12 April 2025
Youth Worship 12th April 2025 : If you sin unintentionally
Youth Worship 12th April 2025 : If you sin unintentionally
- Speaker:
- Pastor Charles Tan
- Series:
- Focus on Faith – Numbers
Message Notes
YOUTH WORSHIP 12 April 2025
Text: Numbers 15
Title: “If you sin unintentionally” Numbers 15:22
INTRODUCTION
1. The children of Israel had sinned grievously
a) They had chosen to disobey the Lord time and time again
b) They were now consigned to wander in the wilderness for forty years because of their wilful sinfulness
c) The obvious need was for them to learn about the problem of sin
2. Many laws were given to Israel
a) To instruct
b) To forewarn
c) To encourage Israel not to take sin lightly
3. Two aspects were highlighted:
a) Sin that is unintentional
b) Sin that is intentional
DEALING WITH UNINTENTIONAL SIN
22 ‘If you sin unintentionally, and do not observe all these commandments which the LORD has spoken to Moses—
23 all that the LORD has commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the day the LORD gave commandment and onward throughout your generations—
24 then it will be, if it is unintentionally committed, without the knowledge of the congregation, that the whole congregation shall offer one young bull as a burnt offering, as a sweet aroma to the LORD, with its grain offering and its drink offering, according to the ordinance, and one kid of the goats as a sin offering.
25 So the priest shall make atonement for the whole congregation of the children of Israel, and it shall be forgiven them, for it was unintentional; they shall bring their offering, an offering made by fire to the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD, for their unintended sin.
26 It shall be forgiven the whole congregation of the children of Israel and the stranger who dwells among them, because all the people did it unintentionally.
27 ‘And if a person sins unintentionally, then he shall bring a female goat in its first year as a sin offering.
28 So the priest shall make atonement for the person who sins unintentionally, when he sins unintentionally before the LORD, to make atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven him.
29 You shall have one law for him who sins unintentionally, for him who is
native-born among the children of Israel and for the stranger who dwells among them.Numbers 15:22-29
1. Sin will affect the whole congregation
a) Sin does not just affect the individual
b) It affects the whole community/congregation
2. What constitutes sin?
a) The neglect of the commandments of God
b) The failure to keep the commandments of God is considered sin
3. Unintentional sin
a) There is no evil intention
b) The sin is not pre-meditated
4. Atonement may be made for unintentional sins
a) The individual sins
b) But the whole congregation is unaware of the sin
c) Thus, it is not held responsible for the sin of the individual
d) Atonement may be made
e) Forgiveness is extended to the repentant sinner
DEALING WITH PRESUMPTUOUS SIN
30 ‘But 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.
31 Because he has despised the word of the LORD, and has broken His commandment, that person shall be completely cut off; his guilt shall be upon him.’”
Numbers 15:30-31