Let's go to Exodus chapter 8.
Exodus chapter 8 verse 25. Let me set this up for you a
little bit first. You know, the Lord had spake
to Moses and He said, go to Pharaoh and say, let my people go that
they may serve me. And He told him that if he refused,
he would send this swarm of flies. And he did. So now, in our text,
Pharaoh has called Moses and he wants to say something to
him. So Exodus 8.25, Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron
and said, Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the land, here in
Egypt. Go and sacrifice to the Lord
right here in Egypt. And Moses said, It's not meet
or fit so to do. For we shall sacrifice the abomination
of the Egyptians to the Lord our God. Lo, shall we sacrifice
the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they
not stone us? We will go three days' journey
into the wilderness and sacrifice to the Lord our God as He shall
command us. And Pharaoh said, I will let
you go that you may sacrifice to the Lord your God in the wilderness,
only you shall not go very far away. Now, God is using this warfare
that's going on here between Pharaoh and the Egyptians and
Moses and Aaron and the children of Israel. He's using this warfare
to show us a picture of the believer's spiritual warfare. Pharaoh here
typifies Satan. We have a very real foe That's
true, that he's real, his name is Satan. In scripture called
Satan, called the devil, and that's typified by Pharaoh here.
Satan has God's people under his power as we're born into
this world. And then the Egyptians and their
idolatry typifies unregenerate men. ungodly worldly men, but
in these in their idolatry pictures, religious men. And then Moses
and Aaron and the children of Israel typify Christ and His
preachers and His people. Now Satan is the strong man.
Christ called him the strong man. He's a strong man. He refuses to let the Lord's
people go. He has many tricks and many ways
of deceiving and he tries to keep God's people deceived in
sin, just like he does all men in the world. But Christ is the
one stronger than he. Don't ever listen to men who
try to make out like There's a competition between Satan and
Christ and sometimes Satan's winning and sometimes Christ
is winning. No. Christ is always winning. He's
the stronger. He said, when a strong man armed
keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace. And he's talking
about the devil. That's what Christ said. And
then He said, But when a stronger than he shall come upon him and
overcome him, he taketh from him all his armor wherein he
trusted and divided his spoils. That's Christ. He's the stronger
than the devil. He has all power over him. And Christ separates His people.
He will not fail to do this. He separates His people. He did
it on the cross. He does it in the heart. He separates
His people out of this world. We have to live in this world,
but He brings us out from among them. And assembles us together
like He's done here. And causes you to truly worship
God as God commands us. That's our subject. Worship as
God commands. This is what we're looking at
today. Worship that God commands. Now first of all, we see some
of Satan's devices. He said there in verse 25, ìGo
ye sacrifice to your God in the land.î Stay here in Egypt and
just go sacrifice. And then in verse 28, he said,
ìIíll let you go that you may sacrifice to the Lord your God
in the wilderness, but only you shall not go very far.î Now Satan
has many ways of deceiving sinners. Paul said in Corinthians, ìWeíre
not ignorant of his devices.î And he has many devices to use. We've seen here the first thing
Pharaoh did, picture of the devil, first thing he did was violently
oppose Moses and the gospel. And that's Satan's first device
is to just oppose God and his gospel. His second device was
to imitate. He had his ministers, Pharaoh
had his ministers who imitated what Moses, God's messengers
did. Satan has many preachers in pulpits
claiming to preach the Lord Jesus Christ. Claiming to preach sovereign
grace even. But they're imitating God's true
gospel. And then our text shows us the
third device of Satan, which is compromise. Compromise. See, if Pharaoh let them worship
and sacrifice to their God, in the land of Egypt, well, they
can go through the motions of worshiping God, but they're still
in bondage. They're still in bondage. And
then if He gave them a little slack on His chain and let them
go out further out into the wilderness, if you're on a chain, even if
it's a longer chain, you're still in bondage. Satan loves for the sinner to
become religious. He has no problem with that.
