Would you turn with me in your
Bibles to Numbers chapter 10. Numbers chapter 10. We saw some wonderful things
in Numbers chapter 10 last week about the cloud. The cloud that
led the children of Israel. As we put in the bulletin, there's
a verse there, numbers 9, 17. And when the cloud was taken
up from the tabernacle, then after that, the children of Israel
journeyed. And in the place where the cloud abode, there the children
of Israel pitched their tents. What encouragement that cloud
was to the children of Israel, and they did not have to do anything. It was already done for them.
The Lord announced the time of moving by his cloud and he announced
the time of setting by the cloud. So it was the Lord's business
that he took care of there. Now we're going to be here in
the book of Numbers a little bit farther in the book of Numbers
or further depending on where I grew up. The book of Numbers
chapter 10 and we want to look at a passage of scripture here
in Numbers chapter 10 verses 1 through 10. that have to do
with some instruments that the Lord asked Moses to ask the people
to build. Two trumpets. Two trumpets. Reading verses 1-10 of Numbers
chapter 10, the Lord spake unto Moses in the wilderness. Now
it's interesting to reflect upon these words of the Lord God Almighty
knew exactly what words he was going to give to the prophets
in eternity past. They were not something that
he created as he went along. He had full knowledge of all
the words that he was going to give to the prophets. As we find
in the scripture, these men were holy men of God. They spoke as
God moved them. He gave them the words to write
down in the original form. I'm thankful for a translation
because I can't read Hebrew and I can't read Greek. I'm thankful
for those who can and I'm thankful for those who wrote it down in
books that I can look up words, but I can't. I'm glad for this.
But in its original form, they were given word for word. He did not allow humanity to
enter into the form of his word. Now we found out this morning,
as Mike was teaching there, that Abraham encouraged those brothers
to hear Moses and the prophets. If they'll not hear Moses and
the prophets, they'll not listen even though one rose from the
dead. And this is a wonderful passage
of scripture that we no doubt had the Lord speak on on the
two to a road to Emmaus about these two trumpets. In the wilderness
of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first
day of the second month, in the second year after they were come
out of the land of Egypt, saying, Take ye, excuse me, I'm in Numbers
chapter one. Let me get over here, my contrivance. There we go. The Lord spake unto
Moses, saying, Make thee two trumpets of silver, of a whole
piece shalt thou make them, that thou mayest use them for the
calling of the assembly and for the journey of the camps. And when they shall blow with
them, all the assembly shall assemble themselves to thee at
the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. And if they
blow but one trumpet, then the princes, which are heads of the
thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves unto thee. And when
you blow an alarm, then the camps that lie on the east part shall
go forward. And when you blow an alarm the
second time, then the camps that lie on the south side shall take
their journey. And they shall blow an alarm
for their journeys. But when the congregation is
to be gathered together, ye shall blow, but ye shall not sound
an alarm. And the sons of Aaron, the priests,
shall blow with the trumpets, and they shall be to you for
an ordinance forever throughout your generations. and if you
go to war in your land against the enemy that oppress you, then
you shall blow an alarm with the trumpets, and you shall be
remembered before the Lord and your God, and you shall be saved
from your enemies. Also, in the day of your gladness,
and in your solemn feasts, and in the beginnings of your months,
you shall blow with the trumpets over the burnt offerings, and
over the sacrifices of your peace offerings that you may be to
you for a memorial before your God. I am the Lord your God."
We'd like to look this morning at these two trumpets that the
Lord commanded Moses to have built and that it tells us what
they were to be used for and that's very important as we look
here in the scriptures. Now, the number of these two
trumpets was to be two, and one of the things that comes strongly
to my mind about this is that we have two parts of our Bible. We have Genesis to Malachi, and
we have Matthew to Revelation, and all the way through, just
like those trumpets, they all gave the same sound. One trumpet
was not different to the other trumpet. They were to be equal.
in their manufacture, they were to be equal in their composition,
and they were to be equal by the priests that blew them. So
we have these two trumpets, the salvation was and is and shall
ever be through redemption through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
There is no other redemption mentioned in the Old Testament.
