Wednesday | 11 November 2026
The word, or message, from the beginning is that God is Light. 1Jn 1:5. This light is the life that was multiplied to us from the cross. It is the word of the trespass offering by which we overcome sin and live to God. As we walk in the light of this word, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of the trespass offering cleanses us from all sin. 1Jn 1:7. However, if we say that we have no sin, by denying the need to walk in the light of the word or have fellowship with our brethren, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. Moreover, we make God a liar and His word is not in us. 1Jn 1:8,10.
To understand how Christ was set forth as a propitiation, and how He ministers to us the redemption and salvation that He accomplished through His suffering journey from Gethsemane to Calvary, we must understand that Christ, by Eternal Spirit, gave Himself to the Father to be made an offering for sin. In the garden of Gethsemane, the Son willingly received and drank the cup of sin that was given to Him by the Father. Luk 22:42. By this means, the Son, who knew no sin, was made sin and was joined to us in our separation from the Father. Isa 53:12. He was made a sin offering for the purpose of our redemption. 2Co 5:21.
The sin offering is a redemption that was worked in Christ by the seven Spirits of God, which brought Him back from the death of sin. This work was typified by the Lord’s goat which, under the Old Covenant, was offered on the Day of Atonement. Lev 16:15‑16. At the same time, Christ, as the sin offering, was sending away and judging sin, bringing it to destruction (meaning, to nothing). This was typified by the scapegoat, which was also offered on the Day of Atonement. Lev 16:20‑22. The sin offering, in both the redemption and judgement that it accomplished, was vicarious. It was completely finished by one Man on our behalf.
Further Study:
Romans 6
References:
1Jn 1:5
This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is Light and in Him is no darkness at all.
1Jn 1:7-8
But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
1Jn 1:10
If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.
Luk 22:42
Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from Me; nevertheless, not My will, but Yours, be done.
Isa 53:12
Therefore, I will divide Him a portion with the great, and He shall divide the spoil with the strong, because He poured out His soul unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors, and He bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
2Co 5:21
For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
Lev 16:15-16
Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering, which is for the people, bring its blood inside the veil, do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the mercy seat and before the mercy seat. So, he shall make atonement for the holy place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions, for all their sins; and so, he shall do for the tabernacle of meeting which remains among them in the midst of their uncleanness.
Lev 16:20-22
And when he has made an end of atoning for the holy place, the tabernacle of meeting, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat. Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, confess over it all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions, concerning all their sins, putting them on the head of the goat, and shall send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a suitable man. The goat shall bear on itself all their iniquities to an uninhabited land; and he shall release the goat in the wilderness.