Alright brethren, let me ask
you to turn to Leviticus chapter 16 and also to mark your place
in Hebrews. Leviticus chapter 16 and then
mark the book of Hebrews. Two things are very unpopular
to speak about in most every worship service
in our day. Those two things are sin and
blood. And yet it's impossible to set
forth the message of God's book without declaring the truth about sin
and without declaring the truth concerning the blood. Were it
not for sin, no blood would have ever been
shed in the earth. And were it not for the shedding
of blood, No sin would have ever been put away. Now, hold your places there where
I had you to turn to. And I want you to look at Romans
5 with me just a moment. In the garden, in the very beginning,
the Lord teaches us in Genesis that sin entered in. What was
the result of that? Romans 5 verse 12 says, Wherefore,
as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin. Now there are lots of ways sin
is described in Scripture. Lots of ugly, ugly ways it's
described. Leprosy, wounds and bruises and the crown
of the head to the sole of the feet, just the poison of asps
under the tongue. Sin is described as horrible,
horrible, horrible things. But this is the worst of all
things that can describe what sin really is. It's death. It's
death. And by that one transgression
in the garden, look at this, and so death passed upon all
men, and it doesn't just mean males, it means male and female,
all men, for all have sinned. All have sinned. There's nobody
that was not represented when Adam sinned in the garden. He was the first Adam, the representative
of all mankind. And sin entered in. Now, verse
15 says, but not as the offense, so also is the free gift. There's
something different about the gift. For if through the offense
of one many be dead, much more the grace of God and the gift
by grace which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto
many. And not as it was by one that
sinned, so is the gift, for the judgment was by one to condemnation. One transgression resulted in
death, condemnation for all men. But the free gift takes many
offenses and justifies them all. For if by one man's offense death
reigned by one, much more, they which receive abundance of grace
and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus
Christ." Now in the garden, God declared that the only way that
sin is put away is by death. The only way that sin is put
away is by death. Unto Adam and unto his wife Eve
in that garden God made coats of skins and clothed them. Those coats of skins were made
from an innocent animal being slain and a covering was made
from that blood that was shed, from that innocent one that was
shed, and God took that covering and put it on Adam and Eve to
cover the sin and shame of their nakedness. Christ is the Lamb
slain from the foundation of the world. Were it not for sin,
Christ's blood would have never been shed. Were it not for the shedding
of Christ's blood, no sin would have ever been put away. Now,
the Lord gave the law. He raised up Moses and He gave
the Levitical law, the Mosaic law. He created a nation. He
gave them His law. He gave them sacrifices to be
made, a tabernacle in which they were to be made. There was an
altar. And then past the altar there
was a holy place called the tabernacle. And past the tabernacle was the
holiest of holies. And He gave this and He showed
through these sacrifices that the only way sin is put away
is by blood. Now I want you to look at this
scripture too. Hebrews 9 verse 22. Hebrews 9 verse 22. This
is commenting on the shedding of blood under
that Mosaic Covenant and everything that took place with the high
priest in the midst of that tabernacle. And he says this in Hebrews 9
verse 22, Almost all things are by the law purged with blood. Purged, washed with blood. That's by law. And without shedding
of blood is no remission. Sin won't be put away without
the shedding of blood. Look over at Leviticus 17 verse
11. Why is that? For the life, the life of the flesh is in the
blood. Leviticus 17, 11. The life of
the flesh is in the blood. And I have given it to you upon
the altar to make an atonement for your souls, for it is the
blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. The blood. You see how important it is to
declare the truth about sin and how important it is to declare
the truth about the blood? Without the shedding of blood,
Life for a life. The life of one for the life
of another. There will be no putting away
of sin. That's what God all through the Mosaic Covenant, all through
those days that Israel wandered and all the blood that was shed
throughout the ages was declaring. That the only way sin will be
put away is by the shedding of blood. Life given for another. Life given. Now today, we have
come in here to partake of the Lord's table. In the night in
which our Lord was betrayed, He ordained, He instituted the
Lord's table. And in the Lord's table, when
He was doing this, let me just read this to you. He took bread,
and He gave thanks, and He broke that bread. And He said, this
is my body. It's a picture, it's a type,
it's an emblem of his broken body, which is given for you. And he said, this do in remembrance
of me. And then likewise also the cup, it's a cup of wine,
it's real wine. He took a cup of wine and he
said, this cup is the New Testament, the everlasting covenant of grace
in my blood. in My blood, written in My blood,
which is shed for you." He's talking to His disciples whom
He had called. Now, as we prepare our hearts
to eat the bread and drink the wine, to remember His broken
body and His shed blood, I want to look at three applications
of the blood. These are the three applications
of the blood. And I want you to see from this
just how ultimately, preeminently important the blood of Christ
is. Okay? I want you to see this
from Leviticus chapter 16. This was the day of atonement. Atonement means that's how you're
made at one with God. Here's the problem. God is holy. That means he can have absolutely
nothing to do with sin. And you and I are absolutely
totally sin. That means we can have absolutely
nothing to do with God. Unless God does something freely
for us. And He does that something freely
by the blood of His Son, Christ the Lord. Here's three applications
of the blood. This is the Day of Atonement.
