The latest episode of The David Spoon Experience dives deep into the importance of patience on our spiritual journey. Dr. David Spoon emphasizes that impatience can lead to dissatisfaction and complaints against God, which can hinder our growth and understanding of His perfect timing. He draws parallels between the journey of the Israelites and our own lives, highlighting how God guides us even when we feel lost or frustrated. Through biblical references and personal insights, Dr. Spoon encourages listeners to embrace gratitude and trust in God's plan, reminding us that our experiences serve a greater purpose. Ultimately, the episode serves as a call to reflect on our attitudes towards life's challenges and to foster a more thankful heart in our relationship with God.

The episode unfolds with Dr. David Spoon setting the stage for a unique blend of spiritual reflection and humor, inviting listeners to consider the implications of impatience as illustrated in Numbers 21. Spoon draws parallels between the ancient Israelites’ journey and the modern believer's walk with God, emphasizing the need for surrender and trust in divine timing. He poses critical questions to the audience, such as what burdens they need to relinquish to God, creating an engaging dialogue that encourages self-examination. His analysis of the Israelites’ complaints against God not only reflects a historical account but also serves as a contemporary lesson on the dangers of discontentment and the importance of maintaining a grateful heart.

Throughout the discussion, Spoon masterfully weaves humor into serious topics, making profound theological concepts accessible to all. He shares personal anecdotes and invites listeners to contribute their stories and prayer requests, fostering a sense of belonging and shared faith. The episode culminates in Spoon's powerful reminder that God’s plans are always for good, and the journey, though fraught with challenges, is ultimately a testament to His grace. By focusing on the biblical narrative and connecting it with everyday life, the episode effectively encourages believers to embrace patience, share their testimonies, and rely on prayer as a means of strengthening their faith in God’s perfect plan.

Takeaways:

• Patience is crucial during our spiritual journey, as we must trust God's timing.
• Complaining about our circumstances can lead to negative consequences in our lives.
• We should always remember to express gratitude for God's guidance and blessings.
• Looking to Jesus for healing and salvation mirrors the Israelites' experience with the bronze serpent.
• Our journey of faith involves learning to let go of burdens and casting them to God.
• The importance of interceding for others and sharing praise reports strengthens our faith community.

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We don't know what we're doing.

We have no idea what's gonna happen and we don't care.

But for the next few minutes, I wanna talk Jesus with you.

So here we go.

We're asking questions about living life as a Christian.

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I actually thought through this question.

And I want you to be aware that I thought through this question.

Here's your question, and you have to answer it.

Are you ready?

What do you need to let go of and cast into the hands of God?

What do you need to let go of and to cast it into the hands of God?

There's stuff that we hold onto.

Some of it has to do with our past.

Some of it's our present.

Some of it's the way we function.

Some of us function in a spirit of fear, attitude, anxiety, whatever the case may be.

What do you have to do?

I gotta let go of this, man.

Maybe you're mad about something that happened before.

Maybe you're mad about government.

Maybe you're mad about a job situation, a relationship.

What do you need to let go of and cast it into the hands of God?

How about them apples?

All right, all right.

Now, while they are working on the Phone.

I believe they're still working on the phone.

It's not alive yet, but it is being worked on even as we talk.

So maybe you can pray for the technician who's going to help us.

That would be good.

Give him.

Maybe the Lord will give a mighty revelation so he can help us out in the meantime, because you're not going to be able to do the norm, I want to tell you how you can get in touch with us because we are not without ability to contact.

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I couldn't find a particular song just for November, so I just went ahead and went with a song I like.

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And I think it's an excellent choice.

So you have done a fine job there.

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All right, so for everybody who's listening and going, oh, no, the phone's not working again.

Hey, I got an idea.

If everybody contributes $10,000, we'll create our own phone system.

That's a joke.

All right, here's what I'm trying to tell you.

Maybe you've got a praise report that you want to share.

So just yesterday, Jeanette was able to use our form to fill out a praise report.

And you don't have to fill out the form on the website.

You can just email me directly.

But then we were able to share it on the air.

