Leviticus chapter 3. Let's continue speaking about
the peace offering this evening, Leviticus chapter 3. Now, if I could build on the
foundation that we laid this morning, you know the burnt offering,
that's the basis of the worship of Israel. They brought a sacrifice
to God, an offering. That offering was always of male,
and it was without spot and without blemish. It was offered to the
Lord to make peace with God. This offering we're considering
today, this peace offering, was offered on the basis of the burnt
offering. That is, because our Lord Jesus
has died and arose, since he answered every demand of divine
justice, we have peace with God. Oh, blissful peace between God
who was offended by our sins. Oh, blissful peace with God by
the blood of the cross of Calvary. You'll notice that even in this
peace offering, how the blood is kept before us. Leviticus
chapter 3, look at verse 2. This is the offerer, he shall
lay his hand upon the head of the offering, his offering, and
he shall kill it at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. Notice here, the one who offers
the peace offering is the one who kills it. He's the one who
kills it. Our Lord Jesus died, who killed
him? Well, I'd say first of all, God
killed him because he died by divine appointment. He died because
God ordained his death. He is the Lamb slain from before
the foundation of the world. Who killed the Lord Jesus Christ?
God the Father did that He might be just and the justifier of
all who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the first cause
of all things. Who killed the Lord Jesus? Well,
the Roman soldiers did. The Jewish people did. My sins did. I killed Him. I live by the blood, by the sacrifice
of the one who died for my sins. The offerer is the one who killed
the offering. So he lays his hand upon the
head of the offering, he kills it at the door of the tabernacle
of the congregation, and Aaron's son, the priest, they shall sprinkle
the blood upon the altar round about. The blood is always kept
in front of us. Because the life of the flesh
is in the blood. We are redeemed by the blood.
God's law has been offended. And the only thing that is going
to satisfy divine justice is the death of a suitable innocent
victim. The blood has to be shed. Go
over to the book of Colossians chapter 1. Colossians chapter
1. Let me read a few verses to you
here concerning the association of the blood with our peace.
If there is no bloodshed, then there is no peace. There is no
peace. And I'm not going to give you
any false peace today. The only peace that there is
for poor sinners is based upon the blood and the righteousness
of the Lord Jesus Christ. We're not preaching peace, peace
to people who have no peace with God. Where is this peace of God
to be found? It's only found in the substitutionary
death of our Lord Jesus. Look at Colossians chapter 1,
and I'll go all the way back to verse number 12. giving thanks
unto the Father which hath made us meet. He's made us fit. He has qualified us to be partakers
of the inheritance of the saints in light. Who is our meateness? Who is our fitness? Christ Jesus
is. And God the Father has made us
meet, fit through Christ Jesus to be a partaker of the inheritance. Verse 13, Who hath delivered
us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the
kingdom of His dear Son, in whom we have redemption through His
blood, even the forgiveness of sins. Well, who is this One in
whom we have redemption, even the forgiveness of sins through
His blood? Well, He is the image of the
invisible God. Verse 15, He is the firstborn
of every creature. For by Him were all things created
that are in heaven and that are in earth, visible and invisible,
whether they be thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created by Him
and for Him, and He is before all things, and by Him all things
consist. And He is the head of the body,
the church. who is the beginning, the firstborn
from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence.
For it pleased the Father that in him should all fullness dwell,
and having made peace through the blood of his cross, by Him
to reconcile all things unto Himself. By Him, I say, whether
they be things in earth or things in heaven. And you that were
sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works,
yet now hath He reconciled in the body of His flesh through
death to present you holy and unblameable and unreprovable
in His sight. We have peace with God through
our Lord Jesus and his substitutionary death. Go back to Romans if you
would. Romans chapter 5. Romans chapter 5. Now Romans chapter 5 begins with
the word therefore. So we need to back up and read
a few verses in chapter 4 to see what the apostle has been
speaking about. Look at verse, well let's go
to verse 23. Now it was not written for Abraham's
sake alone. that it was imputed to him, but
for us also to whom it shall be imputed, if or since we believe
on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead, who was delivered
for our offenses and was raised again for or because of our justification,
therefore being justified. Being justified. How in the world
is a sinner justified before God? Well, through the deliverance
of our Lord Jesus up to divine justice for our offenses. That's how we were justified.
