Leviticus- The Cost of Being Close Bible Study

Leviticus
The Cost of Being Close
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The Gospel
At City Pres, the gospel is our greatest treasure – it truly is the power of God for the salvation of everyone
who believes, and that continues all throughout our Christian lives. However, in our day and culture, there is
confusion as to just what the gospel is. The following article, adapted from an article written by Pastor Tim
Keller of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, clearly defines the gospel.
The Third Way of the Gospel
The Gospel means “good news.” It is the basic message that: “God made (Christ), who had no sin, to be sin for us, so
that in him we might become the righteousness of God” (2 Cor. 5:21). The gospel says that we are so sinful, lost and
helpless that only the life and death of the Son of God can save us. But it also says that those who trust in
Christ’s work instead of their own efforts are now “holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation”
(Colossians 1:22-23).
The gospel tells us that our root sin is not just failing in our obedience to God but relying on our obedience to
save us. Therefore, the gospel is a “third way,” neither religion nor irreligion. The religious person may say, “I am doing
the right things that God commands”1 and the irreligious person may say, “I decide what is right and wrong for
myself.” But both ways reject Jesus as Savior (though they may revere him as Example or Helper). Both ways are
strategies of self-salvation – both actually keep control of their own lives. So the gospel keeps us from legalism and
moralism on the one hand and from hedonism and relativism on the other.
The Gospel’s Power for Change
The gospel is not just the ABC but the A-Z of the Christian life. The gospel is not just the way to enter the kingdom
but is the way to address every problem and is the way to grow at every step. If we believe we can find our own worth
and meaning through performance, then we will become either proud or disdainful of others (if we reach our goals), or
else discouraged and self-loathing (if we fail our goals). But the gospel creates an entirely new self-image.
The Gospel tells us that we are more wicked and sinful than we ever dared believe but more loved and
accepted in Christ than we ever dared to hope – at the same time.
In fact, if the gospel is true, the more you see you sin, the more certain you are that you were saved by sheer
grace and the more precious and electrifying that grace is to you. So the gospel gives us enormous power to admit our
flaws. Then secondly, the knowledge of our acceptance in Christ makes (for the first time) the law of God a beauty
instead of a burden. We come to use it to delight the One who has enriched us so mightily, instead of using it to get his
attention or win his favor. The first way makes the moral and sacrificial life a joy; the second way makes it a burden.
Therefore the gospel changes everything. It brings down racial barriers by melting away facial pride or inferiority. It
brings down psychological problems by melting away self-inflation or self-hatred. It brings down personal facades, for
we are free to admit who we are. It effects the way we do everything… how we motivate people, how we help them
work through counseling problems, how we worship, how we take criticism.
1 “Our core problem, say St. Augustine, is that the human heart, ignoring God, turns in on itself, tries to lift itself, wants to please itself, and ends up debasing itself.
The person who reaches toward God and wants to please God gets, so to speak, stretched by this move, and ennobled by the transcendence of its object. But the
person who curves in on himself, who wants God’s gifts without God, who wants to satisfy the desires of a divided heart, ends up sagging and contracting like a
little wad. He desires are provincial. ‘There is something in humility which, strangely enough, exalts the heart, and something in pride, which debases it.’” - Cornelius
Plantinga, Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be, p. 62, (at the end quoting Augustine, The City of God)
How to Do This Bible Study
With those important preliminaries aside, we’re excited that you have decided to join us in exploring some of the
foundational truths of the Christian faith. Whether you are investigating Christianity or have been a believer for as long
as you can remember, we hope that this study will be fruitful for you. You may come with lots of questions or even
with some apprehensiveness. Whatever the case, we earnestly desire this to be a time where you can honestly ask
questions and explore the foundations of Christianity.
You may have been in a Bible study before, or you may be joining us for the first time. I want to make a note on our
method of study. In each of the texts before us, we will use the simple O-I-A method of study: Observation –
Interpretation – Application.
Observation
We simply want to know what the text actually says. The answers are sometimes so obvious that you may feel like it’s a
trick question, but its not. In observing the text, we want to ask, “What does the text say?”
Interpretation
This admittedly is the toughest part of studying the Scriptures. Usually, we’ll be comparing Scripture with Scripture.
