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Father, we thank you tonight
in your blessed, most precious name, the Lord that's ever lived. We thank you for a blessed book
that magnifies a marvelous Savior. Lord, we pray you'd bless our
evening. I pray you'd bless the Word of God. I pray there'd be
liberty in my heart, Lord, to be able to enjoy the things of
God, the Word of God, and that, Lord, we all could enjoy, Lord,
the marvelous truths that come from a marvelous book. We thank
you, Lord, for people with an interest in such a time in our
land. And we pray that you'd anoint
and bless each and every one of us. and touch us with the
very glory of God, for we ask it in Jesus' name. I pray you humor me for one more
night, but I always like to look at the man that wrote the book. I remember when I read East of
Eden and Grapes of Wrath, two books that were, they're highly
acclaimed in the literary world. And they won recognition, they're
still taught today as books, quality of writing. And after
I read those books, I wanted to know something about the man
that wrote the books. So I got a biography on John Steinbeck,
read all about him. And so when it comes to the book
of Leviticus, I wanted to know something about the man that
wrote the book. Tells you a lot about the man,
tells you a lot about the book when you enjoy the man who wrote
the book. Moses was the writer of the book
of Leviticus. His birth was dramatic and his
death was dramatic. And I said, you know, anybody
that finds God, Moses found him out in a desert land where it
seems like we all find God somewhere in a desert place in our life.
But you ever find him and start towards Jordan and the promised
land, you're gonna have a dramatic life too. It's dramatic to know
God in this world, in this dark world. It's a dramatic journey
to make. What makes the book of Leviticus
a dramatic book. And so the Bible gives us a biography
of his life. And as any great author, his
five books sit on our shelf and they've been up there for thousands
of years to enjoy. Moses, we have his final days as he's nearing Jordan in
the Book of Deuteronomy. He's closing out a long 40-year
journey. In the 33rd chapter of the Book
of Deuteronomy, you've got his last sermon. You've got his final
parting words before he leaves his people and leaves this world. And then in the 29th verse of
Deuteronomy 33, you've got his final words of the final sermon. You know what his final words
were to those people that had made that long, hard journey?
He said, be happy. After all they've been through,
and after you read the book of Numbers and you see what he said,
you people of the Lord should be happy. Well, that's a twist, isn't it? Be happy. And that's the way,
and then right after he tells them to be happy, the Bible said
he went up, went up to the mountains. And that 34th chapter of the
book of Deuteronomy, you've got his death. He goes up to the
mountains and he goes up alone. And he goes up by himself, but
he wasn't alone. Now all this Paul said is a learning. It's for our learning. Moses
goes up and he's alone, but he's not alone. Jesus in John 16,
32, he said, I'm alone. He said, but I'm not alone. My
father's with me. So when it comes time to die,
you won't be alone. There'll be somebody with you. No matter where you're at, what
you're going through, there'll be somebody with you. And we
learned from Moses when it come time to die, for him to cross
over, there was no fear in dying. He had no fear of death. Fear no evil. Thou art with me. And we also learned that there
was an angelic presence with him. Michael was with him, keeping
the devil off of him, keeping him company. Paul said, only Luke's with me. Moses can say only Michael's
with me. That's pretty good company. There was an angelic presence
at the time of his death. The Lord had been with him through
the whole journey, the whole 40 years. God had been with him. So now when it comes time to
cross over, it's time to go up, God's with him, keeping him company. But before he goes up, God just
kind of opens up the curtain and lets him look over into the
promised land. He lets him look into Immanuel's
land. Lucifer was there to contend
with him. but he had that angelic presence with him, and he died
happy. He got to see the land, he died
happy. He died faith in the Lord, he
died looking in the promised land, and he died with a heavenly
presence with him. Now, I still wanna look at Moses
just for a few minutes, but I want you to look in Leviticus chapter
one, The book of Exodus closes out.
The tabernacle is erected, the cloud of God, the presence and
the glory of God's come in. God is beckoning. And in Leviticus
chapter one, it said, the Lord called unto Moses and spake unto
him out of the tabernacle of the congregation saying, speak
unto the children of Israel. So you know what we see in Moses
right here? We see his ministry. And we see
the life that he's gonna live. We find him speaking, preaching,
teaching, fellowshipping in the glory. And we see Moses very
much alive, very much in the work, very much in the fellowship
of God, much alive. But now I want you to turn to
Joshua chapter one. By turning to Joshua chapter
one, we've just turned 40 years. And that's how quick 40 years
will turn. In my mind, I just got to Shady
Acres. I just got here. And it's 41
years later. And that's how quick it turns.
