August 18, 2024
Leviticus 20:22 – 27 & Romans 12:1, 2
Pastor Schlegel

“The progress of sanctification, dying to sin more and more and living to righteousness
more and more, is the carrying on of this renewing work, till it be perfected in glory. This is called
the transforming of us; it is like putting on a new shape and figure. the same image from glory to
glory. This transformation is here pressed as a duty; not that we can work such a change ourselves:
we could as soon make a new world as make a new heart by any power of our own; it is God's
work…. Now in this verse we may further observe, [1.] What is the great enemy to this renewing,
which we must avoid; and that is, conformity to this world. All the disciples and followers of the
Lord Jesus must be nonconformists to this world…. We must not conform to the things of the
world; they are mutable, and the fashion of them is passing away. Do not conform either to the
lusts of the flesh or the lusts of the eye. We must not conform to the men of the world, of that
world which lies in wickedness, not walk according to the course of this world; that is, we must
not follow a multitude to do evil…. True Christianity consists much in a sober singularity. Yet we
must take heed of the extreme of affected rudeness and moroseness, which some run into.” –
Matthew Henry

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