SERIES: Mission Focus In A Divided World
MESSAGE: 3. Trust & Truth
THE TEXT
They traveled from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea, to go around Edom. But the people grew impatient on the way; they spoke against God and against Moses, and said, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread! There is no water! And we detest this miserable food!”
Then the LORD sent venomous snakes among them; they bit the people and many Israelites died. The people came to Moses and said, “We sinned when we spoke against the LORD and against you. Pray that the LORD will take the snakes away from us.” So Moses prayed for the people.
The LORD said to Moses, “Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.” So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, they lived. —Numbers 21:4-9
LAST WEEK. Gratitude guards against complaining
Gratitude > Preference > Entitlement > Complaint
ONE. Assumptions are
of the truth
Choosing to be curious is choosing to be vulnerable because it requires us to surrender to uncertainty. —Brene Brown, Rising Strong
TWO. Conflation
rebellion
Gratitude > complaint > conflation > rebellion
Gratitude is what
THREE.
in the Lord
SUMMARY
- Gratitude guards our spirit
- Conflation justifies rebellion
- Trust in the Lord
CHALLENGE
- Make a grateful list
- Am I complaining about anything?
- Practice patience