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RETURN TO SYLLABUS
NUMBERS 9
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE PASSOVER AND THE COMMUNION SERVICE
v MEMORY VERSE: 1COR 11:26
v READ NUM 9:1-2
Ø GOD TOLD ISRAEL TO CELEBRATE THE PASSOVER.THIS WAS THE SECOND YEAR AFTER THEY HAD LEFT EGYPT.
§ WHAT WAS THE PASSOVER?
· READ EXO 12:3,7,12-14
¨ WHY WAS THE PASSOVER SO IMPORTANT?
Ø IT MARKED THE DELIVERANCE OF THE ISRAELITESBY GOD FROM SLAVERY IN EGYPT.
§ THESE CELEBRATIONS WERE GODSWAY OF REMINDING THE PEOPLE OF HIS MERCY.
§ THESE CELEBRATIONS WERE AMETHOD OF TEACHING THE YOUNG PEOPLE WHO GOD WAS AND WHAT HE DID FOR THEM.
§ THE PASSOVER WAS GODSDEMONSTRATION IN ACTION OF SALVATION THROUGH THE BLOOD OF CHRIST
· READ JOH 1:29
Ø TO KEEP THIS PASSOVER, THERE WAS A PROBLEMAMONG THE ISRAELITE PEOPLE IN THE BOOK OF NUMBERS.
v READ NUM 9:6-11
Ø WHAT WAS THE PROBLEM?
§ SOME OF THE PEOPLE WEREMADE CEREMONIOUSLY UNCLEAN BY HAVING COME IN CONTACT WITH A DEAD BODY.
· WE HAVE LEARNED IN THIS CLASSTHAT CONTACT WITH ANYTHING DEAD MADE A PERSON UNCLEAN AND RESULTED IN SEPARATION FROM THEPRESENCE OF GOD. THESE PEOPLE WERE PUT OUTSIDE THE CAMP FOR A PERIOD OF TIME. (NUM 5:1-4)
¨ IF THEY WERE OUTSIDE THE CAMP, THEY WOULD NOTBE PRESENT FOR THE PASSOVER CELEBRATION. HOWEVER, THESE PEOPLE WANTED TO CELEBRATE THEPASSOVER.
§ WHAT DID MOSES DO?
· MOSES DID NOT HOLD A MEETING ANDLET THE PEOPLE DECIDE BY POPULAR VOTE WHETHER OR NOT TO PERMIT THESE PEOPLE TO JOIN THECELEBRATION.
· MOSES DID NOT CONSULT A BOOKABOUT THE PROPER RULES OF SOCIAL ORDER.
· MOSES DID THE RIGHT THING. HEASKED GOD.
¨ WHAT WAS GODS SOLUTION?
Ø THESE PEOPLE KEPT THE PASSOVER A MONTH LATER,AFTER THEY HAD SERVED THEIR TIME OUTSIDE THE CAMP, AND HAD BEEN RESTORED TO THE CAMP.
§ REMEMBER FROM NUM 5, THESIGNIFICANCE OF A PERSON SEPARATED FROM THE PRESENCE OF GOD BECAUSE OF CONTACT WITH DEATHREPRESENTED MANS SEPARATION FROM GOD BECAUSE OF HIS SINFUL NATURE RESULTING INSPIRITUAL DEATH.
· THE CELEBRATION OF PASSOVER ONEMONTH LATER INDICATES THAT SPIRITUAL DEATH FROM SIN IS REVERSIBLE. MAN CAN BE FREE FROMHIS SINFUL NATURE INHERITED FROM ADAM AND AVOID SPIRITUAL DEATH (ETERNAL SEPARATION FROMGOD). HOWEVER, THERE IS JUST ONE WAY TO AVOID SPIRITUAL DEATH…THROUGH THE SHED BLOOD OFJESUS CHRIST THE PASSOVER LAMB OF GOD.
¨ AS PEOPLE WERE RESTORED TO THE CAMP, THEYCELEBRATED GODS TIMELY DEMONSTRATION OF SALVATION THROUGH THE SHED BLOOD OF HIS SON,JESUS CHRIST WHEN THEY CELEBRATED THE PASSOVER.
