Welcome to Hamilton Central Baptist Church! This is the fifth sermon in the Heading For The Promised Land teaching series.REFLECTION:Numbers 11: 4-14; 18-23; 31-35NOTE: These questions are to assist you to reflect on the Sunday teaching and the Bible passage. They are purposely prepared to help you identify what is ‘underneath’ and encourage you to grow spiritually stronger. person your journey.Fire and Cloud1. What is the evidence of fire and cloud in your spiritual life? Give an example of how cloud or fire has guided or directed your life.2. What is your experience of the ‘fire of God’ in your ilfe. How has this sustained you or empowered you for Gods purposes.Entitlement3. What do you think of the statement “when identity becomes the only focus it leads to entitlement” – think of the story of the elder brother from the prodigal son story.4. Do you think servanthood helps balance the extremes of entitlement? Think of an example from your life where you experienced this.Unfulfilled Thirst5. “The greatest threat to the people entering the promised land was not their enemies, nor the terrain, but themselves” What does this mean? What does this look like today in our lives? How might a faith community (Church) learn from this truth. What does this kind of threat look like today? What do we need to do to identify these kinds of threats and deal with them?6. To identify unfulfilled threats ask the following two questions:‘For me, life is to be found in’….. (Finish the sentence)‘I feel alive when .….. (Finish the sentence)This is bearing your soul naked and don’t be surprised if you find this hard to answer. Your mind (flesh) will fight against doing this. This is the war inside each of us. It is this that needs bringing to Calvary’s cross and seeking freedom.7. Jesus said to the woman at the well. I am the ‘water of life’ – I can quench your deepest thirsts. You have been looking in the wrong place for where life is to be found. What is your response to this story given this teaching on unfulfilled thirst?8. When they got quail (meat) to eat, they gorged themselves. What they thought would bring fulfillment did not. What have you learned about this?9. This whole story weighed heavily on Moses so much that he wanted to give up. Have you considered how a church community acts might impact their leaders? How might this look today? Why do so few people want to be leaders?
