A Holy People Leviticus 20:26 And you shall be holy to Me, for I the Lord am holy, and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be Mine. A Holy People

What the laws accomplished Clean and unclean animals Leprosy procedures Bodily discharges Atonement Blood Sexual morality Harvesting Stealing, swearing, tale bearing Fruit of the land Mediums and spirits Strangers Just measurements Pagan worship Cursing parents Rules for priests Sabbath Holy days A Holy People

Unique, Separateness Laws Ceremonial Laws to allow the people to approach God Spiritual and Moral Laws to ensure justice and righteousness Unique, Separateness Laws to set them apart from other nations Civil Regulations

What New Testament Christians are to make of these laws Hebrews 8:1-2, 6-9, 13 - We live under the new covenant - However, there are both… Striking similarities Striking differences A Holy People

What New Testament Christians are to make of these laws Moral Laws – remain constant, repeated in the New Testament Ceremonial Laws – altered, replaced, fulfilled by Christ Unique, Separateness Laws? A Holy People

- The cue from God God’s Holy People Today …At Sinai, He is high, aloft, apart and great effort must be made to contact Him A Holy People

- The cue from God God’s Holy People Today …In Christ A Holy People Galatians 4:4-5 But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. A Holy People

- The cue from God…In Christ God’s Holy People Today - The cue from God…In Christ John 1:14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. A Holy People

- The cue from God…In Christ God’s Holy People Today - The cue from God…In Christ John 1:17-18 For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him. A Holy People

- I Peter 1:13-16 2:9 2:11-12 2:13-17 2:18-20 3:1-2 3:15-16 God’s Holy People Today - I Peter 1:13-16 2:9 2:11-12 2:13-17 2:18-20 3:1-2 3:15-16 A Holy People

God called Israel to a holiness that led them to separate from society in order to be holy God calls us in Christ to a holiness that leads us to engage society with holy living A Holy People

What “engaged holy living” requires Faith that sees beyond this world A commitment to standards that rise above Great strength of character within A Holy People

Philippians 2:12-15 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure. Do all things without complaining and disputing, that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,