Post by Ashlee White on Feb 2, 2018 17:00:35 GMT -5
So far in Leviticus, we are seeing some of the vengeful God from the Old Testament you often hear people talk about. God gives rules about the temple and kills two of Aaron's sons with fire when they gave an unauthorized burnt offering (Why was it unauthorized? see Exodus 30:9), and they "burned up in the presence of God." (Leviticus 10:1-2) Woah.
This book gives many detailed rules the Israelites were to follow in their daily lives and in worship. Who else is grateful we don't have these rules today?! (Thank you, Jesus!) So then why is Leviticus even in the bible? Why do we need to know these rules or read about them?
One reason is that this is part of the history of Christianity. If you pledge your life to something, you should know how it came to be.
But here is why I think it's still in our bibles for us to read: Although we don't have those rules today, our entire lives should glorify God. These passages of scripture show just how important that is. God deserves our worship, our time, our hearts, our minds. He deserves all of us. So although there is no specific way to do that like there once was, we should use the freedom Christ gave us to find our own way to give ourselves wholly (not holy, but whole-y) to God... because we want to, not because we have to.
Any thoughts on this?