There's no other redemption mentioned in the New Testament. It is always
through the blood and righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ. and
we find that these were trumpets. Now, they're not a trumpet like
we would find today in a band. I think it's a band that has
trumpets, isn't it? Okay. It's not an orchestra. They didn't
have keys on them. Now, I watched a guy on YouTube. I read this and I said, I want
to find out a little more about a trumpet. Well, he played a
trumpet that had the keys on it. And then you go and listen
to the announcement of the Queen of England being brought in,
and they use those trumpets to blow fanfare and announce the
presence of royalty. And there is no keys on those.
They're just a solid piece of metal. Well, these trumpets,
the first time that this particular word is used is right here in
the book of Numbers, and it's mentioned four times in this
chapter. This is a trumpet. It's made
of silver. It's probably a cubit to a cubit and a half long, and
it had a bell on the end, and it had something on the other
end to blow into. This trumpet is used a number
of times in scripture to announce great things, and one of the
times I find in the scripture that was so important to me was
found in the book of the Psalms. Would you join me there in the
book of the Psalms? In the book of the Psalms, Psalm
98, we have this verse of scripture about the blowing of trumpets. Now here, it's symbolic of preaching
the gospel. The gospel is to be as clear
as a trumpet. The gospel is to be as loud as
a trumpet. The gospel is to be as careful
as that trumpet. The trumpeteer had some information
or some knowledge that was given to him about blowing. Now, I've
tried to blow a trumpet with the keys on it and I just get
a bad noise. Now, that man that was blowing
that trumpet showed me what his lips were like when he was not
blowing through the trumpet, and I would call it a raspberry.
But through the trumpet, it came out so melodious, he knew what
he was doing with it. Well, here in the book of the
Psalms, Psalm 98, we have a verse of scripture about the clarity,
the purity, the rejoicing that we have, Psalm 98, And there in verse one, let's
start reading with verse one. In verse one it says, a psalm.
Oh, sing unto the Lord a new song, for he hath done marvelous
things. And you know, only in regeneration
are we able to do that. It tells us there that he has
taken me out of a horrible pit and set me on a solid rock and
established my goings and put a new song in my heart. Before
the Lord saved me, my song was of works. After the Lord saved
me, my song is of grace, and how great of grace it was to
save a sinner like me. Here we have here, seeing for
he hath done marvelous things. No doubt the creation of the
heavens and earth is a marvelous thing. No doubt the creation
of all the planets and all the stars. My daughter was sharing
with me that in a couple of weeks, she wants to take her kids up
to Goldendale because there's going to be a meteor shower come
across. Well, she found out it's going
to be at midnight and she's not sure she wants her kids up till
midnight, but a marvelous sight to see those things. But the
new creation is so much more marvelous. When God in his great
grace reaches down to us in this world that we're placed in, this
fallen state that we're in, that fall of Adam is so much greater
than we ever thought it was, we find out we're enmity against
God. We're angry at him for trying
to interpose to us his purpose, his will. and yet he overcomes
that for his glory. What marvelous thing it is to
have a new creation in Christ Jesus. His right hand and his
holy arm hath gotten him the victory. The Lord hath made known
his salvation. His righteousness hath he openly
showed in the sight of the heathen. You know, somewhere since the
very beginning when man was created to this very day, somewhere in
the world, the gospel has been preached. It has been preached
in certain countries and then it is passed out and has been
brought up somewhere else. I've mentioned this as we look
at our friend, our missionary down there in Papua New Guinea
as they report the great in-gathering of people when 600 people will
come to a Bible conference. What an amazing miracle of God's
grace. Well, here it goes on to tell
us here, he has remembered his mercy and his truth toward the
house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have
seen the salvation of our God. Now notice this here, make a
joyful noise unto the Lord all the earth. Make a joyful noise
and rejoice and sing praise. Sing unto the Lord with harp.
