The Gospel according to Numbers
chapter 5. I cannot tell you the number
of verses that we've encountered up to this point in the book
of Numbers that in years past, I passed directly over the top
of. There just didn't seem to be
much there. And yet, as we look at this book,
we find that it is so deep with the gospel of our Savior, the
Lord Jesus Christ, and the good news that Jesus saves sinners. That is such good news. that
the Lord Jesus Christ shed his precious blood to save sinners. And we have that mentioned here
in the book of Numbers chapter 5 from a pictorial or a typed
situation. We read last week the first four
verses of this fifth chapter, and we noticed that it was incumbent
upon those of Israel, they were instructed by the Holy Spirit,
by God, to Moses to share with the children of Israel that there
were three groups of people that were to be put without the camp. They were obvious people. They
were those who were lepers, an obvious situation. There were
those who had an issue, an obvious situation. And it wouldn't take
very long for the word to travel through the camp. If you happen
to have touched a dead person, somebody is going to tell somebody
else about it. And so another obvious situation. they could not stay within the
camp they must be put out of the camp and that was the instructions
of God now we may ask why would that happen and we just have
to answer that question because they were instructed by God to
do so now it does tell us in numbers chapter five there in
verse three that they defile not their camps in the midst
thereof whereof I dwell." Now, God is sharing with us some very
important information here about people that have known sin. It's apparent. They are lepers. They have an issue or they've
touched a dead person. It is an obvious thing and there
to be put out. There is no fellowship with a
holy God in that condition. Now last week we went through
the New Testament and we found out also that the Lord Jesus
Christ himself healed lepers. He touched a leper and healed
that leper and several times that happened. Sometimes he spoke,
sometimes he touched. And then we also find out that
he was able to touch or to heal a woman of an issue of blood.
And he also walked up to a young lady who had died. And you know,
there are three people that are recorded in the New Testament
that the Lord Jesus Christ raised from the dead. And every one
of those was in a condition that you and I can't deal with. They
were dead. There was no comparison that
the girl that had just died or the young man that had died an
hour, two or five hours a day before or Lazarus. There was
no saying between these that she was not quite as dead as
the other person and he was not quite as dead as Lazarus. The
condition is dead. Now, in religion, we fight that,
but when God saves us, we understand what he's talking about when
he says we're dead in trespasses and sin, we're incapable of resurrecting
ourself from the spiritual dead, and we need that outside God-sent
help. Well, the Lord raised this young
lady from the dead and touched her. So sinners are in a good
state with the Lord. sinners that are revealed by
the Lord that they're sinners. Well in the next verses of this
passage of scripture we find some other information that is
so valuable to us and we'd like to read that and that's beginning
with verse 5 and going through verse 10. The gospel according
to numbers chapter 5 beginning here with verse 5. And the Lord spake unto Moses
saying that's on his authority It's God speaking, the Lord speaking. This is Jehovah speaking. Speak
unto the children of Israel, when a man or a woman shall commit
any sin that men commit, to do a trespass against the Lord,
and that person be guilty, then they shall confess their sin
which they have done, and he shall recompense his trespass
with a principle thereof, and add unto it a fifth part thereof,
and give it unto him against whom he hath trespassed." Now
let's just put this in today's language. We are dealing with
people who have committed sin in their heart. They have premeditatedly
or they have accidentally. I was reading yesterday again
about one of the sacrifices listed in Leviticus that was for sins
you didn't even remember you had committed. They were sins
you had no capacity to think about that there is a trespass
offering for that. So when we say we have not sinned,
we have sinned by saying it. That's just the truth. Now here
we dealt with three outside very apparent situations and God said
put them without the camp. lepers, issues, and those who
have touched a dead body. Put them out the camp. Well,
what are we going to do with all, what is about all the rest
of the people that are in the camp? Lest we feel smug. Lest we feel that we're okay. Lest we feel that it's only an
outward show of sin that God is going to deal with. He comes
and talks to the children of Israel through Moses. The word
of God is brought to them by Moses and saying, lest you feel
smug, stop here because we're gonna deal with what every one
of us have committed. And that is something against
someone else. Notice this, and there's to be
a recompense paid. Now, we don't get it so much
from our translation, but there are other translations that bring
out that this time of, it says if there's a, and if the man
have no kinsmen to recompense, that means that the person that
you offended, person you did something against, has died.