The first application is the blood within the veil. This is
in the Holiest of Holies. Let's read this together. Leviticus
16, 15. Then shall He, this is the High
Priest, Christ is the High Priest, He shall kill the goat The goat
is a type of Christ. Then shall he, the high priest,
kill the goat of the sin offering that is for the people. This
is substitution. This is an innocent one dying
in the place of the guilty. Then shall he kill the goat of
the sin offering that is for the people and bring his blood
within the veil and do with that blood as he did with the blood
of the bullock and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat. and before
the mercy seat. And he shall make an atonement
for the holy place because of the uncleanness of the children
of Israel and because of their transgressions in all their sins."
Now that's the blood within the veil. In the holiest of holies. Alright, here's the blood within
the tabernacle. Look at verse 15, the second
half. And so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation. that remaineth among them in
the midst of their uncleanness. And there shall be no man in
the tabernacle of the congregation when he goeth in to make an atonement
in the holy place, until he come out and have made an atonement
for himself and for his household and for all the congregation
of Israel." This is that place outside of the holiest of holies
which is called the tabernacle. This is the blood within the
tabernacle. Now here's the third place the blood was applied,
the blood upon the altar. Look at verse 18. And he shall
go out unto the altar that is before the Lord, and make an
atonement for it, and shall take of the blood of the bullock,
and of the blood of the goat, and put it upon the horns of
the altar round about. And he shall sprinkle of the
blood upon it with his finger seven times, the number of perfection,
and cleanse it, and hallow it, that means make it holy, from
the uncleanness of the children of Israel. Now this is the three
applications of the blood. The blood was applied in the
holiest of holies. The blood was applied within
the tabernacle. And the blood was applied upon
the altar. This is typifying, foreshadowing
all our salvation and all of a sinful, unholy, unrighteous,
wretched man's acceptance with God who is holy. Alright, let's
look at it. Here's the first thing. The blood
within the veil. The holiest of holies within
the veil represented the presence of God in heaven itself. Nobody could go into that place
but the high priest. And he couldn't even go in there
but one time a year. And he could never go in there
without blood. Now brethren, within that veil
was the Ark of the Covenant. God, before time began, made
an everlasting covenant. He made an everlasting covenant,
a covenant of mercy, a covenant of grace, a covenant of free
salvation that would be accomplished by God the Father, God the Son,
and God the Holy Spirit. He did this. And in that Holiest
of Holies, He showed us this in type. He made an arc. He told
that Moses, make it exactly according to the pattern you've seen in
the map. And Moses came down and he made
this ark, plated it over with gold, and on top of it, inside
it was the broken law. Sin. Sin. The sin of everyone for whom
this goat's blood was shed. Sin. Broken law. This is why
all this was being done. We broke God's law in the garden. We can't come to God. We can't
approach Him unless God reconciles us unto Himself. Got that? We got to be reconciled. God
reconciles us unto Himself. That's what's being done here. All of that was what was called
a mercy seat. It was a seat where satisfaction
would be made, a propitiation would be made, atonement would
be made. And that priest went in there
with that blood. The wages of sin is death. Is this comfortable for you to
talk about? This is all my hope. The wages of sin is death. That's
what you're going to have. That's what's going to happen
to you. You're going to die. I'm going to die. We're going
to meet God. One way or the other, we're coming before him. We're going to stand before this
one who knows everything about us. And life is in the blood. And this goat died in the place
of those children of Israel, in the place of that congregation
of Israel. And in type, in ceremony, one
more year, until that same time the next year, the Lord considered
them to be at one with Him. because that blood had been brought
in and sprinkled seven times the number of perfection on that
mercy seat and before that mercy seat, and God said, I'll accept
them one more year. This slain goat is a type of
the Christ to come. That's what He was declaring.
