Numbers 16 - Isaiah 8 – Romans 13 – James 1

Numbers 16


- Korah took men from 250 chieftains and rose up against Moses.


- They said all the Israelites were holy and were upset that Moses and Aaron had raised themselves up as holy.


- Moses fell on his face and said God would tell them who was holy among them.


- Moses said the Lord would choose the holy one among them.


- Moses told Korah to light the censers and have his men do the same and that God would choose (the holy one) leader among them.


- Korah was a Levite and Moses said they had gone too far.


- Moses rebuked them for not being content with the fact that God had chosen them to work in the temple near Him. The people were ultimately rising up against God, not Moses and Aaron.


- Moses called for Dathan and Abiram who refused to come up because they were mad that Moses had promised them milk and honey and they were in the wilderness and they didn't want Moses to be prince over them.


- Moses got angry with them and told God not to accept their offerings.


- Moses told Korah and his 250 men to light their censers and bring them to the entrance of the tent of meeting.


- The glory of the Lord appeared to them all .


- God told Moses and Aaron to move aside and he would strike down these men, but Moses pleaded for their lives.


- Moses went to the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram and told the people that if these men died naturally they could be the ruler but if God did "something new" (having the earth swallow them) they would know God had appointed Moses to lead the people.


- As soon as Moses was done speaking the earth opened up beneath these men.


- The ground then closed up and fire came out from the lord and consumed the 250 men with the incense.


- Why did God still decide to kill these men the next day?


- Eleazar, son of Aaron was to collect the incense burners and scattered them because they were now holy.


- Eleazar then took the bronze and created a covering for the altar as a reminder to the people that no one outside the line of Aaron should burn incense.


- The people were upset Moses had killed the people of the Lord.


- Then the people saw the glory of the Lord appear before them.


- The Lord said to move away from the congregation so He could wipe them out.


- Moses told Aaron to light the incense and run it through the crowd to make atonement for them.


- A plague began and Aaron stood in between the dead and the living.


- 14,700 people died before the plague had stopped





Isaiah 8


- The Lord tells Isaiah to write common characters on a tablet.

- Isaiah saw Uriah and Zechariah as reliable.

- Did Isaiah impregnate the prophetess?

- They named the son Maher-shalal-hash-baz which means The spoil speeds, the prey hastens

- Isaiah said that before the baby could talk Damascus and Samaria would lose their wealth to the King of Assyria

- Isaiah tells the people that The Assyrians will flood the area like the River.

- Why is "river" capitalized?

- The Lord tell Isaiah not to fear like the rest.

- God alone should be their source of fear and dread.

- The Lord will now become a stumbling block for the people of Israel.

- Isaiah says that he will wait and trust in the Lord.

- Isaiah asks why the people turn to "dead" mediums" rather than the living.

- If the people don't trust in the teachings and testimony of their God they will be greatly distressed and hungry.

- The people always turn in anger from their king and God when trouble comes.

- They will face their end.



Romans 13

- We are called to follow our worldly leaders because they were instituted by God.
- If you resist authority you resist God and will be judged.
- Rulers punish bad behavior so we should show good behavior and receive favor.
- God is using the rulers for our good.
- The ruler will avenge wrong doings for God.
- This is why we are also called to pay taxes.
- Pay taxes, revenue, respect, and honor to those whom it is owed.
- Owe no one anything except to show love for them.
- The commandments "thou shall not commit adultery, murder, steal, and covet" all fall under the commandment to love your neighbor as yourself.
- Loving your neighbor fulfills the law.
- Salvation is closer and closer each day.
- They are no longer in darkness of night, but in the light of day.
- We need to cast off the works of darkness and put on armor of light (Paul's 2nd comparison to godliness being armor)
- Darkness includes; orgies, sexual sin, jealousness, drunkenness, and quarreling.
- He tells us to put on Christ and make NO provision to the flesh to gratify its desires.
(Paul is saying that we need to fight against the desires of the flesh)

