Sin, Sacrifice, and Mercy | Worship, the Sacrifices, and the Priesthood

SPEAKER 04 : 0:02

I remember as a young believer reading in Matthew 12 about the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit, and I was literally terrified. I said on last broadcast that the difference between the sin offering and the trespass offering is this. The sin offering in Leviticus chapter 4, beloved, was for the sinner. In other words, you and I need to be forgiven just because of who we are. We’re born into this world, beloved, in sin. The Bible tells us in Ephesians chapter 2 that we are by nature, apart from the redemption of the Lord Jesus and the rejuvenating work of the Holy Spirit in our life, that we are by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. But God, through the blood of Jesus, cleanses us of our sin, and then he imparts to us his own nature through the Holy Spirit. But we’re all in need of forgiveness just because we’re born into this world, beloved, as sinners, as the offspring of Adam. So the sin offering, beloved, is simply for the forgiveness of the sinner. It’s about general redemption. And then the trespass offering in Leviticus 5 and 6 is for specific acts that a sinner would do. Now, the sin offering and the trespass offering was predominantly for sins that were unintentional. I’m going to illustrate this principle now by turning to the book of Matthew, chapter number 12, as I illustrate this through looking at the sin known as the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. Many of you are like me. You’ve read this before and it’s terrified you. I remember as a young believer reading in Matthew 12 about the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit, and I was literally terrified. I said to myself, well, Lord, how do I know I’m never going to blaspheme the Holy Spirit? It literally paralyzed me, beloved, until the Lord set me free. Hear the Word of God, Matthew chapter number 12, beginning there at verse number 22. Then there was brought to him a demon-possessed man who was blind and dumb, and he healed him so that the dumb man spoke and saw. And when the Pharisees heard it, they said, this man cast out demons, speaking of Jesus, only by Beelzebub, the ruler of the demons. In the 28th verse, it continues on, Yeshua says… If I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you. And in the 31st verse he says, Therefore I say to you, any sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven men, but blasphemy against the Spirit shall not be forgiven. And whoever shall speak a word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him. But whoever shall speak against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him either in this age or in the age to come. This is the sin known once again as the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. Think about the context. Yeshua said, if I cast out demons by the finger of God, know that the kingdom of God has come upon you. And they say, this man is casting out demons by the devil, by Beelzebub. And Jesus said, if you speak a word against me, you can be forgiven. But if you speak a word against the Holy Spirit, you can never be forgiven in this age or the age to come. We know that someone could be forgiven if they speak against Jesus, because when Jesus was on the cross, they said things about him that weren’t true. They plucked out his beard. They hated him. And yet Jesus said, Father, forgive them because they know not what they do. But yet Jesus said they didn’t, listen now, because they didn’t have revelation. They really didn’t know who he was. But when someone knows the truth, beloved, because the power of the Holy Spirit has made it a rhema to them, I mean, deep inside, they just know that there’s an inner witness and they choose to defiantly harden their heart and reject the Holy Spirit, making it known to them, then they sever themselves, beloved, from their only hope of salvation and forgiveness. If a person was sinning, but they were doing it in ignorance, like the Apostle Paul said that the Lord had showed him mercy, even though he was taking part in stoning Stephen to death in Acts chapter 7. But he said the Lord showed him mercy because Paul said, I was ignorant. I really didn’t know that this Jesus was God in the flesh. But when someone knows, beloved, because God has made it known and they keep on resisting and keep on hurting in their heart, they sever themselves from the grace of God forever. The Bible says those that