The Book of Leviticus The Pattern of Justification and Sanctification
- melodyouterbanks1
- May 13, 2023
- 9 min read
Updated: May 17
MESSAGE FOR PEOPLE TODAY FROM THE BOOK OF LEVITICUS |
Please watch the Video Before Reading the Lesson Plan
5 of 39 lessons Theme: Faith |
Question: Have you ever thought about what it means to live in the world without being of the world? |
How should a child of God respond to the world? We are going to be relating the 39 books of the Old Testament to Jesus' message to the seven churches in the book of Revelation, to learn how a child of God should approach "living in the world but not of the world." There is a message today for the child of God who has made a statement of faith to be born again by the Spirit of God through faith in Jesus to live in the world without being of the world. |
Question: Are all the children of God building Jesus' church? Read: Revelation 3:14 – 22 Laodicea When a child of God is building Jesus' church, a child of God will have warm emotions for the world and hot and cold emotions for Jesus' church. When a child of God has one foot in the world and one foot in Jesus' church, they will have warm emotions for Jesus' church and hot and cold emotions for the world. The Lord knows how to connect the heart to the brain to regulate hot, cold, and warm emotions. When God seals a child of God's heart, the heart can alter and change the brain's emotional patterns. The Spirit of God justifies a child of God's silent tears as seeds of righteousness that grow roots that connect the brain to the heart to grow fruit of the spirit to build the first pillar of sanctification in Jesus' church. Because the world needs a child of God's hot and cold emotional reactions to maintain control, the world will begin to fight with an offense to trigger hot or cold emotional reactions from a child of God. This is why the Spirit of God provides a prepared witness defense to protect the fruit coming into fruition to fill the second pillar of sanctification in Jesus' church. Just as the Israelites were expected to remember the covenant promises of how Abraham’s descendants would receive a blessing, where people who bless Abraham’s descendants will be blessed, and people who curse Abraham’s descendants will be cursed. This includes a binding covenant promise between the creation, humanity, and the Creator, God. When God teaches the Hebrews to be holy because God is holy, He was teaching how to connect holiness to how we love. In the book of Leviticus, God taught the Hebrews how to love differently from how the world was teaching people how to love. This is still a promise today. However, if a child of God has one foot in the world and one foot in Jesus' church, they will have warm emotions for Jesus, and this is how they will work to justify what the Spirit of God does not justify with an offense against a child of God. Working for salvation does not build Jesus' church but instead works with an offense to trigger emotional fear in a child of God who is building Jesus' church. Because the world does not regulate emotional responses, the world will work to have a child of God use the standard of the world to measure against. Just as Moses gave the Israelites the ten commandments, child of God today is to follow Jesus by denying themself and picking up their cross. Just as the Israelites would have a blessing or a curse, a child of God has life or death. Just as the Law of Moses established a baseline for behavior, Jesus establishes how to love God and our neighbor. However, if a child of God has one foot in the world and one foot in Jesus' church, they will have warm emotions for Jesus, and this is how they will work to justify what the Spirit of God does not justify. Working for salvation does not build Jesus' church but instead works to justify what the Spirit of God does not justify, and their heart will not alter their brains' emotional patterns. |
How can a child of God know if they are building Jesus' church? Look for behavior patterns. Look for the pattern of justification and sanctification.
What is the 2nd pillar of sanctification? A key takeaway from Leviticus is how Moses gave the Israelites the Law of Moses. Another key point is how the Law of Moses established right from wrong. Another key point is how Moses told the Israelites to obey the Law of Moses, so they would receive a blessing and not a curse. The book of Leviticus discusses how God promises peace for obedience to his statutes. Another key point is how in Leviticus, they were to have two or three witnesses. Now a child of God is called to be a witness to the world. By witnessing to the world with fruit coming into fruition, a child of God can be known by their fruit of the spirit. The Spirit of God knows the world will be fighting against a witness with an offense to trigger a hot or cold emotional reaction from a child of God. The world needs a child of God's emotional reactions to fill the hollow inner self that never made a connection from the brain to the heart. The world wants a child of God to regulate the world's emotions. Being a witness who puts on the armor of God to protect the fruit of the spirit coming into fruition will fill the 2nd pillar of sanctification. This is how there is a pattern of justification and sanctification, and it is not anything we can work for, but it is an ongoing, continuous gift from the Spirit of God for faith in Jesus. A Plan for Remembering the Promises of the Lord: The Israelites were to remember the promises that God had made to Abraham. As it is written in Leviticus 26:7-8, God promises peace in exchange for obedience to the statutes of the Lord. As it is written in Leviticus 26:11-13, God would dwell among his people in the tabernacle, breaking the yokes of their past slavery. A child of God who is making new brain connections (a witness to the world about the truth Jesus brought) to the heart will begin to protect the fruit of the spirit with a prepared witness defense prepared by the Spirit of God. This is how the fruit of the spirit will fill the second internal spiritual pillar of sanctification in the church of Laodicea. The fruit of the spirit can be identified as hot and cold emotional reactions for Jesus and warm emotions for the world. A child of God is to put on the armor of God, as the Israelites were to put on the armor of God for protection against the enemy. Because the old brain connections that bypassed the heart only focused on self-love that does not include the New Covenant relationship with Jesus, a lover of self is only in a relationship with themself. This is how Jesus will not know a person. Just as the Israelites were to obey to be protected by the Lord, we are to have behaviors that mirror the life Jesus lived before building Jesus' church. Consider how you respond to the world and answer the following questions:
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The book of Leviticus is where people learn to sacrifice against a standard that was designed by the word of God. Approximately ninety percent of the book of Leviticus was spoken directly by God. As it was spoken by God in Leviticus 19:2, “Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the Lord your God am holy.” This was a call to be set apart and different from the world, and to have a heart that is holy by teaching the Hebrews how to love God and others with God’s commandments and the sacrifice. This includes a binding promise to obey.