¨ ONCE THE PEOPLE WERE CLEANSED FROM THEIRSINFUL NATURE, THEY WERE READY TO FOLLOW GOD.
Ø THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE OLD TESTAMENTPASSOVER AND THE NEW TESTAMENT COMMUNION SERVICE.
§ READ 1COR 11:23-32 THE COMMUNION SERVICE
· WHEN JESUS PERFORMED THE FIRSTCOMMUNION SERVICE IN MAT 26:26-27 THE NIGHT BEFORE HE WAS CRUCIFIED, HE WAS IN ACTUALITYCELEBRATING THE OLD TESTAMENT PASSOVER.
¨ JESUS IS THE ONE WHO LINKED THE OLD TESTAMENTPASSOVER TO HIS DEATH ON THE CROSS AND TOLD HIS DISCIPLES TO KEEP IT AS A NEW CELEBRATIONTO REMEMBER HIS DEATH AND RESURRECTION.
¨ WHEN WE CELEBRATE COMMUNION, WE ARE TOREMEMBER HIS DEATH AND WHY HE DIED. HE DIED TO FREE US FROM OUR SINFUL NATURE AND FROM OURPERSONAL SINS.
Ø WHAT DOES 1COR 11:27 MEAN?
§ REMEMBER THOSE PEOPLE INNUMBERS WHO WANTED TO CELEBRATE THE PASSOVER AFTER TOUCHING A DEAD BODY? 1COR 11:27 IS APARALLEL.
· BEFORE PAUL TALKS ABOUTCELEBRATING COMMUNION IN 1COR 11:23, HE TALKS ABOUT DIVISIONS IN THE BODY OF CHRIST. READ1COR 11:17-18.
· THEREFORE, VS. 27 SAYS THAT SOMEBELIEVERS TAKE COMMUNION UNWORTHILY BECAUSE THEY DO NOT DISCERN THE BODY AND THE BLOOD OFCHRIST.
¨ DISCERNING THE BODY OF CHRIST:
¨ BEFORE TAKING COMMUNION, YOU SHOULD EXAMINEYOUR ATTITUDES AND ACTIONS TOWARD YOUR FELLOW BELIEVERS. DO YOU PROMOTE DIVISION,COMPLAINING, EXCLUSIVE SEPARATENESS WITHIN THE CHURCH? IF YOU HAVE A BAD RELATIONSHIP WITHANYONE IN THE CHURCH, YOU SHOULD STRAIGHTEN IT OUT WITH HIM OR HER BEFORE YOU TAKECOMMUNION.
¨ DISCERNING THE BLOOD OF CHRIST:
¨ BEFORE TAKING COMMUNION, YOU SHOULD MAKE SUREYOU HAVE REPENTED OF ALL YOUR SINS AND WASHED THEM AWAY IN THE BLOOD OF CHRIST.
¨ IF YOU TAKE COMMUNION, AND DO NOT REPENT OFWRONGLY DISCERNING THE BODY OR THE BLOOD OF CHRIST, PAUL SAYS THAT IS WHY SOME PEOPLE ARESICK AND EVEN SUFFER AN EARLY DEATH.
· DISCUSSION:
¨ WHAT ARE SOME WAYS A CHRISTIAN TAKESCOMMUNION UNWORTHILY?
v READ NUM 9:15-19 THE CLOUD BY DAY AND THE FIRE BYNIGHT
Ø THE JEWS WERE DIFFERENT FROM OTHER PEOPLE ANDOTHER NATIONS. THEY HAD THE PRESENCE OF GOD IN THE FORM OF A VISIBLE SIGN.
§ READ ROM 9:4-5
· THEY HAD THE DIVINE GLORY OF GOD.EVEN THOUGH THEY COULD SEE GODS PRESENCE, THEY WERE NOT FAITHFUL TO FOLLOW HIM.
¨ SOMETIMES, AS BELIEVERS, WE PRAY FOR GOD TOGIVE US A SIGN. AT TIMES HE DOES GIVE US A SIGN, BUT THERE ARE TIMES WHEN WE DO NOT HAVE ASIGN AS TO HIS GUIDANCE.
Ø IT IS NOT THE EXISTENCE OF A VISIBLE SIGNTHAT WILL DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT YOU WILL STAY FAITHFUL TO HIM. IT IS A DETERMINATION OFYOUR WILL AND YOUR HEART.
