Lepers No More

In Matthew 8:1-4 we see the most uncommon occurance:

1. The Leper worshipped Jesus. He was desperate enough for Jesus not to care what other’s thought.
2. Jesus touched the unclean. Jesus touched and healed someone no respectable person would dream of touching, let alone helping. He lived to please God, not man.

Jesus lived to please God, not man. And in pleasing God, He blessed man. He died so that our disrespect and sacrilege would be forgiven. His death for our life. He became sin so we could have His holiness. He was disrespected so we might walk in holiness. He took all our impurity and uncleanness so we might be pure and holy in His sight. He took all our displeasure so we would be pleasing to God. He took our revolting condition upon Himself so that we might be restored to fellowship with God; changed and reintroduced into society as salt and light; a pure influence for good.

We who are in Christ are lepers no more.