If you would, please turn to
Exodus chapter 29. Exodus chapter 29. And I want to begin reading
in verse 38. Exodus chapter 29, verse 38 states,
now This is that which thou shalt
offer upon the altar. Two lambs of the first year,
day by day, continually. The one lamb thou shalt offer
in the morning, and the other lamb thou shalt offer at even. And with the one lamb, a tenth
deal of flour, mingled with the fourth part of a hen of beaten
oil, and the fourth part of a hen of wine for a drink offering.
And the other lamb thou shalt offer it even and shalt do thereto
according to the meat offering of the morning and according
to the drink offering thereof. For a sweet savor, an offering
made by fire unto the Lord. This shall be a continual burnt
offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle
of the congregation before the Lord, where I will meet you to
speak there unto thee. And there I will meet with the
children of Israel, and the tabernacle shall be sanctified by my glory. And I will sanctify the tabernacle
of the congregation and the altar. I will sanctify also both Aaron
and his sons to minister to me in the priest's office, and I
will dwell among the children of Israel and will be their God. And they shall know that I am
the Lord their God that brought them forth out of the land of
Egypt, that I may dwell among them. I am the Lord their God. What I want to speak to you this
morning is on the continual the continual burnt offering. I may seem fascinated by the
burnt offering. Well, I am. I can't help it. Truth be known, I'm not really
interested in stopping being fascinated by the burnt offering
because I've been taught and I know in my heart who this burnt
offering is. My interest in the burnt offering
is not in the animals being sacrificed. My interest in the burnt offering
is not in the way they are sacrificed except for as how it relates
to what my Lord Jesus Christ has done because he is the burnt
offering. I mean this is one of the ways
when you think of it because these sacrifices actually happened. I was told different by a Jewish
rabbi once. He told me these were just stories,
that they didn't really kill animals in those days. And I
just looked at him with, I know, just the most incredulous look
on my face that's like, I can't believe you just said that. A
Jewish rabbi told me they didn't really kill animals. Yes, they
did. Yes, they did. And this is one
of the ways my Old Testament brothers and sisters in Christ
Because that's the only way anyone ever sees God and comes to God
is through Christ, even in the Old Testament. Salvation has
always been by grace. Always. Old Testament new makes
no difference. There's only one covenant between
the Father and the Son. But this is one of the ways my
Old Testament brothers and sisters in Christ, they worship God this
way. These Old Testament sacrifices
were not only ordained by God, they were commanded by God and
they were done. Now I understand that this world
thinks that the God we preach, the God of this Bible, is weird
and arbitrary and sometimes cruel. They think that we are Believers,
strange and ignorant. Now, we may be strange and ignorant,
but not the way they're talking about. We don't do this blindly. We have been given the light
of his gospel, and the light of his gospel shines on this
Old Testament. I mean, they think this. They're
wrong, but they do think this. But I also understand some who
call themselves Christians, get all wound up in the Old Testament
for all the wrong reasons. I mean, they get tied up with
the law. Oh, or terribly concerned with prophecies that have yet
to come true. And there are prophecies that
haven't come true. And they are going to come true if they're
in this book. But that's not the point of the
Old Testament. The point of the Old Testament
is Jesus Christ. The Old Testament is the New
Testament concealed. And the New Testament is the
Old Testament revealed. I believe that. This whole book,
Old Testament and New, Epistles, Revelation, all of it is the
book of our Lord Jesus Christ. And seeing that in the Old Testament
does me wondrous good. I'm just amazed by it. People miss him. Therefore, they
miss the point of the Old Testament. They don't see him in the Old
Testament, and they miss it all. Because I will tell you this,
without Christ, I was there one time. This book is a little weird. Things people do are strange. But I'm gonna tell you something,
Walter preached it last week. Everything God did in his Old
Testament's just exactly like what God's doing right now. His
hand is on it, it's for his purpose. We may not see his purpose, but
in this, we've been given the scripture to know his purpose.
