Alright brethren, let's go to
Leviticus chapter 1. I wanted a message that would help
us to remember our Lord at His table. This was speaking to my heart,
I pray it will speak to yours. Leviticus 1, let's read the first
nine verses. And the Lord called unto Moses,
and spake unto him out of the tabernacle of the congregation,
saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,
If any man of you bring an offering unto the Lord, you should bring
your offering of the cattle, even of the herd, and of the
flock. If his offering be a burnt sacrifice
of the herd, lay him off for a male without blemish. He shall
offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle
of the congregation before the Lord. And he shall put his hand
upon the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for
him to make atonement for him. And he shall kill the bullock
before the Lord, And the priests, Aaron's sons, shall bring the
blood and sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar that
is by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. And he shall flay the burnt offering
and cut it into his pieces. And the sons of Aaron, the priests,
shall put fire upon the altar and lay the wood in order upon
the fire. And the priests, Aaron's sons,
shall lay the parts, the head, the fat, in order upon the wood
that is on the fire which is upon the altar. But his inwards
and his legs shall he wash in water, and the priests shall
burn all on the altar to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by
fire of a sweet savor unto the Lord. All we have to do is just come
here, sit down, hear the gospel priest, sing praises to him, do what we can to help one another.
That was worship. That was them doing what we're
doing right here. Now, if a sinner comes to God
and expects to be accepted of God, anybody, any sinner comes
to God and wants to be accepted of God, then we have to come
with an offering. We have to come with an offering.
What is our offering? What is our offering? No matter
who the sinner is, we have to come to God only with the offering
that God commands. That's the only offering we can
come with, is the offering God commands. We must come with the
offering God our Father has Himself provided for His people. What
they had there, this herd, God provided it. Everything they
had there, God provided it. And if we're going to come to
God, we have to come with the offering God has Himself provided
And we have to come with the only offering God will receive. There's just one offering God
will receive. It's the offering that God commands.
It's the offering God Himself provided. It's the only offering
God Himself will receive. It's His Son. It's the Lord Jesus
Christ. That's the offering that we have
to come to God with. God declared through Malachi,
He spoke of Christ's coming, and He said, when Christ has
purified His people, then each shall come with the offering
that God requires. Malachi 3.3, listen to this,
He said, He's talking about Christ, He shall sit as a refiner and
a purifier of silver. And He shall purify the sons
of Levi. That's His people. That's His
people. He makes priests unto God. He'll
purify us. He will. He'll do the purifying.
He'll purify the sons of Levi and purge them as gold and silver. And here's why. That they may
offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness. Christ is that
offering in righteousness. Christ is that offering in righteousness.
The Lord purifies His people. He comes and purifies His people
so that we come to God only with the offering that God's provided.
We come to God with the only offering God will receive. That's
His Son. We come to Him with this one
offering that He's provided, that He'll receive. That's Christ,
His Son. We have to come with His Son.
But we have to be purified to know that. We have to be purified
to offer this offering in righteousness. How do we bring this offering
to the Lord? How do we bring it? Christ is
already in glory. How do we bring this offering
to the Lord? We saw last week, without faith, it's impossible
to please God. It's impossible to please Him. Coming to God by faith, if we're doing it by faith, whatever
it is, By faith in Christ, we bring God the offering in righteousness. That's what we're bringing, by
faith. When we're doing what we're doing by faith, trusting
Christ, we're bringing God the offering he'll receive. That
is Christ Jesus, our righteousness. He's the only righteousness of
every true believer, and he's the only offering to God that
God will receive us in. It's the Lord Jesus. Only through
faith in Christ does God accept his child as righteous. and holy,
only through faith in Christ. And not only in the righteousness
and holiness of Christ His Son, even our spiritual sacrifices,
our worship, and our praise, and our thanksgiving, and our
remembering Christ at His table, baptism, any good work we do, All must be performed with faith
in Christ. That's how you bring the offering
to God, believing on His Son. Whatsoever is not of faith is
sin. Now, it's only through faith in Christ that we, ourselves,
are going to be accepted of God. And it's only through faith in
Christ that any offering we offer to God, any spiritual offering,
It's going to be accepted of God only through faith in Christ. But now when he accepts it in
Christ, he's going to accept it as perfect and righteous in
Christ. Perfect. It must be perfect to
be accepted. That's what God said concerning
these offerings. It must be perfect to be accepted.
