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How Do We Experience The Transference Of Shame Upon Yeshua That Makes Us Feel Freedom From Guilt?

“For He Bore Our Shame… And The Chastisement Of Our Peace Was Upon Him” (Isaiah 53:4-5)

Many don’t understand the process of conferring or transferring their guilt unto Yeshua our sacrificial lamb (or sin offering). Many believe it to be true yet walk around with guilt and shame. There are a few incorrect teachings based in a lack of understanding toward the sacrificial atonement system that G-d set up and Yeshua fulfills. Some teach that once your become saved or born again you never have to repent of sins you commit after salvation, of course all the sins you confessed are forgiven, however when you do sin after conversion you still need to repent and confess your sins to G-d and one another (if you have done wrong to your brothers and sisters in Christ). This doesn’t change the status of your salvation, you do not loose your salvation from a few acts of sin, you do experience the consequences of iniquity and experience guilt of committing a sinful act, however your salvation isn’t lost.

Ritual Mikvah’s (or Baptism‘s) are done many times, daily for scribes who inscribe the Torah scrolls, annually and at feasts by the priests and upon one feeling the need to. Some teach you get baptised once forever, others advocate doing it when you feel the need, some when you rededicate yourself. I would argue that all and any of the above apply as you feel you should follow your act of repentance and showing as an outward sin of true repentance. A ritual Mikvah or baptism should be done in a body of living or moving water so that the impression of your sins being washed away may be felt. So let’s be clear this discussion is about the feelings of shame and guilt and how we confer them upon Christ or release them not baptism or the process of confession. For some reason, repenting and confessing one to another seems to be a neglected, ignored or forgotten principle in G-ds word. I’m not sure why that is that a teaching I may explore later in another blog. The topic at hand is what do we do with our “feelings” of “guilt” for sins we’ve committed once we commit them.

1 John 1:9 says if we confess our sins He is Faithful and He is Just to forgive us of our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. This is a conditional clause is says “if” we confess our “sins” (which is in the plural, not singular) then He is faithful to absolve us of the guilt and shame. In following with Yeshua’s teaching, Midrash (the way He taught us to understand & interpret scripture) and Mashal (or parables), we are to then “go and sin no more.” So how do we understand repentance of sin, transference of guilt and remission of sins. The process in which we disavow our wrong doing and receive cleansing of iniquity and the removal or remission of our guilt.

All people are copable or responsible for each and their own sin, each to themselves and no one is responsible for another’s sin. Their removal of the sin burden is the responsibility of the sinner. We are thankful to Yeshua that He made the process relatively easy, by dying so we don’t have to offering up bulls and goats and making it as easy as a simple confession. Since that’s the relatively easy part, I want to explore the process in which the “burden” or “feeling” of guilt is removed, since many have asked for forgiveness, Yeshua’s has given it and yet the still walk around and carry the feelings of shame and feeling unworthy. Once you confess you are forgiven period. So what hinders many from feeling guilt free. I believe that even though they ask sincerely and G-d grants forgiveness in response to their confession and prayer that they have not conferred their feelings of guilt and shame unto Yeshua and thus hold on to the feelings that are result of the sin far after G-d forgave them. They are indeed forgiven, they are no longer guilt but hold the shameful feelings. So let us explore the Old and New Testament ways of conferring guilt and see if this helps us release our shameful and guilty feelings as easy as Yeshua forgives them.

First off, sin and guilt are issues for the individual who offended G-d or broke the law, there is no need for a sacrifice if their is no sin or guilt. The sinners is the only one with a need for forgiveness or remission of guilt.

Question:
Who sinned?
The one bringing the offering, correct!
Who bought or brought the sin offering under the Aaronic or Levitical priesthood?
The sinner or person who broke G-ds law, right!
Who was responsible for the sin offering?
The person who sinned, right!

The sinner was responsible to bring a sin offering up and responsible for the sin offering they brought up until the point that they handed the offering to the priest who mediated for them on G-d’s behalf making peace for them with G-d who accepted their sacrifice. At that point they put their hand on the offering as a representation of conferring their sin and guilt, their they would lay the burden of their sin on the offering to release it to be offered up in the fire which was then consumed as a pleasing aroma to G-d.

