We'll take the second half of
that message and finish it. We're looking at the Day of Atonement
and we're looking at specifically the High Priest. The High Priest. Next time we'll enter more into
the offerings and the sacrifices. Now, we'll review before we start. It began with a word from God
to Moses. If we're going to hear what God
is saying here. We're going to understand the
Gospel. It's going to be by God teaching us, by God speaking
into our hearts and teaching us who He is and what He's done. And then we saw that this high
priest, first of all, was chosen by God. God chose that Aaron
would be the high priest. The Hebrew writer said, Christ
didn't take this honor upon Himself. God called him. He's the first
elect of God. And neither do those that were
chosen of God in him take this honor upon themselves. We were
called to praise Him who called us out of darkness. He chose
us, not we ourselves. And then, the second thing we
saw about this high priest is that he was robed in garments
of humility. He came in those linen garments
we saw there in verse 4. And Christ our Lord, who is one
with the Father, who is equal with the Father, just as Aaron
laid aside those priestly garments, those beautiful, glorious garments,
and took this linen robe, Christ came to where we are, took upon
Him the form of a servant, was made in the likeness of men,
and served God, highly glorified God, even to the death of the
cross. And what it's going to take is
when God speaks into the hearts of His people. Paul said in 1
Corinthians chapter 2, he said, we have the mind of Christ. We've
not received the spirit of the world, we've received the spirit
of God. You don't know what a man's thinking unless the spirit of
that man, that man tells you what he's thinking, what he's
done. And Paul said, so it is that
the Spirit of God enters in and teaches us God's Word, teaches
us the mind of Christ. And that's when we're going to
discover true humility is whenever we behold Christ and how he glorified
the Father. It humbles us. It brings us down
to the dust. And we quit bragging about what
we've done for God. And we start bragging about what
God's done for us. And that's humility. That's humility. Well, the third thing we saw
here is that the high priest had to be personally clean. At
the end of verse 4, he washed his flesh in water and he put
on those garments. In verse 6, he had to bring a
bullock for a sin offering for himself. So, all of that, Aaron
had to do those things for himself. But Christ, the Scripture says,
He's a high priest who's holy, harmless, undefiled, separate
from sinners, made higher than the heavens. That's who Christ
is. But I'll tell you something else
about this. You, you and I, have got to be
made personally clean before God. We've got to be sanctified. That's how we're going to enter
into this truth. That's how we're going to be accepted of God.
You have to be holy. There are no degrees of holiness. You'd be turning Hebrews 9. I
told you to place it there in Leviticus 16. Turn to Hebrews
9. There's no degrees of holiness. You either are or you're not.
But let me show you how you're going to be made personally clean.
This blood's going to be applied to you by God the Spirit. Verse 12 there. He said, Neither
by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood He entered
in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption
for us, For if the blood of bulls and of goats and the ashes of
a heifer sprinkling the unclean sanctifies to the purifying of
the flesh." He's saying if ceremonially, under the old covenant, when
the Lord used those blood of animals and He sprinkled folks
with that blood. And He said when He sprinkled
them, if ceremonially, not at all did it ever purge them. It
never made them clean. It just ceremonially. it made
them clean so God would receive them because it was picturing
Christ and what Christ would do. He said, but now if those
literal, that blood of bulls and goats did that, just in a
ceremonial way. Verse 14, 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? That's sanctification. Being
purged in the inner man, cleansed in the inner man, having our
bodies washed with pure water is called sanctification of the
Spirit. Regeneration. It's called washing
of regeneration. It's renewing. It's being made
new. And when that happens, you're going to behold, you might not
know everything there is to know about Christ. You're going to
be alone all your life learning and eternity learning about him.
But here's the thing you're going to know. Christ is all my salvation. There is nothing I can do to
make myself more accepted, more holy with God. He's all my acceptance
with God. And you've got to be made to
know that. All right, the fourth thing we saw is that this priest
entered with blood. He had to enter in with blood.
And Christ Jesus, He didn't enter in with the blood of bulls and
goats as we just read there in Hebrews 9. He entered in with
His own blood. He entered in once by himself
having obtained eternal redemption. Now here's the fifth thing. This
is what we pick up with now back in Leviticus 16. Let's look at
verse 12. And he shall take a censer full
of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the Lord,
and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within
the veil. And he shall put the incense
upon the fire before the Lord, that the cloud of the incense
may cover the mercy seat that is upon the testimony, that he
die not. And this too he took the blood
of that bullock and he sprinkled it with his finger upon the mercy
seat eastward. And before the mercy seat shall
he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times." Now,
look at Revelation chapter 8 with me. Revelation chapter 8. Christ Jesus, the Lord, is holy
and he is righteous. And he is as the mediator for
his people, Revelation 8, as the mediator for his people.