You remember over in Exodus 28, 38. Let's look at this. It would be good to see it. It's
been a while since we saw this. But you remember this whenever
Aaron wore the gold plate that had the inscription on it that
said, Holiness to the Lord. Remember this? Look at why he
wore this. Exodus 28, 38. He's the high
priest and he wore this in the tabernacle. Look at verse 38.
And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead that Aaron may bear
the iniquity of the holy things which the children of Israel
shall hallow in all their holy gifts. And it shall be always
upon his forehead that they may be accepted before the Lord. See that? Apostle Paul, I showed
you this morning, as a regenerated believer, he said, he sanctified,
he set apart, he separated unto the Lord, and he said, when I
would do good, when I would bring my holy gifts, when I would bring
my holy sacrifices, evil is present with me. Evil's present with
me. So for God's saints, when we
worship, First of all, he has to make us worship. He has worships
in the heart and he has to give us the ability to worship. To sing, when we pray, when we
observe the ordinances, any good work that he's motivated you
to do, it has iniquity mixed with it. It has iniquity mixed
with it due to our sin nature. That's just so. Christ Jesus,
our high priest, is our holiness unto the Lord. That's what's
pictured in Aaron there in the holy place with his holiness
to the Lord. And so whatever we do in faith,
he's made us holy, he's entered in, and he's given you a new
nature so that you actually believe him and you come to it, but we
still need him because we have this sin nature. And so whatever
we do in faith, it's in and by Christ, that it's going to come
to God in righteousness. It's going to come to God holy.
It's going to come to God accepted in Christ. You get what I'm saying?
This offering is Christ. We have to come, anything we
do, we have to come in Christ because Christ is born the iniquity
of our holy gifts. He's born the iniquity of our
holy presence that we're going to present to God. You ever think
about that? You know, we think about the
sins Christ died for of being like, you know, all our sins,
but brethren, Christ had to die for the iniquity right here that
we're committing while we worship. He died for that too. He bore
the iniquity of the holy things. He bore your iniquity when you're
doing as y'all by his grace. So be it a first time that a
sinner comes to the Lord, or be it the worship and the good
works of God's saints, when we do it with faith in Christ, and
we have to come with faith in Christ, we have to be looking
to Him. Not to one another, not to ourselves. We have to be looking
to Him. We have to be doing it with Him being our motive and
our focus and our attention and our affection. And we want to
see Him and be in Him and be found in Him by the Lord. And
when we do that, we're confessing to God in everything we do that
Christ is our only acceptance with God. This is why America
do a good work, and it's trying to come to God by that good work,
and it's not going to be accepted. Why? Because that's why he did
it. He did it with the motive of
trying to get God to accept him. That's not how you're going to
be accepted. If you're doing it out of a thankfulness to God
and for what he's done for you and how he saved you and made
you righteous and you're doing it believing Christ, trusting
Christ, then it comes to God through Christ and it's righteous
and holy. It's perfect in him because that's what we're confessing.
Even in the very best thing I would ever do, I'm confessing, I have
to come to God through faith in Christ. This won't be accepted
if it's just of me. That's this offering. That's
what we're looking at with the offering there. Now here in Leviticus,
every offering that the children of Israel were commanded to bring,
the burnt offering, the meat offering, the peace offering,
the trespass offering, they all typify Christ. And then there's
some aspect of what Christ did and what he accomplished for
his people is typified in each of these. It takes all these
different sacrifices, all that furniture, and all the tabernacle,
and all the priest's garments, and all of that was picturing
Christ. Because we can't exhaust all
the things that glorify Him. And everything He did in this
tabernacle was to show us Him. And each one of them individually
has a lot of different types in them of poignance to Christ.
