If you would open your Bibles with me to Psalm 90. Psalm 90. As you're turning, let me remind me we're having a men's lunch tomorrow at noon. Hope y'all can attend and have a little bit of time of fellowship and swapping stories before the snow comes.

Psalm 90. Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, wherever thou hast formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Thou turnest man to destruction, and sayest, return, ye children of men, for a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday, when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou carriest them away as with the flood, They are as asleep. In the morning, they are like grass, which groweth up. In the morning, it flourisheth and groweth up. In the evening, it is cut down and withereth.

For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. For all our days are passed away in thy wrath. We spend our years as a tale that is told. The days of our years are threescore years and ten, and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow, for it is soon cut off and we fly away. Who knoweth the power of thine anger? Even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath. So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

Return, O Lord, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants. Oh, satisfy us early with thy mercy, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us and the years wherein we have seen evil. Let thy work appear unto thy servants and thy glory unto their children. And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us. and establish thou the work of our hands upon us. Yea, the work of our hands, establish thou it.

All right, Sean can lead us in our singing, if you would. Okay, if you would turn in your hymnal to song number 56, I am his and he is mine. Number 56.

Loved with everlasting love, led by grace that love to know.
Spirit breathing from above, thou hast taught me it is so.
O this full and perfect peace, O this transport all divine,

In a love which cannot cease, I am His, and He is mine. In a love which cannot cease, I am His, and He is mine.
Heaven above is softer blue.
Earth around is sweeter green.
Something lives in every hue.
Christless eyes have never seen.

Birds with gladder songs o'erflow, flowers with deeper beauties shine.

Since I know, as now I know, I am his and he is mine. Since I know, as now I know, I am his and he is mine.

Things that once were wild alarms cannot now disturb my rest.
Clothed in everlasting arms, pillowed on the loving breast,
Oh, to lie forever here, doubt and care and self-resign.

While he whispers in my ear, I am his and he is mine. While he whispers in my ear, I am his and he is mine.
His forever, only his. who the Lord and me shall part.
Ah, with what a rest of bliss Christ can fill the loving heart.
Heaven and earth may fade and flee, Firstborn light in gloom decline,

But while God and I shall be, I am his and he is mine. But while God and I shall be, I am his and he is mine.

If you would now turn to song number 224, I Know Whom I Have Believed. 100, or 200, 24. I know not why God's wondrous grace to me he hath made known, nor why unworthy Christ in love redeemed me for his own. Whom I have believed and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I've committed unto him against that day. I know not how this saving faith to me he did impart, nor how believing in his word wrought peace within my heart. But I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I've committed unto him against that day.

I know not how the Spirit moves, convincing men of sin, revealing Jesus through the Word, creating faith in Him. But I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I've committed unto him against that day.

I know not what, of good or ill, may be reserved for me. O'er weary ways, O'er golden days, Before his face I see. But I know whom I have believed it and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I've committed unto Him against that day.

I know not when my Lord may come at night or noonday fair, nor if I'll walk the vale with Him or meet him in the air. But I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I've committed unto Him against that day.

Alright, now if you would open your Bibles with me to Exodus chapter 29. Exodus chapter 29, we'll begin reading in verse 22. Also thou shalt take of the ram, the fat and the rump and the fat that covereth the inwards and the call above the liver and the two kidneys and the fat that is upon them and the right shoulder. For it is a ram of consecration and one loaf of bread and one cake of oiled bread and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread that is before the Lord. And thou shalt put all in the hands of Aaron and the hands of his sons, and thou shalt wave them for a wave offering before the Lord. And thou shalt receive them of their hands and burn them upon the altar for a burnt offering, for a sweet savor before the Lord. It is an offering made by fire unto the Lord. And thou shalt take the breast of the ram of Aaron's consecration and waive it for a waive offering before the Lord. And it should be thy part. And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the waive offering and the shoulder of the heave offering, which is waived and which is heaved up of the ram of the consecration, even of that which is for Aaron and of that which is for his sons. And it should be Aaron's and his sons for a statute forever. from the children of Israel, for it is an heave offering, and it shall be an heave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifice of their peace offerings, even their heave offering unto the Lord.

