Many sins are spoken of in these chapters; some which we may consider little sins and some big ones, but sin is always sin in God’s sight. He says what sin is, not we.
When a person knows he has sinned, he is guilty (verse 4), and when he is guilt, he must confess his sin (verse 5); then he must bring his offering, and the priest will make atonement for his sin.
My dear young reader, God’s Word tells you that you have sinned, and if you are not saved, your sins are still upon you. Confess them to Him; atonement has been made by the Great High Priest, Jesus, the Son of God.
I may not know as much as others of the work of Jesus, or the immense value of His death on the cross, but if I see Him as the One who has been my Substitute—the One who has borne the judgment of God, which I deserved for my sins—God will accept Him for me. I may come to God through the Lord Jesus Christ, who is both the burnt offering and the sin offering.
These verses show us the holiness of God, for He could not allow even a sin of ignorance to pass without atonement, to be made for it. A sin of ignorance is some wrong thing done without knowing it was wrong, in connection with the things of God.
Atonement means to cover. God cannot look upon sin, and God must have it covered, and as the wages of sin is death, and we are unable to meet the claims of God and rise triumphant out of it, God, has provided His Son who alone was able to lay down His life for us and take it again.
These types point on to the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus, and they being types could not take away the sin but Christ having come, has atoned for sin and met all the claims of God, so He said on the cross, “It is finished.” Therefore to all who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ the word is,
Christ having died and risen has entered into the holiest, into the presence of God in all the value of His blood.
“His precious blood has spoken there
Before and on the throne:
And His own wounds in heaven declare
The atoning work is done.
`Tis finished!’—here our souls have rest,
His work can never fail:
By Him, our Sacrifice and Priest,
We pass within the wail.”