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Hallowed Priests

Exodus 29:1-9
Clay Curtis March, 15 2020 Video & Audio
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Clay Curtis March, 15 2020 Video & Audio
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And our text begins today here
in verse 1. And it says, Exodus 29, verse
1, it says, And this is the thing that thou, speaking of Moses,
this is the thing that thou shalt do unto them, talking about the
priest, this is the thing thou shalt do unto them to hallow
them, to sanctify them, to make them holy, to make them pure.
to minister to me in the priest's office. Our subject is hallowed
priests. Hallowed priests. Now in Aaron,
we have a picture of Christ, our high priest, and how he is
hallowed, sanctified, consecrated to God as high priest of God's
spiritual Israel. We see this in Aaron, the high
priest. And then in Aaron's sons, we see a picture of how Christ
hallows His people. How He makes us sanctified and
pure and holy. And He makes us be able to serve
God as priests unto God. Priests unto God. Now in the
true church of God, Christ is the only high priest. There are
no earthly priests. We don't have priests like the
papists do. Christ is our high priest. And
every believer, every true believer that's been hallowed by Christ
is a priest son to God. We're priests son to God. That
means you can actually worship and serve God in His tabernacle,
in His church, in His presence. To be hallowed is to be sanctified. To be hallowed is to be made
holy, is to be pure, is to be someone that holy God can commune
with. Now we have here many objects
listed. Verse 1 says, He says, Take a bullock, one bullock
and two rams without blemish, and unleavened bread, and tempered
with oil, and wafers unleavened, anointed with oil, of wheaten
flour, that means the finest flour, it's been sifted and it's
the finest flour, the best flour. You make them out of that. He
said, verse 3, And thou shalt put them into one basket, and
bring them in the basket with the bullock and the two rams.
Now all these things have to be combined to show us Christ
the Lord. He's so glorious that you just
can't take one thing and picture Him. All these things together
picture Christ, picture what He's done for His people, and it's all these different things.
We have to take them a little at a time and look at them, but
they're all picturing the one and the same Christ, our high
priest, our sanctifier who is our sanctification. Now the unleavened
bread in one basket brought with the bullocks and the two rams
and you got this unleavened bread all in one basket. That's a good
picture of the gospel we preach. The gospel we preach is bringing
forth Christ who is our unleavened bread teaching us how His people
are made unleavened, Christ our one sin offering, Christ our
one burnt offering. That's what this gospel is about.
And as we come to each of these items, we'll look at them more
in detail, but we won't get through all of these today. We won't
even get to the bread today. I just want to show you, first
of all, the washing. the clothing and the anointing. This is what has to be done to
make us hallowed, to sanctify us. Now sanctification is one
of those doctrines that is a great divider because there's very
few people you're going to find in the world that preaches sanctification
as the scriptures declare it, which is to give all the glory
to God as the one who makes His people meet, He makes us fit
to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in life. He makes us fit to be with perfected
saints. And He does that. He does all
that work Himself. And that's what we see pictured
here in these three things we're going to look at today. First
of all, Christ hallows us by washing us. By washing us. Now look at verse 4. Aaron and
his sons thou shalt bring unto the door of the tabernacle of
the congregation, and shalt wash them with water. Now, salvation
is by God's electing grace. We saw this last hour, we saw
this last time when we were in Exodus 28. God said, and Aaron
and his sons thou shalt bring. God chose Christ, just like He
chose Aaron to be the high priest, He chose Christ to be His high
priest. And just as He chose Aaron's
sons, He chose whom He would, His elect, and that's who God
purposed to save. He chose a people in Christ before
the world was made. Now, Hebrews 5 verse 4, speaking
about the priesthood, and it declares this, it says, No man
takes this honor unto himself. You don't just make yourself
a priest unto God. Now understand, Christ is our
high priest and everybody that is a believer, everybody that
is a true believer is a priest unto God. But now listen to what
God says, no man takes this honor to himself. You don't just decide
one day, I'm going to be a believer. You don't just decide one day,
I'm going to be holy. I'm going to be God's priest.
