Week 6 Choice 3...summing up Leviticus

Choice 3: Leviticus 17–25. Holiness to the Lord

a.     Read Leviticus 11:44–45; 19:2; 20:7, 26; 21:8. Write a sentence that could be used as a theme for the book of Leviticus. Read the Bible Dictionary entry for “Holiness” (pp. 703–4) and compare it with what is said in the Guide to the Scriptures entry for “Sanctification” (available online at www.scriptures.lds.org/en/gs/s/20. Then answer the following questions in writing:

·      What does it mean to be holy and sanctified?  To be set apart from everything else...to stand in a special relationship with God.

·      Why could Jehovah command His followers to be holy?  Because they were in covenant with Him and if they did not do what He told them to do certain conditions were able to befall them.

·      What could we do today to avoid the same downfall?  always stay in the path of the Lord.

·      How can the principles you have studied to this point in the book of Leviticus help you become holy?  Well studying all of these rules really brings everything into perspective and kind of helps you understand why we do some of these rules that when looked at from the outside seem trivial and pointless at times.  Especially chapter twenty six where it focuses on the the blessings and curses.

b.     Read Leviticus 18:4–5 and write a brief statement of how keeping the commandments applies to these verses. Read Leviticus 19:3–4, 11–20, 28–31; 20:10, 13 and make a list of commandments from these verses. Highlight the commandments from your list that you think the world struggles with the most today. Make note of the commandment that you want to improve in the most. Write some ideas of how you plan to improve in keeping that commandment.

Keeping the commandments means living and keeping principles and living up to covenants.

-Do not worship idols.

-Do not commit adultery.

-Do not Steal.

-thou shalt not kill

-thou shalt not bear false witness

-thou shalt not covet.

I think the world struggles immensely with all of them but particularly idol worship and commiting adultery.  Adultery and fornication is all around us and everything promotes it in the world today.  With failing marriage rates and problems constantly hitting the home Adultery is a big problem in the world.  Idol worship because we all strive for material things and this is a form of idol worship that keeps our minds from growing in the Gospel.

I feel like I struggle with Idol worship because I am always worried about money and trying to make sure that I have enough of it and to pay of debts that I sometimes forget that the Lord has a plan and all I have to do is just do what I need to do and the Lord will make up the rest.