Matthew 27 now. Matthew's Gospel,
chapter 27. Let's read verses 50 through
53. Matthew 27, verses 50 through
53. Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded
up the ghost. And behold, the veil of the temple
was rent in twain from top to bottom, and the earth did quake,
and the rocks rent and the graves were opened. And many bodies
of saints which slept arose and came out of the graves after
his resurrection and went into the holy city and appeared unto
many." Now, the Lord Jesus Christ is being crucified in this part of Matthew's Gospel. The
Lamb of God is being slain. Substitute, sin offering, sacrifice
for sin is being offered to God and accepted. The blood of the
Lamb, the Lord Jesus Christ, the High Priest of God, It's
taking the blood, not of bulls and goats and lambs, but his
own precious blood into the holy place, heaven itself, and offering
it on the mercy seat on behalf of his people. And it's being
accepted. And the bells are ringing and
the pomegranates. The Lord Jesus Christ lived on
this earth. as a man, the second Adam, he's
called, a representative of his people. And he lived on this
earth a holy life. And God was well pleased for
his righteousness sake. And God accepted what he did,
a man approved of God. He earned heaven, the only man
who ever did. He earned heaven and he did this
not for himself or even to show us how, but he did it for his
people as their substitute. And then he went to the cross
and this mysterious thing was taking place of which no man
can understand. This transfer of guilt, of sin
and righteousness. They went to the cross and all
the sins and the guilt of all of God's people were laid upon
him. And God punished him. This man who knew no sin ever
committed, never committed one sin, was made sin. And God Almighty, showing that he's being punished for sin,
forsook him. That's what we looked at last
Sunday. That he was forsaken of God,
which is hell. And God Almighty poured out his
wrath upon his son. And Christ who is our scapegoat. What happened where he we just
we just. It's a mystery. But somehow our
scapegoat this fit man who was also the scapegoat took our sins
away. all the sins of God's people
and put them away. Completely. And that's why he said it doesn't
tell us here what he cried but we know it from the other gospels
don't. First time he cried out loud
with a loud voice my God my God and this second time it says
he cried again with a loud voice you know what he said no. Do
you I hope you do. See after he lived this life
that he did for his people. And then hanging upon the cross.
Bearing their sin. He cried with a loud voice for
all heaven and earth to hear and for all saints. From the
beginning to the end to hear loud and clear. You know what
he said. It is finished. It is finished. The will, the purpose of God
Almighty to save His people was all bound up and wrapped up in
Christ. He did it. The law, all the shadows and
the types, all things, the high priest, all the symbols, all
the temple, all those things fulfilled. An end. They've been ended. Don't need
them anymore. Don't need them anymore. Now,
boy, you're talking about a mystery. And verse 50. It says he healed
it up, the ghost. He died. That's a mystery. He really died. And I can't even write a comment
on that, but he did yielded up to go. I love what the other
gospels say. They say after. He cried, it
is finished. Then he said, Father, into thy
hands, I commit my spirit. Nobody has ever said that. No
human being has ever decided to die. But he did. He said, no man takes
my life from me. I lay it down. I lay it down. And then it says, after he said,
Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit, then it says he bowed
his head and gave up the guilt. His head didn't drop. He bowed
solemnly, sovereignly, willfully, purposefully, bowed his head
and died. That's what Moses and Elijah
met with him on the Mount of Transfiguration to talk about,
wasn't it? Which things the angels desire
to look into, which we're trying right now. The death he should accomplish.
Death happens to us, the Lord kills us, not him. He laid down
his life. Isn't that amazing? Further proof, as the centurion
said, truly, this is the Son of God. He died. What a mystery. And
behold, now here it is. Behold. Stop a minute. Hold on
here. Let's look at this. Behold. That's
what the word behold means. As in Isaiah forty to be a whole
not serve for another forty behold your daughter and I was a forty
one behold yourselves. Stop right here thank them and
let's look into this or my pastor would say let's camp right here
man. Let's consider these things behold the veil of the temple. At the exact moment that Christ
died gave up to go the veil of the temple was rent or ripped
In two, completely ripped, not just torn, but ripped in two
from the top to the bottom. Top to the bottom. And even the
earth did quake. It doesn't say it was an earthquake,
but the earth shook. And that's fulfillment of the
prophecy over in the Psalms. What's more, I shake the earth. So this value on this is what
I want us to behold now go with me to Hebrews nine that we read
to get Hebrews chapter nine. This is what I want us to stop
and just for a little while. Study and think on and ponder.
