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Weekly Guide :Week 10

April 01, 2018


Week 10 Day 1: The Sin Offering

Question

What’s the offering for committing unintentional sins or what is forbidden in God’s commands?

Scripture Reading

Meditation: God’s Story

Meditation: My Story

Prayer

Notes and Responses


Week 10 Day 2: The Guilt Offering

Question

What is the offering for offenses against God or another man?

Scripture Reading

Meditation: God’s Story

Meditation: My Story

Prayer

Notes and Responses


Week 10 Day 3: Priests' Responsibilities

Question

What d0 the priests need to worry about?

Scripture Reading

Meditation: God’s Story

Meditation: My Story

Prayer

Notes and Responses


Week 10 Day 4: Ordination of the Priests

Question

How are God’s priests ordained?

Scripture Reading

Meditation: God’s Story

Meditation: My Story

Prayer

Notes and Responses


Week 10 Day 5: Priests Sinned

Question

How important are the responsibilities of priests in God’s eyes?

Scripture Reading

Meditation: God’s Story

Meditation: My Story

Prayer

Notes and Responses


Week 10 Day 6: Regulations on Cleanliness

Question

What is acceptable cleanliness to God?

Scripture Reading

Meditation: God’s Story

Meditation: My Story

Prayer

Notes and Responses


Week 10 Day 7: Catch-up Day

Scripture Reading

Prayer

Notes and Responses


Week 10 Day 1: Be Born Again

### Question How may one have an eternal life? {% include BibleLinks2020.html %} ### Meditation: God's Story + Jesus saw people selling in the temple courts, so He made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts. + Jews asked Jesus to show signs and He responded: "Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days." + Nicodemus came to Jesus at night. Jesus told him that no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again. + For God so loved the world that he gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. + Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. + Jesus and His disci t out into the Judean countryside, where He spent some time with them, and baptized. John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim. John said, He must become greater; I must become less. + Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on them. ### Meditation: My Story + **Integrity** - Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done were done in the sight of God. Do I remember that everything I do shall be done in the light so I would act according to the truth and not hide in the dark?

Prayer

Notes and Responses


Week 10 Day 2: Spirit and Truth

### Question How may we worship God the Father? {% include BibleLinks2020.html %} ### Meditation: God's Story + Jesus said to the Samaritan woman: "Will you give me a drink?" + Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life. + Jesus pointed out the woman have had five husbands and the man she was with was not her husband. + The true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. + My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. + Jesus himself had pointed out that a prophet has no honor in his own country. + Once more Jesus visited Cana in Galilee and there was a certain royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum. Jesus said to him: "Go, your son will live." ### Meditation: My Story + **Identity** - Jesus said the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth. How may I worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth? Have I reflected on the Spirit and truth in my heart?

Prayer

Notes and Responses


Week 10 Day 3: Rise to Live

### Question Why those who believe in Jesus will rise to live? {% include BibleLinks2020.html %} ### Meditation: God's Story + In Bethesda, Jesus cured a person who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. + The day was a Sabbath, and so the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed: "The law forbids you to carry your mat." They also accused Jesus for breaking the Sabbath. + The Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. + Whoever hears my word and believes Him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life. + Jesus said, you study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me. + Jesus said, if you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me. ### Meditation: My Story + **Fidelity** - Jesus can do nothing by Himself; He can do only what He sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the He also does. We make Jesus our example which includes how He follow the will of the Father. What does this passage remind me of?

Prayer

Notes and Responses


Week 10 Day 4: Bread from Heaven

### Question Why does Jesus say He is the bread of life? {% include BibleLinks2020.html %} ### Meditation: God's Story + Jesus feeds five thousand with two small barley loaves and two small fish with left over filled twelve baskets. + Jesus walks on the water. + Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life. + Jesus says, I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. + The Jews there began to grumble about him because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven." Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" + The words Jesus has spoken-they are full of the Spirit and life. + Many of His disciples turned back but Simon Peter knew Jesus has the words of eternal life, is the Holy One of God. ### Meditation: My Story + **Identity** - Jesus teaches, do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life. How do I understand this? How does it affect my daily life?

