Lesson date:4/19/5856AA

Chapter 4

Verses 1-2 Sinning by mistake. H2398 – חטא – châṭâ’ – BDB Definition: 1) to sin, miss, miss the way, go wrong, incur guilt, forfeit, purify from uncleanness

H7684 – שׁגגה – shegâgâh – BDB Definition: 1) sin, sin of error or inadvertence, inadvertent sin 1a) error

This is why Yeshua exhorts us to not take our eyes off of the goal or target: Luk_9:62 But יהושע said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the reign of Elohim.”

The only way to plow a straight row is to fix our eyes on a single point at the far end of the field and plow straight for it, never taking our eyes off of the goal. The old timers used to say, “Find your point at the end of the field and put it between the mules ears and plow straight for it.” Our “mark”, “point” or target is Yeshua’s example: 1Jn 2:6 The one who says he stays in Him ought himself also to walk, even as He walked.

The Hebrew idea of sin is aiming your arrow at a target and releasing the arrow and missing the mark. You were clearly wanting to hit the target but for some reason you missed the mark. This gets to the very root of Torah. If we sin, not from intent or desire, but because of an error in judgement there is grace to atone for that sin. I haven’t done this in a while but I think it bears repeating: Torah

t         = the sign of the covenant, stake, seal or mark

f         = tent peg, add, secure, hook, nail

r         = man’s head, leader, first, top beginning

e         = behold, revelation, reveal, what comes from

Torah = Behold the leader(man) who secures the covenant: The leader who secures the covenant is revealed.

Joh 5:46 “For if you believed Mosheh, you would have believed Me, since he wrote about Me.

1Jn 3:4 Everyone doing sin also does lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness. (Torah-lessness)

Mat 7:23 “And then I shall declare to them, ‘I never knew you, depart from Me, you who work lawlessness!’

Here is an interesting progression not usually seen in verses 1-35:

• Priest = young bull
• congregation = young bull
• ruler = male goat
• average person = female goat/female lamb

Also, the offering is taken outside the camp. Only the choicest parts are burned on the altar. Notice too, that there is a progression with the blood. If the priest sins the blood is prinkled seven times in front of the veil. No one but a priest has access to the veil of separation inside the taernacle. If the nation sins, the priest once again sprinkles the blood in front of the veil because the priest is involved in the affairs of the nation. If a ruler or individual sins, the blood is applied to the horns of slaughter-place (altar).

Heb 10:19 So, brothers, having boldness to enter into the Set-apart Place by the blood of יהושע,

Heb 10:20 by a new and living way which He instituted for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh,

Heb 10:21 and having a High Priest over the House of Elohim,

Heb 10:22 let us draw near with a true heart in completeness of belief, having our hearts sprinkled from a wicked conscience and our bodies washed with clean water.

Remember, this is for an inadvertent sin, not deliberate sin. Heb 10:26 For if we sin purposely after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a slaughter offering for sins,

Heb 10:27 but some fearsome anticipation of judgment, and a fierce fire which is about to consume the opponents.

Heb 10:28 Anyone who has disregarded the Torah of Mosheh dies without compassion on the witness of two or three witnesses.

Heb 10:29 How much worse punishment do you think shall he deserve who has trampled the Son of Elohim underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was set apart as common, and insulted the Spirit of favour?

Now, the price for the sin has been paid but we still have a responsibility when we are aware or made aware of our sin.

1Jn 1:6 If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and are not doing the truth.

1Jn 1:7 But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of יהושע Messiah His Son cleanses us from all sin.

1Jn 1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we are misleading ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

1Jn 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is trustworthy and righteous to forgive us the sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1Jn 1:10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His Word is not in us.

Chapter 5

Verse 1 – This goes back to the very beginning of Scripture: Gen 4:9 And יהוה said to Qayin, “Where is Heḇel your brother?” And he said, “I do not know. Am I my brother’s guard?”

According to Chapter 5 the answer is “Yes!” We have a responsibility to point out the error our brothers and sisters commit. “Ah, but this was done away with at the cross, right? Jas 5:19 Brothers, if anyone among you goes astray from the truth, and someone turns him back,

Jas 5:20 let him know that he who turns a sinner from the straying of his way shall save a life from death and cover a great number of sins.