Just turn one book and 40 years is gone. And then all of a sudden,
that's the way I feel. I just turned around, 40 years
is gone. Man, it's not gonna be too much longer than me. I'm
gonna join up with Moses and I'm gonna go to Pisgah and look
over and be gone. So look here, look at chapter
one, verse two. We just saw him alive. We just
saw him in the work. Moses, my servant, is dead. That's
how quick things, that's how quick. Moses' life, they followed
him. Those children of Israel, they
followed him for 40 years. You gotta have faith in somebody
to stay with them 40 years. They watched him for 40 years. He went through, he took them
through troubled waters, took them through difficult times,
but they followed Moses all the way through the wilderness. Not
only followed him, they loved him. When Moses said, hey, he
said, blot me out. He said, I'll die for him. They
saw that in Moses. They loved him. Moses loved them. They listened to him. They listened
to him for 40 years. They listened to him. He came
down off that mountain and had the word of God in his hand.
And you watch Moses. Moses had a little temper to
him. He was either preaching the book at him or throwing the
book at him. That's the way a pastor does.
He got mad at him, he just chucked 10 commandments down, broke them
all to pieces. Pastors will do that sometimes.
They'll just throw the book at you. They'll get fed up, aggravated
like anybody else. That's what Moses did. They talked
to him. They lined up. for hours and
hours and hours, all day, just to wait so they could talk to
Moses. When he sat out in front of his
ten on the platform, all the young men gathered around him.
You know what it says in Deuteronomy chapter 34 and eight? It said
they wept and died. And it says they wept for 30
days. They missed him and they wept
and moaned for 30 days. They needed Moses. When the waters
were bitter, they all looked at him. What are we gonna do? He made the water sweet. A good
man to do that. They trusted him. Moses said,
this is the way. and they believed him and they
followed him. But now Moses is gone and life
has changed for them. The loved one that they had followed
and been with, he's not here anymore. The friends they traveled
with, they're not here anymore. And the land is new. And they're
in a new place. And they've never been without
him. And they've never been in the place that they are without
him. Never have. This is brand new
for them. Because he's been with them since
they come out of Egypt. You miss old men. When old men
die, In any age, when old men die, they take something with
them that you just never get back. Men will replace them. They will. But old men take something. That's why they're to be honored.
That's why God said to honor them. They're gonna take something
out of here that you never get back. In my little short life, I can
remember sitting at a table in a restaurant with a little Carl
Lackey. And I can remember just sitting there talking to that
old man. I remember sitting at a restaurant
table with Edgar Thomas and Jack Wood and just sitting there and
listening to them talk about the Word of God. And I can remember
how thrilled my heart was. I remember sitting at a restaurant
with Harold Clayton and a whole bunch of preachers. Harold Clayton,
Brother Jack, and I just remember, I was just a young guy, and just
sitting there with them old men, just listening to them. They take something with them.
Did you know, in the book of Joshua, after Moses died, 54
times it says, Moses said, he's dead. They said it, Moses said,
54 times. But when you get over to the
book of Judges, they don't say it two times. They done forgot
him. And look at the mess they got
in in the book of Judges. They needed him. So Moses is dead in chapter two,
but look in verse eight. This book of the law shall not
depart out of your mouth. Moses is dead. but they still
got the book of Leviticus. God didn't leave them empty. They still got, and when your
best friends and the best men leave here, you still got a book. They had a book when that old
man died. We got a book when the men that
we listened to for the last 30, 40 years, they just about all
gone. but we still got their book.
