8/21/2008 8:58 AM
My Worship Time Focus: The trespass offering
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Exodus 5:14-6:17; 7:1-10
Message of the verses: In different versions of the Bible the
trespass offering is called the guilt offering and so in this SD I will be
calling it the guilt offering.
The
guilt offering was needed for two kinds of sins, one against “the holy things
of the Lord” which can be seen in Leviticus 5:15. “15
"If a person acts unfaithfully and sins unintentionally against the
LORD’S holy things, then he shall bring his guilt offering to the LORD: a ram
without defect from the flock, according to your valuation in silver by
shekels, in terms of the shekel of the sanctuary, for a guilt offering.” The second sin the guilt offering was for was
a sin against one’s neighbor and that can be seen in Leviticus 6:2-3: “2
"When a person sins and acts unfaithfully against the LORD, and
deceives his companion in regard to a deposit or a security entrusted to him,
or through robbery, or if he has extorted from his companion, 3 or has found what was lost and lied about it
and sworn falsely, so that he sins in regard to any one of the things a man may
do.”
Those
were the sins and now I will look at the ritual on how this sacrifice was to be
offered. The first process is to
confession of the sin and this can be seen in Numbers 5:6-7 “6 "Speak to the sons of Israel, ‘When a
man or woman commits any of the sins of mankind, acting unfaithfully against
the LORD, and that person is guilty, 7 then
he shall confess his sins which he has committed, and he shall make restitution
in full for his wrong and add to it one-fifth of it, and give it to him whom he
has wronged.” Dr. Wiersbe writes this
about true repentance: “True repentance
will always bring with it a desire for restitution. We will want to make things right with God
and with those whom we’ve sinned against.
Forgiveness comes only because of the death of an innocent
substitute. Isaiah 53:10 speaks of the
Lord Jesus Christ being a guilt offering, “But the LORD was pleased to crush
Him, putting Him to grief; If He would render Himself as a guilt offering, He
will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, And the good pleasure of the
LORD will prosper in His hand.” The
guilt offering was to be a bull and that bull must be worth the damage that was
done and then twenty percent was added to it, for it was very costly to commit
sin.
This
is the end of the first chapter in Dr. Wiersbe’s book on Leviticus and he ends
this chapter with a paragraph on how these sacrifices were a picture of Jesus
Christ and what He did for me, a believer in Him. “Jesus provides all that we need. He is our burnt offering, and we must yield
ourselves wholly to Him. He is our meal
offering, the seed crushed and put through the fire, that we might have the
bread of life; and we must feed upon Him.
He is our drink offering who poured Himself out in sacrifice and
service, and we must pour ourselves out for Him and for others. He is our fellowship offering, making life a
joyful feast instead of a painful famine.
He is our sin offering and our guilt offering, for He bore our sins on
His body, “and He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we
might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed.”
And He paid the full price for our sins, “8
knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or
gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers, but with
precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of
Christ.” (1 Peter 2:24 &
1:18-19)
“The
nation of Israel
Spiritual meaning for my life today: I know that I have a new way of looking at
what it cost Jesus Christ to pay for my sins in His own body on the cross. The age that I live in has things all messed
up for it has a problem when any animal is killed, yet it has no problem eating
the food that comes from those animals that are killed for their food. It has no problem at all when a mother
chooses to kill her unborn baby. How
would this generation handle the sacrificing of animals such as was done in the
OT days, and will again be done during the tribulation days.
Isaiah
53:10, the verse that is quoted in this SD says that it pleased God to “crush
Him.” That word in the Hebrew means to
break into pieces and that is what pleased God to do to Jesus Christ. Why?
Well the rest of the verse explains the why, “He will see His offspring,
He will prolong His days, And the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His
hand.” Jesus Christ did this for me and
He also did it to receive the honor and Glory for His Father as He was doing
His Fathers will. He did this because of
His great love that He has for His children, not wanting them to perish. Halleluiah What A Savior!!
My Steps of Faith for Today:
- Praise the Lord for His sacrifice that He has given for me.
- Live a life that is pleasing to the Lord.
- Give myself to the Lord today for service and worship.
- Trust the Lord to guide my path today.
- Put on my spiritual armor.
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