What is sin and what
does atonement really mean?
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Come join us today
on Back To Our Roots
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as we discuss these
topics and many more.
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Hello and welcome once
again to Back To Our Roots.
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I'm Alex Schlussler, pastor
of the Plantation SDA church,
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and I'm Rachel
Hyman, minister of music.
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And we're so happy that
you've joined us once again.
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Today on our program
we're going to be talking about
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sin and atonement.
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Maybe for some people this might
be an uncomfortable subject,
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but hopefully as
we move through it
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and you begin to understand
what God has really done
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it will lift us
up. You know, Rachel,
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the whole idea of sin
is... it's a difficult subject
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for a lot of people.
Yeah, 'cause we have to realize
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we're not great... in a way.
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Well not only we are not
great. You know, scripture says
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that "all have fallen
short of the glory of God. "
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All have sinned you
know. And I like to say
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"What part of all
don't we understand? "
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That means that everyone...
Scripture says everyone
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sins in thought and deed.
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So it's something
that we all have to face.
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Today we want to look at
these ideas of sin and atonement
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from maybe a little
bit different perspective
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from how people have
heard it in the past.
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Of course,
everyone understands sin.
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You know, I have always
felt that one of the best ways
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to understand sin is
that it is anything that we do
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that separates or
keeps us from God.
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You know, so a lot of times
people have this perception
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that sin... it's
these big things, you know.
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It's murder and lying
and stealing and all this.
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But the truth is that
sin can be being too close
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to your husband or wife
in such a way that you've
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turned away from God
and you've placed them up
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on a pedestal and that
they have become more important
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to you than God. Umm.
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You know, is music in itself...
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Is music wrong or
playing music wrong?
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Well, if it leads you away
from God then we have to take
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a serious look at it.
Yeah, it's funny when people say
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"Well I'm a good person because
you know I never killed anybody
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and you know I only
tell little white lies. "
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But when we read the
Bible we can so clearly see
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that God lifts up such
a higher standard for us.
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Yes. You know, Rachel,
when I came to the Lord
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many, many years ago and
on the day that I was baptized
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which by the way was Pentecost.
That was my baptism day.
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Really? Twenty-six
years ago on Pentecost
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I was baptized into the kingdom.
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And one of my best friends
who lived just around the corner
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from me... he
was a Jewish doctor.
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We used to ride
bicycles together - um-hmm -
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almost every day. After
work we'd go and we'd ride.
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And I had been talking with him
as I was coming to know Jesus
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and I was sharing with
him on these bike rides
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about what God was doing
and how He was growing closer
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and closer
through this progression.
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And then it finally came to
the day when I was baptized.
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And of course for me
that was an exciting...
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that was a
powerful, meaningful day.
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And I remember
coming home from the service
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and my friend was in his garage.
And I, you know, drove home
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and then I walked back to
his house because I was really
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excited. And I
called out his name
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and he turned to me and the
first thing out of his mouth
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was: "I hate
everything you stand for. "
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Wow! I didn't
even know what to say.
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Wow! And his comment to me was
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"I am a good man. I am a doctor.
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I love my family. I'm
involved in the community.
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You're not going to tell me
because I don't believe what
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you believe that
I'm not a good person
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or that God would
reject me. " How'd you respond?
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You know, the truth was Rachel
I didn't even know what to say.
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Hmmm. I was brand
new as a believer. Sure.
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I think I must have
turned white - yeah - because
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I was so shocked... And
he was a friend of yours.
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Right... that he
would respond that way.
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But you know,
that's one of the things
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that Jesus even talked about.
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That there would be
times when friends and family
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and those people that we were
the closest with would reject...
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And what I've
realized as time went on
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that, Rachel, it
wasn't that he rejected me.
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It was that he rejected God.
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Yeah. He rejected Jesus.
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And it's also sad that a lot of
Jews many times view Christians
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as people who are
pushing their religion on them
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and others. And yes,
some Christians can be pushy.
