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The Bitter Waters of Marah 0:00 Exodus 15 verse number 22. The Bible says, and Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur. They went 3 days into the wilderness and found no0:11 water. They came to Marah. They could not drink of the waters of Marah for they were, say that with me, bitter. Therefore, the name of it was called0:24 Marah. The people murmured against Moses saying, what shall we drink? Now notice, they did not murmur before they0:36 were bitter. They were bitter and then they complained. Brothers and sisters, a lot of times what we get into is people have a complainative heart.0:48 And the first thing we wanna do is push them off and push them back and throw them away and and turn them aside. But what you've gotta realize is down beneath the complaint is a bitterness.0:59 What I'm worried about is what's beneath the bitterness. What caused that bitterness? Watch what it says. Verse 25. And Moses cried1:11 unto the Lord, and the Lord showed him a tree, which when he had cast it into the waters, the waters were made sweet. There he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there1:23 he proved them. If I was gonna be honest this morning, I would title my message this. I don't wanna be bitter,1:35 but I don't know how to get better. So I guess I'll try to hide the fact that I'm bitter in hopes that actually will make things better. But since it's not making anything better, I'm starting to believe this is just the1:46 way things are going to be. I wanna preach on that this morning. But for sake of YouTube and the fact that1:57 nobody will click on that thumbnail, I wanna talk to you today blessed in the bitter brokenness. Brothers and sisters, when you come to the book of2:09 Exodus chapter number 15, you have arrived 3 days after the Red Sea is opened. 3 days ago, they just saw the mightiest miracle they'll ever see in all of their days.2:21 3 days ago, they saw something that forever would be the landmark that God would say, if I did that, I can do anything. 3 days though after2:33 walking past and through the Red Sea, they've been without water for 3 days. Finally, the day comes, they get down to this little well pond of water. And from a2:45 distance, they think this is gonna be fantastic. This is gonna be unbelievable. This is gonna be miraculous. We're finally going to find what we've been looking for. And when they get down to the waters of Mara,2:57 they do not taste the waters, but they can smell it at a distance. What they thought would help them, you know what they found out, was3:08 bitter. That word bitter ought to strike something in every 1 of our hearts. What is bitterness? Now, you're3:20 gonna have to let me for just about 2 minutes be doctor Phil. And at the same time, I understand that y'all just like me, y'all just normal3:32 rednecks that barely made it through high school. And so I'm not gonna try to use big words. I wanna take you this morning on the emoji journey to bitterness. I know what you're3:44 thinking. What you talking about? K. Here we go. If you're gonna become if somebody's bitter, you don't just wake up 1 day and get bitter. The first thing you have3:56 is expectation. When you walk into a marriage, you don't walk in with no expectation. There is hope. There is joy. There is the mindset that this is gonna do something in4:08 my heart. You don't walk into a church and say, I hope this amounts to no. You walk in with an expectation. You walk in with a hope you have in your life, dreams and desires and4:20 stuff you hope to accomplish through your life. We call that the first step is expectation. When you have a friendship with somebody, you you don't walk into a friendship and say, I4:31 hope this goes nowhere. Hope this helps me none. I hope I'm useless to them and they're useless to me. No. No. You go into it saying, they bless me. They help me. They encourage me. That church helps me. That church4:43 blesses me. That preacher helps me. That deacon helps me. That relationship, that job, it's gonna do something. You walk in with an expectation. The second step on our emoji path when4:55 you get beyond expectation is you come to the second thing. We call it disappointment. It's when that thing doesn't do what you thought5:07 it would do. It's when that relationship is not as happy as you thought it would be. It's when that person didn't live as long as5:19 you thought they would live. It's when that job is pulled out from underneath you and you never saw this coming. You see, what begins us down this5:30 pathway is we have a hope and then our hopes are dashed. Am I talking to anybody right now? That leads us to the third step on the emoji journey to bitterness,5:42 pain. Pain. You wake up in the morning and tears meet your eyes before they can open up. You think about it and5:54 something