Under the law when a person sinned, they were to bring a sin offering to the priest who would make atonement and then God would forgive his sin.
Example:
In Lev 5:6-10, the instructions about a sin offering were given. The person who sinned was required to bring a trespass offering to the LORD of a female lamb or kid goat (less than a year old) for a sin offering. The priest would make atonement for him concerning his sin. If one was unable to bring a lamb or kid goat, then one had to bring to the LORD two turtledoves or two young pigeons for a sin offering.
Lev 5:11-13 But if he is not able to bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons, then he who sinned shall bring for his offering one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a sin offering. He shall put no oil on it, nor shall he put frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering. Then he shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it as a memorial portion, and burn it on the altar according to the offerings made by fire to the LORD. It is a sin offering. The priest shall make atonement for him, for his sin that he has committed in any of these matters; and it shall be forgiven him.
The animal and the fine flour sacrifices were offered as a substitute for punishment itself, not actual punishment. And they had to be offered each time the person sinned. The sacrifices were a merciful provision to the law that gave the sinner the opportunity to bring an offering to God to made reconciliation for his sin.
The provision of atonement:
Man commits sins, God gives His offering one time for all times for our sins, God makes atonement one time for all times for our sins, man is forgiven forever-our sins and iniquities God remembers no more.
Jesus said, “God gave His one and only Son”. But for what purpose did God give Him? In Hosea 13:14 God is recorded saying, “I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death. O Death, I will be your plagues! O Grave, I will be your destruction! Jesus stated the purpose for His coming, “the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many”. And the Lord Himself said at the last supper, “For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.”
The Apostle Paul stated, “And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet. For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified. And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after saying, “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws on their hearts, and write them on their minds,” then he adds, “I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.” Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.”
God gave His one and only Son as a sin offering that ransoms us from death and the grave and ushers in the new covenant from God.
The Apostle Paul explains how God demonstrates His righteousness for forgiving sins; “But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets; even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction, for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God; being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus; whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance; to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.”
The law is not about mercy, and atonement is not about punishment. God is both just and merciful. And being just, God does not give a free pass on sin, but being merciful He has given us a way that addresses our sin so that we can be eternally forgiven, and that way does not require punishment but a substitution for punishment itself; the sacrificial bodily death of Jesus Christ His Son has made reconciliation for our sins. Just as the animal or flour sacrifices were never punished in place of the sinner, neither was our Lord. And just as forgiveness did not happen without the sacrifice for atonement, neither are man’s sins forgiven forever without faith in the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ the Son of God.
Our Lord effectually bore-carried away, removed, cleansed, purified us of our sin after He humbled Himself and became a man to die bodily as God’s offering for our sins that makes us right with Him. John the Baptist said about Jesus, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!” John was referring to the lambs that were sacrificed for the sins of the people, whose death would atone-make reconciliation for their sins so that God would then forgive their sins. We now know that Jesus sacrificed His sinless life to make reconciliation for our sins so that God would forgive them forever.
Our Lord’s suffering and death for the atonement-reconciliation of our sins did not serve as our punishment upon Him, but He served as a sin offering whose death substituted for our punishment. Our Lord not only died as an offering that take away our sins, but also entered God’s presence with His own blood securing for us eternal redemption-deliverance from God’s punishment for sin. He is our Great High Priest who made atonement-reconciliation for us by His own blood. Now all will be forgiven eternally when coming to Christ in repentance and belief, and all those receiving God’s gift of righteousness by faith in Jesus Christ will live eternally with him as His son.
The law is the power behind sin, and death gets its power from sin. “But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus; for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works of the law, that no one would boast.”
We have been redeemed-set free from the eternal punishment for sin by the ransom price of Jesus Christ. God told us through Hosea that He was going to ransom us from the grave and redeem us from death, and his own arm worked salvation through His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. We are no longer under law but grace; this being brought about by Jesus Christ whose death redeems us from the transgressions committed under the first covenant. And whose shed blood inaugurates the new covenant.
