Holy to the Lord

Moses gives the Israelites a number of miscellaneous laws in this section and it might lead us to think that obeying these laws is how you get holy and make your way to God. But Moses says that obedience is a response to God saving them from Egypt and he points to the fact that obedience to God is to come from an inward work of God in a person's life. Jesus shows this more clearly when he calls out the most religiously devout people of his day because they were only "holy" on the outside and ...