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Weekly Guide ：Week 11

April 08, 2018

Week 11 Day 1: Skin Care ⇧ ⇩

Question

What were the regulation on taking care of the Israelites’ skin?

Scripture Reading

Meditation: God’s Story

Meditation: My Story

Prayer

Notes and Responses

Week 11 Day 2: Day of Atonement ⇧ ⇩

Question

What are the other regulations to keep Israelites holy?

Scripture Reading

Meditation: God’s Story

Meditation: My Story

Prayer

Notes and Responses

Week 11 Day 3: Holy Behaviors ⇧ ⇩

Question

What behaviors did God want to forbid?

Scripture Reading

Meditation: God’s Story

Meditation: My Story

Prayer

Notes and Responses

Week 11 Day 4: Various Laws ⇧ ⇩

Question

Why did the previous generation of Israelites fail to enter the promised land 40 years ago?

Scripture Reading

Meditation: God’s Story

Meditation: My Story

Prayer

Notes and Responses

Week 11 Day 5: Holy Priests ⇧ ⇩

Question

Why did the previous generation of Israelites fail to enter the promised land 40 years ago?

Scripture Reading

Meditation: God’s Story

Meditation: My Story

Prayer

Notes and Responses

Week 11 Day 6: The Festivals ⇧ ⇩

Question

What festivals do the holy people need to observe?

Scripture Reading

Meditation: God’s Story

Meditation: My Story

Prayer

Notes and Responses

Week 11 Day 7: Catch-up Day ⇧ ⇩

Scripture Reading

Prayer

Notes and Responses

Week 11 Day 1: The Good Shepherd ⇧ ⇩

### Question What does it mean that Jesus said He is the gate for the sheep? {% include BibleLinks2020.html %} ### Meditation: God's Story + Jesus used His saliva mixed with mud on the eyes of a blind and cured him. The day was a Sabbath. + The Pharisees were divided on Jesus' curing of the blind on Sabbath. + The blind believed Jesus as the Son of Man. + Jesus said, I am the gate for the sheep, whoever enters through me will be saved. + I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. + I and the Father are one. ### Meditation: My Story + **Fidelity** - Jesus says His is the good shepherd and would lay down His life for the sheep. Reflect on my love, how willing am I to lay myself down for others?

Prayer

Notes and Responses

Week 11 Day 2: Jesus is Resurrection ⇧ ⇩

### Question Why did Jesus wait two days before seeing Lazarus? {% include BibleLinks2020.html %} ### Meditation: God's Story + A man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany. + When he heard this, Jesus said, "This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God's glory so that God's Son may be glorified through it." + Jesus went to Lazarus. He knew he was dead and had already been in the tomb for four days. + Jesus said, "I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die." + When Jesus saw the Jews were weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled. Jesus wept. + Jesus said, "If you believe, you will see the glory of God." + Jesus looked up, prayed, and called in a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!" The dead man came out. + The Pharisees plotted to kill Jesus ever since. ### Meditation: My Story + **Fidelity** -Martha and Mary asked Jesus to help. They both said the same thing, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died." However, Jesus replied to them in two different ways. Why? How does Jesus remind me when caring for others?

Prayer

Notes and Responses

Week 11 Day 3: Coming to Jerusalem ⇧ ⇩

### Question Why did Mary pour the expensive perfume on Jesus? {% include BibleLinks2020.html %} ### Meditation: God's Story + Six days before the Passover, Mary took about a pint of pure nard, an expensive perfume; she poured it on Jesus' feet and wiped his feet with her hair. + The next day the great crowd that had come for the festival heard that Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem. They took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting, "Hosanna! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the king of Israel!" + Jesus replied, "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified." + Jesus said, "When I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself." + Even after Jesus had performed so many signs in their presence, they still would not believe in him. This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet. + Jesus said, "Whoever believes in me does not believe in me only, but in the one who sent me." ### Meditation: My Story + **Fidelity** - Jesus said, "Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds." This parable tells us the meaning of His life, it also encourages us to think about the meaning of our life. How may I let God use me?

