if you will open your Bibles
to the 10th chapter of Leviticus. And you may have noticed that
I have a new companion here. I've had this giant print Bible
on my desk for a study Bible for several years, and my vision's
gotten to where I just need it from the pulpit. My Bible that
I carry with me, I have to get it pretty close to my face to
see it. And this will be up here all the time if you men want
to read from this when you read, you're welcome to, but it'll
just be here any time. Leviticus chapter 10. I want
us to look at the 20 verses of this 10th chapter, looking at
them together just briefly. We'll come back to them again,
the Lord willing, next week. Our subject is Nadab and Abihu. These two men, Nadab and Abihu,
are given to us by the Spirit of God in the record of their
sacrifice, their service, and their death by the hand of God.
given to us specifically to teach us very important lessons about
the worship of God our Savior. Nadab and Abihu were sons of
Aaron. They were God's high priests.
They had been ceremonially consecrated as priests unto the Lord. They're
the fellows who identified in Leviticus 8 and 9, being ceremonially
consecrated to the priesthood. These two men, Nadab and Abihu,
were not little boys, they were grown men. They went with Moses
and Aaron up to the Mount of God at Sinai, where God came
and spoke to a man. Nadab and Abihu were there. They had some experiences like
nobody else who walked on the earth. They had some experiences. They had seen Moses and Aaron
together in the holy place. Nadab and Abihu were among those
upon whom Moses and Aaron had pronounced God's blessing. They
had seen the visible symbol of God's glory when he came in and
received the worship of his people in the tabernacle. Then the next
day, the very next day, reading chapter nine, found the glory
of God filled the place. The very next day, Nadab and
Abihu are consumed by the fire of God's wrath in the court of
the Lord's house. as they carried out their priestly
functions and led the children of Israel in the worship of God. Look at verse one. That's how
Leviticus 10 begins. And Nadab and Abihu, the sons
of Aaron, took either of them his censer and put the fire therein
and put incense thereon. and offered strange fire before
the Lord. We're given a hint as to what
that was. So anyone who makes a suggestion,
just kindly smile and say, well, that's nice and ignore it. We're
nowhere given a hint as to what the strange fire was. They took
strange fire and offered it before the Lord, which he commanded
them not. And there went out a fire from
the Lord, and devoured them and they died before the Lord. Now first let me tell you there
are some obvious lessons, very important lessons taught by this
site. The things recorded here about
this astounding day. Learn this first. Grace never
runs in bloodlines. Grace never runs in families. Grace has nothing to do with
who your father is or who your mother is, and I mean nothing
to do with it, nothing. I know folks who would not subscribe
to the papal notions or the Protestant notions of a covenant family
and baptizing babies, and if you promise to raise your children
for God, they'll be gods, and they wouldn't suggest that at
all, but at the same time would turn around and say, I just believe
that Being in the family of a man or woman faithful to God, they
stand in a better position before God. A more hopeful position perhaps,
not a better position. Being kin to the most godly man
who ever walked on the earth doesn't bring grace to anybody. Being born of the families of
the most faithful men and women doesn't bring grace to anybody.
Folks who are brought into the church when they're babies, brought
into the church and raised in the church, sometimes they're
sprinkled and they call it baptism and they presume that they've
been saved all their lives. Our folks raised in the church
presume they've been Christians all their lives. Our Lord Jesus
tells us that those who are born of God are not born of blood,
nor the will of the flesh, nor the will of man, but of God. My one daughter, my grandchildren,
have no more claim on God's mercy than the sons and daughters of
Judas Iscariot. Neither do yours. The grace of
God is free and comes to men and women freely according to
God's purpose, only according to God's will. The sooner and
the more thoroughly we convince ourselves and convince our sons
and daughters that we and they are in the hands of a sovereign
God, the better off we will all be. Doesn't matter how closely you
love them, how much you care for them, how much you want their
salvation. Understand, salvation is of the
Lord. Salvation is of the Lord. Nadab
and Abihu had Moses for their uncle. Nadab and Abihu had Miriam for
their aunt. Nadab and Abihu had Aaron for
their father. And Nadab and Abihu are in hell. Learn this too. Grace cannot
be obtained by religious rituals. Perhaps the most damning practice
The most damning heresy ever perpetrated upon the souls of
men in the name of God is sacramentalism. It's common for people to refer
to baptism as a sacrament or the Lord's Supper as a sacrament.
