Alright brethren, let's turn
to two places. I want you to turn to Leviticus
chapter 16. I want you to turn to Hebrews
chapter 5. We are going to be back and forth
between Leviticus and Hebrews. Our subject is atonement for
a particular people. Christ made atonement. That's what he accomplished.
He accomplished redeeming his people. He made atonement with
God by his death on the cross for God's elect only. For God's
elect only. Now the terms limited, when we
talk about limited atonement, we talk about particular redemption. The terms limited in particular
mean that, that Christ died only for God's elect. only for the
elect. Most, you know, preach and believe
universal atonement. And they say Christ died for
all men without exception, and then it's up to the sinner to
believe on Him and make His blood effectual. And that's blasphemy,
brethren. It brings Christ down, exalts
the sinner. Christ said, I laid down my life
for the sheep. God said in Isaiah 53, for the
transgression of My people was He stricken. The word atonement
means two parties that are enemies have been brought into friendship
at one minute. The word in the Old Testament
means to purge, means to cleanse. Hebrews 1.3 said, when Christ
had by Himself purged our sins, He sat down at the right hand
of the Father. The word means to reconcile.
God was in Christ reconciling His people unto Himself. The
word means to cover. The blood of the Lord Jesus Christ
covered all the sins of God's elect. David said, blessed is
the man to whom God will not impute sin and whose sin is covered. Redemption means a price was
paid. A price was paid. When we buy
something in a store, we redeem it. We pay the price and we own
it. And that's what Christ did and
the price was His blood. He laid down His life, paid His
blood, bought His people from the curse and condemnation of
the law so that we are His purchased possession. Now He accomplished
that for His particular people. Now we're going to see this today
and we're going to see it in the Day of Atonement. I'm going to go a little at a
time here in Leviticus 16, and we'll look to how the Hebrew
writer speaks on this. And I can't point out everything
in here, but I'm going to point out mainly Christ and the high
priest. and then we'll see Christ in
the sacrifices and we'll see what the result of it was when
the high priest came out and blessed the people. Now first
of all, the high priest was chosen by God. He's chosen by God. It says here, verse 1 says, the
Lord spake to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron
when they offered before the Lord and died. They came trying
to make an offering of their own as they purposed and as they
would, and God killed them. And that's a good way to start
this lesson. You and me can't offer to God
an offering that's going to please Him and make atonement for our
sins. We just can't do it. We're sinners
and we're going to have to come to God trusting His Son to have
made atonement for us. But it's Christ who God the Father
chose. And it says here, And the Lord
said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother. Now, God chose Aaron
to be the high priest, just like God chose Christ to be the high
priest. Now in Hebrews 5, Hebrews 5 verse
4 says, No man taketh this honor unto himself, but he that is
called of God, as was Aaron. So also Christ glorified not
himself to be made a high priest, but he that said unto him, Thou
art my son, today have I forgotten thee. That ought to make all
men cease boasting that we made ourselves believers, or we sanctified
ourselves and made ourselves saints, or we made ourselves
preachers, or anything that, you know, men boast that they
made themselves. Christ did not even glorify himself to be made
a high priest. God the Father chose His Son
to be the High Priest. And it's the same with those
He saves. He chooses His people. He's the one that gives us faith.
He's the one that puts His preacher in the pulpit. No man glorifies
himself in anything regarding salvation. It's all of the Lord.
