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What is the point of comparison between John's action and the Messiah's action? The point of comparison between John's action and the Messiah's action is the immersing or overwhelming. They are both baptising. What is the point of difference? The point of diffeence is how they baptise. While John immerses his disciples in water, the Messiah will immerse his followers in the Holy Spirit. Do you really long to be overwhelmed by the Holy Spirit? As a believer, I really do long to be overwhelmed by the Holy Spirit. What might prevent this in your life? The sinful way of life might prevent this. What might encourage it? The encouraement is that, the Lord is ready to receive us if we repent our sins and change our ways of life so that we submit our lives to God by living according to His commands.

How would John's baptism have offended a Jew's national pride? John's baptism was the sign of repentance and was done publicly on the river. The Jews, who claimed that Abraham is their father, were therefore not ready to agree publicly that they are sinners. Who welcomed John's baptism? Jesus welcomed John's baptism. He even allowed his disciples to baptise believers by His name. Who resisted it? Why? The Jewish leaders resisted it because of their personal pride. They did not want to accept they wee sinners.

What happens when people adopt the Christian faith without repenting of their known sins? Such people will continue calling themselves Christians but only by words but not in reality. John the Baptist was clear in his message: people should repent to be ready for the Kingdom of God. Thus, a Christian who does not repent is not for the Kingdom of God. Why do people avoid repentance? People avoid repentance beacuse they are not Christians at heart, only by words; they don't follow the command of the Lord. What percentage of Christians today do you think are unrepentant, unprepared in heart? I think it can be about 75% or 80%.

What does Jesus mean when he says, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit"? By saying:"Father, into your hands I commit my spirit" Jesus shows His love to His Father and He therefore speaks with Him with intimacy; He also entrusts His life and surrenders it to His Father after accomplishing His saving mission on earth. Why does this saying comfort us so much? This saying comforts us because it gives us confidence and faith that, after our death, we can also entrust and surrender ourselves to God just as Jesus did.

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What does Jesus' Fourth Word from the cross teach us about faith? That,although Jesus while on the cross felt that, His Father has forsaken Him, He still trust in Him; He still knows His Father is God. About commitment? Jesus is comittede to save us no matter the price. About love? Jesus and God love us to such an extent they are ready to be separated from each other, even though for a while, for our sake. What effect should this understanding have on our lives? We should what price Jesus paid for our sins and be ready to live sinless lives.

Why does Jesus make St. John responsible for his mother Mary? Beacuse he loved His Mother and He was supposed to make sure that, he is well taken care of.So He entrusted this care to St. John,a disciple He also loved. What does this tell us about Jesus? This tells us that, Jesus cared of His family and although he was in a critical situation, he did not forget about her Mother. How should we apply this in our own lives? By loving our families and taking care of them no matter what.

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We human beings were most responsible for killing Jesus. We bear responsibility in this through our sinfulness,our wrong doings and ignorance. Jesus was praying for us as He came to die for us so that we can be saved:"For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many." (Mark 10:45)

Inspiring Strengths of Moses: Through out the lesson one can see that, Moses as a leader succeded because of his obedience to God. He carried out what the Lord said and directed; despite of course some few incidents of human weakness. He was also fair but firm. No where in the lesson you can see him favouring somebody; to him all were equal and even when he was interceding, he was doing that for all. When somebody was making a mistake, he pointed out clearly; regardless who that person was. I think those are the strengths of Moses that one can learn. Warning Weaknesses of Moses: Yes, as a human being, despite the strengths, Moses had also his weaknesses. Unfortunately this even led to him been punished not to be able to enter the promised land. One of his more vivid weaknesses is anger which in some cases led to him being arrogant. And this did not please the Lord at all. You can see that, despite his obedience which survived many tests for a long time, he became angry once and became arrogant forgetting what the Lord has told him about talking to the rock; he struck it and he told the people him and his aides will give them water; forgetting to tell them that what will happen is becuase of the glory of the Lord. The Lord was angry with him and punished him: will not enter the promised land. The one primary thing God has taught me from Moses' life that I seek to apply to mine is obedience, obedience,obedience.