And that's a cool thing.

That's a great thing we get to do, is share praise reports with one another.

It shows us the things that the Lord is doing.

It gives glory to the Lord, because in Isaiah 43:7, it says, we were created to bring glory for the Lord.

And that's one of the things that does.

Additionally, it also encourages other Christians when they hear about it, because it shows them that God is active.

And then on top of it, it also reinforces it in your own life, especially when you write it down or when you read it or when you put it together, because it's like a contract with yourself and it encourages you yourself.

So there's three entities that get blessed in that process, which is kind of cool.

Additionally, you can have a prayer request.

We have that all the time.

People don't wanna call in and do it.

Sometimes they wanna text and share their prayer requests.

And we will pray for you.

Do the best we can.

Here's the thing about prayer.

We are standing in opposition to a great large portion or population of the earth.

We actually believe this weird, stupid, crazy thing.

As Christians, we believe prayer works.

The universe was stopped.

There have been people that have been raised from the dead.

There are people that have had their lives.

Situations change in a moment.

Because when we pray and God says yes, it's the invasion of the kingdom of God into the kingdom of men.

And it changes everything.

And what's cool about God, it only takes a moment for a miracle.

Now, how cool is that?

Your whole life can change in one.

Yes, from God.

So we believe in praying and we take our faith and combine it with yours.

You don't have to think the exact same way we do.

You don't have to believe every single thing we believe.

But you do have to understand that it is our Heavenly Father, one Father.

We are blood relatives through the blood of Jesus Christ, and we drink of one Holy Spirit.

So their unity is in the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit, in which scripture tells us to keep the unity, not to find it.

We already have it.

We just need to hang on to it and so we'll be glad to pray.

Maybe you got a scripture or something you just want to share.

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You can send it through Email, you can send it through text.

We're for that.

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Okay.

But for those that are on the other side of things, look, there's no phone.

Be patient.

Okay?

I'm just going to tell you that additionally, I do want people and I want to encourage people.

You know, we talk about it a lot on the show.

We don't do a lot of politics and the reason we don't do a lot of politics is poly means many and ticks are blood sucking insects.

So we don't really care.

But we do think, look, everybody should be praying for the leadership and for the nation.

That's something that should be on everybody's heart and that people would be responding and responsive to God.

That's an excellent prayer, by the way.

For people to be responding to the Lord and responsive when the Lord directs them, that's also important.

So we got that going on now.

We're going to do a couple of things different for today's intro part.

So just after going to Bear with me, we just finished up on three John.

Next week we're going to be starting second John.

But we're not doing that this week.

So you're going to have to be ultra, ultra in tune because this is going to be a very challenging word that has come in your direction.

I'm just going to say it just that way.

It's a challenging word.

We're going to pick it up and follow me because we're not doing a book this week.

We'll start back on the books next week and we'll be picking it up in second John.

That's actually something I've never taught from before, so I'm excited to teach it.

But right now we're going to go into numbers 21, 4, 6 and get ready because this is, I mean, I'm reviewing this material going, uh oh, and not for you guys, for me.

I'm like, uh oh, that's what I'm thinking.

Here we go.

We're in Numbers, chapter 21, verses 4 through 6.

It says this.

Then they set out for Mount Hor, by the way of the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom.

And the people became impatient because of the journey.

The people spoke against God and Moses.

Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in this wilderness?

For there is no food and no water, and we loathe this miserable food.

Verse 6.

The Lord sent fiery serpents among the people and they bit the people so that many people of Israel died.

Ouch.

Numbers, chapter 21, verses 4 through 6, they set out from Mount Hor, by the way of the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom.

Let's understand something specifically.

God had a direction for the people to go, and he wanted to take them in this direction.

He wanted to go in this direction.

And guess what he was not doing.

He was not asking permission.

And I do want you to understand that as we walk with the Lord, the idea that you control everything is cute.

Right up until God allows a piano to drop on your head.

Then all of a sudden, you're not so smart or not so in charge.

So they're going in a direction that the Lord wants them to go in.

