Good evening, let's all stand
together, we'll sing hymn number six. Hymn number six. ♪ Come thou almighty king ♪ ♪ Help
us thy name to sing ♪ ♪ Help us to grace ♪ Father all glorious
♪ O'er all victorious ♪ Come and reign over us ♪ Ancient of
days ♪ Come Thou incarnate Word ♪ Heard on Thy mighty sword ♪
Our prayer unseemed ♪ Come and thy people bless ♪ And give thy
word success ♪ Spirit of holiness ♪ On us descend ♪ Come holy comforter
♪ Thy sacred witness bear ♪ In this glad hour ♪ Thou who almighty
art ♪ Now rule in every heart ♪ And e'er from us depart ♪ Spirit
of power ♪ To the great one in three ♪ Eternal praises be Be
seated, we'll sing hymn number 222. 222. There is a fountain filled with
blood, drawn from Emmanuel's veins. And sinners plunged beneath that
flood lose all their guilt. There's all their guilty stains. The dying thief rejoiced to see
that fountain in his day. Wash all my sins away. Wash all my sins away. Wash all my sins away. There may I, though vile as he,
wash all my sins away. Dear dying lamb, thy precious
blood shall never lose its power. Be safe to sin no more. Be safe to sin no more. Be safe to sin no more. Will all the ransomed Church
of God be safe to sin no more? E'er since, by faith, I saw the
stream, thy flowing wounds sublime. ♪ Believing love has been my theme
♪ ♪ And shall be till I die ♪ ♪ And shall be till I die ♪ ♪ And
shall be till I die ♪ love has been my theme, and shall
be till I die. When this poor listening, staring
tongue lies silent in the grave, In a nobler, sweeter song, I'll
sing thy power to save. I'll sing thy power to save. I'll sing thy power to save. If you have your Bibles with you
this evening, if you would, open with me to the book of Isaiah.
Isaiah chapter 65. Isaiah 65, I am sought of them that asked
not for me. I am found of them that sought
me not. I said, behold me. Behold me
unto a nation that was not called by my name. I have spread out
my hands all the day unto a rebellious people which walketh in a way
that was not good. after their own thoughts, a people
that provoketh me to anger continually to my face, that sacrificeth
in gardens and burneth incense upon altars of brick, which remain
among the graves and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine's
flesh and broth of abominable things in their vessels, which
say, stand by thyself, come not near to me, for I am holier than
thou. These are a smoke in my nose,
a fire that burneth all the day. Behold, it is written before
me. I will not keep silence, but
will recompense, even recompense into their bosom. Your iniquities
and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the Lord, which
hath burned incense upon the mountains and blasphemed me upon
the hills. Therefore will I measure their
former work in their bosom. Thus saith the Lord, as the new
wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, destroy it not,
for a blessing is in it, so will I do for my servants' sakes,
that I may not destroy them all. And I will bring forth a seed
out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains,
and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell
there. And Sharon shall be a fold of
flocks in the valley of Acre, a place for the herds to lie
down in, for my people that have sought me. That ye are they that
forsake the Lord, and forget my holy mountain, that prepare
a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink offering unto
that number. Therefore will I number you to
the sword, and you shall all bow down to the slaughter. Because
when I called, you did not answer. When I spake, ye did not hear,
but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I
delighted not. Therefore thus saith the Lord
God, behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry.
Behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty. Behold,
my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed. Behold,
my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for
sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit. And ye
shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen, for the Lord
God shall slay thee and call his servants by another name.
