Christian Churches of God

No. CB122_2

 

 

 

Lesson:

Ways People attempt to do away with or Limit the Sacrifice of Messiah

(Edition 1.0 20060218-20060212)

 

In this lesson we will review the paper the Ways People attempt to do away with or Limit the Sacrifice of Messiah (No. CB122), and focus on the variety of ways that people try to do this. We will also look at the intentions of the manipulations involved in these changes; yet realize Eloah is in charge and Christ’s sacrifice is complete and perfect.

 

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Lesson:

Ways People attempt to do away with or Limit

the Sacrifice of Messiah


 

Goal: 

To review the basic concepts related to Eloah under Messiah and into the Millennium and the symbolism that is involved in the text.

 

Objectives:

1.      Children will be able to identify who the perfect sacrifice is and why.

2.      Children will learn that Christ fulfilled only part of the Law.

3.      Children will learn that God’s Law is not done away.

4.      Children will be able to identify why some mainstream beliefs are false.

5.      Children will be able to identify pagan objects and why they are against God’s Law.

 

Resources:

Who is God? (No. CB1)

Who is Jesus? (No. CB2)

What is the Holy Spirit? (No. CB3)

The Creation of the Family of God (No. CB4)

Lesson: The Creation of the Family of God (CB4_2)

In the Beginning (No. CB5)

God's Sacred Calendar (No. CB20)

How to Determine God's Calendar (No. CB020b)

The Sabbath Day (No. CB21)

Satan's Days of Worship (No. CB23)

Why we don't celebrate Christmas (No. CB24)

Summary: The Sign of Jonah and the History of the Reconstruction of the Temple (No. 13z)

Summary: Birthdays (No. 287z)

 

Relevant Scriptures:

1 Peter 3:15

Acts 10:34

John 17:3

1Timothy 6:16

 

Format:

Open with prayer.

Ask the children why they think someone would try to change the Laws of Eloah.

Review the Questions and Answers.

Conduct activity options.

Close with prayer.

Lesson:

Read:  Ways People attempt to do away with or Limit the Sacrifice of Messiah (No. CB122).

 

Questions and Answers:

 

Q1.      What are we called to be?

A.        Kings and priests (Ex. 19:5,6; Rev. 1:5,6).

 

Q2.      What great gift did God the Father give us through His Plan?

A.        The sacrifice of Messiah enabled us to be reconciled or reunited to the Father. We would remain dead in our sins and our life would end when we die without this sacrifice.

 

Q3.      Can you think of another wonderful gift we have been given?

A.        Christ, in his willingness to lay down his life for the fallen Host and mankind, is also a gift beyond belief. So Jesus came to give his life (i.e. to die) that we might have eternal life with him and the Father.

 

Q4.      Why did we need to be reunited with the Father?

A.        Sin separates us from God. When Adam and Eve sinned humans were denied access to the One True God. By Christ’s death humans can repent of their sins and again have access to the Father through His Holy Spirit. However, this first requires repentance and baptism when we are adults.

 

Q5.      The demons or fallen Host are doing everything they can to stop or interfere with the Plan of Eloah. Will they succeed?

A.        No. Only what God allows or wills will happen. Yet as we get closer and closer to the time of the Witnesses and Messiah’s return many will attempt to deceive even the elect if it were possible (Mat. 24:24).

 

Q6.      How can we avoid being deceived by Satan and the fallen Host?

A.        As long as we obey God and keep all of His Laws we will not be deceived or tricked.

 

Q7.      Do we have a responsibility to be able to give an answer of the hope that lies within us (1Pet. 3:15)?

A.        We need to be able to explain the reasons we believe what we do. From the lessons on the Amour of God we know we are to use the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God (Eph. 6:17).

 

Q8.      Matthew 24:22-29 tells us many false Christs will arrive and even deceive or trick the very elect if it were possible. Does God allow these errors?

A.        Yes, errors are allowed to demonstrate or show who has the approval of God and who does not have His approval (cf. 1Cor. 11:17-19).

 

Q9.      Some people say Christ was not human or did not come in the human flesh. Is this correct?

A.        Every spirit that does not acknowledge that Jesus Christ came in the flesh is not of God (cg. 1Jn. 4:3, CEV).

 

Q10.    We know that Satan sinned by his rebellion. Could Messiah also sin?

