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Leviticus chapter 21, verse 6,

they shall be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God.

This picture talking about the priests and their're being holy set apart for God.

But what I love about the end of that sentence in verse 6,

they shall be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God.

Is it such a powerful reminder that the priests were responsible for maintaining, in a sense,

promoting, glorifying the reputation of God's name, that the way they carried out their work,

their lives, their responsibilities would be a reflection

on God, would affect the way people think about God. If they did their work with reverence

and awe and fear and joy, then they would reflect positively on the name of God.

If their lives, their work, responsibilities were carried out casually, without respect,

reverence, fear, begrudgingly, without joy, then that would reflect on the name of God. And they were called not

to profane his name. So it just causes me to think and encourage you to think, again, as we see

ourselves in the New Testament as a royal priesthood, The reality is our lives have an effect on how

people perceive God. We are associated as His people, as followers of Christ, worshipers of God.

And if the world sees in us a fear and a reverence and an awe and a respect and

love for God, joy in worshiping and serving God, then that will reflect on God's reputation in the world around us.

Conversely, if the world sees the people who are casual with God,

who just kind of appease God with religious motions week after week after week

and kind of a dull drudgery.

If they see a people who are casual with sin don't really look that different from the rest of the world

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