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Leviticus chapter 14. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, This shall be the law of the leprous person for the day of his cleansing. He shall be brought to the priest, and the priest shall go out of the camp, and the priest shall look. Then, if the case of leprous disease is healed in the leprous person, the priest shall command them to take for him, who is to be cleansed, two life-clean birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet yarn, and hyssop. And the priest shall command them to kill one of the birds in an earthenware vessel over fresh water.

He shall take the live bird with the cedar wood, and the scarlet yarn, and the hyssop, and dip them and the live bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the fresh water. And he shall sprinkle it seven times on him who is to be cleansed for the leprous disease. Then he shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird go into the open field. And he who is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and bathe himself in water, and he shall be clean. And after that he may come into the camp, but live outside his tent seven days.

And on the seventh day he shall shave off all his hair from his head, his beard, and his eyebrows. He shall shave off all his hair, and then he shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and he shall be clean. Verse 10. And on the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish, and a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, and one log of oil. And the priest who cleanses him shall set the man who is to be cleansed and these things before the Lord at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

And the priest shall take one of the male lambs and offer it of a gale offering, along with the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before the Lord. And he shall kill the lamb in the place where they kill the sin offering and the burnt offering in the place of the sanctuary. For the guilt offering, like the sin offering, belongs to the priest. It is most holy. The priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering, and the priest shall put it on the lap of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.

Then the priest shall take some of the luck of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand, and dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and sprinkle some oil with his finger seven times before the Lord. And some of the oil that remains in his hand the priest shall put on the lap of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on top of the blood of the guilt offering. And the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed. Then the priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord. The priest shall offer the sin offering to make atonement for him who is to be cleansed from his uncleanness.

And afterward he shall kill the burnt offering. and the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar. Thus the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be clean. But if he is poor and cannot afford so much, then he shall take one male lamb for a guilt offering to be waived, to make atonement for him, and a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering and a log of oil. Also two turtle doves or two pigeons, whichever he can afford.

The one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering. And on the eighth day he shall bring them for his cleansing to the priest, to the entrance of the tent of meeting before the Lord. And the priest shall take the lamb of the guilt-offering and the lock of oil, and the priest shall waive them for a waive-offering before the Lord. And he shall kill the lamb of the guilt-offering. And the priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt-offering and put it on the lap of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.

And the priest shall pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand, and shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the Lord. And the priest shall put some of the oil that is in his hand on the loaf of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot in the place where the blood of the guilt-offering was put. And the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before the Lord. And he shall offer of the turtle doves or pigeons, whichever he can afford, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, along with a grain offering. and the priest shall make atonement before the Lord for him who is being cleansed.

This is the law for him in whom is a case of a leprous disease who cannot afford the offerings for his cleansing. Verse 33. The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, When you come into the land of Canaan, which I give you for a possession, and I put a case of leprous disease in a house in the land of your possession, then he who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, There seems to me to be some case of disease in my house. Then the priest shall command that they empty the house before the priest goes to examine the deceased, lest all that is in the house be declared unclean. And afterward the priest shall go in to see the house.

and he shall examine the disease, and if the disease is in the walls of the house with greenish or reddish spots, and if it appears to be deeper than the surface, then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house and shut up the house seven days. And the priest shall come again on the seventh day, and look, if the disease has spread in the walls of the house, then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which is the disease, and throw them into an unclean place outside the city. and he shall have the inside of the house scraped all around, and the plastered they scrape off they shall pour out in an unclean place outside the city. Then they shall take other stones and put them in the place of those stones, and he shall take other plaster and plaster the house. If the disease breaks out again in the house after he has taken out the stones and scraped the house and plastered it, then the priest shall go and look.

And if the disease has spread in the house, it is a persistent leprous disease in the house, it is unclean. And he shall break down the house, its stones and timber and all the plaster of the house, and he shall carry them out of the city to an unclean place. Moreover, whoever enters the house while it is shut up shall be unclean until the evening, and whoever sleeps in the house shall wash his clothes, and whoever eats in the house shall wash his clothes. But if the priest comes and looks, and if the disease has not spread in the house after the house was plastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, for the disease is healed. and for the cleansing of the house he shall take two small birds with cedar wood and scarlet yarn and hyssop, and shall kill one of the birds in an earthenware vessel over fresh water, and shall take the cedar wood and the hyssop and the scarlet yarn along with the live bird, the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the bird that was killed and in the fresh water, and sprinkle the house seven times.