No man takes this honor to himself but he that is called of God. He that's called of God. We just
saw the purpose of God according to election. It's not of him
that willeth, it's of God that calleth. God chooses whom he
will. He says, but he that is called
of God as was Aaron, and so also Christ glorified not himself
to be made a high priest, but he that said to him, Thou art
my son, today have I begotten thee. If Christ Jesus, the Son
of God, if He didn't take this honor to Himself to be a high
priest, but God chose Him to be the high priest, do you think
God is going to let me and you take this honor to ourself to
be His priest? No. It is of God to call. Christ
said to all His people what He said to His apostles. You've
not chosen me, but I've chosen you. And I have ordained you. I purposed everything and predestinated
everything that you're going to do. I chose you, I ordained
you, that you should go forth and bring forth fruit. It's all
of our Lord Jesus Christ. But though we're chosen by the
Father, this happened before the foundation of the world.
But though we're chosen before the world was made, we come into
this world dead in sins, and so God has to bring us to Christ. We can't even bring ourselves
to Christ. He said there, Aaron and his
sons thou shalt bring unto the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation. We have to be brought. Now you
get this in your mind's eye. Picture this door to this tabernacle. Okay, here's the tabernacle.
Inside there's the holiest of holies over the mercy seat where
God said, I will meet with my people. The one place in this
whole world that God said He'd meet with sinners was over that
mercy seat. Then you have this door. And
then out here in this outer court you have all the priests. That
door is between God in that holy place and between His priests.
And there's only one way they're going to be brought together.
Those priests are going to have to go through that door to get
to God. That's the only way they can
get there is to go through that door. Well, Christ said, I am the door. He said, I am the door. Christ
is the mediator between God and men. And Christ said, no man
cometh to the Father but by Me. Just like you couldn't get into
that holy place, into that tabernacle unless you went through that
door. You can't get to God in the holy place unless you go
through Christ the door. But those that He's going to
make priests were born into this world spiritually dead. The fact that we're growing older
and more wrinkled and dying every moment that we're alive, that
should be a witness to us that we come into this world spiritually
dead. We're going to end up physically
dead, but we come into this world spiritually dead. What does that
mean? It means we're gifted before God and it means in our nature
we don't know God. We don't understand God and we
don't want to know the true and living God. Well, how then are
we going to be brought to Christ? God's got to bring us. God's
got to bring us. In Song of Solomon, the bride
glories in her husband. The bride's a picture of all
God's elect that make up His church. That's the bride. And
the bride in Song of Solomon says, He brought me to the banqueting
house. And His banner over me was love.
He brought me. How'd you come, sinner? Christ brought us. He brought
me. Christ said, no man can come to the Father but by Me. And He said, no man can come
to Me except the Father which is in heaven drawing. The Father sent Me drawing. So
God has to bring us to Christ the door and there He washes
us. There He hallows us. Look here
in verse 4, Aaron and his sons shall bring him to the door of
the tabernacle of the congregation and shall wash them with water. Why? Because God is holy. You hear people all over the
world preaching and they, oh God is love. Well, God is love.
But God is holy. And if He's going to love, it's
got to be in a way consistent with His holiness. God is holy. That means if we are going to
come into God's presence, we have to be holy. We have to be
pure. We have to be without sin. We
have to be washed. The only way we can come to God.
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Nobody. So I can't wash me. I can't make
me holy. I can't sanctify myself. God
is the only one who can do it. Turn over to Titus 3. Now there
is two. Two things that were told in
scripture about this washing. Titus chapter 3. We are first
washed, now this is the way we experience it. We are first washed
in regeneration by the Holy Spirit. This is how we are quickened
and made alive. This is how we're brought to
believe on Christ is through being regenerated by the Holy
Spirit. It's called washing. Titus 3.3,
it says, We ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient,
deceived, serving different lusts and pleasures, living in malice
and envy, hateful and hating one another. Now that's the description
of all of us by nature. But after that, the kindness
and love of God our Savior toward man appeared, not by works of
righteousness which we've done, but according to His mercy He
saved us by the washing of regeneration, by the washing of regeneration,
and the renewing of the Holy Ghost, which He shed on us abundantly
through Jesus Christ our Savior. That being, that means that having
been justified by His grace, we should be made heirs according
to the hope of eternal life. And no sinner has life until
we're washed in regeneration. No sinner has spiritual life
until we're washed in regeneration. Titus just said, Paul just said,
until that happened, we were deceived, we were living in malice,
envy, hateful, hating one another. God came and through the Holy
Spirit of God, He washed us and regenerated us and renewed us. And you notice there, this washing
was through Jesus Christ. Having been justified by His
grace, Christ having gone to the cross for His particular
people, having laid down His life, He justified His people. He totally made us to have a
record with no sin whatsoever by His blood. He accomplished
that. And so we should be made heirs. We have to be given life. Why? Because the justice that
demanded we die, now that justice is satisfied, that justice demands
we live. So there is no chosen child of
God that will be left in their unbelief and will perish in unbelief. Every single sinner that Christ
justified shall be washed in regeneration and brought to faith
in Christ. They have to be because they
have already been justified. Now, when we are washed in that
regeneration, go to Hebrews 9, this is also what takes place.