Prayer

Notes and Responses

Week 11 Day 4: Wash Others' Feet ⇧ ⇩

### Question Why did Jesus wash His disciples' feet? {% include BibleLinks2020.html %} ### Meditation: God's Story + Jesus got up from the meal, wrapped a towel around his waist, poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples' feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him. + Jesus said, "Very truly I tell you, one of you is going to betray me." + A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. + By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another. + Jesus said to Peter: "Before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times!" ### Meditation: My Story + **Identity** - For Jesus is our Lord and yet, He washed His disciples' feet. To learn from Jesus' example, we shall wash each other's feet. What does it mean to "wash" feet for each other? Am I willing to wash my fellow Christians' feet?

Prayer

Notes and Responses

Week 11 Day 5: Truth of Life ⇧ ⇩

### Question What is the way to the Father? {% include BibleLinks2020.html %} ### Meditation: God's Story + Jesus said His father's house has many rooms and that He is to prepare a place for His disciples. + Jesus said, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." + Jesus would ask the Father, and to give us another advocate, the Spirit of truth. + Whoever has Jesus' commands and keeps them is the one who loves Him. + The Holy Spirit will teach the disciples all things. + Jesus said, "I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener." + Jesus said, "If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commands and remain in his love." + Jesus said, "You do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you." ### Meditation: My Story + **Identity** - Jesus tells us, whoever believes in Him will do the works He has been doing, and He will do whatever we ask in His name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. God promise to give what we ask, because we will do what Jesus does. Are my prayers following Jesus' will?

Prayer

Notes and Responses

Week 11 Day 6: Spirit of Truth ⇧ ⇩

### Question What does the Holy Spirit do when He comes? {% include BibleLinks2020.html %} ### Meditation: God's Story + When the Holy Spirit comes, He will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment. + When He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth. + I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. + Jesus prayed to the Father, "Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you." + Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. ### Meditation: My Story + **Identity** - Jesus said, "This is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent." How do I know God, know Jesus Christ, and receive eternal life?

Prayer

Notes and Responses

Week 11 Day 7: Mend the Loose Ends ⇧ ⇩

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Prayer

Notes and Responses

Week 11 Day 1: The Good Shepherd ⇧ ⇩

### Question What does it mean that Jesus said He is the gate for the sheep? {% include BibleLinks2022.html %} ### Meditation: God's Story + Jesus used His saliva mixed with mud on the eyes of a blind and cured him. The day was a Sabbath. + The Pharisees were divided on Jesus' curing of the blind on Sabbath. + The blind believed Jesus as the Son of Man. + Jesus said, I am the gate for the sheep, whoever enters through me will be saved. + I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. + I and the Father are one. ### Meditation: My Story + **Fidelity** - Jesus says His is the good shepherd and would lay down His life for the sheep. Reflect on my love, how willing am I to lay myself down for others?

Prayer

Notes and Responses

Week 11 Day 2: Jesus is Resurrection ⇧ ⇩

### Question Why did Jesus wait two days before seeing Lazarus? {% include BibleLinks2022.html %} ### Meditation: God's Story + A man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany. + When he heard this, Jesus said, "This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God's glory so that God's Son may be glorified through it." + Jesus went to Lazarus. He knew he was dead and had already been in the tomb for four days. + Jesus said, "I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die." + When Jesus saw the Jews were weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled. Jesus wept. + Jesus said, "If you believe, you will see the glory of God." + Jesus looked up, prayed, and called in a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!" The dead man came out. + The Pharisees plotted to kill Jesus ever since. ### Meditation: My Story + **Fidelity** -Martha and Mary asked Jesus to help. They both said the same thing, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died." However, Jesus replied to them in two different ways. Why? How does Jesus remind me when caring for others?

Prayer

Notes and Responses

Week 11 Day 3: Coming to Jerusalem ⇧ ⇩

### Question Why did Mary pour the expensive perfume on Jesus? {% include BibleLinks2022.html %} ### Meditation: God's Story + Six days before the Passover, Mary took about a pint of pure nard, an expensive perfume; she poured it on Jesus' feet and wiped his feet with her hair. + The next day the great crowd that had come for the festival heard that Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem. They took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting, "Hosanna! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the king of Israel!" + Jesus replied, "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified." + Jesus said, "When I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself." + Even after Jesus had performed so many signs in their presence, they still would not believe in him. This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet. + Jesus said, "Whoever believes in me does not believe in me only, but in the one who sent me." ### Meditation: My Story + **Fidelity** - Jesus said, "Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds." This parable tells us the meaning of His life, it also encourages us to think about the meaning of our life. How may I let God use me?

