Numbers (Part 2) Bible Study & Leader's Guide$15 $7.97 -47% Save $7.03
Does the same complaint keep showing up in your life, even when your circumstances change? So many faithful Christians love the Lord, pray, and serve, yet still find an old grumble playing in the background of their day.
Numbers 11–25 may seem like a long string of wilderness complaints, but these chapters hold some of the most hopeful news in Scripture for anyone stuck in an old pattern: God’s faithfulness outlasted His people’s grumbling every single time.
In this second study of the Numbers series, you’ll discover:
- Why manna started to feel like leftovers, and how God answered Moses’ exhaustion by sharing His Spirit with seventy elders
- How the ten spies’ “grasshopper” story spread through a whole camp, and what made Caleb’s “different spirit” so different
- The Hebrew word lûn, “to grumble,” and why a complaint so often wants to move in and stay the night
- How Aaron ran into a plague with the holy incense and frankincense, standing between the living and the dead
- The cleansing gifts of cedarwood and hyssop, and how they point to the cross
- Why Moses struck the rock, and how “that rock was Christ” (1 Corinthians 10:4)
- How the bronze serpent teaches us to look up, and why Balaam’s curses kept turning into blessings no one could reverse
What’s included (30 pages):
- Bible Study: seven teaching sections, three Hebrew and Greek word studies (lûn, ʾāman, and ʾēzôḇ), a closing prayer, six group discussion questions, and six journal prompts with space to write
- Leader’s Companion Guide(for a 60-minute session):
- session flow and timing
- opening and closing prayers
- deeper theology for the leader
- modern-day examples and facilitator notes
- leader’s notes for handling hard questions
- two timestamped podcast audio cues
- an optional aroma moment
Written by Pastor Paula Behrens, an ordained United Methodist elder who has served in pastoral ministry for over 26 years, this study is warm, theologically sound, and easy to follow. It’s written for both men and women and works well for personal devotions, small groups, and Sunday school classes.
Pair this study with the companion podcast episode, “173 | Why Does the Same Complaint Keep Showing Up in Your Life? (Numbers - Bible Study 2).”
This is a printable PDF download. Part Two of a three-part series through the book of Numbers.
