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Friday
First Lesson
Numbers 14:1-10
1 And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried;
and the people wept that night.
2 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against
Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that
we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in
this wilderness!
3 And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall
by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey?
were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
4 And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let
us return into Egypt.
5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly
of the congregation of the children of Israel.
6 And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh,
which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:
7 And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel,
saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an
exceeding good land.
8 If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this
land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
9 Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people
of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed
from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.
10 But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And
the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation
before all the children of Israel.
1st Lesson Questions -
The people were whiners. Have I acted that way at times, not being patient nor having faith in God wholly? RESOLVE.
Second Lesson
Hebrews 13:9-16
9
Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it
is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not
with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied
therein.
10 We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which
serve the tabernacle.
11 For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into
the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without
the camp.
12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with
his own blood, suffered without the gate.
13 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing
his reproach.
14 For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God
continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to
his name.
16 But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such
sacrifices God is well pleased.
2nd Lesson Questions -
What is today's most powerfully diverse and strange doctrine? (V. 9) RESOLVE.