Leviticus (2023)

It’s the expectation we’ve encountered everything that God is doing in all of the feasts and all of the festivals and all of the sacrifices, everything He’s doing for us, so of course one chapter at the very end is going to be our worship response to Him. How can we not be moved to enter into a life of consecration to the God who dwells in our midst?

Father in heaven, help us. We are easily distracted. We get tired, mind wanders, but we don’t want to waste our time. So help us to listen and not only to be hearers but to be doers, and that You would speak not just to our minds but to our hearts. We pray in Jesus’…

It takes a real poverty of spirit because you know what God wants? If you’re going to come and receive the jubilee? You have to come. You have to know that you need it.

So this Leviticus 24 has everything to do with Jesus. It has everything to do with our salvation. It has everything to do with the very purpose under heaven whereby we have been made, that we might with our lives and our lips now and for eternity give glory to the Name.

While all our hearts and all our songs join to admire the feast, each of us cry with thankful tongues, Lord, why was I a guest? Twas the same love that spread the feast, that sweetly drew us in, else we had still refused to taste and perished in our sin. That any of us…

A leader must be set apart, above reproach, and a model of integrity.

Unrepentant sin will be judged by God in this life or the next.

f you want love, get to know the law, and if you want love, get to know the only One who kept the law perfectly.

Father in heaven, as we come now to Your Word, give us humble hearts that we may listen to these instructions for our lives, not simply as good advice but as Your Word to us, that we may live. We pray that You would lift up the name of Jesus, in whose name we pray….

And it is the scandal of God’s mercy, because it means against all human nature, fallen human nature, every part of you that wants to contribute to it, that wants to earn it, that wants to prove yourself, you can’t. You only can receive it, and drink it, as God’s blessing. As Jesus drank the cup of God’s wrath for your sakes, Christians, therefore He gives to us the cup of blessing that we may know in His blood, not to be cut off, not to be banished, not to be exiled, but to made clean and to live forever.