The Troy Gramling Broadcast: What Happens When You Look

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TEACHING NOTES:
THE ANTIDOTE OF GOOD FRIDAY…

Why Not Look?
1. Frustrated with the Circumstances…Impatient in the Wilderness.
Numbers 21:4b-5a (NLT) “…But the people grew impatient with the long journey, and they
began to speak against God and Moses.”
Numbers 14:32-38 (NLT) But as for you, you will drop dead in this wilderness. And your children
will be like shepherds, wandering in the wilderness for forty years. In this way, they will pay for
your faithlessness, until the last of you lies dead in the wilderness. Because your men explored
the land for forty days, you must wander in the wilderness for forty years—a year for each day,
suffering the consequences of your sins. Then you will discover what it is like to have me for an
enemy.’ I, the Lord, have spoken! I will certainly do these things to every member of the
community who has conspired against me. They will be destroyed here in this wilderness, and
here they will die!” The ten men Moses had sent to explore the land—the ones who incited
rebellion against the Lord with their bad report— were struck dead with a plague before
the Lord. Of the twelve who had explored the land, only Joshua and Caleb remained alive.
2. Frustrated by the Uncertainty of the Wilderness.
Hebrews 12:1b-2 (NLT) …And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us. We do
this by keeping our eyes on Jesus, the champion who initiates and perfects our faith. Because of
the joy awaiting him, he endured the cross, disregarding its shame. Now he is seated in the
place of honor beside God’s throne.
3. Frustrated by God’s Provision in the Wilderness.
Psalm 23:1-4 (NLT) The Lord is my shepherd; I have all that I need…Even when I walk through
the darkest valley, I will not be afraid, for you are close beside me. Your rod and your staff
protect and comfort me.
4. Frustrated with God’s Answer in the Wilderness.
1 Cor. 15:54-55; 57 (NLT) Then, when our dying bodies have been transformed into bodies that
will never die, this Scripture will be fulfilled: “Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where
is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”… But thank God! He gives us victory over sin and
death through our Lord Jesus Christ.
5. An Unwillingness to Confront and Confess Our Sin.
2 Cor. 5:21 (NLT) For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that
we could be made right with God through Christ.
Matthew 27:46 (NLT) At about three o’clock, Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Eli, Eli lema
sabachthani?” which means “My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?”
1 Cor. 1:18 (NLT) The message of the cross is foolish to those who are headed for destruction!
But we who are being saved know it is the very power of God.