Leviticus 19:37 - Homiletics

Moral commandments have a double sanction.

They are to be obeyed

In the latter respect all Divine injunctions stand on a level. All transgressions of what is commanded are equally sin, but they are not equal sins. A man who steals is not guilty of an equally heinous sin with the man who commits murder, but he is equally guilty of sin, because both murder and theft are forbidden. All God's statutes, and all his judgments are to be observed without exception, in order to be righteous according to the righteousness of the Law. "For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the Law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them" ( Romans 10:5 ). "This do, and ye shall live" ( Luke 11:28 ).