Christ Our Substitute...WITHOUT THE CAMP...Pastor Don Fortner. This transfer of sin from the sinner to the sinner’s Surety was clearly set forth in the typical sacrifices of the Mosaic law. — It was typified and prefigured by the sinner laying his hands on the head of the animal he brought to be sacrificed in his stead before God. You will recall that when Aaron and his sons were to be consecrated as priests unto God, they were commanded to “put their hands on the head of the bullock,” which represented typically the transfer of their sins to the bullock which was then counted worthy of death. Because the bullock bearing their sins was counted worthy of death, the Lord commanded, — “And thou shalt kill the bullock before the Lord, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation” (Exodus 29:10-11). THE SCAPEGOAT — LEVITICUS 16 Perhaps the clearest, most well-known picture of the transfer of our sins to the Lord Jesus Christ and of Him putting away our sin by bearing them and bearing them away in His own body on the tree is the scapegoat presented before the Lord on the day of atonement (Leviticus 16:20-22). (Leviticus 16:20-22) “And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat: (21) And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness: (22) And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.” Now, notice what the Lord sets before us in this picture. · Here is the transfer of sin from the people to the goat — from us to Christ. · Here is the transfer of the sins of a particular people, of all their sins and only their sins — the sins of the children of Israel. · Here is the transfer of all the sins of all the children of Israel. · Here we see the sins transferred from the people to the goat taken away. (Psalms 103:12) “As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.” (Hebrews 1:3) “Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.” (Hebrews 9:26-28) “Now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. (27) And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: (28) So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.” (1 John 3:5) “And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.” THE SIN-OFFERING While we are here in Leviticus, look at Leviticus 4:21. Let me show you something about Israel’s sin-offering. (Leviticus 4:21) “And he shall carry forth the bullock without the camp, and burn him as he burned the first bullock: it is a sin offering for the congregation.” The word translated “sin-offering” would really be better translated “sin.” It literally means, “habitual sinfulness, or offender.” God’s word to Moses in Leviticus 4:21 is really this: — “And he shall carry forth the bullock without the camp, and burn him as he burned the first bullock: it is THE SIN OF THE CONGREGATION.” (Here we can see a particular Atonement made for the sins of the people...Praise God, My sins are gone!)
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