Leviticus 20:7 Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am Jehovah your God.
In the book of Leviticus we also see how God trained His people to live a holy, clean, and rejoicing life. A holy life is a life that is like God, a godly life.
In order to live a holy life, Leviticus shows us that we need to put off the old life and put on the new (cf. Ephesians 4:17—5:14). The people of Israel were charged to put off the former Egyptian conduct (Leviticus 18:3a). God also charged them not to walk in the statutes of the Canaanites (v. 3b) and to have God’s holy living according to His holy nature (19:2; 20:7, 26). (Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1991-1992, vol. 4, “The History of God in His Union with Man,” pp. 171-172)The way God makes us holy is to impart Himself, the Holy One, into us so that our whole being may be permeated and saturated with His holy nature. For us, God’s chosen ones, to be holy is to partake of His divine nature (2 Peter 1:4) and to have our whole being permeated with God Himself. This is different from mere sinless perfection or sinless purity. This makes our being holy, like God Himself in His nature and in His character.
To be holy is to be separated from everything other than God. It also means to be different, distinct, from all that is not God. Thus, we should not be common but different. In the universe God alone is holy. He is different from everything else and is distinct. Therefore, to be holy means to be one with God. To be sinless or perfect is not the same as being holy. To be holy we need to be one with God because only God is holy (Leviticus 11:44; 1 Samuel 2:2). (Life-study of Ephesians, pp. 24-25)
Further reading via, Training them to live a holy, clean, and rejoicing life, via, ministrybooks.
