Last week I made reference to Leviticus 11:44, where God commands us, “be holy for I am holy.”  We need to understand that that’s his commandment to all believers.  I think people take a verse like that and think, “Well, I’m not a priest or a pastor, I’m not a missionary or a monk, so it must not apply to me.  After all, those are the professional holy people.”  It amazes sometimes me that all I have to do is put on a clerical collar and suddenly I become a “holy man” to most people – even to a lot of people in the church – when the fact is that apart from the righteousness of Christ, I’m no more holy than any other person on the planet.  I put on my spiritual pants one leg at a time, just like everyone else.  God’s point in Leviticus is to call all of us to holiness, regardless of our earthly vocation.  Our divine vocation is holiness.  All of us are “holy men.”

(This series of sermons has been adapted from the book The Pursuit of Holiness, by Jerry Bridges.)