James 1
- James identifies himself as being a servant of God and Jesus.
- He is speaking to the 12 tribes of the dispersion.
- We should see trials as joys because they produce steadfastness, so that we won't lack anything.
- We should ask God for wisdom without doubting Him.
- Doubting is like being tossed back and forth on the waves. A doubter won't receive anything.
- A doubter is unstable in all his ways.
- A lowly man should boast in his exaltation and a wealthy man in his humiliation because both will pass away.
- Does this mean a rich man can't be proud of what he has done or earned?
- The rich man will eventually die in his pursuits (It can only last so long)
- A person who remains steadfast under trials will receive a reward from God.
- God cannot be tempted and He tempts no one.
- We are tempted when we are lured and enticed by our desires which lead to sin and eventually death.
- Every good gift is from God
- There is no variation or change in God.
- We were created by God's will in truth.
- We should be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger.
- Anger does not produce righteousness.
- We are called to put away wickedness and received God's word with meekness because it alone can save our souls.
- God's word should lead us to action not just hears of it.
- If you hear God's word but don't act you are like a man who looks in a mirror but doesn't change his appearance.
- The one who looks at the law and acts will be blessed in what they do.
- A religious man also needs to control his tongue
- Pure religion is caring for children and widows and keeping oneself unstained by the world.
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Numbers 15 - Isaiah 7 – Romans 12 – Hebrews 13

Numbers 15
- Moses tells the people to prepare offerings when they enter the new land.

- They should offer a freewill offering, burnt offering, and a drink offering to the Lord.

- They were to use one tenth of an ephah of flour for a lamb and 2 tenths for a ram.

- A bull gets 3 tenths an ephah of flour.

- Any sojourner or foreigner shall offer sacrifices in the same way as the Israelites.

- The first of the dough they shall present to the Lord as a contribution.

- What would define an unintentional sin?

- The needed to offer one bull as a burnt offering and one goat as a sin offering for an unintentional sin.

- The whole congregation and those traveling with them shall be forgiven of their mistaken sin.

- If one person sins they are to offer a year old female goat.

- If someone sins because he despises what the Lord has commanded, that person shall be cut off from the people.

- The people found a man collecting sticks on the Sabbath.

- They put him in custody and Moses asked the Lord what they were to do.

- The Lord told them to stone the man to death for breaking the commandment.

- The Lord instructed Moses to have the people put a blue tassle on their robes to remin them of the commandments so they wouldn't break them.

- We are all inclined to follow our heart and lusts.

- God is calling them to be holy.



Isaiah 7

- The time period was in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, son of Uzziah.

- It was King Uzziah's grandson's reign.

- The King of Israel came to wage war against Jerusalem.

- Syria and Ephraim were working together which made Ahaz worried.

- Shear-jashub was Isaiah's son.

- Isaiah went to the king and told him not to fear the Syrians.

- Where was this quote coming from?

- It was telling the people to have faith and stand firm.

- The Lord told Ahaz to ask anything of Him and Ahaz said he would not put God to the test.

- God sent them this future sign instead foreshadowing the coming of Christ, Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel

- For before the boy knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings you dread will be deserted. (Is this saying Jesus had to learn to avoid evil?)

- In that day the flys and bees will dwell in the land of Assyria.

- There will be abundance, milk and honey, in those days.

- THe Syrians land that now produces valuable vines will be full of thorn bushes.

Romans 12
- Paul was saying they should present their bodies to God as a living sacrifice.
- Living for God with your body IS spiritual worship.
- Paul warns about being of this world and tells them to renew their minds to discern God's will.
- Paul warns them not to think too highly of themseleves but to be humble.
- The church has many members but we don't all have the same function.
- Do some gifts require more grace than others?
- The gifts Paul lists are: prophecy, serving, teaching, exhortation, generosity, leading, acts of mercy (to be done with cheerfulness)
- We are called to let our love be genuine.
- We should hate what is evil and cling to good.
- Paul mentions the importance of zeal twice in the section.
- Rejoice, be patient in trials, and constant in prayers.
- Bless those who persecute you, do not curse them.
- Rejoice and weep with others.
- Give yourself to humble tasks.
- Do not repay evil, but always do what is honorable to all.
- God will seek vengence so we are not to.
- To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.” Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
- We are to love our enemies and do good to them.

