Here’s my outline for Leviticus
1. Sacrificial Code (Lev. 1 – 7)
2. Priestly Code (Lev. 8 – 10)
3. Cleanness Code (Lev. 11 – 15)
4. Holiness code (Lev. 16 – 27)
God Known
God is known only when he makes himself known. Thus we have revelation, both general and special. But general revelation only goes so far. It does not provide us with the most necessary fact of all – how we must be saved. Perhaps it could be said that from general revelation, we ought to be saved, since in general revelation God has made himself known as the Creator. But in special revelation, we find him as Redeemer. And all this revealed to us in the Word. Yes, God is known when he makes himself known.
Happy Reformation Day.
Pursue and Practice
Pursue
Psalm 34:14 – “Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.”
Romans 14:19 – “So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.”
1 Corinthians 14:1 – “Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.”
1 Timothy 6:11 – “But as for you, O man of God, flee these things. Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love,
steadfastness, gentleness.”
2 Timothy 2:22 – “So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.”
1 Peter 3:11 – “let him turn away from evil and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it.”
Practice
Philippians 4:9 – “What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me– practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.”
1 Timothy 4:12 – 16 – “Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity. Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, to teaching. Do not neglect the gift you have, which was given you by prophecy when the council of elders laid their hands on you. Practice these things, immerse yourself in them, so that all may see your progress. Keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching. Persist in this, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers.”
2 Peter 1:5 – 10 – “For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins. Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to confirm your calling and election, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall.”
True Repentance
“True repentance is love weeping at the foot of the Cross” (Ronald Hanko, The Coming of Zion’s Redeemer, p. 369)
Psalm 3:8
Here is Mr. Spurgeon on this great Psalm of David as he fled from Absalom.
“This verse contains the sum and substance of Calvinistic doctrine. Search Scripture through, and you must, if you read it with a candid mind, be persuaded that the doctrine of salvation by grace alone is the great doctrine of the word of God: “Salvation belongeth unto the Lord.” This is a point concerning which we are daily fighting. Our opponents say, “Salvation belongeth to the free will of man; if not to man’s merit, yet at least to man’s will;” but we hold and teach that salvation from first to last, in every iota of it, belongs to the Most High God. It is God that chooses his people. He calls them by his grace; he quickens them by his Spirit, and keeps them by his power. It is not of man, neither by man; “not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy.” May we all learn this truth experimentally, for our proud flesh and blood will never permit us to learn it in any other way.”
(Treasury of David, Psalm 3)
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