Participants: Kelley Mowrer
Series Code: HWAL
Program Code: HWAL000477
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00:16 Hi and welcome to His Words Are Life.
00:18 I'm Kelly Mowrer, and thank you 00:20 for joining with me today to read the Word of God. 00:22 When I look at the top of the Bible where it kind of gives a 00:25 heading for what the topic is in the chapters beneath, 00:29 this particular section in Leviticus that we are reading 00:31 right now is called personal laws. 00:33 And it struck me the last time we were reading together 00:36 how God is taking great pains to tell the children of Israel 00:40 that the laws of Egypt that He brought them out of 00:44 and the laws of Canaan that He's bringing them to 00:47 are not to be the laws that they follow. 00:49 They are to follow His laws because He is a holy God 00:52 and they are His holy people. 00:53 And as we read that today, I'll be looking not just 00:57 to... to find the laws that God was specifically speaking to the 01:00 Israelites but the principles that He means for all of us 01:03 as His children, His sons and His daughters, 01:06 to have to show that we belong to Him 01:09 and not to the world around us. 01:11 Let's pray together before we read. 01:13 Dear Jesus, thank you so much for the passages that we'll be 01:17 reading today. Particularly as we read them, we ask 01:20 for You to come and to guide our minds and our thoughts 01:24 to not only hear the words that were spoken and recorded 01:28 so many years ago to the Israelites 01:30 but to understand the meaning of the words that You wish 01:34 for us to know today... to apply to us today. 01:36 We want to be Your holy and special people - set apart 01:40 from the world. We want to serve You better. 01:43 Please teach us how. 01:45 We love You so much, and thank You for loving us. Amen. 01:48 Again, we are reading in the book of Leviticus. 01:51 We are starting with chapter 20, 01:53 and this is the King James version. 01:54 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 01:58 Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, 02:00 Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, 02:04 or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any 02:07 of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: 02:10 the people of the land shall stone him with stones. 02:14 And I will set My face against that man, and will cut him off 02:18 from among his people; because he hath given of his seed 02:21 unto Molech, to defile My sanctuary, 02:24 and to prone My holy name. 02:27 And if the people of the land do in any ways hide their eyes 02:31 from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, 02:34 and kill him not: Then I will set My face against that man, 02:38 and against his family, and will cut him off, 02:41 and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with 02:44 Molech, from among their people. 02:46 And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, 02:51 and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, 02:54 I will even set my face against that soul, 02:57 and will cut him off from among his people. 03:00 Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: 03:04 for I am the Lord your God. 03:07 And you shall keep My statutes, and do them: 03:09 I am the Lord which sanctify you. 03:12 For everyone the curseth his father or his mother 03:16 shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father 03:20 or his mother; his blood shall be upon him. 03:22 And the man that committeth adultery with another man's 03:25 wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbor's 03:28 wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely 03:32 be put to death. 03:33 And the man that lieth with his father's wife 03:37 hath uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them 03:39 shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. 03:43 And if a man lie with his daughter-in-law, 03:46 both of them shall surely be put to death: 03:49 they have wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon them. 03:53 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, 03:57 both of them have committed an abomination: 04:00 they shall surely be put to death; 04:02 their blood shall be upon them. 04:03 And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: 04:07 they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; 04:10 that there be no wickedness among you. 04:13 And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: 04:17 and ye shall slay the beast. 04:18 And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto, 04:23 thou shalt kill the woman, and the beast: 04:25 they shall surely be put to death: 04:27 their blood shall be upon them. 04:29 And if a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter, 04:33 or his mother's daughter, and see her nakedness, 04:36 and she see his nakedness; it is a wicked thing; 04:38 and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: 04:41 he hath uncovered his sister's nakedness; 04:44 he shall bear his iniquity. 04:45 And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, 04:49 and shall uncover her nakedness; 04:51 he hath discovered her fountain, 04:53 and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: 04:55 and both of them shall be cut off from among their people. 04:58 And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's 05:01 sister, nor of thy father's sister, for he uncovereth 05:04 his near kin, they shall bear their iniquity. 05:07 And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, 05:10 he hath uncovered his uncle's nakedness; they shall bear 05:13 their sin; they shall die childless. 05:16 And if a man shall take his brother's wife, 05:18 it is an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother's 05:21 nakedness; they shall be childless. 05:24 Ye shall therefore keep all My statutes and all My judgments, 05:27 and do them: that the land, whither I bring you 05:31 to dwell therein, spew you not out. 05:34 And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, 05:37 which I cast out before you: 05:39 for they committed all these things, 05:41 and therefore I abhorred them. 05:43 But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, 05:46 and I will give it unto you to possess it, 05:48 a land that floweth with milk and honey: 05:50 I am the Lord your God, 05:53 which have separated you from other people. 05:56 You shall therefore put difference between clean beasts 05:59 and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: 06:02 and you shall not make your souls abominable by beast, 06:05 or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth 06:09 on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean. 06:12 And ye shall be holy unto Me: for I the Lord am holy, 06:17 and have severed you from other people, that ye should be Mine. 06:21 A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, 06:25 or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: 06:28 they shall stone them with stones: 06:30 their blood shall be upon them. 06:32 We are continuing in the book of Leviticus 06:34 chapter 21, and this is the King James version. 06:38 And the Lord said unto Moses, 06:40 Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, 06:44 There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people: 06:48 But for his kin, that is near unto him, that is, 06:51 for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, 06:54 and for his daughter, and for his brother, 06:56 And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, 06:59 which hath had no husband; for her may he be defiled. 07:03 But he shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his 07:07 people, to profane himself. 07:09 They shall not make baldness upon their head, 07:12 neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, 07:14 nor make any cuttings in their flesh. 