He has no problem with a man becoming religious, reading the
Bible, reading God's Word, coming and sitting in a pew, standing
behind a pulpit. He has no problem with a man
being religious, just as long as that man stays under his bondage. So long as that man stays in
bondage to his sin nature, Unregenerate, so that though he is religious,
he still enjoys living in sin. Satan doesn't have a problem
with that. He has no problem with a man becoming religious,
so long as he mixes his own works with the grace of God. Because
then it ceases to be grace altogether. It's just bondage. It's just
will, works, religion. And if anybody doesn't know what
I mean by will works religion, I mean men who say salvation
is some way dependent upon their free will or their works. We can see here the children
of Israel, they had a will to get up in the land of Goshen.
They had a will to go out and do the things that they needed
to do in their lives and come home and bring things home to
their children and feed their children. They had a will to
do all those things. But it was all under Pharaoh's
bondage. They couldn't get out from under
that. And that's a man born into this world. He's got a will to
get up and go around and walk from here to there and do this
and that. But it's all in bondage to Satan. He can't get out from
under that. Brethren, the religious world
around us is built on compromise. Satan had no problem with them
worshipping. The devil had no problem with
that as long as they stayed in Egypt. And he has no problem
if they even go out of Egypt as long as they are still in
bondage and have to return. No problem with that. The world
is built on compromise. But we can't ever compromise
with the religion of this world. You can't do it. You can't compromise
with men who are preaching man and saying man has a part to
play in saving himself. You cannot compromise with that
at all. The only one that will be benefited
by that is the one who is making the compromise. The one who is
telling you this is how we will compromise. He is the only one
that benefits from that. We cannot do that. I have seen
newly converted believers who thought that they could have
a positive influence if they stayed in a The place where they
were, where they were preaching man's works and man's will, and
they thought they could have an influence on them, positive
influence on them that way by staying there amongst them. I
want to give you an illustration. It's a little crude, but sometimes
we need crude illustrations to get the point. How much effectiveness
would it be? How much influence would a mother
have If she's trying to turn her daughter from prostitution
by going out and standing on the street corner with her and
turning tricks with her, wouldn't be very influential, would it? And a man who goes and compromises
and goes to sit under Will Work's religion will have no influence
whatsoever. Look to, say, Corinthians 6.
We just saw this recently, but I want to read it. It's Corinthians
6, verse 14. The Lord says, What agreement
hath the temple... I'm sorry, verse 14. Be ye not unequally yoked together
with unbelievers, for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness?
What communion has light with darkness? What concord has Christ
with Belial? Or what part hath he that believeth
with an infidel? What agreement hath the temple
of God with idols? For you are the temple of the
living God. As God has said, I will dwell in them and walk
in them and I will be their God and they shall be My people.
Wherefore, come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith
the Lord, and touch not the unclean, and I will receive you, and be
a father unto you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, saith
the Lord Almighty." So we need God to teach us this and to make
us truly say, I'm crucified with Christ. I'm crucified to the
world and the world is crucified to me. We need to get to a place
where we don't care what the world thinks about us. so as
to not be pressured into compromising. Now secondly, God's saints cannot
worship among will works religion because they hate Christ who
we worship. They hate the true Christ. Look
here in verse 26. Moses said, it's not fit for
us to do this for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians
to the Lord our God. will sacrifice the abomination
of the Egyptians. Back in Genesis 46, 34, it tells
us that every shepherd, it is a shepherd who shepherds sheep,
every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians. Now, I don't
really know why that was, but that's the way it was. They considered
a shepherd an abomination. Well, what is a shepherd? What
is a shepherd? Cheap. And so they're going to
have to offer a lamb. If they offer a lamb, it's going
to be an abomination to the Egyptians. Brethren, we worship by believing
on Christ the Lamb of God, Christ the Son of God, Christ Jesus,
God in human flesh. And so Christ is, if you try
to worship Christ in spirit and in truth, proclaiming the truth
of Christ, The carnal men hate Christ. The carnal mind is enmity
against God, hatred. That's all unregenerate men.
