"OVERVIEW OF LEVITICUS"
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What do you know about the book of Leviticus?
Background info –
Author – Moses
Date – 1444 BC (time during the book is about 1 month)
Took Place – Mount Sinai
Audience – Nation of Israel
Theme – “Holiness”
“In Genesis man was ruined and Israel was born; in Exodus people were redeemed and Israel delivered; in Leviticus people were cleansed and Israel consecrated to the service of God”
Because God is holy, He requires His people the nation of Israel to pursue holiness. As we study the book of Leviticus, we are going to see two things 1) the way to approach God, and 2) the way to walk with God.
How do you as a believer in Christ express your love for Him?
Key things to understand –
The book of Leviticus is written prior to the life of Christ. The expectations at that time are under the OT Law We are no longer under the Old Testament Law -
Romans 6:10–15 (NASB95)
10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. 11 Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. 12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts,
13 and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. 14 For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace. 15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be!
God is Holy therefore He requires perfection -
2 “Speak to all the congregation of the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.
Way to approach God under Old Testament law – 1-10
Way to approach God under Old Testament law – 1-10
Sacrifices 1-7
Burnt Offering –
ELEMENTS – Bull, ram, male goat, male dove, or young pigeon without blemish. Always male the animal varied based on economic situation.
PURPOSE – Done voluntary it signifies payment for sin and surrender, devotion, and commitment to God.
Leviticus 1
Leviticus 6:8–13
Grain Offering (Meal or Tribute offering) –
ELEMENTS – Flour, bread, or grain made with olive oil and salt or incense
PURPOSE – Done voluntary it signifies thanksgiving for firstfruits
Leviticus 2
Leviticus 6:14–23
Fellowship Offering (peace offering) (Includes thank, vow, and freewill offerings) –
ELEMENTS – Any animal without blemish
PURPOSE – Done voluntary symbolizes fellowship with God. (thank offering thankfulness for a specific blessing, vow offering expression of a vow, and freewill offering symbolizes general thankfulness)
Leviticus 3
Leviticus 7:11–36
Leviticus 22:17–30
Leviticus 27
Sin Offering –
ELEMENTS – Male or female animal without blemish
PURPOSE – Required – offered by one who had sinned unintentionally or was unclean in order to attain purification.
Leviticus 4:1–5
Leviticus 6:24–30
Leviticus 12:6–8
Guilt Offering –
ELEMENTS – Ram or lamb without blemish
PURPOSE – Required – Made by a person who had either deprived another of his rights or had desecrated something holy. Made by lepers for purification.
Leviticus 5:14–6:7
Leviticus 7:1–6
Leviticus 14:12–18
Way to walk with God under the Old Testament law 11-27
Way to walk with God under the Old Testament law 11-27
Expectations of God –
Do not eat unclean animals
Leviticus 11:1–8
Being pure after childbirth
Leviticus 12
Laws of Leprosy
Leviticus 13
Leviticus 14
Expectation of sacrifices
Leviticus 17:3–5
Child Sacrifice
Leviticus 20:1–5
Avoid inappropriate relationships
Leviticus 18:4–5
Consequences for sin –
Consequences for sexual immorality
Leviticus 20:10
Consequences of Mediums
Leviticus 20:27
God’s Requirement -
Pursuit of Holiness –
Leviticus 19:2
Leviticus 20:22–26
Love your Neighbor –
Leviticus 19:9–18
Obedience –
Leviticus 26:1–13
Punishment for disobedience –
Leviticus 26:14–46
So What?
Must we abide by all of the laws in the book of Leviticus?
The purpose of the law is to show us our sin without the law we would not know sin.
20 because by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the Law comes the knowledge of sin.
What was the purpose of Sacrifices?
The blood of bulls and goats atoned for sins temporarily –
Hebrews 10:1–4 (NASB95)
1 For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually year by year, make perfect those who draw near.
2 Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have had consciousness of sins?
3 But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year by year. 4 For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
Rejoice in the fact that we do not have to offer sacrifices continually –
Hebrews 9:11–14 (NASB95)
11 But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things to come, He entered through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation; 12 and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, He entered the holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.
13 For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled sanctify for the cleansing of the flesh, 14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
13 Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 14 As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance, 15 but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior; 16 because it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”