Sin Defiles (Lev. 13:44-46)

9/15/2008 9:56 AM

SPIRITUAL DIARY

My Worship Time                    Focus:  Sin defiles

Bible Reading & Meditation     Reference:  Leviticus 13:44-46

            Message of the verses:  “44  --he is a leprous man, he is unclean. The priest shall surely pronounce him unclean; his infection is on his head. 45  "As for the leper who has the infection, his clothes shall be torn, and the hair of his head shall be uncovered, and he shall cover his mustache and cry, ‘Unclean! Unclean!’  46  "He shall remain unclean all the days during which he has the infection; he is unclean. He shall live alone; his dwelling shall be outside the camp.”

            Again I want to point out that I am looking at this section from chapter 13-15 of Leviticus in relationship to sin and not just the diseases of the body, and leather, and houses, for sin affects the entire universe since introduced in Gen. 3.

            Dr. Wiersbe points out that the word “unclean” is found fifty-four times in Leviticus chapters 13-15.  The person who cries out unclean, unclean is not fit to be around people or to worship God in the tabernacle or in the temple of God.  Isaiah writes in his book chapter six verse five:  “Then I said, "Woe is me, for I am ruined! Because I am a man of unclean lips, And I live among a people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.”  Also in Isaiah 64:6, “For all of us have become like one who is unclean, And all our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment; And all of us wither like a leaf, And our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.”  The uncleanness that Isaiah is speaking of is the uncleanness of sin, while the uncleanness of which Moses writes has to do with a health issue in which sin can be seen in a spiritual sense. 

            1 John 1:7, “but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.”  Revelations 1:5, “and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and released us from our sins by His blood.”  These and other verses in the Scripture give the answer for the uncleanness of our sin, and we all have it unless we have been washed in the blood of Jesus Christ.

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  I think of Jesus washing the feet of his disciples just before the last supper, and from that I realize that I am clean from His sacrifice on the cross for me, yet I can get defiled from walking in this unclean world and in need or daily cleansing. 

My Steps of Faith for Today:

1. Trust the Lord to show me the sins that I commit and to prompt me to have that daily foot washing that is needed by all believers.
2. Remember the spiritual circumcision that I have had so that I do not need to be falling to the temptation of sin.
3. Trust that the Lord will guide my path this day.
4. Trust that the Lord will teach me, and that I will learn contentment in these difficult days.

Memory verses for the week:                                              Exodus 20:8-11

8. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9. Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
10. but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you.
11. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day and made it holy.

9/15/2008 10:32 AM