{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Christ Covenant Church","title":"Journaling: Numbers 14-17","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4064,"description":"It only takes a few disobedient minutes to destroy years’ worth of progress and promises (14:1-45; 2Jo 1:8).\nWrong expectations in relation to God’s promises can lead to mutiny against God and His current elders believing them to be incompetent and nefarious (14:1-3, 4-10a).\nCrying/whining about what God gives us often indicates that we think we know better than God what is best for our life (14:1; What they didn’t realize about their wilderness years and lack of abundance = It was meant to protect/prepare them for entering the land of plenty – Consider Deu 8:2-3 w/Pro 30:8-9).\nThough justice must always be equitable, different situations can demand different applications (14:10b-16).\nWhen possible, apply justice that is also evangelistic (14:10b-16).\nMercy does not negate justice (14:17-23; See also Exo 34:6-7).\nGod’s forgiveness (or “pardon”): 1) does not mean that all consequences for our sin have been removed (14:18-23 w/Pro 11:31 and Heb 12:6), 2) stops being granted to those who continue to practice sin – regardless of their repentance (Psa 103:11-18 w/Heb 10:26-30).\nGod’s glory is His justice (14:21 w/22-23; Glorifying God therefore means to seek/serve His justice or to be just).\nGod gives what He promises to those who trust His promises (14:24).\nGod gives what we fear when we fear He won’t keep His promises (14:25-38 w/13:25 and 14:1-3; See also Pro 10:24; Isa 66:4).\n“The reader is left with the sense that God’s condemnation of the entire wilderness generation to a gradual forty year death in the desert is a punishment that fits the crime. In poetic justice, the old generation gets precisely what it asked for and deserved.”\nSome sins do irreparable damage (14:39-45; Heb 12:17).\nBecause God is fair, He establishes the same expectations for everyone (15:1-29).\nThose who knowingly commit insurrection by condemning/coming against God’s ordained priests/pastors – or their sound teaching, are immediately apostate (i.e. they have committed “insurrection...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/UXGjftzm8Yw--IISwUKe6A6-CX1YtARptisfLmFJFoI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81Zjc4/MmNmNTMxZjNmOTgw/YjA1NWRhYmMxMTNl/YmE1Zi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}