### November 30, 2021

## BIBLE STUDY

### Greater Refuge Memorial Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith, Inc.

596 West Church Street, Orlando, FL 32805 ~ Phone 407.872.1984 Web site www.RefugeOrlando.com

#### Pastor M.R. McCoy, Jr., Lead Servant Bishop M. Ruel McCoy, Sr., Pastor Emeritus and Diocesan

## TRESPASS OFFERINGS

### Leviticus 5:1-13

Leviticus 5:1 "And if a soul sin, and hear the voice of swearing, and [is] a witness, whether he hath seen or known [of it]; if he do not utter [it], then he shall bear his iniquity." The trespass offering or guilt offering is described here should not be confused with the sin offering. The trespass offering (Leviticus 5:14 - 6:7; 7:1 - 6; 14:12 - 18) was a ram or lamb without blemish. It was mandatory and made by a person who had either deprived another of his rights or had desecrated something holy. This offering represents atonement and forgiveness in Christ who died for our sins and trespasses on the cross restoring that which He took not away as given in Psalm 69 and Matthew's gospel. The s in Offering (Leviticus 4:1 - 5:13; 6:24 - 30; 12:6 - 8) was a male or female animal without blemish as follows: bull for high priest and congregation; male goat for king; female goat or lamb for common person; dove or pigeon for slightly poor; tenth of an ephah of flour for the very poor. It was mandatory and made by one whohad sinned unintentionally or was unclean in order to attain purification. It pictures the judgment of our sin in Christ, forsaken of God, as our Sin-bearer as given in Psalm 22 and Mark's gospel. The four conditions mentioned in verse 1 could be categorized as sins of omission or neglect. The first instance involved a person failing to speak up about something he knew in a particular case that is, withholding information by not testifying. This indicates an intentional concealment of knowledge. To witness a crime and not report it would possibly be the sin above. In our courts today, to conceal that type of evidence could make you an accessory to the crime. We can easily see from this, that when we see a crime committed, we must report it. To not report it would cause you to be guilty, as well as the person who committed the crime, and you would have to be forgiven the same as the one committing the crime.

Leviticus 5:2 "Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether [it be] a carcase of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of unclean creeping things, and [if] it be hidden from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty." Leviticus 5:3 "Or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever uncleanness [it be] that a man shall be defiled withal, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth [of it], then he shall be guilty." The next two offenses concern touching something that made an Israelite unclean. This refers to ceremonial defilement that disqualified the offender from participating in worship and made him guilty before God. The things outlined here may sound like minor offenses to us, but God was using them to teach his people the important difference between being clean and unclean between being holy and profane. Carcase, is carcass and means dead body. If the animal died of its own volition [was not killed], then it possibly was diseased. If a person accidentally touched it, the person could still take a disease from it. The same procedure is to be taken with a dead man as was