with harp and with the voice of a psalm, with trumpets and
sounds of coronet. I believe all of those are symbolic
of preaching the gospel in such clarity, such purity, that we
don't interpose our thoughts, we don't interpose our anything
else but just preach the gospel of Christ. As that man making
a raspberry here, when that trumpet is brought to his lips, what
melodious sounds come out of it. We're just raspberries, but
the trumpet, when the preaching of the gospel happens, when the
trumpet is sounded, it is pleasant to the ears of God's people,
it's pleasant to the elect. It is pleasant to hear. It is
what sustains us in this life, is the gospel of the Lord Jesus
Christ. So he says, with trumpets and
the sound of cornet, make a joyful noise before the Lord, the King.
So that's one thing that God has revealed to his people in
this new creation, that he is absolute King. He is the King
of this world. Yes, but more than that, he's
the King of the church. He's the King of his people.
What a wonderful thing it is to read in the scriptures about
this trumpet that is used time and time again. Now, this trumpet,
if you go back with me to the book of Numbers chapter 10, if
you'll look there with me, there's some instructions given on the
making of that trumpet. There's to be two of them. They're
to be out of silver. Silver is very durable. is a precious metal. It can be used to make melodious
sounds. It gives a clear sound. And I
read online that I could buy one of these trumpets that are
to be facsimiles of the ones described in the book of Numbers
for $124.99 that are silver-plated brass. You know, in the religious world,
it's just silver-plated brass. It's all it is. In Christ, it
is pure silver. It is pure. Well, looking here,
back in the book of Numbers chapter 10, And there in verse two, it
says that the trumpets are of silver, and then it says they
are of a whole piece. Now that's an interesting phrase
that we find in scripture, but we find that this word comes
to us and is represented in several other places in scripture to
tell us what that is all about. This whole piece is to start
out with one lump of silver, hammer it, Don't melt it and
cast it, but hammer it until it is the form that it's supposed
to be. Now, the person who is able to
do this has a lot more skill than I do. To take a piece of
silver and hammer it out so that it has a piece for your mouth,
a tube, and a bell on the end, and it is out of one piece of
silver. The scriptures share with us
a number of places where this process is used in making, particularly,
pieces of furniture for the tabernacle. that this was to be, in those
cases, it was to be out of gold, but it was to be of one piece.
The person who was given the responsibility to do this was
given great insight on how to handle the metals, but it was
of one piece and this particular piece of furniture came out of
it. Would you turn with me back to the Book of Exodus where the
same word is used, one piece, only it's brought out here in
a little bit different in the Book of Exodus, In the making
of the tabernacle furniture, in the book of Exodus chapter
25, we read these words about this process. Exodus chapter
25 and in verse 18. Exodus 25 and verse 18. It says, and thou shall make
two cherubims of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them in
the two ends of the mercy seat. Now we have a box here of pretty
small size. And on top of that was the mercy
seat made out of beaten gold. And on the top of that mercy
seat were two cherubims whose wings came together. And that
is where the blood was spread on the day of atonement. Those
cherubims there were made out of beaten gold. Let's follow
this through verse 31 of that chapter. We have some more instructions
about this, and thou shall make a candlestick of pure gold, a
beaten work. Shall the candlestick be made?
His shaft, and his branches, and his bolts, and his knobs,
and his flowers shall be of the same. Then in verse 17, would
you back, excuse me, the book of Exodus chapter 37 and verse
17. Exodus chapter 37. We have some of the same process
brought out here in the book of Exodus chapter 37 verse 17.
