Leviticus 11:9-47

One general observation will be all that is necessary to offer on the law, concerning the clean and unclean among the fishes, and the fowls, and the creeping things of the earth. The grand object evidently intended from the whole, is to show that we are all unclean by nature, and made clean only in CHRIST JESUS. This is the first and ultimate design of these laws, which were all intermediate and introductory, as leading to the LORD JESUS. Our adored Redeemer hath delivered us from the law of carnal ordinances, which perish with the using, being dead to them with CHRIST. He hath taught us, that it is not that which goeth into the mouth that defileth a man, but that which cometh out from the heart. And as every creature of GOD is good that is sanctified by the word and prayer; it is our happiness and privilege, that what GOD hath cleansed is no longer unclean. See Colossians 2:21; Matthew 15:11; 1 Timothy 4:3; Acts 10:28.