A sacrifice is a choice. A sacrifice does not include multiple options for a choice. It is an either/or choice where you must lose something to gain something. This includes a binding promise between the creation and the Creator, God. A covenant is made with love because there are promises that bind the covenant. As it is written in Leviticus 18:3, God instructed Moses to tell the Israelites not to act like the people in Egypt, or the people living in the land of Canaan because they have ordinances that are not like God’s commandments. God’s commandments reflect the holiness of God. The Israelites were given a choice: God or false gods. God gave them ten commandments to obey. 1. Thou shall have no other God before me. The world was teaching a sacrifice to false gods. 2. Thou shall not make unto thee any graven images. The world made wooden idols of false gods to worship. 3. Do not say God’s name in vain. The world lied to people serving false gods by justifying sin, so when God punished sin, people would be angry with God and not be convicted of sin. 4. Remember the Sabbath day, and keep it holy. The world did not remember God’s holiness. 5. Honor your mother and father. The world was not teaching that we are born sinners, with sinful, selfish natures. 6. You shall not kill. The world was teaching an eye for an eye. 7. You shall not commit adultery. The world was teaching men to have multiple wives. 8. You shall not steal. The world taught how false gods provide prosperity which justifies taking what you want. 9. You shall not bear a false witness against your neighbor. The world was teaching how to manipulate the situation to avoid punishment. 10. You shall not covet. The world was teaching us to value material possessions above repairing the relationship with God. The book of Leviticus is mostly a direct conversation with God. God spoke directly to Moses and Aaron, and the people could hear the Lord speaking to Moses and Aaron. The first ten chapters are direct instructions from God explaining in detail how to perform a sacrifice. Then, God describes how the relationship between the sacrifice and God’s commandments recognizes the justice of God’s holiness. This is how God taught the Hebrews to have a heart that is a reflection of the holiness of God and not the world. The Spirit of God would reside in the Ark of the Covenant, and this was a symbol of God’s love for His people. God resides with the Hebrews to teach them He loves them. Now we are to have behaviors that mirror righteousness without self-righteousness.
Remember the Truth Jesus Brought: Now we can look at the sacrifice Jesus made and go out into the world and understand that if we gain the whole world and lose our soul, we have not gained anything. By hearing and reading about the life Jesus lived, we can understand how to present ourselves as a living sacrifice apart from the world. Our living sacrifice is to be built on The Rock of Faith and not sinking sand (the worldview). Lessons six through thirty-six teach us how to look at the sacrifice Jesus made and to have righteous behaviors that are not self-righteous where we decide right and wrong for ourselves.
Remember the Rock God Established: While the Israelites were with Moses in the desert, they made a camp and set a tent in the middle of the camp. This was called the tent of meeting, and the Ark of the Covenant was placed there. The Ark of the Covenant was a place where the spirit, or presence, of God could dwell. God was teaching the Israelites to be holy because He is holy, and this was impacting the sacrifices (choices) the Israelites were making. Just as the spirit of God would reside in the Ark of the Covenant during the pre-church age, during the church age we are to build an internal temple to reflect the holiness of God, and when we align our temple with the Chief Cornerstone on The Rock of Faith the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit can reside within our internal temple just as the Spirit of God would reside in the Ark of the Covenant. |
Activity: Please complete the BLOG activity below. |
Conclusion: Does the world teach us to be holy because God is holy? How did Jesus teach us to love? |
Optional Extra Learning - Overachievers can make a deeper connection with this video. |
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The second foundational spiritual stone pillar of sanctification used to frame Jesus' church is to be a witness who puts on the armor of God, which is a witness defense prepared by the Spirit of God. To answer the question for the blog, go to the website and review lessons 9, 14, 19, 24, 29, and 34 to identify how the prepared defense includes having the spirit of a credible witness. The first lesson 9 has been completed. (Cheat tip: A chart in the video lists each witness, but by looking at lessons 9, 14, 19, 24, 29, and 34 to identify the credible witness defense that is offered by each church, the pattern of justification and sanctification can be identified in The Pattern of Sound Teaching.) For the blog, please list the six prepared credible witness defenses God offers for faith in Jesus in the comments section below.
Church of Laodicea | Spiritual Gifts | Witness | Prophet | Prophet |
Church of Ephesus | Grace | Psalmist (9) | ||
Church of Smyrna | Mercy | ________ (14) | ||
Church of Pergamos | A New Heart of Flesh with God's Commandments Written on it | ________ (19) | ||
Church of Thyatira | Two New Covenant Blessings | ________ (24) | ||
Church of Sardis | A New Spirit | ________ (29) | ||
Church of Philadelphia | The Word of God that Became Flesh, Jesus | ________ (34) |
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