Leviticus 5:14-19
All Sin Costs
We have been looking at the Sin Offering from chapter 4. It was the
offering offered by the Jews when they broke God’s law but did so
without knowing it. In looking at that offering, I shared three of
four facts.
1. The Sin Offering teaches us that all sin counts.
2. …that all sinners count…
3. …and that all sin cuts us off.
The last truth is not just true of the Sin Offering but the Trespass
Offering as well. Both of these offering teach us that All Sin
Costs.
I. The High Cost required in the Sin Offering.
A. Concerning the Sin Offering, we have already noted what
happened to the sacrifice. Two things done with it make it
one of the most unusual sacrifices.
1. \\#Lev 4:2\\ It was killed at the door of the Tabernacle.
2. \\#Lev 4:8-10\\ The inward fat, the caul of the liver, and
the two kidneys were offered to the Lord.
3. \\#Lev 4:5-7\\ It’s blood was:
a. Sprinkled 7x before the vail of Holy Place.
b. Rubbed on the horns of the Altar of Incense.
c. And the remainder was simply poured out.
B. What happened to the remainder of the sacrifice is also very
unique.
1. As with the blood of the Sin Offering, something
completely different from every other sacrifice.
Lev 4:11 And the skin of the bullock, and all his
flesh, with his head, and with his legs, and his
inwards, and his dung,
12 Even the whole bullock shall he carry forth
without the camp unto a clean place, where the
ashes are poured out, and burn him on the wood
with fire: where the ashes are poured out shall
he be burnt.
2. Every other part of the animal was taken outside of the
camp and burned.
C. What does this speak of? Two things:
1. It tells the sinner the price he must pay for his own
sins.
a. Every human being is a sinner. The only exception is
the God-man, Jesus Christ.
b. Every human being must either pay for his sins or let
Jesus Christ pay for them.
c. What is the price for sin?
(1) He will be forever cast OUT of God’s camp.
(a) Here, God’s camp was a picture of heaven.
(b) God’s presence was inside that camp.
(c) Leave the camp and you leave the place where
God lives.
(d) Most sinners have lived a life cut off from
the presence of God, but even that does not
give us an understanding of what it is to
live eternity cut off from God.
(e) That price is greater than any and every
human will want to pay.
(2) He will be cast IN to the fire.
(a) That fire is a picture of hell.
(b) What is the price for attempting to pay your
own sins? Being cast out of God’s presence
into a burning, fiery hell.
d. However, we have to note that it is not the sinner
being drug outside of the camp and burned. It is the
sacrifice.
2. So this is the picture of the price Jesus paid for our
sins.
a. Jesus was literally driven outside of the city of
Jerusalem to be crucified.
Heb 13:11 For the bodies of those beasts, whose
blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high
priest for sin, are burned without the camp.
12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify
the people with his own blood, suffered without
the gate.
(1) Most believe that Jesus was crucified either at
the Holy Sepulchre or the Garden Tomb.
(2) Both of these are located NORTH of what was the
city of Jerusalem.
(a) The north side being the direction of God’s
judgment.
(b) Outside of the city in fulfillment of the
Sin Offering.
(3) Why was Jesus taken outside of the city?
(a) In the Jewish mind, they did not want to
pollute their city with blood and violence.
(b) But in God’s mind, it was because Jesus was
the fulfillment of the Sin Offering!
b. Someone asks, "But what about the fire?"
(1) We only see what happened to Jesus’ body, but
while His body was dying in pain, His soul was
burning in our hell.
(2) I do not know how, but somehow Jesus was paying
for all of our hells while He hung on the cross.
D. Understand, sin has cost God something and if we reject God’s
payment for sin, it will cost us something.
II. The High Cost required in the Trespass Offering.
A. Since this is the first and the only night we will talk about
the Trespass Offering, let me compare and contrast it with
the other blood sacrifices.
1. The Trespass Offering was like all of the blood offering
in that it brought to the tabernacle, slain by the sinner
on the north side of the Burnt Offering \\#Lev 7:2\\.
2. The Trespass Offering was like the Sin and the Peace
Offerings in that the inward fat, the caul above the
liver, and the two kidneys were offered to the Lord.
3. The Trespass Offering was like the Peace and Burnt
Offerings in that the blood was slung on the sides of
the altar.
4. The Trespass Offering was like the Sin Offering in it’s
main purpose. Both were offered when you broke God’s law.
B. But the Sin and Trespass Offerings were different in at least
two major ways.
