Leviticus 18:19–23
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in a time that prides itself on having no boundaries, particularly when it comes to sexual expression. Our culture treats sexual desire as the central, defining attribute of personhood, and any attempt to regulate it, to channel it, or to forbid certain expressions of it, is considered the highest form of bigotry and oppression. The modern world wants a sexual ethic that amounts to little more than enthusiastic consent between adults. But this is a recipe for cultural suicide, and the Scriptures tell us why. The book of Leviticus, and this chapter in particular, is God's foundational instruction on holiness. Holiness is not a mystical feeling or a pious sentiment. Israel was called to be holy because God is holy, and they were to be set apart from the nations around them, specifically Egypt, where they had come from, and Canaan, where they were going.