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…
unholy fire
SCRIPTURE: Leviticus 10 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: 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 is…
fire from heaven
SCRIPTURE: Leviticus 9 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: 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. Jesus…
called to be a priest
SCRIPTURE: Leviticus 8 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: 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 ceremony…
prune me, Lord
SCRIPTURE: Leviticus 7 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….
taking fire seriously
SCRIPTURE: Leviticus 6 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: “And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell, where ” `their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.’ [Mark 9:47-48] The ever-burning fire…
genuine repentance
SCRIPTURE: Leviticus 5 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River. But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he said to them: “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? Produce fruit in keeping with repentance. [Matthew 3:6-8]…
forgiven
SCRIPTURE: Leviticus 4 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.’ [Luke 23:34] I think that we normally do not know what we are doing when we sin. If we really understood what sin was, we would not willfully do it. As I read Leviticus, I hear the heart of…
restored fellowship
SCRIPTURE: Leviticus 3 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, ‘This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.’ In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, ‘This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured…
bread of life
SCRIPTURE: Leviticus 2 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Give us today our daily bread. [Matthew 6:11, see Proverbs 30:7-9] The symbolism of bread is important here, t represents our basic needs. Through these sacrifices we acknowledge that we do not live by bread alone, but by God’s grace and truth. We need the Lord, He is our true bread [John 6:35].