{"id":36226,"date":"2025-06-12T22:00:40","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T05:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=36226"},"modified":"2025-06-04T15:43:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T22:43:57","slug":"leviticus-14_1-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/leviticus-14_1-18\/","title":{"rendered":"The Work Jesus Does to Restore You"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leviticus 14:1-18 \u00a0(CLICK HERE FOR\u00a0BIBLE VERSES)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Leviticus 14:1-18.\u00a0With a humble heart, see what sticks out to you in this passage.\u00a0 Is there a verse, a phrase, or a lesson you think the Holy Spirit may be highlighting for you in this passage?\u00a0 After you\u2019ve thought about the passage yourself a bit, read the GAME sharing below.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Leviticus\u00a014:1-18 (NIV)<\/em><\/strong>
\n1\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The\u00a0LORD\u00a0said to Moses,
\n2\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“These are the regulations for the diseased person at the time of his ceremonial cleansing, when he is brought to the priest:
\n3\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The priest is to go outside the camp and examine him. If the person has been healed of his infectious skin disease,
\n4\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0the priest shall order that two live clean birds and some cedar wood, scarlet yarn and hyssop be brought for the one to be cleansed.
\n5\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Then the priest shall order that one of the birds be killed over fresh water in a clay pot.
\n6\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0He is then to take the live bird and dip it, together with the cedar wood, the scarlet yarn and the hyssop, into the blood of the bird that was killed over the fresh water.
\n7\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Seven times he shall sprinkle the one to be cleansed of the infectious disease and pronounce him clean. Then he is to release the live bird in the open fields.
\n8\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“The person to be cleansed must wash his clothes, shave off all his hair and bathe with water; then he will be ceremonially clean. After this he may come into the camp, but he must stay outside his tent for seven days.
\n9\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0On the seventh day he must shave off all his hair; he must shave his head, his beard, his eyebrows and the rest of his hair. He must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water, and he will be clean.
\n10\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“On the eighth day he must bring two male lambs and one ewe lamb a year old, each without defect, along with three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering, and one log of oil.
\n11\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The priest who pronounces him clean shall present both the one to be cleansed and his offerings before the\u00a0LORD\u00a0at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
\n12\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“Then the priest is to take one of the male lambs and offer it as a guilt offering, along with the log of oil; he shall wave them before the\u00a0LORD\u00a0as a wave offering.
\n13\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0He is to slaughter the lamb in the holy place where the sin offering and the burnt offering are slaughtered. Like the sin offering, the guilt offering belongs to the priest; it is most holy.
\n14\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The priest is to take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.
\n15\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The priest shall then take some of the log of oil, pour it in the palm of his own left hand,
\n16\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0dip his right forefinger into the oil in his palm, and with his finger sprinkle some of it before the\u00a0LORD\u00a0seven times.
\n17\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The priest is to put some of the oil remaining in his palm on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot, on top of the blood of the guilt offering.
\n18\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The rest of the oil in his palm the priest shall put on the head of the one to be cleansed and make atonement for him before the\u00a0LORD.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 1-18:\u00a0 In\u00a0Leviticus\u00a014\u00a0we read of what a priest would do for a leper who had been banished from society because of their skin condition.\u00a0\u00a0The priest was to go outside the camp to find the leper, to examine the leper, to confirm the leper\u2019s healing, to make sacrifices on the leper\u2019s behalf and to restore the leper back into the community.\u00a0\u00a0Notice that it is the priest who does all the work on behalf of the leper so that the leper could be restored.<\/p>\n

Similarly, when we were lost and cut off from God’s presence and God’s community not because of our skin condition but our sin condition, Jesus our great high priest went outside of heaven\u2019s borders to find us, to search our hearts, to proclaim our healing, to make costly sacrifices for us, and to bring us back to God and God’s community.\u00a0\u00a0Jesus did all the work on behalf of us so that we could be restored.<\/p>\n

It reminds me of 2 Samuel\u00a014:14\u00a0which says:\u00a0\u00a014\u00a0<\/sup>Like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be recovered, so we must die. But God does not take away life; instead, he devises ways so that a banished person may not remain estranged from him.<\/em><\/p>\n

Thank You, Lord, for Your heart to restore and bring back those who are far away from You.\u00a0 Use us Your church to do just that in our city.\u00a0 In Jesus’ name, AMEN!<\/em><\/p>\n

copyright \u00a9 2022 Justin Lim. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Leviticus 14:1-18.\u00a0With a humble heart, see what sticks out to you in this passage.\u00a0 Is there a verse, a phrase, or a lesson you think the Holy Spirit may be highlighting for you in this passage?\u00a0 After you\u2019ve thought about the passage yourself a bit, read the GAME sharing below.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Leviticus\u00a014:1-18 (NIV)
\n1\u00a0\u00a0The\u00a0LORD\u00a0said to Moses,
\n2\u00a0\u00a0“These are the regulations for the diseased person at the time of his ceremonial cleansing, when he is brought to the priest:
\n3\u00a0\u00a0The priest is to go outside the camp and examine him. If the person has been healed of his infectious skin disease,
\n4\u00a0\u00a0the priest shall order that two live clean birds and some cedar wood, scarlet yarn and hyssop be brought for the one to be cleansed.<\/p>\n

On verses 1-18:\u00a0 In\u00a0Leviticus\u00a014\u00a0we read of what a priest would do for a leper who had been banished from society because of their skin condition.\u00a0\u00a0The priest was to go outside the camp to find the leper, to examine the leper, to confirm the leper\u2019s healing, to make sacrifices on the leper\u2019s behalf and to restore the leper back into the community.\u00a0\u00a0Notice that it is the priest who does all the work on behalf of the leper so that the leper could be restored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36226","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\/36226","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=36226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36229,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36226\/revisions\/36229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}