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living example fpr people to. follow. He did God’s will al ways; said what God wanted Him to say; ,did what God wanted Him to do; was what God wanted Him to be. Thère was nothing of self-will about Him. He was the salt of God, helping to make man what he ought to be (Matt. 5:13). This offering showed how man was to get strength to do God’s will. Thè Peace Offering showed how they might have blessed times visiting with God in prayer and communion, after sin was forgiven, and how to be thankful for all God: would do for them through Christ, and assured them of perfect salvation for air eternity (John 17:10; 10:28, 29). The Sin Offering showed how Christ was made sin, and showed the blackness of sin; how Sin finds its way into every thought, word, and act Of life, and condemns thè soul to everlasting death, which means being shut away for ever from God. All these offerings show what Christ is to us, as well as to the Jew. We need the blood of Christ to cleanse our hearts from sin... If Christ has not died on the cross, there would have been pardon for no one. The blood of the sin offering cleansed for- a time, but the ’ blood ol Christ cleanses forever (1 John 1:9). : The Trespass Offering showed that we sometimes sin without meaning to do so; Christ paid for éven that kind of a sifi.r We must love Christ so much that wé will act right toward all we know, whether at home, at school, in play or wherever wé are (Matt. 7:12). (All these .offerings speak of Christ and His work as Savior, and need careful, prayerful study," before teaching. With little children, give the story of Christ on the cross, and pray to makè' it real. ) Golden Text: “And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make an atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins once a year. And he did as the Lord com manded Moses” (Lev. 16:34).- Division of Book: Chapters 1-16—Way to God. Chap ters 17-27—Walk with God. OUTLINE OF LESSON: (1) The Occasion (Following the death of Nadab and Abihu, 10:1, 2). LESSON (2) The Official (The High Priest). EXPOSITION (3) The Offerings (A bullock for the T. C. Horton High Priest and two goats for the people). (4) The Order (Once a year—on the This lesson is of such vital import that we suggest to the teacher a careful and prayerful reading of that por-‘ tion of the Book of Leviticus from Chapter 10 through Chapter 16, (giving special thought to 14:47) and also Numbers 29:7-11. Our space is necessarily limited and we can only touch upon the main features. In making the lesson clear and simple to the pupils, the main facts should be dwelt upon, and the typical teaching emphasized. (1) THE OCCASION. A year is a complete period. All days are represented in a year. There were seven great feast days, but the whole system of offerings culminated in the Day of Atone ment. It was a day of national humiliation—-the day of greatest moment to the High Priest and to the people. MARCH S3, 1924 THE DAY OF ATONEMENT Leviticus, Chapter 16 seventh day of the tenth month). Introduction:
(that is, a mere negative peace), hut positive joy and pros perity. Quoting Moprehead, three propositions ■define.it: “PeaCé with God, Rom! 5:1; the peace of God, Phil, 4:7; find the'peace frofii God, 1 Cor. 1:3, conceived of as flowing into our hearts.” ' The feast, therefore, -is an expression of friendship and fellowship growing out of the fact that the breach between man and God has been healed by His grace.—Gray. 4:3 The sin-offering, though still Christ, is Christ seen laden with the believer’s-.sim,tabsolutely in the sinner’s place and stead, and not, as in the sweet ,savour offerings, in His own perfections. It is Christ’s death as viewed in Isa. 53; Psa. 22; Matt. 26:28; 1 Pet. 2:24;^.;3:i8. But. note, (Lev. 6:24-30) how the essential holiness of Him who waa,“made sin for us” (2 Cor. 5:21) sis guarded. The sin-offerings are expiatory, substitutional, .efficacious (Lev. 4:12; 23, 3 5 ) and have‘in view the vindication, of the law through Substitutional sacrifice.—Scofield. 5:6 The facts associated with the-trespass' offering are found in 5:14 to 6;7 and 7:1-10. It is hard to distinguish between the sin and trespass offerings because they almost necessarily overlap. “Trespass” means an invasion of the rights of others (compare Josh. 7:1; 2 Chron. 28:20-22) and jthere.are those who distinguish between the¡two of ferings by saying that the sin offering .represents-sin as a principié, and the'trespass offering sin as an act. Penalty . is prominent in the first, and reparation or restitution in the second. Both find their fulfillment in Christ, who not only bore, the penalty of but redressed every claim which God had upon the .sinner.:—Gray.
ELEMENTARY Kate H, Haus
God had told the Jews of His Son, Jesus Christ, who was to come to earth some dgy, to make atonement fqr the sin of the world, as Savior, and their Messiah. They had never seen Him, and did not understand the work He was to do;
so God arranged five different services to show the character and work of Christ. . These services w e r e called Offerings. These would show what s i n n e r s they were, how they, could be- saved, and what a great Savior
Christ was. The Burnt Offering showed how willing Christ was to Satisfy God’s love, and to die on the cross to save man. As Savior, heaven must be given up for a time; a life on earth of suffering and pain,' the hiding of God’s face, and the awful death on the cross, must take the place of heaven’s glory. Christ helped create man, and was equal to God, so was able to become the Savior, and He loved God enough to be willing to be the Savior. The hardest part of Christ’s work would be the turning of God’s face from Him when He hung on the cross. ' It took a love as strong as the love of God for Christ to be come Savior. Christ’s love for God was so strong He was willing to go through all this suffering. Christ was per fect in His love for God and man, in heart and work. So the Burnt Offering was perfect inside and out, and was carefully prepared. Christ was willing to endure all it meant for love of God. He pleased God with that love. God was willing to accept the loving sacrifice of His Son, because He loved lost man so much (John 3:16). The Burnt Offering showed God’s love for man, Christ’s love for God and man, and the awfulness of Sin. Without Christ’s voluntary death on the cross man never could be saved. The Meat Offering was an object lesson of what Christ is to the soul. Christ was a perfect Man, and is the Bread of Life to the soul. His perfection pleased God, and is a
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