an important decision
Luke 5:12 to 14
All transcend life decision for better or for worse whatever affect our present and future.
To understand this we must use a little imagination and put ourselves in the historical, cultural, social and religious and we understand how important it was for this man as the text came to Jesus full of leprosy. LEPROSY
infectious disease caused by a bacillus of Hansen. Although they had been endemic in the East is very doubtful that the various diseases that the Bible mentions as leprosy are the same and specific disease now known by that name. Biblical disease that causes bleaching and deterioration of the skin, for example, is now known as psoriasis. Moreover, from the medical point of view, the Bible becomes more confusing the concept of the disease of leprosy, because the Hebrew term TsaraŒ> ath, which means leprosy, also means "punishment of God." Moreover, with this Hebrew term designating various mildew, or stains on the walls of the rooms (Lev 14.33-45), probably from nitrate. Lv
The passages 13 and 14 are devoted to the disease: the description of symptoms and signs, the procedure to diagnose, differential diagnosis, the precepts and laws for the sick and, finally, the description of the complicated ceremonial purification and cleansing. The purification ceremony is specified in detail and noted that was done by the priest, who combined the roles of doctor and legislator.
Many biblical characters who appear as victims of leprosy. The first reference is the episode when God commanded Moses to dip hand on his breast to show their power. To remove, was "leprous as snow" (Ex 4.6). Other victims of the leprosy were Mary, sister of Moses (Num 12.10), and General NAAMAN Syrian (2 Kings 5.1), but these were temporary. A case in which the emphasis is, however, that "it was a leper unto the day of his death" is the king Uzziah, whose leprosy began as a localized lesion on the forehead (2 Cr 26.20, 21).
In the New Testament also describes cases of leprosy and its subsequent healing by Jesus. At times the individual was healing (Mk 1.40, 41), and other collective (Luke 17.12-18). The Gospels tell of Jesus dined at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper (Mt 26.6; Mk 14.3).
Taking into account the description of leprosy as a disease that affects both people, clothes and walls, and moreover, the course of the disease, sometimes temporary and permanent other, it is clear that this was not always the same disease. Anyway, in biblical thought leprosy disease (mean disease or other alteration of the skin) is always associated with the idea of \u200b\u200bsin and is the figure par excellence to refer to their corrupting effects and objective evidence of evil . (Source December encyclopedia of the Bible).
Start with small white spots that often this is lost sensitivity to touch and after a swarm in the subcutaneous, burst in the form of pus-filled wounds to the immediate cause of infection; as rotten yagas stiffer began to expel an unpleasant odor that could be felt several feet from where they will be found. In addition to losing slowly cartilares body parts ie left without a nose, ears, fingers, feet and hands, the soft parts of their legs, forearms, there were no hair, trying to change his bandages for sure these were glued to your skin which meant great pain, his flesh was raw wounds were literally rotting monsters in their physical appearance. According to Leviticus 13:45
had people cry foul foul which was part of the ignominy of these poor wretches were disbanded immediately society, their families and were forced to live away from the camp, outside the town. Homeless, the homeless, the isolation of these people gives us a psychological profile clear information that had to live in so-called leprosimios, as the pain of grief in his flesh is accentuated when they lost all emotional contact with their loved ones.
had no human rights, had no hope, begging to live ate leftovers dumped into landfills, no one respected them for being nasty smelly, dirty, and if this were not enough at any time carried on their death body would ultimately consume his existence. Now back to
Luke's gospel story clearly says that this man came to Christ full of leprosy ... can you see coming? coming slowly because every step you take, it means a pain in his body hurt, but decided to come to Him and know that anything can happen, the crowd is about Christ all expect something from him, is making its way through the crowd , the look, feel disgust, others are plugging their noses because of the bad smell coming out of your body is wounded but determined to go where the only thing that lit a spark of hope, sure some already have in their hands stones to drive him away around them there are the Pharisees and religious shift that as hungry hyenas waiting for their opportunity to give his paw on Jesus, but with all its pain, overcoming their fears, prejudices, not listening to the voices of repulsed by him has not lost sight of the original target, which ... seeing Jesus ... let me comment regarding this, it is not easy to come to Christ, how much uncertainty, fear, prejudice is when you begin to birth in us the need to go to Christ, to tell my friends, my family thought I reject, others will understand it is my life decision. But when the need surpasses all these fears and come to understand that only Christ and Christ alone can help me I must not lose sight of who is calling me and bringing me this waiting with open arms, because when we call it matters little who we are, because most assuredly I tell you know our lives and know our deepest pain, has all the history of our past, so no choice but to come before all our wounds open before him and they drop to their feet ... which saw Jesus bowed his face on the ground ... I have always believed that while we know the Lord when we come before Him, waiting for us an attitude sometimes a gesture speaks a thousand words, when the leper comes to Christ before you speak and tell of