This chapter speaks to the sin offering for trespasses. I am wondering what the difference is between the sin offering of Chapter 4 and this one? Both the sin offering and the trespass offerings are not to be mixed with oil or incense. They are not intended to be a sweet aroma to God. This does demonstrates God's inability to be pleased with sin in any way, shape, or form because He is absolutely, infinitely, uncompromisingly pure and holy. Where there is sin there comes the penalty of death. This is a righteous judgment.
I read that the sin offering of Chapter 4 is for our general sinfulness since we possess a corrupted, sinful nature. It is who we are. And that this trespass offering is for sins we actively commit. It is what we do that is against God.
For this trespass offering, the carcass is taken out of the camp to be burned like the sin offering. It is defiled by the sins imputed upon its substance. It cannot be burned on the altar of sacrifice. Only the fat is burned on the altar within the tent of meeting. None of these two sacrifices are eaten by the priests or else they would be "consuming" sin and be defiled. God is very picky about His people avoiding that which would defile them. Are we picky also, about such avoiding every kind of evil ( 1 Thessalonians 5:22)? Or we make excuses as some things being "harmless". Do we really believe that sin is always deadly to the one who sins?
God, in His mercy, allowed for the sin of His people to be imputed upon an acceptable substitute that would bear His judgment for sin and remove the sin from the true sinner. The animals sacrificed, without spot or blemish, are a shadow of Jesus, who was without sin, but took our sin upon Himself voluntarily to bare the just punishment for our sins, thus freeing us from Gpd's wrath and making us clean instead. He triumphed over all sin by His death and resurrection. But even before He did this, He lived a perfect life in absolute submission to the Father.
This chapter speaks to the sin offering for trespasses. I am wondering what the difference is between the sin offering of Chapter 4 and this one? Both the sin offering and the trespass offerings are not to be mixed with oil or incense. They are not intended to be a sweet aroma to God. This does demonstrates God's inability to be pleased with sin in any way, shape, or form because He is absolutely, infinitely, uncompromisingly pure and holy. Where there is sin there comes the penalty of death. This is a righteous judgment.
I read that the sin offering of Chapter 4 is for our general sinfulness since we possess a corrupted, sinful nature. It is who we are. And that this trespass offering is for sins we actively commit. It is what we do that is against God.
For this trespass offering, the carcass is taken out of the camp to be burned like the sin offering. It is defiled by the sins imputed upon its substance. It cannot be burned on the altar of sacrifice. Only the fat is burned on the altar within the tent of meeting. None of these two sacrifices are eaten by the priests or else they would be "consuming" sin and be defiled. God is very picky about His people avoiding that which would defile them. Are we picky also, about such avoiding every kind of evil ( 1 Thessalonians 5:22)? Or we make excuses as some things being "harmless". Do we really believe that sin is always deadly to the one who sins?
God, in His mercy, allowed for the sin of His people to be imputed upon an acceptable substitute that would bear His judgment for sin and remove the sin from the true sinner. The animals sacrificed, without spot or blemish, are a shadow of Jesus, who was without sin, but took our sin upon Himself voluntarily to bare the just punishment for our sins, thus freeing us from Gpd's wrath and making us clean instead. He triumphed over all sin by His death and resurrection. But even before He did this, He lived a perfect life in absolute submission to the Father.
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