Leviticus 18:3
“After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.”
It doesn't take much for a person to realize that we live in a perverted society. Never has the purity of a person's conscience been attacked so much as it has in our day. People today will have to work in order to keep their minds pure.
In the verse above God commanded the children of Israel to not do after the “…doings of the land of Egypt…” God then proceeds to tell what the Egyptians and Canaanites did by commanding the children of Israel what not to do. When you read through this chapter you find that these societies were very wicked and perverted. The sins that these people committed were not done in private, but they were accepted acts in their society. How perverted and wicked it is to do such sins!
When you look at this list of sins, a person would wonder what would cause anyone to do such wickedness. I believe the answer is found in a word that is repeated several times in this chapter. The word that is repeated is the word “nakedness.” Twenty-four times the word “nakedness” is quoted in this one chapter. Apparently God was trying to show us what would lead to the perversions mentioned in this chapter. If we want to avoid these perversions, then we should avoid nakedness of any sort.
I have always said that you can tell the spirituality of a society by how much clothing must be worn to be acceptable. This is a scary thought when you think of how much nakedness is paraded about in our society today. When a society will allow people to parade around in their undergarments, and that is considered okay, then you have a society that is nothing less than perverted. Many of the sins mentioned in this chapter are going on in our society today, and if we continue to allow the acceptance of nakedness, then these very sins will become an accepted lifestyle.
My purpose in mentioning these things is so that we can guard our homes and our own lives from falling prey to these sins. If we are going to keep ourselves from these sins, then we must guard ourselves from seeing nakedness. Let's be careful in our homes not to allow nakedness to be accepted. What I mean by this is family members should not walk around in undergarments in the home. Parents, demand that your children stay fully dressed in front of everyone. It should never be acceptable for family members to walk around in undergarments in front of each other. By the way, this would include bothers and sisters swimming with each other with nothing more than bathing suits on. A bathing suit is nothing more than colored undergarments.
Let's also be careful about what we watch on TV and the Internet. With the way Hollywood promotes nakedness, we must constantly be on alert if we are going to watch television. Be careful what sites you browse on the Internet so that you don't see the nakedness that is so easily found.
The cause of perversion is accepting nakedness as normal. If we don't want to become a perverted society or people, then we must guard ourselves so that we don't allow nakedness in our presence. Parents, guard your home in this area. Christian, guard your personal life in this area. Let's not do after the doings of the world, but let's live pure and clean lives so we can grow old with minds that are not filled with perversion. Let’s grow old with minds that are pure.
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