Sunday AM Meeting Time - The Leper In Whom The Plague Is - 07/31

Text: Leviticus 13:44-46

Leviticus 44 He is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is in head. 45 And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean. 46 All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be.

I. Leprosy IS A Type Of Sin

1. God shows leprosy to be a type of sin and the sinner

2. We see how utterly horrible, putrefying, deadly, and destructive that sin is to the human race and humans

3. The Leper was to be brought to the Priest, who was a type of Christ; so the sinner is to be brought to Christ

4. If the plague is turned white, and "DEEPER THAN THE SKIN" it was leprosy - Sin is not a SKIN problem! It's a heart problem (Le. 13:3)

5. The Priest could not go by feelings but by the WORD OF GOD in declaring LEPROSY! (The preacher must do the same with sin!)

6. If the plague stayed stationary it was leprosy, if it spread it was LEPROSY (Lev. 13:5-6); Sin never stays stagnant it always SPREADS!

7. Leprosy was called a PLAGUE, not a disease; Man's sin is a PLAGUE, it is not a disease or psychological, emotional issue - its SIN

8. "It is LEPROSY" - Leprosy was a KILLER, Sin KILLS!

9. The Priest was to LOOK ON it and declare the state of leprosy; The Gospel PRONOUNCES man's problem as SIN!

10. The Church has redefined it as other things!

11. The smallest amount of sin in intolerable with God (Lev. 13:25)

12. There was a patient inspection of the infected; The Lord made a difference between sin and infirmity (Lev. 13:41).

II. The Leper is a TYPE OF THE SINNER

1. Garment was to be TORN - Type of insufficiency of man's righteousness to be accepted by God

2. Head Bare - No protection from the judgement of God

3. Covering on upper lip - "unclean, unclean" - when a person confesses salvation by ANY OTHER MEANS other than CHRIST and the CROSS they are saying "UNCLEAN UNCLEAN"

4. Defiled - SIN DEFILES

5. Unclean - SIN DESECRATES

6. Alone - SIN SEPARATES a person from their loved ones! - There is a loneliness to it

7. Without the Camp - Separates from God!

8. The Garment - Priest was commanded to show patience in judging the garment and the man

9. We are MORAL LEPERS in the tender patient wise and loving hands of a HEAVENLY HIGH PRIEST

10. TO the spiritual mind, we recognize we are all LEPERS!

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