That's horrible. That's horrible. That's nothing
but a Roman tradition. Several years ago, it's been
a good while ago now, the folks at Evangelical Press hired someone
to translate Brother Mahan's Bible class commentaries into
Spanish for the folks in Mexico, for the churches in Mexico. And
I got a call from Cody shortly after the work was done. I was
coming, going down there and going to be teaching in the preacher's
school. He said, could you bring us some studies at the preacher's
school on the observance of the ordinances? He said, the translators,
for some reason, translated the word ordinance, everywhere Henry
used the word ordinance, And it wasn't accidental. There's
a Spanish word for ordinance. I think it's ordinancia. They've translated it sacramental.
They've translated it sacrament. What's the difference? A sacrament
is a means whereby grace comes to sinners. A sacrament is a means by which
sinners obtain grace. You do not get grace by being
baptized. You do not get grace by eating
the bread and drinking the wine of the Lord's Supper. We keep
the ordinances in the confession of Christ, in the remembrance
of Christ, in the worship of Christ. But these are ordinances
to be observed, not sacraments by which we get grace from God. These men observed the sacramental
religion of the Old Testament without faith in Christ. Nadab
and Abihu were circumcised in their flesh, but they weren't
circumcised in heart. They kept the Passover, but they
didn't know Christ our Passover. They wore the garments of the
priesthood, but they never knew God's high priest. They went
through the consecration ceremonies, but knew nothing about consecration
to God. They had blood on their ear and
blood on their thumb and blood on their toe, but no blood in
their hearts. And number three, learn this. Multitudes, multitudes tread
the courts of God's house, go through the outward services
and ceremonies of religious devotion. Multitudes engage in the service
of religion with great zeal. who perish under the wrath of
God. Multitudes. Not a few multitudes. Not a few, the vast majority
of religious people. A mere form of godliness, be
it ever so precise and orthodox, may carry you to hell in fine
religious garb, with great religious pageantry, but it'll still carry
you to hell. Nadab and Abihu were priests
ordained by Moses. sent in the priesthood by Moses. But Nadab and Abihu walked in
the broad way that leads to destruction and perished. They never knew
Christ. They never knew faith in Christ. They were never born of God and
never taught of God. Now, here's the second thing.
Read verse one again. Nadab and Abihu, the sons of
Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein,
and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the
Lord, which he commanded them not. Now learn this second thing. In the matters of worship, in
all matters of doctrine, all matters of religious practice,
in all matters of worship, if God doesn't command it, it's
forbidden. If God doesn't command it, it's
forbidden. I believe this, I believe that.
Show me what it says in the book. What does it say in the book? If you can't show me where it
says it in the book, forget about trying to convince me of it.
With regard to all matters of doctrine, of worship, of religious
practice, if God doesn't command it, it's forbidden. Nadab and
Abihu, these two sons of Aaron, by an act of willful, calculated,
deliberate rebellion, rejected the counsel of God and dared
to approach God in a way that God did not specify. They brought strange fire in
direct violation to the revealed will of God. They came at the
wrong time. We won't look at it tonight,
but in Leviticus 16, you'll discover that these men came at their
own whim, not on the day of atonement, at the time when God required
that fire be brought into the holy place. They came when they
decided to come. They came when they chose to
come. Understand this. Would to God, I can make the
world hear this. You don't come to God when you
choose. You don't come to God when you
decide. And as long as you think you
can come to God when you choose, when you decide, you cannot and
have not come to God. We come to God according to his
will and his purpose at his appointed time by the call of his grace. They came to God at the wrong
time and they came to the wrong place. They came and brought
the strange fire, the fire by which they approached the Lord
God to the open outer court, not into the Holy of Holies where
God required that the fire be brought. They dab in a bayou,
came and approached near the Holy of Holies. They came into
the holy place, but they didn't take the fire in behind the veil
at the place of sacrifice. They came near. This is good
enough. This is fine enough. We've come
to the holy place. We've come here and we've made
some effort to come here and we brought our fire to the Lord.
