Offering of Sin

Intro: There was an offering of sin that was made regularly so that man could temporarily have their sin overlooked. The sin was still there but God did not see it for God saw the scapegoat instead, for God was looking forward to the day Jesus would come to take our place. The offering of sin was made once for all and so although we were LOST now we can be saved because of this offering. Let me ask you today do you know you are saved and will go to Heaven or are you lost? Do you have confidence in your salvation or not? Are you still Lost?

Lord’s love 1 Tim 3:16 1 Jn 4:15-18 1Cor 13- This is the love of God that you might know him and His Son Jesus Christ. God revealed himself in the person of Jesus Christ. Now 1 Tim is what the Apostles Creed is based on for it declares a mystery. This declares the work of Jesus in a nutshell. Jesus is God manifest in the flesh. Word made flesh Jn 1:12 and he was justified in the Spirit. It says he was made righteous. ( justified) You cannot be justified without having to be made righteous. Justified ( made right) or just as if I never sinned. How can Jesus be justified in His spirit if he never sinned? He was made our sin so that we can be made His righteousness. He did not just go to the Jewish people but to the Gentiles, who knew not God. He was believed and then he was received into glory. God sent the Son to reveal Himself as a Father who loves you. Jesus revealed God in a way that the OT did not. The Love of God was to reveal Himself by sending His Son to take your place. So, will you accept what God did for you; the pillar of truth is the church that focuses on this mystery and teaches the truth expressed in this mystery. Will you accept the provision God made in Jesus for you?

1 Jn 4:15-18 says many important things about the love of God 1) Confess Jesus so God can dwell in you and you in God 2) God is love 3) Dwell in God so God will work through you 4) perfect love gives boldness 5) God in you means no judgment 6) as He is so are you in this world 7) perfect love has no fear 8) perfect love cast out fear. So when we talk about love we are not talking about the love we are familiar with for this is what divine love does for us. Divine love is much different then human love and produces different results. This is the Love that God is talking about and it produces eternal results. God is pleased with you because of Jesus. You need to see God because of what Jesus did and not because of what your feelings say.

1 Cor 13- talks so much about love. Charity is the old English word for love. You will not fail. You have hope and faith because of love. You can endure because of love. Love is the reason that you can trust God. You know that God is someone you can rely on because of his love for you. You might not do things for someone because they tell you; but you will because you Love them. Love is the focus and reason for doing things; not only with our relationship with God but also with others. Love also causes us to desire to have fellowship one with another. God wants fellowship with you. Love is the most important thing. Faith and hope are important but without love none of them can work. Faith works by love and hope is the substance of faith. Love so that you can walk with God as friends.

Obeying Law Ps 119 Rom 6- Throughout the chapter you see over and over that David encourages people to keep the commands or statutes. It also says thy Word will I lift up The chapter starts out Blessed are the undefiled, they are the ones who walk in the law of the Lord. The Law was the basis of the revelation they had from God. The basis of our revelation is the cross of Calvary. When I read the chapter then I must understand that the Law referred to the Word , but when I read it with a NT mindset I must read it in light of the cross. In just about every 8 verse section you will find the mention of something that refers to the Word. The law then was obeyed by the flesh and not by what the Spirit did within you.

What benefits did keeping the law give you in this chapter? V8 God does not forsake you v15-16 delight 24 Gods testimony 29 chosen the way 38 established in the way 40 made alive in Gods righteousness 41 Gods mercy 52 comfort 57 God is my portion 63 friends 65 God’s favor 68 God is good 73 God is my creator 80 Sound in heart 86 God is faithful now this is just a small part of the benefits that David list for being obedient but this is under the law. Too often today we teach the same things that if you will keep the law then God will bless you. The blessing is not dependant on your obedience but on the obedience of Jesus Christ.

Rom 3:10 You could not make yourself holy; if you could have then Jesus died in vain. There is none righteous no not one. No one could earn righteousness outside of Jesus and He gave that as a gift to you. V20 says that there is no flesh justified in His sight for by the law is the knowledge of sin. Sin is what is reinforced when you focus on the law. You are reminded that you are a sinner when you read the law. 2 Cor 3:14 says there is a veil on the heart when the OT is read but that veil is done away in Christ When Moses is read the veil is on the heart. When you see yourself according to the law then you are under the bondage of sin. The law brings a ministry of death but Jesus and his grace bring life. Our obedience is not a fleshly one but an obedience that comes from the heart because of the grace of Jesus Christ. This is why the only foundation is Jesus Christ for no other foundation can endure. 1 Cor 3:11. So I ask you what is your obedience based on- good works of the flesh or Jesus being your righteousness?

Rom 6- so many verses about this in this one chapter but lets just look at a few. V7 you died to sin because you were in Him when He died. V6-7, so the conclusion that is made is that you are now free from sin. If you are free from sin then you no longer sin. V11 also has a conclusion that is drawn and that is that if Christ died to sin, and you were in Him; then now that He lives you also live- so likewise( in light of what I just said) we need to consider ourselves to be dead to sin. You died to sin because of Jesus. You are alive to God for the same reason. Sin now has no more dominion and it is up to you to not let it reign. You now have power over sin, but in the OT you did not . V14 you are not under the Law but under Grace. You have a new covenant so God deals with you differently then he dealt with those who were under the law. V16 so who will you chose? Will you chose the law which produces sin and death or will you choose the obedience that comes from Jesus and produces righteousness?

