Good morning. Let's open this
morning's service with hymn number 223 from the Hardback Temple. 223, Arise, My Soul, Arise. We sing this to a different tune
that's written here if you read music. Let's all stand together. Arise, my soul, arise, shake
off thy guilty fears. The bleeding sacrifice in my
behalf appears. Before the throne my surety stands. My name is written on his hands. My name is written on his hands. He ever lives above for me to
intercede His all-redeeming love, His precious blood to plead His
blood atoned for all my sin And sprinkles now the throne of grace
And sprinkles now the throne of grace Five bleeding wounds
he bears Received on Calvary they pour effectual prayers,
they strongly plead for me. Forgive him, O forgive, they
cry, nor let that ransomed sinner die, nor let that ransomed sinner
die. The Father hears him pray, his
dear anointed one. He cannot turn away the presence
of his Son. His spirit answers to the blood
and tells me I am born of God, and tells me I am born of God. My God is reconciled, His pardoning
voice I hear. He owns me for His child, I can
no longer fear. ? With confidence I now draw
nigh ? ? And Father, Abba, Father, cry ? ? And Father, Abba, Father,
cry ? Please be seated. Good morning. There's a line in that hymn that
we just sang that says, Lord, don't let that ransomed sinner
die. That's not possible. Not possible. All that the Lord Jesus Christ
purchased with his precious blood will never die and never die. Let's open our Bibles together
to Judges chapter six. Judges chapter six, I actually
made reference to this last Sunday very briefly, but I want us to
look at it in more detail this morning. Gideon's Fleece, Romans
chapter, Judges chapter six, beginning at verse 36, Gideon's
Fleece. Let's go to the Lord together
in prayer and ask his blessings. Our heavenly Father, once again
in your merciful and loving providence. You have brought us here to this
place. You promised to meet with us. You've given us your word. Lord, we ask for your spirit. We pray that you would speak
to our hearts. We pray that you would give us
hope in Christ and Lord that you would show us how glorious
his ransomed work is for sinners, and that we would rest all the
hope of our salvation and the hope of our lives here in this
world on thy dear son. For it's in his name we pray,
amen. The Old Testament is full of
types and shadows that were all fulfilled in the Lord Jesus Christ. The passage that we're about
to look at this morning is no different. Hebrews chapter 10, verse nine,
the scripture says, lo, I come to do thy will, O God. The Lord Jesus Christ is the
one who fulfilled the perfect will of God. He goes on to say,
he taketh away the first that he might establish the second. Now what that means is that the
Lord Jesus Christ himself fulfilled these types and shadows. And
so we don't go back to these Old Testament types and shadows
and try to reenact them. We don't reenact the Sabbath
day laws. The Lord Jesus Christ is our
Sabbath day. He took away the first that he
may establish the second. We don't try to reenact the the
Passover. I know there are some religious
groups that go into great detail to try to reenact the Passover. No, the Lord Jesus Christ is
our Passover lamb, and we look in faith to him. So in order
to understand these Old Testament passages, as they are fulfilled
in Christ, the Lord has to give us eyes of faith to look to Christ. And I hope he'll do that this
morning. I've heard so many people say, well, you know, you just
need to put out your fleece in order to discern the will of
God concerning an issue. That's minding the things of
the flesh is what that's doing. that's looking for some physical
evidence to discern the will of God. And that can only be
discerned through the eyes of faith. It can only be discerned
by the Spirit of God. We don't walk by sight, we walk
by faith. And that can only be accomplished
if the Lord's pleased to give us faith and to give us his spirit,
because left to ourselves, we will put our trust and our hope
in those things that we can see. The rest of that verse in Hebrews
chapter 10 says, by the which will, he taketh away the first
that he may establish the second, by the which will we are sanctified
through the body of the Lord Jesus Christ once and for all.
So Christ truly is the end of the law for righteousness to
everyone that believeth. The Lord gives us faith in Christ,
then we will understand these Old Testament types and shadows
as they are meant to point to him. We don't look for water to come
out of a rock when we're thirsty. We know that the Lord Jesus Christ
is that rock that followed the children of Israel through the
wilderness and that that rod was the rod of God's justice
that fell on him when he hung as our substitute and our sin
bearer on the cross of Calvary. All these types and shadows,
we don't look for manna to fall from heaven when we're hungry.
