Set Apart for the LORD Part III

11.22.09 Revive Sunday School

Return to the LORD

A study of Jeremiah 2:1-13

Set Apart for the LORD Part III

Jeremiah 2:3 Israel was holy to the LORD, the firstfruits of his harvest. All who ate of it incurred guilt; disaster came upon them, declares the LORD."

Israel was holy to the LORD.

Qodesh means apartness, holiness, separateness, set-apart, dedicated and consecrated

Exodus 19:5-6 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine; ⁶and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.

Leviticus 19:2 "Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them, You shall be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy.

1 Peter 1:15-16 but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, ¹⁶since it is written, "You shall be holy, for I am holy."

We are to be _________ as He is holy.

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Things We Shouldn’t Do (Chapter 18)

Leviticus 18:1–4 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, ²"Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, I am the LORD your God. ³ You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived, and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you. You shall not walk in their statutes. ⁴ You shall follow my rules and keep my statutes and walk in them. I am the LORD your God.

1. Do not be like the _________________________

Leviticus 18:6-18 “None of you shall approach any one of his close relatives to uncover nakedness. I am the LORD.

2. Do not commit __________________________

Relatives by blood ___________________________________________

Relatives by marriage_________________________________________

These laws enforce a distinction between family___________________ and _________________ love.Lev. 18:6–18 These laws prohibit sexual relations (approach . . . to uncover nakedness), and therefore marriage, between people who are too closely related, either by blood (mother, sister, granddaughter, aunt) or by marriage (stepmother, stepsister, stepdaughter, stepgranddaughter, sister-in-law, daughter-in-law, aunt by marriage). The clause “to uncover nakedness” can at times merely refer to voyeurism (cf. Gen. 9:22–23), but in the OT it is most commonly a euphemism for sexual intercourse. No mention is made of the daughter, probably because that needs no comment (cf. Gen. 19:30–38), and this prohibition is already well known in the laws of other cultures. It is assumed that, generally speaking, Israelites will marry other Israelites, and these laws provide a boundary for how close such unions may be. There is some debate over just what motivates this system of requirements; certainly they enforce a distinction between family affection and erotic love as such—a distinction that protects the well-being of the community, and especially of its vulnerable members. This concern would not be limited to the Israelite theocracy and is therefore also applicable to Christians. « Less

Leviticus 18:19 “You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness. (Leviticus 15:19–24)

Leviticus 18:20 And you shall not lie sexually with your neighbor’s wife and so make yourself unclean with her.

3. Do not commit _____________________ (Exodus 20:14)

Leviticus 18:21 You shall not give any of your children to offer them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.

Leviticus 18:22 You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.

4. Do not engage in__________________________ activity. (Gen. 2:23–24)

Hebrews 13:4-5 Let marriage be held in honor among all and let the marriage bed be undefiled. For God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

Leviticus 18:23 And you shall not lie with any animal and so make yourself unclean with it, neither shall any woman give herself to an animal to lie with it: it is perversion.

5. Do not partake in any kind of _____________________________. (Sex with animals)

Leviticus 18:24 "Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean, ²⁵and the land became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants. ²⁶But you shall keep my statutes and my rules and do none of these abominations, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you ²⁷for the people of the land, who were before you, did all of these abominations, so that the land became unclean, ²⁸lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you. ²⁹For everyone who does any of these abominations, the persons who do them shall be cut off from among their people. ³⁰ So keep my charge never to practice any of these abominable customs that were practiced before you, and never to make yourselves unclean by them: I am the LORD your God."

What happens to the land when these abominations are practiced___________________ (Jeremiah 2:7)

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Things We Should Do (Chapter 19)

Leviticus 19:3 Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.

1. Honor your __________________ and ____________________.

Leviticus 19:4 Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves any gods of cast metal: I am the LORD your God.

2. Worship God (YHWY) _____________________.

Leviticus 19:9-10 "When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge; neither shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest. ¹⁰And you shall not strip your vineyard bare, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the LORD your God.

3. Provide for the _______________ and the ____________________.

Leviticus 19:11–12 "You shall not steal; you shall not deal falsely; you shall not lie to one another. ¹²You shall not swear by my name falsely, and so profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.

4. Be _________________, be ________________ and be _______________ in your relationships and protect the name of the LORD.

Leviticus 19:13-14 “You shall not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning. ¹⁴You shall not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God: I am the LORD.

5. Pay wages to a hired _____________ on time and honor the ________________________ disadvantaged.

Leviticus 19:15–16"You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor. ¹⁶ You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not stand up against the life of your neighbor: I am the LORD.

6. Treat the ________________ and the ______________ the same in a court of law.

Leviticus 19:17-18 "You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason frankly with your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him.¹⁸ You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD.

Leviticus 19:33 "When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. ³⁴ You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

7. Love your ____________________ as yourself.

Holiness requires that a person keep the Word of God.

