Torn Garments

Q: What does the Bible say about the role of the high priest?

The high priest uniquely represents the people before God and is prohibited from showing emotional grief by rending his garments. The high priest in the Old Testament serves as a unique representative of the people of Israel before God. Specifically, Scripture emphasizes that he must maintain a standard of holiness and perfection in his role. For instance, in Leviticus 10:6 and 21:10, it is stated that the high priest is not allowed to rend his garments, as that would symbolize a display of grief or anger that is incompatible with his sacred role. This prohibition highlights the serious nature of his representation, as any failure in his duties could result in grave consequences for the entire nation, drawing God's wrath upon them. Thus, the high priest's conduct is of utmost importance for the collective well-being of the people he represents.

Q: Why is it significant that the high priest does not rend his garments?

It signifies the high priest's role in maintaining holiness and preventing God's wrath upon the people. The prohibition against the high priest rending his garments is significant as it underscores his unique position of representing the people before God. When he shows grief or anger, he brings his holiness into question, which could jeopardize his ability to act as the intercessor for Israel. According to the law, if the high priest were to rend his garments, he would render himself unfit for service because he would no longer meet the standards of perfection required by God. Moreover, this act could invoke God's wrath not only upon himself but also upon the entire nation he represents. Therefore, the high priest's ability to maintain his garments intact symbolizes the preservation of holiness and God's grace extending to the people through proper atonement.

Q: How does Jesus fulfill the role of the high priest?

Jesus fulfills the high priest role by being the perfect representative and sacrifice for His people. Jesus Christ is not only depicted as the ultimate high priest but also fulfills and surpasses all Old Testament types and shadows. His role embodies the perfect representation required for the atonement of His people. Unlike the Levitical high priests who had to continuously offer sacrifices, Jesus offered Himself once for all, and in doing so, He rendered the old priesthood obsolete (Hebrews 7:27). As our high priest, He stands before God on our behalf, bearing our sins and presenting His righteousness to the Father. Therefore, in Christ, believers find their holiness and acceptance, as we are seen in Him, whose garments represent the perfect righteousness necessary to approach God rightly.

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Bless her heart? Yeah. This one sounds good. No, no. Some of these things are debilitating. Nobody can give an answer for them. Tell her to go on AI. AI is doing a real good job of taking symptoms and figuring out what people have. Oh, and she's having seizures. Seizures? That's not good. Bless her heart. That's Tina Landis. Remember her in the prayers? Will Harris, Eddie, and Freddie Bear. Anywhere else, Freddie Bear?

No. Okay. All right. And we'll have the Lord's Table today, no afternoon service. And the few people we got here, we got tons of food, so everybody's going to be eating all week long on leftovers. That's good. Okay, let's begin our worship services. When peace, like a billow of tender love, I see it is my soul. He is well with my soul. He is well, he is well with my soul. Though straight and simple, though dry or with my soul.

It is well, it is well with my soul I sing of the bliss of this glorious day praise it is well with my soul it is well, it is well with my soul and Lord makes the day when my face The clouds may roll back as a scroll, a drum shall resound. my soul is well and why it is well with our soul is because Jesus is the lover of our soul.

In Leviticus chapter 10, in verse 6, Moses said unto Abram and to Eliezer and to the neither in your clothes, lest you die. And lest wrath come upon all the people, but let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning, which the Lord hath kindled." And if you look over Leviticus chapter 21, verse 10, and his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes.

Let us pray. Our Father, we come in the name of Jesus Christ, our great Savior, the one who indeed purchased our redemption at the price of his own blood, who died In our room, when we deserved eternal death, he suffered that for us. In those three hours of darkness, you punished our sin on him. And then he gave his life as the required payment for our sin debt. And marvel upon marvel, you see your children as having no sin. We know it's all because of the work of Jesus Christ and none of our own. We are thankful that as redeemed centers, we can rehearse in our minds the glories of what he has done and set forth in the pure and perfect gospel of Jesus Christ.

Father, we pray for those who are sick. Remember this, Ms. Tino's. Be merciful to her and maybe help those physicians to find out what her situation is. Pray for the others who requested prayer, Father. We ask, Lord, your help for them. Father, we pray for ourselves this hour as we gather here that you might be pleased to give us true worship as we hear the gospel and as we feed on the gospel and take in the Lord's table.

