In Psalms, chapter ninety-five, verses one to eleven, is a psalm that calls believers to ensure that our worship and praise are by hearts that are obedient to the Lord. It sets forth Israel’s sin and rebellion in the wilderness as an example of those who make a mistake in what they desire, do not know God’s righteous ways, and therefore fail to receive what God has promised.
The theme under the A Call to Praise the Lord section expresses how the people of God were led out of bondage by the Almighty One only to respond in rebellion instead of thankfulness. They quickly forgot where they came from, which was the land of Egypt. The Israelites express weeping throughout the night in Numbers fourteen under The Rebellion of Israel section from verse one. Then murmured to the leaders Moses and Aaron in the following verse. What happened to the singing when they came out of Israel in the bottom of Exodus fifteen, verse one, “I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.”
God knows the hearts of His people. The response in Numbers fourteen, verses twenty-two to twenty-three, indicates how the Lord felt about their attitude. “Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice; Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it.
All believers should remember the things God did for them up to this point in their lives and not behave as the people of God did in the Old Testament.