Thus he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the birds, and with the fresh water, and with the live bird, and with the cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet yarn. And he shall let the live bird go out of the city into the open country. So he shall make atonement for the house, and it shall be clean. This is the law for in any case of leprous disease, for an itch, for leprous disease in a garment or in a house, and for a swelling or an eruption or a spot to show when it is unclean and when it is clean. This is the law for leprous disease.

Amen. This is the Word of God, the perfect, all-sufficient, life-giving, inspired, God breathe, word of the triune only God of this universe. Brothers and sisters, now in this chapter 14 that we have just read, we have what we call the law for the cleansing for cases of leprosy, both for people and also in the second half of the chapter we have it for houses. This is going to be a continuation of what a brother explained to us last week in chapter 13. These laws that we have here in chapter 14 are just the regulations or the procedure, the ceremonial laws to be followed by a covenant member, by a person of the covenant of Israel, and the items that are used by covenant members, like clothing or houses in this case in chapter 14, so that they can recover themselves from that state of uncleanness.

They are unclean, and they need to be recovered. And these are the regulations, or this is the law, as Moses says in the beginning, or the Lord says to Moses in the beginning here. So, brothers and sisters, this chapter is basically going to answer a simple question, and that is, how can a person with a leprous disease, and leprosy or leprous disease, as it was explained in the previous chapter, how can a person, a covenant member of Israel, be restored into Israel? How? How can that person be restored?

In other simple words, once a person has been pronounced unclean by the priest because of the leprous disease, and they have been removed from the camp, they have been placed outside of the camp because of that uncleanness, What does it need to happen? What do they need to do? What does it need to take place under the Mosaic Covenant, under the Mosaic Law, so that these people will be restored into Israel? Now, that is basically what this chapter is addressing here, as we have just read it with all of those details and those particular specifications of all of those ceremonial rituals. And of course, brothers and sisters, we know that holiness and cleanness is something that is very important for God, because God is holy.

And of course, it is of major and supreme importance for the people of Israel, to the point that he is not only concerned with the cleanliness of the covenant members, but also Delores is concerned with the cleanliness of items, or in this case, houses, as we have in the second half of chapter 14. So beloved of Christ, in the midst of all of these much detail of these many words, we could simply break down this chapter for the sake of making it easier for us to understand. We could break this chapter into two sections. Section number one is going to be the section that goes from verse one to verse 32. Even your Bibles maybe have titles perhaps in those sections.

That goes from verse one to verse 32. And this is just simply dealing with those laws of those regulations that need to be followed. They need to take place. They need to happen so that those people who had been pronounced by the priest as unclean can be restored into Israel, not only for fellowship, but also for worship in the in the tabernacle. That's going to be the first section.

So put that in your mind, beloved of Christ. Okay, from verse one to verse 32, this is dealing with the step by step, the rituals that people need to follow so that they can be restored from their state of uncleanness. Now, the second section, beloved, that you need to put in your mind is that the one that comes after verse 32, from verse 33 until the end of the chapter. And that second section is not going to deal with people, but rather is going to deal with houses. And now I'm not going to be making much emphasis on those houses because the purpose of making a house clean that was unclean was primarily for the purpose that the people that live in that house and the items of that house might not be made unclean and then the uncleanness being spread all throughout the camp.

So that was the main purpose. And the second reason I want you to quickly pay attention to that second section is that that section of cleanliness or uncleanness better is given for the case of when the people of Israel would enter into the promised land. Now remember, beloved of Christ, that as we're going through this book, it's perhaps just a little bit over a year after they have left Egypt. So they're still on their way to the promised land. They have not made it into the promised land.

So that means that, of course, they are not living in houses made of stones. They are living in tents that can be moved and taken from one place to another. But in this section, the Lord is going to give Moses and Aaron, He is going to give those regulations for the cleansing of houses made of stone that they would have once they make it into the promised land. That's why verse 33 says, Delores spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, When you come into the land of Canaan, when you make it into the land that I promised, which I give you for a possession, and I put a case of leprous disease in a house. Now, I could have just simply mentioned and said so many things about that statement, that is, the sovereign will of the Lord that allows both people and items, in this case houses, to have leprosy disease.

