When this verse says, “the person who does anything presumptuously,” it literally reads, “with a high hand.” The New American Standard Version reads “the person who does anything defiantly.” This kind of sin, committed knowingly and deliberately, is described as high-handed because these are arrogant or defiant acts against God. So here the Old Testament Law is distinguishing between mistakes and willful failure.<\/p>\n
Everyone makes mistakes, stumbles into sin. Some people don\u2019t even know they have done anything wrong. But once sin is realized, they are commanded to confess it and then take steps to repair their relationship with God. He called for the death of an animal and the spreading of its innocent blood so that they would understand that sin always brings death. However, the animal sacrifices would not atone for deliberate or premeditated sin. That person was guilty of a capital offense and the penalty was death.<\/p>\n
How does this impact our lives today as New-Covenant believers? Sin still carries a high price. “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Rom. 6:23). It still requires that someone be separated from God to pay for that sin. The good news is that this is not the end of the story and is in fact the reason Jesus came to die, so we would not have to. He was separated from Father God on our behalf. Jesus became sin. 2 Corinthians 5:21 says, “For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.” So Jesus Christ, God the Son, paid the high price for high-handed sin\u2014His blood.<\/p>\n
“LORD, we don’t ever want to be high-handed in regards to our relationship with You. We desire to walk humbly with You today. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n =============================================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n Numbers 15 KJV<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1<\/sup>\u00a0And the\u00a0LORD\u00a0spake unto Moses, saying,\u00a02<\/sup>\u00a0Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land of your habitations, which I give unto you,\u00a03<\/sup>\u00a0And will make an offering by fire unto the\u00a0LORD, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a freewill offering, or in your solemn feasts, to make a sweet savour unto the\u00a0LORD, of the herd, or of the flock:\u00a0\u00a04<\/sup>\u00a0Then shall he that offereth his offering unto the\u00a0LORD\u00a0bring a meat offering of a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth\u00a0part\u00a0<\/em>of an hin of oil.\u00a05<\/sup>\u00a0And the fourth\u00a0part\u00a0<\/em>of an hin of wine for a drink offering shalt thou prepare with the burnt offering or sacrifice, for one lamb.\u00a06<\/sup>\u00a0Or for a ram, thou shalt prepare\u00a0for\u00a0<\/em>a meat offering two tenth deals of flour mingled with the third\u00a0part\u00a0<\/em>of an hin of oil.\u00a07<\/sup>\u00a0And for a drink offering thou shalt offer the third\u00a0part\u00a0<\/em>of an hin of wine,\u00a0for\u00a0<\/em>a sweet savour unto the\u00a0LORD.\u00a08<\/sup>\u00a0And when thou preparest a bullock\u00a0for\u00a0<\/em>a burnt offering, or\u00a0for\u00a0<\/em>a sacrifice in performing a vow, or peace offerings unto the\u00a0LORD:\u00a09<\/sup>\u00a0Then shall he bring with a bullock a meat offering of three tenth deals of flour mingled with half an hin of oil.\u00a010<\/sup>\u00a0And thou shalt bring for a drink offering half an hin of wine,\u00a0for\u00a0<\/em>an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the\u00a0LORD.\u00a011<\/sup>\u00a0Thus shall it be done for one bullock, or for one ram, or for a lamb, or a kid.\u00a012<\/sup>\u00a0According to the number that ye shall prepare, so shall ye do to every one according to their number.\u00a013<\/sup>\u00a0All that are born of the country shall do these things after this manner, in offering an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the\u00a0LORD.\u00a014<\/sup>\u00a0And if a stranger sojourn with you, or whosoever\u00a0be\u00a0<\/em>among you in your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the\u00a0LORD; as ye do, so he shall do.\u00a015<\/sup>\u00a0One ordinance\u00a0shall be both\u00a0<\/em>for you of the congregation, and also for the stranger that sojourneth\u00a0with you\u00a0<\/em>, an ordinance for ever in your generations: as ye\u00a0are\u00a0<\/em>, so shall the stranger be before the\u00a0LORD.\u00a016<\/sup>\u00a0One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you. 17<\/sup>\u00a0And the\u00a0LORD\u00a0spake unto Moses, saying,\u00a018<\/sup>\u00a0Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land whither I bring you,\u00a019<\/sup>\u00a0Then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall offer up an heave offering unto the\u00a0LORD.\u00a020<\/sup>\u00a0Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough\u00a0for\u00a0<\/em>an heave offering: as\u00a0ye do\u00a0<\/em>the heave offering of the threshingfloor, so shall ye heave it.\u00a021<\/sup>\u00a0Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the\u00a0LORD\u00a0an heave offering in your generations. 22<\/sup>\u00a0And if ye have erred, and not observed all these commandments, which the\u00a0LORD\u00a0hath spoken unto Moses,\u00a023<\/sup>\u00a0Even\u00a0<\/em>all that the\u00a0LORD\u00a0hath commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the day that the\u00a0LORD\u00a0commanded\u00a0Moses\u00a0<\/em>, and henceforward among your generations;\u00a024<\/sup>\u00a0Then it shall be, if\u00a0ought\u00a0<\/em>be committed by ignorance without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bullock for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour unto the\u00a0LORD, with his meat offering, and his drink offering, according to the manner, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a025<\/sup>\u00a0And the priest shall make an atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and it shall be forgiven them; for it\u00a0is<\/em>ignorance: and they shall bring their offering, a sacrifice made by fire unto the\u00a0LORD, and their sin offering before the\u00a0LORD, for their ignorance:\u00a026<\/sup>\u00a0And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children of Israel, and the stranger that sojourneth among them; seeing all the people\u00a0were\u00a0<\/em>in ignorance. 27<\/sup>\u00a0And if any soul sin through ignorance, then he shall bring a she goat of the first year for a sin offering.\u00a028<\/sup>\u00a0And the priest shall make an atonement for the soul that sinneth ignorantly, when he sinneth by ignorance before the\u00a0LORD, to make an atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven him.\u00a029<\/sup>\u00a0Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance,\u00a0both for\u00a0<\/em>him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them.\u00a0 30<\/sup>\u00a0But the soul that doeth\u00a0ought\u00a0<\/em>presumptuously,\u00a0whether he be\u00a0<\/em>born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the\u00a0LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.\u00a0\u00a031<\/sup>\u00a0Because he hath despised the word of the\u00a0LORD, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity\u00a0shall be<\/em>upon him. 32<\/sup>\u00a0And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.\u00a033<\/sup>\u00a0And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.\u00a034<\/sup>\u00a0And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him.\u00a035<\/sup>\u00a0And the\u00a0LORD\u00a0said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.\u00a036<\/sup>\u00a0And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the\u00a0LORDcommanded Moses. 37<\/sup>\u00a0And the\u00a0LORD\u00a0spake unto Moses, saying,\u00a038<\/sup>\u00a0Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue:\u00a039<\/sup>\u00a0And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the\u00a0LORD, and do them; 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