1. Part 7-Generosity In the Atonement

2. כָּפַר (k ā ∙p ̄ ǎ r) – 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

3. 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 plague shall not be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt. -Exodus 12:13 Generosity in the Atonement

4. Jesus is Our Passover Lamb – Celebrate on Nisan 14 (March-April). It during this time that our Savior was crucified – Exodus 12 – 1 Corinthians 5:7 Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us. Generosity in the Atonement

5. Jesus is Our Scapegoat – Yom Kippur -Tishri 10 (Sep.-Oct.) Yom=Day Kippur=To Cover – Leviticus 16; 23:26-32 mercy seat- כַּפֹּרֶת -literally place of atoning It is upon this place that the blood of one of the two goats was sprinkled making atonement for Israel’s sins. Generosity in the Atonement

6. Jesus is Our Scapegoat Leviticus 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, putting 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

7. Jesus is Our Scapegoat Leviticus 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, putting 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

8. Jesus is Our Complete and Final Atonement – “Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and offerings for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure 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

9. God requires satisfaction because He is holiness, but He makes satisfaction because He is love. -A.H. Strong.

10. 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