Sermon Notes for October 30, 2016

Holy and Common

Leviticus 10:1–5 (ESV) Now , the sons of , each took his censer and put fire in it and laid incense on it and offered unauthorized fire before theLord , which he had not commanded them. And fire came out from before the Lord and consumed them, and they died before the Lord. Then said to Aaron, “This is what the Lord has said: ‘Among those who are near me I will be sanctified, and before all the people I will be glori- fied.’ ” And Aaron held his peace.

And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said to them, “Come near; carry your brothers away from the front of the sanctuary and out of the camp.” So they came near and carried them in their coats out of the camp, as Moses had said.

Leviticus 10:8–11 ESV And the Lord spoke to Aaron, saying, “Drink no wine or strong drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the tent of meeting, lest you die. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. You are to distinguish between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean, and you are to teach the people of all the statutes that the Lord has spoken to them by Moses.”

Chapter 10 — Nadab and Abihu

Chapters 11–15 — Holiness Codes

Chapter 16 — Day of Atonement

Chapters 17–20 — Holiness Codes

Leviticus 11:45 ESV “For I am the Lord who brought you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.”

Leviticus 15:31 ESV “Thus you shall keep the people of Israel separate from their uncleanness, lest they die in their uncleanness by defiling my that is in their midst.”

Leviticus 16:1–3 ESV TheLord spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they drew near before the Lord and died, and the Lord said to Moses, “Tell Aaron your brother not to come at any time into the Holy Place inside the veil, before the mercy seat that is on the ark, so that he may not die. For I will appear in the cloud over the mercy seat. But in this way Aaron shall come into the Holy Place: with a bull from the herd for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.” Leviticus 18:2–5 ESV “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, I am the Lord your God. You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived, and you shall not do as they do in the land of , to which I am bringing you. You shall not walk in their statutes. You shall follow my rules and keep my statutes and walk in them. I am the Lord your God. You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the Lord.”

The Cultural Study Bible “Leviticus has an almost limitless amount of parallels with ancient Near Eastern documents and sources, some surprisingly close. Here we find, for example, similar ritual procedures, infrastructure, terminology, and con- cepts, as well as similar approaches to law in terms of literary context, formulation, reasoning, and content. … At the same time, we will recognize crucial differences that highlight and give depth as perspective to the unique nature of Israel’s God. … So we see that many of the biblical regulations and rituals had precedent in the ancient world. In this way it can be seen that God used familiar ways of thinking to guide the Israelites, even as he was giving them some new ways to think and distinguishing them as his own special people.”

Leviticus 24:19–20 ESV “If anyone injures his neighbor, as he has done it shall be done to him, fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; whatever injury he has given a person shall be given to him.”

Code of Hammurapi “If a man has destroyed the eye of a man of the gentleman class, they shall destroy his eye. … If he has de- stroyed the eye of a commoner … he shall pay one mina of silver. If he has destroyed the eye of a gentleman’s slave … he shall pay half the slave’s price.”

Leviticus 19:18 ESV “You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.”

1 John 1:5–7 ESV This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

Implications

• Your role as priest is to protect the reputation and story of God.

• Your job as priest is to draw light from dark places.

• Your job as priest is to be light in dark places.

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