Hebrews 13
- The writer encourages brotherly love to continue.
- Show hospitality to strangers
- Is the writer saying some strangers are really angels?
- Remember those fellow believers who are in prison or mistreated.
- Hold your marriage with honor and keep from sexual immorality.
- Do not love money but be content with what you have because God has said "I will never leave you nor forsake you."
- Since the Lord is our helper we do not need to fear.
- The writer tells the people to immitate their leaders' lives.
- Christ has always been and will always be the same, God is unchanging.
- Do not be misled by false teaching but strengthen yourseleves with grace.
- The bodies of sacrificed animals are burned outside of the city just like Jesus suffered outside of the gate to sanctify people to Himself.
- The writer tells us to go outside the city because we are seeking the city to come.
- We can offer God sacrifices by out lips which praise Him.
- Do not neglect to do good and share what you have with others.
- The writer ends by asking God to by Jesus blood to do everything good according to God's will.
- The writer tells them that Timothy has been released and that the writer himself will try to come visit them soon with Timothy.
- He also says the leaders in Italy send the readers greetings.
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Numbers 14 - Isaiah 6 – Romans 11 – Hebrews 12

Numbers 14



- Everyone cried out that they should go back to Egypt and choose a new leader.



- Joshua and Caleb tore their clothes when Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before the people.



- Joshua and Caleb said that if the Lord is with them, the people in the land cannot hurt them.



- The people reacted by preparing to stone them, but God's glory shone on them so they stopped.



- God said to Moses that He'd destroy this people and choose a new people for Moses to lead.



- Moses pleads for his people and tell the Lord that it will look bad for God to the Egyptians because they will say God couldn't finish what he started.



- Moses quotes a verse about God's attributes about being slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.



- Moses asks God to overlook the people's iniquity.



- God said that as punishment for the people's disobedience 10 times, none of them would see the promised land.


- God said Caleb will see it because he had a trusting, faithful spirit.


- God tells them to enter the valley by the way of the Red Sea


- Why would God have them avoid the Amalekites and the Canaanites?


- All people 20 years old and up who grumbled against God will NOT see the promised land.


- Only Caleb and Joshua will see it because they obeyed God.


- God said they'd be in the wilderness for 40 years (a year for every day they spied out the land)


- All of the men who spied out the land and gave a bad report died by plague then.


- The people mourned and decided they wanted to go into the promised land anyway.


- Moses warned them that plan would fail because the Lord would not be with them.


- Some of the people left camp to enter the hill country without the Ark or Moses. They were beaten back and defeated.





Isaiah 6


- In the year King Uzziah died, Isaiah had a vision.


- God was seated on his throne and his robe filled the temple.


- The seraphim stood above him having 6 wings, 2 to cover their face, 2 to cover their feet, 2 to fly. (They were referred to as male (him) ).


- They called back and forth to each other, "Holy holy holy is the Lord, The whole earth is filled with His glory"


- A voice shook the temple and smoke filled it.


- Isaiah responded in woe, because he had unclean lips.


- The seraphim touched Isaiah's lips with a hot coal and removed his sins.


- How can the coal atone for sin when it was not a sacrifice?


- The Lord asked who they should send and Isaiah said to send him.


- Why is God referring to "us"? Who is He talking about here?


- Why does God want Isaiah to tell the people to keep not hearing and seeing?


- The Lord said this will continue until the city lies in waste.


- One out of 10 people will remain in the ruins, but the city will even then be burned a second time.


- Those remaining will be a "holy seed" for later.





Romans 11


- Paul says that he is a descendant of Abraham and the tribe of Benjamin.

- Paul reminds them of God's reply to a struggling Elijah. In that time God said He kept 7,000 people from bowing to Baal.

- Paul says there is a remnant now, but it is because of grace not good works.

- The rest of the Israelites were hardened and couldn't hear or see what God was doing.

- Paul uses quotes from David and another OT book to show this.

- Paul said that because of these failures, salvation has come to the Gentiles as well.

- Paul's hope is to preach the Gospel to the Gentiles, to make the Jew jealous and turn back to God from their sins.

- Paul uses a tree analogy to show his point.

- The Gentiles have been grafted in, and therefore should no longer have bad views of Jews who are now Christians because they are both rooted in God.

- Their response should be fear, not pride.

- Paul says that they should rejoice when the "broken branches" (Jews) are grafted back in because everyone who has been saved has done so because of God's kindness.

- The Jews that have turned away have opened opportunities for the Gentiles to enter God's kindness.

- The Jews' hardening opened doors for the Gospel to the Gentiles. Now the Gentiles' belief has opened doors for the unfaithful Jews again.

- We can't give any good gift to God which hasn't already given us.

- For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever.