go on sinning willfully after receiving a knowledge of the truth that there no longer remains for that one a sacrifice for sin, but only the fearful expectation of judgment. See, there comes a time when the Holy Spirit makes truth known to an individual. They didn’t just hear it. They didn’t just read about it. But the Holy Spirit himself bears witness with their heart of the truth. And they have an opportunity at that point to open their heart and surrender to it or to defiantly and rebelliously harden their heart against what they know is true because of their pride and their evil. And when they do that, beloved, that’s blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. When someone rejects Jesus after the Holy Spirit has clearly revealed to them, and I believe sometimes it’s a process that takes place. And finally, the Holy Spirit gets to the end of the line and says, this is as far as I can go with you. And this is your last chance. And if you harden your heart to this gospel truth now, I’m going to leave and there’s nothing left for you but a fearful expectation of judgment. You see, oftentimes, beloved, the Lord will speak to us and he’ll give us time to respond. This is so in the book of Revelation when Yeshua talks about Jezebel, the false prophetess that’s leading God’s servants into immorality. And Yeshua says, I gave her time to repent, but she would not. And then the Lord said, and now she’s going to be left onto a bed of sickness. I wonder if God has been speaking to some of you and over and over God has spoken to you and you have a love for him, but you still haven’t repented. You still haven’t turned to Him. We read in the offering of the sin offering and the trespass offering, not only was it necessary to bring the offering, beloved, but repentance was also necessary. They had to turn away from the sin. They had to change. I wonder if the Holy Spirit’s been bearing witness with you about Jesus. about truly repenting, about turning your life over to Him. Are you in danger, beloved, of hardening your heart defiantly so that He leaves you and there’s no longer going to be for you a sacrifice for sin, but only a fearful expectation of judgment? The Bible says, if today you hear His voice, do not harden your heart, for God will not strive with you forever. I’m going to read now from the book of Numbers, chapter 15, verse 30. Remember, in the book of Leviticus, chapter 4 through 6, there’s an offering that could be given for one that sins. When one is doing it, not because they’re in rebellion, but because, beloved, they just don’t know any better. They haven’t been trained. They haven’t really had a depth of revelation. But some people, beloved, they sin and they have the revelation, and that’s, beloved, when you’re in danger of blaspheming, beloved, the Spirit of God by telling Him, no, when you know He’s saying to you, yes. Hear the Word of God. Numbers, chapter number 15, verse 30 and 31. The person who does anything defiantly… Whether he is a native or an alien, now notice that word defiantly, it’s rebellion. You know the person who does anything defiantly, whether he is a native or an alien, that one, listen now, is blaspheming the Lord. Remember Yeshua said in Matthew 12, the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. He said, you can say something against me, Because you might be saying something against me and maybe you just think that, you know, I’m a man and maybe you think I’m crazy or maybe you think I’m just a criminal or a liar because you don’t know any better. It could be forgiving you. Just like I looked at those people that were crucifying me and I said, Father, forgive them for they know not what they do. But when the Holy Spirit makes you know and you defiantly rebel, you’re blaspheming. People that resist when they know no longer have a sacrifice. Numbers 15, 30 and 31. The person who does anything defiantly, whether he is a native or an alien, that one is blaspheming the Lord. And that person should be cut off from among his people. That person should be completely cut off. His guilt will be upon him. Hebrews chapter 10, verse 26 and 27 says this. For if we go on sinning willfully, notice that word willfully. For if we go on sinning willfully, Hebrews 10, 26 and 27, after receiving the knowledge of the truth, this is the blasphemy. You know, you’ve received the knowledge. This is what Yeshua was talking about. If we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a terrifying expectation of judgment.

