Leviticus 18:2-4 (ESV)  “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, I am the Lord your God. 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. You shall follow my rules and keep my statutes and walk in them. I am the Lord your God.

No, we are not going to have “the talk”. During my post called Graduation I said there are topics that are too sensitive within the administrations of faith for me to address. I will not disparage anyone’s faith. The same might be said of sex. There is no hotter topic of dispute between the world and Christendom that sexual immorality. I will leave “the talk” up to those whom you are subject to in faith matters.

Any time we begin to think about sin there is the tendency to put sexual immorality in the forefront. It is the easiest to judge and God has made His feelings known on the matter. However, at this time, you being yet young in the Lord and it is not my place to have “the talk”, let us read these opening verses of Leviticus 18 within the context of the world.

Nothing in these opening verses are specific in content. God has called you out of the world with all their rules, statutes and social mores. In the world society decides what is moral and what in immoral and that changes like a huge pendulum from being overtly Victorian to being overtly permissive. Seldom does social morality remain in any type of neutral position. Regardless of society’s positional swing, God says do NOT be like the world.

The Levitical Law is out and there is a new sheriff in town. The law of love.