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Leviticus chapter 11, verses 44 and 45, for I am the Lord your God.

Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves

with any swarming thing that crawls on the ground.

For I am the Lord who brought you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God. You shall therefore be

holy, for I am holy. These verses are some of the most central in a sense verses in the entire book of Leviticus.

So twice we hear these words, be holy for I am holy. This is God speaking to his people, God who is

obviously holy. He's perfect. He's pure, righteous in every way. His character is holy, set apart, above all.

So what does it mean for us then to be holy? Because we're not like God in the sense that we are set apart above all, but the whole

picture here in Leviticus chapter 11 is that we are set apart. We are set apart for him, set

apart for a holy God. There are many things in the book of Leviticus that we see are holy.

Like censors are holy, some priestly garments are holy, different accruciaments there in the tabernacle

are holy because they are set apart for God and his purposes. So now God says to his people, that's what you are. You are holy.

Just like these other things belong to God to be used for his purposes. We, as God's people,

belong to him, to be used for his purposes. So this just drives the way we think about our lives, the way we think about everything we are and everything we do.

We belong to God, to the Holy God of the universe.

We belong to him.

And our lives are to be used for his purposes.

We are set apart for his purposes.

That's what it means to be holy as he is holy.

So we pray, God, we confess.

We belong to you.

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