But the only point that I think is convenient for us and important for us to make at this point, it is that these regulations of the cleansing of these houses in the second section that I just outlined for you, my dear brothers and sisters, it is for when Israel will enter into Canaan, which is the promise. land. Now, as you go into the details of these rituals and these ceremonies for this cleansing of leprous people or people with a leprous disease and houses with leprous disease or leprosy on them, you will see that the ceremonies are going to be basically the same. So we're not going to be making much emphasis on the houses because the procedure will be the same, simply with the purpose of restoring it to be clean so that it will not continue to make people or other items unclean. Of course, the house was not There was no need for the house to be ceremonially accepted because the house will not enter into the presence of the Lord.

Simply, it is not a person. Therefore, we are going to be paying much attention to the restoring of the person. And from there, we will be able to derive some principles to understand for the houses and in general for fabric and items, as a brother explained to us last week in Leviticus chapter 13. Now, brothers and sisters, beloved of Christ, please put your mind and attention here because Remember that this chapter 14 that I'm just reading here with so many details and specification and blood and water and births and offerings and all of these little things one after the other, all of this chapter and of course this section belongs to that major section that we started a few weeks ago in chapter 11. And sometimes we repeat this a lot.

And this is with the purpose that you have a structure of this book in your mind. And that you may remember when all of these things that we are saying. So, Beloved of Christ, this falls into this category of these ceremonial purification laws, or these regulations of cleansing between, you know, holy and unclean, or holy and common and clean and unclean. And just remember that when I did chapter 11, I was very intentional in explaining to you a very important concept, which I'm not tired to repeat because it's foundational not only for you to understand Leviticus, but also to put in place many things of your theology, New Testament theology. And that is the concept of holiness, which I said in Chapter 11, that this holiness could be both positional holiness or progressive holiness.

I cannot make more emphasis on this, brothers and sisters, how important it is that you remember this positional holiness and progressive and experiential holiness. Positional holiness deals with a position in this case of Israel and the individuals before God. So they have been positioned as holy. But progressive holiness deals with a progressive and continuous experience of the person who has been made positionally holy in his or her relationship with God. So as I said before, a couple of weeks ago, and as I have repeated I think many times, beloved of Christ, Israel was positionally holy as a chosen people from among the nations.

They were separated, set apart, positionally holy, but Once they had been chosen from among the nations, they were called to be holy every day of their lives. That is to be progressively or experientially holy. And I hope that you understand this concept because, as I said, it's not only important for the people of Israel, but this is going to be a major category of importance for theological understanding when you're putting things together. and in the New Testament when it comes to doctrine and when it comes to theology. And this concept, beloved of Christ, of positional holiness or progressive holiness of those two, this not only is applied for holiness, but also this is applied for the contrary of holiness, which is unholiness or unrighteousness.

So for instance, think about this. In Adam, we are all positionally unholy and unrighteous. So just, we don't have to do anything, but just because we are born under Adam, we are of the Adamic race, we are all positionally unholy and unrighteous. And if you want, spiritually common and unclean. And even before we are born, this is in the moment of conception.

We are positionally unholy, unrighteous, common, or unclean, legally speaking, in Adam. But once we are born and then we start to live the result of that position that we have of unrighteousness, it will be manifested in the practice of sin. So we are positionally sinners and unrighteous in Adam. And then when we leave, we become practitioners. I don't know what the word they have in English is, but we practice sin because of the condition that we have positionally in Adam.

The same thing is going to happen in Christ. And this is perhaps the most important thing that I want to mention here. In Christ we are made holy, yes, we are made clean, positionally speaking, once for all. We are made clean and we are made holy once by grace through faith we are inserted to Christ. And praise God that we are made positionally holy in Christ.

But we are clearly called to be progressively holy, and also we are called in the Bible to be progressively clean in our experience in our Christian life. In the first Adam, The unrighteousness of Adam was imputed. Just read Romans 5. In Adam, we all died. The unrighteousness of Adam was imputed because of our federal relationship to him as the head.

