Chris recreating the Old Testament OT

Chris took a long time to get us to imagine what life was like before Christ. We were to spend the day thinking like that.
Back then God used sacrifices.
-if you sinned, you had to sacrifice (lamb)
-that sin costs you, therefore you lose some of your wealth
-you had to choose a perfect sacrifice, so basically a lamb completely perfect. no brown spots or missing limbs
-in the process you take this perfect lamb to kill, which shows your sin is killed
-you must have a priest catch the blood after you slit the throat
-after this you skin the lamb and butcher it
....in the end, you're forgiven. What a process for a single sin eh?
1 sacrifice = 1 sin
God's standard, is perfection. This means all sin must be forgiven. This was all explained to make us truly understand what SIN is!
SIN
actions, thoughts, things in our hearts, and words
So the question clearly comes about, if God's standard is Perfection, in the OT, then how would we live in the OT?
Think about this. If you were carrying this lamb to go slaughter to the priest, and along the way some hot girl walks by and you glance at her with lust, then you've commited a sin. Right? Or you trip and curse the rock you tripped on. Then what?
Sin is very COSTLY! It's serious, is what we're seeing. God doesn't take ANY sin lightly.
Our class then had to look at this situation. Chris even had us do it visually. We were all given a bag of animal crackers. In the bag we were to pick out the perfect, un-broken animals and go and put it in this big bowl. We then counted how many perfect animals we had and that meant we could sin that much, right? :)
What about for the rest of our sins? What about for those who had no more to sacrifice?
Chris asked us, how painful is this? Who wants to follow this Law? Who thinks they want to go out and spread this message? I mean God never changes, so God is good then as He is now right? YES
Why would God do this?
Learned:
-We know what sin is
-We learned God's attitude about sin is SERIOUS
-We can't do it ourselves!!!
Why would God's people be put in an impossible situation and have Him say, do it?
This makes us screem out for HELP!
Yes People need help! We do know one day a messiah will comes and rescue us. The scripture says that.
We then went and looked at salvation. We drew this picture of salvation, which is Jesus. Yes he came to save us. Now before this salvation timeline, we're in the OT with the Law, which is our sacrifices (lambs). We find that back then, God spoke and appeared to prophets like Moses, Abraham and King David. He talked to them about a messiah coming. To trust him and believe that a messiah was coming. The fact that these prophets then said, yes, I believe there is and will be something better was the acceptance of God into their hearts. So even in the OT, I learned that people could ask God into their hearts, which means they were saved, by believing for coming of a messiah. Someone to save them from this Law. In the NT, after salvation, we have the faith in Jesus and again, we're living in a time now where Jesus talked about His coming again. Look at Revelations.
Salvation IS putting our faith in something that is going to happen!
Sometimes we need to be frustrated to seek God, right?
LAW, then as we see it, is good. We use that frustration to seek God. Jesus because sacrificial system for Us. Jesus is the Lamb of God.