We welcome you to these studies
this morning. Numbers chapter 8. Before I read
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and wednesday at seven the book of numbers chapter eight the
book of numbers chapter eight we looked last week at those
first four verses of the instructions that were given to the priest
with regard to the candlestick that those lamps that were to
be lit were to be oriented in such a way that the light would
come out the front. It was not unidirectional, it
was omnidirectional. And across the holy place where
this candlestick was, this lamp stand was, was the table of showbread. And that light showed on that
picture of the bread of life. And that's what the Holy Spirit
does now. The Holy Spirit glorifies the
work of the Son. God the Father glorifies the
work of the Son. The light is on Christ. Well, we pass down through here
to verse 5, and we have the Levites are going to be cleansed. And
I want to say this, and I'll repeat it two or three times,
ceremonially cleansed only. We may go through a cleansing
in this life, but it does not affect our soul. We don't get
it by natural cleansing. Now what happens here is a picture
and a type and a shadow of that cleansing, but don't walk away
and say those Levites were cleansed before the Lord by this. Only
the Holy Spirit can do that. Only God can do that. And that's
the one that leaves the imprint through the new birth on us.
Then we're cleansed. And it's not by our works of
righteousness, but it's by the work and ministry of Jesus Christ
because of his shed blood. Here it tells us in the Lord
speaking to Moses, verse five saying, take the Levites from
among the children of Israel and cleanse them. And thus shalt
thou do unto them to cleanse them, sprinkle water of purifying
upon them, and let them shave all their flesh, and let them
wash their clothes, and so make themselves clean. Then let them
take a young bullock with his meat offering, even fine flour
mingled with oil, and another young bullock shalt thou take
for a sin offering, and thou shalt bring the Levites before
the tabernacle of the congregation, and thou shalt gather the whole
assembly of the children of Israel together." We're going to stop
there. We'll never get that far in this section of scripture.
We'd like to spend our time on verse seven here in verse seven
after we have this the whole versus. 5 through 22 or 27 talks
about the cleansing that these Levites were to go through in
preparation for serving the priests. Now we notice first of all that
they're chosen out of all the children of Israel, and we'll
bring that point up in just a moment. But notice here in verse 7, there
are several things that were to be done. Verse 7 says, and
thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them, sprinkle water,
of purifying upon them, number two, and let them shave all their
flesh, and number three, and let them wash their clothes and
so make themselves clean." We'd like to look at probably one
or two of those items this morning that are mentioned in that verse
of scripture. The Levites could only be made ceremonially clean. What they did could not make
them acceptable to God. Only the blood of Christ can
make us acceptable to God. Now, if they or anyone else are
depending upon these religious rites to make them acceptable
before God, they are utterly mistaken. Only the blood of Christ
can make us acceptable before God. The Levites, even though
Levites and chosen by God, partake of a common corruption, the fall. All fell, all, worse than that,
all died in Adam. They are in that group as all
men are. They partake of the common corruption
of our fallen nature. They must be cleansed from this
state by nothing but the blood of Christ. And that is given
to us and caused us to know in the new birth by the regeneration. And that's what's spoken of here
by this water, the water of regeneration. I have some really good friends
that are ministers, but I've never heard them once mention
the need of the new birth. I begin to wonder sometimes.
The new birth is what Jesus Christ said you must have, and yet he
never told us how to appropriate it. Did you notice that? He never
tells us how to get it. It's of God. It's not of us. It is out of our hands. We cannot
appropriate for ourselves or anyone else. It is a ministry
of the Holy Spirit. And He does, as we read in the
third chapter of the book of John, He's like the wind. In
fact, we get the word air or wind from the word that the Greeks
used with regard to the Spirit. And the wind, and if you've lived
here in the Dalles for any time at all, you've noticed that the
wind is almost constant. The wind bloweth where it listeth.
And you can tell, can't tell where it's coming from or going
to. So is everyone that is born of the Spirit. It is a miracle
of God's free and sovereign grace. And so As we look at this, we
find that what the Levites pictured is what the Lord can only do,
and that is He is the only one that can truly make us clean.
