Take a look at verse 1 and 2. Take thou unto thee Aaron thy
brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel,
that he may minister unto thee in the priest's office, even
Aaron Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons. Verse
2, pay attention to this. And thou shalt make holy garments
for Aaron thy brother, for glory and for beauty. Holy garments
for Aaron. As I said, this is the last of
this series, and we're going to look at our great high priest's
garments. How utterly insufficient is a
mere mortal man to speak upon, to describe, attempt to describe
the character, the person of the altogether lovely Son of
God. How utterly insufficient to describe
the glory and the beauty of the Son of God. Not only are we so very ignorant
of the true glory of the Son of God, so very ignorant, but
this is kind of like a blind man trying to describe a rainbow.
It really is. We know in part, we know so very
little, of the vast ocean the depth of this knowledge of Christ,
that vast ocean of his fullness. It's like we've only stuck our
little toe in the water. We know in part we see through
a glass dimly. It's like a very nearsighted
man beholding something from afar without his glasses. When
we do get a rare glimpse, and I emphasize these glimpses are
rare. And we do get a rare glimpse
of the glory, the beauty, the majesty, and the wonder of the
Lord Jesus Christ himself. We're a little bit dazzled at
times by it. Yet, as Queen Sheba said to Solomon,
the half has never been told. That's the reason I believe that
we're going to spend, we're going to be singing of his glory and
beauty throughout eternity in heaven, throughout eternity.
Never going to quit singing after we behold him, kind of like one
who can never see enough of or say enough about the most beautiful
view he has ever seen. You remember that passage over
in Revelation 7, where it said that people stand before his
throne? I think we're going to stand there for I don't know
how many years just with our mouths wide open and gazing in
awe and wonder at this wonder sight. I'm not talking about
heaven. I'm talking about him who is heaven. Do you remember,
and I'll give you a little illustration of this, a little example. Do
you remember what it was like when you courted your wife or
your husband? Do you remember what it was like,
how you could never get enough of them? Just being with them
and looking at them among other things. Or heaven. Heaven is the believers honeymoon.
With his bridegroom, heaven is going to believe be the believers
eternal honeymoon, but we can't get enough of being around and
seeing the bride. He's that wonderful. And in closing
out this series on the tabernacle we're just going to touch some
of the highlights we're going to go through all the way through
chapter twenty-eight. We're going to touch the highlights
of this chapter to speak of the high priest garment. Now it's
providential that we've been dealing like Sunday morning both
in the Bible study from Hebrews six and the message Sunday morning. We've been dealing with the believer's
conduct and personality lately, and the garments of the common
priest are described here as well. Look down at verse 40 of
chapter 28. Verse 40, the garments of the
common priest. Now the believer, remember the
believer is called a priest unto God, that's because we minister
unto him, we serve him, we minister about the things of the gospel.
We're taken up with the tabernacle. That's the reason a believer
is called a priest. We're taken up with Christ, the tabernacle
of God, among others. And the garments of the common
priest, the sons of Aaron, and we're sons of God. They are mentioned
here, verse 40, and for Aaron's sons thou shalt make coats, make
for them girdles and bonnets, or headdresses shalt thou make
for them. because they are to have glory and beauty. And thou
shalt put them upon Aaron thy brother and his sons with them,
and shalt anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, just
like Aaron, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office."
They've got to be dressed properly too. And thou shalt make them
linen brooches to cover their nakedness. From the loins even
unto the thighs they shall reach. And they shall be upon Aaron
and upon his sons when they come in unto the tabernacle of the
congregation. And whenever they come near unto
the altar to minister in the holy place, they've got to have
these white linen britches or covering on that they bear not
iniquity and die. It shall be a statute forever
unto him and his seed after him, an everlasting covering. All
right. Now, look down at verse 3. Let's
begin. Chapter 28. Now he says, Thou shalt speak
unto all that are wise-hearted, all that God has revealed the
Scriptures unto, that am able to make you wise unto salvation,
all that know and see Christ as their wisdom. Is that you? Speak unto all that are wise-hearted. Do you have Christ in your heart?
Is he your wisdom? Are you wise unto salvation?
