We finish this series in Leviticus with this study, where we see once more how the people of God are to worship a God who is holy and demands that His people are holy.
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Leviticus Part 3
Last week, we learnt about how the priests were set apart for God’s work. This study is a continuation of the previous study, and it focuses on holiness as a lifestyle and requirement for the people of God.
Leviticus 21 focuses on God's priests, who have been set apart to serve Him. These might seem foreign and even distant to us today, but if we believe that it has been breathed out by God, we know that even these passages in Leviticus can teach, rebuke and reprove us.
Leviticus 20 emphasises the need for God’s people to be holy in every way. Today, we finish up this section by taking a look at what holiness looks like, and how we ought to reflect it.
The Israelites were surrounded by nations practicing their own set of sexual norms. But Lev 20:10-21 is meant to show us that God has a say even in the most private of spaces. God's people were to live in a holy way, even in the area of their sexual relations.
When God speaks, He is not giving us more information. When God speaks and gives His laws, He is not speaking to neutral parties, but rebellious, idolatrous sinners. With this in mind, we'll take a look at these 9 verses that appear seemingly irrelevant to our modern lives today.
This study deals with the rest of Lev 19. A key idea in this chapter is that God is holy and His people are to live in a way that reflects His holiness. These verses continue to illustrate how the people of Israel were to live this truth out practically.
Lev 19:1-19 is supposed to be a picture of a nation. A foreigner coming in to the people of Israel should see a Godward holiness reflected through a people of God who live lives revolving around the nature of God. Today, we'll see in these verses how a Godward holiness also shapes our relationships with other people.
Christians often talk about the holiness of God, and a holy God. But what is holiness? Lev 19 helps us understand more about the holiness of God and it's implications for our lives.
We are now at the beginning of our third series in Leviticus. Chapter 18 marks the beginning of what is sometimes called the Holiness Code, because it is about God’s instructions on how to be holy.