He's the only one that can cleanse us. We can clean the outside,
but the inside is still filled with dead men's bones. Sprinkle
with clean water. Did you notice that in the book
of Numbers chapter 8 and verse 7? Thou shalt thou shalt thou
do unto them to cleanse them sprinkle water of purifying upon
them that and that means water of sin Clear, there's a necessity
that sin be taken care of. And we can't take care of it
ourselves. If you've ever tried, and I've mentioned this, and
I've tried it in religion. Every first day of the year,
I tried to say, let me get rid of this. Let me get rid of that. Never worked. Can't get it done. But the Lord is able to make
us presentable to God. Now, this subject is brought
up in the book of Ezekiel. Would you turn with me to the
book of Ezekiel chapter 36? In chapter 36 of the book of
Ezekiel, we find almost to this entire reading the things that
God does. Now, when we come to the conclusion
of this reading, we find out what we do. Read with me the
book of Ezekiel chapter 36 beginning with verse 22. Ezekiel chapter
36 beginning with verse 30 or 22 and we will read in here about
being sprinkled. Now he's using this in a symbolic
sense and not in a literal sense. Ezekiel chapter 36 verse 22 wherefore
saying unto the house of Israel thus saith the Lord God I do
not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for my holy name's
sake. Why does he save anybody? For
his holy name's sake. For his sake. It's grace. It's all grace. It's unmerited
favor from beginning to end. I don't save anybody for your
sake. I save them for my sake. for my holy namesake, which ye
have profaned among the heathen, whether you went. I was just
talking to Brother Glenn this morning. The things I used to
say in the pulpit when I was in religion, abominable things,
lies against God, lies against the word, lies, just lying about
God. And here we find you profane
me. Children of Israel, you have profaned my name among the heathen,
wherever you went. And now, and I will sanctify
my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have
profaned in the midst of them." Israel, this is you. You have
profaned my name. And so it is with every Gentile.
We have profaned his name. We have profaned the name of
God. We profaned the name of the Lord
God. We profaned the name of the Lord
Jesus Christ. We profaned the name of the Lord.
Why? Because we say in ourselves,
in our natural state, I can take care of the problem by myself.
Maybe a little assistance from your side, but I can take care
of it. We profaned the purpose, the name, and the blood of the
Lord Jesus Christ when we say that. Know that I am the Lord,
saith the Lord God, when I shall be sanctified in you before their
eyes. For now, for I will take you
from among the heathen. He's going to bring us out of
Lodibar. He's going to bring us out of a horrible pit. He's
going to find us where we are. There was a very rich man, an
Ethiopian that came up to Jerusalem to do a religious rite, and God
sent him a man who knew the gospel. He was in the worst place, rich
and a man of authority, and yet spiritually speaking, he's dead
in trespasses and sin that didn't mean a wit to God. Here, I will
take you from among the heathen and gather you out of all countries
and I will bring you to your own land. You know, when it comes
to spiritual application of this, he saves us where we are and
he brings us to the land of glory, the presence of the Lord Jesus
Christ and he may leave us exactly where we are geographically. Geographically. He may move us. but he may leave us geographically
there." So he does things spiritually. He brings us out of a terrible
place and he brings us to Christ to a new land that flows with
milk and honey. All the rich blessings that God
ever promised the church are found in Christ and they are
the churches every day. New are his blessings every day. He goes on to tell us here, then
will I sprinkle clean water upon you. Now, those Levites in being
ceremonially clean had clean water sprinkled upon them, but
it was water that signified that by nature they were sinners.
The only one that can sprinkle clean water upon us is the Holy
Spirit, and that is done when the Holy Spirit gives us the
new birth. Then we find out that it is the
blood of Jesus Christ that cleanseth us from all sin. It's not even
water. It's a picture. Clean water upon
you and ye shall be clean. Now what a promise that God gives
to his people. I will cleanse you and you will
be clean. Now we go through life and we're
still in this flesh. And sometimes we wonder about
that. But from God's point of view, every one of his children
are clean. without spot and without wrinkle.
There is no sin that they will ever answer for. They are cleansed
by the blood of Jesus Christ who took away all our sin. From all your filthiness and
from your idols, you know what? Our attractions will change when
it comes to religious things. I still may like water to drink. I still may like ice cream to
eat. But my idols have changed. I'll never forget that a man
accused Brother Henry Mahan of having Jesus Christ as his idol. You've just made Jesus an idol.
