and verse 21, and then chapter
28 and verse 1. And our subject today is both
morning and evening, is Aaron and his sons. Aaron and his sons. That will be our theme this morning. And as I said once again this
evening, We ask that God would bless as we open His Word. We are introduced in the last
verse of chapter 27 to Aaron and his sons. These are the men who will minister
in the tabernacle, and they will do so on behalf of the people
of Israel. And in verse 21, in the tabernacle
of the congregation, without the veil, which is before the
testimony, Aaron and his sons, they shall order it from evening
to morning, and they will do so before the Lord. It shall
be a statute forever unto their generations on the behalf of
the children of Israel. Their ministry was on the behalf
of all of Israel. Now look at the first verse,
chapter 28. And the Lord, He's speaking to
Moses. He says to Moses, to take thou
unto thee Aaron thy brother. Aaron was three years older than
Moses and his sons with him. and take them from among the
children of Israel, that he may minister unto me in the priest's
office, even Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar,
Aaron's sons." Those are the four sons of Aaron. Of course, they ultimately came
from the tribe of Levi. but God in His sovereign purpose
ordained that these very special men, made special not because
of who they were, but by the purpose of God. These five men
were to serve Israel in the ministry of the priesthood. Let's ask
for God's blessings as we go further into the message this
morning. We thank You, our Father, that
we have the Word of the Lord before us. And Lord, we're fully dependent
upon Your Spirit to enlighten us and give us an understanding
of this, Your Holy Word. Lord, we know that all of your
book speaks to us of that one who is your only begotten Son,
the Lord Jesus, our dear Savior. We ask, therefore, that the Spirit
of God would enable us to see our Redeemer, our great High
Priest, in this portion of Scripture we've read and in other portions
as well. Lord, we're so thankful that
we have access to you, and we have one who represents us to
you, even our great high priest, one who is infinitely greater
than Aaron, one who is not of the lineage of Aaron, but was
made, after the order of Melchizedek, a high priest forever. We rejoice in our Savior, and
may our thoughts and our hearts be now knit to the Savior, and
may we worship Him and adore Him as we give thanks, O Lord,
unto Thee, that You, in Your infinite wisdom and purpose of
salvation, You purposed and You ordained that we would have a
great representative who would offer unto You the sacrifice
that would fully put away our sins and bring in everlasting
righteousness. And He ever lives to make intercession
for us and He represents us even this very moment. He is our advocate. He is himself Jesus Christ, the
righteous one. We bless you, Father, as much
as we can. Forgive the sinfulness of our
worship. Lord, we're feeble, puny beings
of the dust. And we drink iniquity like water. how thankful we are that there
is forgiveness with thee that thou mayest be feared. And as we come to you this morning,
we ask that you would now take the things of the Lord Jesus
Christ and Holy Spirit, would you show them unto us. These things we ask upon the
basis of the bloody sacrifice of our Savior. and upon the fact
that he ever lives in glory. He's our living representative
and great high priest. We ask these things in his name
and for his sake. Amen. Israel was blessed of God to
have one who spoke for God, Moses. He was indeed the prophet of
God, sent to the children of Israel to convey his message
to them. But though they had a spokesman
for God in their midst, they had no spokesman for themselves
unto God. And God, up until the time of
the building of the tabernacle, before this, going all the way
back to even Adam and Eve and then to Abel, it was the head
of the household who led the family in worship as the priest. It was the head of the household
who offered to God sacrifices. It all pictured the sacrifice
of our Lord Jesus Christ. And then, of course, as time
went on and Israel wound up in Egypt and then in the bondage
of Pharaoh, Then they, out of their own afflictions, they cried
out to God, and God heard them. And God purposed that He would
deliver them from their awful dilemma. And so he redeems him
by the blood of the Passover lamb and by his own arm of power. He brings him out of Egyptian
bondage and through the Red Sea and he leads him to Mount Sinai. And there on the mount, God is
giving, as we're reading this portion of scripture this morning,
God is giving to Moses the laws pertaining to the tabernacle
and to this most necessary office of the priesthood. And he now
presents to them, presents to Moses, that Aaron and his sons
will constitute the priesthood. Aaron, of course, he's going
to be the high priest. and his four sons, they will
be the priests. There were other men, of course,
that were associated with Levi, of the tribe of Levi, and they
will be used in various capacities. And perhaps this evening, as
we have time, I'll go into the way that God would use those
men. But these men right here, Aaron,
Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. These are the men who will represent
the people unto God. They will be, as it were, mediators. They will speak to God on behalf