When we go to these scriptures, anytime, anywhere, that's who
we want to see. We want to see Christ. We want
to hear something about how he's redeemed us, how he's keeping
us, how he's saving us, how we can be accepted in him. That's
what we're looking for. We're looking to see him. That's
the only way God will receive us. That's why he commanded Moses.
You tell them, if they bring an offering to me, this is how
they have to come. So they have to come in all pictures coming
to the Lord in Christ. All right. Now, let's look at
this a little bit. And what I want to show you here
is that this book and this burnt offering was given by God to
picture Christ accomplished work of satisfying divine justice
for his people, making us holy so that we can come to God accepted. All right, let's see. First of
all, let's see how this offering pictures Christ. Verse three. He says, if his offering be a
burnt sacrifice of the herd. Our Lord Jesus Christ came down
and became a man that he might be amongst the herd. He came
down to be one of his own, one of his people, chosen from among
men. That's where the high priest
had to come from. And there's a picture here in
this offering as well. A Bullock here, if it's an ox
or it's a bull, Bullock's just a generic name for every horned
cattle, if it had horns. Now the Bullock pictures Christ
in this. He was the most valuable offering. This Bullock was valuable.
I mean, if you had cattle, and this is, you're talking about
one of your most valuable livestock right here. The very best a person
had to give. Now there's also offerings in
here for people that didn't have, they didn't have money to have
bullocks. He provided for them too. They
could bring a pigeon. And that's showing you Christ
is the Savior of all kinds of people. Rich, poor, male, female,
Jew, Gentile. He's the Savior of all His people,
no matter where we are in this life. But God provided the very
best. That's what we see first of all.
God provided the very best. He gave His Son. He gave His
only begotten Son. The very best. And his son gave
the very best. He gave everything. He gave his
life. God provided his only begotten
son. I was praying for my children
last night and I was asking God to protect them and save them. And I thought about it and I
thought, I can't help but be selfish in my prayers. And a
thought came to me. I'm praying to Him who gave His
only begotten Son for me. And I'm asking Him, Lord, don't
let anything happen to my child. Don't let anything happen to
my children, if it's Your will. He gave His only begotten Son.
He gave His best. And also the bullet was the strongest
of the offerings. God says of Christ, I've laid
help on one that's mighty. One that's mighty. Christ is
the mighty God. He's the one mediator between
God and man. He's our mighty Redeemer. That's
who He is. Wherefore He's able to save them
to the uttermost that come unto God by Him, seeing He ever liveth
to make intercession for them. It doesn't matter how utterly
ruined a sinner is. It doesn't matter how utterly
cast down he is. He's able to save to the uttermost. That's who He is. He's mighty
to save. And in the book it typifies Christ because Christ is the
holy man. He said in verse 3, let him offer
a male without blemish. A male without blemish. The first
head, Adam, was a male and he had no blemish, but he fell.
He sinned and he caused all of us to have blemishes. Sin, dead,
and trespasses and sins. All of us. And God did come and
mend up that old man. He didn't come and say, well,
I'll patch him up and use a little bit of what's left of him. Wasn't
nothing left to use. He puts a new man in you. Christ
in you. The hope of glory. But our Lord
Jesus, He's the last Adam. And He had to be the holy God-man.
He had to be without blemish. And He came forth totally without
blemish. Holy. Holy. Christ said to be holy to take
our place. He couldn't take the place of his sinful people unless
he's holy. If he had something to pay himself,
he couldn't pay anything for his people. And then the offering
had to be offered voluntarily. It had to be offered willingly.