And that's what men are in will works religion, trusting themselves,
looking to themselves, trusting their works. Who refused to bow
to Christ are unregenerate men. They hate the Lamb of God. They
hate the Lamb of God as all unregenerate men do. Christ in Him crucifies
an abomination to them. The Scripture says the preaching
of the cross, that message that gives all the glory to God in
the salvation of His people through the sacrifice of His Son, the
preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness. They hate that message. And so,
you have a self-willed religionist, believes he's saved by his will,
believes his will plays a part in it. What's going to happen
when you declare to him the message that Christ who said, you didn't
choose me, I chose you? That's what Christ said of His
people. You did not choose me, I chose you. Do you realize at
no point, believer, did you or I choose Christ? At no point. We never chose Christ. Now understand
what I'm saying. You know people read Joshua over
there when he said, ìAs for me and my house, weíll serve the
Lord.î Go read that. Joshua is preaching the Word
of the Lord. And the quotation opens up the
page and the Lord is declaring how He brought His people out
and how He made His people truly worship Him. And the quotation
doesn't close. It's still the Lord speaking.
And He gets to a point and He says, now, choose... Talking
to men who were bowing, He says, choose whom you will serve. Now
here was the choice. the false gods on the other side
of the Jordan or the false gods on this side of the Jordan. See,
as long as men are doing the choosing, they are worshipping
a false god. Because we are not saved by our
choice, we are not saved by our will. But then it is still the
Lord talking and He says, this is the point of everything He
had said to that point. He says, as for me and my house,
we will serve the Lord. There's no choice involved. When
He gives you a new heart and makes you willing, it's not that
you're choosing to believe Him. You don't have a choice. There's
no possible way you choose to believe that false God anymore.
Now you've been planted. Now you believe God. That's why
Christ said to them, you didn't choose me. God's people never
choose Him. He chose us and brought us to
believe on Him. Declare that message to a self-willed
man and see if he doesn't get angry. Declare it to a self-exalting
religionist who thinks they deserve to be saved and tell them that
Christ said, I laid down my life for the sheep. A man will say, well, that's
not fair. If you could translate that, it would say, I feel like
I deserve to be saved. When none of us deserve to be
saved, It wouldn't be grace if that was the case. None of us
deserve to be saved. You declare to a self-justifying
man who thinks his law-keeping has something to do with his
justification, you declare to him that by one offering Christ
perfected for every man that is sanctified, that Christ gets
all the glory for justifying His people. And he hates that
Christ. Oh, he doesn't mind worshipping
the Christ who laid down his life for everybody and wants
to save everybody. If man will let God do something,
you can have that God. You can have that God. That God
is the one that man looks at in the mirror every day. I don't
want that God. I want God who is God. You take
a self-sanctified man who thinks after you come to Christ, then
you go back to Moses and you start trying to make yourself
holy by the law. You tell him that Christ is the
end of the law, that Christ says He is the sanctifier and the
sanctification of His people, that of God He made sanctification
to His people. See if you don't get angry. You
preach to a self-working man, a man who wants to boast about
his good works and what he's done and how, well, at least
I went out and did this and that and the other. And you tell him,
it's God who works in us, both the will and the do of His good
pleasure. We can't even boast in any good works. See if he
likes that guy. You take a self-keeping man who
believes he keeps himself and he's the reason that he's continuing
in his faith. My faith is so strong and all
those things. You preach this God to him and
tell him that God keeps His people by His power in faith. And he gets to go for it. See
how long he'll listen to that message. Christ is an abomination
to willed workers. Why? Because the message of Christ
is He does all the work. He's the Alpha and Omega. He's
the author and the finisher. He's the beginning and the end.
He gets all the glory. Salvation is of the Lord. And
men don't like it. But the reason they don't like
it is, you know what that message does? It declares that everything
you and I thought was salvation by nature is nothing but sin
and lies and idolatry. Christ said that. He said, if
I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin. And
He's talking about those men that folks looked at, the Pharisees,
and said, They're the most holy men there are. They're the most
righteous men there are. He's talking about them. And
he said, if I hadn't come and spoken to these men, they wouldn't
have had sin. But now they don't have any cloak for their sin.
