But there is such a thing as making my brother’s sin my own, and bearing it in spirit before God, as though it were my own. This is shadowed forth by Aaron’s sons eating the sin-offering in the most holy place. It was only the _sons_ who did so.—“Every _male_ shall eat it.”[15] It was the very highest order of priestly service. “In the most holy place shalt thou eat it.” We need to be very near to Christ in order to enter into the spiritual meaning and application of all this. It is a wonderfully blessed and holy exercise, and it can only be known in the immediate presence of God. How little we really know of this the heart can testify. Our tendency is, when a brother has sinned, to sit in judgment upon him—to take the place of a severe censor—to look upon his sin as a something with which we have nothing whatever to do. This is to fail sadly in our priestly functions—it is refusing to eat the sin-offering in the most holy place. It is a most precious fruit of grace to be able so to identify one’s self with an erring brother as to make his sin one’s own—to bear it, in spirit, before God. This, truly, is a very high order of priestly service, and demands a large measure of the spirit and mind of Christ. It is only the spiritual who really enter into this; and, alas! how few of us are truly spiritual! “Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, _ye which are spiritual_, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.” (Gal. vi. 1, 2.) May the Lord give us grace to fulfill this blessed “law.” How unlike it is to every thing in us! How it rebukes our harshness and selfishness! Oh to be more like Christ in this as in all beside! But there was another order of priestly privilege, not so high as that which we have been considering. “And this is thine: the heave-offering of their _gift_, with all the wave-offerings of the children of Israel: I have given them unto thee, and to thy sons and to thy _daughters_ with thee, by a statute forever: _every one that is clean_ in thy house shall eat of it.” (Ver. 11.)