Your Sins Are Remitted, Forgiven … Sent Away!
1st svc, 21 June 2009
Preached by Ps Joseph Prince
As noted by Yeo Choon Meng Terence
CD was of 2nd svc
REGARDING TESTIMONIES
Always let the testimony build your own faith. Don’t yawn at it.
There has been an explosion of healings especially in Pastor Henry’s healing service 2 weeks ago.
Senior Pastor then prayed for liberty and protection against H1N1.
SIT EASY, JESUS CHRIST REIGNS
Rom 5:17 (NIV) For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God’s abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ.
Where death reigns, much more you reign with the capacity of life from Heaven.
REJECT THE WIDELY ACCEPTED NATURE OF DEATH
Death is the last enemy to be destroyed by Jesus (1 Cr 15:25).
Death was never part of God’s plan. You can see this from the body’s ability to heal and the fact that all the cells in the body will have regenerated after a cycle of several years. However because of Man’s sin, the body’s ability to heal or regenerate is imperfect. There are mutations. Hence, the aging process. Death came through Adam’s offence.
To the extent that life is flowing in us, we are young, vibrant and whole.
There can be no such thing as too much grace. You need abundance of grace.
Every time we fail, we say, “Father I receive your grace”
See every minus as an opportunity for the plus of God to manifest. It is just waiting for someone to call forth the plus. Don’t be discouraged by appearances.
LEARN TO RECEIVE THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD
Learn to receive the righteousness of God and all the things the gentiles seek after will be added to you. This is the Jesus’ way. The Jesus way is easier.
The Greek word translated into “receive” in Rom 5:17 implies a continuous active tense of receiving.
Especially when you fail, you need to receive grace and righteousness. Unfortunately, traditional Christianity teaches us to confess our sins, illnesses, etc.
1 John 1:9 is for non-Believers as how often can one be cleansed from all unrighteousness – 1 time when he receives Jesus!
If you follow traditional Christian teaching, then guess what? You will never confess beyond your ability. In other words, you are not confessing those things which you want to manifest in your life as if they are and you remain in sin.
1 John 1:9 spurs sin consciousness as you always have to catch yourself sinning in order that you might confess that sin. If not, you would keep wondering whether you sinned since you did not confess for a long time.
Don’t go back to 1 John 1:9 like a drug ‘fix’. You ought to stand secure in Jesus.
The devil is concerned about any church preaching these 2 elements (abundance of grace and reigning in righteousness).
There is a link from feeling guilty to sickness. 60 per cent of sickness is psychosomatic - caused by your believing.
GIFT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS IS NOT A WORK
Gift of righteousness is not a work. Therefore you cannot have more righteousness. Either you are righteous or you are not.
EW Kenyon’s definition of righteousness :”Righteousness is the ability to stand before the Father with no sense of inferiority and in the presence of Satan as master”
This definition by Kenyon, whilst powerful, did not bring victory to Pastor.
We have to understand righteousness the bible way.
DAVID’S DEFINITION OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
Rom 4:6 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
Rom 4:7 [Saying], Blessed [are] they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
Rom 4:8 Blessed [is] the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
David is not describing himself in Rom 4:6-8 as he himself only had the OT animal sacrifices covering sin and not the non-imputation of sin.
Rom 4:6-8 is not a passage that applies only to folks who are obedient to God and do not sin. Think about it. If they don’t sin, why does God need to give non-imputation of sin to them? Rom 4:6-8 only makes sense if you are a sinner. God does not count sin against us as He has counted it against Jesus.
The Greek words which are translated into “will not” in Rom 4:8 are ou mei which has the connotation of a double negative i.e. no never.
CORRECT POSTURE TO ADOPT WHEN YOU FALL
The first thing you should do when you fall is to say, “Thank you God, I am blessed because my sins are forgiven.” This makes Jesus look at the travail and suffering of His soul at the Cross and be satisfied and causes the Father to sit up and notice as somebody is believing in His Son.
Jesus Christ consumed all the sin of entire humanity past present and future as the sacrifice on the Cross and was still alive after consuming all the sin. That is why He remains after all sin is consumed and He is able to cry out “it is finished” and then subsequently dismiss His spirit to the Father like a king. The sacrifice is greater than the sin.
This is in contrast to the OT when during Elijah’s confrontation with the prophets of Baal at Carmel (1 Kings 18). The judgment fire consumed not only the sacrifice but the stones upon which the sacrifice was placed. In a way, it appears that the sin was greater than the sacrifice.
