Leviticus 11:39–40
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in an age that is deeply uncomfortable with distinctions. Our culture wants to blur every line, erase every boundary, and flatten every hierarchy that God in His wisdom has established. But the book of Leviticus is a standing rebuke to this entire project. Leviticus is a book of lines, a book of distinctions. It is God teaching His people the fundamental grammar of reality, which is this: holy is not the same as common, clean is not the same as unclean, and life is not the same as death. Now, when modern Christians come to a passage like the one before us, there is a temptation to either skip it as irrelevant Bronze Age weirdness or to treat it as a mere matter of hygiene. And while it is certainly true that God in His kindness gave His people laws that promoted public health, cleanliness is next to godliness, but it is not godliness itself.