Consecration 2019

Believers Church Bible Commentary: Exodus Lessons from Passover Details

Passover is not a public feast, but a celebration that binds a close-knit faith community together. Its focus is the family, although it was later expanded (under Josiah, see above) to a celebration within the “family” of all Israel. Strangers and sojourners may join, but only upon serious commitment of themselves to this community, a commitment marked by circumcision (12:43–49). In spite of the church’s missionary openness to outsiders, there are times when the church needs to draw the line between those committed fully, through adult baptism or an appropriate re-affirmation of infant baptism, and the casual joiners or inquirers.

Shophar blow.

Today is Consecration Kick-Off 2019

The periodic Consecration of the family of believers is a biblical model.

PP- (NIV)

Three times a year all your men must appear before the Lord your God at the place he will choose: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks and the Festival of Tabernacles. No one should appear before the Lord empty-handed:

We are on the cusp of the Festival of Tabernacles.

PP- Biblical Consecration is a time for spiritual refreshing, re-committal, and re-calibration. It is often involves fasting and prayer.

PP- Biblical Consecration is a time for re-committal, re-calibration, to God and His will. It is often associated with fasting and prayer.

PP- 5-19 (NIV)

15 Blow the trumpet in Zion, declare a holy fast, call a sacred assembly.

15 Blow the trumpet in Zion, declare a holy fast, call a sacred assembly.

16 Gather the people, consecrate the assembly; bring together the elders, gather the children, those nursing at the breast. Let the bridegroom leave his room and the bride her chamber.

17 Let the priests, who minister before the Lord, weep between the portico and the altar. Let them say, “Spare your people, Lord. Do not make your inheritance an object of scorn, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’ ”

18 Then the Lord was jealous for his land and took pity on his people.

19 The Lord replied to them: “I am sending you grain, new wine and olive oil, enough to satisfy you fully; never again will I make you an object of scorn to the nations.

Today is the “Feast of Trumpets”-marked the beginning of a new agricultural year. It was unusual in that the trumpet, likely the shofar, would announce the feast and assemble the people. This feast dedicated the new agricultural year to God for His provision. may allude to the Feast of Trumpets () in the context of the deliverance from Egypt. The psalm ends with a call for repentance, reminding the people to call upon the Lord as those in Egypt did ().

Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur)- The Day of Atonement was the most holy of the feasts—the one time each year when the high priest could approach the mercy seat to make atonement for the nation’s sins. It occurred on the tenth day of Tishri

The Lexham Bible Dictionary Feast of Tabernacles

Feast of Tabernacles. The Feast of Tabernacles commemorates the period of the wilderness wanderings directly following the exodus from Egypt. It lasted seven days, beginning on the 15th of Tishri. It is also called the Feast of Ingathering, since it gathered the people together after the harvesting season and was the final pilgrim feast of Israel.

Feast of Tabernacles. The Feast of Tabernacles commemorates the period of the wilderness wanderings directly following the exodus from Egypt. It lasted seven days, beginning on the 15th of Tishri. It is also called the Feast of Ingathering, since it gathered the people together after the harvesting season and was the final pilgrim feast of Israel.

Feast of Tabernacles. The Feast of Tabernacles commemorates the period of the wilderness wanderings directly following the exodus from Egypt. It lasted seven days, beginning on the 15th of Tishri. It is also called the Feast of Ingathering, since it gathered the people together after the harvesting season and was the final pilgrim feast of Israel.

We are not consecrating ourselves to be saved! We were already justified by our faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ. Consecration is not justification, consecration is sanctification. Sanctification literally means to “set apart”. Even Jesus went on a fast and prayed .

We do not have to honor these holy days to gain salvation, as the Jews believe. We honor these main holy days because you are more powerful when you know your roots! When a person doesn’t know their history, they do not posses some of their potency. These OT festivals help us understand Christ better!

PP- Mon, Wed, Fri are days of fasting.

On the days we eat food, we reverence God by incorporating a healthy diet.

Fruits & Veggies. Try to eliminate fried foods, foods that are over processed, processed sugar, use natural sweetners.

Fish & Chicken

Beans.

Grains

Nuts

Berries

Lots of water - infused water

PP- Tuesdays & Thursdays, well meet together for 1 hour of prayer. Someone shout come and get your breakthrough! On Mon-Wed-Fri, engage in family prayer and Personal prayer.

There are many places throughout the bible where God asked His people to consecrate themselves.

PP-As soon as the Israelites were released from slavery in Egypt, God called for them to be CONSECRATED.

PP- (NIV)

“ ‘Consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am the Lord your God.

Do not underestimate the power and influence of Egypt, which is symbolic of the world today. As soon as they came out, the first order of business was to consecrate them. We live in a world energized by demonic principalities, evil, wickedness. We must consecrate ourselves periodically for spirituality sake.

PP- Right Before God led His people to cross the Jordan river which was the entrance to the Promised Land, He asked them to CONSECRATE themselves.

PP- (NIV)

Joshua told the people, “Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do amazing things among you.”

Periodic Consecration is an essential part of our growing relationship. Consecration don’t save you from your sins, it is not justification. Consecration is growing your spiritually, sanctification, it is setting your apart unto the LORD.

To Kick-Off our season of Consecration, we will partake of the Lord’s Supper. The scriptures tells us that this is an appropriate show of unity in Christ Jesus.

What is often missed is the familial or family aspect of taking Holy Communion with other member of the body of Christ. The root of Holy Communion is in family. The blood family and the spiritual family. We are individuals, coming from different backdrops who surrender our individuality in moments like this to show our unity as a spiritual family.