down deep on the inside, it begins to shatter and it begins to you you can't put your finger on it, but it's a physical feeling. We call this heart6:05 hurt. We call this soul pain. We call this the breaking of the inner man. The fourth path journey6:17 plays to what I call the emoji journey to bitterness. The fourth step's what I call healing. It's when God puts it back together. Son, I've6:29 preached some humdinger snot slinging Church of God Pentecostal messages on when God brings healing. So when I preach the hard sometimes, I'm spitting, I'm stuttering 3 rows back, they've had 26:41 baths. By the time we get done, man, preachers make a good living preaching on the healing hand of Jehovah Rapha, the Lord our healer. Yet people come in and they go out6:53 with no healing. They know it's available, but they can't figure out how to get from pain to healing. That daddy that walked out on you, you can't figure out7:05 why can't I get over that. That person that died, why why do I feel the way I feel? It's because there is something that7:17 blocks pain to heal. I call it the brick wall of bitterness. What that7:29 is, it is a protection that you and I put up over that situation. And we we we develop this way of not dealing with it. And we don't wanna talk about it, so7:40 we become negative or we become passive. We don't grow anymore. We don't go anymore. We don't wanna think about that thing. We don't wanna deal with the fact that this happened. We don't wanna talk about that job and7:52 people become passive. They become negative. They become, they become antisentimental, and then they begin putting down you ever been around a bitter person? Yeah. Don't sit there and look at me like you got lost on the8:03 Mojo Journey. You know what I'm talking about. Yeah. Yeah. There are people in this room right now in my own heart. There are places that we've put up this wall. You see,8:15 the wall is not the bitterness. The wall is the protection. The bitterness is the mortar that holds the bricks together. If I let my guard down, I8:27 can't control what's gonna happen. And that heart hurt down deep inside, something says, I can't take what I went through again. Some of you that went through the8:39 pains of divorce, if you got honest with you and God, you'd say, God, if I have to face that again, I will not make it. So you've got this wall of protection up.8:51 If I have to go through that pain again, I'll break in half. And so you've got nothing but bitter waters. Do I have your9:03 attention now? God in heaven has been dealing with me the last 3 weeks over the pain in the house of God. All I can think about every time I kneel down to pray are theThree Facts About Bitterness 9:15 people in this room that have walked through pain and walked through rejection and walked through death and walked through sorrow. I'm looking at a lot of people and they've got this shell, and it's as if, look, you can9:27 get this close, but you're not coming any closer. Some of you feel that way in your own marriage to somebody. You know there's something blocked. You just can't figure out what it is. It's the wall of protection held9:38 together by the mortar of bitterness. Can I give you 3 facts about bitterness out of chapter number 15? Number 1, the first lesson that I'd love to to kindly9:50 put on your little radar is bitterness halts the journey. You say, what more? Well, the Bible says in chapter 15, the people of God have been 310:01 days without water. 3 days without anything to put in their body. 3 days without their thirst being quenched. And here's what the the the scientists tell us. Your10:13 body can only go 3 solid days without water before it begins breaking down. It can go much longer without food, but without water, it finally breaks down. Now, they've gone 310:25 days without water and finally, they see a puddle of water and they say, here we go. I'm about to get something to quench my thirst. Man, if this don't do it, I can't make it to the next place. And they get10:37 to the water and they realize it's bitter. You know what they decide? I'm just gonna die here. I don't have enough strength to go any further, so I'm just gonna die right here. I wanna give you a real deep theological10:49 lesson that most of us have never processed. Are you ready? You'll never go farther with God than bitterness allows you to go. Because the11:01 only thing God desires from us is an open heart. He wants your brokenness. He wants your sorrow. He wants your disappointment. He wants your unreality and your new11:13 reality. He wants what you think should happen and what you hope happens. God wants an open book, but bitterness puts up a wall and you just end up going from thing to thing. You ever dealt with11:24 somebody that just always was was just it it was they were there, but they they weren't there. They were they were they were