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Leviticus 4:1-21 \u00a0 (CLICK HERE FOR\u00a0BIBLE VERSES)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Leviticus 4:1-17.\u00a0With a humble heart, see what sticks out to you in this passage.\u00a0 Is there a verse, a phrase, or a lesson you think the Holy Spirit may be highlighting for you in this passage?\u00a0 After you\u2019ve thought about the passage yourself a bit, read the GAME sharing below.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Leviticus\u00a04:1-21 (NIV)<\/em><\/strong>
\n1\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The\u00a0LORD\u00a0said to Moses,
\n2\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“Say to the Israelites: ‘When anyone sins unintentionally and does what is forbidden in any of the\u00a0LORD’s commands–
\n3\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“‘If the anointed priest sins, bringing guilt on the people, he must bring to the\u00a0LORD\u00a0a young bull without defect as a sin offering for the sin he has committed.
\n4\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0He is to present the bull at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting before the\u00a0LORD. He is to lay his hand on its head and slaughter it before the\u00a0LORD.
\n5\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Then the anointed priest shall take some of the bull’s blood and carry it into the Tent of Meeting.
\n6\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0He is to dip his finger into the blood and sprinkle some of it seven times before the\u00a0LORD, in front of the curtain of the sanctuary.
\n7\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The priest shall then put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of fragrant incense that is before the\u00a0LORD\u00a0in the Tent of Meeting. The rest of the bull’s blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
\n8\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0He shall remove all the fat from the bull of the sin offering–the fat that covers the inner parts or is connected to them,
\n9\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the covering of the liver, which he will remove with the kidneys–
\n10\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0just as the fat is removed from the ox sacrificed as a fellowship offering. Then the priest shall burn them on the altar of burnt offering.
\n11\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0But the hide of the bull and all its flesh, as well as the head and legs, the inner parts and offal–
\n12\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0that is, all the rest of the bull–he must take outside the camp to a place ceremonially clean, where the ashes are thrown, and burn it in a wood fire on the ash heap.
\n13\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“‘If the whole Israelite community sins unintentionally and does what is forbidden in any of the\u00a0LORD’s commands, even though the community is unaware of the matter, they are guilty.
\n14\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0When they become aware of the sin they committed, the assembly must bring a young bull as a sin offering and present it before the Tent of Meeting.
\n15\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The elders of the community are to lay their hands on the bull’s head before the\u00a0LORD, and the bull shall be slaughtered before the\u00a0LORD.
\n16\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Then the anointed priest is to take some of the bull’s blood into the Tent of Meeting.
\n17\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0He shall dip his finger into the blood and sprinkle it before the\u00a0LORD\u00a0seven times in front of the curtain.
\n18\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0He is to put some of the blood on the horns of the altar that is before the\u00a0LORD\u00a0in the Tent of Meeting. The rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
\n19\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0He shall remove all the fat from it and burn it on the altar,
\n20\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0and do with this bull just as he did with the bull for the sin offering. In this way the priest will make atonement for them, and they will be forgiven.
\n21\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Then he shall take the bull outside the camp and burn it as he burned the first bull. This is the sin offering for the community.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses\u00a01-21:\u00a0\u00a0Leviticus\u00a04:1-21 talks about what happens when a Jew sins against God\u00a0unintentionally\u00a0\u00a0(v1)<\/em>.\u00a0 For example, maybe that person did something that was against God’s laws but they were not aware that they did it, or maybe they didn’t know it was something God’s laws prohibited.<\/p>\n

Verse 13 shows us that just because we don’t know we sinned doesn’t mean we haven’t sinned.\u00a0\u00a0Sin is sin, whether we do it intentionally or not.<\/strong>\u00a0 One of the lessons of\u00a0Leviticus\u00a04\u00a0is that when we sin, even if it is by accident, it is still necessary to deal with that sin.\u00a0 That’s why David would write, “Who can discern his errors?\u00a0Forgive my hidden faults<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Keep your servant also from wilful sins; may they not rule over me.” (Psalm 19:12-13)<\/p>\n

What should you do when you realize you sinned unintentionally?\u00a0 As soon as we become aware that we have sinned against God or another person, we should look to God for forgiveness and where necessary make things right with the person we sinned against.<\/p>\n

Praise God that just as He made provision for unintentional sins in\u00a0Leviticus\u00a04, God made provision for our unintentional sins by sending Jesus Christ as a sin offering to die for\u00a0all<\/em>\u00a0our sins (see Romans 8:3).<\/strong><\/p>\n

In fact, in Jesus Christ we have an even greater provision than the Jews had in\u00a0Leviticus\u00a04.\u00a0 While a sin offering in\u00a0Leviticus\u00a04\u00a0was good to cover only one unintentional sin, Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross was good enough to cover ALL our sins — intentional, unintentional, past, present and future.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let’s thank God that through the sacrifice of His Son Jesus made once and for all, ALL our sins are totally forgiven. \u00a0\u00a0We don’t need to live in constant fear that we are sinning against God unintentionally.\u00a0 Instead, we live under the all-sufficient umbrella of God’s mercy and grace, fully protected and fully forgiven.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thank You, God, for loving me and forgiving me through Jesus Christ even when I unintentionally sin against You.\u00a0\u00a0Thank You Jesus for dying on the cross not just for the sins I\u2019ve committed intentionally but for all the ways I\u2019ve sinned unintentionally against You and against others.\u00a0\u00a0Thank You that Your mercy and love are enough to cover ALL of my sins, even the unintentional ones.\u00a0\u00a0In Jesus\u2019 name, AMEN!<\/em><\/p>\n

copyright \u00a9 2022 Justin Lim. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Leviticus 4:1-17.\u00a0With a humble heart, see what sticks out to you in this passage.\u00a0 Is there a verse, a phrase, or a lesson you think the Holy Spirit may be highlighting for you in this passage?\u00a0 After you\u2019ve thought about the passage yourself a bit, read the GAME sharing below.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go!
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\nLeviticus\u00a04:1-21 (NIV)
\n1\u00a0\u00a0The\u00a0LORD\u00a0said to Moses,
\n2\u00a0\u00a0“Say to the Israelites: ‘When anyone sins unintentionally and does what is forbidden in any of the\u00a0LORD’s commands–
\n3\u00a0\u00a0“‘If the anointed priest sins, bringing guilt on the people, he must bring to the\u00a0LORD\u00a0a young bull without defect as a sin offering for the sin he has committed.<\/p>\n

On verses\u00a01-21:\u00a0\u00a0Leviticus\u00a04:1-21 talks about what happens when a Jew sins against God\u00a0unintentionally\u00a0\u00a0(v1).\u00a0 For example, maybe that person did something that was against God’s laws but they were not aware that they did it, or maybe they didn’t know it was something God’s laws prohibited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gametime-sharing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35960"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35963,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35960\/revisions\/35963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}