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Leviticus chapter 11 verses 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 accutraments 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

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