Our reading today deals with the dreaded disease, leprosy. Rather than study the disease itself, we shall compare leprosy with sin. It is in the heart. In these chapters we also see that leprosy spreads.
Sin also spreads.
It begins with a thought, then a desire, then an act. The results can be, and often are, devastating. He then allowed his eyes to wander to his neighbor's wife. He lusted and then committed adultery. He lied, made Uriah drunk, and finally had him murdered.