Leviticus 24,25:1-34

 Scripture – Leviticus 24,25:1-34

Observation – 

• Leviticus 24:1-9 - Bread and Lamp of the sanctuary
• Leviticus 24:1-4 - It shall burn throughout generations.
• Leviticus 24:5-9 - Bake and place the bread.
• Leviticus 24:10-16 - The one who blasphemes will be stoned.
• Leviticus 24:17-23 - Eye for an eye
• Leviticus 24:18-22 - Whatever you do to others, it will be done to you.
• Leviticus 24:23 - Moses spoke all of these things.
• Leviticus 25:1-22 - Sabbatic year
• Leviticus 25:1-7 - Rest for the land
• Leviticus 25:8-9 - Rest for the people
• Leviticus 25:10-17 - Celebrate the year of Jubilee.
• Leviticus 25:18-22 - Observe His statutes. 
• Leviticus 25:23-34 - Law of redemption
• Leviticus 25:23-28 - You shall get your land back in the year of Jubilee.
• Leviticus 25:29-34 - Special cases

Application – God wants the people to know that we need Him and that we need to depend on Him.

Prayer – Dear God, help me to depend on and to trust in you. Help me to walk in your ways and in your truth. Amen

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Summarize and apply – God gives His people commands on resting.

Leviticus 23

 Scripture – Leviticus 23

Observation – 

• Leviticus 23:1-25 - Laws of religions festivals
• Leviticus 23:1-3 - Rules for sabbath
• Leviticus 23:4-8 - Rules for Passover
• Leviticus 23:9-14 - Offerings when entering the promised land
• Leviticus 23:15-25 - Specifics for how it should be offered.
• Leviticus 23:26-44
• Leviticus 23:26-32 - No work on the day of Atonement
• Leviticus 23:33-36 - Feast of booths
• Leviticus 23:37-44 - More rules for rest

Application – God wants us to come to him.

Prayer – Dear God, I want to come to you. Help me to do that daily. Help me to hate sin and to want your love. Amen

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Summarize and apply – God gives the Israelites more rules for resting. 

Leviticus 21-22

 Scripture –Leviticus 21-22

Observation – 

• Leviticus 21:1-24 - Regulations for priests
• Leviticus 21:1-4 - Do not make yourself unclean from dead people
• Leviticus 21:5-6 - Do not cut off your hair
• Leviticus 21:7-9 - Do not marry women who have been defiled
• Leviticus 21:10-12 - He must not tear his clothes or cut his hair
• Leviticus 21:13-15 - He must marry a virgin
• Leviticus 21:16-24 - If a priest has a defect they must not sacrifice food
• Leviticus 22:1-16 - Rules for uncleanliness 
• Leviticus 22:1-8 - The priest must not touch any unclean thing
• Leviticus 22:9-16 - Various laws for priests
• Leviticus 22:17-33 - Unacceptable sacrifices
• Leviticus 22:17-25 - No animals with physical illnesses
• Leviticus 22:26-33 - Rules for sacrificing animals

Application – We must follow God's commands to be right with him

Prayer – God help me to follow your word and to want to follow it. Help me not to be prideful and think that my way is best.

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Summarize and apply – God gives israel more commands for priests and sacrifices.

Leviticus 19-20

 Scripture – Leviticus 19-20

Observation – 

• Leviticus 19:1-8 - Idolatry forbidden.
• Leviticus 19:1-4 - Do not turn to idols.
• Leviticus 19:5-8 - Offer the peace offering so that you may be accepted.
• Leviticus 19:9-36 - Various laws.
• Leviticus 19:9-18 - You shall not hate, oppress, steal, gather, harvest.
• Leviticus 19:19-37 - Miscellaneous.
• Leviticus 20:1-27 - Human sacrifices sand immorality.
• Leviticus 20:1-3 - Stone whoever offers sacrifices to Molech.
• Leviticus 20:4-5 - God will deal personally to whoever doesn't get caught.
• Leviticus 20:6-8 - You will be cut from the people if you meet with spiritists.
• Leviticus 20:9 - You shall be put to death if you curse your parents.
• Leviticus 20:10-21 - Sexual impurity.
• Leviticus 20:22-26 - God's people should be different from other nations.
• Leviticus 20:27 - Mediums should be stoned.

Application – God gives more commands on how to live.

Prayer –  God help me to follow your commands and to repent when I fail to keep them. Help me to love your word and to hate sin. Amen

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Summarize and apply – God gives the Israelites more commandments on how to live.