The sinner is always responsible for their sins, the guilt, iniquity and the offering up or taking responsibility for the sin. Sacrificial atonement removes the consequences and burden of sin upon the one guilty of the consequences of breaking laws or covenants. Which we are thankful we don’t have to die in our sins but are freely forgiven for the burden of sin. For the wages or due compensation of sin is death however the free gift of G-d is eternal life through the remission of sin. The plague of sins destructive cancer is forever sent into remission in a sea of forgetfulness, in a place where East never meets West, two distant unconnected parts that never again align. The sinner is the one who wants forgiveness, a sin offering is for the sinners benefit and no one else’s. Forgiveness of sin is only a concern to guilty parties, especially when that person desires a right relationship with G-d and others. Someone who has not sinned had no need to bring a sin offering and has no need to repent to G-d asking for the justice of G-ds forgiveness. Therefore the sinner is the only responsible party, required to bring an offering or in our case confess our sins and ask for forgiveness that Yeshua freely provides to all who ask, without works, personal sacrifices or conditions. It is a free no strings attached contract or covenant of biblical proportions. Yeshua died to ratify this peace treaty between G-d and sinful man whose deeds put them at enmity with G-d that previously aligned them with the adversary of G-ds right justice, ha’shatan.

Bringing a sin offering is an admission of guilt, the type of offering shows what sin was committed, (whether Bull, or Goat, or Dove, etc…), the bringing of a sin offering was the confession or admission of sin and guilt. The confession is made by bringing a sin offering. Whereas now the bible says that we can “confess” (verbally not by bringing a sin offering) but one to another (if we have sinned against another or caused harm), or most appropriately directly to G-d, who is faithful and just, to forgive all sins even when we can’t find the person we have wronged. Under the Aaronic code or covenant they did lay their hands on the offering to confer or lay their sin and guilt upon the offering.

We need to rightly divide truth in regards to the torah, it is beneficial to look into the Talmud, Mishna and other historical commentaries that give a right historical perspective. Commentaries like the Talmud, Mishna and other writings should never be lifted or held above the text of scripture itself. Post modern revisionist commentary looking backwards isn’t accurate without proper contextual understanding. Just like using a English to Hebrew translation incorrectly is the reverse of translation correctly from Hebrew to English. You have to look for historically contextually correct interpretation not reinterpretation from modern universalist teachings that is Roman Catholic or Greek Orthodox in origin both of which are rooted in Platonianism, Mythraism and Gnostic Christianity. The biblical sacrifice is part of the traditions of Israel and is recorded in Jewish commentaries and writings, in the Talmud and Mishna. It is not a New Covenant teaching or practice so many have not retained a right understanding or context because it wasn’t considered crucial to their understanding. It is not necessary to offer sacrifices now since Yeshua did away once and for all making atonement for us in His body.

If a sinner, sinned, the sinner is the guilty party and if a sinner wants forgiveness there is non without a blood sacrifice, in our case Yeshua (Jesus) is that (and He has completed the atoning work), in the OT depending on the sin, it determined the type of sin offering. Just as Peter said “We were healed” by His stripes, we were forgiven by his bruising, he took our sin and shame, laying it bare for those who simply call on His name. Yes the sinner was guilty until the sin offering took the sinners place. The sinner would lay their hands on the offering and confer their sin, laying upon it their shame as they passed the guilt on it, then the priest would mediate the peace by offering the sin offering up in the fire. And there in addition to G-ds forgiveness, they forgave and free’d themselves. That is what I am trying to point out the process we need to take responsibility for ours sin, and then to repent, receive G-ds forgiveness and then to forgive, this freeings ourselves from holding unto the burden of shame. “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit,” (Romans 8:1). If there is no shame if we are hid in Christ, and the key to staying free is walking in the Spirit, then we should seek to hid in Messiah, and not try to cover our shame with figurative fig leaves.

The sin offering itself was a confession of sin or admission of guilt, as there where different type of offerings for sins, by what they brought you would know what their where guilty of, they didn’t have to say. They may have verbally confessed but that would be a personal choice and not necessary as it was already obvious by that which they brought as a sin offering. They did put their hand on the offering and lay or confer their sin unto the offering and then the preist would take the offering and mediate between the sinner and G-d. The confession was in the sacrifice. The temple was the only place for sacrifice and only by a priest. Jesus died on the cross we don’t need a temple or a priest since He is our great High Priest. A wrong offering, at the wrong place, at the wrong time would have equaled strange fire.

Jesus has done away with the animal sacrifice and made us all a kingdom of priest after the order Melchezidek so we go straight to G-d without a mediator, only Messiah mediates now, not a temple or priesthood. My point is that at the Altar should be a clear teaching on the redemptive work Yeshua did by dying on the tree for our sins, removing our sin burden, all we have to do is confess our sins and He is faithful and just to forgive and cleanse us. We don’t need to sacrifice an animal. Thank you Yeshua for becoming our atoning sacrificial lamb. Baruch HaShem Adonay, Baruch Ata Adonay Eloheinu Melech Ha Olam.

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