D-Structive Sins - Part 4 - Disobedience

Scripture Reading: Numbers 14:39-45 & 15:32-36

Key Thought: Disobedience saps your spiritual strength and vitality

1. When you became a Christian what did you expect your spiritual life to be like?

2. How would you describe your level of satisfaction with your spiritual life?

3. List the first three of the D-Structive sins. Which one has been your biggest problem?

4. What steps are you taking to overcome that problem?

5. In the message today: What is the D-Structive Sin?

6. In Chapter 14, what is the disobedience?

7. Is it possible that a good thing at one time could become a bad thing at another time?

8. What is the cost of disobedience in this text?

9. Why do they not have spiritual success?

10. In chapter 15, what is the disobedient act?

11. Does it seem like that big of a deal to you?

12. Why do you think that it was treated so severely?

13. What do you think is the cost of disobedience for your own life?

D-Structive Sin - Part 3 - Disbelief

Key Thought: Disbelief is a really expensive sin - it can cost you your life, it can cost you your place in the “Promise Land”.

Sermon Reading: Numbers 13:1-3, 17-33

Chapters 13,14

1. What should the spies have known about the land?

2. What were the spies to investigate?

3. What two things did the spies see?

4. What as the choice they made?

5. What was the cost of their choice?

6. What as the fate of Caleb and Joshua?

Chapter 20

1. What were the people complaining about?

2. What was Moses instructed to do?

3. What did Moses do?

4. What was Moses’ sin?

5. What was the cost of that sin?

D-Structive Sin - Part 2 - Discontent

Scripture Reading: Numbers 11

Key Thought: a lack of Thanksgiving leads to discontent and discontent leads to spiritual desert.

1. In the chapter before us today we see several groups of people who are murmuring and complaining. Who are they and what are they complaining about?

2. What do we learn about memory as a cause of discontent?

3. Who are the ‘mixed-multitude’ ‘rabble’ or ‘contemptible people’ in this chapter? What do they do?

4. What do we learn about the company we keep?

5. What is Moses’ problem?

6. What does God say to Moses?

7. How can we avoid these problems in our lives?

D-Structive Sins - Part 1 - Disrespect

Scripture Reading: Numbers 12 and Numbers 16

Key Thought: Disrespect

1. Can you tell the story of Exodus?

2. Where are you at in your Exodus?

3. What is the complaint of Miriam and Aaron?

4. What is the true issue?

5. Can you tell the story of Korah and his friends?

6. What do they want?

7. What is the sin of which they are guilty?

8. Are there any area in which you are guilty of this sin?

Transitions Part 3 - Getting Ready for the Blessing

Scripture Reading: Joshua 5

Key Thought: Having God’s Promise is one thing - Enjoying God’s Blessing is quite another thing

Transitions Part 2: Five Characteristics of a Successful Transition

Scripture Reading: Acts 9:32-42 & John 14:12

Transitions Part 1: Five Characteristics of a Successful Transition

Scripture Reading: 2 Kings 2:1-18

Hanna's Faithfulness

Scripture Reading

1 Samuel 2:1-10

The Lord's Prayer - for yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory

Scripture Reading

Matthew 6:5-13

The Lord's Prayer - Deliver Us from Evil

Scripture Reading

1 Peter 5:6-11 and Romans 8:31-39