present, but they they weren't present. They were engaged, but they11:36 weren't really engaged. You knew they were there, but they weren't really there. Bitterness is gonna keep all of us from going any further with God. Number 2. I want to tell y'all eating this up11:48 this morning. Number 2. Number 2, not only will you bitterness halt your journey, but second of all, bitterness is a well we all have to come to eventually.12:00 You know what? That puddle of water that day at the waters of Mara, you know who was there? Korah, the gainsayer, the wicked man, the 1 that was gonna try to split it. And we look at somebody like Korah, and we say, you12:12 deserve to be at those waters. You deserve to have those problems. You deserve to have those issues. You know who else is at that water? Moses. The good man. Yeah. You know who else is at that water? Joshua. Caleb?12:24 The righteous man of God? You know, I'm looking around today and I'm a thinking about a story. Y'all ever heard the story of Chippy the parakeet? Let me tell y'all the story about Chippy the parakeet.12:36 Chippy the parakeet was a happy little bird. He sang every time people walked into the room. He he he tweeted or twerpied every time somebody walked by. Oh, boy. Chippy the12:48 parakeet was a happy little bird. And 1 day, Chippy's mama was vacuuming. And she got distracted by something, and she was vacuuming around Chippy's cage. And the next thing she heard12:59 was to her horror, she had sucked up pay Chippy the parakeet into the vacuum cleaner. She turned the vacuum cleaner off and she opened13:11 up the bag and there was Chippy. Dust all over him, dirt all over him, hair from the vacuum cleaner. Am I the only 1 that hates living in a house with long haired women?13:26 I ain't interested in no short hair, but I I that long, it gets wrapped around my toes, gets wrapped around my legs. I've had hair that long in places I don't have any13:37 idea how it got there. And all the bald men said, amen, beloved. Chippy the parakeet though. Old Chippy was in that13:49 thing and he had dust and dirt all over him. So his owner, she was she didn't know what to do. So she took Chippy over to the sink and turned the water on. And I mean she14:01 just run I mean just washed and cleaned. You know you ain't supposed to put birds in water. Next thing I knew Chippy was shaking. Chippy's freezing.14:14 So she didn't know what to do. So she turned the water off, ran into the bathroom with Chippy the shiver and parakeet. She got her hairdryer. And, I mean son, she14:26 blew that bird. Oh, just got it as dry. And, I mean its feathers, its down feathers were up, its contour feathers were in. It looked like newspaper picked up on that story. And14:37 they were writing about Chippy the Parakeet. And the man came and asked the owner. They said, how's Chippy doing? That's what she said. She said, well, Chippy don't really sing much anymore.14:50 In fact, Chippy just sits and stares. But I guess you would too if you'd been sucked in, drowned down, blown around, and stuck back.15:02 You wouldn't have a song either. I'm looking around at the well in this house. See, what a lot of preachers will do is they'll stand up in front of a congregation of15:14 people that aren't engaged anymore and people that don't know how to pray anymore and people that have lost their song and some they'll take that old long pharisaical finger and they'll begin popping people on the15:26 end of the spiritual note saying, you need to get right with God. You need to get right with God. What they don't realize is we've got an entire house full of people that have been sucked in,15:38 frozen to death, and blown around, and sat back on the shelf and have no song. You've come down the bitter waters. Here's my third little15:50 introductory thought. The third thing you need to know about bitterness is the difference between bitter and better is your choice.16:04 Everybody has to come to bitter waters, but what you and I choose to do with bitter waters is what makes the difference. You see, the people of God, the Bible said, when16:16 they came to the bitter waters, the scripture says, they murmured against Moses. But you know what Moses did when he came to the bitter waters? The Bible says he lifts up his eyes to the heavens and16:28 cries unto the Lord. They both had a choice. These people chose to complain and they got bitter waters. But 1 man, he said, you know what? I'm not living like this. I know there is a God in heaven.16:39 The last time they were at water and had a problem with water, they realized their God was the God that can take water and split it. And Moses said, if there is a God in heaven that can split16:51 water, surely he can turn bitter water sweet. Amen. It's good. Oh, children. I wish y'all could have known me and Erica before we moved to Tennessee.17:04 We didn't cook. We