God said, you bring it into the Holy of Holies where the mercy
seat is, where the altar is, where the ark of God and the
broken law is covered with blood atonement. That's the only way
you come, the only place you come. The only place for mercy
is Christ, the mercy seat. The only place for grace is the
throne of grace. You can't obtain mercy. You can't obtain grace by coming
to the front of a church building. I don't care if it's a Baptist
church or Pentecostal church. You can't obtain mercy. You cannot
obtain God's salvation by coming to the front of a stadium because
lots of other folks are coming. I don't care who's doing the
preaching, you can't obtain mercy there. You cannot obtain mercy
by moving your feet and walking down an aisle. Nobody ever has,
not you, not me, not your granddaddy, not mine. You obtain mercy at
the mercy seat by faith in Christ alone. Nowhere else, nowhere
else. And then Nadab and Abihu, they
came to God on their own. They came on their own, without
Aaron, without God's high priest. You see, all who vainly imagine
that they come to God at their own time, by their own choice,
always come without Christ. They always come without Christ.
Some years ago, a very good friend of mine in Ashland, One of the
fellows at church, or one of the fellows he worked with that
had some kind of revival meeting at one of the churches in town,
and he came to Jerry and he said, he said, well, you'll be happy
to know I went to church and got saved last night. And Jerry
looked at him and said, I don't think so. And the fellow was
just shocked. He shouldn't have said that.
He was right, he was right. You don't go to church and get
saved. God comes to you and brings you
to Christ. Well, that's saying the same
thing. If you think it's saying the same thing, you're as blind
as a bat. Oh no, oh no. These men came
without Aaron. They came without Christ and
they brought their own fire. Fire from off their own altar.
Not fire which came down from heaven. Not fire which God provided. Not fire that was found on God's
altar. But fire that they chose to bring. I have no doubt it
took some effort. I have no doubt it involved some
cost. I have no doubt it involved some
time. But it was their own fire. What they thought was worthy
of God's acceptance. Much like Cain's sacrifice. They brought what they wanted
to to God. They brought what impressed them
to God. They brought what would impress
other men to God. But God's not impressed with
what you bring. God accepts only what God requires. And God requires only what God
provides and God gives. And that's Christ Jesus the Lord.
All will worshipers bring strange fire to God. They bring something
of their own to God. They bring something of their
own to God. Now, Brother Don, I don't think
you ought to be that plain. Well, let me try it another way.
All will-worshippers, all will-worshippers bring something that they think,
they have done, felt, seen, or experienced by which they have
hope before God. And if you listen to them, when
they start talking about their hope before God, you'll find
out what it is. All you gotta do is just listen.
All you gotta do is just listen. Their decision, their prayer,
their walking down an aisle, their experience, their vision,
you'll find out what it is. And they're dabbing about you
like all who come to God by their own choice. coming to their own
place, coming with their own fire, ne dab in a bayou perished
under the wrath of God. Now hear me, my cherished friends. If you come to God like ne dab
in a bayou, if that's the religion you have, you too will perish
under the wrath of God. All right, here's the third thing.
Be sure you understand what the Holy Spirit teaches us here.
This is another lesson that's repeated numerous times in the
book of God. If we would come to God, we must
come to him in the way he has prescribed. First Chronicles
13 and 15 give us a pretty good picture of that. When David was
bringing the ark of God up to Jerusalem, He was dancing before
the ark, and the ark just kind of tipped in a ditch, and Uzzah
reached out to touch it, and God killed him. And David said,
this is the reason God brought a breach on us, because we sought
him not after the due order. We cannot worship God at an altar
of our own making. We cannot come to God with the
fire of our own kindling. We can't bring the censer of
our own incense. But blessed be his name, there
is one by whom sinners can and do come to God. And that one
is Jesus Christ, our Lord. By his blood and righteousness,
by his grace and power, by his merit and mediation, we come
to God. He's our altar. He's our priest. He's our sacrifice. He's our
way. He's our door. He's our reconciliation. He's our peace. By him we come
to God and he by whom we come to God is able to save to the
uttermost them that come to God by him. But there's no other
way. No other name whereby we must
be saved. Christ alone is the sacrifice
which God has accepted, by which God's glory is revealed, by which
sinners are accepted of God. He is the incense by which we are accepted of God,
as He is the propitiation for our sins. He is the justice satisfying
sacrifice for our sins. Always his intercession is the
incense accepted before God. Fourth, look at verse three. Faith in Christ gives us peace
in the midst of heartache. Then Moses said unto Aaron, This
is it that the Lord spake. This is what God told Moses at
Sinai. This is it which the Lord spake,
saying, I will be sanctified, hallowed. Our Father which art
in heaven, hallowed be thy name. I will be set apart as holy.
