onyon53
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Q3. (Exodus 19:6; 1 Peter 2:9) In what sense is Israel a
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Q2. (Exodus 19:6; 1 Peter 2:9) What did priests do in the Old Testament? In what sense are you a priest? How do you function as a priest? In what sense are you a
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Q1. (Exodus 19:5; 1 Peter 2:9) From an emotional standpoint, what does it feel like to take out and look over one of your treasured possessions? How was the idea of
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Q4. (Exodus 18:13-27; Numbers 11:10-30) Why do you think it took Moses so long to delegate his judicial role to others? What were the qualifications of these judges? How is Moses
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Q3. (Exodus 16) Why did God provide manna for the people? Why did the manna finally cease? Why do you think that the people gradually began to take the manna for granted? What provision of God are you taking for granted?
The manna was provided to give the people something to eat. God could have just caused the people not to be hungry but He did not work that way. We are suppose to work to eat. The people had to get out in the morning and pick up just enough manna for the day. It is suppose to be if we don't work we don't eat.
The manna ended when the people got to go into the promise land and could find the abundant food there.
We always take for granted what is there all the time. If we have good health we take it for granted, if we have a good roof over our heads, we take it for granted, and so on. We need to learn to thank God for every little thing we have and to not take anything for granted.
Everything that I have regularly. Pray for me that I will stop taking every day things for granted.
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Q1. (Exodus 15:24) What are the reasons that people grumble and complain?
People tend to grumble and complain when they're impatient for the result they're seeking.
Also if they see no end to a problem they're having they tend to complain in the hope that someone will do something about it. In my experience I've found that older people complain the most if things aren't to their liking.
How do fear and faith relate to grumbling?
In the case of the Israelites they lacked faith in God to do as He'd promised. Fear of God is the most likely reason they complained to Moses. The problems they had in the desert were very real though. They were scared because they faced an unknown environment and had no prior experience with thirst and hunger, let alone the enemies that awaited them out there.
Maybe they should have voiced their concerns to Moses in a more respectful way.
What symptoms of grumbling do you see in your own life?
OK, here we go: I read that God works for good in all things for those who love him. Tonight wouldn't be the first time I've asked God when that's gonna start! I mean, I'm really fortunate that God is in my corner. I'd hate to see what'd happen to me if God wasn't looking after me!
Business-wise, last year I had my worst year since 2003. This year's off to a good start. I wrote off one of the two old cars that I drive. The other one ran as sick as a dog and no one could fix it. At least I got to swap the engine and transmission from the wreck into the other one and kind of made one decent car from two. All that cost me heaps of money though. Just tonight I tore the front bumper half off in a parking lot when it caught on something as I backed out. (They're plastic these days. What total idiot thought that was a good design idea?)
Last year I was diagnosed with diabetes. I can't raise my arms sometimes for the shoulder pain that has been constant for over a year now, the result of the long biceps tendon in each arm snapping in separate incidents. My lower back (broken vertebra) is getting so bad that I can't even drive for an hour without having to get out almost screaming in pain from the sciatica and other referred pain in my legs.
I wasn't always a professional musician. I drove trucks and forklifts for 15 years, then got retrenched. I had a good job lined up to start but my old boss needed me to go work at the transport company that took over our work because I knew the products. So he "white anted" me at the place I was about to start and a couple of weeks later I snapped my bicep tendon working at the transport company lifting something too heavy and awkward and haven't worked a day job since. I've struggled to make a living as a professional musician for over 13 years now. I'm on a pension because of all my injuries and medical problems. I got no liability payout for any of my injuries either.
In 1982 I developed agoraphobia and I've asked God a million times to heal me. "My Grace is sufficient for you" . . . Yeah? I don't think so! The strain on my marriage was too much for my wife and we got divorced in 2007. All I got from the settlement was my clothes, my musical equipment, my rusty old home gym, and my superannuation money. The Global Financial Crisis drained my superannuation investment money so badly (I lost 40% of what I had invested and accumulated) that I can't ever afford to retire and I'll have to work till I fall off the perch.
Every time without exception when I make a bold yet cautious step forward in my musical career it seems the whole universe conspires to drive me forcibly back until I'm further behind than where I was before stepping out . . . in faith too I might add. Every time without exception when I tell someone I'm doing well or I tell people I have regular work at this or that venue for the next few months, sure enough I lose it all. I'll get undercut and badmouthed out of the place by my competition.
My Powerlifting career and my reputation as a Christian sportsman who gave glory to God for my success were ruined by the president of our Powerlifting association spreading lies about me so no one would believe me if I ever told them he was a proven paedophile! I promised his wife I'd never do that but he couldn't take the chance. Now I had God behind me all the way in Powerlifting and I lifted for Him, which was common knowledge at the time. What I want to know is why God allowed the enemy to get such a complete win over me? I'm not welcome at any Powerlifting events even as a spectator after the bad mouthing my former close friend gave me.