But the Lord chose Christ to be the High Priest. Now, verse
2 says, Leviticus 16.2, and the Lord said to Moses, speak to
Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy
place within the veil before the mercy seat, which is upon
the ark. Don't come at all times in its
holiest of holies. that he die not, for I will appear
in the cloud upon the mercy seat. Now he could not go in there
all the time, but when he did go, only Aaron could go. Look
down at verse 17. There should be no man in the
tabernacle of the congregation when he goeth in to make an atonement
in the holy place. Only Aaron, only the high priest. Now look at Hebrews chapter 9,
and we'll see what the Lord's declaring by that. Hebrews 9, 7 says, into the second,
into the second room, the holiest of holies, went the high priest
alone. once every year, not without
blood, which he offered for himself and for the errors of the people. He says there, the Holy Ghost
is signifying that the way into the holiest of all was not yet
made manifest while as the first tabernacle was yet standing,
which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered
both gifts and sacrifices that could not make him that did the
service perfect as pertaining to the conscience. They stood
only in meats and drinks and different washings and carnal
ordinances imposed on them to the time of Reformation. So Aaron,
he couldn't go into the holy place all the time and he could
only go, when he did go, only he could go. Isaiah 63, 3, the
Lord said, I have trodden the winepress alone. This work of
redemption is by Christ the high priest alone. This work of making
atonement is by Christ alone. He said, of the people there
was none with me. That's the picture we have in
Aaron going in alone. And if you sometime you read
Leviticus 16 and read the whole thing through, you'll see everything
that was done on that day of atonement was done by Aaron the
high priest. And everything that's done for
his people in making atonement and redeeming us was accomplished
by Christ alone. Everything. Now, we saw there
the high priest must enter with the blood of a lamb. When he
went in, he had to go along, and he had to come with the blood
of a lamb. Now look at Leviticus 16, look down at verse 14. And he shall take of the blood
of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy
seat eastward. And before the mercy seat shall
he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times. The number
of perfection. Then shall he kill the goat of
the sin offering that is for the people, and bring his blood
within the veil, and do with that blood as he did with the
blood of the bullet, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before
the mercy seat. And he shall make an atonement
for the holy place because of the uncleanness of the children
of Israel, and because of their transgressions and all their
sins. And so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation
that remaineth among them in the midst of their uncleanness.
And there shall be no man in the tabernacle of the congregation
when he goeth in to make an atonement in the holy place, until he come
out and have made an atonement for himself, and for his household,
and for all the congregation of Israel. Why did he have to
go in with blood? Hebrews 9 verse 22 tells us,
Almost all things are by the law purged with blood, and without
the shedding of blood is no remission. He tells us there in Hebrews
9, remember when Moses came down from Mount Sinai and God gave
that first covenant, gave the law and Moses had to slay a lamb
and he took blood and hyssop and he sprinkled the people,
he sprinkled the book of the covenant, he sprinkled everything
with blood. That first testament began with
the sprinkling of this blood. Well the New Testament Wherein
we are under the grace of God and know that all things have
been accomplished in making atonement and redeeming us to God is all
through the blood of Christ. We sinned and we had to die. And so the substitute had to
come and lay down his life in our place and shed his blood
to make atonement for our sin. Now, go back with me to Leviticus
16. And I want you to notice the
garments that he was to wear as he did this work. What we're
going to see here, he couldn't wear his glorious apparel. He
had to take that off. Christ is the Son of God. Glorious. But when he came down to do this
work for his people, he humbled himself. And He laid aside His
glory as the Son of God and He took flesh like His brethren.
And He obeyed God the whole time He walked this earth. and he
was holy through and through. And that's what we have pictured
here in these garments. Verse 4, He shall put on the
holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches upon
his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen girdle, and with
the linen mitre shall he be attired. These are holy garments. Therefore
he shall wash his flesh in water, and so put them on. The priest
had to... Ceremonially, the picture here
is he's holy through and through. He's not wearing these glorious
garments. He's wearing these humble garments. And this is
what's important to note. The scripture says Christ, He
humbled Himself. He took the form of a servant.
and being found in fashion as a man. It says He humbled Himself
and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
Now, we know by the Scripture that He hath made Him sin for
us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of
God in Him. But be sure to understand this, He's the spotless Lamb. And when the Lord Jesus Christ
came, just like these offerings we're going to see, they had
to be spotless. And Christ was spotless. He's perfect. He's just. He's holy. And when
He came to the Father, and the Father laid on Him the sin of
His people, made Him sin for His people, He really bore our
sin. But our Lord Jesus Christ continued
looking only to the Father. He was holy in His heart, trusting
the Father. And that's what we have here. He was obedient to the Father,
even to the death of the cross. even to the death of the cross.
Now secondly, I want to see this in the offerings. In the offerings
back here in Leviticus 16.5. Leviticus 16.5 says, And he shall
take of the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of
the goats for a sin offering and one ram for a burn offering.
