That's from Galatians 6.14, that
great verse of Scripture which says, God forbid that I should
glory, save in the cross, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus
Christ. Great hymn. Go back now with
me to Leviticus 16. Leviticus 16. The Lord Jesus Christ said concerning the Old Testament,
the Old Testament scriptures were the only scriptures he preached
from, and the Apostle. I'm quite certain that he preached
from this, perhaps when he was on that road to Emmaus. But he
said this of the Old Testament, he said, they are they which
testify of me. In other words, it's all about
me. The Old Testament, full of types
or symbols, stories, all the men and even some women, like Abigail and Esther. represent the Lord Jesus Christ.
They are they which testify of him. Every symbol, the books
of Moses, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus that we're looking at, Numbers,
Deuteronomy, it's all pictures of the Lord Jesus Christ. All
of these things God gave to Moses to worship with are all pictures
of Christ. All the bullocks, all the lambs,
all the doves, the rams, the priests, the furniture in the
tabernacle, everything, it's all represents Christ. And here in Leviticus 16, a goat
represents the Lord Jesus Christ. A scapegoat. It's first mentioned
of a scapegoat in verse 10. or verse 8, a scapegoat, it says. And it goes on to talk about
this scapegoat. Now, before we get into it, let
me give this wise, this word of wise counsel, okay? Listen
very carefully. The fear of the Lord is the beginning
of wisdom. And that means fear taking His
name in vain. That means fear using His word
flippantly or carelessly. That means fear using anything
that's holy pertaining to God in a careless
way so as to bring him down. Don't ever use the term scapegoat.
Don't ever use that. You hear people use these terms
all the time, don't you? And others. They say, well, they're
making him the scapegoat. Don't you ever be caught saying
that. This is a blessed, blessed picture of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Do you hear me? Don't ever say he's a sacrificial
lamb. Don't do that. Don't ever say,
they're trying to crucify me. Don't say that. Don't do it. People say all sorts
of blasphemous things, things that only pertain to our Lord's
glory. Well, he can walk on water. Don't
ever say that. Don't ever be caught saying things
like that. Our young people, I hope they've gotten it into
their heads and hearts that we don't use God's name ever. in a careless way, nor do we
use anything concerning God's Word in a joking manner. You
won't ever catch me using the Scriptures to joke with. You
won't do it. This scapegoat, this applies
to the Lord Jesus Christ, the sinner's scapegoat. This is a
sanctified symbol. There are two goats mentioned.
One goat was to be killed. And the other let go. Look at
verse 7. It says in Leviticus 16, verse
7, he shall take two goats and they were taken from the congregation. Nancy, like Psalm 89 says, he's
chosen, he's exalted one chosen from among the people. Christ
came at it as it were from the congregation, from the people.
Goats, two goats. And verse 7, it says, you take
the two goats and present them before the Lord. The dead goat,
the live goat, both of them are unto the Lord. This is all about
the Lord, you say, though it's on behalf of the people, though
it's to stay with me now. I've got to build. This is. Our
Lord. Enable us to stay with thee and
thy word, I'm just going to give you a run running commentary
of God's word, he doesn't If he doesn't give us ears to hear,
we'll be lost and long, literally and spiritually, to be long. Two goats, and they're both before
the Lord. It's all unto the Lord. These
weren't offered to the people. Aaron didn't take these goats
out to the people and say, will you all accept these goats? And that's what these false preachers
today are doing, standing before sinful people, telling them,
will you accept Jesus has your scapegoat, your sin offerer.
That's blasphemy. This is unto the Lord. Everything
done here is before the Lord, unto the Lord. And the question
is, Hannah, the question is, is God going to accept this goat?
Huh? That's the question. And those
who knew God, those who really knew God, and they were sinners
and they were all congregating, anybody that really knew themselves,
Deborah, sinners. and knew God and feared God.