As Paul will say in Romans 5, just as sin entered into the world through one man, that is Adam, and death through sin, so death spread to all people. Why? Because they sin. So in Adam, we are positionally sinners, but then, because death is reigning over us and Satan is reigning over us, then we are slaves to our sinful nature, then we practically sin. But then in the second Adam, then we are made alive in his life, and we are separated, we are sprinkled with the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, and we are made positionally holy, then to live lives of holiness.

So we are to be holy as He is holy. We receive once for all the righteousness of Christ with faith. We are justified by His work through faith once for all. Nothing can remove us from that righteousness and that justification. That is the righteousness, the legal righteousness of Christ given to us.

Positionally, we are made holy, but then we are called to be conformed to the image of Jesus Christ, or His practical righteousness, if you want, to be imparted to us through the Holy Spirit. That's why Paul calls us, or Peter calls us to be holy, and that's why also Paul, in 2 Corinthians 7, verse 1, memorize that verse, 2 Corinthians 7, verse 1, in which he calls us to cleanse ourselves. from all unrighteousness. And the argument that he's made before is not to touch the clean thing. So yes, we are made clean once for all in Jesus Christ, but we are to also walk in holiness, perfecting holiness in the Lord Jesus Christ, as Paul would say in 2 Corinthians 7.

Now, why is this important? Why am I saying all of these things? Remember, I'm not just saying this for the sake of the book, but also for the sake of theology. But there is an important foundation here to understand leprosy, or sarat, or this condition of leprosy, beloved of Christ. And this is that leprosy—pay attention to this, my dear brothers and sisters—leprosy Leprosy was this state of being unclean, yes, and therefore this made the person ceremonially unfit to participate in the worship ceremonies.

But leprosy in the person, remember that I'm just making more emphasis on the person, was more than making that person ceremonially unfit for the tabernacle. Leprosy was a state of unfitness, a covenantal state if you want, of unfitness, both positionally and progressively. Both positionally and progressively. So the priest will come to assess if the person was with a leprous disease, and then they will examine that person for a period of time. So progressively they will see if that person was or was not unclean.

And then after a period of time, then that person will be deemed to be unclean. And then that person was not only removed from the worship of the tabernacle because they were unclean and they would wait for the time to pass so that they will be restored and to be clean. No, what would happen is that they will be removed from their position. They would be positioned outside of the boundaries of the covenant, of the physical environment of the covenant. So both the person will be positionally removed from the presence of the covenant, and also was progressively, of course, unclean or unholy, if you want to see it in that particular way.

Now, very important that you understand that, right? Because as our brother explained to us last week, the condition of the leprous person, or the leper, I think you call it in English, the leper, It was a very difficult situation. They were not only not fit for ceremony, for the ceremony, but also they were removed from the covenant outside the camp. They were like death. They were on their own.

They were completely foreign, taken outside of the boundary. They were in a different position than the rest. Now, I do have to say that these people remain under the legislation or the laws of the covenant. They do or they did remain under the legislation and the law of the covenant. Why?

Because we are just reading in here in chapter 14 that there was a law for them. So that means that even though they were positionally put away from the covenant, there was still a way for them to be restored. the person or the people that will be cut off from the covenant through death or spiritual death, they will be completely removed from the covenant. And that said, they will not be able to come back simply because they were dead. Now, beloved of Christ, have those things in your mind.

This is very important. That was that was the weight. That was the difficulty of leprosy because now they were positionally and progressively unholy. Every day they would see themselves and they have this disease on their skin, so they could not remove themselves from this continuous state of unholiness or uncleanness. And more than that, they had been removed positionally from the physical environment of the covenant.

Okay? Very important that you have that in your mind. Now, I said to you that chapter 14 is basically going to answer the question of How can these people that had been both positionally and progressively declared unclean and removed from the physical presence of the people of Israel, how can these people be restored into the covenant? How can these people now remember that because they are positionally and progressively and clean and removed from the covenant, their restoration is not so much a ceremonial restoration. They need first a restoration into the community of Israel, and second, they need a restoration into the ceremonies of the temple.

Oh, sorry, of the tabernacle. That is the two steps restoration that they need. It will be the temple later on, but it is the tabernacle now. So they need this restoration both into the community, so they need to be both positionally be restored into the presence of the covenant, and then they need to go through ceremonies so that they will be accepted in the tabernacle. And I know that perhaps I'm just giving so much detail here, but beloved of Christ, this is very glorious.

