Leviticus Summery

We will review some things learned from the book of Leviticus.  First, we need to realize that God gave Moses many laws on Mt. Sinai, and not just the Ten Commandments.  God gave Moses many specific laws concerning worship, both the nature of the worship and the role of the priests in the worship service.  Today, God expects us to worship Him in accordance with His guidance and under His authority.  Moses did not just make up the rules for worship, but God gave them to Him.  Moses did not just make up the rules for the priests, but God gave them to Him.  God also had Moses to continually remind the people of Israel of their covenant relationship with God.  We must never forget that we are in a covenant relationship with God as followers of Christ.  God reminded the people of Israel that He was the One Who had delivered them from Egypt and that He had the right to have authority over them.  As Christians, God has forever delivered us from the power of sin in our lives and from the penalty of sin as well, so He has every right to expect us to be obedient to Him.  God also gave Moses the blueprint we might say for the tabernacle, and how it was to be set up after it was constructed.  As followers of Christ, our bodies are the tabernacle of the Holy Spirit and should be kept under the guidance of God.  God also gave Moses laws concerning sacrifices, both what was an acceptable sacrifice and how and when it was to be sacrificed.  We do not have to be concerned with these laws of sacrifice today, because Jesus Christ is the only acceptable sacrifice.  God gave Moses laws concerning holy days and years, which included laws concerning the sabbath day, the sabbath years, and the jubilee years.  All were to be kept holy to God, with limited work being done.  We today set aside the Lord's Day to worship God, but we often do not keep it holy unto Him for even the whole day.  God gave Moses laws concerning the redemption of property that was sold by one of the people of Israel.  God gave Moses many rules concerning the relationships between people and their redemption if they had been sold into servitude.  We today have only one way to redemption, and that is through putting our faith in Jesus Christ as our Savior and Lord. Of course, this was really true for the people of Israel in that day as well as they looked ahead to the Messiah that was to come.  God also told Moses that the priests were to be treated differently than the rest of the nation, and as Christians today we are a priesthood of believers, and we are to be different than the rest of the world. These are but some of the things learned from the book of Leviticus.