didn't we didn't eat at home, and now all we do is eat at home. And so we've learned if you're gonna eat at home, you gotta learn how to cook something.17:18 I can boil water. You know, you can cook stuff in boiled water. You know, you can cook an egg in boiled water, and you can cook a potato in boiled water.17:30 But do you know those 2 things have very different reactions to boiling water? You stick an egg in boiling water and it'll get hard. You17:42 stick a potato in water and it'll get soft. It's all in the chemistry. You see, all of us go to bitter waters. You've got the choice whether you're gonna get17:54 hard or whether you're gonna get soft. Somebody today is gonna find help. Somebody today is gonna let God take bitter waters and say, you know what? I could not control18:06 that that marriage. I could not control that situation. I could not help that death that happened but God, you allowed me to come to it and I'm not gonna complain and I'm not gonna be so18:17 hard. God, I'm gonna bring to you my broken heart and I'm gonna lift it up to the God of heaven because I know that the God that turns bittersweet back there is the God that can take bitter here and turn it18:29 sweet. You see, there's a Joseph moment in every 1 of our lives after we get done down in the pit and we get done in the prison and we get done being lied about at Potiphar's house. We'll get up to the palace18:41 where God finally ordained us to and we'll look at those that betrayed us and that situation that let us down and we'll remove that brick wall. And that Joseph moment says, what you meant for evil, God18:53 has the ability to turn it around for good. I'm here to say today, if you don't have that Joseph moment, you'll stay bitter all your life. But if you'll take that broken heart to19:05 God and say, God, I don't know what to do with this, God will break that wall of bitterness down and bring healing. Can I give you 3 things and show you right quickly? Right out19:17 of verse number 25 about how to be blessed in the bitter brokenness? Number 1, the first thing I want you to write down in verse number 25, what do I see? ThereBlessed in Brokenness 19:28 was a tree. There was a tree. You say, what made the difference between the bitter water and the sweet water? Moses could've stuck his staff in there.19:40 That wouldn't have made the difference. Moses could've thrown a rock in there. That didn't make a difference. You know what verse number 25 says? Verse number 25 says, and when Moses cried unto the Lord, the Lord19:52 redirected his eyes and he saw a tree that was right beside the water. He said, Moses take that tree and when that tree is taken out of its place and put into that20:03 situation, that's when God turned the bitter thing sweet. Put it down in your notes. It was the tree that made the diff it was the tree that made the if I was T. D. Jakes20:15 I'd say it like this. It was a tree that made a difference. Somebody ought to help me right now. If I was Joel Osteen, I'd say, it was a tree that made the difference. But I'm Tyler Gordon, so let me say it like this. It20:27 was a tree that made the difference. You say what's the big deal about that? I had a life that was bound in sorrow and bound in sin and bound in heartbreak, but God showed20:39 me a tree 1 day on top of bloody Calvary. It was a tree that was lifted up. It was a tree that was put bloody Calvary. It was a tree that was lifted up. It was a tree that was put in the ground. It was a tree that was20:47 ascended by the loving Lamb of God. It was a tree that made the difference. The tree was called the cross of Jesus Christ and something happened20:59 at the cross of Jesus Christ. Here's what Jesus Christ does. He takes the things that ought to break us and he blesses us through those things, the things that ought to make us bitter. He21:11 says, I'm gonna make a change and I'm gonna let him make you better. You say, how does that happen? I wish I had enough education to tell you how that happens. I don't have any idea how a big God can do21:23 that. But if God in 6 days can speak and create everything, I'll put it in His repertoire that He can take that which is wicked, vile, wretched, awful, bad, sin filled and can get it to Christ and make it21:35 good again. Now, what you gotta understand is Jesus Christ is the only thing that'll bring purpose out of pain.21:47 And that's where you get bitter. When you take your eyes off of the purpose in the pain, and you see pain21:59 only. How you were rejected, how you were broken, how you were betrayed, how you were let down, how you feel, when you take your eyes and put it on that22:12 and take it off of the tree. But brothers and sisters, I wish I could tell you the cross fixes it for everybody, But god only showed him the tree. Moses was the22:23 1 that had to apply it to the situation. I can get up here, and