He's the Christ to come. This is what He's going to do.
This is what the Lamb's going to do that God said, I provide
myself. This is what He's going to do.
He's going to come and He's going to be spotless so that He is
a fit substitute for my people. That goat had to be completely
spotless. It couldn't have any blemish in it whatsoever because
if it was, it wouldn't be a fit sacrifice to have the spots and
the blemish of sin laid upon it. And this lamb was absolutely
spotless and Christ is the spotless Lamb of God. He is God Himself
in human flesh, the spotless One. And because Christ was spotless,
He was fit to have the sin of God's people laid upon Him. That's what they did with this
goat. He put His hand on this goat and He put the sin of the
people on the goat. This is what 2 Corinthians 5.21
says, He hath made Him sin for us who knew no sin, the spotless
Lamb. He made Him sin that we, God's
Israel, God's Jacob, God's Israel, that we might be made the righteousness
of God in Him. God was in Christ reconciling
the world of His elect unto Himself. not imputing their trespasses
to them, but imputing them to His own darling Son. The blood of that goat made an
atonement for the holy place because of the uncleanness of
the children of Israel and because of their transgressions and all
their sins. Now, look at Hebrews 9 verse
12. I want you to see that this is
Christ. By His own blood, He finished
the work. He entered into God's presence
and He made complete satisfaction for the sins of every sinner
for whom He died. Now get this now. Get this now. That atonement that was made
in the holiest of holies, that blood that was shed in the holiest
of holies, it was not shed for the Philistines, it was not shed
for the Amorites, it was not shed for the Moabites, it was
not shed for all those hundreds of nations outside, it was shed
for the children of Israel only. And so was Christ's blood. It
was shed for God's Israel only. His chosen people from among
all the nations of the earth, Jew and Gentile. And he says
here in Hebrews 9, 12. Neither, okay verse 11, but Christ
being come and high priest of good things to come. He's the
high priest. By a greater and more perfect
tabernacle not made with hands, that's to say not of this building,
That all typified this, neither by the blood of goats and calves,
but by his own blood. Not by the blood of a goat or
a calf, but by His own blood. He entered in once into the holy
place, having obtained eternal redemption. For Christ has not
entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the
figures of the true, types of the true, foreshadowings of what
was to come. That's what that tabernacle was.
But He's entered into heaven itself. the very holiest of holies,
now to appear in the presence of God for us. 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 often 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." And he says here, and
as it is appointed unto men once to die, And after this, the judgment. He died once. He was judged once. And everybody that died in Him
has already died. They've already been judged in
Him. So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many, and
unto them that look for Him shall He appear the second time without
sin unto salvation. Now that's what was pictured
in that Holiest of Holies. Christ said on the cross, is
finished. And when the veil was rent from
top to bottom in that tabernacle, there was no ark of the covenant
in that tabernacle anymore. It was not there. Christ is our
ark. He is our mercy seat. He is in
heaven's glory himself. He is the one promised from the
foundation of the world. You want to come to God in the
law? Let me tell you what you're going to need to get you. You
need to build you a tabernacle. You need to build you a holiest
of holies. You need to find you a lamb, and you need to start
killing that lamb and coming to God the way He said He would
come. And that lamb That holiest of
holies, that tabernacle is God, is Christ, is the Lamb. He is the One. It is finished. Come now in Him. To God in Him. This is how God satisfied the
sins of His people Himself. That's why He gets all the glory
for that. Alright, here's the second thing.
The blood within the tabernacle. Alright? Leviticus 16, the second
half, verse 15. And so shall he do for the tabernacle
of the congregation that remaineth among them in the midst of their
uncleanness. Now after the high priest applied
the blood in the holiest of holies, he came out to the next room
in the tabernacle, which is called the holy place. Now, and he applied
the blood there. Because this tabernacle that
dwelt in their midst was unclean and it had to be clean too. What
did that picture, what did that show us was happening? Every
child whom Christ made atonement for, whom Christ made satisfaction
for, dwells in a tabernacle of sin and death, a tabernacle of
flesh and blood, a tabernacle of ignorance and no understanding
of who the true and living God is and how we can approach Him.