You know, it says it is through the blood of Christ. Alright,
Hebrews 9 verse 14. It talks about there, verse 13
talks about the blood of bulls and goats, the ashes of a heifer
sprinkling the unclean, that sanctify it, that halloweth to
the purifying of the flesh, that made them pure ceremonially in
type and picture. But he says, how much more shall
the blood of Christ, who through the eternal spirit offered himself
without spot to God, purge your conscience, purge you inwardly,
from dead works to serve the living God. When we were in religion
and going to church, that was a dead work until God regenerated
us. We thought we were earning God's
favor and earning salvation by going to church. We thought that
we would earn God's favor by being baptized. We thought we'd
earn God's favor by reading so much Scripture. We thought we'd
earn God's favor if we could work our way up in the church
to have some kind of office in the church. That was all dead
works, every bit of it. But He comes and He washes us
in regeneration and He makes us hear about this blood of Christ
and what He accomplished. And this blood of Christ purges
our conscience now. Turns us from those dead works
and shows us there's only one way that we can be justified
and that's Christ. What He did by His blood. Listen
to Zechariah 13.1. It says, In that day, there shall
be a fountain opened to the house of David, to the inhabitants
of Jerusalem. That's to God's people. There
will be a fountain opened for sin and for uncleanness. And
when He's washed you in regeneration, and He's purged your conscience
with the blood, you begin to see Christ. And you begin to
see Christ as that fountain. His blood is that fountain that
cleanses me of all my sin. He's the only one that can justify
me. It's His works, not my works.
And when you begin to behold Him, and God's purged your conscience
with that blood, you're made willing to plunge into that fountain. through faith, by believing on
Christ. You are made willing to believe
on Him. And it is that fountain where
all our sin and our uncleanness is washed away. Go to Revelation
1. Once we have been made willing
to believe on Him, here is what happens. Revelation chapter 1.
We stop glorying in our works. Before we were glorying in what
we have done. with glory in what we did for Jesus. Now, we stop
doing that, now what do we start doing? Revelation 1.5, the second
part there, he says, we start singing unto Him that loved us
and washed us from our sins. In His own blood. and hath made
us kings and priests unto God and His Father. To Him be glory
and dominion forever and ever. Amen. We start glorying in Christ
because He is the one that washed us. You know, sinners are being
told that Christ did everything He could do. And He did this,
somehow He died for everybody and just in a blanket way took
away everybody's sins. Well, if He did, then everybody
is justified. God is going to have to regenerate everybody.
But what they are telling you is, now you have to make what
He did to have some saving efficacy by believing on it. And the difference
between that message and what I am saying to you is this. That
message puts it in your hands and says, it is all up to you.
You're going to let Jesus save you? You're going to give His
blood some efficacy? You're going to let Him have
a little power? That puts Him being the one asking you for
mercy, and you being the one having to give Him mercy. It's
not like that. Christ went to the cross for
a particular people, took their sins upon Himself, bore their
curse Himself, put away their sins Himself, and when God calls
you, He makes you to see He did the washing, and He did it alone.
And then you bow and say, to Him be the glory. He did it all. He did it all. Look at Revelation
7 verse 13. John said, He saw these folks in white robes.
And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, verse 13, What
are these which are arrayed in white robes, and whence came
they? And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to
me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and
have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood
of the Lamb. How did they do that? They turned
from all their vain works, and cast all their care into Christ's
hand, and said, I trust in Him alone. and His blood, when you
can do that, it's not you doing that that makes His blood effectual.
His blood is effectual and that's how come you're brought to do
that. You see? That's the difference in trying
to put your cart in front of your horse than putting your
horse in front of your cart. Alright. Now, so these priests
were brought and they were washed. They were washed. Now here, When
they were washed, the whole body of the priest was washed by another. Somebody else did the washing. And the wording here that is
used for wash means they were immersed. This laver, we are
going to see this laver that they are washed in is big. It
is between the tabernacle and the altar. This laver is big.