Hebrews 12
- The writer tells us to look to these biblical examples and find hope to ruin the race God has placed before us.
- Also to look to Christ who bore the cross and is now seated at God's right hand.
- The writer echos what he just said so that believers won't be fainthearted.
- The writer says they have not yet shed blood and quotes the fact that God disciplines those He loves.
- God disciplines us because we are His sons.
- God disciplines us for spiritual things where as our earthly fathers discipline for everyday things and we respect them for it.
- Discipline is painful at first but then yields good fruit.
- God disciplines us for our good that we may share His holiness.
- Discipline may seem painful but yields "peaceful fruit of righteousness"
- Strive for peace with everyone.
- Strive for holiness.
- Strive for grace and avoid "root of bitterness" which may cause trouble.
- No one should be sexually immoral or unholy like Esau.
- Esau later regretted selling his inheritance for a single meal.
- The Lord was/is to be feared as the ancient Israelites said. Even Moses trembled at the sight of Him.
- The writer is saying believers have no need to fear because they will feast in heaven with angels and Jesus Himself.
- Jesus speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
- Why does the writer refer to blood of Abel and not blood of Adam?
- Don't refuse the one who speaks to you on earth or from heaven.
- In the OT God's voice shook the earth but now He has made a promise.
- God promises to also shake heaven.
- The writer points out that "yet once more" means that the "shaking" will remove some things while the the things that cannot be shaken will remain.
- Our response should be gratitude and to give God reverence and awe.

Numbers 13 - Isaiah 5 – Romans 10 – Hebrews 11

Numbers 13

- God told Moses to send one spy from each of the tribes into Canaan.

- Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua

- The spies were to tell if the people were weak or strong and what their cities were like and whether the land was good or bad (because it was harvest time)

- Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt

- When was Zoan built?

- The took some grapes and pomegranates.

- Why did they carry the grapes on a pole carried by 2 men?

- They returned after 40 days.

- They reported that the land was fruitful but the people were strong and cities were fortified.

- Caleb the son of Jephunneh from the tribe of Isaachar quieted the people and said they could take the land.

- The rest of the men were scared to go and fight the giants who lived in Canaan

Isaiah 5
- Why is this section like a poem to his beloved?
- His beloved cleared the ground for a vinyard and built a watch tower.
- He wanted grapes but it grew wild grapes
- Why does this sound like a bad thing?
- Isaiah is asking the people of Jerusalem why they are yielding wild grapes.
- God is saying that because they are yielding wild grapes He will let destruction come to the vinyard.
- God desired justice and the people of Israel yielded bloodshed.
- God is saying that the houses will be empty and the vines will not yield a good harvest.
- God says woe to those who get drunk and forget Him.
- Man is humbled and brought low.
- The Lord is exalted in His justice and righteousness which the people have turned from.
- Woe to those who lie or bend the truth.
- The people were calling evil good and good evil (following the ways of the world)
- Woe to those who think they are wise and to those who are heroes at drinking.
- These people have despised God's ways and laws and will go down to dust.
- God has inflicted justice and His hand of justice is still bringing judgement on the wicked.
- The Lord will bring outsiders to lay the Israelites to ruin for their sins.

Romans 10
- Paul desires to see Gentiles saved through Christ though they were unaware of the Jewish laws.
- If we ascend to heaven we bring Christ down and if we descend down, we are saying we can raise Jesus from the dead. Christ did not need us to do either of these things.
- The truth is by faith the word of God is in our words and heart.
- Believing in your heart is what will save you.
- Heart = believing and being justified
- Mouth = confessing and being saved.
- For those saved by faith God makes no distinction between Jew and Greek.
- Paul asks how Greeks will believe if they have never heard the gospel.
- He also says that it is beautiful when someone proclaims the gospel to people who have never heard it before.
- Faith comes from hearing the Word of Christ.
- Is Paul saying that all people should be aware of the gospel?
- Paul quotes Isaiah who says that God found those who did not seek Him.
- But Isaiah says that God held out His hand to a disobedient and "contrary" people.
- Why did God choose to save a group of people that were so often so opposed to Him?

