Here's a nice little summary of the Old Testament book of Leviticus. It would also serve as a nice little summary of the New Testament goal of discipleship (justification leading to sanctification). John Oswalt:
If God is to dwell among us--indeed, in us--two things must happen. (1) There must be a means of cleansing us from the accumulated guilt of the past. God cannot live in a filthy temple. That is what Leviticus 1-9 is about. (2) God's character mus somehow be replicated in us. As Amos says it, two cannot walk together unless they be agreed (Amos 3:3). That's what Leviticus 10-27 is about.
Oswalt is research professor of Old Testament at Wesley Biblical Seminary, Jackson, MS. From his NIV Application Commentary on Isaiah.
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