Gal 6:1 Brothers, if a man is overtaken in some trespass, you the spiritual ones, set such a one straight in a spirit of meekness, looking at yourself lest you be tried too.

Gal 6:2 Bear one another’s burdens, and so complete the Torah of Messiah.

Verses 2-3 – Touch no unclean thing: Isa 52:11 Turn aside! Turn aside! Come out from there, touch not the unclean. Come out of her midst, be clean, you who bear the vessels of יהוה.

2Co 6:16 And what union has the Dwelling Place of Elohim with idols? For you are a Dwelling Place of the living Elohim, as Elohim has said, “I shall dwell in them and walk among them, and I shall be their Elohim, and they shall be My people.”

2Co 6:17 Therefore, “Come out from among them and be separate, says יהוה, and do not touch what is unclean, and I shall receive you.

This is the very warning we see in Revelation: Rev 18:2 And he cried with a mighty voice, saying, “Baḇel the great is fallen, is fallen, and has become a dwelling place of demons, a haunt for every unclean spirit, and a haunt for every unclean and hated bird,

Rev 18:3 because all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her whoring, and the sovereigns of the earth have committed whoring with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the power of her riotous living.”

Rev 18:4 And I heard another voice from the heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues.

Rev 18:5 “Because her sins have piled up to reach the heaven, and Elohim has remembered her unrighteousnesses.

How will the “Church” come out of Babylon if they have discarded Torah? They will not know what is clean and unclean.

Verse 4 – Speaking rashly? Does this mean cursing? Pro 20:25 It is a snare for a man to say rashly, “It is set-apart,” And only later to reconsider his vows.

Not necessarily. “What are you doing working on Christmas (or Easter). These are Holy days!” Are they?

Pro 18:7 A fool’s mouth is his ruin, And his lips are the snare of his life.

Verse 5 – Don’t waste time – confess: Psa 32:5 I acknowledged my sin to You, And my crookedness I did not hide. I have said, “I confess my transgressions to יהוה,” And You forgave the crookedness of my sin. Selah.

Verse 15-16 – Making restitution for sinning against what is set-apart. We must repay with an offering of a ram and also bring its valuation plus 20%. Heb 9:13 For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the defiled, sets apart for the cleansing of the flesh,

Heb 9:14 how much more shall the blood of the Messiah, who through the everlasting Spirit offered Himself unblemished to Elohim, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living Elohim?

Do we take YHVH’s forgiveness too lightly or take it for granted? His Son payed the price with His Blood. We have a responsibility to guard that which is set-apart: Mat_7:6 “Do not give what is set-apart to the dogs, nor throw your pearls before the pigs, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces.

We cannot treat Yeshua’s sacrifice lightly.

Verse 17 – We have a responsibility to first know Torah and then to keep Torah: Act 17:30 “Truly, then, having overlooked these times of ignorance, Elohim now commands all men everywhere to repent,

Act 17:31 because He has set a day on which He is going to judge the world in righteousness by a Man whom He has appointed, having given proof of this to all by raising Him from the dead.”

We cannot plead ignorance! though he knew it not, yet he shall be guilty and shall bear his crookedness.

Here is the most repeated, usually wrongly, verse of Scripture in Scripture: Joh 3:16 “For Elohim so loved the world that He gave His only brought-forth Son, so that everyone who believes in Him should not perish but possess everlasting life.

Seldom do people go on: Joh 3:17 “For Elohim did not send His Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

Joh 3:18 “He who believes in Him is not judged, but he who does not believe is judged already, because he has not believed in the Name of the only brought-forth Son of Elohim.

Joh 3:19 “And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their works were wicked.

Who or what is the judge? Torah. (The Word of Elohim) It (He) will be our judge on judgement day.

Mat 5:18 “For truly, I say to you, till the heaven and the earth pass away, one yod or one tittle shall by no means pass from the Torah till all be done.

Ahavah vberakhot