We know that the Lord Jesus Christ is the bread of life, and he's
the one who feeds our souls, and he's the one who provides
us all that we need in this life and in the life to come. In the
volume of the book, it is written of me. I hope that the Lord will
give us some understanding this morning. We don't wear priestly robes.
We don't build ornate temples. These are all Old Testament types
and pictures which point to the Lord Jesus Christ. We don't make
blood sacrifices. The Lord Jesus Christ was the
fulfillment of all those blood sacrifices that were made throughout
all the Old Testament. So why would we take this passage
of scripture and try to make something physical out of it? The Pharisees, you remember,
came before the Lord and said, show us a sign. You see, when
men talk about putting out their fleece, what they're looking
for is some physical sign. How do we look for those things?
You say, well, I don't do that. Well, do you look to the evidences
of salvation in your life for your hope? We all do that. We are all tempted to do that,
and we do it. The accuser of the brethren often
has us looking away from Christ to our own lives to see whether
or not we're really saved. That's putting out a fleece.
That's looking for a sign or a wonder. It's not, you know, how about a feeling? Many think,
well, you know, I've got to have a feeling before I can know for
sure that I'm saved. That's another putting out of
the fleece, isn't it? The Lord said unto those Pharisees
and Sadducees, a wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign,
but no sign will be given unto it except for the sign of Jonah.
Tom, you read from that this morning in the men's study. The
sign of Jonah, who spent three days and three nights in the
belly of the whale. What is that a picture of? The
Lord Jesus Christ, who was cast off of the ship into the turbulent
sea, who brought calm to the sea and was swallowed by the
great fish, and three days and three nights spent in the belly
of the earth, and then declared, salvation is of the Lord, and
the fish vomited him up on dry ground. There's the sign. You see, the sign can only be
seen through the eyes of faith. The sign is looking to the Lord
Jesus Christ as the fulfillment of these types and shadows. Furthermore, men are really not
convinced about signs and wonders. They're really not, not according
to the scriptures. The Lord said, woe unto you,
Bethsaida, woe unto you, Chorazin. For if the mighty works that
were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would
have repented a long time ago. The Lord Jesus Christ went to
Chorazin and he went to Bethsaida and he performed miraculous things. And they didn't believe. They
were the ones who said, show us a sign. For I say unto you, it shall
be more tolerable for sirentide and then for you in the day of
judgment is what the Lord said to those Pharisees who were looking
for a sign. We want something we can see
with our physical eyes. Well, if the physical side is
all you have, then that's all you have to hang your hopes on,
isn't it? But if God gives you eyes of faith, then you can look
to Christ and rest the hope of your salvation in him. The natural
man can't do that. I pray right now that each one
of us are saying, Lord, give me your spirit. Lord, open the
eyes of my understanding. Lord, Lord, enable me to do that,
which is impossible for the natural man to do. You remember the rich man that went
to hell and He saw Abraham across this great gulf that was fixed
between him. And he prayed for Lazarus to
come down and put his finger on his tongue to cool his torment.
And Abraham said, there's a great gulf fixed between us. This is
set. There's no turning back. And
he said, well, he said, I have five brothers. I have five brothers. Go and warn them of this place
of torment. What did Abraham say? They have
the law and the prophets. And the rich man from hell said,
but Lord, if one raised from the dead, then they would believe.
And the Lord said, no, they won't. Though one raised from the dead,
yet they will not believe if they believe not Moses and the
prophets. Faith comes by hearing and hearing
comes by the word of God. If God gives us faith, we will
believe God and we'll rest our hope in the promises that he's
given for the salvation of his people in the person and work
of the Lord Jesus Christ. This is a walk of faith. This religion, if I could call that,
that we have is of the heart. It's of the heart. Men look at
the outward appearances and they go about trying to impress one
another and convince one another from the outward appearances.
This faith that we have is a miracle of grace that works in the heart
that can only come from God. We won't be convinced by signs
and wonders. If we don't believe God's word,
then no miracle will convince us. The other thing I would say about
looking for a sign or a wonder of putting out your fleece is
that this most often is nothing more than a self-fulfilling prophecy. In other words, you put out a
fleece and you're going to get the answer that you're looking
for. Isn't that what we do? We already decide what we really
want to do. So we try to make something spiritual out of it
and look for a sign. And sure enough, we find it.