Inspiring Strengths of Moses: Through out the lesson one can see that, Moses as a leader succeded because of his obedience to God. He carried out what the Lord said and directed; despite of course some few incidents of human weakness. He was also fair but firm. No where in the lesson you can see him favouring somebody; to him all were equal and even when he was interceding, he was doing that for all. When somebody was making a mistake, he pointed out clearly; regardless who that person was. I think those are the strengths of Moses that one can learn. Warning Weaknesses of Moses: Yes, as a human being, despite the strengths, Moses had also his weaknesses. Unfortunately this even led to him been punished not to be able to enter the promised land. One of his more vivid weaknesses is anger which in some cases led to him being arrogant. And this did not please the Lord at all. You can see that, despite his obedience which survived many tests for a long time, he became angry once and became arrogant forgetting what the Lord has told him about talking to the rock; he struck it and he told the people him and his aides will give them water; forgetting to tell them that what will happen is becuase of the glory of the Lord. The Lord was angry with him and punished him: will not enter the promised land. The one primary thing God has taught me from Moses' life that I seek to apply to mine is obedience, obedience,obedience.

Though Balaam wouldn't prophesy evil against Israel, he was willing to counsel the Moabites how to hurt Israel. Balaam's counsel led Israel into sin by enticing the Israelites to eat food sacrificed to idols and by committing sexual immorality. Aaron's grandson Phinheas was so honored for his action because he zeallously honoured the Lord by fighting immorality. His reward was a covenant of a lasting priesthood. We are so often zealous to defend the rights of God's enemies and so slow to defend God's honor because of our little faith, disobedience and arrogance.

The plague of snakes was precipitated by the impatience of the people. Like their fathers before them, when they encountered problems they started complaining; speaking against God and Moses. Yes. I think it is sin to be impatient with God's provision. Beacuse this is like going against the grace of the Lord. He knowss what the people need and under the prevailing circumstances, he provides it. The points of comparison between the bronze snake in the desert and Christ on the cross are that, in the desert, when people were bitten by the snake and looked on the bronze snake, they were healed. In case of Jesus on the cross, everybody who on Him will have eternal life.

To bring water out of the rock, God told Moses to speak to the rock. Moses actually struck the rock. Moses sinned in two ways: first he disobeyed God's instructions to speak to the rock, instead he struck it and second he spoke to the people, as though he possessed the power to produce water from the rock by using the word "we" rather than giving God glory by declaring God's act of power. This had the effect of compromising divine holiness, which was an unpardonable act of insubordination. I think the emotions and attitudes that were behind his sin are anger and arrogance. When leaders sin in these ways, they should immediately repent and seek God's forgiveness and mercy.

The root cause of Korah's rebellion was priesthood. Korah was a a clan of levites who had special duties but he wanted also his clan to be priests. Their accusations which were true or partially true are that the whole community is holy and that the LORD is with them. Challenging the authority of a spiritual leader is so dangerous to the challengers because as they can suffer severe punishment from the Lord. Intercession for a sinful people is such an important part of a leader's job as it shows how much the leader cares about his people despite their disobedience, rebellio.

The failure to enter the Promised Land is so serious because the wrong doing of the people is passed on to their next generation. On the people's part it represented their sinfulness. On the Lord's part it represented His mighty. In my opinion, the punishment was not too severe because it was the only way to deal with disobedient people. God did not expect such disobeedience ater what He had already done to the people and there was no any other I think to prevent such disobedience. If the people had moved in faith, their trip from Egypt to Canaan would have taken not long as it did now.