He is our mediator and he is our intercessor. The scripture
says of that fire, it was ever burning. Scripture says of the
Lord, he ever liveth to make intercession for his people.
And the incense, the prayers of the saints that go up is compared
to incense. And that intercession of Christ
before the Father is compared to that incense. And this had
to be, when He entered in, and that perfection of that blood,
the perfection of that intercession, the perfection of being that
mediator, all of this was typified in that burning fire, in that
incense, in that blood of that bullet. This was showing that
he was accepted of God as the mediator, as the intercessor
for the people, and he died not. When it says he died not, that
means God received him. Aaron didn't die, God received
him. He was well pleased with him. That's what Scripture says
of our Lord. Look at Revelation 8. It says, Another angel came and
stood at the altar having a golden censer, and there was given unto
him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of
all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.
And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of
the saints, ascended up before God out of the angels' hands.
And the angel took the censer and filled it with fire of the
altar and cast it into the earth. And there were voices and thunderings
and lightnings and earthquakes. And the seven angels, which had
the seven trumpets, prepared themselves to sound." Now brethren,
these are types and shadows and pictures of what our Redeemer
accomplished. Romans 8 says, Who is He that
condemneth? It's God that It's Christ that
died, yea rather that's risen again, who is even at the right
hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. He's the
one who, if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father.
Jesus Christ the righteous. He shall pray the Father. Our
sins shall be be blotted out, be washed away. They're put away.
They're forever put away. But He continues. That's why
when we pray, you hear me pray and we say, we ask these things
in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. And we ask our sins be
forgiven. They're forgiven. They're put
away, but God will have us ask Him to forgive those sins. And
the only way that He's going to receive those prayers, that
intercession, is in our mediator, in the intercessor who is praying
the Father. He's the one who the Father is
hearing and delighting in and rejoicing in. He's the one who's
interceding between God and His people. Christ the Lord. And
that's what we see in this priest. Now I want you to see the sixth
thing here in Leviticus 16 verse 17. 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. What Christ accomplished in making
atonement for His people, He did it all by Himself. And the fact of the matter is,
is God entrusted the whole well-being of Israel into the hands of one
man, Aaron. And that one man, Aaron, had
the responsibility to go into that place and to make atonement
for the people. so that God would receive Israel. And that's the same as it is
with Christ Jesus the Lord. He is the one who from the beginning,
God entrusted the salvation of His people into His hands. And
Christ came for this purpose, to intercede, to go and lay down
His life and make atonement for the sins of His people, make
satisfaction of God, to eternally purchase His people out of the
hands of sin and death and redeem us to our God. This is why Christ
came. Look at Hebrews 1. In verse 3, Christ has come and God has spoken
to us through His Son. And it says of Him, He is the
brightness of His glory, the express image of His person,
and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had
by Himself purged our sins. Set down on the right hand of
the majesty on high. Let me ask you something. Whenever
you, the boys are playing and they come in and they got stains
all over them. And you take the detergent and
you take the water and you take the clothes that they have and
you scrub and scrub and scrub and scrub and scrub and you get
that stain completely gone. That stain is purged. And when
you've purged it, when you've really purged it, you can take
that shirt down and hold it up, or those jeans or whatever, and
it's gone. The stain's gone. The stain's
completely, thoroughly gone. It's not there anymore. That's
what it is to purge our sins. Now read the text again, there
in Hebrews 1-3, and it says, when he had by himself purged
past tense our sins. When He had done it, when He
had completely put them away, He sat down because the work
was finished. The work was done. It was all
completed. And He sat down where? At the
right hand of the Majesty on high. God said, well pleased,
well done. The work's finished. It's done.
Now, just think a minute. If Christ by Himself was given
this work, and He came and said, I must be about my Father's business.
And He lived His whole life eating and drinking His meat, doing
the will of His Father. And on the cross, when He who
knew no sin was made sin, that we might be made the righteousness
of God in Him. And He cried out, It is finished. And the Spirit of God testifies
to us right here that He by Himself purged, completely put away our
sins. And sat down, accepted of God
at the right hand of the Father. That means He purged, put away
all the sins of every single person for whom He died. every one of them. God did that
because God's just. God did that because He will
not clear the guilty. Satisfaction must be made. Propitiation
must be made. Atonement has got to be made.
