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…
taking God seriously
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…
I just don’t get these laws!!!
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.’…
spiritual mildew
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….
reaching out to Jesus
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…
feelin dirty?
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….