Let's turn in our Bibles to Exodus
chapter 29. Every sinner in this world wants
to be happy. This morning the world's full
of people waking up Sunday morning going out to do all sorts of
activities to try to be happy. But we'll never find true happiness
in ourselves. We'll never find true happiness
in this world. in our circumstances or in our
religious deeds. We can change our circumstances,
we can change our surroundings, we can fill up our hands with
this world, we can become religious, even in true religion. But you
and I being sinners can never make ourselves truly happy in
this world. It's because true happiness is
to have peace with God. True happiness is to have peace
with God. And only God can give peace with
God. Peace with God is in Christ Jesus
alone. But only Christ can fill up our
hands with Him alone. Strip our hands and fill our
hands with Him. And cause us to be willing to
come to God only in the Lord Jesus Christ. And when He does
this for His people, God our father and his child have peace
with God and therefore we have communion and fellowship with
God and that's happiness. That's happiness. In Exodus 29,
we've been seeing three requirements that must be met in order for
a sinner to have peace with God. First of all, our old man of
sin must die. What we are, as we're born of
Adam, has got to be crucified. Justice has got to be poured
out upon us, and we have to die. We saw that in the sin offering.
The sin offering pictured our Lord Jesus Christ, who was spotless
in himself, and therefore qualified to bear the sin of his people,
and therefore bear the curse of God, the justice of God, and
die the death that we owe to justice, so that now, every single
person Christ died for Their old man of sin has been crucified
with Christ. He's dead. God is not dealing
with you, believer, with your old man. God doesn't even regard
your old man. Your old man was crucified with
Christ over 2,000 years ago. But we also must give complete
obedience to God in order to be accepted of God. And the burnt
offering was a sweet savor to God. It was all burned on the
altar. It was all for God alone. And it pictured the Lord Jesus
Christ giving God our Father complete obedience. So that in Him, every single
chosen child of God has given the Father perfect obedience. Perfect obedience. But something
else has to happen. We have to be sanctified and
consecrated so that we're made willing to come to God in Christ
alone. It's not enough that Christ do
a work for us, Christ must do a work in us. Because we have
a sin nature. We're depraved by nature. And
so Christ not only does a work for us, he must do a work in
us. This is what we began to see
in the realm of consecration. In the realm of consecration,
when it was slain in place of the priests. Then the blood and
the oil was applied to the priests. Remember, it was put on their
right ear and their right thumb and their right big toe. And
then the oil and the blood was sprinkled all over them and all
over their garments. And when that has happened, a
sinner has been sanctified and consecrated to God. Now today
we're going to see what the result of that will be. What happens
when a person's truly been sanctified by God? People are wanting to
look at believers' works to determine if they've been sanctified by
God. Like what they do in reaction to what God has done for them.
The sure test is to see how they come to God. That's how you know
if a sinner's been sanctified. If a sinner talks about his works
and his works of sanctification and what he's done to make himself
holy, guess what? He ain't been sanctified. He
has not been sanctified. Because when God's child's been
sanctified, we see the result right here today. When Christ's
blood is applied in a sinner through the Holy Spirit, then
we're made willing by Christ's power to come to God with Christ
alone as our peace offering to God. Christ is the one offering that
God will receive. And when we come to God with
Christ only, then we find peace with God. The result is we have
communion with God and fellowship with God our Father and with
His Son, Jesus Christ. So our subject this morning is
Christ Our Peace. I want to show you first of all
Christ in the parts that God required be offered to Him. And then I want you to see it's
Christ who fills our hands with Christ. It's Christ who fills
our hands with Christ. And then thirdly we'll see that
in Christ we have peace with God resulting in communion and
fellowship with God our Father and with His Son Jesus Christ
forever and ever. Now first, let's see Christ in
the specific parts that God required be given to Him. Now this is
the realm of consecration. At this point, they had put their
hands on it, identifying with it. It's a picture of faith in
the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. The blood's been applied to them,
sanctified them, it's consecrated them. And now here's the result,
verse 22. God says, also thou shalt take
of the realm the fat. and the rump. And that rump they
talk about is the tail which was just a big piece of fat is
what it was. And the fat that covers the inwards. And the call above the liver
and the two kidneys and the fat that is upon them. And the right
shoulder for it is a realm of consecration. Now, in the burnt
offering, in the burnt offering, the entire animal was consumed
in the fire. It all went to God alone, every
bit of it. But in the peace offering, part
went to God and part went to his priests. But here God provides
detailed instructions on which part of the body that are to
be burned unto him. And you see fat, fat, fat, fat. In Leviticus 3.16, you have another
account of God saying how to bring these peace offerings.
