Leviticus 9:15–21
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
Modern evangelicals, in their desperate attempt to be relevant, have stripped their worship of all form, all ceremony, and all gravity. They want a relationship with God that feels spontaneous, casual, and unscripted, like a conversation over coffee. But this is a profound misunderstanding of who God is and who we are. And you do not approach a consuming fire casually. Leviticus is a book that our generation has largely forgotten, and to our great peril. We see it as a dusty, irrelevant catalog of bizarre rituals and bloody sacrifices. But in reality, Leviticus is the grammar of holiness. It teaches us the syntax of approaching a holy God. To neglect Leviticus is to become liturgically illiterate, and a people who are liturgically illiterate will inevitably invent their own worship, which is simply a sanitized name for idolatry.