I will end our reading there. Let's bow before our Lord together. Our great God, our heavenly Father, our holy, sovereign, merciful, gracious God, We bow before you. Father, it is our heart's desire to glorify you, that you might enable us to lift up and glorify your son, both in the preaching service tonight and also as we go through our daily lives. Father, enable us to exalt and glorify our savior. I know that human language is completely insufficient to be able to properly and rightly glorify and praise your name. But Father, from the heart, we do praise you. We do thank you. And Father, it is our heartfelt desire that tonight we might be enabled by thy spirit to worship you in spirit and in truth. As the word is open to us, Father, I pray that you would be our teacher, that you would take your word and apply it to the hearts of your people. And Father, let each one of us leave here tonight being so thrilled at the thought of being able to rest in Christ our Savior, to be seen in him and in him alone, to not have anything about us taken into consideration for our salvation, our acceptance with thee, but it's all Christ. Father, let us leave here tonight rejoicing in how you've enabled us to rest from all of our works of the law, to rest from fear of condemnation, to rest from fear of anything, and rest in Christ, in Christ alone.

Father, bless us, I pray. Bless us for Christ's sake. Father, it's in his name, for his sake we pray, amen.

I've titled the message tonight, The Wave and the Heave Offering. And if we were taking a census, I bet very few of us have ever thought about the wave offering or the heave offering. And I thought as I went through this this week, this is a real good case for I just feel like it's the proper thing for us to do to go verse by verse through a book or through a large passage of scripture so that we're forced to deal with issues like this and not skip over the wave offering and the heave offering because they are such a blessing.

And while most of us have never thought about them, I hope that tonight when you leave here that it's just what I prayed, such a joy to be able to rest in Christ and have the Father look at him for everything that's required of me. And it's all, I'm in him, it's all good as long as I'm in him, that the focus is on Christ. So I hope that that's kind of where I want to go with that tonight.

Now we're still looking, this ceremony is pretty lengthy, the ceremony to consecrate priests, to make them able to serve the Lord in the office of priest. And all these things are pictures of Christ, our great high priest, how he was sanctified and consecrated to be the savior of his people. We looked at those high priestly garments. We looked at the sin offering. Last week we looked at the burn offering, putting away sin. And all those are pictures. Christ fulfilled all those pictures. He's the one that's consecrated to be our high priest to put away the sin of his people.

But as we look through this, this is also, these are also pictures of how our Savior has made us fit, his people fit, to be able to serve the Lord, but doing it in Christ, because he has washed us from our sins and clothed us in his righteousness. So tonight, this ceremony continues with the wave offering and the heave offering.

I don't want to get real technical here, but I'll tell you this, and you'll see it as we go through here. The wave offering says, this belongs to God. Look at this, this belongs to God. The heave offering is lifted up to God and it has to do with acceptance with God, peace with God. So first here's the wave offering.

In verse 23 says, and take one loaf of bread and one cake of oiled bread and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread that is before the Lord. And thou shalt put all in the hands of Aaron and in the hands of his sons and thou shalt wave them for a wave offering before the Lord. Now this loaf of bread and the wafer, these are unleavened, unleavened bread, unleavened wafers, which are pictures of the sinless body of our Lord Jesus Christ. Throughout scripture, leaven is a picture of sin, and Christ has no sin. He never had any sin. There was no sin in his body. That's why even after he died, his body didn't decay, because there's no sin. And the oil that's on top of the unleavened bread, The oil is always a picture of God the Holy Spirit. And it shows the unity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit when this oil is placed on the bread. The Holy Spirit is one with Christ. They're one in nature, they're one in purpose, they're one in gold, they're one in glory. And the job of the Holy Spirit is to reveal Christ to his people.

So Moses was to take this, this bread anointed with oil there, and put it all into the hands of the priest. It went from Moses' hands to the priest. It's all in the hands of the priest. And it would be a wave offering. The priest would literally wave it back and forth like this. It's a wave offering. And when you wave something back and forth like that, you mean for it to be seen, don't you? And that's when the high priest lifted up that bread and he offered it as a wave offering before the Lord. He's saying, this belongs to the Lord. This came from the Lord. The Lord gave it to us and we're thankful.