And he said, that's one of the greatest compliments you could
have ever paid me. What is an idol? It's what we worship. We'll have
new idols. We'll have a new idol. We'll
have Christ to worship. He will be the center attraction.
He will be in the middle. We'll see him. And he goes on
to say, and a new heart also will I give you. What a blessing. God has it all. He has every
bit of our need and he disposes it as he pleases upon his children
that he finds in Lodibar, terrible place. I was talking to the men
this morning in my study and I said, isn't it wonderful that
he brings us out of Lodibar and how sad it is when people go
back into Lodibar? How sad. Well, sometimes it's
just a sign to me they probably hadn't heard anything yet. Goes
on, a new heart also will I give you, the new birth, and a new
spirit will I put within you, and I will take away your stony
heart out of your flesh and will give you a heart of flesh, and
I'll put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statues,
and you shall keep my judgments and do them, and you shall dwell
in the land that I gave to your fathers, and you shall be my
people, and I will be your God. What's the land that he gave
to the fathers? Christ and Christ alone. It's
not a piece of property I want. I want Christ. I will also save
you from all your uncleanliness and I will call for the corn
and will increase it and let no famine upon you and I will
multiply the fruit of the tree. Look at the blessings we have
in Christ. He describes it in figurative
language. He describes it In verse, it's poetic, it's beautiful,
and you know, sometimes it's easier for me to learn the words
of a song with meter than it is to learn just words. And here
it is. He says, learn this. This is
in meter. This is in, learn these things that God has given to
us. The glorious blessings. No famine. Now, verse 31, we
finally got to what we do. This is what believers do. They
had no involvement in the rest of it except their recipients.
They're the glass that he fills. We're the recipients. We're not
the participants in all of that that went before. Just as we
see the picture over here of these Levites being set aside
for service to the Lord to help the priest. They went through
this ceremony. The Lord doesn't put us through
a ceremony. He saves us by his grace. He gives us life. And then he lets us know, here's
what you do. What's that? Verse 31. Then shall
you remember your own evil ways. When the Lord saved me, I went
to the church that I was pastoring and they fired me on the spot.
I said, I was a better Christian before I was saved than I am
now. And you know why I said that?
Because I was trying my dead level best to be good and didn't
know I couldn't. And after I was saved, I found
out what a horrible wretch I really am. Salvation does a lot for us. It changes us so dramatically. It changes our interest. This
is what we'll do then. Now, we find in that passage
of scripture there in verse 25, it says, Then will I sprinkle clean water
upon you. This speaks of God's great work
of salvation. This whole passage does, but
it specifically speaks of being cleansed by the blood of Christ. Turn with me, if you would, over
to the book of 1 Peter. 1 Peter 1, in verse 2, we have
reference to this cleansing that the Lord gives us. Now, I don't
know about you, have you ever butchered anything and got blood
on you? Have you ever had a wound and had blood on you? The first
thing we want to do is wash our hands, isn't it? Get rid of this
blood. Well, the Lord is speaking here
in language that causes the heart to rejoice. Here, when it comes
to spiritual things, in 1 Peter 1 and verse 2, it says, elect
according to the foreknowledge of God. Now, who is that? The
strangers that were scattered abroad in parts of the world.
They're listed in verse 1. Elect according to the foreknowledge
of God. And let me say this right now.
God did not see anybody saying that they're going to have faith,
and then he had foreknowledge on them. Foreknowledge doesn't
even mean that. Foreknowledge means that God
acted ahead of time. Foreknowledge means that God
acted on our behalf when we could not act on our behalf. He didn't
see foreseen faith. He saw foreseen unbelief, and
that's why he had foreknowledge. We're unbelievers by nature.
We're not going to have any faith towards him until he gives us
that faith. Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the
Father through sanctification of the Spirit. The Holy Spirit
sets his people apart by regeneration unto obedience and the sprinkling
of blood of Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ sprinkled
his blood, shed his blood on behalf of every one of his lost
sheep. And that's who he shed his blood
for. Grace unto you and peace be multiplied. Those that he's mentioning there
have grace and peace that is multiplied every day. It is bigger
than we ever thought it could be. Now, would you go back to
the book of Numbers chapter 8 and verse 7, there's another instruction
that was given to these Levites. And we hope to spend a little
time here. I looked at this and I said, how? That's odd. Have you ever looked at a passage
of scripture and said, that's odd. I wonder what that means.
