Good evening, let's all stand
together. We'll sing hymn number 442. 442. Praise Him, praise
Him, Jesus our blessed Redeemer. Him, hail Him, highest archangels
in glory. Strength and honor give to His
holy name. Like a shepherd, Jesus will guard
His children in His arms. He carries them all day long. Praise Him, praise Him, tell
of His excellent greatness. Praise Him, praise Him, ever
in joyful song. Praise Him, praise Him, Jesus
our blessed Redeemer. ? Our sins He suffered and bled
and died ? In the rock our hope of eternal salvation ? Hail Him,
hail Him, Jesus the crucified ? Sound His praises, Jesus who
bore our sorrows Unbounded, wonderful, deep, and strong. Praise Him,
praise Him, tell of His excellent greatness. Praise Him, praise
Him, ever in joyful song. ? Praise Him, praise Him ? Jesus,
our blessed Redeemer ? Heavenly portals loud with hosannas ring
? Jesus, Savior, reigneth forever and ever ? Crown Him, crown Him
prophet and priest and king. Christ is coming over the world
victorious, power and glory unto the Lord belong. Praise Him, praise Him, tell
of His excellent greatness. Praise Him, praise Him, ever
in joyful song. Be seated. We'll sing hymn number
296. 296. All the way my Savior leads me,
what have I to ask beside? Can I doubt His tender mercy,
who through life has been my guide? Heavenly peace, divinest comfort,
here by faith him to dwell. For I know whate'er befall me,
Jesus doeth all things well. For I know whate'er befall me,
Jesus doeth all things well. All the way ? My Savior leads
me ? ? Cheers each winding path I tread ? ? Gives me grace for
every trial ? ? Feeds me with the living bread ? ? Though my
weary steps may falter ? ? And my soul a thirst may be ? ? Gushing
from the rock before me ? ? Oh, a spring of joy I see ? ? Gushing
from the rock before me ? ? Oh, a spring of joy I see ? ? All
the way my Savior leads me ? O the fullness of His love, perfect
rest to me is promised in my Father's house above. When my spirit, clothed immortal,
brings its flight to realms of day, this my song through endless
Good evening. If you will, open your Bibles
to 2 Samuel, chapter 12. 2 Samuel, chapter 12. David had
sent Uriah to the uttermost front of the battle, the hottest part
of the battle, and there he was killed. And then after that,
David took Bathsheba to be his wife, and they had a son. And
here in chapter 12, verse 1, it says, And the Lord sent Nathan
unto David, and he came unto him, and said unto him, There
were two men in one city, the one rich and the other poor.
The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds, but the poor
man had nothing save one little ewe lamb, which he had had bought
and nourished up, and it grew up together with him and with
his children. It did eat of his own meat and
drank of his own cup and lay in his bosom and was unto him
as a daughter. And there came a traveler unto
the rich man. And he sparred to take of his
own flock and of his own herd to dress for the wayfaring man
that was come unto him, but took the poor man's lamb and dressed
it for the man that was come to him. And David's anger was
greatly kindled against the man, and he said to Nathan, As the
Lord liveth, the man that hath done this thing shall surely
die. And he shall restore that lamb
fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no
pity. And Nathan said to David, Thou
art a man. Thus saith the Lord God of Israel,
I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the
hand of Saul. And I gave thee thy master's
house, thy master's wives unto thy bosom, and gave thee the
house of Israel and of Judah. And if that had been too little,
I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things. Wherefore
hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord to to do evil in
his sight. Thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite
with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and
hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. Now
therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house, because
thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite
to be thy wife. This saith the Lord, Behold,
I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house,
and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto
thy neighbor, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of
the sun. For thou didst it secretly, but I will do this same before
all Israel and before the sun. And David said unto Nathan, I
have sinned against the Lord, And Nathan said unto him, listen
to this, the Lord also hath put away thy sin, thou shalt not
die. What would we do if we didn't
have the Lord Jesus Christ to put away our sin? That's what
we do as sinners, we sin. How be it because by this deed
thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to
blaspheme the child also that is born unto thee shall surely
die. And Nathan departed unto his
house, and the Lord struck the child that Herod's wife bear
unto David, and it was very sick. David therefore besought God
for the child. And David fasted, and went in
and lay all night upon the earth. And the elders of his house arose
and went to him to raise him up from the earth, but he would
not, neither did he eat bread with them. And it came to pass
on the seventh day that the child died. And the servants of David
feared to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, Behold,
while the child was yet alive, we spake unto him, and he would
not hearken unto our voice. How will he then vex himself
if we tell him that the child is dead? But when David saw that
his servant whispered, David perceived that the child was
dead. Therefore David said unto his servants, Is the child dead?