We're justified by His blood. It says that later in chapter
5. We're justified, it says back
in chapter 3, by His grace. Therefore, being justified. We
are in a state of justification. This is a legal word passed down
by the judge. This is God the Father saying,
I accept and I forgive and I declare righteous all those whom my Son
has redeemed. Therefore being justified. Oh,
hallelujah, we're justified. By faith we have peace with God
through our Lord Jesus Christ. By faith we embrace the Word
of God. We believe what God says that
since Jesus Christ has been delivered for our offenses, and He has
been raised again from the dead because our justification took
place at the cross. We therefore, believing the Word
of God, know that we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus
Christ. It's settled. It is settled. Before God Almighty, the issue
has been dealt with. What's the issue? The issue is
our sin. be issued the transgressions
of all of God's people. And our Lord Jesus, by His death,
by laying down His life in the stead of His poor people, He
has redeemed us, He has reconciled us, He has justified us before
God, and we, by faith, believe the word of promise that all
is right with God. And we have peace. We have peace
through the blood of the Lord Jesus. It says in Isaiah 53,
the chastisement of our peace was upon Him, and with His stripes
we are healed. It says in Romans chapter 10
and verse 15, this very gospel that we preach is the gospel
of peace. The gospel of peace. And it comes
forth from Him who is the Prince of Peace. So we have peace with
God. Now go back to our text in Leviticus
chapter 3. So the blood, the blood is always
kept in front of us. We never lose sight of the blood.
Never lose sight of substitution. Never lose sight of satisfaction. I was talking to someone this
morning after the service and they said, if you hear Jim preach,
I promise you, you will hear him preach substitution and satisfaction. Well, I should hope so. I should
hope that anytime you hear any servant of God stand up to preach,
he will preach substitution and satisfaction. He'll preach that
Jesus Christ died in the stead of the guilty and made satisfaction
to God's offended justice. He made everything right. All
is right between us and God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Bless the name of God. All right
now, let's go back again. The burnt offering. Let me say
something about the burnt offering. When it came to the burnt offering,
the worshiper came to the door of the tabernacle, presented
his offering to the priest. The worshiper laid his hands
upon the head of the animal that he brought. Then the priest killed
the animal, flayed it, skinned it, washed the entrails, he cuts
it open, he washes the entrails, he prepared the sacrifice as
we've studied before, he puts it up on the brazen altar. And the entire animal, with the
exception of the skin, the entire animal was made an offering by
fire unto the Lord. That picture of the offering
of the soul and the body of our Lord Jesus Christ. Now, when
it comes to the burnt offering, the worshipper having brought
the animal, put his hands upon the head of the animal, he's
finished. That's all. That's all he does.
Then he is an observer. That's all he does. He's an observer. He watches. Oh, he's an interested observer. He is someone who has great concern
with what happens to the offering. But he's finished. There's nothing
for him to do. He makes no contribution. That
animal is offered as a sacrifice to God by somebody else. The work is done by somebody
else. The worshipper was an observer,
a thankful observer, an interested observer, not a casual observer,
but someone who is vitally interested in observing what was going on.
But he was only a spectator. Only a spectator. You see, in
redemption, in reconciliation, in the removal of our sins, in
the bringing in of everlasting righteousness, we are spectators. We are observers. We are not
involved at all in the removal of sin. We are not involved at
all in the bringing in of everlasting righteousness. Now, we are interested
observers, We are thrilled observers, but
we are just spectators. We don't lift a finger in this.