And in Leviticus 3.16, the Lord said, all the fat is the Lord's. Bring him the fat. Now in our
culture, the word fat is looked upon negatively. But in tribal
cultures like Israel was here, fat is a sign of prosperity.
In Papua New Guinea, if you, looked upon a man's children
that were skinny, you would feel sorry for them. But if you said
to a man there and said, your son is fat, that would be a compliment. Because it means prosperity.
They are able to feed them. It's prosperity. In the Old Testament,
fat represents the very best. The very best. He also brought
the firstling of his flock and the fat thereof. And the Lord
had respect unto Abel and to his offering. When Pharaoh was
talking to Joseph and telling him to bring his family to Egypt,
he said, take your father and your households and come unto
me and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt and you
shall eat the fat of the land. God required an offering in Numbers
18.12. He said, all the best of the oil and all the best of
the wine and of the wheat and of the first fruits of them which
they shall offer unto the Lord, them have I given thee. That
word best of the oil, that word best of the wine, It's the same
word in our text. It could be translated the fat
of the oil, the fat of the wine. And that's what it means, the
best of it. That's the best. And so God required the fat with
these inward parts be his part. That's what they were to bring
and burn upon the altar because it represents Christ who is the
very best, the very best. Christ's perfection through and
through. all his inward parts in whom
alone we have peace with God. If we're going to come to God
and we're going to fellowship with God, we've got to be perfect. And that's what we see in these
inward parts with the fat. It's the best part. Christ is
the very best you can bring to God. And he is the perfection
in whom God will receive us. And then you see here, he said
the right shoulder, the right shoulder represents power and
glory. And Christ is the power and glory
of God. And then we see Christ in this
unleavened bread. This is later on going to be
called a meat offering. A meat offering. It is made of
fine flour. He says here, verse 23, one loaf
of bread and one cake of old bread and one wafer out of the
basket of the unleavened bread that is before the Lord. Now,
this meat offering portrays sinners perfect in the sight of God by
the merits of Christ. We're perfect in God's sight
by the merits of Christ. It was not a bloody sacrifice.
but it was offered in conjunction with a bloody sacrifice. Why
was Cain rejected? He brought a meat offering, but
he didn't do it in conjunction with the realm of consecration.
Abel brought a blood sacrifice with the fat thereof and made
a meat offering. Cain only brought a meat offering.
And without blood, without coming in conjunction with the realm
of consecration, that's a sinner saying, well, I don't need to
be justified. I don't need to be made righteous.
I'm coming to thank God for these things. Look at all these fruits
and what Cain really thought in his heart was look at all
this that I've grown. It wasn't an offering to God
at all. But you see here, they come in conjunction with the
ram of consecration, in conjunction with the blood sacrifice. But
this was not a bloody sacrifice. It consisted of bread made from
fine flour, thoroughly sifted. Thoroughly sifted. There was
nothing rough about this flour. There was nothing uneven in this
flour. It's just like Christ, our sanctification. Unleavened, baked bread. Our Lord Jesus Christ, leaven
is a symbol of evil and a symbol of hypocrisy and sin. Our Lord
Jesus Christ was without sin. And it was a cake here that was
anointed with oil. Christ was anointed of the Holy
Spirit beyond all his fellows. Christ said the Spirit of the
Lord's upon me because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel
to the poor. Now in this meat offering we
see Christ our bread from heaven. He's our meat offering to God. He's holy, he's righteous, he's
without sin. That's the only way you and I
are going to come to God, holy and righteous and without sin.
Nothing moved Christ from His purpose when He walked this earth.
Nothing. Not Satan's tempting, not men's
rejections, and not men's compliments. Nothing moved our Lord Jesus
Christ. He said, My meat is to do the will of Him that sent
Me. In His character, the God-man mediator is perfect. He's even. He's complete. He's without sin. He's holy. He's undefiled. He's
separate from sinners. this fine flower pictured. Circumstances
had no effect upon him. Sorrow didn't bring him down.
Praise didn't puff him up. He was about the father's business.