It says, And he made the candlestick,
now this is the person that is in charge of it, he gives his
name here. He made the candlestick of pure gold of beaten work,
made he the candlestick, his shaft and his branch and his
bolts and his knops and his flowers were the same. And in verse 22
of that chapter it says their knops and their branches were
the same, all of it was one beaten work of pure gold. How this person
was able to take that lump of gold and pound it out and make
a seven-branch candlestick is beyond me, but God gave him the
wisdom to do it and that's what it was. How someone was given
the ability to take one piece of gold and beat it out into
cherubims that were placed upon the mercy seat. Or how a simpler
form, how a person was able to take a lump of silver and hammer
it out and come up with a trumpet. All of them are beyond my ability
to do, and yet that's what God requested, required, and instructed
someone to be able to do that. Now, what does all of that mean?
When we look into the scriptures, we find that it is very symbolic
of what was going to happen to the Messiah. He was not going
to be that glorious, glorious trumpet, or that lampstand, or
those cherubims without him being struck if you please by the hammer
of God's justice. He was going to be beaten. The
glory of the Lord is going to come as a result of his very
work on the cross. The scriptures teach us that
this cherubim, this candlestick, and these trumpets point us to
one who is going to be taking the beating in our stead. In the Book of Isaiah, join me
there if you would, in the Book of Isaiah Chapter 53, This book
of Isaiah chapter 53 shares so much about our Savior and is
brought up so many times in the New Testament in the preaching
of the apostles and of the Lord Jesus. Here in the book of Isaiah
chapter 53, we have so much said here of the gospel. Isaiah 53
and verse 6. Notice this with me. Isaiah 53
and verse 6. All we like sheep have gone astray.
Isaiah 53 and verse 6. All we like sheep have gone astray. We've turned everyone to his
own way. And the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all,
all the sheep. Now in some miraculous way, God
was able to impute all our sin, to lay that sin upon him. Now let's look at the results
of Jesus Christ having all the sin laid upon him. The hammer
is going to come out and is going to beat the work. We have someone
that is going to take the beating for us, just as those great craftsmen
were able to take gold and silver and pound it out into something
absolutely beautiful, a trumpet. Terebines, a candlestick out
of one lump, make it into such a form that would be used in
a tabernacle. We find that the Lord of Glory
came for one purpose, and it's brought out here in the book
of Isaiah. Would you look with me at verse 3? Back up to verse
3 for just a moment. He is despised and rejected of
men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, and we hid, as it
were, our faces from him, he is despised and esteemed not. That's our estimation, our evaluation
of the Lord of glory. Natural man's evaluation of the
Lord Jesus Christ is we don't want him. We will not have him
rule over us. And he is despised, he was rejected. We always blame the Jews for
doing that and we blame the Romans for doing that. But in essence,
it's us that despised and refused and rejected him. And then if
you'll notice with me here in verse four, surely he bore our
griefs and carried our sorrows. Yet we did esteem him stricken,
smitten of God and afflicted. He was wounded for our transgressions. What did God do to him? He wounded
him. In fact, he imposed upon him
the justice that was due every one of the elect. Every one that the father gave
the son before the foundation of the world, Jesus Christ took
upon himself their sin upon the cross and God the father was
absolutely necessarily had to impose the justice of those sins
upon his son who our sins were reputed to. All we like sheep
there. It tells us and then if you'll
notice with me in verse seven, he was oppressed, he was afflicted,
yet he opened not his mouth. You know why he didn't open his
mouth? He was the guilty one before God. Now he wasn't a sinner
and he committed no sin. But in God's eyes for that moment,
he became sin for us to the point that he could impose justice
upon him and be right in doing it. The son was willing to keep
his mouth shut and say, I am guilty for this. I will take
their guilt. I will take all their due punishment.
