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67 Cards in this Set
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Theme/ Message
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A holy God provides the means for an unholy people to love in His presence
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Date
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1445 B.C.
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Major Elements
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Sacrifice/ cleanness/ Covenant
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Problem
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An unholy people cannot live with a holy God and survive
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What does the book of Leviticus show Israel?
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How to live with their holy God
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What is God's purpose in Leviticus?
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To call His people to practical holiness
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Leviticus has 3 major sections
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1. Chapters 1-10
2. Chapters 11-16 3. Chapters 17-27 |
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What areas do these sections deal with?
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1. Chapters 1-10 (Relationship)
2. Chapters 11-16 (Approach) 3. Chapters 17-27 (the conditions of association) |
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What is God's plan?
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That men should enjoy a relationship with him
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How does this happen?
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Through sacrifice
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What does it take to approach God so that we can make the sacrifices necessary for relationship?
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In order for them to approach God in order to make their sacrifices, they had to be ritually clean.
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What is the essense of practical holiness?
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Cleanliness
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How did they approach God?
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First on the basis of cleanliness
Second on the basis of sacrifice |
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What about sins you don't know you committed?
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The Day of Atonement takes care of those
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What about those who don't care if they are clean or holy?
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The Day of Atonemet takes care of that
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In Leviticus, what is the foundation of the covenant issues?
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The blood
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The Old Testament is a picture book of what?
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Tangible illustrations of intangible realities
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What is the tangible illustration in the Old Testament?
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The Tabernacle/Temple
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What is the intangible reality?
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You need to fall on your face before God and confessyour sin and approach Him on the basis of holiness
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Is this intangible realities carried into the New Testament?
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YES! We still have to be holy because He is holy 1 Peter 1:15
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If NT believers still have to deal with the same intangibles, are teh tangible issues still there as well?
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NO! Under teh New Covenant, they are no longer relevent
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God's Appointed Times
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Passover
Unleavened Bread First Fruits Feast of Weeks (Shavuot) Pentecost Trumpets Day of Atonment Tabernacles |
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What is the Significance of the three feast Passover, Pentecost and Tabernacles?
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On these days every man above the age of accountability had to be present in Jerusalem
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Why?
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It shows that no one else can be saved for you, na one else can receive the Holy Spirit for you and no one else will be resurrected for you
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Passover
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A Lamb for a family. It had to be rosted over fire and esten in one night. Significance - Jesus is our passover lamb
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Offerings for atonement
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1. Sin Offering - dealt with personal sin before God
2. Guilt Offering - Sin not only before God but this sin matterially effect ones neighbors. This required retribution as well |
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Offerings for Communion
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1. Burnt/ Cereal/ Dink offerings
2. Peace offerings (thank you/ votive/ freewill offerings) |
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What sin could not be dealt with through these types of offerings?
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Blatant in your face I'm going to this sin
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How were these sins dealt with?
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Through the Day of Atonement
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What does Leviticus 10:10 deal with?
"You must distinguish between the holy and the common, between the clean and unclean" |
Lev 10:10 deals with Ritual and Practical holiness
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What do these two issues demonstrate about coming to God?
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They demonstrate that there is a status and a condition to approaching God
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The Priests
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They had to be holy and clean
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The Israleites
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They had to be clean which was their practical holiness
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The Day of Atonement
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The means by which God consented to live with His people year by year
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What 3 areas did the Day of Atonement deal with?
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1. The sins of the priesthood
2. The sins of the people 3. The defilement of the Temple |
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What was its purpose?
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The yearly covering and cleansing of teh sins of the people
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What is its significance?
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Christ our high priests has covered our sins once and for all and secured access to the presence of God through his blood
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What did Jesus accomplish?
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Through His sacrifice, Jesus has made a way for god to dwell with us
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What replaced the temple?
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We are the temples of the holy Spirit
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How does God choose to see us?
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Because of Christ's sacrifice, God consents to see us as holy even though we have a fallen nature
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How is the sin of rebellion dealt with?
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Through the Day of Atonement
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Does the Day of Atonement guarantee a person will receive forgiveness for the sin of rebellion?
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No, it is based on the worshipper havin ga heart of repentance
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Why is Lev 17:11 important?
"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; it is the blood that makes atonement for one's life. |
1. The life is in the blood
2. To profane the blood is to reject the meansof life and so to deserve death 3. Therefore, Israel has to be careful how they treat the blood of the aniamls they kill. |
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Offerings of Atonement
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Sin
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Offerings of Atonement
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for a believers pursuit of God
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Leviticus teaches
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Man can only have his sin removed through the substitution of another life
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Offerings of Atonement
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To draw into an intimate relationship with God
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Our relationship with God must begin where?
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With sin, it has to be dealt with
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Offerings of Communion
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Voluntary acts of worship
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Offerings of Communion
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are a sweet smelling aroma to the LORD
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What is the significance of the sweet smelling aroma?
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The sweet smell indicates a right relationship wiith God
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Burnt/ Cereal/ Drink offerings
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Are offerings of dedication and expressions of sincerity to God
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Peace Offerings
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Their purpose is for the enjoyment of communion with God and establishing a deeper intimacy with God.
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Burnt Offerings
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1. are completely consumed by fire
2. Are voluntary acts of worship 3. Signify the complete surrender of the offerer to God 4. recognize sacrifice is the way to God |
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Cereal Offerings
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1. Voluntary act of worship
2. recognize everything is from God 3. returning to God the best part 4. /usually included with Burnt Offerings |
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Drink Offerings
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1. Voluntary
2. signify the complete surrender of the offerer to God 3. Usually included with Burnt and Peace Offerings |
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Peace Offerings
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1. Voluntary
2. Returning something to God in praise for specific blessings, prast, present or future |
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If we are called to be holy, why have the cleaness laws?
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Both are part of being holy
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Ritual Holiness
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Allows one closer to God
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Practical Holiness
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Shows one's pursuit of God
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Tabernacles
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Commemorated Israel's dessert wanderings when they lived in tents
This was a time when God tabernacled with men IIt foreshadows the reign of Chirst when God will once again tabernacle with men It celebrated the completion of all the harvests |
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Feast of Weeks
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Shavout or Pentecost
It was a harvest festival dedicating to god the first fruits of the wheat harvest |
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Passover
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The barley harvest
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What is the major theme of Leviticus?
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Holiness
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Where is the command to be holy repeated in the NT?
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1 Peter 1:15-16
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Key verse
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17:11 The life is in the blood
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What are the consequences of Covenant Law?
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Blessins for obedience and curseing for disobedience
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