Punishment for Disobedience (Chapter 20)

Leviticus 20:1-5 Child sacrifice- _________________________

Leviticus 20:9 To dishonor parents- _________________________

Leviticus 20:10-16 Adultery, Homosexuality, Sex with relatives by marriage, Bestiality- ________________________

Leviticus 20:17-18 Sex with blood relatives, Sex during menstrual cycle - ______________

Leviticus 20:19-21-Sex with aunts and uncles- ____________________________

Leviticus 20:22-26 "You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my rules and do them that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out. ²³ And you shall not walk in the customs of the nation that I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I detested them. ²⁴But I have said to you, 'You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey.' I am the LORD your God, who has separated you from the peoples. ²⁶ You shall be holy to me, for I the LORD am holy and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be mine.

Holiness is a _____________________ thing

Leviticus Chapter 21-22 Holiness of the Priesthood.

Chapter 21- Holiness of the Priests

Chapter 22- Holiness of the offerings

Exodus 28:36-38 "You shall make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it, like the engraving of a signet, 'Holy to the LORD.' ³⁷And you shall fasten it on the turban by a cord of blue. It shall be on the front of the turban. ³⁸It shall be on Aaron’s forehead, and Aaron shall bear any guilt from the holy things that the people of Israel consecrate as their holy gifts. It shall regularly be on his forehead, that they may be accepted before the LORD.

Exodus 39:30 They made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote on it an inscription, like the engraving of a signet, "Holy to the LORD."

Deuteronomy 7:6 "For you are a people Holy to the LORD your God.

1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation. (Exodus 19:6)

We are ___________________. We are a ___________________________________

_______________________________ is holy to the LORD.

Set Apart for the LORD Part I/II

11.15.09 Revive Sunday School

Return to the LORD

A study of Jeremiah 2:1-13

Set Apart for the LORD Part I/II

Jeremiah 2:3 Israel was holy to the LORD, the firstfruits of his harvest. All who ate of it incurred guilt; disaster came upon them, declares the LORD."

1. Israel was _____________to the LORD.

Qodesh means ______________________________________________________

True holiness is separation from everything profane and defiling, and at the same time, dedicated to everything holy and pure.

Examples of things profane and defiled. ___________________________________

Examples of things holy and pure.________________________________________

Why did God take them into the wilderness? ________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________

Romans 12:1-2 I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind

Lev 19:2 "Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them, You shall be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy.

God’s Holiness

Exodus 15:11- "Who is like you, O LORD, among the gods? Who is like you, majestic in holiness,
awesome in glorious deeds, doing wonders?

Psalm 29:2 Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; worship the LORD in the splendor of holiness.

1 Sam 2:2 "There is none holy like the LORD; there is none besides you; there is no rock like our God

Psalm 111:9 He sent redemption to his people; he has commanded his covenant forever. Holy and awesome is his name!

Isaiah 6:3 And one called to another and said: "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!"

Revelation 4:8 And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say, “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!"

Read Leviticus 18-22 for homework

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Orphan Sunday. November 8th 2009- Concert

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Our Love for the LORD (Part VI B)

Return to the LORD

A study of Jeremiah 2:1-13

Our Love for the LORD Part VI-b

Jeremiah 2:1-2 The word of the LORD came to me, saying, "Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the LORD, "I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.

How you _followed_me in the wilderness in a land not sown.

Halak (from the root Yalak) means to walk, come,to follow continues along, went on continually, to go after, to die, come away, depart

1. To walk, to come

Has the meaning, “coming __away____ with the beloved.”

2. Follow, went on continually, Continue along, go after

Nehemiah 9:12-15 By a pillar of cloud you led them in the day, and by a pillar of fire in the night to light for them the way in which they should go. ¹³You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven and gave them right rules and true laws, good statutes and commandments, ¹⁴ and you made known to them your holy Sabbath and commanded them commandments and statutes and a law by Moses your servant. ¹⁵You gave them bread from heaven for their hunger and brought water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and you told them to go in to possess the land that you had sworn to give them.

NKJV-You went after me

NASB Your following after me.

God wants you to ____pursue_____ Him.

Psalm 63 :1-3 O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you,
my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water.

Psalm 42:1 As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. ² My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.

3. Depart

“Departing” from the world of ___senses_____ and ordinary __desires____, to a higher level of spiritual intimacy.

Matthew 22:37 And he said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.

4. To die

In some uses of the Qal infinitive for halak, *walking* means_willing to die for___.

For example….Jesus “walked” to the cross for us.

Matthew 16:24 Then Jesus told his disciples, "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake shall find it."

Luke 14:31-33 Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? ³²And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace. ³³ So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple

Philippians 3:10 that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,

God’s appeal is for His people to come __back___ into the wilderness __again____.

Hosea 2:14-15 "Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her. ¹⁵And there I will give her her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. And there she shall answer as in the days of her youth, as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt.

Revelation 2:4 But I have this against you that you have abandoned the love you had at first.

How is your Love for the LORD?

Orphan Sunday. November 8th 2009

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