Leviticus 8:14–17
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We prefer our religion to be abstract, our morality to be tidy, and our worship to be respectable. We like the idea of forgiveness, but we are squeamish about the mechanics of it. We want the clean ledger without ever having to see the bloody ink. But the book of Leviticus will not let us get away with that. It grabs us by the collar and shoves our faces into the raw, visceral reality of sin and atonement. It is a book full of blood, fat, fire, and smoke. It is a theological lesson, acted out in flesh and blood. It is a picture book for a truth that our hearts are desperate to know but our minds are too proud to accept: that sin is a filthy, damnable thing, and that the only way to deal with it is through a bloody, substitutionary death.