This document discusses the restoration of sin and forgiveness through confession. It provides three key points: 1. People who feel guilty of sin seek to restore their relationship with God by confessing their transgressions based on passages from Psalms and Daniel. 2. Sin makes one guilty and requires a payment or sacrifice according to Leviticus to be forgiven. Various sin offerings addressed unintentional sins while guilt offerings involved restitution for intentional sins. 3. These Old Testament sacrifices point to Jesus Christ, who was made sin for mankind so that believers might be made righteous through him, as referenced in Matthew and 2 Corinthians.

1. 6. Restoration of Sin

2. Sinful man
or he appropriates it when
convinced by the Word and
Spirit of God 2 Sam. 12:1-23
lays his guilt aside
Gen. 3:12-13, 4:9
12 And the man said, The woman
whom thou gavest to be with me, she
gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
13 And the Lord God said unto the
woman, What is this that thou hast
done? And the woman said, The
serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
9 And the Lord said unto
Cain, Where is Abel thy
brother? And he said, I know
not: Am I my brother's
keeper?

3. 1 And the Lord sent Nathan unto David. And he came unto him, and said unto him,
There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.
2 The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds:
3 But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and
nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of
his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as
a daughter.
4 And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own
flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him;
but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.
5 And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan, As
the Lord liveth, the man that hath done this thing shall surely die:
6 And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he
had no pity.
7 And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, I
anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul;
8 And I gave thee thy master's house, and thy master's wives into thy bosom, and
gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that had been too little, I would
moreover have given unto thee such and such things.

4. 9 Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil
in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast
taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the
children of Ammon.
10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because
thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be
thy wife.
11 Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of
thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give
them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of
this sun.
12 For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and
before the sun.
13 And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord. And
Nathan said unto David, The Lord also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt
not die.
14 Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the
enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee
shall surely die.

5. 1. This appropriation is an important function of the law of the LORD.
2. People who are concerned about their guilt, seek restoration of their
relationship with the LORD by confessing each all sin.
Psalms 32:5
I acknowledge my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I
will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the
iniquity of my sin.
chatãth’, ‘awōn, and pesha’.

6. DANIEL 9:5
We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled,
even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:
chatãth’, ‘awōn, and resha

7. 3. Sin makes guilty [‘asham: esp. Leviticus 4-7, 14 and
19]. All sin requires payment of the offence, in order to
be forgiven.
- The sin offerings (Lev. 4:1-5:13; 6:24-30) were meant for sins of ignorance and
unintended error [chatãth, pesha’, shagah].
- The guilt offerings [again ‘asham] (Lev. 5:14-6:7; 7:1-10) were required for sins like
ma’al, where (next to the sacrifice) restitution of damage was possible and thus required.
- The serious pesha’ were dealt with on the Day of Atonement (Lev. 16).

8. These sacrifices point forward to Christ.
“And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name
JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins” (Mat. 1:21).
“For He [God] hath made him (Christ) to be sin for us, who knew
no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him”
(2 Cor. 5:21)