Leviticus 22:1–9
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
Our culture is waging a full-scale war on boundaries. They want to blur every line God has drawn, whether it be the line between male and female, good and evil, or the sacred and the profane. The modern spirit wants a God who is an amiable, grandfatherly blob, a deity who makes no demands, who has no standards, and whose presence requires no preparation. In short, they want a God who is not holy. And a God who is not holy is no God at all; he is a projection of our own corrupt desires, an idol fashioned in the workshop of our rebellious hearts. Into this sentimental, sloppy, and syncretistic mess, the book of Leviticus lands with the force of a meteor. And a passage like the one before us today is particularly jarring to our egalitarian sensibilities.