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| Leviticus 1:4 |
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Lesson # Leviticus 1:4 Study Material - Leviticus 1:4 You must be in fellowship prior to your Bible study, so that the spiritual information you receive can become a source of blessing to your soul and produce spiritual growth. Lev. 1:4 4 'And he shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, that it may be accepted for him to make atonement on his behalf. 'He who knew no sin was made sin for us...', 2 Cor. 5:21. Here we have the symbolic identification of the transfer of mans sin onto the sacrificial animal. The offeror places his hand on the head of the animal representing the transfer of sin to the animal from the person. Now here is our picture. On the brazen alter we have the bull tied down. It is about to become the burnt offering, but at this point isn't yet burned. The bull is very much alive. When Christ went to the Cross he was very much alive too, tied to the Cross with nails through the hands and feet. As the bull is tied to the alter, the sins of the world ties us down preventing our escape from its ultimate destiny. When sin entered into the world through Adam, there was but one outcome for man. Being trapped by its repercussions of death and eternal separation from God, and therefore eternal misery and torment, we are like the bull on the alter. Those who were stronger, the priests, the offeror, etc. immobilized the animal and tied it to the alter. This made the animal totally helpless and its destiny certain - it was going to die. So too, we are going to die. If we have no relationship with God, the only person who holds this universe together, then we reject our participation in this universe, therefore God rejects us and in effect evicts us into a realm of chaos and utter doom. Hell is not some pool room and bar where we can drink and laugh forever, but is a very real place of total pain and suffering, a place of total aloneness. Relationships with anything or anyone will be nonexistent. Don't be fooled by the Hollywood portrayals of Hell, for they do not paint a true picture of that place. So we have a picture of the transfer of our sin, which we cannot pay the price for, onto the bull, a representation of Jesus Christ. The bull is tied to the alter very much alive as Christ was very much alive when that three hour period of total and supernatural darkness covered the land and God commenced issuing all of mans sin and the judgment of them onto Him. Jesus did not bleed to death on the Cross but was very much alive when He was judged. Only after the judgment was completed did He declare it 'finished', and then He died physically for His work on the Cross was completed. This transfer of our sins onto another is necessary in order that 'atonement', 'kaphar', to cover, to overlay, to make atonement, to covers over the sins by means of anothers blood. We cannot atone for our own sins because we are not perfect enough nor capable enough to pay the necessary price for sin. Only when we transfer our sins onto Jesus Christ, demonstrating our acceptance of Gods plan, demonstrating our belief in this sacrificial process (Christ's work on the Cross), is there now a means of God accepting this transfer and thus accepting this as a atonement of our sins. The sacrificial person, Jesus Christ, made this atonement. He, through His work on the Cross, made atonement, He covered over our sins by His taking our place on the Cross. Such that by this process and our belief in it, sin is no longer an issue with respect to our eternal life. Sin remains an issue with respect to our moment to moment relationship of fellowship with God, but through faith in Jesus Christ, we will receive salvation from sin and will live with God in heaven forever. Why is all this necessary? Well we have already seen that all have sinned through Adam. Man cannot purchase himself out of the slave market of sin. It requires a free man to come along and buy our freedom. We cannot live a perfect life, we are not capable of it, Rom. 3:20, Gal. 2:16 '..no flesh is justified in the Law..'. We cannot live a good life, we cannot keep the ten commandments, we cannot promise not to ever do it again, whatever 'it' is. We fall far short of the glory of God, Rom. 3:23, therefore a substitute is necessary if we are to gain any kind of a life back at all. Jesus Christ is that substitute. The bull is now a picture of the recipient of our sins. The bull is a picture of the perfect sacrificial person, tied to judgment and now prepared for it. The next few verses are very gruesome so we'll save all that for the next lesson. Now don't get wimpy on us!! Be tough!! 
Now is the time to post a prayer. End Of Lesson Study to show thyself approved (mature) unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing (studying/discerning), the Word of truth. |
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