SCRIPTURE: Leviticus 14 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: 1. OK, I admit it, I am getting tired of these readings. What an elaborate system of dealing with the disease, and of getting clean. I get that the disease were dangerous, but so much ritual and sacrifice to be declared clean – with guilt offerings, sin offerings, burnt and grain offerings….
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spiritual mildew
SCRIPTURE: Leviticus 13 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: 1. This chapter addresses very practical hygiene and health issues for that time. The practice of quarantine was the best treatment for these otherwise community-devastating diseases. Communicable diseases (like measles, smallpox, scarlet fever) are in mind here. And mildew would be a health concern in damp climates and seasons. No other ancient…
reaching out to Jesus
SCRIPTURE: Leviticus 12 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: 1. And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years, but no one could heal her. She came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak, and immediately her bleeding stopped. [Luke 8:43-44] According to the reading from Leviticus [see also Leviticus 15:25-33], this woman would have…
feelin dirty?
SCRIPTURE: Leviticus 11 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: 1. ‘Don’t you see that nothing that enters a man from the outside can make him unclean? For it doesn’t go into his heart but into his stomach, and then out of his body.” (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods “clean.”) [Mark 7:18-19] Why does God declare some foods unclean? Why does…
laws of cleanness
These notes are taken from the New International Version Bible Commentary: Leviticus 11:1 – 15:33 The Levitical laws of cleanness symbolized spiritual cleansing and set Israel apart from the surrounding nations. The spiritual and the hygienic reasons for the laws are remarkably valuable in the area of public health. In general they protected Israel from bad…
no mere man
“I know men and I tell you that Jesus Christ is no mere man. Between Him and every other person in the world there is no possible term of comparison. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creation of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded His…
unholy fire
SCRIPTURE: Leviticus 10 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: 1. When the disciples James and John saw this, they asked, ‘Lord, do you want us to call fire down from heaven to destroy them?’ But Jesus turned and rebuked them, and they went to another village. [Luke 9:54-56] James and John are upset because the Samaritans did not welcome Jesus. But Jesus…
faith in action
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fire from heaven
SCRIPTURE: Leviticus 9 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: 1. I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! But I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is completed! [Luke 12:49-50] In Leviticus 9, the people saw fire come from heaven, and they fell facedown and shouted for joy….
called to be a priest
SCRIPTURE: Leviticus 8 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: 1. Again Jesus said, ‘Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.’ And with that he breathed on them and said, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.’ [John 20:21-23] This…