I will be distinguished as holy in them that come nigh me. And
before all the people, I will be glorified. And Aaron held
his peace. While studying this passage again
today, finishing up my notes, I turned over to Mr. Hawker and
read his commentary on this verse of scripture. After I read his
commentary, I sent another text to Brother Crabtree and quoted
from Hawker's statement here. He said, it is sweet in our afflictions
to eye the Lord's appointment and to depend upon it. As long
as we are enabled to keep in view divine wisdom, we shall
never despond by human suffering. I have difficulty speaking to
you or anyone else, speaking to Shelby or anyone about hardships
our friends are enduring. I had difficulty speaking about
it without emotion because I love them. I love them dearly. Not
because we're concerned about them dying. Please understand
that. I have said to my doctors for
years, dying is not a problem. That just is not a problem. It's
the process that's painful. And the process is painful. It's painful. But Aaron saw his
sons slaughtered, and their brothers saw them slaughtered by the hand
of God. And Aaron held his peace. Aaron held his peace. Two things
here. As horrid as those things must
have appeared before the eyes of those who observed what God
had done, Moses adored God and did so publicly. And Aaron held
his peace. as God required him to do. Nadab
and Abihu had been very impressive to men, impressive in their religious
performances, impressive in the fact that they were chosen to
the priesthood. But what they did in offering
their strange fire was to spit in God's face. And for that,
God killed them. And the only way we can sanctify
God in worship, I repeat, the only way we can worship God and
honor him in spirit and in truth is to worship God by faith in
Jesus Christ the Lord. Not only that, that faith of
which we speak so often involves not only believing God, and confessing
our sin and confessing his son. That faith involves bowing to
God, bowing to him. Now, I don't by
any means suggest that you or I worship God perfectly or believe
God perfectly. If I did, you would know from
your experience and from the book of God that I was deceiving
you. Our faith is anything but perfect. Anything but perfect. But faith involves bowing to
God's will, and believers do. It's not our First response to hardly anything,
is it? Should be, but it's not. We bow
when God bows us. And that's true in every circumstance.
Oh, Spirit of God, so rule my heart. So rule the hearts of
these, your people. that believing God, we bow to
him who is our father and our God, too wise to err, too strong
to fail, too good to do wrong, that we bow to him in all things. In the last day, in the day of
judgment, when the Lord God shall judge the wicked, And say to
those on his left hand, depart from me, you cursed. I never
knew you. The children of God, God's saints,
God's elect on his right hand will say, hallelujah. Hallelujah. God's done right. God's done right. As it shall be in the last day,
it ought to be every day. Let us cease from rebellion and
bow. Cease from insisting on our will
and bow. Cease from demanding our way
and bow to our God, our Savior and His way and His will. Oh,
may God give you grace that you may abound in hope through the
power of the Holy Ghost. How is that? By peace in believing. By peace in believing. Some of you have had very few
insignificant trials in the years I've known you. Some of you have
had heavy, heavy, heavy trials. Some of you have had great pain
and great trouble. And I weep with you in your weeping,
but I know precisely when you're comfortable in the trouble. And
that's when God gives you grace to bow. And I'll tell you exactly
how you find peace, no matter what the trouble is. You find
peace in believing. One of the reasons I refuse to
practice What men do today called pastoral counseling, it's really
just a nice word for acting like a priest. I want you, I hope
you know this, I want you young and old, I just said to Lindsay
and Diane's granddaughter, the last time they were here, I'm
here for you, you call me, write to me, I don't care day or night,
anytime, for the rest of your life. And Lindsay, I mean it,
I'm here for you. But I won't be a priest. I won't
be used as one. I won't act like one. I'll carry
your burden with you, I'll weep with you, I'll rejoice with you,
I'll try to help you in any way I can, but I will not act as
a priest between you and God. The only way you will find peace
is by believing on the Son of God. As Brother Rex read in Matthew
20, 18, who said, all power in heaven and earth is given to
me. He whose nail-pierced hands hold
the reins of the universe, he is God my Savior, whom I trust. It is true, yes, I trust him. And it is true. I trust Him moment
by moment, second by second, hour by hour, day by day, only
as He by His Spirit gives me grace to trust Him. And so it
is with you. Look at verses four through seven.
