Today we are reading Numbers 19. In this chapter we read about laws for purification. “For the unclean they shall take some ashes of the burnt sin offering, and fresh water shall be added in a vessel. Then a clean person shall take hyssop and dip it in the water and sprinkle it on the tent and on all the furnishings and on the persons who were there and on whoever touched the bone, or the slain or the dead or the grave. And the clean person shall sprinkle it on the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day. Thus on the seventh day he shall cleanse him, and he shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and at evening he shall be clean.” Numbers 19:17-19 ESV God gave the Israelites many rules about what is clean and unclean. The point of these laws is health and Holiness. As God’s people we need to stay away from anything that would defile us. It is interesting that many of the things that might defile us spiritually an also carry disease and threaten our physical health. God’s rules always have a twofold purpose. Think of the Ten Commandments. How do they have a twofold purpose? May you be blessed in your obedience! Pastor Tim
