No matter what occupation we
have here on this earth or any place else. God would speak from this place.
To my soul or yours, we'd never be the same. Never be the same. Lord, thank you for letting us
have such wonderful opportunities of hearing
the true gospel of your grace and of not dodging around certain
scriptures because they appear to the natural eye to be a problem
in regard to the grace of God. And the truth is that the problem
is only in our in our minds and in our hearts, in how we view
it and think we can understand it. And only you can reveal it. Thank you for this wonderful
place. Just a small group of crazy people
gathered in this place. And I'm the craziest one of all. Lord, have mercy on us. Show us what your grace really
is. And what it does, how it honors
and glorifies our blessed Redeemer, the Lord Jesus. Bless our brother
as he comes now to speak. We thank you for him and for
his wife and family. and for even considering to come
to this part of the world. Thank you, oh Lord. We know good and well that you
are the one who purposed and planned it. We beg your blessings
upon speaker and listener. For Christ's sake we pray, amen. I am so blessed to be here. It's such a comfort to be among
dear people who love the gospel. And I remember several years
ago I came, I called up Rupert and a very, very dear friend
of mine was called home. And it affected me. And I called
Rupert and I said, can I come visit? And he says, come on. So he was
used to comfort me. And I appreciated it a great
deal. I ask that you pray for us out
there in Oregon. We will be praying for you. And I ask you pray for Nancy
and I as we travel. It is my hope and my prayer to
go north about three hours and tomorrow visit with Brother Henry
Mahan and his wife Doris for a few minutes. Brother Henry, like Brother Rupert,
means a lot to me. He brought me the gospel. a religious
man, self-righteous, and he wrote the gospel and I was a ruined
man. Would you turn with me to the
book of Leviticus? Have any of you ever got more
in your mouth than you should have to chew? I remember getting into my mom's
cookie jar and hear her coming and you just really want to get
rid of it. Well, I've bitten off more than
I can chew today. I know that. I'll never get finished. But that's all right. The songs
this morning could not have been more appropriate, preparing our
hearts for the message here in the book of Leviticus. One man
said this about the book of Leviticus. There is no book in the whole
compass of that inspired volume which the Holy Ghost has given
us that contains more of the very words of God than Leviticus. It is God that is the direct
speaker in almost every page. His gracious words are recorded
in the form wherein they were uttered. And from the beginning
to the end of the book of Leviticus, we have the very words of God,
more than any other book. The gospel of the grace of God
and all that follows in its train may be found in Leviticus. And
there is a glorious attraction about the book of Leviticus if
you're a sinner. Now, if you're not a sinner,
the book of Leviticus will mean very little. But if you're a
sinner, the book of Leviticus will mean a lot because the book
of Leviticus is used to share with us many typical things, the types that are designed
and intended by God to bear resemblance to some spiritual truth, and
the likeness between type and anti-type is never accidental. Every type, shadow, and picture
found in the book of Leviticus is on purpose, and it demonstrates
and shows to the sinner, shows to the church, shows to God's
people the glories of Christ the purpose of God, and the absolute
and essential need of everyone for a substitute. In the first
chapter, there are five different sacrifices that are mentioned
in, or offerings that are mentioned in the first seven chapters of
the book of Leviticus. And when I gave my list to Betty,
the chapter, or the place I was going to be, She looked at me
like I was strange because I said chapter 1 verse 1 through chapter
7 verse 38. Well, we're going to skip around
a little bit. We're not going to read it all.