And God alone can make atonement. And God alone has made atonement
in the person of His Son. God alone has purged the sins
of His people in the person of Jesus Christ the Lord. And that
having been said, That justice, the reason why
the whole thing took place. If Christ died for everybody
in this world without exception, then everybody's sins are completely
and totally purged and put away. And if God doesn't send forth
the Spirit into the hearts of every single person for whom
Christ died, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit does not
fulfill the covenant made to God the Son before the world
began. He'd be unjust if He doesn't
do that. And if He pours out His wrath on anybody, who is
without sin, anybody who's been purged, he's unjust to do that. That tells me clearly, brethren,
clearly, that not everybody had their sin put away. Not everybody
believes Him. Not everybody believes. Some
had perished in unbelief prior to Him even coming. Who did He
die for? He died for those given Him from
before the foundation of the world. Did He accomplish it?
Did He accomplish the purging of our sin, the putting away
of our sin? He fully, completely, totally accomplished it. Fully. Forever. And He by Himself did
it. That means when I believe on
Him, I don't make that work effectual. When I go, by His grace He calls
me and I cast my care into His hands, I'm not saying by that,
that now I've put my stamp of approval on it, I've accepted
it and therefore that blood is applied to me, I've made it effectual
for me. He by Himself purged our sins. He by Himself put it away. The
faith He gives to the ones that He's redeemed, Beholds, he put
the sin away. Beholds, he did the work. He
finished the work and receives a work finished, completed, done. And the fact of the matter is,
is in what Christ did, you don't accept God, God accepts you and
says, now, you're fit. You're fit. Look over at Colossians. Colossians. Galatians chapter
1. Look, verse 12. giving thanks unto the Father
which hath made us..." He's talking to believers here. He's a believer
talking to believers. And he says, "...giving thanks
unto the Father which hath made us..." You see that word? Meet. Perfect. Fit. Accepted. to be partakers of the inheritance
of the saints in light. He did it. How did He do it?
In His Son, when He by Himself purged our sins and sat down.
He made us meet to be partakers. He made us fit. He made us everything
we have to be to partake of the inheritance of God. And he, verse
13 says, who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, he
called us by his grace. He came in and he taught us in
the heart, made us new, and he's translated us into the kingdom
of his dear son in whom we have redemption through his blood,
even the forgiveness of sins. Who did it? God did it. He by himself did the work. Now, I want you to turn to Hebrews
chapter 8. Hebrews chapter 8. We're going to read some scripture.
We're going to read quite a bit of scripture. But I want you
to see everything we just looked at. Now, I want you to see Paul
declaring loud and clear, it's done. It's done. Hebrews 8 verse
1. Now of the things which we have
spoken, this is the sum. We have such a high priest who
is set on the right hand of the throne of the majesty in the
heavens, a minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle which
the Lord pitched and not man." That tabernacle where all this
took place over there was pitched by man. He said God did this.
This is God's work. Alright, look over at Hebrews
9, verse 22. He's talking about the blood,
how the blood was sprinkled on the tabernacle and on the vessels
of the ministry. And he says in verse 22, And
almost all things are by the law purged with blood, and without
shedding of blood is no remission. You know why that is? Because
your life is in your blood. If your blood drains out, you've
got no more life. Your life's in your blood. The
blood represents life. Christ laid down his life. He
poured out his blood unto death. It was therefore necessary that
the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with
these, that is, with the blood of bulls and goats. He's talking
about that tabernacle and that altar and that mercy seat and
all those things that were purified that we just read about. They
were purified, they were patterns, and they were purified by the
blood of bulls and goats. But the heavenly things themselves,
His true vessels, those that He chose and put in Christ, how
are they going to be sanctified? How are their sins going to be
put away? How are they going to be made clean? With better
sacrifices than these. For Christ is not entered into
the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the
truth. That's not where Christ entered into. But into heaven itself, now to
appear in the presence of God for us. Nor yet that he should
offer himself often as the high priest entered into the holy
place every year with the blood of others. He had to go in there
every year. He needed to go in there once
a year, but he had to go in there every year, and he had to go
in there with the blood of others, with the blood of bulls and goats.
