Leviticus 16 — Be holy as the LORD is holy: The Day of Atonement.

Rev. Dustin Beck of Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Warda, TX joins Rev. Brady Finnern to study Leviticus 16.

God wants to be with His people for He is a Gracious Giving God. By His grace, He gives His holy forgiveness through the blood of goats so that His people can enter His presence on His terms. The reality of atonement, the covering up of sin by innocent blood, comes by the blood of goats and a scapegoat. All of this is a shadow of the final sacrifice on Good Friday, by the Great High Priest, that gives us full forgiveness to be in His presence now and forever. Thanks be to God. “Lord God, make us clean. By Your blood we thank You for Your full forgiveness by the final sacrifice, by the Great High Priest, so that by Your Son’s Baptism we are washed clean. Amen”