Good post on Tuesday at The Blazing Center on "The Great Reversal". Excerpts below - I recommend reading the whole thing.
If you read the Old Testament you’ll notice that the unclean always infects the clean. Not the other way around.My pastor has always said a similar thing - In the Old Testament sin was contagious, but in the New Testament Christ's life is contagious. I want to stay close enough to catch the good germs!
If a clean person touches a carcass or eats an unclean animal, they’re unclean. If they touch an unclean person, they’re unclean. If they commit adultery, they’re unclean.
If they worship false Gods, they’re unclean.......
The unclean always infects the clean.
Which is a massive problem, because all of us are unclean. Filthy thoughts and desires swirl in our hearts. Bitter words drip from our lips. Is there any way for us to be clean?
But when Jesus gets involved, things are different.
Jesus touches a leper, and the leper becomes clean. He touches the dead body of a little girl, and the little girl is raised. And he touches sinners, and they are forgiven. Unfaithful adulterers, greedy tax collectors, tanked drunkards. All forgiven. The unclean made clean. Christ is full of such purity and power that he can cleanse the unclean.
Jesus still makes sinners clean today. Like me and you. Aren’t you grateful?
You know, when you've been in church long enough, you figure you've pretty much heard every sermon nugget that exists.
ReplyDeleteSo this caught me by surprise. It's beautiful.
Isn't it. The life of Jesus is contagious!
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