I will take everything that is due them upon me. He was oppressed,
he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth. He is brought
as a lamb before the slaughter, as a sheep before the shears,
is dumb he opened not his mouth. He was taken from prison and
from judgment and who shall declare his generation for he was cut
off of the land of the living for the transgression of my people
was he stricken. He was beaten upon. Then it says
here in the book of verse 10, yet it pleased the Lord to bruise
him. Now, that's who was pleased about
this. Now after our salvation, after our deliverance, we say,
thank you, Lord, for doing that. God was pleased to bruise him. Can you imagine that master craftsman
as he handed over those two trumpets to Moses to be used? This is
good work. Can you imagine the master craftsman
who pounded out those two cherubims of gold, all of the feathers,
all of the face, all of the body, all to scale everything. In the eyes of you and I, it
would look perfect. And he said, that's a good job. And the candlestick that was
going to be with the children of Israel there in the tabernacle,
how beautiful it was. And here on the cross, The church
could say how beautiful a sight because it is paying for my sin. I could not accomplish this on
my own. I'm not a master craftsman in
any sense of the imagination. God is the master craftsman when
it comes to taking care of my sin. And it says here, yet it
pleased the Lord to bruise him. And that word bruise just doesn't
mean touch a little bit. It means to crush, to be crushed. That's what God did to his own
son. He beat him. for our sin. And it says, and when thou shalt
see his soul in offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he
shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper
in his hand. And then in verse 11, he shall
see the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied. God is so
satisfied that he said for time and eternity, I'll never remember
their sin again. It's over. Payment has been made. The master craftsman. took that
pure, holy, divine Son of God and imposed upon Him the justice
due every one of us and God said, then it is finished. He was presented spotless and
without sin. Therefore, verse 12, Therefore
will I divide him a portion with the great and he shall divide
the spoil with the strong because he poured out his soul unto death. He was numbered with the transgressors. He bear the sins of many and
made intercession for the transgressors. How glorious it is to look at
the hammered work of almighty God. Now, These two trumpets
were made out of silver, out of beaten work, and let's go
back if you would to the book of Numbers chapter 10 and notice
the why. Why was this? Why were they made
to begin with? In Numbers chapter 10 there in
verse 2, once again, It says, this is the reason. These two
trumpets of silver, hammered work, made of one piece. These
are silver. There's no alloy in them. They're
pure silver. They have, speaking of the redemptive
work of the Lord Jesus Christ, no alloy to be mixed with it,
not to add any words, not to add anything to the gospel of
the Lord Jesus Christ. It tells us here in this verse
of scripture, make thee two trumpets of silver, of whole piece shalt
thou make them, that thou mayest use them for the calling of the
assembly. They were to be used to call
to assembly, to call the captains To call to move, to call to war,
to call to station, to call to worship. These things were to
be used to call the children of Israel. You know, that's what
God uses today is the gospel. He calls his people by the preaching
of the gospel. He uses no other means. He doesn't
need to. Those who want to interject other
means are saying we have a limited God that can't get the job done. Therefore, we will help him out
with these means. Well, the preaching of the gospel
is the power of God into salvation. The preaching of the God is God's
power displayed. The preaching of the gospel through
these. Now we're just, I just think of that man and his lips
and the raspberry that he created until he brought the trumpet
up there and sent that melodious sound down that tube and it came
out and it was very pleasant. We may be just raspberry bearers,
but the gospel as God has it preached through us is a clear
sound to those who do not believe. Now it is to some, it is to the
life unto life, and to others it's death unto death. But they're
never the same after they've heard the gospel of the Lord
Jesus Christ. We're never the same. We've made
up our mind. Now I'm thankful that God overcomes
our mind. I'm thankful that he comes up
against us and he makes us willing in the day of his power He creates
faith in us to trust Him, but this call goes out. You know,
there's a psalm. Would you turn with me to Psalm
89? In one of the hymns that we sang today, Isaac Watts used
this passage of scripture to share with us that hymn that
we sang, and it's in Psalm 89. There is a blessing that God
has declared here about hearing. Psalm 89 and verse 15. Psalm
89 and verse 15. Blessed is the people. Psalm
89 verse 15. There is a blessing to the people.
