1. “Tending the Flame” Leviticus 6:8-13

2. Matthew 22:37 Jesus replied: “`Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ [Deut. 6:5]

3. “Tending the Flame” Leviticus 6:8-13 I. It Describes a Practice

4. “Tending the Flame” Leviticus 6:8-13 I.It Describes a Practice Hebrews 9:6-15

5. “Tending the Flame” Leviticus 6:8-13 I.It Describes a Practice Micah 6:6-8 6) With what shall I come before the LORD and bow down before the exalted God? Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? 7) Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I offer my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? 8) He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.

6. “Tending the Flame” Leviticus 6:8-13 I.It Describes a Practice Romans 12:1-2 1) Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God — this is your spiritual act of worship. 2) Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is — his good, pleasing and perfect will.

7. “Tending the Flame” Leviticus 6:8-13 I.It Describes a Practice Isaiah 26:3 You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in You.

8. “Tending the Flame” Leviticus 6:8-13 II. It Suggests a Picture

9. “Tending the Flame” Leviticus 6:8-13 II.It Suggests a Picture Galatians 5:19-21 19) The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; 20) idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21) and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.

10. “Tending the Flame” Leviticus 6:8-13 III. It Reveals a Principle

11. “Tending the Flame” Leviticus 6:8-13 III.It Reveals a Principle Romans 12:11 Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord.

12. “Tending the Flame” Leviticus 6:8-13 III.It Reveals a Principle II Timothy 1:6 For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

13. “Tending the Flame” Leviticus 6:8-13 III.It Reveals a Principle Galatians 5:22-23 22) But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23) gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.