We're not going to look much today at the burnt offering,
but you know Scripture, all these offerings picture Christ. He
bore the fire of God's wrath and consumed that fire, satisfied
justice for His people. But that's what we have pictured
here in the burnt offering. But there's two kids of the goats
for a sin offering and one ram for a burnt offering. And it
says in Aaron, shall offer his bullock of the sin offering,
which is for himself, and make an atonement for himself and
for his house. And he shall take the two goats
and present them before the Lord at the door of the tabernacle
of the congregation. And Aaron shall cast lots upon
the two goats, one lot for the Lord and the other lot for the
scapegoat. And Aaron shall bring the goat
upon which the Lord's lot fell, and offer him for a sin offering."
These lots show us that even God chose which one of those
goats He would receive as a sin offering. That's what the lots
were about. It's God showing which one He
would choose. And that's God choosing His Son
and looking to His Son only. And it says here, verse 6, I
mean verse 9, and Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the
Lord's lot fell and offer him for a sin offering. But the goat
on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat shall be presented
alive before the Lord to make an atonement with him and to
let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness. Now both of these
are making an atonement. Both of these are required to
make atonement, but it took two of these goats to show what Christ
did Himself for His people. One goat was spotless, but was
made to ceremonially bear the sin of the children of Israel.
That's the sin offering, and he was slain. He was slain. They didn't slay that lamb until
the sin of the people was ceremonially put on Him. But once that sin
was put on that goat, then He's slain. Our Lord Jesus Christ,
God would not pour out justice on Him until He made Him bear
the sin of His people because He's declaring God will do nothing
unjust. God is righteous. He's doing
what He does justly. Now look at Leviticus 16 and
look at verse 15. It says, then shall he kill the
goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring
his blood within the veil, and do with that blood as he did
with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy
seat and before the mercy seat. Verse 16, and he shall make an
atonement for the holy place because of the uncleanness of
the children of Israel and because of their transgressions and all
their sins. So shall he do for the tabernacle
of the congregation that remaineth among them in the midst of their
uncleanness. He had to sacrifice the altar,
the tabernacle, the people, because sin taints and corrupts everything. That's the picture here. The
sin offering, though, we're looking at here is Christ. He's the spotless
Lamb of God. And He came to the Father and
the Father made Him sin for His people. The Lord had laid on
Him the iniquity of us all. He had made Him sin for us who
knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God
in Him. God was showing this even from
those days of Moses. He was showing, I'll only receive
my people in the Lamb. Christ the Lamb. And God did
it to show that He's just to pour out justice on His Son,
because He bore the sin of His people. And that blood of that
sin offering then, when that Lamb was slain, Aaron the high
priest took the blood of that sin offering, and he comes into
that holiest of holies, and he sprinkled that blood on the mercy
seat seven times. He brought incense in there as
well and had to burn incense so there was a cloud of incense.
That picture is the intercession of our Lord Jesus. And He sprinkled
that blood on that mercy seat seven times. God said, that's
how atonement will be made. Ceremonially, just for a year.
