“Why were sacrifices needed?”MAIN CATEGORIES OF OFFERINGS:1. BURNT: atonement; animal completely burned; fire burns all night; performed last after other offerings such as sin and trespass2. GRAIN: sanctification of priests; sometimes substituting for other offerings for those too poor to bring animals; combined with other sacrificial offerings3. PEACE/freewill/thank: tithing, gifts and thanksgiving to God; sustained the priests; also eaten by the people4. SIN: for sins committed in ignorance; part of animal (fat) burned on altar; rest taken outside camp; blood sprinkled before the veil; part eaten by the priests to bear the sins; is followed by a burnt offering.5. TRESPASS/guilt: inadvertent defilement such as contaminated by dead carcass, illness, breaking oaths, defilement of holy things: involved both a sin and a burnt offering6. DAY OF ATONEMENT: somber offering to completely remove the sins from the tabernacle; performed only once at the end of the year by the High Priest; involves a unique two-goat offering in which one goat is a sin offering and the other bears the sins away.· Jesus’ sacrifice is a ‘one and done’ offering like the Day of Atonement offering Heb · Jesus’ role is as High Priest in the heavenly Sanctuary, the Highest of the High Priests. Heb · The Day of Atonement involved a special, unique dual-goat sacrifice…· One goat is a sin offering “for the LORD” Lev · The other goat is the scapegoat (azazel=goat (aze) that disappears): Lev · The scapegoat should be better understood and not assumed to be Satan as it doesn’t seem to fit this description.· It is an unblemished goat. It had to be because it was selected randomly so it could have ended up as sin offering.· It has the responsibility to carry the sins away, even as the priests and Christ himself bear the sins temporarily. Lev · Even the man which leads it out, had to have special qualifications.· Jesus doesn’t require a sin sacrifice (bull) to sanctify himself as the Levitical priests because his own body, pure and undefiled, is offered. Heb · The daily offerings in the earthly sanctuary could not take away sins. Heb · But Christ’s atonement offers perfect sanctification Heb · They involve an ongoing process – change of our heart Heb · And a final cleansing process- change of God’s heart to “remember our sins no more” Heb · The process for us to grow. It involves chastening, a “writing” on our hearts, bringing us from ignorance to repentance to living by the Spirit- cleanse our conscience from dead works Heb -make us “perfect in regard to the conscience” Heb -give us a “good conscience toward God” 1Pe -to “bring us to God” and make us “alive by the Spirit” 1Pe -to “perfect us forever” as a final act Heb -us who are “being sanctified” as a process Heb · The Lord loves whom He chastens heb · Christ’s sacrifice is so we can live “for the will of God” and not spend our lifetime “doing the will of the Gentiles” (walking in the ways of the flesh) 1Pe · The use of the word “perfect” in Hebrews always pertains to US or to the sanctification process FOR US.· Jesus is not the “perfect sacrifice”, but the sacrifice which makes perfect.· To retreat backwards is to crucify Him again Heb Sacrifices and final Atonement are for us to live and grow closer to God right now, to prepare us for being that bride someday when we will come to Mount Zion, the city of the living God Heb --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/from-the-top-ministries/message