We find the sign that affirms what we already decided we wanted
to do. Men are trying to discern the
will of God by putting out fleeces. Turn with me to Romans. We looked
at this passage Wednesday night. I want to just call your attention
to it again. Romans chapter 12. And there's
a brief article in your bulletin this morning that might help
you to understand this passage as well. After the first 11 chapters
of the book of Romans where the Lord declares most clearly and
comprehensively the gospel of God's free grace in the finished
work of the Lord Jesus Christ, he says, I beseech you, therefore,
In light of this, in light of who Christ is, in light of what
He has done, I beseech you, therefore, by the mercies of God, that you
present yourselves a living sacrifice, wholly acceptable unto God, which
is your reasonable service. and be not conformed to this
world. Don't be looking for physical
signs, but rather be transformed by the renewing of your mind
in Christ Jesus that you might prove, you see that in verse
two, that you might prove what is the good and acceptable and
perfect will of God. Some of us used to think in religion,
well, you know, if I could just get myself in the right spiritual
state of mind, then that I could walk in God's perfect will for
my life versus his imperfect will or versus his permissive
will or whatever. The word prove here means to
inspect a thing in order to determine it to be genuine. What are we doing? We're inspecting
the life of the Lord Jesus Christ. We're looking in faith to the
life of the Lord Jesus Christ to prove, to show the perfection
of His walk and His obedience. And we know that, you know, we're
gonna build things that are gonna, that God's gonna tear down. And
we're gonna And we're going to tear down things that are going
to have to be rebuilt. You know, there's just this idea that there's
some sort of utopia. There's some sort of Nirvana
that a believer can achieve and live in a state of bliss in terms
of the perfect will of God. Whatever God has ordained for
each of us is perfect. It's perfect. It's good. It's
acceptable. In looking in faith to the Lord
Jesus Christ, we come to this conclusion. God has us right
where we're supposed to be. So, you see this renewing of
your mind in Christ Jesus is having faith in Christ. having
faith in Christ. And then you shall be able to
approve or discern or determine it to be genuine what the Lord
is doing and rest in his good providence, believing that he
does nothing but good for his children. We don't look for miracles. We
don't look for experiences. We don't look for physical evidences.
We don't look for feelings. We look in faith to Christ. So how do I do that? Only by
the power of God. The spirit of God anointing the
word of God to the heart of God's people. reveals the glory of
Christ and enables us to believe on Him, to rest in Him, to trust
Him. 1 Corinthians 1, the Jews require
a sign. The Greeks seek after wisdom. but we preach Christ crucified. To the Jews, a stumbling block,
and to the Greeks, foolishness, but to them that are being saved,
Christ, the power of God. Christ is the power of God. And Christ Jesus is the wisdom
of God. You still have your Bibles open
to the judges. Chapter six, and Gideon said unto God, if thou
wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said. Gideon requiring a sign is only
evidence of his own unbelief. He just confessed, Lord, I know
you said this. I know you said it, but I need
a sign to prove that your word is reliable. See, faith doesn't do that. That's
just unbelief that does that. Behold, I will put a fleece of
wool in the floor. Now, you remember when God first
spoke to to Gideon, he was threshing wheat behind the wine press. This word floor is the word threshing
floor. So Gideon has gone back to the
very place where God began to speak to him. And he said, I'm
going to put this fleece of wool out on the threshing floor. What
is that threshing floor significant of? Well, it's the pouring out of
God's wrath on the Lord Jesus Christ, separating the wheat
from the chaff. What is the fleece a picture
of? Well, that's clear, isn't it? Adam, when he rebelled against
God and caused the whole human race to fall into depravity and
sin, tried to cover up his nakedness by sewing together fig leaves,
didn't he? You know what we do? We try to cover up our shame
and our guilt with the works of our hands. Well, I can make
up for that. I can do something about that. I can, I can earn
some favor with God. This is a shadow. This is a type,
this whole, this whole putting out of the fleece is pointing
believers to look to Christ. I will put out a fleece of wool.
