This is Spoken Gospel.

We’re dedicated to seeing
Jesus in all of scripture.

In each episode, we see what’s
happening in a Biblical text

and how it sheds light
on Jesus and his gospel.

Let’s jump in.

Sin has effects.
It creates guilt.

Guilt can be defined as
remorse or contrition,

but it can also be caused by fearing
a punishment you know is coming.

Sin also affects those around us.

Others experience the
toll our wrong actions take.

If I steal something, I
might feel guilty about it later.

But the person from whom I
stole also feels the loss immediately.

The guilt offering is meant to
deal with both of sin’s effects.

After making the guilt offering,
the worshipper could walk away

from the tabernacle knowing
that they are forgiven.

But reparations are also
paid alongside this offering.

The priest would put a value on
the damage caused by the sin,

which the guilty person would
repay, adding an additional 20%.

This offering, therefore,
deals with three relationships:

The vertical relationship
between man and God,

the inner relationship
between self and conscience,

and the horizontal relationship
between man and man.

But the guilt offering is meant to
point us forward to Jesus’ offering.

When we put our faith
in Jesus’ final sacrifice,

Hebrews 10:22 says that our consciences
are sprinkled clean with the blood of Christ.

We no longer have just an outward
sign that our guilt is dealt with.

We have the inner witness
of Jesus through his Spirit

that we have been made guiltless
because of Jesus’ perfect guilt offering.

Jesus also pays for the effects
our sin has on the world around us.

He fixes the effects of sin through us.

Time and time again in the New
Testament, we see pictures of people

who are so radically changed
by the love of Jesus that they

make above and beyond reparations for the
bad ways they’ve treated people around them.

Jesus changes us, so we can
change our world and others.

But we can’t fix everything.
Thankfully Jesus can, does, and will.

He can work in people’s hearts
to restore what we have broken.

And what’s more, when he returns, he will
fix everything that’s broken and make it perfect.

He won’t add 20% to it. He
will make everything 100% new.

That’s why he says in the book of
Revelation, “Behold, I am making all things new.”

I pray that the Holy Spirit would show
you the God who not only deals with

the penalty of sin but its effects
on our conscience and world.

And that you would see Jesus as
the only one who can truly heal both.