Leviticus 15 – Come before God undefiled

Leviticus 11-15 are five chapters that help to clarify how one needs to purify himself to be fit to enter the presence of God. This suggests that we cannot take God for granted. We worship a holy God and coming to Him requires that we be appropriately postured. Flippancy and casual attitude are not the correct stances that are befitting worship due to God. These chapters talk about being clean and fit for worship.

Leviticus 15 deals with discharges from the body that could render one unclean and thus not fit to come before God. Verses 1-19 deal with discharges a man could experience and how they ought o clean themselves. Verses 20-30 deal with discharges from a woman that would render her unclean and unfit for the presence of God. The discharge of the man refers mainly to his sperms. For the women, what is dealt here refers mainly to the menstrual period. The issue is more about being in an appropriate state to approach God. The main purpose of this chapter is a call to be properly cleaned to enter God’s presence to worship Him.

This chapter does not suggest that sex is wrong. It does, however, suggest that it must be properly handled. Matters of sexuality is only one aspect of life. It must be properly managed and regulated in the life of one who wants to come before God to worship Him. This is so that one will not come before the Lord in a defiled state. The call for sexual abstinence during a woman’s menstrual period shows us that man has no control over his wife and her body. That monthly period reminds man that it is God and not the husband that has control over the body of the wife. The thrust of this chapter is for both the man and woman who want to come to worship God to come undefiled before Him. For us believers, the attitude in approaching God is vital. We must come in humility and through the blood of the Lamb, our Lord Jesus Christ, so that we are cleansed from our sins, to be able to come into God’s holy presence.