And these things can't be said of any of his disciples. No matter
how wise or how good we may deem a brother, there are sins and
infirmities and humiliating weaknesses. Christ alone could say, I do
always those things that please the Father. He dreamed righteous dreams. That's right. And two times God
spoke from heaven and told us it's so. He said, this is my
beloved son in whom I'm well pleased. So the fat of these
inward parts and the right shoulder and the meat offering of unleavened
bread made from fine flour and oil speaks of Christ the very
best. Our holiness and righteousness
who knew no sin, the power and glory of God, the bread of life,
the one offering God will receive from a sinner like you and me.
Now secondly, how are ruined sinners made willing to come
to God only in the person and work of our Lord Jesus Christ.
How are we made to make this offering? How are we made to
come to God with nothing but the Lord Jesus Christ? How is
that going to happen? Now look at verse 24. And thou, God is speaking to
Moses. Moses here is a type of Christ
because he is the one that is doing the mediating between God
and his priests. The priests picture all God's
elect people who Christ has made priests by his blood. But here,
Moses pictures Christ, the mediator. He's going between God and he's
going between these priests. God says to Christ here, thou,
he says to Moses, a type of Christ, thou shall put all in the hands
of Aaron and in the hands of his sons. How is a sinner going to be made
to have his hands totally empty of anything else except Christ
the Lord? Christ is going to have to fill
our hands with Christ. That's why the Lord God said
of Christ Jesus, the risen Redeemer, in Psalm 110.3, He said, Thy
people shall be willing in the day of thy power. In the beauties
of holiness, from the womb of the morning, thou hast the dew
of thy youth. Our hands are full of sin by
nature. That's all our hands are full of. Take the very best
deed or very best work, very best thing you've ever created.
I'll give you a prime example. When a brand new baby's born,
that's probably the best thing that a man and a woman could
ever create. And when you hold that baby in
your arm, in your hands, you just know that very best, purest
thing you ever created is nothing but sin before God. And everything else we come to
God with in our hands is nothing but sin before God. Our will
is in bondage to our sin nature and therefore a sinner will try
to come to God with any sacrifice and any offering except Christ. So what's going to have to happen?
Christ has to empty our hands. He has to empty our hands. That's
why you saw here the sin offering was offered first. The crucifixion
of our old man. The burnt offering was offered
first. That was the obedience of Christ which satisfied God
alone. And then that blood through the
Holy Spirit, that blood through the anointing oil was applied
to their ears so they could hear that message. And applied to
their thumbs so their hands were emptied of everything else but
Christ. And their feet, it was applied to the big toe so that
they ran to Christ and nowhere else. And now that that work's
done, their hands are empty and Christ fills their hands with
the offering God will receive. And that's Christ putting Christ
in our hands and making us see the only way we can come to God
is with Christ. It's only with Christ. Lay hold
of Him through faith. And then look what they did.
And I want you to see how passive it looks right here. I believe
it means that he's still speaking to Moses. And Moses puts this
offering in the hands of these men and Moses waves their hands. He has his hands on their hands
and waves their hands back and forth, up and down like this
before God. You see, we can't make this offering.
Christ doesn't just hand it to us and say, now you of your own
will make it. We have to have Christ our strength
to make us make this offering. And that's what's pictured here
as they wave this offering, they're signifying that this offering
came from God, was put in their hands by God, and that they're
offering it by God with thanksgiving and praise, and they're giving
it all back to God alone. Paul put it this way. He said,
here's Paul making a wave offering right here. He said, I thank
Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted
me faithful, putting me into the ministry. Remember what counted
means, that's imputed. If Christ imputes you faithful,
Does he do it and just pretend like you are? No. He does it because he made you
faithful. That's where Paul said, Christ enabled me. I thank him. I don't have anybody else to
thank. I thank him. He enabled me. And he imputed
me faithful, putting me into the ministry. Paul just made
a wave offering, thanking God and giving God everything God
had given him when he put him in the ministry and the whole
of everything Paul did in writing three-fourths of the New Testament
and establishing half the churches in the New Testament, Paul just
said, God put it all in my hands, God enabled me to do it all,
and I'm giving it all back to God saying thank you. That's
the wave offering. There's nothing good in our lives
except what comes from Christ. That's it. All saving goodness,
all spiritual goodness, all providential goodness, all eternal goodness,
we don't deserve it, we don't earn it, and it all comes from
God, and whatever he gives us belongs to God. And it's all in Christ, and it's
all by Christ. And he's our peace offering,
and so knowing this, we come to Christ, we must do this. If
we are going to have peace with God we must with willing hearts
give all back to God again through Christ our peace. And what we
are doing is He puts Christ in your hands through faith. And
you come to God in my hands no price I bring simply to thy cross
I cling. You come to Christ with Christ
only. Christ came down. Christ did
the work, Christ puts himself in your hands, and you come to
God with Christ only, and you acknowledge, I did nothing. I
did nothing. Christ did everything. Here's
what you're saying when you come that way. Who maketh thee to
differ from another? What hast thou that thou didst
not receive? Now if thou didst receive it,
why dost thou glory as if thou hast not received it? I think this is interesting. And we'll get to this later. I think it's in Leviticus 3 or
Leviticus 8. But when the children of Israel had made these thank
offerings, God made them come with the first fruits. And when
everything that they grew, everything, the bread, the flour, everything,
they brought God the first fruits, picturing Christ who is the first
fruits. Remember, Paul said Christ rose
first. He's the first fruits. And that's
a picture of Christ the first fruits. And they were acknowledging
in that that Christ is first. And that everything came from
God first. And that they owe all the blessing
to God. And thanks to God for everything.