And they said, He is dead. Then David arose from the earth,
and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his apparel, and
came unto the house of the Lord, and worshipped. Then he came to his own house,
and when he required, they set bread before him, and he did
eat. Then said his servants unto him, What is this thing that
thou hast done? Thou didst fast and weep for
the child while it was alive. But when the child was dead,
thou didst rise and eat bread. And he said, while the child
was yet alive, I fasted and wept. For I said, who can tell whether
God will be gracious to me that the child may live? But now he
is dead. Wherefore should I fast? Can
I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall
not return to me. And David comforted Bashee by
his wife, and went into her, and lay with her, and she by
her son. And he called his name Solomon,
and the Lord loved him. Let us pray. Dear Heavenly Father, we come
in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. We come seeking to worship,
seeking to praise your holy name, seeking to bless your holy name.
seeking to learn more about our Savior, seeking to be drawn closer
to Him. We pray, Lord, for the Holy Spirit's
presence that You called Brother Donnie to tell us about Christ
again. Open the hearts of this body
of believers and fill it with nothing but Christ. We pray,
Lord, for the sick. You know who they are, Lord.
We pray that You'd comfort them, be with them, heal them if it
be Thy will. again lord for our children our
grandchildren our wives and husbands don't know you don't seem to
care pray that you give them a need cause them to come hear
the gospel cause them to see that they're lost pray lord once
again that you forgive us of our sins in christ's name we
pray amen game number two hundred ninety
nine two ninety nine Day by day and with each passing
moment Strength I find to meet my trials here Trusting in my
Father's wise bestowment I've no cause for worry or for fear
He whose heart is kind beyond all measure, gives unto each
day what he deems best. Lovingly, it's part of pain and
pleasure, leaving home with peace and rest. Every day the Lord
himself is near me With a special mercy for each hour All my cares
he fain would bear and cheer me He whose name is Counselor
and Power ? Protection of His child and treasure
? ? Is a charge that on Himself He laid ? ? As Thy days, Thy
strength shall be in measure ? ? Is the pledge to me He made
? Help me then in every tribulation So to trust thy promises, O Lord
That I lose not faith's sweet consolation Help me, Lord, when
trial and trouble speak. As from a father's hand One by
one, the days, the moments fleeting Till I reach the promised land Open your Bibles with me to Leviticus
chapter 2. Leviticus chapter 2. Read the first three verses. And when Annie will offer a meat
offering unto the Lord, his offering shall be a fine flour, and he
shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense thereon. And he shall bring it to Aaron's
sons, the priests, And he shall take there out his handful of
the flour thereof, and of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense
thereof. And the priest shall burn the
memorial of it upon the altar to be an offering by fire, a
sweet savor unto the Lord. And the remnant of the meat offering
shall be Aaron's and his son's. It is the thing most holy of
the offerings of the Lord made by fire. We'll talk about the meat offering
tonight. There's five offerings given in the first five chapters
of Leviticus, five offerings. There's the burnt offering, and
they all are typical or pictures of our Lord, and no tip, type,
or picture could possibly depict our Lord And it's all of its
fullness. But there's the burn offering.
That's the meat offering, which I'm going to deal with tonight.
Then there's the peace offering. There's the sin offering. And
then there's a trespass offering. And the meat offering was the
only bloodless offering. The only bloodless offering.
