Numbers 15
- Moses tells the people to prepare offerings when they enter the new land.
- They should offer a freewill offering, burnt offering, and a drink offering to the Lord.
- They were to use one tenth of an ephah of flour for a lamb and 2 tenths for a ram.
- A bull gets 3 tenths an ephah of flour.
- Any sojourner or foreigner shall offer sacrifices in the same way as the Israelites.
- The first of the dough they shall present to the Lord as a contribution.
- What would define an unintentional sin?
- The needed to offer one bull as a burnt offering and one goat as a sin offering for an unintentional sin.
- The whole congregation and those traveling with them shall be forgiven of their mistaken sin.
- If one person sins they are to offer a year old female goat.
- If someone sins because he despises what the Lord has commanded, that person shall be cut off from the people.
- The people found a man collecting sticks on the Sabbath.
- They put him in custody and Moses asked the Lord what they were to do.
- The Lord told them to stone the man to death for breaking the commandment.
- The Lord instructed Moses to have the people put a blue tassle on their robes to remin them of the commandments so they wouldn't break them.
- We are all inclined to follow our heart and lusts.
- God is calling them to be holy.
Isaiah 7
- The time period was in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, son of Uzziah.
- It was King Uzziah's grandson's reign.
- The King of Israel came to wage war against Jerusalem.
- Syria and Ephraim were working together which made Ahaz worried.
- Shear-jashub was Isaiah's son.
- Isaiah went to the king and told him not to fear the Syrians.
- Where was this quote coming from?
- It was telling the people to have faith and stand firm.
- The Lord told Ahaz to ask anything of Him and Ahaz said he would not put God to the test.
- God sent them this future sign instead foreshadowing the coming of Christ, Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel
- For before the boy knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings you dread will be deserted. (Is this saying Jesus had to learn to avoid evil?)
- In that day the flys and bees will dwell in the land of Assyria.
- There will be abundance, milk and honey, in those days.
- THe Syrians land that now produces valuable vines will be full of thorn bushes.
Romans 12
- Paul was saying they should present their bodies to God as a living sacrifice.
- Living for God with your body IS spiritual worship.
- Paul warns about being of this world and tells them to renew their minds to discern God's will.
- Paul warns them not to think too highly of themseleves but to be humble.
- The church has many members but we don't all have the same function.
- Do some gifts require more grace than others?
- The gifts Paul lists are: prophecy, serving, teaching, exhortation, generosity, leading, acts of mercy (to be done with cheerfulness)
- We are called to let our love be genuine.
- We should hate what is evil and cling to good.
- Paul mentions the importance of zeal twice in the section.
- Rejoice, be patient in trials, and constant in prayers.
- Bless those who persecute you, do not curse them.
- Rejoice and weep with others.
- Give yourself to humble tasks.
- Do not repay evil, but always do what is honorable to all.
- God will seek vengence so we are not to.
- To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.” Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
- We are to love our enemies and do good to them.
Hebrews 13
- The writer encourages brotherly love to continue.
- Show hospitality to strangers
- Is the writer saying some strangers are really angels?
- Remember those fellow believers who are in prison or mistreated.
- Hold your marriage with honor and keep from sexual immorality.
- Do not love money but be content with what you have because God has said "I will never leave you nor forsake you."
- Since the Lord is our helper we do not need to fear.
- The writer tells the people to immitate their leaders' lives.
- Christ has always been and will always be the same, God is unchanging.
- Do not be misled by false teaching but strengthen yourseleves with grace.
- The bodies of sacrificed animals are burned outside of the city just like Jesus suffered outside of the gate to sanctify people to Himself.
- The writer tells us to go outside the city because we are seeking the city to come.
- We can offer God sacrifices by out lips which praise Him.
- Do not neglect to do good and share what you have with others.
- The writer ends by asking God to by Jesus blood to do everything good according to God's will.
- The writer tells them that Timothy has been released and that the writer himself will try to come visit them soon with Timothy.
- He also says the leaders in Italy send the readers greetings.
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