(Take page from SESSION 1 HOME GROUP
REASONS FOR GOING BACK TO THE OLD TESTAMENT FOR OUR EXAMPLE (Matt.4:4, Rom.15:4, 2Tim.3:16-17, 1Cor.10:1-11)
What we see NATURALLY are pictures of what happening in our SPIRITUAL walk before the Lord.
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Peter a good example: "Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ." (1Peter.2:5) As the Priests offered animal sacrifices
under the Old Covenant, we (in the New Testament) offer "spiritual sacrifices" BY HIM (Jesus) THE CROSS divides between the natural and the spiritual
A. Creation / Light out of darkness (John.1:1-14, 2Cor.4:1-6, Rom.1:20, Psa.19:1-3)
B. Adam (Gen.2:1-25, Rom.5:14,1Cor.15:45-46)
C. From Adam to Moses (Roman.5:1-12)
1. Coats of Skins
2. Abel’s offering (Obtained witness that he was righteous}
3. Cain the firstborn but rejected (Truth of Firstborn)
4. Noah (Pattern for Second Coming)
5. Abraham / Isaac / Jacob (saw Christ’s day)
6. Children of Israel
7. Israel delivered from Egypt
8. Red Sea to Mt. Sinai
D. From Moses to Christ (1Cor.10:1-11,)
1. Entering the Land on the third time around
2. Tabernacle
3. The Priesthood
4. The Offerings
5. The Tabernacle of David
6. Solomon’s Temple
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