All the rest of them was blood. All the rest of the sacrifices,
the burnt offering, the peace offering, the sin offering, the
trespass offering was all blood sacrifices. The death of a lamb
or a goat. And the meat offering was the
only bloodless offering. And what it does, it represents
our Lord Jesus Christ in His life, not in His death. The other
is some aspect of His death. But the meat offering represents
the Lord in life, not in His death. All the other four were
blood offerings and gives a four-fold picture of His death on the cross. When you talk about the burnt
offering, That's when our Lord Jesus Christ entered into the
holy place with His own blood and obtained for us eternal redemption. That's the burnt offering, and
that offering was to God and for God and God alone. It wasn't
for us, it was for God and God alone. That blood had to be taken
into the presence of God, it had to be offered in the presence
of God. And then the meat offering is
our Lord's life, our mediator, the one mediator between God
and men, the Lord Jesus Christ. And the peace offering, the peace
offering is what God, when God reconciled us to Himself, there
had to be a peace offering. There had to be peace between
God and the sinner, and by the blood sacrifice of our Lord Jesus
Christ through the the cross, by the offering at the cross,
he made peace through the blood of the sacrifice of his cross.
That's how peace was made. People say, make you peace with
God. Christ is the only one that can make peace with God. Christ
is the only one's blood that can satisfy God. And when Scott
used to say all the time, when you have a perfect sacrifice,
your conscience will never, ever ask for anything else. And when
you understand that God reconciled us to Himself by the death of
His Son. and He made peace through the
blood of His cross, and so we have peace with God BASED on
a sacrifice offered to God that satisfied God, and because that
sacrifice was perfect, my conscience will never ask for another sacrifice,
and that's what it means. And I tell you what, another
thing is, is that the other offering, the sin offering, the sin offering,
we've got to have a sin offering, and I tell you, we can never
make a sin offering, God made Christ to be sin, who knew no
sin. Christ bore in His own body our
sin on the cross. He's the just for the unjust
that He might bring us to God. And I tell you what, He shall
appear the second time without sin, and He, by the sacrifice
of Himself, put away sin once and for all in the end of the
world. So I tell you, we had to have a sin offering. Christ
is our only sin offering. He s the only offering God would
ever accept. He had to be made sin in order
for God to make us righteous. And then there s the trespass
offering. What you read tonight, you know, God already forgave
David. He said, David, I put your sin
away. You committed murder, you committed adultery, Now, you gave the enemies of
God an opportunity to blaspheme God. You're the king. If it'd
been anybody else, there wouldn't have been nothing said about
it. But he was the king. But God said, I put your sin
away. He put his sin away on the basis of Christ himself putting
sin away by his own sacrifice on that cross. That's the only
way David's sin could be put away. God said, I put it away. And God said when He puts away
sin, He said, I will not remember their sins and iniquities any
more. And I'm thankful that He does
not remember. I remember, but He don't. And
then there's that trespass offering where it says the blood of Christ
cleanses us from all sin. If we sin, if we sin, we have
an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. Oh,
my. And I tell you, here's what he
said. And I tell you, you know, we trespass. You know what trespassing
is? People put up no trespassing
signs. Well, God has no trespassing signs. Don't do this, don't do
that. And we'll trespass. And when we trespass, God himself
says, if we confess our sin, confess it. Lord, I did this. I trespassed. I went over the
line. God, I trespassed. and I confess
your sins, he is just and faithful to forgive us our sins. And little
children, I write unto you that you sin not, but if any man sin,
we got an advocate, we got somebody to take up our case. So I tell
you, all those sacrifices speak of our Lord Jesus Christ. In
the burnt offering, Christ gives Himself unto God. and as a sweet-smelling
savor. Paul said that in Ephesians 5.
Christ gave himself as a sweet-smelling savor, as a sweet-smelling sacrifice
unto God for us. Ephesians 5 too. In the sin offering,
we have Christ giving himself for us. Paul said he loved me
and gave himself for me. Gave himself for me. We look
unto Him for the redemption of him who gave himself for our
redemption. And in the peace offering, we
have Christ reconciling us, bringing us to God, the only one who CAN
bring us to God. Nobody else can bring us to God. And I'll tell you what, the scriptures
tell us plainly that the Lord Jesus Christ, if He does not
make peace, If He does not take peace, we'll never have peace.
