Leviticus 6:1–7
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in a sentimental age, an age that has reduced Christianity to a therapeutic feeling of being forgiven. In this modern fog, sin is a private affair between me and God, a matter of the heart, easily resolved with a quick and quiet prayer. Once that transaction is complete, we feel the warm glow of forgiveness and believe the matter is settled. But this is a cheap grace, a counterfeit gospel. It is a gospel that has been thoroughly domesticated by our individualistic and therapeutic culture. It is a gospel that carefully avoids the checkbook. The book of Leviticus, which many modern Christians treat like a dusty and irrelevant attic, is a bracing slap in the face to this kind of thinking. It is about blood and guts and money and property and real-world relationships. It teaches us that sin is never a purely private affair.