Prayer

Notes and Responses

Week 11 Day 4: Wash Others' Feet ⇧ ⇩

### Question Why did Jesus wash His disciples' feet? {% include BibleLinks2022.html %} ### Meditation: God's Story + Jesus got up from the meal, wrapped a towel around his waist, poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples' feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him. + Jesus said, "Very truly I tell you, one of you is going to betray me." + A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. + By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another. + Jesus said to Peter: "Before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times!" ### Meditation: My Story + **Identity** - For Jesus is our Lord and yet, He washed His disciples' feet. To learn from Jesus' example, we shall wash each other's feet. What does it mean to "wash" feet for each other? Am I willing to wash my fellow Christians' feet?

Prayer

Notes and Responses

Week 11 Day 5: Truth of Life ⇧ ⇩

### Question What is the way to the Father? {% include BibleLinks2022.html %} ### Meditation: God's Story + Jesus said His father's house has many rooms and that He is to prepare a place for His disciples. + Jesus said, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." + Jesus would ask the Father, and to give us another advocate, the Spirit of truth. + Whoever has Jesus' commands and keeps them is the one who loves Him. + The Holy Spirit will teach the disciples all things. + Jesus said, "I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener." + Jesus said, "If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commands and remain in his love." + Jesus said, "You do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you." ### Meditation: My Story + **Identity** - Jesus tells us, whoever believes in Him will do the works He has been doing, and He will do whatever we ask in His name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. God promise to give what we ask, because we will do what Jesus does. Are my prayers following Jesus' will?

Prayer

Notes and Responses

Week 11 Day 6: Spirit of Truth ⇧ ⇩

### Question What does the Holy Spirit do when He comes? {% include BibleLinks2022.html %} ### Meditation: God's Story + When the Holy Spirit comes, He will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment. + When He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth. + I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. + Jesus prayed to the Father, "Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you." + Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. ### Meditation: My Story + **Identity** - Jesus said, "This is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent." How do I know God, know Jesus Christ, and receive eternal life?

Prayer

Notes and Responses

Week 11 Day 7: Mend the Loose Ends ⇧ ⇩

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Prayer

Notes and Responses

Week 11 Day 1: Care of Skin ⇧ ⇩

### Question What were the regulations on taking care of the Israelites' skin? {% include BibleLinks2024.html %} ### Meditation: God's Story + Continued with regulations to keep Israelites holy in order to worship God. + Skin diseases such as the horrible leprosy are easily transmitted. The priests took great care when examining skin diseases. Anyone contracted skin diseases needed to go through a long and elaborative cleansing and offering process. + Israelites not only had to keep their skins clean, their clothes and houses also needed the same attention. ### Meditation: My Story + **Identity** - Transmittable skin diseases such as leprosy often being assimilated to man's sin. Cleansing and offering are assimilated to reconciling with God. Putting blood on ear lobe, hand, toe, and thumb are likened to the consecration of the priests. Jesus had already redeemed us through His blood and completely satisfied all necessary cleansing and offering. His sacrifice was complete and perfect. Let me pray and thank Him for everything He had done for me. + **Integrity** - The source of skin diseases is not limited to skin but the cloth we wear and the house we live in, as well. Same can be said about sin. It may come from anything around us. How does the cleansing process in these two chapters remind me?

Prayer

Notes and Responses

Week 11 Day 2: Day of Atonement ⇧ ⇩

### Question What are the other regulations to keep the Israelites holy? {% include BibleLinks2024.html %} ### Meditation: God's Story + More regulations to keep the Israelites holy so they may worship God. + Chapter 15 is about bodily discharges. It was aimed to keep the Israelites "separate from things that make them unclean." This is so that "they will not die in their uncleanness for defiling my dwelling place." + Chapter 16 is the regulation for the Day of Atonement. During this day, all Israelites need to keep sabbath, deny themselves, cleanse, and atone for all their sins. ### Meditation: My Story + **Identity** - All offerings and cleansing were to help the Israelites to become a nation of holiness. It was to separate them from the unclean. The holy God promised to walk with me and asks me to be holy. What does this remind me? + **Integrity** - God established the annual Day of Atonement. Israelites could restart from a new beginning with their sins forgiven. But this did not mean that they could take their sins lightly. My sins were forgiven because of Jesus Christ. How do I view my own sins?

