Title The Great Mercy of God (2010.11.14)
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Date: November 14, 2010
Word: Leviticus 5:11-13
Title: Great Mercy of God
Contents :
God's Mercy to All Humanity
He made heaven and earth and gave it to us as a gift. No one pays the price for God's grace. He gives everything freely and even now, he rules with boundless grace and mercy.
God's Mercy on Sinners
When we talk about mercy, we mean a sack of rice that the rich give to their neighbors once every seven days or on Christmas Day, a cigarette for the last condemned person on death row, and a rod for forty.
God does not give death to those who have sinned, but opens the way for them to repent and live. He is not the one who finds faults and scourges them, but the One who corrects them and makes them new and gives blessings. He did not show mercy only to those who live righteously, but He opened the way for people who are suffering from the burden of sin.
He not only gave the rich and leisurely life a way to live and pray, He also opened the same way to the hard and hungry people. God opens a way for all people to live equally.
God shows the way of mercy through the forgiveness of sins through the sin offering.
Think of Adam and Eve who sinned and made clothes of skin to put them on.
A sin offering is an animal sacrifice offered to God to atone for sins. Unlike the temple tax, which everyone has to pay equally regardless of their status, the offerings vary according to their status and living conditions.
Also, this offering becomes a sacrifice for atonement. If a person who commits a crime dies, there is no one who will not die.
But God made it possible to offer them as young calves, sheep, or doves. It is a foreshadowing of the sinless Jesus.
In the end, the great mercy of God sent His Son Jesus to the earth and gave Him up to be hung on a cross to be sacrificed for sin.
Therefore, just as the saints of the Old Testament went to the temple through burnt offerings, we all came to God through Jesus.
God's great mercy has opened the way to life even for the least.
The text says that those who have sinned come to God and offer sacrifices.
From calf - he-goat - sheep - dove
And the poor and needy who could not even reach that level went out to the mountains and caught even turtledoves and had them offer sacrifices to God. For those who were really in need, he told them to bring a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a sacrifice instead of a blood sacrifice and offer it as a sin offering.
Do not forget that “we are indebted to the grace of God.” I hope you live in the grace of God today.