Because Jesus’ sacrifice so completely consumed sin and met the payment for sin, God’s holiness can now declare us righteous as all our sin has been paid by Jesus on the Cross.
THERE IS FORGIVENESS WITH GOD THAT HE MAY BE FEARED
Ps 130:4 But [there is] forgiveness with You, That You may be feared.
Even the true fear of the Lord is borne out of a sense of forgiveness.
You become irritable when you lose sense of forgiveness.
We ought to live life and be happy and have a perpetual sense that we are forgiven. This is the key to life and health. To the extent that you don’t have sense of forgiveness, your body is weak and enfeebled. Your body today reflects the sense of forgiveness you had yesterday.
The root cause of sin is condemnation. Proof: That is why God provided forgiveness of sin to remove the guilt.
Senior pastor recalls the time when he was irritable and ‘bit’ back at whatever his wife said to him that day. In other words, every statement made was biting and cutting, and not warm and friendly. Pastor traced back to identify the root cause as condemnation as he felt guilty because he had an argument with another relative. For the record, he had no reason to feel guilty but felt guilty because he had a tender heart which did not relish in exercising judgment. He also realized that same day that he had corrected a leader over the phone and felt guilty that he was overbearing.
PROCLAIM ALOUD THE FORGIVENESS OF SIN
You must proclaim alound the forgiveness of sin.
Luke 4:16 So He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. And as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.
Luke 4:17 And He was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when He had opened the book, He found the place where it was written:
Luke 4:18 “The Spirit of the LORD [is] upon Me, Because He has anointed Me To preach the gospel to [the] poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty [Greek = aphesis. Strong’s 859. Also translated as (1) remission, (2) forgiveness, (3) deliverance] to [the] captives And recovery of sight to [the] blind, [To] set at liberty [Greek = aphesis] those who are oppressed;
Luke 4:19 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD.
Luke 4:20 Then He closed the book, and gave [it] back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all who were in the synagogue were fixed on Him.
Jesus found the relevant passage in the scriptures very quickly as He himself wrote the book.
Notice “proclaim” in Luke 4:18 used in relation to liberty / forgiveness.
The word “proclaim” also appears in Luke 4:19 for double emphasis.
Therefore, proclaim or speak out to yourself that your sins are forgiven.
Say aloud, I sent away my and your sin to the body of Jesus Christ. You, your friends and family need to hear this. Why? Sickness and depression etc come close on the heels of sin. When you forgive, you send these things away to the body of Jesus.
In relation to the healing miracle of the man sick with palsy in the NT by Jesus, the outward healing is to demonstrate to the world that all our sins are forgiven.
TALK TO YOURSELF
People who are not mentally unsound talk to themselves. An example is David who encouraged himself in the Lord, etc
You are the biggest prophet in your life.
Just because somebody rejects you, it is not a poor reflection on you.
That person’s opinion is not God’s thoughts of you and is not going to shake God’s throne.
Reject the rejection. However, don’t get prideful.
Jesus was called all sorts of names such as Beelzebub, glutton etc. It does not matter what they say. Jesus knew His true identity.
REASONS WHY PEOPLE ARE UNFORGIVING
Matt 18:23 Therefore the kingdom of heaven is like a certain king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants.
Matt 18:24 And when he had begun to settle accounts, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.
Matt 18:25 But as he was not able to pay, his master commanded that he be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and that payment be made.
Matt 18:26 The servant therefore fell down before him, saying, ‘Master, have patience with me, and I will pay you all.’
Matt 18:27 Then the master of that servant was moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt.
Matt 18:28 “But that servant went out and found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii; and he laid hands on him and took [him] by the throat, saying, ‘Pay me what you owe!’
Matt 18:29 So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him, saying, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you all.’
Matt 18:30 And he would not, but went and threw him into prison till he should pay the debt.
Matt 18:31 So when his fellow servants saw what had been done, they were very grieved, and came and told their master all that had been done.
Matt 18:32 Then his master, after he had called him, said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me.
Matt 18:33 Should you not also have had compassion on your fellow servant, just as I had pity on you?’
Even by the furthest stretch of imagination, the servant cannot save enough, even if given extra time to repay king. Notice the servant in Matt 18:26 said essentially to the king to give him more time. He did not ask the king to forgive him. This servant thought he could earn or work his way out of debt ! The servant probably also did not have a sense of the depth of his sin.