But there are five different offerings mentioned in the first
seven chapters of the book of Leviticus. And every one of these
five offerings speak so highly of the Lord Jesus Christ in type. And they were given by Almighty
God's voice to Moses and to the children of Israel. And as we
go back and look at them, we'll find that they speak to the church
today because all the words that are recorded share with us something
about the Lord Jesus on behalf of his people and what it was
required, what God required in order for a people to approach
his throne of grace boldly. We cannot come on our own merits. We cannot come on the merits
of another person, human beings. The only way we can come to God
is on the merits of the Lord Jesus Christ, on his great work
of redemption. It was spoken of in the council
halls of eternity. It was preached through Genesis
to Malachi and presented through the book of Matthew to Revelation,
a thumbnail sketch that was given to me many years ago about the
entire Bible. was the Old Testament, as we
call it. Someone's coming. Matthew, Mark,
Luke, and John. Someone's here. And Acts, Revelation,
someone's coming back and coming back for his people. Well, here
in the book of Leviticus, we find someone's coming. And in
his coming, he is going to fulfill everything that is required by
God for a people to meet God. We cannot imagine. We just cannot
get a hold of it. We can't get our hands around
it. Our minds will not comprehend what happened in the Garden of
Eden when our first father sinned against God and disobeyed him
and died spiritually. We see the effects all around
us, but we still cannot imagine what happened there. Every day
we learn something else, and not about someone else, but about
ourselves, the depths of the fall in the Garden of Eden and
the absolute requirements that God imposed if a people was ever
to approach God. And the Lord Jesus Christ fulfilled
every requirement that was necessary for His people to be able to
say these words, our Father which art in heaven. Those are not just words on a
page, that is a privilege that God extends to the church, our
Father which art in heaven. Not everyone called my dad father. and not everyone can call God
Father. Now, they'll know him as God,
and they'll know him in his sovereignty, and they'll know him in his judgment,
but only the church can say, our Father which art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be
done on earth as it is in heaven. offering that is mentioned here
in the book of Leviticus is called the burnt offering. It is found
in chapter one of the book of Leviticus. Now I'm going to spend
more time on this offering than any of the others and we may
not get to the rest of them, I don't know. But this one is
so pictorial, so typical, so allegorical of the Lord Jesus
Christ and what he did for us. When he came to this sin-cursed
earth and walked among men, I can go right out here. I think it's
that way. The cemetery? That way. Okay. Thank you. Did you know
the Lord Jesus Christ walked in the cemetery every step of
his earthly life? He was among dead people. Everywhere
he went was people dead in trespasses of sin. He, that's what he meant
was people dead in trespasses and sin. They were as good as
in a cemetery. And the only way that anybody
can ever approach a thrice holy God is through this one, one
mediator between God and men, the man, Christ Jesus. Now it
tells us here in this first chapter about the burnt offering and
it gives us, and I just have to say, there is nothing left
to chance. It is so outlined, so stipulated,
there is nothing left up to the priest or to the person that
brought the offering. It gives exact specifications,
what is to be brought, and how it is to be handled, and how
it is to be sacrificed, and all these things. And I've never
noticed it like I've noticed it recently in looking here at
the book of Leviticus. Because there are times when
I was reading the book of Leviticus, I just couldn't wait to get to
the next chapter because I had that chapter behind me. You ever
been that way in reading the Bible? Well, here in the first
chapter, it says, the Lord called unto Moses and spake unto him
out of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying, now, if
we just backed up a little bit to the book of Exodus, we would
find that the Lord came down in great glory, Shekinah glory,
filled that tabernacle. And out of the tabernacle, out
of his glory, he spoke. This book shares with us more
of the actual word. Now, I know some of you are saying,
well, all of it's the word of God. Yes, it is. Given to men,
holy men of God, spake as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.
God gave them the word to write. But here in the book of Leviticus,
we have God speaking with his own voice. That's recorded. The Lord called out unto Moses
and spake unto him out of the congregation, tabernacle of congregation,
saying, Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them,
if any man of you bring an offering unto the Lord, ye shall bring
your offering of the cattle or of the herd and of the flock.
And if you notice in verse three, if his offering be a burnt sacrifice. Now that's what we'd like to
spend a little time on this morning is the burnt sacrifice. It tells
us there in verse 2 that the children of Israel to bring an
offering of the cattle. In verse 14 of this chapter,
it tells us that if you were like me and poor, you could bring
a turtle dove. Nobody was left out because of
finances. But in this first part, it tells
us about cattle. Now, I was over in Brother Rupert's
study with him and I said, I need to borrow a concordance. I wish
I knew Hebrew and I knew I wish Greek. I wish I knew it. I'll never know it. I'm thankful
to somebody that wrote it down in a book so I can go read it,
Strong's Concordance. And he brought it to me and I
looked up this word cattle. And there's only one place in
all the Old Testament that this word is just transliterated.
And that means it was just brought from the Hebrew language into
the English language. And that's in the book of Job,
and it talks about the term behemoth. Wow, I've always been taught
that the behemoth was a great, that's right. But it is this
word cattle, and it's found every time in the book of Leviticus.
