Leviticus 7:37–38
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in an age that despises definitions, detests categories, and declares war on distinctions. Our culture has taken a sledgehammer to the very idea of a given order. The prevailing spirit of our time is that worship, if it is to be done at all, must be spontaneous, unstructured, and above all, authentic, which is usually a synonym for self-generated. It is setting up a god of our own imagination and then congratulating ourselves on our sincerity. Into this sentimental and rebellious fog, the book of Leviticus crashes with the force of a lightning strike on a clear day. And a passage like our text is a summary statement of a divine reality that our age finds utterly offensive. It is a declaration that God, and God alone, defines the terms of acceptable worship. And because He is a God of order and not of confusion, He has provided a grammar for how a sinful people can approach a holy God.