In this episode we continue studying the book of Leviticus. In this episode laws about clean and unclean animals were given.

If a person touched an unclean animal, he or she was unclean until evening. Their uncleanness was temporary.

This points to man’s temporary defiled state because of sin. He would be made clean at evening, when the shadow of death overtook God's Son.

He would take away all sin in one day and all the people would be made clean.

And after that day, there would be no need for sacrifices and many of the laws we are reading about.

Many have read the laws and the prophets. They’ve read the laws about unclean foods and about not wearing clothes with mixed fabrics and have shunned the Lord.

They did not realize that the commandment was under the old dispensation of things, given to teach a divine principle about God's Son, Jesus would be perfect, in him there would be no mixture, this holy, perfect and pure One would die for their sins and free them from their own mixture.

Their parents, Adam and Eve had eaten from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, now there was good and evil in them, they did good and evil, right and wrong, and God would have to separate and divide asunder the good and evil that was mixed in them.

They had unknowingly intermingled with the devil, they were yoked to him and he taught them his ways.

But Jesus would come to earth to teach them the laws of the Kingdom of God, then he would die, so their sins could be forgiven, then he would give them the gift of the Holy Spirit, who would enable them to choose to do good instead of evil.

So now the lessons have been taught, and the truth revealed they could wear clothes with mixed fabrics, if they wanted to.

They could plow a field with an ox and a donkey, if they wanted to. Thanks to the new dispensation that began with the birth, death and resurrection of Christ.

The people were commanded to learn to make a difference between clean and unclean, and by the time Jesus came they had been keeping the law for so long that they knew without a shadow of doubt what it meant to be unclean and defiled.

And now the Messiah had come, the one they called, teacher because He taught with authority.

The “Teacher” told his people, it wasn’t what they ate that defiled them. What really defiled them was their actions, what they did in their body.

Defilement comes from the heart of a person. The heart is the ground from which evil springs forth and into action.

Here’s the text:

Mark 7:18 And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;

Mark 7:19 Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?

Mark 7:20 And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.

Mark 7:21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

Mark 7:22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

Mark 7:23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.