Following The Pattern
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God Tell Us The Way
God Tell Us The Way
Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: “Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring Me an offering. From everyone who gives it willingly with his heart you shall take My offering. And this is the offering which you shall take from them: gold, silver, and bronze; blue, purple, and scarlet thread, fine linen, and goats’ hair; ram skins dyed red, badger skins, and acacia wood; oil for the light, and spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense; onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod and in the breastplate. And let them make Me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them. According to all that I show you, that is, the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furnishings, just so you shall make it.
And see to it that you make them according to the pattern which was shown you on the mountain.
We live in a world that is full of patterns, designs.
These designs or patterns can range from functional to artistic.
Definitions of a Pattern is:
1: a form or model proposed for imitation
1: a form or model proposed for imitation: EXEMPLAR
2: something designed or used as a model for making things 〈a dressmaker’s pattern〉
Merriam-Webster, I. (2003). Merriam-Webster’s collegiate dictionary. (Eleventh ed.). Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, Inc.
2: something designed or used as a model for making things 〈a dressmaker’s pattern〉
Definitions of Design is:
1: to create, fashion, execute, or construct according to plan: DEVISE, CONTRIVE
2 a: to conceive and plan out in the mind 〈he designed the perfect crime〉
Functional designs can be found in things like blue prints for a building.
Although it may be an outwardly pleasing building to our sight, it still has to be safe for use and practical.
We also find designs for cars, ships, planes.
These all have a practical purpose for their use although they may be “artistically” pleasing to our eyes.
There are patterns for career and employment.
When we want to become a doctor of medicine, we follow the pattern, the education model set by the university in order for them to issue us our degree and eventually get our license to practice medicine, once we have complied with the complete PATTERN.
When we want to get our drivers license, we have to follow the pattern of education and training established by our state of residence, and pass a test, in order to be granted a license to drive.
There are patterns for suits and dresses
There are patterns for games such as bop it, or connect four, that we have to follow if we want to win.
There are patterns for plays that sports players, such as football, have to follow in order for the quarterback to know where to look when he wants to get the ball down field and ultimately to the end zone.
We find patterns or designs all across our world in every culture, amongst every ethnicity.
Patterns and designs give order to our lives, we call these routines.
They can help us to know what is normal or abnormal, such as in a regular or irregular heartbeat.
There are patterns of behavior that we call habits or disciplines depending on the context.
These also help to know if something is healthy or unhealthy such as good or bad habits behaviorally or good or bad habits of eating.
We do something consistently that is good or bad, or we eat certain types of foods on a consistent basis that are either good or bad for our physical well being.
Patterns are EVERYWHERE!
Now as our Pastor recently spoke on, this is either by chance or by DESIGN.
On our end, as humans, we make patterns by design typically, we make them on purpose for a reason.
Our worldview is based on our beliefs, which is based on what we have been taught and experienced, good or bad.
For this world and this life to have happened by chance and to believe that is to be taking a big gamble as well as to not take note of natural patterns such as birth, flowers, animal migrations, constellations, mass bird flight patterns, even down to DNA.
All these patterns in our world naturally would be highly improbable, like 70 to the hundredth power.
For us as mankind to have an affinity for design and patterns, alongside the natural occuring patterns in nature, accidentally, is a REAL miracle in itself.
On the other hand, if all these patterns and designs were done on purpose, then it speaks of a DESIGNER, just as much as we have fashion designers.
As Christians, Bible believing disciple and follower of Jesus Christ, we KNOW that our DESIGNER is real.
His Revelation of Himself and of creation, which we call The Bible or The Word of God, informs us of His designing of creation and from where the patterns in nature originate.
They were placed there on purpose, to express our Creators creativity and delight in consistency and beauty.
He is a God of order, not of chaos.
Genesis 1:26-
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
We are informed that our Created us in His IMAGE and LIKENESS
There was intentionality in our creation, we were designed the way we are purposefully.
We were created, fashioned, patterned, designed, to be like our Creator.
What He Is over all creation, care taker, director, steward, provider, nurturer, etc., mankind was to be on the earth.
Throughout the Word of God, what our Creator has revealed to us concerning Himself, mankind, the supernatural beings, and the interactions between us all, we find many patterns.
Mankind’s rebellion against our Creator created a necessity of patterns that were not meant to originally exist.
From the Front to the Back of The Bible, Genesis to Revelation, we discover these patterns repeated.
Some good, some horrible.
We find patterns for salvation, or deliverance from God’s Just judgment on a wicked and rebellious, sinful, mankind.
We find patterns given by our Creator of how to much full, experiential, contact with Him.
We find patterns of mankind’s eventual fall back into wickedness following the pattern of our Creator trying to elevate us back to our original condition of spiritual and physical wholeness.
The two alway play on each other.
There are patterns for victory, and patterns of behavior that lead mankind into defeat and bondage.
