Reading:

Numbers 20:1-13

Welcome to the Sunday School lesson for August 16, 2009.

Here are my questions for now:

  1. What triggers my resistance, challenging-to-authority spirit?
  2. “Why have brought…into this wilderness?” — What are the right answers?
  3. When people question or challenge what I’m doing, what’s my response?
  4. Moses didn’t fully follow instructions, so why did God send water anyway?
  5. “Ye believed me not” — How was what Moses did disbelief?
  6. And why was Aaron punished along with him?
  7. What do I fall back on when I don’t understand God’s ways?
  8. “He was sanctified in them” — how so?

Answer any you wish in the comments below, but I’m particularly interested in your answers to 2, 4, 5, 6, and 8.

Thanks!

[The Scriptures say in Numbers 20:13 -- He was sanctified in them]
from Numbers 20:13

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2 thoughts on “The Consequences of Disobedience”

  1. 1. My own sinful nature
    2. So that I would have to rely fully on God
    3. I question God if I’m doing the right thing.
    4. To glorify Himself, and to prove Himself trust
    worthy even when we are not.
    5. He was to speak to the rock, not strike it.
    6. Because Aaron also knew that Moses was
    to speak to the rock, not to strike it. He
    could have prevented Moses from striking it.
    7. I try to pray and “reconnect” with God to
    ask Him to help me understand.
    8. He proved Himself by bringing them water
    even when they had disobeyed and been
    unfaithful.

    Thanks for the post Mark. As always it was thought provoking.
    Iain

  2. Ques 4
    As I see it, God is a loving Father. Like my own father, when I was younger,sometimes I was punished for doing the wrong thing through the day, but at night I always received an evening meal.

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