He wants them to head in this direction that he's taking them.

And what I want you to really catch out of this is that we're on a journey, and the Lord has us going through that journey.

Now we will reduce the fallacy of that bumper sticker.

It's more about the journey than the destination.

That's super cute.

Unless you consider heaven and hell.

If hell is your destination, guess what?

It's not about the journey.

Hey, if heaven is your destination, hey, guess what?

It's not about your journey.

It's about the destination.

But we are still going through the process of a journey.

And here's what happens while the children of Israel are going through that process.

And I want you to relate this to yourself.

One of the things in my doctorate, it has to do with practical theology.

That means not new breaking ground.

It's applicable theology that people can use today.

Well, here's a great one we can use today.

They set out from Mount Hor by the way of the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom.

And the people became impatient because of the journey right there.

I just want you to pick it up right there.

Listen.

The people became impatient because of the journey it's talking about.

They're going through this process.

This is a critical issue for you and I to understand.

We know we're on a journey, and the journey basically has to do between two points of growth, between point A and point B.

And for many of you, it's between point S and point T.

You've been going through much of this.

And then for some of us, it also has to do with the difference between our salvation and our entrance into eternal glory.

There is a journey that takes place from the entry point of into salvation to the entry point into eternal glory.

And there's time in between.

And that's the journey.

And we are called upon from God to exercise patience.

You might not be a doctor, but you are still required to have patience.

That's right.

It's a joke.

And here's what I'm trying to say to you, though.

You cannot tell God how the journey is supposed to go.

You're thinking, wait a minute.

No, wait a minute.

God has a purpose, has a plan, has a direction, and he's got something to go.

And it's like, yeah, but if the Lord.

If the Lord.

If the Lord.

Would you stop with the ifs?

That sounds like the enemy going, if you're the son of God, knock that stuff off.

What we need to do is have this attitude that says, you know what?

Between point A and point B, I'm on this journey with the Lord, and I'm gonna be patient about it.

Because these people, they became impatient.

Hey, you know what?

God doesn't appreciate that.

And I'm gonna give you a statement on this, because this is kind of gonna blow your mind.

And I want you to think about this.

In Ephesians 2:10, it says, we are the masterpiece.

God is creating a masterpiece in us, and we need to understand that that's what's happening.

If we could actually seize upon this little picture that I'm going to try and create, this would really help you.

You are a masterpiece.

And I'm not sure if you know this or not, but masterpieces often take times.

We think God is doing it paint by number.

Paint by number.

Look, I made a flower.

Okay, that's awesome.

But that's not what the Lord's doing.

He's creating a masterpiece.

And it takes the exact amount of time required to accomplish it for perfection.

Whatever that time frame is, I think, can he speed it up?

No.

Some of you are going, can't he slow it down?

No.

God's timing is perfect.

It is us that have watches that fail.

Just think about how literally got out of Israel when he brought Israel out to the day that he told them 400 years prior, I am going to bring you out.

I am going to bring you out.

And to the day, 400 plus years later, he brought them out to the exact day 400 years apart.

You think his timing is not perfect?

How could you do that 400 years away and get to the exact day?

Because he's God.

He's an interlinear being.

He's not stuck in the same ways that we are stuck.

He operates in the past, present and future.

So the big problem here, and let's just be honest, is sometimes we may express some dissatisfaction along the journey, verse 5.

The people spoke against God and Moses, why have you brought us out of Egypt to die in the wilderness?

For there's no food nor water, and we loathe this miserable food.

So God has them on a journey.

They're setting out from Mount Horeb by the way of the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom.

The people become impatient because of the journey.

And then the people spoke against God and Moses.

And it's funny because it says they became impatient, which is important to understand because we try and we might even start off good, but we become that way because we're not resting in the Lord.

And when it says spoke against the people, spoke against God and Moses, that has to do with being in opposition, speaking contrary, speaking adversely, speaking in a hostile manner, or speaking in resistance.

And when we operate and express our dissatisfaction with God's timing process, it turns into a complaint against the Lord and against those around us.

