I read Leviticus on my recent Manila to Nashville flight and tweeted a 140-character summary. Now, a few weeks later, I’m now sitting in the Atlanta airport about to board my Delta flight to South Africa. Here’s my quick summary of the twenty-seven chapters in Leviticus employing more than 140 characters.
1. GOD IS HOLY. Holiness is not something God does. It is not a list of religious rules. He is holy. It is his nature. What he does flows from who he is.
2. SIN IS COSTLY. It is impossible to exaggerate this point. The whole book of Leviticus, from start to finish, lays out the cost of covering sin: the blood of bulls, birds, and lambs. If temporarily covering sin was that costly, what about the cost of forgiving sin forever?
3. IDOLATRY IS OFFENSIVE. Maybe not to our culture and our community, but idolatry is offensive to God.
4. WORSHIP IS AWESOME. Ultimately, the book of Leviticus is about worship. And the worship in Leviticus is not to be taken lightly. Worship is awesome because the God we worship is awesome. If our worship is anything but awesome, maybe we are not really worshiping the only true God.