We are interested in how the Scripture speaks to us, not in what we may want it to mean. Here, we are asking, “What
does the text mean?”
Application
This is where the rubber meets the road. Sometimes in observing the text and understanding its meaning, the
application flows naturally. Sometimes, we will need to do some discussing to work it into our lives. Having
understood and accurately interpreted the text, we now ask, “So what?” How does this affect my beliefs, my words, my
actions, my community?
Attendance
If you are working through this study in a group, please commit to coming each week. Not only will you benefit by this
commitment, but the other people in your group will by your presence. It can be really discouraging for each week’s
study to be only optionally attended. While coming each week is by no means a badge of righteousness for you, it will
mean something if you put this as a priority in your week’s schedule and make every effort to be there.
Introduction and Overview
Read Leviticus.
You can do this quickly by scanning over it. Don’t get bogged down in details. Just take an hour and read over it quickly.
Opening Questions
What are some cost that are associated with different types of relationships you have?
Think about family, work, citizenship, policies, etc.
Leviticus
Consult a study bible and write down the date and author of Leviticus.
Can you find a simple outline of the book? Write that here:
What would you say Leviticus is about?
Why do you think people so easily or readily discount this book?
What are some hopes you have in doing a study of this book?
What do you expect to find?
The Calling of the Lord
What are the first three words of the book and why do they matter?
How are the people to whom this book was specifically written like us today? What similarities do we share?
What are themes that religions “normally” talk about that don’t show up at all in Leviticus?
What are other ways God has already “called” in the Bible in Genesis and Exodus?
How does God call today? Have you heard him? Why or why not?
The Cost of the Law
The law is filled with regulations. What are a few that stood out to you?
Do you think the law is relevant? Why or why not?
Why do you think we needs laws to help us with our relationships?
Why did God give the people these laws?
Look up Psalm 119:97. Why do you think David expressed this opinion?
The Consecration of the Christ
Jesus faces Satan, misunderstanding, opposition, sickness and demons.
Do you think there are demons and angels still today? Why or why not?
What did the demons know about Jesus? What didn’t they know about him?
How can we relate to this? What is a good application for us today?
Do you have something in your life that you just can’t seem to get rid of or maybe cannot explain?
What Is Jesus Here To Do?
Read Matthew 5:17. How does Jesus not abolish but fulfill the law? What does that mean? Can you give an example?
Read Leviticus 20:7. What does the word “consecrate” mean?
What does God mean for us to consecrate ourselves and why should we do so?
What happens when we fail? What do we need? Who pays that cost?
What do you think Leviticus will teach us about Jesus?
Sacrifice: Leviticus 1-3
Read Leviticus 1-3.
You can do this quickly by scanning over it. Don’t get bogged down in details.
Opening Questions
Can you think of some important relationships or goals that you have that don’t require sacrifice?
Leviticus
Burnt Offerings – Fellowship Without Sacrifice?
What are ways we expect or hope or think we can have a relationship without any or much cost?
God requires his people to bring the proper gift.
What are some aspects of the proper gift that you observe from chapter 1?
God requires his people to bring that gift to the proper place.
What do you notice about the place where these offerings are to be brought?
God requires the proper presentation.
What observations can you make about how the protocol of these offerings?
There is no fellowship without sacrifice.
Do you agree or disagree with that statement? Why or why not?
Can you think of stories or examples or illustrations from your own life that back up your belief?
Grain Offerings – Sacrifice Without Fellowship?
The grain offerings seem less emotionally charged than the animal offerings. How so?
How would the grain offerings still be costly to the person?
Consult a study Bible or do a search (biblegateway.com) for “grain” and “bread.” What do you notice or what stands out to you?
Some commentators and scholars think that grain and grain offerings represent a more normal daily life of grind and toil.
What do you think?
Do you feel like you often offer up your daily life to God? What would it mean or look like for you to start doing so?
Peace Offering – Fellowship Through Sacrifice
The kidneys, liver, fat and entrails sound rather unappealing to us. Why the original hearers have been called to do this?
What would bringing your best to God look like? What would represent the best parts of your life?