They're gone. What is to be done? Let the trespass
be recompensed unto the Lord. Now there's going to be the key
to the issue because if we look back, we find out that we have
done an offense against people and we never made it right and
they're dead. Are we innocent? Of course not. We need an advocate. We need
a kinsman. We need someone to deal with
it. So let's look into this chapter, this fifth chapter, and we look
at this from the perspective that God has shown us. Now, this
crime that is mentioned in these few verses of scripture, whatever
it was, however it was applied to the individual, However, the
person that heard these words was brought to his heart, brought
to his understanding. Some people, it was just like
water on a duck's back. To other people, that struck
them to the core, these words that God had brought to them.
We just wonder, as I'm thinking about this and was praying about
this message, I doubt very seriously if there was very many people
that this applied to because they just never saw what they
did was a sin against God. Now, that's ultimately what all
of our sin is against. It's against God. Turn with me
as we think about this over to the Psalm, Psalm 51. If you would
turn with me to Psalm 51, we find that David, David committed
a heinous, well, several heinous crimes. Some people will say, how could
David even be saved? You know, we may wonder that,
but we ask God's word on it. He said he was a man after my
own heart. I loved him from eternity. I
had a covenant with him. And all that was covered under
the blood of Christ. All right, here in Psalm 51 verses
1 through 4, we have these words, when it was brought to David's
attention. He had not much concern about
it until the prophet came to him with God's word. And there
were going to be people in and among the Israelites there, camped
out in the Sinaitic desert. that they just didn't think much
about it until the Holy Spirit brought it to their understanding.
And David was one of those that God brought to his understanding
that he had committed a heinous crime. Yes, against this woman. Yes, against her husband. Yes,
against Israel. But notice here, when David understood
the crime that he had committed and the Holy Spirit brought it
to his understanding, he cries out in Psalm 51, Verses 1, 2,
3, and 4, I have mercy upon, have mercy upon me, O Lord, according
to thy lovingkindness. Now he's stretching back, as
we heard in the Bible class this morning, eternity for God's people
do not start today. Eternity starts in eternity for
God's people today. And it was carried out through
eternity. And he is stretching back, Lord, Lord, Have mercy
upon me, O Lord, according to thy lovingkindness. And he understood
that the lovingkindness of an Almighty God did not begin in
time. He began in eternity for him,
just as we find in the covenant of grace. According to the multitude
of thy tender mercies, blot out my transgressions. wash me thoroughly
from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin for I acknowledge
my transgression and my sin as ever before me against thee and
thee only. Now that's where the Holy Spirit
will lead God's people to come to. It is against God. He is the Holy God offended by
our transgressions and David was led to understand this and
God did not kill him. God did not remove him. God dealt
with him at the cross in himself as he became David's absolute
substitute for his sin. Now God's people, saved people,
boy when we start saying, you know, I would never do that.
You better write it on a calendar because it won't be long you
can go down and say I did that. And we're going to find out as
we look there in the book of Numbers, chapter 5, that there
are those three things that are very obvious. They're outside
the camp. We won't have to pay any attention
to them anymore. And the Lord swings right around
just like he did to the Pharisees and said, you have looked in
your heart. You've committed a crime in your
heart. That's where the real crime takes place. And here we
have David saying, against thee and thee only have I sinned and
done this evil in thy sight, that thou mightest be justified
when thou speakest and be clear when thou judgest. So David understood
that it was against the Lord that he had sinned. And here
we have these instructions given to the children of Israel that
are remaining in the camp and don't have those obvious briars
all over them. Those obvious things that would
have put them out of the camp, they are left in. And lest we
get smug about it, we are reminded by the God Almighty, by his spirit
and by his word, We have sinned in our heart. We have committed it in our heart.
It's our nature to do so. Against thee and thee only have
I sinned. In the book of Jeremiah, would
you turn there with me just a little further from the Psalms, in the
book of Jeremiah chapter 17 and verse 9, this is a passage of
scripture that becomes very apparent to every believer. When God saves
his people from their sins, he opens up the word to us and allows
us to see in the scriptures what it is that God saved. In the
book of Jeremiah chapter 17, we find that the real problem,
now this is the issue that he brings up to those children of
Israel that are going to bring this offering of recompense.
This one that is going to bring the offering of recompense because
of what they had done to someone else and God had brought it to
their mind and said something needs to be done about this.
