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O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent. The sin offerings were offered to make atonement for sin. I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother’s belly. Furthermore, because we are united with Christ, we have received an inheritance from God, for he chose us in advance, and he makes everything work out according to his plan. He was God with and among the people. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. 1 John 3 Psalms 85:1-4 says the following: Lord, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob. God imputed man’s sinfulness and guilt to Christ and treated his own Son as a sinner. There is no record in all of scripture that Jesus ever referred to his suffering as a substitute or anything remotely like a substitute. it would have proved He was not the Messiah. The verses tell us five things about the Lord Jesus Christ. The words “sacrifices for” have been added by the translators of the KJV for clarity. And in him is no sin. He is the one who has freely given his Son for our salvation because he is good and rich in mercy towards all who call on him. They knew nothing of the ministry of Christ at the Father’s right hand after he left them.”. It was the message of peace with God and was full of the mercy, compassion, and forgiveness that the people needed. We come now to the non-sweet savour offerings. In 2 Corinthians 5 the Bible tells us that it was God himself who was at work in His Son reconciling the world to him. Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and *** FORGIVE *** all my sins. And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you. Throughout the Old Testament the words sin and sin offering are translated from the same Hebrew word “chattath”. There are even some who say there are basically no differences at all between the two. For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God ENDURE GRIEF, SUFFERING WRONGFULLY. And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him (John 8:28-29). Jesus gave himself as a sacrifice and an offering and was accepted by God for us. These teachings are good and beneficial for everyone. He died as an UNBLEMISHED lamb and it is through His blood that we have redemption. GENTILES OWE A DEBT OF GRATITUDE TO ISRAEL. But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son. The sin offering required when a priest had sinned, for which there is a similar sacrificial animal as the Yom Kippur offering, is considered by scholars to be a much later development, and only added to the text of Leviticus in the latest stages of its compilation, after sin offerings had begun to be seen as being about atonement for actual sin rather than relatively immediate breaches … They were offered as a “sweet fragrance” which was well pleasing to God. Thanks again Michael – I have again understood your argument and agree absolutely and understand your point that our iniquities were borne by Christ. Those who believed that Jesus was the Christ, the Son of God were made partakers of his kingdom. BY THE GRACE OF GOD HE TASTED DEATH – But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man (Hebrews 2:9). There is no precedent in scripture which would indicate that the offerings for sin were made sinful with the sins of the people, which is how 2 Corinthians has been interpreted by some. The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were GATHERED TOGETHER AGAINST THE LORD, AND HIS CHRIST. It was the will of God for Jesus to lay down His life and to take it up again. The word substitution has the following definition: (a) The act, process, or result of substituting one thing for another. Yet this view of God pits his love, mercy, and grace against his holiness and righteousness and such theology is very disturbing. God’s attitude toward us in Christ is love for us, mercy for our sins, and grace for our need. And this is the plan: At the right time he will bring everything together under the authority of Christ—everything in heaven and on earth. Yet those things which turn away the wrath of God can be seen in the person of Jesus Christ and belief in Him. His conclusion was “truly this man was the Son of God.”. JESUS SPOKE WORDS OF FORGIVENESS – Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all. (Ephesians 1:3-11), Once we, too, were foolish and disobedient. HOMOSEXUALITY, SODOM, AND MISAPPLIED SCRIPTURES, DOCTRINE: IT’S NOT WHAT YOU PROFESS, IT’S WHAT YOU DO. Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog. God’s holiness demands punishment for man’s sin. All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him. Jesus Christ came for our benefit, to save us from our sins and to deliver us from the condemnation that came upon us which is death. The sin offering purified the sanctuary; it removed the defilement of sin that occurred when the people broke the covenant. Accordingly, Jesus "suffered without the gate," and Calvary was northward of Jerusalem. Psalm 32:1, 2, & 5 says, Blessed is he whose transgression is *** FORGIVEN, *** whose sin is covered. When He did that, our sins fell on His head as His responsibility, and He became sin personified. But—“When God our Savior revealed his kindness and love, he saved us, not because of the righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. So we praise God for the glorious grace he has poured out on us who belong to his dear Son. He was made to be identified with sin itself. The spiritual leadership in Israel had gone so far away from the heart of God and instead of ministering compassionately to relieve the oppress and doing justly they used the Law of Moses to their own advantage to burden God’s heritage and this was certainly not pleasing to God. The words of Jesus concerning His death are the foundation for correctly interpreting the scriptures which reveal what happened at the cross. Christ was made to be our sin offering not our literal sin. They saw and heard and handled the resurrected body of Christ. This sin offering for the high priest held a more meaningful purpose than the one outlined in Leviticus 4. For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him (2 Corinthians 5:21). According to Kenyon, it was Paul who was given the “spiritual revelation” of the cross. They saw the beating of Christ; they saw the nails driven into his hands and feet. And now, brethren, I wot that THROUGH IGNORANCE YE DID IT, as did also your rulers. If God had abandoned Jesus, this would have only reinforced what the Jews already thought. On the contrary however, it was the religious leaders who were oppressing the people with the Law rather than liberating them who were the ones with whom God was dissatisfied. Various interpretations have been put forward to understand this: 1) Christ was made a sinner, 2) Christ was made a sin-offering, and 3) Christ was made to bear the consequences of our sins. I understand what you say about Col 1:20-22 – that His blood brought reconciliation in order to make us holy and blameless – I quote the ESV here for ease. In Ephesians 2:4-6 we read of the riches of his mercy, the greatness of His love, and the saving power of His grace all intertwined in the death, resurrection, and exaltation of His Son. Jesus was and is perfect; the idea of an exchange, I think, was explained to help me, the sinner, see that I have been given His robe of righteousness if you like. In the same way, Jesus bore our sins by giving Himself as an unblemished sacrifice so that we could be cleansed from our sins by His precious blood and made alive with Him through his resurrection from the dead. FOOD FOR THOUGHT – ARE WE REALLY PRO-LIFE? And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation (2 Corinthians 5:17-19). Jesus’ message was full of the hope of salvation. We were misled and became slaves to many lusts and pleasures. Surely he hath *** BORNE *** our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. Description of … Acts 4 is about the cross and is consistent with Matthew 21 the stone the builders rejected. WHY WOULD A LOVING GOD SEND ANYONE TO HELL? The Lord Jesus is introduced and described in verse 12 (KJV) as “”this Man”” and He is described like this in contrast with all other men, the priests of the Old Testament. The Son of God was wrongly condemned by those who hated him. The Old Testament priests did not sit down because their work was never done, but after Jesus had offered Himself as a sacrifice for sins, He sat down because the work was complete. Isaiah 53:6 says, “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned everyone to his own way; and the Lord hath *** LAID *** on him the iniquity of us all. Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country: And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it. They knew not where Christ’s spirit was or what he was doing during the time his physical body lay in the tomb. Instead, He brought the Kingdom message of redemption and set many free from oppression. Throughout the Old Testament the word atonement was used to convey the idea of reconciliation, sanctification, consecration, and forgiveness. Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” Why would He have said that if that is a) what He felt, and/or b) what He wanted to ‘remind’ us of – Ps 22? The apostle Peter declared that he is the holy and just One which the people rejected (Acts 3:14). We know this because of the context and we also know this because Hebrews 10:6 is a quote from Psalm 40:6 which says the following: Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger. However, we know that the author is not referring to sin but to the sin offerings instead. His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb. God accepted the sacrifice of Christ for the remission of our sins because Jesus is holy and pure and just. Reblogged this on Rooted and Grounded In Christ. When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost (John 19:28-30). Rejected sacrifices and offerings DID NOT make atonement. According to the scriptures they actually understood the spiritual meaning of the cross quite well because it was Jesus himself who taught it to them. I think my reference to Jesus’ rejection was His view that He was forsaken – Mt 27:46 and Mark 15:34 when “…. God wasn’t the one in need. For on this day shall atonement be made for you to cleanse you” (Leviticus 16:29). 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