Leviticus 17-18

 Scripture – Leviticus 17-18

Observation – 

• Leviticus 17:1-15 - Blood of atonement
• Leviticus 17:1-7 - No slaughtering animals outside the camp
• Leviticus 17:8-11 - No stranger can slaughter animals outside the camp
• Leviticus 17:12-15 - No eating the blood of animals
• Leviticus 18:1-30 - Law on immoral relations
• Leviticus 18:1-5 - Do not do what other nations do
• Leviticus 18:6-23 - Do not have sexual relations with family
• Leviticus 18:24-30 - People will be cut off if they do this

Application – 

Prayer – Dear God help me to stay clean and pure before you and to repent. Help me to love you and to hate sin. Amen

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Summarize and apply – More commandments from God for purity

Leviticus 15-16

 Scripture – Leviticus 15-16

Observation – 

• Leviticus 15:1-33 - Rules for cleanliness.
• Leviticus 15:1-12 - No touching anything that a man with a discharge touched
• Leviticus 15:13-18 - How to be clean again
• Leviticus 15:19-23 - Anything that a women in her period touches will be unclean
• Leviticus 15:24 - Whoever has sexual relations with her will be unclean
• Leviticus 15:25-27 - Anyone who touches her will be unclean
• Leviticus 15:28-30 - How to be clean again
• Leviticus 15:31-33 - These are the rules for a man or woman with a discharge
• Leviticus 16:1-34 - The day of atonement
• Leviticus 16:1-2- Only the high priest can go behind the curtain.
• Leviticus 16:3-10 - Preparation of animals
• Leviticus 16:11-17 - Preparation and burning of incense
• Leviticus 16:18-19 - Sprinkling of blood
• Leviticus 16:20-22 - Confession of Israel's sins
• Leviticus 16:23-24 - Cleansing physically 
• Leviticus 16:25-28 - What happens if someone burns the meat
• Leviticus 16:29-31 - Day of the sabbath
• Leviticus 16:32-34 - Finaly rules for the day of atonement

Application – We need to actively confess ours sins to God

Prayer – Dear God, help me to repent from the sins in my life. Whether it's anger, pride, or anything else, please help me to confess and repent. Amen

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Summarize and apply – God is holy and we need to repent and confess all our sins to come before Him.

Leviticus 14

 Scripture – Leviticus 14

Observation – 

• Leviticus 14:1-32 - Cleansing of a leper
  
• Leviticus 14:1-4 - Leper going to the priest
• Leviticus 14:5-7 - Sprinkling of blood
• Leviticus 14:8-9 - Shaving of hair
• Leviticus 14:10-20 - Offering of animals to be clean
• Leviticus 14:21-32 - What happens when the leper is poor
• Leviticus 14:33-57 - Cleansing of a leprous family
• Leviticus 14:33-39 - Examination by the priest
• Leviticus 14:40-42 - Throw out the unclean stones.
• Leviticus 14:43-47 - Throw out the whole house if it keeps spreading.
• Leviticus 14:48-53 - Cleansing of the house by offering
• Leviticus 14:54-57 - This is the law for leprosy.

Application – God wants us to be clean before him.

Prayer – Dear God help me to be right before you and to repent when I sin. Help me to realize that sin is wrong and that I should hate it. Amen

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Summarize and apply – God is a holy and righteous God and we need to be right with him to come before him. 

Leviticus 12-13

Scripture – Leviticus 12-13

Observation – 

• Leviticus 12 - Laws of Motherhood
• Leviticus 12:1-5 - How long she shall be unclean
• Leviticus 12:6-8 - How to be clean again
• Leviticus 13 - Law of Leprosy
• Leviticus 13:1-6 - Examination from the priest
• Leviticus 13:7-17 - Examination on a higher level
• Leviticus 13:18-23 - If it has a boil
• Leviticus 13:24-28 - A burn by fire
• Leviticus 13:29-37 - Infection on head or hair
• Leviticus 13:38-39 - Bright spots
• Leviticus 13:40-44 - Leprosy on head
• Leviticus 13:45-52 - Leprosy on clothes
• Leviticus 13:53-59 - Examination of leprosy on clothes

Application – Physical illnesses makes us apart from God. How much more with sin!

Prayer – God you are a holy and righteous God. Illness' makes us far from you. Our sin makes us even more apart with you! Help us to bring it before you and confess. Amen 

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Summarize and apply –  God wants us to follow and obey him. But when we sin we have to confess and ask for forgiveness.