There's a blessing to God's people. There's a blessing that God has
for his people. He says, blessed is the people
that know the joyful sound. Now that trumpet was to be used
in other places too. We find when they entered into
the into the promised land, if there was an attack on them,
the trumpets were blown. People knew what to do. And God
said, I'll deliver you. Well, God does that every day
for us. He delivers us from ourself,
and he delivers us from the outside. No enemy can attack us and take
us down. Now, we may have afflictions
in this life, but God's people do not blame it on the devil.
They blame it not on anybody. It is God's work in us. We are
his workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works which he
hath before ordained that we should walk in them. Now most
of the afflictions that we go through, physical afflictions,
are nothing more than the incurrence of sin that Adam created into
this world and brought it onto our generation too. We're just
getting old. That's what's happening. Blessed are the people that know
the joyful sound. Can you imagine the first time
that those trumpets were sounded in the camp of Israel? The instructions
have been given. Make this. And they were made. And they handed them to the two
sons of Aaron, Eleazar and Ithamar. And he said, I want to gather
the children of Israel. And they blew the trumpets, and
here came a host of folks up to the tabernacle and listened
to Moses speak. All right? As the cloud was lifted,
blow the trumpets. And those on one side got together
all their effects and they started to march. Another trumpet blew
off. Those from another side. gathered
up all their effects and they begin to march. And then it was
with the whole household of Israel as they begin to march. God moved
his people by the cloud symbolized by the blowing of these trumpets.
You know this calling is so important to be called together What an
appropriate picture, this call. I'm going to blow the trumpet,
and we're going to have the people come. There's a call that goes
out. Well, turn with me, if you would,
over to the book of 2 Timothy. 2 Timothy. This trumpet sound
goes out. The gospel goes out. Clear gospel
sound. Not like you can buy on the internet. A brass trumpet covered with
a film of silver. The trumpet of the Lord is pure
silver, hammered silver, beautiful workmanship, and the gospel is
the same. Here in the book of 2 Timothy
1, 2 Timothy 1, we have this wonderful verse of scripture,
verse 9, 2 Timothy 1, verse 9. It says, this one, the Lord,
who has saved us and called us, Our salvation was secured in
eternity past. Our salvation was secured in
the covenant of grace. Our salvation was secured in
the blood of Christ as a lamb slain from the foundation of
the world. But it is made evident unto his people when he called
us, here it says, who has saved us and called us with a holy
calling, not according to our works, But according to his own
purpose and grace, did this call go out. Now, I don't know what
or if, maybe I should put it, are there any other people around
Israel there in the Sinaitic Peninsula? I don't know. But
I know this, when they got into the promised land, when the trumpet
blew, there were some people said, I don't know what that
is. It kind of sounds like thunder to me. But to Israel, they knew
to gather. We find that in the New Testament.
When God spoke, some thought it was thunder, and some knew
it was the word. All right, here it says, we have
saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our
works. Our works had nothing to do with it. God didn't react
to us. We react to him, but according
to his own purpose and grace. And when did his purpose start?
in His covenant of grace before the foundation of the world.
And when did His grace start? In the covenant of grace before
the foundation of the world. Now, I don't have any way to
identify time before the creation. We talk about eternity. I'm just
going to say before the foundation of the world, this all took place,
which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began.
So he gave us this calling. He gave us this grace. He gave
us his own purpose here. It was before the world began,
given in Christ before the world began, and he gave it. He saved
us and called us with a holy calling. The trumpet sound went
out. Now the first time I heard the
trumpet sound, I didn't like what it had to say. It wasn't
a glorious sound. To find out that my works were
worth nothing was not good to hear. But the sound went out. Now in time, that sound was the
most glorious sound I'd ever heard because God had taken care
of everything and I was responsible for nothing. Trust Christ and
don't move a muscle. Turn with me, if you would, again,
in 2 Peter. 2 Peter. 2 Peter, we look here
at this thought. Brother Lauren read there in
the book of Hebrews, to consider holy brethren the partakers of
the heavenly calling. We don't know how thankful we
can be to have a holy heavenly calling. It wasn't from the preacher. It wasn't from the Sunday school
teacher. It wasn't from my parents. It was a heavenly calling. God
calls his people with a heavenly calling. And they get, he gets
their attention. Over there in the book of Revelation
several times, there's the voice like a trumpet. Well, it doesn't
say it's a trumpet sound, it's a voice like a trumpet. What
does a trumpet do? It gets my attention. The trumpet
sound gets my attention. It's clear and distinct, and
that's the voice of God. Well, here in the book of 2 Peter
chapter 1 verse 10, we read this passage, Make your calling and election
sure. Now, how do we do that? Let me
ask this question. What do you think of all the
Bible? Do we pair out pieces? Do we take a pen knife and do
what the king did and start to cut out stuff that we don't agree
with? Is all the Bible viable? Is all the Bible true? Do you
believe the report? Do you believe the report about
Christ? Do you believe the report about his work on the cross?
