Without Defect

Leviticus 4:2-3 – “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, If anyone sins unintentionally in any of the Lord's commandments about things not to be done, and does any one of them, if it is the anointed priest who sins, thus bringing guilt on the people, then he shall offer for the sin that he has committed a bull from the herd without blemish to the Lord for a sin offering.

Leviticus 16:3,5 – But in this way Aaron shall come into the Holy Place: with a bull from the herd for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering…And he shall take from the congregation of the people of Israel two male goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering.

Exodus 12:5-6 – Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats, and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight.

Hebrews 9:13-14 – For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.

1 Peter 1:17-19 – And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one's deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile, knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.

Application:

• ·         The final perfect sacrifice for the sins of God’s people was the crucified Christ, who was without any moral defect.
• ·         Before Aaron could minister in the Most Holy Place for the nation, he himself had to be cleansed; not so Christ, who is our high priest and Aaron’s antitype.
• ·         No single offering could fully typify the atonement of Christ.
• ·         Jesus was like a lamb without blemish or defect.
• ·         Christ was the one who offered the sacrifice, and He was the sacrifice itself.
• ·         Christ is the Passover lamb, who takes away the sin of the world.

All Scripture verses taken from ESV