Sermon Tone Analysis

From Religion to Relationship

Old Made New: Pt. 10

Pastor Tim Brisson

Intro

welcome to 420

Group example - firing scriptures and saying YOU ARE FORGIVEN - JESUS MADE THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE FOR YOU

Easter

Good Friday - Disciples WHY?

Holy Sabbath Saturday - WHY?

Sunday, empty tomb - WHY?

Appearances to Mary, Peter, and others - WHY?

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?

WHAT DOES THE CROSS MEAN

WE USE THE WORD SACRIFICE

PENAL SUBSTITUTIONARY ATONEMENT

THE PREDOMINANT VIEW OF THE CROSS SINCE THE REFORMATION AND LUTHER

so a neighborhood kid breaks my window, and I punish my child?

HOW DOES PUNISHING EVEN ONE INNOCENT FOR THE GUILT OF OTHERS EVER MAKE SENSE

Shouldn’t Father God at least be as nice as his Son Jesus?

DID JESUS REALLY HAVE TO DIE - AS A SACRIFICE?

What is a sacrifice?

Joe Vs.

Volcano

if it is not Jesus Vs.

Volcano, what kind of sacrifice is it?

PSA IS JUST ONE OF MANY DIFFERENT VIEWS OF THE CROSS THAT THE CHURCH HAS HELD OVER THE YEARS

WE HAVE DISCUSS CHRIST AS VICTOR

TONIGHT WE WILL DISCUSS THE CROSS AS LOVE

I WILL PULL A THEOLOGICAL RABBIT OUT OF A HAT, AND YOU WILL LEAVE TONIGHT VIEWING THE CROSS AS THE ULTIMATE ACT OF LOVE

FIRST LETS REFRAME SACRIFICE

FIRST RESPONDER EXAMPLE

THE ULTIMATE 911 CALL

THE DAY OF ATONEMENT

Leviticus 16 (CSB)

1 The Lord spoke to Moses after the death of two of Aaron’s sons when they approached the presence of the Lord and died. 2 The Lord said to Moses, “Tell your brother Aaron that he may not come whenever he wants into the holy place behind the curtain in front of the mercy seat on the ark or else he will die, because I appear in the cloud above the mercy seat.

3 “Aaron is to enter the most holy place in this way: with a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.

4 He is to wear a holy linen tunic, and linen undergarments are to be on his body.

He is to tie a linen sash around him and wrap his head with a linen turban.

These are holy garments; he must bathe his body with water before he wears them.

5 He is to take from the Israelite community two male goats for a sin offering and one ram for a burnt offering.

6 “Aaron will present the bull for his sin offering and make atonement for himself and his household.

7 Next he will take the two goats and place them before the Lord at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

8 After Aaron casts lots for the two goats, one lot for the Lord and the other for an uninhabitable place, 9 he is to present the goat chosen by lot for the Lord and sacrifice it as a sin offering.

10 But the goat chosen by lot for an uninhabitable place is to be presented alive before the Lord to make atonement with it by sending it into the wilderness for an uninhabitable place.

11 “When Aaron presents the bull for his sin offering and makes atonement for himself and his household, he will slaughter the bull for his sin offering.

12 Then he is to take a firepan full of blazing coals from the altar before the Lord and two handfuls of finely ground fragrant incense, and bring them inside the curtain.

13 He is to put the incense on the fire before the Lord, so that the cloud of incense covers the mercy seat that is over the testimony, or else he will die.

14 He is to take some of the bull’s blood and sprinkle it with his finger against the east side of the mercy seat; then he will sprinkle some of the blood with his finger before the mercy seat seven times.

15 “When he slaughters the male goat for the people’s sin offering and brings its blood inside the curtain, he will do the same with its blood as he did with the bull’s blood: He is to sprinkle it against the mercy seat and in front of it.

16 He will make atonement for the most holy place in this way for all their sins because of the Israelites’ impurities and rebellious acts.

He will do the same for the tent of meeting that remains among them, because it is surrounded by their impurities.

17 No one may be in the tent of meeting from the time he enters to make atonement in the most holy place until he leaves after he has made atonement for himself, his household, and the whole assembly of Israel.

18 Then he will go out to the altar that is before the Lord and make atonement for it.

He is to take some of the bull’s blood and some of the goat’s blood and put it on the horns on all sides of the altar.

19 He is to sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times to cleanse and set it apart from the Israelites’ impurities.

