Leviticus 2:14–16
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We modern Christians have a bad habit of treating the book of Leviticus like an old, dusty attic in the house of Scripture. We know it's there, we assume it's structurally important, but we have no real desire to go rummaging around in it. We are convinced it is full of strange, irrelevant furniture and perhaps a few theological spiders. But in doing this, we make a profound mistake. Leviticus is not the attic; it is the kitchen. It lays out for us the very grammar of worship, the syntax of sacrifice, and the vocabulary of communion. We live in a time of unprecedented material prosperity, and yet we are spiritually destitute, perpetually aggrieved, and sullen. This is because we have forgotten how to give thanks, and we have forgotten because we have forgotten to whom we are to give thanks.