When you buy something new, it usually comes with an instruction manual. Although more often these days, you might find a quick setup guide and be directed to the manufacturer’s website to download an instruction manual. But the point is that when you get something new for the first time, you don’t know how to use it. maybe some things are simple plug and play devices, but you can still learn a lot of useful things and get the most out of it by referring to and reading the manual. Some things are so complicated that you run the risk of breaking the thing or not properly caring for it if you don’t read the manual. It might even save you some embarrassment. I recently saw a youtube video of a dad who sent his daughter into the auto parts store to buy some blinker fluid. And of course she returned to her dad laughing his head off. But if she had read her car manual, she would’ve known there wasn’t such a thing. But how much more should we be concerned when it comes to following the things of God? God had given us a manual for how we are to conduct our lives, and for how the church is to conduct its affairs. It’s called the Bible. And since He created us, and the church, we should follow his commands. He didn’t write suggested guidelines, as if he was giving us his personal recommendations. He has given us commandments and we are obliged to follow them. And so as we continue making our way through the book of Leviticus, God is revealing his Holy nature to us in how he has established for himself a chosen people, and following his commandments is an issue of life or death. And if it’s a matter of life and death, then we ought to pay close attention to his instructions, to his Word.