Now notice three things are mentioned there. The three things that are mentioned there are inequity, transgression and sin. When you look in the Bible in the New Testament, the only word we hear out mostly is sin, the word sin, so if I use the word sin, what would you think? Because God is very clear. God is very clear in getting this sorted out. When we think the word sin we think oh, I did something bad. You know, I got drunk, okay, alright, you know. I beat someone up. You know, we think of it that way but sin, the word sin just means missing the mark. So when the Bible refers to sin in the New Testament, it's the word hamartia, meaning to miss the mark, so you can imagine an archer and he's standing there, and now he's going to take a sight at a target. There is the mark. Shwoosh! Missed! Blow. Sin. That's it - missed the mark, missed the mark of what God intended. Fell short of his glory. He said all of sin.
Now there's three reasons if I was doing this, I could miss the mark. Reason number one, I just didn't know how to hit the mark. I was just ignorant. I didn't even know there was a mark there to be hit. I just fired at that big old target over there and I missed the whole thing completely and I missed it, it was unintentional. I didn't really mean to. I didn't really know about that. I was just firing the arrow. I didn't know I was supposed to hit a mark. I just was ignorant - see? So the first reason I could have missed the mark is because I just didn't know.
Second one is, I could have aimed at the mark and then gone deliberately off - ooh, deliberate. Miss, see? And the third reason is because I've got faulty gear, and I'm not doing it the right way, and I'm not holding it the right way, and I'm trying to get this thing and I'm just actually functioning wrong. I can't get it right because I'm not actually operating right. So there's three things: unintentional, intentional and faulty in the way of doing stuff. Got the idea? And all of those would end up with the same consequence, missing the mark. So when the Bible talks about sin, it says we have missed God's mark, missed God's plan, missed God's best for which there is a consequence, and that could have been unintentional. You just didn't know.
Well we kind of think like this; well if I didn't know I can't be blamed then. Not so. Try driving down the road at 100km and say, I didn't know it was a 50km zone. Doesn't work. You broke the law, do the crime, do the time. Not only that, in the Old Testament there was an offering specifically for sins of ignorance. Ignorance can never, in the spirit realm and the realm with God, be counted as an excuse for something being done. You can't come to God and just say, I didn't know. It is called something. It's got a specific name, and we're going to explain - it's called sin, see? Or you could have actually seen the sign down there, 50km, driven anyway, so you drove 100km. I'm going to give it a go - hope there's no cops around. Now you knew exactly what you were doing. That is called transgression, a deliberate violation of something you knew to be the right standard. You knew it and you still deliberately did it. That's a transgression, so from God's point of view sin is something that you did, and you didn't have knowledge of what it was, or you didn't fully understand what it was. It's still sin.
A transgression means you knew exactly what you were doing, and you did it anyway. There's something in your heart, rebellion in your heart - so sins and transgressions are two different things, but in the New Testament it's called all sin. But they do use the words sins and transgressions and inequities in the New Testament as well, but often when they use word sin, it's referring to the whole deal. But the blood applied to all three, so just to come to God and say well, I didn't really know, it doesn't mean you're not bearing consequences, because as far as the spirit world goes, they don't care whether you know or don't know. You still have the consequences. Aah, that's not fair! That's called sin, and all of sin, and the wages of sin, is death. Oh, but that's not fair! Go talk to God. He set the rules. Get clued up. Get connected. The real problem's deeper than that. The real problem is deeper than that - and then there's a third thing, inequity.