their problems is humiliated before, recognized as sovereign, King, Master, Lord remember that this leper religion is Jewish and a Jew does not prostrate to another unless it is God, because God and no one but God can help the man who is like this leper alone, helpless, hopeless, sick, sad, lost, far from any mercy, but when Christ is come before him to a man voluntarily humbled heart I assure my friends that Jesus can not despise him, when from the ground uttering words like ... if you can cleanse ... please note that if you can not say, not questions their power, but appeals to their sovereignty .. If you want ... the Bible says a contrite heart you will not despise OH GOD ... (salmo51: 17) This man knew that coming to Christ has a cost and must bear the higher costs when it comes to a decision as important as the coming of Christ is present then let us add ... ... or wine ... overcame his fears, go ahead and say .. which JESUS \u200b\u200b... seeing friends that this story is awful some have intentions to come to the Gospel but lose the white where his eyes pointed divert course and start looking what importance should not even give the book of Hebrews makes clear ... our eyes on Jesus the author and finisher of faith ... (Hebrews 12:1) For many years I realized that I call the Gospel, who rescued me, who died for me on that cross, who sacrificed himself for me, and to whom I owe everything is JESUS \u200b\u200bmust not lose our sight ... then bows in recognition and humiliation utters the exact words ... Sir, if you want to clean .. CHRIST moved him, the Lord's reaction is extraordinary not sound immediately, but extends its hand as you would a sovereign and at the moment is revealed with clarity that only the revelation of the Word of God can give what he calls evangelical theology GRACE. What is grace? It is the unmerited favor, mercy is extended to those who do not deserve the greatest of all doctrines of the gospel is to give someone a position, a title, a level that can never be attributed alone. He said it was cleaned, it said no sound indicating something deeper, the leper is clearer typology of the human condition without God, alone, helpless, bloody, sad, carrying in his life a pain that no one can stop, with clear evidence of life makes everything and more for sin from Adam to today and what is more sad no one can out of that condition because there is no human cure, or religion, or magic charms that can save man from this tragic situation, but the grace of God if! CAN ... But God demonstrates His own love toward us in that still sinners Christ died for us (Romans 5:8), is like a complaint, because man alone can not save or be clean of their sins then God's grace intervenes. Salvation is bigger than anybody understands is a boundless goodness that man has hardly accepted but you must understand that salvation, God gives it for free just by his great love for his goodness alone ... because God so loved the world He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish but have eternal life ( St. John 3.16). Salvation in Christ is perfect, was designed by the heart of God in eternity with the sole purpose of which leper man comes to Christ to be saved and when I speak of forgiveness saved according to the word forgiveness Larousse means ... the forgiveness of sins, indulgence / / pardon or amnesty for the crime procedural / / excuse someone / / forgo revenge for an offense received / / cancel the debt. And in the vast encyclopedic us the idea of \u200b\u200bforgiveness ... forgiveness of retribution, of the offense, misdemeanor or felony, or of any debt or obligation. The richness of our English allows us to understand more clearly how significant is the salvation paid by Christ on the cross.
Being forgiven by God, I admit that we are guilty before Him, but His grace gives us the forgiveness of the debt incurred by our ancestors Adam and Eve to sin we transferred by inheritance Romans 3:23 sin and gives the sentence ... for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness, because of being overlooked, in his patience, his past sins, to demonstrate at this time his righteousness ... that blessed grace he gave us, but not all; to be forgiven because we do not remove the condition before the judge and the accuser (Satan) as a sinner but the grace of God is so great that his righteousness imputed to us and therefore we are justified is more wonderful to be forgiven. Dictionary ONE COLOR says ... correct or do just one thing / / adjust, fix one thing exactly / / prove the innocence of one / / we none of us sane in this world given the size and height in our consciousness, to be moral standing before God is just, we know we deserve hell just because they are offenders of the holiness of God and carry on our genetic stain of original sin, but His grace is so great that I overlook our sins and sets us on a spiritual position that we can not make that is without fault, without blemish, without condemnation, without debt, and therefore Satan, death, hell have no power over what has been washed in the Blood perfect Lamb of God, the son of God, the righteous for the unrighteous, the Holy sinners, we can say freely that we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us (Romans 8:37) and that the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin (1 John 1:7) Dear reader if your condition is like this leper coming to Christ no matter their faults anneal to him, let him come into your life, change your conditioned mind, erase your sad past, and affect your future, He said ... he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and not come into condemnation but has passed from death to life.
Make your decision today and transcend your life forever, not connosco anyone who decides his life Christ does not receive the wonderful benefit of a life change. Accept Christ as your personal savior, the he received as a child (a) you will be an important decision. GOD BLESS
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