Still got it. He said, and the book of the
law shall not depart out of thy mouth, but thou shalt meditate
therein day and night. We've got the book in the daytime,
we've got it in the nighttime. We've got it when it's sunny,
we've got it when it's dark. We got it when we can see, we
got it when we can't see. We still got the book, even when
that generation comes and goes. Now they've got to trust the
book just like they trust Moses. Yes. My comparison is whether you're
going through the wilderness or you're fixing the crossover
in the promised land, you are still going to need the book. The book of Leviticus was a lamp
and a light. Because they were in a dark,
dark wilderness. Very dark. And that book gave
them light. And you watch them through the
wilderness. Time, places changed. Peoples changed. Problems changed. Enemies changed. There was a
constant change going on in their journey through the wilderness.
And you're gonna find out in our life too, it's gonna constantly
change. The things you plant in the springtime
of life, they're gonna be gone in the wintertime of life. But
they still had that book. They still have. The book will
stay the same yesterday, today, and forever. Just like somebody
else I know. That'll be the same yesterday,
today, and forever. And it's obvious to us that the
children of Israel would never have gotten through the wilderness
the great and terrible wilderness, Moses called it, they would never
have gotten through without the book of the law. Never would have. They never
would have known what was clean and what was unclean. They never would have been able
to stay clean without the book. And once they got unclean, they'd
have never been able to have gotten clean again if it hadn't
been for the book. The book taught them how to get
clean when they got unclean. That was the only source they
had. They'd have never been able to
have communion without the book. The book told them how to have
communion with God. They would have strayed and wandered
without the book. Paul said in Romans 7, 7, he
said, I would have even known lust without the law. So the children of Israel now
are out in a world they've never been in. They've been down in
Egypt. But now they're in the wilderness,
but they're in a world, they're in a life that they had never
been in. And it was not like Egypt. In
Egypt, you can do anything you want. Everything's legal in Egypt. Everything is legal in Egypt.
But now they've come out of Egypt and now they're in the wilderness
and God has given them a book. They've never traveled this way
before. This is a new land. The wiles they're fixing to face,
They ain't never faced these type of wiles. These are different
wiles in the wilderness than they faced when they were in
Germany, in Egypt. Germany, Lord. Probably pretty
close to the same, I guess. So God brings them out
and gives them a pastor and precepts. That's what he does. The book
of Leviticus becomes a lamp under their feet so that they can stay
clean, so that they can have communion. The reason why God
warned them to stay clean is because he could not have communion
with them if they weren't clean. And it was God that instituted
and beckoned them to come. He's the one that wanted the
fellowship. He's the one that wrote the laws.
He's the one that took the time there on Exodus to tell him how
to build an altar. When you read that in the book
of Exodus, that 27th chapter, when you see him building that
altar, that is God telling him how to build it, because he says,
that's where I want the fellowship within. It's not man building
it, it's God building it. Because he wants the fellowship. Let me find myself. It was a
light under their path to avoid becoming undefiled and unclean.
Look in Joshua chapter 23. Verse six, be ye therefore very
courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book
of the law of Moses. It's an important book. It's
a spiritual book. It was the leper's hope. If you
look over in Leviticus chapter 13, you find a leper sitting
down there in that little leper camp. He's unclean. He's gotta
tell everybody he's unclean. He can't go back in the camp.
He can't go home. He can't fellowship with his
family. He can't go to the tabernacle and he's sitting down there and
the only hope he's got is what is written in the law that the
priest can go down there and take a cage of birds to get him
out. But nobody would have known what to do if it hadn't been
for the law and the book. The best way that I can say to
approach The book of the law, Leviticus, where it becomes interesting. It opens up by saying, the Lord,
and he says, speak unto the children. So you've got a whole book of
the Lord speaking unto the children with a mediator in between. So
what you have, It spins off when the disciples went to the Lord
and said, teach us to pray. Remember the first thing he said? He said, pray like this, our
father. He wanted them to see that God
was more than just a God in the heaven, that God was a father.
