The Rhythm of Worship - Leviticus 23 - Grace Bible Church · Title: The Rhythm of Worship - Leviticus 23 Author: Brian Fisher Created Date: 10/20/2019 8:18:49 PM

Leviticus 23

The Rhythm of Worship

WORSHIP IS THE RHYTHM OF LIFE

Daily Worship

Genesis 1:5

God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

WORSHIP IS THE RHYTHM OF LIFE

Weekly Worship

Exodus 20:8 (cf. Deuteronomy 5:12)

Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

WORSHIP IS THE RHYTHM OF LIFE

Annual Worship

Deuteronomy 16:16

Three times a year all your males shall appear before the LORD your God at the place that he will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Booths. They shall not appear before the LORD empty-handed.

Spring

Nisan 14 (April) Passover

Nisan 15-21 Unleavened Bread

First Sunday of Passover week First Fruits

Sivan 6 (50 days later; late May) Pentecost or Weeks

Fall

Tishri 1 (Sept.) Trumpets

Tishri 10 Atonement

Tishri 15-21 Booths/Tabernacles

Date Festival

Summer

WORSHIP IS THE RHYTHM OF LIFE

Sabbatical Worship

WORSHIP IS THE RHYTHM OF LIFE

Generational Worship

WORSHIP IS THE RHYTHM OF LIFE

Worship as Needed or Desired

WORSHIP IS THE RHYTHM OF LIFE

Worship is anything and everything we do, think, say or feel

with the goal of honoring the Lord

Passover

REDEMPTION

IS THE RHYTHM OF HISTORY

1 Corinthians 5:7b

For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed.

Unleavened Bread

REDEMPTION

IS THE RHYTHM OF HISTORY

1 Corinthians 5:7

Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed.

First Fruits

REDEMPTION

IS THE RHYTHM OF HISTORY

1 Corinthians 15:20

But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep.

Pentecost

REDEMPTION

IS THE RHYTHM OF HISTORY

John 15:26–27

“When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, that is the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify about Me, and you will testify also, because you have been with Me from the beginning.”

SUMMER

REDEMPTION

IS THE RHYTHM OF HISTORY

2 Peter 3:9

The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.

Trumpets

REDEMPTION

IS THE RHYTHM OF HISTORY

1 Corinthians 15:51–52

Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

Atonement

REDEMPTION

IS THE RHYTHM OF HISTORY

Zechariah 12:10

“...they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn.”

Tabernacles

REDEMPTION

IS THE RHYTHM OF HISTORY

John 1:14

And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.

APPLICATION

Leviticus 23

The Rhythm of Worship