Numbers

1: 18. The Christian’s pedigree.

“Sons of God.” 1 John 3: 2.

“Children of God by faith in Jesus Christ.” Gal.

3 :26. Heirs of God.” Gal. 3: 29; Roin. 8: 14, 17.

6: 12. Lost days!

24-26. Here is a benediction that can go all the world over, and can give all the time without being impoverished. Every heart may utter it: it is the speech of God: every letter may conclude with it; every day may begin with it; every night may be sanctified by it. Here is blessing — keeping — shining — the uplifting upon our poor life of all heaven’s glad morning. It is the Lord himself who brings this bar of music from heaven’s infinite anthems.

27. All differences disappear — all tribal names pass out of view; and the name of Jehovah is upon all.

11: 31. “Upon “should be above.” Gen. 1: 2, 20; 8: 1; Zech. 5: 3.

12: 1. The Jew has ever been jealous of the Gentile being received into the covenant. Eph. 3: 6.

15. The sin of God’s people still hinders the progress of his cause.

13: Faith says, We are well able.” V. 30.

Unbelief says, “We are not able.” V. 31.

13: 31. Israel said, “We be not able.” But the weakness

of God is stronger than men. 1 Cor. 1: 25.

32. Israel said, “The land eateth up the inhabitants.”

God’s word was, “They are bread for us.” Chapter 14: 9.

33. Israel said, “We are grasshoppers in their sight.”

God said, those nations were” as a drop of a bucket: ““as the small dust of the balance:” “as grasshoppers.” Isa. 40: 15, 22.

14: 16. Our unsuccess attributed to God.

33. “Your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years.” So Christians wander about, and call it Christian progress!

Many die in the wilderness; their souls are saved, but their lives are lost.

18:19. “A covenant of salt’’ — a perpetuity of God’s covenant mercies.

21: 6. The Hebrew for “fiery serpents” is “seraphim,” for their burning heat and glow. See Luke 10: 18, where Satan is called a fallen seraph.

21: 7. God does not always answer in the letter, but in the spirit, of prayer. He did not remove the fiery serpents, but provided a remedy. We live among serpents still, and must look to Christ for salvation.

There was no particular “reason” in the brazen serpent; but God was in it.

22: 23. The ass saw the angel which Balaam saw not.

His eyes were blinded by the dust of covetousness.

23: 10. “Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last day-s be like his.” Why not rather live the life of the righteous?

You cannot live a vicious life and die a righteous death.

19. There are three things God cannot do: —

1. He cannot lie.

2. He cannot deny himself.

8. He cannot see our sins through the blood of

Jesus Christ.

God writes with a pen that never blots, and speaks with a tongue that never slips, and acts with a hand that never fails.

26:51. (501,730 as against 603,550 in chapter 1. Israel’s growth ceased for forty years. So it may be with us as churches, and so forth, if we are unbelieving.

27: 1. The first movement for women’s rights.

12. Moses (representing the Law) was not to have the

privilege of leading the Israelites into the promised land. It was for Joshua (Jesus) to do so.

13. Old age is a sunset and a sunrise in one. We can

not climb the hills as in youth, but we can mount up as on eagle’s wings, if we have found in Christ the secret of eternal life.

28: Offerings and sacrifices.

3. Daily.

9. Weekly.

11. Monthly.

32: 23. You cannot bury your sins so deep but they will have a resurrection by and by, unless they have been washed away by the blood of Christ.

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