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Saturday
First Lesson
Exodus 24:1-11, 16-18
1 And He said unto Moses, Come up unto the LORD, thou, and Aaron,
Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship
ye afar off.
2 And Moses alone shall come near the LORD: but they shall not
come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him.
3 And
Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and
all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice,
and said, All the words which the LORD hath said will we do.
4 And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early
in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve
pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
5 And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered
burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto
the LORD.
6 And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basins; and
half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
7 And
he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of
the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we
do, and be obedient.
8 And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and
said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made
with you concerning all these words.
9 Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy
of the elders of Israel:
10 And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet
as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the
body of heaven in his clearness.
11 And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not
his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.
16 And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the
cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto
Moses out of the midst of the cloud.
17 And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring
fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.
18 And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up
into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty
nights.
1st Lesson Questions -
The people said twice "All the words which the LORD hath said will we do," but they did not obey Him. (Vs. 3,7) How have I been like them, in the last month? Why? RESOLVE.
Second Lesson
Hebrews 9:1-14
1 Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine
service, and a worldly sanctuary.
2 For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the
candlestick, and the table, and the showbread; which is called
the sanctuary.
3 And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the
Holiest of all;
4 Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid
round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna,
and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;
5 And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat;
of which we cannot now speak particularly.
6 Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went
always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of
God.
7 But into the second went the high priest alone once every year,
not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the
errors of the people:
8 The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest
of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle
was yet standing:
9 Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were
offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that
did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;
10 Which
stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal
ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come,
by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands,
that is to say, not of this building;
12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood
he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal
redemption for us.
13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an
heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of
the flesh:
14 How
much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal
Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience
from dead works to serve the living God?
2nd Lesson Questions -
Hebrews 9:1-14. When was this time of reformation? (V. 10) Has the blood of Christ purified my con science from dead works to serve the living God? (V. 14) In what ways was that fact manifested this past week? RESOLVE.