Marked for Illness/Dr Pat Holliday/Dr Sabrina Sessions/Marshall Perot

Marked for Illness

Leper Sinner was Unclean 

 (Lev.13:44).

General Naaman is shown as a man who had climbed to the height of his profession in the Syrian Army. Yet, he is at the same time revealed as a man who has fallen into serious trouble, he was a leper. Leprosy was considered a curse that was caused by sin.

Then too, because he was considered unclean, he had to be isolated from the people. Being defiled, his only hope was for the mercy and forgiveness of God to overcome. Else, he would have to live alone for the rest of his days. His high position could not save him. His worldly authority could not protect him. His political connections could not deliver him.  He was trapped in a body that was full of rottenness and depravity.  He was spiritually poverty-struck. His false gods could not deliver him.

The Bible says, (Lev. 13:44-46) “He is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is in his head. 45 And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean. 46 All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be.”