The 911 Handbook Study Guide Questions

Lesson 20 Chapter 18

When You Carry Heavy Burdens: Check Your Baggage Here

Read Matthew 11:28-30

The Luggage of Life

Discuss some reasons why burdens can be compared to luggage.

Accumulating Excess Baggage

How do we accumulate burdens on our souls and how does it affect us?

What did Jesus call this state of the soul?

How can Jesus solve the problem?

Past Baggage: Regrets

How can you tell if a person is living in the past?

How can the past keep us from enjoying the present?

What does God command us to do with the past and how can we do it? (Phil. 3:13)

Future Baggage: Worry

Why is worry always concerned about the future?

How does worrying rob the present of its joy?

How is worry "negative faith"?

Present Baggage: Stress

Give some examples of things that can produce stress.

First, Let go of your excess baggage.

Read Psalm 55:22. Using the analogy of two people playing catch, how do we know when we have released our burdens?

When Joe released the duffel bag of dirty clothes, how did he know dropped the sack when he couldn’t see it? How does this relate to our souls?

Give an example of how you were burdened down, but finally released your burdens to the Lord.

Second, Only carry enough baggage for today's journey.

What does it mean to "live one day at a time"?

How is our thought-life involved in the process of living one day at a time?

How can we plan for the future without being preoccupied with the future?

What are some lessons you learned from the story of the clock that had a nervous breakdown?