God Bless
Example:
In Lev 5:6-10, the instructions about a sin offering were given. The person who sinned was required to bring a trespass offering to the LORD of a female lamb or kid goat (less than a year old) for a sin offering. The priest would make atonement for him concerning his sin. If one was unable to bring a lamb or kid goat, then one had to bring to the LORD two turtledoves or two young pigeons for a sin offering.
Lev 5:11-13 But if he is not able to bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons, then he who sinned shall bring for his offering one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a sin offering. He shall put no oil on it, nor shall he put frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering. Then he shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it as a memorial portion, and burn it on the altar according to the offerings made by fire to the LORD. It is a sin offering. The priest shall make atonement for him, for his sin that he has committed in any of these matters; and it shall be forgiven him.
The animal and the fine flour sacrifices were offered as a substitute for punishment itself, not actual punishment. And they had to be offered each time the person sinned. The sacrifices were a merciful provision to the law that gave the sinner the opportunity to bring an offering to God to made reconciliation for his sin.
The provision of atonement:
- Is a display of God’s love and mercy towards sinful man.
- Was God’s requirement for a sinner to be reconciled to God and forgiven.
- Proved our sins separate us from God and we need His mercy to be reconciled.
- Provided a means to show the righteousness of God that man’s sin must be addressed.
- It is the means for God to be both just and merciful when forgiving sins.
Man commits sins, God gives His offering one time for all times for our sins, God makes atonement one time for all times for our sins, man is forgiven forever-our sins and iniquities God remembers no more.
Jesus said, “God gave His one and only Son”. But for what purpose did God give Him? In Hosea 13:14 God is recorded saying, “I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death. O Death, I will be your plagues! O Grave, I will be your destruction! Jesus stated the purpose for His coming, “the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many”. And the Lord Himself said at the last supper, “For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.”
The Apostle Paul stated, “And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet. For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified. And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after saying, “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws on their hearts, and write them on their minds,” then he adds, “I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.” Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.”
God gave His one and only Son as a sin offering that ransoms us from death and the grave and ushers in the new covenant from God.
The Apostle Paul explains how God demonstrates His righteousness for forgiving sins; “But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets; even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction, for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God; being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus; whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance; to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.”
The law is not about mercy, and atonement is not about punishment. God is both just and merciful. And being just, God does not give a free pass on sin, but being merciful He has given us a way that addresses our sin so that we can be eternally forgiven, and that way does not require punishment but a substitution for punishment itself; the sacrificial bodily death of Jesus Christ His Son has made reconciliation for our sins. Just as the animal or flour sacrifices were never punished in place of the sinner, neither was our Lord. And just as forgiveness did not happen without the sacrifice for atonement, neither are man’s sins forgiven forever without faith in the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ the Son of God.
Our Lord effectually bore-carried away, removed, cleansed, purified us of our sin after He humbled Himself and became a man to die bodily as God’s offering for our sins that makes us right with Him. John the Baptist said about Jesus, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!” John was referring to the lambs that were sacrificed for the sins of the people, whose death would atone-make reconciliation for their sins so that God would then forgive their sins. We now know that Jesus sacrificed His sinless life to make reconciliation for our sins so that God would forgive them forever.
Our Lord’s suffering and death for the atonement-reconciliation of our sins did not serve as our punishment upon Him, but He served as a sin offering whose death substituted for our punishment. Our Lord not only died as an offering that take away our sins, but also entered God’s presence with His own blood securing for us eternal redemption-deliverance from God’s punishment for sin. He is our Great High Priest who made atonement-reconciliation for us by His own blood. Now all will be forgiven eternally when coming to Christ in repentance and belief, and all those receiving God’s gift of righteousness by faith in Jesus Christ will live eternally with him as His son.
The law is the power behind sin, and death gets its power from sin. “But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus; for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works of the law, that no one would boast.”
We have been redeemed-set free from the eternal punishment for sin by the ransom price of Jesus Christ. God told us through Hosea that He was going to ransom us from the grave and redeem us from death, and his own arm worked salvation through His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. We are no longer under law but grace; this being brought about by Jesus Christ whose death redeems us from the transgressions committed under the first covenant. And whose shed blood inaugurates the new covenant.
God Bless