Miriam's and Aaron's motivation for speaking against Moses was power struggle. They were jealousy of Moses as being their authoritative leader chosen by God and that is why they were even questioning why only Moses if God speaks to all of them. People seeking power feel a need to discredit the existing leader because of pride; they feel they are better than the existing leader. Moses handled this provocation by continuing to be humble. He was not fighting for power; actually he wanted to be relieved of leadership but he continued to lead because that is what the Lord wanted and he was so obidient that he could not go against the wish of the Lord. If he were a proud man, I think he might have handled it by punishing Aaron and Miriam himself. The Lord handled it by telling Miriam and Aaron His disappointment and then bringing sickness to Miriam and ordering his isolation from the camp for seven days.

I think Moses is so frustrated in his prayer because he sees leadership to be a burden to him and also he feels he is not in a position to give the people what they want. I think what is going on in him emotionally and physically at this point is that, emotionally is disturbed; he feels he is nothing as he cannot do anything on the demands of the people and physically he is weak,no more strength and he even desires to die rather than continuing to live under such circumstances. I don't think he has any grounds for his complaints. He knows what God has done so far for the Israelites and definitely if he could just approached God, the problem could have been solved without lamenting. I don't think this is designed to be a model prayer. I think we are shown this prayer as a lesson to leaders to show how difficulties can influence them negatively to the expetent of forgetting the mighty of the Lord. God answered Moses by putting His spirit on 70 of the Israel's elders; I think with the intent to support Moses; and also by promising abundant meat so as to show His glory.

In the burnt offering for an individual's sin, the significance of the offerer laying his hand on the animal's head is Substitutionary Atonement whereby the offerer confesses his sins and imparts them to the animal that God has accepted as a substitute. God accepts from the offerer the death of a lesser being for a greater. I think the offerer is to slay the sacrifice rather than having the priest do it beacuse such a slaying is a graphic reminder of the appropriate penalty for the offerer's sin and rebellion against God. The animal's blood is significant in sacrifice as it is used for atonement. "For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar; it is the blood that makes atonement for one's life" (Leviticus 17:11) Jesus' sacrifice on the cross fulfills all of this by dying on the cross so that our sins will be forgiven. "He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed." (1 Peter 2:24). God gave his son as a sacrifice who redeemed our sins "with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect" (1 Peter 1:19).

The arrangement of the furniture, the tabernacle, and the courtyard teaches us the typical progression in Chistian worship as we approach the very presence of God. I come to the bronze altar and the laver or basin before I reach the tent itself in order to confess my sins in humility and to look with faith to His sacrifice for me on the cross, thus to connect with His grace and atonement. Thereater to receive His forgiveness and cleansing.

The significance of the Ark in the Holy of Holies was that,it was the throne of the Lord. It represented the act of reconciliation or atonement. It was considered so holy because it was considered the throne of the invisible Lord. Even if no one really sat upon it, it was so important because it contained the Convenantand it is where the Lord was when meeting with Moses to give him His commands to the Israelites.

The camp of the Israelites was laid out as it was to show the special relationship between God and the Israelites, whereby He chose to live in their midst. This layout taught the Israelites that, God is in their midst. The Levites and priests camped closer than the other tribes because they had special responsibilities to the tabernacle and its furniture.

Moses' pre-tabernacle "tent of meeting" is so important in Moses' ministry beacuse it was in the "tent of meeting" where the people inquired of the Lord and it is where Moses was speaking face-to-face or intimately with the Lord. It called the "tent of meeting" because it was the place where Moses was having the meetings with the Lord; was speaking to the Lord face-to-face. To spend longer periods of intimate time seeking God I need to avoid concentrating on uncessariy earthly needs. This will definitely strengthen my ministry and experience the closeness to God.

In Moses' ministry interceding for the people is so important because of God's Word and promises to the Israelite and Moses' own personal favor with God. This is such an important role for pastors and lay leaders today so that they can be able to act as leaders in cases of crisis. To intercede effectively before God, we must know both his character and his promises because such knowledge makes us His personal friends, thus He can listen quickly and positively to our requests.