Verse 3, he shall offer it of his own voluntary will. You know, everything about salvation
is done voluntarily and willingly. Everything. Everything. God the Father willingly gave
his only begotten son. He willingly chose his people
and entered covenant with his son and gave his son. And his
son willingly, voluntarily became surety of his people and came
forth in the time appointed and willingly, voluntarily went to
the cross. Didn't have to be coerced. He
said, no man taketh my life from me. I lay it down on myself.
I have power to lay it down. I have power to take it again.
This is a commandment I received of my Father. And it's this very
thing, seeing Christ and seeing Him making this offering for
His people and what He's done for us is the power that makes
us willing. to voluntarily come to God with
this one offering that God will receive his son, faith in his
son. And even the place of this offering
typifies Christ. In verse 3, he said there, he
brings it to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation
before the Lord. the door of the tabernacle of
the congregation before the Lord. This door, you know, the tabernacle
height was set up. Remember, it came to the outer
door, and then, you know, you went on in, and you had the holiest
of holies, and a door that went into the tabernacle, and then
there was the holiest holies, and you could only go under it,
under the veil. But this is the outer door right
here is where they sat, the outer door. Now that innermost part,
that typifies what Christ has done in the holiest of holies
in God's presence. But this outer door right here
represents this earth where Christ served the Father, where he offered
himself to God. It's where his people enter into
Christ by faith. He's the door. This is how we
have to enter. We have to come by him. And that's
why this, that's where the brazen altar was right there. for burnt
offerings, and it was that altar that sanctified the gift. We
have an altar, the Lord Jesus Christ. This is what I started
out saying. He's the altar. He sanctifies
us, and He sanctifies the gift, the offering. Christ sanctified
Himself, and He sanctified His people by His one offering. He
made us perfect in Him by His one offering. And every gift
that we bring to God is because he's come to us and sanctified
us inwardly and created this new man and given us faith to
come voluntarily, willingly with the one offering God we receive
and we come this way. And we never stop coming this
one way, coming to him by faith all our days. Trust in him, believe
in him, and we're bringing to God Whatever it is you're doing,
if you're just saying thank you to Him, you're doing it upon
the altar, you're doing it in the name of our Lord Jesus so
that it comes to Him accepted. The only way. So we see some
things here that shows us how this all is picturing Christ.
Now, here's the second thing I want you to see. You want to
see Christ on the cross. You want to see Christ on the
cross. Verse 4, he says that he shall put his hand upon the
head of the burnt offering. Now this is the person who brings
it. He's going to put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering.
But before we look at the man putting his hand on the head
of the burnt offering, let's see what took place between God
the Father and His Son. What happened between God the
Father and His Son? Christ presented Himself to God,
His Father. He's the bullet. He presented
Himself to God, His Father, without blemish, holy, spotless, and
God made a divine transference that only God could do in order
to justify His people, in order to make us righteous. God had
to lay all the sins of his people, all the sins of his elect on
the Lord Jesus, on his sinless substitute that he had provided,
and God judged him in our room instead. God poured out judgment
on him in our room instead. He's the very image of what this
shadow, what this ceremony pictured Christ is. That's what Hebrews
tells us. And this was ceremonially done
right here, but on the cross, our Lord Jesus Christ was bearing
the sin of his people. He made him sin for us who knew
no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
All we like sheep have gone astray, we've turned everyone to his
own way, and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. Now in this ceremony, the person
that's bringing this offering, He comes there and he lays his
hand on the head of this sacrifice. This represents a sinner believing
on Christ. Believing on Christ. Now, what's
he confessing? What are you confessing when
you confess faith in Christ? What's this laying our hands
on him? What's he confessing? He's confessing that we believe,
that we believe, this is what we're confessing, Because we
see what God's done. We're confessing. We really believe
that God laid all our sins on Christ. We really believe that. He did that back there. We believe
that. And we're coming to God one way. We have to come only
in His righteousness. And we're confessing we believe
He is the one who made us the righteousness of God. I can't
do it. That's what we're saying by faith
in Christ. I cannot make myself righteous. I can't do anything
to make myself accepted in the perfect righteousness God demands. I fall short of the glory of
God. And I have to come in Christ. And because Christ made his people
the righteousness of God in him, when you believe on the Lord
Jesus Christ, God imputes to you the righteousness of Christ
and makes you know it in the court of your conscience that
he is your righteousness. Because he made his people righteous. By one man's obedience shall
many be made righteous. And he makes you know that in
your heart. Makes you know that in your heart. I'm going to keep
preaching this, keep preaching this. Maybe I said this to y'all,
but this just happened the other day. Somebody had heard something
and they come up to the preacher and he said, I have never heard
that before. And the preacher told me, he
said, Clay, I bet I've preached this 200 times. And it was the first time they
heard it. Don't take for granted somebody's heard what you said.
