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Introduction

  • Daniel 9:1-19

Is prayer my first reaction?

  • Daniel 9:1-3
  • Jeremiah 25:11; 29:10-11 – Daniel must have been reading these verses.
  • We must train ourselves to think about spiritual things and make time to pray.
  • I Thessalonians 5:16-18
  • Daniel 9:4-15

God is just.

  • The Israelites were being punished for their sin – not for no reason.
  • Deuteronomy 28:1-2, 15 – The people knew the arrangement God had made with them.
  • Hosea 4:6
  • Romans 3:3-5; Psalms 51:4
  • Let us revere God!

We are guilty.

  • Daniel 9:5, 8 – We need to be honest like this with ourselves.
  • I John 1:8
  • I Peter 3:21
  • Psalms 51:12
  • It is good for us to feel guilty when we sin because that motivates us to come back to God.

“O Lord, forgive!”

  • Daniel 9:16-19
  • Romans 3:23-24
  • Am I appealing to God’s loving nature or am I ignoring Him?

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Numbers 13

  • Numbers 13:2 – Compare Genesis 12:7. God is fulfilling the promise He gave to Abraham. God repeated the promise in Genesis 15:18; 17:8; Exodus 3:8; 12:25.
  • Numbers 13:4-16 – The spies are chosen.
  • Numbers 13:17-24 – It is estimated the spies walked 350-500 miles over forty days – 9-14 miles a day.
  • Numbers 13:25-33 – The spies give their report. Most of the spies give a bad report, saying that giants live in fortified cities that they wouldn’t be able to take. Caleb spoke against them, joined by Joshua in the next chapter.
    • Numbers 13:33 – Note that the spies said they seemed like grasshoppers to themselves.

Numbers 14

  • Numbers 14:1-5 – The Israelites grumble and want to return to Egypt.
  • Numbers 14:6-10 – Caleb and Joshua try to encourage the people, but the people want to stone them.
    • Compare Acts 20:29. This internal strife can happen in the church also.
  • Numbers 14:11-12 – God wants to disinherit the people and make a new nation from Moses.
  • Numbers 14:13-19 – Moses intercedes with God on behalf of the people.
  • Numbers 14:20-25 – God listens to Moses and doesn’t destroy the people, but sends them back into the wilderness to wander until the current generation dies off.
    • See Joshua 4:19. This is within five days of being exactly forty years from Exodus 12:29-41, the Exodus from Egypt.
  • Numbers 14:39-45 – Some try to go fight in Canaan anyway, but God is not with them and they are defeated.

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Introduction

  • Psalms 127:3

God loves you, and you should love Him back.

  • Romans 5:6
  • Genesis 1:26-27
  • James 3:9
  • I John 4:19
  • Matthew 22:37

Do what is right because it is right.

  • Proverbs 3:11
  • God gets to define what is right and wrong because He is the Creator.
  • I John 5:3
  • We must teach our children discipline. What are we communicating about discipline?
  • Hebrews 12:7-12
  • Don’t give in to kids that whine and complain.
  • Ephesians 6:1-2
  • Don’t teach them to do right only to avoid punishment.

Life is hard. Get tough.

  • Judges 2:16-3:2 – The new generation needed to learn war.
  • I Corinthians 10:13
  • God allows us to struggle but prevents us from being overwhelmed.
  • James 4:4, 7; 5:10; 1:2

You are not the center of the world. God is.

  • Proverbs 3:5-7
  • Matthew 22:37
  • Ephesians 5:23; 6:4 – Husbands, lead your families!
  • Philippians 2:3

Conclusion

  • Take courage! Don’t let the world sway you!

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Numbers 10

  • Timeline:
Relative date Reference Description
Year 1, month 3, day ??? Exodus 19:1-2 Arrive at Mt. Sinai
Year 2, month 1, day 1 Exodus 40:17 Set up tabernacle
Year 2, month 1, day 14 Numbers 9:1-14 Second Passover Feast
Year 2, month 2, day 1 Numbers 1:1-2 “Take a census”
Year 2, month 2, day 20 Numbers 10:11 Leave Mt. Sinai
  • Five sections of Numbers:
    • Wilderness of Sinai – Numbers 1-10
    • Travel – Numbers 10-12
    • Wilderness of Paran – Numbers 13-19
    • Travel – Numbers 20-21
    • Wilderness of Moab – Numbers 22-36
  • Numbers 10:13-28 – They marched out in the specified order.
  • Numbers 10:29-32 – Moses convinces his brother-in-law Hobab to travel with them.
  • Numbers 10:35-36 – Moses prayed for their safety in travel.

Numbers 11

  • Numbers 11:1-3 – Three days in to the journey, they already start complaining and God punishes them.
  • Numbers 11:4-9 – The people complain about only having manna to eat.
    • Exodus 16:14-15, 31-34 – Manna is first introduced. God wanted them to remember that He had provided for them.
    • Joshua 5:11-12
    • Deuteronomy 8:1-6, 16
  • Numbers 11:10-15 – Moses despairs because of the grumbling of the people.
  • Numbers 11:16-25 – God relieves Moses’ burden by setting up seventy men to share the load. Perhaps God was waiting for Moses to realize he couldn’t do it all alone.
  • Numbers 11:31-35 – God gives the people quail to eat, along with a plague to punish their greediness.
    • Exodus 16:16-20 – Compare the rules for gathering manna.
    • It seems they were trying to greedily horde the quail rather than trusting God to provide.
    • Psalms 78:8-32, 40
    • Deuteronomy 9:22

Numbers 12

  • Numbers 12:1-2 – Miriam and Aaron speak against Moses, apparently because of his marriage to a Cushite woman. We don’t know anything else about the Cushite woman.
  • Numbers 12:3-16 – Miriam is struck with leprosy and must stay outside the camp for seven days.

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