And you see that fatherly role of the Lord and God in the book
of Leviticus. Because all of a sudden now,
he takes the role of a father and he's gonna do things for
them that a father does for his children. The Lord loved his
children, Deuteronomy 33. He loved them. And what a gift
and what a treasure he gives them in the book. It's like a
father lecturing a child. It's the same principles. You know what a child does? They
will eat anything. They will touch anything. They will go anywhere. They will
trust anybody. They will. And so a father takes
the time to teach his children, this is what you eat, this is
what you don't eat. This is what you can touch, this
is what you can't touch. This is what you can look at,
this is what you can't look at. And a father instructs his children
because he wants to keep them safe. He wants them to grow up. And God does the same thing in
the role of a father in the book of Leviticus. Don't put that
in your mouth. Don't touch that, don't look
at that. It's the same identical principle. It's the same thing
he did to Adam and Eve. He spread the table, gave them,
and he said, listen, You can have anything you want, but don't,
don't eat of that tree. And because the death sentence
was so severe in the garden, and I always believe that what
God's doing, He's trying to put the truth that Adam lost back
into the children of Israel with the book of Leviticus, because
this is what Adam lost. And I've heard people preach
that when Eve was talking to the devil, he said, God told
us not to touch it. Well, I know it doesn't say that. But when
you look into what happened to them, and then you get over here
to the book of Leviticus, where God was saying, don't eat it,
don't touch it, you can rest assured that God told them in
that garden, don't go near that tree, don't eat that tree, don't
touch that tree, don't. And when they did, they died.
because it was severe. And so now you see him doing
the same thing with this book of Leviticus. It's the same thing
that a parent does with a child. There's just some things that
are forbidden and he teaches them. These are the things you
don't do. The Lord teaches in the book
of Leviticus. He corrects in the book of Leviticus
and he punishes in the book of Leviticus. It's the same thing. You say,
why? Because the Lord loves his people. The Lord wants them to go through
the wilderness. He wants them to go through.
He wants them to go into the promised land. He wants them
to go through life. And he's not trying to deprive
them, he's trying to save them. He's trying to keep them happy.
When you're clean, you're happy. When you're unclean, you're not
happy. There's just things forbidden
that will destroy you, body, soul, and spirit. And the book
of Leviticus is a very spiritual book. So there's some things
in there that belong to them. There's a spiritual teaching
of learning that Paul said for us all even today. So what does
the Lord do? He writes them a book, the book
of the law. And he gives them this book of
Leviticus. Leviticus 10, 11, he's gonna teach them all the
statutes. And Leviticus 14, verse six,
seven, he's gonna teach them. And he wants them to read it.
He wants them to learn it. He wants them to hear it. He
wants them to memorize it, meditate on it night and day. It is a
school. It is a school to help them.
It's a father, you know what children love? Children love
for the father to read to them. They want a parent to read to
them. They always want to read to them. That's exactly the same
principle that God is doing as a father to these children with
the book of Leviticus. Read this to them. It's like
a teacher before class. The Lord speaks on every page.
The Lord spake. The Lord spake all the way through
the book of Leviticus. He speaks on every page, and
he speaks very direct. You understand him when he's
saying what he's saying. What these children face, we
face. What they're told to look out
for, we're told to look out for as we get into the book. There's
things that will hurt them, There's things that will defile him.
There's things that will make him unclean. There's things that
displease him. There are snake bites. There
are strange people. They meet people that you never
knew existed. I've met them often. They will face sufferance
that they never dreamed that they would face. They'll find sweet water, bitter
water. Happy one day, unhappy the next
day. Strong one day, weak the next
day. The father wanted the children
to listen to him. That's why he's constantly saying
through the book of Leviticus, speak unto the children because
he wanted the children to listen to him. because their life depended upon
the words that he's saying. That's why he wanted them to
listen. Their life, their living, their family, their home, everything
depended upon the word, speak unto the children. And everything
he said was very important. Fathers do the same to their
children. I love this verse, but it says, When Solomon is
writing in the book of Proverbs, he said, my son, hear the instructions
of a father. Same principle, but the other
part of that verse, and forsake not the law of your mother. Daddy's instruct, and mama's
lay down the law. Always been that way. It's an age old argument. that man wrote the Bible. If
you talk to anybody, you'll hear that for long, man wrote it.
