Would you, once again, join me
in the Book of Numbers. The Book of Numbers, chapter
4. The Book of Numbers, chapter 4. This is such an enjoyable chapter. And they get better. I've just
enjoyed so much looking into this chapter 4. This chapter
is divided into several distinct parts. In chapters 4 verses 1-14,
which is the bulk of our message this morning, we have the ministry
of Aaron and his sons in preparation for moving the tabernacle. What
they needed to go through before they could move the tabernacle.
And then we find in verses four, 15 and 17 through 20, the ministry
of the Kohathites. Yes, the Kohathites as they get
preparation to move the temple or the tabernacle. And then we
have the ministry of Eleazar, the son of Aaron there in verse
16. And then the ministry of the
Girgashites as they prepare to move. That's going to be something
we'll look at in the ministry of the Merethites as they get
prepared to move. And then the Coethites and the
Gergesites, and these are all the descendants of Levi many
years ago, the children of Levi. He had three sons and their families
are mentioned here. And then the Merethites, we have
them numbered and the total number of them. God is so careful in
his instructions to his people and he gives us no room for going
to the right hand or the left hand. It's just this way. There is one savior and there
is one salvation and there's nothing else ever been given
in all the earth to be saved except to the Lord Jesus Christ.
So today we'd like to read verses 1-15 and then 17-20 and make
some comments here. And the Lord spake unto Moses
and to Aaron, saying, and every time I read that I just stand
amazed that the Lord would one more time speak to humans, speak
to creation, to fallen men. Aaron and Moses take the sum
of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi after their
families by the houses of their fathers from 30 years old upward,
even unto 50 years old. All that enter into the host
to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation. This shall
be the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the
congregation about the most holy things, and when a camp setteth
forward, when they get ready to move, Now they're going to
move several times during the years that they're in the wilderness.
They've been camped there. They've built the tabernacle.
They have it all put together. Everything is established. And
then we find a wonderful thing happens. The Spirit of God descends
on that. Descends down on the tabernacle.
Nobody can enter into it at all. And then when God said, when
you see the cloud move or the fire move, it's time to move.
I'm moving you another step. However far it was, we don't
have that information. In fact, it doesn't tell us that
I know of how many times they moved in the 40 years that they
were in the wilderness. But they did move around quite
a bit. And when the camp set us forward,
Aaron shall come and his sons, and they shall take the covering
veil and the cover of the Ark of Testimony with it. and shall
put thereon the coverings of badger skins, and shall spread
over it a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in the staves thereof."
So when they come into the Ark of the Testimony, they cover
this Ark with badger skins. Now we're going to mention that
in just a moment. It's interesting that almost all the scholars,
and this translation mentions animals, that the Jews were not
legal to touch. So I'm not sure that it was badger
skins. There's a lot of discussion about
what it was. I'm more inclined, as I read
about this, that it was probably goat's leather that it was used. But nonetheless, and they were
to place over the top of that, it says there, they were placed
over that, cloth wholly of blue, and then put the staves thereof.
So they were carrying staves. This thing was not to be put
on a cart, it was to be carried on the shoulders of the Kohathites,
of the Levites. And upon the table of showbread,
they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes,
and the spoons, and the bowls, and the covers to cover withal,
and the continual bread shall be thereon. They shall spread
upon a cloth of scarlet and cover the same with a covering of badger
skins So when they come to the table of showbread they put it
this cloth on there blue and then they put all of the utensils
in it and the bread on it and then it says they covered it
with a covering of badger skins Excuse me a cloth of scarlet
and then badger skins and put the staves in and now it's ready
and shall take a and they shall take a cloth of
blue and cover the candlestick of the light and his lamps and
his tongs and his snuff dishes and all the oil vessels thereof
wherewith they shall minister it. And they shall put it in
all the vessels thereof within coverings of badger skins and
shall put it upon a bar. So we got more coverings going
over this. We have this color, this cloth
and badger skins are being used. And in verse 11, upon the golden
altar, they shall spread a cloth of blue and cover with a covering
of badger skins and put the staves therein. Two more coverings go
over this, and they shall take the instruments of ministry wherewith
they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a cloth of blue,
and cover them with a covering of badger skins, and shall put
them on a bar. And they shall take away the
ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth thereon, and they
shall put upon it all the vessels thereof, wherewith they minister
about it, even the censers, the flesh hooks, the shovels, and
the basins, all the vessels of the altar, and they shall spread
upon it a covering of badger skins, and put to the staves
thereof. And when Aaron and his sons have
made an end of covering the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary,
as the camp is set forward, after that, Now pay particular attention
to that. After that, then the sons of Kohath shall
come to bear it. But they shall not touch anything
holy. That's why we have these staves
going through, these wooden staves going through, covered with gold,
going through to support these objects as they carry them. These
things are the burden of the sons of Coath in the tabernacle
of the congregation. Now I asked myself as I was reading
this, and then the Bible immediately answers it if I just read on
a little bit, which we're going to do. Why must all of this covering
take place before the Kohathites come in? Why did Aaron and his
sons have to go through all this process before Kohath, the sons
of Kohath, could come in and put these things on their shoulders
and begin the march? Well let's drop down if you would.
