Bible Talks: The Sin Offering for the High Priest

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AFTER THE bullock was slain and its blood shed, the priest was to dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before the veil, before the Lord. He was also to put some of the blood on the horns of the golden altar of sweet incense. The rest of the blood was poured out beside the brazen altar.
Only through the shedding of the blood of the substitute without blemish could the sin be put away from before the Lord, and communion restored. The blood sprinkled seven times before the veil would speak of this perfect restoration. The blood poured out at the bottom of the altar of burnt offering was a substitute for the life of the sinner. This points on so clearly and so sweetly to the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. There He was lifted up from the earth, and there it is where God now draws the sinner. In righteousness and love He meets him and shows the precious work of redemption His beloved Son has accomplished for him there. “The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.” 1 John 1:77But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. (1 John 1:7).
After the fat and some of the innards were removed and burnt on the altar, the whole bullock — its skin, its head, its legs, its inwards and dung — all was burned together without the camp.
All that we were as men in the flesh has come to a complete end in the death of Christ and this is solemnly pictured to us in the whole bullock burned to ashes. But oh to think of what it cost the holy spotless Saviour to suffer without the gate of Jerusalem to put our sins away; “For He [God] hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.” 2 Cor. 5:2121For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. (2 Corinthians 5:21). How our hearts should bow in worship and thanksgiving, our lips be filled with His praises, and our lives show forth our appreciation of all He has done for us!
We were saying that the fat and some of the inwards were first roved and burned on the altar bore the Lord. The caul, or midriff, was part of these; it is that by the action of which breath is drawn and expelled from the lungs. And this confirms all that has been said about the preciousness of Jesus. Even when “made sin” and “numbered with the transgressors,” His infinite preciousness is still showed forth. Every breath that He breathed was precious to God. Oh how loudly this speaks His praise!
May we affectionately ask you, dear reader, Do you know Jesus as your Sin Offering? Can you say, “His blood cleanses me from all sin... He bore my sins in His own body on the tree... I have redemption through His blood"? Do you esteem the preciousness of Jesus as your “Sin Offering,” such that you are willing to “go forth unto Him without the camp, bearing His reproach"? May the language of our lives be, “God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.” Gal. 6:1414But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. (Galatians 6:14).
ML-07/18/1971