Leviticus 18:2-5 English Standard Version

2 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, I am the Lord your God. 3 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 Canaan, to which I am bringing you. You shall not walk in their statutes. 4 You shall follow my rules and keep my statutes and walk in them. I am the Lord your God. 5 You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the Lord.

I have said that we need to guard our hearts with all integrity as it pertains to being moral people. Nowhere in the original language of the bile can I find the word moral or morality.

This passage in Leviticus was as close as I could come to demonstrating what the bible has to say about being moral.

Do not allow the legal systems of the lands in which we inhabit dictate how we should live.  The bottom line for me in this is that morality cannot be legislated. 

God has given us statutes that outline how to live a life that is pleasing to Him.

My parents did not teach me how to be moral. They only punished me if I did something that displeased them. That did not lead me to be a moral person, it only taught me to be more careful in what I wanted to do so that I wouldn’t get caught.

Israel was punished over and over again for failing to keep God’s commands. After God bailed them out over and over again they returned to failing to keep His commands. Bailment does not work.

Then God proclaimed “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”

They killed Him for it.

The religious leaders of His time said they could not put Him to death and they begged the immoral courts of Rome to do it in violation of Leviticus 18:3.

Laws of men justify sin by making the immoral legal which is contrary to what pleases God.

Soon they will make a law that says it is illegal to please God, or have they done so already?

Morality is found in seeking to please God rather than the world we live in.