They were standing around watching all this take place. They were
interested. Those who didn't know God and
didn't care weren't there. They weren't there. They stayed
at home or whatever. But those who really were sinners
and needed to escape the hoot, they came and they were watching
and they were interested. This is vital. They thought this
is life or death. Will the Lord accept this goat?
Not, you know, they weren't, what are we going to do with
this goat? No. Nancy, what they were thinking
was, I sure hope the Lord accepts this goat for me. Every word is important. This
is before the Lord. Two goats, one alive, one slain,
brutally slain, his blood shed, and the other one left alive. ever live. What does this represent? The
Lord Jesus Christ. Would you turn with me to Isaiah
53? You need to turn there and we
need to look at these together. You need to mark Isaiah 53 and Leviticus 16 and we'll look
back and forth together at these. This is a picture of the Lord
Jesus Christ, our sin offering. And substitute the scapegoat,
these two goats, back in our text it says, taken from among
the congregation and presented before the Lord at the door.
And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats, one lot for the
Lord, the other lot for the scapegoat." Lots were cast and they fell
on the goats, whichever one. Isaiah 53 says this, verse 2,
"...he shall grow up before him as a tender plant." Before him. Do you remember the story of
the Ethiopian eunuch? riding along in his chariot,
and he was reading from Isaiah 53. And Philip, the Lord sent Philip
to walk along beside the chariot. And Philip saw it and said, Do
you understand what you're reading? And he said, see, the Lord had
prepared this man's heart. And he said, How can I? Except
some man show me. So Philip got up in the chariot
with him. I believe they stopped. And then the eunuch said, of
whom speaketh the prophet? Of himself or someone else? And then old Philip began to
preach right there, Christ and him crucified. He, Christ, shall
grow up who? Before the Lord. He didn't grow
up. Christ didn't come to show us how to live, per se. That's
not why. He came to live before the Lord. All have sinned and come short
of the glory of God, which He created us for. Not this man. He lived before the Lord, and
God Almighty said it out loud. He said, I am well pleased for
His righteousness. Here's a holy man. Now, you mark
it down. Anybody who claims to be holy.
I see it all the time on signs everywhere, Pentecostal holiness
or holiness, holiness, holiness, holiness. If their holiness is
not by faith in Jesus Christ, they are unholy. If their righteousness
is not Jesus Christ, they are self-righteous. Of whom does he speak? He shall
grow up before him. Is this important, Brother Samuel? Oh, yeah. He shall grow up before
him. Jesus Christ came, made of a
woman, made under the law. Why? To show us how to keep the
law? Now, granted, he's our example. Granted, we're to try to emulate
him. were to do as he did. Granted,
I'm not making, I'm not saying that at all, I'm not excusing
anything at all, but that's not why I came. He came to keep the
law. Because we can. God looks on
the heart. Thus, it must be perfect, he said, to be accepted. God's
only. He said, be ye holy, I'm holy.
How? In Christ. He came, made of a woman, made
under the law to fulfill it for people. And he walked before
the Lord. Now, why did the Lord use a goat here in our text? This is good. In the wisdom of
God. The wisdom of God. Why the Lord
used a goat? Go back to, well, no, look at
verse 2. Verse 2 of Isaiah 53. Do you have it? Do you have it
there? Look at verse 2. It says, as
a root out of dry ground. You remember that olive tree
all gnarled? Roy, you remember that? That old olive tree? Christ, picture of Christ. Not
a pretty tree. Read on. And he won't have any
form or comeliness. When we see him, there's no beauty
that we should desire in him. He's just a common fellow. Just
a common man like everybody else. Or at least he looks that way.
A goat. You tell me what's beautiful
about a goat. Edward, huh? Where's old Stephen? He's working,
isn't he? Lauren, you remember that goat you all used to have?
Was it pretty? I've never seen a pretty goat.