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But a lot of the time I mean...
For example, you made that
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decision for you. You
hadn't even told him anything.
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You hadn't even so to
speak witnessed or proselytized
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to him. Exactly. He
just felt threatened by you.
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And the reality is there's
a lot of Jews who have become
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Christians and also
just Christians in general
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who aren't pushy.
Exactly; exactly. And you know
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for me if I look back on
the things that as a Jew that
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brought me to Jesus -
um-hmm - it wasn't the prospect
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that I was a sinner.
To be honest with you
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it wasn't that I was
afraid that I would be separated
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or I would you know... go to
hell... go to hell or whatever.
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It wasn't that
all. It was actually
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the testimony of my
step- father - hmmm.
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And him being a Christian
man. You know, marrying my mom
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after my dad died.
Obviously after my dad died.
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But marrying my mom and
then seeing the type of man
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that he was. Hmmm.
How much he loved my mom.
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Wow! And he exhibited what
true Christ-like character was
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before me. And it
really began to convict me
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that "Wait a minute... maybe
there is... " Something to this.
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"something to this
and something different. "
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Right. So we want to start
and really get into the meat
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of the program now. And
I'm going to ask our brother
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Alexander Bolotnikov,
Sasha as we call him,
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to come out and
join us. Come on, Sasha.
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Come out. Hey,
Sash... Sasha, he's a...
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Good to see you again.
Yeah, good to see you, Sasha.
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How are you? How are you?
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I'm very good. Sasha
is... we call him our
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resident theologian.
But all kidding aside
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Sasha is a... he's
completing his Ph. D.
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In fact he just told me
he finished all his writing.
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His dissertation's been sent in.
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That must be a weight off
to finally have that sent in.
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Oh yeah... seven years.
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Wow. And by the way, Sasha
is also an Adventist pastor.
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You're a pastor in
the Delaware Conference?
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Ohio
Conference. Ohio Conference.
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Delaware Seventh-day
Adventist church. Ah, OK.
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I knew Delaware
got in there somewhere.
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But... Delaware,
Ohio. Delaware, Ohio.
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I didn't even know there
was such a place. But then
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Ohio also has a Miami
too, doesn't it? Oh yeah.
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Miami River.
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So Sasha, today we're
tackling a difficult topic.
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We're talking
about sin and atonement.
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And we really want to get into
first just kind of an overview.
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Are there two
different perspectives as far as
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a Hebraic view of
sin vs. a Christian view
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of sin? Uh... Before
we get into atonement
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because obviously
atonement is the answer to sin.
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But let's talk about sin first.
Do you think that there's really
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a difference in
how that's looked at?
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Really, from the
perspective of the Torah
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and from the
perspective of the New Testament
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it is absolutely the same.
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Because John in his
first epistle says clearly
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"Sin is lawlessness. "
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God's law is His will for us.
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So life contrary
to God's will for us
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is sin. And in the
Torah it speaks about
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the sentences if someone
transgresses against God's
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commandments. So it
is essentially the same.
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Torah and the New Testament...
it is essentially the same.
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But from a purely scriptural
viewpoint, I understand what
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you're saying. But you know,
just thinking back over my past
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even prior to
coming to the Messiah
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I don't know that I was
taught or that I understood
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sin the way that
I understand it now.
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It is interesting that
in Judaism the term sin
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is blurred off. In
fact, in rabbinic view
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it is more of obligation.
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You either passed and
fulfilled your obligation
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or you still owe
and you have to fulfill.
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Obligation of what? Yeah?
Obligation to do something.
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That's basically... Is
that in the context of...
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of doing what God has commanded
to do? Yeah, yeah, in a way.
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And also it is viewed
as... The other view of sin is
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if you have done something
like adultery or something
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this is considered to be a
crime and under the Torah law
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it was punishable by death.
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So... But since there was no
enforcement in modern Judaism
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this kind of fell aside.
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So there is no emphasis on sin
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in Judaism unfortunately.
