Leviticus 15 “Laws Regarding Bodily Discharges”

July 12, 2020
I know this might sound obvious to us here, but for the sake of the confused and lost world which attempts to redefine, well just about everything, at the risk of stating the obvious, the deep, deep, profound truth is that boys are different than girls. I know, I know, some of you are like, duh. But seriously, there are a lot of people who reject this basic tenet from our Creator. It is rebellious, it is illogical, it is insane, it is destructive, but there you have it. So in this chapter we are going to discuss the laws regarding bodily discharge, or secretions, from males and females. I imagine some of you might be a little grossed out, but it’s here in the Bible and so it’s important and worthwhile for our consideration and edification. These laws were given for men and women. We have different issues but we still have issues. Wow, another profound statement! Let’s go to the text.
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Passage: Leviticus 15
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Leviticus 14 “Cleansing and Restoration of Lepers and Houses”

July 5, 2020
Last week we talked about leprosy and how it was a very destructive and scary disease. There wasn’t a cure and the measures which had to be followed to protect the community were isolating and lonely. This was essentially a death sentence. It’s comparable to the diagnosis of cancer these days. Being diagnosed with cancer is scary, especially considering treatments, if there’s even an option for treatment. It spreads, takes over and without a cure or healing, the body will waste away until death claims the victim. It’s truly a sad horrible picture. And just as have that in mind when we think of disease, but even more than that, this is how we must view the nature of sin. Sin may be pleasurable for a season, but the wages of sin is death. It never turns out alright, it never satisfies. Most of us would concur. But have you thought of beyond the nature of sin to the nature of the sinner? Let me give you a phrase to think about: “God loves the sinner but hates the sin.” Anyone want to amen that? Is that a biblical view? Actually some say that quote is more attributed to Ghandi in his autobiography. So what does the Bible actually say? “The boastful shall not stand before your eyes; you hate all evildoers. (Psalm 5:5) “The LORD tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.” (Psalm 11:5) That doesn’t sound like “love the sinner” language. It’s important for us to grow in our understanding of God’s Holiness, His Holy character, and how offensive sin is to Him. Then these biblical statements will not seem out of place. This is why we read and study Leviticus. Just as we can look at the disease of cancer with moral outrage and righteous indignation, so think about how God views our sins. Small sins, small things we think are petty or don’t amount to much, God holds righteous indignation against. God does show his love and mercy and kindness to us in that, “but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:8) But this saving love is not given for everyone. God’s love is gracious, not demanded, not owed, not merited. So when a leper was healed, it was by the grace of God, a demonstration of his kindness. And so when one was healed, there was a law for how the leper would be declared clean and allowed to re-enter into community. And this is what we are going to look at this morning.
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Passage: Leviticus 14
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Leviticus 13 “Leprosy: Skin Disease or Sin Disease?”

June 28, 2020
Being in the midst of a pandemic, we can appreciate how disease can threaten society and how we have to think seriously and take certain measures to protect and, the buzz word of the year, “mitigate” against spread. Even now, it seems the numbers are back on the rise again. It almost seems like we’ve had to deal with disease since the beginning of time itself. Throughout history, there’s been a number of pandemics, and pestilence has affected numbers large and small. Nowadays we’ve been granted an increase in medical knowledge and have treatments to help cure many diseases. However, there are still many which have no cure, or no treatment, or the treatment might be hit or miss. Personally, we’ve lost several friends and family members to cancer as I’m sure some of you have. Even some of our fellow brothers and sisters have been or were afflicted with certain incurable diseases. Certainly several come to mind, Tom Ryan, Bonita Kile and others. And so when we encounter such diagnoses, fear can surface front and center. Life threatening diseases or procedures can scare us. It might be fear of the treatment or surgery itself, or even fear of the unknown. And it may be that there isn’t a cure, a terminal disease, and it’s only a matter of time. These things can unsettle us, shake us up to the core. Disease is no respecter of sex, both males and females are afflicted; it’s no respecter of age, the young and old alike get sick and succumb to disease; it’s no respecter of class, the rich and the poor suffer afflictions; and it’s no respecter of the saved or the lost. Christians lose their lives to disease just the same as non-Christians. And if you were ever promised differently, you were dealing with a snake oil salesman. Disease don’t care if your rich or famous, eat healthy rabbit food or fine dine on donuts and cheeseburgers. You can be healthy, fit and strong one day and get struck down the next. As we turn to our text, we find God’s instructions regarding a scary skin disease called leprosy. As we’ll see this was a disease to be feared. It could strike at any time, with no cure or treatment, no hope.
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Passage: Leviticus 13
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Leviticus 11 “Clean and Unclean Animals”