I was going to have you turn to Exodus twenty six where this
veil is that the blueprints are the exact description of it is
given. We're not going to have time.
I'll read it to you myself but you want to turn. But in our
God's word. Is given by God very strict and
exact details and instructions about that that old tabernacle
that old tabernacle and later it was a temple remember it was
a tent. Remember we did that study on
the tabernacle or a tent it was a tent as you know is a mobile
build something you take up and move with you and this was for
the children in the wilderness children of Israel who are traveling
through the wilderness on their way to the promised land which
was Israel. Jerusalem where Solomon built
the seemingly permanent temple or building that would stay right
there from then on. But this can't God Almighty and the tabernacle
God Almighty gave very strict detail. He was God's design. He's the architect. He's the
author of salvation. The architect. Strict details.
And God Almighty said about this tent and about this temple, this
is the place I'm going to meet with you. This is it. No other
place. There was no other place. You
read it for yourself throughout Deuteronomy. That this was the
place that God had chosen to put his name back. And inside
this tent and later the temple there was an inner room. A very
inner sanctuary in which this was the place that God. Walk
and well it's called she kind of glory. And I've heard a lot
of fellows try to. Preach that and. It just won't
work. Shekinah glory mysterious is
what it is so mysterious presence of God. But God Almighty designed
this building and this tent first tent and later a building and
he said this is where I'm going to appear nowhere else. Remember
it started up on the Mount remember God was up on Mount Sinai. Remember that and it burned with
fire and smoke and tremble and all that remember. I've already
lost some of you. Not all of you. But God Almighty
came down from that mountain. And he said, I'll dwell in this
place, I'll go with you everywhere you go. But I'll be in this one
place, I'll be with you everywhere, but this is the place that I'll
be. You can't go off by yourself and sit on a hill with your legs
crossed and your eyes crossed and think, you know, I'll be
there. No, sir. No, no, no. This is the place. One place.
I'll go with you, but I'm going to be in that one place, and
that's where you got to come. Are you with me? Some of you
still are. Thank God. It was a tent, a building,
because they were sojourners. and into this building up into
this this team only a chosen few the chosen few could go inside
this tent everybody can just go inside this tent. All of the
Jews had to stand outside they couldn't go inside this tent
they weren't allowed priesthood. There were some fellows. Made
free by God of the tribe of Levi common. A bunch of them there
were a bunch of them there was a lot of work to do. And they
were made priest common priest and they could go inside this
tent so far just so far they go in the first run. All right
now here's what it says here in Hebrews nine look at verse
two it was a tabernacle man the first. And in this tabernacle
was this first room. Wherein was the candlestick remember
the seven uh, candlesticks, how they were, it's called a candlestick,
but really oil burns in it, remember? And, um, it was lights, seven
lights. And if I'm not careful, I'm going
to stop and dwell on all of it, but that's not, we got to get
to this veil. But the candlestick, and in case
something happens to me in the next couple of minutes, I'll
go ahead and tell you. But every bit of this is the
Lord Jesus Christ. OK. Candlestick, showbread, the
altar. But anyway, in this first room,
the candlestick, the table that is with the showbread on, table
of bread. And this is called the sanctuary,
the holy place. It was an outer room. There were
two rooms in this tent and two rooms also in the permanent temple. The so-called permanent. And
this outer room was fifteen by thirty. Fifteen by thirty. About half the size of this room,
a little less. Fifteen by thirty. And into this
outer room, these common priests, not just anybody now, they had
to be made priests before they could go in there. Listen carefully. The Lord wrote all of this for
a reason, didn't it? It's not all just to impress
people, and so they can start doing it again. No, no, no, no.
But he's showing how God is absolutely strict in how he's to be worshipped
and approached and what he accepts and so forth. See, the world has pretty much
thrown this all away, hasn't it? It's not necessary. It's
not important. Oh, it still is. You still have
to have a tabernacle and a high priest. And an offering of blood
offering you still have to have one or you got you won't you
can't come to God. I don't care how sincere you
are you can't come to God. You don't even know God if you
don't know that you have to have those three things right. Oh
no God hasn't changed. And I see recognition already
on many faces and the flesh and blood didn't reveal it to you.
but the father all right and then these common praise they
had to be praised by common praise would enter into this outer room
and they would put oil in the lamp they would put fresh bread
on the table they would take the utensils and so forth and
clean utensils and bring them in and so forth and so on but
now there's an inner room. For seven. Number seven into
the second. The second room one man went
alone One man called the holiest of
all. The holiest of all. Holy of holies, in other words.
