Setting:

Context: This chapter is the conclusion of the levitcal law. Now this chapter contains a general enforcement of all those laws by promises of reward in case of obedience on the one hand, and threatenings of punishment for disobedience on the other hand, the former to work upon hope, the latter on fear, those two handles of the soul, by which it is taken hold of and managed. Matthew Henry

Purpose: I want to convince my hearers that God gives hope to those who pursue holiness but brings judgement on those who are not holy.

I. HOPE FOR YOU WHO ARE HOLY v1-13

How to be holy v1- 3
What it is not holiness > Libertine - Perfectist - legalist - moralist

• Don't make idols and worship them as God v1

• Do keep the Sabbath & respect the place of worship v2

• Do God's word walking - keeping - performing God's word [statutes & Commandments] v3

Hope comes from being holy v4-13

Hope for your physical needs v4-5
Hope for your social needs v6-8
Hope for prosterity v 9
Hope for your spiritual needs v10-13

3. FEAR FOR YOU WHO ARE NOT HOLY v14-39

Fear begins with sin

4. MERCY FOR YOU WHO REFORM v40 -46