Pronounced Clean

Bodily deformities, wounds, diseases, and discharges are all things that kept people out of the court of the Lord in the Old Testament. Why was this the case? The answer is that these things point to the Fall. Death, deformity, disease, and weakness are all results of sin entering the human race through Adam in the Garden of Eden. Sin and death cannot exist in the throne room of our holy God, and so these reminders of sin were kept out of the Tabernacle and later the Temple. However, in the book of Leviticus we see that God gave His people washings to cleanse and offerings to purify and make people fit to enter the presence of a holy God.

If you are a believer in Christ, then you are part of Christ’s body. You have been washed by the washing of regeneration (Tit. 3:5) and by the Word of God (Eph. 5:26) and purified by Christ who gave Himself up for you (Eph. 5:25). The Father looks at the Church, cleansed from every spot and wrinkle by the blood of His Son, and He pronounces it clean. Fit to be in His presence and to eat at His table. And you, as part of Christ’s Church, are welcome to enter into His presence boldly, having your heart sprinkled from an evil conscience and your body washed with pure water (Heb. 10:22), clothed in the righteousness of Christ and at peace.