Practical Application

Just for your thoughts:

"Don't reclassify the sins that God had already classified" – W.W. Wiersbe

In the book of Leviticus, the word unclean appears 32 times, and the word abomination appears 10 times. Whatever God has defined as unclean remains an abomination in His sight.
Today, however, our attitude as Christians is that we reclassify the things God has already defined as sin – we reclassify the sins that God had already classified.

When it comes to sin, there really is no such thing as “big sins” and “small sins.” Sin is simply sin. The distinction of “sins that lead to death” and “sins that do not lead to death” does not apply here.
When we ourselves try to redefine sins – saying, “These are not sins,” or “These are only minor sins,” or “These are major sins” – we end up reclassifying the sins God Himself has defined, and this will never lead us toward holiness.
This was the very grave sin committed by Israel’s first king, Saul.
God told Saul:
“Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.”
(1 Samuel 15:3)

But Saul:

“spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen and of the fattened calves and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them. All that was despised and worthless they devoted to destruction.”
(1 Samuel 15:9)
After this, Saul made an excuse
:
“I spared the best so that we could sacrifice them to the Lord.
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This teaches us a vital lesson: whatever God calls an abomination, we too must hate and reject as an abomination. We should never soften or reclassify the nature of sin.

When we, on our own, reclassify sin, it directly leads us into disobedience. This attitude becomes a major obstacle in living a holy life.
If we want to grow in holiness, it is our duty to obey God’s classification of sin without changing it in any way.

We should never evaluate or reclassify sins to suit how the world sees them.
– Ezekiel Shanmugavel