How God Deals with Failure

  1. Governing Principles for God's People - Numbers 1-2
    1. Selection - Num. 1:2-3; John 6:37-39; Rev. 13:8
    2. Identification - Num. 1:18; 1 Cor. 1:30
    3. Warfare - Num. 1:2-3, 20ff; 1 Tim. 6:12
    4. Corporate - Num. 1:51-52; 2:1-34; 1 Cor. 12:12-14; Heb. 10:25

  2. Principles of Service - Numbers 3-10:10
    1. The Lord's arrangement - Num. 3:10, 17, 25f; 1 Pet. 4:10-11
    2. Purity
    3. Leper - Num. 5:2
    4. Sin - Num. 5:3-10
    5. Jealousy - Num. 5:11-31
    6. Voluntary separation and blessing - Num. 6:2-3, 22-27
    7. Detailed consecration and the Lord's speaking - Num. 7:10-17, 89
    8. Service follows worship - Num. 8:12-16a; Acts 13:1-2
    9. Everybody observes the Passover (Christ) - Num. 9:10, 14
    10. Instant obedience - Num. 9:15-23
    11. Responding to God's clear speaking - Num. 10:1-10; Rev. 1:10

  3. Man's Failure with God's Move - Numbers 10:11-21:35
    4.
    1. Move with God in victory - Num. 10:11-13, 33-36
    2. Complaining - Num. 11:1-3
    3. Lusting - Num. 11:4-6, 32-34; Psa. 106:14-15
    4. Undermining - Num. 12:1-9, 12
    5. Appearances - Num. 13:26-33; 14:3-4, 17
    6. Encouragement - Num. 15:1-2, "Go into the land"
    7. Ambition, dissatisfaction, and blame - Num. 16:1-4, 41; 17:7-8; 18:6
    8. Ashes of the red heifer - Num. 19
    9. Repeated murmuring (speak to the rock) - Num. 20:2-4, 8
    10. Discouragement - Num. 21:4 (look and live)

  4. God's Continued Move - Numbers 22-36
    5.
    1. God's attitude toward His people - Num. 22-25
    2. A fresh numbering - Num. 26
    3. A new leader - Num. 27:17-22
    4. Offerings and vows - Num. 28-30
    5. Midianites slaughtered - Num. 31
    6. Ready to enter into the land - Num. 32-36
      1. Compromise - Num. 32
      2. History of Israel's journeys - Num. 33
      3. Division of the land - Num. 34
      4. The Levites and the cities of refuge - Num. 35
      5. Guaranteed inheritance in the land - Num. 36