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Title: Leviticus


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Leviticus
  • The sacrificial system
  • The tabernacle

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Is sacrifice what God wants?
  • You do not want sacrifices, or I would offer
    them you are not pleased with burnt offerings.
    My sacrifice is a humble spirit, O God you will
    not reject a humble and repentant heart (Psalms
    5116,17)
  • He says, Do you think I want all these
    sacrifices you keep offering to me? I have had
    more than enough of the sheep you burn as
    sacrifices and of the fat of your fine animals. I
    am tired of the blood of bulls and sheep and
    goats. Who asked you to bring me all this when
    you come to worship me? Who asked you to do all
    this tramping around in my Temple? It's useless
    to bring your offerings. I am disgusted with the
    smell of the incense you burn. I cannot stand
    your New Moon Festivals, your Sabbaths, and your
    religious gatherings they are all corrupted by
    your sins. I hate your New Moon Festivals and
    holy days they are a burden that I am tired of
    bearing (Isaiah 111-14).

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Is sacrifice what God wants?
  • What shall I bring to the Lord, the God of
    heaven, when I come to worship him? Shall I bring
    the best calves to burn as offerings to him? Will
    the Lord be pleased if I bring him thousands of
    sheep or endless streams of olive oil? Shall I
    offer him my first-born child to pay for my sins?
    No, the Lord has told us what is good. What he
    requires of us is this to do what is just, to
    show constant love, and to live in humble
    fellowship with our God (Micah 66-8).
  • The Lord says, I hate your religious festivals
    I cannot stand them! When you bring me burnt
    offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept
    them I will not accept the animals you have
    fattened to bring me as offerings. Stop your
    noisy songs I do not want to listen to your
    harps. Instead, let justice flow like a stream,
    and righteousness like a river that never goes
    dry. People of Israel, I did not demand
    sacrifices and offerings during those forty years
    that I led you through the desert (Amos
    521-25).
  • I want your constant love, not your animal
    sacrifices. I would rather have my people know me
    than burn offerings to me (Hosea 66).

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Is sacrifice what God wants?
  • Jesus words Go and learn what this means I
    desire mercy and not sacrifice and sacrificial
    victims. (Matthew 913 Amplified)
  • As it is, however, the sacrifices serve year
    after year to remind people of their sins. For
    the blood of bulls and goats can never take away
    sins. For this reason, when Christ was about to
    come into the world, he said to God You do not
    want sacrifices and offerings, but you have
    prepared a body for me. You are not pleased with
    animals burned whole on the altar or with
    sacrifices to take away sins. Then I said, 'Here
    I am, to do your will, O God, just as it is
    written of me in the book of the Law. (Hebrews
    103-7 - GN)

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Why make a tent?
  • The people must make a sacred Tent for me, so
    that I may live among them (Exodus 258 GN)
  • I will meet you there at set times and speak
    with you from above the Atonement-Cover and from
    between the angel-figures that are on it,
    speaking the commands that I have for the
    Israelites. (Exodus 2522 The Message)
  • For all time to come, this burnt offering is to
    be offered in my presence at the entrance of the
    Tent of my presence. That is where I will meet my
    people and speak to you. There I will meet the
    people of Israel, and the dazzling light of my
    presence will make the place holyI will live
    among the people of Israel, and I will be their
    God. They will know that I am the LORD their God
    who brought them out of Egypt so that I could
    live among them. I am the LORD their God.
    (Exodus 2942-46 - GN)
  • I heard a loud voice speaking from the throne
    Now God's home is with people! He will live with
    them, and they shall be his people. (Revelation
    213 GN) --At-One-Ment--

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Why make a tent?
  • To recognize the problem that has separated us
    from God
  • To illustrate the way in which we may be restored
    to a relationship of love, trust, and true
    friendship with God

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The Sanctuary
  • Physical
  • Tabernacle in the wilderness
  • Solomons temple
  • Ezekiels temple in vision
  • Herods temple
  • Spiritual
  • Jesus answered, Tear down this Temple, and in
    three days I will build it again. Are you going
    to build it again in three days? they asked him.
    It has taken forty-six years to build this
    Temple! But the temple Jesus was speaking about
    was his body. So when he was raised from death,
    his disciples remembered that he had said this,
    and they believed the scripture and what Jesus
    had said. (John 219-22 - GN)

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The spiritual temple
  • Come to Christ, who is the living cornerstone of
    Gods temple. He was rejected by the people, but
    he is precious to God who chose him. And now God
    is building you, as living stones, into his
    spiritual temple. (1 Peter 3)
  • I will make those who are victorious pillars in
    the temple of my God, and they will never leave
    it (Revelation 312).
  • You, too, are built upon the foundation laid by
    the apostles and prophets, the cornerstone being
    Christ Jesus himself. He is the one who holds the
    whole building together and makes it grow into a
    sacred temple dedicated to the Lord. In union
    with him you too are being built together with
    all the others into a place where God lives
    through his Spirit (Ephesians 220-22).

