{"id":5534,"date":"2026-04-04T00:01:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T07:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/?p=5534"},"modified":"2026-02-25T16:53:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T00:53:31","slug":"leviticus-181-3-then-the-lord-spoke-to-moses-saying-speak-to-the-children-of-israel-and-say-to-them-i-am-the-lord-your-god-according-to-the-doings-of-the-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/?p=5534","title":{"rendered":"Leviticus 18:1\u20133: \u201cThen the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, \u2018Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: \u201cI am the LORD your God. According to the doings of the land of Egypt, where you dwelt, you shall not do; and according to the doings of the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you, you shall not do; nor shall you walk in their ordinances.\u201d\u2019\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moses was instructed to tell the people of God that they were to live their lives differently. They were not to live as they had seen the Egyptians live, while they were their slaves. Nor were they to begin living as the people in Canaan lived, the land God was taking them to possess. God said that they should not walk<\/em> in the ordinances of either land, which were so different from the ordinances, or laws, of God.<\/p>\n

God wants His people to recognize that their lives are a journey, a pathway, a course that they are walking<\/em>. Exactly how His people walk is an important concept. In this chapter of Leviticus, God deals with sexual morality. His people’s sexual morality was to be something special that caused them to stand out as different from the heathen nations. He was trying to teach them about holiness.<\/p>\n

Because God is holy, He wants those who come to Him to learn to be more like Him. Holiness affects even the most private places in our lives. Just like the people of God in the Old Testament, so too must New Testament believers live according to a different standard than the world in their sexual morality. It is sad but many inside the church today take their standard of sexual conduct from the world, and not from God and His Word. We must have a standard that does not slide down with the rest of what society is doing. We must follow the Biblical standard of sexual morality.<\/p>\n

We are to be thermostats not thermometers. The thermometer simply reflects the current temperature of its surroundings. But the thermostat registers the temperature and then seeks to change it to a set standard. In the first few centuries of the church, believers could say, \u201cFollow me as I follow Christ.\u201d But today, heartbreakingly, the church typically has to say, \u201cI’m sorry but don’t do as I do, do as I say.”<\/p>\n

“LORD, help us to go against the flow of this world today and live according to Your standard. Help us to model what we know is true of You.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Leviticus 18 KJV<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1<\/sup>\u00a0And the\u00a0LORD\u00a0spake unto Moses, saying,\u00a02<\/sup>\u00a0Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the\u00a0LORD\u00a0your God.\u00a03<\/sup>\u00a0After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.\u00a04<\/sup>\u00a0Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I\u00a0am\u00a0<\/em>the\u00a0LORD\u00a0your God.\u00a05<\/sup>\u00a0Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I\u00a0am\u00a0<\/em>the\u00a0LORD. 6<\/sup> None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover\u00a0their\u00a0<\/em>nakedness: I\u00a0am\u00a0<\/em>the\u00a0LORD.\u00a0\u00a07<\/sup>\u00a0The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.\u00a08<\/sup>\u00a0The nakedness of thy father\u2019s wife shalt thou not uncover: it\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>thy father\u2019s nakedness.\u00a09<\/sup>\u00a0The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother,\u00a0whether she be\u00a0<\/em>born at home, or born abroad,\u00a0even\u00a0<\/em>their nakedness thou shalt not uncover.\u00a010<\/sup>\u00a0The nakedness of thy son\u2019s daughter, or of thy daughter\u2019s daughter,\u00a0even\u00a0<\/em>their nakedness thou shalt not uncover: for theirs\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>thine own nakedness.\u00a011<\/sup>\u00a0The nakedness of thy father\u2019s wife\u2019s daughter, begotten of thy father, she\u00a0is<\/em>thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.\u00a012<\/sup>\u00a0Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father\u2019s sister: she\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>thy father\u2019s near kinswoman.\u00a013<\/sup>\u00a0Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother\u2019s sister: for she\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>thy mother\u2019s near kinswoman.\u00a014<\/sup>\u00a0Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father\u2019s brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she\u00a0is<\/em>thine aunt.\u00a015<\/sup>\u00a0Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in law: she\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>thy son\u2019s wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.\u00a016<\/sup>\u00a0Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother\u2019s wife: it\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>thy brother\u2019s nakedness.\u00a017<\/sup>\u00a0Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, neither shalt thou take her son\u2019s daughter, or her daughter\u2019s daughter, to uncover her nakedness;\u00a0for\u00a0<\/em>they\u00a0are\u00a0<\/em>her near kinswomen: it\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>wickedness.\u00a018<\/sup>Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex\u00a0her\u00a0<\/em>, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life\u00a0time\u00a0<\/em>.\u00a019<\/sup>\u00a0Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.\u00a020<\/sup>\u00a0Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour\u2019s wife, to defile thyself with her.\u00a021<\/sup>\u00a0And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through\u00a0the fire\u00a0<\/em>to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I\u00a0am\u00a0<\/em>the\u00a0LORD.\u00a0\u00a022<\/sup>\u00a0Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>abomination.\u00a023<\/sup>\u00a0Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>confusion.\u00a024<\/sup>\u00a0Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:\u00a025<\/sup>\u00a0And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.\u00a026<\/sup>\u00a0Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit\u00a0any\u00a0<\/em>of these abominations;\u00a0neither\u00a0<\/em>any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:\u00a027<\/sup>(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which\u00a0were\u00a0<\/em>before you, and the land is defiled;)\u00a028<\/sup>\u00a0That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that\u00a0were\u00a0<\/em>before you.\u00a029<\/sup>\u00a0For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit\u00a0them\u00a0<\/em>shall be cut off from among their people.\u00a030<\/sup>\u00a0Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that\u00a0ye\u00a0<\/em>commit not\u00a0any one\u00a0<\/em>of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I\u00a0am\u00a0<\/em>the\u00a0LORD\u00a0your God.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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