But when we understand that, we have peace. And then in the
Trespass Offer, Christ makes provision for His death for our
sins and our failings and our fallings and our stumblings as
we go on this pilgrim journey. While we're living in this world,
we need somebody. That's what fish washing means
in the New Testament. That's what, we get our feet
dirty, and Christ is the only one that can wash our feet with
His Word. And when we fall, and when we
sin, and when we trespass, Christ Himself, He's the one. David
said it like this, "'Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean. Wash me, and I shall be whiter
than snow.'" Well, you know when David prayed that prayer? what
he did when he read up what he did tonight. That's what David
said, Lord, purge me with hyssop. Take that hyssop that you sprinkled
with the blood on the sacrifice. Take that hyssop and sprinkle
me and I'll be clean. And then wash me in that blood
and I'll be white as the snow. Oh my, ain't you grateful we
got somebody to go to when we sin? Oh my, I read somebody said
the other day, they asked a fellow, he said, I think an evil thought
every once in a while. Oh my, without Christ, our mind
is on evil continually, continually. Oh my, okay, so let's do the
meat offering this evening. I'll just tell you what those
other offerings, I'll deal with them one at a time. It says here,
when Annie will offer a meat offering unto the Lord, his offering
shall be of fine flour, fine flour. And all these, this is
a picture, a symbol of the person and character of our Lord Jesus
Christ. It was made of fine flour. Not just flour, fine, fine flour. Flour that was thoroughly, thoroughly,
thoroughly ground. It had to be the best. It was
the best flour that you could possibly have. And in that flour,
you remember, I remember years ago, and people used to have
these cabinets in their kitchen. And they would buy flour, and
they'd dump that flour in there, and they had a crank that they'd
crank on it, do their flour, you know, and you all ever see
any of those things? Well, that's what they done.
They had a little old thing that dumped the flour in there, and then
they'd sift that flour to get better, to get pure flour out
of it, could get the lumps out of it. Well, our Lord Jesus Christ,
this meat offering is a fine flour, ground very, very thoroughly. There was no unevenness in it. There was no flaw in this flour. And our Lord Jesus Christ, And
our Lord is perfect. He was a balanced, balanced humanity,
balanced in every single way. Now, you and I, we don't have
a balanced life. We don't know what balanced life
means. We lean this way and we lean
that way and we do this and we do that, but Christ, He was even,
perfect humanity, perfectly balanced. Oh my, it's like a genius. You find geniuses and they're
a genius in generally one area. But when you get them out of
that area, they don't know whether they're up or down. I read about a kid and this kid,
he was a boy and he composed five symphonies. But you got
him away from a piano. You got him away from music.
He didn't know nothing. He couldn't carry on a conversation.
He graduated from college when he was 14 years old. Now, could
you have a conversation with somebody like that? He's just
unbalanced. He only had one thing, and the
rest of his life was completely unbalanced. And that's the way
we are. We don't have no balance in our lives. Oh my, people tell
you, said, you need to be balanced. So listen, wait, no, it's impossible
for us to be balanced. You know why? Because of sin.
And our Lord was perfectly balanced. And I tell you what, our Lord
had no unevenness in Him, no unbalance in Him. He was perfect
humanity. Mark chapter seven, verse 37,
this says, Jesus did all things well. He did all things well. Oh, one
thing, you know, He did one thing as well as He did another. Huh? Oh my, He lived under the law
and yet He gave grace. He dealt in grace. He rebuked
sin and never let sin go. He forgave the sinner. And here's
one of the most blessed illustrations of that, is when that woman was
taken into adultery in John 8. So here's our Lord Jesus Christ,
they thought, tempting Him, they took the woman, caught her in
the act of adultery, interrupted Christ, brought that woman, set
her in front of Him. And they thought, now listen,
the law says stone her, stone her. Well, our Lord Jesus Christ
stooped down, rode a couple of times, raised up, and said, He
that's without sin, pick up a rock and throw it right now. Well,
some of them older fellows in that crowd, they turned and walked
away. But you know the ones that was left, the youngest, they
got to looking around, and they walked away, too. And our Lord
said to her, see, they saw, well, the law said stone her. There
was one person in that crowd that could have stoned that woman,
and that was the Lord Jesus Christ. But he upheld and honored and
magnified the law of God because he upheld the law, and he looked
at that woman and said, woman, where are your accusers now?
