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Friday, September 30, 2016

Scripture & Questions for Sunday (10/2/16)

Scripture for Sunday
Exodus 12:1-13 (ESV)  
The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, [2] "This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you. [3] Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household. [4] And if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his nearest neighbor shall take according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat you shall make your count for the lamb. [5] Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats, [6] and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight. 
[7] "Then they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. [8] They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it. [9] Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted, its head with its legs and its inner parts. [10] And you shall let none of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you shall burn. [11] In this manner you shall eat it: with your belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord's Passover. [12] For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the Lord. [13] The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt. 

Exodus 13:1-8 (ESV)  
The Lord said to Moses, [2] "Consecrate to me all the firstborn. Whatever is the first to open the womb among the people of Israel, both of man and of beast, is mine." [3] Then Moses said to the people, "Remember this day in which you came out from Egypt, out of the house of slavery, for by strength of hand the Lord brought you out from this place. No leavened bread shall be eaten. [4] Today, in the month of Abib, you are going out. [5] And when the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you shall keep this service in this month.  [6] Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the Lord. [7] Unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days; no leavened bread shall be seen with you, and no leaven shall be seen with you in all your territory.  [8] You shall tell your son on that day, 'It is because of what the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt.'  

Questions for Reflection
1.    What is it like trying to assemble something without an instruction manual?
2.    What happens when people fail to follow instructions?
3.    What was a family to do if their lamb was too big for them to eat? (12:4)
4.    How did God describe what the condition of the lambs must be? (12:5)
5.    What were the Israelites supposed to do with the lambs they got? (12:6-7)
6.    What were God’s instructions about how the Passover meal was to be eaten? (12:8-11)
7.    What did God say He was going to do on the Passover night? (12:12)
8.    Why did Moses tell the people to commemorate the day they left Egypt? (13:3-5)
9.    What were the Israelites to pass along to their children? (13:8)
10. Why did God give the Israelites detailed instructions about celebrating Passover?
11. What has God done to ensure that we know what His instructions are?
12. Why did God want the Israelites to remember how He delivered them?