Tue Aug 25

Listen up, little ones

Especially for the littles in your household.

Listen for the words atonement and outside.

Reading

Leviticus 16:11-28—Outside the Camp

Optional Reading

Hebrews 13:10-13

Keys for kids

Also for the littles. Young households might choose, after Keys for Kids, to go directly to praise and prayer.

The animals whose blood brought atonement were burned outside the camp.
Jesus similarly was crucified outside the city.
In Him, we can draw near to God.

Questions

(Some read the ?s before the notes/ ask them after.)

Why were the atonement animals burned outside the camp?
How was Jesus cursed in His crucifixion?
What seemingly contrasting truths apply to us because of Jesus’s atonement?

Notes

(See Saturday for authors.)

The Old Testament sacrificial system was a blood-filled, repulsive, God-appointed system. Often when a sin offering was made, the priests were allowed to eat the meat from the offering (Leviticus 6:26). But on the Day of Atonement, the bull and goat for the sin offering, whose blood was sprinkled on the mercy seat in the most holy place, was not to be eaten. Instead, it was taken outside the camp and burned. Even the man who burned these remains was unclean until he and his clothes are washed. Calvin notes that these remnants were carried out of the camp in token of abomination.

Jesus, as Hebrews 13:10-13 reminds us, was willing to take on Himself this abomination. He was crucified outside of Jerusalem. He was willingly made an outcast for us. So, in many ways, Jesus was twice-cursed in His crucifixion, first in being hung on the cross (Deut 21:23, Gal 3:13), then in being crucified outside the camp.

His willing acceptance of this curse that we deserved only highlights how great His love is for us. Hebrews encourages us, in response, to be willing to bear the disgrace that Jesus bore for us. We must be willing to be cast outside the camp with our Savior, but at the same time, the glory of Jesus’s atoning work for us is that in Him we can draw near to God’s throne of grace (Heb 4:16).

Swedish Method questions

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See the Sunday notes for meaning of the symbols.

Praise

Psalm 65a, 51d

Prayer

Thank God for Jesus suffering abomination and curse for you.
Give thanks for something from last Lord’s Day’s sermons.
Pray for a member of our church, for your family, and for a non-Christian friend/family member.