One time that they always used a wave offering was at the harvest and the first fruits. The first things that they harvested, they would offer as a wave offering before the Lord. This belongs to the Lord. He's the one that gave us the harvest. He's the one that caused it all to grow. And so it's a wave offering.

Well, Christ is our wave offering. The whole purpose of God was put into the hand of his son. The glory of God was put into the hand of the son, and the glory of the whole Godhead was dependent on what our Savior did with it when it was in his hand. Did he come? Did he do what the father seemed to do? Did he save his people from their sin? Did he make it right for the father to call them justified and accept them into his presence? The glory of God depended on Christ coming and doing what he promised to do in the covenant of grace, to save his people from their sin.

The wisdom of God, for us to be able to see the wisdom of God, that God found a way to be both just and justify the ungodly through the obedience and through the sacrifice of his son. All of that was placed in the hands of his son. God's grace, God's mercy, his truth, and his justice were all put in the hands of the son. Can all of those be glorified at the same time? Can grace and truth be glorified at the same time? Can mercy and justice be glorified at the same time? Well, the father put it all in the hand of the son to do it.

The forgiveness of sin, that was all put in the hand of the son. Righteousness, sanctification, all in the hand of the son. It's the sons to give. The drawing of God's people to himself, to Christ, the keeping of them by the power of his grace, it was all put in the hand of the son.

Now when we say it was put in the hand of the son, I wanna make this real clear. Christ doesn't just have everything that we need from God, like it's put into his hand. Christ is everything that we need from God. It's all Him. And He's our wave offering.

When you wave something, like I said earlier, you mean for that to be seen. You've seen movies where someone will come, maybe it's a battle scene or something, you know, and somebody will grab the United States flag and run out and wave it back and forth. I don't care what movie that is, it gets me every single time. I mean, just, they wave that and they mean for that to be seen. They mean for that to, you know, it means something, to rally around it. We take Christ, our wave offering, and we wave Him. And it's like we're telling the Father, look at Him. Don't look at me. Look at Him. And when Christ came, that's what the father did. He only looked at the son. Throughout his earthly ministry, the father only looked at the son. And it wasn't because the son was raising a big ruckus and telling his father all the time, look at me, look at me, look at me, look at me. Christ came as a second representative man. The father only sees the whole human race in one of two representatives. Adam, Christ the second Adam. And when Christ came as the second representative man, the father looked to him to be everything that he required, to be everything that he required of his people.

The son came to earth to satisfy his father, to do all of the work of redemption that the father gave him to do. And when the father looked at the son, you know what he saw? Perfection. It made him well pleased, made him well pleased. And that's why we as a Christ our wave offering, we want to wave him to the father and say, look at him. Don't look at anything about me. Don't look at my faith in him. Don't look at my love for him. Don't look at my knowledge of him. Don't look at my knowledge of the scriptures and knowledge of doctrine. Only look at Christ. That is, That's all I want. I don't want the Father to see me and Christ, to see me in Christ. I don't want him to see me at all. I want him to see Christ, Christ alone. That's the only way the Father will be well pleased with me.

And the more I think about this wave offering, the more I love it. What a, the Lord gave such a simple thing here, actually I don't know what you want to call it, is this wave offering, but he made it so simple to show. It's just such a clear demonstration. We wave this back and forth and say, look here, look to Christ. Salvation's got nothing to do with me. It's got nothing to do with my works. It's got nothing to do with my repentance. It's got nothing to do, the only thing is this, does the Father see me in Christ? Christ is all. If He's given me faith in Christ and hidden me in Christ, then He is well pleased with me.

This wave offering tells me there is a way that the Father, the Holy Father, without compromising His holiness, can be pleased with me. It's in Christ. And that's the only thing I want the Father to do is see me in Christ. I want Him to look at me in Christ obedience. That's my only righteousness. It's got to be Christ obedience because I don't have any. I want the father to see me in the blood of Christ. When the father comes looking for me, I want him to see the blood, the blood of his son. I want him to see the person of his son because that's the only way I can ever be accepted. It's in the beloved. It's in the beloved. It can't be because of anything about me.