Here we have an account of the funeral of these two rebels. How little to say it. I've conducted
a good many such funerals. We're told that devout men carried
Stephen to his burial and made great lamentation for him, not
lamentation sorrowing for him, lamentation cause they miss him.
We're told that Nadab and Abihu died like Ananias and Sapphira. They were bound by the command
of God as unbelieving rebels and carried outside the camp
and burned. How striking the difference between
them and the just who are translated and never taste deaths. Blessed
are the dead that die in the Lord from henceforth. Look at verse four. Moses called
Mishael and Eli, I'm sorry, Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel, the uncle
of Aaron, and said unto them, come near, carry your brethren
from before the sanctuary out of the camp. So they went near
and carried them in their coats out of the camp, as Moses had
said. And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar, and unto Ithamar
his sons, uncover not your heads, neither rend your clothes, lest
ye die. Lest wrath come upon all the
people. But let your brethren, the whole
house of Israel, bewail the burning which the Lord hath kindled.
And ye shall not go out from the door of the tabernacle of
the congregation, lest ye die. For the anointing oil of the
Lord is upon you. And they did according to the
word of Moses. Moses' command seems to be strange,
even harsh, doesn't it? It seems to be strange, even
harsh. Very often, when a man speaks
for God, the message that needs to be heard by you, at the time
it needs to be heard by you, It sounds hard. And you think
that Mother Don's awfully hard. He's awful gruff. He ought to
soften things up. Moses' command appears harsh,
but there was a special, specific reason for it. Verse seven explains
it. Aaron, Eleazar, and Ithamar were
God's priests. The anointing oil of the Lord
was upon them. They were public men. They represented
the people before God and represented God before the people. I don't know how else to state
the burden and the responsibility that a pastor has. I tell preachers,
young and old, those who aspire to being preachers, young and
old, You represent God to his people. And you represent his people
to him. It is your responsibility to
behave like a man who represents God to his people. It's your
responsibility. And that which is my responsibility
as your pastor is your responsibility in your household, with your
family, in your community. You are all of God some people
know. Represent Him well. Represent
Him well all the time. All the time. Aaron and his younger boys were
commanded to stand still in the house of God giving no indication
of sorrow or even tenderness of heart at the slaughter of
their brothers and Abram's sons. Why? Because it was something
more important than their brothers and Abram's sons. Something more
important than their feelings and their emotions. Something
more important than their trouble and their sorrow and their heartache.
The will of God, the glory of God, the worship of God, the
people of God are more important than you and me. More important. Read verses 8 through 11 and
learn this. We must lead by example. By example, putting a difference
between that which is holy and that which is profane. The Lord
spake unto Aaron saying, do not drink wine nor strong drink thou
nor thy sons with thee when you go in to the tabernacle of the
congregation lest you die. It shall be a statute forever
throughout your generations and that ye may put a difference
or put difference between holy and unholy, between unclean and
clean. and that you may teach the children
of Israel all the statutes which the Lord hath spoken unto them
by the hand of Moses. Now let me give you the long
and short of that. I have had for the last almost
40 years the privilege of being pastor to you and your families. And it is my responsibility as
pastor, as God's messenger to you, as God's spokesman to your
sons and daughters, in all the relationships, my responsibility to behave in
such a manner and to preach in such a manner and to worship
in such a manner as to demonstratively demonstrate the difference between
the holy and the profane, the clean and the unclean, in behavior,
in doctrine, and in worship. If we would lead others to know
and worship our God, we must be calm and steady. serving him with clear minds
of understanding and judgment, never intoxicated with the wine
of Babylon's fornication. We must not drink the strong
drink of free will, but rather filled with the Spirit of God,
walking in the Spirit, directed by the Spirit for the glory of
God. Oh my God, what a failure. or a failure I've been, but the
responsibility is mine nonetheless. And the responsibility is yours
nonetheless. And then learn this, in the midst
of greatest heaviness, sorrow and trouble, the Lord God sent
Aaron and his sons a word of sweet assurance. Look at verse
12. And Moses spake unto Aaron. I'm so thankful that it didn't
begin but Moses, it says and Moses, as if this is just what
to expect. And unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar,
his sons that were left, take the meat offering, the sacrifice
that remaineth of the offerings of the Lord made by fire and
eat it without leaven beside the altar, for it is most holy. and ye shall eat it in the holy
place, because it is thy due and thy sons' due of the sacrifices
of the Lord made by fire, for so am I commanded, I am commanded.