For then, if he had to do that, then must he often have suffered
since the foundation of the world. But now, once, in the end of
the world, hath Christ appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice
of Himself. He did it. And as it is appointed
unto men once to die, but after this the judgment, You see, when
you look to the cross, it's appointed unto men once to die and after
this the judgment. When you look to the cross and
you behold Christ dying under the judgment of God, if you are
a believer, if God has called you and you trust Christ, you're
beholding the day you died and the day you were judged on that
cross. in Christ. Paul said, I was crucified
with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet I die, but Christ liveth
in me. In the life I now live, I live
by the faithfulness of the Son of God who loved me and gave
himself for me. So, Christ was once offered to
bear the sins of many He bore the judgment of God. God satisfied
His justice. God declared Himself a just God
and at the same time declared Himself a Savior. He declared
Himself just and merciful at the same time in Christ because
He judged His Son in the place of His people. And unto them
that look for Him shall He appear the second time without sin unto
salvation. He won't have any, and neither
will those that are looking for it. It will be just salvation. Now, look with me in Hebrews
chapter 10. Now, there are some who stand
daily ministering, offering oftentimes these same sacrifices which can't
take away sin. Do you wonder why Men who call themselves priests,
where did they get that from? Where did they get that? They
got it from the Old Testament. They got it from the priests
under the Old Covenant. They walk around with incense
burners, you ever wonder where they got that? They got it from
the Old Testament, from the Old Covenant. When they claim to
be, you come to them and you confess your sins to them and
they mediate between you and God, you ever wonder where they
got that? the mediatorial intercessory work of Christ, where they got
it. But listen to this now. Listen to this now. Christ is
the end of the law. Christ Jesus is the High Priest. Those who He calls out by His
grace are priests unto God. But they are There are no more
priests. There is no more tabernacle.
There is no more temple. There is no more coming of God
with those sacrifices that imitate what was done under the tabernacle.
When Christ died, the veil that was separating the holy place
from the most holy place, that place where only the priests
could go into, that veil split from the top to the bottom. Go
and read sometime about how thick that veil was. That veil split
from the top to the bottom, and God declared, this is what I've
been teaching you all along. And when it split from the top
to the bottom, you know what was in that holy place, that
holiest of holies, where the Ark of the Covenant had been
and the mercy seat, where the high priest went in to do that
work every year. You know what was in there when that veil split?
Nothing. Air. And yet they've been going
through the motions of that for years and years and years and
years, and that ark has been gone for years and years. And it's gone now. Our ark is
Christ. Our mercy seat is Christ. Our
high priest is Christ. Our lamb is Christ. Our mediator
is Christ. Our intercessor is Christ. Our
advocate is Christ. That's why Christ Jesus the Lord
Himself said, Call no man on this earth father, Call no man
on this earth master. And it's just as bad in some
Protestant and so-called Protestant churches. Men want to make themselves
into high priests. God's the priest, high priest.
Christ is. Read it with me. Hebrews 10 verse
11. And every priest standeth daily."
Paul's talking about right now in my day and time, right? When
he stood here, the problem the Hebrews was having was they were
torn, they were new believers and they were torn between these
men who were saying they were high priests and the temple was
still in effect and all the offerings were still in effect. They were
torn between those men putting the pressure on them saying,
you need to come back and be with us. And the whole book of Hebrews
is this, Paul's declaring, stand with Christ. It's over. That's
done. Don't go back to that anymore.
Every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same
sacrifices which can never take away sin. But this man, after
he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on
the right hand of God, from henceforth expecting till his enemies be
made his footstool, for by one offering he hath perfected forever
them that are sanctified." And the Holy Ghost also is a
witness to us. Here's that. We come right back
to where we began. We began with God speaking to
Moses and saying, Moses, this is the only way you can come
to me. where the Holy Spirit enters in, and God says to a
sinner, when you're sitting there listening to this message, and
you're sitting there hearing this message, just like those
Hebrew brethren were when Paul wrote this letter to them, they're
sitting there hearing this message, and then God speaks. The call
is going out. The general call is going out.
Repent. Believe on the Lord. Rest in
Christ the Lord. The call is going out. The general
call. And then God says, Cheryl, this
is how you approach Me. And He speaks it into your heart.
