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And I don't want anybody to raise
their hands or to answer out loud. This is a hypothetical
question or a rhetorical question. But what is your favorite book
or verse in the Bible? What is your favorite book or
verse in the Bible? And as a pastor, it's easy to
say. It's whatever one I'm preaching
through in the moment. So I could say Leviticus is my
favorite. But next week in the morning,
I'll say it's 1 John. No, what is your favorite book
of the Bible? Many of us do have a favorite passage that we go
to often, one that we think about often in times of perhaps temptation,
or in times when we're in need of comfort, or just passages
that speak to us about the glory of God through Christ. My guess
is that not many of you would say that your favorite passage
would be found in the book of Leviticus. In fact, many of us
would say we are afraid of the book of Leviticus. Maybe you
wouldn't say so outright, but I think in reality many Christians
are afraid of the book of Leviticus. They don't know what to do with
the book. We read through it quickly if
we read through it at all. I somewhat joked about it this
morning when we announced this but it is true that many people
in their yearly read through the Bible in a year plan many
times skip Leviticus. Many times they just read the
words but they don't stop and think about it. They don't take
the time to investigate what really is this book about. There are so many commands and
instructions and descriptions that seem odd to us and we don't
know how to relate to them. And so for many Christians, Leviticus
is a dark book, one that is shrouded in mystery and confusion. An atheist who has a monthly
blog post titled, This Month's Crazy Bible Verse. And I don't
recall how I stumbled upon this atheist blog. I don't recommend
reading lots of atheist blogs. But he had this monthly blog
titled, This Month's Crazy Bible Verse. And he had this to say.
He said, Leviticus is a great book to test on Christians. Do they agree with the rules?
Do they follow these rules? Most people find these rules
ridiculous, and to the credit of Christians, they don't follow
or agree with most of these rules. However, too many of the same
Christians who argue those rules are not to be followed in today's
society, condemn things like homosexuality and point to Leviticus
chapter 18. It's not okay to pick and choose
which Bible verses to follow based on convenience or based
on apologizing away the things you don't agree with and keep
the things that you do. Is this an accurate summary of
how Christians do or ought to think about Leviticus? As our society accepts and promotes
not just the practice but also the institutionalizing of homosexuality,
how do we understand some of the specific laws of Leviticus? How do we as Christians say that,
yes, Leviticus and the Bible does condemn this practice, but
then how do we understand the rest of the book? How can we
say this still is binding and this is not? Others may object
to the book of Leviticus because they say it's a disgusting, hateful
book. It's unchristian. that my God
is a God of love and there is too much blood or death and just
grossness for Leviticus to be a book written by my God. That's written by someone who
professes to be a Christian. That's what they have to say
about the book of Leviticus. And we often don't have a way
to respond or answer some of these objections. that you might
by profession believe that the book of Leviticus is good and
it's there for a reason, but perhaps you don't know why. Perhaps
you know it's good and it's there for a reason, but you don't know
for what purpose. Often we don't know how to respond
because we ourselves have the same misunderstandings. One commentator points out that
for the Old Testament saints, the book of Leviticus was the
first book that the children were taught. that it was one
that was really so important that it was one of the first
things that children were taught to understand because it was
so important to their daily lives. Something that was really the
pinnacle of their worship to the Lord. While today it's often
the last book a Christian is taught and is studied. Of course
there are some reasons for this that we are in the New Covenant
and so many of the practices in Leviticus are unfamiliar because
we don't have sacrifices offered on a regular basis. And there
is reason for that, as we will see, but because of that, things
are unfamiliar. We read these things, but we've
never seen them done. And so it's hard for us to understand,
all right, there's these instructions, but what did this really look
like? How did they do this and for what purpose? And yet the
book of Leviticus, it's an important book for New Testament Christians
to know and to study. It's important not just to know
it because of attacks from unbelievers today, but it's important for
the richness of its theology. that it does instruct us even
still as New Covenant believers. The things that it teaches us
about God, particularly the way it points to the person and the
work of Christ. And so we do read Leviticus as
New Testament saints through the lens of the New Testament,
particularly through the book of Hebrews. So if I were to say
who here has a favorite passage out of the book of Hebrews, I
would expect that many of you would have a favorite verse out
of the book of Hebrews that's more well known to us. But it
is true in some sense to say that you truly can't understand
the book of Hebrews without at least having some understanding
of the book of Leviticus. The book of Leviticus is what
Hebrews is built on. It's taking what is taught there
and is applying it to Christ, what He has accomplished. And
so it's important for us to understand Hebrews, but for many believers,
the book of Hebrews is at the top of their list of favorites,