Do you know him? Speak unto those who are wise-hearted,
whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom." There he is. "...that
they may make Aaron's garments to consecrate him, that he may
minister unto me in the priest's office." Tell them, speak to
them that are wise-hearted, that they may make Aaron's garments. Now, this is typical. We are
to appropriate—that's an old Puritan word for put on—Christ. We're to put on the blood and
the righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ by faith. As many
as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ by faith,
Paul said. We're to make his garments. He is made unto us. God made
him unto us. And we're to make him as our
own by faith. This is what we do by faith.
We make the blood and the righteousness of Christ our own by faith. Make
these garments and consecrate him. It says to consecrate him. You remember where Peter said
over in chapter 3, verse 15, to sanctify the Lord God in your
heart? Sanctify, set apart, consecrate,
set him up, exalt him, worship him in your own hearts. Sanctify,
consecrate him. Now, these are the garments that
they are to make. This is the high priest's garments,
verse four. These are the garments which they shall make, a breastplate,
an ephod, a robe, a broidered coat, a miter, a girdle, and
they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother and his
sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office. And
they shall take gold, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and
fine linen." We've been over these colors before, the coverings. But the gold there stands for
his holiness, his deity. Blue stands for his deity, God. Blue, like the heavens, God.
Purple is royalty, royal robe, purple. Scarlet is his blood,
of course. And in this linen, this fine
white linen, is his holiness and his righteousness. Did you
notice there it said, cunning work. Cunning, that's in verse
6. And they shall make the ephod
of gold, of blue, of purple, of scarlet, in a fine twine linen
with cunning work, curious or wonderfully made up. This ephod,
this is the first thing, God's going to start, begin with the
coverings on the outside and work his way in, from the outside
in. Now here's, he didn't bring it,
I'll show you my picture. Here are the various coverings
that he wore. Now this ephod right here is
the outermost covering. Here's the breastplate, and then
this ephod right here, kind of a shoulder a sleeveless garment
that's worn on the outside. This is the girdle that ties
around the waist. Evidently, it connects the bottom
part of the CVOD with the top. And then underneath that, immediately
under that, is this blue robe. And then the last thing, the
innermost garment, is this white coat that he wears. This is the
miter. And here's the robe with the
bells and the pomegranates on it. Remember that? Now the ephod,
verse six, they make an ephod. This is the first thing, an ephod.
This was a multicolored, like I said, multicolored, finely
twined, cunning work. This is the outermost garment
that this high priest wore. Now this tells me, this speaks
to me of the multifaceted, infinitely glorious character and personality
of the Lord Jesus Christ, His outward person, His manhood,
and all of its beauty. Who can describe it? Full of
holiness, righteousness, mercy, love, goodness, gentleness, meekness,
kindness, temperance, longsuffering, faith, love. Let's go on and
on about this, the outward man, the man Christ Jesus, this glorious,
curiously wrought, cunning work. The angels said it about him,
this cunning, this curious, cunning work of God. It's a holy thing. God made it. It, this holy thing
that came out of that woman's womb, is the God-man. And what a glorious being he
was, his outer appearance. Verse 8, Now the curious girdle
of the ephod, the girdle of the ephod which is upon it shall
be of the same. That is, according to the work
thereof, it is curiously wrought even of gold, of blue, and purple,
and scarlet, and fine twined linen. This girdle, this curious
girdle, this was the thing, as I showed you, that held it all
together, the girdle. Some of you may remember girdles.
It holds everything up. Holds it in place. Keeps it from
falling. Keeps it together. Holds it up. Joins together. Listen to this.
This is great. That which held it all together
was this golden, this curious girdle. It's that which joined
together the upper part of the ephod with the lower part of
the ephod. You want to guess what this girdle
is? It's the gospel. The gospel that joins the deity
of Christ, God, and man. This gospel. The manhood of Christ
brought together with the deity of Christ brought together by
the gospel. It's the word of truth. Didn't
Paul say over in Ephesians 6 that we're to be girt about the loins
with this truth? Have your loins girt about with
truth? The gospel is what holds everything
together, right? It's what holds this universe
together. It's the very reason for the existence of this universe,
because God is going to save the people. If it were not for
the gospel, there would be no more earth. God would have destroyed
Adam and the whole world with him if there was not a gospel,
if it was not for the gospel. The gospel is what holds this
thing together. The gospel is what gives meaning and purpose
to it all. It's called the word of truth,
the girdle of truth. And he said here, it's made of
the same. It's made of the same. That is, the gospel is—that ephod
represented the very person of Christ, his personality. And
that's what the gospel is. The gospel is not merely doctrine,
a system of beliefs. The gospel is not for mere intellectual
curiosity's sake, theories and so forth. The gospel is made
up of the same thing as the person. The gospel is a person, the person
of Christ. It's his person and his work.