We're going to skip verse 16 and we're going to go to verse
17. Because 16 deals with Eliezer. And the Lord spake unto Moses
and Aaron, saying, Cut ye not off the tribe of the families
of the Kohathites from among the Levites, but this do unto
them, that they may live. Now that word cut off means it
was a use among the Hebrews that if there was a covenant going
to be made, and Abraham demonstrates this covenant when he took an
animal and cut it into pieces and then walked down through
the middle of it, that's what this word comes from. There's
a covenant that God is making with the Kohathites that they
have this service to do, but they cannot come into the tabernacle
and put the coverings on because it says that they may live and
die not when they approach unto the most holy things. Aaron and
his son shall go in and appoint that every one of his service
to be his burden, but they shall not go in to see when the holy
things are covered lest they die. So prior to these coverings,
we find these guys that are going to carry this stuff. If they
went in, they were dead. Instantly. So we find that God
took care of this problem for the Kohathites by providing covering. And the covering was provided
by Aaron and his sons. The priests had to take care
of this. Now, As I look at this, I find
that there are four coverings that were mentioned in here,
and I'd like to talk just a little bit about these this morning.
These coverings and where they came from, and what they were
doing, and the colors that were used. Now, it's a mystery to
me about all of the colors that are used in the Bible. that rainbow
over the book of Revelation. How beautiful a count is given
to us and the grace of God in that. And how beautiful it is,
God's grace is given to us here in the coverings that were used
to cover up the mercy seat, the table of showbread, that candlestick,
and then the altar that was outside, how merciful it was for God to
do this so that those Kohathites, the laborers, were not going
to be killed. Well, we find, first of all,
that there's badger skins are mentioned here. There's a cloth
of blue mentioned here. There's a cloth of scarlet mentioned
here. And then there's a purple cloth mentioned in this short
reading that we've had this morning. Four different kinds of coverings
that God said must be used in order for these people to carry
these objects from one place to another. It was for the safety
of the Kohathites, and not just for the Kohathites, it was for
the safety of all Israel, that these things be covered when
they were in transit. God was overseeing the movement
of his people and protecting them from certain death. And
we will find that this is a wonderful picture of our Savior taking
care of a covering for us, or it would be certain death to
us. Well, let's look at these badger
skins. It tells us in Exodus chapter 25. Would you back up
to the book of Exodus for just a moment? Exodus chapter 25,
and we're gonna read four verses out of four different chapters
over here in the book of Exodus that have to do with these badger
skins. Now, the scholars of the Bible disagree on what this actually
is. And as I mentioned, most of them
share that the animals that are often brought up were animals
that the Jews could not deal with, could not touch. They were
not to eat of those things. They were not to participate
with those things. And yet we find that something was used
and a large quantity of something was used. This badger skin, as
it's described, covered the whole tabernacle. It reached from one
side on the ground over the top and down to the other side on
the ground. So there was a lot of some kind of skins put together
to make this covering that was used. And then we have the other
coverings that were placed over the tabernacle itself. In the
book of Exodus chapter 25, and there in verse five, we have
these words. Exodus chapter 25 and verse 5,
and ram skins dyed red, badger skins, and chitim wood. We have
the use of these items when it came to the making of this tabernacle,
and there was a large quantity of it. Now, the cloth was probably
linen, and it's dyed different colors, and we have some type
of skin that was used, leather, processed in some way, some manner. Now, we hardly in our day and
time can appreciate the work that went into the making of
leather and the making of colors in Bible times or in the Middle
Ages. We go down to the paint store
and we buy paint in a million different colors and most of
the colorant that is used is chemicals. In these days, it
was natural materials. They didn't have the chemicals
that we have today. The skins were processed and
made leather in a natural process. Now, you can go down to the library
and find the formula for making leather, and you probably don't
want to handle the materials. They're all natural. but they
made good supple leather. And then to color the different
colors, I took some painting classes when I was a senior in
high school, and my painting teacher, Mrs. Cogburn, was explaining
to me the materials that were used to make up some of these
paints, and I said, you've got to be kidding. They were natural
things, things that most of us would just throw away. Painters