It is the old Hebrew word behemoth. And it gives us the idea, even
if it's of the cattle, of the herd, whether it be a bovine,
whether it be a goat, or whether it be a sheep, that this represents
absolute strength. This is a behemoth. It is a behemoth's
ram, it is a behemoth's goat, it is a behemoth's cow. It's
a bullet, it's a bull, and all the strength that they have.
My dad took my youngest sister and I and another brother to
a farm one time, and the guy met us, he said, he just got
him a ram, a sheep, a male sheep. He says, stay away from it. Well,
my sister, being my sister, didn't believe him. And she got around
it, and the next thing we know, she is thrown on the ground,
and that ram is just going like this. Now, I've had that happen
with bulls, but I never thought a ram. They're behemoths. And this offering that these
people were to offer, to bring, represents the absolute strength
of Almighty God in Christ Jesus. He is no weakling when he came
to this earth. He is able to calm the sea. He is able to create life in
Lazarus. He is able to raise up people
that are all bent over. Even from the cross, he cries
with a loud voice. He never had his life taken from
him. I lay down my life that I might
take it up again. No man takes it from me. As they
brought this offering, whether it be from the herd or whether
it be from the flock, they brought in a critter that represented
the strength of God. This is a picture, a type, and
a shadow. He is not a weakling savior. He's the almighty savior. He's
not a weakling that came down to this earth to make it possible
for you to be saved. He came down to this earth to
procure, to secure our salvation, to make it sure. So in this offering that they
brought, whether it be a bullock, whether it be a ram, or whether
it be of the goats, they brought that in and it was this absolute
example of the Lord Jesus Christ in his glory, even as he said
to his disciples, all power is given unto me in heaven and in
earth. No power. that I don't have. And then it tells us, in that
passage of scripture, as we go just a little bit further on,
this burnt offering that was to be brought, in verse 3, it
says, if his offering be a burnt offering of the herd, let him
offer a male without blemish. Now we get over to the book of
Malachi, and the children of Israel, or Judah I should say,
are bringing the broken, what they couldn't sell at the auction
yard. And the prophet by the mouth of God said, go give that
to your governor and see what he says about it. Go take this
canker-eye cow to the governor. Go take this lamb that won't
grow. You go take him to your governor
and see what he says about it. Now, why would you bring this
trash to me? You know why people would bring
that kind of trash to God? Because that's their view of
God. He is limited. He is broken. And if I don't
do something to help him out, he can't get the job done. And
yet we find that every type, picture, and shadow of the Lord
Jesus Christ declares unto us that he is absolute sovereign,
that he does according to his will in the armies of heaven
and among the inhabitants of the earth, and none can stay
his hand or say, what doest thou? Here we have Him coming. The
directions were given by God Almighty to these people that
were bringing this sacrifice. You bring Him without blemish. And we read over in the book
of 1 Peter that we're not redeemed with silver and gold or by your
vain traditions, but by the precious blood of Christ as a lamb without
spot, without, excuse me, without blemish or without spot. He was
put under the most severe, scrupulous examination of anybody that has
ever walked on the face of the earth. And in the conclusion,
it was said, I find no fault in him. God's precious son came to this
earth holy, harmless, undefiled. Not a blemish, not an evil thought
ever passed through his mind. He never did anything wicked.
He never did anything even to... He never said even a white lie. Perfect, without blemish. He's
the holy son of God. And then it goes on to tell us
here, that in this list of things that were brought to our attention
by the book of Leviticus, by God through Moses in the book
of Leviticus, it says there, He'll bring them of your own
voluntary will. You know, I like that about my
Savior. He knew exactly where He was going, He knew exactly
what He was going to do, He knew what was necessary, but He voluntarily
came. He was not under to rest. He
was not forced. Now, some preachers got the idea
that there was a vote in heaven and Jesus lost. Three, you know,
you never want to have an even number on a committee. You need
to have an odd number. Well, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
and a bunch of preachers got the idea that there was two against
one and he had to come. You know what? He jumped up and
down to come. He wanted to come. He volunteered
to come. Even knowing the consequences
of his coming, he voluntarily came to this earth. He voluntarily
was born of a virgin. He voluntarily was imprisoned
in flesh. He voluntarily put up with all
the nonsense that was brought up against him. All the religious
people and all the faults that they found with him. We be born
not of, as you are. We don't have the problems you
have. How does this man know letters? Never gone to school. This is Mary and Joseph's son. And we know about Mary. She had,
was with him before she was married. He voluntarily came down to put
up with all of that nonsense and voluntarily came down to
please his father. I come to do my father's will. He loves me for doing my father's
will. He voluntarily came to do his
father's will. And that just, the church just
says, hallelujah. What a blessing that the son
of God, the only one that could take care of the problem, the
only one, and it was such a serious problem that only God could take
care of it. The only one that could take care of the problem
volunteered. Now, I've seen where in the military,
we need a volunteer and everybody steps back but one and they volunteered,
you know. Or we have this wonderful job
for you to do and you're going to get a special reward, won't
you volunteer and they raise their hand, OK, clean the latrines.