The work is done by our Lord Jesus all by Himself. He did the work. It was only
accomplished by Him. In no way whatsoever are sinners,
even believing sinners, In no way are we at all involved in
the removal of sin and in the satisfaction of God's justice. Nobody could do the work but
Christ Himself, and He did it by Himself. Listen to the Scripture. The book of Hebrews chapter 1
and verse 3. Who being the brightness of His
glory, and the express image of His person, and upholding
all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself
purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty
on high. Did He not say in Isaiah, I have
trodden the winepress alone? The winepress being a symbol
of the wrath of God. He did it, and He did it by Himself. You see, our salvation is conditioned
upon the work of Jesus Christ alone. That's the burnt offering. But
now in the peace offering, it's different. It's different. For in the peace offering, the
worshipper is not merely a spectator. He's not merely an observer. He is a participant. In the peace
offering, the worshipper is a participant. Now remember the peace offering
was not to make peace with God. Because we don't make any contribution
in the establishing of peace with God. Faith believes that
peace has already been established by the substitutionary death
of our Lord Jesus. And I'll tell you, peace had
to be made. Because in the fall, a fight broke out between us
and God. We went to war against God in
the fall. It was a foolish war, a stupid
war, but we went to war against God and somebody had to pay for
that rebellion. Somebody had to pay for that
defiance. for that opposition against a
holy God. Christ Jesus came into the world
and He, as our representative, rendered to the justice of God
the only thing that would appease divine vengeance, the only thing
that would satisfy offended law, that was the death of the Son
of God. By His death, peace has been restored. Faith believes
Christ Jesus. Faith believes him. A burned
offering, we make no contribution. But in the peace offering, the
worshiper rejoices and actually he has a part, he shares in the
peace offering. Remember we said this morning
the peace offering is a time of celebration. It's really a
time of merriment. And it was a time of feasting.
It was a time of eating. When we think of eating, just
the thought of eating makes me happy. I like to eat. And just judging by the looks
of most of us, we all like to eat. We enjoy just eating. You know, every Tuesday, some
of the men get together for breakfast, and you're all invited. If you
want to come to breakfast, we meet up here at 7.15. It's not
too many people want to get up that early to go to breakfast,
but we have the whole day ahead of us to work, so we meet at
7.15 and we go to breakfast, and we have a wonderful time
of fellowship. When you're talking about eating,
talking about sitting down at a meal, it's a time of rejoicing. It's a time of fellowship. Well,
in the peace offering, it was a time of rejoicing and it was
a time for feasting. A time for fellowship. So this peace offering, it has
to do with eating. It has to do with eating. And
the peace offering was divided for food. This is how simple
it is. You can remember this. The peace
offering was divided for food. And here's the way it was divided.
A third for God, a third for the worshipper, a third
for the priests. Pretty easy to remember that.
That's what our brother read to us from Leviticus chapter
3. Essentially to just boil it down,
just get it down to the lowest common denominator. It's just
this simple. A third was for God. The very
best was for God. The breast and the right shoulder
went to the priests. The other third is for the worshipper. To dine on. To eat. And let me show you this. First
of all, number one, God's portion was the best portion. The best
portion. Here in Leviticus chapter 3,
look at verse 3. He shall offer the sacrifice
of the peace offerings, an offering made by fire unto the Lord, the
fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon
the inwards, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them,
which is by the flanks, and the coal above the liver, with the
kidneys, it shall he take away." Drop down to verse, look at verse
9. And he shall offer the sacrifice
of the peace offering, an offering made by fire unto the Lord, the
fat thereof." And you'll notice that word fat. It keeps on surfacing. There's a reason for that. The
fat thereof and the whole rump It shall he take off hard by
the backbone, and the fat that covereth the inwards, and all
the fat that is upon the inwards, and the two kidneys, and the
fat that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the call
above the liver with the kidneys, it shall he take away. And the
priest shall burn it upon the altar." Watch this. It's food. It's food. Food for what? Food for the fire.
In other words, it's food for God. This is God's portion. And
you know what God gets? The best. Now in our society,
when you start talking about fat, fat free, low fat anyway. That's what's emphasized today.
