Closer
Lessons and Inspiration from the Book of Leviticus
Talk 1: Go Back to the Garden
Today, welcome to CLOSER, our brand-new series on the third book of the Bible—Leviticus.
Leviticus is the most unread book of the Bible.
Because it’s one of the weirdest… But in Leviticus, we get a peek into God’s heart. We can get an idea of what God wants for us.
What does He want? God wants us to get CLOSER to Him.
Talk 1 is titled Go Back to the Garden.
What Garden? The Garden of Eden where God created Man to be His partner and co-ruler. But Man disobeyed God so He had to exile Man.
Talk 1 discusses how we can go back to the Garden— meaning, back to God, because the Garden now is God’s Heart.
Talk 2: Sacrifice Is Good
Welcome to Talk 2 of CLOSER, our new series about the third book of the Bible—Leviticus. As we learned in Talk 1, Leviticus discusses a lot of rituals and rules— which can be boring, so, not few skip reading this book.
But by studying Leviticus, we see that it is God who provided a way for us get CLOSER to God, and if we want this, we must take time to study this book.
Today, we‘ll talk about Atonement.
We learn about this in Talk 2, titled Sacrifice Is Good.
Talk 3: God Is Courting You
Welcome to Talk 3 of CLOSER, our series about the third book of the Bible—Leviticus.
Talk 1, we shared about God’s desire that we Go Back to the Garden.
In Talk 2, we talked about how Sacrifice Is Good.
In Talk 3, we’ll look at how God Is Courting You, clarifying that we may be struggling to be close to God, but actually, God is the One Who is trying to get our attention.
Talk 4: God Is Our Oxygen
We continue our series on CLOSER, our study on the third book of the Bible—Leviticus.
Talk 4 proclaims the truth that without God in our life, we die. Thus, the title of Talk 4: God Is Our Oxygen
The talk also asks another question: How do I experience God? How do I receive His Presence?
Talk 5: God Wants You To Come Closer
We continue our series on CLOSER, our study on the third book of the Bible—Leviticus.
In Leviticus, God established some House Rules. These are Purity Laws from Leviticus 11-15.
Some people think these laws are to keep people out. But it’s the exact opposite. God sets up House Rules so people have a way of coming closer to Him.
Talk 5 discusses how these ancient laws apply now– what they mean for us today.
Talk 6: You Can Start Over
We continue our series on CLOSER, our study on the third book
of the Bible—Leviticus.
When your phone is not working, just reset it and it will be okay again.
When your life is not working the way you want it to, wouldn’t it be wonderful to have a reset button for your life?
Talk 6 is about God giving you a reset button so you can start over again.
Talk 7: God Wants You To Live a Full Life
We continue our series on CLOSER, our study on the third book of the Bible—Leviticus.
In previous talks, we learned that Leviticus is all about laws or rules not meant to limit our relationship with God—rather, to draw us closer to Him.
To appreciate the rules, Talk 7 discusses ancient backgrounders on the rules – all pointing to the message: God Wants You To Live a Full Life.
Talk 8: Love Rules
We continue our series on CLOSER, our study on the third book of the Bible—Leviticus.
Talk 8 continues unpacking the five Holiness Laws of Leviticus 18 to 20. Yes, they are Love Rules. And their purpose is to make Love rule.
Last week, we already studied the first group of the Holiness Laws—Laws on Sex.
Talk 8 explores the other four groups of Laws.
Talk 9: Live The Sabbath Life
We continue our series on CLOSER, our study on the third book of the Bible—Leviticus.
In Talk 9, we unbox the seven festivals in Israel as described in the Book of Leviticus. Beneath these festivals, we discover the God who loves parties—and vacations.
Sabbath is the heart of all the festivals. So, we spend more time unboxing it.
Talk 9’s key message is: Live The Sabbath Life.
Talk 10: Jubilee Is Coming!
Talk 10 is the last talk of our series on Leviticus.
In Talk 9, titled Live the Sabbath Life, we un-boxed the seven festivals in Israel as described in the Book of Leviticus. Beneath these festivals,we discovered the God who loves parties—and vacations. Sabbath is the heart of all the festi-vals. So, we spent more time explaining it.
Talk 10, titled Jubilee Is Coming! discusses two more expressions of the Sabbath Life. In the same way the seventh day of the week and the seventh month of the year were special, the seventh year—called Sabbath Year—and the seven cycles of seven years—called Jubilee Year—were important too.
Talk 10 presents three spectacular events that God wanted to happen for both the Sabbath Year and the Jubilee Year, plus one more amaz-ing event just for the Jubilee Year.
