![]() They simply forget that they are children of the Lord and proceed to dress like daughters of the devil. If they would only remember that they belong to the Lord, the very thought would cause them to shrink from such attire. Sometimes the sisters, especially in the Far East, wear dresses that are really not becoming to a child of the Lord. Whenever you are about to do something, you must remember that you are one of the Lord’s children. I said, “All right, all right, forget it one dollar does not matter.” How could I who am a child of the Lord argue with a rickshaw man? That would put the name of the Lord to shame. Just this remembrance caused me to drop it. I began to quarrel with him, but suddenly, I remembered that I was a child of God. After looking around in his pockets, he eventually said he was sorry, for he had only four dollars with which to refund me. When I arrived at my destination, however, I saw that I had only a ten-dollar bill, so I handed it to him and waited for the change. He told me at first that he would charge five dollars, to which I agreed. One time in the Far East I engaged a rickshaw man for a ride. You will see what will become of your quarrel. Do you think that you can quarrel with someone and at the same time remember that you belong to the Lord? Try it. Do you think that while remembering you are the Lord’s people, you could attend a theater? The very thought will make you shrink from it. If you remember this, you will be kept from many things. Remember that you belong to the Lord you are the Lord’s people. This is a minor principle that must regulate us. The first is that we are the people who belong to the Lord. These regulations can be summed up for the sake of simplicity into three minor principles. ![]() All these are regulations for a holy life. There are many regulations about what is clean and what is unclean, about what is separated and what is not separated from common and worldly things, and about how to act and how not to act. If we could, we would see how interesting, how sweet, and how pregnant with meaning they are. We cannot go into detail now regarding them all. There are all kinds of regulations regarding a holy life, a holy living. Leviticus can be divided into these three parts: the first, dealing with the offerings, is from chapters 1 through 7 the second, dealing with the priesthood, is in chapters 8 through 10 and the third, from chapter 11 through the end of the book, deals with many regulations. What are these regulations? In the book of Leviticus we have the offerings, the priesthood, and many kinds of regulations. ![]() The third governing factor is the regulations of a holy life.
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