Monday, July 7, 2014

Would you go "outside" the camp to work with a leper? Leviticus 13-15

Leviticus 14:2-3 (NASBStr)
“This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing. Now he shall be brought to the priest, and the priest shall go out to the outside of the camp. Thus the priest shall look, and if the infection of leprosy has been healed in the leper,

To protect the entire nation against a wide spread epidemic God gives them extensive instructions on how to handle infections and the early signs of diseases.   He gives these instructions to the priests, as they were God's ministers during these days of Israel.   In the above passage we see that the priest was to be notified about the leper, who, at the time had already been placed outside the camp to avoid a spread of the sickness.  If you were the priest you understood the instructions and you were ready to obey them.  However, you would have to have a level of faith to step outside the camp into these situations.   Those who minister for God have always had this responsibility ... to go to those outside the camp to minister to them.  They, too, have also had to have faith that God would protect them in these situations when they where asked to minister to the "outsiders."   When God requires the work He protects and enables the faith to do so.   God gave direct responsibility to the priest and they were to step into these situations in exact faith, knowing that God would use them when asking them to do so.   So, too, with us, when we are asked to step on the outside and work with those who are in extreme sickness, diseases, or situations of danger.  God protects His ministers.   

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