Do you believe the report that he died for his people and them
alone? Do you believe the report about
God being holy? Well, only God can make us believe
the report and believe every bit of it. We walk away sometimes
saying, I don't understand the report completely, but God's
people will never walk away and say, I don't believe that part.
I have a dear friend. I pray that the Lord will reach
down someday and save that rascal. But when you read the scriptures
to him, he just simply says, I don't believe it. Well, you
know what that means? He's an unbeliever. You cannot
have Ephesians 2, 8, 9, and 10 without Ephesians chapter 1.
You just can't have it. You cannot have your cake. You
must have Ephesians chapter 1 along with it. God was doing this work
before we were around. Give all diligence to make your
calling and election sure. The trumpets were no doubt more
regal than the trumpeteer. You know, as fine as Ethemar
and The other son, Eliezer, looked. I'm sure they looked fine in
their uniform. But the trumpets were more regal
than the trumpeteers. That man that showed me how to
play a trumpet on YouTube, the trumpet was more regal than him.
But when he put his lips to it, and he let them vibrate like
he had learned to do, and the trumpet was played, he played
the most melodious song. I like trumpets. The sound of
the trumpet is more regal than the sound of the raspberry when
it came out the end. But from my standpoint, it would
just be a raspberry. But from the point of view of
blowing through that clear silver trumpet made of one piece, hammered
out by a clear craftsman who would be willing to go to the
cross and pay the debts of his people, That sound turns out
wonderful. It's a sound of the pure gospel
that Jesus Christ laid down his life, a ransom for many. That he would pay the sin debt
of all his people. There in the book of Romans chapter
8 verse 28. Would you turn there with me
in closing? Romans chapter 8 and verse 28. As we think about this,
these two trumpets and how they're going to be used in the lives
of those Israelites, a command, a call to come, a call to march,
a call to assemble the captains over thousands, a call to announce
war, a call to announce great Rejoicing over the sacrifice
the pictures here blow it over your sacrifices blow it over
your The day of year of jubilee was announced by a trumpet Well
here in the book of romans chapter 8 There in verse 29 28 excuse
me romans 8 28, you know, it's familiar to you, but notice this
And we know that all things work together for the good of them
that love god Now notice the rest of that. To them who are
called according to his purpose. All things, we know this, all
things work together for the good of them that love God. To
them who are the called, they've heard that wonderful sound. How glorious it is. How blessed are the people that
have heard that glorious sound, that sound of the gospel, that
rejoice in it. To most, they don't have ears
to hear. We wouldn't have either on our
own. God had to open them up. Then it goes on to say there,
to them who are called according to His purpose. He's doing it on purpose. Without
mistake. Without interference. Nobody
can interfere with the actions of an almighty God. Some people
can interfere with the actions of an almost God, but this God
will not be interfered with. He is going to perform it according
to his purpose. So just in your mind's ear, think
of those trumpets brought up to the lips of those two high
priests, or those two priests, and they called it And lo and
behold, Israel assembled at the tabernacle. That was better than
Moses calling them. The law couldn't call them to
this glory, but the gospel can. Alright, Brother Mike, if you'll
come.