That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself
in the God of truth, And he that sweareth in the earth shall swear
by the God of truth, because the former troubles are forgotten,
and because they are hid from mine eyes. For behold, I create
new heavens and a new earth, and the former shall not be remembered,
nor come into my But be ye glad and rejoice forever in that which
I create. For behold, I create Jerusalem
a rejoicing, and her people a joy. And I will rejoice in Jerusalem
and joy in my people. And the voice of weeping shall
be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying. There shall
be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath
not filled his days. For the child shall die an hundred
years old, but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be
accursed. And they shall build houses and
habit them, and they shall plant vineyards and eat the fruit of
them. They shall not build, and another inhabit. They shall not
plant, and another eat. For as the days of a tree are
the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work
of their hands, They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth
for trouble. They are the seed of the blessed
of the Lord, and their offspring with them. And it shall come
to pass that before they call, I will answer. And while they
are yet speaking, I will hear. The wolf and the lamb shall feed
together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock, and
dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy
in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord. the Lord in prayer. Our most high and heavenly Father,
Lord God Almighty, we come into your holy, perfect, righteous
presence through your blessed son, the Lord Jesus Christ, our
blessed intercessor, our blessed covenant, our blessed
promise, our blessed hope, To you, we come, Lord, to thank
you for this day, and we thank you for the service this morning,
for those who were gathered out. Lord, we thank you for all things
that you provide us. We thank you for your blessed
word, preserved through time, for those who study it and stand
before us to proclaim it, for our pastor, for other pastors
of the gospel. Thank you for these men. Thank
you for what you've enabled them to do. To stand among like sinners
and preach a holy and perfect God. A spotless lamb. Made to be sinned for a multitude of God-haters. Lord, if you leave us to ourself,
that's all we are. If you don't have mercy on us,
if you don't show us thy grace, and if you don't continually
keep us, Lord, pray that you would cause
us to be true servants of you. Cause us to do thy will. cause
us to joy in thy will and to joy in the gospel. Cause us to find our true joy
and our true peace to be you and you alone. Let us not look to things of
this world. Let us not look to things of
ourselves. Let us not look to our abilities
or our accomplishments or anything that this flesh could consider to
be a work. Lord, cause us to work to thy
praise, to thy honor and thy glory, that you would have all of it. Lord, cause us to know that we
are nothing and you are everything. Keep us down bowing at your feet,
exalting thy name. Lord, we pray for those who are
weak and weary. There's many who are sick, heavy laden. Lord, some you've sent great
trials upon. We trust that thy grace is sufficient. Lord, that you would lift them
up, be their strength and their stay until you call them home. Lord, and all things in this
world seem like chaos when I know that you are in control. It's
a great comfort to know that you hold this world in the palm
of your hand. Lord, hold us, too, and keep
us. We ask and pray, Lord, that thy
will be done for Christ's sake, as it is in heaven. Amen. Hymn number 212. 212. What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. What can make me whole again? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. Oh, precious is the flow that
makes me white as snow. No other fount I know, nothing
but the blood of Jesus. For my pardon, this I see, Nothing
but the blood of Jesus. For my cleansing, this my plea,
Nothing but the blood of Jesus. O precious is that flow that
makes me white as snow. No other fount I know, nothing
but the blood of Jesus. ♪ Nothing can force it at all
♪ Nothing but the blood of Jesus ♪ Not of good that I have done
♪ Nothing but the blood of Jesus ♪ No other fount I know ♪ Nothing
but the blood of Jesus ♪ This is all my hope and peace ♪ Nothing
but the blood of Jesus This is all my righteousness, nothing
but the blood of Jesus. O precious is the flow that makes
me white as snow. Leviticus chapter 1 Deuteronomy chapter 1. Deal with
the second offering. There's five offerings if you
remember. Sin offering, peace offering, thanks offering. Tonight
we'll deal with the burn offering. Last week we dealt with the meat
offering or the meal offering. So I'll start reading in verse
3 and read down to verse 9. If his offering be a burnt sacrifice
of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish. He shall offer
it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle
of the congregation before the Lord. and he shall put his hand
upon the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for
him to make atonement for him. And he shall kill the bullock
before the Lord, and the priest Aaron's son shall bring the blood,
sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar that is by the
door of the tabernacle of the congregation. And he shall flay
the burnt offering and cut it into pieces. And the sons of
Aaron, the priest, shall put fire upon the altar and lay the
wood in order upon the fire. And the priest, Aaron's son,
shall lay the parts in the head and the fat in order upon the
wood that is on the fire, which is upon the altar. But his inwards
and his legs shall he wash in water, and the priest shall burn
all on the altar to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by
fire of a sweet savour unto the Lord." Of all the offerings and all
the things are typical a picture of our Lord Jesus Christ, about
His life, concerning His death, CONCERNING HIS LIVING ON THIS
EARTH WHILE HE LIVED, AND BEING ON HIS THRONE IN GLORY. SO WHEN
WE SAY WE PREACH CHRIST, THAT'S NOT A RELIGIOUS CLICHÉ. IT REALLY ISN'T. NO, IT REALLY
ISN'T. THIS BLESSED BOOK IS WRITTEN
TO REVEAL HIM AND GOD'S PURPOSE IN HIM. EPHESIANS 311 SAYS THAT
GOD HAS AN ETERNAL PURPOSE IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. NOT JUST
A PURPOSE, BUT AN ETERNAL PURPOSE. Christ stood as the Lamb slain
from the foundation of the world, and since God's eternal, everything
He does, He does on the basis of eternity. But we're bound
by space and time, but bless His name, He gave us His book
so we could learn some things about our Savior, the Lord Jesus
Christ, and His death. Now, when we talk about the burnt
offering this evening, And the burnt offering, everything about
the offering was burned on the altar. There was nothing left
that was burned on the altar. Every part of the burnt offering
was offered, except the blood. They took the blood out of the
offering, but it was all burnt on the offering. And what I say
this is that God got every bit of the burnt offering. This burnt
offering wasn't for us, it was for God. The burnt offering was
for God Himself. God got ALL the offering. The
offerer who offered it didn't get anything. The offering was
for God Himself, and it's called a sweet savor unto the Lord. And you know Christ was made
a sacrifice for us, a sweet savor unto the Lord. And when we talk
about the burnt offering, we're talking about our Lord Jesus
Christ, our Savior on the cross. That's what this is about. Isaiah's
on that cross as the Son of God, and he, out of love to his Father,
completely, absolutely surrenders himself in absolute devotion
to his Father. And what he did, he gave to God
Himself. All that he is, he gave to God.
all that He is is what was offered on that cross. He offered Himself,
He offered Himself, and He surrendered His love, His love for His blessed
Son, His love for His Father, His love for His obedience, His
love for His law, His love for the Father's will, because our
Lord Jesus Christ on this side of the cross where He delighted
and His Son and the Son in His blessed love of His Father. Our Lord on that cross and before
He went to that cross and why He went to that cross, He so
loved His Father, God His Father. If you got a son, you got a father. If you got a father, you got
a son. You can't have one without the other. And I tell you, our
Lord loved His law, God's law so gloriously. magnified it so
blessedly. And our Lord Jesus Christ on
that cross, says that burnt offering, and God got it all, a sweet savor
unto Hisself, every part, God got it all. He got every bit
of it. He glorified God in every part of His life, every part
of His death, and He submitted Himself. Now listen, God's got
a government in this world, God's the Governor of this world. God
GOVERNS this world according to His own WILL. He governs everything
that happens in this world. He's the GOVERNOR of this world.
He's the GOVERNMENT in this world. And our Lord Jesus Christ honored
God Almighty in EVERY PART of His government in this world.
His WILL, His HOLINESS, HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, HIS LAW, HE MAGNIFIED IT AND
MADE IT HONORABLE. Oh my, look over, keep Leviticus
and look in Isaiah chapter 42, look in Isaiah 42. You know our Lord Jesus Christ,
you know when Adam sinned, if he had begotten a sinless race,
Say, if Adam had never sinned and he had begotten a sinless
race, it could never, the sinless race could never have glorified
and magnified the Father like the Son did in offering Himself
unto His Father. Couldn't have done it, couldn't
have done it. Look what he said here now in verse 18 of Isaiah
42. This is God talking about His
Son. Hear ye deaf, and look ye blind,
that ye may see. Now how is the deaf hear, and
how is the blind see? And then he asks this, he said,
Who is this blind, but my servant? What does he mean by that? Christ
was blind to everything in this world, but doing His Father's
will. Accomplishing His Father's will.