They'll have to do it again next year on this day. But brethren,
in that sacrifice, it symbolizes, it's a picture, number one, of
Christ our High Priest. He's the only one who could represent
his people to God. Number two, it pictures Christ
being the lamb, the spotless lamb of God who was made sin
for his people and slain in the room instead of his people in
divine justice. And because he did that, he's
the justifier, he's the mercy seed. Just like that blow was
sprinkled seven times that mercy seat. That little ark wasn't
very big. It had a mercy seat on top of
it. The cherubim faced that mercy seat. All the angels of God are
looking to Christ just like His people are. And that mercy seat
covered the law that was in the heart. Christ said, thy law is
within my heart, O Father. And he fulfilled the law for
his people. And that blood was on that mercy
seat and God said, that right there is where I'll meet with
my people. That's what we mean when it says, Not that we love
God, but He loved us and sent His Son, the propitiation for
our sin. He's the sin expiating mercy
seat where God said, that's the one and only one I'll meet my
people in, through faith in Him. Now let's see this in Hebrews
9. Hebrews 9. We saw there that
all this was just a picture and a type, but verse 11 tells us,
Hebrews 9, 11 tells us, But Christ, being come a high
priest of good things to come, by greater and more perfect tabernacle,
not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building,
neither by the blood of bulls and goats, but by His own blood,
He entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal
redemption for us." Our Lord Jesus Christ didn't make something
possible, He accomplished eternal redemption and He did it for
a particular people. He did it for God's elect. He
made atonement for us with God. Christ has redeemed us from the
curse of the law being made a curse for us. Look there in Hebrews
10. He said there in verse 7, Lo, I come, in the volume of
the book it's written of me, to do thy will, O God. Verse 10 says, By the witch will
we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus
Christ once for all time. Every priest standeth daily ministering
and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices which can never take
away sin. This is the sad thing about depraved,
fallen sinners. God gave all of that law to show
Christ, to show Christ. And when Christ came, rather
than falling down and casting all their care on Him and trusting
Him, sinners left to their own will, left to their own understanding. What did they do? They chose
the picture and rejected the one they pictured. Now that's
you and me by nature, brethren. If left to ourselves, that's
what we'll do. The things of this book are all meant to point
us to Christ and glorify Christ and declare us sinners who must
be saved by Christ alone. Everything in this book is telling
us that. And men will take the things that are given in this
book to picture Christ and look to their own sacrifices and their
own works and expect God to save them rather than trust in Christ
alone. That's what they did. They were
looking to the fact that they came with a lamb. They were looking
to the fact that they had a high priest that went in this building
for them, just this earthly building. Animal blood was shed. They looked
to those things. And by that act of bringing and
going through that ceremony, they said, now this made us righteous.
And they never saw every bit of it was pointing us to Christ
alone, to Christ alone. So they stand, even in the day
that this Hebrew letter is written, they still stand in ministering,
offering oftentimes the same sacrifices which can never take
away sin. Verse 12, but this man, after
he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on
the right hand of God from henceforth expecting till his enemies be
made a split stool, for by one offering he hath perfected forever
them that are sanctified. That's what that blood sprinkled
seven times on the mercy seat typified. Christ perfecting forever
them that are sanctified. The number of perfection. That
covering, of Christ's blood, He had all the sins of God's
elect covered our sin. That propitiation through His
blood blotted out all the sins of God's elect, purged all the
sins of God's elect. That blood reconciled us and
united us to God and did it in a way so that God's just to be
merciful to us. What about that other offering?
back in Leviticus 16, verse 21. There was another lamb you remember,
another goat, verse 21. And Aaron shall lay both his
hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all
the iniquities of the children of Israel and all their transgressions
and all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat." You'll
hear men preach on that and they'll talk about how believers need
to come and put their hand of faith on Christ and confess their
sins to Christ. That wasn't the children of Israel
doing that, that was the high priest that did that. Christ
is the high priest who went to the Father, and this was between
God the Father and His Lamb, and God made Him sin for us.
Now watch what happened. And they'll send Him away by
the hand of a fit man into the wilderness, and the goat shall
bear upon Him all their iniquities until a Lamb not inhabited, and
He shall let go the goat in the wilderness. That Lamb bore the
sins of Israel alone. You know, there was a lot of
nations around Israel at that time, a whole bunch of nations. God didn't provide them a lamb.
God didn't give them this ceremony. He did it for Israel only. And
not even everybody in Israel was given a spiritual understanding
to know this, what this meant, because not everybody in Israel
was God's elect. But Christ Jesus, the picture
there is He laid down His life and bore the sin of God's elect
Israel alone. And what did He do? He carried
all the sins of all His people away into a land not inhabited,
away so that they would never ever be remembered by God again.