And when we do that, I'm just going to tell you what it is.

You can't get mad at me.

I didn't write this.

When we do that, we've committed a certain breach in the kingdom of God, essentially telling God he's not doing a good job in the building of the journey process.

Could you imagine standing before the Lord and saying, I don't think you're doing a very good job in this process.

You know, there was somebody that.

That happened to, and by the grace of God, God spoke to him out of a whirlwind and just asked him this question.

And it pretty much shut the whole conversation down.

And God asks the same question for you and I.

Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?

That pretty much shoots down the old conversation right there.

I think we're done.

Get it?

And so the Lord's like, hey, don't do that.

And what happened?

The people started complaining, and they're telling God he's not doing a good job.

You're not trying to irritate God, are you?

Because if he has to respond to the level of our dissatisfaction, it doesn't always go super smooth for us.

So what am I trying to say?

Well, this is what happened with the children of Israel.

They spoke against God, against the Lord.

The people spoke against God.

And Moses, why have you brought us out to Egypt to die in the wilderness?

There's no food, no water.

We loathe this food here.

Now that we're getting.

And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and the serpents bit the people.

So that Many people of Israel died.

Here's God's response to his people, by the way, I'm trying to make sure you understand these are the chosen people of God.

Right?

Everybody got that right?

We got it.

Got it.

Here.

God says, really, I'm sending biting things in your direction, and then I'm going to help you remember whose program this is.

You see, it's not our program.

We're a part of it, but it's God's program and he's in charge of it.

And basically, what we're telling God is, well, we're in this play, but we think you're a lousy director and writer.

And God's response is, I'll send bitey things after you.

You think, oh, he would never do that.

Now, really, are you so sure about that?

Here's the thing.

Complaining to God only puts us in a position where he has to respond to our complaint.

Telling God he's doing a lousy job, you think he's going to do nothing.

We're not trying to irritate God, Right?

You're not trying to get him to respond to our level of dissatisfaction.

So maybe we should somewhat together as a family, as the people of God lose some of that sense of dissatisfaction.

You might go, yeah, but I don't like that.

Too bad.

Would you rather not be saved?

Okay.

And the reason I say it that way is because.

And I'm not telling this to you and preaching it to you.

I'm preaching this to me more than I'm preaching it to you more than I'm teaching it and sharing it with you.

I do this often.

I come before the Lord and go, what?

Why?

If?

And I know the Lord loves me so much because he doesn't turn me into a pile of ash when I do that.

He's much more kind and gracious and moves me along piece by piece, reminding me that 2 Corinthians 3:18 says that it's glory by glory that I reflect the image of Jesus Christ.

And sometimes, Dave Spoon, you need to sit down and be quiet and just follow the path.

Now, I'm sure I'm the only Christian in the United States who goes through this, but if you are like me at all, you can understand going, man, I got to double up on this.

I got to do better.

It's just something I got to do better on.

And I look at this and think, yeah, I get the conviction.

I have probably more conviction in my mind right now than maybe some of you do.

And listen, I'm not sitting there Going, oh, I'm just sitting there thinking, lord, help me to do a better job, because I love you, Lord, and I want to do it right, and I want to be right, and I want this to work right, and I want to honor your.

And the coolest thing about the Lord is His overall incredible mercy.

So here's the rest of the passage.

So the people came to Moses and said, we have sinned because we've spoken against the Lord and against you.

Intercede with the Lord that he may remove the serpents from us.

So Moses interceded for the people.

Then the Lord said to Moses, make a fiery serpent, set it up on a standard, and it shall come about that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, he will live.

And Moses made a bronze serpent and set it up on the standard.

And it came about that if the serpent bit any man when he looked to the bronze serpent, he lived.

So let's just talk about this.

Ultimately, when we do dumb things things, God will still help us bring it around so that we can find life, because He's a God of life.

And while we don't deserve it to get that life, he grants it because of his graciousness and his kindness and his mercy.

So the lesson really comes back to this simple thing.

We really definitely, most positively, absolutely should learn to say thank you more than we say other things.