God's got to make them hear it. And so I'm going to keep saying
it now because this is it. We're here today doing what?
We're here today laying our hand on the head of the bullet. We're
here today laying our hands on Christ, confessing he's the only
way we can come to God. He's all our hope, all our righteousness,
all our acceptance. Now notice the next word, verse
4, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.
I like that. He says he shall put his hand
upon the head of the burnt offering and it shall be accepted for
him to make atonement for him. Christ made atonement for his
people by his precious blood. He made atonement. When a sinner
comes to God through faith in Christ, God accepts us in Christ. You get that now? When you come
to God confessing, I can't do anything, I can't save myself,
I can't make myself righteous, I can't provide what I need to
be accepted of God, and you come there with the hand of faith
laid on the head of Christ, God accepts. He accepts you. He accepts you. The Hebrew word
there for atonement, He says, it shall be accepted. The bullock
will be accepted. Christ will be accepted for you
in your place. That's what faith is saying.
Lord, don't look to me, look to Him. It will be accepted for
you. He will be accepted for you to
make atonement for you. To make atonement for you. The
Hebrew word atonement means to cover. It means to cancel. Sins,
it means to make satisfaction for offenses. The blood of Christ
covered and canceled and made satisfaction for every elect
child for whom he died, for the sins of every elect child for
whom he died. That's what he accomplished. He made satisfaction
of God's justice for his people. That's what he meant when he
said it is finished. That's why the veil in the temple rent from
top to bottom. That's why it rent from top to
bottom. The Lord said he's fulfilled everything that was written and
he's ushered in this new everlasting covenant of grace. He's everything
promised in that covenant. By doing it, Christ reconciled
us to God. He made atonement for God and
his people. We were separated. We couldn't
come together. We couldn't be one because of
our sins. And our Lord Jesus Christ came.
And he took all the sins of his people on himself and bore all
the justice of God that God had to pour out on them. He said,
pour it out on me. Don't pour it out on that one.
Pour it out on me. He did that for the offended
parties, for both of them. And by doing that, he brought
them together in one, made at one atonement by his blood, laying
down his life for his people. Made us one with God. Herein
is love, not that we love God, but that He loved us and sent
His Son to propitiation for our sin. A sin-atoning sacrifice
for our sin. And not only... He did it for
us when we didn't love Him. When we didn't love Him. So He accomplished atonement
by being made a curse for us. That's what He did. He was willing
to be made a curse for us. Man, He could have just come
and condemned us. We were guilty. We were guilty. We deserved the curse. But He
didn't. What did He do? He came and took
our sins so that God could make Him the curse and free us from
the curse, free His people from the curse. Verse 5, And He shall
kill the bullet before the Lord. Now the person that brought the
sacrifice actually did the killing in this instance. That's what
faith is confessing to. I'm the one that slew my Lord
Jesus. I'm the one. God did it. Yes,
he did it. He did it for his people, but
I'm the reason our Lord was on that cross. That's what his people
are confessing by faith. I'm the reason he was there on
that cross. But do you see here that Bullock now had the sin
put on him ceremonially, and now he must die. Now the Bullock
has to be killed before the Lord. That's what the Scripture is
telling us when it says, Christ hath redeemed us from the curse
of the law, being made a curse for us. For it's written, Cursed
is everyone that hangeth on the tree. And then, He's typified
in the priest. Christ is typified in the priest.