Prayer

Notes and Responses

Week 11 Day 3: Holiness of Conduct ⇧ ⇩

### Question What behaviors does God forbid? {% include BibleLinks2024.html %} ### Meditation: God's Story + God told the Israelites that in order to be holy, they need to behave holy. + Chapter 17 was about blood. Blood is holy. In the covenant God made with Noah, animal's meats were edible "but you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it" (Genesis 9:4) "for the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar." (Leviticus 17:11) + Chapter 18 is about adultery. Marriage is holy. "Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral." (Hebrews 13:4) God warned the Israelites not to defile themselves by conforming to the unclean culture of the Canaanite in the land they were to enter. ### Meditation: My Story + **Identity** - God said, "For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar." The blood of animal can only clean a man's sins temporary. Only Jesus Christ's blood can cleanse forever. We have to atone our sins in front of God in order to receive the cleansing blood. How should I live to show my respect to Jesus' precious blood? + **Community** - God established marriage and we all need to respect that and keep it holy. God warned Israelites not to conform to the Canaanites. Nowadays, marriage is currently being attacked from all fronts in the world we live in. How do I keep myself holy within my marriage and not conform to the society?

Prayer

Notes and Responses

Week 11 Day 4: Observe the Statutes ⇧ ⇩

### Question What other conducts are not pleasing to God? {% include BibleLinks2024.html %} ### Meditation: God's Story + Chapter 19 details the morality, regulations, worship, and spiritual life and covers all the Ten Commandments. A total of 16 short sections with each ending with the phrase "I am the Lord." "Be holy because I, the Lord your God, am holy." is the basis for calling upon the people to live holy lives. "Love your neighbor as yourself" appears in the verses and tells Israelites that the standard of holiness is not just keeping the law, but also to actively live out its virtue. + Chapter 20 is an addendum to chapters 18 and 19. It's the punishment for those who rebel and unholy. Those who committed offenses must face severe punishments, executed, or cut off. ### Meditation: My Story + **Community** - Sin is not something private. It spreads and brings down the whole community like yeast in the dough. We not only are responsible for our own holiness but fellow Christians, too. How do these two chapters remind me of my view toward sin? + **Integrity** - Be holy because I, the Lord your God, am holy. This was the basis for God to elect Israelites and a basis for my life. Is there any part of my life I need to pay more attention in order to be holy?

Prayer

Notes and Responses

Week 11 Day 5: The Holy Priesthood ⇧ ⇩

### Question What are other requirements for priests? {% include BibleLinks2024.html %} ### Meditation: God's Story + The priests are set apart from the rest of the people for God. The requirements for the priests are even higher. God set clear priority to their duty and daily lives. + Holy objects are set apart for God. Israelites needed to keep these objects holy. + The phrases "I am the Lord who makes them holy" or similar appeared 6 times and "I am the Lord" appeared 6 times, as well. ### Meditation: My Story + **Identity** - God set high standards for the priests. How does today's passage remind me that I am a chosen royal priest? + **Fidelity** - What's my priority comparing my tasks at hand and serving God? What do the requirements God set for the priests remind me of?

Prayer

Notes and Responses

Week 23 Day 2: The Holy Priesthood ⇧ ⇩

### Question What are other requirements for priests? {% include BibleLinks2024.html %} ### Meditation: God's Story + The priests are set apart from the rest of the people for God. The requirements for the priests are even higher. God set clear priority to their duty and daily lives. + Holy objects are set apart for God. Israelites needed to keep these objects holy. + The phrases "I am the Lord who makes them holy" or similar appeared 6 times and "I am the Lord" appeared 6 times, as well. ### Meditation: My Story + **Identity** - God set high standards for the priests. How does today's passage remind me that I am a chosen royal priest? + **Fidelity** - What's my priority comparing my tasks at hand and serving God? What do the requirements God set for the priests remind me of?

Prayer

Notes and Responses

Week 11 Day 7: Mend the Loose Ends ⇧ ⇮

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Prayer

Notes and Responses