May 31, 2020
As we have been studying Leviticus I hope it has become increasingly clear that God is holy and calls his people to be holy. This call to holiness and sanctification certainly involves how we are to worship God. But does it involve our day to day activities? Does living for God extend to what we eat or how we dress, or how we behave? Well the easy answer is yes. But why? In our midweek Bible study we have been in the book of Galatians, where Paul is defending the gospel and telling them not to return under the yoke of the law. We have been set free and are indeed free in Christ. But there are two ditches on either side of the road that we must avoid. We must avoid legalism, where you must do X in order to stay saved, and the other is antinomianism, where there is no room for God’s law. Both of these are mistakes. As we turn to our text we are going to be discussing the dietary laws God issued to the Israelites. Are we still bound by these laws? Most importantly, what is the main concept in the giving of these laws? Let’s find out.
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Passage: Leviticus 11
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Leviticus 10 “Strange Fire”

May 24, 2020
Dangerous Jobs. Fatal Mistakes. Worker injuries. Electricians are killed when they mistakenly touch live wires. Some folks have lost limb or life while operating heavy machinery or manufacturing equipment. Doctors caring for patients on the front lines combatting disease such as Ebola, SARS, MERS and now Covid-19, have contracted the disease themselves and died. Nurses and other healthcare workers make mistakes with needles and have contracted HIV, or other infectious blood diseases. Pilots and their passengers have been killed because of mistakes or negligence. I remember watching a show about plane crashes and in this one particular crash, investigators discovered from the black box conversations that the pilot was drunk and unable to properly decipher his instrument panel and thinking the plane was about to stall put the plane into a nosedive killing everyone on board. Even Pastors have been killed. Not that our job is crazy dangerous, at least not in our part of the world. I had a co-worker whose husband was a pastor and he was killed in the baptistry; electrocuted by the microphone. Deadly mistakes happen. Some jobs are inherently more dangerous, and/or have the potential hazard of the worker getting killed. When you work in one of these jobs, you must always be on the alert, because a small mistake, error in judgment, can mean the difference between life and death. So what does that have to do with us this morning, you might ask? Let’s find out together as we turn to our text.
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Passage: Leviticus 10
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2 Thessalonians 2:13-17 “Chosen. Called. So Stand Firm.”

May 3, 2020
There’s a new series out that I have enjoyed very much called The Chosen. You can see it on Pureflix or on youtube. It’s very well done and captures some of the historical picture during Jesus’ earthly ministry. Jesus indeed chooses his diciples. They did not seek to become disciples. They in fact had their lives turned upside down and started over in a sense. And that’s who we are as well. We are chosen. We move from death to life. He chooses us. He then calls us. Calls us to faith. And just as the disciples would learn, we must then stand for the faith. Stand for what we believe, as taught by Jesus. We don’t get to make stuff up. We follow the Master, the Rabbi, the Teacher. No student is above his teacher, and the same holds for us his disciples. but we must remain faithful, because we have been chosen and called to do so.
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Passage: 2 Thessalonians 2:13-17
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2 Thessalonians 2:1-12 “Do Not Be Quickly Shaken in Mind or Alarmed”

April 26, 2020
Sound the alarm! I think I’m losing my mind! Have things ever been so out of control in your life you just want to pull the covers over your head and throw in the towel? Have you ever panicked about missing an appointment only to find out that it was scheduled on a different day? And you wonder how you could be so silly to get so worked up about such a thing. Stressing over nothing. Sometimes when you don’t have sufficient information or the information you have is wrong, we can get worked up, stressed out, become anxious over nothing. And this is what the church in Thessalonica was facing. And as we will find today, Paul wrote to encourage them, and to warn them and remind them that God is sovereign and all powerful. I think it’s good for us to be reminded in the same way. It’s good for us to be reminded of key doctrines and most importantly, the gospel.
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Passage: 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12
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