Have you? No, come on. Be honest. Goat's a goat, isn't it? Nothing
pretty about it. No form or comeliness. Just a
common, ordinary, looks like the rest of the goats. That's
why Christ came. And all these pictures that are
supposedly made of Jesus, and not only are they idols, not
only are they graven images which the Lord expressly forbids, have
you ever thought of the reason why the Lord came long before
there were photographs? Long before. Have you ever stopped
to think why nobody ever painted a picture of Him? Nobody ever
did. There are busts of the pharaohs of Egypt who lived before that.
There are many busts, likenesses. There's not one of that Jesus
of Nazareth. Why? God wouldn't allow it. Because
he's expressly forbidden it. Make no graven image of anything
in heaven or on the earth. Where's Christ? He's in heaven. And when you see him, if you
had seen him in his earthly body, if you had seen him, there's
nothing special about him. He sure didn't look like this
blue-eyed Caucasian that they're showing on Sunday school posters. He looked like a Jew. And he
looked like every other Jew. And he wasn't dressed in holy
garb. No, sir. Common, ordinary clothing. A
common, ordinary man. Like that tabernacle in the wilderness.
Remember, it had a badger skin covering, a plain old brown wrapper,
that tabernacle. And everybody went by and said,
there's nothing. God's in that? No, God's not in that. God's
in our big fancy temple up here. No, He's not. If you went on
inside, you'd see Shekinah glory. And Christ, they said to Him,
You're just a man. You're just a man like everybody
else. We don't see anything special in You. No, no, You won't either.
Because Scripture said so. Oh, God gives you eyes to faith
to see who He really is. One day He
did. He went up on that mountain, didn't He? He chose three disciples.
This is a picture of salvation. How the Lord chooses His people
to show them His glory. Took them up on the mountain.
I'm going to get to the scapegoat. If I don't, this is mighty good,
isn't it? He took them up on the mountain, Peter, James, and
John. They didn't accept Him. They didn't ask Him. He took
them. He chose them up on the mountain. Why? To show them His
glory, who He really is. This is what men say I am. This
is what men think of me. I'm going to show you. You have
I chosen that you might know and understand that I am He.
Who, Lord? You look like a man to me. What?
And he peeled back that brown wrapper. And they couldn't even
look at him. And they hit the dirt. It's not
some Jesus that you know, what are you going to do? He's standing
outside the hard store. No, this is our God who is a consuming
fire. And they hit the dust, buddy,
in fear of Jesus. They feared Jesus. He's just
a man. No, He's not. He came as a goat. Why? To die. He came as a man. Why? To be slaughtered by God. But he's not that way anymore. If you'll read the description
given of him in Revelation 1, you'll see a picture that nobody
can paint. That needs to be said. Why goats? Because he hath no
form or comeliness. He looks like a common ordinary
man, but he's not. He's not. He's God's goat. The Lord seeth not as man seeth.
And my, my. I thought about this too. It
does not yet appear what we shall be. We look like goats. We feel
like goats. We smell like goats. God said
you're not. Well, look at this. It says the
Lord's lot, verse 9 of Leviticus 16. Go back there. Aaron shall
bring the goat upon which the Lord's lot fell. and offer him
for a sin offering. The Lord's lot fell on this goat,
so this goat was to be killed. It pleased the Lord to bruise
him. Who killed Jesus of Nazareth?
God did. God did. God made his soul an
offering for sin. Nothing clearer is He came to
die as a sin atonement unto the Lord. Put away the sin. It's
the blood that makes the atonement for the soul. But it's not possible
that the blood of a goat can put away a man's sin. It's not
possible. There's a whole book written
about this. Hebrews. It's not possible that a lamb's
blood can put away a man's sin. It's not possible. But he took
upon him the likeness of sinful flesh, the seed of Abraham, made
in all points like as we are, yet without sin, a man. Without shedding of blood, there
is no remission of sin. God said, when I see the blood,
I will pass over you. What blood? The blood of the Lamb of God,
the goat. for the sin of Christ. Why blood?
