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*BBC MAR 2, 08 OFFERINGS THAT PLEASE THE LORD;THE TRESPASS OFFERING – LEV.

5:14-6:7*

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/NKJ /*/LEVITICUS 5:14/*/ THEN THE LORD SPOKE TO MOSES, SAYING: 15 "IF A PERSON COMMITS A TRESPASS, AND SINS UNINTENTIONALLY IN REGARD TO THE HOLY THINGS OF THE LORD, THEN HE SHALL BRING TO THE LORD AS HIS TRESPASS OFFERING A RAM WITHOUT BLEMISH FROM THE FLOCKS, WITH YOUR VALUATION IN SHEKELS OF SILVER ACCORDING TO THE SHEKEL OF THE SANCTUARY, AS A TRESPASS OFFERING.

16 "AND HE SHALL MAKE RESTITUTION FOR THE HARM THAT HE HAS DONE IN REGARD TO THE HOLY THING, AND SHALL ADD ONE-FIFTH TO IT AND GIVE IT TO THE PRIEST.

SO THE PRIEST SHALL MAKE ATONEMENT FOR HIM WITH THE RAM OF THE TRESPASS OFFERING, AND IT SHALL BE FORGIVEN HIM./

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INTRO: AT ONE TIME OR ANOTHER WE HAVE OR WE WILL BE VICTIMS OF A CRIME.

WHETHER KNOWINGLY OR UNKNOWINGLY SOME WILL INCLUDE US IN THEIR EQUATION OF INJUSTICE AS THEY BREAK THE RULES.

CRIME IS A BREACH OF THE RULES; THE CROSSING OF THE LINE; SOMETIME ON PURPOSE AN OTHER TIMES BY ACCIDENT.

CRIME COMES FROM THE WORD...OF LATIN ORIGIN...CRIMEN...(GENITIVE, CRIMINIS) FROM THE CERNO AND THE GREEK KRINO... WHICH MEANS “I JUDGE”.

ORIGINALLY IT MEANT “CHARGE, CHARGES IN THE LAW, GUILT, AND ACCUSATION.

CRIME IS LINKED WITH COMMUNITY WHERE THERE IS SOCIAL ORDER, SOCIAL CONTROL VIA GOVERNMENT.

GOVERNMENT GIVES US BEHAVIORAL CODES, LAWS, POLICIES, RULES AND REGULATION IN EVERY ARE OF SOCIETY.

THE SYSTEM OF POLICIES AND PRACTICES, OF REMEDY AND SANCTIONS ARE COLLECTIVELY CALLED THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM.

AND WE ALL KNOW THAT IT IS NOT A PERFECT SYSTEM.

FOR A DAY DOES NOT GO BY WHERE THE TICKER TAPE OF INFORMATION BOMBARDS OUR HOMES BY WAY OF RADIO, TV, and INTERNET; AS ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, ..FROM EARLY MORNING TO BREAKING NEWS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY TO LATE NIGHT...CRIME.

CRIME IS A CLOSE COUSIN OF CHAOS – CONSIDER THE MASSACRE AT VIRGINIA TECH..WHERE 32 PEOPLE WERE KILLED  BEFORE THE SHOOTER...CHO SEUNG –HUI TOOK HIS OWN LIFE.

FROM VIR.

TO LOUISIANA..YES, JENA LOUISIANA WHERE THE NATION WITNESSED THE DOUBLE TIERED JUSTICE SYSTEM AS A RESULT OF A FIGHT, THAT WAS A RESULT OF A NOOSE HUNG FROM A TREE AT A HIGH SCHOOL.

IN WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN MET WITH SUSPENSION WAS BYPASSED ..SO THAT MYCHAL BELL WAS INCARCERATED BECAUSE THE LAW DETERMINED THAT HIS TENNIS SHOES WERE USED AS A DANGEROUS WEAPON.

FROM THE US TO GREAT BRITAIN, THERE IS THE DISAPPEARANCE OF A LITTLE GIRL...NAME MADELEINE MCCANN..SHE IS STILL MISSING AND ALL EVIDENCE IS INCONCLUSIVE.

OVER TO SCOTLAND, THERE WAS THE TERRORIST ATTACK AT THE GLASGOW AIRPORT.

IN CHINA....AND INDIA AND AFRICA...THE DAILY ROUTINE OF HUNDREDS OF LABORERS FORCED TO WORK AS SLAVES, AS SEX SLAVES, AS ....