All this is just a disguise. And that's why men hate the Christ
of the Bible. And so any believer who attempts
to preach the true and living God, Christ Jesus our Savior,
to men who are in Willworks religion, they will try to stone you. They
won't stone you in this day and time. They'll do it with their
tongue. They'll do it by casting you
out or whatever. But if they could, just like
they would in Moses' day, they would actually pick up stones
and kill you. How do I know that? Look to Calvary's
tree. Look to Calvary's tree. What
did we do? Unnatural men, natural flesh.
What did we do when Christ came, God came in human flesh and God
gave us our will and said, alright, let's see what you'll do with
God. What did we do? We nailed Him to a cross. And
said, get Him out of here so we get back to our phony, fake,
pretentious religion. That's exactly right. That's
what Christ said. Look at John 15. John 15. So if you preach Christ, look
what He said here is going to happen. John 15 and look at verse
19. He says, verse 17, let's start there.
These things I command you that you love one another. If the
world hates you, you know it hated me before it hated you.
Verse 19, ìIf you were of the world, the world would love his
own. But because you are not of the
world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the
world hateth you. Remember the word that I said
unto you, ìThe servant is not greater than his Lord.î If theyíve
persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If theyíve kept
my saying, they will keep yours also.î You know what brethren
are? Brethren are people who have
kept Christ's saying. We've believed the Gospel. And
therefore, you know who we get along with? Other brethren who
have believed the Gospel. And when men reject your Gospel,
when you're declaring the truth of this Word as plainly as it
can be, and these things I've been saying, and a man rejects
it, he's proving to you he's of the world. He hates Christ, and that's why
He hates you. That's exactly what Christ just
said, and that's so. Now, you don't want to... We
were listening to Brother Todd yesterday on the way to the ball
game, and he said, you know, you don't want to be rejected.
Somebody will be acting like a jerk, and they'll get rejected,
and they'll say, well, oh, I'm being persecuted for Christ.
No, you're just acting like a jerk. Todd can put it pretty plainly. We don't want to be rejected
because we just act like a jerk. But I'm saying when you preach
in this word, men reject you. Now, let's see what true worship
is. Verse 27, Exodus 8, 27. We will go three days journey,
Moses said, into the wilderness and sacrifice to the Lord our
God as He shall command us. We will go three days journey
into the wilderness. True worship is to be saved from
our sin, from our sin, out of this ungodly world by Christ. That word three days is significant
because on the third day Christ arose from the grave. He came
into this world and He submitted to sin, He submitted to death. for His people. But when He put
away sin and He conquered death for His people, He came out of
that tomb separate, made higher than the heavens, and sat down
at God's right hand. And when He came out of there,
He came out, Scripture says, to newness of life. never to
die again, sin to have no more dominion over him, for him to
live unto God now in newness of life. When he was made sin
and the law had something to say to him, he was separated
from God and he could not be in fellowship with God. But when
he satisfied the law and he died the death his people owed and
he came out of that tomb, now there's nothing between him and
God again. He's there as the glorified God-man. Different than how He came, He
came as God, He's back now as the glorified God-man. Nothing
separating Him from God ever again or that can ever separate
Him from God. He's there as the head of His
people and He is living unto God. And whenever He came out
of that tomb on the third day, He was raised for our justification. He was raised declaring to His
people that He justified us from all things from which you could
not be justified by the law of Moses, that is by our works.
He justified us from all things from which our works could never
justify us. I'm saying He saves us from sin
and from these things and from this world. He justified us from
all things from which we could not be saved by our words. And
He saved His people from our sins and from the curse of the
law and from this ungodly world when He arose to newness of life
with the Father. The will of God is to save His
people from this ungodly world. Galatians 1.3, I think this is
interesting. Galatians problems were, the
Galatian brethren were being deceived and they were starting
to think about compromising with wheel workers. And you know how
Paul started that letter? Listen to this, Galatians 1.3,
Grace unto you, peace from God our Father, our Lord Jesus Christ,
and our Lord Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for our sins, that
He might deliver us from this present evil world, according
to the will of God our Father, to whom be glory forever and
ever. Amen. You know what the rest of the book is about? Why are
you going back into this world as though you live in this world?
and get back under the law. That's exactly what the rest
of the book is about. He starts it saying Christ came to lay
down His life to deliver us from this very ungodliness that you're
about to compromise in. See, that's why He came. In addition
then, when He came out of the tomb, all His people came out
with Him. When He came out to newness of life, His people came
out in Him to newness of life. Justified. freed from our sin,
freed from the curse of the law as He is. That's how we came
out, sat down with Him at God's right hand. And not only did
He raise us to newness of life in His resurrection, He raises
us to newness of life in resurrection from the dead when He regenerates
us within. We have to have that happen too.