found out could be turned into natural colors and be used by
painters, artists, that sort of thing. So we have the process
that went on. We don't appreciate what they
had to go through. Well, that really shares with
us some of the important things about the coverings that were
made there. Where did these colors come from? And where did this
leather come from? Well, read with me in Exodus
chapter 26 and verse 14. Exodus chapter 26 and 14, and
thou shalt make a covering for the tent of ram skin dyed red
and covering above of badger skins. We have multiple coverings
demonstrating and sharing with us many of the rich qualities
of the grace of God in Christ Jesus, that he truly is the Son
of God that came and laid down his life, a ransom for his people,
all demonstrated here. You know, the Old Testament and
the New Testament are in absolute agreement. There is no contradictions
when people persist and say that you have to be circumcised as
the Pharisees were following. Paul said that they have to be
circumcised in order to be saved. Those are unregenerate people
that saw miracles took place and didn't believe in the one
that performed them. there is no none of that mentioned
in the old testament that salvation came by any of those things but
we find jonah summed it all up which is throughout the old testament
and in the new testament salvation is of the lord that is the statement
being made all right in exodus chapter 35 and verse 7 In Exodus
chapter 35 and verse 7, we read this, ram skin dyed red and badger
skins and chenum wood. This is the materials that are
going to be used. And then once again in chapter
35 and verse 23, chapter 35 and verse 23, and every man with
whom was found blue and purple and scarlet and fine linen and
goat's hair and red skins of rams and badger skins brought
them. So we have all of this material
that these people have, they carried it out of Egypt, and
they're contributing it to the making of the tabernacle. Now,
I used to wonder, and I still wonder, where did all the wood
come from that was used in the boards? Well, I read a scholar
who said they cut it down in the peninsula there, the Sinaitic
Peninsula. It was there, and they cut it
up into wood. Well, that makes as good a sense
as anything because they didn't bring it out of Egypt. Well,
there's lots of wood used there. Well, let's look at this badger
skins. As we mentioned, the fact is,
and everybody can agree on this, we may not agree on what it was,
what animal it was, but we can agree on this, that in order
to get that skin, an animal gave its life. That we can agree on. It doesn't matter which animal,
in whatever animal gives skin, the life is taken from that animal. Let us turn over here to Exodus
29 verses 10 and verse 14. We can agree that in order to
have all of this badger skin, all of this goat skin leather,
or whatever it was, multiple critters where lives were taken
and skins were taken in order to create this leather. This
is an agreement we can make. Death ruled when these animals
gave their skin. In Exodus chapter 29, verses
10 and 14. Exodus 29, verses 10 and 14. The scripture says, and thou
shall cause the bullock to be brought. Now this is for the
consecrating of the priests. Thou shalt cause a bullock to
be brought before the tabernacle of the congregation, and Aaron
his son shall put their hands upon the head of the bullock.
Now verse 14. And it goes through, Thou shalt
kill it in verse 11. But the flesh of the bullock
and his skin. Now they did this. There are many sacrifices. They
separated the critter from its hide. My dad and my twin brother and
I did that often when we grew up on a farm. We separated the
hide from the muscle, which turned out to be the beefsteak. And
that critter was dead when we did it. Death is demonstrated
so often in the coverings of these different articles that
God prescribed to be made in an honor to worship Him. A mercy
seat that represents our Savior. We have a lampstand that represents
our Savior. We have a table of showbread
that represents our Savior. We have an altar that represents
our Savior. And in order for anybody to get
to that, there must be a death. We find that the Lord Jesus,
God Almighty, did this very thing for our first parents in the
Garden of Eden. They prescribed that their own
covering would take care of it. They covered themselves with
fig leaves. They covered themselves with man-sewn material. They may have plucked it off
of a tree. They may have found them under
a tree, but they sewed them together and made themselves a covering,
and that covering was very unacceptable with God. He would not accept
that covering. And it is the same as us bringing
before Almighty God our own righteousness and attempting to trade that
for eternal life. It will not be accepted. There
is only one covering that is accepted by God and it is demonstrated
back in the book of Genesis chapter three and verse 21. In Genesis
chapter three and verse 21, many events took place. Eve took and ate the fruit, and
I have to say this one more time, nothing happened. She ate the
fruit, but she didn't know the problem. It wasn't revealed to
her, and there was no darkness. There was no knowledge of sin.