of the Israelites. and the other functions, the
other duties of the priesthood they would attend to as they
labor on behalf of the children of Israel before God. And really in that way, they're
all a picture of our Lord Jesus who is the only mediator between
us and God. There is only one who can represent
us to God. Now, he is most unique because
he is not only our great high priest, he is also the very prophet
of God. God told to Moses in the book
of Deuteronomy, I'll raise up a prophet like unto yourself
from among the people, and that's our Lord Jesus. He is the Word
of God. He is that prophet that God has
sent. God has not remained silent. God has spoken. And His final
word is His only begotten Son. He's the prophet of God. He gives
to us the message of God. And our Lord Jesus is also that
King. In the Old Testament, we know
there were three offices for which there had to be an anointing,
prophet, priest, and king. Our Lord Jesus is the prophet. He's anointed by God to be the
prophet. And He was anointed by God to
be the king. He is the King of kings and the
Lord of lords. But He is also our great high
priest. And this is what we want to stress
today, and this is what we're going to be dealing with. Now,
I mentioned this briefly last Lord's Day, but for the benefit
of those of you who were not here, and also to just kind of
refresh the memories of all of us, look again at verse 1. The
Lord said to Moses, Take thou under the Aaron thy brother.
Take him. This is not a volunteer. It is
not, you know, we used to, when I was at camp, And I would speak
on Friday night quite often, and I would say those of you
who want to volunteer for full-time Christian service would come
down here to the front. And of course what I noticed
was that most every year the same ones would come down. But
this is not a volunteer thing. It's just like nobody volunteers
for the ministry. This is a called-to office. And the Lord says to Moses, I
want you to take Aaron. The word is fetch. Lay halt of
him. This is like the irresistible
call of the gospel. You call upon Aaron and his sons
with him. And then here's something I want
to point out to you again. That he may minister unto me. There's such a union between
Aaron and his four sons that is such a union in the priesthood
that they're all considered to be one, one priesthood. That's indicated by the word
he, he, that he may minister unto me. And then he names five
men. But he doesn't say that they
may minister unto me in the priest's office, but that he may minister
unto me in the priest's office. And this should be understood
as speaking to us of the union of the Lord Jesus and all of
his people. You see, every believer, are
you a believer? You rest in the Lord Jesus, His
bloody death, that's your only hope. You have no other confidence
except the person and work of the Lord Jesus, His blood, His
sacrifice, His righteousness. Then you're one of the saved
ones and you're a priest yourself. You don't need to come to me
and say, Jim, would you represent me before God? Now you may ask
me if I'd pray for you and I'd be glad to do that, but you can
pray yourself. You have the opportunity to come
into the very presence of God. When the Lord Jesus died, the
veil of the temple It was ripped from the top to the bottom. And
the way into God was opened up for all of the true priesthood
of God. And we are the priesthood. Read
1 Peter chapter 2 again. We're a holy priesthood. unto
the Lord. And we can all come to Him. You
go to Him now. You should be. When Ron was leading
us in prayer, you should have been praying as well. When I
prayed a while ago, you should be praying as well because you
are a priest. Isn't that wonderful? You don't
need to go to somebody who wears a backward collar and says, he's
a priest. You go to him and, well, I want
to confess my sins to him. No, that's wrong. That's absolutely
wrong. You are a priest. You can go
to the Father through your great High Priest that is the Lord
Jesus Christ. You can come right into the presence
of God. My, what a privileged prayer
is. Our Lord Jesus, he's our great
high priest, and we are the priesthood. And we're one with him. God joined us to him before the
world ever was. In fact, Ephesians 1 says we
were chosen in him, chosen in Christ Jesus before the world
began. We're one with Him so much so
that when God looks at us, He sees us in His Son. The perfections of our Savior,
the righteousness of our Savior, the obedience of our Savior,
when God looks at us, that's what He sees. He sees His Son. So there is here a blessed union
with our Lord Jesus Christ, united to Him in old eternity. And hear the words of Solomon. Solomon said, I know that whatsoever
God doeth, He doeth it forever. Forever. Well, how long have
we been joined to our Lord Jesus? Forever. We've always been one
with Him. Nothing can be added to it, Solomon
says, or anything taken away from it. And God doeth it that
men should fear before Him. Let men fuss as much as they
want to about salvation being altogether of grace, and they
insist that man should have a part, man's will, man's work, man's
contribution. We dismiss all of that as error. We bow to the Word of God. We
believe salvation is of the Lord. And this eternal salvation is
of the Lord. And God in grace and in mercy
joined us to His Son in Christ Jesus. That's why we're safe. That's why we're very secure.