Well, there's some books with the Bible, you can argue that
with, but not the book of Vinicius. There ain't no way man wrote
that book. Not killing animals the way he
killed them. Pulling heads off. bringing heads off, plucking
feathers, burning them, teaching them to hate, sin, and all that
they've got to go through. When they sin in chapter four,
the sin offering, and when they sin in the trespass offering,
all that he makes them go through to get everything right, he wanted
them to hate it as he hated it. Moral issues. He brings up all
these moral issues in the book of Leviticus. And on a humorous
note, the age-old argument that man wrote the Bible, if you want to argue that, they
couldn't eat catfish. Tell that to a Southern boy. But then thank God for the apostle
Paul, because he comes along in 1 Timothy 4, verse 4, and
he says, batter it up and fry it. Just pray over it and you'll
eat it. Oh, yeah. Hallelujah. I mean, that's exactly what he's
saying. Yeah. You can eat anything you
want to, just pray over it. Yes. Glory. When then Jesus came
along and in there in Acts chapter 10, when heaven opened up, all
them animals keep coming down. And he said, kill and eat. Fry up those bass and crock and
chicken. The Lord's the only one that
could have wrote this book. He's the only one. It's a heavenly
written book. I'm telling you, it is. John
will come along and say, God is love. The book of Leviticus
proves it. Because it was written for the
children's safety. It was written for them that they could make
it all the way to Jordan. It was an instruction manual
on how to survive in the wilderness. What to eat, what not to eat. He did not want his children
hurt. He didn't want his children suffering. He didn't. So he gave
them laws to keep them from it. But when they did, he helped
them get it all back right. He goes to the very length to
save and help his children. He keeps an eye on them night
and day. Now that is written for our learning.
There never was a time that he wasn't in camp. He never forsook
them, never did. He was there by day, He was there
by night. You can rest assured, looking
back now on the 40 years that I've come through this wilderness,
I look back now, He never forsook me. Never did. Even when I couldn't find Him,
He knew where I was. Just like He knew where they
were all the time. He knew where they were. Never
out of his sight. He made sure that they had food. He made sure that they had water.
Made sure that they had clothes. He made sure they had shoes for
the whole journey. He made sure they were provided
for. And he wants them to know By
providing for them, that's how much he cares. That is divine
care. And he's trying to prove that. He never let his heart, his heart
never lifted. Following down into Egypt, he
tore up Egypt like a mad dad. I want my children out of here. I want my children down here.
Let them go or I'll tear your house up. Let them go or I'll
take your children. And there's times when you, through
the book of Leviticus and through the Pentateuch, there's a time
you just get to see the very character of God. And the children, they had a
lot to learn when they come up out of Egypt. God, when we got saved, we had
a lot to learn. They come out of a hard life.
They came out of a very bitter experience. The Bible uses the
word rigor. It's hard. They had suffered
burdens to carry, taskmasters that left scars on them that
were never gonna heal in a lifetime. They never felt a lot, they never,
those pains, they were with them. The Bible said they cried unto
heaven and God heard them. And so what God does, he gives
them a book. It's what I call the children's
book. Speaking to the children, so he gives them a book. Not
a book of combat, or war, or carnal warfare. But it's a book
of illustrations and instructions of truths that he illustrated. He illustrated everything in
the book of Leviticus. Paul wrote what happened to us. Leviticus, it shows us what happened
to us. You'll see it plainer than you've
ever seen it before. Everything's written in a picture.
Everything's illustrated in the book of Leviticus. It's an allegory
where pictures are hidden in the meanings of those words. Paul said we had a vile body. Well, Leviticus just shows you
how vile it is. I love Leviticus. He said he
got running issues. We all got issues that are running
somewhere. We all got issues that are running. Running issues. Paul said, there's no good thing
in my flesh. Leviticus shows you just how there's no good
in your flesh. It's a spiritual book about a
spiritual life. Because the Lord brings them
out of Egypt. into a great and terrible wilderness, and now
he's gonna teach him how to live spiritual in a wicked world. That's the same thing he does
to you and I. He wants us to live spiritual
in a wicked world. So he gives us a book. Gives
us a book to help us. They didn't have a book in Egypt. All the books that were in Egypt
were about flesh and body. Positive thinking. How to make
a better you. Seven steps to wherever you want
to go. But the book of Leviticus is
a spiritual book that gives you a knowledge of God, a life of
a conscious presence of God, of living right, in a wrong world
because the Lord wanted them to go through the wilderness
and all the trials. Remember what Jesus said in John
17? He said, Lord, I don't pray that you take them out of the
world. I just pray that you keep them from evil. And this is exactly
what he does in the book of Leviticus. He doesn't take them out of that
wilderness world, but he gives them a book to keep them from
evil, to keep them from unclean. Keep them out of the leper camps. To look to him, speaking to the
children, to listen to him, to trust him. He wants to be their
Lord. He wants to be their father.