There was nothing, but when she gave it to her husband and he
did eat, we find things took place very rapidly. In fact,
He died spiritually and she did at the same moment. He represented
his family. He represented us. He represented
everyone that will ever be born. He represented us when he took
that fruit that God said you shall not eat of, and he ate
it, and his eyes were opened, and he saw he was naked before
God, and he and his wife clothed themselves with fig leaves as
is described here. Now, when God took things in
his own hand, He is sharing with Adam and Eve that he had a purpose
and a plan far ahead of time. That he was not just knee jerking. He was not just coming to a conclusion
that I have to fix this after the fact. the fact is god was
prepared in the council halls of eternity in the covenant of
grace for what was going to take place in the garden and in genesis
chapter three we find there in verse twenty one that the lord
said behold the man has become one of us verse twenty one excuse me and
unto adam also and to His wife did the Lord make coats of skin
and clothed them. Now the same thing had to take
place here for this covering as we find over here in the covering
that those articles, the tabernacle in its greatness and all of the
articles in their greatness were going to be covered when they
moved this tabernacle and the articles in the holy place and
the holy of holy place were going to be moved. They must be covered
for protection sake. Now it's interesting that Aaron
and his sons could go in and God overlooked all of that. We
find our great high priest could do all that he needed to do.
He did not have any imperfections in him. He had no sin in him. Sin was put on him in such a
miraculous way that he became sin for us, but he did not become
a sinner. He is the holy, just one of God. And when he went into the holy
place, he didn't need a covering. He brought our covering. He became
our covering. the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
This great demonstration of God's covering as he took the skins
of animals and clothed Adam and Eve. Now, they were okay in the
eyes of God and from a physical standpoint only, they too must
have the imputed righteousness of Jesus Christ. This term of
badger skins is used seven times in the Book of Numbers, Chapter
4. Would you turn there with me
again? In the Book of Numbers, Chapter 4, we have seven times
that this particular article would be used over here, and
every time it's used, these animal skins got there by one means,
and that was some animal died. death is represented as they
wrapped up these various articles as they put the covering over
the tabernacle. Here in the book of Numbers chapter 4 and verse
6 we have these words we just read through there but I want
to emphasize this statement that is made in Numbers chapter 4
there in verse 6 the scripture says, and shall put upon the
coverings of the badger skins and spread it in over a cloth
wholly of blue, and shall put the staves therein." We've got
this leather covering with this blue, and then it tells us in
verse 8, and they shall spread upon the cloth of scarlet, and
the cover shall be the covering of badger skins, and shall put
in the staves thereof. We've got this covering one more
time, and in verse 10 of that same chapter, and they shall
put it in all the vessels thereof within the covering of badger
skins and shall put in the bars and then in verse 11 upon the
golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue and cover with
a covering of badger skins and shall put to the staves thereof
and then in verse 12 and they shall take all the instruments
of the ministry wherewith they minister in the sanctuary and
put them in a cloth of blue and cover them with a covering of
badger skins and shall put them on on a bar and verse 14 and
they shall put upon it all the vessels thereof wherewith the
minister shall above it, and the censers, and the flesh hooks,
and the shovels, and basins, and all the vessels of the altar.
And they shall spread upon it the covering of badger skins,
and put to the staves thereof." You know, as I read down through
here, I have to come to the conclusion there was a lot of animals gave
their lives for all this kind of covering, just to cover the
tabernacle. There is no animal that one skin
would cover it. Multiple animals demonstrated
that death must take place as they're working with that leather.
Something died in order for us to make this leather and someone
is sewing it all together. Something died in order for us
to have this. It's a constant reminder that
without the death of the Lord Jesus Christ, there would be
no remission of sins. There would be no payment. There
would be no atonement. There would be no propitiation.
There would be nothing. It took the death of the Lord
Jesus Christ. That is how great the problem
is in fallen man. It is so serious it takes the
Son of God's death upon the cross. Oh, by the way of death, the
skin was taken, cured, and made a covering. We find constantly
in this chapter all these wrappings, and I can't help but think they
were separate from what the covering over the top was, that they had
all of this in preparation for the covering of these items.
