Life-Study of Leviticus Volume 1, Messages 1-35

Life-Study of the Bible #3

by Witness Lee

The general sketch of the book of Leviticus is Through the tabernacle, with the offerings, and by the priests, Gods redeemed are enabled to fellowship with God, serve God, and be Gods holy people living a holy life, which expresses God. To fellowship with God means to feast with God, to enjoy Christ with God. This is possible through the tabernacle, with the offerings, and by the priests, which for us today are all a matter of Christ. The issue of enjoying Christ with God is that we become Gods holy people living a holy life. This holy living is the issue of the enjoyment of Christ. When we enjoy Christ with God, there is a result, and the result is a holy living, a living in which everything in our daily life is holy. As God’s redeemed people, through the tabernacle, with the offerings, and by the priests, we can be enabled to contact God, to fellowship with God by enjoying Christ, to serve God in Christ, and to be a holy people in Christ living a holy life. The central thought of Leviticus is that Christ is everything in the fellowship, service, and life of Gods redeemed. Dr. C. I. Scofield once pointed out that Christ can be seen in every page of this book. In Leviticus Christ is everything. He is the offerings, He is the high priest, and He is everything in the living of Gods redeemed people. Leviticus, therefore, is a book on Christ and full of Christ. The book of Leviticus can be divided into five ordinances concerning offerings (chs. 1-7), ordinances concerning service (chs. 8-10), ordinances concerning living (chs. 11-22), ordinances concerning feasts (ch. 23), and other ordinances and warnings (chs. 24-27).

309 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1989

About the author

Witness Lee (李常受, pinyin Lǐ Chángshòu) was a Chinese Christian preacher associated with the Local Churches movement and the founder of Living Stream Ministry. He was born in the city of Yantai, Shandong Province, China, in 1905, to a Southern Baptist family. He became a Christian in 1925 after hearing the preaching of Peace Wang and later became a close coworker of Watchman Nee. Witness Lee moved to Taiwan in 1949 as the Communists were advancing in mainland China. During the 1950s, his ministry extended throughout Southeast Asia and in 1962 Lee moved to the United States, relocating the base of his ministry to Southern California. He gave his last public conference in February 1997 at the age of 91. Many of Lee's spoken messages have been published in over 400 books and translated into more than fourteen different languages. Lee's major work is Life-study of the Bible, comprising over 25,000 pages of commentary on every book of the Bible from the perspective of the believers' enjoyment and experience of God's divine life in Christ through the Holy Spirit. Lee was also the chief editor of a new translation of the Bible entitled the Recovery Version.

Reviews

[Sam]

The central thought of Leviticus, is that the universal, all-inclusive and inexhaustible Christ is everything to God and to God's people. Christ is everything in the fellowship, service, and life of God's redeemed.

[Eric · Rating 5 out of 5]

Praise the Lord for another life study! It is so great to see that we can and should live a priestly life in front of God. As the priests, we have nothing but God as our food, drink, job, rest. Everything is from God, by God, and for God!

[Esther Hong · Rating 5 out of 5]

Message 3.