They were washed, immersed in this laver and washed. Now afterward,
we're going to see in other chapters, when they came, all they had
to do was wash their hands and their feet. What does that mean? Well, Christ Jesus washed you
who believe, He washed you completely clean in the sight of God before
the law of God. He washed us completely clean. Totally. hallowed us before the
righteousness of God. We're washed before the law.
You notice here, who is it God is talking to to do this washing?
It's Moses. Moses is a picture of the law.
He's a picture of the law. The Lord Jesus washed us by fulfilling
all the law for His people so that the law's got nothing else
to say to it. We're justified. And our Lord, remember the night
He came to wash the disciples' feet? Peter said, well, wash
me all over. And Christ said, he who is washed
only needs to wash his feet for he is clean everywhere. Scriptures tell us, let us draw
near with a true heart in full assurance of faith having our
hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed
with pure water completely. What does that mean? Christ totally
washed us that one time. And when He laid down His life,
He completely washed His people of all our sin. And when we are
born of the Spirit, we are washed every whit, made every whit sanctified,
every whit whole, holy before God. Then when we pray, we say, Father,
forgive us of our sins. Why do we do that? I thought
He already did it. He already washed us completely
before the law. Before God the judge, before
the law, we have no sin. Well then why do we pray forgive
us our sin? Because our hands and our feet
get defiled in sin from living in this world and in this sinful
flesh. And we are just asking Him to
wash our hands and our feet. That is why Christ said, if you
have been washed by my blood, you are every wet hole. All you
need is your hand and your feet washed. on a daily basis. That's
what John was talking about. He said if we walk in the light
as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another,
we've been washed. That's the only way you can walk
in the light. You've been cleaned all over by the blood of Christ
so that you're clean now. And he says if we walk in that
light, the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.
We come confessing our sins to Him, He continually, daily washes
our hands and our feet of all our sins. So that's how you hallowed. The washings are all of God.
All of God. Now secondly, Christ makes us
holy by clothing us. Now a lot of this is going to
be reviewed. And I'd encourage you to go back and listen to
that message again from Exodus 28. The last few verses there
where we saw the clothing and the son's clothes and all that.
But he shows us again so we need to look at it again. Now first
of all, we see that Christ our High Priest, we see Him robed
in His righteousness and in His holiness with that crown of holiness
upon His head. Verse 5, Thou shalt take the
garments, put upon Aaron the coat, and the robe of the ephod,
and the ephod, and the breastplate, and gird him with the curious
girdle of the ephod, and thou shalt put the mitre upon his
head, and put the holy crown upon the mitre. All that was
done to Aaron the High Priest, the picture of Christ. and the
robe of the ephod and the ephod and the breastplate. We looked
at all of that in detail over in Exodus 28 before we got here. So let me just remind you that
all typifies Christ. Every bit of it. It shows Him
to be the perfect God-man mediator without sin. It shows Him to
be the righteousness and holiness of His people. The girdle of
the ephod, that typifies Christ as the strength and faithfulness
of His people. and this miter and this holy
crown. It had holiness to the Lord on
it. Christ Jesus is our king priest. He's the king who is
the high priest. Nobody else ever held both those
offices. And he's the prophet too. Nobody
ever held all three of those offices. But he's the one who
represents his people as our advocate before the Father. Him
alone. And when you see Moses here again,
you see Moses. Moses is always a picture of
the law and Moses was a prophet. So in Moses, clothing him, you
have the law and the prophets. Go to Romans 3. Let me show you
what's going on there. Here's what it pictures. Moses
put those garments on him. and acknowledge those garments
belong to Him, that righteousness is Christ, that holiness is Christ,
He is the King, Priest. You just picture the law saying
that about Christ and the prophets all saying that about Christ.
Romans 3.21, Now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested. That is the righteousness of
God without you keeping the law. It's witnessed by the Law and
the Prophets. That's what you got pictured.