accomplish in His Father's service, accomplish in His Father's Word. And look what He says now. Or
death is my messenger as I said. Whose voice did our Lord listen
to? Only His Father. I work and my Father works. My Father works and I work. We're
doing the same thing. And oh, look what He goes on
to say. Who is as blind as he that is perfect? Perfect. and seeing my will, seeing my
glory, and seeing my power, and glorifying me and honor me in
this world, and as blind as the Lord's servant." That's talking
about Christ. Now watch this, seeing many things,
but He didn't observe it. They called Him a devil, called
Him Beelzebub, lied on Him, done all things, but He did not pay
attention to those things. He observed one thing, I came
down from heaven to do the will of Him that sent me. I came to
this world to glorify Him that sent me. He said, read that tonight
back in the study, He said, I came forth from the Father, I came
out of my Father, What did you come out of your Father to do?
To do His will and obey Him in every respect? Now watch what
this says now. And he opened the ears, but he
didn't hear, no, he didn't hear what they had to say. And oh,
this is it. The Lord is well pleased for
His righteousness sake. He, Christ, will magnify the
law and make it honorable. So I tell you what, that's what
we're talking about here, this burnt offering. God got all of
it, and everything Christ did, He did for His Father and to
honor and bless His holy name. And I'll tell you another thing
about this offering back over here in Leviticus. This burnt
offering had to be without blemish, could not have any blemishes
in it. Isn't that what it says in verse 3? If his offering be
an burnt offering, a sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a
male without blemish." Can't have a spot on it, no blemishes
in it. Oh, our Lord Jesus Christ, He
offered Himself without spot. Hebrews 9, 14, He offered Himself
without spot before God. And oh, 1 Peter says this, that
he was a lamb slain from the foundation of the world without
spot, without blemish. And you remember, our Lord asked
them, he said, which of you Pharisees was finding falsehood. He looked
at him, said, which one of you fellas here in this whole bunch
can convince me that I've got sin? Y'all ever seen any sin
in me? You ever seen me fall? You ever
seen me fail? You ever seen me sin? Which of
you can tell me that I've sinned? Well, they couldn't do that.
So they turned around and said, well, I told you, you got a beasel
bug. But oh, my, and I tell you, it has to be without blemish,
and that's the way it was with the Passover. When they had the
Passover, they took the lambs and they put those lambs up for
fourteen days. and they had to watch those lambs,
and they summoned those lambs every day, and they went out,
and if there was any lamb had a blemish or a spot on it, they
took him out, and he wasn't gonna be offered, but they put it up
14 days and examined it, and then that thing was perfect.
When it was time for it to die, it had to be perfect, and Christ
our Lord in his death was perfect. He without spot, he was without
blemish. But here s another thing about
it, look what it says in verse 3 again, Shall be without blemish,
and he shall offer it of his own voluntary will. Oh, it has to be of his own voluntary
will! Oh, Christ, you reckon they MADE
him do it? No! He come, it has to be a voluntary
IF A SINNER IS GOING TO BE SAVED, IT WAS NECESSARY, NECESSARY FOR
ATONING SACRIFICE BE MADE FOR HIM. AND THIS SACRIFICE MUST
BE MADE BY GOD HIMSELF. WELL, HOW CAN GOD MAKE A SACRIFICE
AND OFFER HIMSELF WITHOUT SPOT AND WITHOUT BLEMISH AND DO IT
IN A VOLUNTARY MANNER? SO WHAT HE HAD TO DO, HE MUST
TAKE UNTO HIMSELF HUMANITY, BECOME A MAN. And oh, it must be made of God
because only God can satisfy God. Oh, listen, only God can
atone to God. So the offering, the offering
must be equal to God, to atone to God. Now that's what we're
talking about. When Christ was in this world
and he was our offering, when he was on that cross, I tell
you what, he did that. When they come to God, it says
he was led as a lamb to the slaughter. He never resisted them. He went
with them. He said, for this cause, I came
into this world. I came into this world for this
reason. And I tell you what, only God
can atone to God. And the sacrifice of Christ on
that cross was equal to God, even though he was in his humanity.