I want the father to see me in the death of Christ. If I died in Christ, He'll never demand my second death. I want him to see me raised in Christ. It's in Christ. I want him to see me as seated in heavenly places at this very moment in Christ Jesus. It's all in Christ. I just only want the Father to see me in Christ. And if you think about preaching, isn't this what preaching is? Preaching is just holding up Christ and saying, look here. Look here. It's not getting all of our doctrinal ducks in a row. It's not, um, all these big words that, you know, that, that I don't even can't pronounce and don't exactly know for sure what, what they all mean. But this is what I know. If we hold up Christ, God's people are going to be blessed. If we hold up Christ, the best we can, God's people are going to be blessed. Isn't that, that's just what preaching is. Open up the word and say, look, here he is. Look, it's right here. It's right here.

Now that's our wave off Christ, our wave offering, but look what happened next. Verse 25 and thou shalt receive them at their hands and burn them upon the altar for a burnt offering and a sweet saver before the Lord is an offering made by fire unto the Lord. So Moses took this bread, gave it into the hands of Aaron. Aaron waved it before the Lord. Then Aaron gave it back to Moses. And Moses put it on the altar and burned it to ash, burned it completely up.

Now this was a voluntary offering. Moses put it in the hands of Aaron. It's Aaron's to do with as he will. And he voluntarily gave it back to Moses to be used as a burnt offering And the Lord said that voluntary sacrifice was a sweet savor to him.

Now, you know very well that this fire is a picture of God's wrath and that bread being a picture of Christ's body shows us the sacrifice of Christ. He willingly, willingly, don't miss this, willingly offered himself as a sacrifice a burnt sacrifice to be burnt up for the sin of his people. And that sacrifice was a sweet savor to the father. It was a sweet savor to the father because the sacrifice of Christ pleased every attribute of God. The father didn't get some sick, demented pleasure in torturing his son. That's not what being the sweet savor is. The sacrifice of Christ pleased every attribute of the Father. It pleases justice. And that's the first thing we think of with this thing being burnt with fire. It pleased God's justice, and it did. But it also pleased God's mercy. Through the sacrifice of Christ, God can be merciful to sinners like you and me. It satisfied His grace. Now, through the sacrifice of Christ, God can be gracious to you and me. He'll be gracious to whom he will be gracious. He'll show mercy on whom he will show mercy. But it's always gonna be through the sacrifice of Christ.

It glorified God's truth. This is a way that sinners are truly saved. We're not just pretending like they're righteous. Like, Brother Scott Richardson used to say, I pasted on righteousness. This salvation's accomplished in truth, in truth. The wisdom of God, the love of God, If you want to see the love of God in the most clear possible way, go to Calvary. Go to Calvary and look what the father did to his son on Calvary Street. The father must really love his people if he would do that to his son in order to put their sin away and save them. It pleased every attribute of the father. And Christ, knowing what it would cost him, offered himself willingly. Willingly. He made it plain. He could have skipped going to the cross, if that was his will. He could have called 12 legions of angels and put a stop to the whole thing. I mean, when that mob came after him, he said, I am, and they all fell flat on their backs. He could have just walked away. But he didn't. He willingly went to the cross to suffer the judgment that we deserve. so his people could go free. He did that willingly.

If that doesn't break your heart and make you not want to fall at his feet and thank him and beg him for mercy and just be so amazed that there's just no words for who he is and what he's done for his people, I don't know what to tell you. But he did this willingly. And that's what I want to wave. That willing sacrifice. So I just want to wave that to the Father so that's all the Father sees about me is Christ crucified. That's how the Father can be well pleased with me. And I want to do that in preaching. I want to lift Christ up in preaching and just wave Him back and forth and just shout to sinners, Look! Look! Look! Look and live. See Him. Believe Him. If we believe on Christ, the Father is well pleased with us, as pleased as he is with his own son, who right now is sitting on his right hand. You think of that. That's the wave offering.