SPEAKER 01 : 10:02

This is Discovering the Jewish Jesus and Rabbi Schneider will be right back. But first, I want to ask you the most important question you could ever be asked. And that’s, do you know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior? If you haven’t yet invited Jesus into your heart today to lead your life and ask God to save you from your sins, I want to invite you. Do that right now. If you’re ready, then I want you to pray this prayer with me. Father God, I repent of my sins and I ask you to cleanse me with the blood of Jesus. I accept Jesus Christ, your son, as my Lord and Savior. Help me to follow you all the days of my life as you show me how. In Jesus’ name, amen. Friend, if you just prayed that prayer, I’m so excited for you. Let us know by clicking Find Jesus at DiscoveringTheJewishJesus.com. And now, here’s Rabbi.

SPEAKER 04 : 11:06

Don’t harden your heart. But if you open up the door, the Lord said, I’m going to come in and sup with you. Father God, soften our hearts, Lord. We don’t want to be amongst those, Lord, that harden our hearts to you. But we want, Father God, to be amongst those, Father God, that love you and are sensitive to you. In Yeshua’s name, amen. Let me say, indeed, beloved ones, some of you may be like me and you love the Lord, but you’re just terrified that maybe you blasphemed the Holy Spirit or maybe you’re going to blaspheme the Holy Spirit. I want you to know my personal feeling is, beloved, if you’re born of Yahweh and if the Lord lives in your heart, if you’re truly his, if you’re one of the elected, you’re not going to blaspheme the Holy Spirit because God, beloved, has come into the center of your heart. The scripture says no one that’s born of God practices sin in one of John’s letters. Why? Because God’s nature has come into us. And so God has put a new nature in us. And so I just want to release some of you that are living in fear that the devil is tormenting about the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. God has saved you, beloved. The Bible says we were dead in our transgressions and sins, Ephesians chapter 2. But God, because of what the Lord did, being rich in mercy because of the great love with which he loved us, he made us alive. So I just want you to know, beloved, that if you truly belong to the Lord and I want you to be released and freed from living in fear and terror that the devil may be putting on you about the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. The love of God has been shed abroad in your heart, and now you love him, beloved, because he first loved you. As I continue in on this offering here, Leviticus 4, I want you to know that the offering for sin and the offering for trespasses, it always involved blood. We read about this in Leviticus chapter 4, verse 5 through 7. Let me read the verse of 5 through 7 in the fourth chapter. Then the anointed priest is to take some of the blood of the bull and bring it to the tent of the meeting. The sin and the trespass offering, beloved, both involve the shedding of blood. Why? Because the Lord told us that the life of the flesh, Leviticus 17, 11, the life of the flesh is in the blood, Yahweh said, and I’ve given it to you on the altar to make an atonement for your soul. And that’s what these two offerings were. They were offerings of atonement. And so it’s a mystery, but somehow, beloved, we think as human beings that our life source is in the mind, that the identity is in the mind. But the Lord tells us in his word, beloved, that the life of the flesh is not in the mind. The scripture tells us in Leviticus 17, 11, that the life of the flesh is in the blood. It’s so complicated. There’s something mysterious about it that we don’t understand, but it’s something in the blood, beloved, that is connected to our creation. And so when an innocent one dies in the place of the guilty, which is what happens in the sin offering and the trespass offering, the Lord is letting the guilty one go free because he’s putting an innocent one to death in its place. In the case of Leviticus 4 through 6, it’s an animal. Of course, this was simply a shadow of Yeshua that died in our place. The blood of that animal had to be shed. Not only did the animal had to be put to death, but its blood had to be shed and applied around the altar. That’s why on Yom Kippur, the high priest would bring the blood of the bull and the blood of the goat inside the Holy of Holies and pour it on the altar there over the Ark of the Covenant because the life of the flesh is bound up in the blood. And so when the animal is put to death, its blood is then poured out because the fact that its blood is poured out is symbolic of the fact that the animal’s been put to death because its life is in the blood. And as I said earlier, I want to make this final statement about the sin and the trespass offering that we read in Leviticus chapter 5, verse 16, that it wasn’t enough to just bring an offering and then continue to sin. We needed to bring an offering for forgiveness, but also to repent. And so Leviticus chapter five, verse 16 says, he shall make restitution for that which he has sinned against the holy thing. And of course, this is prophetic because not only do we need to come to Jesus, beloved, but we need to repent. We need to turn to him. There needs to be a change. We can’t just keep coming to him and asking him for forgiveness without repenting. That’s why Yeshua said in Luke 13, three, unless you repent, You will perish. And so I trust that as we’ve studied these sacrifices, that