And it was, this room, was perfectly square. A perfect cube. Fifteen by fifteen by fifteen. Perfect. Perfect. Perfectly square. And inside that room. Was a golden
box. Called an arc. And down in verse
four it says this was the there was also the golden sensor. This
is what the high priest took inside with him that had incense
on it burning. And inside that room was the
Ark of the Covenant covered with gold inside of it was the pot
of manna. miraculously preserve this bread
that was given long, long years ago, still there, Aaron's rod
that budded, power, God exerted through that rod and the tables
of the covenant, the unbroken law, the law was perfect, complete,
unbroken tables, perfectly kept and preserved inside that ark.
And he said in verse six verse five and over it these cherubim
these angel God told them to make angel cherubim of glory
gloriously beautiful creature that we can't we don't know much
about what it says shadowing the mercy seat looking down looking
over their wings touching looking down on top of that mercy seat
that are both angels. Which thing, as it were, these
angels were trying to look into? This ark. Forever, they would
be there. As if they were just taken with,
spellbound with, nothing and nothing else but this. Oh my. Now, now, this ark had
an elaborate lid on top of it. that was called a mercy. See,
I'm going to read to you from Exodus 26, a mercy. See, and
God Almighty said, now, this is where I'm going to meet with
you. But not just anybody. This is where I'll be, he said,
this is where you're going to bring the blood. Of the lamb
and the sins have been confessed on his head and bring them in
that in the blood of the lamb, one man is going to bring in
one man. And he's going to take this blood and poured on this
mercy state. Between the charitable and said
that I'm going to be there. She kind of go. I'm going to
be there. And he said, I'll commune with
you there. Not you, but through someone. I'll be there. And these two rooms now here
in Exodus 26, these two rooms were separated. There's one thing
that separated these two rooms, the outer room, the holy place,
and the inner room, the holy of holies. Something separated
them. That only the high priest could
go in there. One man was a high priest chosen
by God. God's the one that said, this
is the man. He chose Aaron. God's the one. This is the man.
God chose him. And only he could go in to this
inner room. The rest of the of the common
break they could only enter that outer room and separating these
two rooms was a bank. A big thick covering. And in Exodus twenty six it describes
it verse thirty one says you'll make up verse thirty one but. Yeah verse thirty one candlestick
verse thirty two a. I'm sorry it's exit yet twenty-six
I was looking to wrong chapter verse thirty one there's a veil
of blue and purple and scarlet and fine twine linen of cunning
work. A veil with cherubs that is as
angels all over cherubs all over it and embroidered on it and
you'll hang it he says upon four pillars of shit of wood overlaid
with gold and hooks of gold four sockets of silver embedded down
in the the ground or later on in the temple. Now that bagel
was made of four different cloths or threads and all, and it was
very thick and very heavy and very ornate and very beautiful. Altogether lovely. It was beautiful.
It had all this broidered work on it, angels all over it, up
and down on it. and it was without saying it
was a seamless value it didn't have a split it wasn't too late
you hear me it was not too bad it was one by a seamless top-to-bottom. Side to side east-west north-south
seamless and the only way through that bay into the holy room of
all where the arc was where the blood had to be for where the
mercy seat was where God would appear to accept the sacrifice
the only way it was to go under Go under it. You can't bypass
it. You've got to go under it. You
can't. You've got to go under it. You've
got to bow down and get under it. And only one man could do
this. Once a year, one man was only
allowed to enter into the hole, not without blood, we read. Back
there in Hebrews 9, in verse 7, it said, into the second went
the high priest alone. Alone, mind you, nobody was with
him. His mother didn't go with him. Are you hear me? The high priest's
mother didn't go with him to help him. A co-offerer. Are you hear me? I'm saying what
I'm saying. Not to be cute, but a lot of people think that Mary
helped Jesus out. No, sir. And God writes this
specific exact details about one man mind you. It was one mediator between God
and man a man. High priest of God's chosen God's
servant. God's elected one high priest. And this one man entered in one
man he he humbled himself. He humbled himself. And this
one man would go in, would deal with God for the people. This
one man would go in, God would accept him. This one man would
go into the holy presence of God to represent the people,
a mediator. And he would go through this
veil. Verse eight says this, the Holy Ghost tells us, signifies
that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made clear
or manifest or opened up as long as this temple was standing.
