Intro:

Finding underwear in used car I just bought. Yuck.

Some things are set apart for specific uses and specific people.

Toothbrushes

Wedding china not used for your Saturday morning cereal bowl.

Mom’s pinking shears not used for cutting out cool shapes on paper.

We “get it” instinctively that some things are not common. They’re special because of their purpose or perhaps an emotional attachment.

That uniqueness, special regard is the idea behind the biblical concept of holiness.

As we’ve traced the Core52 ideas so far, we’ve seen how God made everything (Creation) and put his apex creation in the world (humanity as his image-bearers) to have dominion over that creation. But humanity did not choose to remain faithful to God and rebelled (The Fall from Grace). God ultimately chooses to initiate his restoration of creation through making an agreement with one man, Abram ( Covenant).

Logically, the next concept to consider will be how we live in that covenant with God. 

God repeatedly says that we are to be holy because He is holy.