The Atonement
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THE COVERING - ATONEMENT
Intro:
So we are three chapters into the book of Genesis… God has created everything out of nothing, including Adam from the dust of the ground. He sees that it is not good for man to be alone so He puts him to sleep and takes a rib to create a helper for him, a woman. They were made in His Image and likeness, created to have dominion and authority. God blesses them and tells them to be fruitful & multiply and to fill the earth.
Then the LORD plants a garden in Eden and puts Adam in it. Also in the midst of the garden is the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. It is the most perfect place to ever have existed. What could go wrong? I mean really? God creates perfection and wants to have a relationship forever with his perfect creation?
Well there are rules! I mean really just one rule, Genesis 2:16-17
16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Now we have a problem, disobedience. Disobedience will keep us out of the perfect will of God, disobedience will destroy the blessings of God, disobedience will remove us from the presence of God.
God can not & will not Lie or go back on His Word… In the day you eat of it. Through disobedience, sin has entered into a place where God is expected to live. Where His Spirit is planning to dwell. Impossible! God is Holy! He can not & will not!
Adam and Eve are about to get a one way ticket out into the real world. A place of hardship, toil, labor, a place completely unlike that for which they were created. A forgein land.
But before God sends them out, never to return again He does something for them that only He can.
Genesis 3:21 KJV
21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
A way of escape, a hope, a glimmer of the future things to come. He made for them a covering! He brought reconciliation, He brought Atonement!
Romans 5:1-11
1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
4 And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
11 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
Background:
Leviticus 1:4, 5
4 And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.
5 And he shall kill the bullock before the Lord: and the priests, Aaron’s sons, shall bring the blood, and sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar that is by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
13b a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
Leviticus 4:27-31
27 And if any one of the common people sin unintentionally, while he is doing something against any of the commandments of the Lord concerning things which should not to be done, and be guilty;
28 Or if his sin, which he hath sinned, come to his knowledge: then he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a female without blemish, for his sin which he hath sinned. 29 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and slay the sin offering in the place of the burnt offering.
30 And the priest shall take of the blood thereof with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom of the altar.
31 And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat is taken away from off the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour unto the Lord; and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and it shall be forgiven him.
FORGIVENESS THROUGH ATONEMENT
Atonement - Strong's 3722 - kaphar
O.T. Example:
Genesis 22:1-18
N.T. Example:
Hebrews 9:11-22
11 But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation.
12 Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.
13 For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh,
14 how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
15 And for this reason He is the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, that those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
16 For where there is a testament, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
17 For a testament is in force after men are dead, since it has no power at all while the testator lives.
18 Therefore not even the first covenant was dedicated without blood.
19 For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,
20 saying, “This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you.”
21 Then likewise he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry.
22 And according to the law almost all things are purified with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no remission.
But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.