Psalm 78:40

Lessons From Israel's Past

³⁹ Thus He remembered that they were but flesh,
A wind that passes and does not return.
⁴⁰ How often they rebelled against Him in the wilderness
And grieved Him in the desert!
⁴¹ Again and again they tempted God,
And pained the Holy One of Israel.

In the Wilderness

Provoke Him

In The Desert

Rebel Against Him

Ephesians 4:30

Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

Psalm 95:8-10

Do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah,
As in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

Isaiah 63:10

But they rebelled
And grieved His Holy Spirit;
Therefore He turned Himself to become their enemy,
He fought against them.

Numbers 14:11

The Lord said to Moses, “How long will this people spurn Me? And how long will they not believe in Me, despite all the signs which I have performed in their midst?

Deuteronomy 9:21-22

I took your sinful thing, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it, grinding it very small until it was as fine as dust; and I threw its dust into the brook that came down from the mountain.

Psalm 78:17

Yet they still continued to sin against Him,
To rebel against the Most High in the desert.

Psalm 106:14-33

But craved intensely in the wilderness,
And tempted God in the desert.

Psalm 107:11

Because they had rebelled against the words of God
And spurned the counsel of the Most High.

Isaiah 7:13

Then he said, “Listen now, O house of David! Is it too slight a thing for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God as well?

Hebrews 3:15-17

while it is said,
“Today if you hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts, as when they provoked Me.”