How then are you and I going to come into a true knowledge
and a true understanding that God Almighty in Christ has already
accomplished the work of making satisfaction for us Himself? How is any sinner going to come
into that realization? Through this Gospel Word, through
this incorruptible Word, through Christ the incorruptible seed,
a man has got to be born again. And every child whom Christ made
satisfaction for will have this seed planted in them called regeneration. And this blood of Christ will
purge their conscience, their inner man, this tabernacle of
flesh from dead works. Dead works are done by dead flesh,
trying to come to God in a dead way, trying to meet a living
God in that which is death. Now that's ignorance, isn't it?
That's what me and you are by nature. He's got to come in and
purge us, wash us inside, within, so that we can behold Christ
really is satisfaction. He really is the Lamb. He really
has accomplished the work. Now let me give you a few scriptures
to back this up. 1 Corinthians 6, verse 19. First of all, our body is the
tabernacle. It is the temple of God. 1 Corinthians 6, verse 19. Know ye not that your body is
the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have
of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price.
the price of His blood. Therefore glorify God in your
body and in your spirit, which are God's." It's the temple of
God. He's bought it. He's going to
raise the Spirit. The Spirit's new. It's how we believe Him.
He's going to raise that immediately when we die, but He's going to
raise the body too, incorruptible. Perfect. Look over at 2 Corinthians
6, verse 16. What agreement hath the temple
of God with idols? Dead things, dead works, just
gold and silver and vain traditions and works. What do you have with
idols? For ye are the temple of the
living God, as God hath said. This is from Leviticus 26, 12.
This is what he said back there, way back there to Moses. I will
dwell in them and walk in them and I will be their God and they
shall be my people. Do you see this? Oh, look now
over at 1 Peter chapter 2. You see, in that part of the
tabernacle, this is beautiful right here, in that part of the
tabernacle, that's where the sons of Levi, the priests, that
special tribe that was a chosen tribe above all the other tribes,
the sons of Levi, that's where they came in and did the priest's
work under the rule and dominion of the high priest. Now, this
is what he says, 1 Peter 2.9. This is Peter, that Jew that
was born of God. This is what he said. He's speaking
to Gentiles who were born of the Spirit of God. He says, you
are a chosen generation. A chosen generation. A chosen
generation. A royal, a kingly priesthood. priesthood, and holy nation,
a peculiar people, a purchased people, that ye should show forth
the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his
marvelous light." You see, that's where the priest served. He's made those in whom he dwells
kings and priests unto God, in our king and our high priest.
Now, look at Hebrews 9. Hebrews 9. You see, not only
does the blood of Christ make satisfaction to God in God's
presence, but through the Spirit, it is His blood applied within
that purges our conscience from those old dead works of the flesh
to serve Christ. Look at Hebrews 9 verse 13. This
is taken from from the Old Testament now, from
that Levitical day. If the blood of bulls and of
goats, the blood of bulls and goats, and the ashes of a heifer
sprinkling the unclean, that's what we are, unclean. And if
that's sanctified in ceremony, that's sanctified to the purifying
of the flesh. Remember what he said? You're
going to make this place holy. It's got to be made holy now. That's what this blood does.
When Christ enters and you're born of God, He makes you holy. created anew in righteousness
and true holiness. If that blood and those symbols
and pictures and types did that, how much more shall the blood
of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without
spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the
living God? Paul said to the Corinthians,
now we have received, not the Spirit of the world, but the
Spirit which is of God, that we might know the things that
are freely given to us of God. But he said, the natural man,
he receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God. This is not
joy to the natural man. Why not? Because he's carnal,
and these things are foolishness to him, and he can't know them,
because they're spiritually discerned. Christ Jesus gets the glory for
making satisfaction with the Father, and He receives all the
glory for rebirthing everyone for whom He died, and purging
our conscience by His own blood to bring us into spiritual understanding
of what He has accomplished. Are you seeing the value of this
blood? Alright, now, here's the third
application of the blood. The blood upon the altar, Leviticus
16, 18. And he shall go out unto the
altar that is before the Lord, and make an atonement for it,
and shall take of the blood of the goat, and put it upon the
horns of the altar round about, and he shall sprinkle of the
blood upon it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it,
and hallow it." That's what he's done in each one of these cases.
Where this blood has been applied, it's cleansed and hallowed. Made
holy. Made righteous and made holy.