And this bail was up. One man alone could go into the
very presence of God himself as long as it was there. Nobody could go in. God's too
holy. He said, I will. It must be perfect
to be accepted. It shall be, he said. And one
man could go in. Now what's this all about? Huh? What's this all about? Is this
all so that we can, you know, dress up our buildings real elaborately
and go through the motions of religion and have all these robes
so men can look real holy? If they're doing that, if anybody
does, they're ignorant. They reveal. Paul said, if they
minister about the earthly tabernacle still, They don't know God we have an
altar he said. It's not material. They do it well what's this all
about well it we read in Hebrews nine that the Lord Jesus Christ. Is all of this that the Lord
Jesus Christ is our tabernacle he tabernacle among the Lord
Jesus Christ is our high priest he's the only one that God will
be our high priest. The Lord Jesus Christ is that
lamb slain, that blood sacrifice, his own precious blood that he
offered to God. Down to verse 14 says he offered
himself. You know how often we we emphasize
this. That Christ was not offered to
man. And that we don't offer salvation.
You know how often we emphasize it a lot, don't we? Why? That's
what God's Word says, and because it's a horrible blasphemy to
say otherwise. Verse 14, without spot to God. He offered himself without spot
to God. Christ being come a high priest
of good and more perfect things. And so when Christ was hanging
on that cross, here it is in summary. When the Lord Jesus
Christ was hanging on that cross, and when he cried out with a
loud voice, and as we said, all heaven and earth heard this.
The scripture says the voice of God, the voice of God is where
the word of a king is there's power. The scripture says, the
psalm says, the voice of God make it the hinds to cows, the
cedars to break, the rocks to rent. And he cried with a loud
voice and I dare not try to imitate it at all. But he said it is
finished and all heaven and earth heard it. It is finished and
he died. And suddenly, it said, behold, the veil in the temple, that
big, thick, seamless veil of covering that kept people from
going into the holy hole, and only one person could go in.
That big veil of that temple, it says, was ripped in two. How? the bottom. Perhaps there was
a few common priest in the first room and they saw it. It was
ripped. God said it and that's good enough,
but. It was ripped from top to bottom
as if by an unseen mighty hand. Top to bottom. With a mighty
hand. Man couldn't have ripped it.
And if he did, he'd been from the bottom to top. But from the
top to bottom, and then that veil that says was rent in to. Complete. Open up and behold. The way into the Holy of Holies. Everybody could see. The priest that is. The priests common. But there's
another value. But anyway it was opened up in
a common place all standing there I've never seen it before I've
never seen this. They covered it when they moved. And all of a sudden it's all
opened up and if one of those common phrase John wanted to
go in there. He'd be scared to death, but
he'd do it with fear and trembling, but he could walk right in to
that holy place and lay hold of the mercy and
not be killed. We talk about God being holy. All we're doing is repeating
what God's Word says. Very strict, exact details. Every
jot and tittle. We insist that God's Word be
clear. Clearly, don't we? Rightly divided.
Word of truth. All of it. The whole counsel
of God. And if God's Word says anything, it says this. God is
holy. In the very beginning, God said,
I will by no means clear the guilty. And God Almighty cannot be approached
by unholy creatures. He won't allow it. He can't have
anything to do with it. That's what this all represents,
he said. And even he couldn't be approached without blood,
which is a symbol of their sins being paid for. The soul that
sins must surely die without the shedding of blood. There's
no remission of sin. Now, it's not possible that the
blood of bulls and goats and animals can put away human sin. And Paul goes into great detail,
he says in verse, these things, verse 9, were a figure for the
time, then present, or a figure. They just a symbol, symbolic,
representative of someone, of something, the ark, the mercy
seat, all just a symbol, type, shadows and so forth. Beggarly
elements, Paul later on said. Beggarly elements, weak elements.
They don't do a good job of showing the real thing. And none of them
can put away one sin. They didn't put away one sin
of anybody, ever. But they're a type of figure,
a shadow, a picture, symbolic, that would teach people, a schoolmaster,
to point them to one hypere, one person, one lamb, one tabernacle,
one hypere, one sacrifice, one way, one bread, one truth, one
life, one light, one, one, one, one. Man. whom God will deal
with, accept and speak to us by one mediator, one redeemer,
one representative, one covenant head, one Savior, one Lord, one
Messiah, one Christ. That's what Christ means. I just
summed up the word Christ in all that was said. One way into
the Holy of Holies. One truth. This is the truth.