Christ is the substance. the substance of the message.
It's the gospel, Paul said in Romans 3, one concerning God's
Son. It's the good news concerning
who it was that came to earth. Verse 9, And thou shalt make
two onyx, take two onyx stones and grave on them, and grave
on them the names of the children of Israel. Six of their names
on one stone, and the other six names of the rest on the other
stone, according to their birth." These stones were what you might
call birth stones. Birth stone. According to birth,
with the names of the children. And these birth stones, I thought
about this. I thought about Christ the stone of stumbling and the
rock of offense. These two stones. If you're in
Christ, you have your name written on that rock. You have it engraved
by God in the palms of the right hand and the left hand of Christ
himself. And according to birth, according
to the new birth, is whether or not your name is written on
his heart and on him, in him. Now, with the work of an engraver
in stone, this must be another curious or cunning, crafty, wonderful
work of an engraver in stone. Now, you all have seen—and Nancy
works at the Jewelers—she's seen the beautiful work of an engraver. It's quite an art, isn't it?
Well, how about the work of the Heavenly Father and the Holy
Spirit, the great engraver? the work of God, the work of
God's engraving in stone, the Holy Spirit who sculpts us out
of Christ the rock. And this is to be on the shoulders
of the epod, the work of an engraver like the engravings of a signet.
And thou shalt put the two stones, verse 12, upon the shoulders
of the epod for stones of memorial unto the children of Israel.
In other words, these two stones sat right here and right here
and connected the ephod. They kind of held it together
up here on the shoulder. And Aaron shall bear their names,
Aaron shall bear their names before the Lord upon his two
shoulders for a memorial. The Lord hath
laid on him our great high priest the iniquity of us all. And he
bears us upon his shoulders, and they're strong shoulders.
They're able to hold us all up. Every one of us—six on the right,
six on the left. Verse 13, And thou shalt make
ouches of gold, and two chains of pure gold at the ends of wreath
and work shalt thou make then. This is another curious or crafty
work here. this wreath and work of gold
and fastened the wreath and chains to the ouches. In other words,
these two ouches, what they call ouches, were settings. Like you ladies have a ring and
there's a setting in which the stone is set down in the ring.
That's what these were, these ouches. And the robe, everything
hung upon these ouches and the stones were set down in these
settings. And there were two chains that hung from these ouches. And I believe that this represents
the person and the work of Christ, God and man, upon which the whole
thing hangs. The whole thing, all of salvation
hangs upon him, doesn't it? On his person and work, what
he did. All right, now, look at the all-important breastplate,
verse fifteen. Let's read down through twenty-one. Thou shalt make the breastplate
of judgment with cunning work. Another beautiful work. After the work of thee, Fa, thou
shalt make it of gold, of blue, of purple, of scarlet, of fine
twine, of linen, shalt thou make it four square. It shall be being
doubled. A span shall be the length thereof.
A span is about the length of a man's hand, or the width of
a man's hand. A span shall be the length thereof,
and a span shall be the breadth thereof, and thou shalt set it
in settings of stone," even four rows of stones, three stones
per row. The first row shall be a sardius,
a topaz, a carbuncle. That's the first row. The second
row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond. The third row
a ligure, an agate, an amethyst, and the fourth row a beryl, an
onyx, a jasper, and they shall be set in gold in their enclosings.
And the stones shall be with the names of the children of
Israel, twelve according to their names, like the engravings of
a signet. Everyone with his name shall
be according to the twelve tribes." Now, these stones are of uncertain
color and meaning. I looked up various different
writers on these stones, and they're uncertain as to what
all these stones are, but the various colors and so forth could
represent, and the stones, they could represent the blessings
given by Jacob to the various tribes of Israel. You remember
when Jacob gave the different blessings to each of his twelve
sons? Now, these could be in some way
representative of those blessings, and it could be representative
of the blessings we have through Christ. which number much more
than twelve, at any rate. But we don't know all of God's
purpose for us, just like we don't know what these stones
are all about. I was listening to a message
by my pastor this morning, and he said one thing a man needs
to come to understand, a preacher that is, is that he doesn't have
all the answers. And so don't try to give all
the answers. And we don't know all of God's purpose for us,
his plans, We don't know how he'll use us or what he has in
store for us. We don't know what the future
holds, but we do know who holds the future. And we do know this. I do know this about these stones. They were on the breastplate
of this high priest, and they had names and people on them.