Hebrews 11
- This is the faith chapter
- Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
- By faith we believe God spoke and created everything out of nothing.
- By faith Abel offered a better sacrifice than Cain.
- By faith Enoch was taken up and never saw death because he pleased God.
- Without faith we cannot please God.
- By faith, Noah built an ark saving his family and condemning the rest of the people.
- By faith, Abraham went out not knowing where he was going and entered the promised land.
- By faith Sarah conceived and had numerous descendants even though she was too old. (why is Sarah seen as having faith since she had Abraham lay with her servant to conceive?)
- These people all died before they saw the things promised to them and didn't look back to where they were leaving from but forward to the better places promised to them by God.
- By faith Abraham offered up Isaac as a sacrifice, figuring God would restore Isaac even if he were killed because of God's promise to make a people from Isaac.
- By faith Isaac gave future blessings to Jacob and Esau.
- By faith Jacob bless the sons of Joseph before he died.
- By faith Joseph mentioned the exodus of the Jews and gave directions for his bones.
- By faith, Moses' parents hid him for 3 months
- By faith, Moses refused to be with the Egyptians and chose to be mistreated, he did not fear Pharaoh, and kept the Passover.
- By faith, the people crossed the Red Sea.
- By faith the walls of Jericho fell after 7 days.
- By faith, Rahab was spared during the invasion of Jericho for helping the spies.
- Why doesn't the writer expound upon the other Bible greats which he mentions in passing such as Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets?
- The writer simply mentions the trials they went through and the miracles that God performed through them.
- How does "sawn in two" also translate as "they were tempted"?
- All of those who had such great faith never lived to see what was promised which was Jesus' death and resurrection which would save those who would believe.

Numbers 12 - Isaiah 4 – Romans 9 – Hebrews 10

Numbers 12
- Miriam and Aaron rebuked Moses for marrying a Cushite woman.
- Why was this wrong to challenge Moses when God had instructed the Israelites not to marry other races?
- Moses was the meekest man on earth.
- God told the 3 of them to come to the tent of meeting.
- God asked Miriam and Aaron why they felt they could speak against Moses when God spoke directly to him?
- The Lord grew angry and left.
- Miriam was leprous.
- Aaron repented and Moses cried out for God to heal Miriam
- The Lord told them to put Miriam outside the camp for 7 days.
- After that she was healed and they moved their camp to Paran.

Isaiah 4
- Why is verse 4:1 separated from the end of chapter 3?
- The men will be so few because of deaths in war that 7 women will fight over 1 man.
- In that day Israel will be fruitful and beautiful for God's sake.
- Those left in Zion will be called holy.
- Jerusalem will be cleaned out when God purges out all those who had done evil.
- He will again be a cloud by day and a fire by night
- He will care for His people day and night.

Romans 9
- Paul tells them that he grieves for them and is speaking God's truth to them in love.
- Paul tells the Romans that Israel was God's chosen people who have had adoption, the glory, covenants, and laws.
- Not all Israelites will be saved but offspring of the promise to Abraham.
- God promised Abraham a son, and chose Jacob over Esau before they were born and had done anything good or evil.
- Jacob was called not because of works but because God had called him.
- God told Moses that he will have mercy on whom He chooses.
- It doesn't depend at all on human will but on God, who has mercy.
- God told Pharaoh that He had raised him up to show God's power over Pharaoh.
- God has mercy or hardens people as He wills, not what we will.
- Paul tells the readers that they cannot question His will.
- God has the right to shape us as a potter would clay. He will use those who He calls to shame the wicked.
- Paul quotes Hosea where God says that He will call people who were not labeled "God's people"
- Isaiah had said that though the Israelites be very numerous, very few would be saved.
- Paul points out that gentiles who did not know the law have been saved by faith and Israelites who tried to keep the law have not been saved because they lack saving faith.

