Under the new covenant our sacrifices are not like what they were under the old. We do not have to offer up burnt offerings, grain and peace offerings,sin offerings, and trespass (or guilt) offerings; however, blood sacrifices are needed for atonement according to the law. In this teaching I shall show how Christ fulfilled the sin offering ceremonial law of  sacrifice. Yet we still have sacrifices to make in our lives.

-- Ceremonial Aspects 

	--- Procedure for any person, specifically the priest

Lev. 4:2-3:: if a person sins unintentionally against any of the commandments of the LORD in anything which ought not to be done, and does any of them,
if the anointed priest sins, bringing guilt on the people, then let him offer to the LORD for his sin which he has sinned a young bull without blemish as a sin offering.

In the first case a sin could be done by anyone but the 3rd verse focuses in on what the anointed priest does wrong.  Notice it is a bull (male cow) that is offered up as the sin sacrifice.

Lev. 4:11-12:: But the bull's hide and all its flesh, with its head and legs, its entrails and offal, the whole bull he shall carry outside the camp to a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood with fire; where the ashes are poured out it shall be burned.

Christ himself suffered outside the camp
Heb. 13:11-12::  For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the holy places by the high priest as a sacrifice for sin are burned outside the camp. So Christ also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood.

Notice here that Yeshua is equated to the flesh, head, legs, and inner parts. These parts got sacrificed on the cross outside of city gates (either the garden tomb or Church of the Holy Sepulcher).  I know of nowhere in the bible it says Christ's blood was brought into the holy places.  Some say the ark of the covenant was hidden underground below the cross and his blood seeped in from above but that is unproven.

Heb. 10:4-4:: it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.(see Ps. 40:6-8)  Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said,
“Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired,but a body have you prepared for me; in burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure.

Note that this section is for any person but points to the anointed priest.  Christ was from an ordinary family yet he fulfilled the high priestly function when he was offered up upon the cross.

	--- Procedure for a ruler

First notice a young male goat, unblemished is offered

Lev. 4:22-23:: When a ruler has sinned, and done something unintentionally against any of the commandments of the LORD his God in anything which should not be done, and is guilty, or if his sin which he has committed comes to his knowledge, he shall bring as his offering a kid of the goats, a male without blemish.

	-- Procedure for common people

Now note a young female goat, unblemished is offered

Lev. 4:27-28:: If anyone of the common people sins unintentionally by doing something against any of the commandments of the LORD in anything which ought not to be done, and is guilty, or if his sin which he has committed comes to his knowledge, then he shall bring as his offering a kid of the goats, a female without blemish, for his sin which he has committed.

The sacrifice is normally a female goat but it can also be a female lamb (vs. 32). 


-- New Covenant ideas of Sin Offerings

I also want you to also see something written in the book of Hebrews:

Heb. 10:26-27:: For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries. Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses. 

You might have known that in all three cases both priest, ruler, and ordinary people sin unintentionally.  There is nothing in Leviticus that spells out a sacrifice for deliberate sin.  Some sin, know they are doing it, but later repent and seek forgiveness.  The law provides no such forgiveness for sin. In fact, certain intentional sins receive either banishment or death.  While Christ fulfilled the law He did not annul it (Matt. 5:18).  In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. What is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away (Heb. 8:13)

Yeshua even stated this ‘I say to you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men. Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the age to come’. (Matt. 12:31-32)

This comes from part of the law:
the person who does anything presumptuously, whether he is native-born or a stranger, that one brings reproach on the LORD, and he shall be cut off from among his people (Num. 15:30).

kāraṯ (kaw-rath') is the verb (Niphal stem) used here to mean to cut, cut off (like a body part) or cut down.

This does not necessarily mean execution but certainly means removing the sinful person from society.  The question I have is does this mean there is no hope for reform? Also, what does presumptuously mean?  The root of the word for presumptuous is hand so the implication here is an action, not just a thought.

Peter spoke to the crowd on the day of Pentecost and told them that they killed 
the Holy and Just One, the Prince of Life in ignorance (Acts 3:17).  Sometimes we act in wrongful ways believing we are justified when just the opposite is true.

We shall learn next week there are certain sins under the trespass offering which can be atoned for by adding appropriate restitution.  We also need to be careful against judging to harshly our neighbors, not casting the first stone because we disagree with their behavior and don’t even know the full story.

I could go on and say much more about our sacrifice for sin.  The bottom line is the world needed a 'yeshua' to save us.  The Jews needed the man called Yeshua HaMeshiach to save them. We also need him to save us. Let us pray as we move into the fall feast high holy days that God makes himself more and more real to our brothers and sisters in the Lord.

Addendum: One cannot replace the sin sacrifice that Yeshua brought us so any sin sacrifices we can offer are spiritual, even symbolic. Apostle Paul told the Romans: I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service (Romans 12:1). This idea of service points back to Exodus 12:25 where the children of Israel were commanded to keep the divine service of the passover which was to remind them of deliverance from Egypt. Today many enjoy the service of the seder, a special meal commemorating the Exodus. Our daily work and offering of our bodies as living sacrifices are a type of service that goes well beyond a meal (offering).

References:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQfbq-PRGJ4