but we must understand that Leviticus is the prequel to Hebrews. And what I find helpful in thinking
about this book, Leviticus, is seeing why is it there? Why is
the book of Leviticus there? What is its purpose? And I think
once we get that understanding, once we get that big picture,
once we get that framework in mind, I think that you will begin
to appreciate more really the beauty of what we are taught
here in this book. To see how it functions. in the
whole of scripture, particularly see how it functions in these
five books of Moses. And I think our appreciation
will grow. So what I want us to see this
evening really is the main theme, the big picture. Why is Leviticus
here? And what I want us to see this
evening is that the Holy God The Holy God graciously makes
a way for His sinful people to come into His holy presence and
for Him to dwell in their midst. That the Holy God graciously
makes a way for His sinful people to come into His holy presence
and for Him to dwell in their midst. How do we get that? How do we get that from these
opening verses? Well, I believe it's most helpful
to see the flow of the narrative up to this point, particularly
considering this evening, the first two verses in light of
what we have just read from Exodus chapter 40. So we've read Exodus
chapter 40. Now let's read the two verses
of Leviticus. Now the Lord called to Moses. and spoke to him from the tabernacle
of meeting, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, and say
to them, When any of you brings an offering to the Lord, you
shall bring your offering of the livestock, of the herd, and
of the flock." If you read just these first two verses, you may
be tempted to think, okay, that's interesting. How did we get here?
What's the big deal? And keep moving on. But what
you see in this phrase, in this first verse, what we see in this
first verse are a few key phrases, particularly in verse 1, Now
the Lord called to Moses. And this phrase is used in some
key places in the Scriptures. And it helps us to make sense
of the purpose of the book. That Leviticus does not stand
alone, but is really a part of an unfolding story. I think it's
helpful to see the place that Leviticus has in this unfolding
story. So this phrase, and the Lord
called, is the third time that Moses has been called by God. But actually it is the fourth
time that this phrase has been used so far in these first five
books of the Bible. And so we read in Genesis chapter
3, the first time that this phrase is used, the Lord called to the
man in the garden. that they had just fallen in
sin, and the Lord, as it were, is walking through the garden,
and He calls to the man. He summons him to Himself. Where are you? The next time
that we see the phrase is when the Lord calls to Moses from
within the burning bush, in Exodus chapter 3. He calls him to commission
him to lead Israel out of Egypt. The third time that we see this
phrase in when the Lord now calls to Moses on Mount Sinai to announce
His covenant with Israel in Exodus chapter 19. And then finally,
before this event, we see Him call to Moses from within the
cloud where Moses receives the instructions about the tabernacle
in Exodus chapter 24. So you see this arc that is taking
place, that the Lord calls to man after he first falls into
sin, and then some things happen, as we'll go over in just a moment,
but then the next time we see it is the Lord calls to Moses
to commission him to lead his people out. And then he calls
him as he makes a covenant, and then he calls him to give instructions
for the tabernacle, very significant events in the life of God's people,
the nation of Israel. So the Lord now, in Leviticus
chapter 1, calls Moses again to reveal more fully how Israel
is to live. He now calls him to tell him
the ordinances concerning the totality of their daily lives
in order for them to enjoy continued fellowship with him. He is now
going to give them instructions. What must they do to continue
to have fellowship with God? Why is this significant? Why
is this significant? Well, because humanity had rebelled
against God. that Adam and Eve enjoyed intimate
fellowship with God in the Garden. That God would walk with them
and talk with them. Think of how Adam had this fellowship
without sin. An intimacy unknown even to us
because of our own sin. He would walk with him. He would
talk with him, free from sin. But then sin entered into the
world. And what happened? Man was cast
out of the holy presence of God. He was driven away from His holy
presence. But of course, immediately we
are given the promise of God that He would send one to crush
the head of the serpent. And from there we have this story
that is unfolded for us in the book of Genesis and then through
Exodus. That there is this progression
that God makes covenant with humanity through Abraham, then
to Isaac, then to Jacob. And then the people are driven
into Egypt where they prosper, but yet are under bondage. And
then they cry out to God and God hears them and he sends Moses
to set them free, to lead them to the promised land. And we
have the power of God on display, but we see also His grace, that
He is building up a people, but then drawing a people to Himself. We see His covenant faithfulness. He is blessing His people, His
own possession, and He is bringing them to the promised land. But
He's bringing them to this promised land, not just so they can enjoy
freedom for its own sake, not just so they can enjoy the good
food that was there, but He's bringing them to the promised
land where He is going to dwell with them. That He is going to
be their God, who is going to live in the midst of them. He is fulfilling His promise,
and He's going to be the God of Israel. And so we have the
latter portion of Exodus where we've read just a portion of.
