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DEFILE NOT YOURSELVES!
FRIDAY, MAY 31
Leviticus 18
1 Corinthians 3:16-17
“And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit
the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land
itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.”
DEFILE NOT YOURSELVES!
The moment a sinner becomes a child of God, he is transformed into a saint. A saint is one whom the LORD makes holy. He is a holy one. The desire of every saint is holiness. Holiness means to get rid of every known sin in his life as well as a determined conviction not to want to sin at all. He knows that as long as he serves his LORD in this earthen vessel, he will sin at times and succumb to sin even though he hates it.
Leviticus 18 teaches concerning the new sexual relationship for every believer in Christ. This chapter teaches it in the negative whereby all sinful forms of sexual relationships are listed here. Some of them were committed by the Canaanites (i.e. idol worshippers), including the sins of adultery (Lev 18:20), bestiality (Lev 18:23) and homosexuality (Lev 18:22). These were transgressions that Israel was warned never to commit. These were the sins the Israelites would surely commit if they served idols. They were abominations to the LORD. Israel would be like Gentiles but in the name of Christ. This desecration of the Name of Christ was a greater sin than merely the sin of idolatry!
Marring the Name of Christ condemns the world in sin to hopelessness. The only Name under heaven that can save a sinner out of death and hell would be turned into vanity. The warning was to all who lived in the Land of Promise including both Israelites and non-Israelites. If the Israelites would not stop sinning, the LORD would remove them from the Land. Leviticus 18:28: “That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.”
The only protection against this sin was to keep on obeying the Word of God. Christians today must do the same. The danger of idolatry remains dangerous. Just as obedience to the Word of God kept God’s people safe in the Old Testament, it will also keep us safe today. Study the Word of God diligently with a heart of obedience. The same safety keeps us safe from the above same sins.
MEMORISATION: Leviticus 18:30
PRAYER: Father, grant me a heart of obedience as I diligently study Thy holy Word of Life. In Jesus’ Name I pray. Amen.