And he says, and he's doing it from the uncleanness of the children
of Israel. Now what does this mean? This
is the altar where the children of Israel, where the children
of the congregation brought their gifts and their free will offerings
and came and praised God and thanked God and worshipped God
for all that God had done for them. This is where they brought
everything and it was put upon this altar right here by the
priest. Here's what it's typifying. Look
over at Leviticus 22 verse 21. Leviticus 22 verse 21. Now, whoever
comes, whoever does any works of gratitude, whoever sings any songs of praise,
whoever gives any of their money or any of their goods that God
has given, whoever, and the believer does these things, the believer
delights in these things because we're praising our God, we're
worshiping our God, but in every one of these things, Sin is mixed
with everything that we do. So much so, that were it not
for the blood of Christ cleansing it and making it absolutely holy,
God wouldn't accept it. Now look here, Leviticus 22,
21. Whosoever offereth a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the Lord
to accomplish his vow, or a freewill offering in beeves or sheep,
it shall be perfect to be accepted. There shall be no blemish therein."
Brethren, Christ is our altar. Look at Hebrews 13. Christ is
our altar. And it is Christ's blood that
makes even the believers worship holy from all uncleanness. Hebrews 13, look at verse 9. Be not carried about with diverse
and strange doctrines. That's what men create. For it
is a good thing that the heart, that inner man, be established
with grace, purged by the grace of God, by the blood of Christ,
not with meats, not with meats, not with your offerings and your
sacrifices, which have not profited them that have been occupied
therein. Now watch this. We have an altar, whereof they
have no right to eat, which serve the tabernacle. Those who are
yet trying to come to God in the law, who are taking the Word
of God and using them in error and trying to come to God and
walk up to God with their very best works that they've done.
They may have spent all their days on their knees praying until
their knees are just scabbed over. They may have spent all
their time breaking their backs trying to feed the poor and clothe
the poor and feed the hungry and do all these things. and
spend all their time giving themselves, themselves and sacrificing and
sacrificing and sacrificing, yet God will not accept it. He will not accept it because
He doesn't receive the glory in making it holy. You've got to have the blood
of Christ to cleanse and purge and make holy every offering
that you come to God in. everyone. The only way, Romans
12 says, brethren, present our bodies a living sacrifice, one
body, one living sacrifice unto God, holy and accepted of God. The only way, the only way a
sinner like me and a sinner like you can do that is upon Christ
our altar wherein Everything is purged and cleansed by Him. Christ is. He gives wisdom, and
He is the wisdom. Christ robes in righteousness,
creates us in righteousness, makes satisfaction to God in
righteousness, and He is that righteousness. Christ Jesus sanctifieth. He enters in and He cleanses
the man so that we can behold Christ. He creates us anew and
He is the sanctification. He is the holiness wherein we're
cleansed. He is the holiness without which
no man shall see God. Without Him, without the root
of David within us purging us and cleansing us, all that remains
in us is a bitter root of the flesh wherein many be defiled."
Read that in Hebrews chapter 12. And Christ redeems and He is
the redemption. He is the price God accepts and
says, Ah! I found the ransom, payment in
full. I'm satisfied. Now, do you see
why the believer loves to hear about his sin and about the blood
of Christ. Within the veil, Christ Jesus
of Nazareth, the Lord of Lords and King of Kings, the High Priest
and the Lamb of God Almighty has made satisfaction to God
for everyone he represented. Within these bodies, His blood
has purged our conscience from dead works to serve Him. He's
created us anew in righteousness and true holiness. And even this
wretched flesh right here is cleansed. It's His. He's going
to raise it anew. And upon Christ our altar, by
His blood, every feeble word that comes out of these mouths,
wandering thought, when you start to pray tonight, when you lay
your head on your pillow, and you drift off to sleep, and you
wake up in the middle of the night, and you try to pick up
where you left off, and you drift back off to sleep, and your mind
wanders, and you try to come back, and you try to start again,
and the next day you wake up, and you say, Lord, oh, forgive
me, I can't even hold my thoughts together to pray to you. By this
cleansing blood on Christ's altar, it comes to God as Christ Himself
praying to the Father right there in His presence. And God receives
it and says, Oh, what a Son! What a Son! Now, in closing,
I want to read Hebrews chapter 10, if you'll turn there with
me. And I want you to see Hebrews 10. And if anybody goes home rejecting
this Gospel, this glorious Good News, my blood's free from you. I've told you the truth. And
you're just going to put your head in the sand. But look at
this now, Hebrews 10, verse 1. And I want to read 25 verses
here. And I want you to see, this is
what God was declaring throughout the Mosaic Covenant. For the
Law, That's what we're talking about, having a shadow, a type,
a foreshadowing of good things to come. Not the very image of
the things can never, with those sacrifices which they offered