Now, they couldn't take care of it by themselves. That's the
thing. Now, we are responsible for going
to an offended brother, we are responsible for going to someone
that we've committed something against, we've said something
about, that we disagreed with in a harsh manner and we find
out they were right and we were wrong. It isn't incumbent upon
us to make amends. They'll break down that partition
that is between us. It is incumbent upon us to do
that. In fact, it says, if you come and bring an offering to
the Lord, and you remember that a brother hath ought against
you, you go take care of it, and then commit, bring the offering.
We have those instructions, but when it comes to God, that's
not gonna work. It doesn't matter how many tears
we cry. It doesn't matter how many I'm
sorries. It's so interesting today, maybe
it was that way when I was a kid too, that we did something wrong
and we expect you to be just taken care of instantly, but,
oh, I'm sorry. Hit my sister as hard as I could,
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to do that. We think that way, don't
we? Well, it doesn't matter how many
sorries we have or how many tears we shed, We will never take care
of the issue that stands between us and a holy God. It is a hard
issue. Notice here in the book of Jeremiah
chapter 17 and verse 9. It says here, the heart. Jeremiah
was used to write so much Old Testament. So much about the
natural condition of man, the fall of Adam, and the implications
of that fall that's passed on to us. And the desperate need
of a savior, someone who would take care of it, a kinsman redeemer.
And that word redeemer means purchase. Doesn't mean, oh, I
absolve you, you pay enough, I absolve you. No, he had to
purchase. It tells us here, verse 9, the
heart is deceitful above all things. And I thought it was
kids. Adults. Someone else. They have the leprosy. They have
the issue. And that scoundrel touched a
dead body. Now it's just right that God
placed them outside of the camp. They deserve it. And God turns
right around to everyone else left in the camp and said, all
right, let's deal with this condition. The heart is deceitful above
all things and desperately wicked. That word desperately means incurably.
There is nothing in all of the bastions of human intelligence
or intellect that can take care of the problem. Philosophy cannot
take care of the problem. all of the things, the doo-doo
things that religion brings up cannot take care of the problem.
It's incurable. That's no wonder we find that
he is called the great physician. He is the god doctor that takes
care of the issues. Now we find one of the most interesting
things about this passage of scripture is it is directly what
Jesus Christ said to a group of Pharisees in the book of John
chapter 5. verses 44 through 47. Would you
look there with me? Lest we say this is Old Testament.
Lest we say it's not applicable any longer. Lest we say that
it's outdated, outmoded. We don't use the Old Testament.
We find here in the book of John, chapter 5, verse 44, that the
Lord Jesus Christ was talking to a group of people that looked
at the Old Testament and it was amazing as we heard read this
morning. How many of us thought when Peter was going to start
preaching he would pick out a passage of scripture from the book of
Joel? He was led of the spirit to pick out that passage from
the book of Joel and say this is what's happening right here.
Leave it alone. Don't try to make anything else
out of it. Here in the book of John chapter 5 verse 44 we have
these words. It says, how Can ye believe which
receive honor one of another, and seek not the honor that cometh
from God only? Do not think that I will accuse
you to the Father. There is one that accuseth you,
even the book of Numbers. What's it? Oh, it goes on to
say, even Moses in whom you trust. For had ye believed Moses, Ye
would have believed me, for he wrote of me. But ye believe not
his writings, how shall ye believe my words? All right, we have
this passage of scripture over here in the book of Numbers.
And this whole chapter is filled with stuff like this that needs
to be dealt with. You know, it was brought to my
attention. Sometimes I just sit and things pop into my head. And I'm thankful it still works
that way. There was a woman taken in adultery. Now, I don't know anything about
those men that caught her in that act, but the point I want
to make is when she was taken in adultery, she did not deny
the accusation. And secondly, She did not argue
with the sentence. You know what the sentence was?
