Monday, March 9, 2009

Numbers 11 - Isaiah 3 – Romans 8 – Hebrews 9

Numbers 11
- The people complained and God's anger burned up the outskirts of their camp until Moses prayed to God for the burning to stop.
- The people complained again because all they had to eat was manna.
- They remembered fish and vegetables from Egypt.
- The manna fell with the dew at nights.
- God grew angry and Moses was displeased by the people's weeping.
- Moses asked God why He had laid the burden of caring for all these people on Moses.
- Moses realizes his burdens are too great for him and asks God to kill him if He will not help Moses care for these weeping people.
- God tells Moses to gather 70 elders.
- God said that He will take some of the Spirit that He placed on Moses on these 70 men as well, so that they may share the burden of caring for the people.
- God tells Moses to tell the people that they will eat meat for a whole month until they don't want anymore because of their weeping.
- Moses questioned how God would provide meat for a month for 600,000 people and God asked Moses why He questioned God's ability and word.
- The 70 men prophesied, but only that day when the spirit was given to them.
- Eldad and Medad were in the camp when the spirit rested on them.
- Joshua told Moses to stop the men from prophesying, but Moses said that he wished everyone could do it.
- God brought a quail on a wind and the least quail gathered was 60 bushels.
- While they were still eating the quail, God in His anger sent a plague.
- They named that place Kibroth-hattaavah which means graves of craving.
- Why did God bless the people and then send a plague the same day?

Isaiah 3
- God is taking supplies from Judah and Jerusalem.
- Why will God make the younger men despise and not listen to the older men?
- The men shall rule over rubble in the days ahead.
- Jerusalem and Judah will stumble and fall because of their speech and deeds against the Lord.
- The people do not even try to hide their sin, but they flaunt it.
- The righteous will prosper but woe to the wicked.
- The people have been mislead and the Lord will bring judgement on them.
- The people of Zion are too proud and the Lord will bring them low.
- The Lord will take away all their fine possessions in which they boast.
- The Lord will replace all of their fine possessions with rottenness and they shall NOT prevail in battle.

Romans 8
- There is no condemnation for those in Christ.
- We are free from sin and the law.
- God sent His son to do what we could not do, to meet the righteous requirements of the law.
- Those whose min is on the flesh follow the flesh, while those whose minds are on the Spirit, follow the Spirit (Where is my mind?)
- Flesh = Death
- Spirit = Life and peace (2 benefits)
- The mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God, and can not please Him.
- If you are in Christ, though the body is dead to sin, the Spirit is alive
- What does it mean that the Spirit will give us mortal bodies?
- We are debtors and need to put to death deeds of the flesh.
- We have received the Spirit of adoption, so we no longer need to fear.
- We are chidlren of God and because of that we are heirs!
- The sufferings we face now can not compare to the glory that will be revealed to us.
- All of creation has been suffering and groaining until now.
- Those who have trusted in Christ groan inwardly as we wait for our adoption and redemption of our new bodies.
- This is our hope eventhough we do not see it.
- We wait for our hope with patience.
- The Spirit intercedes for us even when we don't know what to pray for.
- For those who love God all things work for their good.
- What does it mean "for those He foreknew?"
- The order of our trusting in God is; predestined, called, justified, and then glorified.
- Our response to these things should be, "If God is for us, who can be against us?"
- God gave up His own son, so He will graciously give us all things through Christ.
- Christ died and was raised and is right now intereceding for us with God.
- Tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword will try to separate us from this Truth.
- We can overcome all these things through Him who loved us.
- Nothing, not even angels or anything else in creation can separate us for the love of God.

Hebrews 9
- The first convenant's holy place of meeting was in a tent.
- There was the Holy Place in the first section and the Most Holy Place behind the curtain in the second section.
- The ark of the covenant held manna and Aaron's budded staff.
- Statues of cheribum overshadowed the ark.
- The priest could only enter the Most Holy place once a year.
- The first section symbolized the present age.
- Offerings in this section cannot prefect the worshipper.
- Christ sacrificed Himself once for allsecuring eternal redemption.
- If a cow could cleanse a sin, how much greater will Christ?
- Those who are called can now receieve their eternal inheritance.
- A will doesn't take effect until the person dies, so too the first covenant was only sealed in blood.
- Without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.
- The holy places were copies of "true things" in heaven.
- Christ intercedes for us in the presence of God for us.
- Christ does not have to repeatidly give Himself, but did it once for all times.
- Christ will come again not to deal with sin, which was taken care of once and for all, but to save those waiting for Him.

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