#405 – Keep My Statutes and Walk in Them (Leviticus 18:3–4)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 19 September 2018

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We are called to worship God alone. We must be aggressive to make sure we are not accommodating our lives to look like the rest of the world.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.
0:06.0	Leviticus chapter 18 verses 3 and 4
0:09.5	you shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt where you lived and you shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt where you lived and you shall not do as they do in
0:14.3	the land of Canaan to which I am bringing you.
0:16.8	You shall not walk in their statutes.
0:20.1	You shall follow my rules and keep my statutes and walk in them.
0:24.2	I am the Lord your God.
0:27.6	These verses are so key.
0:30.1	As God says, look back to Egypt, look forward to Canaan and realize, I am not calling you to live
0:36.4	like the Egyptians, and I'm not calling you to live like the Canaanites.
0:41.0	Both the Egyptians and the Canaanites worshipped all kinds of false
0:44.2	gods. There was all kinds of idolatry and immorality that flowed from that and
0:49.6	God is careful to say to his people, do not live like them.
0:56.5	Do not live like the world around you lives.
1:00.8	I'm calling you to be separate. You shall follow my rules. Keep my statutes, walk in them.
1:06.6	I am the Lord, your God. Worship me and live your life out of the overflow of worship for me alone and that means you will live very different from the world around you.
1:19.0	That reality in the Old Testament is absolutely the same for followers of Christ in the new
1:26.0	Testament and the new covenant. We have been called, created, commanded not to live like the world around us. We must hear this word.
1:40.0	And 1st John makes it clear do not love the world.
1:44.2	The picture we have the New Testament is we are in the world but not of the world,
1:48.2	which means we live according to different rules,
1:51.5	different statutes, different commands. We don't. to different
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