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The
Sacred Offerings
Leviticus 23:15-22 - New International Version (NIV)
15 “‘From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of
the wave offering, count off seven full weeks. 16 Count
off fifty days up to the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an
offering of new grain to the Lord.
17 From wherever you live, bring two loaves made of
two-tenths of an ephah of the finest flour, baked with yeast, as a wave
offering of firstfruits to the Lord.
18 Present with this bread seven male lambs, each a year
old and without defect, one young bull and two rams. They will be a burnt
offering to the Lord, together
with their grain offerings and drink offerings—a food offering, an aroma
pleasing to the Lord. 19 Then
sacrifice one male goat for a sin offering and two lambs, each a
year old, for a fellowship offering. 20 The priest is to
wave the two lambs before the Lord
as a wave offering, together with the bread of the firstfruits. They are a
sacred offering to the Lord for
the priest. 21 On that same day you are to proclaim a
sacred assembly and do no regular work. This is to be a lasting ordinance for
the generations to come, wherever you live.
22 “‘When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very
edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the
poor and for the foreigner residing among you. I am the Lord your God.’”
How long were
the Israelites to count off after the day they “brought the sheaf of the
wave offering” (verse 15)?
What are the
Israelites to present (verse 16)?
Where are the “two
loaves made of two-tenths of an ephah of the finest flour” to come from (verse 17)?
What are the
bread, seven male lambs, young bull and two rams to be (verse 18)?
What is the
male goat for (verse 19)?
In your
opinion, what is a wave offering (verse 20)?
How is the day
to be set apart (verse 21)?
Why is the
harvest not to include the edges of the fields or the gleanings (verse 22)?
John
15:26-16:15 - New International Version (NIV)
26 “When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the
Father—the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father—he will testify about
me. 27 And you also must testify, for you have been with me from the
beginning.
1 “All this I have told you so that you will not fall away. 2 They
will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, the time is coming when anyone who
kills you will think they are offering a service to God. 3 They
will do such things because they have not known the Father or me. 4 I
have told you this, so that when their time comes you will remember that I
warned you about them. I did not tell you this from the beginning because I was
with you, 5 but now I am going to him who sent me. None
of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ 6 Rather, you are
filled with grief because I have said these things. 7 But
very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go
away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. 8 When
he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and
righteousness and judgment: 9 about sin, because people
do not believe in me; 10 about righteousness, because I
am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer; 11 and
about judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned.
12 “I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. 13 But
when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He
will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell
you what is yet to come. 14 He will glorify me because
it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you. 15 All
that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will receive
from me what he will make known to you.”
Who will the
Advocate testify about (verse 26)?
Who else must
testify (verse 27)?
Why has Jesus
told the disciples these things (verse
1)?
In your
opinion, why will people who kill the disciples “think they are offering a
service to God” (verse 2)?
Why will
people “do such things” (verse 3)?
When are the
disciples to remember that Jesus warned them about those who would think
killing the disciples was serving God (verse 4)?
Where is Jesus
going (verse 5)?
What fills the
disciples (verse 6)?
Why is it good
for the disciples that Jesus is going away (verse 7)?
What will the
Advoate prove the world is wrong about (verse 8)?
Why is the
world wrong about sin (verse 9)?
Why is the
world wrong about righteousness (verse 10)?
Why is the
world wrong about judgment (verse 11)?
Who will guide
the disciples “into all the truth” (verse 13)?
Who will be
glorified (verse 14)?
What belongs
to Jesus (verse 15)?
In your opinion, how are the burnt offerings,
sin offerings, fellowship offerings and wave offerings of Leviticus 23:15-22
related to the Advocate’s teaching of “sin
and righteousness and judgment” in
John 15:26-16:15?
1 When the day of Pentecost came,
they were all together in one place. 2 Suddenly
a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the
whole house where they were sitting. 3 They
saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each
of them. 4 All of
them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as
the Spirit enabled them.
5 Now there were staying in Jerusalem
God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven.
6 When they heard this sound, a crowd came together in
bewilderment, because each one heard their own language being spoken. 7 Utterly amazed, they asked:
“Aren’t all these who are speaking Galileans? 8 Then
how is it that each of us hears them in our native language? 9 Parthians, Medes and
Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, 10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt
and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; visitors from Rome 11 (both Jews and converts to Judaism); Cretans
and Arabs—we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!” 12 Amazed and perplexed, they
asked one another, “What does this mean?”
Where were the followers of Jesus “when the
day of Pentecost came” (verse 1)?
What sound “filled
the whole house where they were sitting” (verse 2)?
What “came to rest on each of them” (verse 3)?
Who was “filled with the Holy Spirit” (verse 4)?
How were they able to “speak in other tongues” (verse
4)?
Who was “staying in Jerusalem” (verse 5)?
Why was the crowd bewildered (verses 6-11)?
What did the “amazed and perplexed” crowd ask one
another (verse 12)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, what does it mean that on the day the
Israelite people were supposed to be dedicating the harvest as described in
Leviticus 23:15-22 the Holy Spirit “came to rest on each of them” in
Acts 2:1-12?
In your
opinion, how does what Jesus told his disciples in John 15:26-16:15 answer the
question asked by the crowd in Acts 2:1-12, “what does this mean”?
1
Corinthians 12:1-11 –
New International Version (NIV)
1 Now about
the gifts of the Spirit, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be
uninformed. 2 You know that when you were pagans, somehow or
other you were influenced and led astray to mute idols. 3 Therefore
I want you to know that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says,
“Jesus be cursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy
Spirit.
4 There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit
distributes them. 5 There are different kinds of
service, but the same Lord. 6 There are different kinds
of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work.
7 Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the
common good. 8 To one there is given through the Spirit
a message of wisdom, to another a message of knowledge by means of the same
Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to
another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, 10 to
another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing
between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues, and to
still another the interpretation of tongues. 11 All
these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he distributes them to each
one, just as he determines.
About what does
Paul not want the Corinthians to be uninformed (verse 1)?
When were the
Corinthians “influenced and led astray to mute idols” (verse 2)?
Who cannot say
“Jesus be cursed” (verse 3)?
In your
opinion, why is it important that “there are different kinds of gifts, but
the same Spirit distributes them” (verse 4)?
Who is served
by the “different kinds of service” (verse 5)?
Where is “the
same God at work” (verse 6)?
Why is each “manifestation
of the Spirit” given (verse 7)?
Whose work is
the message of wisdom, the message of knowledge, faith, gifts of healing,
miraculous powers, prophecy, distinguishing between spirits, speaking in different
kinds of tongues and interpretation of tongues (verses 8 through 11)?
In your
opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your
opinion, how are the waving of the lambs and bread in Leviticus 23:15-22 and
the “manisfestation of the Spirit” in 1 Corinthians 12:1-11 similar?
In your
opinion, how does Paul’s lesson in 1 Corinthians 12:1-11 also answer the
question of the crowd in Acts 2:1-12, “what does this mean”?
In your opinion, how do these passages from Leviticus, John, Acts and 1 Corinthians help us understand about how the coming of the Holy Spirit in Acts is a fulfillment of the Pentecost worship outlined in Leviticus 23:15-22?
In your opinion, how can we who have received the transformation of the sin offering of Christ and are the firstfruits of the harvest wave offering of the Spirit of God to fulfill the command of Jesus to “testify about me”?
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