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The book of Leviticus begins with instructions on how Israel was to worship God through offerings and sacrifices. God was giving them the land which He promised to their fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He promised His presence would go with them. He also gave them instructions about how they should live.

He gave instructions for living for two reasons; first, that they might be a people distinct from all other people on the earth. In other words, God wanted it known that Israel belonged to Him, that He was their God and they were His people. Secondly, God gave them instructions that would help them to live well, to keep them from healthy; to keep them from diseases.

God also gave instructions for how to have good and godly character. He wanted them to understand how to take care of one another. If they were to be God’s people, then they must have God’s heart.

Illus – We can see good sense when God told them not to eat bats or rats or snakes or spiders. But we also see God’s heart when He told them not to harvest the corners of their fields, to leave that for those who were in need.

Is there an aspect of that for Christians? The answer is yes, Christians should be distinct from the world. You’re in the kingdom of God now and there’s a different set of principles that apply. The reason? Because the Lord is your God and He has called you out of the kingdom of darkness to live in the light. His desire is to bless you. By these principles you will have life and life to the full.

I. I’m My Beloved’s and He is Mine

 Those are the words of a song we used to sing in church when I was young, but it communicates the point of what God is saying in verse 2.

 In just these five verses He says, “I am the Lord your God” three times.

 Because they belong to God and God belonged to them, that should determine how they lived their lives, “Because I am the Lord your God.”

 The same is true for us…

1 Peter 2:9, You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

 There is good reason to consider that you belong to God and that you owe Him your heart and your allegiance –

A. God gave you life
 You are breathing His air and living on His planet…

Psalm 24:1, The earth is the Lord’s, and all it contains, the world, and those who dwell in it.

Deuteronomy 10:14, Behold, to the Lord your God belong heaven and the highest heavens, the earth and all that is in it.
 If life itself is the result of random chance, then you could certainly do whatever you wished without any concern whatsoever.
 But the evidence for God’s fingerprint is everywhere around us, so that man is without excuse.
 In fact, the more we know, the more we can see the evidence for the amazing intelligence of God.
Romans 1:20, For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.
Illus – If you walk on the beach and see ripples in the sand, you could conclude it was a pattern of randomness. But if there on the sand you were to see a big heart with the words, “Rich loves Jordi,” you would conclude “this is not random; there is great intelligence behind such a clever design.”
Illus – The DNA of the human body is an amazing declaration of the greatness of our Creator. There are 3 billion base pairs in each cell fitting into a space just 6 microns across. If you stretched the DNA in one cell all the way out it would measure more than 6 feet in length. The DNA is encoded with a four-character chemical language which is the most efficient information storage system in the universe! Just one strand of human DNA contains 725 MB of information.

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