I do know that. There were names written on these
stones, and they were all on the high priest's breastplate.
And I do know this about us, about God's people. We are on
the heart of our great high priest. I'm in him, and I'm on his heart. And I don't know what God has
in store for me, or for you, but I know if I'm in Christ,
I'm okay. I'm okay. And I'll leave that secret things
to him. But notice this. He said the
stones will be the names of the children of Israel. Twelve. According
to their name. Not thirteen, not eleven. Twelve. Children of Israel, too. There
were particular names, particular names on this breast blood. Particular
names. These were the only people that
that blood atonement was for. These twelve names, these twelve
tribes and all the people, the families, the children of Israel,
they were in these twelve tribes. These were the only people that
that blood applied to. Right? Right. Now, this is the
heart of this thing we call particular redemption. This is where it
all—this is where it starts. From the beginning, when God
instituted the blood atonement for the remission of sins, it
was particular and it was effectual. It was particular. It was for
God's chosen and called people, for them and them only. And it
kept them all the days of their life through that journey and
through the wilderness. And the blood of Jesus Christ
is the foundation of our faith. The fact that the blood of God's
Son cleanses us from all our sin, and that if I'm under that
blood, I am safe. I am saved. I am saved. And that blood is for a particular
people, a chosen generation. and elect people. This is something
that God instituted from the very beginning, that he has a
particular people, and it's for them and them only that the blood
of Christ was applied. Now, there are people more than
the number of the stars in the sands of the seashore, and they're identified by saving
faith. Look over at Revelation 21. Keep your place back there
in Exodus 28. Look at Revelation 21. This is
marvelous. The Church is God's people. The Church is represented throughout
the Old Testament by children of Israel. The Church is in Christ,
like these names on this birth plate. The Church, God's people,
are in Christ Jesus. there. Of God are you in Christ? Are you in Christ? The church
is always been, always will be, in Christ. He is our great high
priest who wears our names on his heart. He is the book of
life that the scriptures talks about, wherein our names are
contained. He is the temple that we dwell
in, that we live in. And look here at Revelation 21
with me in verse 10. This is beautiful. Notice the
similarity of this and Texas 28. He carried me away in the
spirit to a great high mountain and showed me that great city,
holy Jerusalem. Now that's the church. That's
the church. Descending out of heaven from God. having the glory
of God, and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even
like a jasper stone, clear as crystal, and had a great wall,
a wall great and high, and had twelve gates. At the gates twelve
angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve
tribes of the children of Israel." Now, the foundations, verse 19,
"...the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with
all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper,
the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth enamel,
the fifth sardonyx, the sixth sardius, the seventh chrysolite,
the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprysis, the eleventh
jacinth, the twelfth amphithys, and the twelve gates were twelve
pearls. Every several gate was of one
pearl. And the street of the city was
pure gold, as it were transparent glass. Now, and I saw no temple
therein, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of
it. And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon
to shine in it, for the glory of God did lighten it, and the
Lamb is the light of it, the light thereof. And the notions
of them which are speeved shall walk in the light of it." and
the kings of the earth to bring their glory and honor into it.
And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day, but in
no night. And they shall bring the glory
and honor of the nations into it." Now look at this, verse
27, "...and there shall in no wise enter into it anything that
defileth," no sin, "...neither whatsoever worketh abomination,
or maketh a lie. The only people that are in this
place are they which are written in the Lamb's Book of Life. You
see that? That's particular redemption. Particular redemption. Nobody
is going to be saved apart from the blood sacrifice of the Lord
Jesus Christ. And all whom he makes that blood
sacrifice for will be saved. Every last one of them. As in Adam, Paul said in 1 Corinthians
15, as in Adam all die, that is everybody represented by Adam,
that's all, all people. We die, we were dead spiritually,
dead in trespasses and sins. As in Adam all die, even so in
Christ shall all be made alive. That is all who are in Christ
shall be made alive. Any problem with particular redemption?