I can say that I've never
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heard any rabbinic
teachings that sin is dealt with
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in the way that
we understand it.
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Well, there is
one exception. OK.
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An exception comes
when the High Holidays...
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at the High Holy Days.
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Because that's when
people come to the synagogue -
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as we mentioned in one
of our other programs -
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for the prayer of forgiveness.
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And they literally...
Yom Kippur? Yeah, yeah.
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Between Yom Kippur and Rosh
Hashanah... those ten days...
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this is the way they
come and pray for forgiveness
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of their sins. OK, so we're
kind of shifting gears here now
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a little bit and
we can go with this.
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Now what we're really talking
about... this concept, this idea
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of atonement - oh yeah -
because that's where this...
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this comes in. The Yom
Kippur even in orthodox Jewish
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tradition points us to
the Hebraic direction to the
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ancient tradition of understand-
ing how the atonement
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for sin was perceived.
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Yeah. I mean like, so how
do they? What's Yom Kippur for
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then if they're typically
not recognizing them being
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sinful but then all of a
sudden on this day they realize
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they are or something? In
a way, yes. In a way, yes.
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That's paradox; that's paradox.
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That's the time people
talk about the sin: Yom Kippur.
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Can I back up just a little bit?
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I know that we're moving
in the direction of atonement
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but I wanted to
touch on one other thing
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when we're talking about sin
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and this is something that
I've had some discussions with
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some non-believing...
Jews that haven't accepted
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Yeshua or Jesus as Messiah.
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And as a
Christian we look back to
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the garden of Eden,
we look to Adam and Eve
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and we see that in that scenario
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you know God is walking
with Adam in the garden.
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There's fellowship... there's
this intimate connection.
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And the Bible describes
this breaking of fellowship
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as breaking of
connection through the sin:
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through them eating of the apple
that God had told them not to.
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And then we understand it
that now what this has done
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is this has severed fellowship.
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And we look to it
that this is something that
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becomes almost a genetic
condition now of the human race
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that we are born
spiritually dead...
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almost a way to think of it.
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Also known as iniquity. Right.
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We're not
connected with God at birth.
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Yeah, and it is a
genetic condition because
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we were created immortal
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and after the disobedience
we have become sick and mortal.
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So when people... And
it's very common in the world
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where people talk
about: "Well sin, misbehavior,
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all of these things.
These are cultural things.
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These are learned behaviors.
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That you are
born as a clean slate
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and you start off
with everything good. "
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And what I've always
questioned when it comes to that
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is then have you ever seen
for those of us that are parents
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there's always this point
when our little son or daughter
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finds their way to the
cookie jar so to speak,
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pulls it down off the shelf
and it breaks. And you ask them
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"Who broke the cookie jar? "
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and what comes out of their
mouth? "I don't... " "Not me! "
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"Not me; I don't know. "
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And my question has always
been: "OK, so who taught them
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how to lie? "
Because I know as a parent
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you don't sit down with
them and say: "OK, this is how
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you get away with
stuff: " Right? Right.
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"you learn how
to make excuses. "
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No, we don't teach them that
but somehow it's just there.
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And I think that that's
very representative of this
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fallen condition
that we're born into.
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So sin exists. Sin abounds.
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ALL sin and fall short.
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And this condition... these
commandments that God gives...
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it is written in the book
of Leviticus that they're given
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for us so that we could
live. So basically without them
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we eventually die.
So people don't realize
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when they talk:
"Oh, I am a good man. "
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So do the Jews feel that
we were born in iniquity?
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Do they also believe that
we're born with a sinful nature?
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This connection
is missed because...
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This connection is missed and
that's the problem why people
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don't understand
however good you can be
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you're dead eventually
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and because of sin. Right.
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So OK, so let's not talk
about sin now. Let's move
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and let's talk
about what was God's plan
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to fix this condition
that we find ourselves in?
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And this really
centers all around atonement.
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We have atonement
through the sacrifice.
