Gems of Knowledge

Today’s One Year Bible Verses: Leviticus 4:1-5:19, Mark 2:13-3:6, Psalm 36:1-12, Proverbs 10:1-2

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Sin Offering to Salvation

We all sin. That’s the reality of the human condition and Leviticus 4–5 does not pretend otherwise. Instead, it shows us something stunning: God already knew this, so He made a way for us.

Before the people even failed, He established a sin offering.

Think about that.
The fact that God would even create a sin offering for us to be redeemed is stunning – He prepared redemption in advance.

But there is even more beauty woven in to the details of Leviticus if we will just dig a little deeper.

Leviticus 4:27 tells us that when an ordinary person sinned unintentionally, they were to bring a female goat without defect as a sin offering.

Why a female goat?

For leaders and priests, the sacrifice was larger and more costly. But for the common person, God made the offering accessible. A female goat was valuable, but it was something the average household could realistically provide.

This reveals God’s heart. God was not lowering the value of the sacrifice — He was lowering the barrier to repentance. He made atonement reachable.

Redemption was not reserved for the elite.
Atonement was not priced out of reach.
Access to forgiveness was built into everyday life.

Even in the Old Covenant, God made grace available to everyone.

And then we see something even deeper in Leviticus 5:4–6.

The text speaks of someone who “swears thoughtlessly with his lips.” The Hebrew word there is שָׁבַע (shava‘) — which literally means “to seven oneself.”

In ancient Hebrew thought, to “seven oneself” meant to bind yourself by oath. It was covenant language. When someone swore an oath, they were symbolically tying themselves to something.

Why seven?

Because seven symbolized:

• Completion
• Fullness
• Covenant perfection
• Sacred binding

To “seven oneself” meant:
To bind yourself completely.
To confirm something fully and solemnly.
To enter into a covenantal declaration.

It’s not just casual speech.
It’s not “oops I said something.”
It’s: I am sealing this.

That’s why in Genesis 21, when Abraham makes a covenant with Abimelech, there are seven lambs involved — and the place is called Beersheba. That name literally relates to “well of seven” or “well of oath.”

Seven = oath = covenantal sealing.

So when Leviticus uses this verb, it isn’t just “swearing.”
It’s someone binding themselves — invoking covenant weight — sometimes carelessly.

Which makes it even more serious.

So sin in this passage isn’t just a mistake.
It is aligning yourself — even carelessly — with something other than God.

But then comes the mercy.

Leviticus 5:5 says the person must “confess.” The Hebrew word is וְהִתְוַדָּה (vehitvadah) from יָדָה (yadah).

YADAH (יָדָה)	HITPAEL Form (הִתְוַדָּה)	Combined Meaning
Root meaning: 👉 To extend or throw out the hand From this come: • To cast away • To praise • To give thanks • To confess • To publicly declare	Hitpael = reflexive action The subject acts upon themselves. So hitvadah means: 👉 To cause oneself to acknowledge 👉 To openly admit before God	Confession is not silent regret. It is: 👉 Public realignment 👉 Throwing the sin into the open 👉 Aligning yourself again with God’s covenant It is humility + ownership + worshipful return.

Hmmm…Throw away the sin, realign with God, confess, publicly, in humility, done worshipfully… sounds a lot like baptism and communion to me! 🤔

This word carries the idea of openly declaring, acknowledging, even throwing something outward. Confession was not silent regret. It was public realignment. The sinner brought the offering, laid hands on it, and spoke aloud.

It’s not casual admission. It’s covenant realignment and correction!

This is why John the Baptist called people to repent and be baptized. Scripture says they were “confessing their sins” as they were baptized (Matthew 3:6). Baptism became the visible declaration of what Leviticus foreshadowed — realigning allegiance back to God through Jesus Christ and the bread and wine in Communion is the continuing renewal thereafter.

So, you “seven yourself” wrongly through sin — binding yourself to something that does not honor God.

But when you hitvadah — confess — you publicly throw that false alignment away and realign with the Lord in reverence and humility.

And what happens next?

God accepts the offering.

He redeems.

He restores covenant relationship.

Leviticus is not a cold legal system. It is a love story about a God who knew His people would stumble — and built redemption into the structure of their lives.

And then Jesus came.

He became the final Lamb of God.
He became the accessible sacrifice.
He fulfilled every sin offering once and for all.

The female goat made redemption reachable for common people.

Jesus made redemption eternal for all people.

When we sin, we are not without hope.
When we realize our error and align with Him — when we confess and return — He accepts the offering of Christ on our behalf and restores us…every time.

Redemption was always the plan. Love is the reason. 💎

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Action (5 Minutes with God)

Today, ask the Lord if there is any place where you have “seven yourself” — bound your heart, words, or loyalties to something other than Him. Ask Him:

• “Lord what do You want me to know about this today?”
  • Journal what He reveals to you through His Holy Spirit.
• Then ask, “What do you want me to do?”
  • Journal what He whispers – then do it!

Align yourself with Him again today. Don’t hide anything. Bring it into the open before God. Acknowledge it. Then confess and realign. ❤️‍🔥

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Prayer

Father, thank You for building redemption into Your covenant from the very beginning. Thank You for making forgiveness accessible to all of us. If I have aligned myself with anything that does not honor You, show me. I openly acknowledge it before You. I choose to realign my heart with You. Thank You for Jesus, the Lamb of God, who takes away my sin and restores me fully. In His precious name I pray, Amen.

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