The book, people say it doesn't teach you. My soul. It's the very heart of the gospel.
The fact that Christ's blood is effectual. It actually saves
his people. The blood before the Lord. All
right, back to Exodus 28, verse 29. Now stay with me. Exodus
28, look at verse 29. And Aaron shall bear the names
of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment,"
or justice, or justified, upon his heart. It's God that justifies. Christ died upon his heart when
he goes into the holy place. Their names are on his breastplate
when he goes into the holy place for a memorial. before the Lord
continually. You know, he tells us to do this
in remembrance of him. Well, he does this in remembrance
of us, in remembrance of me. My great high priest has my name
written upon his heart. And I thought about that thief
on the cross when he looked over at Christ and said, Lord, remember
me when you come into your kingdom. And I can just hear Christ now
say to him, remember you. Well, I've had your name right
here all along. Never did forget you, and never
will. Remember you. I've got you on
my heart and on my mind. Verse 30. And thou shalt put
in the breastplate of judgment the urilum and the thummum. And they shall be upon Aaron's
hearts when he goes in before the Lord." Now, this Urim and
Thummim, nobody rightly knows, really knows what this is. The words translate, as best
they can translate them, they translate into lights and perfections. The lights and perfection, truth
and understanding, are in Christ. Knowledge and wisdom are found
in Christ. But nobody knows for sure what
this is. But somehow this was in the breastplate. Whether or
not it was hidden by it or in it, I don't know. Nobody knows.
Like the Scripture says, Deuteronomy twenty-nine and twenty-nine,
the secret things belong to the Lord. So we'll just leave that
right there. Someday we'll know. Someday we'll know. But just
under, now let's get to this. Under this And under this epod,
this outer garment, just under that, verse 31, was this robe
of blue. The outer garments, what does
that represent? The manhood of Christ, his person,
his outward person. Well, just beneath the surface,
just beneath this ephod, just beneath this covering of flesh,
there was a royal robe. Just beneath this outer robe
of flesh was the Son of God himself. King of kings, the Lord of lords. Verse 32, And there shall be
a hole in the top of it, and in the midst thereof it shall
have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as
it were the hole of a habridgen. That is, this was double-sewn and woven for strength
around the neck. That it be not rent. Remember
how the priest of old used to, when he'd get all upset about
something, would rent his mantle? This was never to be rent. This
robe. That it be not rent. Never to be rent. Christ never
laid aside his deity when he came to earth. It was just covered. It was just veiled in flesh. But every now and then, Every
now and then, he would lift up that ephod, like on the Mount
of Transfiguration. He'd lift up that ephod, and
everybody'd get a little bit of a glimpse of that royal robe,
of who he really was. Every now and then, they'd drop
it, and they'd just see the manhood. But underneath his manhood, underneath
that robe of flesh, was this God-man. Christ Jesus, verse
33. And beneath this robe, beneath,
at the very bottom, upon the hem of it, thou shalt make pomegranates
of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the hem
thereof, little round things that look like fruit, and bells
of gold between them round about, a bell and a pomegranate, a bell
and a pomegranate. And it shall be upon Aaron the
minister, verse 35, And his sound shall be heard when he goes into
the holy place, and when he comes out. These bells have to be ringing.
Bells have to be ringing. A bell and a pomegranate. A pomegranate
and a bell. This pomegranate was a fruit,
and this fruit and this bell remind me of the fruit of Christ's
life, his works. He said, The works I do, they
bear witness of me. Christ came first working the
works of his Father, didn't he? And then at thirty, or whenever,
he began preaching his word. The bell is the voice of the
Son of God that rings forth, the fruit of his life, his action,
and the sound of his voice, his word, on the robe of his deity. Verse thirty-six, And thou shalt
make a plate of pure gold, and engrave upon this plate like
the engravings of a signet. This plate was to go on the head
of this miter. Holiness to the Lord, it was
to say. Holiness to the Lord was to be
on the forehead. Thou shalt put it on the blue
lace that it may be upon the miter, upon the forefront of
the miter, this cap, this headdress that he wore. And it shall be
upon Aaron's forehead, this miter, that holiness to the Lord, his
headdress. What is that? That's the crown
of Christ's righteousness. His crowning glory is his holiness. That's what it is, that golden
crown of his holiness. That's what sets him apart and
above all others and declares him as Lord, our righteousness,
as King, our righteousness, is his holiness. It's the crown
of perfection that he wears. And he's crowned, the scripture
says, with glory and honor. He's the only one that wears
this perfectly holy crown of dignity. Yet, yet, Paul said,
there is yet laid up for me a crown of righteousness. But it's a
borrowed one. It's a little crown, made up
like his, that he puts on my head. But the scripture says
we're going to cast those at his feet. You don't deserve it.
