June 18

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<a href= "http://traffic.libsyn.com/thehighroadshow/1707S0618.mp3" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Download</a>  Leviticus 1:1-6:7 We are in the World Stream today starting the book of Leviticus. We are reading from The Message this week. 7streamsmethod.com | @7StreamsMethod | @serenatravis | #7Streams | <a href="http://sevenstreamsmethod.com/donate/">Donate</a>  Commentary by Dr. Drake Travis <blockquote>Lord your concern for us, for every phase, for every step, every friendship, every meal - your concern for us is comprehensive and forgive us for failing to understand the depth of your love. Bring us closer to your heart; the consuming fire that refines us. Amen.</blockquote> <div>As we have started Leviticus today, be encouraged as our aim is for us to better and more deeply understand God's care for us. The overarching ethic in Leviticus is that a holy God wants us to be with Him and to become like Him so there can be purer fellowship - like with Adam in the Garden/Eden. God's holiness is wholly pure. God's character is not mixed with evil. The yin and the yang we find in Asian folklore does not exist with God. He does not have an evil side. Granted He has control over evil - yet it does not control Him - and God will eventually eradicate and punish all evil permanently. But God being holy, He loves us, and wants us to be like Him so to better be with Him. A great theme in Leviticus is that there is to be no mixing. We are like this. We demand that our loved ones not be mixed up with unsavory characters, We demand fidelity from our betrothed. We demand that there be no dirt on the strawberries on our dessert pie. We demand pure, clean washed lettuce for our salads. We insist the sand in our children's sandbox be clean - without compost or cat litter. AND we do not sand mixed in our salad - not one grain! Are we not like God in this regard? We demand pure milk in the bottle for our babies - a little bi

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