The roots or genesis of Holy Communion is in Exodus 12:43-47

It was called the Passover Meal. It was not a public feast, but a celebration of God that binds the family of faith. The community of believers.

Passover is not a public feast, but a celebration that binds a close-knit family of faith.

PP- (NIV)

43 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “These are the regulations for the Passover meal: “No foreigner may eat it.

44 Any slave you have bought may eat it after you have circumcised him,

45 but a temporary resident or a hired worker may not eat it.

46 “It must be eaten inside the house; take none of the meat outside the house. Do not break any of the bones.

47 The whole community of Israel must celebrate it.

The Household of faith, the body of believers are to appreciate this spiritual activity. The faith community is a family. Jesus gave credence to this idea.

The faith community is a family. Jesus gives a definition of what the faith family looks like.

The faith community is a family. Jesus gives a definition of what the faith family looks like.

PP- (NIV)

32 A crowd was sitting around him, and they told him, “Your mother and brothers are outside looking for you.”

33 “Who are my mother and my brothers?” he asked.

34 Then he looked at those seated in a circle around him and said, “Here are my mother and my brothers!

35 Whoever does God’s will is my brother and sister and mother.”

So the point I’m making is, innate in Holy Communion is the idea of family!

Let’s prepare for Holy Communion. I’m going to ask the designated ministers to come and take your positions. I also need Taleah and Jake to come and assist me in serving Holy Communion.

Jake will read from . Paul explains that our participation in Holy Communion is a celebration of our identity with Christ and our close knit unity with each other. We profess our faith in the LORD Jesus and the ability of His blood to cleanse us from our sin.

(NIV)

16 Is not the cup of thanksgiving for which we give thanks a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ?

17 Because there is one loaf, we, who are many, are one body, for we all share the one loaf.

Taleah will read what Jesus taught about eating his flesh and drinking his blood, which was a figure of speech, it was used to create a vivid effect. He doesn’t mean to eat and brink his blood literally, He is speaking of consuming Him figuratively, meaning to accept or embrace him so that we have unity with him.

(NIV)

(NIV)

53Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.

54Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.

55For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.

56Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them.

57Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me.

58This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your ancestors ate manna and died, but whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.”

Holy Communion

(NIV)

26While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, “Take and eat; this is my body.”

26While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, “Take and eat; this is my body.”

27Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you.

28This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

27Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you.

28This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

29I tell you, I will not drink from this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.”

Now God we have eaten the Lord’s supper, we have recommitted our selves to Christ and the ministry on the cross. Now by faith we apply the blood! Jesus said, this cup is no longer about the blood of a lamb, it is now my blood, what you did with the blood in the OT, we still do with the blood in the NT!

(NIV)

7 Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs.

We apply the blood to our families, our church, our bodies, protection!

(NIV)

24“He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.”

Hyssop = Faith They had to believe that applying the blood would work!

The Passover Meal that the Jews partook of every year was a Consecrated meal. It was a time for the family of faith to renew their faith in God, reaffirm their commitment to His will and ways.

The meal had a host of symbolic meanings, but one of those meanings are often overlooked, since it’s conception, the meal was focused on family!

Its focus is the family, although it was later expanded (under Josiah, see above) to a celebration within the “family” of all Israel. Strangers and sojourners may join, but only upon serious commitment of themselves to this community, a commitment marked by circumcision (12:43–49). In spite of the church’s missionary openness to outsiders, there are times when the church needs to draw the line between those committed fully, through adult baptism or an appropriate re-affirmation of infant baptism, and the casual joiners or inquirers.

So when jesus and his family, the disciples, ate the Passover Meal, He changed the meaning of the meal to be a type of his death. He was the lamb to be slain from the foundation of the world. his blood was to bring salvation to all who believed.

When we partake of Holy Communion or The Lord’s Supper, it is still about the consecration of family!

The threat to all firstborn in the land, including Israel’s firstborn—or even Israel as a whole, understood as God’s firstborn—is a reminder that our future posterity needs to be covered! And that it is the Adults responsibility to cover the household with the blood of the lamb! When you cover the household, are you consecrating the children unto the Lord because the future belongs to God. The Adults represent the past and the the now, the children represent the future. It is God’s gracious provision that the future is placed back into our hands, preserved from destruction by the blood of the lamb/Lamb sacrificed for us.

Believers Church Bible Commentary: Exodus Lessons from Passover Details

The threat to all firstborn in the land, including Israel’s firstborn—or even Israel as a whole, understood as God’s firstborn—is a reminder that the future belongs to God. It is God’s gracious provision that it is placed back into our hands, preserved from destruction by the blood of the lamb/Lamb sacrificed for us (on Passover as a quasi-sacrifice, see notes on 12:1–20). Future generations are to remember this by offering to God what belongs to God, and redeeming what God has allowed to be redeemed.

The drinking of the wine was symbolic of receiving Christ’s sacrifice through blood. It spoke of participation. His blood would do what the blood of the ancient lamb did by liberating the household. It provided an escape from Egypt a type of sin and it’s consequences.

Today when we take the Lord’s Supper, we are receiving, embracing salvation.We are reminded of what Christ did for us! It is a re-consecration of ourselves unto Him!

(AMP)

For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.

(AMP)

26 For every time you eat this bread and drink this cup, you are representing and signifying and proclaiming the fact of the Lord’s death until He comes [again].

The Blood Covered the Family

Hyssop = Faith They had to believe that applying the blood would work!