Stoning to death. That is the sentence. She didn't
argue. She knew. By God's grace, she
knew what was going on here. She knew where she was. She knew where she stood. And
how did she know that? Because when it was brought to
the Lord's attention, where did they bring her to? The Lord crossed
paths with her. He dealt with her. Where are
your accusers? They've gone. Neither do I accuse
you. Why? You are a child of Abraham,
spiritually speaking. This is all brought out because
God deals with people just like this in this condition. She didn't
argue about the sin that she committed and she didn't argue
about what was going to happen as a result of it. Another thing
that we find out is the thief on the cross. You know that one
thief, We have, oh, he was always that way. He was not that way
for all the life that he lived until the last few minutes. He
was a criminal. He was a sinner before God and
he did not even care who knew about it. He was sorry he got
caught just like the other thief was. He was sorry he was on a
cross just like the other thief was. But you know when it came
down to the end, he said, we indeed justly, for we Receive
our due reward. He didn't argue with the justice
that was carried out. He didn't argue with the accusation. He didn't argue with God. He
simply said, God remember me when thou enterest into thy kingdom. God stirred him in that capacity
in the case of a wrongdoing to a neighbor. If a person defraud
his neighbor or brother, and it is looked upon as a trespass
against the Lord, that's what we have. What is to be done? What is a person, when he's awakened,
what is in his conscience, and is charged with his guilt, and
brings it to mind, the Holy Spirit brings it to mind, even though
done so long ago. You know what the Holy Spirit
convinces us of? We send an Adam. We fell in Adam. I am a sinner by nature. I'm
a sinner by practice. And I'm a sinner by choice. And
I have no excuses whatsoever about this. When it is brought
to the attention, you know what is required? Recompense. Recompense. If it is some money,
if it is some way that can be taken care of, it's supposed
to be 20% more than was defrauded. But when it comes to the Lord,
there is no way to pay. We cannot pay our way out of
the situation because it tells us, going back to the book of
Numbers there, chapter four, in Numbers chapter four, the
scriptures tell us there that this is what is to take place
if there is no one to pay recompense to. Numbers, excuse me, Numbers
chapter five. In Numbers chapter five, it says
there, Then they confess their sin which
they have done, and he will recompense his trespass with the principle
thereof, and add it unto the fifth part thereof, and give
it unto him against whom he hath trespassed. And if the man have
no kinsmen to recompense the trespassing to, let the trespass
be recompensed unto the Lord. Now that's the ultimate. There is the ultimate. The debt,
the trespasses to be recompensed to the Lord. What a grand picture
we have here of how God does his business. When our crime
is against God, all the tears. There's a man who wrote a hymn
about that. Shall my tears forever flow? Doesn't catch God's attention. Shall I say I'm sorry thousands
of times doesn't get God's attention. The recompense must be to the
Lord. The heart has committed great
crimes against God. He is the offended party and
he is not dead. Sometimes it's almost pleasant
when we find out that someone we offended has died and now
I don't have to deal with it anymore. It's over. But God has not died. And we still must stand before
him. Had a man tell me the other day,
I've heard about it, but I heard a man say it with his own mouth.
that he's glad that there's evolution because that way he will not
have to stand before God. Well, he's already committed
himself. He's going to have to stand before God. He's already
recognized him. My goodness, how foolish the
words that come out of people's mouths. I am the grandest example
of that. The only payment price for all
our crime is the atoning blood of Christ. They had to be a ram.
There's going to be a ram. Over here in the book of Numbers,
it tells us there in verse 8, let the trespass be recompensed
unto the Lord, even to the priest beside the ram of the atonement,
whereby an atonement shall be made for him. Wow. Who's that talking about? That's
talking about someone else besides us that can take care of the
problem. Now here, it's only a type and a shadow. There had
to be a substitute. The guy could not take care of
it himself. He didn't have a payment price. There's an illustration. that is made in the book of Genesis,
Genesis chapter 23. Would you turn over there with
me to Genesis chapter 23? In Genesis chapter 23, we are
brought to a place where Abraham, his wife, has died. She's 100,
I believe it tells us, 126 years of age. In Genesis chapter 23,
beginning with verse 13. Now you read the rest of this,
and I'll tell you, She's died. Verse one of that chapter 23,
Sarah was 127 years old. These were the years
of the life of Sarah. Now she has passed away. She's
Abraham's beloved wife. And now comes the issue of finding
a place to bury her. Because he just tells these folks
that I'm just a stranger and a sojourner. I don't own any
property. Well, that's what's brought out
in the book of Hebrews about Abraham. He's just a stranger
and a sojourner. That's just like every other
believer in this world. We get our bread here, we get
our milk here, we fill our tanks full of gas here, but we're just
a stranger and a sojourner passing through. And here in the book
of Genesis chapter 3 verse 13, chapter 23 verse 13, and he spake
to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land saying,
but if thou will give it, I pray thee, hear me, I will give thee
money. There is a cave of Machpelah. It's brought up here. Now it
doesn't tell us what kind of cave it is. It just tells us
there's a place to bury Sarah. I will give thee money for the
field. Take it of me, and I will bury my dead there. And Ephron
answered Abraham, saying unto him, My lord, hearken unto me.