We have really the capstone of Exodus there where they are given
the law, yes, but they're given also the instructions for the
tabernacle. That the tabernacle was going
to be the dwelling place of God, where He was going to dwell in
their midst. And perhaps that might seem like a small thing.
Perhaps you might think, well, that's a nice tent. All of us
have been camping. We have tents. Well, it was a
tent. What's the big deal about that? I hope you've seen that
the progression of this unfolding story is this was a huge deal. that since God had driven humanity
out of the garden, man had not had a fellowship and a communion
with God until this point. That God was once again going
to dwell in the midst of people. In this case, His chosen people,
Israel. So if you study the tabernacle,
you'll notice that it reminds us of the garden. That if you
think about the tabernacle, you ought to think about the garden. That where man had first had
this fellowship with God, but had been lost, is now being restored. And this was one step toward
restoration. But what we see at the end of
Exodus is there is actually a problem. They've constructed the tabernacle,
and you notice again and again this repetition, Moses obeyed. He did what God commanded. He
did what God commanded. Very important, as we'll see
in our study through Leviticus. But there is this problem in
verse 34. Then the cloud covered the tabernacle
of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. That's a great thing. God now
is saying, yes, you have obeyed me. I will descend and I will
give my special presence in this tabernacle. But notice verse
35, and Moses was not able to enter the tabernacle of meeting
because the cloud rested above it and the glory of the Lord
filled the tabernacle. But the Lord had done what He
had promised to do and He was now dwelling in the tabernacle.
But now it becomes apparent the Lord is holy and His glory is
too much. Now Moses cannot enter into the
tabernacle because God's holy presence is there. that the glory
clouds dwelling upon the tabernacle, the holy of holies, while it
is a climactic end to the book of Exodus, it creates this tension
that requires a resolution. What's the benefit of having
God's presence in this tabernacle if nobody can approach God and
worship? if He is still set apart from
us. How can a sinful people approach
a holy God in worship? That's the question that as you
read through Exodus and you come to the end, you are to be thinking. And that's why Leviticus begins
as it begins. The Lord called to Moses. And
he spoke to him from the tabernacle of meeting, saying, that what
we have in Leviticus is the beginning of this resolution. How can you
approach a holy God if you are sinful? Read Leviticus, and you
get the answer for the Old Testament saints. That God reveals to Moses
what they must do as his people to be able to approach him. So
we'll see that this problem is not resolved really until Leviticus
chapter 9 when we read that Moses and Aaron were able to go into
the tabernacle of meeting. And they came out and they blessed
the people. Then the glory of the Lord appeared
to all the people. But the question is, which Leviticus
answers, how can it be? How can the Lord's presence,
as one commentator says, how can the Lord's presence dwell
in the midst of an unclean and sinful people? Well, the divinely
revealed remedy for the hope of dwelling with God is sacrifice
and sanctification. And another way to phrase this,
as he continues, is through reconciliation. Leviticus is about reconciliation
between God and humanity through the tabernacle system. We have the tabernacle constructed.
But now in Leviticus we get the things that are going to take
place within and without the tabernacle. So we have the sacrifices
that are instituted. We have the priesthood who are
instituted and ordained. But then beyond that also we
will see the holiness codes, the purity codes for God to continue
to dwell in the midst of their camp. So at the beginning of
Leviticus, the Lord was present among His people, but still He
could not be approached, even by Moses. But there we have in
Leviticus the gradual reducing of this gap between the sacred
and the profane. And it is where the Lord initiates
the movement. by calling Moses and revealing
to him the way of reproach, namely through sacrifice of priesthood
and then through the work of the priests in their service.
So that's what we see really already in the book of Leviticus. We see already from verse 1,
we see some profound truth even for our own lives. First I want you to see, what
does it take for us to come near to God? What does it always take
for a sinful people to be able to come into the presence of
a holy God? It always takes God initiating
that work. It always takes God calling and
making a way for a sinful people to approach Him. He is holy. He is a God of perfect majesty
and glory. And what are we in comparison?
