Severe warnings open up Leviticus 20, where we're continuing on in the book of Leviticus in a section where we're seeing the law codes in ancient Israel, laws for God's Old Testament era people.
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Leviticus 18-19
Now, turning to Leviticus chapter 18, we turn to a chapter of Scripture, again for the people of Israel, where we have laws restricting sexual activity, laws restricting sexual activity. I should remind you here at this point in Leviticus that a proper interpretation of the Old Testament law is that Jesus fulfilled the Old Testament law.
Read moreLeviticus 13-15
We turn to everyone's favorite subject in the Bible, leprosy and skin conditions. I say this humorously of course. We are about to enter into a few messy chapters here in the book of Leviticus. And what we're going to see are the priests, that they had a duty to examine the symptoms of God's people
Read moreLeviticus 1-3
If you've followed along with us in our study of the Book of Exodus, you saw Moses receive on the mountaintop, the command of God and the instructions from God specifically on how to build the Tabernacle and also the instructions on the priesthood itself that would serve inside of the Tabernacle along with the instruments that would populate the Tabernacle. But now in Leviticus, we learn specifically how the instruments, how the priests, and how the Tabernacle would be used in order for the people of Israel to approach God.
Read moreExodus 38-40
As I shared with you in our previous study, these last five or six chapters of the Book of Exodus, they feel fairly repetitious because we already, at a previous section in Exodus, have learned about all these different instruments and dwelling places that God has prescribed for the people of Israel. Part of the reason that this is said twice, it's not just to help us see what obedience looks like but to help us understand that God is identifying with this structure.
Read moreExodus 32
The section that we're entering into here in chapter 32 actually extends all the way through to chapter 34. We're not going to cover all three chapters in one sitting, though that would be an appropriate exercise because they are a unit. And this unit is meant to communicate a message about the rebellion of the people, the mediation of Moses in interceding for the people, and God's restorative process in the people's lives, bringing them right back into the covenant.
Read moreExodus 30-31
We looked at what the priests were in Exodus 28 and 29, and this week we will look at what they do in Exodus 30 and 31 to learn lessons about what God expects, desires, wishes, longs for, wills for our lives to be today. In other words, a question that we should ask is if they were called to be a kingdom of priests and if we are called as a holy priesthood, a nation of priests today as the church, what did those priests do that might help inform what we ought to be doing today?
Read moreExodus 29
Here in the second half of the book of Exodus, we're listening in on God giving directions to Moses on the construction of the tabernacle, which they have yet to build. God is going to describe the consecration of all the priests in general, but of the high priest in particular.
Read moreExodus 28
As we turn to Exodus 28, we're going to see the calling and the clothing of the priest. Here, we're going to see first what they're wearing, then how they're meant to serve God, and what their services are to be like as indicated by their clothing.
Read moreExodus 26-27
Exodus 26 is a continuation of God's instructions to Moses and the people of Israel from and on Mount Sinai about the future tabernacle that they would construct, which years later under King Solomon's reign would develop into the temple itself.
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