Now look at verse 26. And thou shalt take the breast of the ram of Aaron's consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before the Lord, and it shall be thy part. Now after they waved the bread and they burnt the bread, now they took up the breast of the ram and Aaron would wave it before the Lord. It's a wave offering too. And he'd wave it before the Lord. It's like he's saying, look, this is the offering. This is the sacrifice that took my sin away. Now look to the sacrifice. Only look to the sacrifice. Don't look at how well I've done all the ceremony. Don't look at all the things that I've done as the high priest in the service of the Lord. Don't look at that. Only look at the sacrifice. That's all I want. Look at the sacrifice.

And then the priest took that, the breast of the ram, and he and his family ate it. That was their portion. And when they ate that ram, They had union with Christ. And only a believer can understand this. An unregenerate man or woman cannot understand that. But this is a picture of the believer feeding on Christ. Feeding on Christ. And if you know Christ, you know exactly what I'm talking about. The preacher gets up and does his best to lift up Christ and glorify Christ. We read the word, we see Christ in the word, and you see that and it thrills your soul and it feeds that new man that's feeding on Christ. That's what Aaron and his family did with the breast of this ram. They would wave it, said, this came from God. The sacrifice of Christ, it came from God, didn't it? He sent his son to be the sacrifice. He gave us this gift. and being one with Christ. That is the only hope that I have of acceptance with the Father. That when Christ comes into the presence of the Father, I know He's gonna be accepted. And the only way I'm gonna be accepted is if I'm in Him. Is if I'm in Him. That's the wave offering.

All right, now the heave offering. Verse 27. And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the shoulder of the heave offering, which is wave, and which is heaved up of the ram of the consecration, even of that which is for Aaron and of that which is for his sons. And it should be Aaron's and his sons by a statute forever from the children of Israel for it is a heave offering. And it should be in heave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifice of their peace offerings, even their heave offering unto the Lord. Now the heave offering, instead of waving it back and forth, was lifted up and down. like this, straight up and down. And it was an offering of praise. It's an offering of acceptance with God. They would use this all the time in their peace offerings. There's peace with God. And boy, don't we just, we heave that up. Peace with God. There's acceptance with God because Christ has made peace by the blood of his cross. We just heave that up. What a offering of praise to have peace with God. Peace with God. I mean, there is a billion dollar industry in drug manufacturers trying to give people peace. I mean, it's priceless to have peace with God. And if you have it, you praise God for it, because it came from him, didn't you? That's a heave offering.

Well, Christ is our heave offering. He made himself a heave offering when he lifted up himself on the cross. as a sacrifice for the sin of his people. And the father accepted that sacrifice. The father finally quit pouring out his wrath upon his son, because sin was gone. There's no more reason for wrath. And the son gave up the ghost and died. And he's our heave offering. In that death, he made peace with God. He took away every reason God has to be angry with his people, because he took away all their sin. And there's peace. And this is what Christ was consecrated to do, as our high priest, to make peace with God for his people. And that's the only way you and I will ever be fit to serve the Lord, is through Christ, our heave offering.

We must lift him up, lift him up. And it's not just, in our preaching. Lift him up and give him glory in our preaching. We absolutely must do that. You can't call it preaching unless you're lifting up Christ and glorifying and magnifying his name. But how about tomorrow morning? When you get up and you go to work, you go out in the world, you do the things that you got to do. We want to lift him up in our daily life. We want to lift him up in our faith. And I'm not saying be a religious nut to make everybody run, you know, when they see you coming, but people can know by the way that you live your life, that there's faith here. There's looking to Christ here that he's our heave offer. We're lifting him up. If there's a difference, between me and the unregenerate. Who made it? I lift that up and praise to God. He's our heave offering. And I tell you, it pleases the Father. If you want to please the Father, I'll tell you what to do. Glorify His Son. Just lift up His Son. That will please the Father. And we lift Christ up to God. He's our heave offering. What we're asking is, Father, accept me in Him. It's really the same thing as the wave offering. Accept me in him. See me only in Christ.

Now you notice in verse 27 it says, thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave offering and the shoulder of the heave offering. It means to set those things, that breast and that shoulder, set it apart for holy use. There's nothing holy about that sacrifice, the meat of the sacrifice. It was just set apart for holy use.