I can stutter. I can stammer. I can run. I can hoop. I can holler. And I've had about 5 people already ask me what was the big22:35 announcement that I made Wednesday night because evidently the livestream cut off and they think I just got up here. Okay. Long story short, here's basically what happened. I did an MC Hammer dance making fun of22:43 somebody. I tore my meniscus and I gotta have surgery. That's basically the story. So if I'm up here hobbling, I can do all that. I can run. I can dance. I can jump. I can sing. I can shout. I can do all of that. I can22:53 tell you God brings pain, brings purpose out of pain. I can tell you how God will bring good out of bad. I can tell you how God will bring life out of death. I can tell you there was purpose in the sorrow, and23:06 death. I can tell you all that, but until you apply it to your life, I can't live your life for you. I can't make your choices for you. I can't get on an altar23:18 and say, God, here's my heart. I can't wake you up in the morning and say, don't forget, God has a plan. You, you have gotta make the23:30 choice. You've gotta open your heart up. Number 2, there was a tree that made the difference. But in verse number 25, he doesn't just say he showed him a tree, but number 2, there23:42 was a transformation. Watch what it says in verse number 25. It says, and the bitter waters were made23:54 sweet. Notice what it doesn't say, and this is where preachers get people all messed up. You ready? I'm a thicken to blow 4224:06 seminaries out of the water. You ready? Here we go. It does not say the bitter waters went away and then the sweet waters came. It simply says the same24:17 water stayed there and just changed chemistry. Right. You know, we got this idea that when you get saved, everything that24:29 was goes away. And preachers get up in their spiritual concoctions, and they stand up hoping to get 4 or 5 people to shout, and they read this verse. I'm gonna put this verse up for you in second Corinthians24:41 chapter 5 and verse number 17. Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a what? New creature. And this is where they get. All things24:53 are passed away. All things are become Now fellas, leave that verse up, I wanna show you a couple words. You notice what that does not say? That when you get in Christ, the old25:05 things go away. It says they're passed away. You know what happens when someone passes away? They don't cease to be,25:17 they cease to live. They still exist, they just have no power. When somebody lays in a casket, they pass away.25:30 They're still somewhere. They're either in heaven or in hell, but they're still somewhere. They don't go away, they pass away. When you get saved,25:42 all the bad back there, fuck, it doesn't just go away. All that mess you had, it's still back there. Am I25:53 talking to anybody that still deals with the junk from yesterday? Yeah. Watch what it says, it says all things are become new.26:05 It, that phrase become new, it means sprouting unto life. Here's what Calvary did. Calvary ripped the sin out of the soil and heaped it26:17 up over there. And when a when a plant gets uprooted, it's got no more power, but it takes time to die. Where that soil is though, He says new26:29 stuff starting and here's what happens. When they looked at that water, if they hadn't known any better, they'd say, there ain't nothing different about this.26:41 It didn't go away. He said, taste it. Tay just taste it. You'll see there's a difference. You're looking at me right now. You're saying, Tyler, that26:53 person's still gone. That person still betrayed me. That marriage still fell apart. That kid still did this. That job still did that. That pain still happened with that pastor. That deacon still did that. That church27:05 still betrayed. Yeah, it's back there. But when you give it to Christ, this is what he says happens. He says, I rip that thing up and it's got no more power to dictate where you're going. I'm gonna bring27:17 forth new life from the soil that used to bring forth bitterness. I'm gonna let sweet things grow. It happens like this when somebody says, God, here is my broken heart. It does not bring that old27:28 situation back of the way. He says, you know what? I'm gonna yield the effects of that situation null and void, and I'm gonna let new life start springing up. Amen.27:41 When you give God brokenness and you think about that situation back there, no more are you mad and angry. But you start saying, God, what's next?27:55 God, what was the purpose? You know, you can ask the same question 2 different ways. What was that all about? God, what was that all28:06 about? When you give it to Christ, He takes bitter and yields it powerless and and says, I'm gonna show you what that was all about. But number28:18 3, and here's the last thing I've got. You see, there was a tree which