The Plan

The Plan

Learning about God's Plan for Salvation at South Shore Trinity Lutheran Church

Leviticus 20:22-27

The Lord is holy so we should be different than those around us.

Week 10 - Leviticus

Leviticus is a “How to” book on how Israel was to worship and live. It is highly structured and it reveals that our God is a God of order and a God who cares about how His people live and worship. 

But Leviticus is much more than just a “How to” book. It is also a wonderful foreshadowing of God’s plan to save His people. The sheep and lambs that were sacrificed as sin offerings pointed, just as the Passover lamb did, to the Savior who was the ultimate Sacrifice for us. The same Savior who was promised to Adam and Eve, who was the fulfillment of the covenant made with Abraham, and who came from the people that God saved through Moses. 

The fact that these laws foreshadow Christ is also important for us because, since these laws have found their complete fulfillment in Christ, we no longer sacrifice animals or follow the other ceremonial laws in Leviticus and elsewhere. Christ fulfilled them for us. He was and is the perfect sacrifice that was made once and for all. (Hebrews 10)

Exodus 25:10-22

God gives directions for the Ark of the Covenant

Week 9 - Moses and the Exodus

In this week’s readings God continues to provide for His people by bringing them food, water, and victory. But God is not just concerned about His people’s physical needs. He is even more concerned about their spiritual needs, so He gives them His law. This Law not only includes the Ten Commandments, but it also includes all the rules by which Israel was to live as a people.

God’s Law is a curb to keep us on the right path, a mirror to show us our sin and a guide for our lives; however, because of our sinful nature it is impossible for us to keep the Law perfectly as God demands. God’s plan solved our failure to keep the law by having Christ live the law perfectly for us and giving us His perfection through faith. Christ is the fulfillment of the law given at the top of the mountain. (Romans 10:4)