Good morning to everyone. It's
so good to be here. I just want to greet those who
have joined us Also by zoom and those who will join us by sermon
audio Would you turn with me to the book of Numbers chapter
16? the book of Numbers chapter 16 As I've mentioned a number
of times with regard to the Old Testament in the old days in
my religion It was a flyover book you had to get through the
Bible in a year you come to much of Numbers, much of Leviticus,
much of Deuteronomy. You'd read it as quickly as possible,
skim it, pass through it, and mark your card that you've read
it. Well, the Book of Numbers is
much more than that now. It is the Gospel of our Savior,
the Lord Jesus Christ, written by Moses. And just remember what
the Lord said about Moses. Moses wrote a me. So here in
this last section of this 16th chapter, we have an issue that
illustrates the unchangeable problem of the natural heart. We might hope after we looked
at verses 1-40 last week of this 16th chapter, we might hope that
people would change after they had seen so much. They had seen
the earth open up her mouth and swallow Korah and a host of people
with him. They heard those heart rending
cries of the rebels as they fell down into the pit. Having seen
the fire of the Lord consuming the 250 other notables that were
in Israel that had joined Korah in this rebellion, and having
witnessed this judgment of God and other judgments of God, and
having a display of God's power and majesty demonstrated right
before them, one might think, might suppose that these people
would start to walk softly and humbly, and that the whispers
of discontent and rebellion would be no more heard in the camp.
Well, as we're going to read this section of scripture, it's
hard to say. We're going to see these people once again do what
we do by nature so well. They're going to once again rebel
against God and against Moses and Aaron. Sorry to say, going
to an ark in Kentucky, or going to a grave in Israel, or going
to a building that has a sliver of the cross changes no one. And I'm being facetious about
that sliver of a cross. The flesh profiteth nothing.
The flesh is utterly incurable. So join me here in this book
of Numbers chapter 16. And I want to begin reading with
verse 41. Numbers chapter 16, verse 41. You know, it wasn't a year later,
and it was not a month later, and it was not a week later,
but it was the very next day after Korah went down into the
pit that we have the rebels of the congregation tell Moses,
you have killed the people of the Lord. Now in the original
language that is a very, it speaks so much harsher than we do here.
It's more like you, you have killed the people of the Lord.
And then as we really research it out, as we come to the conclusion,
we find that the Lord did that as he had said he would. So as
we look here in this book of Numbers chapter 16 verse 41,
nevertheless, the very next day, the very next day after the earth
had opened up, the very next day after Korah had been taken
down into the pit, the very next day after 250 liters of Israel
had been consumed by fire, we find that these people came up
against and complained against Moses and Aaron and saying you
have killed you have killed the people of the Lord and then in
verse 42 it tells us and it came to pass when the congregation
was gathered against Moses and against Aaron that they looked
toward the tabernacle of the congregation and behold a cloud
covered it and the glory of the Lord appeared now from our standpoint
probably Moses and Aaron moved over there pretty rapidly. We
have the entire congregation of Israel against them we have
3 million 2 million 6 million People against Moses and Aaron
and accusing them of this and Moses tells us here that the
Lord spake unto Moses in verse 44 and get you up from among
the congregation that I may consume them as in a moment and they
fell upon their faces. Now the Lord spoke to Moses and
said if you just step back now we know that the Lord had all
things worked out and oftentimes we find him speaking in a manner
for us to look at and to review knowing full well that the Lord
was not going to consume the entire congregation of Israel
because in there was the tribe of Judah in the tribe of Judah
was the the One that would bring forth and then bring forth and
bring forth until we come down to Mary the virgin That we find
that he was going to preserve them But the threat was out and
we find that Moses in the past had already dealt with a number
of threats of the Lord and one time he said instead of taking
the congregation of Israel just take me take my life and We find
that also another time that Moses said, oh, if you do that, what
will everybody else say? And we find that the Lord Testified
in his word that he is going to get glory in all things. He
gets glory from creation He gets glory from the sun moon and stars.
