"Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might." Ephesians 6:10
I am continuing on the study of the abilities of Jesus. Knowing His abilities helps to create more trust in my Savior. That sounds terrible, but the more I find out about the abilities of my Jesus the more I trust Him and the more I fall deeper in love with Him.
In Genesis chapter two, God creates woman from one of man's ribs. Man's response to God was:
"This one, at last, is bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh; this one will be called woman, for she was taken from man."
Then the Bible reads:
This is why a man leaves his father and mother and bonds with his wife, and they become one flesh."
When a man and a woman become married, they become one flesh, one body. They are as one. How then, may we ask, may a body seperate when a man and a woman contemplates or consummates divorce. The problem is the body has allowed sin to enter. The reasons why may very from adultery to abuse to complacency. Whatever the reason, the body, consisting of the husband and his wife, slowly begins to seperate. In time, they may eventually become two entities again.
This is exactly the picture when sin enters our life and begins our seperation from God. The sin begins to fester and grow. In time, without repentance, we no longer abide in Him and Him in us(John 15:7).
In our fourth ability of Jesus, we focus on how He was able to cleanse the leper. Leprosy is a disease that eats way at the skin of the infected person. In the Bible, if a priest pronounced a person to have leprosy, that person was considered "unclean." When this happened, the "unclean" person was unable to be around holy places, holy people, or be part of holy ceremonies. They were unable to worship God. Although leprosy is a physical disease, the Bible often depicts leprosy as sin.
As we learned earlier, when sin is in our life, our seperation from God begins. In order to stop this seperation and become one with the Lord again, we need to become cleansed of our sin.
Chapters 13 and 14 of Leviticus deals with the laws surrounding the detection and handling of the disease. If a person was determined to be leprous by the priests, there were many procedures the infected person had to perform so as to warn others of his condition. How did the leper feel? Verse 46 of chapter 13 best describes the conditions of life surrounding a leper: "All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean; he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be. For those to be cleansed of leprosy, an atonement for him was made before the Lord. The blood of animals was used as part of the atonement ceremony.
When Adam sinned, the act hurt all of mankind for we all became seperated from God. But God gave us the perfect sacrifice, His Son, Jesus. Jesus bore all our sins that we might be reconciled with the Father(Eph 2:16). When we give our life to Christ by believing in Him, we are again one with God. Jesus came with not only the ability to heal leprosy of the physical being, but also the ability to cleanse the leprosy of the spiritual being. When the Teacher(Matt 23:10) impresses upon our heart of our sinfulness, we must take our sin to the "High Priest"(Heb 7:26) and lay it upon His feet. He and He alone is able to forgive and cleanse us of our sin.
I am continuing on the study of the abilities of Jesus. Knowing His abilities helps to create more trust in my Savior. That sounds terrible, but the more I find out about the abilities of my Jesus the more I trust Him and the more I fall deeper in love with Him.
In Genesis chapter two, God creates woman from one of man's ribs. Man's response to God was:
"This one, at last, is bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh; this one will be called woman, for she was taken from man."
Then the Bible reads:
This is why a man leaves his father and mother and bonds with his wife, and they become one flesh."
This is exactly the picture when sin enters our life and begins our seperation from God. The sin begins to fester and grow. In time, without repentance, we no longer abide in Him and Him in us(John 15:7).
In our fourth ability of Jesus, we focus on how He was able to cleanse the leper. Leprosy is a disease that eats way at the skin of the infected person. In the Bible, if a priest pronounced a person to have leprosy, that person was considered "unclean." When this happened, the "unclean" person was unable to be around holy places, holy people, or be part of holy ceremonies. They were unable to worship God. Although leprosy is a physical disease, the Bible often depicts leprosy as sin.
As we learned earlier, when sin is in our life, our seperation from God begins. In order to stop this seperation and become one with the Lord again, we need to become cleansed of our sin.
Chapters 13 and 14 of Leviticus deals with the laws surrounding the detection and handling of the disease. If a person was determined to be leprous by the priests, there were many procedures the infected person had to perform so as to warn others of his condition. How did the leper feel? Verse 46 of chapter 13 best describes the conditions of life surrounding a leper: "All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean; he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be. For those to be cleansed of leprosy, an atonement for him was made before the Lord. The blood of animals was used as part of the atonement ceremony.
When Adam sinned, the act hurt all of mankind for we all became seperated from God. But God gave us the perfect sacrifice, His Son, Jesus. Jesus bore all our sins that we might be reconciled with the Father(Eph 2:16). When we give our life to Christ by believing in Him, we are again one with God. Jesus came with not only the ability to heal leprosy of the physical being, but also the ability to cleanse the leprosy of the spiritual being. When the Teacher(Matt 23:10) impresses upon our heart of our sinfulness, we must take our sin to the "High Priest"(Heb 7:26) and lay it upon His feet. He and He alone is able to forgive and cleanse us of our sin.
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