Leviticus 19:11–13
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in an age that loves to spiritualize everything into a fine mist. For modern evangelicals, holiness is often treated as a vague, internal feeling, a warm sentiment in the heart that has very little to do with how you fill out your tax forms or pay your employees. It is a private piety, disconnected from the public square, from the marketplace, and from the nitty gritty of everyday life. And when He calls His people to be holy, as He does at the beginning of this very chapter, He is not calling them to float three inches off the ground. He is calling them to a holiness that has callouses on its hands. Leviticus 19 is part of what is called the Holiness Code. Our holiness is to be a reflection, a finite, creaturely imitation, of God's own holiness.