The land is worth four hundred shekels of silver. What is that
betwixt me and thee? Bury therefore thy dead. And
Abraham hearkened unto Ephron, and Abraham weighed to Ephraim
the silver which he had named in the audience of the Son of
Heth four hundred shekels of silver." Now notice the last
phrase of that verse. Current money with the merchant. Now he couldn't pay with dinars. He couldn't pay with anything
else excepted what was money excepted by the merchant. Nancy
and I were traveling through Europe and we, and I cannot remember
the country, but they are trying to get into the European Union, EU, into the Union. And
they're having real difficulties because they're having problems
with their money. They're having problems with their economy,
which boils down to their money. So they're being held out of
the EU over that reason. Now, when we stopped there, we
picked up some of their money and we went to another country
and we tried to buy something with that money from that country. They said, no way. We'll take
dollars and we'll take euros, but we'll not take that. Well,
guess what? We brought some of it home. It
was only good in that country where it was minted. Well, the
point we want to make is there is a value that must be paid
in the, what does it say there? In the currency with the merchant. Now, what do we want to say about
that? God requires currency accepted
by him. not of works, lest any man should
boast." It must be a substitute as pictured by that ram. It must
be an innocent substitute as pictured by that ram. That ram
had done nothing amiss, but the guy who brought it had. And he
is dealing with it because the Holy Spirit has brought him to
that knowledge. I like what Joseph Hart said
in a hymn A sinner is a sacred thing. The Holy Spirit has made
him thus. People have committed sin, but
a real sinner is a gift of God. He's the one that has awakened
that very part of us to acknowledge that, and we find that when that
is made, we have been brought out of the kingdom of darkness
into the kingdom of his dear son. And we're able to acknowledge
the only way that we have made it from the kingdom of darkness
to the kingdom of his dear son is through the blood of Christ.
The ram of the atonement whereby the atonement shall be made for
him. Here is the picture. Here's the
type. Here's the shadow. An atonement shall be made. The
blood of an animal could not take away sin, yet the God-man
promised to take away sin. Turn with me if you would to
the book of Acts chapter 20. In Acts chapter 20. In Acts chapter 20 verse 28. The Apostle Paul leaves us this
great blessed verse of scripture with regard to the church and
how the church is the church. It's not a membership that we
put our name on. It's a membership that the name
has been written down in the Lamb's Book of Life from before
the foundation of the world. That's the membership role. It's
there, God equates us with it in time, that our names are written
in the Lamb's book of life. We don't grow up, we're not born
with that innate knowledge, but we are given that innate knowledge
in the new birth. And here in the book of Acts
chapter 20, and there in verse 28, the scripture says this,
take heed therefore, he's given some instructions to some elders.
He's leaving, he'll not be back. and to all the flock over which
the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church
of God." When you go to the book of Numbers, don't preach law.
Preach grace. When you go to the book of Numbers,
don't beat people with that stuff. Show them Christ, the Lamb, the
Ram, the Atonement. Now notice this last phrase,
which he hath purchased with his own blood. Now that's the
proper money of this merchant. We are redeemed with the blood
of the lamb. We are made right by the blood
of the lamb. Turn with me to the book of Hebrews
chapter nine, if you would. Hebrews chapter nine. in Hebrews
chapter 9 and the book of Hebrews is just filled with this. Sometimes
get a concordance, go to the word blood, go to the book of
Hebrews and see how many times the word blood is mentioned here
in the book of Hebrews. Some of it has to do with the
blood of bulls and goats cannot take away sin. That's what that
ram could not do. He could not make that person
right with God. but is a picture of the one who
could make that person right with God. Here in the book of
Hebrews chapter 9 verse 12, it says, ''Neither by the blood
of bulls and goats, but by his own blood, he entered in once
into the holy place.'' Now, look what he has accomplished with
it. ''Having obtained eternal redemption for us.'' That means
the price was paid and it's an eternal payment and it will never
be brought up again. Sin is paid for by Christ or
it is not paid for at all. If it's paid for by Christ, it
will not be brought up again. Now, it may be brought up in
our flesh, but God will never bring that up to us again. Who shall lay anything to the
charge of God's elect? It is God that justifies. That means we've been justified.
in the book of 1 Peter 1. Would you turn there with me?