Why does God demand blood? God a bloodthirsty God? Folks,
it's symbolic. Okay? It's symbolic. Blood, the life of the flesh
is in the blood. Okay? The life of the flesh is
in the blood. If you lose all your blood, you
will die. You cannot live without blood. The life of the flesh is in the
blood. If your blood is gone, the loss
of blood is a loss of life. And our Lord Jesus Christ, when
he hung on that cross, he hung there for six hours. And when
it was all over, all the blood was gone. That's not what killed
him. If you slit your wrists and your
feet, your extremities, Ask one of these nurses how long it would
take for you to die, humanly speaking. Just a couple of hours. Right? Drive huge spikes in. And these gushing arteries in
four extremities. Just an hour and a half. Hanging
up like a piece of meat. You're gone. You hung there six
hours. Proving that his life wasn't
in the blood. But ours is. In more ways than one. Physically
and spiritually. It's in his blood. The blood,
have you ever thought about this, and modern science today talks
about DNA. They come up with this, they
finally discovered DNA. Our Lord said that the life of
the flesh is in the blood, meaning everything about you is in your
blood. Everything about you is in your
blood. The DNA, your whole makeup is
in the blood. Well, I'm here to tell you that
everything about Christ's blood was sinless, perfect. Everything
about Him, holy, spotless, unblameable, unreprovable. Our life is in
His blood. In Him. Our Lord died to show that he
died. All his blood was gone and finally he gave up the ghost,
hung his head, bowed his head as at a curtain call. Bowed his
head sovereignly. He didn't die from natural causes,
but he gave up the ghost. He gave up the ghost. He left
his body. He died. He died. He really did. And we read there in Isaiah 53,
we didn't read it, but it says the Lord made him a sin offering,
his soul an offering for sin. By him, my righteous servant,
shall he justify many. And he'll bear their iniquity.
Look at our text, Leviticus 16. Look at it. So this first goat,
the lot fell on him, he had to die. He had to die. Verse 15, he'll kill the goat
of the sin offering for the people, and bring his blood within the
veil, and do with that blood as he did with the bullet. He'll
sprinkle it on the mercy seat. All the blood that was shed was
to be brought in and put on the mercy seat. And that's another
story. Christ is the mercy and he represent
those represent all of those represent him and Christ did
that he entered in scripture said in Hebrews 9 he entered
in once into the holy place not without blood but not lambs or
bullocks or goats with his own precious blood scripture said
doing what having obtained the eternal redemption for us who
who did Christ die for Israel, spiritual Israel, God's people.
Who did he do this for? Spiritual Israel. And it kept,
did you notice with me how that, look at verse 17. Look at verse
17. No man's going to go in with
Aaron when he goes in to make that atonement until he comes
out. He's going in, but he's got to come out. That's Christ
risen. He's got to come out and until
he has made an atonement, nobody's going in. until he comes out,
until we see he made the atonement, the Lord accepted. When Christ was crucified, Scripture
says, after it happened, after he said, it's finished, what?
Full atonement, can it be? Yes, absolutely. He obtained eternal redemption
for his people and the Scripture says that the veil of the temple
was ripped From top to bottom. Who ripped it? God did. Opened
up the way. Nobody's coming in unless He
comes out. Unless the full atonement is made. Alright? He rips it
open. Come on. Come one. Come all Israel. Come on in. And see glory. See the blood before the Lord.