God delivers His child from the power of darkness and translates
us into the kingdom of His dear Son. He saves us from this world
to newness of life, sanctifies us from this world and the works
of the law and the works of our flesh to newness of life, to
newness of spirit. Let me see if I can illustrate
this. When God came to Israel, They're in bondage there in Egypt. And He came to redeem them and
separate them out of Egypt. That's what He came to do. He
said, I have come down to deliver them. That's what Christ told
Moses back there at the very beginning when He talked to him
at the burning bush. I've come down to deliver them. Well, a
redemption which would have left them in Egypt wouldn't have possibly been the
salvation he was talking about. In fact, the children of Israel,
they never sacrificed one word of praise to God until, number
one, the Passover lamb had been slain and the blood put over
the door post, but number two, until they had been brought out
of Egypt on the other side of the Red Sea. That's when they
started singing praises and worshiping God, not before. And the picture
in that, brethren, is a sinner will never worship God in spirit
and truth until, number one, we've been redeemed by the blood
of the Lamb. And number two, God has brought
us out of Egypt by applying that blood to the doorpost of our
heart and sanctifying us so that we can actually worship God in
spirit and truth. Both those works are absolutely
necessary or we won't be able to worship God. It won't be the
true salvation of God's people. But once he's done that, then
we start worshiping God in newness of life, in newness of spirit.
We start going three days journey out into the wilderness. That
means we leave this Egyptian world of idolatry. That means
everything that we once thought was our hope and our salvation
and that could save us, we leave that. We repent from that. We
turn from that and trust it no more. and our ungodly companions
and our loving and enjoying and relishing sin like we once did
and having no thought for God, we can't continue in that anymore.
Yes, we're still sinners. Yes, we still sin. But now we
hate that sin. Now we wish we could be free
from that sin. Now we turn from it and we want
to honor and please God in what we do. And all of this, brethren, we
worship in God in spirit and in truth through Christ the Lord.
And all this fruit that's produced now is not of us. It's of Christ Himself. Go to
Romans 7.4. Romans 7.4. He says, Wherefore, my brethren,
You also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ. That
means that by His death, our old man of sin died in Him so
that now we are dead to the law, law satisfied. that you should
be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead,
that we should bring forth fruit unto God. And by Christ's resurrection,
by Him resurrecting us in regeneration, we are alive spiritually now,
and it is by Him that we bring forth fruit unto God. It is by Christ our husband.
When a woman is married, and she marries her husband, and
now she is going to bring forth some fruit. How? By her husband. By her husband. And when He has
brought you out from that first husband, the law, and that husband
is dead to you and you are dead to that husband, you come out
now and you don't keep putting flowers on that old husband's
grave. You come out now and you are married to a new husband,
Christ the Lord. And now, for the first time,
you can have some children because it is by Him. He makes you to
bring forth fruit. And here it is, look here, verse
5. Because when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins which
were by the law, us trying to keep the law and the law showing
us our sin, that worked in our members to bring forth fruit
unto death. But now we're delivered from the law, that being dead
wherein we were held, that we should serve in newness of spirit,
not in the oldness of the letter. By going three days journey into
the wilderness, worshiping with God's people under His gospel,
and putting all our trust now in Christ only, and His message
being our only gospel, that this is it. Everything we trust in
Christ only. We confess before this world
that we are dead to this world. We are dead to this world's religion.