That's why this salvation that has been revealed to us in Christ
Jesus by the Spirit of God, that's the reason we will never lose
it. We're united to the Savior forever. Here's a sinner united to the
Savior. Nothing can break that bond that
God has brought about. We're His forever. And so here in Exodus chapter
28 in verse 1, we read of Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and
Ithamar. All of them together constituted
the priesthood. Now, we know that the office
of the priesthood was laboring on the behalf of Israel. Just as our Lord Jesus, He labored
on the behalf of a chosen people, that is God's true Israel. Well,
that being the case, both with national Israel and, of course,
with spiritual Israel, with Christ Jesus being the head of the church,
let's take a little bit of time to consider the duties of the
priesthood. And really, I think we can boil
them all down to they had threefold duty. Number one, they offered
sacrifices unto the Lord. You see, the offering of sacrifice
is bringing an animal and killing it and then the shedding of the
blood, the priest putting it up on the altar and moving it
about on the fire and so forth. That wasn't just a religious
ritual. That wasn't just an empty action
that had no meaning. It wasn't just according to tradition. You know, so much that's done
in religion today is, well, that's the way we've always done it. And if you watch on television,
in religious service, they'll stand, they'll kneel, they'll
pray, they'll raise their head, they'll do all of these things.
And you say, well, why do you do all those things? Well, it's
the way we've always done them. Well, this was not an empty religious
ritual that they went through. It certainly was not a random
thing that God ordained for them to do. This was vital. This was necessary. This was
important. For there was no coming unto
God. There was no coming near to the
Lord except by the shedding of blood and death. There had to
be bloodshed. There had to be death. The Lord had said to Adam, and
we read in Genesis the second chapter, in the day thou eatest
thereof, thou shalt surely die. And when Adam ate of the fruit
that God forbid him to eat, he died. He died spiritually. and
he would have died forever, except that God showed him, God illustrated
the gospel in killing innocent victims in his stead. Offering
unto himself, our God did, he offered unto himself the life
of innocence on the behalf of two lives who were guilty. That's
the only reason that they lived. The reason Adam and the woman,
whom Adam later named Eve, the only reason that they lived was
because God took the life of innocent victims in their stead. When you wanted to worship God,
therefore, if you had lived back in these days, You would go to
the door of the tabernacle. You would be met by either Nadab,
Abihu, Eleazar, or Ithamar. One of those four men is going
to meet you. Go to the door of the tabernacle and say, I want
to worship God. Well, which one of the brothers
is free? and whichever one was not working
or laboring at that point, he stepped forward. The animal was
killed, blood was shed, that animal, the carcass was put up
on the altar that already had wood up there and the hot coals
that ignited that wood and there was a roaring fire and that animal
was put up there. That was the job of the priest. You see, if you had lived in
that day, you couldn't offer to God sacrifice. God didn't choose you to offer
a sacrifice. God didn't appoint you to offer
a sacrifice. What God told you to do, if you
want to worship Me, you bring an animal for a sacrifice, but
there's another one who will offer it in your stead. And that's the way God ordained
it. Look with me over in Leviticus.
Let me show you this in the book of Leviticus. In chapter 1. Look at Leviticus chapter 1. Okay, you want to worship God.
So you bring your animal to the door of the tabernacle, that
first curtain, that first hanging, And you go, you pull it back,
or you go under it ever how they went through. And you say, where
is the priest that called one of the four sons of Aaron? What
can I help you with? I want to worship God. I'm such
a sinful man. My family is sinners. We know
we deserve to die. But we believe what God has said. That upon the basis of the innocent
dying for the guilty, He'll receive us and that this is a picture
of the death of His only begotten Son. Who will come into the world
at some point in the future. Don't know when. But I believe
Him. We're looking to Him. And we
bring this animal. as a testimony that we believe
the Gospel of God's substituting grace. Look here in Leviticus. Look
at chapter 1. Alright, here comes a worshiper. In verse 4, he puts his hand
on the head of the burnt offering. I should be the one dying here. And God says, it shall be accepted
for him instead of him. That's what it means. Instead
of him. To make atonement for him. To make reconciliation for
him. And he shall kill the bullock.
