Connect What is one habit that you can change to be a better steward of all that God has entrusted to you?

Warm-Up

1. What are your impressions of Leviticus? What parts have you found strange or challenging?

Read Leviticus 1:1-9 

2. Who is giving instructions? Why is God addressing Moses from the tent of meeting?
   (Hint: read Exodus 40:34-38)
3. What is God giving instructions about? What type of detail does he include?
4. How are the sacrifices God instructs similar and different from other cultures?
5. Why are sacrifices required when the Lord comes to dwell with his people? What does the sacrificial system expose about the gap between humanity and the Lord? 
6. In Leviticus 11:45, the Lord describes himself as holy. How would you define the holiness of God?
7. Why is God’s holiness a problem for sinful people? 
8. Imagine you were an Israelite, needing to follow all these instructions. What would the continual practice of these different offerings and sacrifices teach you about God’s holiness? 

Read Leviticus 5:17-19

9. What does a person need to do if they sin (intentionally or unintentionally)? 
10. How does the sacrificial system show sin demands justice? What is the cost for sin?
11. How does the sacrificial system show that sin requires help? Who needs to be involved in sacrifices?
12. How does the sacrificial system show that sin requires grace? What is God’s response to sacrifice?
13. Did God need to create the sacrificial system? Why is it actually a gracious provision for the people? 

Read Hebrews 10:1-10

14. Why wasn’t the sacrificial system not enough to permanently deal with our sin? 
15. In what ways does Jesus’ death for us satisfy the demand for justice, help us as the ultimate mediator, and is accepted by God?
16. Have you ever doubted your worthiness before God? What type of things do you worry about? 
17. Read Hebrews 10:10. How should Jesus’ death for you give you confidence that you are worthy and holy? What type of access - in Christ and by the power of the Spirit - do we have with God today?

Apply This week, what would it look like to delight in God’s presence with you?

On Your Frontline this Week

Who can you bring along to the Alpha Course this week?

For Families

• Download: some of the family resources to use at home: stbartskids.org

Listen, Watch, and Read

• Listen (sermon): “Leviticus 1:1-15:33” by Andrew Sach:
  https://www.st-helens.org.uk/resources/talk/52386/ 
• Listen (sermon): “#1 Sacrifices” by Des Smith:
  https://www.trinity.org.au/lockleys/sermons/1-sacrifices/ 
• Listen (sermon): “Sacrifice: Fellowship with God” by Pete Wilkinson
  https://stebbes.org/sermons/sacrifice-fellowship-with-god/#sermons 
• Listen (sermon): “Everything’s got to be perfect” by Richard Bewes:
  https://www.allsouls.org/Media/AllMedia.aspx?show_media=49608&show_file=52914 

Series Resources

• RRead (book): “Leviticus: A 12-Week Study” by Michael LeFebvre. 
• Read (book): “Rediscovering Holiness” by J I Packer.
• Read (book): “Holiness” by J C Ryle. 📚
• Read (commentary): “Leviticus” by Katy Davis.
• Watch (website): “The Book of Leviticus” by the BibleProject:
  https://bibleproject.com/guides/book-of-leviticus/  

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📚 Available to borrow in the Church library

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