 

FROM THE SLAVES TO THE GANGS...FROM NEW DELHI TO NEWARK...OUTSIDE THE MT.

VERNON HIGH SCHOOL....WHERE THREE GOOD KIDS...WHO WERE GOING TO COLLEGE... DELAWARE STATE...THEY WERE LINED UP AND SHOT EXECUTION STYLE (ONE SURVIVED)...AND RATTLED EVERY PARENT AND TEACHER INTO THE SCHOOL YEAR.

IF THAT WASN’T BAD ENOUGH...THE WRESTLING WORLD CRIED AS CHRIS BENOIT GAVE HIS WIFE AND CHILD A SEDITATIVE AND THE STRANGLED THEM TO DEATH AND THEN HUNG HIMSELF....IN WHAT SEEM TO BE THE RESULT OF STEROID ABUSE...IN WHAT THEY CALLED “ROID RAGE”.

AND YES, OJ WAS IN THE NEWS AGAIN, BUT THERE WAS ANTHONY MARSHALL, SON OF BROOK ASTOR...NY PHILANTHROPIST AND SOCIALITE OF THE WALDORF-ASTORIA FAME WHO WAS ACCUSED OF TAKING ADVANTAGE OF HIS 105 YR OLD MOTHER...STEALING AND CONSIRACING TO PLUNDER HER ESTATE.

WE DON’T’ HAVE TIME TO DISCUSS...ALL THE DEVIANT BEHAVIOR ....THAT RANGE FROM ROBBERY TO RAPE..BUT THEY CAN ALL BE CHARACTERIZED AS A TRESPASS.

TRESPASS – NORMALLY WE THINK OF TRESPASS AS GOING INTO SOMEBODY ELSE’S LAND OR PROPERTY WITHOUT PERMISSION.

WE’VE SEEN THE SIGNS...NO TRESPASSING; AND ACCOMPANIED WITH THE SIGN MAYBE...THE SMALL PRINT...BEWARE OF DOGS, OR SURVEILLANCE CAMERA OR IN SOME AREAS....YOU’LL SEE THE WORDS OF “DEADLY FORCE IS AUTHORIZED” DEPENDING ON WHICH LINES YOU CROSS.

TRUTH ABOUT THE TRESPASS – ALL OF US IS GUILTY OF TRESPASSING AGAINST GOD.

EXPL:  IN THE TEXT WE’VE BEEN STUDYING HOW TO HAVE ACCESS TO GOD; GOD HAS COME DOWN AND DELIVERED ISRAEL; HE HAS GIVE MOSES THE PLANS FOR THE TABERNACLE AND THE PRECEPTS IN HOW GOD WANTS TO BE WORSHIPPED.

THUS LEVITICUS IS A THE HANDBOOK OF HOLINESS;

 

IT IS A BOOK OF SACRIFICE AND SANCTIFICATION

BOOK OF BLOOD AND BLESSINGS

BOOK OF CLEANSING AND CLEAN LIVING

 

IT IS A BOOK THAT REMINDS OF OUR GREAT SALVATION AS EACH PAGE POINTS TO THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.

WE SEE CHRIST IN THE

BURNT OFFERING  - CHRIST GAVE TOTAL COMMITMENT FOR US; HE GAVE HIS ALL, VOLUNTARILY SO WE SHOULD GIVE OUR BEST.

MEAL OFFERING – CHRIST WAS PERFECT IN CHARACTER...AND WE WILL BE SIFTED...EITHER BY SATAN OR THE SAVIOR

PEACE OFFERING – CHRIST PERFECT COMMUNION AS WE ARE BLESSED TO WORSHIP AND FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD AND EA.

OTHER

 

SIN OFFERING – CHRIST PERFECT ATONEMENT – FOR WE ALL HAVE SINNED...PRIEST, CONGREGATION, RULERS AND COMMON FOLK..BUT CHRIST ...

 

NOW WE LOOK AT THE TRESPASS OFFERING...

 

INTER: WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE TRESPASS OFFERING OR THE GUILT OFFERING.

TS: AS WE LOOK AT THIS PASSAGE WE WILL COME TO UNDERSTAND ANOTHER OFFERING THAT PLEASED GOD.

PROP: WE ALL STAND GUILTY AGAINST GOD AND MAN.

IN A BREACH OF FAITH.

WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM THIS PASSAGE?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*MP I. WE ARE GUILTY OF CRIMES AGAINST GOD AND HUMANITY.

V. 14.*

 

WHEN ONE THINKS OF CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY ...IT A SYSTEMATIC, ON-GOING, GENERAL SCHEME OF GENOCIDE THAT HAS BECOMES POLICY ....THAT VARY FROM WAR CRIMES...IN THAT CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY CAN TAKE PLACE IN TIMES OF WAR AND TIMES OF PEACE.

*THESE INCLUDE MURDER, GENOCIDE, SLAVERY, AND IMPRISONMENT WITHOUT TRIAL, TORTURE, RAPE, FORCED PREGNANCY, DISAPPEARANCE, AND APARTHEID.

THE SYSTEMATIC PERSECUTION* OF ONE RACIAL GROUP OVER OTHERS ..AS SEEN IN SOUTH AFRICA.

THIS ALSO INCLUDES ETHNIC CLEANSING IN ASIA, AFRICA IN RWANDA, AND DARFUR, EUROPE BET.

CROATS AND BOSNIANS AS WELL AS AMERICA...AS SEEN IN THE ABU GHRAIB PRISON IN IRAQ.

AND... IT GOES EVEN FARTHER WE EXPLOIT THE RESOURCES OF GOD’S WORLD.

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SINS OF OMISSION -  NOW, WE WILL SAY THAT WE’VE NEVER DONE ANY OF THESE THINGS, BUT IT DOESN’T MEAN THAT WE ARE NOT GUILTY OF AN IGNORANT EPISODE OF TRESPASS.

IF A SOUL HAS A BREACH OF FAITH THAT WAS NOT DELIBERATE IN THE HOLY THINGS OF GOD, THEN THE PERSON WAS TO BRING AN OFFERING OF A RAM. NOW THE HOLY THINGS OF GOD INCLUDE GOD’S PROPERTY; MAYBE ONE INADVERTENTLY ATE SOME OF THE FAT, OR SOME OF THE BLOOD OR UNKNOWINGLY WITHHELD SOME OF THE TITHE OR WENT THE EXTRA MILE ON THE SABBATH DAY.

SINS OF COMMISSION – THEN IN CH. 6...WE WITNESS SIN OF DELIBERATE WRONGDOING....LIE, STEAL, ROB, DEFRAUD.

OR IF SOMEONE LOST SOMETHING, YOU FIND IT AND WHEN ASKED ABOUT IT...LIE AND SAY, “I CAN’T SAY I’VE SEEN IT”.

..”SO HELP ME GOD.

THAT’S SIN.

YOU MEANT IT, YOU PLANNED AND PLOTTED IT OUT...IT WAS PREMEDITATED...AND YOU DID THE CRIME.

IMP.

SIN OF OMISSION... GOD IS THE OBJECT.

OUR MISTAKES IN THE HOLY THINGS OF GOD ARE AGAINST GOD.

WHEN WE FAIL TO SET A STANDARD OF THE TITHE...AS VOWED... THEN WE HEAR THE WORDS...WILL A MAN ROB GOD; AND THE REPLY ..WHERE IN HAVE WE ROBBED HIM..OH, IN TITHES AND OFFERING.

BUT IN OUR DELIBERATE SINS, WE SIN AGAINST GOD AND MAN.

OH MY.

 

IN THE STORY OF MRS.

POTIPHAR’S PLANNING AND PLOTTING TO SEDUCE JOSEPH...JOSEPH SAYS..*GENESIS 39:9* SO THAT NO ONE HAS MORE AUTHORITY IN THIS HOUSE THAN I HAVE; HE HAS KEPT NOTHING BACK FROM ME BUT YOU, BECAUSE YOU ARE HIS WIFE; HOW THEN MAY I DO THIS GREAT WRONG, SINNING AGAINST GOD?

 

IN THE STORY OF THE PRODIGAL SON..WHEN HE CAME TO HIMSELF AND REHEARSED HIS SPEECH..HE SAID...”FATHER, I HAVE SINNER AGAINST HEAVEN, AND IN THY SIGHT, AND AM NOT WORTHY TO BE CALLED THY SON.

LUKE 15:21.

APP: PRAYERFUL LIVING – LORD LED US NOT INTO TEMPTATION BUT DELIVER US FROM EVIL.

LORD, MAY MY GOOD INTENTION NOT RESULT IN A BAD RESULTS AND DISHONOR YOUR MAN.

