OT DAY 187 - Being Forgiven and to Forgive, That Is The Question (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

      I will give thanks to you, O Lord, among the peoples;
                 I will sing praises to you among the nations.
10       For your steadfast love is great to the heavens,
                          your faithfulness to the clouds.

                             Psalm 57:9-10

                                                                       

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 5:1-6:7)

English(ESV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus 5&version=ESV

The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 15 “If anyone commits a breach of faith and sins unintentionally in any of the holy things of the Lord, he shall bring to the Lord as his compensation, a ram without blemish out of the flock, valued[e] in silver shekels,[f]according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for a guilt offering. 16 He shall also make restitution for what he has done amiss in the holy thing and shall add a fifth to it and give it to the priest. And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering, and he shall be forgiven.

                              Leviticus 5: 14-16

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
     This chapter talks more in details what kind of thing offends God. 

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

    

     The offences are for varying incompatible with who God is.  They make it impossible for people affected by them to come into God's presence at the sanctuary; or if people do, they bring their offences with them and leave a trace of them there.  So the people and the sanctuary need to be cleansed from their effect.  The purification offering is God's provision for ensuring that...
     Leviticus 5 goes on to talk more systematically about reparation as well as purification, as it moves to discussing the "reparation offering."  Traditionally it is the "guilt offing"; it is concerned with how you make restitution when you are guilty of some wrongdoing or "trespass."...
     The reason for dealing with this matter in these chapters is that in addition to making restitution to the other person, you have to make a reparation offering.  Deceiving the other person involved "a trespass against God." 

John Goldingay. Exodus and Leviticus for Everyone. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2010, p.138-139.

      Boring? May be you do not want to read on because it seems all those things has nothing to do with you, right? 

      But, think about how Jesus talks about that in the Lord's prayer and repeats that right after the Lord's prayer:

      and forgive us our debts,
    as we also have forgiven our debtors.    Matthew 6: 12

        For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you,15 but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.            
                               Matthew 6: 14-15

       Think about how Jesus changed Zacchaeus, the tax collector's life:

      And Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor. And if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I restore it fourfold.” 9 And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, since he also is a son of Abraham. 10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”     Luke 19: 8-10 

      Do you understand a little bit now the importance of "Sin Offering" and "Guilt Offering"? It's all about "being forgiven" and "to forgive". If someone thinks that his sins will never be forgiven, he will lead a miserable life. If someone cannot forgive other people's sin against him he will lead a life full of anger and bitterness. 

Dear Lord Jesus,

      Help us to know that if we are willing to repent, our sins will be forgiven. Lead us to live a life that we can forgive so that we are not going to live in anger and bitterness. In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.

Reflect on these questions:

1. What does Sin Offering and Guilt Offering mean to you today?

2.  Are you sure that your sins are being forgiven and you are free?

3.  Do you have anyone you cannot not forgive?

Praise and Thanksgiving

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

10,000 Reasons

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