Reflect on this paragraph:
The peace offering is listed after the burnt offering and the grain offering because it marks the resolution of the two. Sacrifice leads
to fellowship if it comes from the heart. Through death and suffering, through sacrifice and offering, through an emotional but also
a daily regular movement toward God, we find peace with God. So offering and salvation are bound up in each other. There is a
transformation and a participation. There is a joining through dying, a solidarity that brings peace, fellowship and joy even in the
midst of death, blood and yes even kidneys and fat.
What do you think? What stands out to you from those thoughts?
Look up and record your thoughts on:
Ephesians 5:1-2
Ephesians 2:14
1 John 4:10
How do you think Jesus might fulfill each of these offerings for us?
Horatio Bonar wrote a hymn that has the lines:
Upon the life I did not live, upon the death I did not die.
Another’s life. Another’s death – I stake my whole eternity.
Write a poem that expresses your heart, or psalm that expresses your cry to God and how he answers your need for sacrifices and
atonement in Jesus Christ.
Repentance: Leviticus 4-6
Read Leviticus 4-6.
You can do this quickly by scanning over it. Don’t get bogged down in details.
Opening Questions
What do you think repentance means?
What is a time you have repented of something?
Leviticus 4
We Run to Grace with What We’ve Left Undone
What does it mean to “sin unintentionally?”
Can you think of a situation that might fit that?
Does it seem a little too much to have a sacrifice for accidental sins?
How might this be gracious?
The chapter also speaks of “sins of the people.” What do you think that means?
What are “sins of the people” that come to your mind from the past one hundred years?
Why do you think these sacrifices are so detailed and specific?
Does the Bible ever point to anyone who did not sin unintentionally?
Leviticus 5
We Run to Grace with Our Guilt
Have you ever felt guilty about something?
What does the feeling of guilt do?
Why do you think there is a sacrifice for guilt? Didn’t the action take place some time ago?
How does the guilt sacrifice “repair” what was wrong?
Where can we go with our guilt?
Leviticus 6
We Run to Grace with our Ungraciousness
How does this chapter show us to “love your neighbor as yourself?”
What do our actions toward people say what we think of God at the moment?
When have you been treated ungraciously?
What are ways we can treat people ungraciously?
How is it gracious to have a way to repent for ungraciousness?
How do these sacrifices show us grace?
Mission: Leviticus 8
Read Leviticus 8 and Exodus 19:16.
You can do this quickly by scanning over it. Don’t get bogged down in details.
Opening Questions
What do priests do?
How might you think the mission of priests ties to the mission of all Christians?
Cleansing
When Moses washes Aaron is he washing a person with no problems?
What do you know about Aaron’s story? Is he good enough to be a priest?
What is a symbol of cleansing today that we might see in a church?
What might this cleaning point to?
Consecration
Consecration means “to set apart,” how are Aaron and his sons being set apart?
How do the priests clothes show they are set apart?
Why is this difference necessary?
What do the clothes communicate?
How does the outward sign of the priests point to how Christians are set apart for God’s service?
Commissioning
What does it mean to be commissioned?
What is the mission of the priests?
Read 1 Peter 2:9. What is the text quoting?
How are Christians a kingdom of priests and holy nation today?
What are ways we represent God here on earth?
Priests dispense grace. What are ways that we can channel God’s grace?
Worship: Leviticus 9-10
Read Leviticus 9-10
You can do this quickly by scanning over it. Don’t get bogged down in details.
Opening Questions
When is a non-churchy time when you really worshiped? (think of a concert or a group experience in “normal life”)?
What were the characteristics of that moment? How would you describe how it happened and how you felt?
The Glory of God in Worship
The preparations are complete. God’s people are about to worship. What does Moses say is about to happen? Look at 9:6.
Does God seem to care about what happens? Why do you think so?
What does Aaron do first and why?
What do the people do and why?
After those things, what does God do? What do you notice in 9:24a?
Use a dictionary to define the word “glory.”
Look at 9:24b and the people’s response. When is the last time you felt like God’s glory showed up at a place where you were? Talk
about or write about that time.
The Glory of Man in Worship
What happens next is sudden and tragic. Read 10:1-3. What happened?
Commentators don’t really know why this happened to Nadab and Abihu, though there have been many theories and speculation.