But I wanna talk about the burnt offering, the continual burnt
offering. Just some things about the burnt
offering in general because Like I said, the burnt offering is
a picture. It's a type It's a foreshadowing of the true offering of our Lord
Jesus Christ the only begotten well-beloved son of God himself
And if we miss this, you're gonna miss the point, not only of the
burn offering, the continual burn offering, you're gonna miss
the point of every single offering in the Old Testament. Every sacrifice,
the tabernacle, Moses, them coming out of Egypt. Without Christ,
it's just a story. But this is a truthful account
of what happened and what God did for his people and how he
did it and what he gave them. If you don't get this, like I
say, nothing I'm gonna say is gonna make sense. And of course,
you know, that is the complaint of unbelievers. The Bible doesn't
make sense. Killing animals, big floods,
fire from heaven. Y'all believe that stuff? Yes,
I do. I do believe it. My father told
me one time, he said, that's where they got you. You believe
the Bible. That's what he told me. I had to agree with him. Yep,
that's where they got me. I believe the Bible. Y'all didn't
have me, he did. But at least that part got through
to my dad. I do believe the Bible. I do believe it. Now, I believe
it because he did something for me. It's not that I believed
it and I did something for him. There's a whole world of difference
between those two statements. He got a hold of me and his book
got a hold of me. And neither one of them's let
go. And I thank God for it. I don't see everything in the
scriptures, Old Testament, New Testament, but I believe them. The first mention of the burnt
offering, I preached about this a while back, was in Genesis
22, I'm not gonna turn there, but I do wanna read this, because
this is actual first mention of the word burnt offering together
in the Bible, and it said, and this is God speaking to Abraham,
and he said, take now thy son, Thine only son, Isaac, whom thou
lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah, and offer him
there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains, which I
will tell thee of." That is the absolute first mention of the
word burnt offering in the scriptures. And as that, it has a place of
importance. Everything that he told Abraham
about the burnt offering is true when I'm talking about the burnt
offering here. And the first mention of the burnt offering
is a person. That's the first time the word's
used in the scripture. The burnt offering is a person. Never forget that. We're gonna
be talking about lambs. And in other places they talk
about bulls, sheep, goats, turtle doves. But here on this continual
burnt offering, all you're talking about is lambs. There are no
substitutes here. But the burnt offering is a person. And in this first burnt offering,
you also see that person is a son. It's Jesus Christ. Because here you have Abraham
the father and Isaac the son. But what you have in reality,
this is a type, it is a picture, it is a foreshadowing of God
the father giving God the Son, and God the Son being the perfect
offering. The two people involved with
the first burnt offering are a father and his only son. Now
I can't make you a better picture than that. Now these are from
the first mention, and like I said, this will continue on. You can't
forget anything else in the Bible when you're talking about one
thing in the Bible. It's hard sometimes. But you have to keep
this stuff in mind. But I'm just going to be rather
quick here. It's not going to do my regular
thing where I do the verse by verse and word stuff. I've got,
let me see here because I don't remember, some things about the
daily burn offering. I got five of them. This daily burn offering, first
and foremost, is by the command of the Lord. This is that which
thou shalt offer upon the altar. It's in verse 38. Now this is
that which thou shalt offer upon the altar. This is God speaking
to Moses. These are the words of God. There's
gonna be a burnt offering every day. Every day. This is a command, it's not a
request. And this is the only offering
that you will find in the scriptures that is offered every day. Every
day. By order of the Lord. There was
daily priest work done every day. But this is the only offering
that was ordered, commanded by God to be performed, what is
it? Day by day. Day by day. The second thing is this daily
burnt offering is a lamb. There are no substitutions. Now
this is that which thou shall offer upon the altar. Two lambs
of the first year, day by day, continually, two lambs. This is the daily burnt offering,
two lambs. You'll see other burnt offerings. That's all right, I'm not gonna
go into it. I don't have to go there. When you get to Leviticus
chapter one, well, why not? In Leviticus one, it'll tell
you you can bring an offering of the cattle, even of the herd,
and of the flock. It tells you in there, what you
have to do if you bring a bull. Now this is if you're bringing
a burnt offering to the priest. You can bring a bull, you can
bring a lamb, sheep, you can bring a goat, you can bring a
turtle dove, and he tells them what to do, the priest what to
do with those burnt offerings. The thing they have in common
is that burnt offering is burnt whole. But here, with this daily,
continual burnt offering, it's no, two lambs. Two lambs. Every day, day by day, continually,
two lambs. One in the morning and one in
the evening. Our Lord Jesus Christ was announced
as the Lamb of God by John the Baptist. He said, behold the
Lamb. Behold the Lamb of God This daily
burn offering is a lamb and a lamb only No substitutions Because
this is a picture of our Lord Jesus Christ offering to the
father day by day continually our Lord is called the Lamb of
God because He is the Lamb of God You look and he says He appeared
as one, as a lamb that had been slain. He's the lamb of God. He's the
lamb of God. And nothing else other than a
lamb is offered here. The one who came to be offered
by God, our Lord Jesus Christ, completely, the perfect offering
is pictured here in these two lambs. Day by day, continually. This is the way they started
the day. Because it tells you, one in the morning, one in the
evening. Twice a day, that's point three. This daily burnt
offering was twice a day. Morning and evening, it's in
verse 39. Of course, this is not a request,
it's a command. Thou shout. God said thou shout,
and thou shout. Twice a day, and it struck me
as strange because A, it's twice a day. Once in the morning, once
in the evening. The other thing about that is
the order he says it in here. He does say it's one in the morning
and one in the evening. Now if you know about the Jewish
days, the Jewish days start in the evening and the morning is
the first day. That's the way it comes from.