This is the lamb without spot and without blemish. This is
the one that John the Baptist spoke of when he said, behold,
the lamb of God, which taketh away the sins of the world. And
God clothed Adam with skins, the scripture says. The Bible
is not explicit about what kind of skin it was, but you know
it had to be a lamb skin. Yeah, it's consistent throughout
all scripture. The Lord Jesus Christ is that
perfect lamb of God. He's the Passover lamb. He's
the one that the Lord told Moses, you take a lamb for a man. Each household is to have a lamb,
one year old. You inspect him, bring him into
your home, inspect that lamb and make sure there's nothing
wrong with it. And then in three days, you're going to kill that
lamb and you're going to consume every bit of that lamb by fire. And then you're going to take
the blood of that lamb and you're going to put it on the doorpost
and the lentils of your home. And when the death angel comes
through and I see the blood, then I will pass by you. The
Lord Jesus is that Passover lamb. He's the one who shed his precious
blood on Calvary's cross. God looks to his blood. What
is faith? Faith is looking to the same
thing that God's looking to. Faith is believing God. God said,
when I see the blood, not when I see your signs, not when I
see your feelings, not when I see the evidences of your salvation
in your life, not when I see your commitment or your sincerity,
or even your faith. When I see the blood, I'll pass
by you. Lord, enable me. We can't look at that blood right
now. That blood was shed 2000 years ago. It was taken and put
on the mercy seat in heaven. The only way to see that blood
now is through the eyes of faith. This idea of looking for a sign
and putting out a fleece and insisting that God prove his
word by something physical that we can see. It's just an evidence
of unbelief, isn't it? Gideon said, I will take a fleece
and I will put it on the floor. Look at, and if the dew be on
the fleece only and it be dry upon all the earth beside, then
shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by my hand, as thou hast
already said. Faith comes by hearing and hearing
comes by the word of God. Oh, to call God's Word into question. Do you believe God? You just
believe Him, don't you? You believe the Lord Jesus Christ
is the Son of God. You believe He's the successful,
sovereign Savior of sinners. But He's the only hope that you
have. to stand in the presence of a
holy God, to have him as your sin bearer and as your substitute,
to have him stand in your stead as your surety before God. Do
you believe that? That's what the Bible says. Faith
just say, hey man, I believe that. I do believe that. You believe yourself to be a
sinner? Do you have no merit? or anything that you can offer
God for a sure standing and hope of salvation, nothing, nothing,
nothing whatsoever, that in you dwelleth no good thing. That's faith. You say, well,
I don't know if I feel the shame and the sorrow of my sin as I
ought. No, you don't. And you can't. The Lord Jesus Christ is the
only one that felt the shame and sorrow of sin as it ought
to be felt. You see, believing that you're
a sinner is not feeling the full burden of your sin. It's believing
God. It's just believing God. God
said you're a sinner, so that settles it. Oh, the wet fleece. What is the water? It's the Word
of God. It's the Spirit of God. Here's
the Lord Jesus Christ coming in this world as the Christ,
the Messiah, the Anointed One, laid on the ground of this earth
at the threshing floor. He came in the likeness of sinful
flesh, but he was not sinful. He was tried in all ways that
we are yet without sin, without sin. What did they say when they,
well, this is Joseph's son. He can't be the Messiah. He can't be the son of God. And
then the Lord asked them, why do you stone me? For the good
works that I do? No. Not for the good works that
you do, but because you, being a man, make yourself out to be
God. You're claiming to be God. Here's God incarnate. This is
the fleece. the wet fleece that came into
this world, Emmanuel, God with us, the sovereign, omnipotent,
immutable, holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners and higher
than the heavens, Son of God. And Gideon saying, Lord, show
me a sign. Show me that this fleece is gonna
be wet with the dew from heaven. What is the dew? Dew is mentioned
many times in the scriptures. In Hosea chapter 14 verse 5,
God says, I shall be a dew unto Israel. Now what is it that causes
dew? These little tiny droplets on
the grass and the trees that this invisible humidity that's
in the air when the temperature gets to a certain level, the
dew point. We didn't have dew this morning.