Look here, Hebrews 9 verse 24. Hebrews 9.24, Christ is not entered
into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures
of the true, but into heaven itself now to appear in the presence
of God for us. Nor yet that he shall offer himself
often as the high priest entered into the holy place every year
with the blood of others. For then must he have suffered
since the foundation of the world. But now once in the end of the
world hath he appeared, here's why he came, and this is what
he accomplished. to put away sin by the sacrifice
of himself. He's the scapegoat. He carried
the sins of his people away. He put them away. It's appointed
unto men once to die, but after this the judgment. So Christ
already bore that judgment for his people. That's what he's
saying. You got one judgment to face. And he said Christ was
once offered to bear the sins of men. He already satisfied
that judgment for his people. He did it for God and for his
people. And to them that look for Him
shall He appear the second time without sin unto salvation. For God said, brethren, you know
what this means? When He gives you faith to trust
Christ, turn from your works, cease trying to make yourself
accepted of God and trust Christ alone to be your perfect atonement,
your perfect propitiation, your perfect redeemer. Trust Him alone. What this means is because Christ
put away all the sins of His people, The guilt of our sin,
I'm talking about where it matters, I'm talking about before God,
before His law, the guilt of our sin is gone. Not guilty,
no condemnation. And he said there in Hebrews
9, when he purges your conscience and makes you know this, you'll
know in your heart, my guilt's gone. You know you can't serve
God until you know that. You can't stop working and have
a motive of trying to indebt God and make God save you. You can't stop that until God
purges your conscience and makes you know there's no more offering
for sin. It's done. You're not guilty. It means there's
no more punishment toward his people because Christ already
bore that punishment. He bore that fierce fury of God's
wrath in our place. Judgment is settled. And it means
before God. This right here, oh, how good. It means before God, brethren.
Before the law. God remembers our sin no more. He will not bring them up. Yes,
he'll correct us when we, because we still have us in nature and
he'll correct. But He does that because He remembers our sin
no more. He's put them away in His Son. Listen to Jeremiah 50 and verse
20. In those days and in that time, saith the Lord, the iniquity
of Israel shall be sought for. Who seeks for it? The devil does. The Pharisees do. Anybody else
who doesn't believe Christ, they seek for the sins of His people.
God says, and there shall be none. For God there shall be
none, and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found.
Why? God says, For I will pardon them
whom I reserve. As far as the East is from the
West, so far hath He removed our transgressions from us. God
said, I'll remember them no more. You see why David said, blessed
is the man whose sins and transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are
covered, to whom the Lord will not impute sin. He won't impute
sin because Christ put our sin away. He satisfied justice. There
is no sin to impute to His people. Lastly, now when this high priest
finished his work, then he put on his glorious garments. When
Christ finished His work, you know what He did? He put on His
glorious garments. He arose glorified to the right
hand of the Father and sat down. And then the priest came to the
people, and he blessed the people. If Christ sends the gospel, and
if He's just like we're doing right here today, and He sends
the gospel, and through the Spirit He blesses His people. Everyone
he justified. He comes to them and blesses
them. And this was the blessing. I'm just going to read this to
you. You can find it at number 623, but let me just read it.
He said, Speak to Aaron and to his son, saying, On this wise
you shall bless the children of Israel. This is what you say
to them. And this is what Christ comes and speaks into the heart
of his children. The Lord bless thee and keep
thee. The Lord make his face shine
upon thee, and be gracious unto thee. The Lord lift up his countenance
upon thee, and give thee peace. And God said, and they shall
put my name upon the children of Israel, and I will bless them. That's what the Lord does when
He comes forth. He shines His face, He makes
you to know, He says, My peace I give unto you. He puts His
name upon us. He blesses His people. Now, what all happened on that day
when this took place? Back in Leviticus, chapter 25,
verse 9 tells us, they sounded a jubilee trumpet. When this
atonement was made, then they sounded a jubilee trumpet. Verse
9 says, Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to
sound on the tenth day of the seventh month in the day of atonement
shall you make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. So
as soon as this work was accomplished by the high priest, they sounded
this gospel trumpet. That's what we're doing. What
are we sounding? We're sounding this jubilee trumpet
that atonement has been accomplished for God's people. Redemption
has been made by Christ Jesus. That's what we're doing through
the preaching of the gospel. Now back at Leviticus 16, there is
the response of the children of Israel. Leviticus 16 verse 29, this shall
be a statute forever unto you. Now when the Lord makes you hear
the gospel and He gives you a new heart to believe Him, this is
so forever. This is so forever. It says that
in the seventh month on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict
your souls. came to the Lord confessing there
was nothing about them worthy of this grace of God. There was
nothing about them that merited anything before God. They were
sinners. That's all they were. They had
to be saved through the high priest and the Lamb of God's
providing. That's what we do when God gives
you faith to believe. We confess, Lord, I'm the sinner. created me a clean heart, purged
me and I'll be clean. That's what we confess to God. And it says, and do no work at
all. Do no work at all. They stopped
working. Now they did this on a day. This
was a Sabbath of rest to them. And they stopped working for
this one day of atonement. When Christ makes you hear this
gospel and that makes you know what he's accomplished, then
we cease from all our dead works of trying to find acceptance
with God. You know, I want you to look
at something in the scripture. You do this on your own, but
I want you to go look at it. I know men have preached that
hypocrites are men who profess to believe Christ and then they
go out and they sin and rebel and that's so. But you know who
Christ called a hypocrite in the gospel? He called the Pharisees
men who claimed to be righteous and holy by their own works. That's who he called a hypocrite.