She said, there ain't nobody, Lord. She said, neither do I
condemn thee, go thy way. And so he upheld the law, He
never, you know, he said, you go ahead and stone her. Go ahead
and do it. And yet he dealt in grace. He
dealt in grace. Oh my. He condemned sin at that
time and exposed hypocrisy. He forgave the sinner and upheld
the law and bless his holy name. He does that perfectly. He did
that perfectly. And not only was he full of grace
and perfect humanity, but he was full of truth, full of truth. You reject the written word of
God, and you reject in Christ the living word. You reject it. Oh my. That rich man in hell,
he was there not because he was rich, not because he neglected
the poor. You know why he was there? He
didn't believe Moses and he didn't believe the law. He didn't believe
the word of God. He told the Lord, send somebody
to tell my brothers so they don't come here. If they didn't hear
Moses and the law, if somebody rose from the dead, they wouldn't
believe him either. Oh my, and I tell you, he didn't believe
Moses and the prophet, and yet our Lord was full of grace. He
says, you know, he stood in that last day of the feast and said,
if any man's thirsty, come to me. He said, and then also, all
that the Father gives me are gonna come to me. They're gonna
come to me. So oh, now he's full of truth,
and he's full of grace. I'm talking about the meat offering,
this fine flour. Oh, what a blessed thing. Our
Lord spake the right word, did the right thing, and did every
one of them at the right time. He never was, never ever was
not where he was supposed to be, doing what he was supposed
to do, saying what he was supposed to say, and saying who he was
supposed to say. Never one time. Well, you know,
he met that woman in the well, You reckon He got there on time? You reckon He said the right
things to her? Huh? Oh, when He was at Lazarus at
the tomb, did He get there at the right time? You know, they
told Him that He was sick, and our Lord waited three days before
He even went over there. He said, You know why I'm not
going to go now? For the glory of God. I tell you, was he at the tomb
at the right time? Did he say the right words? Oh, and you know, I think about
this. You know, when our Lord saved
somebody, they did not expect it to happen. Zacchaeus had no
idea, he did not even have any idea that Christ was gonna call
him that day. Never entered his mind. Mary
and Martha had never entered their mind that Christ would
raise their brother from the dead, never entered their mind.
But yet our Lord always did exactly right where He's supposed to
be, doing what He's supposed to do, saying the right words,
doing the right deed at the right time. Never, ever was He not
that way. And then look back over here
in our text with me again. So this meat offering, His offering
shall be a fine flower. Christ, He was a fine flower,
perfect in His humanity. And then look what He said, pour
oil upon it. Then they took oil and mixed
it with that flower. They mixed it with that flower.
And of course, oil is symbol of the Holy Spirit, the Holy
Spirit. And I tell you, a flower of our
Lord's humanity, and then it was mixed with the Holy Spirit.
And you know what that tells us? That our Lord, you know,
you combine that and we have the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus
Christ. His perfect humanity come through
the womb of a woman, but His Godhead came from God Himself
and His perfect humanity. He says, That holy thing shall
be born of the Holy Ghost. The Holy Spirit. And I tell you,
our Lord Jesus Christ, He said, God gave Him the Spirit without
measure. Oh my, He is conceived by the
Holy Ghost. And when you poured oil upon
something, it was to anoint it. And you know what our Lord said?
He said, God hath anointed me with the oil of gladness above
many my fellows. He said, nobody else is anointed
like me. Nobody else. God's anointed me
above everybody else is what he said. And I tell you, our
Lord Jesus Christ, he was that lamb. He was that one that they
poured the oil on it. And I tell you, he was anointed.
He was conceived by the Holy Ghost. And when he was baptized,
the Holy Spirit came and dwelt upon him, dwelt upon him. And then look what else it says
about it. Oh my. And he shall pour oil upon it
and put frankincense upon it. Have you ever smelled frankincense?
Have any of y'all ever smelled frankincense? You need to send away and buy
you some. It smells good. But frankincense is the oil that
came from a tree and they would Get the, they'd slice that thing
and then this oil would come out of it and they'd make gum
out of it. They'd make the gum out of it. And it was a sweet
gum. It was good. And it was the resin
from a incense tree. And then they would take that
incense and they would rub it together and mix it all up. And
they would mix it, mix it, the fine flour with this oil and
with this frankincense. And frankincense had this wonderful,
wonderful fragrance. There's somebody brought some
here one time and he said, I got this, told me got it for somewhere.