I checked it. The dew point this morning was 63 degrees. It was
67 or something in my house. So there's no dew. But when it
gets to that cold point, it takes two things. It takes coldness
and it takes darkness, doesn't it? Lord, I need you to be the
dew from heaven. Lord, my heart is cold. And Lord,
I can't see. I'm in the dark. If you don't
come and be the dew for me. And here's the Lord Jesus Christ. You know, Scripture says that the Lord
Jesus rejoiced in his heart, but it never mentions him laughing. Why? because he was holy, harmless,
separate from sinners. This world was nothing but a
constant conflict to him. You and I have become so accustomed
to sin that we don't feel it. He never was jovial or laughed. He suffered. The contradiction
of this world. God made flesh dwelling among
us. I shall be as the dew unto Israel. This is the Spirit of God and
the Word of God that anointed the Lord Jesus Christ when he
came into this world. And this is the same Spirit of
God and Word of God that anoints us. Now he was anointed with
the oil of gladness way above his fellows. He had the full
anointing of the Spirit of God, but we get the anointing of the
Spirit of God, which we're going to see in the rest of this, in
the rest of this type, this shadow, this picture of the spiritual
reality that's fulfilled in Christ. Because after, well, Let me read
a couple more passages. In Michael chapter five, verse
seven, and the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many
people as a do from the Lord. So here's the church now that
the Lord refers to as the do from God. Preaching the gospel. Declaring
hope in Christ. That's all we're here to do. That's it. This is a dry and thirsty land, isn't
it? It's a desert. No man can live
here, not spiritually, apart from that dew that comes from
heaven. The same dew that fell upon this
this fleece and anointed the Lord Jesus Christ to be completely
successful. Listen to what the Lord says
in Micah chapter seven, as the showers upon the grass that tarrieth
not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men. In other words,
God's saying, when I send this dew from heaven, It's not waiting
for you to do something in order to earn it. It tarryeth not for
man. It's not waiting for, God doesn't
wait for us to get ourselves in some spiritual state of repentance
and faith in order for him to pour out that dew from heaven. He requires nothing. Exodus chapter 16, when the manna
fell from heaven, the Bible says the dew was on the ground every
morning. And when the dew went up, behold,
upon the face of the wilderness, there was a small round thing. So again, we see the connection
between the dew and the manna. The manna is Christ. He said,
Abraham, Moses didn't give you that bread from heaven. My father,
I am the bread of life revealed in the word of God. So it's the,
again, we see this over and over again in the Bible. It's the
spirit of God married to the word of God, speaking the truth
of God to God's people. That's where faith comes. And
anything else is walking by sight. Numbers chapter 11, verse nine,
and when the dew fell upon the camp at night, the manna fell
upon it. Dew and manna, again, the two
things together. The dew is the anointing of the
spirit of God. The manna is the word of God,
all fulfilled in the God-man, the Lord Jesus Christ. Deuteronomy chapter 32 says,
give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak, and hear, O ye earth,
the words of my mouth. My doctrine shall drop as the
rain, my speech shall distill as the dew upon the tender herbs. When God speaks, you remember
when Elijah went back to the law, he was looking for some
physical evidence of God's blessings. He went back to Mount Horeb and
the Lord said to Elijah, he said, Elijah, what are you doing here?
And he went out of the cave and the rocks rent from the wind
and the Lord was not in it. And the rain fell and the Lord
was not in it. And the wind blew and the Lord
was not in it. And then there came a still small
voice. There's the dew. There's the dew from heaven.
It's the droplets of life that cannot be seen visibly
in the air, but at the right temperature and the right darkness,
it accumulates and gives life in a dry land. My speech shall
drop as due. You see, when we look for a sign,
we're looking for God to raise his voice and, you know, and
do something that we're like Gideon. I know you, Lord, you
said this, but show me something more. Now I'm going to speak. When I speak, it's going to be
in a still, small voice. You're going to have to be still
and know that I am God. You're going to have to be quiet.
You're going to have to come to me in the coldness and blackness
of your heart and listen, listen. And James said to be swift to hear
and slow to speak. I was reading Daniel chapter
four and chapter five. I was looking up this word do
in the Bible. And the number five is the number
in the Bible for grace. And you remember Nebuchadnezzar
was lifted up in pride and he sought this great kingdom, which
I had built to my glory. And the Lord, the Lord smote
him with a, well, He made him a lunatic is what he did. He
turned him into a beast. And five times in Daniel chapter
four and Daniel chapter five, the scripture says that Nebuchadnezzar's
body was wet with the dew of the earth. Seven times passed
over him. So for seven years, he's crawling
around eating grass, his fingernails are growing, his hair is growing,
and he's being wet with the dew from heaven. And at the end of that perfect
time of seven years, his mind returned unto him. Why did it
return unto him? Because God wasn't waiting for
him to do anything. God was wetting him with the
dew from heaven every night. until God was prepared to restore
him. And in response, the scripture
says, his understanding returned unto him and he honored. He honored him that liveth forever,
whose dominion if it's an everlasting dominion. He goes on to say that
all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing. He doeth
according to his will with the armies of heaven and all the
inhabitants of the earth, and no man can stay his hand or say
unto him what doeth thou. Isn't that glorious? What made the difference? God
was wetting his body for seven years every night with the dew
of heaven and brought him to that place of understanding. how dependent we are on that
due, which waiteth not for man. It
doesn't matter how much of the Bible you know, how moral you
are, how religious you are, how hard you try, how sincere and
committed you are. God's not waiting for us to do
something in order for that due to fall from heaven. What makes us fit for the dew
to fall? To believe how unfit we are. Lord, I don't have anything to
offer to merit that dew from heaven. Lord, have mercy upon
me. The natural man cannot receive
the things of the spirit. Left to ourselves, we will go.