He gets glory from the mountains. He gets glory from outer space
He gets glory in the way he acts upon this earth. He gets glory
when he saves somebody from their sin He gets glory in all things. So that's not going to be an
issue with the Lord. He will receive glory He says
that the wicked are made all things He made all things for
himself, yea, even the wicked for the day and for that day
and for his glory. So he's going to come here and
the Lord does this. He says this before us and before
all of Israel. And we find that Moses and his
reaction is that I'm no longer going to Appeal to the Lord to
take me or the Lord to His glory would be diminished or anything
else. We find what the entire book of Leviticus was about Much
of the book of Exodus was about what the book of Numbers is about
and what the book of Deuteronomy is about and the rest of the
Bible is that there is the absolute need for a innocent taking place
taking the place of the guilty and And this has been demonstrated
by the sacrifices that have been taking place. It is demonstrated
when the Passover was instituted there in Egypt, and as they have
observed the Passover here in the wilderness, and as the sacrifices
have been taking place. Every day, they have had a demonstration
that the innocent must take the place of the guilty. We are the
guilty ones, and we need someone that is innocent. We need someone
that has no sin. We need someone that can take
care of the problem. And we find that that is, in
all of these sacrifices, pointed to the one who would come, the
Lord Jesus, the promised one, who is the lamb slain from the
foundation of the world. And he is in the covenant of
grace. It's been determined. that he
is going to provide the very need of everyone that God has
intended to save. He will be their lamb and take
their place and die in their stead and have our sins placed
upon him. Well, this is what we're going
to see played out in this passage of scripture. In verse 46, and
Moses said unto Aaron, take a censer and put fire therein from off
the altar and put on incense and go quickly unto the congregation.
and make an atonement for them. For there is wrath gone out from
the Lord, the plague has begun." Now, if we follow this through,
and we will, we're going to notice that God brought a plague upon
Israel, and it is consuming people, and in the end, 14,700 people
are going to be consumed by this plague. But the cry of Moses
to Aaron, Aaron is the high priest, he speaks so highly of and in
the picture form of our great high priest the Lord Jesus Christ
and his is working in the covenant of grace to provide all that
was necessary for the fall of his people and so he is Aaron
is caused to go put fire there and now he's going to go to the
altar and get some fire from there and You know what has just
happened there there's been a sacrifice. And that wood has been used to
consume that sacrifice. And so Aaron is going to take
some remembrance of what took place there, that the fire has
burned, the sacrifice has been consumed, and place in this plate,
this brass plate, that he has this censer that he's going to
take and put that in there. And then he's going to put some
very special incense on that fire and it is going to put off
an odor that is a smell I should say, a positive thing that is
so glorious. Turn with me if you would to
the book of Exodus chapter 30 for just a moment. Exodus chapter
30 and it tells us about what made up that sweet smelling incense. Exodus chapter 30. Here is the
prescription for it and this is what was going to be used.
Now it's going to be put on top of those coals that have been
taken off the altar. Just remember that that fire,
those coals have just been used to consume a sacrifice. The innocent
took the place of the guilty. Now, this is in pictures, types,
and shadows, and it's all through the Old Testament. We find it
was with Abel. We find it was with Noah. We
find it was with Abraham. We find it was there at the Passover.
We find here that it's with Moses, and it's going to be traveling
through the Old Testament, and it comes down to the person Christ
Jesus, who became the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world,
this one that had promised to come and take care of our problem. Well, here in the book of Ephesians
chapter, excuse me, Exodus chapter 30. Exodus chapter 30. Here in
Exodus chapter 30, beginning with verse 34, we have this wonderful
passage of scripture sharing with us what the perfume is going
to be. And thou shalt make a perfume
of confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together,
pure and holy. And thou shalt beat some of it
very small and put it before the testimony of the tabernacle
of the congregation where it will meet with thee and and it
shall be the most holy and As for perfume which thou shall
make you shall make not make To yourselves according to the
composition thereof it shall be unto you The holy for the
Lord whosoever shall make like unto it shall to smell thereto
Shall even be cut off from his people. This is going to be a
wonderful apothecary this is going to be a wonderful blend
of different spices and oils that are brought out if we back
up there in uh verse 34 the lord said unto moses take into these
sweet spices stetchy and onitka and galibium these sweet spices