HELP ME TO LOVE YOU WITH ALL MY HEART, MIND AND SOUL AND MY NEIGHBOR HAS MY SELF.

ILL: AT THE CROSS

 

ALAS, AND DID MY SAVIOR BLEED, AND DID MY SOV’REIGN DIE? \\ WOULD HE DEVOTE THAT SACRED HEAD FOR SUCH A WORM AS I?

 

/2/     WAS IT FOR CRIMES THAT I HAD DONE HE GROANED UPON THE TREE? \\ AMAZING PITY, GRACE UNKNOWN, AND LOVE BEYOND DEGREE!

AT THE CROSS, AT THE CROSS WHERE I FIRST SAW THE LIGHT,

AND THE BURDEN OF MY HEART ROLLED AWAY \\ IT WAS THERE BY FAITH I RECEIVED MY SIGHT, AND NOW I AM HAPPY ALL THE DAY!

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*MP II.

GUILT CAN MOVE US FROM CRIMES TO CONFESSION OF THE HEAD AND HEART.

V. 16 AND HE SHALL MAKE AMENDS..*

 

GUILT – IS A FACET OF THE TRESPASS WHERE WE ACKNOWLEDGE OUR OFFENSE.

THE CONCEPT OF GUILT IS ALL THROUGH THE BIBLE...FROM A CORPORATE SENSE AS GOD GAVE THE LAW IN EX 20 WHERE INDIVIDUALS CAN BRING GUILT ON AN ENTIRE GROUP.

THOU SHALL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME...JEALOUS GOD AND WILL VISIT THE CHILDREN UNTO THE THIRD AND FORTH GENERATIONS...OR ON A COMMUNITY AS SEEN IN THE STORY OF ABRAHAM AND SARAH....WHEN THEY LIED AND ABIMELECH WAS GOING TO TAKE HER AS HIS WIFE.

AND IN THE NEW TESTAMENT WE SEE JESUS RAISE THE BAR, IF YOU THINK SIN, YOU DID SIN AND EVEN THOUGH YOU DID NOT ACT OUT THE DESIRES OF YOUR HEART YOU ARE STILL GUILTY.

KJV SAYS YOU SHALL MAKE AMENDS, NKJV SAYS MAKE RESITUTION...THE WORD USED FOR RESTITUTION IS SHALEM; OR WHAT WE WOULD SAY..SHALOM, OR PEACE, OR WHOLENESS, OR SOUNDNESS.

THE IMPLICATION IS THAT BETWEEN CRIMES AND CONFESSION IS CONSCIENCE.

IT IS THE FACULTY OF OUR MIND THAT RESETS ITSELF TO THE INBORN SENSE OF WHAT IS RIGHT AND WRONG, ETHICAL AND MORAL AND SPIRITUAL CHARACTER THAT HAS BEEN PERVERTED BHY THE FALL OF MAN AND WOMAN INTO SIN.

JOB WENT THROUGH AND MANY THOUGHT HE’D SINNED BUT HE HAD A BLAMELESS CONSCIENCE.

DAVID CUT SOME OF SAUL’S ROBE OFF AND IN 1 SAM 24, IT SAYS HIS CONSCIENCE BEGAN BOTHERING HIM.

DAVID AT THE END HIS REIGN TOOK A CENSUS AND NUMBERED THE PEOPLE...AND DAVID’S CONSCIENCE BEGAN TO BOTHER HIM.

PSLAMIST WROTE... GIVE ME CLEAN HANDS AND PURE HEART OF PS. 51:10

 

PROVERBS 28:14 SAYS... BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO HAVE A TENDER CONSCIENCE,

 

PROVERBS 28:17 SAYS...A MURDEREER’S TORMENTED CONSCIENCE WILL DRIVE HIM INTO THE GRAVE.

DON’T PROTECT HIM.

PILATE’S WIFE CONSCIENCE BOTHERED HER AND SHE WROTE TO HER HUSBAND HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE JUST MAN.

PAUL TOLD TIMOTHY IN THE LAST DAYS... NOW THE SPIRIT SPEAKETH EXPRESSLY, THAT IN THE LATTER TIMES SOME SHALL DEPART FROM THE FAITH … SPEAKING LIES IN HYPOCRISY, HAVING THEIR CONSCIENCE SEARED WITH A HOT IRON.

—I TIM.