We are sinful. But if we were to presume to
enter into the holy presence of a holy God, still in our sins,
we would be like what we'll see in Leviticus chapter 10. We will
be consumed. We will be consumed in His holiness. because of our sinfulness. We
cannot bridge the gap between us and Him unless He first acts. And this is true both in our
redemption as well as in our worship. And we see this very
plainly and simply in the pattern that it is God who calls. We see in the instances of this
particular phrase, He calls to Adam, He calls to Moses, but
we see also He calls Abraham out of his home country to follow
Him. It is God who calls. It is God who acts first to save
His people, but it carries over also that it must be God who
calls us into His presence. We cannot approach Him in our
own strength. In fact, When we are in our sinfulness,
we don't want to approach a holy God. In fact, the people, they
hear the voice of God and they say to Moses, no, we don't want
to be close to Him. You go up for us. This is too
much for us. You go up, we will go down. But
we see that God acts and He makes a way for Himself to dwell in
their midst. And the truth is that things,
really in that sense, are not really any different today, are
they? We might think that in the Old Testament we have these
manifestations of God's glory, and that was in the Old Testament.
And if we're not careful, we might think that God somehow
is less holy today, that He is less a God to be feared today. But of course, that is not what
we read in the New Testament. We cannot approach a holy God
in ourselves because of our sin. He must initiate. He must do
something. Of course, we must be cleansed
of our sins, but even in worship, He must call us. This truth is
reflected simply in our own order of worship, that we begin the
worship of God with a call of worship. It must be God who calls
us into His presence. God summons us into His presence,
and we respond to that. We respond to it with praise,
we respond to it with confession of sin, all of those things,
but it must first be God who calls us into His presence. We do not presume to do it in
our own strength or merit, but only through the way that He
has made through His Son, Jesus Christ. The other thing that
we marvel at in these first verses is the fact that God does this
at all. Why does God call sinful people
into His presence? And in some sense, we can't answer
that question. Why? We don't know. It's not because
we deserve to be. It's not because we are so special. It's because of God's grace.
Because He, in His mercy, His grace, has promised to dwell
in the midst of His people. And really, in a certain sense,
it's because He desires to have a people for Himself. He doesn't
need us. He doesn't owe us anything. But
for His own glory, He has long promised to make a way for us
to come back to Him. We'll see more of that in the
future. But first, I want us to spend just a few moments to
consider a few thoughts to help us as we begin this study. We've
seen these verse two verses, but I want us to consider just
a few questions that are often considered. That maybe you have
asked these questions yourself, or maybe you haven't, but I found
that having some of these questions answered at the outset of the
study is a great help as we approach the book of Leviticus. And the
first is, why is there such great detail in the book? It's the
detail that often is what is so difficult for us to get past. It seems like too much. It's
hard to keep track of everything that's going on because there
is so much detail. And that's often what bogs people
down. It's often repetitious that you seem like you said this
already, but now you're saying it in a slightly different setting.
Well, the reality is there is a lot of detail. It's full of
detail to the smallest degree, lots of instructions. And these
come from the Lord himself. One commentator makes the point
that there is no book in the whole of the Scriptures that
contains more of the very words of God than Leviticus. It is
God that is the direct speaker in almost every page. Of course, we believe the scriptures
to be inspired. They're all breathed out by God. But here we have
the words of God spoken to Moses, recorded for us in a degree unlike
any other book of the Bible. There is little narrative, but
lots of instruction. And the reason for this goes
back to what we said before, that it is God who must initiate,
but he must also be the one to direct us. He doesn't just say,
all right, you are to worship me, but you guys figure it out. He doesn't do that. Israel, and
you could say we as well, are surrounded by pagan nations with
their own sacrifices, their own ways of worshiping, and the temptation
was and has always been to try to approach God and worship God
like everybody else approaches and worships their own God. But
it must be God who tells us how we are to worship Him. That is
why He gives such detail in His instructions. The commentator
makes the point, the God of Israel gave specific instructions to
the people who were covenanted to Him. They were to be different. They were to be a holy people,
a set-apart people for Him and bound exclusively to Him. They
were to be free from the spiritual poison that fatally infected
the sacrifices of surrounding cultures. Unlike those sacrifices
designed to twist the arm of reluctant deity, the sacrifices
of Israel were provisions of God's grace to bestow grace. These are things that the people
of Israel were not trying to get God to hear them as if He
weren't ready to hear them. It's not something that they
are doing to manipulate God, that they are doing because God
is so mean and angry No, God is the one who gives them these
sacrifices. He is the one in His grace who
is making a way for them to approach Him. So their sacrifices were
divinely prescribed, they were personally revealed, and therefore
they were to be carefully performed. That is why there is such detail.
