What Defiles a Man?

God is Holy and We Need Attentive Walks in Purity for our Sanctification

You can tell a lot from the environment your in with how they deal with sickness. When I am at college, you feel helpless against any sickness. You are living with so many people that you are kinda stuck. You know either that you will be spared or that you will have endure whatever is going through out the college. When I am back home, I feel like I need to yell “Unclean! Unclean!” We become particular that what the sick person touches must not be touched by me. We have a desire to stay healthy. And we will go the extra mile to make sure we are spared from a person corrupted by germs.

1. Leprosy (chap 13-14)

Define: Leprosy Old vs New Testament

The New Testament narrows the term to a skin disease. When the Old Testament uses the term, it is a skin disease but it also refers to leprosy when it comes to clothing and a house. The Word in the Old Testament law is like saying something is decaying or disfiguring.

Leprosy what did it look like:

A swelling, a scab, or a bright spot (v. 3)

Deeper then the skin of the body (v3)

Swelling makes his skin white and hair white, raw flesh in the swelling (.v9-10)

A boil (v.18)

reddish-white (v.19)

Can come from a fire burn (v.24),

Scaly turn hair yellow (v.29)

What were you to do?

The priest was to examine or consider it (v.3, 5, 10, 13, 17, 21, Lev 10:10)

He was to distinguish

He was to make a judgment

It was deeper than the skin he was to pronounce him unclean (v. 3)

But if not the priest would have the individual wait seven days and isolate himself to see if it spread (v. 4-6)

He was to see if it spread after another seven days to see if it faded or didn’t stop spreading.

But if it did, he was unclean (v.7-8)

Outline

Leprous swelling (v.9-11)

Covers the whole body (v.12-17)

If it is a boil (v.18-23)

It comes from a burn (v.24-28)

Sore on the head and beard (v. 29-37)

Shave all their hair (in the middle of the 2 weeks)

Wass their clothing at the of the two weeks of examination

Bright spots (really white) (v. 38-39)

Person loosing hair (v.40-44)

Person going bald doesn’t mean their unclean (shiny head)

What if he was unclean? (v.45-46)

He was to tear his clothes,

bare head

cover his mustache (cover facial hair)

Cry unclean unclean

dwell alone outside the camp.

He was to care about the purity of the Israelites

He can be cleansed!

The priest examine and make atonement (14:3, 18,19, 31)

How does the leaper come back into society?

Examined (v.3)

Cleansed (v.4-9)

Two clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop

One bird was killed over running water,

Take all the other stuff and dip it in.

The guy was to be sprinkled seven times

Wash his clothing shave his head, and wash himself

He could come into the camp but couldn’t enter his house hold seven days.

Atonement at the temple (v. 10-19)

Trespass Offering, burnt offering, and a grain offering.

Oil was to be poured on the head

That corruption would be taken away

What about the poor?

take one male lamb and two turtle doves

Clothing and House (v.47-59, 14:33-57)

Clothing is decaying by some natural means.

Examining

two weeks there was spreading (it was to be burned) washed twice in the middle and seven days

came back was to be burned

House

Examining

time of isolation for seven for seven days

priest would command for the stones to be taken away the house scraped and placed out side the city

Comes back after another week they shall destroy it and the people who were living there needed to wash themselves and be unclean until evening.

If it was clean perform the bird ritual

2. Bodily discharges which is a sickness that was in a guys organs or a females organs (Chap 15)

Men (15:1-18)

He was unclean

Everywhere he lies and sit was considered unclean and people shouldn’t touch it or touch the person

they needed to wash themselves and would be unclean until evening (no spit on them either)

Earthen vessels destroyed wooden ones washed after

after he was cleansed of the discharge he was to wait seven days and than give sin offering and burnt offering. make atonement

Women

same procedure

extra restrictions

Application:

We cannot have the mentality of “Just as I Am” God accepts for who I am. That is wrong and worldly thinking. Romans 12:1-2. Not all the lambs could be sacrificeised do we care if our daily walk with the LORD.

Conforming happens in so many ways

I want peace

the Bible say

Transformed is through sanctification

Numbers 15:27–31 LEB

“ ‘If one person sins unintentionally, that person will present a female goat in its first year as a sin offering. And the priest will make atonement for the person who sinned unintentionally before Yahweh, to make atonement for him, and he will be forgiven. For the native among the Israelites and the alien that dwells in their midst, there will be one law for anyone who commits an unintentional wrong. But the one who acts presumptuously from among the native or alien blasphemes against Yahweh, and that person must be cut off from the midst of the people. Because he despised the word of Yahweh and broke his command, that person will be surely cut off and bear the guilt.’ ”

We need to obey God’s command