Leviticus 1:14–17
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We come now to a portion of Leviticus that the modern mind, and even many a modern Christian mind, finds bewildering, if not faintly distasteful. We are talking about blood, and feathers, and fire. We are in the realm of animal sacrifice, a world that seems utterly alien to our sanitized, shrink-wrapped, and secularized age. Our generation wants a god, to be sure, but they want a god who can be approached on their own terms, a god who requires nothing more than a vague sincerity and a general feeling of goodwill. They want a god who can be worshipped without getting your hands dirty. But the God of the Bible, the only true and living God, is not a tame god. To approach Him is the most dangerous and glorious thing a creature can do. And because He is a good and gracious God, He does not leave us to guess how this approach is to be made.