He performed the whole work Himself. It said verse 5 in the priest,
Aaron's sons. You mean He's typified in the
common priest too? Yep. Yep. He really became one
with us. That's who the common priest
typifies his people that he's made priests. Christ really became
one with us to make us who he is and what he is and everything
that he is is what he's got imputes to us. So the priests, Aaron's
sons, they'll bring the blood and they'll sprinkle the blood
round about upon the altar that's by the door of the tabernacle
of the congregation. Only the priests could do this.
We don't have to guess who they represent. Listen to Hebrews
10 again. Hebrews 10, 11. Every priest
standeth daily, ministering and offering oftentimes the same
sacrifices which can never take away sins. But this man, after
he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on
the right hand of God, from henceforth expect until his enemies be made
his footstool, for by one offering he hath perfected forever them
that are sanctified. Leviticus 17.11 said, the life
of the flesh is in the blood. They took the blood of this bullock.
This blood had to be poured out of this bullock and they took
the life, that blood. Life's in the blood. I've given
it to you, God said, upon the altar to make an atonement for
your souls. For it's the blood that maketh
atonement for the soul. It's the blood. Without shedding
of blood, there's no remission of sins. Why is this so important? Because the wages of sin is death. We earned that. A wage, you earn
it. We earned it. All God's people
earned these wages. By our sin, we earned death.
God owed us something. He owed us death, condemnation,
the curse. And so Christ took all the wages. He Himself took the wages. He
was paid the wages, the death, the curse fell on Him. And He
poured out His own life's blood unto death. That's what the justice
required of us. That's why it says Hebrews 9.12,
Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood
He entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal
redemption for us. for his people. That's what he
did. That's why he entered in. He obtained it. But this is essential
now. Don't miss this. Not only did
justice have to be satisfied, the law had to be honored in
righteousness from a perfect holy heart. There's a positive
and a negative to that law. I know men want to, you know,
justification and sanctification are two different things, but
the way Christ justified us involved Him being our sanctification
and our sanctifier. He did what He did, not only
receiving the wages that was owed to us, which is death, but
He suffered all of that in perfect, holy obedience to God from the
Holy Heart. Listen to verse 6. And he shall
flay the burnt offering, and cut it into pieces. And the sons
of Aaron the priest shall put fire upon the altar, and lay
the wood in order upon the fire. And the priests, Aaron's sons,
shall lay the parts, the head and the fat, in order upon the
wood that's on the fire, which is upon the altar. But his inwards
and his legs shall he wash in water. And a priest shall burn all on
the altar to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire and
of a sweet savoring to the Lord. Now, you know, scripture washing
and water points us to the work of the Holy Spirit. It points
us to the Holy Spirit. Well, with the sins of his people
laid on him. Think about this now. We're going
to observe the Lord's table. with the sins of His people laid
on Him, while His body was broken justly, while He was bearing
the fire of divine justice and being made a curse for us. At
the same time, inwardly, through the eternal Spirit, Christ offered
Himself without spot to God. Same time. God, only God could
do that. Only God could do that. That's
a, that's a, it's, we're remembering the Lord at his table. And of
the wine, he said, this is the New Testament in my blood. The
blood, the blood, the life's what made our mission of sin. And of the bread, he said, this
is my body, which is broken for you. This is the power and wisdom
of God right here. This is it. This is the power
and wisdom that Christ in him crucified is, right here. Christ
bore our sins and thus justly bore the fiery curse of God's
justice to justify his people. That's what he accomplished.