HE WAS EQUAL TO GOD. ONLY GOD CAN SATISFY GOD, AND
GOD SATISFIED GOD AND HONORED HIM IN THE BLESSED SON OF GOD. YOU KNOW, THE REASON OF THE INCARNATION,
THE REASON OF THE INCARNATION OF CHRIST COMING INTO THIS WORLD
THROUGH THE WOMB OF A VIRGIN WAS TO ASSUME HUMAN NATURE. HE BECAME A MAN, A MAN AS MUCH
AS YOU AND I ARE, BUT HE HAD NO SIN, HE HAD NO SIN. and for
Him to become visible. God had to become visible. God
was invisible. Moses endured seeing Him who
is invisible, but yet God had to become visible. Well, how
in the world is He going to be visible? There's only one person
in the Godhead who had been visible. throughout the Bible, and that
was the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God. He took upon Him the form of
God, and He laid aside, He laid aside the form of God, and you
know what He did? He had the form of God. He was
God, but He laid that aside and took upon Himself the form of
a man. Not only that, but He became
a servant. Not only that, but He became
obedient under death, even the death of the cross. Would the eternal Son of God
be made willing to do all this? To come into the world? To assume human nature? To empty
Himself of the Godhead? To make Himself of no reputation?
to make himself willing to die on the cross, to become obedient
unto death? Would he be willing to do all
this? Well, in fact, he was more than willing. He said it was
his delight to do that. When it said he thought it not
robbery to be equal with God, that means he said he didn't
snatch at it, he didn't hold on to it, he didn't hold on to
equality. What he did, he let go, he let
go of his glory as being equal with God Almighty. He laid aside,
he laid aside his visibility as God Almighty and became visible
as a man. Oh my, he was willing, he was
willing to leave heaven and heaven's joy and come to earth amidst
all of its sorrows. It said he made himself of no
reputation, but he emptied himself. He emptied himself. What did
he empty himself of? Well, he didn't empty himself
of his deity. He emptied himself of this form
of being equal with God, his outward glory as God. He laid
it all aside. He emptied Himself of the glory
that was intrinsically His. Look with me in Hebrews 10, 5.
Let me see if I can explain it this way. You know, the Scriptures,
they answer for themselves in Hebrews chapter 10. You know, He done this voluntarily.
Our Lord came into this world to do this. Hebrews 10 and verse 5, look
with me. You know, our Lord, you know, if there's going to
be a burnt offering, God's got to get every bit of it. God's
got to get every bit of it. God gets it all. It's a sweet
savor. Well, how's God going to get
a sacrifice? How's God going to have a burnt
offering that would honor Him and satisfy Him and bring glory
to Him entirely? Look what He said here in Hebrews
10.5. Wherefore, when he, Christ, cometh
into the world, he saith, Sacrifice an offering, thou wouldest not,
that was never your will, but listen to this, but a body hast
thou prepared me. You prepared me a body. Where
did you prepare that? In that womb of that virgin.
God didn't have a body, God's pure spirit. Well, how in the
world are we going to see God? How is God going to become visible?
He said, God, He said, thou hast prepared him a body, a body to
live in, a body to dwell in, a body to suffer in. And look
what he goes on to say, and burn offerings and sacrifices for
sin. That did not please you, and
that word pleasure means satisfy. Then Christ said this, then said,
I, I come in the volume of the book in the volume of your book,
O God, in the volume of the book it's written of me, to do thy
will, O God. That's what I delight to do.
And then above, when he said, sacrifice and offerings, an offering
for sin, thou wouldest not, thou wouldest not neither had pleasure
therein which are offered by the law. So our Lord Jesus Christ
came to do His will. Everything was written about
that. Everything was written about it. And He was willing. He voluntarily offered Himself,
and He did it with delight. I believe I can show you that.
I could quote it to you, but you need to see it. John 10.
John 10. Our Lord volunteered willingly,
willingly gave Himself That's why it says this has got to be
voluntary. God didn't say you HAVE to do
this. He said when a man brings his burnt offering, He said he
has to do it voluntarily. And God's going to get every
bit of it. You're not going to get ANYTHING out of it. You're
not going to get ANYTHING out of it. But look what it said
here in verse 17, John 10. Therefore doeth my father love
me, because I lay down my life. The father loves me. What am
I going to do? I'm going to lay down my life,
that I might take it again. Now listen to this, no man taketh
it from me, I lay it down of myself. This is my will, it's
something that I willingly do, and thankful, and I do it. I
lay it down of myself. I have the power to lay it down,
and I have the power to take it up again. Now the will of
God is this, this commandment have I received of my Father.
