Exodus 16 - Job 34 - Luke 19 - 2 Corinthains 4

Exodus 16
- month 2/day 15 the people began to grumble about not having any food and questioned why Moses brought them out of Egypt to starve.
- Moses warned the people not to grumble because their grumbling was not against Moses but against God.
- How could the people question God's provision after all He did for them not even a month ago and in seeing the pillar of cloud every day?
- The Lord wanted to test the people to see if they could follow His commandments of gathering bread (manna) 5 days and on the 6th day gathering a double portion so that they could rest on the 7th day, the Sabbath.
- God covered the camp in quail too, thus providing the million people there with meat and bread.
- Moses also told the people not to gather more than they could eat in one day, but the people tried to save the manna and it stank and was filled with worms.
- This and the fact that the people still tried to gather manna of the Sabbath made God angry.
- The Lord commanded them to fill a jar with manna to show future generations.
- How did that manna last so long when all the other manna that was gathered spoiled the next day?
- God fed the people with manna for 40 years until they came to the land of Canaan

Job 34
- Elihu points out that Job said it profits a man nothing to take delight in God.
- Elihu points out that God will not pervert justice or do what is wicked.
- God brings the might to an end and shatters the mighty.
- Elihu adds rebellion to the list of sins he sees in Job.
- Was Job in sin by questioning God in his last speech?

Luke 19
- Zaccheus was short taz collector who climbed a tree to see Jesus. Jesus told him to come down and that Jesus would stay with him that night.
- The people grumbled because He was eating with a sinner.
- The Parable of the 10 Minas - sounds a lot like the parable of the unfaithful servant. A nobleman goes away leaving some money (minas) with his servants. The first 2 invest the money and are praised by their master, but the 3rd servant kept the money in a handkerchief.
- The nobleman rebuked the wicked servant for not at least collecting interest on his money.
- Jesus ends this parable by telling the people that more will be added to those who have, and the little some have will be taken away and given to those who have already.
- Near Bethany and Olivet Jesus sends His disciples in to retrieve a colt that He can ride into the town. He tells them where to find the colt and what to say to the owners. The disciples do as Jesus asks.
- His disciples cheer and praise Him greatly as He enters the town, but the Pharisees rebuke them.
- Jesus states that if these people didn't shout His praises the rocks would.
- Jesus wept over Jerusalem because they didn't understand what was happening in their time.
- Jesus said they didn't understand the things which were happening to make peace.
- Jesus entered the temple and drove out people selling goods there which violated an OT commandment.
- The Pharisees looked for ways to destroy Him but they couldn't do anything because the people were hanging on His words.

2 Corinthians 4
- Paul tells the Corinthians that they have turned from wicked ways and acknowledged the truth of the gospel which God has revealed to them.
- Paul is reminding them of where they came from when he says, "God had shone in their hearts to draw them out of darkness"
- Paul says they have placed this treasure in jars of clay.
- Paul says the are afflicted but not crushed, perplexed, but not is despair, persecuted, but not forsaken, struck down, but not destroyed. Paul is rallying them in the midst of persecution they seem to be facing.
- AS the Corinthians suffer, they give grace to more and more people around them.
- The outer self wastes away by the inner self in renewed each day.
- He called their affliction light and says they are preparing for the eternal weight of glory.
- Paul uses a lot of antonyms to make his points in this chapter