So try to pay attention to my limited words here. because this chapter is basically going to answer that question of how it has to be done and this is going to be answered in the first three verses in the first three or four verses so put your eyes in the first three verses, and brothers and sisters, let's read them carefully, and then I'm going to point you to the answer of how can this person, how can this covenant member be restored into fellowship and into worshiping in Israel? Now, chapter 14, verse one says, the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, this shall be the law of the leprous person for the day of his cleansing. Okay? This will be the regulations, in other words, for the day of his cleansing.

or the day when he is made clean, accepted back into the covenant people. Now it says, he shall be brought to the priest and the priest shall go out of the camp and the priest shall look. Now pay attention to this statement because this whole chapter depends on this statement. Then If the case of leprous disease is healed in the leprous person, the priest shall commend them too." And then it comes the rest of chapter 14.

For us, or for the person to perform all the laws and all the regulations of their cleansing through the law, according to chapter 14, there was a condition. There was an if. So all chapter 14 and the rest from what we read depended on a condition. And that condition is then if the case of leprous disease is healed in the leprous person. So beloved of Christ, pay attention to this.

All the ceremonies and all the specifications that we have read in chapter 14 with much detail, all of those details of what the leprous person had to do, could only be performed if the person was healed from the leprous disease. That means that all of these rituals were not the means by which the person was healed, but all of these rituals were the means by which the person was made clean, ceremonially speaking. But for the person to go through this process of these ceremonies and to be made clean, ceremonially speaking, the person needed to arrive to a state of being healed before. And this is the glory of this teaching of Scripture, because brothers and sisters, beloved of Christ, the reason why this person, the leper, was cast out or removed from the camp, taken outside of the camp, was because there was no one who could help this person to be healed. The priest did not have the power to heal the leper.

their covenant members, friends, or people in Israel, they did not have the power to heal. Nothing could heal this person. And for that reason, that person became very contagious in terms of uncleanness, therefore needed to be removed. So that person was removed and left on their own. And the only person The only being who was able to heal this person, imagine they were cast out, they were removed from the covenant, it was God.

they were left to the sovereign disposition of God to heal them. For that reason, later on, the Hebrews will think that leprosy was just a punishment, a judgment of God upon a hidden sin. Why? Because it was a judgment that can only be forgiven by God, not even the ceremonial system of the of the tabernacle and later the temple will be sufficient to heal them from that disease or from the condition better, because it's not necessarily always a disease, but from this condition of leprosy. Now, this means, beloved of Christ, now pay attention to this, that for the person to be restored into the covenant of Israel, this person needed to go through two steps.

One, that he or she had to be healed by God, sovereignly healed by God. And then once and only that happened, then that person could go through the ceremonies of the law. And by going through the ceremonies of the law, then the person will be both positionally restored to Israel, and then make cleanse or clean for ceremonial purposes. So you see? So first of all, God needed to intervene to heal that person from the leprosy, step number one.

And then in step number two, through the law, and the ceremonies of the law, then that person will be restored to the covenant, both positionally taken from outside the camp into the camp, and then once he was inside the camp, to be restored to the ceremonies of the temple. I hope that you have cleared that in your mind, because this is the only way that you will understand all of the details of the ceremonies. The ceremonies basically, basically had steps, and I cannot tell you how many glorious types of the Lord Jesus Christ there will be in the ceremony, in the second half, once the person has been healed, and then in the second part, following the ceremonies, how many types are the Lord Jesus Christ. But basically, beloved of Christ, to put it simple, then you can read it with more detail in the study in your own time, and then you will see that it is very similar to the restoring of the cleansing of the houses. But basically, what needed to happen is that once the person was healed, Remember, heal, step number one.

