisfies

Contributed by Sunitha Justin on Nov 13, 2022

Not all of us have the same wages, same privileges, same opportunities, same talents, same abilities, same health conditions! Whatever it may be, we can be 100 per cent certain that our satisfaction comes from God and not from what we have.

A God who Satisfies And when they measured it by the omer, the one who gathered much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have too little. Everyone had gathered just as much as they needed. Exodus 16:18 God led the people out of Egypt. In Egypt, Pharaoh asked Joseph to ...read more

Scripture: Exodus 16:18, Numbers 16:3, Psalm 105:40, Deuteronomy 8:3, Exodus 16:4, John 6:51, John 6:48-50, Psalm 103:5, Isaiah 58:11, Psalm 132:15, Psalm 91:16, Psalm 17:15, Revelation 2:17  (view more)  (view less)

Denomination: Charismatic