Leviticus 23:1-3 - New International Version (NIV)
1 The Lord said to Moses, 2 “Speak
to the Israelites and say to them: ‘These are my appointed festivals, the
appointed festivals of the Lord,
which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies.
3 “‘There are six days when you may work, but the seventh day is a
day of sabbath rest, a day of sacred assembly. You are not to do any work;
wherever you live, it is a sabbath to the Lord.
Who was Moses
to speak to (verse 2)?
Who “appointed”
the festivals that Moses was to speak about (verse 2)?
How many days
are there to work (verse 3)?
What is the
seventh day (verse 3)?
In your
opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
Exodus
16:15-30 - New International Version (NIV)
15 When the Israelites saw it, they said to each other, “What is it?”
For they did not know what it was.
Moses said to them, “It is the bread the Lord has given you to eat. 16 This is what
the Lord has commanded: ‘Everyone
is to gather as much as they need. Take an omer for each person you
have in your tent.’”
17 The Israelites did as they were told; some gathered much, some
little. 18 And when they measured it by the omer, the one who
gathered much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not
have too little. Everyone had gathered just as much as they needed.
19 Then Moses said to them, “No one is to keep any of it until
morning.”
20 However, some of them paid no attention to Moses; they kept part
of it until morning, but it was full of maggots and began to smell. So Moses
was angry with them.
21 Each morning everyone gathered as much as they needed, and when
the sun grew hot, it melted away. 22 On the sixth day, they
gathered twice as much—two omers for each person—and the leaders of
the community came and reported this to Moses. 23 He said to
them, “This is what the Lord
commanded: ‘Tomorrow is to be a day of sabbath rest, a holy sabbath to the Lord. So bake what you want to bake and
boil what you want to boil. Save whatever is left and keep it until morning.’”
24 So they saved it until morning, as Moses commanded, and it did not
stink or get maggots in it. 25 “Eat it today,” Moses said,
“because today is a sabbath to the Lord.
You will not find any of it on the ground today. 26 Six days
you are to gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will not be
any.”
27 Nevertheless, some of the people went out on the seventh day to gather
it, but they found none. 28 Then the Lord said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to
keep my commands and my instructions? 29 Bear in mind that the Lord has given you the Sabbath; that is
why on the sixth day he gives you bread for two days. Everyone is to stay where
they are on the seventh day; no one is to go out.” 30 So the
people rested on the seventh day.
How did Moses
answer the Israelites question “what is it” (verse 15)?
How much were
the Israelites to gather (verse 16)?
Who gathered “just
as much as they needed” (verse 18)?
How much is to
be kept until morning (verse 19)?
In your
opinion, why did some people not pay attention to Moses (verse 20)?
What happened
when “the sun grew hot” (verse 21)?
When did they
gather twice as much (verse 22)?
What did the
Lord say about “tomorrow” (verse 23)?
In your
opinion, why was there no Manna on the seventh day (verses 24 through 26)?
What did some
people do on the seventh day (verse 27)?
In your
opinion, why was Moses angry with the people who gathered too much in verse 20
and the Lord with those who “refuse to keep my commands” speaking of the
people who went out and gathered in verse 28?
What are the
Israelites to “bear in mind” (verse 29)?
When did the
people rest (verse 30)?
In your opinion, how would the history of the
manna in Exodus 16:15-30 help the people hearing Moses in Leviticus 23:1-3 better
understand the Sabbath rest?
23 One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and as his
disciples walked along, they began to pick some heads of grain. 24 The
Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the
Sabbath?”
25 He answered, “Have you never read what David did when he and his
companions were hungry and in need? 26 In the days of Abiathar
the high priest, he entered the house of God and ate the consecrated bread,
which is lawful only for priests to eat. And he also gave some to his
companions.”
27 Then he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for
the Sabbath. 28 So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”
When was Jesus going through the grainfields (verse
23)?
What did the disciples
begin to do (verse 23)?
In your opinion, why did the Parisees say “look, why are
they doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath” (verse 24)?
What did David do when “he and his companions were hungry
and in need” (verses 25 and 26)?
Who could lawfully eat the bread that David ate (verse 26)?
Who was the Sabbath made for (verse 27)?
What is the “Son of Man” the Lord “even of” (verse
28)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, how is the position of the Pharisees in
Mark 2:23-27 supported by the instructions of Leviticus 23:1-3? How might the Pharisees response been too
strong?
In your
opinion, are the actions of the disciples who were gathering the grain in Mark
2:23-27 similar to the actions of the people in Exodus 16:15-30 who went out on
the Sabbath to gather the “bread the Lord has given you to eat”?
In your opinion, does Jesus change anything
about the Sabbath by His statement that “the Sabbath was made for man, not man
for the Sabbath”?
Romans
14:1-12 –
New International Version (NIV)
1 Accept the
one whose faith is weak, without quarreling over disputable matters. 2 One
person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak,
eats only vegetables. 3 The one who eats everything must not
treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat
everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them. 4 Who
are you to judge someone else’s servant? To their own master, servants stand or
fall. And they will stand, for the Lord is able to make them stand.
5 One person considers one day more sacred than another; another
considers every day alike. Each of them should be fully convinced in their own
mind. 6 Whoever regards one day as special does so to the Lord.
Whoever eats meat does so to the Lord, for they give thanks to God; and whoever
abstains does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God. 7 For
none of us lives for ourselves alone, and none of us dies for ourselves alone. 8 If
we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether
we live or die, we belong to the Lord. 9 For this very reason,
Christ died and returned to life so that he might be the Lord of both the dead
and the living.
10 You, then, why do you judge your brother or sister? Or why do you
treat them with contempt? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat. 11 It
is written:
“‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord,
‘every knee will bow before me;
every tongue will acknowledge God.’”
‘every knee will bow before me;
every tongue will acknowledge God.’”
12 So then, each of us will give an account of ourselves to God.
Who is to be
accepted “without quarreling over disputable matters” (verse 1)?
In your
opinion, why would one person’s faith allow them to eat what another person’s
faith would not allow them to eat (verse 2)?
In your
opinion, what is the difference between treating someone with contempt and
judging someone (verse 3)?
Why will the
Lord’s servants stand (verse 4)?
Where should
those who consider whether a day is sacred or not be fully convinced (verse 5)?
What do each
of the people in verse 6 have in common?
What do none
of us do “for ourselves alone” (verse 7)?
Who do
Christians belong to in life and death (verse 8)?
Why did Christ
die and return to life (verse 9)?
Where will we
all stand (verse 10)?
Who will every
knee bow to (verse 11)?
What will each
of us give to God (verse 12)?
In your
opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your
opinion, how are the people who hear the instruction of Moses to keep the
Sabbath in Leviticus 23:1-3 different from the people who Paul is telling to be
“fully convinced in their own minds” in Romans 14:1-12?
In your
opinion, what is the uniting truth that both Jesus in Mark 2:23-27 and Paul in
Romans 14:1-23 both use to move from confrontational and unimportant items to what
is central?
In your
opinion, what do these passages from Leviticus, Exodus, Mark and Romans help us
understand about the differences that Christians may have and the unity that
Christians must have?
In your
opinion, how can those who consider one day sacred and those who don’t all receive
Sabbath blessings when they understand what led Jesus to say that “the
Sabbath was made for man”?
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