with pure frankincense each shall there be a like weight so they're
very odiferous wonderful smells put together and that is what's
going to be used here in this passage of uh... we're reading
in the book of numbers in the book of proverbs the book of
proverbs let's go over there same word is used here as that
as that uh... incense in the book of proverbs
chapter twenty seven verse nine the book of proverbs chapter
twenty seven verse nine We have these words written and recorded
for our good. Now this verse of scripture tells
us ointment and perfume. Rejoice the heart. Ointment and
perfume. That word perfume is the same
word for incense. Now there's going to be some
people over there In Numbers chapter 16, as we read in the
last part of that passage of scripture, there's going to be
some people that are going to rejoice that that plague did
not strike them, that that incense was taken in among the congregation. that Aaron was used to stay that
plague because he took this these bits of ash off of the off of
the altar and this incense and it says ointment and perfume
rejoice the heart this word perfume the incense the sweet savor of
our Savior rejoices the heart to realize that we're not at
warfare with God any longer that we're at peace. He has broken
down the middle water partition. He has made peace with God on
our behalf. And then if we go over to the
book of Ephesians chapter 5, in the book of Ephesians chapter
5, we have these words recorded about our Savior. And in this
passage of scripture, Ephesians chapter 5 and verse 2, we have
these words used that remind us so much of what we've been
reading of there in the book of Numbers. When we have that
word incense, when we have that word, that blend of sweet smelling
spices that nobody else is to have, and they're not to offer
it, it's only to be offered by these priests Aaron is the high
priest. He takes that wonderful smelling
incense Sprinkles it onto those coals and the sweet odor that
comes off of them it says here in the book of Ephesians chapter
5 and verse 2 and walk in love as Christ also hath loved us
and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice now
notice these last few words to God and for a sweet-smelling
savor." How glorious is that smell that we have, this rich,
glorious smell of redemption, the sweet, glorious smell of
the atonement, the sweet, glorious smell of our Savior, as is typified
here in the Old Testament. Now, it tells us, going back
to the book of Numbers chapter 16, Numbers chapter 16, we're
going to look there and we'll see that it goes on to tell us
in that passage of scripture it goes on to tell us about this
the instructions that Moses gave to Aaron in the book of Numbers
chapter 16 and we started there with verse 41 but we're moving
down we read there In verse 47, and Aaron took as Moses commanded. Now, what did he take? He took
a censer, verse 46, and put fire thereon from off the altar. There's already been a consumption
of a sacrifice. This is the remains of that.
And this fire is going to be used to put off a sweet-smelling
odor among the congregation of Israel. I remember hearing a
story about wagon train commander leader. And some people noticed
that as they were crossing the immigrant trail, the Oregon Trail,
that there was some fire that had gone into the grasses and
was headed their way. And it looked like that they
were at the end of their rope. They were going to be consumed
by this fire. And they came to the captain of the wagon train
and said, what will we do? And he said, someone bring me
some matches. And he took some matches and he lit them and threw
them out in that grass. And it started to burn that grass.
And after it burned a pretty large piece, he says, okay, everybody
pull your horses and your wagons over here where the fire has
already burned. Fire can't get to you if you've
already been in a place where it's burned. And how wise was
that captain of that wagon train, and how wise is our great God
to deal with our sin. How he did it, he used his son,
he put his son to justice, to punishment on our behalf, as
he became sin for us. He did not become a sinner, but
he became sin for us. Our sin was laid upon him, And
now we have Moses taking the remembrance of this into the
congregation of Israel. And it says there in verse 46,
the latter part of that, make an atonement for them. Atonement
means that sin is put away. Now, as Moses gave those instructions
and we hear him told to go to the congregation, you know, our
first thoughts might be in religion, we say, well, go to the good
people. Well, that's one thing he didn't have a problem with
here. There were no good people. They'd all come up and challenge
Moses. They'd all come up and challenge
Aaron. And behind it all was they were
all challenging God. They said that Moses and Aaron
slew the people of the Lord. Well, it doesn't take us very
long to read there. And they saw the whole thing.
They heard every word that had transpired. And they had heard
Moses say, step away from these folks. God's going to take care
of them. If Korah dies as a normal man. I'm not speaking for you well,
we find in the scriptures that if a prophet gets up and and
Preaches and it doesn't come to pass then don't follow him.