We are dead to that free will works religion now. Now we are
alive to God. We're saying that we're partakers
of His rejection from this world. And we're partakers of His acceptance
in heaven with the Father. And the latter makes it so we
don't mind the first. Because we're accepted with Him,
with the Father, in Him. We don't mind this world rejecting
us anymore. We consider it a badge of honor
because they rejected Christ too. He rejected Christ too. God has given us a new heart,
separated His people from the self-righteous religious world,
and believers bear witness to Christ by being separated from
the world to His gospel, to the light in His word. We bear witness
to this world that we could not bear if we would have stayed
in connection with this world. You just can't bear witness to
Christ sitting under a false gospel. You can't do it. You
know what baptism once meant to men? Baptism meant I renounce
everything I trusted before. Everything that I was sitting
under, everything that I claimed that I was saved by, everything
I heard, I rejected all. Christ is my Lord and my Savior. That's what baptism represents. That's why a lot of times folks,
they won't even be quite so upset with you, a mother or father,
if you say you believe this Christ, as long as you don't talk about
it around them. But now if you want to be baptized, you're saying,
I reject you and your God and have nothing else to do with
it. And that's when they register on you. True worship, so is to leave
everything and go three days into the journey. Then true worship
is this, to sacrifice to the Lord our God as He shall command
us. Sinners only truly worship God
when the Spirit of God speaks in our heart and God commands
us. That's the only time we'll truly
worship God. And then God commands His child, there's only one sacrifice
He'll receive, just one, and that's Christ His Son. Neither
is there any other name, neither is there salvation in any other,
for there's none other name under heaven whereby we must be saved,
Jesus Christ the Lord, Him alone. He's loved us, all His people,
all the Father gave to Him, He loved us and He gave Himself
for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God. Moses said, we're going
to go offer The sacrifice to God as He commands us. This is
the sacrifice God commands us right here. Come in Christ because
He has offered Himself a sweet smelling savor, a sacrifice unto
God. Well pleasing. Go to Hebrews
9.25. I'm almost done. Hebrews 9.25. Don't you see this word sacrifice,
this word offer? Hebrews 9.25, "...nor yet that
he should offer himself often as the high priest entereth 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 to put away
sin by the sacrifice of himself." That's what Christ did. Look
at Hebrews 10.12, Hebrews 10 and 12. This man, after he had
offered one sacrifice for sin, one sacrifice for sin, he offered
it. He sat down on the right hand
of God, from henceforth expecting till His enemies be made His
footstool, for by one offering, one sacrifice, He hath perfected
forever them that are sanctified. And the Spirit of God teaches
us this, and look down at verse 17. He teaches us, there's sins
and iniquities I'll remember no more, so where remission of
these is, there's no more offering for sin. See, we're not talking
about going out into the wilderness. Now Moses at that time had to
go out and he had to offer a lamb. That's how he was going to have
to worship God, offer a lamb, because it was a picture of Christ.
But even when Moses offered that lamb, he wasn't trusting to the
fact he was offering that lamb. He was looking to the Lamb of
God in that lamb, to Christ. And now we're under the new covenant
of grace. We don't have to offer that lamb.
We just come with the one sacrifice God is pleased with, faith in
His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. That's the sacrifice. When is
a man going to offer that sacrifice and stop offering his own offerings? His good works and his will and
all the things he tries to defend. When is he going to stop offering
that? When the Holy Ghost has borne witness in the heart and
said, sin is put away by Christ. And where the remission of sin
is, There's nothing else for you to offer. There's nothing
else for you to offer. This is good news, brethren.