But the fat in the Bible indicates the best. Eat the fat of the
land. That's what Scripture says. When
Pharaoh said to, he told Joseph this, he said, you bring your
family in, he said, you take your father and your households,
you come unto me, and I will give you the good of the land
of Egypt, and you shall eat the fat of the land. What does that
mean? The best part. The best part. The choicest part
is yours. So here's what we learn first
of all in this peace offering. That which goes to God is the
choices part. It's the best part. The best
part. You see fat represents abundance. It represents prosperity. Back in the old days if you were
skinny, well that was an indication you were poverty stricken. It
was only when your clothes were tight and you had a big belly,
you said, oh, he's prosperous. Because fat was an indication
of prosperity, that you got the best. And so in the peace offering,
the very best went to God. Christ Jesus is the very best. He's offered to God as the sacrifice
for our sins. So in the peace offering, the
choices portion, the best went to God. I know you've read in Genesis
chapter 4 many times concerning Cain and Abel, but I'll remind
you of what this says in Genesis chapter 4 and verse 4. Abel brought
of the firstling of his flock and the fat thereof. We read over those words, don't
we? The fact thereof, the best went to God. The best went to
God. So in the peace offering, the
choicest portion, the best went to the Lord. It was an offering
made to God. Notice down in verse, let me
give you a couple more verses here. Look at verse, start reading
verse 12. If his offering be a goat, he
shall offer it before the Lord. He shall lay his hand upon the
head of it, kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation.
The sons of Aaron shall sprinkle the blood thereof upon the altar
round about. He shall offer thereof his offering,
even an offering made by fire unto the Lord, the fat that covereth
the inwards. and all the fat that is upon
the inwards, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them,
which is by the flanks and the call above the liver with the
kidneys, it shall he take away, and the priest shall burn them
upon the altar." It's food. This is God's point. It's food
for God. Food for His fire. It feeds the
fire, in other words. An offering made by fire for
a sweet savor. Watch this. All the fat. All
the fat is the Lord's. Always. The Lord always gets
the best portion. That's the reason it talks about
in the Scripture. The first fruits, who do they go to? To the Lord.
He gets the best. He's worthy of your best time. Of your best talent. of your
best offerings, of your best gifts, we give the Lord the best
because He is worthy of the best. And he says in verse 17, it shall
be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your
dwellings that you eat neither fat nor blood. Watch this now. You know what
two things God demanded that would be His? The fat and the
blood. The fat and the blood. And what
was forbidden to be eaten by the Israelites was the fat and
the blood. Because that's for the Lord.
Well, what does blood signify? The life of the flesh is in the
blood. You can't have the blood, God
says. The blood is for me. The blood is always for God.
Because blood indicates substitution. Blood indicates a life has been
taken. And the life that was taken was
the life of the Lord Jesus Christ. So God says, you can't consume
the blood. The blood is for me. And the
fat is for me. That's what God says. So in the
peace offering, the first third, the fat and the blood, the best
went to the Lord. In the peace offering, one-third
went to the worshiper. Now go to chapter 7, where our
brother read to us a few moments ago. Chapter 7, look at verse
15. Chapter 7, verse 15. Now we're
talking about what's the portion for the worshiper. And the flesh
of the sacrifice, chapter 7 verse 15, and the flesh of the sacrifice
of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day that
it is offered. He shall not leave any of it
until the morning. But if the sacrifice of His offering,
His peace offering, be a vow or a voluntary offering, it shall
be eaten the same day that He offered the sacrifice, and on
the morrow also the remainder of it shall be eaten, but the
remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day is
to be burnt with fire." You know why? Because it's fall. And our
Lord ever keeps the picture, the typology correct and pure. Our Lord did not spoil. The one
we feed on was never spoiled by sin, was never corrupted by
sin. If He had been corrupted by sin,
He would be rendered un-eatable by faith from the people of God. So the Lord says, if it's more
than two days old, you can't eat it. It's spoiled. Let's continue reading. Look
at verse 18. And if any of the flesh of the
sacrifice of His peace offerings be eaten at all on the third
day, it's not going to be accepted. Forget about your offering being
accepted by God. Neither shall it be imputed to
Him that offer it. It's an abomination to God. If
that meat becomes soiled or polluted, if it becomes spoiled, old, ruined,
God says it's an abomination. It's absolutely an abomination
to think that our Lord Jesus Christ became sullied or soiled
or corrupted in any way by sin. He's the pure Son of God. And
He says the soul that eats of it bears his own iniquity. And it says in verse 19, the
flesh that toucheth any unclean thing shall not be eaten, it
shall be burnt with fire. As for the flesh, all that be
clean shall eat thereof. In other words, anybody who is
ceremonially clean can eat, you can share the food. Here's a
man who brings his peace offering to the Lord, and the Lord has
his portion. And now he gets his third, and
he goes home and he's got company. Let's say company comes over
for supper. If they're ceremonially pure,
they can eat with you. Well, how did they become ceremonially
pure? By the burnt offering. That's
how you're pure before God. By the burnt offering. And if
you're not ceremonially pure, if your sins have not been ceremonially
put away by the burnt offering, you couldn't eat of it. Whoever
had offered this peace offering, you came over for supper, and
he said, well, have you bought a burnt offering to the Lord?