And the wave breast and heave shoulder shall ye eat in a clean
place, thou and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, for
they be thy due and thy sons' due, which are given out of the
sacrifices and the peace offerings of the children of Israel. The
heave shoulder and the wave breast shall they bring with the offerings
made by fire of the fat to wave it for a wave offering before
the Lord. And it shall be thine and thy
sons with thee by statute forever as the Lord hath commanded. Why does Moses give us here almost
verbally exactly the same thing he stated in chapter six? He had a good reason. He does
so because he who is our God is God full of compassion. I
can almost picture Aaron and Eliezer and Itamar as they stood
speechless before God, before his servant Moses, as they saw
Nadab in a bayou carried out outside the camp to be burned,
burned like garbage, burned like worthless trash. They stand there
speechless. I can almost hear them thinking.
I can because I've heard it from many dear friends, pastors, deacons,
elders, missionaries. The sin, nay dabbing it by you,
wasn't a private thing. Our household had been publicly
dishonored, publicly dishonored God, and now we're no longer
fit to serve God. How can we lead anybody worshiping
God? How can we direct anybody in
the paths of divine worship? How can we even face them? How
can we expect anybody to pay attention to us? I'm certain that it was just
for such a reason as this, that God sent his prophet Moses to
Aaron, Eleazar, and Nethemar. Lest they should suppose that
they had forfeited their privileges by the horrible crimes of Nadab
and Abihu, God sent Moses to them and said, everything's all
right. Everything's all right. This
hasn't changed anything with me and you. This hasn't changed
anything. He who is our immutable God is
immutable in his grace. How often I've had pastors call
me broken hearted because of something their children had
done. I've had deacons, elders, missionaries that brokenhearted.
I've got to quit. Brother Don, what should I do?
Stay right where you are and do right what God's put in your
hands to do. God's grace will sustain you
and God's grace will overcome this thing and honor God where
you are. Whatever your trouble is, whatever
it is that vexes your heart, Whatever it is that bows you
with shame, understand this, my brother, my sister, my friends,
understand this. God's grace is unchanged. Surely goodness and mercy will
follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the
house of the Lord forever. Surely, goodness and mercy, nothing
but goodness and mercy will pursue you to your last breath in this
world, and then you shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
One more thing, in verses 16 through 20, we see that there's
only one sin offering by which the law and justice of God are
satisfied. And that one offering is Christ,
our crucified Redeemer. Moses diligently sought the goat
of the sin offering and behold, it was burnt. And he was angry
with Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron, which were left
alive saying, Wherefore have you not eaten the sin offering
in the holy place, seeing it is most holy? And God hath given
it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation and to make
atonement for them before the Lord. Behold, the blood of it
was not brought in within the holy place. You should indeed
have eaten it in the holy place as I commanded." Moses kind of
stiffly chides Aaron and his sons. And Aaron said to Moses,
behold this day have I offered their sin offering and their
burnt offering before the Lord and such things have befallen
me. Moses, do you know what's just
happened today? Yeah. You told my boys to carry
their brothers and my sons out and burn them like trash outside
the camp because they offered strange fire to God. They're
the ones who brought the sacrifice. Had I eaten the offering they
brought, I would have led the children of Israel to follow
their rebellion and sinned against God. Had I eaten their offering
today, should it have been accepted in the sight of the Lord? Of
course not. And when Moses heard that, Moses was content. Let me see if I can paraphrase
accurately. Moses said, oh, I see. Brother Aaron, thank you for
reminding me. There's just one offering that
God will accept. One offering that satisfies God's
law, His justice, His righteousness, and His truth. And that one offering
is Christ, our sin offering, who knew no sin, who had made
sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God
in Him. And you bring God that one offering. And God's law, God's justice,
God's truth. He says, oh, I see. That's it. That's it. That's all I require.
Nothing else.