We want to discuss the patterns of rebellion, grace, salvation, and making contact with our Creator.
Before we get to the main body of the lesson, we want to discover who our Creator Is, in Character.
This will help us to understand the patterns that we are going to see.
In the first few chapters of Genesis we can only discern so much of God’s character only by His actions.
It is later, in the Book of Exodus, after God has rejected the world at larger for it’s continued rejection of Him and delivering one nation, Yisra’el, from slavery, that He describes Himself, His Character, so as to be understood by His people.
Now therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight. And consider that this nation is Your people.”
So the Lord said to Moses, “I will also do this thing that you have spoken; for you have found grace in My sight, and I know you by name.” And he said, “Please, show me Your glory.” Then He said, “I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.” But He said, “You cannot see My face; for no man shall see Me, and live.” And the Lord said, “Here is a place by Me, and you shall stand on the rock. So it shall be, while My glory passes by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock, and will cover you with My hand while I pass by. Then I will take away My hand, and you shall see My back; but My face shall not be seen.”
Exodus 33:
When we really want to get to know our Creator, He will reveal Himself to you, but we have to position ourselves the way He says to in order to make contact with Him because of His Nature vs. ours.
Exodus 34:
Now the Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord. And the Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”
Our Creator is
Merciful
Gracious ( above all else, merciful and abounding in compassion),
longsuffering (patient),
abounding in goodness ( A masculine noun indicating kindness, lovingkindness, mercy, goodness, faithfulness, love, acts of kindness)
A masculine noun indicating kindness, lovingkindness, mercy, goodness, faithfulness, love, acts of kindness), truth.
above all else, merciful and abounding in compassion
Truth- It was the barometer for measuring both one’s word and actions
Baker, W., & Carpenter, E. E. (2003). The complete word study dictionary: Old Testament (p. 360). Chattanooga, TN: AMG Publishers. truth.
In the Garden of Eden we find the patterns for grace, mercy, obedience, warning, rebellion, and judgment set.
We also find another aspect of His Nature.
It is the attribute of Holiness and required His people to pattern themselves after His Nature of Holiness.
For I am the Lord your God. You shall therefore consecrate yourselves, and you shall be holy; for I am holy. Neither shall you defile yourselves with any creeping thing that creeps on the earth. For I am the Lord who brings you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
Leviticus 11:
This word is often used to refer to God as being inherently holy, sacred, and set apart and as being free from the attributes of fallen humanity.
In the Garden of Eden we find the patterns for grace, mercy, obedience, warning, rebellion, and judgment set.
This word is often used to refer to God as being inherently holy, sacred, and set apart and as being free from the attributes of fallen humanity.
Due to this aspect of His Nature, in order for mankind to have contact with Him, they had to follow His instructions to place themselves in a state in which He could manifest Himself, make Himself visible and felt, unto them.
They had to cleanse themselves of everything that resulted from the effects of sin in the world as a whole.
So back to the Garden
In the Garden of Eden we find the patterns for grace, mercy, obedience, warning, rebellion, and judgment set.
God sets the pattern for warning first and outcome of judgment for rebellion.
He gives Adam, the head or leader of all mankind under God Himself, a commandment and a warning with the consequences of the rebellion in order to deter him.
Warning someone of danger is an act of love and concern.
Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
The serpent, who was a fallen angel named Lucifer, later called satan, entices mankind to not believe what their Creator said was beneficial and not to be satisfied with God have given them.
Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.’ ” Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.’ ” Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.
Action follows the seed planted and the rebellion within mankind has taken hold.
This prototype for the pattern of rebellion is now set.
We then see following the rebellion the pattern for Grace and Mercy and Judgment
Genesis 3:16-
To the woman He said: “I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception; In pain you shall bring forth children; Your desire shall be for your husband, And he shall rule over you.” Then to Adam He said, “Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’: “Cursed is the ground for your sake; In toil you shall eat of it All the days of your life. Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, And you shall eat the herb of the field. In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread Till you return to the ground, For out of it you were taken; For dust you are, And to dust you shall return.” And Adam called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living. Also for Adam and his wife the Lord God made tunics of skin, and clothed them.
Although they did not immediately die, the death process did begin, like taking a piece of fruit from it’s source.
There were consequences for their actions, but God covered their nakedness and spared their lives.
It took lives to spare their lives and physical nakedness.
As one makes their way through The History of God and mankind, we find these patterns over and over.
It is the principle underlying the patterns that are of most importance.
If we just blindly follow pattern without principle, coupled with expectation, then we are just going to be left with religion.
Dead, dull, non transformative religion.
That is not what Jesus wants for us
Within these patterns are smaller details that need to be paid attention too in order to take advantage of God is offering or to avoid negative consequences.
Let’s look at Noach
Genesis 6:1-
Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose. And the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown. Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
We see that mankind gets in a state of wickedness which grieves God to His core.