Help us to remember and recollect that 2,000 years ago a man stood as our representative and became us as it were and was made to be sin for us that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. We are thankful that what you required of us that we could not produce. He is God in human flesh. produced everything that you require for your people. Gave us repentance and faith to believe. Help us now to believe again, to look to Him who's worthy of all praise, and worship Him in spirit and in truth, we pray in Christ's name, amen.

Jesus, lover of my soul, Jesus, father of my soul, let me to thy bosom fly, while the river waters flow, while the tempest still is high. Guide me, O my Savior, Heal the strong, our life is fast! Speak unto the Hebrew land, O receive my soul at last!

Other refuge have I none! Viva Vipenado, still support and comfort me! All my trust shall be His stay! All my help from Thee I bring! Glover, my Heav'nly Savior, in the shadow of Thy Name! Thou wilt rise toward all I want, more than all in Thee I find. Raise the fallen, cheer the lame, heal the sick, and be Thine. Yes. The heat that swims around, make me warm in You within! Thou who light the fountain of heart, freely let me take of Thee! Spring Thou up within my heart, rise to all eternity!

Let us pray. Father, again, we approach in the name of Christ, our blessed Savior, the unspeakable gift that you've given freely to all your children and freely with him given us everything we have. We are thankful that we can note our difference only in grace. We render unto thee that which belongs to you. Let us do so with joy and thanksgiving in our heart, knowing that you have fixed it for your children.

I have the privilege to be a part of the preaching of the gospel here and in other places, upholding the glory of Jesus Christ. Help us now, we pray in Christ's name. Amen. ♪ We praise you Lord Jesus Christ ♪ ♪ We praise you Lord Jesus Christ ♪ ♪ We praise you Lord Jesus Christ ♪ so a movie about this Jewish rabbi whose son had died.

And what he did was grab his garment and rip it. It's symbolic of sorrow and anguish. And that was a symbol of anguish and sorrow among the Jewish people. But there was one person in the Jewish economy that was not allowed to do that, just one, and that was the high priest. Both of these incidents here that I just read from Leviticus teach that principle, that the high priest is never to rend his garments.

Over in Joel, when it starts speaking about this new covenant thing that's going to happen The Lord says, rend your heart and not your garments. This was an outside display of sorrow and anguish. But we're to have it done on the inside. And circumcision is not of the flesh, but of the heart. That is what true Israel is. But in the two verses I've read, we have a prohibition, an absolute prohibition, of the high priest concerning rending his garments.

In both cases, it's a reference to the practice of mourning for the dead or being angry. Rending of the garment is a show of grief or anger. But it is acceptable. In 2 Chronicles, the Lord actually said, because you've rinsed your garments and you've bowed down and humbled yourself, I forgive you to one of the men in that context.

But the high priest was not allowed to show such emotions under the law, under absolute strict restrictions. Though the purpose of such a restriction is not stated in the Word of God, it's not really stated. It's stated that people do it, and the high priest is not to do it.

It certainly has to do with the uniqueness of the office of the high priest. There were many priests, all the sons of Levi were priests. We looked at that last week, that picture of the church. The high priest pictures the Lord Jesus Christ. It was him who represented his people on the most holy day that they had, the Day of Atonement.

When he went in there he was wearing his priestly robes and he had the names of the twelve tribes of Israel on stones hooked to a breastplate. He also had their names inscribed on what is called alches or buttons on top of his shoulders. So he wasn't representing Egypt. He wasn't representing Africa. He wasn't representing the United States of America. It didn't exist then. as the United States of America, he was representing the people of Israel, the 12 tribes of Israel. Jacob's 12 sons born and made 12 tribes, and those 12 tribes was all he represented. So when he went into that holy place, he was Israel. God looked on him as Israel. He was the representative of his people.

The restriction was such that it carried the penalty of death. We read that in the fear of death. If you do this, you'll die. If you rend your garments. And since he was representative of the people, his death would result in the wrath of God falling upon his people. We read that in the sixth verse of chapter 10. And note that the high priest suffered. The people would also suffer. If he did something, it was as if all the people did it. He was their representative. Now Jewish canon, laws in addition, handed down by priests and scribes and counselors to the elders, allowed the high priest to rend his garment when God was blasting.