Some of us insist that the other has to pay for it. But such actions or demands can be at your own body’s costs, etc
The king had compassion and forgave the servant of the debt. Essentially, the king loosed and sent away (forgave) the debt. When you forgive a debt, somebody else pays for it. In this case, the king incurs the loss.
The servant did not celebrate. He had no sense of forgiveness! We know this because he went after another servant who owed a lesser amount to him and threw him in prison.
The servant acted the way he did to his fellow servant because he believed that he himself could not repay the debt to the king because somebody else owed him. This first servant is still under Law and not under Grace. This brings him back into bondage.
A lot of people blame somebody else for their sin. They blame their ex-husband, relatives, etc. Just because you suffered for 7 years, does not make the rest of 70 years a life of suffering. Throw away the book keeping!
Some of us don’t want to forgive others but we want God to forgive us.
Editor’s note: The internal unforgiveness in this man manifested in prison of unforgiveness.
This man manifested sense of unforgiveness (that is that king is still ‘after’ him) on others (throwing the other servant into prison).
JUDGEMENT
It is the general principle that “Judge not, lest ye be judged” (Matt 7:1)
But in John 7:24, it says “Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.”
Leadership has to exercise righteous judgment not according to appearance e.g. to appoint the right person to be in charge of child-care centre.
A leader has to judge and to balance between being not overbearing and yet inspiring.
FORGIVENESS IS THE BLESSING OF ALL BLESSINGS
Remind yourself that you are forgiven and your body will react.
If the ‘symptoms’ come back, is it because we are believing incorrectly again?
JOSEPH IS THE BEST OR MOST COMPLETE TYPE OF JESUS CHRIST IN THE OT
We see in Gen 50 (the last chapter of Genesis) that Joseph cries easily. Joseph has a tender heart.
Gen 50:15 When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “Perhaps Joseph will hate us, and may actually repay us for all the evil which we did to him.”
The brothers had lived for many years in Egypt with Joseph and enjoyed the fruits of Joseph’s blessing and protection over them in Egypt. Yet it is evident from Gen 50:15 that they had lost the sense of forgiveness in relation to Joseph.
They viewed forgiveness with suspicion and that the ‘rooster would eventually come home to roost’.
The truth is that in place of the rooster, the Eagle is coming!
The parallel being expressed in this passage is: walking LORD many years yet expecting punishment to be exacted.
Gen 50:16 So they sent [messengers] to Joseph, saying, “Before your father died he commanded, saying,
Gen 50:17 ‘Thus you shall say to Joseph: “I beg you, please forgive the trespass of your brothers and their sin; for they did evil to you.” ‘ Now, please, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of your father.” And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
Joseph wept as he knew his brothers were lying. His father, Jacob, had not asked Joseph to forgive them for Jacob’s sake. Likewise, Jesus wept when you feel that Jesus is still out to one day exact punishment on you and that He has not forgiven you.
Joseph said in Gen 50:20-21 “But as for you, you meant evil against me; [but] God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as [it is] this day, to save many people alive. Now therefore, do not be afraid; I will provide for you and your little ones.” And he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.”
Joseph’s words in Gen 50:20-21 reminds us of Jesus’ end-time ministry. Jesus will speak kindly to us and use comforting words.
The end-time grief of Jesus is for people not to believe they are forgiven, especially Christians.
In a sense, it is understandable that the world does not understand that they are forgiven BUT Christians?!
The last story of Genesis is that of Joseph weeping. Joseph went through ‘hell’ for his brothers and yet his brothers were suspicious of Joseph.
Jesus went through hell on the Cross and received the judgment meant for us. Yet we His ‘brothers’ are suspicious of His forgiveness. No wonder He weeps.
When we Christians don’t believe we are forgiven, we look like the world. We lose our sense of forgiveness when we don’t believe we are forgiven.
APHESIS IS THE GREEK WORD FOR FORGIVENESS
As used in Luke 14:18 above, the Greek word for liberty or forgiveness is APHESIS.
Aphesis (a noun, meaning: forgiveness, remission) is defined by Thayer as:
(a) a release from bondage or imprisonment
(b) forgiveness or pardon of sins (letting them go as if they had never been committed)
(c) remission of the penalty
[Note that before the Cross, forgiveness did not remove the penalty of sin. E.g. David committed adultery with Bathsheba. The child of this union died. The prophet Nathan told David in 2 Sa 12:13-14 “The LORD also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die. Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also [that is] born unto thee shall surely die.”]