Now, they were not monstrous items, but it would take more
than one skin. it would take more than a dozen
in some of those to cover them up. So we have this constant
reminder the death of the Savior, the death Christ and Him crucified. The next thing that we find here
that's used for a covering is a cloth of blue. In Numbers chapter
4 and verse 6 it says, and shall put there on the covering of
the badger skins and spread it over it a cloth of holy blue
It's very interesting that in these days and times, they didn't
have the chemicals that we have. They went to natural sources
to find this. It's interesting to find out
that this color of blue came from a mussel. Did they gather it out of the
Red Sea? Probably. They had to take mussels. pull
off their shells, polarize that muscle, and this color came out
of the shells. What happened to the muscle? The Jews couldn't eat them. It was forbidden. And I am a
Jew when it comes to muscles. Some people like them. But just
think of how many of these crustaceans had to be taken, and their shells
crushed, and all of this material. And then the linen was dyed this
rich blue, which speaks of him who came from the heavenlies.
Him who was above. Him who is high, lifted up. Him who sits on a throne high
and lifted up, the Lord Jesus Christ. This word blue is used
in this passage comes from a meaning of violet. The color of violet
is obtained from a crustacean muscle. The color is brilliant. It's not just a drab blue. I'm
reminded we had a assembly one time at the high school and the
guy said he wanted to demonstrate that men and women were different.
You want to be careful because you can lose your job in saying
that today. But he said, women know 1,000 colors and guys know
eight. You go to a dance, the girls
are all in different gowns. The guys are in one color, tuxedo,
doesn't matter. A guy afterwards said, I take
exception, I know 24 colors. He says, you do? Let me hear
him. He says, I will share him with you. Light blue, blue, and
dark blue. Light brown, brown, and dark
brown. And went through the major colors. He had 24. He didn't
have mob. He didn't have all the other
things that ladies know about. Well, this brilliant blue color
and how many of these shells had to be taken to make a covering
for the tabernacle and also for the coverings for all of these
pieces that were found in the holy place and the holy of holies. all of this linen cloth taken
from its natural whiteness to make it this color so it could
be used as a covering and also reflect the glory of our Savior
the Lord Jesus Christ came from above and was not from among
us. He did not have natural origin
like we do. His mother did not have the relationship
with Joseph until after Jesus Christ was born. His father was from heaven. This
was a miracle that God provided for us that we would have a savior
that was not touched by Adam's sin. How great and gracious is
this and so this blue and then we find the next color is scarlet
there in Numbers chapter 4 and verse 8. Numbers chapter 4 and
verse 8, and they shall spread upon the cloth of scarlet. And
the cover shall be the covering of badger skins, and shall put
the staves therein." Now, there's no doubt his meaning about which
color is put on which object. That's beyond me right at the
moment. But I just want us to notice that there are multiple
colors that were used in here. And these colors did not come
from chemicals. These colors came from natural
origin. And this color that we find here,
this scarlet, is also found in a verse of scripture in the book
of Psalms 22. Would you turn with me to the
Psalm 22? In Psalm 22, we have the Lord
speaking about himself. In Psalm 22, we find a passage
of scripture that shares with us, word for word, what he was
going to say from the cross in his crucifixion. And here in
Psalm 22, and there in verse 6, it uses this word. He says,
I am a worm. Now that's the same word we find
over here in the book of Numbers for Scarlet. I am a worm and
no man. I'll reproach a man and despise
the people." Now, how do we get from scarlet color to a worm? Well, let's look at a couple
other verses of scripture, one over in the book of Isaiah chapter
1. In the book of Isaiah chapter 1, we have a description of our
sin, Isaiah chapter one, verse 18. This is talks about the,
the, the outward display of our sin in, in Isaiah chapter one,
verse 18. Isaiah chapter 1 verse 18, come
now and let us reason together, saith the Lord, though your sins
be as scarlet. That's the same word we find
in the book of Numbers. That's the same word we find
in the book of Psalms, where it uses the word worms. And did
you know it's the same word that's found over in the book of Exodus?
If you went out and you gathered too much manna, what happened
to it? it stank and was full of worms. Now, what is that telling us?
Well, as I've mentioned a couple of times already, these people
did not have the option of using chemicals to make their colors.