I receive this commandment. Now back over in our text, let
me show you another thing if I can. Down in verse 8. So it had to be without blemish.
It had to be voluntary. And our Lord willingly came into
this world. And then it says here in verse
8. And the priest Aaron's son shall
lay the parts, the head and the fat in order upon the wood that
is on the fire which is on the altar. The sacrifice must be
laid in order upon the wood. Ain't that what it says? In order
upon the wood. It has to be placed, that offering
has to be placed upon that wood according to the details ordained
by God, Himself. God had a way that this offering
had to be given. There was an order to it. And
I tell you that's exactly what happened. Every detail, every
detail of our Lord's death was foreordained and arranged in
the council halls of eternity. God had that cross in view before
the world ever began. And he arranged every single
detail of it. I've got it in the front of my
Bible right here. I could go through it and tell
you right now. He keeps all his bones. These are the things that
was arranged when our Lord Jesus Christ, every detail was taken
care of, every detail of everything that was done on that cross.
My God, my God, why is thou forsaken me? He keeps all his bones, not
one of them is broken. He said, Reproach hath broken
my heart. He made his grave with the wicked
and with the rich in his death. Oh my, every detail about it
was. They crucified him and parted
his garments and gambled over his garments. They passed by and reviled him,
wagging their heads, saying, you destroyed the temple, now
see if you can raise it back up again, save yourself from
the cross. All those things were predetermined. He saved others,
he can't save himself. He trusted in God, let him deliver
him now. And about the ninth hour, he
cried, oh, loy, loy, lamasachta tonight. My God, my God. Everything was prearranged. Every
detail of our Lord, every word he'd say, every moment he'd suffer,
every breath he'd take, every drop of blood he would shed,
everything that would be said about him and said to him, God
had it all prearranged and it had to be done in order. Oh my. And oh, he said he was thirsty
straightway. They ran and got, took vinegar
sponge and filled it with vinegar and put it on a reed and gave
it to him. And oh, it says they come and the soldiers broke the
legs of him. And oh, seeing that it was already
done, that the scriptures might be fulfilled, a bone shall not
be broken. Oh, listen. And to show that
his heart was broken when the evening come, A rich man came
and buried him in his own grave. Oh my. And the offering had to
be flayed and put in so many different ways, but every detail
of our Lord's death was arranged by God before he ever come. It
was no surprise to our Lord. It was no surprise to him. And
every detail of our Lord was foreordained in the council halls
of eternity. And then look at this with me
then in verse 6, verse 6, look what it says. And he shall flay
the burnt offering and cut it into pieces. Oh, the offering
has to be flaying. And what flaying does is to cut
the outside skin, expose the flesh, expose the tissue, expose
what's under the skin. And the devil sought to slay
our Lord Jesus Christ, expose his inner life. Every one of
you remember when our Lord Jesus Christ was tempted of the devil,
went into the wilderness, stayed 40 days, didn't eat anything,
didn't drink anything, and he was tempted of the devil. The
devil, first of all, he tempted him, said, if you be the son
of God, command this stone to be made bread. That's the first
thing he did with him. Boy, that man, he can't be, he
got to be something wrong with him. He's got to be hungry. And
if you're really the son of God, you take that piece of stone
there and turn it into bread, feed yourself. Our Lord said,
oh, man can't live. He don't live by anything but
the word of God. That's what a man lives by, that's
the bread man lives by. Then he come along to him and
he says, listen, he took him up into a big high tentacle,
pinnacle and said, look at all the glory of this world, look
at all this world and everything that's in it. I'll give it to
you if you'll bow down and worship to me. Our Lord Jesus Christ
said, thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, him only, and shalt
thou worship him. So he sought to flame, tried
to show that he had something wrong with him in his inner part.
