Leviticus 19:1–4
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
They know it's there, they might even peek through the keyhole now and again, but they assume it's full of dusty, irrelevant furniture from a bygone era. They hear words like sacrifice, purity laws, and Sabbath regulations, and they think it has all been superseded, rendered obsolete by the coming of Christ. To neglect Leviticus is to neglect the very grammar of our redemption. It is here that God teaches us the meaning of words like holiness, atonement, and substitution. Leviticus 19 is a magnificent chapter, sometimes called the Old Testament's Sermon on the Mount. It is a dense, practical outworking of what it means to be the people of God. And it all begins with the foundational command, the central axiom upon which the entire covenant rests. This is not just a collection of arbitrary rules for an ancient tribe.