{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Christ Covenant Church","title":"Journaling: Leviticus 13-16","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3911,"description":"Giving birth, certain animals, leprous diseases and decay as well as death and bodily discharges all possess the physical pollution of sin that continues to “defile” both body and spirit (i.e. they make us “unclean”, 11:44) and therefore must also be atoned for (5:6, 10, 13 w/11:1-47; 12:1-7 w/8; 13:1-14:32 w/14:18-19; 14:33-57 w/14:53; 15:1-33 w/15:15, 30) IF: 1) we are to approach God and not die (15:31), 2) we want to remain in covenant w/God (IOW: being unclean and out of covenant are NOT THE SAME THING).\n“The unclean are those who in some way have the aura of death about them in that they manifest less than physical wholeness” – G.J. Wenham\n“Many of the discharges of bodily fluids (such as blood or semen), along with the womb shortly after childbirth, may be correlated with the loss of life…Uncleanness is not flatly or immediately equated with particular sinful acts, it is nevertheless treated as being generally or ultimately the result of sin: uncleanness represents the pollution of sin…Pollution if not expiated and cleansed, would eventually lead to…permanent exile away from [God’s] presence.” – J.M. Morales\nThe inclusion of the guilt offering along w/the anointing of the right ear, right thumb and right big toe in the cleansing of a person healed of their leprous disease ml infers this particular form of uncleanness to be direct punishment for former acts of sin (14:12 w/Lev 5:18 and 6:6; 14:14-17 w/Exo 29:19-20 and Lev 8:22-24 = promise to never hear, do or run in the direction of evil; e.g. Miriam – Num 12:1-16).\nB/C of Christ’s ministry and our baptismal faith and regeneration (i.e. being made a new creation spiritually): 1) we are to view no one or nothing as unclean (in and of themselves) (e.g. 13:1-3 w/Luk 5:12-13 w/Joh 13:10, 15:3 w/1Ti 4:4-5; Mat 8:17 w/Isa 53:4; Rom 14:14; Act 10:1-48; Mar 7:19; 1Co 11:1-12, 10:23, 2Co 5:16-17; Tit 3:5), 2) we are freed from the Levitical works of the law prescribed for cleansing (Act 13:38-39, 15:7-11 w/10:28,...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/UXGjftzm8Yw--IISwUKe6A6-CX1YtARptisfLmFJFoI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81Zjc4/MmNmNTMxZjNmOTgw/YjA1NWRhYmMxMTNl/YmE1Zi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}