But you know over there, when the children of Israel come,
they had to also bring a loaf of leavened bread. Because when
you and I come, after this first work is done here, and we're
made, we're consecrated, and we're made to come to God Christ
only. Just him. This is our peace offering. We're saying his work alone is
our peace offering. Him alone. And from then on when
we come to God, we have to come confessing all I am is sin. All I am is leaven. The only
way I can come to you is in this unleavened bread. But here it's
a picture of Christ only. Here it's a picture of Christ
doing everything. And so there's no leaven mentioned
here. No laughing. This is Him making us priests
unto God. And then look at this. Now, Christ
puts Himself in our hands. He's the one that did all the
work to make us right. Then He comes and puts us in
His hand. And then watch this. Christ Himself presents our offering
to the Father. And God receives us. Look here
in verse 25. And thou, this is Moses, type of Christ, shalt
receive them of their hands. So Moses takes these offerings
and he puts them in the hands of the priest, he waves them,
and the priest gives the offering right back to him. And then what
did Moses do? And he burned them upon the altar
for a burnt offering for a sweet savor before the Lord. It's an
offering made by fire unto the Lord. This fat of the ember parts,
and the right shoulder, and the unleavened bread was burned entirely
upon the altar. Every bit of it was burned upon
the altar, and the smoke arose up to God, and it was a sweet
savor before the Lord. And that's a picture of grace,
brethren. It pleased God to give us His only begotten Son, Christ
Jesus, our sin offering, our burnt offering, and He gave Himself
to be burned in the room instead of His people under the fiery
justice of God upon the cursed tree. And then it pleased God
to give his only son to each one for whom Christ died. Christ
fills our hands with the one offering God will receive. And
then Christ presents our offering to God. Christ presents himself
to God as being the offering that you and I have just made
to God. And that's why God receives him. It's a sweet savor unto
God. Zephaniah 3.17 says, the Lord
thy God in the midst of thee is mighty. He will save thee. He will rejoice over thee with
joy. He will rest in his love. He will joy over thee with singing. It's all his love. It's all what
he did for us that makes us have peace with God. And then notice
this good news. Now this is technically a parenthesis.
here because it's telling us about something that's going
to perpetually go on from here on concerning the priests. But
you look here, here's the picture we have though. Christ our peace
shall never be taken from those he's made priests by his blood.