The Lord Jesus volunteered. to give his life a ransom for
many. Volunteer. Now, it says in verse
4, and he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering,
and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.
He shall put his hand on the head. Only sinners are ever brought
to this sacred head. Only sinners. This is not for
everybody. This is only for sinners. This
is for sinners to come and reach out their hands, metaphorically,
spiritually, put their hands on the head of God Almighty. And by His grace, not that we
were able to transfer, but He took our sins in His own body
on the tree. He was able by grace to transfer
to Himself all our sin and also to transfer to us all His righteousness. He was able to take, but only
sinners will come and put their hands on this holy head. Only
sinners know what it is to be saved by grace and not some made
up grace, but real sovereign grace. Only sinners know that. Only sinners can come. Only sinners
will come. And only sinners will confess.
And only sinners will know what they are, and what God was, and
is, and what it took for Him to redeem us from all our sin. And then it says, it tells us
there, make atonement for Him. He's going to make atonement.
Now, pictorially, Only Israel enjoyed these blessings. There was no Phoenicians there.
There was no Greeks there. There was no Hittites there or
Hivites. Israel, the church alone, enjoys
these blessings. No one that ever enters hell
will ever be able to say anything against God except you're right. They'll acknowledge that. Every
tongue shall confess the glory of the Lord Jesus to the glory
of God the Father. Make atonement, for he is our
peace, who hath broken down the middle wall of partition between
us. For there is one God and one mediator between God and
men, the man, Christ Jesus. He is the only atonement that
we have. And then it goes on in verse
five. He shall kill, oh my. Now, I know some of the older
folks here have been in on hog killings. My dad raised two hogs and three
beef and we butchered them. And one of the things that my
dad told us kids every year, don't make a pet out of them
because they're going to be on the table and invariably, We'd
make a pet out of him. We'd ride him. We'd nuzzle him. We'd hug him. We'd love him.
And kill him. There was not going to be an
atonement without death. It tells us here, you shall kill
the bullet before the Lord. Sin deserves death. Now, it's
either our death or his death. It's our death or his death,
but sin deserves death. The soul that sinneth, it shall
die. It shall be physical death, spiritual
death, and eternal death. Now, either he substituted himself
to take the place or that's the consequences of our sin. They
shall kill the bullock before the Lord. Before the Lord. Christ was given our sin. He took our sin. He exchanged
our sin for righteousness. They shall kill the bullock.
I don't know the process, but I know the result. I've read where some people use
this technique to slaughter their animals and some people use this
technique, but the result is always the same. It's death. And the death of the Lord Jesus
Christ, He gave His life. No man took it from Him. And then we find in there, they
shall sprinkle the blood in verse 5. It says, they shall sprinkle
the blood. We're going to have the absolute
knowledge that this critter was killed. We took his blood and
we sprinkled his blood. There's no room whatsoever here
for conjecture about what is going to happen to this animal.
It is brought up, hands are laid on it. They shall kill it before
the Lord and sprinkle the blood. Oh, it is the precious blood
of Jesus Christ that purchased our redemption. It is the blood
of Christ that was presented. It is the spotless blood of Christ
that was accepted. It was the blood of Christ that
purchased us before Almighty God. He paid for our sins with
His blood. Now, how much blood did He shed? That's not important. It's whose
blood was shed. God, man, the Lord Jesus shed
his blood, gave his life, a ransom for many. And you know, it says
something else. There's a qualification there
in verse 5. It says, so sprinkle the blood round about. I thought that was interesting.
