Where there is no “moral gravity” – that is, no force that draws us to the center – there is spiritual weightlessness. We float on feelings that will carry us where we never meant to go; we bubble with emotional experiences that we often take for spiritual ones; and we are puffed up with pride. Instead of seriousness, there is foolishness. Instead of gravity, flippancy. Sentimentality takes the place of theology. Our reference point will never serve to keep our feet on solid rock, for our reference point, until we answer God’s call, is merely ourselves. We cannot possibly tell which end is up. Paul calls them fools who “…measure themselves by themselves, to find in themselves their own standard of comparison!”
Elisabeth Elliot

ATONEMENT

ATONEMENT

ATONEMENT, Under the Law

  1. Made by sacrifice # Le 1:4,5
  2. By priests alone # 1Ch 6:49 2Ch 29:24
  3. NECESSARY FOR 3a) Propitiating God

    # Ex 32:30 Le 23:27,28 2Sa 21:3

3b) Ransoming # Ex 30:15,16 Job 33:24 3c) Purifying # Ex 29:36 4) OFFERED FOR 4a) The congregation # Nu 15:25 2Ch 29:24 4b) The priests # Ex 29:31-33 Le 8:34 4c) Persons sinning ignorantly # Le 4:20-35 4d) Persons sinning wilfully # Le 6:7 4e) Persons swearing rashly # Le 5:4,6 4f) Persons withholding evidence # Le 5:1,6 4g) Persons unclean # Le 5:2,3,6 4h) Women after childbirth # Le 12:8 4i) The altar # Ex 29:36,37 Le 16:18,19 4j) The holy place # Le 16:16,17 4k) The healed leper # Le 14:18 4l) The leprous house healed # Le 14:53 5) Extraordinary cases of # Ex 32:30-34 Nu 16:47 25:10-13 6) Typical of Christ’s atonement # Ro 5:6-11

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