Handouts: None given
Reminders:
- Service Project: The 10 hours, 2 forms, and 1 essay are due on Apr 23, 2018
- Devotion 2 Presentations: Be ready for your presentation day!
Journal: Study Packet, Page 8
- Open your Bible to Psalm 19
- On your Study Packet, page 8
- - Read the story at the top
- - Follow the instructions to answer the questions below
- All done? Study for Friday’s Memory Quiz
After some catch-up from yesterday (see those notes), we got into the below...
Reading Through Numbers 22:`1-25: We answers these questions together.
- Open your to Numbers 22:1-35 & prepare to answer these questions in your Study Packet:
- - 1) v1) What territory is Israel in?
- - 2) v2) Who is the terrified king of this territory?
- - 3) vv5-6) What did this king try to hire Balaam for?
- - 4) vv10-12) What does God say—should Balaam go?
- - 5) What does the king next promise Balaam if he curses Israel?
- - 6) v19) Does Balaam want God to change his mind? Explain.
- - 7) v22) Why do you think God is angry with Balaam?
- - 8) What saved his life? How did Balaam treat it? Why?
- - 9) vv28-30) What odd thing happened third time Balaam was saved?
- - 10) v35) Summarize the angel’s message and rule for Balaam.
- Five Readers:Narrator, Moab & the Donkey, Balak’s Emissaries ,Balaam ,God & His Angel
- We then dramatically read through these verses, answering the questions as we went.
Numbers 10-19 – Rejecting God: Study Packet, Page 3
- Theology:
- - God’s discipline and punishments
- - - Can be terrifying!
- - - Are sometimes simply Him giving us what we sinfully want
- - God will provide our needs
- - God has great plans for our future
- - God has mercy and forgiveness
- - - But He also shows justice
- - God listens to our right prayers!
- Anthropology:
- - We have the freedom to reject God’s good gifts
- - We must avoid gluttony (eating greedily)
- - Complaining is never good for us (Philippians 2:14-15)
- - We demonstrate a right trust in God when we are grateful & content w/what He blesses us with
- - When asking God for something, we need to pray…
- - - In humble faith (James 1:6)
- - - For things line up with His desires for our life (John 14:14, 16:23)
- - We should pray for God’s mercy on sinners
- - When we disobey God it can delay our receiving of His great blessings in our and our family’s lives
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