He wants to keep them clean. He wants to stay in fellowship.
He wants to dwell in the camps. So here is an amazing thought
of the children of Israel. They did find that life was unbearable
in Egypt. It was unbearable. But they came to the place where
they thought that it was easier than the spiritual life in the
wilderness. So they said, I'm going back
to Egypt. How about that? Because the spiritual life, they
thought was just too hard to live spiritual. So they started
dreaming of the flesh pots and the onions and the garlics and,
you know, all that they had in Egypt. But they wanted to go
back because they didn't want to live spiritual in a wilderness
world. We've seen a lot of people like
that. They come out of Egypt, but they just think the spiritual
life's too hard. They preferred the sufferings
of Egypt more than the spiritual life in the wilderness. And that's
why, if you go over there to 1 Corinthians 10, verses one
through 11, time and time again in those verses, it said, with
some of them, he was not well pleased. With some of them, he
was not well pleased. He says that about three or four
times. And that's those people that came out and drank of that
spiritual drink and ate of that spiritual food, and they followed
that spiritual rock, and he gave them every chance in the world. But they didn't want to live
spiritual. Too hard. But if you come out of Egypt
and into the wilderness, You find God in the spiritual life
in the wilderness, but you can't find God down in Egypt. He brought them out and then
revealed himself to them after he got them out. They found God in the wilderness.
They couldn't find him in Egypt. They had to come out of Egypt
to find the presence of God. And so do we. He said, come out from among
them to be second. He said, come out. He said, come
out. And he said, I'll be a father
unto you. I'll be in your, you come out
and be a father, be a son and a daughter. He said, I'll be
a father to you. So they found God in the book,
Leviticus chapter nine, verse six. The book was to teach them of
the Lord. That's what we begin our journey
on next week. The book had the presence of
God in it. It was more than killing animals.
It was more than sacrificing. The book of Leviticus is still
with us. It still reveals Jesus Christ. It reveals him. I brought my son out of Egypt. The light still shines. It's
funny, the Pharisees, they had the book of the law when Jesus
came, but they couldn't see it. They had it. Paul got it, he saw it. and it
totally changed his life. Moses wrote of me what Jesus
said. Moses wrote of me. They got some
man that wanted to kill him. To them, it was not a book about
Jesus. It was a book of knowledge that
they could control, exalt their own righteousness and their own
works. They could not see Jesus in it.
But I'm telling you people, Jesus is all in that book. Glory. Jesus reveals Leviticus. He quotes
it. Paul quotes it. He found Jesus on every page.
And when he found him on every page, he wrote in the book of
Hebrews, he said, he's better than everything. He's better
than angels. He's better than the law. He's
better than everything. He worshiped God. learning about
the Lord in the book. Then he told Timothy, he said,
you better study. Better study, and I repeat myself from last
week, but some books, you enjoy reading. Some books, you don't
enjoy reading. Some books, you just have to
study. Timothy, give attendance to reading. Timothy, study to
prove. Some books of the Bible, you
just have to dig in there. You just have to dig deep. He
wrote him a commentary, called it the book of Hebrews. He said
a shadow. He said that book of Leviticus
was a shadow of good things to come. Brought a better hope, he said.
It's a children's book that made them forget Egypt. Those who
came into the courts, made them think about God, made
them worship the Lord. So when the Lord gets through
with them, I'm gonna close here. When the Lord gets through with
them, they won't even be able to look at a fish in the water,
a bird in the sky, or a creeping thing on the ground without thinking
about God. He puts that conscious, he puts
that conscious awareness They can't look nowhere if they can't
see God. It's a great book. It's much deeper than the ceremonies,
duties, and all the washes. And I borrowed Paul's word. He
says it's glorious. It's glorious. So next week,
we'll start looking at the inside of it and looking at the burnt
sacrifice
The Glorious Book Of Leviticus
Series Leviticus
SABC Bible Institite
| Sermon ID | 2321751210 |
| Duration | 47:18 |
| Date | |
| Category | Bible Study |
| Bible Text | Leviticus 1:1 |
| Language | English |
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