And when He speaks it into your heart, you hear Him. You hear
Him. It's not a, well, let me think
about it. No, you'll hear Him. You'll hear
Him. And you'll submit. And you'll
bow. And this is what He says. This
is why you submit to Him. Look what He says. He says, verse
17, and I'm going to put this personally. This is what He'll
say. Your sins and iniquities will I remember no more. When He says that, when you hear
that, when He's made you to see what they are, and how everything
you are is sin and rebellion against God, and then He speaks
in your heart and says, your sins and iniquities I'll remember
no more. You talk about relief. You talk
about salvation. You talk about liberty. You talk
about rest, joy, love. This is the source of it all
right here. All the things that preachers are trying to get sinners
to do and won't preach Christ to them, this right here is the
very source of it. That's why they can't get them
to do this from the heart. God speaks and He says, I won't
remember your sin and iniquity anymore. And He says something
else, verse 18, now where remission of these is, there's no more
offering for sin. You've got to put down your sacrifices. Put down all those things you've
been doing today to make up for what you did yesterday. Put all
that aside. I'm not going to receive them.
I've received the most perfect, holy, blessed sacrifice in my
son, and I'll take nothing less than my son. Now, where I've
put away your sin, you've got no more to offer. You've got
nothing else to offer. It's done. It's done. What's going to be
the response when He does that? When He speaks into the heart,
when He does this, when He's purged that conscience, when
you've been washed by the washing of regeneration and renewed by
the Spirit of God, what's going to be the result? Look at verse
19. Having therefore. I love this. It's a... Having therefore, this
being a present reality, not something that you've got to
work for, not something you've got to look for tomorrow, having
therefore a present, this present reality of these things, brethren,
boldness, liberty, to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
to approach God the Father right now. having liberty to come to
Him right now through the blood of Christ, through Christ your
High Priest. And look, by a new and living way. Not that old
letter, not those old dead sacrifices, not that old thing. A new way
Christ came to this earth. The new way, a living way. Christ is alive. He's entered
in. by which He hath consecrated for us, newly made for us, through
the veil." That is to say, His flesh, that new and living way,
through the veil. And we just saw now, not the
veil of this earthly tabernacle, not into that holiest of holies
there, but right into the presence of God. And having, right now, a high
priest over the house of God. That's what we got. We've got
boldness to enter in and we've got right now a high priest over
the house of God. Let us, verse 22, draw near with
a true heart, not that some of you today, I want to tell you
this, young and old, some of you today came here And you didn't
come here with a true heart. I'll tell you why. You came here
because somebody asked you to, mom and daddy, whatever. And
you came in here thinking, well, it's going to be good that I
went. They're going to like it that
I went, all that stuff. But you didn't come here to hear Christ.
You didn't come here to worship God. You came here for that purpose.
That's not a true heart. He's got to give you a true heart.
He makes it to where you come because you want to come. People
go where they want to go. People do what they want to do.
You don't come because by nature, your sin nature is, you don't
want to. But when God makes you willing,
when God makes you a new creature in Christ and makes you willing
and draws you, you come because you want to. You come with a
true heart, a willing heart. Look, in full assurance of faith,
in full assurance of your faith, in full assurance that, well
now I believe, so in full assurance of the faith that lays hold of
Christ, that faith that lays hold of what He's accomplished.
I'm going to be received not because of what I've done, but
because He did it. And that's what faith, true faith
says, I'm going to be, I'm fully assured God's going to receive
me because of what Christ did. So you come with a true heart
and full assurance of faith, having. This is why you do it. Our hearts sprinkled from an
evil conscience. God has applied the blood. God
has made you a new creature. He's purged your conscience from
dead works. You're not coming now through
a man. You're not coming now with earthly
sacrifices. You're not coming now asking
God to receive you, trying to bargain with God and make deals
with God. You've been sprinkled from that. That conscience has
been purged from those dead works. And look, our bodies are washed
with pure water. It's got to be holy to be accepted
of God. perfectly holy to be accepted
of God. He won't even receive us coming
to Him right now, praying to Him, unless this work's been
done for us by Christ and in us through the Spirit. And we've
been washed and made holy in the new man. Then He'll receive
us. He'll hear us then. And He says here, therefore,
let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering.
Why? For He's faithful, that promise.
Hold fast. You believe God? Well, hold fast
to Christ. And consider one another to provoke
unto love and to good works. That's what Paul's doing throughout
this whole letter, is he's been provoking them to love Christ
and to continue to look away from those dead works of the
flesh and to serve Christ. That's good works. not forsaking
the assembling of ourselves together as the manner of some is, not
going back to the law, not going back to those places where they
preach a Jesus that wants to and can't. That's an idol. That's
the same, even though they may not have images and crosses and
all those things, that Jesus that wants to do something and
can't is as much the product of man's imagination as if I
carve a donkey up here and told you to worship it. It is. It's vain imagination. Don't
forsake the place where God's gospel is preached. It's an oasis
in a dry place. And you need it. And if you've
been born of God, you know you need it. You've got to have Him.