V18 says - if you free from sin = servants of righteousness V20 serve sin = free from righteousness. 22 free from sin ( become servants of God) the result is that you have fruit producing holiness and everlasting life. The statements here mean that we have an either or situation. Either you a sinner or righteous. Your obedience is based on your doings or His. You cannot serve both sin and righteousness. You are either a sinner or righteous not both. Today many say you are a sinner saved by grace. You were a sinner but now you are the righteousness of God in Christ 2 Cor 5:21 Paul is trying to make the point over and over that you are God’s righteousness, so when you understand who you are you will produce fruit. The final result of all this is in v23: sin= death and the gift of God( righteousness) is eternal life through Jesus Christ. Obedience is a gift but the attempt of trying to keep yourself by through dead works = death. Obey God by letting Him do the work and it will bring life to you and God will see you as His righteousness

Salvation from Sin Rom 10:9-10 Jn 1:29 Mt 3:6,11-17- Now this chapter starts out with talking about Israel and the desire of Paul to see them saved. Paul says this leading up to v9 - 1) zeal without knowledge 2) ignorant of God’s righteousness 3) establish God’s righteousness- by submitting to God’s righteousness 4) Christ is the end of the law 5) law’s righteousness = fleshly deeds 6) righteousness of Christ is from the work of Christ by faith

V9-10 is commonly used to bring people to Christ. V1-8 explain to us what Jesus did and then v9-10 tell us to confess what He did for us. We are to receive what God for us in Christ and then we will be made righteous. We are told to believe in our heart and then we can confess with our mouth. Did Jesus rise from the dead? That is the core of receiving life for without accepting what He did we have no hope and we are of all men most miserable. I want to tell you that v9-10 is not just about being saved but it is about receiving from God. The word saved does not just mean going to Heaven but it also means healing, deliverance, and total freedom from the curse. The curse was a result of the fall of man. There is so much in these verses and it is a lot more then just talking about how to be saved. It is talking about how to relate to God and how God wants to have a relationship with you. IT is talking about what you have from Jesus because of this relationship.

Jn 1:29 Behold the Lamb of God who takes away sin. - instead we think that we need to go to confession lines and get rededicated again and again. In Mt 3:6 it says they came to John confessing their sin, but John said there is one mightier then I. There is one that came that could remove sin not just hear the confession of sin. The confession of sin is not what causes God to free you from sin but the blood is what removes sin. Notice that in Mt 3:14 John said I need to be baptized by you. John received confession but when he saw Jesus he realized his lack of holiness. The one who heard confession, realized his need for redemption when He saw Jesus. Jesus is not the one you go to so that he can hear your confession. Jesus is the one you go to get you redemption; which is much different then confession. Confess who He is not what you did wrong. Salvation is in receiving a gift, but men teach it as if salvation is admitting your wrongs. We all know we need a Saviour, but not all of us have received Him.

Receiving Jesus causes you to have righteousness fulfilled in you and then when you realize who He is , then you will know that God is pleased with Him and because of that you know that God is pleased with you. Righteousness is God seeing you as if you were Jesus. You are as right with God as Jesus is, for He is your righteousness. The events of v15- 1) righteousness is fulfilled 2) baptism of Jesus ( you were crucified and raised with Him) 3) heavens are open to you 4) the Spirit of God descends and you and the kingdom is within you 5) God speaks and says I am pleased with you ( the Bible is God speaking to you by showing us what Jesus has done for us and will do)

Temporary 2 Cor 4:15-18- There is so much that is in this passage that we need to hear. It is hard to deal with all of them but I will touch on them. V15 says all things- all that is brought into our life is to show us grace. God does not do bad things but God uses the lemons the devils brings to make lemonade. He uses the works of the devil to remind us that it is by grace. When bad things happen then thank God and give Him glory and it will cause the word of God to abound in you, so you will not faint but help to renew your inward man.

There were so many things Paul suffered that we do not. He was beaten, jailed, tortured, shipwrecked and abused by the Devil. The Devil did not want Paul to preach so Paul did. The devil did not Paul to write so Paul did. The Devil said do not praise God so Paul did. Whatever the devil did not want Paul to do Paul did. IF the devil says no, God says yes. The devil is 180 degrees from what God says and does. God does miracles the devil decieves. God tells the truth the devil lies. God is a Creator and imaginative but the devil can only distort what is there.

Paul calls this light affliction and tells us all he went through in 2 Cor 11:23-28 in his ministry, yet calls it light affliction. Then says this is for a moment like the Psalmist did in Psalm 30:5. Then he gives us this advice :don’t look at what is seen for that is temporal- the things we cannot see is eternal and that is what we should focus on. The problems we have in this life seem to be so big and even if they cost us our life then we see Jesus. There is nothing that is bigger in this life, that one glimpse of Jesus will not be able to wipe away. No disease that you have is so great that the name of Jesus cannot cure it. The work of God is bigger then the devils ability to destroy it and what you see is not bigger then what you don’t see.. God is bigger so don’t be so upset with what is going on that you lose sight of the big picture- God is for you Rom 8:31

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