See why you're redeemed. See it all. See a lamb as it
had been slain. That's how we're going to see
Christ. I can't explain that, but it's so. Christ crucified. Well, this scapegoat, now here
we are. She had a bell. There's a bell, a dingus on the
pulpit. I loved that thing. Ding, let's
go. Scapegoat. This is actually the
story. The scapegoat. It says in verse
10, he'll bring this live goat. The goat on which the lot fell
to be a scapegoat shall be presented live before the Lord. And this
scapegoat is going to go out into the wilderness. A scapegoat
alive. Verse 20. Go over there. Take
this live goat. Verse 20. So bring the live goat
after everything has been reconciled. All things reconciled, are you
with me? This live goat will be brought
before the Lord, verse 21, and Aaron shall lay both his hands
upon the head of the live goat. Now this was a real scene, this
really happened, this is a real story, a real scene of two goats,
both of them innocent, Both of them substitutes for the people. Both of them represent the Lord
Jesus Christ. His death, we've already looked
at that, sin offering. He had to die. Christ came, He
said, I came for this end, to die. If I don't die, you won't
live. And if I don't live, you'll die. If I don't make an offering for
your sins, there is none. And if I don't put your sins
away, you've still got them. Escape goat. One goat was cut
asunder, bloody, brutally slain, taken by the high priest into
the tabernacle, poured carefully on that mercy seat. Then the
high priest came out. He said, it's done. That's done. As the Lord said, He did it exactly
the way the Lord said it, and he got the job done. Another
picture of Christ. Aaron represents Christ. Christ
did what the Lord sent him to do. He made an end of transgression. And then this high priest came
out, Aaron came out, the high priest, and he took this other
goat before all the people, this other goat, and verse 21, so
Aaron laid both his hands on the head
of the live goat. We don't have pictures of some
man hanging on a cross around here. I'm glad the Lord Jesus Christ
hung on that cross, aren't you? If he hadn't, our sins weren't
atoned for. I'm glad that he's not hanging
on a cross right now. And it's really blasphemy to
think of him as such. That's right. He's not lolling
helplessly in some woman's arms. No, sir. That very woman is at
his feet right now. And he, where is he? Sitting
on a throne. Reigning. Not pacing, not walking, not
hoping, wishing, wanting, crying. No, sir. Expecting. I'm going to say this every time
the Lord gives me breath, because our generation has lost sight,
well, they never had a sight of Him. You have, and this is
all your hope, and all your peace, and all your comfort, and all
your salvation. He's not hanging helplessly on
a cross. Your soul hangs on that one seated
on a throne. Right? Your salvation depends
upon that one seated on a throne. The work finished. And everything
is going to exactly take place the way He, everything about
us, He has predetermined. Boy, now there is peace. It doesn't
look good, but the Lord is reigning. Boy, it doesn't look good right
now, but I know the end is going to. Be still, my soul. Oh, you cannot labor this point
too much, can you? That's how he is. Well, Aaron
shall lay both his hands on this living goat. That's the point. A living goat. A live goat. Aaron
lays both his hands on. The law and the prophets all
testify of Christ. You go in here and you look at
any place in this scripture And it testifies of Christ. And if
you don't see it, well, come around and we'll try
to show it to you. He's there. The Law and the Prophets
testify of Christ. Both the Law and the Prophets.
Yes, sir. Old Testament and New Testament. They all testify of
Him. Mercy and Truth. Truth. Here it is laid on the
head of Christ. The soul that sinneth must surely
die. Here it is. Mercy. or spared us, but spared
not his Son. Forgiveness of sins. How are
we going to be forgiven of sins? Here's forgiveness. Here's justice. It's all met on Him. Righteousness and peace. You've
got to be righteous. You've got to be holy to come
before God. I'm not. He was. Not the body. Christ is the head
of the church. Everything is laid on Him. God hath laid on Him the iniquity
of us all. Who is us all? Israel. All Israel, Romans 11 says, shall
be saved. Who is Israel? Not one outwardly, but inwardly. The one God chooses. The one God circumcises their
heart. Confessed on him. And it says, Aaron, for the people
shall confess, oh, didn't you love this? Didn't you love this? Verse 21, shall confess over
him. To him. We don't confess. We don't go in a booth and confess
to a sinful man who has sins worse than ours. He can't do anything about our
sins. He can't do anything about his own. If he was of God, he
wouldn't let you do that. But he's not. He can't absolve
sins. There's one mediator between
God and man. The man, not a woman. Not a co-redemptress. The man, Christ Jesus. Our mediator,
our intercessor. Substitute. The only one. He
said, we confess our sins. He is faithful and just to forgive
us our sins. Who? Jesus Christ. We come to
Him. We have an altar. It's not down
here. It's in heaven. Kneel before that altar, before
that mercy seat, before that priest. Go to Him. One of the
ladies and I were talking how we have an altar we can go to
at any time in the middle of the night. Christ is that altar. Confess
over Him, it says, all their iniquities. All the iniquities
of the children of Israel and all their transgressions and
all their sin, confess them all. He's going to take them all away.
