The document discusses how people change and struggle in a broken world. It provides biblical examples from the Israelites' wandering in the wilderness to illustrate how God uses difficulties to humble us and teach us dependence on him. The central point is that we live in a broken world and struggle daily, as the Bible depicts. The personal application is to identify one's own specific struggles, while the relational application is to help others honestly address their struggles and expectations. The homework assignment involves self-examination to benefit personally from recognizing how God works through difficulties.

1. How People Change

2. AT A
GLANCE:
HOW PEOPLE
CHANGE

3. Lesson 4:
HEAT 2:
The Real You in the Real World

4. CPR Preview
• Central Point: The Bible describes life this
way: We live in a broken world as people who
struggle daily.
• Personal Application: I need to recognize the
specific places where I struggle in a world that
does not operate as it was intended.
• Relational Application: I need to help others
to be honest about their struggles with life.

5. The Big Question
As God sees me respond to the HEAT
in my world, what in me does he
want to change? Where is God
calling me to personal change right
now?

6. Scriptural Background:
The real world: the details
• Romans 8:20-22:
For the creation was subjected to futility, not
willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in
hope that the creation itself will be set free from its
bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of
the glory of the children of God. For we know that
the whole creation has been groaning together in the
pains of childbirth until now.

7. Scriptural Background:
The real world: the details
• Romans 8:20-22:
Now the rabble that was among them had a strong
craving. And the people of Israel also wept again and
said, "Oh that we had meat to eat! We remember
the fish we ate in Egypt that cost nothing, the
cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and
the garlic. But now our strength is dried up, and
there is nothing at all but this manna to look at."

8. Scriptural Background:
Lessons from the wilderness
• Numbers 11:4-23:
Now the manna was like coriander seed, and
its appearance like that of bdellium. The
people went about and gathered it and
ground it in handmills or beat it in mortars
and boiled it in pots and made cakes of it. And
the taste of it was like the taste of cakes baked
with oil. When the dew fell upon the camp in
the night, the manna fell with it.

9. Scriptural Background:
Lessons from the wilderness
• Numbers 11:4-23:
Moses heard the people weeping throughout
their clans, everyone at the door of his tent.
And the anger of the LORD blazed hotly, and
Moses was displeased. Moses said to the
LORD, "Why have you dealt ill with your
servant? And why have I not found favor in
your sight, that you lay the burden of all this
people on me?

10. Scriptural Background:
Lessons from the wilderness
• Numbers 11:4-23: (cont.)
Did I conceive all this people? Did I give them
birth, that you should say to me, 'Carry them in
your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing child,'
to the land that you swore to give their fathers?
Where am I to get meat to give to all this
people? For they weep before me and say, 'Give
us meat, that we may eat.‘ I am not able to
carry all this people alone; the burden is too
heavy for me. If you will treat me like this, kill
me at once, if I find favor in your sight, that I
may not see my wretchedness."

11. Scriptural Background:
Lessons from the wilderness
• Numbers 11:4-23: (cont.)
Then the LORD said to Moses, "Gather for me
seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know
to be the elders of the people and officers over
them, and bring them to the tent of meeting, and let
them take their stand there with you. And I will come
down and talk with you there. And I will take some of
the Spirit that is on you and put it on them, and they
shall bear the burden of the people with you, so that
you may not bear it yourself alone.

12. Scriptural Background:
Lessons from the wilderness
• Numbers 11:4-23: (cont.)
And say to the people, 'Consecrate yourselves for
tomorrow, and you shall eat meat, for you have wept
in the hearing of the LORD, saying, "Who will give us
meat to eat? For it was better for us in Egypt."
Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you shall
eat. You shall not eat just one day, or two days, or
five days, or ten days, or twenty days,

13. Scriptural Background:
Lessons from the wilderness
• Numbers 11:4-23: (cont.)
but a whole month, until it comes out at your
nostrils and becomes loathsome to you,
because you have rejected the LORD who is
among you and have wept before him, saying,
"Why did we come out of Egypt?"'“ But Moses
said, "The people among whom I am number
six hundred thousand on foot, and you have
said, 'I will give them meat, that they may eat
a whole month!‘

14. Scriptural Background:
Lessons from the wilderness
• Numbers 11:4-23: (cont.)
Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for
them, and be enough for them? Or shall all
the fish of the sea be gathered together for
them, and be enough for them?“ And the
LORD said to Moses, "Is the LORD’s hand
shortened? Now you shall see whether my
word will come true for you or not."

15. Scriptural Background:
Lessons from the wilderness
• Numbers 14:1-4:
Then all the congregation raised a loud cry, and
the people wept that night. And all the people of
Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The
whole congregation said to them, "Would that we
had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we
had died in this wilderness! Why is the LORD
bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword?
Our wives and our little ones will become a prey.
Would it not be better for us to go back to
Egypt?“ And they said to one another, "Let us
choose a leader and go back to Egypt."

16. Scriptural Background:
Lessons from the wilderness
• Numbers 20:1-5:
And the people of Israel, the whole congregation,
came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month,
and the people stayed in Kadesh. And Miriam
died there and was buried there. Now there was
no water for the congregation. And they
assembled themselves together against Moses
and against Aaron. And the people quarreled
with Moses and said, "Would that we had
perished when our brothers perished before the
LORD!

17. Scriptural Background:
Lessons from the wilderness
• Numbers 20:1-5:
Why have you brought the assembly of the LORD
into this wilderness, that we should die here,
both we and our cattle? And why have you made
us come up out of Egypt to bring us to this evil
place? It is no place for grain or figs or vines or
pomegranates, and there is no water to drink."

18. Scriptural Background:
What God is doing in you in the wilderness
• Deuteronomy 8:2-3:
And you shall remember the whole way that the
LORD your God has led you these forty years in
the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing
you to know what was in your heart, whether you
would keep his commandments or not. And he
humbled you and let you hunger and fed you
with manna, which you did not know, nor did
your fathers know, that he might make you know
that man does not live by bread alone, but man
lives by every word that comes from the mouth
of the LORD.

19. Illustrations

20. Group Discussions
• The main points of previous Lessons
• How God used the wilderness wanderings in
the life of his people, according to
Deuteronomy 8:2-3
• Use the various passages to identify a
personal situation or relationship that is a
regular source of struggle

21. Central Point, Personal Application,
and Relational Application (CPR)
Central Point:
• The Bible says that we live in a broken world as
people who struggle daily.
• The Bible reminds me that all of creation
(everything I face every day) was broken and
marred by the Fall.
• God clearly depicts the ways that we, as sinners,
respond to life in world that is “groaning”.

22. CPR
Personal Application:
• I need to identify the specific places where I
struggle with life.
• I need to recognize where the brokenness of
this world is particularly troubling to me.
• Scripture welcomes me to be honest about
the ways I deal with these difficult things.

23. CPR
Relational Application:
• I need to be committed to help others to be
honest about their struggle with life.
• I need to lovingly help others to recognize
their expectations and disappointments as
they deal with life.
• I need to remind people that God welcomes
them to be honest about the ways they deal
with life’s difficulties.

24. Make it Real (Homework)
Personal Growth Project
This Make It Real begins a process of self
examination that will take you through the
remainder of this course. This will be, by far,
the most personally searching and rewarding
aspect of it. What you do with this assignment
and those that follow will determine how
much you personally benefit from this course
and how much it will prepare you to be used
by God in the lives of others.