A.        Yes, Jesus was like every human and yet very different. He was tested but he never sinned (Heb. 4:15).

 

Q11.    Is it true that Messiah was touched before he ascended to the Father on Wave Sheaf?

  1. Not true. Messiah instructed Mary Magdalene not to touch him after he had been raised from the dead (Jn. 20:17).  However, after his ascension and acceptance by the Father he was touched (Mat. 28:9). If he had he been touched prior to ascension to the Father, Messiah would no longer be a perfect untouched/unblemished offering.

 

Q12.    Those who worship on Sunday and keep a pagan calendar say Christ did away with the Law. How would you answer this?

A.        We can be sure from what Christ said: “Until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter or the least stroke of the pen will disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished (Mat. 5:18). Messiah came to keep the Law not change or break the Law (Mat. 5:17).

 

Q13.    Did the Messiah’s sacrifice replace any part of the Law?

A.        Yes, his sacrifice replaced the sacrificial law only (Heb. 10:1-18). Other than that the Laws of God remain and are binding on us today, as they always were, from the creation of the spiritual Host, and on to the first humans in the Garden of Eden.

 

Q14.    People who celebrate the Easter festival say that Christ rose from the dead on Sunday morning. We know this is not true, but what is the correct answer?

A.        The resurrection did not take place on Sunday morning. The Easter custom came into the Church quite some time after Jesus went back to Heaven. We know from the Bible that Christ had to be three days and three nights in the tomb just like Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish (Mat. 12:39-41). He was buried on a Wednesday and rose from the dead on Saturday night, and then waited until Sunday morning in readiness to ascend into Heaven (Jn. 20:1).

 

Q15.    Another teaching is that we should celebrate Christ’s birthday on 25 December. Is this true or false?

A.        This is false since we are told to remember the day of Christ’s death yearly (Lk. 22:9; 1Cor. 11:23-26) and told not to keep birthdays (Gen. 40:20; Job 1:4; Mat. 14:6, Mk. 6:21). God tells us not to keep the festivals of Christmas in Jeremiah 10. See also Satan's Days of Worship (No. CB23); Why we don't celebrate Christmas (No. CB24); Summary: Birthdays (No. 287z).

 

Activity Options:

 

Concentration game:

With the 10 Commandments of God, duties of a priest and wearing of blue ribbon

 

 

                                                Concentration cards:

Ten Commandments Text Cards

 

"I am the Lord your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of bondage, or slavery. You shall have no other gods before Me."

 

“You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth."

 

"You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain."

 

"Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy."

 

"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the LORD your God gives you."

 

"You shall not murder."

 

"You shall not commit adultery."

 

"You shall not steal."

 

"You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour."

 

"You shall not covet your neighbour's house; you shall not covet your neighbour's wife or his male servant or his female servant or his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbour."

 

Concentration cards:

Ten Commandments Numerical Cards

I. Commandment

 

 

II. Commandment

 

 

III. Commandment

 

 

IV. Commandment

 

 

V. Commandment

 

 

VI. Commandment

 

 

VI. Commandment

 

 

VII. Commandment

 

 

IX. Commandment

 

 

X. Commandment

 

 

 

 

 

Concentration cards:

 

Blue Ribbon

 

Numbers 15:38-39: “Speak to the people of Israel, and bid them to make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put upon the tassel of each corner a chord of blue; and it shall be to you a tassel to look upon and remember all the commandments of the LORD, to do them, not to follow after your own heart and your own eyes, which you are inclined to go after wantonly.”

Duet. 22:12 you shall make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou covers thyself.   Pin four blue ribbons on this card prior to hanging it on the blue yarn.

 

Blue Ribbons

Num. 15:38-39 and Duet 22:12

 

 

 

Concentration cards:

5 Jobs of a Priest Scripture Cards

 

Leviticus 10:11: And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the LORD hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses. (KJV)

 

 

Malachi 2:7 For the priest's lips should keep     knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts

 

 

Matthew 4:4: But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. (KJV)

1.      Teach the Law of Eloah  (Deut.  33:10; Lev.10:11; Ezra 7:10)

2.      Explain the Law of Eloah  (Neh: 8:7)

3.      Keep or preserve the Law of Eloah  (Mal 2:7; Neh 18:18)

4.      Judge by the Law of Eloah Deut. 17:2-13; 21:5

5.      Live by the word of Eloah (Deut. 8:3; Mat. 4:4; Luke 4:4)

 

 

 

Deuteronomy 17:8-11:… And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment: And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the LORD shall choose shall shew thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee: According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left. (KJV)

 

Dueteronomy 21:5 And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the LORD thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of the LORD; and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried (KJV)

Nehemiah 8:6-7ff. And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped the LORD with their faces to the ground. Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people stood in their place. So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.

