LEARNING TO OBEY (5 OF 8)
by Jim Perdue
Scripture: Leviticus 17:1-16, Leviticus 18:1-30, Leviticus 19:1-37, Leviticus 20:1-27
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Title: Learning to Obey (5 of 8)
Series: You Lost Me at Leviticus
Author: Jim Perdue
Text: Leviticus 17-20
- We're in a series called You Lost Me at Leviticus, and if you've read this book, you probably get why we picked that title. Leviticus can be tough; it's not the easiest book to read or understand. But as we've walked through it, we've discovered some powerful, timeless truths about God and His relationship with His people. Today, we come to Leviticus 17-20 as we think about this subject, Learning to Obey.
- *In his famous commencement address given at Harvard University on June 7, 1978, Russian novelist and social critic Alexander Solzhenitsyn said, "I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either." With all due respect to hardworking legislators, judges, law-enforcement officers, and lawyers, I agree with Solzhenitsyn; it takes more than good laws to make good people and a good society. In our world today, not everything that's legal is moral or biblical. Some human activities that courts sanction and society defends, God will one day judge as abominable sin.*
- Leviticus 17-20 constituted a legal code for the people of Israel, touching on many areas of their personal and public life. The emphasis isn't simply on justice or civic righteousness, as important as they are, but on holiness. After all, Israel was God's people and the law was God's law. The Lord said to them, READ 20:7-8
- The motivation for Israel's obedience had to be more than fear of punishment. The people also needed in their hearts a desire to please God and a determination to be a holy people who would bring glory to His name (Ex. 19:3-6). Obeying the law and having holy character aren't necessarily the same thing. Twenty-four times in these four chapters you find the declaration, "I am the ...
Series: You Lost Me at Leviticus
Author: Jim Perdue
Text: Leviticus 17-20
- We're in a series called You Lost Me at Leviticus, and if you've read this book, you probably get why we picked that title. Leviticus can be tough; it's not the easiest book to read or understand. But as we've walked through it, we've discovered some powerful, timeless truths about God and His relationship with His people. Today, we come to Leviticus 17-20 as we think about this subject, Learning to Obey.
- *In his famous commencement address given at Harvard University on June 7, 1978, Russian novelist and social critic Alexander Solzhenitsyn said, "I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either." With all due respect to hardworking legislators, judges, law-enforcement officers, and lawyers, I agree with Solzhenitsyn; it takes more than good laws to make good people and a good society. In our world today, not everything that's legal is moral or biblical. Some human activities that courts sanction and society defends, God will one day judge as abominable sin.*
- Leviticus 17-20 constituted a legal code for the people of Israel, touching on many areas of their personal and public life. The emphasis isn't simply on justice or civic righteousness, as important as they are, but on holiness. After all, Israel was God's people and the law was God's law. The Lord said to them, READ 20:7-8
- The motivation for Israel's obedience had to be more than fear of punishment. The people also needed in their hearts a desire to please God and a determination to be a holy people who would bring glory to His name (Ex. 19:3-6). Obeying the law and having holy character aren't necessarily the same thing. Twenty-four times in these four chapters you find the declaration, "I am the ...
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