Part 7-Generosity In the Atonement

• ר ַפ� (kā∙p̄�ǎr) ָּכ�– to make amends, pardon, release,

appease, forgive. Also used to depict the act of tarring over something.

• The concept of atonement is seen throughout the Old Testament in the Sacrificial system whereby individual and corporate sins were covered by the blood of animals sacrificed in their stead. 

Atonement

• Jesus is Our Passover Lamb– Celebrate on Nisan 14 (March-April). It

during this time that our Savior was crucified– Exodus 12

Now the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you; and the p̄lague shall not be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egyp̄t.

-Exodus 12:13

Generosity in the

Atonement

• Jesus is Our Passover Lamb– Celebrate on Nisan 14 (March-Ap̄ril). It

during this time that our Savior was crucified

– Exodus 12– 1 Corinthians 5:7

Therefore p̄urge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump̄, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.

Generosity in the

Atonement

• Jesus is Our Scap̄egoat– Yom Kip̄p̄ur -Tishri 10 (Sep̄.-Oct.)

• Yom=Day• Kip̄p̄ur=To Cover

– Leviticus 16; 23:26-32

• mercy seat- ת ֹּפ�ֶר� literally p̄lace of-ַּכ�atoning

• It is up̄on this p̄lace that the blood of one of the two goats was sp̄rinkled making atonement for Israel’s sins.

Generosity in the

Atonement

• Jesus is Our Scap̄egoatLeviticus 16:20–22 20 “And when he has made an end of atoning for the Holy Place, the tabernacle of meeting, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat. 21 Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, confess over it all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions, concerning all their sins, p̄utting them on the head of the goat, and shall send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a suitable man. 22 The goat shall bear on itself all their iniquities to an uninhabited land; and he shall release the goat in the wilderness.

Generosity in the

Atonement

• Jesus is Our Scap̄egoatLeviticus 16:20–22 20 “And when he has made an end of atoning for the Holy Place, the tabernacle of meeting, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat. 21 Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, confess over it all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions, concerning all their sins, p̄utting them on the head of the goat, and shall send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a suitable man. 22 The goat shall bear on itself all their iniquities to an uninhabited land; and he shall release the goat in the wilderness.

Generosity in the

Atonement

• Jesus is Our Comp̄lete and Final Atonement– “Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings,

and offerings for sin You did not desire, nor had p̄leasure in them…By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

-Hebrews 10:8–10

Generosity in the

Atonement

God requires satisfaction because He is holiness,

but He makes satisfaction because He is love. 

-A.H. Strong.

This morning we stand in one of two conditions.

We are either clothed in the blood of Christ with our personal sins forever

forgiven,-or-

We stand before a holy God with our clothed in our sins headed for a

destiny apart from Christ

What is covering you this morning?

Generosity in the

Atonement