You know, if it was anything else in life and you were told,
look, you're going to get a paycheck in the mail every single day
from the time you're 30 years old until the day you die and
you don't have to work a lick ever again. It's all provided
for you. Man, we'd shut it down and go get us a boat and be out
on the ocean kicked up with an umbrella and a glass. But when
it comes to this Gospel, Just try to tell me that and I'm going
to have to keep working. Just like bondage? Just like
being whipped? Just like failing? Just like
always constantly sinning against God? Rest in Christ and be received
of God, accepted of God. And you don't have to work anymore. Then the things you do... You
know, when you're doing something you love for somebody you love,
you don't call that work. You want to do that. That's not
work. You're not doing it for pay. That's love. And then once you seek Christ,
then the things you do now, it'll stop being work. It'll stop being
for pay. It'll stop being because you're
trying to get in God's good favor. It's because you're in love with
Christ. You just want to. You just want
to. So lastly, let's go here. Look
at Hebrews 13. I'm just going to read some scripture
and show you. This winds it up. This sums it
all up. The reason I went to Hebrews
is Hebrews is telling us what the law is all about. So when
you look at a sacrifice in the Old Testament, you go here and
you find out that sacrifice is all about Christ. Here is what
He tells us now. Here is the first thing learned
from all this. Never give heed to all these different doctrines
of men that are strange doctrines. Verse 9. Be not cared about with
different and strange doctrines, for it is a good thing that the
heart be established, immovable with grace, not with meats which
have not profited them that have been occupied therein, not with
works. And then here's the second thing. Don't ever compromise
with this ungodly religious world, but be separate, saith the Lord
your God. Here's verse 10. We have an altar
where if they have no right to eat, would serve the tabernacle.
Our altar is Christ. And people that are still serving
themselves and working to get to heaven have no right to come
to this altar. For the bodies of those beasts
whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest
for sin are burned without the count. Here's the picture. Jesus also that he might sanctify
the people with his own blood suffered without the gate. Separate,
apart, away. Let us go forth therefore unto
him without the count bearing his reproach. For here we have
no continuing city but we seek one to come. You know what Satan
wants you to do? Satan wants you to give credit
to this world's ungodly religion. And you know how you do it? You
go join with him. And you give him credit. God
says, come out just like your Savior was separated out from
Him and sanctified you with His blood and suffered without the
camp of religious men. You leave that camp of religious
men. Worship Christ. And then here's the last thing.
Do as Moses did and come to God with the sacrifice God's pleased
with. Verse 15. By Him therefore, by Christ therefore,
let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually. That is the fruit of our lips
given thanks to His name. That's the believer's sacrifice.
That's true worship. praising God for what He has
done for us in the person of His dear Son. That's worship.
That's worship. Now, Moses would go off for a
lamb, but that's what was in Moses' heart right there. He
was going there to thank God for bringing him out. And that's
what they did. Alright. We are going to observe
the Lord's table now. The table of the Lord is the
Lord on the night that He was sacrificed the night He gave
Himself. He sat down to observe the Passover
and when He had finished observing the Passover, He put an end to
that because He is what the Passover picture. He is the picture. And
He finished that and when He did, He started a new ordinance
for His believing people in this day of grace in which we live.
And the Apostle Paul tells us, let me find it here, hold on
one second. He said, I received of the Lord that which also I
delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus the same night in
which he was betrayed took bread. And when he had given thanks,
he break it. And he said, take, eat, this is my body which is
broken for you, this do in remembrance of me. And after the same manner
also he took the cup which he had supped, saying, This cup
is the New Testament of my blood. This do ye, as often as you drink
it, in remembrance of me. For as often as you eat this
bread and drink this cup, you do show the Lord's death till
he come. So this is a picture. This broken
bread is a reminder of Christ's broken body. This unleavened
bread. Christ had no sin, knew no sin. but He gave His body to be broken
for His people. It's a picture of Christ's body
to remind us of this great sacrifice Christ made for His people. The
wine is wine and it's the wine of the great. The wine in Scripture
pictures Christ's blood. poured out by which He saved
His people. Life is in the blood. Without
shedding of blood, there is no remission of sin. And by shedding
His blood, He remitted all the sins of all His people. And the
one way a person is worthy to take of this table is if you
believe the Lord Jesus Christ you have heard preached. This
one, this book declares that I have been preaching to you
today. That's our only worthiness for coming to this table. A church
doesn't give you worthiness. A preacher doesn't give you worthiness.
Your works don't give you worthiness. The one thing that makes you
worthy to come to this table is Christ alone. If you believe
Christ, you're welcome to this table. But he said, if you don't,
he said, don't drink the table, don't partake of the table. Because
you can't remember Christ. You can't remember it. This is
to do in remembrance of Him. And I can't remember somebody
I never met. So this is for the Lord's people that believe on
Christ and trust Christ. Alright, Brother Kevin and Brother
Kevin,