We do know that they brought fire to the God who showed up as fire, and they were consumed by that fire.
What does Romans 6:23 say?
Somehow their worship wasn’t proper. It was sinful. What are things or ways that may make our seemingly earnest worship
improper and sinful?
We often want our glory in worship. How or what are ways you seek your glory and not God’s?
The Glory of Christ in Worship
We can’t worship perfectly or even properly. So we’re in big trouble. What should we do? What hope do we have?
Summarize Hebrews 7:26-28 in your own words.
Summarize Hebrews 10:11-18 in your own words.
How does this offer you hope?
How did and how does Jesus reveal his glory?
What is your response to this glory of Christ? How might that change your worship?
What tends to keep you from worshiping Christ this way?
What would this free worship of Jesus look like in your life?
Community: Leviticus 11-12
Read Leviticus 11-12
You can do this quickly by scanning over it. Don’t get bogged down in details.
Opening Questions
What are you a “food expert” about? Food snob about? What are your food quirks?
The Distinctive Community of Food
It’s tough to do an inductive Bible study over such a difficult chapter!
What are words that stand out to you from Leviticus 11? Write them below.
Commentators have often wondered about the divisions of animals in the chapter. Some think they must be divided by a moral way
because some animals are better than others. Some think it’s all symbolic, and each animals stands for something else. Some think it
must be dividing God’s people from all those around them. And some wonder if it’s just rules because everyone needs rules. Each
of these have some merit, but none of them seem to explain all of what we see.
We can see that, for whatever reasons, God makes distinctions between things, in this case between animals.
What were the clean animals clean for?
What did Peter learn in Acts 10?
Even what we eat is important to God. We’re to glorify God and enjoy him in all things – including food.
Why do you think this matters?
The Distinctive Community of Birth
Write down some of your initial impressions or questions about Leviticus 12.
God cares about fruitfulness, wholeness and blood in these chapters in Leviticus. How do these themes intersect in chapter 12?
God is with us from conception to death and every moment in between. Do you agree with this? Do you believe this?
Why does this matter?
Chapter 12’s laws have to do with worship. Do you worship God in all of life, throughout life?
The Distinctive Community of Christ
Read Leviticus 11:44-45. What does this verse say?
Look up some cross references (other places in the Bible) that speak about God’s holiness. Write your notes here:
God is distinctively holy. How does that affect his relationship with people?
Can you think of other distinctives about God and people? How he is unlike his people?
If God is so holy and distinctive, how can we ever be with him? How can we ever know him? How does Jesus solve that problem?
What connections can you make between Jesus’ life and Leviticus 12?
What connections can you make between Jesus’ life and Leviticus 11? What does Jesus have to do with food?
(for a hint: look up John 6 and/or 1 Corinthians 12:23-26)
What are some ways the Christian community should be distinctive?
How can following Jesus make us more distinctive?
Brokenness: Leviticus 13-14
Read Leviticus 13-14
You can do this quickly by scanning over it. Don’t get bogged down in details.
Opening Questions
Can you think of a story in the news or culture right now about someone overcoming incredible adversity? What are the important
points in that story?
How often do you think about Why God allowed certain bad things to happen? What do you come up with for the answer?
Identity
Leprosy in the Bible is a wider term for many types of skin diseases.
What is the specific term for the disease we most often associate with leprosy? Do some research to find out about it.
Skin diseases aren’t the only type of dangerous or contagious diseases. Why do you think leprosy is singled out for these chapters?
How do you think leprosy and skin diseases might represent brokenness?
Where do you see brokenness in your life?
How might you be able to identify with someone who has leprosy? Can you?
Isolation
What is supposed to happen to those who have confirmed leprosy?
What do you think about that?
These seem like pretty radical solutions for this disease. If we’re making the connection between leprosy and brokenness/sin, what
do you think God thinks about our sin and brokenness? What does it do to us?
What are some things in your life that you might think are “no big deal” but God says break your relationship with him?
How do other people in your life deal with and respond to brokenness and sin?
The skeptic –
The moralist –
The pragmatic –
The deeply wounded –
The unconcerned –
How are these all in the end ways to keep avoiding God and remain isolated?
Incarnation
What might it mean or look like for you to “go to the priest” and get a diagnosis or have a conversation about your brokenness?
