And the LORD called unto Moses, and spake unto him out of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying – Leviticus 1:1
A young Christian recently saved was chatting with me about his desire to come into the fellowship of his local Assembly. But he had a problem, he said. He had no idea how to pray in public, and he wondered if it would be appropriate to ask one of the Assembly oversight to teach him how to design the structure of a public prayer. I would say he was overthinking the situation. Our worship, whether public or private, is not required to follow a specific formula or structure, only that it be reverent and Scriptural. How unlike the worship of the Israelites of old, as Moses was about to receive in our text today!
The book of Leviticus contains exact instructions for the various offerings that each Israelite was to follow, in order that the Lord would accept it. There were instructions for the various cleansing and for the various feasts of Jehovah. An important factor to consider is that the Israelites were to receive physical blessings and were to follow physical ordinances.That is in contrast to the spiritual blessings and spiritual ordinances of our dispensation. The connection between the two is the Person of Christ. The things that God was about to reveal to Moses were instructions about physical things. But they were all shadows and pictures that had a much higher meaning than the physical that the Israelite saw.
The book of Leviticus is a wonderful study, if we approach it right. In all of those ordinances and offerings and feasts, we must see what God was foreshadowing, the glory of His Son. When a child of God looks into the Word of God and sees the Son of God, the Spirit of God changes him into the image of Gold, to the glory of God. -Jim MacIntosh
Here is the link to the video of this message: https://youtu.be/CICSlBafPZg