If he's ever made you come to God with him as your only peace
offering, Christ will never be taken from you. Look at this,
verse 27. And thou shalt sanctify the breast
of the wave offering and the shoulder of the heave offering
which is waved which is heaved up of the realm of the consecration,
even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his
sons, and it shall be Aaron's and his sons by statute forever
from the children of Israel. For it's a heave offering, and
it shall be a heave offering from the children of Israel of
the sacrifice of their peace offerings, even their heave offerings
unto the Lord. In other words, From then on,
every time the children of Israel brought their peace offerings
to God, with that realm of consecration, Aaron and his sons were to be
given the breast and the shoulder for their part, every time. Every
sanctified child of God shall forever have the love of Christ's
heart as the breast closest to the heart, will forever have
the love of Christ's heart, and will forever have the power of
Christ's arm represented in the shoulder. That'll be our portion
forever, Christ the Lord. That was the priest's portion
forever, and Christ is our portion forever. Now lastly, we see Christ
is our peace and our communion with God our Father. God the
Father had his feast from off the altar. Now this is the picture
here. See, it wasn't just given to
God. Part was given to God and part
was given to the priest. This is a picture of God the
Father and those that Christ has made priests being brought
together and feasting together upon Christ in fellowship and
communion. That's the picture here. Look
here in verse 31. And thou shalt take the ram of
the consecration and seethe his flesh in the holy place. And
Aaron and his son shall eat the flesh of the ram and the bread
that is in the basket by the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation. See, this was a shared feast
between God the Father and those Christ-makes-priests. They ate the same thing. God
the Father's was burned on the altar. That was a picture of
God the Father feasting upon this sacrifice as it rose up
a sweet savor to him. And here's the priest now eating
the exact same offering. And it's a picture of, as it
were, God our Father Christ his son and all his saints seated
at a table together and all are feasting and glorying in God's
son. God's glorying in him and all
his people's glorying in him. And that's how we have peace
with God. That's our communion with God. That's our fellowship
with God. That burnt part on the altar
went up to God. That's God's part. This is their
part of the feast. But it's the same part. We both
find our satisfaction in the same offering of Christ Jesus.
Our Lord said, verily, verily I say unto you, except you eat
the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no
life in you. It pictures living upon Christ, feeding upon Christ,
our life. That's in whom we have communion
and fellowship with God the Father and His Son, Christ Jesus. Go
into 1 John chapter 1. I was working on this, finishing
it up yesterday. Brother Kevin Thacker called
me, and we were talking, and he was trying to preach out of
1 John, and he mentioned, he began to speak on this verse
right here. And I didn't say anything, but
I thought to myself, I'm really glad you called and spoke on
that passage, because that's exactly what I'm seeing in this
text I'm working on. Here it is right here. This is
how John put it. 1 John 1. That which was from
the beginning, which we've heard, we tell that blood sanctify their
ear, which we've seen with our eyes, which we looked upon, and
our hands have handled. He put Christ in their hands.
Christ put Christ in their hands. Of the word of life, for the
life was manifested. And we've seen, and we bear witness,
and we show unto you that eternal life. Feed on Christ. Believe on Christ. live upon
Christ, He's the life. He was with the Father and He
was manifested to us. Now watch this, that which we've
seen and heard declare we unto you that you also may have fellowship
with us. And truly our fellowship is with
the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ. That's the picture we
have in our passage. You have God the Father, And
you have those Christ has made priests and we have fellowship
one with another in the same blessed peace offering, Christ
the Lord. Christ reconciled us together. He made us friends together so
we have fellowship one with another in Christ the Lord. And then
look, God reserves Christ and he reserves this fellowship strictly
for his elect. Strictly for his leg. It's for
those Christ is redeemed. It's for those the Holy Spirit
has sanctified and consecrated Through faith are the only ones
who can feast on Christ look at verse 33 They shall eat those
things wherewith the atonement was made to consecrate and to
sanctify them But a stranger shall not eat thereof why because
they're holy And if all of the flesh of the consecrations or
of the bread remain until the morning, then thou shalt burn
the remainder with fire. It shall not be eaten the next
day. Why? Because it's holy. Christ is
holy. He's been set apart for his people
and his people are holy. They've been set apart by him
for him. And a stranger won't eat thereof.
A man tries to come to this feast and he doesn't come the one way
God requires. In Christ alone, he can't partake
of this feast. And since Christ is holy and
living upon him is a holy thing, that means none shall be left
for tomorrow. God doesn't give us bread for
tomorrow. God gives us Christ today. He
gives us grace today to live upon Christ today. Don't be fretting
about tomorrow and worrying about what's going to happen tomorrow.
Do you have Christ today? Are you feeding on Christ today?
Is he your life today? Is he your peace today? Is he
your communion with God today? Is he your fellowship with God
today? Today is the day of salvation. The Lord would have his people
feast with him daily upon Christ in the holy place. Christ is
delightful to God and he's delightful to you and we must feed on him
in communion with God in the place of holy fellowship. Where
were they at? You know where they were? They
were at the tabernacle, at the door of the tabernacle. Where's
the holy place where God'll feast with us? Christ our tabernacle,
Christ the door. And there's no sustenance, absolutely
no life for our inner nature anywhere except upon the Lord
Jesus Christ. Nowhere else. Blessed be his
name, he fills us full. and give strength which is equal
to our day. Isn't that what Christ said?
