King James Daily Bible Study: A Clean Body

King James Daily Bible Study: A Clean Body
Date: Monday February 21, 2011
Chapters: Numbers 19-20
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Details of Today's Reading: The sacrifices and ashes of a heifer to purify the unclean, the people come to Zin, complain of no water, water from the rock, Aaron commanded to give the reign of high priest over to his son, Eleazar, and Aaron dies.

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The word defile is defined as to make foul, dirty, or unclean, to pollute or disgrace. Out of all the sins committed, those that defile the flesh are more detestable to God than all the rest. Why? Besides the body being the Temple in which God dwells in all believers, it is the only type of sin that one can sin against his own body. “Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.” - I Corinthians 6:18-20.

God gave the Israelites or anyone amongst them, strict rules about cleansing the body should it be defiled, perhaps the most enforced was that of touching dead flesh, whether it was a dead animal or person, they were not even to go near a grave without being cleansed.

“This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke: And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face:..Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the even. And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even. And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of separation: it is a purification for sin...Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him.” - Numbers 19:2,3,7-9,13.

A dead body is a defiled body, a dead body is any body that has not been cleansed through the blood of Christ. When a person is born, because of sin that had been passed down through Adam, it is born without the Spirit of God in it, while it is walking, breathing, flesh, it is dead in spirit, making it a defiled body. When a person comes to Jesus Christ and calls on Him to save him he gets a clean body, he receives the Spirit of God, making him walking, breathing, living flesh, alive with the Spirit of God in him. “But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.” - Romans 8:9-13.

Thirty-eight years had come to pass since the ten spies encouraged the people not to go into the promised land, all, but Moses, Aaron, Caleb, and Joshua had died and now they were allowed to head back toward Canaan. While passing through they came to Edom, it was the shortest route to the promised land, but they had to get permission to pass through. When refused to pass the Israelites became distraught and began complaining that there was no water for them to drink. God gave Moses a command to get water for them to drink, but out of anger he disobeyed that command and because of that disobedience he forfeited his right to enter the promised land. Not only did Moses lose that right, but Aaron did as well.

“And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink. And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him. And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock? And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also. And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.” - Numbers 20:7-12.

What was the offense that caused Moses and Aaron to forfeit their rights to the promised land? There were several reasons, first, God commanded Moses to speak to the rock, instead he hit the rock. Second, he yelled at the congregation and acknowledged himself and Aaron as the ones who would fetch water from the rock (it came from God, not the rod). Third, both Moses and Aaron appeared to God to have had a disbelief in Him, causing both of them to forfeit their rights to enter the promised land. The only way anyone can enter the promised land is by believing in and accepting God's Son, Jesus Christ as their Savior. It is not enough to know that Christ exists, we have to believe that Jesus Christ, is the only Son of God, that He died, was buried, and three days later arose from the dead to give life to us. “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.” - Romans 10:9.

Defiling the body goes beyond what we think is dirty, most people imagine it as being sexual, but defiling the body includes acts such as, alcohol abuse, smoking, drugs, fighting, excessive eating, if it is immoral in any way, it is offensive to God. The closer a person gets to God the more offensive He becomes when he sins, I am not talking about sins that are done unknowingly, we all sin everyday unknowingly, I am talking about deliberate sin. The smallest sin, even those committed through anger, seduction, or any other acts of the flesh are offensive to God, especially if you have chosen to live your life through Christ and do not fulfill your end of the bargain. You know how an employer is always harder on the ones who are hard workers and faithful? God is the same way, He is always a little harder on the ones He knows can do the work. Why? Because we know better and we are the example of Christ. Count yourself blessed to receive chastisement from God once in a while, it is much better than the alternative. “Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf. For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?..Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator. ” - I Peter 4:16,17,19.

Jesus Christ Revealed: Today Jesus is revealed through the rock that Moses struck. Jesus is our Rock, “And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.” - I Corinthians 10:4.

Thanks and God Bless You, I am praying for you,
Christina

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