Please read Leviticus 14.
www.blueletterbible.org/nasb/lev/14/1/s_104001
Notice the repeated phrase: the one to be cleansed.
Meditate on verses 1-3a.
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
“This shall be the law of the
leper in the day of his cleansing.
Now he shall be brought to the priest,
and the priest shall go out to the outside of the camp.”
The LORD cares about lepers, dedicating 116 verses to them and the dreaded disease of leprosy. While leprosy is a condition caused by bacteria and is not sin, its parallels to sin’s consequences and what God requires in order to be cleansed are not coincidental.
A leper was cleansed outside the camp through great sacrifice involving birds, blood, living water, oil, lambs without defect, clothes washed ... And just like God cares about the individual cleansing of one leper, He cares about the individual cleansing of you from sin, going to great sacrifice to ensure you are “the one to be cleansed” (vs. 4, 7-8, 11, 14, 17-19, 25, 28-29, 31).
But God demonstrates His own love toward us,
in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Therefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people
through His own blood, suffered outside the gate.
So, let us go out to Him outside the camp.
—Romans 5:8; Hebrews 13:12-13a
As a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7), use Leviticus 14:24-25 as a prayer of thanksgiving and a prayer of intercession.
“Jesus, You are the Lamb of my guilt offering.
You were slaughtered, and Your blood put on me,
so I can be cleansed. Thank You!
Let _____________ accept You as their guilt offering
to be cleansed of their sins.
In Your name, Jesus~”
The WATCHMAN on the WALL – Dr. Ron and Marsha Harvell
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