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The spiritual temple
  • Surely you know that you are God's temple and
    that God's Spirit lives in you! God will destroy
    anyone who destroys God's temple. For God's
    temple is holy, and you yourselves are his
    temple (1 Corinthians 317 - GN).
  • Don't you know that your body is the temple of
    the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and who was
    given to you by God? (1 Corinthians 619 - GN)
  • For we are the temple of the living God! As God
    himself has said, I will make my home with my
    people and live among them I will be their God,
    and they shall be my people (2 Corinthians 616
    - GN).
  • We are his house if we keep up our courage and
    our confidence in what we hope for (Hebrews 36
    - GN).

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The temple of the mind
  • The point is to cleanse the mind and to bring us
    to know God as a Friend
  • Seeing that that first tabernacle was a parable
    (a visible symbol or type or picture of the
    present age). In it gifts and sacrifices are
    offered, and yet are incapable of perfecting the
    conscience or of cleansing and renewing the inner
    man of the worshiper. (Hebrews 99 Amplified)
  • But, how much more will the blood of Christ make
    our consciences clean from dead human efforts, so
    that we can worship the living God! (Hebrews
    914 The Great Book)

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The temple of the mind
  • BEHOLD, I send My messenger, and he shall
    prepare the way before Me. And the Lord the
    Messiah, Whom you seek, will suddenly come to
    His temple the Messenger or Angel of the
    covenant, Whom you desire, behold, He shall come,
    says the Lord of hosts. But who can endure the
    day of His coming? And who can stand when He
    appears? For He is like a refiner's fire and like
    fullers soap He will sit as a refiner and
    purifier of silver, and He will purify the
    priests, the sons of Levi, and refine them like
    gold and silver, that they may offer to the Lord
    offerings in righteousness. (Malachi 31-3 -
    Amplified)

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The temple of the mind
  • To cleanse the mind of what?
  • You cant put sin in a bottle and punish it
  • Sin is a disease in the mind that needs healing
    rebellion, distrust
  • The root of the problem is a false picture of God
    and a rejection of the principles upon which his
    kingdom is based
  • The solution is for God to bring us to a clear
    picture of his character, and that we come to
    love the principles upon which he runs the
    universe

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Symbols with meaning
  • Lamb - Jesus
  • High Priest Jesus
  • Daily Priest Us
  • The lid over the covenant box Jesus
  • Shekinah glory the Godhead
  • Angels woven in the curtains/veils Angels
  • Oil Holy Spirit
  • Blood The truth about God (his character and
    his principles) as revealed through the life and
    death of Jesus
  • I can guarantee this truth If you don't eat the
    flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you
    don't have the source of life in you. Those who
    eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal
    life, and I will bring them back to life on the
    last day. My flesh is true food, and my blood is
    true drink. (John 653-55 GN)
  • What gives life is God's Spirit human power is
    of no use at all. The words I have spoken to you
    bring Gods life-giving Spirit (John 663 GN)

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The meaning of blood
  • The truth revealed about God (his character and
    principles) by the life, words and death of Jesus
  • Blood always cleanses never defiles
  • To be washed in the blood of the lamb is to have
    ones mind purified by the truth about God
  • And almost all things are by the law purged with
    blood and without shedding of blood is no
    remission. (Hebrews 922 KJV)
  • As Moses Teachings tell us, blood was used to
    cleanse almost everything, because if no blood is
    shed, no sins can be forgiven. (Hebrews 922
    GODS WORD)
  • Moses said to the people, This is the blood of
    the covenant God has established with you.
    Practically everything in a will hinges on a
    death. That's why blood, the evidence of death,
    is used so much in our tradition, especially
    regarding forgiveness of sins (Hebrews 922
    The Message)
  • The blood is a symbol of Gods remedy to heal our
    minds and to restore our character into his image