He's not of God and Moses is say sharing here you go do this
and We find that when it came to Korah, he said if Korah dies
a way that has no man has ever died. I Then you can take it
to the bank. I am the one that God has ordained
to be here Well, we read there early in chapter 16 that the
earth opened up something that had never taken place like this
and these folks went down into the pit and They went down into
the pit alive and then the earth closed over the top of them and
they were gone No longer would they be giving a problem to Israel,
but that seed had been planted. Where did the seed of rebellion
get planted? Right in the garden. Adam brought
that seed of rebellion in the hearts of people against an almighty
God. He was told what to do, he was
instructed what to do, and it was done in love and compassion,
and yet that man did everything What he was supposed not to do
that's exactly what he did He's just like everybody today. If
you can't have one thing you don't have anything you're gonna
go cry about it. Well here we have the Lord Instructing Moses
to write these things down and it says there in verse 46 the
latter part of it for there is wrath gone out from the Lord
the plague is begun and Aaron took as Moses commanded and and
ran into the midst of the congregation and behold the plague was begun
among the people and he put on incense and made atonement for
the people how God's sacrifice has already taken care of and
the blood has already taken care of it's already in the covenant
of grace has already been taken care of for all his people up
to this point and Jesus Christ is going to fulfill that covenant
of grace at the cross, but atonement can now be. And that blood of
the atonement, the sacrifice that was made in the blood of
the atonement, means that there is no longer any sin that is
chargeable to his people. Now, this is just a picture.
This is the type. This is a shadow. These coals
of fire and this incense didn't save anybody from anything. But
in the picture that God gave them, it stayed that plague. And the blood of Christ stays
the plague that we have. It stops it. It puts us out of
issue. There's no longer any payment
due. And it goes on to tell us here, Now they that died in the
plague were 14,700. Aaron stood between, verse 48,
he stood between the dead and the living. And the plague was
stayed. Now we have a record of how many
are here. You know, it is so valuable to
the church to know that there is an election, a remnant, according
to the election of grace. If it wasn't for God's interest
in saving a people, there would be nobody saved. They would have
all been consumed and we'd all be going down into the pit. But
God had an interest in saving a people for Jesus' sake. For what he would do on the behalf
of his people, he'd lay down his life, a ransom for many.
And he's the one that's going to stay the plague. But we also
find out that there are those, as the ninth chapter of the book
of Romans, God has the right, it tells us over there, does
not a potter have power over the clay? And God shares with
us their, well, let's just go over there and read that part
in the book of Romans chapter nine, Romans chapter nine. We
have God has a right. He is God. He is God. He has the right to do with this
world as He sees fit. He has the right to do with His
people as He sees fit. Now He's going to do with His
people in love and mercy, but here in the book of Romans chapter
9, and there, let me see the verse I want. let me look here verse 21 of Romans chapter 9
excuse me for that Romans chapter 9 verse 21 hath not the potter
power over the clay of the same lump to make one vessel into
honor and he has the power to make another vessel into dishonor
that's what it says what if god willing to show his wrath now
he did show his wrath there among those people fourteen thousand
seven hundred people were slain by almighty god there before
Aaron stood between the living and the dead here it says what
if god willing to show his wrath and to make his power known endured
with much long suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction
Why doesn't he take them out of this world the moment they're
born, or why are they even born? Because it pleases him, and they,
as it says here, endureth much longsuffering, the vessels of
wrath fitted to destruction, that he might make known the
riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy which he had aforeprepared
unto glory. So we have God preparing it already
for glory, but he also has stated here that there's going to be
many that are going to suffer his wrath. Among that congregation
of Israel that day, so long ago, there in Numbers chapter 16,
we find that the Lord was very merciful. Among all of them,
14,700 died. They were rebels against God.
They were Esau's if you please a demonstration
of Esau's Jacob have I loved but Esau have I hated so as we
look at this we find that the Lord has the right to do all
of this now in this As we look at this chapter, we see how jealous
God is of the sole right of appointing the way and means of salvation. He is so jealous of that. Nobody
else is going to get involved in that. You cannot get involved
in your salvation. Mutual agreement between God
and man God is going to save his people and we are so dead
and trespasses and sin we're so rebellious against God that
we would not reach out to him and if we could we wouldn't and
since we can't we won't so it's just a Thanksgiving to God that
he would render mercy upon us Christ the mediator between God
and man is the living God and the dead sinners. His atonement
was not made for dead in a corporal sense. nor for men appointed
unto death, but for the living in Jerusalem, written in the
Lamb's Book of Life." Now, would you join me in remembering an
account over in the book of Matthew, chapter 26? In the book of Matthew,
chapter 26, we have here a lady that brought in some sweet-smelling
odors. All of this is so tied together.
