Bring Your Own Goat

Bring your own Goat
By Russ Kujawski
11/3/2017

Topic Repentance/ Bring your own Goat
Scripture reference:  Lev 4:27-29   ESV
As followers of Jesus the Christ we will still have failures, we  will sin. 1 John 2:1makes that clear.
 1 John 2: 1 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
 and he is our propitiation.
1 John2:2 He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.
John here calls the people he is talking to as his little children. Either he his older than his audience or he had a hand in their conversion to following Jesus. The real point here is they are believers, brothers and sisters in Christ. I believe its clear Christians do sin. Hopefully it’s not a life style, if it is a lifestyle of sin then evaluation of your relationship with Christ needs to be done. Is there true repentance or just a said faith?

This is titled bring your own goat so let’s get started.
 Lev 4:27-29: 27 “If anyone of the common people sins unintentionally in doing any one of the things that by the LORD's commandments ought not to be done, and realizes his guilt,28 or the sin which he has committed is made known to him, he shall bring for his offering a goat, a female without blemish, for his sin which he has committed. 29 And he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and kill the sin offering in the place of burnt offering.

Two things that I want to point out. 1 the sin offender brings the goat for a blood sacrifice, and 2 the sin offender kills the goat. To me that makes repentance very personnel, being the one who actually kills the sacrifice for your indiscretions for your sins. Taking the life of the innocent goat because of your failures.

Question for discussion.
With Christ being our advocate the one stands between us and God and our propitiation the one who turns away God’s wrath by taking on the penalty of our sin. Do Christians when they sin and repent of that sin have a hand an active role in the forgiveness of the sin, do they bring their own goat?
When you sin as a Christian and then repent of that sin is it as personnel as bringing your own goat and taking the life of that goat?
I’m basically speaking to Christians here. When a Christian is living in un-repented sin its devastating, on the outside you may appear to others to have it all together. On the inside you’re a mess because of the dwelling sin. Look at how the Psalms identifies un-repented sin.
Psalms 32: 3 For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away
    through my groaning all day long.
4 For day and night your hand was heavy upon me;
    my strength was dried up] as by the heat of summer
You’re devastated inside you’re useless to the kingdom of God you need to find your goat and repent of your sin.
 Ok I know animal sacrifices are no longer done, so you won’t find a goat to cover you sins. The good news is there is a lamb that not only turns Gods wrath away this lamb also covers your sin.
Jhn 1:29
The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
Jesus is our Lamb our blood sacrifice that takes away the penalty of sin.
1Pe 2:24
He himself {Jesus} bore our sins in his body on the tree {the cross}, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
Brief note: this healing being spoke of is being healed from sin not necessarily a physical healing. Having forgiveness can improve the physical also.


Eph 1:7
In him {Jesus} we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,
As a Christian when we are living in sin we can’t bring a goat to cover our sins, but we can go to the Lamb that is Jesus the Christ and confess our sins seek repentance and live a life of peace and rest even with all its turmoil’s. 
Take that personnel approach hands on and seek the Lamb that takes away the sins of the world.
One more verse from Psalms
Psalms 32:1-2
 1 Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven,
    whose sin is covered.
2 Blessed is the man against whom the Lord counts no iniquity,
    and in whose spirit, there is no deceit.
Final Thoughts: sin is destructive, there is no such thing as a little sin. Undealt with sin will fester and grow to a full out defiance. Take hold of the sin.
8 Steps to take to combat sin.
1. Jas 4:7
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
2. 1 Corinthians 6:
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.
3. Ephesians 6:16
In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one;
4. Matthew 26:41
Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
5. Colossians 3:2
Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.
6. 1 Peter 5:8
Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
7. Galatians 6:2
Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
8. 1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Above are 8 steps to combat sin, if you currently are in sin then confess and be blessed.