07:17 They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name 07:20 of their God: for the offerings of the Lord made by fire, 07:24 and the bread of their God, they do offer: 07:26 therefore they shall be holy. 07:28 They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; 07:32 neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: 07:35 for he is holy unto his God. 07:38 Thou shalt sanctify him therefore, for he offereth 07:41 the bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: 07:44 for I the Lord, which sanctify you, am holy. 07:49 And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself 07:51 by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: 07:54 she shall be burnt with fire. 07:57 And he that is the high priest among his brethren, 07:59 upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, 08:02 and that is consecrated to put on the garments, 08:05 shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes, 08:09 Neither shall he go in to any dead body, 08:12 nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother; 08:16 Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the 08:19 sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil 08:23 of his God is upon him: I am the Lord. 08:26 And he shall take a wife in her virginity. 08:30 A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or a harlot, 08:34 these shall he not take: 08:36 for he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife. 08:40 Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: 08:43 for I the Lord do sanctify him. 08:45 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 08:47 Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed 08:52 in their generations that hath any blemish, 08:54 let him not approach to offer the bread of his God. 08:58 For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, 09:01 he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, 09:06 or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous, 09:10 Or a man that is broken-footed, or broken-handed, 09:13 Or crookbacked, or a dwarf, 09:15 or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, 09:19 or hath his stones broken; 09:21 No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron 09:24 the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the Lord 09:27 made by fire: he hath a blemish; 09:30 he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God. 09:33 He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, 09:37 and of the holy. Only he shall not go in unto the veil, 09:40 nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; 09:43 that he profane not my sanctuaries: 09:46 for I the Lord do sanctify them. 09:48 And Moses told it unto Aaron, and to his sons, 09:51 and unto all the children of Israel. 09:55 Continuing now in Leviticus chapter 22. 10:00 And the Lord spake unto Moses, 10:02 saying, Speak unto Aaron 10:03 and to his sons, that they 10:04 separate themselves from the holy things of the 10:07 children of Israel, and that they profane not My holy name 10:11 in those things which they hallow unto Me: I am the Lord. 10:15 Say unto them, Whosoever he be of all your seed among your 10:19 generations, that goeth unto the holy things, which the 10:22 children of Israel hallow unto the Lord, having his uncleanness 10:26 upon him, that soul shall be cut off from My presence: 10:30 I am the Lord. 10:32 What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, 10:35 or hath a running issue; he shall not eat of the holy 10:39 things, until he be clean. 10:41 And whoso toucheth any thing that is unclean by the dead, 10:44 or a man whose seed goeth from him; 10:46 Or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing, 10:48 whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take 10:53 uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness he hath; 10:55 The soul which hath touched any such thing shall be unclean 10:59 until even, and shall not eat of the holy things, 11:01 unless he wash his flesh with water. 11:04 And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, 11:06 and shall afterward eat of the holy things; 11:09 because it is his food. 11:11 That which dieth of itself, or is torn with beasts, 11:14 he shall not eat to defile himself therewith: 11:17 I am the Lord. 11:19 They shall therefore keep Mine ordinance, 11:21 lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, 11:24 if they profane it: I the Lord do sanctify them. 11:28 There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: 11:32 a sojourner of the priest, or a hired servant, 11:35 shall not eat of the holy thing. 11:37 But if the priest buy any soul with his money, 11:41 he shall eat of it, and he that is born in his house: 11:44 they shall eat of his meat. 11:46 If the priest's daughter also be married unto a stranger, 11:50 she may not eat of an offering of the holy things. 11:54 But if the priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, 11:57 and have no child, and is returned unto her father's 12:01 house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's 12:04 meat: but there shall no stranger eat thereof. 12:08 And if a man eat of the holy thing unwittingly, 12:12 then he shall put the fifth part thereof unto it, 12:15 and shall give it unto the priest with the holy thing. 12:19 And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of 12:21 Israel, which they offer unto the Lord: 12:24 Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass, 12:27 when they eat their holy things: for I the Lord do sanctify them. 12:31 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 12:34 Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, 12:36 and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them, 12:39 Whatsoever he be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers 12:44 in Israel, that will offer his oblation for all his vows, 12:48 and for all his freewill offerings, which they will offer 12:51 unto the Lord for a burnt offering; 12:53 Ye shall offer at your own will a male without blemish, 12:58 of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats. 13:01 But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer: 13:04 for it shall not be acceptable for you. 13:07 And whosoever offereth a sacrifice of peace offerings 13:10 unto the Lord to accomplish his vow, or a freewill offering 13:14 in beeves or sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted; 13:17 there shall be no blemish therein. 13:20 Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, 13:25 or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto the Lord, 13:29 nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar 13:32 unto the Lord. Either a bullock or a lamb that hath any thing 13:36 superfluous or lacking in his parts, that mayest thou offer 13:40 for a freewill offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted. 13:43 Ye shall not offer unto the Lord that which is bruised, 13:46 or crushed, or broken, or cut; 13:49 neither shall you make any offering thereof in your land. 13:52 Neither from a stranger's hand shall ye offer the bread 13:54 of your God of any of these; because their corruption 13:57 is in them, and blemishes be in them: 13:59 they shall not be accepted for you. 14:01 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 14:03 When a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat, is brought forth, 14:06 then it shall be seven days under the dam; 14:08 and from the eighth day and thenceforth it shall be accepted 14:11 for an offering made by fire unto the Lord. 14:14 And whether it be cow or ewe, ye shall not kill it 14:18 and her young both in one day. 14:20 And when ye will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving 14:22 unto the Lord, offer it at your own will. 14:26 On the same day it shall be eaten up; 14:28 ye shall leave none of it until the morrow: I am the Lord. 14:32 Therefore shall ye keep My commandments, and do them: 14:36 I am the Lord. |
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