Today we continue to look at how Jesus takes unclean things and makes them clean. Last week we talked about being clean dirt. This week we look at Peter’s vision in Acts 10 where he is told to eat things which had been declared unclean in the book of Leviticus. A voice tells Peter, “What God has cleansed you must not call common.”
God was working into the Peter the essence of the New Covenant. Outside the mercy and the love of Jesus we are all unclean. And when we live under the law we embrace a reality that says that which is unclean makes other things unclean. But Jesus fulfilled the law and took the curse upon Himself. Jesus, the Clean One, makes the unclean clean.
Jesus demonstrated this truth on various occasions in front of Peter and the disciples. A leper who is unclean comes up to Jesus and what does Jesus do? He doesn’t back away to avoid being unclean. No, he reaches out and touches the man! According to the law Jesus would now be unclean. But according to the power of a sinless life (Jesus), He makes the leper whole. He makes the unclean clean.
When Jesus is on his way to heal Jairus’s daughter a woman with an issue of blood reaches out and touches Him. Does Jesus become unclean? No. The woman is healed! Jesus makes the unclean clean. That is the very essence of the Gospel. And as followers of Jesus we have the same privilege. We have been made clean by the blood of the Lamb. We get to walk among unclean people – those who are dead in their sin and “touch” them that they might be clean.
This week ask the Lord to give you a revelation of the fact that He has made you clean and you get to impart that to others!
