{"id":18205,"date":"2021-10-27T22:00:18","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T05:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/leviticus_15_1-15-copy\/"},"modified":"2021-10-23T22:31:26","modified_gmt":"2021-10-24T05:31:26","slug":"leviticus_15_16-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/leviticus_15_16-33\/","title":{"rendered":"Made Clean With A Touch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leviticus 15:16-33 \u00a0\u00a0Click here for Bible Verses<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Leviticus 15:16-33.\u00a0\u00a0Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Leviticus 15:16-24 (NIV)<\/em><\/strong>
\n16\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“‘When a man has an emission of semen, he must bathe his whole body with water, and he will be unclean till evening.
\n17\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Any clothing or leather that has semen on it must be washed with water, and it will be unclean till evening.
\n18\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0When a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, both must bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening.
\n19\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“‘When a woman has her regular flow of blood, the impurity of her monthly period will last seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean till evening.
\n20\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“‘Anything she lies on during her period will be unclean, and anything she sits on will be unclean.
\n21\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Whoever touches her bed must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean till evening.
\n22\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Whoever touches anything she sits on must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean till evening.
\n23\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Whether it is the bed or anything she was sitting on, when anyone touches it, he will be unclean till evening.
\n24\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“‘If a man lies with her and her monthly flow touches him, he will be unclean for seven days; any bed he lies on will be unclean.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 16-24:\u00a0\u00a0Why is it that a man\u2019s emission of semen (v16-18) would cause a man and the woman he lay with to be ceremonially unclean?\u00a0\u00a0Why is it that a woman\u2019s period (v19-24) or a woman bleeding outside of her regular period (v25-27) would cause the woman and anything the woman sits on to be ceremonially unclean?\u00a0\u00a0Are these bodily discharges sinful in God\u2019s eyes?\u00a0\u00a0No.\u00a0\u00a0Remember that \u201csinful\u201d and \u201cunclean\u201d are not the same thing.\u00a0\u00a0To be ceremonially unclean meant that you could not enter the sanctuary where the Israelites worshipped for the period of the uncleanness.<\/p>\n

Why would God impose such a rule on the Israelites?\u00a0\u00a0Many scholars say that the main purpose of these regulations was to set the Israelites apart from other nations who regularly practiced cult prostitution and engaged in fertility rituals within the temples where they would worship their gods.\u00a0\u00a0In other words, whereas people from other nations would have sex in the temple where they worshiped their gods as a way to activate their gods to action, God was saying, \u201cThat\u2019s not going to happen in my sanctuary\u201d, and these regulations would effectively keep that from happening.<\/p>\n

What can we learn from this?\u00a0\u00a0God made sex and menstruation cycles to be natural parts of human life.\u00a0\u00a0The problem comes when we turn sex into a god and begin to worship it.<\/p>\n

To what extent do these regulations in Leviticus apply to Christians today?\u00a0 We’ll look to answer this question when we look at Leviticus 19 together.<\/p>\n

Leviticus 15:25-33 (NIV)<\/em><\/strong>
\n25\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“‘When a woman has a discharge of blood for many days at a time other than her monthly period or has a discharge that continues beyond her period, she will be unclean as long as she has the discharge, just as in the days of her period.
\n26\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Any bed she lies on while her discharge continues will be unclean, as is her bed during her monthly period, and anything she sits on will be unclean, as during her period.
\n27\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Whoever touches them will be unclean; he must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean till evening.
\n28\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“‘When she is cleansed from her discharge, she must count off seven days, and after that she will be ceremonially clean.
\n29\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0On the eighth day she must take two doves or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
\n30\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The priest is to sacrifice one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. In this way he will make atonement for her before the\u00a0LORD\u00a0for the uncleanness of her discharge.
\n31\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“‘You must keep the Israelites separate from things that make them unclean, so they will not die in their uncleanness for defiling my dwelling place, which is among them.'”
\n32\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0These are the regulations for a man with a discharge, for anyone made unclean by an emission of semen,
\n33\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0for a woman in her monthly period, for a man or a woman with a discharge, and for a man who lies with a woman who is ceremonially unclean.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 25-33:\u00a0\u00a0When I think about Leviticus 15:25, I think about the woman in the Gospels who had been bleeding for many days – 12 years, in fact – approaches Jesus.\u00a0 Since she was bleeding, she was deemed by laws like Leviticus 15:25 to be unclean, which meant that anything she touched would be considered unclean and defiled.\u00a0 Thus no one wanted to touch her and she was probably hesitant to touch anyone — for 12 years!
\nYet this woman had unusual faith. \u00a0(Sometimes desperate and unusual situations call for desperate and unusual faith.) \u00a0She thinks to herself, “If I only touch his cloak, I will be healed.” (Matthew 9:21) \u00a0When she actually does touch Jesus, Jesus was not made unclean; rather, the woman was healed and restored!\u00a0 And rather than condemning this “unclean” woman for touching him and making him unclean, Jesus blessed her and told her to “go in peace” (Luke 8:48).<\/p>\n

Thank You Jesus for being willing to let us touch You, even if it meant that according to the law our own uncleanness would make you unclean.\u00a0 Praise You Jesus that when we touch You, rather than us making you unclean, you make us clean!\u00a0\u00a0In Jesus\u2019 name, AMEN!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Leviticus 15:16-33.\u00a0\u00a0Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Leviticus 15:16-24 (NIV)
\n16\u00a0\u00a0“‘When a man has an emission of semen, he must bathe his whole body with water, and he will be unclean till evening.
\n17\u00a0\u00a0Any clothing or leather that has semen on it must be washed with water, and it will be unclean till evening.
\n18\u00a0\u00a0When a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, both must bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening.
\n19\u00a0\u00a0“‘When a woman has her regular flow of blood, the impurity of her monthly period will last seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean till evening.
\n20\u00a0\u00a0“‘Anything she lies on during her period will be unclean, and anything she sits on will be unclean…….<\/p>\n

On verses 16-24:\u00a0\u00a0Why is it that a man\u2019s emission of semen (v16-18) would cause a man and the woman he lay with to be ceremonially unclean?\u00a0\u00a0Why is it that a woman\u2019s period (v19-24) or a woman bleeding outside of her regular period (v25-27) would cause the woman and anything the woman sits on to be ceremonially unclean?\u00a0\u00a0Are these bodily discharges sinful in God\u2019s eyes?\u00a0\u00a0No.\u00a0\u00a0Remember that \u201csinful\u201d and \u201cunclean\u201d are not the same thing.\u00a0\u00a0To be ceremonially unclean meant that you could not enter the sanctuary where the Israelites worshipped for the period of the uncleanness.<\/p>\n

Why would God impose such a rule on the Israelites?\u00a0\u00a0Many scholars say that the main purpose of these regulations was to set the Israelites apart from other nations who regularly practiced cult prostitution and engaged in fertility rituals within the temples where they would worship their gods.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gametime-sharing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18206,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18205\/revisions\/18206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}