year by year continually, make the comers there unto perfect. It never did. Just in type and
ceremony, that's all. For then would they not have
ceased to be offered? That makes sense, don't it? Wouldn't
they have stopped if they'd have made satisfaction? Because that
the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of
sins. But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again
made of sins every year. That's what they were for, to
remind them every year, you still got sin. For it's not possible that the
blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. Wherefore, when
he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice an offering
thou wouldst not, but a body hast thou prepared me." He said
this is how he was coming years before he ever came in the Old
Testament Scriptures. He said, "...and burn offerings
and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure therein." That
comes straight out of Psalm 40. Then said I, Lo, I come. In the
volume of the book it's written of me. This is what this whole
book is about. Christ Jesus, God's beloved Son. To do thy will, O God. That's
why it came. Because we couldn't do it. Above,
when he said sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offerings
for sin, thou wouldst not neither hadst pleasure therein. No satisfaction
was made which are offered by the law. Then said he, Lo, I
come to do thy will, O God. He took away that first, that
covenant, that Mosaic covenant that appeared to us as being
the first covenant. He took it away and He established
the second covenant. Which really and truly was the
first covenant. It was the everlasting. It was
that first covenant as we see it was given just to show us
His everlasting covenant and how it's ratified. By the witch's
will, by His will, we are sanctified, cleansed and hallowed. through
the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once. Once for all time. And every priest standeth daily. Right then when Paul was preaching
this, they were still going through it. They saw the Ark of the Covenant
gone. Saw the temple rent in two. They
saw there was no Shekinah glory in the temple anymore. Did it
stop? vain men from just going through the motions of religion.
They didn't. And they still stand today and
do the same thing. And don't take on us the audacity
and the pride of thinking that because But if you're a Gentile,
of thinking that it don't apply to us, because it's the same
with men who fly under the banner of Christianity in so-called
Protestant churches and Reformed churches, still trying to come
to God by some saying they sanctified themselves and they hallowed
and cleansed themselves in some form, either within the veil,
within the tabernacle, by our will and choice, or by some work
we've done after conversion. on the altar. Christ is the satisfaction
within the veil. He's the satisfaction within
the heart. He's the satisfaction upon the altar. Christ is all
satisfaction. But they stand daily ministering,
offering oftentimes the same sacrifices which can never take
away sins. But this man, after he had offered
one sacrifice, four sins, forever, sat down on the right hand of
God. You know what the high priest
never did when he was in that tabernacle? He never sat down. There wasn't a chair in there.
There wasn't even a chair to sit on. He never sat down. This man right here finished
the work and he sat down. It's done. It's done. From henceforth
expecting, till his enemies be made his footstool. And they
shall, all of them shall, those who will die, perish from this
life, yet still the enemy of God, and those who he satisfied
justice for, who are enemies in their minds by wicked works.
Every enemy of God gonna be made to bow and trust him. Everyone. For by one offering he hath perfected
forever them that are sanctified." There's nothing else to offer.
Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us. This is that
purging of the conscience, that inner man. For that he said before,
this is from the Old Testament. This is the covenant that I will
make with them after those days, saith the Lord. I will put my
laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them,
and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. Now
where remission of these is, there is no more offering for
sin. Now here comes the altar and
the acceptance. It's got to be perfectly accepted
now. Look at verse 19. Having therefore, brethren, boldness,
liberty, access, freedom, acceptance to enter into the holiest by
the blood of Jesus. You know nobody could go in there
but the high priest. Now he's saying, you can come
into God's presence by a new and a living way. Not by a dead
goat, but by Christ. A new and living way which He
hath newly made consecrated for us through the veil, that is
to say His flesh, and having a high priest over the house
of God. He's that high priest. Now let us draw near with a true
heart, been purged and washed, made new, in full assurance of
faith, trusting that He is all our acceptance with God, having
our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies
washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the profession
of faith without wavering, for He's faithful, that promise.
And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good
works not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as the
manner of some is, but exhorting one another so much the more
as you see the day approaching." Oh, don't ever, ever stop talking
to me about the blood. All right, let's, you fellas
come and you'll take these elements