IBC Richmond

APPLICATION QUESTIONS: 1. Reflect on the specificity of the Tabernacle’s design. What worship principles do you observe? Should your worship of God be more stoic or more casual? 2. What similarities and differences exist between Israel’s worship of God in the Tabernacle and the believers’ worship of God in the church? 3. Read about Moses’ work ethic in Exodus 40:16, 33. How can you improve in hono...

APPLICATION QUESTIONS: 1. Reflect on the specificity of the Tabernacle’s design. What worship principles do you observe? Should your worship of God be more stoic or more casual? 2. What similarities and differences exist between Israel’s worship of God in the Tabernacle and the believers’ worship of God in the church? 3. Read about Moses’ work ethic in Exodus 40:16, 33. How can you improve in hono...

Abraham - Faith Has No Shortcut

APPLICATION QUESTIONS: 1. Which of the 10 Commandments did Israel break by worshiping a golden calf? What does this event teach about idolatry? 2. Would God have been justified to destroy Israel (Ex 32:10)? Why did God relent from his anger? 3. Reflect on the description of God’s character in Exodus 34:6-7. In what way has God responded to you personally in one of these attributes? 4. Is the renew...

Abraham - Faith Has No Shortcut

APPLICATION QUESTIONS: 1. Which of the 10 Commandments did Israel break by worshiping a golden calf? What does this event teach about idolatry? 2. Would God have been justified to destroy Israel (Ex 32:10)? Why did God relent from his anger? 3. Reflect on the description of God’s character in Exodus 34:6-7. In what way has God responded to you personally in one of these attributes? 4. Is the renew...

1. What did Moses do for 40 days and nights in God’s presence? Is 40 days symbolically significant? 2. What can be learned from the detailed orders for the Tabernacle, its dimensions, metals, and fabrics, and the priestly service of the Tabernacle? 3. The first person in the Bible described as being “filled with the Spirit of God” is Bezalel (Ex 31:2-3; 35:30-31). Who was Bezalel? What was his occ...

1. What did Moses do for 40 days and nights in God’s presence? Is 40 days symbolically significant? 2. What can be learned from the detailed orders for the Tabernacle, its dimensions, metals, and fabrics, and the priestly service of the Tabernacle? 3. The first person in the Bible described as being “filled with the Spirit of God” is Bezalel (Ex 31:2-3; 35:30-31). Who was Bezalel? What was his occ...

APPLICATION QUESTIONS: 1. What makes you believe that God wants a relationship with his people in Exodus 24? Would you eat dinner with God (see Ex 24:11)? 2. Exodus 24:10 says, “They saw the God of Israel.” What do you observe from the context about this vision? How can this be understood in light of Exodus 33:20? 3. Why did the first covenant fail? Did God know Israel would fail to obey the coven...

APPLICATION QUESTIONS: 1. What makes you believe that God wants a relationship with his people in Exodus 24? Would you eat dinner with God (see Ex 24:11)? 2. Exodus 24:10 says, “They saw the God of Israel.” What do you observe from the context about this vision? How can this be understood in light of Exodus 33:20? 3. Why did the first covenant fail? Did God know Israel would fail to obey the coven...

APPLICATION QUESTIONS: 1. How can the 10 Commandments be categorized? How did Jesus speak of the Commandments? Is a Christian obligated to keep the 10 Commandments today? 2. The word “fear” is used twice in Exodus 20:20. What is the 3. difference between them? Why is first condemned and the second indispensable? 3. What does it mean to live as a sojourner (see Exodus 23:9)? Who is a sojourner? How...

APPLICATION QUESTIONS: 1. How can the 10 Commandments be categorized? How did Jesus speak of the Commandments? Is a Christian obligated to keep the 10 Commandments today? 2. The word “fear” is used twice in Exodus 20:20. What is the 3. difference between them? Why is first condemned and the second indispensable? 3. What does it mean to live as a sojourner (see Exodus 23:9)? Who is a sojourner? How...

APPLICATION QUESTIONS: 1. What five crises did Israel face in Exodus 15-18? In what way is God testing you? What might be his best intentions for this season of testing? 2. Why did God judge Israel’s disobedience over 40 years? Why not destroy the older generation with pestilence as he suggested to Moses (Numbers 14:11-12)? What does God’s patience reveal about justice? 3. How did God provide food...

APPLICATION QUESTIONS: 1. What five crises did Israel face in Exodus 15-18? In what way is God testing you? What might be his best intentions for this season of testing? 2. Why did God judge Israel’s disobedience over 40 years? Why not destroy the older generation with pestilence as he suggested to Moses (Numbers 14:11-12)? What does God’s patience reveal about justice? 3. How did God provide food...

1. What does it mean to know God? How is God made known through the Egyptian plagues? How has God made himself known to you? 2. Have you ever asked God the same question as Moses, “Why did you ever send me” (Ex 5:22)? Why did Moses ask it? What causes you to doubt God’s call? How is that type of doubt overcome? 3. What can be learned from the hardening of Pharaoh’s heart? What part did God play in...