God’s Holy People
Leviticus 21:16-24 – New International Version (NIV)
16 The Lord said to Moses, 17 “Say
to Aaron: ‘For the generations to come none of your descendants who has a
defect may come near to offer the food of his God. 18 No man who has any defect may come near: no
man who is blind or lame, disfigured or deformed; 19 no man with a crippled foot or hand, 20 or who is a hunchback or a dwarf, or who has any
eye defect, or who has festering or running sores or damaged testicles. 21 No descendant of Aaron the priest who has any
defect is to come near to present the food offerings to the Lord. He has a defect; he must not come near to offer the food of
his God. 22 He may eat the most
holy food of his God, as well as the holy food; 23 yet because of his defect, he must not go
near the curtain or approach the altar, and so desecrate my sanctuary. I
am the Lord, who makes them holy.’”
24 So Moses told this to Aaron
and his sons and to all the Israelites.
Who commanded Moses (verse 16)?
What may Aaron’s descendants with a defect not do (verse 17)?
In your opinion, why do you think the defects listed are physical
and not moral (verses 18 - 20)?
Who must not come near to offer the food of his God (verse 21)?
What may he do (verse 22)?
Where must he not go (verse 23)?
What did God make the curtain and the altar (verse 23)?
Who did Moses tell this to (verse 24)?
In your
opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your
opinion, what does this passage help us understand about how God makes people
holy?
Matthew 21:12-17 - New International
Version (NIV)
12 Jesus
entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling
there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of
those selling doves. 13 “It is written,” he said to
them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are
making it ‘a den of robbers.’”
14 The
blind and the lame came to him at the temple, and he healed them. 15 But
when the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he
did and the children shouting in the temple courts, “Hosanna to the Son of
David,” they were indignant.
16 “Do you
hear what these children are saying?” they asked him.
“Yes,” replied
Jesus, “have you never read,
“‘From
the lips of children and infants
you, Lord, have called forth your praise’?”
17 And he
left them and went out of the city to Bethany, where he spent the night.
Where were those that Jesus drove out
(verse 12)?
How were they changing the “house of prayer” (verse 13)?
How did Jesus treat “the
blind and the lame” who came to Him at the temple (verse 14)?
Why did the “chief priests and the
teachers of the law” become indignant (verse 15)?
What was
written about where the Lord has “called forth” praise (verse 16)?
Where did
Jesus spend the night (verse 17)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your
opinion, what does this passage help us understand about how God makes people
holy?
In your
opinion, what does Jesus do in Matthew 21:12-17 for those that Leviticus 21:16-24
says could not approach the altar of the curtain?
Hebrews 10:19-25 - New International Version (NIV)
19 Therefore,
brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy
Place by the blood of Jesus, 20 by
a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his
body, 21 and since we have a great
priest over the house of God, 22 let
us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that
faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty
conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. 23 Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we
profess, for he who promised is faithful. 24 And
let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, 25 not giving up meeting together, as some are
in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see
the Day approaching.
What gives Christian brothers and sisters confidence to “enter
the Most Holy Place” (verse 19)?
How is the way through the curtain described (verse 20)?
What do Christian’s have (verse 21)?
How are Christian’s guilty consciences cleansed (verse 22)?
What should Christians “hold unswervingly to” (verse
23)?
Who should spur Christians “on toward love and good
deeds” (verse 24)?
What should Christians not give up (verse 25)?
In your opinion,
what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, what does this passage help us understand about
how God makes people holy?
In your opinion, how does Leviticus 21:16-24 help us
understand the significance of the cleansing described in Hebrews 10:19-25?
In your opinion, how is Jesus’s treatment of the blind and
lame who came to Him in Matthew 21:12-17 similar to what He has done for those who
came before Him with guilty consciences in Hebrews 10:19-25?
Revelation 21:22-27 - New International Version (NIV)
22 I did not see a temple in the city, because
the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. 23 The
city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of
God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp. 24 The nations will walk by its light, and the kings
of the earth will bring their splendor into it. 25 On
no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there. 26 The glory and honor of the nations will be
brought into it. 27 Nothing impure
will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or
deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of
life.
Why did John “not see a temple in the city” (verse 22)?
What gives the city light (verse 23)?
What is its lamp (verse 23)?
Who will “walk by its light” (verse 24)?
Why will its gates never be shut (verse 25)?
What will “will be brought into it” (verse 26)?
Only who will enter in (verse 27)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, what does this passage help us understand about
how God makes people holy?
In your opinion, how
is the definition of those who can present food offerings to the Lord in
Leviticus 21:16-24 different from the definition of who can enter the heavenly
city in Revelation 21:22-27?
In your opinion, how does Jesus driving out those who were
buying and selling in the temple in Matthew 21:12-17 while healing the blind
and lame who came to Him foreshadow what will happen in heaven in Revelation
21:14-17?
In your opinion, how does Hebrews 10:19-25 help us
understand what it means to have our name in the “Lamb’s book of life”
of Revelation 21:22-27?
In your
opinion, how these passages from Leviticus, Matthew, Hebrews, and Revelation
help us understand the exclusiveness of heaven?
In
your opinion, how can we be confident that we will be welcomed in Heaven today?
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