1. When they were offered.
a. The Sin Offering was offered when you broke God’s law
in ignorance.
b. The Trespass Offering was offered when either one of
two conditions were true.
(1) If you broke God’s law on purpose, you offered a
Trespass Offering.
(2) Whether you sinned on purpose or in ignorance, if
your sin cost someone anything, you offered a
Trespass Offering.
(3) The Trespass Offering was an offering that
pictured the cost of sin.
(4) Sin always costs the sinner something and most of
the time, it was more than you were willing to
pay.
c. The cost that accompanied the Trespass Offering was
the main difference with the Trespass Offering.
d. Note the costs of the Trespass Offering:
Lev 6:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against
the LORD, and lie unto his neighbour in that
which was delivered him to keep, or in
fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence,
or hath deceived his neighbour;
3 Or have found that which was lost, and lieth
concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in any of
all these that a man doeth, sinning therein:
4 Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and
is guilty, that he shall restore that which he
took violently away, or the thing which he hath
deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered
him to keep, or the lost thing which he found,
5 Or all that about which he hath sworn falsely;
he shall even restore it in the principal, and
shall add the fifth part more thereto, and give
it unto him to whom it appertaineth, in the day
of his trespass offering.
6 And he shall bring his trespass offering unto
the LORD, a ram without blemish out of the flock,
with thy estimation, for a trespass offering,
unto the priest:
7 And the priest shall make an atonement for him
before the LORD: and it shall be forgiven him for
any thing of all that he hath done in trespassing
therein.
e. The cost was threefold:
(1) You returned or replaced whatever you sin had
cost the owner.
(2) You were forced to add 20% of whatever you lost
or took.
(a) \\#Lev 6:5\\ "the fifth part" is 20%.
(b) That may not sound like much.
(c) However, considering most thief would have
been done out of necessity, 20% was a high
payment.
(d) You had to bring a ram to the Lord as your
Trespass Offering.
Lev 5:18 And he shall bring a ram without
blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation,
for a trespass offering, unto the priest: and
the priest shall make an atonement for him
concerning his ignorance wherein he erred and
wist it not, and it shall be forgiven him.
19 It is a trespass offering: he hath certainly
trespassed against the LORD.
i. A ram is a male sheep with horns.
ii. This would be a costly animal, and it
is the only animal mentioned for a
Trespass Offering.
(3) What happened if you did not or COULD not do
this?
(a) In the spiritual sense, you were cut off
from God.
(b) In the physical sense, you were cut off from
Israel. I have never completely understood
if that meant cast out of Israel or killed.
f. The cost associated with bringing the Trespass
Offering was one of the things that made it unique.
This offering was to show the sinner that sin does
not pay, neither in this world nor in the next.
g. One of the great destructive errors that our country
and our world has done is to remove the earthly cost
of sin to the sinner.
(1) Our society accept adultery, false worship,
blasphemy, disobedience, and nudity with no
incriminations at all.
(2) Perversion is accepted not only as an alternate
lifestyle but even a preferred one.
(3) In some cases, drug dealers and gangsters get off
with murder while lesser crimes are punished with
far more severely.
(4) Some states are removing the lasting repercussion
of felons by restoring their voting rights to
them.
(5) If there is a problem with democracy it is that
as the nation is corrupt, so become its laws.
2. What was not offered to the Lord becomes the priests. That
spoke of fellowship with God being restored.
Lev 7:7 …the priest that maketh atonement
therewith shall have it.
a. That is not at all what happened with the Sin Offering
in that the sacrifice’s remains had to be taken
without the camp and burned.
b. There were two stipulations on the left overs.
Lev 7:6 Every male among the priests shall eat
thereof: it shall be eaten in the holy place: it
is most holy.
(1) The meat had to be eaten by the priests.
(2) It had to be eaten in the holy place.
c. However, it had to be eaten on Holy Ground.
(1) This was not meat that was to be eaten by the
priests’ families or in their homes.
(2) Here the priest stood in the sinner’s place,
knowing that the sinner’s sin had been removed,
the forgiven was once again able to stand on
holy ground in fellowship with God.
(a) Because a ram had been killed? No.
(b) Because by faith and obedience a guilty
sinner had placed his trust in what God was
going to do, i.e. sent an offering for sin!
Sin does cost and the price is everything; but in Jesus Christ we
have not merely atonement for sin, but complete payment, forgiveness,
and restoration!
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