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Behaving Different Than Others

By February 17, 2017No Comments

Read Leviticus 20 – 22

Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the Lord your God. Leviticus 20:7 KJV

Chapter 20 names the penalties imposed on those who broke God’s Law. Many behaviors are listed as offenses that would merit the death penalty. Among them are cursing your parents, blaspheming God, and any kind of sexual activity outside of marriage. These and the other behaviors listed were common among the nations around them, just as they are common in our world today. Against these offenses and their penalty of death, God had one admonition: they were to sanctify themselves and be holy. To sanctify is to make clean, and to be holy is to be set apart from sin. The Israelites were to clean themselves of these sins and remain set apart from them. The reason provided for this life of separation: He was their God. We are under the same admonition today, God expects us to behave different than the rest of the world because of our relationship with Him (1Peter 1:16).

Lord, it is shocking to see how seriously you take the sins listed in this passage, sins which we often think little of in our society. Aside from your grace we would have no hope. Help me be clean and stay clean of these sins which are so offensive to you.