Leviticus 19:26–31
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
Our culture wants to blur every line, erase every distinction, and tear down every wall. The world wants a God without wrath, a salvation without repentance, a humanity without male and female, and a society without borders. But the God of Scripture is a God of distinctions. And in this great section of Leviticus, often called the Holiness Code, God is teaching His covenant people how to live as a distinct nation. He is drawing the property lines of reality, marking out what is holy and what is profane, what is clean and what is unclean, what is His and what belongs to the nations. This is God tattooing His character onto the very skin of their daily lives. We are often tempted to look at a passage like this and either dismiss it as irrelevant ceremonial law, now nailed to the cross, or to misapply it with a wooden literalism that misses the point entirely.