And while he did that, inwardly it was all holy obedience fulfilling
the Father's will. And Hebrews 10 says, by the witch
will, we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Christ
once. You get that? He's the righteousness
and holiness. When He satisfied the penalty
of justice, and while He did it, He fulfilled the love of
the law from a perfectly holy heart. He did both, right there
on the cross. And this is what God makes us
behold by faith, when of God Christ is made unto us righteousness
and sanctification. That's when you behold He's both. What about our sanctification?
Well, that's how you behold it. When the Holy Spirit enters in
and gives you life and gives you eyes to see, and of God,
Christ is made unto you. Righteousness, your justifying
righteousness, and your sanctification. And the good news is, both he
that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one,
for which cause he's not ashamed to call us brethren. Everything
he did, we did. Everything he is, we are. This
is why true sanctification makes you look out of yourself and
away from yourself to him and cast it all on him. And when you see how that, while
you see this and you see he's your righteousness and your sanctification,
you see what wisdom of God to be able to justify you and be
merciful to you and do it in harmony with his justice. And
so he's made wisdom to you, gives you the mind of Christ so that
you can actually discern. And what does the mind of Christ
do when he gives you a discernment? You look to him who's your wisdom.
You see what these things He works in us is to turn to look
to Him. It's all brings you to look to
Him. And not only that, when you see that He accomplished
redeeming you from that curse, He made unto you redemption.
Everything. So we preach Christ's name crucified.
That's why. It's all right there. This is
a sweet savor to every believer because it's how we're accepted
of God. Verse 9, he says, and the priest
shall burn all on the altar to be a burnt sacrifice and offering
made by fire, a sweet savor unto the Lord. God was pleased. The law was honored. Justice
was satisfied. His people were justified. God
was glorified. This is why God will only receive
a sinner and only receive our worship and our good works when
we come through faith in His Son. This is why we've got to
come with this offering. This offering. The only way God
will receive you is by the finished work of Christ. So you come to
Christ the door, and you lay your hand of faith upon Christ,
on the head of Christ, and you confess your need of Him to save
you, and put all your trust on Him, and God delights to show
mercy for the sake of His Son. And every believer, everything
you do, When we come in here, we should take some time before
we come in here, enough time to, you just can't rush in and
expect to worship. Enough time to get your mind
set on the Lord and be thinking on what you're about to hear
and ask him, Lord, let me worship today. Will you by your will
let me worship? Will you give me the ability
to worship you today? To enter in by faith? Because
that's the only way we're gonna get it, is if it's by faith,
and Him speaking to us, and it's through faith, from faith to
faith. And here's what He said, whatever
you're doing, whatever you're doing for Him, do it by faith,
looking to Him. Everything, everything. And He says this, take with you
words. and turn to the Lord and say
unto Him, take away all iniquity and receive us graciously and
so will we render the calves the bullocks of our lips. God is going to have His people
glorify Him. Glorify Him. That's why He's
not going to let us receive any glory for any part of this salvation
being of us. We're going to glorify Him. And
this bullock, this calf right here, also pictures what we offer. We offer thanks to God and we
praise God and we thank Him for saving us in Christ Jesus. That's
what faith's doing too, praising Him and thanking Him and giving
Him all the glory. And now, for each one of us who've
been given faith by our Lord to discern our Lord's body, that's
the key here in this table, is discerning His body. discerning
his blood, discerning what he did and who he is and what he
accomplished by what were these elements pictured here. For you
that by faith set your heart on him and discern and think
about what he did by his broken body and his shed blood. Even
this that we do right here. The only way this is going to
be well-pleasing in God's sight is if it comes up to God in Christ
by you believing on His Son. This is not going to give you,
it's not going to make you anything. It's going to point you to Him
who makes you everything and help you remember Him. And it's
by faith, it's by faith that we even do this in any way that's
pleasing to God. remembering him, believing him,
trusting him. All right.