You must be crowned. Crown him the Lord of life. Crown him with many crowns. Verse
38, And it will be upon his forehead that Aaron may bear the iniquity
of the holy thing. Always upon his forehead. Christ
said, I must always be about my Father's business. Always. I do always those things which
please my Heavenly Father, Christ said. Always. Always. The holiness,
the glory, the service of God Almighty was always before his
eyes and on his mind and in his walk. Always holiness, glory
unto God. And because of who he was and
what he was like, he could bear the iniquity of the holy things.
He could bear that glory that we came far short of. He didn't. He could bear it. the holy things
and those holy garments that appear before the Lord in them
for us, that perfect holiness that man approved of God. He's
God to satisfy the law, and he's man to suffer the punishment
of it. And he'll always be. He said he wore this engraving
that says, Holiness to the Lord. He'll always be our holiness
before the Lord. Always. The holiness that we
have is imputed to us. It's not ours at all. When we
get to heaven, if we get to heaven, it's because he is our righteousness. It's because we bear his righteousness,
his imputed righteousness through our account. He is our head. He is our head, and we are the
body. Now, beneath it all, verse 39, beneath it all, It shall be always upon his forehead
that they may be accepted before the Lord." Christ must be our
righteous Lord before God, always, that we may be accepted. And
beneath it all, verse 39, this last garment, and the first garment,
the last is first, it's the first put on, it's the last mentioned
here. Thou shalt embroider the coat
of fine linen. Fine white linen. Fine white linen. What's that? That's God. His very essence. The very essence of Christ himself
is purity. The immaculate God who is light. God who is light. And when our
high priest got dressed, when Christ got dressed, he put on
white. First thing. The Scripture says,
was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Well, and thou shalt embroider
the coat of fine linen, and make the miter of fine linen, and
thou shalt make the girdle of needlework. There you have it. There he is, beautifully and
wonderfully adorned. great high priest, ready to go
in before the Lord, our great high priest, to go in beneath
that veil, to spiritualize a little bit. Have you seen him? Have you seen him go in within
that Holy of Holies, beneath that veil, with that all-important
life-saving, soul-saving, sin-cleansing basin of substance, blood. Do you see him? Curiously adorned,
beautifully adorned before the Lord. Do you hear the bells? Do you see him? Hear the bells? Do you see the smoke rise? When
the high priest poured that blood over the mercy seat and the fire and the smoke rose out of that
tent, indicating that it was accepted. Did you see Christ
hanging on that cross, and the earth shaking, and the sky get
dark, and the dead rise out of the grave? Did you see that?
Did you hear him come out of there? Did you see him coming out of there,
holy of holies? And do you hear him say this?
He's done. God's grace. Went in with that
one sacrifice. These men offered many, year
after year. They could never make the comers
there unto perfect. But this high priest, this great
high priest, this tabernacle, he went in once, in the Holy
of Holies, and offered up not the blood of bulls and goats,
but his own precious blood, and he obtained eternal I mean, he
obtained eternal redemption for all of God's people. Well, I
hope it's been of some help to you. Tabernacle, I enjoyed it. Long and laborious study, but
my, my, my, what a picture of Christ. And we may just do that
again someday. Our Lord, say these words and
make them more than these words. Make them a part of our lives. Adorn us by this adorned doctrine. The doctrine of Christ our Savior. Let us wear, like the sons of
Abraham, let us wear these holy garments, in view of the righteousness
of Christ us, coming up from the shed of the mother of Christ,
who put us in the fabric of Christ Jesus, and clothed us with holiness
and righteousness, so that someday we would have no more chastity. and make us look like Him throughout
our days, to perform us the blessings of Christ. And let us see more
of His beauty as days go by. If someday we're transported
to that place where we'll see Him as He is, we'll call Him
by that name. God bless His name, and we pray
that He's the same in all of us. Amen.