Christological Plan
Trace sacrifice, priesthood, atonement, and holiness toward Christ without flattening the text.
Christ-centered Plan for Leviticus
Trace sacrifice, priesthood, atonement, and holiness toward Christ without flattening the text.
- Series Type
- Christ-centered Plan preaching approach
- Sermons
- 5 planned movements
- Outlines
- 5 preparation guides
- Formation
- 5 pastoral aims
Formation Thread
- Sermon 1 Leviticus 1:1-7:38
Offerings and Sacrifice
Learn that worship begins with listening to God's Word, not religious impulse.
- Sermon 2 Leviticus 8:1-10:20
Priesthood and Holy Service
Learn that service before God begins with God's command, not personal ambition.
- Sermon 3 Leviticus 11:1-16:34
Purity, Cleansing, and the Day of Atonement
Learn that God claims ordinary life, not only formal worship.
- Sermon 4 Leviticus 17:1-22:33
Holiness in Blood, Worship, and Conduct
Bring worship under the authority of God's Word.
- Sermon 5 Leviticus 23:1-27:34
Festivals, Sabbath, Vows, and Consecration
Learn that the LORD claims time, not only behavior and possessions.
Sermon Sequence
- 1Sermon 1 Leviticus 1:1-7:38
Offerings and Sacrifice
Burnt offering, grain offering, peace offering, sin offering, and guilt offering establish the book's opening logic of access and atonement.
FormationLearn that worship begins with listening to God's Word, not religious impulse.
Prayer for this passage
Lord, You speak from the tent of meeting with holiness that demands our reverence, not our invention, and I confess how often I approach You on my own terms rather than through the way You have appointed. Teach me to see in this unblemished offering the seriousness of my sin and the costliness of my acceptance before You, so that I might bring not half-hearted performance but my whole self, wholly given up to You. I trust that You receive such offering through the mediation You provide, and I commit to worship You according to Your revealed will, not my preference, knowing that true nearness to Your holiness comes only through the substitute You accept on my behalf.
- 2Sermon 2 Leviticus 8:1-10:20
Priesthood and Holy Service
Ordination, sacred fire, and priestly discipline show that access to God is mediated and guarded.
FormationLearn that service before God begins with God's command, not personal ambition.
Prayer for this passage
Lord, as I see how You established Your priesthood through public consecration—washing away impurity, clothing them in sacred garments, and anointing them with oil—I am reminded that those who draw near to serve in Your holy presence must first be set apart and made clean by Your hand. Grant me the humility to recognize that any spiritual leadership or service I offer flows not from my own worthiness, but from Your command and Your consecrating work in my life. I surrender myself to whatever washing, clothing, and anointing You see fit to accomplish in me, trusting that You prepare Your servants for the sacred privilege of standing before You.
- 3Sermon 3 Leviticus 11:1-16:34
Purity, Cleansing, and the Day of Atonement
Clean and unclean laws, cleansing rites, and the Day of Atonement protect the holiness of God's dwelling among His people.
FormationLearn that God claims ordinary life, not only formal worship.
Prayer for this passage
Lord, You have called us to discernment in all our days, teaching us through these distinctions between clean and unclean that holiness touches every part of our lives, not only our worship but our tables and our choices. Give us eyes to see where You are drawing the line between what builds us up in obedience and what pulls us away from our calling to be set apart as Your people. We surrender our appetite for whatever contradicts Your design, trusting that in distinguishing what You have marked as clean, we are learning to distinguish ourselves as those who belong wholly to You.
- 4Sermon 4 Leviticus 17:1-22:33
Holiness in Blood, Worship, and Conduct
The holiness code binds worship, priestly conduct, justice, and embodied obedience into one covenant pattern.
FormationBring worship under the authority of God's Word.
Prayer for this passage
Lord, teach us to bring our worship before You in the way You have ordained, not according to what seems right in our own eyes or what the world around us calls acceptable. Guard our hearts from the subtle idolatries that creep in when we worship on our own terms, in our own spaces, shaped by our own preferences rather than Your instruction. Help us to submit the entirety of our devotion to Your oversight and design, trusting that Your regulation of worship is not restriction but protection. We surrender our desire for autonomy in worship and commit ourselves to seek You where You have appointed, knowing that true reverence means following Your way, not our own.
- 5Sermon 5 Leviticus 23:1-27:34
Festivals, Sabbath, Vows, and Consecration
Feasts, sabbaths, redemption, and vows train the people to remember, trust, and consecrate their lives to the Lord.
FormationLearn that the LORD claims time, not only behavior and possessions.
Prayer for this passage
Lord, You alone have authority over time itself, and yet I confess how often I structure my days around my own ambitions rather than Your appointed rhythms. Teach me to guard the sacred space of rest You have claimed, and to remember in my worship the redemptive acts by which You have made me Your own. Transform my calendar into a confession of faith, so that by keeping these times holy before You, my entire life becomes an offering of remembrance and consecration to Your name.
About This Series
Trace sacrifice, priesthood, atonement, and holiness toward Christ without flattening the text.