Well, no. Well, I'm sorry, you can't have supper with me. Because
the basis of this peace offering is the burnt offering. And if
you haven't brought a burnt offering, you can't partake. You see, we have our fellowship
with the Lord and really our spiritual fellowship with each
other is based on the fact that we worship God the same way.
You can't have any fellowship, any spiritual fellowship with
anybody who doesn't believe salvation by substitution. It's an impossibility. And the law is, if you haven't
been ceremonially cleansed, you can't eat. Because you have no right to
think that peace has been made for you. You can't rejoice in
peace. Listen, the soul that doesn't
look to Jesus Christ for everything, they have no assurance that peace
was made for them at the cross. The only way you can know that
peace was made for you at the cross is if you had become a
partaker of the life of Jesus Christ by the power of the Spirit
of God. That's the only way you can know.
Now, if you've come to God by way of the burnt offering, let's
sit down and eat together. Let's sit down and fellowship
around Jesus Christ and Him crucified. But you had to be pure to eat. Now remember, this peace offering
was always offered on the basis of the burnt offering. Go back
to chapter 6 in verse 12. Chapter 6 in verse 12 of Leviticus. There are several places this
is found. And the fire upon the altar shall
be burning in it. It shall not be put out. The
priest shall burn wood on it every morning, lay the burnt
offering in order upon it, and he shall burn thereon the fat
of the peace offering. The peace offering is always
put upon the burnt offering. Our peace with God was made.
by the substitution or death of our Lord Jesus. And I'll tell
you, there can be no real joy, there can be no celebration of
peace with God, if the burnt offering hasn't been offered.
Unless we come to God by way of Jesus Christ and Him crucified,
we cannot celebrate the forgiveness of sins, we cannot join in the
rejoicing of peace with God through Christ. The only way you can
have any real peace in your heart is if you are a believer. Those
who believe may rest assured you are at peace with God through
the Lord Jesus Christ. So, the one who offered the peace
offering would offer his portion or would eat his portion. So,
a third to God, a third to the offerer, and then a third went
to Aaron and the other priest. Look at verse 28 of chapter 7. The Lord spake to Moses, saying,
chapter 7, verse 28, speaking to the children of Israel, saying,
He that offered the sacrifice of his peace offerings unto the
Lord shall bring his oblation unto the Lord of the sacrifice
of his peace offerings. His own hands shall bring the
offerings of the Lord made by fire, the fat with the breast,
It shall he bring, that the breast may be waved for a wave offering
before the Lord, and the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar,
but the breast shall be Aaron's and his son's. And the right
shoulder shall he give unto the priest for an heave offering
of the sacrifices of your peace offerings. He among the sons
of Aaron that offereth the blood of the peace offerings and the
fat shall have the right shoulder for his part. For the wave breast
and the heave shoulder, the breast and the right shoulder, God says,
have I taken of the children of Israel from all the sacrifices
of their peace offerings. I have given them unto Aaron
the priest and unto his sons by statute forever to the children
among the children of Israel. The breast meat, and the right
shoulder where they belonged to the priests. They ate their
portion. The breast meat being that which
is closest to the heart speaks of affection, speaks of the love
of God for his people. The right shoulder speaks of
strength, speaks of ability, speaks of power. So you get the
picture? Here it is. The peace offering
is divided. A third for the Lord, a third
for the worshipper, a third for the priesthood. Everybody ate. Everybody ate. The fire on the
altar devoured God's portion. We know that the sacrifice of
the Lord Jesus satisfied the law and justice of God. The fire,
as it were, fed on Him. It fed on Him. Just like the
meat on the altar would feed the flames of the fire on the
brazen altar, the death of our Lord Jesus satisfied God. It
satisfied God. The appetite of God's justice
was continually fed, you see, until Christ died. And that's
when the hunger of the justice of God was satisfied. And now the vengeance of God,
as far as God's people are concerned, says this, not hungry. Not hungry. Why not? Why not? That which God demanded has been
brought and He has died. God is satisfied. And you know
what? We feed on the same one who satisfied
God. You think about that. I feed
and you feed with the full and happy understanding that the
same sacrifice that refreshed the heart of God, which satisfied
His every demand, which satisfied the justice of God, the appetite
of the justice of God, that same sacrifice I feast on and satisfies
me and all of the people of God. We feast on the same sacrifice. And He satisfies us. It says
He satisfies the longing soul. He filleth the hungry soul with
goodness. The Lord gives us an appetite
to eat, to feast on the sacrifice, to feast on Christ. He is the
only one who satisfies the hungry soul. Blessed are they that hunger
and thirst after righteousness. Well, where is righteousness
to be found? In the Lord our righteousness.
