OT DAY 186 - We Are All Sinners (Please click here for English podcast)

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Silence

1.   Put on your “brakes” and stop for a moment of silence

2.   Wait for God. Breathe deep for God's peace. Exhale your worries.

Praise and Thanksgiving

1.   Think through your day, all the times that made you smile

2.   Thank God for all those moments, and for all those people

3.   Open your heart to praise the Lord

      Be exalted, O God, above the heavens!
                Let your glory be over all the earth!

                             Psalm 57:5

                                                                       

Confession and Repentance

1.  Pray for the Holy Spirit to work in you:

     “Dear Holy Spirit, shine your light into the places of darkness in my life. Show me my sins, everything that blocks me from encountering God. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.”

2.  Through the Holy Spirit, examine yourself for a short silence and then pray:

     "Dear Lord Jesus, thank you for dying on the cross for our sins and being victorious over death and sin. I confess my sin to you(pause, to tell Jesus what the Holy Spirit has shown you). Forgive my sins by your blood and help me follow you. Holy Spirit, fill me that I may be able to receive your gift to love God and His people. In Jesus Name I pray, Amen."

The Word (Leviticus 4:1-35)

English(ESV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus+4&version=ESV

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, If anyone sins unintentionally[a] in any of the Lord's commandments about things not to be done, and does any one of them, 3 if it is the anointed priest who sins, thus bringing guilt on the people, then he shall offer for the sin that he has committed a bull from the herd without blemish to the Lord for a sin offering. 4 He shall bring the bull to the entrance of the tent of meeting before the Lord and lay his hand on the head of the bull and kill the bull before the Lord. 5 And the anointed priest shall take some of the blood of the bull and bring it into the tent of meeting, 6 and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle part of the blood seven times before the Lord in front of the veil of the sanctuary. 7 And the priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of fragrant incense before the Lord that is in the tent of meeting, and all the rest of the blood of the bull he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering that is at the entrance of the tent of meeting."

                              Leviticus 4: 1-7

Let's have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage of scripture we have just read. Offer this time up to Jesus as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmax47l2hLU

My Listening
     We have Sin Offering in Leviticus chapter 4 after the last three chapters dealing with Burnt Offering, Grain Offering and Peace Offering. What is Sin Offering?

Let's see how Professor John Goldingay tells us: 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Goldingay) :

    

     "Sin Offering" or "Purification Offering" does not cover what we would think of as sin.  It is concerned with accidental offences   If you have deliberately done wrong, you cannot deal with it by a mere sacrifice.  All you can do is acknowledge the wrongdoing, throw yourself on God's mercy, and hope that God will then treat your offence as if it were something accidental (because now you do not mean it).  The next chapter will tell us more about the kind of offence that the sacrifice is designed to deal with. 

John Goldingay. Exodus and Leviticus for Everyone. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2010, p.135.

      Sin Offering teaches the Israelites to be very conscious of sin and the consequence of sin. Nowadays most people are not conscious of sin. Lots of things are a kind of "grey area". There is no right or wrong, everything is so call "relatively speaking". And, most people do not know or do not want to know the consequence of sin. Have you got a slight idea of how important is "Sin Offering" now? 

     We have to admit that we are all sinners. As Jesus says in John 16:8:
And when the Holy Spirit comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment: 

     If you follow the Confession and Repentance section of this blog, you may have a better chance to deal with your sinfulness daily. We need to be purified daily.  

Dear Holy Spirit,

      Shine your light into the places of darkness in my life. Show me my sins, everything that blocks me from encountering God. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.

Reflect on these questions:

1. What does Sin Offering (Purification Offering) mean to you today?

2.  Do you agree that we are all sinners? How do you deal with this fact?

Praise and Thanksgiving

Let's give thanks for God with us. Let us praise Him:

10,000 Reasons

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