And there's just a little bit of it. And you could, you know,
you hold it and smell it. And it was so smell good. Wonderful,
wonderful. And when you applied fire, now
the fragrance felt good, but when you applied fire to it,
it gave off a real, real sweet fragrance in. And that's what
happened, you know, when fire was applied, it had a sweet,
sweet fragrance. And this is what he's talking
about, the sweet fragrance of this fine flower anointed by
the Holy Ghost and this fine flower being the humanity of
our Lord Jesus Christ. And this sweet fragrance shows
the attitude of our Lord Jesus Christ towards his Father. You
know what the Father said about him? This sweet fragrance went
for the Father. Our Lord says this, I do always,
always do the things that pleases Him. Always. From the day I was
born till the day I was on that cross and I was in that tomb
and rose again, I did always the things that pleased Him.
Oh my. Our Lord said, when his mother
and father come and got him after he had been missing for a day,
they come back and said, why do you trouble us like this?
And our Lord said, wish you not that I be about my father's business. My meat, my meat is the doodle
of will of him that sent me. And all the trials, the trials
of our Lord Jesus Christ was like fire, like fire manifested
the sweet fragrance to his father. manifested this quality, and
the more he was tried, the more it manifest this sweet fragrance
to his father, that he sought to please the father and fulfill
his will. In the garden, in the garden
of Gethsemane, when he went off into the garden, those three disciples fell asleep
and Christ was alone. He was alone. There's one lone
voice heard that night in prayer. Just one lone voice heard that
night in prayer. What's he saying? What's he saying? Father, Father, my Father, if
it be possible, if it's possible, let this cup pass from me. Here's the trial, the fire of
the trial, burning in his very soul as a man. He sees the cup. He sees the dregs. He sees the
wrath. He sees the judgment. He sees
the justice. He sees the sin. He sees everything
that, oh, he's got to drink it. And oh, my father, if it'd be
possible, Here's an innocent man, a just
man, a righteous man, a holy man, a sinless man, and he's
praying. Father, if it's any other way,
but he says one word, nevertheless. Thank God he said nevertheless. Oh, nevertheless, nevertheless,
Father. Nevertheless, Father. Oh, my. Thank God, he said, nevertheless,
not as I will, but as I will. Oh, can you imagine what an order
of sweet fragrance that that went up to God, his father, when
he prayed like that that night? Oh my. And then let me show you
something here in verse 13. Down in verse 13, this meat offering,
this oil mixed with it and the frankincense mixed with it, anointed
and conceived by the Holy Ghost, the spirit given to him without
measure, the frankincense to make all that he did as a sweet,
sweet smelling savor before his father. Then it was supposed
to be seasoned with salt. Look down in verse 13. And every
oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt,
neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God
to be lacking from thy meat offering. With all thine offerings thou
shalt offer salt." Now we know that salt is pretty strong, pretty
strong. And it was to be seasoned with
salt. Salt is strong and it's used to keep things from corruption
into seasoned food. But when it's used in the scriptures,
it's always connected with the speech. Paul told the Colossians,
let your speech be seasoned with salt, seasoned with salt. And the speech of our Lord Jesus
Christ was strong, it was always seasoned, It was penetrating,
it was purifying, and it saved men and women from corruption.
Oh, his speech was good. You remember when he says, the
flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak unto you,
they're spirit and they are life. Oh, that's pretty strong. In
fact, he said that, I've told you, no man could come unto me
except my Father which sent me drawing. And they said, this
is a hard saying. It's too strong for them. But
oh my, ain't you grateful that our Lord Jesus Christ, His words
are strong words, good words. And after 2,000 years, listen
to me, after 2,000 years, not a word he spoke needs to
be forgiven. Does it need to be changed? Does
it need to be forgotten? Does it need to be corrected?
