Greater Life Church

Leprosy is a horrible disease. It is a cell by cell rotting away of the human body. Jewish law was that if a man had leprosy, he must separate himself away from society. Everything that the leper touched had to be cleaned or destroyed. It became as if the leper had never existed. It was forbidden for there to be any contact (physical or otherwise) between a leper and a healthy person. Spiritually, sin is leprosy. It destroys lives and forces the child of God to have to live outside from and to be cut off from God’s people. In our story, Jesus (in violation of the law) spoke with had contact with a group of lepers. Jesus spoke healing into their life, but the evidence of the healing did not happen until they began to travel to present themselves to the priests. In obedience to God’s word, they began to be healed. It did not happen immediately, but as they obeyed the Lord, they were cleansed. One of the 10 turned back and begins to praise the Lord. All ten of the