the Fourth Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 1 of 5
Leviticus 4:27-35
For his sin, an anointed priest had to offer a young bullock (v. 3), the ruler had to offer a goat (vv. 22, 23), any one of the common people only a kid or a lamb (vv. 28, 32). Those who have to set an example have a greater responsibility, reflected in the importance of the animal offered. But before God all have sinned and come short of His glory (Romans 3:22-23). Whether they are found at the top or at the bottom of the social scale, honoured or despised by their contemporaries, whether they are evil doers or pass as honest persons, all men comprise one single class: they are lost sinners. Nevertheless, in His unfathomable mercy God has now created a new category: that of pardoned sinners. He has concluded all men in unbelief, that He might have mercy upon all (Romans 11:32).
Let us emphasize the expressions in vv. 23 and 28: "if his sin, wherein he hath sinned, come to his knowledge". This is an allusion to the gentle service called "feet washing", which consists in helping another believer to discover and judge his faults (John 13:14).
"And it shall be forgiven him", it says at the end of each of these paragraphs – the divine answer which God can apply to the repentant sinner, by virtue of the work of His well-beloved Son!