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Outside the sanctuary
  • Unbelievers
  • Day of Atonement
  • The bull and the goat used for the sin offering,
    whose blood was brought into the Most Holy Place
    to take away sin, shall be carried outside the
    camp and burned. Skin, meat, and intestines shall
    all be burned. (Leviticus 1627 GN)
  • Where did Jesus die?
  • Outside the city. Killed by unbelievers.
  • The Jewish high priest brings the blood of the
    animals into the Most Holy Place to offer it as a
    sacrifice for sins but the bodies of the animals
    are burned outside the camp. For this reason
    Jesus also died outside the city, in order to
    purify the people from sin with his own blood.
    (Hebrews 1311,12 GN)

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Several things in parallel
  • Jesus represented by many of the symbolic
    objects in the temple
  • Humanity represented by many of the symbolic
    objects in the temple
  • ---------------------------
  • Jesus High Priest
  • What was the mission of the High Priest?
  • What was Jesus mission?
  • I glorified you on earth by completing down to
    the last detail What you assigned me to doI
    spelled out your character in detail To the men
    and women you gave me. (John 174,6 The
    Message)
  • Humanity Daily Priests
  • What is our mission? The same!
  • It is the duty of priests to teach the true
    knowledge of God. (Malachi 27 GN)

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3 sections of the tabernacle
  • Outer court
  • Holy Place
  • Most Holy Place
  • --------------------------
  • Brazen altar Bronze. In the outer court. The
    unconverted mind, yet willing to listen
  • Golden altar Gold. In the holy place. The
    converted mind.
  • The covenant box Gold, covered by the gold lid.
    In the most holy place. The sealed mind settled
    into the truth about God (his character and his
    principles).

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The outer court
  • The head of the household brought in a perfect
    lamb for sin
  • The lamb was examined and found to be spotless
  • The same man killed the sheep and the blood was
    drained
  • Blood was placed on the horns of the brazen altar
  • The lamb was then placed by the priest on the
    brazen altar

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The brazen altar
  • The mind of the unconverted, yet willing to
    listen and willing the experience healing
  • Lamb Christ
  • Fire truth/Holy Spirit
  • Organs inner man/old man being burned
    up/transformed in character
  • As Moses lifted up the bronze snake on a pole in
    the desert, in the same way the Son of Man must
    be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in
    him may have eternal life. For God loved the
    world so much that he gave his only Son, so that
    everyone who believes in him may not die but have
    eternal life. For God did not send his Son into
    the world to be its judge, but to be its savior.
    (John 314-17 GN)
  • So Moses made a bronze snake and put it on a
    pole. Anyone who had been bitten would look at
    the bronze snake and be healed (Numbers 219
    GN)

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The laver
  • A place for the priest to wash the hands and feet
    prior to entering the Holy Place
  • Moses, Aaron, and his sons washed their hands
    and their feet there whenever they went into the
    Tent or to the altar, just as the LORD commanded
    (Exodus 4031 GN)
  • The man who brought the sheep followed the priest
    into the Holy Place by faith
  • What is done when one is converted?
  • Baptism to indicate spiritual birth believer
  • Jesus was baptized upon entering his ministry
  • I am telling you the truth, replied Jesus,
    that no one can enter the Kingdom of God without
    being born of water and the Spirit. A person is
    born physically of human parents, but is born
    spiritually of the Spirit. (John 35,6 GN)

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The Holy Place
  • Through the veil into the Holy Place
  • The veils separate us from God in the Most Holy
    Place. To go through the veil is to see more
    clearly
  • However, their minds became closed. In fact, to
    this day the same veil is still there when they
    read the Old Testament. It isn't removed, because
    only Christ can remove it. Yet, even today, when
    they read the books of Moses, a veil covers their
    minds. But whenever a person turns to the Lord,
    the veil is taken away. (2 Corinthians 314-16
    GODS WORD)
  • 3 objects in the Holy Place represent the key
    elements in the Christian life
  • Table with showbread nourishment in the word of
    God
  • Lampstand a witness to the world about God
  • Golden altar with incense the mind in daily
    communion with God, and a resulting change in
    character

