Sep 6, 2026 · 27 min · 10 segments
Ben Moralee preaching from Leviticus on Sunday 6th September 2026 at the morning service.
Ben MoraleeGuest
You see, the problem that we have with Leviticus is that we just can't seem to connect with it.
On face value, it seems irrelevant to our lives today, and requires great perseverance along with a strong stomach to read.
Rituals, sacrifices, laws, priests, and many other things make the book feel the world away from our experience today.
Often, Leviticus is the first book that our atheist friends love to throw quotes at us that are just completely out of context.
So my prayer this morning is that we'll see this book in a new light, that the gospel of grace would leap off the pages of the book in a way that it's never done before.
I think it's one of those meals that holds the least amount of effort and the greatest reward.
We often forget that the bacon sandwich plastered with ketchup or HP sauce was once a pig, or the medium rare steak was once a bull, or the greasy doner kebab came from a sheep.
Many of us are cut off from our society's agricultural sacrifices that happen day in and day out, up and down the country, that most really we're blissfully unaware.
The truth is, animal sacrifice in food processing happens more today than it did back then, and actually makes the sacrifices made in Leviticus look extremely modest.
All the, the washing, the clothes that you had to wear, what had to be burnt, what could be eaten, who could eat it, what could be sprinkled with blood, the order of it all, and only to be done by certain people.
I mean, come on, we're 21st century Britain, aren't we? We no longer live in a ritualistic society.
Think back to the last time that you maybe went abroad into a new community and culture that you've not been into before.
Certainly when you go into a new society that you suddenly realize all your own traditions that you hadn't even noticed before.
I remember once someone was telling me that they went to, um, an international friend's house for a birthday, and they, um, gave them a present, and then they immediately showed no interest in it and just tucked it away.
You see, the problem that we have with Leviticus is that we just can't seem to connect with it.
On face value, it seems irrelevant to our lives today, and requires great perseverance along with a strong stomach to read.
Rituals, sacrifices, laws, priests, and many other things make the book feel the world away from our experience today.
Often, Leviticus is the first book that our atheist friends love to throw quotes at us that are just completely out of context.
So my prayer this morning is that we'll see this book in a new light, that the gospel of grace would leap off the pages of the book in a way that it's never done before.
I think it's one of those meals that holds the least amount of effort and the greatest reward.
We often forget that the bacon sandwich plastered with ketchup or HP sauce was once a pig, or the medium rare steak was once a bull, or the greasy doner kebab came from a sheep.
Many of us are cut off from our society's agricultural sacrifices that happen day in and day out, up and down the country, that most really we're blissfully unaware.
The truth is, animal sacrifice in food processing happens more today than it did back then, and actually makes the sacrifices made in Leviticus look extremely modest.
All the, the washing, the clothes that you had to wear, what had to be burnt, what could be eaten, who could eat it, what could be sprinkled with blood, the order of it all, and only to be done by certain people.
I mean, come on, we're 21st century Britain, aren't we? We no longer live in a ritualistic society.
Think back to the last time that you maybe went abroad into a new community and culture that you've not been into before.
Certainly when you go into a new society that you suddenly realize all your own traditions that you hadn't even noticed before.
I remember once someone was telling me that they went to, um, an international friend's house for a birthday, and they, um, gave them a present, and then they immediately showed no interest in it and just tucked it away.
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