Our Bodies Are Living Sacrifices
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from this leprous condition, when their bodies recovered from it and were clean.
Then
they were
to go and say, “The Lord has healed me.” And they would bring them in and shave their heads,
and they would change their clothes and wash. He would examine them to pronounce them clean
and acceptable. They were not to go to be pronounced clean until they
were
, because they were
unacceptable to be in public, much less in the house of God. But here Jesus tells them, “Go on.
Show yourself to the priest,” and their symptoms are obvious. They stink. Their flesh is dying on
them while they’re walking around.
You ask, “Brother Keith, what if the condition of my body is unacceptable?” He showed you
what to do right here. What do you do? I don’t care if you feel like, look like, and smell like
walking death, what did He say to do? In verse 14, He told them to go show themselves to the
priest, “And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed.” They were healed.
I want you to know you have a High Priest. You have a High Priest passed into heaven: Jesus the
Son of God. You ask, “What if my body condition is unacceptable? What if I have defilement
and corruption in me that’s not pleasing to God?” What did He say? Present your body to Him as
acceptable. Walk on up to Him and call it clean. Call those things that be not as though they
were. Call your body healed, call it whole, and as you go, as you go doing that, you will be.
Don’t sit and cry and say, “My condition and my body is unacceptable to Him.” He’s already
bought and paid for our healing. He took that infirmity, He bore that sickness, and He carried
that pain. What do you do? You stand up and agree with Him. You stand up and call your body
healed, even though you still look and feel and smell the symptoms. Call your body healed. Call
it whole and present it to Him, your High Priest, and say, “Here, I’m bringing this living sacrifice
to you. I call it whole, I call it healed based on the redemptive work of Jesus.” And as you go, it
might not appear the first time you said it, as far as experiencing it, but as you go, you will be
cleansed. You will be healed. All things are possible.
