Just how serious?

Just how serious was God . . . is God about sin? As we read the laws in Leviticus, we see He is very serious. He still is. 

‘You shall therefore keep all My statutes and all My judgments, and perform them, that the land where I am bringing you to dwell may not vomit you out. And you shall not walk in the statutes of the nation which I am casting out before you; for they commit all these things, and therefore I abhor them. But I have said to you, “You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey.” I am the Lord your God, who has separated you from the peoples. You shall therefore distinguish between clean animals and unclean, between unclean birds and clean, and you shall not make yourselves abominable by beast or by bird, or by any kind of living thing that creeps on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean. And you shall be holy to Me, for I the Lord am holy, and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be Mine. (Leviticus 20:22-26)

If we would go back and read from Leviticus 20 verse 1 (Leviticus 20:1-27, we would see how many broken statutes bring death from God . . . sacrificing to idols, dealing in the occult, disrespect of parents, etc. God is dead serious!

However, since we the church are not under the Mosaic covenant and not a political entity in the way Israel was, these consequences are no longer in force. However, they remind us that God takes sin seriously. It should also make us deeply grateful that Jesus bore the penalty for sin on our behalf (Gal. 3:13).

How serious are we about sin?