God Disciplines & Punishes

Discover why God disciplines and punishes through key Bible stories.

If you were the parent of the child in the video, how would you have handled that situation? What would happen if there were no consequences for this behavior?:A) How would getting away with this behavior affect the child? B) How would the child getting away with this behavior affect others (family, friend, neighbors etc.?) Do you think if they behave this way at home they would behave this way outside of the house? A Terrible Employee ScenarioThere was an employee that worked for a local fast food chain. They were a fry cook and the only thing that they wanted to do when they were at work was socialize. When a customer was rude to them or made them mad for any reason they would drop their food on the floor and wipe it on the rim of a trash can. If you were the employer in the story, how would you have handled that situation? What would have happened if there were no consequences for that behavior? How would the terrible employee be affected? How would the company or the employer be affected? God disciplining and punishing throughout the Bible. Read the following stories in the Bible and identify:a. What the characters did wrongb. How God responded to the misbehavior.Each answer should be at least 2 sentences long. There are videos below that you can use for help. Verses in the Bible What did the characters do wrong? What did God do in response to their actions? Genesis 3: 1-7, 16-24 Genesis 6: 5-7 Exodus 32: 1-6, 30-35 (A plague: a form of punishment that could take the form of disease kinds of suffering) Judges 2: 11-15 (Baal Ashtaroth: false gods that the nations around Israel worshipped. Like Greek gods today.) Jonah 1: 1-6, 11-15 (Jonah was a prophet of the Lord which meant that God chose him to speak on God's behalf and say the words God wanted him to say.) Exodus 32 Genesis 3 Read Acts 5: 1-11.What questions did you have about the passage or what confused you about it?