This particular color comes from a crimson worm, and this is the
blood that is taken from that worm that was used for dye. I
am a worm and no man. And the only way that that blood,
that scarlet color could come out to be made for dye is that
that worm had to die. That's a play on words. To get the dye, you had to die.
This worm, a toloth worm, must die, must be crushed. That blood
was taken out of it. They had a quality about this
blood that it did not coagulate when it hit air. Can you imagine
the number of larvae of worms that were required to make cloth
colored this color? And the only way that it could
happen was that worm had to die. There were multiple deaths represented
here in the coverings that were made for the tabernacle's furniture,
all representing one death, the death of our Savior, the Lord
Jesus. I am a worm and no man. What must happen to this worm
in order to purchase our redemption? He must die and his blood must
be used to make an atonement for us. This blood of this particular
one, this one that called himself a worm and no man. Well finally
in here we have in Numbers chapter 4 and verse 13. Numbers chapter
4 and verse 13 we have the final color. Numbers chapter 4 and
verse 13 is only used one time in this chapter and it has to
do with the wrapping of something very special. It tells us here, and they shall take away the
ashes from the altar. Those were constant reminders. Something serious took place
here. The ashes around the altar. They took those away. They're
not going to carry them along with them. They're going to take
them away and spread a purple cloth thereon. One more time,
we have this particular color made from a crustacean. From
the death of a mussel, this color was made, and it was used to
cover this altar. You know, as we look through
here, we find that the coverings, they required certain depth.
They demonstrated that depth was the only way for protection
of those Kohathites. As they, at the conclusion of
wrapping all of this furniture up, at the conclusion, we find
now they could come in. They could come into the holy
place, into the holy of holies, but there was nothing visible
for them to observe. The only thing they could see
was there were handles. That's all. There were handles.
They didn't get to see the mercy seat. They didn't get to see
the table of showbread. They didn't get to see the candlestick. They didn't get to see these
instruments that were used in there. They were all covered,
wrapped up, prepared ahead of time. And now they could come
in and they could grab the handles. Well, what does that share with
us? Salvation is in the hands of the Lord. All of it. Every bit of it. None of it is
ours. The only thing that God puts
on us is serving Him. Serving the Lord. Serving Him.
This is what we have. He is to be served. Dom, you
need to turn off your mic. Would you turn with me to the
book of Hebrews? Hebrews chapter 9. Hebrews chapter nine. As we look
at the wonderful work of the Lord, it tells us here the blessings
that we have in Christ Jesus. He was able to do something that
no one else has ever been able to do. He's able to put away
sin by the sacrifice of himself. The only thing that God's people
have is to serve Him. Grab the handle. Lay hold. You know what? He gives us the
strength to do that. In Hebrews chapter 9 and verse
26, the scripture shares this, for then must he often have suffered. If we're going to have a high
priest, like in the Old Testament, then we have someone that's required
to suffer many times. But he's not a high priest after
the order of Aaron, but he's a high priest after the order
of Melchizedek. so for then must he have often have suffered since
the foundation of the world but now once in the end of the world
hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself
to me that's just overpowering to put away my sin by the sacrifice
of himself." He's the one that is all the covering, he's the
only way to approach the mercy seat, he's the only one to approach
the altar, he's the only one to approach the light, he's the
only one, he's the only approach. And then we heard read this morning
there in Psalm 32 verses 1 and 2, blessed is he whose transgressions
are forgiven, whose sin is covered. We don't know the blessing like
we should. We don't know the blessing like
we will, but we know the blessing as it is to have our sin covered. And finally, if you'd turn with
me over to the book of Psalms, Psalm 85. Psalm 85. And there
in verse two, Psalm 85 in verse two. I can joyfully say, we are colored. We can say, color me covered. Color me covered. In Psalm 85
and verse 2, the scriptures share this. Psalm 85 and verse 2. The scripture says, for thou
hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered
all their sin. Thy people. In thy day, you'll
turn us, and we will be turned. In your day, we will be saved,
and we will be saved. And in your day, we'll appreciate
all the ministry that Christ performed on our behalf. For
He is the Savior of His people. Thou shalt call His name Jesus,
for He shall save His people from their sins. He shall cover
all that is required. He shall put himself, he will
put his life on the line, and he did. And now, at the resurrection,
he is sitting at the right hand of the Father, and like no other
priest ever was able to do, he gets to sit down because the
work is finished.