prune me, Lord
SCRIPTURE: Leviticus 7 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: 1. 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…
lost and found
taking fire seriously
SCRIPTURE: Leviticus 6 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: 1. “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…
Juarez in the news
With Valerie, Tim and Nathan, in Juarez, and Tim staying there for the next few months, I am especially aware of when Juarez makes the news… Pray, pray, pray! CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico, Feb 26 (Reuters) – Mexico is sending up to 5,000 new troops and federal police to the country’s most violent city, where law…
facing the sacrifice
You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified. [Galatians 3:1] As I read through these opening chapters of Leviticus, all about the different sacrifices with which people were to come before God, I feel convicted that I need to face the sacrifice myself. I find the…
seeing Jesus in the sacrifices
See Leviticus 4:1-21, Hebrews 13:11-13.
genuine repentance
SCRIPTURE: Leviticus 5 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: 1. 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….
forgiven
SCRIPTURE: Leviticus 4 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: 1. 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…
restored fellowship
SCRIPTURE: Leviticus 3 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: 1. 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…