Leviticus 15

v1-18: “God has promised to sprinkle fresh water on us and to cleanse us from all our filthy unrighteousness. He has set the way of repentance for us to wash and make ourselves clean,” and “he has also provided a sacrifice of atonement and requires us by faith to gain the right to enjoy the benefits of that sacrifice.”

v19-33: These laws were given to set apart Israel as God’s own people “whom he intended to be a kingdom of priests, a holy nation.” What was a defilement to them, was not so to the other nations. But if the defilements that “were natural, unavoidable, and involuntary,” and not the result of their sin, made them unfit for “fellowship with God or with other people,” how much more dirty would they be “if they sinned against the light and law of nature… and conscience.” From all this, let us to learn to “carefully avoid all sin,” and to be thankful that in Christ we can have clean hands and pure hearts, for without this holiness, we cannot see the Lord.