He said, whoso eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal
life. And I will raise him up at the
last day for my flesh is meat indeed and my blood is drink
indeed. He told that woman at the well, you drink this water,
you're gonna thirst again. You drink the water I'm gonna
give you, you won't ever thirst again. Now, when God sanctifies and
consecrates us, this is important. I'll probably end up preaching
a whole message on this, so I'm just going to read it. But when
God does this work for us, he's consecrated us, he's sanctified
us, he's made us begin to feast upon Christ, to come to God with
this peace offering, it's perfect. Not perfect in
us, we got sin mixed with what we do, but it's perfect in Christ.
That's the only way God can receive us. It's got to be perfect. He's
perfect in Christ. Watch this, verse 35. Thus shalt
thou do unto Aaron and to his sons according to all things
which I have commanded thee, seven days, the number of perfection. You do this seven days to consecrate
them. And thou shalt offer every day
a bullet for a sin offering for atonement. And then thou shalt
cleanse the altar, and when thou hast made an atonement for it,
thou shalt anoint it to sanctify it. Seven days thou shalt make
an atonement for the altar and sanctify it, and it shall be
an altar most holy. And whatsoever toucheth this
altar shall be holy. We have a New Testament scripture.
Hebrews 13.10 says we have an altar. whereof they have no right
to each which serve the tabernacle. Now here's the lesson. By him,
therefore, let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually. That is the fruit of our lips
giving thanks to his name. And then not only is our sanctification
and consecration and communion perfect in Christ, it's continual
and it'll go on forever. Look here in verse 38. Now this
is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar. Now they had
to do this every day from here on. From here on, this is why
we don't want to come to God in these ceremonies because they
had to do this every single morning and evening and it was a continual
reminder that these sacrifices never put away their sin. Look
here. Two lambs of the first year day
by day continually. Day by day, every day, continually,
God offered two lambs. The one lamb thou shalt offer
in the morning, and the other lamb thou shalt offer at evening.
And with the one lamb, a tenth deal of flour, mingled with the
fourth part of a hen of meat and oil, and the fourth part
of a hen of wine for a drink offering. And the other lamb
thou shalt offer at evening, and shalt do thereto according
to the meat offering of the morning, and according to the drink offering
thereof. for a sweet savor, an offering made by fire unto the
Lord. This shall be a continual burnt
offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle
of the congregation before the Lord." Why was it so important? God said, because it's there
where I will meet you to speak there unto thee. And there I
will meet with the children of Israel and the tabernacle shall
be sanctified by my glory. Christ is our continual sin atoning
sacrifice. He's our continual burn offering
of acceptance. He's our continual peace offering
and meet offering in whom we have communion and fellowship
with God forever. And it's only in Christ that
Holy God will meet with us and speak with us and fellowship
with us. Our sanctification and our consecration's
all of God. All this that we've seen in Exodus
29 is all of God. And his people know it, and therefore
they give him all the glory. This is your telltale mark of
somebody that's truly been sanctified. You're not gonna hear them talk
about their works of sanctification. When you hear a man talking about
how holy he is by his works of sanctification, he's unholy,
he's lying, he has not been sanctified. because God's people ain't gonna
do that. They gonna glory in Christ. Say he gets all the glory,
I don't get any. Listen, verse 44. God says, I
will sanctify the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar.
I will sanctify also both Aaron and his sons to minister me in
the priest's office. And I will dwell among the children
of Israel and will be their God and they shall know. They shall
know that I'm the Lord their God that brought them forth out
of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them. I am the Lord
their God. God said, when I sanctify my
people, they're going to know it. They're going to know it,
and they're going to give me the glory for it. Now, sinner,
we can change our circumstances, and we can keep searching for
happiness, and we won't find it. We will not find it. True
happiness is having peace with God in Christ our peace. That's
the only happiness there is. That's what the scripture means
when it said blessed, blessed, blessed. Happy is the man that
comes to God in Christ alone. And I pray God now use that word
and bless his people and sanctify his people and consecrate his
people and make you come to God with the one peace offering God
will receive. Amen.