Some Christians don’t forgive because they don’t live in a sense of forgiveness.
They blame their health, fathers, mothers, etc. Actually we are forgiven of all.
Even if no external negative causative factors like bad health, father, mother, etc, the world is still fallen and there is therefore propensity to sin.
GO INTO PEACE
When Jesus had healed the woman with the issue of blood, the Greek sense of the passage in Luke 8:48 is “Daughter, be of good comfort: they faith hath made thee whole; go [INTO] peace” and not merely go “in” peace as rendered in the KJV.
When we know we are forgiven and have the sense of forgiveness, we go INTO the realm of peace.
APHIEMI IS THE GREEK VERB
Aphiemi (verb, meaning: TO forgive)
(a) put away, sent away
(b) divorce
When Jesus says your sins are forgiven or APHIEMI, it means, “I, Jesus, put away, sent away your sins.”
Sent away sins to whom? To Jesus!
To get a sense of forgiveness, see your sins, sickness, etc sent away to Jesus, and divorced unto Jesus.
We have this sense that when we do wrong, sin does not disappear. You automatically say, somebody has to pay, you subconsciously punish yourself and others and if you have influence, you punish society. All this because, we don’t proclaim forgiveness over ourselves.
RIGHTEOUSNESS EMBRACES FORGIVENESS
Righteousness is also for the most part, forgiveness. Recall David’s definition of forgiveness [Rom 4:6-8]
When you really see yourself as forgiven, you have joy, etc.
When you have sense of forgiveness, you forgive others.
Under Grace, you forgive because you are forgiven (Gal 3:13).
If you are suffering conditions in your body, perhaps it is because you never proclaimed forgiveness in your body.
JESUS BREATHES UNTO US
After Jesus rose from the dead in John 20:22.
John 20:22 And when he had said this, he breathed on [them], and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:
The Greek word for “breathed on” is emphysao [Strong’s 1720]
The Greek word here used is employed nowhere else in the New Testament, but is the very one used by the Septuagint translators of Gen 2:7: ‘And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.’ There, man’s original creation was completed by this act of God; who, then, can fail to see that here in John 20, on the day of the Saviour’s resurrection, the new creation had begun, begun by the Head of the new creation, the last Adam acting as ‘a quickening spirit’ (1Cr 15:45)!” — quoted from Arthur W. Pink, Exposition of the Gospel of John, p. 1100.
This is the moment when all the disciples got saved – when Jesus breathed on them.
UNDERSTANDING JOHN 20:23 – RETAINING SIN?
John 20:23 Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; [and] whose soever [sins] ye retain, they are retained.
John 20:23 cannot be interpreted as a special power only given to the Apostles on the basis that these original words were only said to the original Apostles. If this were so, then all the words of the Bible were originally said to the apostles alone. John 20:23 must and is applicable to all of us today!
This is no pre-qualification in this verse. John 20:23 is not a special power. If this were so, then why are the other gifts of God not special powers confined to a select few? All Christians have this gift. It is not a special power for a few.
Also, we don’t see in the Book of Acts and the rest of the NT instances of the disciples presumptuously proclaiming to some that they retain sins while to others ‘be loosed’ of sins.
John 20:23 means that whatever you don’t forgive, then those sins you will retain. Example: Those children who don’t forgive their father’s adultery, addiction to alcohol, etc, the child retains the sins and may become an alcoholic etc himself.
John 20:23 is saying that even though God has forgiven you of sin, you have the power to retain or forgive the sin in you by proclaiming it. Likewise if you see somebody with no sense of forgiveness, proclaim it to him. If this person keeps harping on something, ask him ‘Can I pray for you’ and declare to him that he is forgiven.
PROCLAIM FORGIVENESS
Recall Luke 4:18, you have to proclaim liberty (APHIEMI) i.e. same word as “forgiveness”
LIBERTY and FORGIVENESS are SYNOMOUS with each other.
To set at liberty (APHIEMI), you must proclaim it.
It means you have to realize and proclaim liberty.
To be free of e.g. sins of the father, the child must forgive and send away sins of the parent. Whatever they cannot forgive, the child retains and may commit the same sin himself.