And the detail makes sense when we remember the big picture of
the book. And we've seen this somewhat already tonight, but
to attach a particular verse to this, we can say that the
key passage of Leviticus is summed up in Leviticus chapter 19. And
that is that the children of Israel were to be holy because
I, the Lord your God, am holy. And holiness really is a large
concept. That it is something that is
to affect every area of life. The kitchen, the bedroom, the
boardroom, and the courtroom. No less than the sanctuary room,
as one commentator puts it. So the vision of being a holy
people was demanding to the extreme. So God in His grace provided
them with careful guidance. Can you imagine if you were a
child of Israel and you had just seen the great wonders that God
had performed in Egypt? If you had seen His power on
display, the way that He humbled Egypt? If you'd seen Him part
the Red Sea? If you'd seen Him do these mighty
things? If you were there at the foot
of the mountain and you saw the glory of God? If you saw the
wrath of God as He brought judgment on those ones who would worship
a golden calf? And then you were told that you
were to be holy because you were to dwell close to God, and God
didn't tell you how to be holy? What a terror that would be.
What an unkind thing that would be. You are to be holy. And then
silence. In fact, it is a gracious thing
that God actually prescribes for them, down to the greatest
detail, how it is that they were to be set apart from the pagan
nations surrounding them. And some of them, they don't
make sense to us today because certain things have passed away.
But in the context it makes perfect sense. That they were to be different
in every area of their lives from the surrounding nations.
So let's not think that these laws and rules are here for the
sake of having lots of laws and rules. that God in His grace
is seeking to dwell among His people, that He longed to reside
at the center of their community and to enjoy this fellowship
with them. And Leviticus, rightly understood,
is primarily about this relationship, not just about regulation, because
it speaks of how a people may be kept near to a holy God. Of course, inevitably, the people
of Israel failed to live faithfully before God, and they fell short
of the vision of this holiness. And so impurities and sins and
faults, they crept in, and they became part and facts of life,
facts that needed to be dealt with. And so we have the Lord
even giving provisions to deal with sin. Provisions to deal
with impurity so that they can continue to dwell in His midst. So there is a means of forgiveness
and restitution. So what is the structure of the
book? What is the structure of the book? Well, chapters 1 to
7, they lay out for us the various sacrifices that are going to
be common for the people of Israel in that day. ones that were to
be performed both at a corporate level but also by individuals.
In chapters 8 to 10, we have the institution of the priest,
these ones who would do the sacrifices, a very important part of it. In chapters 11 to 15, we have
these clean and unclean laws for daily life. In chapter 16,
the focal point of Leviticus is this day of atonement. In
chapters 17 to 20 we have the holy and profane in daily life. What's the difference between
being clean and being holy? Is there a difference? As we'll
see there is a difference and it is an important one. In chapters
21 to 22 we have the various laws for the priests. And then
really the last part of the book are various festivals, holy times,
that you need sacrifices when you need a priesthood, but also
there are to be occasions when you are to worship God, even
beyond the weekly Sabbath. And then of course it closes
with threatenings and promises. I think even just having the
structure in mind has helped to us, that there are reasons
that these things are there. But how does Leviticus help us
read the rest of the Bible? Perhaps you've considered that,
you've asked that. Well, it helps us in many ways.