 

 

 

 

 

Concentration cards:

5 Jobs of a Priest Heading Cards

 

Teach the Law

of Eloah

(Deut. 33:10; Lev. 10:11; Ezra 7:10)

 

 

Keep or preserve the Law

of Eloah

(Mal 2:7; Neh 18:18)

 

 

Live by the word of Eloah

   (Deut. 8:3; Mat. 4:4; Luke 4:4)

 

 

In summary the priests are to:

1.       Teach the Law of Eloah  (Deut.  33:10; Lev.10:11; Ezra 7:10)

2.       Explain the Law of Eloah  (Neh: 8:7)

3.       Keep or preserve the Law of Eloah  (Mal 2:7; Neh 18:18)

4.       Judge by the Law of Eloah Deut. 17:2-13; 21:5

5.       Live by the word of Eloah (Deut. 8:3; Mat. 4:4; Luke 4:4)

 

 

Judge by the Law of Eloah

(Deut. 17:2-13; 21:5)

 

 

 

Explain the Law of Eloah

(Neh. 8:7)

 

 

 

 

 

Activity Options: Run of the bulls

 

The pagan items can be reviewed and discussed with scriptural support saying why the item is against God’s Law. After the discussion the children can “smash” (with adult supervision) the pagan items, which can then be burnt in a grill.

 

 

Ten Commandments Cards

I. Commandment

 

"I am the Lord your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of bondage, or slavery. You shall have no other gods before Me."

II. Commandment

 

“You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth."

III. Commandment

 

"You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain."

IV. Commandment

 

"Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy."

V. Commandment

 

"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the LORD your God gives you."

VI. Commandment

 

"You shall not murder."

VI. Commandment

 

"You shall not commit adultery."

VII. Commandment

 

"You shall not steal."

IX. Commandment

 

"You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour."

X. Commandment

 

"You shall not covet your neighbour's house; you shall not covet your neighbour's wife or his male servant or his female servant or his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbour."

 

 

 

Blue Ribbon Cards

Blue Ribbons

Numbers 15:38-39: “Speak to the people of Israel, and bid them to make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put upon the tassel of each corner a chord of blue; and it shall be to you a tassel to look upon and remember all the commandments of the LORD, to do them, not to follow after your own heart and your own eyes, which you are inclined to go after wantonly.”

Deuteronomy 22:12 you shall make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou covers thyself.   Pin four blue ribbons on this card prior to hanging it on the blue yarn.

 

 

 

 

5 Jobs of a Priest Cards

 

Teach the Law of Eloah

(Deut.  33:10; Lev.10:11; Ezra 7:10)

 

Leviticus 10:11 And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the LORD hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses. KJV

 

Keep or preserve the Law

of Eloah

(Mal 2:7; Neh 18:18)

 

Malachi 2:7 For the priest's lips should keep     knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts

Live by the word of Eloah

   (Deut. 8:3; Mat. 4:4; Luke 4:4)

 

Matthew 4:4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. (KJV)

In summary Priests are too:

1)      Teach the Law of Eloah  (Deut.  33:10; Lev.10:11; Ezra 7:10)

2)      Explain the Law of Eloah  (Neh: 8:7)

3)      Keep or preserve the Law of Eloah  (Mal 2:7; Neh 18:18)

4)      Judge by the Law of Eloah Deut. 17:2-13; 21:5

5)      Live by the word of Eloah (Deut. 8:3; Mat. 4:4; Luke 4:4)

 

 

Judge by the Law of Eloah

(Deut. 17:2-13; 21:5)

Deuteronomy 17:8-11:… And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment: And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the LORD shall choose shall shew thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee: According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left. (KJV)

 

Deuteronomy 21:5 And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the LORD thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of the LORD; and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried (KJV)

Explain the Law of Eloah

(Neh. 8:6-7)

 

Nehemiah 8:6-7ff. And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped the LORD with their faces to the ground. Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people stood in their place. So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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