the Fourth Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 1 of 5
Leviticus 14:14-32
"He shall be clean", conclude vv. 9 and 20. Here again it is not a matter of the opinion of the cleansed leper. God pronounces pure and holy the born again sinner for whom His word must be sufficient, even if he himself experiences neither emotion nor particular feeling. "Ye are washed . . . sanctified . . . justified in the name of the Lord Jesus" states the Scripture (1 Corinthians 6:11).
As well as the birds which speak of the work of God for us, two other things were required which speak of His work in us: the water, cleansing power of the Word, and the razor. The leper shaved his hair, his beard, his eyebrows. All that spoke of man’s natural strength was discarded. This work of the Spirit, which leads us to judge what our old nature produces, is called deliverance.
The blood of the sacrifice was applied to the ear, to the hand and to the foot of the cleansed leper, exactly as had been done to the priest on the day of his consecration (Exodus 29:20) and the same had to be done with the oil. But in addition the leper was anointed with oil (v. 18). Amazing thing, he alone out of all Israel was in company with kings and priests in receiving this holy unction: type of the operation of the Holy Spirit in the heart of the redeemed! (1 John 2:20).
