Uncommon:
Leviticus 20-27, Mark 8-11
Pastor Pete Keirstead
February 26, 2023
- The Book of Leviticus is the story of our separation from the
Leviticus 20:26 You must be holy because I, the Lord, am holy. I have set you apart from all other people to be My very own.
Romans 12:2a Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think…
1 Peter 2:9 But you are not like that, for you are a chosen people. You are royal priests, a holy nation, God’s very own possession. As a result, you can show others the goodness of God, for He called you out of the darkness into His wonderful light.
Leviticus 10:10 You must distinguish between what is sacred and what is common, between what is ceremonially unclean and what is clean.
Leviticus 20:1-2 The Lord said to Moses, “Give the people of Israel these instructions, which apply both to native Israelites and to the foreigners living in Israel. “If any of them offer their children as a sacrifice to Molech, they must be put to death…
1 Corinthians 6:18-20 Run from sexual sin! No other sin so clearly affects the body as this one does. For sexual immorality is a sin against your own body. Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself, for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body.
Sexual sin
Everyone is challenged to follow Him by taking
Mark 8:34,36-37 Then, calling the crowd to join His disciples, He said, “If any of you wants to be My follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross, and follow Me. And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul? Is anything worth more than your soul?
Mark 9:43 If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It’s better to enter eternal life with only one hand than to go into the unquenchable fires of hell with two hands.
Mark 9:49 “For everyone will be tested with fire.”
- We all have
Mark 11:15-17 When they arrived back in Jerusalem, Jesus entered the Temple and began to drive out the people buying and selling animals for sacrifices. He knocked over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves, and he stopped everyone from using the Temple as a marketplace.
He said to them, “The Scriptures declare, ‘My Temple will be called a house of prayer for all nations,’ but you have turned it into a den of thieves.”
The Uncommon Path: Repentance, Confession and
Watch it again @ www.wearethrive.org/sermons All scripture is from the NLT unless otherwise noted