Compassionate God
Channel: IPC Whitefield Rehoboth Ministries
Date: 2020-12-06

English Sermon

Moved with compassion, Jesus reached out with His hand and touched him, and *said to him, “I am willing; be cleansed.” -  Mark 1 : 41

The touch of Jesus, therefore, gave the leper a new conception of divine compassion. It is argued that Jesus, by this touch, was made legally unclean until the evening (Leviticus 13:46; Leviticus 11:40). But we should note the spirit and purpose of this law. Touch was prohibited because it defiled the person touching, and aided not the person touched. In Jesus' case the reasons for the law were absent, the conditions being reversed. Touching defiled not the toucher, and healed the touched. In all things Jesus touches and shares our human state, but he so shares it that instead of his being defiled by our uncleanness, we are purified by his righteousness.