turned into a transformation, but then in verse number 25, there's now a truth28:31 that God wants them to learn. What's the what's the the the truth? Watch what it says in verse 25. It says, this happened for a statue and an ordinance,28:44 And there He proved them. What they were supposed to learn if that water was supposed to serve as a landmark for everything in the future.28:57 Can I put it in just real simple North Carolina, in the Tennessee language? Y'all really don't know what I'm all about, but I'm just just y'all let me just talk like that. Here's what happens to you29:09 and I. How many of you in the last 2 years, you've been through bad? No. No. I didn't define what that was. You've been through bad. K.29:21 When you get through bad, what is your initial knee jerk desire? Get through it. Be done.29:33 We have the wrong propel. Y'all remember that late night infomercial guy that had to spray on hair? You remember he had that he had that, he had that, that cooker thing? He said, you set it and29:45 forget it. Boy, I need to get that market in. I, I don't know how they do. And that's what we do with those trials. We just wanna get through it so fast and set it and be done with it. God says, I put you in29:57 that for that to serve as a landmark. What did you learn there? Children of Israel, this is what you were supposed to learn. No matter what you go through,30:10 you turn your eyes to God and He'll change it. And when they heeded that, miracles happened. There was a giant 9 foot 9 inches standing out in the plains of Elah and a little shepherd30:21 boy came up. And when everybody else was looking at the problem, David looked up to God and he said, you are my staff and you are my sling and you are my stone and I give you everything. Honey, old David30:33 reached into his pocket, stuck that in a slingshot and dropped a giant down. Why? Because he learned the lesson of the people back there that there is nothing too hard30:46 for God. Elijah's on top of Mount Carmel. He prays 63 words in Hebrew and fire comes out of heaven. How? Because he learned there was nothing too hard for God, but in just a few days, the people that saw God30:57 turn bitter waters better are gonna come to Kadesh Barnea and are gonna forget the lesson they learned. You know what they're gonna do? They're gonna fail. Little boy was31:09 in a hospital 1 time, and he had a a terrible leg condition that caused his legs to be curved. The remedy for that was the doctor put31:21 his legs in braces. And he had to wear those braces every every minute of the day except when he was taking a bath and he had to put them back on. He had to sleep in them, walk in them, go to school in them. And every31:33 night when he would lay down, he'd beg his mama. After he got out of the bath, he'd say, mama, please don't make me wear my braces. They31:45 hurt so bad. His mama in her heart would say, I know it hurts, baby. But it's that hurt that's gonna straighten you out.31:59 God looks at every 1 of us and what we went through over there, and what you and I have learned to do is to take that pain, to take it off and put it under the bed, and we32:11 can't figure out why we're crooked. God sent the hurt to straighten us out. Little boy,32:23 2 years old, New York City, was going through leukemia. And through the leukemia treatments, they were having to poke him and stick him and give him shots and draw blood and32:35 all types of things. And every time he would do it, he'd say, mama, it hurts. Mama, it hurts so bad, mama. And so his mama trying to help him and trying to play the mind game with32:47 him so he wouldn't she'd say, baby, I know, but but just think, every time the doctor sticks you, he's doing it because he loves you, and he's trying to help32:58 you. The day came, the little boy, thinking that the cancer had spread, they had to do a spinal tap on him. If you've ever seen 1 of those, they're just awful.33:10 The pain is awful. The needle is just horrendously large. The little boy came out of that procedure with that33:22 spinal tap, and the doctor came out and his little back was still hurting. He looked up at his doctor and he said, doctor, thank you for loving me so33:34 much. You see, when you change your perspective, you'll realize that the sticking and the breaking33:46 and the poking and the hurting was not allowed by God to make you crooked. It was allowed by God33:58 to make you better. So today, I wonder how many of you would come and tear down the brick wall of mortar and bitterness34:11 and say, god, this is what's happened. I don't know what to do with this, but I'm tired of being a shell. I'm tired of the pain. I need healing.34:23 Let's bow our heads this morning.In this video 0:00 The Bitter Waters of Marah9:05 Three Facts About Bitterness19:22 Blessed in Brokenness
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