Leviticus 20:4-7 - If
the members of the community close their eyes when that man sacrifices one of
his children to Molek and if they fail to put him to death, I
myself will set my face against him and his family and will cut them off from
their people together with all who follow him in prostituting themselves to
Molek. “‘I will set my face
against anyone who turns to mediums and spiritists to prostitute themselves by
following them, and I will cut them off from their people. “‘Consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am the Lord your God.
Exodus 34:15 –
“Be careful not to make a treaty with
those who live in the land; for when they prostitute themselves
to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you and you will eat
their sacrifices.
Leviticus 11:44 – I am the Lord your
God; consecrate yourselves and
be holy, because I am holy. Do
not make yourselves unclean by any creature that moves along the ground.
Ephesians 1:4-6 – For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love 5 he[a]predestined us for adoption to sonship[b] through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— 6 to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves.
1 Peter 1:15-16 – But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you
do; for
it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”
Application:
- · Consulting a medium was no less a sin than being one. Only God was to be consulted—through either the priest or a prophet.
- · Partaking of food sacrificed to a pagan deity invites compromise.
- · Israel was to be totally consecrated to God. Her holiness was to be expressed in every aspect of her life, to the extent that all of life had a certain ceremonial quality. Because of who God is and what He has done, His people must dedicate themselves fully to Him.
- · Holiness is the result—not the basis—of God’s choosing. It refers both to the holiness imparted to the believer because of Christ and to the believer’s personal sanctification.
- · To be holy is to be set apart—set apart from sin and impurity, and set apart to God.
All Scripture verses taken from ESV
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