When Moses, picture of the Law and the Prophets is putting those
garments on Aaron, the high priest, that's a picture of the Law and
the Prophets bearing witness that Christ is the righteousness
of God. Look here. It's the witness by the Law and
the Prophets, even the righteousness of God, which is by the faith
of Jesus Christ, by His faith, by what He did. And the Law and
the Prophets, that means everything this book has to say is bearing
witness that Jesus Christ is the righteousness of God. He's
the one that fulfilled the Law. You never did. I never did. He
did. He did. Because He did it, He
can clothe His people in that righteousness. And what I'm showing
you here with this clothing, it's really just what we just
saw with the washing. It's just a different picture
of it. Now He washed us and made us righteous and holy. Here we
got a picture of it in Him putting His clothing on us. Look here.
Verse 8, Thou shalt bring his sons, and put coats upon them.
Thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the
bonnets on them, and the priest's office shall be theirs for a
perpetual statute. Now each priest was clothed,
we saw this last time, each of these priests had the same garments
on. So nobody could say, well I got better looking garments
than you got. They all had the same garments on. You and I can't,
we can't say, I'm more righteous than you are. No, you got the
same righteousness I got. You see that? That's why it's
foolish to say when we get to heaven, God's going to reward
one better than the other. We got the same clothes on. And
it's all of Christ. That's the other thing you see.
They had nothing to do with making those garments, nor putting them
on. Somebody else put them on them.
And we didn't make these garments, Christ made them. and Christ
put them on. And when you see Moses put them
on, that means the law is saying everybody Christ died for deserves
these garments. They deserve this righteousness
and this holiness because they are perfect before the law. The
law bears witness to it. I am trying to tell you all this.
I have said this two or three times lately. The law is not
the believer's enemy. The law bears witness to you
and me. When you read it, instead of
reading it and And if you don't know Him, you should read it
and feel guilty. And if you walk contrary to Him,
you should read it and feel guilty as far as your flesh is concerned.
But when you read that, if you are a child of God that believes
on Him, when you read that law, you hear that law saying, this
is what you are. This is what you have done. Somebody
said the law for a believer is not telling you what you need
to do. It is a promise to you of what
you already have done. And so therefore Christ is the
end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believes in
Him. That coat represents that righteousness,
that girdle represents Christ's faithfulness and His strength.
This bonnet now, let me talk about this bonnet. It was for
glory and beauty. And we were told before it was
to distinguish the priests from everybody else. They have something
that distinguish them from everybody else. So should I go out and
dress up and try to distinguish myself from everybody else? If
you have to dress in something to distinguish you from anybody
else, you got a serious problem. I mean that. There is nothing a believer wears
to distinguish us from anybody else. Nothing. But this turban here, It's a picture of us being glorious
and beautiful in Christ's eyes. And glorious and beautiful in
God's eyes. Song of Solomon, he says, Thou
art all fair, my love. There's no spot in thee. Thou
has ravished my heart. That's what Christ is saying
to his bride. And you that's been truly sanctified, I'm going
to tell you what distinguishes you from everybody else that
professes to be holy. Here's what it is that distinguishes
you from everybody else that professes to be holy. We declare
that all our righteousness and all our holiness is Christ alone. That's what distinguishes God's
people from everybody else. That shows you who's been sanctified
and really made holy if somebody's going to say Christ is all my
holiness. And I'll show you how that's
pictured here too, another way it's pictured by what these priests
did not have on. You know what it doesn't say
they had on? Because this was not made for
them. They didn't have on shoes. They didn't go in that tabernacle
with shoes on. Why? Because when Moses drew
near to that burning bush, remember what God said? He said, take
your shoes off Moses, this is holy ground. And to a believer
that's been sanctified, he's been given a reverence and a
holiness for God, and this is holy ground. He's not going to
take credit for any of this work. He's not going to call Christ's
blood common by saying He died for everybody. That's to call
Christ a curse. And the Scripture says no man
speaking by the Spirit of God can call Jesus a curse. And no
man can call Him Lord but by the Spirit of God. That means
only those that have been sanctified. Only those that have been made
to take their shoes off in reverence to God have been sanctified and
they give all the glory to Christ. That's the distinguishing mark
between a true sanctified child of God and one that isn't sanctified.
Now, let's go to this last thing. Notice here, when all these high
priest garments was upon him, The high priest now, when all
Aaron was decked out in all these high priestly garments, verse
7, Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his head,
and anoint him. Now in another place, we're going
to see that the priests at this time were anointed with oil too.
