Chad Germany, a pastor, has written this short article looking at Leviticus 18 and sexual purity and sexual perversion in America and the judgements of God.
It is interesting how in Leviticus child sacrifice, sexual perversion and bestiality were so closely linked.
Several things stand out in Leviticus 18:
1. God commands sexual purity. He is God. He sets the standard. He calls the people to purity and warns of severe judgment if they do not obey.
2. God is concerned with people dishonoring each other and themselves. The implication is clear that God wants people to live godly lives and be honorable and honored.
3. Sexual impurity defiles a land
4. Sexual purity protects a land and society.
5. In a time when slavery was rampant, God commanded the Israelites not to have sex with a woman and her daughter. In that day it would have been a unique prohibition and would have had vast reaching implications to protect women, children and slaves.
6. Judgment was inevitable if a people did not live in sexual purity.
7. Idolatry accelerated sexual perversion.
8. Child sacrifice accompanied idolatry and sexual perversion.
One final thought. All people are made in the image of God. All people deserve honor and dignity as God’s image bearers. Regardless of sexual orientation, the heart and attitude of followers of Christ should be to love and honor their neighbor.
However, not all actions are to be honored. Actions that violate God’s Word are wrong. When people, who bear God’s image, perform acts that contradict His nature, followers of Christ should walk with love and gentleness and respect towards the person, but refuse to honor the act that contradicts Gods’ commands.
God is patient and gentle and kind with all of us in order to bring us to repentance, and to lead us out of a life and lifestyle that dishonors Him and ourselves. We should follow His example. Our highest goal should never be to make a point or win an argument. It should rather be the salvation and transformation of the person who was made in God’s image and intended to reflect His glory. Let us not win the argument and lose the person. Jesus said I have more to say than you can now bear. He did not say all that there was to say. He was considerate for the capacity of his audience to hear and obey what He was saying, so at times He did not say things because He knew it was more than they could bear. There are times when we should fall silent as well. Not because we are afraid to speak truth. But because our audience does not have the capacity to hear it.
God is both Holy and Loving.
Not one or the other.
Both Holy and Loving.
He is God.
He is Holy.
He is Loving.
Let us walk humbly before God.
Let us walk in holiness in our lifestyle.
Let us walk with love towards our neighbor.
”“ ‘Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molek, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the Lord. “ ‘Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable. “ ‘Do not have sexual relations with an animal and defile yourself with it. A woman must not present herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it; that is a perversion. “ ‘Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, because this is how the nations that I am going to drive out before you became defiled. Even the land was defiled; so I punished it for its sin, and the land vomited out its inhabitants. But you must keep my decrees and my laws. The native-born and the foreigners residing among you must not do any of these detestable things, for all these things were done by the people who lived in the land before you, and the land became defiled. And if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it vomited out the nations that were before you.“
Leviticus 18:21-28 NIV
Wickedness is culturally popular in our world today. May blessings thru the Most Precious Blood of Jesus— for all to come into God’s truth.
That is a sad truth. The good news is that Jesus still saves all who come to Him. Thank you for reading and sharing the comment.
Have a blessed day in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.