However, that's never in Scripture. That was by tradition. You remember that the scribes and the Pharisees made tradition as if it was the doctrine of God. Our Lord accused them, as you teach the traditions of men, as if they were the doctrine of God, when they weren't. God never said, anywhere in Scripture, that even if someone could rend his garment, because he was the representative of his people, of his people.

These laws of tradition were not given by inspiration, they were given by tradition. Now the record we have is that God prohibited, absolutely, in the two references to it that we have in scripture, absolutely prohibited the rending of the high priest's garment. and there was no mitigating circumstances in which he might do so. It is emphatically prohibited under penalty of death. Now to understand why the high priest was singled out as the only one of the priests to be forbidden to do this, we need to spend a few moments considering the matter of representation.

What does that mean? What does that mean? Do you stand before God on your own merit? I don't. Don't want to, because I don't have any Jesus Christ, we use terms like substitution and propitiation, terms that mean that he stood for me. That's what a representative is.

When our Lord was comparing Adam and the Lord Jesus Christ through Paul the Apostle in Romans chapter 5, he said this in verse 14, he says, speaking of death and sin from Adam to Moses is, nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned, in verse 14, after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who was a figure, a picture, a type of him who was to come.

How was Adam a picture of the Lord Jesus Christ? How was he a type of the Lord Jesus Christ in this sense? And it's covered many times. in the following verses of this chapter, if you'll read it. Adam and the Lord Jesus Christ. He represented humanity.

Everything that proceeded from Adam's loins were sinners. Why? Because in Adam, Scripture says, all died. In Adam, all died. So when you came into this world, you were already dead to God. You were already dead. You were already condemned. As it says in verse 12 of Romans 5, it says, Wherefore by one man sin entered into the world. One man. Sin entered into the world, and death by sin. And so death passed upon all men, for all have sinned. But actually that reads, in whom all sin. That means when Adam sinned, I sinned. I sinned before God. That's how he's a representative. So God looks at all of Adam's race as sinners.

All of them in Adam. Then he looks at all of Christ's race, or Christ's people, the elect of God, the sheep, the church of God, in Christ. And he sees them as perfect, as holy, as righteous, That is why when you read, like the first chapter of Ephesians, how many times you see that everything that's a matter of election, of forgiveness, of giving people understanding and wisdom, of gathering together, and all those things are in Christ. When he talks about you being righteousness before God, of God are you in Christ, who of God is made unto you.

The prohibition to renting his garment had to do with his representation of the people. The high priest was to be as close to natural perfection and beauty as humanly possible. We read that last week. He was to have no blemish, no bad eye, no crooked nose, no broken bone. He was to have all full use of his faculties, such as sight and hearing, and was to be totally mobile. All these perfections were typical. They pointed to someone else, the great high priest, the Lord Jesus Christ. Likewise, when he appeared before the Lord, his clothing was to be perfect.

Clothing was to be perfect, and we know that those layers of clothing were cumbersome. There was a lot of them. He had a linen girdle, and he had an ephod underneath him, and he had this robe that hung, it hanged from the shoulders, it was split on the sides, had ribbon around the base. and a certain width and a certain height. He had this breastplate inside the breastplate.

He had the ura of the thumb, which was probably a black and a white stone, which answered the question, yes or no. When you asked God a question, he'd ask you a yes or no question. Should we go here? And he'd reach in this stone, pull it out. It was a black stone. No, don't go. White stone, yes, you go. That seemed strange. Well, the casting of the lots. Men cast the lots in the lap, but the disposal thereof belonged to the Lord. It's that simple. It's that simple. That the Lord rules in such a simple and plain way, yes or no? Yes or no?

When he appeared before the Lord, he had to have an ephod, a robe, a girdle, a breastplate, pomegranates and bells on the bottom of his robes. His turban, or his golden crown as it's called, was typified, typified the person of the Lord, for it said on the front side of it, holiness unto the Lord. that golden crown that put on his holiness unto the Lord.

That's used several times in scripture. It's used in the end in Zephaniah, or excuse me, Zechariah. He stood before and appeared before the Lord as the representative of Israel. Holiness unto the Lord. Why did he have that on his helmet? It says in Exodus chapter 28, he had that on it to bear. I've always loved this phrase because it tells us so much about what we want to offer to the Lord.

