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Monday, 18 August 2008

17 August 2008 - Sin offering

[My thoughts in square brackets. Verses that are in square brackets are not specifically referred to in this service but supports the point that he was making.]

17 August 2008 (3^rd service)

Pastor Prince – teaching on the Sin offering

Numbers 18:8-11

And the LORD spoke to Aaron: “Here, I Myself have also given you charge of My heave offerings, all the holy gifts of the children of Israel; I have given them as a portion to you and your sons, as an ordinance forever.

This shall be yours of the most holy things reserved from the fire: every offering of theirs, every grain offering and every sin offering and every trespass offering which they render to Me, shall be most holy for you and your sons. In a most holy place you shall eat it; every male shall eat it. It shall be holy to you.

“This also is yours: the heave offering of their gift, with all the wave offerings of the children of Israel; I have given them to you, and your sons and daughters with you, as an ordinance forever. Everyone who is clean in your house may eat it.

Under the old covenant, you perform to become.

Under the new covenant, you become to perform.

In the Old Testament, the priests were healthy and strong for service and the work of the tabernacle. This is because under the old covenant, the priests had to fulfil criteria – no blemish, etc..

It is a lack of understanding of Jesus’ work in their lives that people are suffering. To the extent you have fear and anxiety, to that extent you do not know. Humble yourself to ask the Lord to reveal the truth in your life.

Of the 5 offerings, 3 are a sweet smelling aroma to God: Burnt offering (perfection of Jesus), Grain offering (beauty of Jesus) and Peace offering.

The burnt offering is burnt on the altar of burnt offering within the temple whereas the sin offering is burnt outside the camp because it reminds God of our sins.

Leviticus 4:11-12 (there is offal in sin offering because it reminds God of our sins, not burnt offering)

But the bull’s hide and all its flesh, with its head and legs, its entrails and offal— the whole bull he shall carry outside the camp to a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood with fire; where the ashes are poured out it shall be burned.

Our self-efforts are dung – even our achievements. Whenever we try to achieve righteousness by works, our righteousness are like filthy rags.

[Philippians 3:4-9

If anyone else thinks he may have confidence in the flesh, I more so: circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee; concerning zeal, persecuting the church; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.

But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;

Isaiah 64:6

But we are all like an unclean thing,
And all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags;]

Hebrews 13:11-13

For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned outside the camp. Therefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered outside the gate. Therefore let us go forth to Him, outside the camp, bearing His reproach.

4 types of people in the OT who offered the sin offering –

Person	Anointed priest	Whole congregation	A ruler	A commoner
Sacrifice	Young bull	Young bull	A male kid	A female kid
Blood	Blood put on the horns of the altar of incense		Blood put on the horns of the altar of burnt offering

[Tabulated for easier reading. All verses found in Leviticus 4 (extracted at the end of the sermon notes)]

Typology:

Female and male speaks of “strength” – passive and active. It is not literal.

Eg. You may be a female but you have the strength of a male in the things of God – i.e. hungry for the things of God. You may be a male but are a female in spiritual matters – i.e. fall asleep during service!

The sacrifice – sin offering – speaks of Jesus carrying our sins

Male kid: A leader who sins must have a strong active appreciation of the finished work of Christ

Hebrews 10:1-4

For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? For the worshipers, once purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins. But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.

The moment you have a perfect sacrifice, there is no more sin consciousness.

We have a divine redemption for all eternity.

To be conscious of sins when you know that it’s been removed is to insult the blood of Christ.

God forgave us, not based on our knowledge of our sins, but by His knowledge of our sins. [That means, all our sins, even sins we are unaware of, are SURELY paid because it’s by His knowledge!]

God is not merciful in making us righteous. He is merciful in sending Jesus. Our sins brought Jesus down. His righteousness brought us up to the Father’s throne. Today, His judicial righteousness must abide by the finished work of His Son who paid for our sins with His blood! (without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sins)

The question to ask is whether God is satisfied with the sacrifice of Jesus.

Jesus’ sacrifice – our true rest. Your heart is at liberty in rest.

Blood of bulls and goats – temporal forgiveness.

Blood of Christ – eternal forgiveness.

Ephesians 1:7

In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace

In the mind of God, the burnt offering and the sin offering is one.

The Holy Spirit is jealous to guard the glory of Jesus.

Because of the sin offering, God turned His back on His Son. But as the burnt offering, Jesus was never more pleasing to the Father.

We are transformed by beholding the glory of the Lord by the Spirit of the Lord.

Would to God that God gives us more new covenant ministers to uncover the beauty of Christ!

As your Sacrifice is, so is your rest.

Just as Jesus’ sacrifice is eternal, so is our rest divine and eternal.

Hebrews 10:11-12

And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God,

In the OT, the priest had to stand.. daily.. repeatedly..

But this Man, one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down. [It is a completed work!]

In the OT, the judgment is greater than the sacrifice. Elijah called down fire, which consumed the sacrifice, the water, and even the stones! Nothing was left.

In the NT, the Sacrifice is greater than the judgment. After Jesus consumed God’s judgment, He could say, “It is finished!” and like the King He is, dismissed His Spirit to God. The Sacrifice is greater than the judgment! What assurance! Hallelujah! Fully fully paid!!!

4 types of people in the OT who offered the sin offering –

Leviticus 4:1-3

Now the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘If a person sins unintentionally against any of the commandments of the LORD in anything which ought not to be done, and does any of them, if the anointed priest sins, bringing guilt on the people, then let him offer to the LORD for his sin which he has sinned a young bull without blemish as a sin offering.

Leviticus 4:13-18

Now if the whole congregation of Israel sins unintentionally, and the thing is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done something against any of the commandments of the LORD in anything which should not be done, and are guilty; when the sin which they have committed becomes known, then the assembly shall offer a young bull for the sin, and bring it before the tabernacle of meeting. And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands on the head of the bull before the LORD. Then the bull shall be killed before the LORD. The anointed priest shall bring some of the bull’s blood to the tabernacle of meeting. Then the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before the LORD, in front of the veil. And he shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar which is before the LORD, which is in the tabernacle of meeting; and he shall pour the remaining blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of meeting.

Leviticus 4:22-23

When a ruler has sinned, and done something unintentionally against any of the commandments of the LORD his God in anything which should not be done, and is guilty, or if his sin which he has committed comes to his knowledge, he shall bring as his offering a kid of the goats, a male without blemish.

Leviticus 4:27-3

If anyone of the common people sins unintentionally by doing something against any of the commandments of the LORD in anything which ought not to be done, and is guilty, or if his sin which he has committed comes to his knowledge, then he shall bring as his offering a kid of the goats, a female without blemish, for his sin which he has committed. And he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering, and kill the sin offering at the place of the burnt offering. Then the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and pour all the remaining blood at the base of the altar. He shall remove all its fat, as fat is removed from the sacrifice of the peace offering; and the priest shall burn it on the altar for a sweet aroma to the LORD. So the priest shall make atonement for him, and it shall be forgiven him.