If he's a wealthy man, he brings a bullock. He shall kill the
bullock before the Lord and the priests. Well, who are they? Well, we're not left in doubt.
Aaron's sons. It's very specific. And the priests, Aaron's sons,
they shall sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar that
is by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. He shall
flay the burnt offering. He'll cut it in pieces. The sons
of Aaron, the priests, shall put fire on the altar, lay the
wood in order upon the fire, and the priest, Aaron's sons,
they shall lay the different parts, the head, the fat in order
upon the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar,
but his inwards and his legs shall be washed in water. The
priest shall burn all on the altar to be a burnt sacrifice,
an offering made by fire of a sweet savor unto the Lord. That's the first duty of a priest,
is to offer a sacrifice. You go drop down again, look
at verse 13. Let's say if you bring one of
the sheep or a lamb or a goat. Verse 13. Once again, of course,
it's to be killed. The priest cuts it in pieces. He washes the inwards and the
legs with water. The priest shall bring it all
and burn it upon the altar. There's the job of the priest.
It's a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire of a sweet savor
unto the Lord. You can't offer the sacrifice
to God. You can't be involved in that
part of it. because the priesthood itself
is designated as those men who will represent the guilty Israelites
in offering to God the sacrifice. And they all picture our Lord
Jesus, who wasn't guilty of any of our sins. They were imputed
to Him, charged to Him, reckoned to Him. Yes! But he himself was
the sinless one. And the offering that he offered
unto God was the offering of himself. The sacrifice of himself. You'll notice the last statement
of verse 13. Excuse me, the last statement
of verse 9 first. It's a sweet savor unto the Lord. Verse 13, the last statement
of a sweet savor unto the Lord. The last statement of verse 17,
of a sweet savor unto the Lord. And we must go to the New Testament,
to the book of Ephesians chapter 5, and we see how this relates
to our Lord Jesus. Ephesians chapter 5. Look at verse 1. Ephesians 5
and verse 1. Be ye therefore followers of
God. You know what the word followers
means? Imitators. Imitators of God. As do your
children. Walk in love. As Christ also
loved us. Now watch this. Because now,
by the gift of the inspiration of the Spirit of God, the Apostle
Paul is going to speak to us of what Christ has done for us.
Remember, this is what the priesthood did. The priesthood ministered
to God on behalf of the people. We had to have a great high priest
to minister to God on our behalf. There is no sacrifice, there
is no offering that I could possibly bring to God that would ever
put away my sins. There's another one who had to
do that, and bless His name, He did do that. Walk in love as Christ also hath
loved us and hath given Himself for us. Watch it, as an offering
and a sacrifice. Well, so I thought those pretty
much meant the same thing. The idea of an offering was,
and an offering actually didn't even have to be a blood sacrifice.
It didn't have to be a life. It could be a bread or a meal
sacrifice, or I should say a bread offering or a wine offering. The idea is, He brought willingly
to God that which God demanded. He brought Himself. Hear my father. He offered Himself to God. Watch it. A sacrifice to God. Now, a sacrifice always involved
death. Always involved death. So here
is our Lord Jesus. He is the volunteer. He is the
one who, I should say, willingly goes to the cross to present
Himself to God as sacrifice. A sacrifice. Take my life. Let these go." If you had come to the door of
the tabernacle back in those days, let's say you brought a
lamb and you killed it, and then the priest, one of them, one
of the four sons, he slits the throat, he catches the blood
in a basin, He does all of these things that are necessary and
He puts it up on the altar and He burns it all. He did that for you. That's who
He did it for. And our Lord Jesus, when He presented
Himself to God, I'm the sacrifice! Kill me, Father! Let these go. And God put Him on the altar.
