Leviticu
A radical difference in respon to God’s Holine (ch.19 What does it all mea
Some Context
Where had the Israe just come from? What were they like What did they need?
What was God doing in Leviticus
e was discipling a ation! What better example n we find of godly scipleship on a ational scale?
What was God doing in Leviticus
ding Ideas:
od is prepares His people to enter the Promised Land by teaching them the importance of organization & obedience & by continuing to reveal His faithfulness, justice &
How to read Leviticus:
Ask:
What was God do Why was He doin How can we appl that principle toda
The Main Themes
mportance of a law. he Pagan Vs. Godly.
Sacrificial system, The Priest, The Dwelling place or Tabernacle of God. You can take the people out of Egypt… but can you take the ‘Egypt’ out of the people. A Personal God and what He is like.
anitation.
The Main Themes
Sacrifice - Ch 1-10 Separation - Ch 11-24 Holiness Success - Ch 25-27
w do you show the importance of a l
hrough nsequences.
consequence is a atement of value that which the w protects.
Pagan Vs. Godly
n Egypt: Pagan sacrifices were to appease the gods out of fear and selfishness.
In the wilderness
God provided a w for the people to initiative to appro and receive forgiveness. He let them use a system they foun familiar, but‌
Sin is costly.
Pagan Vs. Godly
od longs to forgive. acrifices provided ACCOUNTABILITY f n (had to lay hands on animal or slaughter emselves). hemselves). acrifices brought HUMILITY (an innocen nimal died for you).
m 40:6: acrifice a meal offering You have not desire y ears You have opened; Burnt offering and n offering You have not required.�
alm 51:16-17 or You do not delight in sacrifice, otherwise ould give it; You are not pleased with burnt fering. The sacrifices of God are a broken irit; A broken and a contrite heart, O God, Y ll not despise.�
ifices are meaningless without a sincere heart
Sanitation
Cleanliness is next t godliness?
Were they just random laws?
bsolutely not! Egyptian health practices Moses raised in the palace Could they survive long with those kinds of practices?
The health practices Leviticus were extre necessary! They were specific instructions to practi which made surviva camp possible!
anitation laws were an expression of God’ ndness, not His desire to arbitrarily create indness, ules!
me Samples:
yssop = hand sanitizer!
me Samples:
hovel to cover “business� outside the cam
Today in many nations the lack of latrines caus worms & many diseases. It also affects drinkin water.
me Samples:
cumcised on 8th day- when Vitamin K is th ghest in all of life - blood can coagulate, n ighest eeding to death. leeding
Does God think girls are gross
Unclean for longer af giving birth to girls?! Context. Mostly girl b were sacrificed – protection. Mother’s also takes longer to recover hormones produced during pregnancy with girl b God is not arbitrary.
Remember: Be asking‌
What is God doing?
Why is He doing that? What is He trying to ach them?
ow do those principles apply in other tuations and cultures?