Life Lesson (Leviticus 18)

When God repeats Himself, we need to pay PARTICULAR attention to what He is saying.

Life Lesson (Leviticus 18)

We as Christians are IN the world but it is our job not to be OF the world.

Life Lesson (Leviticus 18)

We as Christians have the responsibility of controlling our desires because those desires grow into actions.

Life Lesson (Leviticus 18)

Our good choices and poor choices are generational in their impact. We have the opportunity to impact our own lives, the lives of those around us, and our eternal life by choosing to obey God’s Word.

And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.”

• The five offerings and the law regarding them (chapters 1 – 7)
  • Burnt, meal, peace, sin, trespass offerings
• The priests (chapters 8 – 10)
• Holiness in daily living (chapters 11 – 22)

Leviticus 18:2 – I am the Lord your God
Leviticus 18:4 – I am the Lord your God
Leviticus 18:5 – I am the Lord
Leviticus 18:6 – I am the Lord
Leviticus 18:21 – I am the Lord
Leviticus 18:30 – I am the Lord your God

But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall be that those whom you let remain shall be irritants in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall harass you in the land where you dwell.
 
Psalm 106:34ff

Do not be deceived: “Evil company corrupts good habits.”

• I Corinthians written about 52 A.D.
• Paul had spent a year and ½ in Corinth (Acts 18:11)

You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.
 
Psalm 1:2
But his delight is in the law of the Lord,
And in His law he meditates day and night.

NKJV marginal translation –”ponders by talking to himself”

10 Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. 11 But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person.

Thus says the Lord God: “Because your filthiness was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your harlotry with your lovers, and with all your abominable idols, and because of the blood of your children which you gave to them,

Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be^[a] joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For “the two,” He says, “shall become one flesh.”

3 The Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?” 4 And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? 6 So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.” 7 They said to Him, “Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?” 8 He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. 9 And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.”
10 His disciples said to Him, “If such is the case of the man with his wife, it is better not to marry.”

then I will set My face against that man and against his family; and I will cut him off from his people, and all who prostitute themselves with him to commit harlotry with Molech.

27 “You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ 28 But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”
 
Chamad – ‘delight in’(also used in Deuteronomy 5:21)

9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

24 ‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things; for by all these the nations are defiled, which I am casting out before you. 25 For the land is defiled; therefore I visit the punishment of its iniquity upon it, and the land vomits out its inhabitants. 26 You shall therefore keep My statutes and My judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations, either any of your own nation or any stranger who dwells among you 27 (for all these abominations the men of the land have done, who were before you, and thus the land is defiled),