And as it were, the very fire of God's wrath burned in his
soul. Not a literal fire, but the fire
of God's wrath. And the fire of God's wrath burnt
itself out in the bosom of our Savior. And he said, it is finished. He consumed all of the wrath
of God. Father, this is for you. This is for you. And I'm doing
this on the behalf of my people. My people. So the first duty of our Savior,
who offered Himself a sacrifice to God, and pay attention to
the last phrase of verse 2, for a sweet-smelling savor. What does that mean? It was pleasing
to God. What pleases God? The substitutionary death of
his son pleased God. His justice was satisfied. His
wrath poured out. All of his attributes working
together. God said, I'm pleased. I'm pleased. The duty you see of Aaron and
his four sons was to offer sacrifices, number two. The duty of Aaron,
more specifically, was to burn incense unto the Lord on the
behalf of the people every morning and evening. Now go to Exodus
chapter 30. Now let me just focus for a bit
here on Aaron. in chapter 30. It's interesting
to me that God, in giving His instructions to Moses about the
tabernacle, He first of all ordains the priesthood. Of course, He's
already spoken about the brazen altar where the sacrifices will
be offered. And having introduced Aaron,
who is the high priest, he now, in chapter 30, he introduces
the altar of incense. Because this will be a work specific
for Aaron to do. So the first few verses of Exodus
chapter 30, we have instructions pertaining to the making of the
altar of incense. And then he says, in verse 7,
and aid. And Aaron shall burn their own
sweet incense every morning." Now, what else was done every
morning? the offering of a lamb, right? There was the morning sacrifice
and the evening sacrifice, and that's important to remember.
Every morning, a lamb was sacrificed. Every evening, a lamb was sacrificed. In other words, at 9 o'clock
in the morning and 3 o'clock in the afternoon. So, on the
basis of the sacrifice being presented unto God, incense could be burned. So verse seven, again, and Aaron
shall burn their own sweet incense. Every morning when he dresses
the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it, upon the altar of incense. And when Aaron lighted the lamps
at evening, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense
before the Lord throughout your generations. Now this also was done for the
people. in the holy place at the golden
altar of incense. And the burning of the incense,
it pictured the intercessory work of our Lord Jesus, our great
high priest, who speaks unto God on our behalf. The hot coals were taken off
the brazen altar. That fire had burned up the morning
sacrifice. And he goes and he takes some
of the hot coals with his tongs, he puts them in his censer, he
goes back through the first veil into the holy place, and he goes
right to the altar of incense. He puts those hot coals on the
altar of incense, red hot, glowing. And He takes some of the sweet
incense, He sprinkles that on the hot coals. And suddenly,
there's a delightful fragrance throughout the holy place. You see, the intercessory work
of our Lord Jesus I get this, is based on the fact that he
has presented unto God the sacrifice that has put away our sins. That's
the very basis of what you might sometimes read the mediatorial
work of our Lord Jesus. That is, the work is our mediator. He speaks to God for us. You read again in John chapter
17. This is the great intercessory
prayer of our Savior. At least several portions of
it are. And the Savior says, I pray for them. I pray not for
the world. I'm not praying for everybody.
Listen, if He didn't pray for everybody, He didn't love everybody.
If He didn't love everybody, He didn't die for everybody.
Get that straight. The ones He prays for are those
whom the Father gave Him in the covenant of grace. The ones that He prays for are
those for whose sake He's going to the cross of Calvary to satisfy
justice on their behalf. Dealing with God in a way that
we could never do. He will pay the price of redemption. And upon the basis of that sweet
savor of His sacrifice to God, He intercedes for us. He prays
for us. None could intercede for us but
the Savior Himself. And the only way he could do
it was upon the basis of having died for our sins according to
the Scriptures. His intercessory work goes on
even this morning. He prays for us. Listen, I want
you to pray for me, and I pray for you. But there's somebody else I'm
far more interested in praying for me. And that's our Lord Jesus
Christ. Our Great High Priest. Because
as He said Himself to the Father, I know You always hear me. You always hear me. And whatever
He prays for this sinner is going to come to pass. There's no question
about it. If I'm smitten with some disease,
and you say, oh Lord, heal our pastor. That may not be what
my great intercessor is praying for me. He may be praying the
prayer as it is in John 17, what, 24? Father, I pray for them that
they may be with me. that they may behold My glory. When He prays that for me, I'm
going to be absent from the body and present with the Lord. He's
our intercessor. But He represents us every day.
He prays for us every day. The intercession of our Savior
is indicated by the burning of the incense upon the altar of
incense. and it's well pleasing to God
because it's based on His sacrifice upon the cross of Calvary. And
we know God approved of that because He raised Him from the
dead and exalted Him to the highest heaven. Thirdly, the work of
the priesthood offers sacrifices burned incense. Thirdly, the
duty of the priesthood was also blessing the people in the name of Jehovah and by
God's authority. And I won't take the time to
turn to this passage in Genesis chapter 14, but maybe you'll
remember after Abraham He had whipped up on those kings that
had taken Lot captive, and several of the people of Sodom, the kings,
and other kings, five kings, very wicked kings, and Abraham
got some of his men, and he just whipped those guys. He just defeated
them all. And as he comes back, a mysterious
figure meets Him. His name is Melchizedek. He meets Him. He brings to Him
bread and wine. Elements of the Lord's Supper.