Every time some new problem arises I really try to see God's benevolent hand in it and I look for a positive thing that God can use the situation to create, but for the life of me I can't. It just keeps piling up. Do I complain to God? You better believe I do!
Like the Israelites my problems are real. They're ever-present.
"Many are called but few are chosen" rings in my ears all the time. I'm not a Calvinist but I have to wonder sometimes if I am one of the people God has chosen to be a child of God or if I'm wasting my time. Maybe I didn't get an invitation? Gotta ask the question.
What should you do about it?
You tell me. I suppose I could count my blessings. That won't take all day.
Sometimes we never know why we go thru things. It could be that the way you handle could be your witness for Christ. Someone could be watching you to see how you are handling it. It could even be the person who did it.
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Q2. (Exodus 16:7-8) Why can grumbling against a leader really be a symptom of grumbling against the Lord? Are there any cases where this might not be true? Why do leaders tend to take complaints so personally? What does it take to learn that "it's not about you."
The leader is God's choice. When people are grumbling against the leader they are grumbling against the person GOD chosen.
I started to say yes, that if the person is not really chosen by God. Sometimes people will take a position in the church just abcause they were ask to take it. God will still use that person to His purpose.
Some leaders take everything personally they forget they are doing God's work and take everything to heart, good or bad. They don't or don't want to let God take the grumbling or praise.
For God to remind them.
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Q1. (Exodus 15:24) What are the reasons that people grumble and complain? How do fear and faith relate to grumbling? What symptoms of grumbling do you see in your own life? What should you do about it?
Either they do not want to do what they are having to do or they think someone else should be doing it. Grumbleing and complaining shows a lack of faith. When I find myself grumbling or complaining about something I try to stop and think how I can make it better because G&C do nothing to solve the problem. Pray about it.
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Q4. (Exodus 14:4, 17-18) Why is God
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Q3. (Exodus 14:11-14) Why do the people blame Moses for the advancing Egyptian army? What motivates their fear? Who are the people really blaming? How does Moses respond to their blame and fear? Why doesn
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Q2. (Exodus 12:50) Why was obedience so important to the people
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Q1. (1 Corinthians 5:7; John 1:29; 1 Peter 1:18-19) In what sense is Christ our Passover Lamb? In what sense are we marked with his blood? In what sense does God
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Why do we tend to fight out battles "in the flesh" rather than using spiritual weapons?
I don't think at first we realize we are in a battle, then when we do we are already using the flesh. By that time we don't think God can help. When we realize He can we are in so deep we have nothing left but to turn it over to Him.
Why do we so often mistake the human enemy for the spiritual enemy?
If we are in the spiritual frame of mind we tend to think everything is spiritual. Whether it be God or devil. I know the devil is behind all sin and temptation so we go with the thinking that every enemy is spiritual.
When will God fight our battles--and when won't He?
I think God will always fight our battles, He lets us go either until we ask for help or He sees that we are stuck and can go no futher on our own.
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Moses did not accept the comprise because he was listening to God and God did not tell him to accept it. You know the saying pick your battles. In a church you let comprise take place in small things, but if it is something that goes against God you hold firm and no comprise should be taken.
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Some people just do not like confrontation. It is hard to take a matter to people because you do not know how they are going to react. In the case of a preacher it could be a cause for the church to vote him out. Sometimes though it can solve problems that some people did not know exist. If we don't confront when we should then the thing most of the time just grows. Sometimes it might just go away that is very seldom the case.
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Moses blamed God for his troubles because God sent him to Pharaoh. I think Moses and AAron were neither scared nor was it unbelief. They just plain did not listen to God. He told them they would be refused but that part went over their heads. We are all stuborn. God just had to rearange their way of thinking.
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We get angry with our children when they do what Moses was doing. Why should God not get angry. God did have patience
with Moses though. I think Moses basic sin was fear. He had been without God in his life for a very long time we know at least 40 years and possible 60 or 70 years. He probly had forgotten what it was like to be around the God of His People. I am sure God has been angry with me because I have not always been the christian I should have been. I regret that. Moses appeased God when he went back to Egypt and met with his brother Aaron.
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Moses was living in a country that did not worship the one true God. I don't think that Moses really thought that
much about the God of his fathers during this time. God reassures him thru the burning bush that does not burn up, is not consumed. God does reassure us if we listen to Him.
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even though Moses has be raised as a Egytpian he still sees himself as a Hebrew (through his mothers teaching.
He did not like seeing a slave beaten, I don't know if he would have done the same thing if it was not a Hebrew slave
that was being beaten. I would like to think he would have. I beleave he would have been strong, he was probly being
trained as a soldier or officer.
Q4. The Blood of the Covenant
in 5. The Covenant at Mt. Sinai (Exodus 19-24)
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