1 Peter 1, verse 19. We've got all those folks that
we just watched go without the cab. Man, that guy, I'm glad
he's gone. And that person has had that
issue. And you know, it's been a real stench in my nostrils.
And that person, I heard that they touched a dead person. I'm
glad they're out of here, because that's just right out. And now we have everybody else. That's the obvious crimes. That's
the obvious sin. Those are the guys that are the
bank robbers. Those are the guys that are the
adulterers. Those are the guys that are just
out-and-out liars. Those are the guys so obvious.
Those are the down-and-outers. Those are those folks over there.
And then we find out that the Lord turns the light right where
we live. What's our hope? The blood of
Christ. 1 Peter chapter 1, verse 18, the redemption price. The redemption price. This is
what the merchant requires. the redemption prize for as much
as you know, you were not redeemed with corruptible things. Did
you notice what the corruptible things are? Silver and gold. We think if we have some of that,
we're okay. We're going to stand the demise
of the dollar and all the other currencies. We're not redeemed
with corruptible things as silver and gold. We could just immediately
point out people that have paid money to be forgiven of their
sins. History tells us about it, we
see it around us all the time, and we even find people that
will donate to a missionary to help take care of their sins. We're not redeemed with corruptible
things such as silver and gold, As it goes on to say, from your
vain conversation, your manner of life, received by tradition
of your fathers, your dad and mom, great-grandparents said,
it's okay, this will take care of it. The priest said it's okay,
preacher said it's okay, don't listen to him. But with the precious
blood of Christ, of a lamb without blemish and without spot, who
fairly was ordained before the foundation of the world to offer
this blood. but was manifest in these last
times for you." Revelation chapter 1, would you turn there with
me, verse 5? Revelation chapter 1, verse 5. Oh, we're all in
need of a good washing. Now this washing is when you
push down and under. Here it tells us. John wrote
of Christ, the revelation of Jesus Christ, Revelation chapter
one and verse five, and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful
witness and the first begotten of the dead and the prince of
the kings of the earth. How descriptive is that? Why,
we just can't get our mind around all of that, that means how glorious
it is. Unto him that loved us and washed
us from, or loosed us from our sins in his own blood. There is a fountain filled with
blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins." Zechariah. And then Revelation chapter 5. Revelation chapter 5 and verse
9. Would you read this with me? There were those that were taken
without the camp. They had the most obvious problems. Not to say that in the scriptures
God didn't deal with every one of those problems. But it was
a type. Put them out. They are an offense
to my holiness. And then, there were some that this message struck just
like it struck David. when the word of God was brought
to him by the prophet of God, when he said, David, thou art
the man. You know what? David melted. The Holy Spirit brought on him
the very knowledge and he confessed this, against thee and thee only
have I sinned. That's the ultimate crime against
God. And all this other is secondary.
I don't know what he did about it. I do know this, God did not
kill him. And God did not remove his name
from the Lamb's book of life. Revelation chapter 5 verse 9, And they sung a new song, saying,
Thou art worthy to take the book, And to open the seals there.
How many times do we read here in the book of Revelation about
our Lord? Over and over. The victor. The one that overcomes
all. They overcame Him by the blood
of the Lamb. Here it says, to open the seals
thereof for thou was slain. Now notice this, and has redeemed
us. To God. By thy blood. out of every kindred and tongue
and people and nation, and hath made us unto our God kings and
priests. What an elevated position he
has taken the church to. Hath made us kings and priests,
and shall reign on the earth. You know, I get to reign right
now. Reign in Christ. He's reigning, I get to reign.
Well, Restitution is made, payment is made, a new heart is given. We had nothing to do with the
payment. All of our payment was not the
right payment. It didn't fit the requirements.
We're paying with phony money, not by works of righteousness,
which we have done, but according to his mercy, he saves us by
his blood. So as we read through the book
of Numbers more and more, we're going to find out this is the
message. Christ is the message. He's the
ram. He's the recompense. He's the
priest. And all that stuff we committed,
we answer to God and God alone over that. Or Christ has already
answered to God and God alone over that.