Well, I don't know all that it means, but I hope I can share
a little bit of what this means. It tells us in the next phrase
of that passage of scripture with regards to purifying, These
Levites, and thus shalt thou do unto them to cleanse them,
sprinkle water of purifying upon them. Now notice the next phrase.
And let them shave all their flesh. You know, I'll let that roll
around for a while. What does that mean? Well, let
me share something with you. To separate these, we find first
of all, look at verse six. Back up one verse, two verses.
Take the Levites from among the children of Israel. All right,
we have some separation going on here. Do you know what? That's
what God did before the foundation of the world. He separated. Look also in verse 14. It says
here, thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children
of Israel. Again, he mentions, I am going to demonstrate by
separating the Levites from the rest of Israel. Look with me
in verse 19. I and I have given the Levites
as a gift to Aaron and to his son from among the children of
Israel. This is what I've done with them, but I've separated
them out of the children of Israel. and of the priests, and then
finally in verse 21, we didn't read that far, and the Levites
were purified, and they washed their clothes, and Aaron offered
them as an offering before the Lord, and Aaron made an atonement
for them to cleanse them. How interesting it is that in
this short reading of the book of Numbers, the Lord shares with
us four times at least in this short reading that he has an
election according to grace. I have chosen these out of Israel. I have chosen them for a purpose.
I have chosen them to be servants. I have chosen them to cleanse
them, and one part of this cleansing is to not only sprinkle them
with water, but to have their entire body shaved. Well, this
reminded me of a verse of scripture that we read about over in the
book of Leviticus some time ago. This last week, I met a gentleman
that attended with us for some time, and he says, are you still
in the book of Leviticus? I said, no, we've gone on to
numbers. He said, well, you could probably
still be spending time in Leviticus. I'm sure we could have, but we're
in numbers. But in the book of Leviticus chapter 14, would you
turn there with me? The Levites were chosen out of
Israel to serve the priests in order for them to do this. They must be made ceremonially
clean. This did nothing to the soul,
but it was the outward appearance. Part of this being made ceremonial
and clean was to shave the entire body. And in the book of Leviticus
chapter 14, we have the law of the Levi, excuse me. We have
in the book of Leviticus chapter 14, the law of the lepers. There we go. Leviticus chapter
14, the law of the lepers. Now notice with me here in Leviticus
chapter 14 and verse one. The Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
and we have that same language a number of times in the book
of Numbers. The Lord spake unto Moses saying, listen to this
please. There is a sealer right here
that we find in the book of the Psalms. Stop and think about
what is going to be said. The law of the leper. This shall
be the law of the leper. In the day of his cleansing,
he shall be brought unto the priest. The law of the leper. Now you and I have some idea
of what leprosy is. I've never seen a person who
has leprosy. I've read about it, it's something
that I really don't want physically. But did you know what? By nature,
we all are in that class. The Lord uses this as a picture
of what we are by nature, that we are truly leprous. And that's
why we have him using so often in the scriptures, this figurative
language about a leper. And we get to the New Testament,
we find that he cleansed lepers. That's his business of saving
his people, cleansing his people from their maladies, from their
spiritual maladies, and that being sin. Goes on to tell us
here, the priest shall go forth out of the camp, and the priest
shall look, and behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in
the leper. Now, where is the leper? Outside the camp. That's the
law of the leper. The leper could not be in the
camp with everybody else. The leper was on the outside
of the camp. Then shall the priest command
to take him that is to be cleansed, two birds alive, clean and water
of cedar wood and scarlet and hyssop. Now, there's so much
symbolism here. We're not going to go into that
at this time. The priest shall command that one of the birds
be killed in an earthen vessel over running water. As for the
living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet,
and the hyssop, and shall dip them, and the living bird in
the blood, and the bird that was killed over the running water.
