Leviticus 8:30
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We like our doctrines filed in the right folders and our worship services to run on time. We prefer our religion to be primarily about concepts, ideas, and feelings that can be managed from a safe, sanitary distance. But the book of Leviticus will not let us get away with that. It is full of blood, and fat, and smoke, and water, and oil. It is about a holy God who condescends to dwell in the middle of a dusty, noisy, and frequently rebellious camp of people, and it details the graphic, physical means by which He makes it possible for them to approach Him without being consumed. The modern mind, even the modern Christian mind, often recoils from this. It seems primitive, or strange, or frankly, a bit gross. Because God is teaching us something fundamental about reality.