This is a DNA guide following the sermon on Leviticus 12:1-8 and Exodus 12:1-29. If you missed, you can listen here.
Discover
Read Leviticus 12:1-8 and Exodus 12:1-29.
Q: What are your responses (internally and externally) to God commanding festivals, and appointed celebrations of the people on the calendar?
Q: The passover story is really one of a meal that God takes great care in communicating and commanding. Through this meal the people experience liberation from bondage. What does that tell you about God?
Read Exodus 6:6 and 15:13, where God describes himself as their redeemer.
The Hebrew word for redeemer is go’el — “kinsman protector” and is someone who has the responsibility and obligation to be the “family champion” how always protects and elevates the family. Typically they were called upon in three big situations:
Avenging shed blood and seeking justice
Redeeming slaves or land by purchasing them out of debt
Make Orphans Heirs — Meaning he provides restoration by bringing widows and orphans into their home and making them full participants in the family and giving them everything they need—even making them heirs to their land, property, and resources.
To be a Kinsman Protector would always require incredible cost, effort, and demand a degree of self-sacrifice. God tells the people of Israel before and after the passover that he will be their Kinsman Redeemer.
Q: What do you think that means and how do you see God operate that way through the passover? How do you see Jesus as the Redeemer?
Nurture
Q: The meal was to be eaten with expectation of deliverance and of God’s work. How are you finding yourself these days? Hopeful? Expectant? Apathetic? Longing? Do you believe God can come quickly to redeem?
Act
Q: Jesus declares himself to be the redeemer and passover lamb during his celebration of this meal with his disciples. He says he’s blood brings forgiveness. His body brings new life. How do you experience and remember Christ’s redemption through communion? How do you faithfully participate in that weekly meal?