Christ, the bread of life. Wine, the gospel of His grace
that makes the heart merry. And He refreshed Abraham. And
He blessed him. You read the passage of scripture
there in Genesis chapter 14. Melchizedek blessed Abraham. Because you see, Melchizedek,
he was a high priest himself. And that's a subject we'll get
into later. For time's sake, which is kind
of evaporating, go to Numbers chapter 6. And whenever we think
about the blessings of the Lord, blessings pronounced by the priesthood,
we tend to go to this portion of Scripture. And I'll give it
to you quickly. And I'll set the scene for you.
Right after the... the vow of the Nazarite had been
given. Aaron offered a sacrifice to
God, and one of the offerings that he brought was a wave offering,
or a wave sacrifice. And he waves it to the Lord. In his office as high priest,
he waves this to the Lord as indicating, Lord, this is for
You. Because ultimately, it's what
he demanded. This is for You. And upon the
basis of presenting that offering unto the Lord, he and his sons
were instructed to bless Israel. Look at verse 22. And the Lord,
chapter 6 of Numbers, verse 22. And the Lord spake unto Moses,
saying, Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, and say, On this wise ye shall
bless the children of Israel, saying unto them, The Lord, Jehovah,
bless thee and keep thee. The Lord, Jehovah, make His face
shine upon thee and be gracious unto thee. The Lord, Jehovah,
lift up His countenance upon thee and give thee peace." Three
times he uses the name Jehovah, Lord in all capitals. Perhaps
we could paraphrase it, Like this, the Lord, that is Jehovah
the Father bless thee. He has after all blessed us with
all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. And Jehovah
the Father protect you and preserve you and keep you and watch over
you. And verse 25, and the Lord Jehovah
the Son Make His face to shine upon you. We see the glory of God in the
face of Christ Jesus. Oh, be gracious to me, Son of
God. And thirdly, the Lord, Jehovah
the Spirit, lift up His countenance upon thee. May He be always present
with you. And that Comforter is. The Comforter
is always present with us. And He's the author of peace.
He gives us peace. The Spirit of God gives us the
gifts of the Spirit. Love, joy, peace. What blessings? What blessings
are ours in Christ Jesus? And then he says this in verse
27, And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel,
and I will bless them. I love that last statement. I
will bless them. Do you remember when King Balak,
he hired Balaam to curse Israel. And when Balak didn't get his
money's worth, he goes to Balaam and says, I hired you to curse
Israel. He said, I can't curse those
people that God has blessed. And I'll tell you what, all of
you who are the Lord's people, hear the words of Jehovah, Father,
Son, and Spirit, I will bless them. He has blessed us with all spiritual
blessings in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. The blessings
are still coming down upon us. And He will yet bless us with
all things in our Lord Jesus Christ. Behold, then, Aaron and
his sons, the priesthood, offer sacrifices to God. Our Lord Jesus,
our great high priest, He offered, He presented Himself willingly
to the Father, a sacrifice. Take me, Father. Let these go. Let them go. And He prays for us. He is our
Great High Priest. We've got a representative in
Heaven. There's a man at the right hand of God. Behold! He's the God-man. He's one like
us. Bone of our bone and flesh of
our flesh. And He represents us. And He
says to His people, I will bless you. and blessings come every
day. You can't be cursed. You're blessed
in Christ Jesus, our great high priest. I'll continue this theme
tonight, the Lord willing. Let's sing a closing song here. 32, number 32. And blessed be the name. And
let's stand together and we'll sing verses 1, 2, and 4. Verses
1, 2, and 4. Let's all stand and sing. 32. 1, 2, and 4. All praise to him who reigns
above, immaginacy supreme. Who gave His Son for man to die,
that He might then redeem. Blessed be the name, blessed
be the name, Blessed be the name of the Lord. Blessed be the name. Blessed be the name. Blessed be the name of the Lord. His name above all names shall
stand, exalted more and more. That God the Father's own right
hand, where angels Blessed be the name. Blessed be the name. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Blessed be the name. Blessed be the name. Blessed be the name of the Lord. His name shall be the Councilor,
the mighty Prince of Peace, the Lord's Kingdom's offer, whose
reign shall never cease. Blessed be the name, blessed
be the name, blessed be the name