And he shall sprinkle upon him that is cleansed from leprosy
seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the
living bird loose into the open field. And he that is to be cleansed
shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and wash himself
in water, and he shall be clean. And after that he shall come
into the camp, and shall tarry abroad out of the tent seven
days." What a ceremony goes on when the priest declares someone
clean. They too are to be washed, sprinkled, and they too shall
have all their hair shaven off of them. Well, that's an interesting
thing that we run into. Understand the blood of Jesus
Christ cleanses us from all sin, even for that which is not apparent. Oh my goodness, my eyebrows? The hair in my ears? The hair
under my arms? The hair that just doesn't appear
to have any problem with it? What God is sharing with us is
that there is a problem everywhere. There is not an atom in the universe
that was not affected by the fall. And we too. Now, I understand
correctly, and I was going to talk to a medical person before
this started, but it's my understanding that you cannot sanitize hair. That's why they shave it before
you do surgery. Is that correct? She's going,
yes. You cannot make it clean. It
has to be shaved off. Before, I've had one surgery,
and I found out that they shaved me pretty close. Take all the hair off, because
even there is the element of sin, every bit. Now, this gets
better, because over in the book of Malachi, we have a verse of
scripture that's going to take us back to the book of Genesis.
Would you read with me in the book of Malachi chapter 1? I
know that in some Bibles, this has been cut out. And so was
those passages we heard read in the book of Romans this morning.
The verses about Jacob and Esau have been cut out. Now maybe
only mentally, but I have a friend that has never read those verses
of scripture until I read them for him. God has his business
and he is going to fulfill his business. And right here in the
book of Malachi, this prophet wrote in chapter one, the very
beginning of his chapter, he wrote this, the burden of the
word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi. I have loved you, saith
the Lord. Yet ye say, wherein hast thou
loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother, saith the Lord? Yet
I love Jacob. And I hated Esau and laid his
mountain and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness."
Now we found that verse of scripture quoted by the Apostle Paul over
in the book of Romans. It wasn't quoted by the Apostle
Paul. It was given to them by the Holy Spirit to put in that
place of scripture. Now, as we think about hair,
we think about all the hair being gone, I want us to go back to
a very special place in the book of Genesis. In the book of Genesis,
chapter 25, we read there in the book of
Romans, chapter 9, before they did any good or evil. Now notice
with me here in the book of Genesis, chapter 25, as we think about
what those Levites went through and what those lepers went through
in order to be ceremonially clean. They had to be washed and they
had to shave their entire body. Here in the book of Genesis,
chapter 25, we have this passage of scripture about Jacob and
Esau. In Genesis, chapter 25, there
in verse 25, we have their birth. Notice their birth here. Genesis 25, verse 25, the first
came out red all over like, what? An hairy garment. Now that's
a description for a newborn baby. And that word red there is like
Adam. Adam means red. and the second,
notice here, and after that came his brother out, and his hand
took hold of Esau's heel, and his name was called Jacob, and
Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them. All right,
did you catch what it said about Esau? He's hairy. Now, go ahead just
a little bit into chapter 27. Genesis chapter 27 and verse
11. Now this is Jacob's commentary
about the plot that his mother is putting him up to. Do you
remember what his mother Rebecca said? You need to go in and get
the blessing. And Jacob's commentary about
his brother is found in this verse of scripture. Notice with
me in Genesis chapter 27 and verse 11. The scripture says this, and
Jacob said to his mama, to Rebecca, his mother, behold, Esau, my
brother, is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man. What's the commentary? We found
that in order to be able to stand before God Almighty, Spiritually
clean, we have to have everything that prevents us entering in
taken away to the very eyebrows, if you please. To the very hair
in your ear, if you please. Spiritually speaking, there can
be nothing of ours presented before God. We cannot go on anything
that belongs to us. We can only go on what is Christ's. We have nothing to present that
is positive, even to our hair. Now here is a man's description. He is hairy and I am smooth. Jacob have I loved, but Esau
have I hated. Esau is a hairy man. He is making
every attempt possible from birth, even before birth, to be before
God cleansed in that condition. And Jacob says, even as a supplanter,
he says, I am smooth before the Lord. I have nothing between
me and the Lord. Well, let's go over here to the
book of Genesis chapter 27 and verse 15 and follow this out
just a little bit. Only God can make good out of
a bad situation. We should never try. I've heard
people say, I'm going to do this and God will work it out for
good. Don't try it. Don't do that. It'll never happen
that way. God can make good out of bad
situations, and he made good out of bad situations with Moses,
with Noah, with all those Old Testament saints, all the way
through. He can do it. But you and I don't plan on it. All right, now he's going to
make good of a bad situation. Here's a man that is supplanting.
