The first reality people need to see is the ugly truth about our problem of sin. God sees our fallen condition as missing the mark of His perfection. Our natural-self can never please the Almighty because our will is the "seat" of sin and our body is the "instrument" of sin. Jesus said about our sin, All these evil things come from within, and defile the man. (Mk 7:23) Our normal life is a continual performance of sin and the result of this fabrication of sins is death. Everyone is affected by our heredity of disobedience. Simply put, we sin because we are sinners. This is the reason we are unable to live a life of righteousness and we will be judged by God. The Bible refers to us as "flesh" which refers to our indwelling for sin. it is possible to seek salvation after the truth has been revealed about our sinful condition.
Acts of sin are a transgression of God's law and His justice will be carried out eventually. There are different categories of sin, such as failure, error iniquity, trespass, lawlessness and even ignorance. Mankind has written the catalogue of different sins just as history records them and they all offend God. Sin began when Adam disobeyed what he had been told and it became our nature to rebel against God. We should not expect God to be complacent towards our sin. It has been said that our sin is the contradiction of God's perfection. Remember that death was promised to Adam if he were to disobey God. Although we all sin and die in Adam, the good news is that we may be saved by our unity with Christ. Jesus was a different kind of human being, who had the ability to live his whole life without a taint of sin. Christ won a victory that makes it possible to cease our continual sinning. We may escape the lust of this world when our lives are lived in obedience to the Savior.
Jesus had not been born, at the time Leviticus was written, so there are no direct references to Him as the sin offering. The Savior was sent as the answer to the fall of Adam, into sin, and the redeemer of souls from the fiery ending. We know today that Christ is the focal point of all history, starting with the creation of Adam and finishing with the burning-up of this universe by God. In order to live with God, our Savior will also provide a robe of righteousness to cover the nakedness of our sinful nature. Every religious effort devised by man and all wars are a failure to recognize Christ as the answer to mans' problem. Even when men struggle to find the meaning of their lives, it is because they do not see Jesus Christ as the center of everything. When Jesus becomes the most important figure in our life everything else will fall into its proper place. Seek this eternal peace by simply having faith and obeying God.
The second lamb killed in the cleansing of the leper was called the sin offering And the priest shall offer the sin offering. (Lev 14:19a) This was the most profound offering because in the middle of the three offerings the transfer of our guilt to Jesus Christ was plainly shown in this sin offering.
The shed blood was the propitiation that our sin required in order to satisfy the anger of our God which began with Adam. Jesus made himself the sacrifice on our behalf and it was acceptable to God. This is how we obtained the opportunity to avoid the wrath of God and escape judgment. All of mankind has enough information to repent of their ways and seek God because the Scriptures tell us the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness; because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse. (Rom 1:18-20)
Deep inside people know that they are not right with God and a transfer of their guilt is the only answer to this problem. Sin is born into each person and the need for salvation continues each day of history. To say that we must transfer our guilt seems very odd when you have not been redeemed. It means that instead of trying to pay the penalty for our sin, we ask Jesus to pay the penalty for us. The result will be that we are clean and free to serve our God. There is no reason under heaven to be saved other than to join ourselves to the work of our Savior.
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