Prayer

Notes and Responses


Week 10 Day 5: The Living Water

### Question Where does the river of living water Jesus mentioned come from? {% include BibleLinks2020.html %} ### Meditation: God's Story + Jesus said: "My time is not yet here." + Not until halfway through the festival did Jesus go up to the temple courts and begin to teach. My teaching is not my own. It comes from the one who sent me. + Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment. + You know me. I am not here on my own authority, but he who sent me is true. + The chief priests and the Pharisees sent temple guards to arrest Jesus. + On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, "Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them." + Thus the people were divided because of Jesus. Some wanted to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him. ### Meditation: My Story + **Identity** - Jesus' teaching is not His own. It comes from the one who sent Him. Whoever speaks on their own does so to gain personal glory, but he who seeks the glory of the one who sent him is a man of truth; there is nothing false about him. Reflect on my own conduct. Is it based on God's word or my own experience and judgment?

Prayer

Notes and Responses


Week 10 Day 6: Light of Life

### Question Why did Jesus say He is the light of life? {% include BibleLinks2020.html %} ### Meditation: God's Story + The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery to test Jesus. Jesus said: "Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her." + Jesus did not condemn her and told her to leave her life of sin. + Jesus said: "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." + Jesus said: "You will die in your sin. Where I go, you cannot come." + To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said: "If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." + Jesus said: "If you were Abraham's children, then you would do what Abraham did." + Jesus said: "If God were your Father, you would love me." + Jesus said: "Very truly I tell you, before Abraham was born, I am!" ### Meditation: My Story + **Identity** - Jesus said, "If I glorify myself, my glory means nothing." It is the Father who glorifies Him. Do I work for my glory or God's glory? How does the Holy Spirit remind me of God's glory?

Prayer

Notes and Responses


Week 10 Day 7: Mend the Loose Ends

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Prayer

Notes and Responses


Week 10 Day 1: Be Born Again

### Question How may one have an eternal life? {% include BibleLinks2022.html %} ### Meditation: God's Story + Jesus saw people selling in the temple courts, so He made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts. + Jews asked Jesus to show signs and He responded: "Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days." + Nicodemus came to Jesus at night. Jesus told him that no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again. + For God so loved the world that he gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. + Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. + Jesus and His disci t out into the Judean countryside, where He spent some time with them, and baptized. John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim. John said, He must become greater; I must become less. + Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on them. ### Meditation: My Story + **Integrity** - Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done were done in the sight of God. Do I remember that everything I do shall be done in the light so I would act according to the truth and not hide in the dark?

Prayer

Notes and Responses


Week 10 Day 2: Spirit and Truth

### Question How may we worship God the Father? {% include BibleLinks2022.html %} ### Meditation: God's Story + Jesus said to the Samaritan woman: "Will you give me a drink?" + Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life. + Jesus pointed out the woman have had five husbands and the man she was with was not her husband. + The true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. + My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. + Jesus himself had pointed out that a prophet has no honor in his own country. + Once more Jesus visited Cana in Galilee and there was a certain royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum. Jesus said to him: "Go, your son will live." ### Meditation: My Story + **Identity** - Jesus said the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth. How may I worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth? Have I reflected on the Spirit and truth in my heart?

Prayer

Notes and Responses


Week 10 Day 3: Rise to Live

### Question Why those who believe in Jesus will rise to live? {% include BibleLinks2022.html %} ### Meditation: God's Story + In Bethesda, Jesus cured a person who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. + The day was a Sabbath, and so the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed: "The law forbids you to carry your mat." They also accused Jesus for breaking the Sabbath. + The Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. + Whoever hears my word and believes Him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life. + Jesus said, you study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me. + Jesus said, if you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me. ### Meditation: My Story + **Fidelity** - Jesus can do nothing by Himself; He can do only what He sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the He also does. We make Jesus our example which includes how He follow the will of the Father. What does this passage remind me of?

Prayer

Notes and Responses


Week 10 Day 4: Bread from Heaven

### Question Why does Jesus say He is the bread of life? {% include BibleLinks2022.html %} ### Meditation: God's Story + Jesus feeds five thousand with two small barley loaves and two small fish with left over filled twelve baskets. + Jesus walks on the water. + Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life. + Jesus says, I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. + The Jews there began to grumble about him because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven." Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" + The words Jesus has spoken-they are full of the Spirit and life. + Many of His disciples turned back but Simon Peter knew Jesus has the words of eternal life, is the Holy One of God. ### Meditation: My Story + **Identity** - Jesus teaches, do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life. How do I understand this? How does it affect my daily life?