§ REMEMBER THAT THE BELIEVERIS SUPPOSED TO WALK BY FAITH AND NOT BY SIGHT.
§ WHAT EVENTUALLY HAPPENED TOTHIS VISIBLE SIGN OF HIS PRESENCE THAT GOD GAVE TO ISRAEL?
· AFTER THEY ENTERED THE PROMISEDLAND THEY CONTINUED TO USE THE TABERNACLE AND CONTINUED TO HAVE GODS PRESENCE WITHTHEM. WHEN SOLOMON BUILT THE FIRST TEMPLE, THE CLOUD OF GODS GLORY FILLED THETEMPLE. THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD WAS SO GREAT THE PEOPLE COULD NOT STAND UP. (2KI 8:10-11)LATER, BECAUSE OF THE SIN OF THE PEOPLE IN FOLLOWING OTHER GODS AND WORSHIPING IDOLS, GODSPRESENCE LEFT THE TEMPLE. (SEE EZE 10:3-5,18) THE PRESENCE OF GOD HAS NEVER RETURN ED TOISRAEL AND WILL NOT DO SO UNTIL THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST.
§ THE LESSON FOR US:
· DONT TAKE THE PRESENCE OFGOD FOR GRANTED. HIS PRESENCE IS PRECIOUS. HIS PROTECTION AND GUIDANCE ARE REAL.
¨ IN THE NEW TESTAMENT BELIEVER, THE INDWELLINGHOLY SPIRIT DOES NOT LEAVE. HOWEVER, THE PRESENCE OF SIN IN YOUR LIFE CAUSES THE PRESENCEOF GOD TO BE GRIEVED. PERSISTENT SIN SEPARATES YOU FROM GODS PROTECTION ANDGUIDANCE. YOU TAKE THE PRESENCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT FOR GRANTED AND EVENTUALLY YOU HARDENYOUR HEART TO SIN.
¨ CAN A PERSON MISS SEEING THE PRESENCE OF GODSGLORY? YES.
Ø READ JOH 1:14
§ THE DISCIPLES SAW THE GLORYOF GODS PRESENCE IN JESUS CHRIST. DID EVERYONE SEE IT? NO. THE PHARISEES MISSED ITBECAUSE THEIR HEARTS WERE CLOSED AND HARDENED.
v APPLICATION:
Ø STEP #7 IN BECOMING A MOVE-ER INTHE KINGDOM OF GOD:
§ TAKE COMMUNION SERIOUSLY:EXAMINE YOUR RELATIONSHIPS WITH GOD AND WITH YOUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN CHRIST.
· BEFORE YOU TAKE COMMUNION, THINKABOUT YOUR ATTITUDES AND ACTIONS WITH BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN THE BODY OF CHRIST. REPENTOF ANY PERSONAL SINS AGAINST GOD AND AGAINST YOUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN CHRIST.
v HOMEWORK
v NUMBERS10
THIS IS A SELF-STUDY.PLEASE DO NOT SEND HOMEWORK ANSWERS TO THE TEACHER.
v APPLICATION OF NUM 9
Ø WHAT IS YOUR ATTITUDE WHEN YOU TAKECOMMUNION?
Ø WHAT CHANGES DO YOU NEED TO MAKE IN YOURATTITUDE SO YOU DO NOT TAKE THE PRESENCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT FOR GRANTED?
v PREPARATION FOR NUM 10
Ø READ NUM 10:1-28 THE SILVER TRUMPETS
§ WHAT WERE THE FUNCTIONS OFTHE SILVER TRUMPETS?
§ WHAT DO YOU THINK THESILVER TRUMPETS REPRESENT?
§ HOW MANY TIMES DID THEYBLOW THE TRUMPETS WHEN THE MARCH STARTED?
Ø READ NUM 10:29-36 MOSES FATHER-IN-LAW
§ EXAMINE MOSES PLEA.DID MOSES MAKE A MISTAKE PLEADING WITH HIS FATHER-IN-LAW TO COME WITH THEM? WHY OR WHY NOT?
v MEMORY VERSE: 1THE 4:16
