Message Notes

Session #2

THE TESTING OF THE PEOPLE

1. Testing

a) He tested them Exodus 15:25-26

b) That I may test them Exodus 16:4

2. What God is looking for from His People

a) If you diligently heed the voice of the LORD your God

b) And do what is right in His sight

c) Give ear to His commandments

d) And keep all His statutes

3. I am the LORD

a) I will put none of these diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians

b) I am the LORD who heals you

THE PROBLEMS OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL

1. A complaining spirit

a) The people complained against Moses Exodus 15:24

b) Your complains are not against us
But against the LORD Exodus 16:8

c) Come near before the LORD
For He has heard your complaints Exodus 16:9

d) The people complained against Moses Exodus 17:3

e) They tempted (tested) the LORD Exodus 17:7

2. The grave sin of Unbelief

a) Remembering the Wilderness journey Hebrews 3:7-11

i) Hardening of the heart

ii) Rebellion

iii) Testing God

iv) Always going astray in their heart

v) They have not known My ways

b) Application Hebrews 3:12-18

i) An evil heart of unbelief

ii) Departing from the living God

iii) Hardened through the deceitfulness of sin

iv) Who having heard, rebelled

A SIGNIFICANT STUDY BY THE APOSTLE PAUL CONCERNING THE PEOPLE OF GOD

1. They are not all Israel who are of Israel Romans 9:6

2. Nor are they all children because
They are the seed of Abraham Romans 9:7

3. The children of the flesh,
These are not children of God Romans 9:8

4. The children of the promise are counted
As the seed Romans 9:8

5. The purpose of God according to election
Might stand, not of works but of Him who calls Romans 9:11

6. The Calling of God

a) I will call them My People,
who were not My people Romans 9:25

b) You are not My People
They shall be called sons of the living God Romans 9:26

c) The number of the children of Israel
As the sand of the sea
The remnant shall be saved Romans 9:27

7. The principle of Faith

a) Israel pursuing the law of righteousness
They did not seek it by faith,
But as it were, the works of the law Romans 9:31-32

b) Gentiles… have attained to righteousness
Even the righteousness of faith Romans 9:30

c) Justified by faith Romans 5:1

d) Abraham justified by faith Galatians 3:7

e) Those who are of faith are sons of Abraham Galatians 3:8

f) Those who are of faith are blessed
With believing Abraham (Gentiles) Galatians 3:8