Do you think you could be clean again? Why or why not?
Chapter 14 is about the ceremony and practice for cleansing. What observations can you make about it?
Read Matthew 8:1-3. What happens in this story?
How does that give you hope?
Do you want to be healed? Can you? How can you?
Atonement: Leviticus 16
Read Leviticus 16
You can do this quickly by scanning over it. Don’t get bogged down in details.
Opening Questions
What do you usually do when you’re sorry about something, when you know you’ve done something wrong?
Why we need it
What is the definition of atonement?
What are some synonyms and antonyms of atonement?
Look back over the laws for cleanliness and eating. Can you fulfill all of those? Can anyone?
What’s the big deal? Read 15:31. Why is God like this?
What are some of the characteristics and attributes of God that make this atonement necessary?
You might want to do some research and look up pictures and explanations of these terms. Be ready to share your results.
Tent of Meeting
Holy of Holies
Ark of the Covenant
Mercy Seat
We all need atonement (including the high priest). Do you? How so? For what do you need to be forgiven?
List at least one thing here.
How we get it
Why do you think there was a Day of Atonement?
What was Aaron told to do first with the offering of the bull?
What was Aaron told to do concerning the scapegoat?
What were the people told to do? What does that word mean?
How was and Jesus our high priest? Can you find any Biblical evidence for this?
How was and is Jesus our offering? Can you find any Biblical evidence for this?
How was and is Jesus our scapegoat? Can you find any Biblical evidence for this?
How has Jesus paid the debt to make things right between you and God? Look up Isaiah 53:4-6 and Romans 6:23.
Do you see that Jesus has done that for you?
Do you believe that Jesus has done that for you?
How could that make a difference in your life today? From this day forward?
Sexuality and the Gospel: Leviticus 18
Read Leviticus 18
You can do this quickly by scanning over it. Don’t get bogged down in details.
Opening Questions
What is this text saying about human sexuality?
Why do you think this passage is controversial today?
Disorder to Order
What are some of the practices that Israel left behind in Egypt and is heading to in Canaan?
What does the focus on sexuality tell you about the world of Israel’s day?
Why do you think there is such a focus on sexuality?
Is this passage only about gay and lesbian practices?
What are themes of disorder in this passage? What does that say about how sexuality is ordered?
Power to Purpose
What are ways sexuality is used to demonstrate power over others?
How does power relate to issues of pornography, human trafficking and abuse?
What do these commands tell you about the special way God sees humanity?
How does the phrase “I am the Lord” govern how we use our bodies?
How do we protect our own bodies and the bodies of others? And why?
From Sin to Christ
How does this passage point us to Christ?
How does this passage fit into the story of the Bible?
Why is it important to see Jesus here?
Holiness: Leviticus 19
Read Leviticus 19
You can do this quickly by scanning over it. Don’t get bogged down in details.
Opening Questions
What does holiness look like? Think of several examples of holiness that you could talk about.
If we are holy as God is holy, how would we live?
The Holy Encounter
What do you think holiness means?
Have you had an encounter that changed you? What did that look like?
What is this chapter telling us about encountering God? What does it do?
What are ways you encounter God?
How do these encounters shape you?
Holy Actions
What are some of the actions described that demonstrate our holiness?
What does it mean to treat people well?
Why is this important?
When we treat people well, who do we point to?
Does this text let us “off the hook” for mistreating people?
What are ways Christians have and haven’t treated people well?
The Holy Actor
What does this passage tell you about how God sees the world and people in it?
Did God follow these rules himself?
How did Jesus fulfill this passage?
If we claim to follow Jesus then how do/should we live?
Rest: Leviticus 23
Read Leviticus 23
You can do this quickly by scanning over it. Don’t get bogged down in details.
Opening Questions
What sounds restful to you?
Are you a good rester? Why or why not?
Danger of Rest
Look back over the last few chapters before chapter 23. These are chapters about the holiness of God and the holiness of the
people. Make a few observations about the rules and regulations that stand out to you.
It’s a good time to grab a study Bible or do some research on the internet about these feast and festivals.
On the back of this paper write out what you’ve learned about each of them.
Do you think God was serious about the Sabbath rest?
