Quench not the Spirit

“Quench not the Spirit.”
Num_11:24-34
Num_11:24-25
See what the Lord can do, and let it encourage us to pray the Lord of the harvest to send forth laborers into His harvest. 
Many a Moses is burdened for want of helpers, but the Lord can send him all the assistance he needs.
Num_11:26
Perhaps Moses and the people had not looked for prophetic gifts to follow the gift of the Spirit, but only the power to govern; hence the excitement when two of the elders began to preach in parts of the camp where the prophesying at the tabernacle had not yet been made known.
Num_11:27-28
Jealousy for his master’s honour moved Joshua to slay the irregular ministry of Eldad and Medad; and still there are many who are zealous to put down those who presume to prophesy, because they are “men authorised by God alone,” as if that were not authority enough.
Num_11:29
Moses was of a noble spirit. If the men were really moved by the Spirit of God, he had no desire to restrain their unusual procedure; but far otherwise, he wished that all the Lord’s servants had the same gifts and graces. Irregular ministries have been the means of the salvation of thousands, and therein we rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.
Num_11:30-32
They feasted themselves without fear, though they had been told that evil would come of it. No doubt they fed ravenously, and then gave their whole minds to the curing of what remained, as if they thought they should never have such provision again. Greediness is, in itself, a plague, and brings other evils with it.
Num_11:33
These gluttons digged their graves with their teeth. Many die through sins of the table; drunkenness and gluttony devour their thousands. 
Thus by one sin God punished another. Those who murmured for flesh, received, as a penalty, death while eating the flesh for which they murmured.
Num_11:34
Scandalous sins have their memorials; may they act as warnings to us, that we do not become discontented and greedy. The Lord make us thankful for His mercies, and save us from fleshly lusts.

O Lord, Thy messengers ordain,
And whom Thou wilt inspire;
We will not of Thy course complain,
But hail the sacred fire.

Blow as He list, the Spirit’s choice
Of instruments we bless;
We will, if Christ be preached, rejoice.
And wish the Word success.