We want to offer holy worship, but it comes from us. We want to offer holy offerings. We want to sin in holiness of the Lord, but it's our lives. And we know that all the things we do are tainted with us and with our sin. So it says that holiness of the Lord, which is the thing you saw, this beautiful gold crown like on the turban of the high priest. Holy mission to the Lord. That was at the forefront, right on the forefront. You always saw that. Why did you do that? To bear the iniquity of the holy things. That's what it said.

Our holy things have iniquities. But our great high priest has the golden crown. Everything that he represents. his holiness unto the Lord. The iniquities of the holy things were borne upon his shoulders that they would be accepted by God in their offerings. Their sins were atoned on the day of atonement by this man as he appeared before God once a year.

To God as this man performed and executed his duties. He was Israel. He was that nation. He was that nation. This picture that typified Jesus Christ, our high priest, who of himself and by himself put away our sins by his substitutionary sacrifice. That's what we'll rehearse and talk about today in the latter part of this service. When we take the Lord's name, we're talking about substitution. We're talking about Jesus Christ. We're talking about the one who represented us, stood before God in holiness and perfection and died in the womb instead of his people.

He imputed to us a perfect righteousness. In fact, was made to be our righteousness. That's His name. According to Jeremiah 23, 5, the Lord, our righteousness. And then in Jeremiah 33, 19, it says, and she shall be called, that is His church, the Lord, our righteousness. What is my righteousness? The Lord.

Next time somebody asks you a question like that about holiness and righteousness, say, the Lord's my righteousness. Because that's what the Bible says. This garment worn by this man was the only way that God accepted his people. And one thing was certain, this garment was holiness. Holiness under the Lord. Everything about it was representative of his people.

Everything had to do with an aspect of honoring and worshiping God so it could not be rent. It could not be rent. This garment was to never be rent. You know, when Jesus died on the cross, when those soldiers took his garment, they didn't rend him. They cast lots on him. They didn't rend his garment.

In our studies of John, we're in chapter 11. In chapter 11, we are introduced to a priest named Caiaphas. And he said some interesting things about the Lord. We have another example or another time when he was talking to the Lord. He probably was talking about the same time as far as chronology goes. But in Matthew chapter 26 we have something going on. Turn to Matthew chapter 26 and look at verse 60.

Verse 59 says, Now the chief priest and the elders and all the council sought false witnesses against Jesus. Now he's been arrested. and fought for the high proof. They sought false witnesses, but they didn't find any. Yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last time came two false witnesses, which they paid for, and said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God and build it up in three days.

And the Lord had said that. He was talking about his body. That's in John chapter 2. And the high priest arose and said, answerest thou nothing? Speaking to Jesus Christ. What is it which these witnesses against thee? But Jesus held his peace and kept his mouth shut. Remember what it says in Isaiah 53? As a lamb led before his shears, he's done, he opened not his mouth, kept his peace. And the high priest answered and said to him, I adjure you, I adjure you, by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ the Son of God.

Why were they even asked that? They were asked that because they wanted him to say it, but they were also asked that because they wondered themselves. They were never sure. Remember how long he walked. He walked three years in ministry, doing miracles, and saying that he was the Son of God, and it took him three years to finally get into court. And he didn't do that until he gave himself to the When he said, are you the Christ, the Son of God?

He said, well, you said it. That's basically, thou hast said it. Nevertheless, I say it to you. Now, here's where the trouble is. Hereafter shall you see the Son of Man. Didn't hear what he said. Sitting on the right hand of power. That's the right hand of God. So he said, yes, I'm the son of God, I'm the Christ. And that's what you're going to see. Then the high priest what? Rent his clubs. He rent his clubs saying, he has spoken blasphemy. What further need we have of you witnesses? Behold now, ye have heard this. What think ye? They answered, he is guilty of death. Christ has turned himself into the religious mob. He's been denied thrice by Simon Peter.

He's received the Judas kiss and is now on the vaunted halls of holiness standing before the high priest of Israel, a man called Caiaphas. Present at this meeting were the malevolent mob made up of scribes and elders. They were the criminal crop in Judaism and the who's who of religious society. And those fellows were looking for a witness against Christ, but found none, so they, until two false witnesses magically appeared, but they told the truth. He did say, take this teffer down, I'll raise it up again in the third day. Consider what's going on here.

