Leviticus brims with grace. It’s types & shadows “prefigure Christ, His graces, actions, sufferings, and benefits.” And it concludes with the blessings of grace received, curses of grace rejected, and the abiding promise of grace extended. Join us as we examine Leviticus 26 and consider God’s gracious last words from the Mosaic covenant.
Category Archives: Leviticus
07/28/2024 | “The Sabbatical” | Leviticus 25:1-22
How are you resting? This is every counselor’s question. Are you resting? Really resting? Have you learned to lay aside the grip of the curse, embrace the rest of worship, fellowship, and growth, and trust God to provide both in labor as rest? Listen as we examine Leviticus 25 and consider God’s instruction for the Sabbatical year and the year of Jubilee.
07/21/2024 | “Marking Time” | Leviticus 23:1-44
Is time your tyrant? Or joyful reminder of God’s grace? Does the fleeting of time and the acceleration of years make you anxious? Or expectant? Listen as we examine Leviticus 23 and consider how the OT Feasts teach us to live thankfully and expectantly.
07/14/2024 | “The Beauty of Holiness” | Leviticus 19:1-37
Holiness! What does the word evoke? Impossible demands? Hypocrisy? Nit-picking moralism? Or beauty, love, community, and grace? The Bible teaches that holiness is a gracious gift that teaches us to love God, love neighbors, and love strangers. Join us as we examine Leviticus 19 and consider the gift of holiness.
07/07/2024 | “Unstained” | Leviticus 18:1-6, 24-30
Are you stain-resistant? Leviticus 18 warns us of the staining power of relational sin and the importance of honoring the relational boundaries the Lord has established. Far from prudish legalism, God’s precepts teach us to walk in grace. Join us as we examine Leviticus 18 and consider the gracious boundaries God has established for our most intimate and precious relationships.
06/30/2024 | “Power in the Blood” | Leviticus 17
Chickens attack it. Parent’s panic. And some faint. Few are indifferent to blood. Bleeding is serious, not to be ignored. Life depends upon it. But blood is more precious than science observes. Its life-giving power illustrates a truth much more profound. Listen as we examine Leviticus 17 and consider the life-giving power of blood.
06/23/2024 | “Ploughing in Hope” | Leviticus 16:1-34
Are you hopeless? Drowning in sin and misery, sure there is no hope for you? Has brokenness, fear, sorrow, or futility made you despair? You need to know there has been a Day of Atonement. A day on which Christ declared, “it is finished.” Listen as we examine Leviticus 16 and consider the Day of Atonement, why it was needed, what it involved, when it would be fulfilled.
05/26/2024 | “Care Instructions” | Leviticus 14
Leviticus 14 commands ritual, washings, & sacrifices to pronounce lepers clean. But none of this actually makes a leper clean. It merely points to the Lord’s gracious healing. And declares to the community that God heals, God restores, God cleanses. Listen as we examine Leviticus 14 and consider the true power of God’s appointed means of grace and why it is important that we be both spiritual and religious.
05/19/2024 | “Contact Precautions” | Leviticus 13:1-59
Infectious disease turns neighbors into threats. And fear makes others “unclean.” Contagion, real or perceived, always threatens fellowship. “Jesus touched the leper.” But should we? Doesn’t Leviticus 13 teach us to keep our distance? Or does it? Join us as we examine Leviticus 13 and consider what endangers our fellowship with God and others far more than leprosy.
05/12/2024 | “Dirty Jobs” | Leviticus 12:1-8
Juxtaposed with warnings about the impurity of dead things, Leviticus 12 declares childbirth defiling. Surely children are innocent, pure, unstained. Or are they? Leviticus 12 reveals a terrible curse, but an even more potent deliverance. Join us as we examine the purity laws regarding childbirth and see how they reveal hope, mercy, grace, and salvation through Jesus.
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