TOUCHING JESUS
by Bob Wickizer
Scripture: 2 Samuel 1:1, 2 Samuel 1:17-27, Psalms 130:1-8, 2 Corinthians 8:7-15, Mark 5:21-43
Title: Touching Jesus
Author: Bob Wickizer
Text: 2 Samuel 1:1, 17-27; Psalm 130; 2 Corinthians 8:7-15; Mark 5:21-43
In the 2007 book "The Year of Living Biblically," Jewish author, A. J. Jacobs, attempts to spend one year of his life following all the 613 commandments of the Hebrew Bible. At the end of the year, he looks more like a Taliban fighter than an urban, New Yorker. The book is very funny. In one scene, his wife torments him with one of the laws from Leviticus chapter 15. It is relevant to our gospel. It is long. And it will be funny. Here it is.
If a woman has a discharge of blood for many days, not at the time of her impurity, or if she has a discharge beyond the time of her impurity, for all the days of the discharge she shall continue in uncleanness; as in the days of her impurity, she shall be unclean. Every bed on which she lies during all the days of her discharge shall be treated as the bed of her impurity; and everything on which she sits shall be unclean, as in the uncleanness of her impurity. Whoever touches these things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening. If she is cleansed of her discharge, she shall count seven days, and after that she shall be clean. On the eighth day she shall take two turtle-doves or two pigeons and bring them to the priest at the entrance of the tent of meeting. The priest shall offer one for a sin-offering and the other for a burnt-offering; and the priest shall make atonement on her behalf before the Lord for her unclean discharge.
The author's wife had a brilliant idea. On one day of her "impurity," she sat on every chair and bed in their house rendering each item unclean. The author would make himself unclean just by touching or sitting on the furniture, so he was forced to sit on the floor.
From a modern perspective, it is hilarious. At the time of Jesus, these laws were deadly serious.
A woman with a disc ...
Author: Bob Wickizer
Text: 2 Samuel 1:1, 17-27; Psalm 130; 2 Corinthians 8:7-15; Mark 5:21-43
In the 2007 book "The Year of Living Biblically," Jewish author, A. J. Jacobs, attempts to spend one year of his life following all the 613 commandments of the Hebrew Bible. At the end of the year, he looks more like a Taliban fighter than an urban, New Yorker. The book is very funny. In one scene, his wife torments him with one of the laws from Leviticus chapter 15. It is relevant to our gospel. It is long. And it will be funny. Here it is.
If a woman has a discharge of blood for many days, not at the time of her impurity, or if she has a discharge beyond the time of her impurity, for all the days of the discharge she shall continue in uncleanness; as in the days of her impurity, she shall be unclean. Every bed on which she lies during all the days of her discharge shall be treated as the bed of her impurity; and everything on which she sits shall be unclean, as in the uncleanness of her impurity. Whoever touches these things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening. If she is cleansed of her discharge, she shall count seven days, and after that she shall be clean. On the eighth day she shall take two turtle-doves or two pigeons and bring them to the priest at the entrance of the tent of meeting. The priest shall offer one for a sin-offering and the other for a burnt-offering; and the priest shall make atonement on her behalf before the Lord for her unclean discharge.
The author's wife had a brilliant idea. On one day of her "impurity," she sat on every chair and bed in their house rendering each item unclean. The author would make himself unclean just by touching or sitting on the furniture, so he was forced to sit on the floor.
From a modern perspective, it is hilarious. At the time of Jesus, these laws were deadly serious.
A woman with a disc ...
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