This mass rebellion and corruption provoked God’s attribute of Justice for rebellion.
But as we continue, we find that the patterns continue to reappear.
But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God.
Noach found grace, acceptance before God due to the condition of his heart, his desire to want to be in right relationship with His Creator.
God always sends a warning before judgment in order to try and get us to stop what we’re doing to provoke judgment.
Genesis
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. So God looked upon the earth, and indeed it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth. And God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Just as the serpent corrupted Adam and Eve, so did the sons of God, another set of rebellious angels, corrupt the rest of mankind.
But just as God had mercy on Adam and Eve killed something sacrificed something, to cover them, so God was about to give Noach some instruction on how to avoid the judgment and show mercy.
Genesis 6
Make yourself an ark of gopherwood; make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and outside with pitch. And this is how you shall make it: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits. You shall make a window for the ark, and you shall finish it to a cubit from above; and set the door of the ark in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third decks. And behold, I Myself am bringing floodwaters on the earth, to destroy from under heaven all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything that is on the earth shall die.
Noach had to follow the instructions to the dot.
He couldn’t use a different would type of wood
He couldn’t make it smaller
He couldn’t leave out the pitch/tar
The Ark would be the means of salvation, deliverance from The Judgment.
The same waters that would raise the Ark above the waters of chaos would be the same waters that would wash away the wickedness of the world.
God gave the world 120 years to repent while Noach and his family were building The Ark, but no one ever responded to the call to forsake their wickedness, their total rejection of their Creator and His ways.
Noach’s obedience ensured He partook of God’s deliverance from judgment.
After the flood Noach presents sacrifices as offerings for thanksgiving for God’s Mercy upon him and his family.
Genesis 8:18-22
So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him. Every animal, every creeping thing, every bird, and whatever creeps on the earth, according to their families, went out of the ark. Then Noah built an altar to the Lord, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And the Lord smelled a soothing aroma. Then the Lord said in His heart, “I will never again curse the ground for man’s sake, although the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done. “While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, Cold and heat, Winter and summer, And day and night Shall not cease.”
The pattern of mankind’s fall into wickedness
God’s warning and pronouncement of Judgment
God extends Grace
Noach accepts and obeys and saves his family and the animals appointed to his care.
God brings judgment after patiently waiting 120 years
Water washes away the wicked and delivers the obedient
Noach presents a sacrifice.
Getting back to our opening Scripture setting.
God sends the family of Yisra’el into Egypt during a famine and they go from a small tribe to a flourishing nation.
The Pharaoh places the Yisra’eli’s in slavery and bondage to build up his kingdom.
God sends Moshe to deliver Yisra’el after they cry out for deliverance, and tries to do it the easy way.
After Pharaoh stubbornly refuses 10 times, requiring God to send 10 plagues to Pharaoh’s attention, being patient.
The 10th plague is the most severe.
As previously, God sends a warning in order to avoid judgment.
God’s original message was this
Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord: “Israel is My son, My firstborn. So I say to you, let My son go that he may serve Me. But if you refuse to let him go, indeed I will kill your son, your firstborn.” ’ ”
Pharoah and the male children
God had been longsuffering with Pharaoh long before Pharaoh knew.
By this time God went for the head of the nation as the pharaoh’s saw themselves as gods.
Exodus 10:
Then Pharaoh said to him, “Get away from me! Take heed to yourself and see my face no more! For in the day you see my face you shall die!” So Moses said, “You have spoken well. I will never see your face again.”
We have to be careful what we speak, God will hold us to our word, good or bad
Then Moses said, “Thus says the Lord: ‘About midnight I will go out into the midst of Egypt; and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the female servant who is behind the handmill, and all the firstborn of the animals. Then there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as was not like it before, nor shall be like it again. But against none of the children of Israel shall a dog move its tongue, against man or beast, that you may know that the Lord does make a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.’
In our obedience, like Noach, God will keep the righteous, those obedient and striving to maintain their relationship with Him, and will protect us.
After God pronounces judgment
Exodus 12:
Now the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, “This month shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you. Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying: ‘On the tenth of this month every man shall take for himself a lamb, according to the house of his father, a lamb for a household. And if the household is too small for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take it according to the number of the persons; according to each man’s need you shall make your count for the lamb. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats. Now you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month. Then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight. And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it. Then they shall eat the flesh on that night; roasted in fire, with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. Do not eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted in fire—its head with its legs and its entrails. You shall let none of it remain until morning, and what remains of it until morning you shall burn with fire. And thus you shall eat it: with a belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. So you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord’s Passover. ‘For I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the Lord. Now 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 the plague shall not be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
What the instructions were
Take a lamb
Keep it for 4 days
Make sure there were no defects
Sacrifice it, slaughter it.
Apply it’s blood to the door posts and lentil.