It's one man. That's the truth. One life. You've
got to come to God. He'll kill you. But when Christ died, the veil
was rent, and I could come in, the common priest could come
in and lay hold of the very mercy seat and live. And when Christ came and said,
and when he died on Calvary's tree, it says this veil was rent,
thus signifying, showing us that the way into the Holy of Holies
is manifest. It is clear. Verse eleven, Christ,
a high priest of good thing, by a greater and more perfect
tabernacle, not made with hand, neither by the blood of bulls
and goats, he said. Verse twelve, but by his own
blood, entered in once into the holy place, that's heaven itself,
and offered up that sacrifice of his own precious blood and
obtained, didn't try to, And Paul goes on to in great length
to say that these priests you know they never sat down I had
to do it once a year and to keep doing it continually. And I hope
Brother Parks will bring that message at our conference about
the only high priest that sat down. If he doesn't I will bring
it right now. That this they all you know there's
no chair. And they offered continually
sacrifices all the time, sacrifices all the time, once a year to
go inside the Holy of Holies. And but this man, after he'd
offered one sacrifice, he says he sat down. Finished. It's over. And it remained that
no more sacrifice was in. No one, never needs to be offered.
The Mass, what they call the Mass, They
actually say that the blood of Christ is in that wine. No, it
is not. No, it is not. That's to crucify
him again. That's for a man to have it in
his hands to offer salvation to somebody. That's what they
do. Do they give it? They give the cup. He said, you take the
cup. Don't give it. You take it. Right. No, no, no. You know, people
went to the stake and were burned at the stake for refuting this
blasphemy that Christ is offered again in that mass. No, sir,
no, he's not. He wants, he was offered once to God, mind you,
verse 14, to God. And he did it. We don't do it.
He did it. He offered himself, didn't he? Didn't he offer himself
just like Abraham and Isaac, you know, said, we're going up
there, I am the lad. You're going to stay here. We're going to do it. And Christ
himself went in and offered himself unto God. What did he do? What
did he get done? Having obtained eternal redemption
for us. Who's the us? All right. I kept
talking about these high priest, or these priests, didn't I? Common
priest. Didn't I? Kept emphasizing that. But not
just anybody could go in there and then, but the common priest
could. Whoever was a priest, common priest, not the high priest.
And all they wore was linen. They didn't wear a big ol' miter.
No, sir. One man wore the miter that only had folded his son
to the Lord. And the breastplate, and all the breastplate, and
on his shoulders. One man, oh, that's... We need
another hour, don't we? Read it for yourself. But these
common praise. Of the tribe of Levi. Had to
be a child leave that they could they could go in and. And over the revelation it says
that he has made us that is God's people God's elect those in Christ
those who he God chose and redeemed and Christ died for he had made
us kings and what. Preach. Common ones, mind you,
not high ones, low ones. And to God. And over in chapter
10, I wanted to read it, but we don't have time. He said,
therefore, we can come boldly to the throne of God. We have
access by the blood of Christ in the very holy of holy. We
can come boldly, that is freely. We don't come arrogantly. We
don't come flippantly or carelessly. We don't come without blood,
that is, without faith. In his book and we but we can
come down to come up. Don't you know those brief and
I don't think they did this because there were no true priest and
they were gone. But had they been come on come
on in here look close come up close the arc. Openly. I can't do that yet come on.
Lay hold on those horns. Go ahead, lay hold. And you can
just stay right there if you want to. I'm going to meet with
you. That's exactly what Paul says
to the rest of this book. Now, we have an altar, we have
a high priest who we've laid hold of Christ, our salvation.
Come on. Come on, look into it. mercy,
say, cast yourself or lay on it, be seated, rest. If it's
a mercy seat, sit down, be seated. Oh, I can't do that. I said you
could. That's all a glorious, beautiful
picture of the Lord Jesus Christ. Isn't that wonderful? And I did a horrible job of it,
of which I'm ashamed. But that's the gospel. person. Him. Unto him that loved us and
washed us from our sins, his own blood. Unto him that who
is our ark, our tabernacle, our high priest, our covenant head,
our sacrifice, our all, our all and in all. Unto him be the glory,
both now and forever. Amen. OK. Gabe, come. uh... Okay. All right. Okay. Thank you. Okay. So, we're going to go ahead and
get started. I hope that answers some of your
questions. If you have any questions, please
do not hesitate to reach out to us. We will be happy to answer
any of your questions. Thank you for your time. Thank
you.