20 “When he has finished making atonement for the most holy place, the tent of meeting, and the altar, he is to present the live male goat.

21 Aaron will lay both his hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the Israelites’ iniquities and rebellious acts—all their sins.

He is to put them on the goat’s head and send it away into the wilderness by the man appointed for the task.

22 The goat will carry all their iniquities into a desolate land, and the man will release it there.

23 “Then Aaron is to enter the tent of meeting, take off the linen garments he wore when he entered the most holy place, and leave them there.

24 He will bathe his body with water in a holy place and put on his clothes.

Then he must go out and sacrifice his burnt offering and the people’s burnt offering; he will make atonement for himself and for the people.

25 He is to burn the fat of the sin offering on the altar.

26 The man who released the goat for an uninhabitable place is to wash his clothes and bathe his body with water; afterward he may reenter the camp.

27 The bull for the sin offering and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought into the most holy place to make atonement, must be brought outside the camp and their hide, flesh, and waste burned.

28 The one who burns them is to wash his clothes and bathe himself with water; afterward he may reenter the camp.

29 “This is to be a permanent statute for you: In the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month you are to practice self-denial and do no work, both the native and the alien who resides among you.

30 Atonement will be made for you on this day to cleanse you, and you will be clean from all your sins before the Lord.

31 It is a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you must practice self-denial; it is a permanent statute.

32 The priest who is anointed and ordained to serve as high priest in place of his father will make atonement.

He will put on the linen garments, the holy garments, 33 and make atonement for the most holy place.

He will make atonement for the tent of meeting and the altar and will make atonement for the priests and all the people of the assembly.

34 This is to be a permanent statute for you, to make atonement for the Israelites once a year because of all their sins.”

And all this was done as the Lord commanded Moses.

SO TODAY THIS IS OBSERVED AS YOM KIPPUR

THE DAY OF ATONEMENT

EVERY SEPTEMBER

ONCE A YEAR, BEFORE THE JEWISH CALENDAR NEW YEAR, THEY OBSERVE A PERIOD OF INTROSPECTION AND REFLECTION

THEY DO 4TH STEP INVENTORY

LET’S FOCUS ON THIS

30 Atonement will be made for you on this day to cleanse you, and you will be clean from all your sins before the Lord.

WHAT IS THE BLOOD BEING USED FOR? CLEANSING - BECAUSE IT IS LIFE, THE BLOOD RESTORES LIFE

THE PURPOSE OF THE SACRIFICE WAS NOT THE DEATH OF THE ANIMAL

THE ANIMAL HAS TO DIE TO GET THE BLOOD

LIKE IN GENESIS, GOD COVERS ADAM AND EVE’S SINS WITH CLOTHING MADE FROM AN ANIMAL HIDE, THE ANIMAL HAD TO BE KILLED, BUT THE TAKING OF THE ANIMAL’S LIFE WAS NOT THE POINT, LIKE THE JOE VS VOLCANO SACRIFICES OF SUPERSTITION

BUT ALSO THE PLACE OF ATONEMENT, THE ALTAR, IS CLEANSED, ALONG WITH THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY

33 He will make atonement for the tent of meeting and the altar and will make atonement for the priests and all the people of the assembly.

A ONCE A YEAR DEEP CLEANING

LET’S SEE WHAT THE NEW TESTAMENT WRITERS DEVELOP THIS IDEA AS BEING FULFILLED IN CHRIST

Atonement = Cleansing

Hebrews 9:23–28 (CSB)

23 Therefore, it was necessary for the copies of the things in the heavens to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves to be purified with better sacrifices than these.

24 For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with hands (only a model of the true one) but into heaven itself, so that he might now appear in the presence of God for us.

25 He did not do this to offer himself many times, as the high priest enters the sanctuary yearly with the blood of another.

26 Otherwise, he would have had to suffer many times since the foundation of the world.

But now he has appeared one time, at the end of the ages, for the removal of sin by the sacrifice of himself.

27 And just as it is appointed for people to die once—and after this, judgment—28 so also Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.

YOUR SALVATION OPERATES IN THE PRESENT - YOU ARE NOW CLEANSED OF SINS - AND AS A BELIEVER YOU ARE ASSURED OF SALVATION IN THE SECOND COMING WHEN ALL OF CREATION WILL BE JUDGED

THIS IS WHAT THE WRITER OF HEBREWS SEES LEVITICUS POINTING TOWRDS

Hebrews 10:1–4 (CSB)