The document discusses several topics over multiple weeks: 1) It discusses an Exodus passage where the Israelites make a golden calf idol while Moses is away receiving the Ten Commandments from God. 2) God tells Moses to leave Egypt with the Israelites for the promised land, but the people mourn when they hear this distressing news. 3) Later passages discuss the importance of community, trust, and sacrifice in relationships. Completion requires waiting, as shown through examples of Moses, Keith Smith, and Jesus Christ waiting. 4) The document encourages waiting without growing weary, and to fix our eyes on Jesus as an example of enduring opposition without losing heart.

1. WEEK ONE:
“When Delays Happen”

2. WEEK TWO:
“What’s the Best Way to Deal
with Discouragement?”

3. “Why Together Takes Longer”

4. “Aaron answered them, ‘Take off the gold earrings
that your wives, your sons and your daughters are
wearing, and bring them to me.’ So all the people
took off their earrings and brought them to Aaron.
He took what they handed him and made it into
an idol cast in the shape of a calf, fashioning it
with a tool. Then they said, ‘These are your gods,
O Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.’”
- Exodus 32:2-4

5. Then the LORD said to Moses, “Leave this place,
you and the people you brought up out of Egypt,
and go up to the land I promised on oath to
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to
your descendants.’
- Exodus 33:1

6. “When the people heard these distressing
words, they began to mourn and no one put
on any ornaments.”
- Exodus 33:4

7. Exodus 33:12-18

8. Closeness requires work
๏ The average person has 2.03 close friends
๏ Marriage –
oneness of spirit, mind, body
๏ Trust –
community, respect, sacrificial love

9. Comm-UNITY
requires sacrifice
Exodus 32:31-32 and 33:13b
๏ Scripture teaches us to stay clear of people who
do not respect our commitments to God and
others, to choose our friends carefully... But to
accept, love and serve one another in the
community of faith. To bear one another’s
burdens, restore the fallen in meekness...to make
the Church together

10. Completion requires waiting
“I don’t need this”
criteria does not see completions
Moses waited

11. Completion requires waiting
“I don’t need this”
criteria does not see completions
Keith Smith waited

12. Completion requires waiting
“I don’t need this”
criteria does not see completions
Jesus Christ waited

13. Completion requires waiting
“I don’t need this”
criteria does not see completions
Jesus Christ waited

14. “Do you think I cannot call on my Father, and he
will at once put at my disposal more than twelve
legions of angels?”
- Matthew 26:23

15. “Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and
perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before
him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat
down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Consider him who endured such opposition from
sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and
lose heart.” - Hebrews 12:2-3

16. You...
waiting?