And then the last thing he's done to him was, is he says,
took him up and says, now the scripture says that if you cast
yourself down, that he'll catch you lest you dash your foot against
a stone. And our Lord said, thou shalt
not tempt the Lord thy God. So our Lord, he tried to, and
when Satan come, our Lord, John 14, 30, and he says, the prince
of this world comes and he has no part in me. Now he can come
to me and find all kinds of things to work with, but he could not
expose Christ. HE COULD NOT FLAY CHRIST, HUH? OH, MY! THE DEVIL HAD NO PLACE
TO ENTER INTO HIM, HAD NO PLACE TO HOLD ONTO HIM, HAD NO REASON
TO EVER DOUBT THAT HE WAS WHO HE SAID HE WAS. LIKE WE PREACHED
THIS MORNING, THAT DEVIL, THAT LEGION COME AND SAYS, JESUS,
THOU SON OF GOD, WHAT HAVE I GOT TO DO WITH YOU? WHAT HAVE I GOT
TO DO WITH YOU? OH, MY! THEN LOOK WHAT ELSE IS
SAID HERE IN VERSE 9, But his inwards and his legs shall he
wash in water, and the priests shall burn all on the altar,
a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire of a sweet savor
unto the Lord." Now, when he talks about his inwards, and
they were washed with water, inwards has to do with the motives,
with the desires. And oh my, our Lord Jesus Christ,
What motives, what desires did He have? And the legs, that speaks
about the walk, the manner of life. And oh, listen, look over
here in Isaiah, I mean, excuse me, Psalm 51, 6. How do you think
our Lord's motives were? What do you think they were like?
Why do you think our Master's motives were like? Do you reckon
they were pure? Huh? YOU RECKON HIS WALK WAS PERFECT? OH MY! YOU KNOW WHAT GOVERNED
OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST ALL THE DAYS OF HIS LIFE ON THIS EARTH?
GOD'S WORD. GOD'S WORD. HE FULFILLED GOD'S
WORD. HE COME HERE TO DO THE WILL OF
HIM THAT SENT ME. AND WHEN HE WENT TO THAT CROSS,
And every one of you know this, you've heard it said so many
times, the offering had to be made to God before God could
do anything at all for us. So Christ as a burnt offering
was on the cross, the fire of God consumed, and our Lord consumed
the wrath of God, but the fire of God fell on Him. It's not
what man done to Him, it's what God did. God made his soul an
offering for sin. It pleased the Lord to bruise
him. And here he says like this, and
this is what we're talking about, our Lord with his motives, his
pure motives and his blessed walk. He said in verse six, behold,
thou desire truth in the inward parts. God desires truth in here. Christ is the only one that had
it. He had truth in the inward parts.
And then look what else he says. And in the hidden part shalt
thou make me to know wisdom. God, he was the wisdom of God
that came into this world. And our Lord was governed by
God's word. He said, thy word have I hid
in my heart. And he said, Lord, I delight,
Psalm 48, I delight, I delight to do thy will. Oh God, I delight
to do thy will. Thank God for his unspeakable
gift. Had not God made an offering
for himself to satisfy himself and to honor himself and to glorify
himself Not one soul on this earth had been saved. God had
to do, the sacrifice was for God first and foremost. That's who got to be satisfied. People, you know, talk about
making Christ appear to be pitiful. Oh, no. No, I thank God for God's
unspeakable gift. Our Lord, Thank you for meeting
with us. Thank you for your word. Lord, we acknowledge that without
you, nothing can do nothing. Utterly and absolute failures
without you. And Lord, I would love, and I
know everyone here would love, more than anything in this world, to have pure motives, pure walk,
but we don't. But our Lord Jesus did. Our Lord
Jesus did. And because he did, he was accepted
of God himself. And the only hope we have, the
only consolation we have, is we're accepted only in the beloved. He's beloved of God, and we're
accepted only in him. Lord, please bless the word,
and do it for Christ's sake. Amen. Oh, how merciful. How merciful. Blessed Lord, how merciful thou
art to me. Oh, how merciful, how merciful. Blessed Lord, See you Wednesday,
God willing.