Leviticus contains some of the most fundamental principles of Christianity and deals with holy living or really… becoming more Christlike.

God can articulate to you what He wants for your life – you cast the deciding vote as to whether it comes to pass or not.

Sacrifices in Leviticus were voluntary just like sacrifices are for us today. We have to decide if we are going to sacrifice our time, talents, and possessions to God or not.

The only human sacrifice we should ever put on the altar is ourselves – a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God.

Regarding our own sacrifice we have to ask ourselves:
1) Did we give God our best?
2) Did we give it to him first?

Christ’s sacrifice fulfilled Old Testament law as well as satisfied the penalty for man’s original disobedience. He paid a high price for you and me to be Christians. Are we living our lives in light of that?

• 3^rd book of the Pentateuch or Torah
  • ‘Pentateuch’ – means ‘5 books’
  • ‘Torah’ – Hebrew for ‘law’ and refers to the five books of Moses
• Named by Septuagint (Greek OT)
• Also used in the Vulgate (Latin Bible)
• Hebrew name for this book
  • Vayyikra – ‘and he called’
  • First word of the book

• ‘Moses’ occurs 79 times in the New Testament
• Jesus quoted from all 5 books of Moses
• Deuteronomy (2^ndmost often), Exodus (4^thmost often)

• God’s creation (Mark 10:6 – 7)
• Adam and Eve being created by God (Matthew 19:4 – 5)
• Noah’s Ark (Luke 17:26)
• A global flood (Matthew 24:37 – 39)
• Mosaic authorship of Genesis (Luke 24:27)
• God feeding Israel with manna (John 6:32)

• Exodus 40:17 – And it came to pass in the first month of the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was raised up.
• Numbers 10:11 – Now it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from above the tabernacle of the Testimony.

• The five offerings and the law regarding them (chapters 1 – 7)
• Burnt, meal, peace, sin, trespass offerings
• The priests (chapters 8 – 10)
• Holiness in daily living (chapters 11 – 22)
• Holy holidays (chapter 23)
• Laws and prophecies concerning the promised land (chapters 24 – 26)
• Dedication and devotion, concerning vows (chapter 27)

• Leviticus 11:45 – For I am the Lord who brings you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
• Also occurs in 11:44, 19:2, 20:7, 20:26
• ‘holy’ – qadowsh – ceremonially or morally clean: consecrated (dedicated to a [divine] purpose)

• Exodus 19:5-6-5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine. 6 And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.”

• Substitution
• Stewardship/Obedience
• Fulfilled in Christ

• Leviticus 1:4 – Then he shall put his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it will be accepted on his behalf to make atonement for him.
• II Corinthians 5:21 - For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
• Leviticus 16:21-22 - 21 Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, confess over it all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions, concerning all their sins, putting them on the head of the goat, and shall send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a suitable man. 22 The goat shall bear on itself all their iniquities to an uninhabited land; and he shall release the goat in the wilderness

• Leviticus 2:14  ‘If you offer a grain offering of your firstfruits to the Lord, you shall offer for the grain offering of your firstfruits green heads of grain roasted on the fire, grain beaten from full heads.
• Leviticus 1:3 ‘If his offering is a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish; he shall offer it of his own free will at the door of the tabernacle of meeting before the Lord.