Leviticus 10-11

 Scripture –Leviticus 10-11

Observation – 

• Leviticus 10 - Sin of Nadab and Abihu
• Leviticus 10:1-3 - Death of Nadab and Abihu
• Leviticus 10:4-7 - Burial of Nadab and Abihu.
• Leviticus 10:8-15 - Aaron's family becoming clean again.
• Leviticus 10:16-20 - Aaron's family disobey God's command
• Leviticus 11 - Laws about animals for food
• Leviticus 11:1-8 - No eating animals who chew cud
• Leviticus 11:9-12 - Eat animals with scales and fins
• Leviticus 11:13-19 - No eating specific birds(Eagle, vulture, buzzard, kite, falcon, raven, ostrich, own, seagull, hawk, little owl, cormorant, great owl, white own, pelican, carrior vulture, stork, heron, hoopoe, bat.)
• Leviticus 11:20-23 - No eating winged insects with 4 feet. (besides locust)
• Leviticus 11:24-30 - Specific animals are unclean. 
• Leviticus 11:31-40 - Things that unclean people touch are unclean.
• Leviticus 11:41-43 - No eating swarming things or things that crawl on the belly.
• Leviticus 11:44-47 - God is holy.

Application – God is holy and we need to stay clean to come before him

Prayer – Dear God, you are holy and righteous. I am a sinner and cannot come before you without obeying your commands but you made another way. You gave us your son to die on the cross for our sins. I thank you for this way because I cannot follow your commandments exactly. Amen

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Summarize and apply – God's commandments are impossible to follow but God gives us another way. Jesus.

Leviticus 8-9

 Scripture –Leviticus 8-9

Observation –

•  Leviticus 8 - Consecration of Aaron's family
• Leviticus 8:1-5 - Gathering things for consecration.
• Leviticus 8:6-13 - Preparing of Aaron and his family.
• Leviticus 8:14-17 - Sacrifice of the bull
• Leviticus 8:18-21 - Sacrifice of the first ram
• Leviticus 8:22-25 - Sacrifice of the second ram
• Leviticus 8:26 - Preparation of the bread
• Leviticus 8:27-29 - Offering of the meat.
• Leviticus 8:30-36 - Anointing of Aaron and his family.
  
• Leviticus 9 - Offering for all of Israel.
• Leviticus 9:1-6 - Gathering of all the animals.
• Leviticus 9:7- 11 - Sin offering.
• Leviticus 9:12-14 - Burnt offering.
• Leviticus 9:15-17 - The people's offering
• Leviticus 9:18-21 - Peace offering
• Leviticus 9:22-24 - God accepts the offering.

Application – Things need to be God's way and not the people's way.

Prayer – Dear God, your way is the best way. Please help me not to be prideful but to know your way is best and the only way. Amen

Sins to avoid – Thinking your way is best

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Examples to follow – The priests followed the commandments exactly.

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Summarize and apply – Even though we might think our way is better, God's way is best.

Leviticus 6-7

 Scripture – Leviticus 6-7

Observation – 

• Leviticus 6:1-7 - Guilt offering
• Leviticus 6:1-3 - When its required
• Leviticus 6:4-5 - Make it right with the person
  
• Leviticus 6:6-7 - Make it right before God
• Leviticus 6:8-13 - Burnt offering
• Leviticus 6:8-9 - Rules for the offering itself
• Leviticus 6:10-11-Rules for priests
• Leviticus 6:12-13- Rules for the fire
• Leviticus 6:14-23- Grain offering
• Leviticus 6:14-15 - How to prepare the grain offering.
• Leviticus 6:16-18 - Who may eat the grain offering.
• Leviticus 6:19-23 - Grain offering of the priest's anointing.
• Leviticus 6:24-30- Sin offering
• Leviticus 6:24-27 - Handled in a holy place
• Leviticus 28-30 - Miscellaneous 
• Leviticus 7:1-7 - What is offered to God.
• Leviticus 7:8

Application – God makes a way for the Levites and provides for them.

Prayer – Dear God, you know everybody's heart and you provide for us. Thank you for giving me all I need just like you did with the Levites. Amen.

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Summarize and apply – God loves us and knows what we need.

Leviticus 4-5

 Scripture – Leviticus 4-5

Observation – 

• Leviticus 4 - The law of sin offerings.
• Leviticus 5 - The law of guilt offerings.

Application – Sin is everywhere, and we need to fight against it.

Prayer – Dear God, you are a holy God and I am a sinner. Help me to fight against sin and choose to turn and trust you. Amen.

Sins to avoid - Thinking you are blameless or perfect.   

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Summarize and apply – We need to trust God for help from sin.