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Leviticus?
Really?
Years ago a good friend asked me, “What are you reading for your personal devotions these days?”
When I told him the book of Leviticus, he laughed and then asked me, “No, really—what are you reading?”
Well, he was even more incredulous when I assured him it was the truth.
Leviticus is pretty much the speed bump of reading through the Bible.
Many people do well with Genesis and Exodus.
But then, about two chapters in to Leviticus, and the plan goes awry.
So, why in the world would I decide, “Hey I know—let’s do a sermon series through Leviticus!”
There are many answers I could give, but the best answer I think is found in a song recorded by one of my favorite Christian singers, Susan Ashton, written by Wayne Kirkpatrick.
I've seen You calm the waters raging
in the rivers of my mind
Your spirit blows a breeze into my soul
And I've felt the fire that warms the heart
Knowing that it comes from You
Then I've let it turn as cold as a stone
Sometimes I feel like I'm as close as your shadow and
Sometimes I feel like I'm looking up at You from the bottom of
The Grand Canyon so small and so far
From the Grand Canyon, with a hole in my heart
And I'm a long way from where I know I need to be
When there's a Grand Canyon between You and me.
I've had the faith that gave me strength
for moving any mountainside
I've felt the solid ground beneath my feet
But I've had the bread of idleness while
drinking from a well of doubt
And it shakes the core of all I believe
Ever feel distant from God?
I believe that if any follower of the Lord is honest, they’ll admit that there have been, and likely still are, times of spiritual dryness, times of lackluster in their fervor for Christ, times of feeling distant from God.
So, what’s the answer?
Being rightly related to God & walking with Him....
Sometimes I feel like I'm as close as your shadow and
Sometimes I feel like I'm looking up at You from the bottom of
Sometimes I feel like I'm as close as your shadow and
Sometimes I feel like I'm looking up at You from the bottom of The Grand Canyon so small and so far
From the Grand Canyon, with a hole in my heart
And I'm a long way from where I know I need to be
When there's a Grand Canyon between You and me.
The Grand Canyon so small and so far
From the Grand Canyon, with a hole in my heart
And I'm a long way from where I know I need to be
When there's a Grand Canyon between You and me.
I've had the faith that gave me strength
for moving any mountainside
I've felt the solid ground beneath my feet
But I've had the bread of idleness while
drinking from a well of doubt
And it shakes the core of all I believe
I've had the faith that gave me strength
for moving any mountainside
I've felt the solid ground beneath my feet
But I've had the bread of idleness while
drinking from a well of doubt
And it shakes the core of all I believe
What’s the Answer?
Leviticus is all about coming close to God to worship Him, and to walk with him in holiness.
God wanted his people to live holy lives and be set apart from other nations.
So he gave the Israelites laws and instructions regarding holiness in life and worship.
Moses recorded these laws on stone tablets for the people of God as a permanent reminder for them to be faithful.
In fact, the very structure of the book points us to this very solution.
And that, I believe, is why it’s good to get this book off the shelf from time to time and blow the dust off and see what God has to say about walking with Him, being close to Him.
Because in a sense, that’s what Leviticus talks about.
Author: Moses
Audience: God’s chosen people, Israelites
Date: 1448 and 1406 BC
Theme: The Israelites receive instructions from God concerning how to live as God’s holy people.
Leviticus
The Way TO God: Sacrifice (1:1 - 10:30)
The Walk With God: Sanctification (11:1 - 27:34)
The Walk With God: Sanctification (11:1 - 27:34)
The Way TO God (1:1 - 10:30)
The Way To God: Sacrifice (1:1 - 10:30)
Sacrifices
Priests
The Walk WITH God (11:1 - 27:30)
The Way to God: Through Sacrifice/Offering (1:1 - 10:30)
We start with 1:1-2
The LORD called to Mosesa and spoke to him from the tent of meeting.b
He said, 2 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When anyone among you brings an offering to the LORD,c bring as your offering an animal from either the herd or the flock.
The LORD called to Mosesa and spoke to him from the tent of meeting.b
He said, 2 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When anyone among you brings an offering to the LORD,c bring as your offering an animal from either the herd or the flock.
Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When anyone among you brings an offering to the LORD,c bring as your offering an animal from either the herd or the flock.
“The Lord called to Moses and spoke to him from the tent of meeting.
He said, “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When anyone among you brings an offering to the Lord, bring as your offering an animal from either the herd or the flock.”
(, NIV)
The idea here is kind of, “when you come before the Lord, bring an offering...” And when you do, bring an offering of an animal to be slain.... from the herd or from the flock.”
bring as your offering an animal from either the herd or the flock
Don’t misunderstand this.
It isn’t OUR sacrifice that gets us into the presence of God, it’s the sacrifice of the Lamb, of the goat, of the ox.
In other words, substitutionary death on our behalf.
Don’t misunderstand this.
It isn’t OUR sacrifice that gets us into the presence of God, it’s the sacrifice of the Lamb, of the goat, of the ox.
In other words, substitutionary death.
But these various kinds of sacrifices here in 1:1 - 10:30 described basic various aspects of coming to God—through the sacrifice of an innocent animal.
Let’s take in a brief survey of these five kinds of offerings/sacrifices Israel is told to bring.
The Burnt Offering (1:3-17)
These offerings speak of total dedication to the Lord.
The fellowship (“peace,” KJV) offering has to do with communion with God,
and the sin offering and the guilt (“trespass,” KJV) offerings deal with cleansing from God.
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