And those who hunger and thirst for Him have this guarantee. They shall be filled. What satisfies the appetite of
your soul? I tell you, for the people of
God, the same one who satisfied God's appetite satisfies our
appetite. The same one. That's why I say
this is a celebration time. It's a time of feasting. You
know, here's what we've had today. We've had another meal. We had
a meal this morning. We had a meal tonight. The people
of God have come together. And you know what? We are all
feasting on the same One. That One who is bred for our
soul. We eat His flesh and we drink
His blood. He is the One who satisfied God.
And He is the only One who can satisfy us. Those of you who
have been brought to love the Lord Jesus Christ, Whenever you
happen to hear a sermon, I hope you don't ever hear any from
this pulpit, but if you happen to hear a sermon that doesn't
have Christ in it, don't you go away still hungry? Say, what
was the substance in that message? There was nothing to satisfy
my soul's appetite. But when somebody sets before
you Jesus Christ and Him crucified, you die again. You're dying again. This is a festive time. It's
a time of eating. Isaiah 25, 6 says, And in this
mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast
of fat things. A feast of wines on the lees,
the very best wine, the richest wine. Of fat things full of marrow,
full of nourishment, full of strength. Of wines on the lees,
well refined. God gives us the best. We dine
on the richest and the very choicest of foods when we dine on the
gospel. And I'll tell you, he gives us
a fitness to dine. Did you know that? Let me give
you this and I'll quit. In the parable of lost things, specifically that third section,
the father and the son. The father, he appointed a feast,
right? He appointed a feast. He says,
let's kill the calf, the fatted calf. But before he appointed
the feast, before he said bring forth the fatted calf, he said
this first, bring forth the best robe and put it on him. In other words, he's not going
to sit at my table dressed like that. He'd just come out of the
pig pen. Get that boy some new clothes.
That best robe. that best robe. Get those rags
off him. Put that best robe on him. Then
he can dine at my table. And I'll tell you what, the Lord,
when He finds us, we're dressed in self-righteous rags. We've
been in the pig pen, in the pig pen wallowing in the manure of
our works and our will and all that, our depravity. And the
Lord says, that's got to go. I'm going to robe you in the
best. I'll robe you in the righteousness of my own Son. I'm going to wash
you in His blood. I'm going to clean you up. I'll
robe you in His righteousness, and now you sit at my table,
and you eat the food that I prepare for you." It's like David said
to Mephibosheth. He said, fetch him to me. And
he said to Mephibosheth, all the days of your life, you're
going to eat at my table. And I tell you people of God,
oh listen to me. This is why I rejoice. The Lord
has washed us, He's cleaned us up, He's put on us the robe of
the righteousness of Jesus Christ. He says, you sit at my table
and I'm going to feed you. I'm going to feed you, I'm going
to feed you with the word of truth. I'm going to feed you
with my gospel. I'm going to give you an appetite
and then I'm going to satisfy your appetite. And I tell you,
when I come here, I have an appetite, don't you? I have an appetite.
I want to eat. I want to feast. And the Lord,
He never fails to feed His people. And we don't go hungry. We don't
go hungry this way. And we don't go hungry spiritually
either, because He takes care of His people. He feeds us with
the best. With the choicest that He can
give us. Well, let's sing.