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Table of Showbread
  • Made by the Priests
  • Eaten on Sabbath by the priests
  • Represents the word of God
  • The LORD was teaching you that people need more
    than food to live--they need every word that the
    LORD has spoken. (Deuteronomy 83 CEV)
  • Bread assimilates throughout the entire physical
    being
  • The word of God when internalized also becomes a
    part of the person and results in a change of
    character
  • Just as we need daily physical food, we need
    daily spiritual food as well

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The Lampstand
  • The buds, the branches, and the lampstand are to
    be a single piece of pure hammered gold. Make
    seven lamps for the lampstand and set them up so
    that they shine toward the front. Make its tongs
    and trays of pure gold. Use seventy-five pounds
    of pure gold to make the lampstand and all this
    equipment. (Exodus 2536-39)
  • Jesus
  • The real light, which shines on everyone, was
    coming into the world. (John 19 GODS WORD)
  • Jesus spoke to the Pharisees again. I am the
    light of the world, he said. Whoever follows me
    will have the light of life and will never walk
    in darkness. (John 812 GN)
  • While I am in the world, I am the light for the
    world. (John 95 GN)
  • Jesus said in a loud voice, Whoever believes in
    me believes not only in me but also in him who
    sent me. Whoever sees me sees also him who sent
    me. I have come into the world as light, so that
    everyone who believes in me should not remain in
    the darkness. (John 1244-46 GN)
  • The seven lamps are the eyes of GOD probing the
    dark corners of the world like searchlights.
    (Zechariah 410 The Message)

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The Lampstand
  • We also are a light to the world
  • You are like light for the whole world. A city
    built on a hill cannot be hid. No one lights a
    lamp and puts it under a bowl instead it is put
    on the lampstand, where it gives light for
    everyone in the house. In the same way your light
    must shine before people, so that they will see
    the good things you do and praise your Father in
    heaven. (Matthew 514-16 - GN)
  • For this is the commandment that the Lord has
    given us I have made you a light for the
    Gentiles, so that all the world may be saved.
    (Acts 1347 GN)
  • Here is the secret meaning of the seven stars
    that you see in my right hand, and of the seven
    gold lampstands the seven stars are the angels
    of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands
    are the seven churches. (Revelation 120 GN)
  • Tell Aaron that when he puts the seven lamps on
    the lampstand, he should place them so that the
    light shines toward the front (Numbers 82 GN)

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The Lampstand
  • What light do we bring to the world?
  • Your word is a lamp to guide me and a light for
    my path (Psalms 119105 GN)
  • What is in the word? The revelation of the truth
    about Gods character, methods and principles
  • Don't suppose that I came to do away with the
    Law and the Prophets. I did not come to do away
    with them, but to give them their full meaning.
    (Matthew 517 CEV)
  • Don't suppose for a minute that I have come to
    demolish the Scriptures--either God's Law or the
    Prophets. I'm not here to demolish but to
    complete. I am going to put it all together, pull
    it all together in a vast panorama. (Matthew
    517 The Message)

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The Lampstand
  • We represent the character of Jesus
  • Ornate buds, flowers, and almonds (Exodus 37)
    the humble and gentle character of God
    represented by his people
  • The fruits of the spirit
  • But the Spirit produces love, joy, peace,
    patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
    humility, and self-control. (Galatians 522-23
    GN)

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The lampstand
  • Oil Holy Spirit
  • I will ask the Father, and he will give you
    another Helper, who will stay with you forever.
    He is the Spirit, who reveals the truth about
    God. (John 1416,17 - GN)
  • The Helper will come---the Spirit, who reveals
    the truth about God and who comes from the
    Father. I will send him to you from the Father,
    and he will speak about me. (John 1526 - GN)
  • When, however, the Spirit comes, who reveals the
    truth about God, he will lead you into all the
    truth. (John 1613 - GN)
  • Even now the true worshipers are being led by
    the Spirit to worship the Father according to the
    truth. These are the ones the Father is seeking
    to worship him. God is Spirit, and those who
    worship God must be led by the Spirit to worship
    him according to the truth (John 423,24 CEV)