THE EQUIVALENT OF APHIEMI IN HEBREW IS DEROWR
Luke 4:18-19 is a quotation from Isa 61:1-2
Isa 61:1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD [is] upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to [them that are] bound;
Isa 61:2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
The English word “liberty” which we know as APHIEMI in Greek in the New Testament is DEROWR in the OT Hebrew
Derowr (Strong’s 1865) which means:
1) a flowing, free run, liberty
a) flowing (of myrrh)
b) liberty
FIRST MENTION OF DEROWR IN OT
Interestingly, the first mention of DEROWR is in Exd 30:23 where it is used in the context of myrrh
Ex 30:23 Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure [DEROWR] myrrh five hundred [shekels], and of sweet cinnamon half so much, [even] two hundred and fifty [shekels], and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty [shekels],
Some translations say, the “myrrh of LIBERTY”.
Pure Myrrh is the first and most chief of ingredients (because it was 500 shekels. 1 shekel is daily wage) in the Holy Anointing Oil.
Ex 30:24 And of cassia five hundred [shekels], after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin:
Ex 30:25 And thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the art of the apothecary: it shall be an holy anointing oil.
Ex 30:26 And thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the congregation therewith, and the ark of the testimony,
Ex 30:27 And the table and all his vessels, and the candlestick and his vessels, and the altar of incense,
Ex 30:28 And the altar of burnt offering with all his vessels, and the laver and his foot.
Ex 30:29 And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.
Ex 30:30 And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that [they] may minister unto me in the priest’s office.
Ex 30:31 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, This shall be an holy anointing oil unto me throughout your generations.
Ex 30:32 Upon man’s flesh shall it not be poured, neither shall ye make [any other] like it, after the composition of it: it [is] holy, [and] it shall be holy unto you.
Ex 30:33 Whosoever compoundeth [any] like it, or whosoever putteth [any] of it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people.
THEREFORE, to have anointing i.e. oil of myrrh, you must have a full or strong sense of forgiveness i.e. liberty or DEROWR – that is why 500 shekels is indicated !
The first ingredient to flow by anointing is a great sense of forgiveness.
If you want to be anointed by God, the most important ingredient of anointing is a sense of forgiveness.
SECOND MENTION OF DEROWR
Lev 25:10 And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty [DEROWR] throughout all the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee for you; and each of you shall return to his possession, and each of you shall return to his family.
Notice that liberty has to be proclaimed.
The 50th year is the year of the jubilee.
THEREFORE to have Jubilee, restoration, freedom, etc, you have to have a strong sense of being forgiven.
TO RECEIVE BLESSING, HAVE A SENSE OF FORGIVENESS (the most chief of blessings). This puts us in a posture for healing, etc.
KNOWLEDGE OF SALVATION COMES THROUGH KNOWLEDGE OF FORGIVENESS OF SINS
Luke 1:67 And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying,
Luke 1:68 Blessed [be] the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people,
Luke 1:69 And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David;
Luke 1:70 As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began:
Luke 1:71 That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us;
Luke 1:72 To perform the mercy [promised] to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant;
Luke 1:73 The oath which he sware to our father Abraham,
Luke 1:74 That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear,
Luke 1:75 In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.
Luke 1:76 And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways;
Luke 1:77 To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission [APHESIS] of their sins,
Luke 1:78 Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us,
Luke 1:79 To give light to them that sit in darkness and [in] the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
Zacharias would have spoke in Aramaic not Greek and he would have said in Luke 1:77 that “Knowledge of Yeshua (Jesus) comes through or by knowledge forgiveness of sins.”
Through forgiveness of sins, we come to know our Lord.
Some Christians don’t have knowledge of salvation, health, healing etc because these come through remission of sins and they don’t have knowledge of this fact.
The fear of the Lord also comes through knowledge of forgiveness of sins.
Heb 8:11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
Heb 8:12 For [or BECAUSE] I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
BREAKING THE POWER OF SIN
To the extent you lose the sense of forgiveness, you lose revelation of God.
When we forgive, we break the power of sin.
When you pray for your husband, etc e.g. say ‘I am sending away his alcoholism etc to the body of Jesus Christ’ and the payment for that sin is set to Jesus’ account which He paid.
GOOD EXERCISE TO END ANY RETAINING OF SIN
To show what happened at the Cross, look at the individual and say ‘I remit and sent away your sin and diseases and remit them to the body of Jesus Christ. In the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven. I forgive you because God has forgiven you. You are free and loosed in Jesus’ name.’