In fact, it was, as I mentioned before, foundational to the Old
Testament community. That it was one of, if not the
first thing that was taught to the children. Because how would
ensuing generations know? What are they to do? How are
they to dwell in this camp of Israel and to maintain fellowship
with God? They needed to know these laws
and also the sacrifices. They needed to know how they
were to worship God. And many of the prophets, as
you read through the prophets, many of the prophets assume a
thorough knowledge of the Pentateuch as a whole, Deuteronomy particularly,
but also Leviticus. If you want to have a greater
understanding of what the prophets are speaking to Israel about,
it's helpful to have a thorough knowledge of the book of Leviticus,
because they assume that you know what is spoken of there. This book teaches us again about
holiness, that God is holy and we by nature are not, so how
do we approach a holy God? It teaches us about covenants,
about how it is we are redeemed, that we are called to live for
God. It teaches us about threats of apostasy and provisions for
sin. It teaches us about types, as
we will see. That the things in the tabernacle,
the sacrifices, the priests themselves, were all pointing forward to
a future reality. That the Father in heaven has
condescended to teach His children, as Calvin puts it, by most expressed
pictures. And even in this, much of His
love appears. Which is why the writer of Hebrews
says, For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and
not the very image of the things, can never, with these same sacrifices
which they offer continually year by year, make those who
approach perfect. The book of Leviticus is not
an end of itself. But the people of Israel were
not to trust that these animals were actually taking away their
sin as if they were able to atone for sin outright. As we read,
these things were symbols. that they were to trust in the
grace of God who had provided them. But even through these
things, they were to be pointed forward to a future reality. That God intended them to do
these things with faith, not just by rote or by habit, but
it was a spiritual lesson. They were to circumcise their
hearts, but they were images of spiritual realities, pointing
forward to things to come. Ultimately, as we study Leviticus,
I want it to point us forward to the person and the work of
the Lord Jesus Christ. And we're going to see that right
from the outset. Next week, we'll consider the burnt offering,
and we will see the glory of Christ as he fulfills the burnt
offering. So I encourage you to return
to this study in the weeks to come. We're going to see how
this entire book is pointing us forward to the person and
work of Christ. That He is the perfect sacrifice. He is the perfect priest. And you go to the book of Hebrews
and that is what the author of Hebrews again and again says.
These animals point you to Christ. They had to redo them again and
again because of their own sin. Well, Christ is perfect. And
he laid down not a sacrifice of animals, but he gave his own
life because it took the life of this one. And he is the one
who truly and finally brings us into the presence of a holy
God. That's what we see there in Hebrews
10. Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the holiest
by the blood of Jesus, by a new and a living way, which he consecrated
for us through the veil that is his flesh, and having a high
priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true
heart and full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from
an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. we'll see that what the high
priest once a year was able to do to go into the Holy of Holies
for a short time, we are able to do by faith on a regular basis,
week by week, because of what the Lord Jesus Christ has done. It is through Christ that the
theme, the history of God making a way for sinful humanity to
dwell with Him is fulfilled. In Leviticus chapter 26 we read
these words. We have there a list of promised
blessings to those who would obey the Lord. And they culminate
with this blessing, I will set my tabernacle among you and my
soul will not abhor you. I will walk among you and be
your God and you shall be my people. While the people of God
in the Old Testament ultimately failed in their covenant obligations,
the Lord again promised to send His Son, who would not fail. And so the Son, who took flesh
to Himself, tabernacled among us. He dwelt among humanity. And He, in fact, walked among
His people. And He accomplished their redemption,
and He even now leads us, His people, into worship by faith
in the very presence of God. And so this ought to remind us
of Genesis, this language of walking, where God dwelt in intimate
communion. But it also ought to point us
forward to heaven. when this will be fully realized.
As you turn to the last chapter of your Bibles there in Revelation,
right there there is going to be a new garden where we are
going to be face to face with God in intimate communion and
fellowship with Him. But even now we are called the
tabernacle of God, we are indwelt by the Spirit and we come specially
into His presence every Lord's Day as He calls us to worship
Him. And though not as an elaborate
or as visual, our worship here today is as real. And in some
sense, is more direct and more intimate than even the Old Testament
saints experienced in their worship. That we come boldly to the throne
of grace. And so let us thank the Lord,
our holy God, that through His Son, He has graciously made a
way for His sinful people to come into His holy presence and
for Him to dwell in our midst. Let us pray. Our great Heavenly
Father, we do thank You that You do not change, that Lord,
You have for ages called sinful people to Yourself. And Lord,
that you sent your Son to come into the world to live and to
die, to rise again, to ascend, so as to accomplish the salvation
for your people. And so Lord, we do pray that
You would help us even as we study Your Word, as we begin
this particular study through the book of Leviticus, that we
would see the glory of Your Son. And Lord, that we would be drawn
ever closer to You as we see the marvel of Your provision
to overcome our sins. So Lord, we do pray that You
would bind these things to our hearts, help us to remember them
and to live in light of them. We pray this in Jesus' name.
Amen.
Can Anyone Dwell with God
Series Leviticus
| Sermon ID | 61222231512698 |
| Duration | 43:39 |
| Date | |
| Category | Sunday - PM |
| Bible Text | Leviticus 1:1 |
| Language | English |
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