Prayer

Notes and Responses


Week 10 Day 5: The Living Water

### Question Where does the river of living water Jesus mentioned come from? {% include BibleLinks2022.html %} ### Meditation: God's Story + Jesus said: "My time is not yet here." + Not until halfway through the festival did Jesus go up to the temple courts and begin to teach. My teaching is not my own. It comes from the one who sent me. + Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment. + You know me. I am not here on my own authority, but he who sent me is true. + The chief priests and the Pharisees sent temple guards to arrest Jesus. + On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, "Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them." + Thus the people were divided because of Jesus. Some wanted to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him. ### Meditation: My Story + **Identity** - Jesus' teaching is not His own. It comes from the one who sent Him. Whoever speaks on their own does so to gain personal glory, but he who seeks the glory of the one who sent him is a man of truth; there is nothing false about him. Reflect on my own conduct. Is it based on God's word or my own experience and judgment?

Prayer

Notes and Responses


Week 10 Day 6: Light of Life

### Question Why did Jesus say He is the light of life? {% include BibleLinks2022.html %} ### Meditation: God's Story + The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery to test Jesus. Jesus said: "Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her." + Jesus did not condemn her and told her to leave her life of sin. + Jesus said: "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." + Jesus said: "You will die in your sin. Where I go, you cannot come." + To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said: "If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." + Jesus said: "If you were Abraham's children, then you would do what Abraham did." + Jesus said: "If God were your Father, you would love me." + Jesus said: "Very truly I tell you, before Abraham was born, I am!" ### Meditation: My Story + **Identity** - Jesus said, "If I glorify myself, my glory means nothing." It is the Father who glorifies Him. Do I work for my glory or God's glory? How does the Holy Spirit remind me of God's glory?

Prayer

Notes and Responses


Week 10 Day 7: Mend the Loose Ends

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Prayer

Notes and Responses


Week 10 Day 1: The Sin Offering

### Question What offering is for committing unintentional sins or what God's command forbids? {% include BibleLinks2024.html %} ### Meditation: God's Story + The first of the two Offerings for sins. + Sin Offering is for unintentional offenses. Bringing the offering comes from the requirement of the law, not of voluntary act. + Leviticus 4 lists who need to bring Sin Offering. Israelite community, leaders, individuals of the community, ordained priests. All Israelites need to bring Sin Offering. + Leviticus 5:1-13 lists three examples. None of these are premeditated offenses. ### Meditation: My Story + **Walking with God** - Anyone who committed a sin unintentionally needs to bring Sin Offering with no exception. What do I see how God views sin? + **Identity** - Israelites often need to bring Sin Offerings in Old Testament as the results of the offerings were limited. In contrast, the Sin Offering that Jesus Christ, the Highest Priest, made for us resulted in saving us all forever. How do I value myself in light of this fact?

Prayer

Notes and Responses


Week 10 Day 2: The Guilt Offering

### Question What is the offering for offenses against God or another man? {% include BibleLinks2024.html %} ### Meditation: God's Story + The last of the five offerings. + 5:14-19 is for offenses against Holy Objects whether knowingly or unknowingly. 6:1-7 is for offenses against other people, fraud, stealing, robbery, and oppressive actions. ### Meditation: My Story + **Walking with God** - No matter if it's something we are born with or acquired in life, we need God to forgive and cleanse. Jesus Christ made the ultimate offering for us so that we may be seen as righteous by God. We are, however, weak and continue to sin. God established High Priest in time of Old Testament to help the Israelites. What has our Highest Priest, Jesus Christ, done for me so that I may be cleansed and purified from my sins? + **Identity** - During the time of Old Testament, the Israelites brought Sin Offerings so that "they will be forgiven for any of the things they did that made them guilty." Am I struggling with sin and unable to face God? How does this promise help and encourage me?