This scapegoat. All of them. Oh, he'll never,
oh no, he'll never forgive me this. Go ahead. Confess them. Confess them. Oh, Scripture says the Lord laid
on him the iniquity of us all. What iniquity? All manner of
sin shall be forgiven. Isn't that good news? Here's
the good news of the gospel. All manner of sin shall be forgiven
man. All manner of sin. As a matter
of fact, he will be justified from all
things from which he could not be justified by the law. In other
words, This is the only way that all of your past can be completely
erased. There's only one way. You can't
do it. You'll never erase it from your
memory. You'll never do it. This is it. This is how it is.
Confess it all. Jesus paid it all. Folks sing that, don't they?
Well, it's true. The Lord laid on him the iniquity
and all the iniquity of gall of God's people. He made him
to be sin. Did you notice with me, Brother
John, how all the way through there he kept saying Aaron's
got to make this a tumble for himself? Aaron a sinner? Apparently. Huh? He had to make
it for himself. That answers that argument, doesn't
it? And then Aaron, after laying
his hands on the scapegoat and confessing all the sin, and as
we said, anybody that was a sinner, I mean really
a sinner, they were there that day. The Lord told Aaron, Moses,
you go tell the people that there's going to be an atonement made
for sin. All of them. Anybody's sinful? Guilty? Need help? Can't help you? Come. Come one. Come all. But you don't know.
Yes, I do know you. I know you better than you know
yourself. Come on. Come on. But I know what you've
done. I know what you don't know you've
done. Come. And all of them. I'm going to
be put on the head of this scapegoat. Are you interested? Anybody interested?
Well, here's a guilty fellow. I'm interested. Oh, my. This has been a burden to me
all my life. You mean it's going to be gone? Yeah. Come on. So he's hanging
around and he's watching this. He's interested. That old guilty
sinner. And Aaron gets this goat and
lays his hands, both of them, on the head of this scapegoat
and confesses all the sins. Is that it? Anybody? Any more
sin? Don't hide anything. Don't hide
anything. Confess them all. Confess that
you don't even know what all you've done. David said, keep
me back from presumptuous sins. That's it. Okay. Then he calls for a fit man.
A fit man. Who's able? Who's going to be
able to take this goat where he'll never be found again? You
know, it says he was a fit man. John the Margin says a man of
opportunity, meaning he was standing right there all along. He was right there. That's what
that means. Sam, he was right there. A fit man. He was made
ready. That's what opportunity means.
Ready and willing and able. He's right there. A young man
was standing right there. Who shall go and take this go?
Who's able? There he is. Who is this? This is Christ too. And as a young man, a man, fit
man, you know, a man in his prime is about a man's about, oh, thirty
three years old. Did you catch that? Thirty three,
thirty four, thirty five after that. Now, Sammy's going to be
40 years old. Next month, John will be 50. Stan Anderson 50. Fit man is
prime. The Lord is no... Everything is significant. When
the Lord came as a man, he died in his prime. 33 years old. Fit. He's able. Who's able to do this? Is Christ
able? Absolutely. Did he? We'll see. You know how he did? He came back. Fit man. He's going to go on a journey.
He's going to take this goat with the sins of all of God's
people. He's going to take this goat
out into the wilderness. How long do you reckon he went?
