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The Joy of Leviticus !
Dry, opaque, uninterestingIrrelevant, forbidding, dispensableOught not to be in the BibleAll those baby lambs!!!
Not an easy book
IrreplaceableBest book in the Bible
What if we looked at it from a movie rating standard?
Graphic violence Descriptions of bodily functions that produce squeamishness
Unreserved discussions about sex
Familial IntrigueFire out of Heaven consuming people
Holy Blood and Holy Fire!
Way into the Presence of the Holy One
Living in His presence How to bring everything in life to Him
What it means to be actually holy
Daily Passionate Love for GodAn Absolute, Complete and Abundant Salvation
Why do we tighten?
Don’t want to work Thinking takes effortWe don’t like regulations of any
kind…reallyI don’t want to go to hell but stay
away from my everyday, “normal” life.
He really doesn’t care about all that stuff anyway.
Dealing with our Marcionism
OT is wrong, just a legalistic albatross
OT is a sub-Christian book OT has an angry, vengeful God and
the NT gives us the nice and sweet God so we will lop off the OT…unless I like the passage
OT is just an appendix - dispensable OT is just too far back there to
understand OT doesn’t give me immediate pay-
back
OT and NT
Didn’t Jesus replace all that OT stuff?
It was all fuzzy and NT corrected it
All I need is the NT – OT is unnecessary
OT is not the prequel to the NT NT is not a revised, corrected edition of the OT
NT is the final chapter of God’s Message of Love
Matt 5:17 – up front, at the start, “I did not come to do away with
the Law but to fulfill it!”II Tim 3:16 “All Scriptures” – OT –
are God-breathedHundreds of references/allusions to
the OT Look, this is what the OT was
pointing to!
Jesus, the Law and Judaism
Jesus is what the OT is all aboutWe want to know everything about Him.
Only true source we have to understand what led up to His life.
Bad “law” Mt 5-7, Rom 6, Gal etc. ALWAYS means
the judaistic interpretation of the OT.
NT assumes the OT
NT builds upon all of the OTExpects that we are already alert
and prepared - “Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.”
Faith and salvation don’t begin in Bethlehem
Jesus and all NT authors loved the OT
Jesus to the Pharisees – You don’t know your Bible. If you did you would see it is about me!
Jn 5:39-40
Just before Leviticus:Law as Grace
Stuck in bondage and personal sin Deliverer is prepared and arrives Glorious, wonder-filled undeserved
deliverance Unbelievable provision Only request – believe – act like I
(really) AM Ex 19 relationship of love sealed by
covenant Covenantal expressions (Ex 2o-24)
follow the beginning of the relationship
Not “imported” but “pointed to”
Jesus is what the OT is aboutNT = Fulfillment of the Christian FaithNT without OT is without a foundationRaises questions that need answers
In itself OT is incompleteOT = Foundation of the Christian Faith
Christian Book with two parts:The OT is NOT a Jewish Book
The Theme of the Pentateuch
Genesis
Exodus Leviticus Central Book
Numbers
Deuteronomy
BeginningsChosen
RedemptionDelivered
WorshipSet Apart
WanderingsDirected
Covenant AnewMade Ready
PreparedSovereign
RedeemedMerciful
TaughtHoly
TestedJust
RetaughtLoving
Creator“Let there be”
Redeemer‘Let My people go’
SanctifierBe Holy
SustainerGo in
RewarderListen and Obey
Canaan Egypt and Sinai Sinai Wilderness Moab
The Need for it
Accomplishment of it
The Fruit of it
The Fall from it
The Restoration of it
Relation of Exodus and Leviticus
Way out of Bondage Way of Holiness
Camped at Sinai Laws for WorshipLed by His Presence Living in His
PresenceRedeemed Lives Offering
Acceptable LivesVictor MediatorDelivered Cleansed through
sacrificePillar/Cloud/Glory Altar and Glory
Flow of Leviticus
1-16 The Way of Approach 17-27 The Way of Holiness
The Way to God The Walk with God
Godward Manward
Overview of the Book
Becoming Holy Remaining Holy Way to God Walk with GodCuring Unholiness Preventing UnholinessPast Future
The Atoning God The Lord of a Holy Nation
Offerings Priests Purity Atone People Priests Feasts Bless/Curse
1-7 8-10 11-15 16 17-20 21-22 23-25 26-27
Major Recurring terms and themes
Holy, Holiness, sanctify all forms 150 times
20% of OT usages
most in 19-27RitualsPriesthood“make atonement”“Lord called unto Moses” 56 times
The “Beautiful” Message of Leviticus
What does God want most of all?“Be holy as I am holy!”
Exodus is over –now I want to get really intimate
I want a people who love me and look like me!
A vital part of our story
After chapters of regulationsEx 40:34-35Leviticus starts here!Time in relation to deliverance
Ex 19-Num 10 = 10-11 months
Leviticus at Sinai – about a month?
The Dynamic of the Book
Leviticus = Greek for “of the Levites” “And He called” 20 of 27 chapters start “Yahweh said to
Moses” Most direct words by God in any book
Ex. from Sinai - Lev. from the tabernacle Directions on intimacy with the Holy One Specific instructions that pertain to Israel’s
life, which point to the person and work of Jesus and us.