Sister Teri Sunday School 7/1/12

Sister Teri Sunday School 7/1/12

Redeeming property in Leviticus

Boaz redeemed Ruth, a Moabitest and became a part of Israel and in the lineage of Christ.  This is a picture of the redemption that Christ has for us: He makes us a part of the family and in the end we are to bear spiritual children for Him.  It encourages my faith to look back at the types and shadows in the Old Testament.  It encourages my faith to see the foreknowledge of God.

'God told Moses that he would redeem Israel from the slavery of Egypt and deliver them where they were to be His people and He would be their God.  Their bondage was so great that they could not comprehend it.  It is the same with people in sin.  They can grasp the forgiveness but not the deliverance from sin.  They need the deliverance and the knowledge of it.

David refers to Exodus that God has redeemed His people.  He did it not so that they could go back into the bondage again but that they could be freed forever and serve Him and be His people.  It is the same with the deliverance that Jesus offers us.  He wants us delivered from sin forever.

Jesus acted the part of the near kinsman.  He had power and means to deliver us.

Joh 8:33  They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?

Joh 8:34  Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.

Comitteth means ‘does’; servant means ‘slave’.  He that does sin is a slave of sin.  If we are committing sin then we are not a part of the family of God.  The son, as a part of the family, has the power to redeem us as the near kinsman.

Joh 8:35  And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever.

Joh 8:36  If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

Pays the debt, clears the debt and establishes as a son.  The mere penalty of death would not have restored us.  There was no hope for Ruth, the Moabites were to never enter into the congregation of the righteous.   Yet she was redeemed. 

In the legal system when people are put to death, it doesn’t free them of guilt.  It only establishes justice for those who have been wronged.  Jesus, the innocent one, paid the price for us so that we could be freed from the penalty of our sin and become sons of God.

Isa 53:5  But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

Isa 53:6  All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Isa 53:7  He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.

Isa 53:8  He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.

Isa 53:9  And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.

Isa 53:10  Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.

Isa 53:11  He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.

Isa 53:12  Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

It is hard to comprehend that He was wounded for our transgressions.  He was innocent and He suffered so much without complaining.  Instead, He always had a burden for them that were doing Him wrong.  “Father, forgive them.” 

How many people have forsaken God because of some offense, someone wounding their pride?  Help us to be like Christ to have a vision for the souls around us, willing to suffer with a good attitude and a burden for those around us.

God sees that that debt was paid.  He looks at the suffering of Christ and says, “That satisfies the debt.”  This shows that Christ is every part of the plan of our salvation.

Joh 10:14  I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.

Joh 10:15  As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.

Joh 10:16  And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.

Joh 10:17  Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.

Joh 10:18  No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.

He lay down His life as a ransom for the debt and penalty.  Sheep in the fold shows the gathering: all may have the opportunity to be a part of that one fold.  He had the power to choose not to do it.  It was the will and commandment of God.  He fulfilled that commandment.

1Ti 2:5  For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

1Ti 2:6  Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.

Mediator –  a go-between, a reconciler, an intercessor.  Jesus is the one mediator, a go-between, an intercessor and the reconciler.  He is also the ransom. 

‘To be testified in due time’ means that all the saved would bear the message to the lost.  We point back and say, “This is what He did.”  We prove it in our own lives.

Gal 1:3  Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ,

Gal 1:4  Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:

1Jn 5:19  And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.

This deliverance frees us from the wickedness that is in the world.  Even though we are in the world we are not a part of the wickedness anymore.

Gal 4:4  But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

Gal 4:5  To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

Gal 4:6  And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

Gal 4:7  Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

The plan is seen again of deliverance from the servitude of sin to all that is available of a child of God.

Tit 2:14  Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

Heb 9:11  But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;

Heb 9:12  Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.

Heb 9:13  For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:

Heb 9:14  How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Heb 9:15  And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

It is something better and beyond the literal tabernacle.

Heb 7:26  For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

Heb 7:27  Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.

He was a better high priest than all that came before Him. 

Hebrews 9:12 The law of sacrifices could not change sinners into saints.  It could only make an atonement.  Jesus’ sacrifice actually makes a change in our heart.

Heb 10:1  For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.

Heb 10:2  For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.

Heb 10:3  But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.

Heb 10:4  For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

Heb 10:5  Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:

Heb 10:6  In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.

Heb 10:7  Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.

Heb 10:8  Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;

Heb 10:9  Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.

Heb 10:10  By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Heb 10:11  And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:

Heb 10:12  But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;

Heb 10:13  From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.

Heb 10:14  For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

This offering gives the power to be made perfect in that we are free from sin.  We don’t have to continually go back and offer more sacrifices yearly for sin, we can have a change in our life.

He 9:14  Every man’s way is right in his own eyes.  We can by self justification excuse our self of what God would not be pleased with.  The blood of Christ in our heart gives us a discernment and helps us know what is right and wrong and helps us to have strength to make the right choices.

Heb 10:15  Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,

Heb 10:16  This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;

Heb 10:17  And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.

Heb 10:18  Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.

Heb 10:19  Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,

Heb 10:20  By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;

Heb 10:21  And having an high priest over the house of God;

Heb 10:22  Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

Heb 10:23  Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)

Heb 10:24  And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

Heb 10:25  Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

Heb 10:26  For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,

Heb 10:27  But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.

Heb 10:28  He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:

Heb 10:29  Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?

This is the covenant that he made way back.  It couldn’t be done with laws and ceremonies.  It is a work of the Holy Ghost and of God. 

He as the high priest entered in through the veil and made a way for us to enter too.  It is a heart change that makes a change in our behavior. 

If we go back to sin, the sacrifice no longer applies. 

Heb 9:15 mediator, reconciler, one who intervened between us and God to restore peace.

Luk 1:68  Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people,

Luk 1:69  And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David;

Luk 1:70  As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began:

Luk 1:71  That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us;

Luk 1:72  To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant;

Luk 1:73  The oath which he sware to our father Abraham,

Luk 1:74  That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear,

Luk 1:75  In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.

We can be freed from all the spiritual enemies that would keep us in sin and separated from God.  They can be destroyed in our life.  We can serve God without fear of the judgment the guilt is washed away and we are delivered to serve Him in holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our life.