What a sweet thing. Now, many years ago, I was in
a store here in the Dallas, Oregon, Fred Meyer, And a lady walked
by, and when I crossed her path behind her by several feet, there
was a scent that just caught my nose. It was so sweet, so
delightful. And I went and asked that lady,
what was that perfume she was wearing? And she was gracious
enough to tell me, and I bought some of that for my wife. Now,
she didn't need it to be sweet. But I bought it for her. It was
so sweet. You know, this incense of the
atonement, this incense of the sacrifice, the delightful part
of it is so glorious to the church. that it is in our meditation
day and night the delight that God would save his people from
their sins that he would not allow us to enter into it we're
saved by grace through faith and that not of ourselves it's
a gift of God not of works lest any man should boast so here
as we look at the book of Matthew we find towards the end of the
ministry the earthly ministry of the Lord before the cross
before the cross he came to Bethany in verse six to the house of
Simon the leper now if that doesn't speak highly of where he is but
we're going to find out that there's a lady coming in there
and you know we always grade people and here's Simon the leper
and now we have a lady coming in here that is going to be so
wasteful there came unto him a woman woman
having an alabaster box of very precious ointment. Now just think
for a moment that you're part of that great crowd of Israel,
and you begin to see behind you the consuming hand of God, and
then you see the high priest in all his regalia with a pan
in his hands, a censer in his hand, and he's bringing it out
and it's got coals in it, fire off the altar, and he sprinkled
incense on it, and the closer he comes, and the wind brings
it your way, you smell that sweet smelling odor, the sweet smelling
odor of a sacrifice, the sweet smelling odor of blood atonement,
the sweet smelling odor of God's active involvement in the redemption
of his people. Now think about that as we look
here in this scene as the Lord Jesus is here and laying down
and a woman comes in with an alabaster box, a very, very valuable
box by itself and it has precious ointment and poured it on his
head as he said it meat. She poured this oil. Now he didn't
resist that. He had appointed this. He he
knew full well who was coming through that door the very next
moment and he knew who well who had provided her with that alabaster
box and he knew who full well who had provided her with that
oil that Precious ointment that was in that alabaster box. This
is all the hand of God It isn't interesting that this woman came
and did this work in preparation for his burial And we read in
the book of Ephesians, for we are his workmanship created in
Christ Jesus unto good works, which he hath before ordained
that we should walk in them. This is what God does. We're
not saved by works, but salvation will produce works. We will serve
the master and it will not be for reward. We're not looking
for crowns. We're looking to serve our master,
our king. So it says here that this woman
having this precious, this alabaster box, a very precious ointment,
poured it on the head as he said it meet. He's the sacrifice. Here's the incense being put
on him. And when his disciples saw it they had indignation saying
now is there much difference between what all that whole Congregation
of israel was doing and what these disciples were doing They
had indignation saying to what purpose is this waste? Most people
over there in the old testament in numbers chapter 16 said moses
and aaron you kill the people of the lord well We realize very
quickly that not all Israel is of Israel. Every one of those
that died were Israelites. They were all descendants of
Abraham. They were all descendants of
one of the tribes of Jacob and his 12 sons. They were all that,
but they were taken out and those were taken down to the pit. Those
were consumed by fire. And here we have a great plague
breaking out and going to take 14,700. Well, for this ointment might
have been sold for much, and given to the poor. And when Jesus
understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for
she hath wrought a good work upon me. She did a great work
upon me. She poured this out. For ye have
the poor always with you, but me ye have not always For in
that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my
burial. Verily I say unto you, wheresoever
this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall
go also this, that this woman hath done, to be told for a memorial
of her." Now we go on and find out Judas Iscariot went to the
chief priest right after this. But notice this. She's done it
for my burial. Wherever this gospel is preached,
there's going to be this account of this woman pouring this very
costly ointment on my head for my burial. I am the sacrifice. The incense has been applied.
Atonement shall be made. Well, we find as we follow the
very life of the Lord Jesus these last few days, this ointment
is not something that you would just instantly wash off. It has
an odor about it just like that incense there in the Old Testament.
They had a place where they burnt incense in the Holy of Holies.
It was the altar of incense. They burned that daily. It was
the sweet smell that would go in there and fill that room and
follow that priest out as the ministry of the lord went forward
and here we have the very same thing as the lord was preparing
in going into the holy of holies he has the sweet incense placed
upon him and it's going to follow him for the rest of his earthly
existence here before his uh resurrection we're going to find
that this smell pleasant at his arrest It's not going to be long.