But the evening is when the day starts and then you go through
the morning and then the evening you have the next day. But here
it says the morning is the first sacrifice and then the evening
is the second sacrifice. You take the first lamb in the
morning, you take the second lamb in the evening, you do them
both exactly the same. It's the same sacrifice. It's
the same offering, excuse me, I don't wanna say sacrifice,
I wanna say offering. Because it is an offering, it is offered
unto God. But here's the thing, our Lord
Jesus Christ is the day star. And I got to thinking, I had
this in my head, I don't know if it's got anything to do with
it or not, but here's the thing, when you start talking about
our Lord's offering, you never start in darkness. Because he's
the light. and in the morning thou shalt
offer them. The one lamb thou shalt offer
in the morning and the other lamb shalt thou offer in the
evening. You start during the day. It's
just one of them things, it gets in your head. But this burnt
offering is needed every morning and every evening. And this burnt
offering is offered every morning and every evening. A lamb shalt
thou offer in the morning and a lamb shalt thou offer in the
evening. Now, the fourth thing. This daily burnt offering was
not just a lamb. You had what they called the
meat offering. Now what is known as a meat offering
is flour and oil. But generally the Jews, and the
scriptures will bear this out for the most part, actually it
does, the meat offering is actually used as a term for a bloodless
offering. Because it's flour and it's oil.
There's no blood involved in this. I've always found it strange
that this offering, which is basically flour and oil, sometimes
baked, there are some who call it a meal offering. But the scriptures
always call it a meat offering. This is said to be the term used. I don't know exactly how to put
this because it's flour and it's oil. Those are the ingredients
for what? Bread. And our Lord Jesus Christ
said he was the bread come down from heaven. And that's what
this is pointing towards. And he also took bread and he
broke it and he said, this is my body, which will be broken
for you. So on this day, every day, morning and evening, not
only do we have a lamb sacrifice, we also have what they call the
meat offering, the flour and the oil. And what else? The drink offering, wine. And that day, when he broke that
bread, he also took the cup. which was filled with wine. And
he said, this is my blood, which has been shed for you. It's going
to be shed for you. Our Lord here in this one offering
has shown to us is showing to us the lamb, the bread and the
wine, our Lord Jesus Christ, his offering, his broken body
and his blood. All together, what? Every day. Every day. Twice a day. Morning and evening, they're
both the same. You'll sit there and you'll say,
do it just like you did it in the morning. With the meat offering and the
drink offering, we have the shadow of the broken body and bloodshed
for his people by our Lord Jesus Christ. and you combine that
with the lamb, all of it burnt by fire. We have a nice picture of the offering
of our Lord Jesus Christ to the Father. This offering is to the Father. This offering is not to you. It has never been to you. It
has never been to me. This offering is to the Father.