left to ourselves, we will go from bad to worse. We will. Ezekiel, I mean, Gideon put this
fleece out on the threshing floor and the scripture says the ground
around it was dry. How dry, lifeless, and thirsty. we are and this world is in which
we live. There's no life. Ezekiel, valley of dry bones. Son of man, can these bones live?
What did the prophet say? Lord, thou knowest. Lord, if
they're going to live, you're going to have to make them live.
Lord, if I'm going to be wet with the dew of heaven, you're
going to have to wet me with the dew of heaven. If I'm going to have life, you're
going to have to give me life. Lord, if you're waiting on something
for me, for me to earn it or deserve it or be worthy of it,
Lord, it'll never happen. It'll never happen. I'm completely
dependent upon your mercy and your grace. And that's why the Lord Jesus
Christ fulfilled the second part of this type, this sign. Look
what happens. Go back with me to our text. Verse 38, and it was so, for
he rose up early in the morning and thrust the fleece together
and wringed the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water. What is that a picture of? You
gonna put out a fleece tonight? Wait for the dew and ring it?
No. You gonna look for a sign in your life? No, no. Here's the sign. No sign should
be given unto this generation except for the sign of Jonah.
Here it is. The life of the Lord Jesus Christ
was wrung out by the hand of God on Calvary's cross. He poured out his soul unto death. God saw the travail of his soul
and God was satisfied. The agony of Christ on Calvary's
cross. Yes, it was physical. It was
physical, but And we can relate a little. We've all experienced
some sort of pain in our physical body. So we can relate somewhat
as to what it would be like to have nails driven through our
hands and feet and crown of thorns. And the physical things were
awful. But we can never begin to enter
into that cup that he drank from. Here again, it's just believing
God. Father, if there be any way this cup can pass from me,
let it be nevertheless not my will, but thine be done. Father,
forgive them for they know not what they're doing. They can't
understand how awful their sin is. The ringing out of this fleece
is what the Lord Jesus Christ experienced when the father poured
out the full wrath of his fury on him on Calvary's cross to
satisfy divine justice. And let me say this, the real, I don't know how to say it, but Often we think of the Lord Jesus
Christ dying for his church and for his people, and rightly so,
for he did. But we ought to think more about
him dying for me. Many have laid down their lives
for the masses, and we don't know who most of them are. But what if someone laid down
their life personally for you? Just for you. I mean, physically. They put their life and sacrificed
their life so that your life could be saved. Especially it being the sinless
Son of God, dying for such a worm like me. I just want to encourage you,
brethren, to think more about Christ dying for you, rather
than just dying for the just dying. See, that's why I said
I don't know how to say this. I don't know how to say this,
but you understand what I'm trying to say. Verse 39, and Gideon said unto
God, let not thine anger be hot against me, and I will speak
but this once more. Let me prove, I pray thee, but
this once more with the fleece, let it now be dry only upon the
fleece and upon the ground, let there be dew. And God did so
that night for it was dry upon the fleece only and there was
dew on the ground. The Lord Jesus Christ was put
into the grave. He suffered hell and judgment
and the wrath of God that the dew from heaven might go out
from the fleece to the dry ground. This is the shadow. This is the
type. It was fulfilled in time 2,000
years ago. It was fulfilled in eternity
in the covenant of grace. We have the Lord Jesus Christ
right now sitting at the right hand of God, interceding for
us. And here's what God says, set
your affections on things above, where Christ is seated at the
right hand of God. That takes the eyes of faith,
doesn't it? Well, let's put out a fleece.
No, the fleece has been put out. It's already been put out. Faith, walking by faith is believing
God, isn't it? Just believe in God. All right,
let's take a break.