Here in the high priest's palace, the most noble and prestigious men of Israel were gathered to put the king of kings on trial. The high priest was accusing the great high priest. The high priest was accusing the great high priest. The scribes had spent their lives copying the scriptures and plotting to kill the living Word of God. The elders and sages, the aged ones, were colluding to destroy the ancient of days, and they wanted to make short work of the whole deal because the Feast of Passover was approaching. was an astute politician who sought by his counsel to preserve the existence of his religion while at the same time appeasing the government of Rome. This Jesus of Nazareth was causing a stir. Was causing a stir.

This episode and what it follows teaches us a great deal about false, self-perpetuating, useless religion. And when I say useless, I mean Christless religion. Because that was the aim of this bunch, to sustain and perpetuate their religion by doing away with Jesus Christ. We will not have this man reign over us, they said. Just a quick perusal of the treatment of Christ shows us that the substitute, the one who alone merited salvation, has no place in useless religion. The fact that they spat in his face reveals that useless religion despises the glory of God. The fact that they buffeted him reveals that useless religion is innately cruel.

The fact that they mocked him reveals that useless religion is intrinsically petty. All these would constitute a message in themselves, but this message is plain. The high priest read his gospel. absolutely prohibited by God. He rent his garment. Why did the high priest rent his garment? First Caiaphas rent his garment because of what the Lord said. Remember that this act was not allowed by God, renting of the garment, even though it was allowed by tradition for other people.

He felt, that is Caiaphas felt that this was an appropriate response to what our Lord said. he considered that our Lord had blasphemed. What brought him to this heightened state of a frenzy was this state of righteous indignation. When Caiaphas had asked the Lord to confess to being a sire, our Lord simply said, well, you said it. And then as if that was not enough to rile this individual, our Lord said, I am the Son of God, and you will see it. means forth, you will see it.

You'll see me ascend to the right hand of majesty on high, and you'll see me coming again in the air. You see I have a rightful place at the right hand of power. What is that? What is the right hand of power? Everywhere in scripture it's salvation. That's how God saves people, with the right hand of his power. And after you've done your deed, the Lord said, I'll be coming back in the clouds to settle things once and for all.

Once and for all. This religious man could not take that. The same sun that melts the wax hardens the clay. The same message that causes the elect to bow causes the religionists to rant, rave, and behave like a madman. The single message that is true, and is true for all men, is that the Lord Jesus Christ is God, and He's the Lord. That's the single message. No matter who I talk to, if I say, Jesus Christ, you're the Lord, I'm telling you the truth. You say, well, I don't believe in Him. It doesn't matter. where it may be there just for a while until He gives you faith. But He's your Lord. He's your Lord. I may tell you that God loves you, but that might not be true. It could be true.

He loves a lot of people. A number that no man can number. An innumerable company of saints He loves. But He doesn't love everybody. And He said, Jacob, have I loved thee? He said he hates the workers of iniquity. He's angry with sinners every day. This is the language of scripture. Does God love everybody?

No. He said he didn't. Can you take his word for it? He is, after all, God. I think he tells the truth. He cannot lie. He cannot lie. Christ didn't die for everybody. Read John 8, 9, 7, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. He makes it clear about who he died for and who he came for. Makes it clear.

And he does it in the face of those religious men who thought that they were of God. He told them, you're not of God because you don't hear God's words. He said, I speak the truth to you and you won't hear me. He tells them that they weren't of God. What's he saying?

I didn't die for everybody. I lay down my life for the sheep. This commandment I received from my father. I lay it down of myself. No man taketh it from me. I lay down my life for the sheep, the church, the elect, those suffered, severed from humanity, those mine elect. But this is a fact.

If I say Jesus Christ is your Lord, He is your Lord. He's Lord of the living and the dead. And that's impossible for a rebel to take. Or take an act of the same Lord to bring you to your knees and rest assured, as Lord, if that is His desire, you will bow. If He is on your trail, He will find you. If He is looking for you, He will find you. If He intends to save you, you are saved. Mark it down. And if he doesn't, there's nothing you can do about it. Nothing at all.