It is to appease, to please the Father. It's not here to please
you, although it should. It does, but that's not what
it was for. That's not who it was offered
to. It was never offered to us. This is a burnt offering. Every
single part of it is burnt up, what? For a sweet savor to God. unto the Lord I Don't get a piece of it It
wasn't to me You don't get a piece of it We get him Who is the offering? But this offering is to God and
it's a perfect offering as best as he can make it and he can
make it perfect Now these offerings in the Old Testament They're
not perfect You'll read in Hebrews, blood of bulls and goats never
took away one sin, much less all our sins. But his offering,
which this pictured, the lamb, the bread, the wine, his offering
is perfect. And his offering was to God and
God was pleased with it. And when God's pleased, he's
pleased. When his son's involved with
it, God's pleased. And if his son's involved with
you, God's pleased. The fifth thing here, this daily
burnt offering is continual. It's done every day, twice a
day. Verse 42 says, this shall be a continual burnt offering
throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of
the congregation before the Lord, where I will meet you to speak
there unto thee. This shall be a continual burnt
offering throughout your generations. This was done every day. Every
day. Every day. In this scripture, there is no
end to the burnt offering. There's no end in here to it
being offered. But by being offered here, it's showing how we are to be
accepted by God. We are accepted by God. Now,
granted, you can't make a type run on four legs. You can only
take a type as far as it goes. This had to be offered continually
because it was a fallen lamb that was being offered. It was
a cursed work, literally. Anything on this planet was cursed
except for our Lord Jesus Christ. Everything on this planet has
been cursed except for our Lord Jesus Christ. So none of this
could be truly perfect, but it was a type of the one who was
perfect And he made the perfect offering to God once. Once. But we are accepted now
continually. We are accepted continually.
His offering today that he offered 2,000 years ago is just as acceptable
to God today as it was 2,000 years ago when he offered it. One offering for sin forever. One perfect burnt offering to
God, the acceptable Son of God Himself was that offering. And our acceptance in the Sun This daily burnt offering Continual
burnt offering shows forth our Lord Jesus Christ and no one
else his whole person offered and his body and his blood for
a sweet savor to God an offering made by fire unto the Lord and
And now there is no more sacrifice for sin. And his one offering
is, his offering is still a sweet savor unto the Lord. There's
no more offering. There's no more offering. This
is a type. Yes, they did it. Yes, they had
to do it because God commanded it. But yes, it was looking forward
to our Lord Jesus Christ who came and did the actual reality. It's not trying to be a sweet
saver. Our Lord Jesus Christ is not
trying to be anything. It's not wanting to be a sweet
saver if you will accept him. His offering is a sweet saver.
God said it. It's an offering by fire unto
the Lord. It is a sweet saver. And our Lord Jesus Christ's offering
to the Father is a sweet saver till this day and forever. We don't make it sweet. He is
the sweet saver unto the Lord. And it always shall be continually. Continually. There is no more
offering. There's no need. The perfect
burnt offering has been made. This was looking forward to it.
In the morning, in the evening, continually. He is our burnt
offering. The offering to God. Now it does
say, The last thing, the daily burnt offering has results. I will meet with the children
of Israel. I will sanctify the tabernacle
of the congregation and the altar. I will sanctify both Aaron and
his sons to minister as priests. I will dwell. among the children
of Israel and will be their God. And, they shall know. They shall know. They shall know
that I am the Lord. I am the Lord, their God. What's the results of the burn
offering? What's the results of our Lord Jesus Christ offering
to the Father? I will, I will, I will, I will,
and they shall. Now what part in there do we
have to play? What do we have to do? We ain't
doing nothing. You understand, salvation in
the Old Testament was up to God. Guess what? Salvation in the
New Testament is up to God. And it's based totally and completely
upon the offering of our Lord Jesus Christ to the Father. Because of that offering, because
of the perfection of the offering of Jesus Christ as shown here
in this daily continual burnt offering, I will, I will, I will,
I will, and they shall know. You're gonna know if his offering
will affect you. You're gonna know if you were
chosen from before this foundation of the world. He's gonna show
it to you. You're gonna know that I am the
Lord. He doesn't say I'm gonna know
all the doctrines of grace. He doesn't say I'm gonna know
all the scriptures, all of the Old Testament and the New Testament.
No, you're gonna know that I'm the Lord. And you're gonna know
that I am your God. And bless God, that's enough.
That's more than we deserve. That's more than I ever thought
I would have. I will warn you, I'm still fascinated
by the burnt offering. Yeah. I mean, I understand. People say, well, why do you
deal with these types when you got the reality in the New Testament?
Well, I'm looking at the New Testament when I'm looking at
the old. And I'm looking for the work of my Lord Jesus Christ
here. And it's here, Old Testament and New. Why? Because the Lord our God is one
God. And his offering brought everything
to pass for me. and for every one of his people.
And it's there continually and continually a sweet saver to
the Lord. Our heavenly father. And we're
thankful again for this time, this place, but most of all for
you, you who have given us all things in your son, you have
given us life, faith, hope. Thank you, Lord. Be with Walter
as he comes to speak. In Christ's name we pray.