We Can’t Pick and Choose the Sins We Hate! Leviticus 16-18

Leviticus 18:19-22 (ESV Strong's)
19 “You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness. 20 And you shall not lie sexually with your neighbor's wife and so make yourself unclean with her. 21 You shall not give any of your children to offer them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the LORD. 22 You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.

We Can’t Pick and Choose the Sins We Hate!

Today’s church is notorious for selective outrage.   The sins we select to “hate” or “fight” are not as selected by God.  In the above passage God lists four things that are an “abominations” to the Lord:

1. Having sexual relations with a woman during her menstrual cycle.

2. Adultery with your neighbor’s wife (any adultery, really).

3.  Sacrificing your children to the death to worship something (this might be the moral equivalent of abortions).

4. Homosexuality.

Many, of course, will simply say this list is an outdated, Old Testament list ONLY for national Israel and does not apply to today, much less to Gentiles and the rest of the world.   There are plenty of arguments that this list is carried over into the New Testament Scriptures:

Galatians 5:19-21 (ESV Strong's)
19 Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, 21 envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

There are many points to take from the above passage, but the one that stands out for today is that we are not to be selective to those sins we kinda don’t like to those that are iconic sins AGAINST THE ALMIGHTY!.   God HATES ALL sin and we should as well.  Now our response to those who are engaged in theses sins ought to be equally even. We ought not shun one and tolerate the other.   We ought to be willing to love through the sin to bring others to the mercy and grace of God.   We ought not be selective in our outrage or discriminating in our grace and mercy.