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Weekly Guide：2024-2025 Week 12
March 24, 2024
Week 12 Day 1: The Sabbath Year ⇧ ⇩
Question
What are the regulations on blasphemy, killing, and Sabbath Year?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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Leviticus 24:10-22 records the punishment laid upon a Gentile who blasphemed against God and thus committed an offense of the 3rd law of the ten commandments. “You are to have the same law for the foreigner and the native-born. I am the Lord your God.”
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Verses 25:1-22 are about the regulations on Sabbath Year and Year of Jubilee. Verses 25:23-55 talk about the necessary attitude toward property and poverty to realize the meaning of Sabbath Year and Year of Jubilee.
Meditation: My Story
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Walking with God - Sabbath occurs after 6 days of work. Sabbath Year occurs after 6 years of work. The Year of Jubilee occurs once after every 49 years. What was God’s intention for these? Do I know the true meaning of Sabbath? Do I often take refuge in God?
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Community - Verses 24:17-22 list the punishments for injuring others and their animals. God shows us the attitude we ought to have toward poverty and property in verses 25:23-55. What is my attitude toward other people around me and their property?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 12 Day 2: Obedient and Disobedient ⇧ ⇩
Question
What are the blessings for being obedient and the punishments for disobedient?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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Proclaim the blessings and punishments after the covenant was made.
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Verses 3 to 13 are the blessings: rain comes, crops grow, peace in the land, and Israelites’ number increase.
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Verses 14-46 are the punishments: disasters come, crops die, wars rage, famines occur, and people die. Not all disasters would come simultaneously. God always give His people chances to repent and turn around. Each time a disaster strikes, the next disaster comes only “if in spite of these things you do not accept my correction but continue to be hostile toward me.”
Meditation: My Story
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Identity - God blesses His people. He blesses those who obey His commands and love Him. Do I often see God’s mercy and love by counting the blessings He has bestowed upon me?
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Integrity - God sends disaster to people not to punish them but to give them a chance to turn around. What characters of God do I realize from the incremental disasters He places? Have I in my life been reminded or impeded by the Holy Spirit? Am I willing to understand His will and turn around to obey Him?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 12 Day 3: Redeem the Vow ⇧ ⇩
Question
How does a man redeem his vow to God?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
- Redeeming what is the Lord’s is a very serious business. Man often take a vow to make wishes to the Lord during distress but then forget his vow afterward. Bible often warned against this type of behavior. This passage set a relatively high redeeming price with additional 20% for those who forget their vows.
Meditation: My Story
- Walking with God - God dislikes those who don’t follow through with their vows. We must be prudent when signing a contract or making a promise. Have I made any promise to God, to my spouse, my friends, or my children? Do I always keep my promises? What should I do if I am in breach of my promises?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 12 Day 4: Census and Placement ⇧ ⇩
Question
How were the census conducted and tribes’ camps arranged?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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The first census and where each of the tribes were placed around the Tent of Meeting.
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The census was for “twenty years old or more and able to serve in the army.” (1:3) The tribes were arranged according to their army divisions. God turned the Israelites from a group of slaves into an army. He prepared them for war to fight their way into the promised land.
Meditation: My Story
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Walking with God - The Israeli tribes were arranged around the Tabernacle to put God in the center. Am I placing God in the center of my life?
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Identity - God promised Abraham to become a great nation when he had no hope of having offspring. By this time, those who were 20 or older numbered at 603,550, not counting the tribe of Levi. The promise was being fulfilled one step at a time. Is the value of everything I see based on God’s promise?
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Fidelity - He transformed the Israelites from slaves to army. Do I know that I was a slave of sin and now, with God’s salvation, an elite solder of His army?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 12 Day 5: Kingdom of Priests ⇧ ⇩
Question
How did God make Israel a kingdom of priests?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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Chapter 3 starts in Genesis like fashion with the lineage of the Levites.
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God established the kingdom of priests as the works for the tribe of Levi were around the Tabernacle signifying God’s covenant with Israelites and His presence.
Meditation: My Story
- Identity - Reference Genesis 49 and Exodus 32. Levites loved God and offered themselves to God. Now God took the Levites as substitute for all Israelite firstborns to serve Him. Likewise, when we turn to God, we are offering ourselves to Him and serve Him. Think about the transformation God has done for my life.
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 12 Day 6: The Holy Nation ⇧ ⇮
Question
How did God make Israelites the holy nation?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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God called the Israelites to become His holy nation.
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The laws to keep the Israelites clean:
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Restitution for wrongs: to keep Israelites united.
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Holy marriage: to keep the descendants clean.
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Nazirites: a special testimony to God’s calling.
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Aaron’s blessing: Reaffirmed God’s promises and pointed the Israelites to the promised land.
Meditation: My Story
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Community - God made the Israelites His and established laws and rules on restitution to keep them united. Do I value the unity of Christians or am I damaging it?
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Fidelity - God put great emphasis on fidelity in marriage. Do I value my marriage as holy and being faithful to my spouse?