Leviticus 13:9–17
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We come this morning to a passage in Leviticus that makes modern Christians nervous. We treat it like a medical textbook that is bizarrely out of date. But in doing this, we make a profound mistake. We fail to understand that the God who wrote the Gospel of John is the same God who wrote the book of Leviticus. These laws concerning leprosy are not primarily about dermatology. They are a series of high-definition, Technicolor, 3-D object lessons about the nature of sin. Leprosy in the Bible is a physical picture of a spiritual reality. It is a walking death, a visible representation of the corruption that festers within every human heart apart from the grace of God. It isolates, it defiles, it spreads, and it ultimately consumes. And just as the priest was the one designated by God to diagnose and declare a man a leper, so the ministers of the Word are tasked with diagnosing and declaring the spiritual state of men.