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Altar of incense
  • Put this altar outside the curtain which hangs
    in front of the Covenant Box. That is the place
    where I will meet you. Every morning when Aaron
    comes to take care of the lamps, he is to burn
    sweet-smelling incense on it. He must do that
    same when he lights the lamps in the evening.
    This offering of incense is to continue without
    interruption for all time to come.Once a year
    Aaron is to perform the ritual for purifying the
    altar by putting on its four projections the
    blood of the animal sacrificed for sin. This is
    to be done every year for all time to come. This
    altar is to be completely holy, dedicated to me,
    the LORD (Exodus 306-10 GN)
  • I pray to you, LORD! Please listen when I pray
    and hurry to help me. Think of my prayer as
    sweet-smelling incense, and think of my lifted
    hands as an evening sacrifice. (Psalms 1411,2
    CEV)
  • Be joyful always, pray at all times, be thankful
    in all circumstances. This is what God wants from
    you in your life in union with Christ Jesus. (1
    Thessalonians 516-18 GN)

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Altar of incense
  • What is prayer?
  • What happens when we pray?
  • We are changed into the image of the God we
    worship
  • The LORD said, I was ready to answer my
    people's prayers, but they did not pray. I was
    ready for them to find me, but they did not even
    try. The nation did not pray to me, even though I
    was always ready to answer, 'Here I am I will
    help you. (Isaiah 651 Amplified)
  • I stretched out my hands all day long to
    stubborn people. They chose to go the wrong
    direction. They followed their own plans. These
    people constantly and openly provoked me. They
    offered sacrifices in gardens and burnt incense
    on brick altars. (Isaiah 652,3 GODS WORD)
  • Worshiping the true God on the golden altar
    changed into Gods image represent a true
    knowledge of God to the world
  • Worship a false picture of God on a brick altar
    changed into the image of a false God

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Altar of incense
  • God uses us to make the knowledge about Christ
    spread everywhere like a sweet fragrance.
  • For we are like a sweet-smelling incense offered
    by Christ to God, which spreads among those who
    are being saved and those who are being lost. For
    those who are being lost, it is a deadly stench
    that kills but for those who are being saved, it
    is a fragrance that brings life (2 Corinthians
    214-16 GN)

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The veil
  • Did not extend to the top the glory (character)
    of God is seen, but not perfectly from the Holy
    Place
  • The veil separates us from seeing God as he
    really is
  • Ripped at the death of Jesus
  • What happened at the cross?
  • We have, then, my friends, complete freedom to
    go into the Most Holy Place by means of the death
    of Jesus. He opened for us a new way, a living
    way, through the curtain---that is, through his
    own body. (Hebrews 1019,20 GN)
  • So let us come boldly to the throne of our
    gracious God. There we will receive his mercy,
    and we will find grace (Hebrews 416, NLT).

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The Most Holy Place
  • A perfect cube
  • The Most Holy Place in the wilderness
  • The Most Holy Place in Solomons temple
  • The dimensions of the New Jerusalem (the Bride)
  • The city was square. It was as wide as it was
    long. He measured the city with the stick. It was
    12,000 stadia long. Its length, width, and height
    were the same. (Revelation 2116 GODS WORD)
  • The believer in an intimate relationship with God
  • So settled into the truth about Gods character
    and principles that one cannot be moved (sealed)

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The covenant box
  • Manna
  • I am telling you the truth, Jesus said. What
    Moses gave you was not the bread from heaven it
    is my Father who gives you the real bread from
    heaven. For the bread that God gives is he who
    comes down from heaven and gives life to the
    world. Sir, they asked him, give us this
    bread always. I am the bread of life, Jesus
    told them I am telling you the truth he who
    believes has eternal life. I am the bread of
    life. Your ancestors ate manna in the desert, but
    they died. But the bread that comes down from
    heaven is of such a kind that whoever eats it
    will not die. I am the living bread that came
    down from heaven. If you eat this bread, you will
    live forever. The bread that I will give you is
    my flesh, which I give so that the world may
    liveThe living Father sent me, and because of
    him I live also. In the same way whoever eats me
    will live because of me. This, then, is the bread
    that came down from heaven it is not like the
    bread that your ancestors ate, but then later
    died. Those who eat this bread will live
    foreverWhat gives life is God's Spirit human
    power is of no use at all. The words I have
    spoken to you bring Gods life-giving Spirit.
    (John 632-63 - GN)

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The covenant box
  • Manna
  • Pure bread of life from heaven (Jesus words and
    character) is internalized and assimilated
  • What is the result?
  • We, however, have the mind of Christ (1
    Corinthians 215 GN)
  • Yes, may you come to know his lovealthough it
    can never be fully known and so be completely
    filled with the very nature of God (Ephesians
    319).

