Saturday, December 27, 2008

Luke 15

1 comment:

Unknown said...

I didn't get a chance to comment on this chapter yesterday, but I was struck by how Jesus so often put himself in the position of "unclean" by Jewish standards (touching dead people, people with leprosy or other diseases etc, and yet never seemed to become "unclean" in the process as Mosaic law would have decreed him. He made the unclean clean rather than vice versa. He didn't have to become isolated for however many days after having touched an unclean person, or go and make sacrfices for having become "unclean" himself. Yancey talks about this in his book What's So Amazing About Grace and basically says that conduits of grace are not contaminated by "unclean" things or people, but rather spritz the healing and cleansing aroma of grace into the air and lives of the unclean. He believes this to be true of all spirit indwelt believers and not just of the Messiah.