Parsha Vayikra – Apostolic Readings, Commentary, and Videos

Readings

• Leviticus 1-2
  • Matthew 6:9
  • Matthew 6:11
  • Luke 12:1-3
  • John 2:14-17
  • Romans 15:14-21
  • Ephesians 5:1-10
• Leviticus 3
  • • Matthew 6:10
    • Philippians 2:1-16
    • 1 Corinthians 8
    • Revelation 2:13-14
• Leviticus 4
  • Matthew 6:12
  • Matthew 26:1-5
  • Matthew 27:15-26
  • Luke 11:1-13
• Leviticus 5:1-19
  • Matthew 6:13-15
  • Matthew 18:15-17
  • Luke 7:40-50
  • James 5:16-20
• Leviticus 6:1-7
  • Matthew 6:14-15
  • Luke 19:1-10
  • Acts 5:1-11

Additional Reading

• Soil from Stone
• American Torah

Videos Related to Parsha Vayikra

• Teach One Another – Romans 15:14 – Christianity has developed a “church culture” in which everyone expects one person to stand before the congregation and teach them everything. The rest of us are just supposed to sit in the pews and be “fed”. This passage from Romans shows that this isn’t what God intended. Certainly God has specially commissioned some people to be Teachers, but we are all supposed to be learning and becoming teachers of one another. Nobody has a monopoly on all knowledge. We all know some things better than the people around us, and we should be willing to teach when the need and opportunity arises.
• Paul’s Great Ambition in Romans 15:20 – Why was Paul so intent on preaching the Gospel where nobody else had been? To avoid building “on someone else’s foundation”? This sounds like he’s treating his ministry as a competition, but when you realize that he saw himself as fulfilling the prophecy he quotes in this passage, his statement takes on another character. It wasn’t a competition, but a great blessing from God, and he wanted to honor that blessing with his whole being!
• Matthew 5:21-24 and Yeshua on Harboring Anger against a Brother – A sin offering for an outward crime is useless if you haven’t repented of an offense in your heart. A peace offering to God is useless if you won’t make peace with your neighbor. “Forgive us our trespasses even as we forgive those who trespass against us.”
• The Wisdom and Kindness of Serpents (Matthew 10:16-20) – What does it mean to be wise as serpents and innocent as doves? Well, one thing it definitely doesn’t mean it’s to be venomous and offensive. If you are living a life in the footsteps of Messiah Yeshua, the world will hate you. But the people of the world aren’t necessarily your enemies. They are under the sway of your enemy; their minds are held captive by someone who hates them as much as he hates you.