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| Leviticus 5:1 |
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Lesson # Leviticus 5:1 Study Material - Leviticus 5:1 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. 5:1 1 'Now if a person sins, after he hears a public adjuration to testify, when he is a witness, whether he has seen or otherwise known, if he does not tell it, then he will bear his guilt. God waits to give each one of us blessings More than that though, He is tapping His foot in impatience to have the opportunity to bless each of us, Isa. 30:18. But what gets in His way? Sin and our lack of spiritual growth, and therefore, our lack of spiritual capacity for blessing. Here in chapter 5 the offerings for known sins is described. But remember that these offerings are teachings aids. They are intended to teach doctrine, not replace them. Remember this when we get into the list of sins and their payment schedules in this chapter. These sins are categories of sin. Their payment prices are in general form the earthly cost ones must make in restitution for the wrong done to others. In real life this still exists when you go to court and lose. You must pay whatever the court decides. This chapter begins with the failure on the part of the contractual witness. That is, when two people enter into a contract and others witness the terms, then when the two parties to the contract have a difference of opinion, and when you as the witness remain silent but know the truth, then you are just as guilty of default as the parties who made the agreement. So the swearing is witnessing to a contract, not just bad language, and the subsequent silence one takes when the truth is known and is not revealed. Therefore the guilt is on the party who remains silent. If you know the truth in a set of circumstances and this truth will bring a just result if made known, or might avert damage to others, then you have the responsibility to reveal what you know. Now in our day we have a concept of finking, which is a false concept with respect to legal obligation, and especially in criminal activities. To tell on others is deemed a bad thing, and while in a child style of situation, tattling might be considered only whining, and of course this should not be encouraged, but in adult situations where crime or legal default on contracts, cheating, fraud, and such are apparent, then each of us have a responsibility to step forward and reveal what we know to the proper authority or party. God does not promote sin, nor the silence of truth when wrong is certain. We have seen recent shootings in schools which illustrate this principle perfectly. A teenager brags about revenge, beyond just empty talk and others do not take this information to the authorities so it can be investigated. This silence erupts in the actual event of shootings and death. Who is in the wrong? The shooter of course, but also the ones who had knowledge and refused to talk because of this pseudo code of silence. Kids need to be taught that there is a big difference in telling on who wrote a simple love note, and in telling who made threats of murder and violence. This difference should be very obvious to all and, the responsibility in the former is certainly just being polite in keeping silent, but in the latter, silence makes one guilty of the crime just as if he pulled the trigger himself. You can make a list of infractions a mile long - fraud in construction, in workmanship, deceit in some agreement, and so forth. This is called concealment and that is a sin, and a violation of responsibility to society. A person who has knowledge, and refuses to reveal it to those who are entitled to the truth is guilty of this sin. We need to get through the next couple of verses before we can establish some principles regarding contracts, but suffice to say we have to get to the spiritual implications of these illustrations. We have a contract with God. It is salvation. God the Father made the offer, Christ did the work and we signed as witness to this contract through our positive volition decision to believe in Christ. To deny it later means we violate the terms of the contract. To withhold this information from others or even to mislead others, means that we are guilty of concealment. This is but one illustration. As we get through the next couple of verses then we will gather together more illustrations and combine them all into a comprehensive doctrinal principle. 
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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