2. 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.
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3. 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
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4. 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

5. 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
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6. 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?
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7. - 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
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8. - 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.
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9. - 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.
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10. - 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.
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11. - 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
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12. 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
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13. What “engaged holy living” requires
Faith that sees beyond this world
A commitment to standards that rise above
Great strength of character within
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14. 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,