Today’s Passage: Leviticus 18
It may be easy to look at Leviticus 18 and see only a long list of Old Testament laws. The Israelites were entering Canaan and were to be exposed to customs and practices that were different than those that God wanted to them to follow. God is setting the Israelites up as His special people; they were not to behave as those in Egypt had and they were not to behave as those in Canaan. They were to be set apart for Him. There are a number of laws that the Lord makes known to Moses in this passage, all of them dealing with sexual sin and immorality. It is interesting to note that God says that the nations that the Israelites were to defeat had been defiled by the sexual sins recorded.
The Israelites knew what physical slavery was like; the Lord was warning them against becoming enslaved to the physical lusts of the world. So, what is the escape? What is the way out that Moses instructs the Israelites to do in order that they might not fall captive to these sins? There are two things that I specifically noticed. First, Moses continues to reinforce the fact the LORD is their God. Second, he states in verse 4 (NIV), that the people must be careful to keep his commandments and statutes.
God’s Word is powerful; able to lead one to salvation; able to lead one to repentance; it is a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path. This is why it is so important that we are in God’s Word!
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