Then, step number two, they will call the priest, and the priest will go outside the camp. I cannot make more emphasis on the many types here of Jesus Christ, so I'll try to point to as many as come to my mind. the priest will go outside the camp and when the priest would go outside the camp he will perform there something like a ceremony will not be a sacrifice but he will perform a ceremony this person is clean now well let's say it is it is healed better not to confuse the terms this person is healed so the priest will come outside the camp and then we'll take two doves or two turtle doves and then we'll kill one and then we'll pour the blood of that into a recipient or an earthenware vessel together with water and this water is going to be the key ingredient or the key element of this first stage because that water in Hebrew is living water that you have something like fresh water in your ESV, in other translations you may have a different word. It was this living water that was used outside the camp for the leper, the main ingredient together with some wood in which it would be sprinkled on the person and then the other dove or the other pigeon will be put into this water and blood and then let go as a symbolism of the leprous disease just going away from the person. Once this has been done, the person will wash his clothes and shave, you know, hair and bathe themselves and they will be made clean, positionally speaking, because you will see through the chapter that it says, and it is clean, and it is clean, and it is clean.

But it says it is clean, but it continues to do many things. Why? Because it was a process. So then the person will be positionally made clean into the camp. So they will be able to come to the camp, but they will not be able to live in their tents.

They needed to be seven days outside of the tent once they had been made clean in that first state. and after that on the seventh day then that person will again if the some hair had grown then they will shave the hair and they will wash it again and then on the eighth day the first day like a person that comes to a new creation the one that was death, because seven days had passed. On the eighth day, then that person will be now restored, not only into the covenant, positionally speaking, but now that person, for the first time after all of this process, will enter into the tabernacle. And then out of the five sacrifices that we have studied, that person will offer four sacrifices and then there will be this whole ritual in pouring of blood and pouring of water and putting of oil that you can see in detail which will be very similar to houses. The steps have been followed, and the person has been made not only positionally restored to the people of Israel, to the covenant, but also that person has been cleansed, ceremonially speaking, so that they can perform all the rituals.

And why is this important, beloved of Christ? Because that means if we analyze the text and all the information that we have here, is that the leper or the person that had this leprosy on them, they needed just to come into fellowship with God. They needed a miraculous intervention of God healing them because there was no one who could heal them. That is step number one. And second thing they needed to put themselves through the law.

It was God interventions first and then the law. The law did not have power to restore that person or to heal that person and to bring them into the covenant. It was only the intervention of God that was needed first. And then the law will be the ceremonial steps that will make that person acceptable for ceremonies. This is glorious, and this is important because, beloved of Christ, when we have the Lord Jesus Christ healing so many lepers in the New Testament, and especially in Matthew chapter 8, as our brother quoted last week, and also we did a whole sermon on Matthew 8 that is in one of our Bible studies that you can refer to that.

The Lord Jesus Christ, when He came, He will not only heal the leper, but he will stretch out his hand and touch the leper. And the Lord Jesus Christ will not be made unclean by touching the unclean leper, but rather the unclean leper will be made heal, fulfilling the first step that only could be done by God. And then every time that he will heal the leper, he will say, now go to the priest and show yourself to the priest so that they will be a proof to them. Why? Because then when the leper will come clean, they will ask him, how, how you're now clean?

And then he will say, this man, Jesus, that you, that you say so many horrible things about and that you persecute. He healed me. So brothers and sisters, Jesus Christ under the New Testament, it is not only God for the unholy and the common and the unclean, but Jesus Christ is also the law for the unclean and for the leper. All of the ceremonials that needed to be performed under the Old Covenant and under Leviticus were completely fulfilled by the touching of Jesus Christ to the leper, to the point that in a story there in Luke chapter 17, 10 lepers will be told by the Lord Jesus Christ to go upon the request, Lord, please help us and heal us. He will say, go and present yourself to the priest.

And on their way, only one of them will be healed from the disease. The other nine continued and they went with their hopes of being clean to the low, but one of them returned to the one who had healed him because he knew that it was God, the one who could remove him from that state. So he came back to the high priest. Jesus Christ says, go and present yourself to the priest. But this one returns to the real priest.

The priest, according to the order of Melchizedek, and he presents himself not only as healed, but also he's cleansed or he's made clean ceremonially to enter into the presence of the high priest who was the same, who had healed him. Our Lord Jesus Christ It is not only God and the righteousness of God, but He's also the fulfillment of the law. And once a person is touched miraculously by the power of the Lord, then that person is made positionally clean and empowered by the Spirit of God to put our eyes in Him and by faith walk towards Him, desiring Him, His presence, even if we have to go outside of the camp. May the Lord bless His beloved of Christ. Amen.