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The covenant box
  • Aarons rod with almonds and flowers
  • We are a branch (rod) plucked from the fire
  • In another vision the LORD showed me the High
    Priest Joshua standing before the angel of the
    LORD. And there beside Joshua stood Satan, ready
    to bring an accusation against him. The angel of
    the LORD said to Satan, May the LORD condemn
    you, Satan! May the LORD, who loves Jerusalem,
    condemn you. This man is like a stick snatched
    from the fire. Joshua was standing there,
    wearing filthy clothes. The angel said to his
    heavenly attendants, Take away the filthy
    clothes this man is wearing. Then he said to
    Joshua, I have taken away your sin and will give
    you new clothes to wear. (Zechariah 31-3 - GN)
  • Represents purity of character fruits of the
    spirit robe of righteousness

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Covenant box
  • The 10 Commandments
  • The Lord says, The time is coming when I will
    make a new covenant with the people of Israel and
    with the people of Judah. It will not be like the
    old covenant that I made with their ancestors
    when I took them by the hand and led them out of
    Egypt. Although I was like a husband to them,
    they did not keep that covenant. The new covenant
    that I will make with the people of Israel will
    be this I will put my law within them and write
    it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they
    will be my people. None of them will have to
    teach a neighbor to know the Lord, because all
    will know me, from the least to the greatest. I
    will forgive their sins and I will no longer
    remember their wrongs. I, the Lord, have spoken
    (Jeremiah 3131-34).

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The law on the heart
  • I will give them a new heart and a new mind. I
    will take away their stubborn heart of stone and
    will give them an obedient heart. Then they will
    keep my laws and faithfully obey all my commands.
    They will be my people, and I will be their God
    (Ezekiel 1119,20).

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The law on the heart
  • I will sprinkle clean water on you and make you
    clean from all your idols and everything else
    that has defiled you. I will give you a new heart
    and a new mind. I will take away your stubborn
    heart of stone and give you an obedient heart. I
    will put my spirit in you and will see to it that
    you follow my laws and keep all the commands I
    have given you (Ezekiel 3625-27)
  • Then he took the book of the covenant, in which
    the Lord's commands were written, and read it
    aloud to the people. They said, We will obey the
    Lord and do everything that he has
    commanded. Then Moses took the blood in the
    bowls and threw it on the people. He said, This
    is the blood that seals the covenant which the
    Lord made with you when he gave all these
    commands (Exodus 247,8).

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The law on the heart
  • The Lord says, Because of my covenant with you
    that was sealed by the blood of sacrifices, I
    will set your people free (Zechariah 911).
  • But this ceremony is a symbol which points to
    the present time, for the offerings and animal
    sacrifices presented to God cannot make the
    worshipers heart perfect (Hebrews 99).

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The new covenant
  • As the blood on the lid symbolically cleansed the
    tabernacle in the wilderness, so the life and
    death of Jesus, by revealing the truth about God,
    cleanses us of all the lies about God. The temple
    of the mind is filled with a true picture of God,
    and an intimate, healing relationship with God.
  • Because Jesus Christ did what God wanted him to
    do, we are all purified from sin by the offering
    that he made of his own body once and for all
    (Hebrews 1010).

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The new covenant
  • It is this blood the meaning of this blood
    which establishes the new covenant
  • Then he took a cup, gave thanks to God, and gave
    it to them. Drink it, all of you, he said
    this is my blood, which seals God's covenant
    (Matthew 2627,28).
  • Since this is true, how much more is
    accomplished by the blood of Christ! Through the
    eternal Spirit he offered himself as a perfect
    sacrifice to God. His blood will purify our
    consciences from useless rituals, so that we may
    serve the living God. For this reason Christ is
    the one who arranges a new covenant, so that
    those who have been called by God may receive the
    eternal blessings that God has promised (Hebrews
    914,15).
  • Because Jesus Christ did what God wanted him to
    do, we are all purified from sin by the offering
    that he made of his own body once and for
    allWith one sacrifice, then, he has made perfect
    forever those who are purified from sin. And the
    Holy Spirit also gives us his witness. First he
    says, This is the covenant that I will make with
    them in the days to come, says the Lord I will
    put my laws in their hearts and write them on
    their minds (Hebrews 1010, 14-16).
  • But if we live in the lightjust as he is in the
    lightthen we have fellowship with one another,
    and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from
    every sin (1 John 17 GN)

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