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We also have atonement
through the priesthood.
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Sasha, talk to us about that.
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Well this is the way how
it fixes and it illustrates
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through the
substitutionary death.
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If you want to
gain your immortality,
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someone has to
die in your place.
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That's how God demonstrated
it during Passover, you know.
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Well and that goes back right
to Leviticus where God said:
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"Without the shedding of
blood there can be no remission
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of the sin. " Exactly. That's
the death you're talking about.
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We're talking about
the issue of eternal life.
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We're talking from the
position that at some point
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we were not created to be dead.
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And so the only
way for us to survive
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is someone dies in our place.
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And that's the idea. That's
how atonement is introduced.
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A sinner always
would lay his hand
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upon the head of
the sacrificial animal.
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And it says there in the text
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that it will be pleasing
to God to make atonement.
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So that... Now... I'm sorry.
At that point when someone
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would lay their hands
are they confessing their sin
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upon that animal? Is
that what's happening?
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Yes. Eventually yes.
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We have this in the
other place Leviticus 16
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where the laying of
the hands is a confession.
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But actually the gesture
itself of laying of the hands
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is an important
gesture in that culture.
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We see how Moses
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laid his hand upon Joshua
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and gave him of his glory.
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So the idea of transfer...
So the sinner when he places
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his hand upon the animal
he gives this animal that sin
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which he has and eventually
the animal has to die...
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paying the penalty for the sin.
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So back then sin was more
recognized in Jewish culture?
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Oh yeah, in the Bible...
In the Bible in Israel it was
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very clear way how
do you get rid of it.
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Someone has to
take responsibility.
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And that's why
it's... But what happened?
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What happens now... in
the Jewish culture today
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they'll say: "Yeah, we
don't do that any more. "
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How would they describe today
how they're getting atonement
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for their sins?
Well... through prayer.
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Through prayer and charity.
Yeah, through prayer and charity
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because, you know,
we're jumping way ahead but
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you know after the destruction
of the temple in 70 AD
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the rabbis had to: "OK, now we
no longer have the sacrificial
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system. " God had clearly said
the only place they could offer
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sacrifice was the temple there.
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Once it's gone they have to
begin to come up with an answer
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to that. But let's go
back 'cause I want you to spend
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a little more time with
atonement because we're talking
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about the laying on of hands
of... to transfer in essence
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the sin that this
person had incurred.
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The penalty of
death that was upon them -
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yes - for transgressing
the law of God - exactly -
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is passed then onto the animal.
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The idea of atonement is someone
else takes the responsibility
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for you. OK, so
now we're going to move
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and now we have the priesthood
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and there is an additional
transference that's going to
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happen. Yes, in fact
the sacrificial system is
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more complicated
than just one sacrifice.
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We have burnt offerings.
Usually it's offerings that are
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offered twice a day
morning and evening.
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But then we have
sin offerings. Um-hmm.
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And sin
offerings are not regular.
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It's when a person - the sons
of Israel - commit some sin.
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Something as the book of
Leviticus says that he did not
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know and then became known.
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So we're talking specifically
now about unintentional sin.
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Because as far as I know
- correct me if I'm wrong -
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there is no... built
into the sacrificial system...
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there is no atonement
for intentional sin because
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if you sinned intentional they
just take you out and stone you.
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Yeah. Or before they
take you out and stone you
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if you repent you have
to run to the sanctuary,
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hold the horns, and make
the new covenant with God.
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OK, so let's go back to now...
We're talking about the priest
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and the different... Now wasn't
there within that there's a
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specific where the priest
actually ate some of the...
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exactly... the offering? Because
unlike the burnt offering
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where just laying
of the hand is enough
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you lay the hand but
atonement doesn't count.
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The priest is the one
who makes the atonement.
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And then Leviticus chapter
6 explains that the priest
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makes the
atonement by eating the meat
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of this sacrificial goat.
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Wow! Female
goat... not very delicious.