it’s bringing some conviction to you that God is not looking for this cheap form of Christianity that we so often see preached today in the American culture, whether it’s in the church setting or whether it’s in media ministry, beloved. So oftentimes the gospel that we’re hearing is not the gospel of Scripture. The gospel, beloved, that has been revealed to us in Scripture and through Yeshua HaMashiach is a gospel, beloved, that is seen in the five offerings that Yahweh commanded to be brought to him at the tabernacle. Reviewing the first of those offerings in Leviticus chapter 1 was the burnt offering, the offering called Ola. It means to ascend. And what was significant about this burnt offering was that the entire offering, the insides, the outsides, the innards, all of it, the entire offering was burned on the fire unto Yahweh. It represented total and complete dedication. If you come to the Lord, beloved, if you’re really going to come to him, you can’t come to him giving him part of your life. You can’t come to Him and say, I want you, but I want to hang on to this part of my life. I want to come to you, Lord Jesus, but I want to remain in control of this part of my life. I still want to go do this and I still want to go do this and I want to have this in my life my way. No, if you’re going to come to Him, beloved, really, Truly, because remember, the tabernacle is the pattern of how to come to Him and how to have intimacy with Him. That’s what the word sacrifice means. It’s the Hebrew word karban, and it means to come close. If you’re going to come to Him, you’ve got to come to Him first of all, beloved, from the top of your head to the bottom of your feet. Otherwise, you’re not going to be accepted. Remember the rich young ruler that came. He said, Lord, I want to follow you, but I want to go bury my dad. Yeshua said, let the dead bury the dead. You follow me. For he that starts to follow me and looks back is not worthy of me. So first of all, if you’re going to come to Jesus, I’m not preaching now the easy salvationism of today. that so many of our modern preachers are preaching. I’m speaking about what God has revealed. You want to come to Jesus? You’ve got to come to him, beloved, from the top of your head to the bottom of your feet. You need to say, Jesus, I’m yours. I want to be completely committed, completely devoted to you. I want to make you my life. I want to be like Paul that said to live as Messiah and to die as gain. I want my whole life now, God, surrendered and abandoned to you. That’s the burnt offering, the first offering that we looked at. The worshiper put his hands on that offering. symbolizing it was an extension of Himself. It’s the only way you can come. And the fire was always on the altar to accept it. And if you come to the Lord like that, by His grace, He’ll accept you. And then we looked at the mincha offering, the gift offering, called the meat or the meal offering, also the grain offering. It was simply to thank the Lord for who He was and what He’s done for you. It just speaks about extravagantly loving Jesus. Jesus called us, beloved, to be in a love relationship with Him. And then we looked at the Shalem offering in Leviticus chapter three. It comes from the Hebrew word shalom. It’s the peace offering, the friendship offering where the worshiper, the priest and the Lord Himself all ate it. It actually is spoken of as food. It speaks of God and man in relationship and partaking of a meal together. It speaks of friendship and intimacy with God. And when we truly come to God, beloved, We have friendship with him and he wants us to get a hold of this and to get revelation of this in our life. So we ask you, Lord, to put that into our kishkas, into our loins. Help us understand, Lord, that you are our friend and we walk in friendship with you, just like Enoch. And then we look, beloved, at the sin and the trespass offering. It was a blood atonement that was committed for sins that were not defiant, that people didn’t have full revelation about, and the Lord forgave them and will always forgive you. Father, we ask you to come into us now and circumcise our hearts by the Holy Spirit. Father God, we can’t do anything of ourself. Your Word says no one comes to you unless you draw them. You told us, Jesus, that we only know through revelation. We ask you now, Lord, to have mercy and to consume us, Lord, as an acceptable sacrifice unto Yahweh, in Yeshua’s name, by your Spirit. Amen.

SPEAKER 03 : 20:03

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SPEAKER 01 : 20:57

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SPEAKER 03 : 22:27

The Aaronic blessing in the book of Numbers, chapter 6, is not a blessing that comes from an impersonal being out there somewhere in the heavens. This special blessing comes from a person, Yahweh God Almighty, our Creator and Maker. So receive God’s blessing into your life right now.

SPEAKER 02 : 22:46

Yevarechech Yahweh, vayishmarecha. Yair Yahweh, panavelecha, vichunecha. Yissa Yahweh, P’navei Lecha Ve’asem Lecha

SPEAKER 03 : 23:36

The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make His face shine on you and be gracious to you. The Lord lift you up with His countenance. And the Lord give you, beloved one, His peace. God bless you and shalom.

SPEAKER 01 : 23:56

This program is produced and sponsored by Discovering the Jewish Jesus. And I’m your host, Dustin Roberts. Be sure to join us tomorrow when Rabbi Schneider explains how Jesus fulfills every sacrifice. That’s Thursday on Discovering the Jewish Jesus.