He's taken away his brother's birthright. He's already been
told by his mother, you're going to be the one in charge and he's
going to be following you. Jacob have I loved, but Esau
have I hated. There's only one reason in this
world that God would hate Esau, and that is there was no propitiation
for him. There is no death on the cross
for him. There is no forgiveness of sin
for him. Sin has not been put away for him. That's who God
hates, is those yet in their sin. But Jacob, even being the
rascal he is, God propitiated for him. God sent his blood for
him. God paid for him. I'll never
forget what I read one time by an old English preacher. He said,
it's not for me hard to understand how God could hate Esau. Why
didn't he hate all of us? But what if the miracle is that
he would love Jacob? That's a miracle of free and
sovereign grace, that he would love Jacob. It's easy to understand
why he would hate people, because of their sin. Okay, let's look
here now. Genesis chapter 27 and verse
15. And Rebekah took goodly raiment
of his eldest son. God's going to work good out
of this, but don't plan on doing it. Of the eldest son Esau, she,
the mama, took some clothes of the older brother, which were
with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son. Now what's that going to do? Esau is an outside man, and an
outside man that works perspires. And that clothing smells like
Esau. All right, we got to have that.
The old man is blind, but he still has a sense of smell, and
he still has a sense of feel. And this man is going to bless
you. All right, let's go on. And she put the skins of the
kids of goats upon his hands and upon the smooth of his neck.
She butchered out a goat to put on his arm and on the nap of
his neck, so when Dad felt it, she's feeling that hairy man.
He's feeling that hairy man. Remember what it was when he
was born? He grew up that way. He's a hairy man. And here we
go. And she gave the savory meat
and the bread which she had prepared in the hand of the son of Jacob.
And he came unto his father and said, my father. And he said,
here am I, who art thou, my son? And Jacob said unto his father,
I am Esau, thy firstborn. I have done according to as thou
obeyed us. Arise, I pray thee, sit and eat my venison, that
thy soul may bless thee. And Isaac said unto his son,
how is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my son? And he
said, because the Lord thy God brought it Now Esau would have
never said that. Nope. And Isaac said unto Jacob,
Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel my son, whether thou
be the very son Esau or not. And Jacob went near unto Isaac
his father, and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob's
voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau. And he discerned
him not, because his hands were hairy. You know, in many ways, this
is such a beautiful picture of our imputed sin to Christ. When God looked down upon him,
he was not looking at a sinner, but he was looking at someone
that had our sin wrapped around him. Now, Jacob did not become
Esau did not become a sinner, but he had that hair, that typical
picture of sin, wrapped around him. The Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
took our nature upon himself so that we could be accepted
to the Father. Hairy. Our nature was represented by
the Lord Jesus Christ when our sin was imputed to him. Now,
in Jesus Christ, we are shaved completely, totally. Not one
hair will stick out and betray us. Not one sin will mar our
relationship. Not one hair will be called on
by God, you're not mine because you have that one little hair
sticking out. No, all of it was completely
taken care of. So it was with those Levites
that were prepared for ceremonial service to help the priest, they
were shaved completely. Just as those lepers were demonstrated
that they had been healed, they were shaved completely. Then
we have one who is smooth going into the father and has this
hair put up on him so that his father will recognize, I am calling
on you to die for them. 2 Corinthians chapter 5 and verse
21. Would you turn there with me
before we close? 2 Corinthians chapter 5 and verse
21. What a great statement we find
in this verse of scripture about the salvation that we have in
Christ. 2 Corinthians chapter 5 and verse 21. For he hath made
him What's that? He put our hair
on him. He hath made him to be sin for
us. Now, by doing that, it didn't
change his nature. He's still the sinless savior,
imputed with our sin, who knew no sin, that we might be made
the righteousness of God in him. Oh, the work of God for his people. took care of everything, even
to the eyebrows, even to the hair on the ear. He shaved us
completely and makes us acceptable to the Father. He took care of
every sin, even those that we didn't even know of. He takes
care of them completely. And now he presents the church
spotless, without blemish, without sin. And that by his shed blood,
he took care of it all.