LEPROSY & LOVE: Have You Been Touched By Jesus?

LEPROSY is a vivid and graphic physical picture of the spiritual defilement of sin. Sin is ugly, loathsome, incurable, and contaminating; it separates men from God and makes them outcasts. The instructions given to the priests in Leviticus 13 help us understand the nature of sin: Sin is inside us, deeper than the skin (Lev. 13:3); sin also spreads (Lev. 13:8); sin always defiles and isolates (Lev. 13:45–46); and just as leprous garments are fit only for the fire (Lev. 13:52, 57), so those who die clothed in sin will burn forever.

But then came Jesus. Mark used his favorite word in this passage. When the untouchable is touched by Jesus, note (Mark 1:42) “IMMEDIATELY the leprosy left him and he was cured.”

If you realize that the leprosy of sin has infected your person, then you have no doubt that you are a sinner.

If you believe that, there is no reason why you should not go immediately to him. He has compassion, he will actually touch the leprosy of your sin.