*EXCELLENT LIFE KEYS* 🔑🗝️
Fri/01st/April/2022
*Francis Reign* (Ap & Coach)
_"Raising excellent agents of change and transformation, well equipped with Truth and Wisdom."_
*UNDERSTANDING THE ACTS AND WORDS OF JESUS CHRIST (70)*
_"And Jesus said to him, "See that you say nothing to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a proof to them"_ (Matt 8:4). First and foremost, the priest had no power to cleanse a leper or make him a leper either. He only did diagnoses and then informed everyone whether the person in question was clean or unclean. And if determined that an unclean person was clean, there was an offering Moses told him to make. When we understand the role of the priest and the nature of the offering, this text suddenly makes complete sense. Now, when the cleansed leper went to the priest, the priest would unwittingly confirm the power of Christ to cleanse a leper. The leper knew Jesus could cleanse him if He was willing, but the priest would not have thought so. However, the priest was a professional diagnoser of leprosy. If he declared the man clean, rest assured, he was giving expert witness to the authenticity of the miracle. Therefore, the Law (Moses through the priest) was testifying to Jesus.
When we see the nature if the "gift Moses commanded" in Leviticus 14:3-7, we recognize a beautiful portrait of how Christ cleanses all of us from our spiritual leprosy. Two birds are used. One dies (a guilt bearing sacrifice), and one lives (a living sacrifice). The blood of the first bird is mixed with water and the living sacrifice is to be dipped in that blood/water combination representing a cleansing (with blood) and then it is set free. Ironically, coming in contact with the blood doesn't make one unclean but clean. The leper himself is sprinkled with the blood/water mixture seven times. The leper, like the living bird, goes free, while the blood of the sacrificed bird makes that possible. A testimony that Christ would ultimately cleanse us with His own blood. He dies, we go free. What a glorious picture. We can never live our way into cleansing. Rather, as this leper shows, the only way we can be clean is through Christ, by reason of His sacrifice. He bore our guilt.
*EXCELLENCE KEY* 🗝️
_We were cleansed by the precious blood of Jesus Christ and now we are the living sacrifice._
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*Excellence is within you. Bring it out >>*
#1440 ELK.
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