It's not enough just to go like that. I've had blood on my hands, butchering
animals, can't wait to get my hands in the bucket, wash it
off. But this priest reached down
in there and sprinkled blood round about the altar. Did you
catch that? Round about, all over, nothing
left unpainted. How much sin didn't Jesus die
for? How much sin did He leave with
us? How much do we have to take care of? He had His blood completely
surround all our sin and pay for it in its totality. Nothing
is left undone. Oh, I think I've mentioned this
before. When I grew up in religion, I was told, I don't know how
many times you're going to have to answer for that sin. That's
religion. Christianity says, the blood
was sprinkled round about, covered it all. Oh my goodness, if we
have to answer for one sin, we'll answer for it all and we'll not
see God on friendly terms. But that blood was sprinkled
round about, covered it all. There is not one place around
the altar that it was not touched by blood. There is no place where
Christ's blood does not cover our sins. For His elect ones,
body, mind, and spirit, all blood covered it all. Oh, Paul could
say, I am what I am by the grace of God. Blood has been sprinkled. I will not answer for one. He's
taken it all or he's taken none. And then it tells us in verse
6 what to do with this sacrifice. And he shall flay the burnt offering
and cut it into pieces. Now when we look at this from
a spiritual standpoint, We're seeing what was required, what
the Lord Jesus Christ endured to pay our sin debt. We're seeing
what it took for Him to become our atonement. The pictures that
are here, we know what a fillet knife is. We know what it is
to fillet. We know, and to look at the Lord
Jesus Christ under these pictures and to see what was required
of Him, it tells us there that they shall fillet the burnt offering. Oh my goodness! We find that
he was moved upon by the justice of God. And in our point of view,
from us, there is nothing left of our self-righteousness when
God gets through with us. We have nothing to offer God.
He has also flayed us out. He's left our righteousness behind
us and covered us with the righteousness of Christ. We have nothing that
we will say, oh God, I think you should pay attention to this.
We've been filleted out and Jesus Christ has been filleted out. Oh, what punishment he endured
because of our sin. In fact, everything that you
read about hell, Jesus Christ took on the cross. I can't figure out how much there
is, how much punishment there shall be in eternity in hell.
The punishment, the lack of water, the fire. I don't know, but I know this,
for the church, he endured every speck of it. And then it tells us, shall filet
the burnt offering, and in verse six, and cut it into his pieces. Now there's not much left here
to the imagination, is there? fillet the burnt offering, cut
it into pieces. You know, there's a verse of
scripture over in Isaiah 53, it says, it pleased the Lord to
bruise him. Now, I'm getting to the point
that when I hit myself, I get a bruise. Pretty easy. Your pastor showed me some of
the bruises he carries around. Just a touch. That's not what
he's talking about. It's not a blue mark. This word,
bruise, carries with it so much more weight. This word, bruise,
as it's found in Isaiah 53 and verse 10, it pleased the Lord
to bruise him. It is to beat to pieces, break
in pieces, destroy. It pleased the Lord to beat the
son to pieces. Can you get a mind picture of
that? The almighty justice of God came
down upon the dear son of God and literally, figuratively,
let me put it that way, figuratively beat him to pieces for our sin. Judgment must be meted out. And
here we have that picture found in the book of Leviticus chapter
one. Fillet it out, cut it into pieces. No room for conjecture here.
And then it says, the half has not been told, shall
put fire upon the altar. Haven't we done enough? We killed. We sprinkled the blood round
about. We have filleted. We have cut
in pieces. Isn't that enough? God says no. That's not enough. It's not enough
that Jesus loved you. He must die. And he must suffer
the justice of God. So they put fire on the altar.
The penalty of our transgressions, the lamb must roast with fire.