And when the Lord comes and makes you know that He has accomplished
the work, He's finished the work, He'll make you cease from your
works of trying to come to God and find acceptance. He'll make
you trust Christ is all your acceptance with God. And it's
not just today, it's Christ who is our atonement, who is our
rest, who we rest in by faith from then on. And they rejoiced. That's what Jubilee means. They
rejoiced. It's a rejoicing trumpet. They
rejoiced in the Lord by whom we've now received the atonement.
That's what Paul said in Romans 5. We joy in the Lord by whom
we've now received the atonement. Brethren, when Christ said it's
finished, go with me over to Hebrews 10. When Christ said
it's finished, and that veil, It made the holiest of holies
within the tabernacle. That veil split from top to bottom,
declaring that the works are all finished, the law is satisfied,
God's been honored, He's just in the justifier of His people,
His people have been, atonement's been made, redemption's been
accomplished. That veil was split from top
to bottom. And when the Holy Spirit gives
you faith to believe Christ, and He makes you know this, He
makes you know there in Hebrews 10, Verse 17, their sins and
iniquities will I remember no more. Now where remission of
these is, there is no more offering for sin. And that veil being
rent open, rent in two from top to bottom, it also bears witness
and testifies of this right here too. By faith in the Lord Jesus
now, verse 19, having therefore brethren boldness, welcome access,
liberty, to enter into the holiest of holies. Ed was the only one
that could go into that holiest of holies, but now, because of
what Christ did, everybody Christ laid down his life for is welcome
into that holiest of holies, into God's presence, in the presence
of the holy God. Now look, By the blood of Jesus,
by a new and living way which He has consecrated for us through
the veil, that's to say His flesh. He did away with that old cloth
veil. Now the veil is through His flesh,
through what He did for us. And having a high priest over
the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full
assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil
conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. That pure water
that sprinkled us inwardly and outwardly, what is it? It's this
good news of the accomplished atonement and redemption that
Christ has made for His elect people. You've got access to
the Father. You know, we can't even pray.
We couldn't even pray to God and Him. Hear us, except He give
us faith to come in the name of the Lord Jesus, That's the
only way God will receive us. But now He receives our prayers
and not only that, the moment we lay down this body of death,
He'll receive you right into the holy presence of God. All
because of Christ and what He did for His people. Oh, that's
what Christ did for us. That's what He did for us. Let's
go to Him, brother. Our Father, we thank you. You
chose the high priest. You chose the lamb. You provided
him for your people, your dear son. We're thankful, Lord, that
you laid down your life for us, shed your own blood for your
people, and left nothing to chance. Lord, we just thank you that
you accomplished Make an atonement. You accomplished redemption.
You put away our sin. Lord, make us now willing by
Your grace, make us willing to leave the camp of those that
look to their will and their works and go outside of that
camp to Christ just like these bodies were burned outside the
camp. of these sacrifices. Christ bore that reproach, rejected
of religion, rejected of men. Give us grace, Lord, to bear
His reproach and to go to Christ and rest in Him and trust Him
alone. Lord, Create in us a new heart, wash us, give us boldness
through faith, knowing the work is finished. Thank you so much,
Father, for grace, grace, grace. Thank you for your mercy. In
Christ's name we pray, amen.