Hebrews 10
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- The law with its yearly sacrifices can never make people perfect.
- If sacrifices were enough they would not have to keep being made every year because the people would have been cleansed for good.
- Yearly sacrifices are a constant reminder of constant sins.
- Christ came to fulfill God's role for Him that was written in the OT.
- Why would God ask the people for yearly sacrifices if He was not pleased by them?
- Christ overrides the first type of sacrifice by offering Himself up as the perfect sacrifice.
- That is the only reason we can rest assured in our sanctification.
- Priests constantly offer sacrifices, where as Christ sacrificed Himself once for all and is now seated at the right hand of God.
- He perfected all sanctified people for all times.
- God said that He would write His laws on our hearts and through the Spirit this has been accomplished.
- If we have been forgiven through Christ there is no longer any need for sacrifices.
- Jesus' blood gives us confidence in our faith freeing us from evil. We have been washed clean.
- We can have faith without wavering.
- We should be asking how we can stir up love and good deeds because of what Christ has done.
- It is necessary to be meeting together.
- If we sin after hearing about the Truth there is no other sacrifice which we can turn to.
- If we continue to deliberately sin then we have judgment wait for us.
- The writer reminds us that under Law of Moses people would die with 2 or 3 witnesses, but it will be worse for the one who spurns the Son of God and grieves the Spirit.
- God is to be feared by those who turn from Him.
- The writer reminds them of the hard times after they were saved. They were locked up and joyfully accepted people plundering their property because they realized what they had waiting for them in heaven.
- How can I have more of an eternal perspective like this?
- We shouldn't forget the confidence we do have through Christ.
- The writer quotes that God disapproves of those who shrink back, and because of the Truth of the Gospel we can walk in confidence and persevere.

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.

Numbers 10 - Isaiah 2 – Romans 7 – Hebrews 8

Numbers 10
- When 2 trumpets blow the whole community is to come to the Tent of Meeting.
- When 1 trumpet blows just the leaders are to come.
-First trumpet means the east moves, the second trumpet means the south should move.
- The sons of Aaron are to blow the trumpets.
- The trumpet in battle will remind them that God is with them.
- At celebrations blow trumpets
- 20th day of second month of second year, they set out.
- Nahshon son of Amminadab was in command.
- The Gershonites and Merarites took down and carried the tabernacle.
- Rueben's camp went second.
- The Kohathites carried the holy things
- Camp of Ephraim went next.
- The tribe of Dan went last and was a rear guard.
- Hobab was Moses' father-in-law
- Wasn't Jethro his father-in-law?
- Hobab didn't want to go with Moses but Moses convinced him by promising whatever good things the Lord gives them.
- They traveled for 3 days. The ark led the way. They would stop and start when Moses instructed them to.

Isaiah 2
- The house of the Lord shall be on a mountain and everyone will come to hear the law
- He tells Israel to walk in the light of the Lord.
- The Lord has rejected them because they are living like foreigners.
- Man has gained much wealth but even them man shall be brought low.
- Pride of man shall be brought low and only the Lord will be exalted.
- The Lord has a day when all pride will be brought low.
- He will terrify everything high and lofty.
- Man has made idols to moles and bats and will try to enter caves and cliffs.
- Man will try to hide in these place from the terror of the Lord.
- Of what account is man? ends the passage.
- This passage repeatedly states that the Lord will be lifted up and exalted and man, in his sinful, proud estate will be brought low and humbled by God.

Romans 7
- The law is only binding to man while they live just like a woman is bound to her husband only while he is still living.
- The remarried woman is not adulterous because the law that bound her to her husband is no longer there.
- We have died to the Law through Christ's body
- Being bound to Christ allows us to bear good fruit for God.
- We are no longer captives under the law but are free to serve the Spirit.
- The law itself is not sin but a means to show us how we sin.
- The law makes sin alive so that we can see it.
- The law promised life to those who could keep it (which only Jesus did) but proved death to all who fell short of keeping it.
- Sin deceived and killed us.
- The law exposes sin as sin.
- I do not do the things I want to do but the very things I hate
- Nothing good is in me in the flesh.
- I desire to do what is right but not the ability to do it.
- What does it mean that "I don't do it, but the sin in me does"?
- When we want to do good evil is close by.
- The is an inner war waging that holds me captive in my sin.
- Through Christ I can serve God in my mind even when my flesh follows the law of sin.

Hebrews 8
- We do have a high priest seated at God's right hand.
- Earthly priests offer a shadow of heavenly things since they too need to offer a sacrifice for themselves.
- Christ offers better promises than Moses could have because the covenant is better.
- Moses' covenant was not faultless, so a second one was still needed through Christ.
- In the OT the Lord said a day was coming when He'd enact a new covenant with the house of Judah.
- The new covenant will be different from the first because the people could not keep it.
- God promised to put the law into their hearts and minds in the new covenant.
- They will no longer need to teach each other because they shall all know God.
- God promised, even then, that He will no longer remember their sins under the new covenant.
- The second covenant made the first one obsolete. It vanished away.
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