And its use was to be a picture of Christ. And what a good picture this is. The father set his son apart for holy use. He said, behold, mine elect, mine elect. He chose the redeemer that would save his people from their sin. He set him apart to be the redeemer of his people. The one who would come and obey the law for them. that second representative name that the father looked at. He came to be the redeemer by coming and paying the price for the sin, all of the sin of all of his people by sacrificing himself, by shedding his precious, sinless blood.

And when he got done making that sacrifice, the father accepted him, didn't he? He accepted him. And he accepts all of his people, all of his elect, in Christ. And that's what we want to heave up to the Father. The only way I can be accepted is in Christ, by His sacrifice.

And this wave offering and this heave offering, this is such good news because it's telling us there is a way. Now there's only one way, but there is a way for a sinner to be accepted by the Father. There's a way for a sinner to have his sin taken away and to be made holy and righteous and be accepted by the Father without the Father ever lowering His standard. There's a way.

I'm a sinner. I want to know about that way. I want to hear about that way. And by God's grace, by God's grace, I know it. I know it. I know this. I know, I know how God saves sinners. I mean, I don't know everything there is to know about God, but I do know this. I know how God saves sinners.

I want to heave that gospel up. I want to heave that up and just, this is my only hope of acceptance with God, the sacrifice of Christ. In Christ, the father set apart the son, but the son also set himself apart. He set himself apart to save his people from their sin. Now we know he's the successful Savior. He got the job done. I mean, we wouldn't bother meeting here and preaching and looking into the word to learn more of Christ and see more of him unless we knew he's the successful Savior. I mean, if he's gonna suffer and die for somebody that's gonna go to hell anyway, why waste our time? I mean, that's foolish. Everyone for whom Christ died is gonna appear in glory. They're justified. He got the job done.

But listen, this is not just a legal transaction. Now, it is a legal transaction. There's a legal price that had to be paid. There's a legal transaction that must be done. But this thing of redemption, this thing of life in Christ, this thing of having him as our wave offering and our heave offering, when the father looks at his son, at us, all he sees is his son, this is a loving, life-giving union with Christ.

Look at verse 28, it says, it shall be Aaron and his sons by a statute forever from the children of Israel, for it is a heave offering. And it should be a heave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifice of their peace offerings, even their heave offering unto the Lord. Now this is a law forever, that the meat of this sacrifice, the meat of the burnt offering was to be a portion for Aaron and his sons forever. You know, God always provides his people a portion, doesn't he? You know, when the children of Israel would come into the land that God promised them, he gave each tribe a portion. But he didn't give Levi, the tribe of Levi, any land. They didn't have animals to tend and herds to tend and flocks to tend and those kinds of things. The tribe of Levi was devoted to the service of the Lord, the upkeep of the tabernacle, the worship of the tabernacle, all the sacrifices and the things that must go into that. The tribe of Levi, that was their sole job. Well, then how are they gonna eat? How are they gonna pay the bills? These offerings, these burnt offerings, the meat of that became the table food for the high priest and his family. The Lord provided them a portion in that way, through these sacrifices. And the Lord always provides a portion for his people. And our portion is all the same. Our portion is the Lord Jesus Christ. He's our portion.

You know, we have so many needs. I mean, what needs? We are dead in sin. We need life. God provided a portion. Christ is our life. We need forgiveness of sin. God provided for that, didn't he? Through the blood of his son. We need cleansing from our sin. God provided. He provided that in the blood and the water that flowed from our Savior's wounded side. We need to be made righteous. We need to be sanctified. Christ is our righteousness. Christ is our sanctification.

God provided a portion. We need to be given eternal life, life that we can never lose. And we need that life sustained, don't we? That life has to be sustained. And the Lord provided for that too.

Back in the days of the Old Testament when this was going on, when those sacrifices would be brought, they'd burn the meat and they'd take the meat and that would be the priest. None of us are from the tribe of Levi. We could not, we were forbidden to eat that meat. Well, how then does this apply to you and me that we can come feast on Christ just like Aaron and his sons did? Because God has made all of his people kings and priests so that we have every right to come and eat of Christ. Our right to eat is God's commandment. Come and eat. It's like he told his disciples, come and dine, all's ready. Come and dine.