Judas is going to be bringing back all those folks, and he
still has that great smell of this costly ointment on him. What a sweet smell as those soldiers
came to him. I don't know what they thought,
but here is this sweet box of alabaster, the alabaster box
of the sweet ointment poured upon the head of the Lord Jesus,
and he, they can smell it at his arrest. And you know what?
Judas smelled that when he gave him a kiss. got up close to him
and kissed him. He could smell that alabaster
box of ointment poured upon the Savior, not his Savior, but the
Savior of his people. He smelled pleasant at the trial
as Pilate tried him, and as he was before Herod and others,
we find that he smelled pleasant at the scourging as those men
took their great power and scourged the body of our Savior, the Lord
Jesus. He smelled pleasant at his crucifixion
as he was laid down on that cross and nails driven through his
flesh. Those who did that, this odor
was there. It was present, raised up between
heaven and earth on that cross. He was, he smelled pleasant.
Well, there was an odor that someone caught up there on that
cross. There was the man on the right hand side that in conversation
with his friends said the very same thing, you know, If you
be God, take us down from this cross. And then God worked a
work of grace in that one's life. Oh, as he smelled that sweet
ointment, God had brought him to the knowledge that this is
the one that's going to lay his life down as ransom for his sin. Great sinner, murderer, all kinds
of great crimes. And yet the Lord said today,
you'll be with me in paradise. What sweet savor that man smelled. And then we have those who took
him down from the cross. They buried him and he, this
was all done for his burial. He's going to enter in that tomb
with this and then there's going to be others added. You know,
as we remember on that resurrection morning when they came and they
wondered who was going to take away the stone from the opening
of that tomb where the Lord was laid. They came with more spices
to put around that body of the Lord. You know, we think of them,
boy, they're coming there to the resurrection. No, they're
coming there to put more spices on it. They didn't realize in
the moment. They hadn't been revealed that
Jesus Christ truly was going to be raised from the dead, just
like he had promised so many times. And when they came and
saw that empty tomb with that stone rolled back by the angel,
What a pleasant smell they smelled. The church says, what a sweet
smelling savor. What a sweet smelling savior. What a sweet smelling atonement. The blood of Jesus Christ has
atoned for our sins. He has gone into the Holy of
Holies. There he met with the Father,
atoned for our sin, and now we no longer have it charged against
us. We are free in Christ. We have
been saved by His grace. And so as we go back there to
the book of Numbers, we see this played out as Moses was directed
to write by the Holy Spirit, just like all the prophets, all
the writers of the New Testament. Sometimes we make a mistake and
say, oh, We're going to go to the writings of Paul. Well, right
Paul was a secretary and that's all he did He was given that
word. We're going to the writings of Moses this fourth book of
Moses the book of Numbers chapter 16 and just quickly go through
there one more time and You know, as Aaron came up to that fire,
and he took the fire therein from off the altar, put on incense,
and ran quickly through the congregation, there was a sweet savor that
was being carried by the high priest. There's a sweet savor
taken by our high priest. He's a sweet smelling savor unto
God. And this stayed. Isn't that interesting? This stayed. It stopped. In verse 48, Aaron, the high
priest, stood between the dead and the living, and the plague
was stayed. You know, the plague of the fall
stayed by the blood of Christ, stayed by that wonderful smell
that we have that comes from the atonement, comes from the
innocent dying for the guilty. This is the gospel, and we have
it here. Now, in the last verse and Aaron
returned unto Moses unto the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation and the plague was stayed. Now it's interesting
in the very next verse we're going to have that God's going
to instruct them again. He's going to show them again
by some walking sticks who he actually appointed to be the
high priest Aaron. Aaron's rod that budded we're
going to look at that lord willing next time and so we're thankful
for you being with us today We ask that the lord would bless
his word to your heart and that you would have that sweet savor
that is given to us Because of the blood shed blood of christ
and the atonement that he's made on our behalf We say as that
man at the temple not bragging as the pharisee did but as that
Republican said God be merciful to me a sinner. What's that word
word merciful? It means may the Mercy seat be
for me. May the atonement be for me.
Well, you can't say those words without it already taken place
So god bless you until we meet again