Do you know of anyone who attempts to “overdo” Sundays? How could someone “overdo” it?
Do you know of anyone who “underdoes” Sundays? What does that look like?
Which one of these is more your tendency? Why?
Declaration of Rest
God has our mark our days and times and seasons. What are these calendar time markers in our culture?
What are the time markers in God’s calendar?
Why might these matter to God and his people?
Why would it take faith to have a Sabbath each week for the people who originally heard this?
Why does it take faith for us today to follow this on our Sundays?
What would help make your Sunday:
Devotional
Different
Delightful
How do we find rest in Christ?
Read Hebrews 3:7-4:13 and write your thoughts here.
Can you find any other verses that talk about Jesus offering and giving rest to his people?
Where are you weary ?
Consider memorizing Matthew 11:28-29 and returning to that verse and that Savior every day this week.
Freedom: Leviticus 25
Read Leviticus 25
You can do this quickly by scanning over it. Don’t get bogged down in details.
Opening Questions
Now is a good time for your favorite vomit story. Do you have one?
The Vomiter
Read Leviticus 20:22. What does that verse say? What is God telling his people?
God’s people had been released from slavery from Egypt (you can go back and read about that in Exodus).
But they still weren’t free – why not?
Look up John 8:34. What does Jesus mean that we are slaves to sin?
What ways are you enslaved by sin?
Would you get vomited out?
The Trumpeter
Look up in a study Bible or on the internet about the Sabbath year. What was that?
Look up in that same place about the Jubilee Year. What was that supposed to be?
It’s announced with a trumpet blast – Leviticus 25:9.
What would have been tough for some people on that Jubilee year?
What would have been wonderful for some people on that Jubilee year?
Would you have thought it would have been wonderful or tough? Why?
Do you need a Jubilee?
The Redeemer
Jesus talks about getting free from sin and slavery in John 8:35. What does he say is the solution?
In Leviticus 25:47-49, the Bible talks about the kinsmen-redeemer. This is a person related to you who has the means, the ability
and the willingness to redeem you out of your situation.
How is Jesus our kinsman-redeemer?
Look up and read Luke 4:17-21. This is a quote from Isaiah, but it is talking about concepts pulled from Leviticus.
What similarities do you see between what Jesus is talking about and Leviticus 25?
How can Jesus do these things?
How did he do these things?
Has Jesus done these things for you? Could he?
Read John 8:36. Are you free indeed?
Blessing: Leviticus 26
Read Leviticus 26
You can do this quickly by scanning over it. Don’t get bogged down in details.
Opening Questions
What do you think about rules? What is a common rule that when it gets broken has a consequence?
Covenant Curses
Relationships in the Old Testament (and still today) were formed by covenants. These were understandings between the two parties
about what was to be done and what was not to be done, and the consequences that would result.
Read over what happens if God’s people did not obey the covenant in Leviticus 26:14-39.
Which of these stand out to you?
If you were to write the worst curses you could imagine, what would be on your list?
Do you think God’s people deserved this wrath? Why or why not?
Do you think people today deserve wrath? Does God give it?
Do you deserve wrath?
Covenant Blessings
God also talks about his blessings in Leviticus 26:1-13. Read those and write out a few that stand out to you.
What would your best blessings look like if you could write them into the Bible in this passage?
One of them is when God says he’ll walk among them (26:11-12). Why is that a blessing?
What would you think of you received all of your blessings but God wasn’t there? Would that be okay with you?
Why or why not?
Covenant Mediator
The mediator of this covenant was Moses. But Moses was a flawed person.
We have a better mediator in Jesus Christ. He also spoke blessings and curses. Look up Luke 6:20-26 and read some for yourself.
Do any blessings and curses stand out to you?
Does it surprise you that Jesus gives curses too?
Do you tend to ignore Jesus’ commands?
Do you feel like you know why everyone is receiving curses in our society?
Why do you think things go poorly for you? What are a few things that might need to change in your life?
How did Jesus take woes and curses in his life?
How did and does he give blessings?
Do you deserve blessings?
Read Galatians 3:13. What do you think that verse means?
How would Jesus give this to you and do this for you? How can the covenant of grace in Christ be true and real for you today?