It goes back to what I was saying earlier. Dut in your soul, at least, at least at times, not as often as probably as we wish it would, but there are times when you're hearing the gospel preached and your soul just feasts. I mean, you just leave, you feel so full and so happy and so satisfied, it's feasting. on Christ. And listen, this is a special thing. This is a special union with Christ. It's supposed to reach our emotions. I mean, I am not an overly emotional person, um, but this is the gospel and feeding on Christ. This is supposed to affect our emotions.

What are the specific pieces of the sacrifice that were to be waved and heaved and then eaten by the priests? The breast and the shoulder. The breast where the heart, love, and shoulder were the labors to be done. The Savior came and did all the work of redemption for his people. He did it all. He did it willingly. He did it completely. He was meticulous about doing all of the work and he did it in love for his people because he loves them.

Now think about that. How can the Father love me? How can the Holy Father, how can he love you and me? There's only one way. It's in Christ. We heave him up. We wave him. Look at him. Don't look for any reason to love me found in me. It's got to be all found in Christ. It's got to be because he made his people what he loves. He made them holy, sinless, unblameable and unapprovable in his sight.

After he went through all that, do you reckon that now He's going to quit loving you? Do you reckon now he's going to cast you out and get tired of you? No, sir. Having loved his own, he'd love them to the end. If he's ever loved us, he will love us to the end. And he'll keep his people in love for them. He'll keep them where they can be fed because this is not just a forensic exercise of I got my doctrinal ABCs in a row. This is a matter of love from Christ to his people and love from his people to Christ. That's the wave offering. That's the heave offering.

I just want to lift that up as high as I possibly can. And I'll go back to what I said at the beginning. This is what I hope you take with you from all of this. What good news these two offerings are. I don't have to stand before God in myself. I don't have to stand before God and myself hoping and beyond hope without any real reason to hope that he's going to accept me. I don't have to do that. All I've got to do is look to Christ and tell the father the same thing. Look to Christ for everything you require of me. Look to Christ. God provided a way. He provided a way for sinners like you and me to be accepted in His presence. It's just one way, but He provided the way. And by God's grace, I'm gonna look to Christ, and I hope you do too.

All right, let's bow together in prayer. Our Father, we are so thankful for this, your word. These glorious truths of redemption that's in Christ Jesus, that it's all in Him, that it's all of Christ, that it's all of His grace, that, Father, it's all of Him. We would never have contrived such a glorious thing until you put it in your Word for us to read and study, praying that you'd give us some light to see Christ in the text. Father, we're so thankful. How can we begin to thank you That you've given us the permission to hold up our Savior and say, look to Him. Don't look at me, look to Him. That you've enabled us to rest in Christ our Savior. Completely and fully rest because He's done everything that's required to save our sinful souls. Father, we're so thankful.

And Father, I pray you'd bless your word as it's been preached tonight. Father, apply it to the hearts of each one here. And let us leave here, drive home tonight, lay down in our beds tonight, rejoicing at the rest that we have that you provided in Christ our Savior. Father, it's in his name, for his glory and his sake we pray, amen.

All right, Sean. Okay, if you would, turn in your hymnal to song number 255, and stand as we sing Blessed Assurance.

255. Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine.
Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine.
Heir of salvation, purchase of God,
born of His Spirit. washed in His blood.
This is my story, this is my song,
praising my Savior all the day long.
This is my story, this is my song,
Praising my Savior all the day long.

Perfect submission, perfect delight.
Visions of rapture now burst on my sight.
Angels descending bring from above
echoes of mercy. whispers of love.
This is my story. This is my song.
Praising my Savior all the day long.
This is my story. This is my song.
Praising my Savior all the day long.

Perfect submission, all is at rest.
I in my Savior am happy and blessed.
Watching and waiting Looking above
Filled with His goodness Lost in His love
This is my story This is my song
Praising my Savior All the day long.
This is my story. This is my song.
Praising my Savior all the day long.