Leviticus 22:1

Leviticus 22:1 says, And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,  Verse two adds, Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they profane not my holy name in those things which they hallow unto me: I am the Lord.  Aaron and his sons were to separate themselves from the holy things of God if they were impure.  The priests of God could not just use the things set aside for use in the worship of God as their own but were to use them as God intended them to be used, and so must we today.  Verse three continues, Say unto them, Whosoever he be of all your seed among your generations, that goeth unto the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from my presence: I am the LORD.  God warned that anyone using the holy things, those things consecrated to God, in an unclean state or way would be cut off from God.  We today must come to God on His terms, which is through faith in Jesus Christ, or we will be cut off from His everlasting salvation.  Verse four states, What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath a running issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean.  And whoso toucheth any thing that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goeth from him;  Priests were not exempt from physical ailments, and neither are we today.  Verse five adds, Or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness he hath;  Priests then could be made unclean by coming into physical contact with unclean things, and we today can be made unclean by physical acts that are contrary to God's will.  Verse six continues, The soul which hath touched any such shall be unclean until even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he wash his flesh with water.  Verse seven says, And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things; because it is his food. There was a provision for the priest to be made clean again, just as there is for us to be made spiritually clean today.  They were to wash themselves, and we today are to wash ourselves in the blood of Christ.  Verse eight adds, That which dieth of itself, or is torn with beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself therewith: I am the LORD.  The priests were to obey the rules concerning eating animals that died naturally or were killed by some other animal, because this was God's law.  Verse nine continues, They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the LORD do sanctify them.  The priests were to keep God's law and not profane it because God sanctified them.  As followers of Christ today, we are a part of the priesthood of believers, and we must obey God's law because God is still God, and He sanctifies, or sets us apart from the rest of the world.  Verse ten states, There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.  Just as strangers then could not eat of the holy thing, nether can a stranger, someone who has not accepted Christ as his or her Savior, eat tof the Bread of Life.  Verse eleven adds, But if the priest buy any soul with his money, he shall eat of it, and he that is born in his house: they shall eat of his meat.  Those that the priest had bought with his money could eat of the holy thing.  If we today are bought with the blood of Christ, we have free access to all of God's blessings.  Verse twelve continues, If the priest’s daughter also be married unto a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things.  Then verse thirteen says, But if the priest’s daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father’s house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father’s meat: but there shall no stranger eat thereof.  A priest's daughter married to a stranger could not eat of the holy thing, but if she was widowed or divorced and returned to her father's house, she could once again eat of it.  Verse fourteen adds, And if a man eat of the holy thing unwittingly, then he shall put the fifth part thereof unto it, and shall give it unto the priest with the holy thing.  If someone unwittingly ate of the holy thing, then he was to return it with a twenty percent addition.  Verse fifteen continues, And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer unto the LORD;  Priests were not to profane the things given to God as sacrifices.  We today must not profane the things given to God as sacrifices, and that includes even our own life.  Verse sixteen concludes, Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the LORD do sanctify them.  The priests were not to have unconfessed sin in their lives when they offered sacrifices, and neither should we.