This would provide a sign and protection from God’s judgment
Exodus 2
Then the children of Israel went away and did so; just as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did. And it came to pass at midnight that the Lord struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of livestock. So Pharaoh rose in the night, he, all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead. Then he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, “Rise, go out from among my people, both you and the children of Israel. And go, serve the Lord as you have said.
Yisra’el was obedient what they were told and were spared judgment.
They left with their freedom from bondage, slavery.
This is not all God wanted for Yisra’el. He didn’t want to be a God afar off, He wanted to be a God that was close to them.
This is where holiness and righteousness comes in.
If they wanted their Deliverer to constantly dwell among them, they had to create an environment, according to The Creator’s instructions, that He could meet them and dwell in.
In meeting them we find this instruction.
And the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I come to you in the thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and believe you forever.” So Moses told the words of the people to the Lord. Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes. And let them be ready for the third day. For on the third day the Lord will come down upon Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.
God gave instructions to Yisra’el in order them to come face to face with their Creator and Deliverer.
They were told to wash themselves.
This is because God is pure, clean.
They had to apply the pattern.
They made experiential contact with God in their obedience.
Exodus 19:
So Moses went down from the mountain to the people and sanctified the people, and they washed their clothes. And he said to the people, “Be ready for the third day; do not come near your wives.” Then it came to pass on the third day, in the morning, that there were thunderings and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain; and the sound of the trumpet was very loud, so that all the people who were in the camp trembled. And Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain. Now Mount Sinai was completely in smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire. Its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly. And when the blast of the trumpet sounded long and became louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by voice.
Exodus 19:14-
This contact was not enough for God, He wanted to live among them.
Exodus 25:
Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: “Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring Me an offering. From everyone who gives it willingly with his heart you shall take My offering.
Exodus 25:
And let them make Me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them. According to all that I show you, that is, the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furnishings, just so you shall make it.
When they completed the preparations for God’s Living Space among them, according to the pattern, the instructions given, we see the outcome.
and Moses, Aaron, and his sons would wash their hands and their feet with water from it. Whenever they went into the tabernacle of meeting, and when they came near the altar, they washed, as the Lord had commanded Moses. And he raised up the court all around the tabernacle and the altar, and hung up the screen of the court gate. So Moses finished the work. Then the cloud covered the tabernacle of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. And Moses was not able to enter the tabernacle of meeting, because the cloud rested above it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. Whenever the cloud was taken up from above the tabernacle, the children of Israel would go onward in all their journeys. But if the cloud was not taken up, then they did not journey till the day that it was taken up. For the cloud of the Lord was above the tabernacle by day, and fire was over it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.
Following the Pattern In Our Day
Following the Pattern In Our Day
Jesus Christ is the pattern that a Christian, a follower and disciple of Christ, is to model their life after.
Jesus made this mention about following the pattern He Himself taught and set.
John 3:14-
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.”
It is those, Jesus says, who believe and are obedient that will benefit from the offer of salvation, just as with Noach and Yisra’el.
Just prior to this He tells us the steps to take in order to avoid the judgment coming upon this world.
John 3:
Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
We MUST be BORN AGAIN!
What is The Kingdom of God
Jesus Himself set the pattern in place.
Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan to be baptized by him. And John tried to prevent Him, saying, “I need to be baptized by You, and are You coming to me?” But Jesus answered and said to him, “Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed Him. When He had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him. And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”
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Jesus Himself gave us the example to follow and then taught us it.
Repentance
There were present at that season some who told Him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. And Jesus answered and said to them, “Do you suppose that these Galileans were worse sinners than all other Galileans, because they suffered such things? I tell you, no; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish. Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them, do you think that they were worse sinners than all other men who dwelt in Jerusalem? I tell you, no; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish.”
Repentance is acknowledging our rebellion against God by doing things our own way, according to our own understanding, forsaking that way of living, and turning to live how Jesus wants you to live.
Water
Mark 16:
He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned.
He who believes and is Baptized
Obedience to the instruction Noach and Yisra’el
Spirit
On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
Believing in Jesus as The Scripture says, not man.
Training His 12 Disciples for this day
They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth. As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth. “I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word;
John 17:
He sends His 12 Disciples into the world to make more disciples unto Jesus, and they are to believe on Him (Jesus) as they taught.
When the miraculous took place.
Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Men and brethren, what shall we do?” Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.” And with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, “Be saved from this perverse generation.” Then those who gladly received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added to them. And they continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers.
Acts 2:37-
Those who heard were obedient and the pattern was repeated, over and over, and over.
There are patterns for having victory and joy
Patterns for making and being a solid and faithful disciple where we know what we believe and understand what Jesus is telling us by His Spirit
What Jesus is offering.
Washing away of our wickedness and of wickedness overall
An encounter with Jesus by His Spirit
You’ll get it by following the pattern