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So is he... Would it be correct
then to say that in essence
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he becomes like a sin
bearer for that person?
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Exactly. This is the
key part of Leviticus 10
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verse 17. That's
where it explains to us
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Moses... It's after the
death of Nadab and Abihu
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the two sons of
Aaron who gave...
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who offered incorrectly
and were consumed. Yes.
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And so all the rest of
the priests they're afraid.
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And so Moses comes in
and he sees that they're...
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that the goat of the sin
offering, nothing is happening.
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He said: "Why haven't
you eaten your sin offerings
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on the Holy Place? "
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And it said:
"This is the Most Holy
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and it is made for
you... it's given to you
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to bear away the
sins of Israel. "
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And then in another
statement which is the same way:
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"To make atonement for them. "
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So atonement is literally
someone carries away your sin
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from you. Unburdens you.
And that's the great concept
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what we need. We have
a great need to unload.
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To unburden ourselves.
And atonement is the process
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how we unload. Right.
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And of course we
then understand that
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at God's perfect time the
atonement system is then -
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the sacrificial
system - is then done away.
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And actually, prior to that...
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You know, I don't know
how many people realize
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that Jesus comes and
He performs His mission...
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He dies on the cross
but the sacrificial system
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is still going for
another 40... almost 40 years
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until the temple
is finally destroyed.
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But let's talk... Our
time is getting away from us
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so quick as it always does.
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Sasha, briefly can you
talk about the idea of how
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atonement... What
happened with the cross?
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I mean, we've only got
maybe a minute and a half
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so we're running out of time.
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Well the fact is that the
cross symbolizes the altar.
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And only burnt
offering is made on the altar.
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But then the rest of
the sanctuary takes over
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especially with the sin offering
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where it's carried
into the sanctuary.
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And that's exactly
what Jesus is doing.
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Beyond Calvary He goes
into the heavenly sanctuary.
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He changes His function
from the Lamb to a Priest
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and He is still ministering
for us. And literally
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becoming our sin bearer.
Exactly! He now unburdens us
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in heavenly... Our sins
are taken... He takes it away
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and carries it into
the heavenly sanctuary
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lifting our burden.
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So um...
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Boy... Can you really
briefly can you answer this?
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Or maybe I'm asking
too much. Then is atonement
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completed at the cross?
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Absolutely not, no.
Atonement begins on Calvary -
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OK - but it is
completed only in the sanctuary.
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When the sins are carried in.
When the sins are carried in.
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And that's how atonement...
Sanctuary is like a surgery room
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where it takes all
the evil things from us
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and operates on us.
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Wow! That's really beautiful.
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So Alex, I believe you
have another song for us.
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I do. Adon Hakavod. A
beautiful, beautiful song.
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I'm going to go get
ready. Sasha, can you tell us...
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tell them just a little
bit about the song? Yeah.
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Adon Hakavod: Adon means God
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Kavod means glory.
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And that's a great expression
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how we really contemplate
about our glorious God
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Creator who abides
in His heavenly temple.
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All right. Thank you.
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And Thou art the Lord
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of glory.
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And Thou art the King
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of kings.
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And Thou art the Son
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of Righteousness
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with healing in
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Your wings.
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And Thou art the Son
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of Righteousness
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with healing in
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Your wings.
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Beautiful. I'm so thankful
that there truly is healing
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in God's wings
for us. Amen; amen.
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Friends, it's
such an important thing
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for us to see and appreciate
that through our Messiah,
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through Jesus, through Yeshua,
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He truly is our
atonement. He is our sacrifice.
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He is our sin bearer. That's
right. He is our High Priest.
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And now may the Lord
bless you and may He keep you.
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May the Lord make His
face to shine upon you
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and be gracious to you.
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May the Lord lift
His countenance upon you
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and bring you His peace.
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On behalf of
myself, Rachel, and Sasha
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we want to say
thank you for joining us.
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Please come back
again... Back To Our Roots.
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Join us.
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