In Ephesians in 5:18, it talks about us being thankful.

Thankful to the Father for everything.

So here's the question.

Are we.

Or in 1st Thessalonians 5, 19, in everything, give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

Well, are we following the will of God?

And there's a really cool little thing here.

You should remember that in the Gospel of John, this is really interesting.

John said this, or Jesus said this in the Gospel of John, just before the born again section and just before.

For God so loved the world.

Well, I got that backwards.

He said this just before the God so loved the world passage.

He says this in John 3, 14, 15.

As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so the Son of Man must be lifted up so that whoever believes in him will have eternal life.

Jesus is that same image that Moses was put together for the people.

And if you look to Jesus, you get to live.

So it really goes from patience to a lack of patience, to pain, to believing and to seeing and to life.

And Jesus is a direct reflection of this exact story.

And I remember a preacher preaching this message saying, before there's John 3:16, there's John 3, 14, 15.

And the serpent had to be lifted up.

So the Son of Man must be lifted up.

And whoever believes in him will have eternal life.

And it's like, look, God is taking you through the perfect journey that he has mapped out.

We don't always do well, and we don't always respond well, but he's not sitting there going, oh, no, my plans aren't working.

Oh, my.

I mean, that's not what the Lord's doing.

And what we need to do.

Get this.

This is really cool way to say it, is get on God's page.

He's not going to get on our page.

We don't even have a page.

Right.

What's going to happen five minutes from now?

Oh, you don't know?

Oh, well, see, that's the great thing.

Five minutes ago, you're a genius.

Five minutes from now, we're idiots.

So let's get on his page because he's got it put together.

So the real key in this is what?

Well, we most definitely want to be a people who exercise patience on this journey, waiting with confidence and trust in the faithfulness of God.

I know everybody's like, great, you know what?

God doesn't care.

He's already told you what he wants to do, and he wants everybody to get on it.

And we need to.

And I for one know that the Lord probably allows a few bitey things come my direction because I often talk like I know everything.

It's so ridiculous, it's absurd and it's offensive to the Lord.

So I'm sorry for it.

And we should all be sorry for it.

And what we should be praying is, lord, give us a much more grateful heart because your journey that you've established for us is perfect because you are perfect in love, kindness, grace, and mercy.

We appreciate it.

Right?

Right.

All right, we'll take our break and then come back.

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Again, Dr.

Robert Jeffress.

Doctor, are you there with us?

I'm here with you, David.

I'm so glad that you're here.

I gotta ask you this question.

You know, I get a little fiery, especially when Christians are being accused of things that are false.

And that happens all the time, especially in the media.

And I think if you remember our very first time we ever talked, I told you how impressed I was with you that you are able to keep your spirit steady.

I appreciate that so much.

You're a good friend.

I appreciate that.

Here's the thing that drives me absolutely batty, which is where I need your help.

Now, I understand this situation with Tim Tebow.

He was going to do a dedication for you.

He got a lot of pressure, apparently from the media.

The media accused you of being homophobic and antisemitic, which for me, I mean, it was.

I guess, when I first heard it, I was overwhelmed.

First of all, anti Semitic is a person who discriminates against or is prejudiced or hostile towards Jews.

You've been on my show now, this is three time, and I'm as Jewish as they come.

Yeah, well, David, I mean, the charge of anti Semitic comes from saying that everyone, including Jews, must trust in Christ in order to go to heaven.

That is hardly antisemitic.

In fact, I have a Jewish friend in New York who called me this week.

She's not a Christian, but she said, I don't understand all of this.

Said, I don't believe in the New Testament, but you do.

You're simply saying what the New Testament says.

And you know, David, we've said before, you know, Jesus said, I'm the way, the truth and the life.

No man comes to the Father but by me.

And I remind people, Jesus was not a Southern Baptist evangelist.

He was a Jewish rabbi.

And yet you look at what he said, what the Apostle Paul said, the Apostle Peter here are the three most prominent men of the new testamen, every one of them a devout Jew.

And yet they said there's one way to God, and that's through faith in Christ.

That is not antisemitic.