You've got to hear the gospel. This is how our hearts are refreshed.
And your brethren need it. Your brethren need it. They're
encouraged by you. You're provoking one another
unto love and to good works, assembling together in one. It's what you read this morning,
Scott. It's presenting your bodies,
a living sacrifice unto God. That is, every one of you have
something the other one needs, and he's put us together so that
we come and we present our bodies, you and yours and that one and
that one, as one living sacrifice, the body of Christ, in Christ
the Lord. I'm not trying to come and present
my body of living sacrifice as a maverick by myself so that
I can look like I'm really doing something. And without you, we're
coming together. We're coming together, just like
the body and all the members are one, we come together, together
in Christ. That's what the Lord's people
do by this work He's done. And you can't, I'm going to tell
you, you can't make it happen any other way than through the
Spirit of God, through the blood of Christ. That's the only way
this can happen. Because the message is not pumping you up. The message is not declaring
what great things you ought to be doing or have done or will
do that's going to make God look upon you. The message is the
works God has done and it's telling you Stop and rest and trust Him. And man don't like that. That's
opposite of what we are. That's backwards to the natural
man. Because the natural man is backwards before God. But
this has been put things right side up now. When God does this
work. And you see and you know. Now
I want you to go back to Leviticus 16. And I'm going to show you
why it is. I'm going to show you what they did. Back there
now. I'm going to give you the Old
Testament version now of what Paul just said there when he
said, draw near with full assurance, your hearts purged from an evil
conscience, your bodies washed with pure water, and hold fast
to it. I'm going to show you the Old Covenant version of that
now in that day. When the people saw what God
did for them in the high priest, when Aaron came out, look what
it says in verse 29. Leviticus 16 verse 29. This shall be a statute forever
unto you, that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the
month, ye shall afflict yourselves. You know what that is? That's
repentance. They turn from everything else.
and all attention, all focus, all their heart's desire was
that high priest and that work he was doing for them. That's
all they were concerned about. That's repentance. That's repentance. That's the first thing Paul said.
Draw near. You leave everything else and
you draw near. Alright? Look at the next thing. And do no work at all. They stopped
all their working. They completely stopped all their
working. And they rested. That's what
you do. When you have the full assurance
of faith, you rest in Christ. He's our Sabbath. He's our Sabbath. A man called me one time and
he said, I was mowing a yard, and I think this was on a Saturday,
which was the Jewish Sabbath, I think. He called and he said,
are you working on the Sabbath? And I said, no, I'm resting in
Him. I'm not working on Him. I'm resting in Him. I salve as
a person. He's Christ the Lord. I'm resting
in Him. And here's the third thing they
did. Look down at verse 30. On that
day shall the priests make an atonement for you to cleanse
you that you may be clean from all your sins before the Lord. All of them. You know what that
means? They rejoice. When He came out
and a satisfaction was made and all their sins were washed away,
they took a trumpet. It's called the Jubilee trumpet.
I've been blowing it for you since 10 o'clock this morning.
They took the trumpet and they blew that trumpet. And you know
what that trumpet said? Satisfaction's been made. God's
received the high priest. God's received the sacrifice.
And then when that gospel trumpet was blown, all of the debts that
they had incurred up to that day, wiped clean. Totally wiped clean. Their physical
debt, just like if you had a bunch of credit card debt right now
and there was a trumpet being blown and all that debt was gone,
some of you sitting here probably could say, man, that'd be good.
I'd love that. That pales in comparison to this.
This is all your debt before God. It was wiped clean. It was wiped clean. And they
were, if they were slaves, if they had become indebted to those
that they owed debts to, so that instead of repossessing their
goods, they'd come get them. And they had to go work it off,
according to God's law. And so, in that year when that
jubilee trumpet was blown in that day, they went out free.
Chains come off. They went out. They're free.
Their debt's cleared. They're free. They're free to
go. Free to go. That's what happens
when God speaks in the heart. When this trumpet is blown, God
speaks in the heart. He causes you to afflict your
soul. Oh Lord, forgive me for my sin. I see what a sinner I
am. Not just what I've done, what
I am. And it causes you to rest in
Christ. And you have total freedom, total
liberty with God. Free access to God. That's good
news. If you're a sinner, that's good
news. If you just need to be patched up a little bit, that
won't mean much to you. But if you're a sinner, desperately
dying, dead, on your way to hell in a moment, that'll be good
news to you. I pray the Lord will bless you.
Let's stand.