Interactive Sermon Notes: May 2025

MAY MEMORY VERSE

“that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.”
‭‭Romans‬ ‭10‬:‭9‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

MAY 11, 2025

Sermon by Pastor Alvin O. Berkley
Leviticus 11:1-8

Is It Clean Or Unclean?

This chapter deals with matters of ceremonial cleanness and uncleanness.

For the Jews there were acts that were not morally wrong but nevertheless barred them from participating in the rituals of Judaism because of something they had touched or eaten.

Again, it was God who gave these guidelines. He set the parameters for participation.

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Scripture Reference: Leviticus 11:1-8 NKJV
Now the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying to them, “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘These are the animals which you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth: Among the animals, whatever divides the hoof, having cloven hooves and chewing the cud—that you may eat.

Nevertheless these you shall not eat among those that chew the cud or those that have cloven hooves: the camel, because it chews the cud but does not have cloven hooves, is unclean to you; the rock hyrax, because it chews the cud but does not have cloven hooves, is unclean to you; the hare, because it chews the cud but does not have cloven hooves, is unclean to you; and the swine, though it divides the hoof, having cloven hooves, yet does not chew the cud, is unclean to you. Their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch. They are unclean to you.

Emergent Themes:

Ceremonial laws
Reasons behind eating stipulations
Clean vs unclean

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apart
belong
clean
covenant
diseases
moral
scales
separating

MAY 18, 2025

Sermon by Pastor Alvin O. Berkley
Leviticus 13:1-8

Leprosy Is A Lot Like Sin

Chapter 13 gives us instructions concerning certain skin diseases, especially leprosy. These skin diseases involved swellings, rashes, raw flesh, boils, burns and various skin eruptions. Not only did these diseases deal with being ceremonially unclean, but there was also a spiritual application that the Israelite could learn. As we study the disease of leprosy, we can also learn what sin is like.

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Scripture Reference: Leviticus 13:1-8 NKJV

And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying: “When a man has on the skin of his body a swelling, a scab, or a bright spot, and it becomes on the skin of his body like a leprous sore, then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons the priests.

The priest shall examine the sore on the skin of the body; and if the hair on the sore has turned white, and the sore appears to be deeper than the skin of his body, it is a leprous sore. Then the priest shall examine him, and pronounce him unclean. But if the bright spot is white on the skin of his body, and does not appear to be deeper than the skin, and its hair has not turned white, then the priest shall isolate the one who has the sore seven days.

And the priest shall examine him on the seventh day; and indeed if the sore appears to be as it was, and the sore has not spread on the skin, then the priest shall isolate him another seven days. Then the priest shall examine him again on the seventh day; and indeed if the sore has faded, and the sore has not spread on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean; it is only a scab, and he shall wash his clothes and be clean.

But if the scab should at all spread over the skin, after he has been seen by the priest for his cleansing, he shall be seen by the priest again. And if the priest sees that the scab has indeed spread on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is leprosy.

Emergent Themes:

Sin is a like disease
Instructions concerning skin diseases, especially leprosy
Ceremonially and spiritually unclean
Unclean from the inside out

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calling
cure
daily
defiles
examines
isolates
other
spreads
surface

MAY 25, 2025

Sermon by Pastor Alvin O. Berkley
Leviticus 16:1-6

The Day of Atonement

God gave the Jewish people special instructions how they were to live, what they
were to eat and how they were to approach God to worship. The most important day came on the 10 th day of the first
month of the Jewish calendar, it was called “The Day of Atonement” known today as “Yom-Kippur” . God is giving them [His people] a Day of Atonement.

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Scripture Reference: Leviticus 16:1-6 NKJV

Now the Lord spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they offered profane fire before the Lord, and died; and the Lord said to Moses: “Tell Aaron your brother not to come at just any time into the Holy Place inside the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark, lest he die; for I will appear in the cloud above the mercy seat.”

Thus Aaron shall come into the Holy Place: with the blood of a young bull as a sin offering, and of a ram as a burnt offering. He shall put the holy linen tunic and the linen trousers on his body; he shall be girded with a linen sash, and with the linen turban he shall be attired. These are holy garments. Therefore he shall wash his body in water, and put them on. And he shall take from the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats as a sin offering, and one ram as a burnt offering. Aaron shall offer the bull as a sin offering, which is for himself, and make atonement for himself and for his house.

Emergent Themes: