week of 2/13

 Unit 6  Session 2

A UNFAITHFUL PROPHET

NUMBERS 20

The unfaithfulness of people always comes at a great cost - the

judgment of a holy God.

Because Israel rebelled and refused to enter and conquer the

promised land as God had said, they were punished with forty

years of wandering in the wilderness, one year for every day

the spies were in the land. That generation was condemned to

die in the wilderness outside of the promised land, but the next

generation would claim the land by God's grace. Still, the people

continued to succumb to discontent and disobedience, a failing

that affected their leaders as well.

Points to consider:

✞   Unfaithfulness leads to a pattern of sin.

     * Why do you think we gravitate to the

        same types of sin over and over again?

     * What does dealing faithfully with sin

        look like?

✞   Unfaithfulness results from a failure to

      trust God.

     * What are some lessons we ought to 

        learn from Moses' and Aaron's 

        examples?

✞   Unfaithfulness brings the judgment of

     a holy God.

     * Why does God's severe discipline of 

        Moses and Aaron not sit well with

        many of us?