Jesus follower

SCRIPTURE: Leviticus 20 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: He said to them, ‘If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.’ [John 8:7] As I read this chapter, I think about the time when Jesus was asked about whether the adulterous woman should be stoned [John 8:2-11]. According to this chapter, this…

SCRIPTURE: Leviticus 19 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. [Matthew 5:18]. All of these laws, the least stroke of the pen, somehow find their fulfillment in Jesus. He is…

SCRIPTURE: Leviticus 18 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. [Matthew 5:28]. Sex, like fire, is a beautiful gift. In the fireplace, it provides warmth and comfort. But outside of healthy boundaries, that is, when it jumps from the fireplace to the…

SCRIPTURE: Leviticus 17 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Jesus said to them, ‘I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my…

SCRIPTURE: Leviticus 16 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit. At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook and the rocks split. [Matthew 27:50-51]. In the tabernacle (temple), between the people and God there was a…

SCRIPTURE: Leviticus 15 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28] It seems that the deeper lesson behind these purity laws was how the people approached God. They were to go out…

SCRIPTURE: Leviticus 14 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!” Immediately he was cured of his leprosy. Then Jesus said to him, “See that you don’t tell anyone. But go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.’…

SCRIPTURE: Leviticus 13 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you….

SCRIPTURE: Leviticus 12 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: 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 been…

SCRIPTURE: Leviticus 11 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: ‘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 Jesus…