Does it need to be erased? His words are spirit and life,
not our words. Oh, no. Oh, I tell you what,
I wished I could take them back sometime. Sometimes they come
out and say, Oh, why did I say that? I didn't mean for it to
come out like that. I don't guess y'all, I know y'all
never done anything like that. You just don't, that just don't
happen to y'all. But I'll tell you what, how many
times when it comes out so cringe, cringe, oh my. And I tell you
not our words, and that's why the apostle said, let the word
of Christ dwell in you richly. And there was no leaven. Look
down in verse 11 here, there was no leaven to be in this meat
offering. Verse 11, no meat offering which
you shall bring unto the Lord, and he calls it meat offering,
but it's made of fine flour. No meat offering which you shall
bring unto the Lord shall be made with leaven. No, no leaven,
not even any honey in it. Oh my, oh my. You know, you know Christ, He
used leaven as a type of false, corrupt doctrine. He said, Beware
of the leaven of the Pharisees. And what do they mean? They're
talking about bread. He says, No, they're doctrine.
They're doctrine. It's FALSE! It's corrupt! It's
AWFUL! It's SINFUL! It's of the FLESH
and it's SIN! And I tell you the truth, It
was excluded from the meat offering. Witnesses also again to the sinlessness
of our Lord Jesus Christ in his word, in his thought, in his
deeds, in his actions. Oh, but there's plenty, plenty
of leaven in us. Oh, he was sinless in his humanity.
And then let me show you this. Look what it also says back up
here in verse two. And he shall bring it to Aaron's
sons, the priest, and he shall take there out his handful of
the flour thereof, and the oil thereof, with all the frankincense
thereof. It's already mixed together.
And he says, and the priest shall burn the memorial of it upon
the altar to be an offering made by fire of sweet savor unto the
Lord. And the remnant of the meat offering
shall be Aaron's and his son's. It's the thing most holy of offerings
made by fire. So when it was made by fire under
the Lord, that means they cooked it. This is a picture of our
Lord as a perfect man, perfectly, perfectly fitted to endure, to
sustain, and to satisfy the fire of God's judgment there on that
cross. Salvation is not going to be
accomplished by His being our example. as a perfect man. Salvation's not gonna be accomplished
by his character and his character alone. He came to offer up, offer
up that holy thing, his perfect, perfect humanity. And after it was offered to God
as a memorial, the remainder was supposed to be eaten by the
priest in the holy place. Ain't that what it says? A remnant,
verse three, and the remnant of the meat offering shall be
Aaron's and his son. And it's the thing most holy
of offerings made by the Father. And it says down in verse 14
through 16 that they took it and they ate it after what they'd
offered. The rest of it was theirs to eat. And this tells us they
ate this meat offering in the holy place inside the tabernacle
itself. Not the holiest of holies, but
in the holy place. And this is us. They fed on this
fine flour, this oil, and this frankincense. This is us feeding
on the Lord Jesus Christ. After he's offered himself without
spot to God. Feeding on him. who offered himself without spot
to God, feeding on him who ascended up, setting on his throne, ever
living to make intercession for us. And by faith, by faith, we
entered into the holy place, behind the veil, and we see our
Lord, the perfect man, who represented us, who died for us, arose for
us, This is indeed our food. And it is a sweet, sweet savor. And it tastes, that's what I
read this morning. Taste and see the grace of how
good the grace of God is. Taste and see how good grace
is. Oh my, it's tasteful. Our Lord, we feed upon him. Oh, perfect humanity, sinless humanity. Our Father, thank you for meeting with us
tonight. You're so gracious, so gracious, so gracious, so
full of mercy and full of truth. Lord, this flesh, this humanity
that we have is so unbalanced that we can't even begin to talk
of you. the way we should, think of you
the way we should, address you the way we should, love you the
way we should because of this old unbalanced humanity we have. But Lord, you're perfect. You're
perfect. Humanity is sinless. Perfect
humanity. Sinless humanity. And that's
what you offered. You offered that sinless, perfect
humanity upon that cross to put away our sins once and for all. And Lord, we thank you that we're
able to feed upon you and you satisfy our hunger, you satisfy
the needs of our heart, you satisfy the needs of our soul, you satisfy
our needs while we're in this world. Thank you. God bless these
dear saints as they go their way. I pray that you'd continue
to be with those who are sick, have mercy on them, give them
grace for Christ's sake. Amen. Amen. Well, I'll see you
Wednesday night, God willing. Oh, that was such a good speech. That was such a good speech. Oh, my goodness, that was great. You know, that's a, that's a
really, you know, yeah. David wouldn't despair. He said, there ain't no hope
for me. If anybody got older, they'd
die. That's what he said.