Prayer

Notes and Responses


Week 10 Day 3: The Priestly Responsibilities

### Question What do the priests need to worry about? {% include BibleLinks2024.html %} ### Meditation: God's Story + Additional details on the five offerings. + Priests need to be very careful about the holy objects. They cannot wear their priestly garments outside of the Tabernacle. Even the ashes from the offerings need to be taken care of according to regulation. Same attention to details needs to be paid to all things whether it is a large bull or a speck of the finest flour. + God made the tribe of Levite priests forever for them to focus on serving. ### Meditation: My Story + **Identity** - God supplies His priests through all Israelites. God also supplies all those who serve Him through all His people. How does this encourage me? + **Fidelity** - We are God's chosen people, are His royal priests. What does it remind me that God holds extremely high standard for priests? What can I learn from the priests' attitude toward serving and apply that to my life?

Prayer

Notes and Responses


Week 10 Day 4: The Priests Ordained

### Question How are God's priests ordained? {% include BibleLinks2024.html %} ### Meditation: God's Story + The second part of the Book of Leviticus. Records the regulations on ordination of the priests and their service. Chapter 8 and 9 are about Aaron and his sons being ordained as well as the first offering. + Everything followed God's regulation when Aaron was ordained. + God showed His glory and His fire consumed the offering when Aaron the high priest completed the first offering. The people shouted for joy as God was pleased. ### Meditation: My Story + **Walking with God** - The process of ordaining the high priest is long and complex. The high priest needs to be cleaned, consecrated, wait for 7 days and makes a sin offering for himself before he can serve. Nowadays, Jesus Christ is our high priest. What are the differences between Aaron and Jesus Christ? How does this help me understand the salvation of Jesus Christ? + **Identity** - The people shouted with joy when they saw God was pleased with Aaron's offering. This shows that God had accepted Aaron as high priest. God showed His pleasure numerous times when Jesus came to earth in the New Testament. Pray to God to help us shout in joy with Jesus Christ's offering!

Prayer

Notes and Responses


Week 10 Day 5: The Priests Sinned

### Question How important are the responsibilities of priests in God's eyes? {% include BibleLinks2024.html %} ### Meditation: God's Story + Not long after Arron and his sons Nadab and Abihu served as high priest and priests, the two sons were killed as they did not obey God's command. The priest's responsibilities are to obey what God commands and not do anything God did not command. The holiness of God cannot be taken lightly. + God's priests need to focus completely on Him. They cannot drink wine and lose self-control. This is so that they can set apart the holy from unholy, the clean from unclean, and teach the people. ### Meditation: My Story + **Walking with God** - We are royal priests chosen by God. God wants us to be holy because He is holy. What does Nadab and Abihu's incident tell me about being holy? + **Identity** - It must have been extremely shocking and painfully sad for Aaron that his two sons were killed on the job. Yet, Aaron "remained silent." Moses was satisfied with Aaron's explanation when he was angry with Aaron's remaining sons for not eating the sacrificial meat. This indicated Aaron's attitude was pleasing to God. Think about Aaron and what he said. What satisfied Moses? + **Community** - Moses commanded Aaron's relatives and all Israelites to mourn for Nadab and Abihu while Aaron and his sons must keep proper attire and remain on the post. What should our attitude be when fellow Christians or Christian leaders have sinned? What does Moses' command remind me of?

Prayer

Notes and Responses


Week 10 Day 6: Regulations on Cleanliness

### Question What cleanliness is acceptable to God? {% include BibleLinks2024.html %} ### Meditation: God's Story + The requirements for cleanliness regarding food and childbirth. + Key verses, 11:44-45: "I am the Lord your God; consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am holy. Do not make yourselves unclean by any creature that moves along the ground. I am the Lord, who brought you up out of Egypt to be your God; therefore be holy, because I am holy." + These regulations helped Israelites their sanitation and health after the formation of their nation. ### Meditation: My Story + **Walking with God** - These regulations are not applicable today and we don't need to follow to the letters. However, it is important to note that the fine details of these regulations were God's way to help the Israelites differentiate what was pleasing to God and what was not. In today's world, how do I differentiate the right and wrong with the help of God's word? + **Integrity** - God said to the Israelites, "Be holy, because I am holy", "I am the Lord, who brought you up out of Egypt." God still wants us to be holy today because He who brought us out into light from darkness is holy. He does not want us to isolate ourselves to stay away from the unclean. So, how do I ask God for the wisdom to keep me clean and be holy?

Prayer

Notes and Responses


Week 10 Day 7: Mend the Loose Ends

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Prayer

Notes and Responses