But it doesn't say that in this passage. What's the point? Well first, those priests stood
there and they watched Aaron the high priest. They watched
all this oil poured on his head and they watched it drip down
his beard and drip down and go over all his members. As the
psalmist said, the precious ointment upon the head ran down upon the
beard, even Aaron's beard that went down to the skirts of his
garment. You know what Messiah means?
It means anointed. That's what the word means, anointed.
By faith we see Christ our head, anointed with the oil of the
Holy Spirit above measure. To Christ it was said, Thou lovest
righteousness and hatest wickedness. Therefore God, thy God, hath
anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. all
thy garments smell of myrrh and aloes and cassia out of the ivory
palaces whereby they made thee glad." Christ Jesus is the only
one of whom it could be said, you perfectly hate wickedness
and you perfectly love righteousness. And God poured out the Spirit
upon Him above all His people. What's the point of that? These
priests are sitting there watching this oil flow down from the head
and go to all the members. They're standing there watching
that. And we're members of Christ's body. We're members of His body. And the Holy Spirit comes down
upon us as members of Christ, our head. He's the head, we're
the body. And that all comes down upon
us because of Him. Because He's the head. Another
way to say this is, He's the vine, we're the branches. Where
does the sap come from? It comes from the vine. It goes
out to the branches. Listen to John. You have an unction
from the Holy One. Christ is the Holy One. You have
the Holy Spirit. You have an unction if you believe
Him. Where did it come from? From the Holy One. It came from
the Head. From Christ. And that's how come
you know all things. The anointing which you have
received of Him, came from Him, abideth in you. And you need
not that any man teach you, but as the same anointing teacheth
you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, even as it hath
taught you, you shall abide in him. You see that? The Holy Spirit is the oil, and
definitely He is the one that enters in, and we have an unction
from Him. He is the Holy One as well, but
why do we have Him? Why did He come? Why is the Holy
Spirit given to you and me? because of Christ our High Priest.
It comes from Him, just like a vine to the branches. So, now
do you see how we are made priests unto God? We have been hallowed.
We have been sanctified by God our Father, through Christ His
Son, our High Priest, through the Holy Spirit. God the Father
in election hallowed His people when He chose us in Christ and
separated us from the rest of mankind. In redemption we were
declared holy by the blood of Christ. He hath perfected forever
them that are sanctified by that one offering. And then in regeneration,
which is pictured here, we are made holy by the Holy Spirit
creating in us a holy nature. Do you get that? This is all
of God. And so, verse 9, the end says,
Thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his son. You know what consecrate
means? If you've got a Cambridge Bible, look in the margin, it
says to fill up the hands. By all this work being done,
what we're going to see next week is God put some sacrifices
in their hands. And they went to work doing the
work of the tabernacle. Offering these sacrifices, worshipping
God, praising God, giving God all the glory. When God's done
this work for you, He's consecrated you. He's filled up your hands
with the one sacrifice God will receive. That's Christ Jesus,
our sin offering. Christ Jesus, our burnt offering.
We're going to see, He puts that bread in your hand and He makes
you wave it along with the blood offering. He makes you wave it
and it's burnt and it goes up to God and God smells it and
says, I love it. And what you're saying by waving
that is, I don't have anything that I live upon but what God
gave me and He gave it all to me in Christ. You see, when you
consecrated, He filled up our hands to worship and serve Him
in His tabernacle just like they worshipped and served Him in
theirs. Peter said, you are lively stones built up a spiritual house,
a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices which are
made acceptable to God by Jesus Christ our High Priest. That's
the picture. Now next week we'll go in more
detail, well sometime, we'll go in more detail in the next
verses and we'll see the sin offering, the blood offering,
we'll see the burnt offering. We're going to see, you know
why Cain's offering wasn't received? He brought a meat offering. He brought the fruits of the
ground. That was included in some of the offerings to bring
fruits of the ground. Why? But every time you brought it,
you know what you had to bring with it? can't bring blood, can't
bring a sacrifice, because it's only Christ that makes our offerings
acceptable to God. So, alright, pray God will bless
that.
Clay Curtis
About Clay Curtis
Clay Curtis is pastor of Sovereign Grace Baptist Church of Ewing, New Jersey. Their services begin Sunday morning at 10:15 am and 11am at 251 Green Lane, Ewing, NJ, 08638. Clay may be reached by telephone at 615-513-4464 and by email at claycurtis70@gmail.com. For more information, please visit the church website at http://www.FreeGraceMedia.com.

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