The pictures that we find throughout the Old Testament, fire came
down from heaven. Really, God's justice came down
from heaven when he was on the cross. Such agony has never been
had by someone on the cross. It wasn't the nails through his
hands and his feet. It was the fire came down from
heaven, the judgment of God upon his son. When he became sin for
us, God judged him, broke him to pieces. caused him to be on
flame of judgment by Almighty God. No greater judgment has
ever fallen on anybody. You know, we read about crucifixion,
that's bad enough. And some people just talk about
how terrible it was for Jesus to die on the cross. If it wasn't
for the death of a testator, we'd have no testament, we'd
have no will, we'd have no righteousness. And so he is brought to fire. The sacrifice. This is in verse
eight. Look at there with me. And the
priests, Aaron's son shall lay the parts, the head and the fat
in order upon the wood that is on the fire, which is upon the
altar. Shall lay the parts, the head and the fat. All I can say is. He suffered
in ways the church is yet unknowledgeable of. Beyond our ability to imagine,
they took him as is pictured here. Not only was it going to
be fire, but they lay the parts, the head and the fat in order
upon the wood. He suffered for the church in
ways yet unknown in body and soul, and put away all our sin. The words from Jesus from the
cross, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Psalm 22, why
are you far from the words of my roaring? judgment that was
put upon Jesus Christ to redeem his people from their sins. We
cannot, it's unfathomable to know, and then it tells us in
verse 9, but his inward parts and his legs shall be washed
in water and the priest shall burn all on the altar. What in
the world? Is there no end? But the inward parts and his
legs You know, when we look at this with spiritual eyes, we
find that the walk of the Lord Jesus was so absolutely perfect. There was no sin. His walk was
perfect inside. Now, I have acted like this and
I know probably you have too. Going on the outside, we can
just be as pleasant as all get out. Wonderful. Oh, we can visit
with people and we put on the show, but inside. But here in
this picture, the Lord Jesus, it shares with us. He was washed
inside. He was holy in his mind. He was holy in his disposition. He had one course in his whole
life. So they typified it. They pictured
it. His walk, his legs, his inner
parts. Oh, my. And even from the cross. Father, forgives them, for they
know not what they do." Now he wasn't asking that everybody
participated in that would be forgiven, but his church will
be forgiven because they know not what they do. And then it
tells us, would you turn with me to the book of Hebrews. Hebrews chapter 7. Hebrews chapter 7, verse 26.
I'm going to back up just a little bit there. Verse 23. Hebrews chapter 7, verse 23. And they truly were many priests
because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death.
But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. Wherefore he is able also to
save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing
he ever liveth to make intercession for them. Verse 26 now, for such
a high priest became us. who is holy, harmless, undefiled,
and separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens,
who needeth not daily as those high priests to offer up sacrifices
first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the peoples.
For this he did once when he offered himself For the law maketh
men high priests which have infirmity, but the word of the oath which
was since the law maketh the son who is consecrated forevermore. We have a high priest who continueth
ever. Now one other thought from the
book of Leviticus chapter one and then we'll close. Verse 9, Leviticus 1, verse 9. The last two phrases, last three, to be a burnt sacrifice
An offering made by fire, Leviticus chapter 1 verse 9, now the last
phrase, of a sweet savor unto the Lord. Now who is this for? Boy, man can look at that, oh,
filleted, cut in pieces, killed, blood sprinkled with fire But
the person who needed this sweet smell is God. He's the offended party. He must
smell the sweet savor, the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus. He shall see
the travail of his soul and be satisfied. It was a sweet savor
to the covenant of grace that this one would come and go through
all of these things that were typified in the book of Leviticus. This is only one out of five
that are mentioned in the first seven books of the book of Leviticus.
There is these and more, but this one as the others, oh God,
the Father smelt a sweet savor and in that, Guess what? He said, I could make a covenant
with this people, not after the covenant I made with the house
of Israel in those days, but this covenant. He concludes it
by saying, I will forgive their iniquities. I will forgive their
iniquities. The only way that is possible
is that God smelled a sweet savor. And how do we know that God was
satisfied with this burnt offering? The third day after his death,
he was raised from the dead. God was well pleased with the
sacrifice and symbolized it by raising his son. The son said,
I lay down my life that I might take it up. The father said,
I'll raise him up. The son said, I'll raise the
Holy Spirit. They all, in covenant mercy,
raised the son from the dead. Why? Because there was such a
sweet savor about his death, his burial, and his resurrection
according to the scriptures that they all said, hallelujah, sin
is put away. My children can come boldly to
the throne of grace. God the Father smelt something
that is a noxious odor to us unless we know grace. We're not
happy with that odor because we want works to be involved. But as soon as God saves us,
it is also a sweet savor to the church. Oh, all the work was
done by him, accomplished by him. And on my behalf, now I
can rest.