Leviticus 15:16–18
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
They imagine a God who cares about your prayer time, your quiet time, your soul, but who is utterly indifferent to your body, your bedroom, your business, and your budgets. This is a neat and tidy religion, and it is also a damnable heresy. It creates a false sacred/secular divide that the Bible knows nothing about. And because He made it all, He claims it all. Every square inch, every molecule, every moment is His. And this is precisely what a book like Leviticus teaches us. To the modern reader, many of these laws seem strange, arbitrary, or even embarrassing. Laws about skin diseases, mildew in the house, and, as we have in our text this morning, bodily discharges. The temptation is to skip these chapters, to regard them as part of the Old Testament's dusty attic, filled with strange relics that have no bearing on our sophisticated, New Covenant faith.