Just to make it again. How long do you think he perhaps
walked? Three days. Three days journey. It took him longer to go than
it did to come back. He had a burden that he took
with him. Two days one way and one day
back. He went, took this goat out there. Three days journey. Where did
he go? Outside the camp. You've got to take these sins,
this scapegoat, fit man, out into the wilderness. Verse 22,
no ifs, no ands, no buts about it. The goat shall. bear it upon
him. All bear iniquity unto a land
where? Where nobody lives. Neither God
nor man is there. No man's land. He did it alone,
didn't he, John? Did it alone. And he did it. He took this goat out into the
wilderness, outside the camp, three days' journey, bearing
the sins, confessed sins of all of God's people. And it says
in verse 22, he shall let go the goat in the wilderness. Leave it alone. This fit man
took that goat out there with all the sins of God's people
out in the wilderness a long way and left it alone. When Christ hung on Calvary's
tree, he said that day, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken
me?" God actually forsook him. That's
when Christ went through hell. Hell is separation from God. People say all the time, I went
through hell. I don't have a clue. I don't
have a clue. People say, my God, my God. They ought to be crying
out for mercy. My God, have mercy on me. When
Christ said that, it was from a heart that was separated from
God. And men don't have a clue about
that. You know, you take everything that's mercy, grace, love, kindness,
gentleness, compassion, any of that comes from God. As long
as God is, wherever the gospel of God, the Word of God is, you'll
find a little bit of compassion, a little bit of goodness, a little
bit of mercy, a little bit of love, a little bit of that. When
God removes Himself, you don't have any of that. That's what
hell is. It doesn't have to be a literal
lake of fire. It has to be, but it's where
God is not. No love, no mercy, no grace,
no hope, no peace, no compassion, no goodness, no gentleness, nothing. Nobody's gone through hell but
Christ. Separated from God. My God, why hast thou forsaken
me? He knew why, and we do too. He's
the scapegoat. Because I deserve to be forsaken
of God. I deserve. Your sins have separated
you from God. But Christ's blood joined me. He united you. Your sins were
laid on Him. And look at it. It says, well,
I'll close with it. It says, He took him out there,
took that goat out there, this fit man, and left him alone.
Now, you know what the hope of Israel was? So they confessed
all their, it all depended on this. And I can just see people asking
Moses questions out there, Aaron, asking the question. If they
were wise, they would. They'd ask questions. What's
this all about? Children. What does this mean?
Are we just going through a ceremony? No, no, no. This is a picture
of God's Son, our Christ, our media, our substitute, our true
scapegoat. That's what this is all about.
And none of this can do anything for anybody. This all represents
the one who's coming from God. If they were smart, they'd ask
that, wouldn't they? Instead of just going through the motion.
Well, I can picture somebody saying to Moses or Aaron, what
does this mean? And he told them, this represents
Christ who will come and bear our sin. And one of them said,
how are we going to know that He did this? How are we going to know it's
done? You mean He's going to come and He's going to die like
a lamb, a sacrifice, and our sin, all of our guilt? Yes, that's
true. How are we going to know that
He's actually put them away? You know, the Scripture says
He shall separate our sins from us as far as the east is from
the west. He shall put away. How are we going to know if He
comes back? Did he? Look at it. Look at verse 26. And it says,
He that let go the goat for the scapegoat shall wash his clothes,
bathe his flesh in water, and afterward come back into the
camp. Did you let him go? Yes, I did. Did you put him away? Got all
my hopes on that? Yes, I did. There's no possibility
of coming back? No way. Did you hear that? All my sins gone? Every one of
them. He's able. And he did it. Put
them all away. And Scripture says, God said
that the iniquity of Israel shall be sought It won't be found. There are sins and iniquities
I remember no more. Why? Christ died. But not long. He's risen. He ever liveth. He said, I'm coming. How do I
know all this is true? He arose. I don't know. He's coming back. Coming back. Did his work close off? He took
those earthly garments he wore off and put on his glorified
body, and he's coming back. Just as sure as he came the first
time, just as sure as he died and put away sin, just as sure
as he rose again, he's coming back. At a time when you think
not. Well, that's good news. Our scapegoat. All right. Brother Gabe, come
and lead us, please.