In this episode we continue studying the book of Leviticus. In this episode God gave Moses laws and judgments pertaining to the priests holiness.

They were not to be defiled by coming in contact with certain dead bodies. The person had to be his mother, father, sister or brother.

A priest could not marry a whore or profane woman. Nor could their daughters become whores.

The High Priest could not be defiled by any dead person. Not even his parents. He could only marry a virgin.

Several blemishes were listed that would prevent a priest from serving the bread of God. These were seen as physical blemishes or disabilities but yet they point to spiritual blemishes that could keep a person from serving the bread of God, which is the word of God.

Yet, we note there is no disability, no blemish, no defect that Christ can’t heal or won’t heal if a person comes to him for healing.

Having broken stones was a blemish.

A man with broken stones could not serve the bread of God.

Strong's says stones refers to a man’s testicles, and broken means emasculated.

Websters says, emasculate means to castrate; to deprive a male of certain parts which characterize the sex, to deprive of virility, to deprive of masculine strength or vigor; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness, unmanned.

So God did not want men in the ministry with broken stones.

He needed men in the ministry like Paul. Men who were brave. Men who could take a punch and not flinch.

Men who could brag and boast about their sufferings and wear them like a badge of honor.

In this battle against the kingdom of darkness boldness and courage is required.

Paul a man with his stones intact, could brag and boast about being beaten by the Jews 5 times and how he was stoned one time and these were only a few of the troubles he experienced in his life time. And these he experienced as an old man.

Here's the text:

2 Corinthians 11:16 I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.

2 Corinthians 11:17 That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.

2 Corinthians 11:18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.

2 Corinthians 11:19 For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.

2 Corinthians 11:20 For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.

2 Corinthians 11:21 I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.

2 Corinthians 11:22 Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.

2 Corinthians 11:23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.

2 Corinthians 11:24 Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.

2 Corinthians 11:25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;

2 Corinthians 11:26 In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;

2 Corinthians 11:27 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

2 Corinthians 11:28 Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.

2 Corinthians 11:29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?

2 Corinthians 11:30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.

2 Corinthians 11:31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.

2 Corinthians 11:32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:

2 Corinthians 11:33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.