This chapter continues to detail how sin is to be dealt with throughout the hierarchy of Israel (the hierarchy relating to positions of leadership rather than positions of class).  We learn that the sacrifices of the intermediaries between God and his people had to be greater.  How clearly this points to the perfect sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ who acts as our intermediator to a holy God.  We are also reminded that the offering achieves complete forgiveness, and therefore a restoration of the Israelite’s relationship with God.  This is what the Lord’s sacrifice has accomplished for us.  In John 1: 16-17 we read “For from his fullness we have all received grace upon grace.  For the Law was given through Moses, grace and truth came through Jesus Christ”.  The grace of God poured out through a perfect blameless sacrificial lamb that was the Lord Jesus Christ; He is our hope and our salvation if we would put our trust in Him!  These sacrifices should help us realise the serious nature of our sin, be it of a leader, a congregation or an individual.  What a gracious God we serve who in His love and mercy would find a way to deal with our sin in a way which only required us to take a step of faith into His kingdom.  Put your trust in the Lord Jesus anew this day.  Pray with the Psalmist “Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.  See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting” (Psalm 139: 23-24).