Leviticus 9:8–14
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We prefer our religion to be abstract, clean, and respectable. We like our theology tidy, our worship services polished, and our hands unsoiled. The modern church, particularly in the West, often behaves as though the central problem of man is a lack of information or a need for better therapeutic techniques. We want a God who is a life coach, not a consuming fire. And then we come to a passage like this one in Leviticus. And if we recoil from it, if we find it primitive or off-putting, it is not because the text is deficient, but because our understanding of sin and grace is. We have forgotten the sheer gravity of our predicament and the staggering cost of our redemption. We want a crown without a cross, forgiveness without blood, and communion with a holy God without an atonement.