DAY OF ATONEMENT
<QUOTATION FROM ‘THE SEVEN FESTIVALS OF THE MESSIAH’ BY EDDIE CHUMNEY>
Leviticus (Vayikra) chapter 16, specifies the tenth of Tishrei as the date on which the high priest (Cohen HaGadol) shall conduct a special ceremony to purge defilement from the shrine and from the people. The heart of the ritual is that the high priest (Cohen HaGadol) shall bring a bull and two goats as a special offering. First, the bull is sacrificed to purge the shrine from any defilements (what might now be called uncanny vibrations) caused by misdeeds of the priest himself and of his household (Leviticus [Vayikra] 16:6). Secondly, one of the goats is chosen by lot to be sacrificed to purge the shrine of any similar defilement stimulated by misdeeds of the whole Israelite people (Leviticus [Vayikra] 16:7-8). Finally, the second goat is sent away, not sacrificed, to cleanse the people themselves. The goat is marked for Azazel and is sent away to wander in the wilderness (Leviticus [Vayikra] 16:10). Before the goat is sent out, the high priest lays both his hands upon its head and confesses over it all the iniquities and transgressions of the Israelites, whatever their misdeeds, and so putting them on the head of the goat. Thus, the Torah adds, “The goat shall carry on it all their iniquities to an inaccessible region…” (Leviticus [Vayikra] 16:20-22).
<END QUOTATION taken from http://www.hebroots.org/chap8.html#CHAP8 >
Lev 16:21 And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send [him] away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:
The High Priest must have prayed in tongues on the Day of Atonement or how else is he to confess ALL the sins of the nation.
The Hebrew name for scapegoat (used in Lev 16:8, 16:10 and 16:26) is ‘aza’zel = goat of departure AND means sent away
The people cannot touch ‘aza’zel the goat because it is carrying their sins
The goat carrying sins is sent away. This is a great visual aid of our sins being sent away!
The neck of ‘aza’zel is broken because tradition tells us that sometimes the goat came back!
Eddie Chumney writes: ‘In the ceremony of the two goats, the two goats were considered as one offering. A crimson sash was tied around the horns of the goat marked azazel. At the appropriate time, the goat was led to a steep cliff in the wilderness and shoved off the cliff. In connection with this ceremony, an interesting tradition arose that is mentioned in the Mishnah. A portion of the crimson sash was attached to the door of the temple (Beit HaMikdash) before the goat was sent into the wilderness. The sash would turn from red to white as the goat met its end, signaling to the people that G-d had accepted their sacrifices and their sins were forgiven. This was based upon Isaiah (Yeshayahu) 1:18. As stated earlier, the Mishnah tells us that 40 years before the destruction of the temple (Beit HaMikdash), the sash stopped turning white. This, of course, was when Yeshua was slain on the tree.’
Isa 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
END NOTES
What you have experienced from Jesus – the forgiveness, etc, – extend to your enemies, and you will be set free from that bondage or prison in which you have placed yourself in. We are free in Jesus mighty name.
Send away the sins of your enemies, relatives etc to Jesus and you will EXPERIENTIALLY have that liberty. These people ‘know not what they do’ as Jesus said. When you remit these sins of enemies etc to Jesus, you are set free experientially!
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IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: THE ABOVE NOTES WERE DRAFTED BY, DEVELOPED, COMPILED AND ORGANISED BY YEO CHOON MENG TERENCE IN HIS PERSONAL CAPACITY ON 2 SEPTEMBER 2009 AND ANY ERRORS OR OMISSIONS ARE HIS ALONE. THE ABOVE NOTES ARE NOT REPRESENTATIONS OF, ATTRIBUTABLE TO OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH NEW CREATION CHURCH OR JOSEPH PRINCE MINISTRIES.
You’ve been blessing to me…. May God continue to anoint you and pour out His amazing love into you heart and the hearts of others all over the world who benefit from the works of your hands!” – Vivian Lee via e-mail on 9 February 2009
![The healing of the woman with the issue of blood took place in Capernaum, Galilee. [Picture of fountain on the shores of modern day Galilee]](http://tycm.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/israel2008-837.jpg?w=350&h=466 "Galilee fountain")
![The epistle to the Ephesians was written by the Apostle Paul. [Ruins of library of Celsus in Ephesus. 16 April 2009. Day 6 Turkey Tour]](http://tycm.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/dsc06549.jpg?w=500&h=375 "Ephesus Library.")
