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| Leviticus 6:1-7 |
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Lesson # Leviticus 6:1-7 Study Material - Leviticus 6:1-7 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. 6:1-7 1 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 'When a person sins and acts unfaithfully against the LORD, and deceives his companion in regard to a deposit or a security entrusted to him, or through robbery, or if he has extorted from his companion, 3 or has found what was lost and lied about it and sworn falsely, so that he sins in regard to any one of the things a man may do; 4 then it shall be, when he sins and becomes guilty, that he shall restore what he took by robbery, or what he got by extortion, or the deposit which was entrusted to him, or the lost thing which he found, 5 or anything about which he swore falsely; he shall make restitution for it in full, and add to it one-fifth more. He shall give it to the one to whom it belongs on the day he presents his guilt offering. 6 Then he shall bring to the priest his guilt offering to the LORD, a ram without defect from the flock, according to your valuation, for a guilt offering, 7 and the priest shall make atonement for him before the LORD; and he shall be forgiven for any one of the things which he may have done to incur guilt. ' The concept of the fifth part continues here in this passage, but more in relation to wrongs done to others such as robbery, failure to keep a trust, lying and so forth. All sin is against God, 'When a person sins and acts unfaithfully against the LORD.' Then the partial list of sins is given. The real issue here is the concept of grace (the fifth part) verses legalism (human viewpoint). This passage describes how to recover from these sins, and that is, one has to repay the victim for what was taken, plus 20%. In addition the sinner has to bring a sacrifice in the same amount to the priest. So in our example from yesterday. If the price of the wrong is 100, then the repayment to the victim is 120, plus the same amount to the priest, 120. The cost of the infraction is now 240 in order to recover ones good status. So this would or should be a good law of restraint for committing wrongs, one would think. But of course no law is perfect and crime as well as ordinary sin continues. If a person injured another party to the tune of an unusually high amount, then the price for recovery would probably too great to pay back. Therefore the recovery would be impossible. To the very wealthy perhaps a small infraction could be paid back, but even the very wealthy have their greater infractions that would in time trap them into a position of never being able to repay. So the issue here is not the repayment by one person, the sinner, to another person, the victim, but to demonstrate how mankind is unable to buy his way out of his predicament. We face two policies in life. The preferred policy is that of Gods grace. The second policy is that of mans legalism. Legalism is cold and hard. If you have committed a wrong at anytime in your life, then you are tainted for life. There is no recovery. No second chance, or third chance, or fourth chance, etc. You are simply SOL. If the law does not get you, then society and gossip will. People are cruel. Because of people we are subjected to prejudice, ostracism, dual standards and so forth. If you have done something wrong in your distant past, you can be rest assured that there will be someone who will be there to remind you of your failure, and more than that, that you are certainly incompetent and unable to make any good decision because of your past failure. This is usually the only argument that a weak person (anyone who is being self righteous, anyone who lacks Bible doctrine, anyone who lacks an honest argument) can come up with. If they cannot beat you in fair and honest conversation, then they turn back the clock and make sure that you recall your past (never mind their past, of course their past is irrelevant). So with this form of intimidation, or threat, they seek to diffuse any argument you might have in your defense. Legalism is evil. The people who use it are evil too. Through it there is never a chance to put the past permanently behind you. There is never the chance to start over. There is never the chance to rebuild. Grace, on the other hand, is Gods policy. Despite your wrongs, and all of us have many of these, God is faithful and just to forgive and to cleanse from all unrighteousness, 1 Jn. 1:9. This is the fellowship passage dealing with the mechanics of fellowship. Whereas this Leviticus passage is the principle. Legalistic people would say that if you could not come up with the restitution, and the sacrifice, then you are condemned forever. God on the hand, is not really interested in the sacrifices per se, but in your learning the principles taught by the sacrifices, Psa. 40:6, Psa. 51:16, Prov. 21:3. The Priests of Jesus day, concentrated on the letter of the law not its purpose or application to the spiritual life. With Grace we receive many chances to restart our life. In legalism, we are the recipient of malicious gossip and permanent ostracism. The world, the jungle, is unforgiving. In the jungle you will always lose. Even those legalists who promote those jungle laws will be eaten up by the very laws they promote. Grace, on the other hand is forgiving. It not only forgives, but forgets. The slate is wiped clean as though the infraction never happened. There is no double jeopardy in grace. Christ died on the Cross for all your sins. This means that you can never be judged for any of your sins - ever. No one can be judged for their sins - believers or unbelievers. Wait a minute, you say, if unbelievers cannot be judged for sins that have already been judged, then what condemns them to the lake of fire? Also, if believers have already had their sins judged, then where does the discipline come from? There are two issues here for each category of people unbeliever and believer. For unbelievers the issue is, 'What do you think of Christ? The unbeliever either accepts Christ's work on the Cross and therefore gain access into heaven by believing in Him, or they reject Christ and lean on their own works (human good) for gaining access into heaven. Their own works become their condemnation. The Cross judged sin, but rejected human good. Human good was not judged. There is a great book of works that will be opened in the final days, at the Great White Throne. All unbelievers will be in that book and their works will be insufficient to get them into heaven. They rejected God, therefore God rejects them. End of story. Believers, on the other hand, have fellowship with God as their issue. The Cross judged sin but did not forgive it. Therefore the believer is required to confess, acknowledge his sins to God the Father in his fellowship prayer in order to be 'forgiven', and restored from all unrighteousness, 1 Jn. 1:9. That restoration is into fellowship, that place of Gods infinite protection and blessing. That is the place where your spiritual assets function - your ability to study and grow up spiritually. Never let yourself get caught up in the 'I told you so' attitude with other people. God will condemn them if it is appropriate. We are not to judge. We are not to interfere in Gods handling of any situation, especially in a legalistic fashion. We are to approach God with our spiritual sacrifice, fellowship prayer, and let the problem fall on Gods shoulders. 'Cast your cares on Him, for He cares for you.' Grace is a far better policy. For through it there is yet another chance for all of us. 
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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