Caiaphas was living because this carpenter's son, this unlearned Nazarene, this wine-bibber, this babbler, what he said could not be taken. Why? Because he claimed deity. That meant that Caiaphas was bound by all is right and holy according to his tradition and according to the word of God.

If he was the Christ, he had to worship him. The high priest had to fall down on his face right now and kiss the feet. It meant that all things, even this kangaroo court, this fake trial, was under the control of this man. It meant that according to Isaiah, this man was a just God and a Savior. It meant that according to Jeremiah, that this man was our righteousness. It meant that according to Daniel, this man would make an end of sins and finish transgression and make reconciliation for iniquity and bring in everlasting righteousness. It meant that according to David, this man was the high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

It meant that Cass was out of a job. No, away with this man. He said, we will not have this man right over us. And he rent his garment because he was so mad and angry and indignant about the Lord. What the Lord had said, well, what happened when he did that? What happened? What was the meaning of that? This is the second thing. He put himself out of a job.

He ceased to be the representative of his people because he was no longer holy. He was no longer set apart. He tore a hole in righteousness, if you will. And that is unacceptable. It shall be perfect to be accepted, our Lord said. He ceased to be the representative of his people.

He brought the people under the wrath of God and sealed his own doom when he rendered that garment. But remember who he was. In this act of defiance, this act of hatred toward Jesus Christ, the Christ of God, his wrath praised God for it's time for the introduction of the new covenant. Actually, the oldest covenant, the covenant of God's grace.

When he read his garment, he totally relinquished any hope of atonement for Israel under the old covenant. He's the high priest. He's the one that goes into the holy place. He's the one that offers blood for Israel. And now he's ripped his garment. He ripped his garment.

He could not approach God without a perfect righteousness. His act of defiance, his anger toward Christ, set aside the levitical priesthood. It's over. And why not? What deed is there of a type when the substance is standing right in front of you? his act of hatred toward Christ left naturalism without a representative. Think about that. This nation, God's elect, naturally elect people whom he'd given a religion, whom he had set up this priesthood in this rabbinical line, but given them the word of God, given the oracles, given the sacrifices, given the law, all those things they had, now they don't have anybody because the one man, remember God deals with one man, Adam Christ, One man that stood as representative of this people has just disqualified himself to do so. Now, there's not another high priest in line. Not another high priest in line. It's over.

In just a matter of hours, God will rend the veil from top to bottom, and men will have access to God through the veil, that is to say, this flesh of him who stands before God. have served their purpose. And lo, he stands before you in the volume of the book it is written of him to do God's will. He taketh away the first and establishes the second. This is all part of it. Rend your heart and not your garment. This is all part of purpose, all part of the plan. Read the Hebrews and you'll find that the priesthood was set aside by the great high priest. Dine in the room instead. We take this table today.

We're taking and we're saying, there is one who represents me to God. We're not taking it because we're naturally holy. Whether we have any merit of our own, we're taking it as a confession. Preaching in the gospel is a confession of sin and a confession of Christ. Baptism is a confession of sin and a confession of Christ. Taking the Lord's table is a confession of sin and a confession of Jesus Christ. When we take this table, that's what we're saving. His death. His work on Calvary Street. His person, right now. But I'm in Him.

And the Lord looks at you, Sharon. He don't look at Sharon. He looks at Jesus Christ. And He sees Sharon as holy, righteous, without sin. Why? He didn't rend His garments. The pristine robe of Christ's righteousness veils all His children. That's what we're celebrating today. Malcolm, would you help me serve? Malcolm, would you help me serve? When the night owl was betrayed, he took bread and wine, That's the Lord's blessing. Father, bless this time together. And let us fix our hearts and minds, Lord. You do that, please.

On the Lord Jesus Christ, knowing that our relationship with you, that we are in good standing with you, because Jesus Christ died in our Roman state. And when he died, you accounted it as if we had died. And when He rose, you are counted as we have rose. And when He ascended, you are counted as we are ascended and sit in heavenly places with Him.

We stand in Him. He is our righteousness. He is our only hope. And we do declare by taking this table that we discern that. We understand the body and the blood of Jesus Christ is what fits us to stand before you, accept it. Help us to receive this table of joy in Thanksgiving. We pray in Christ's name. Okay. That's a good answer. One night I rode with Betrayed, our representative.

Took the bread of the Passover feast and broke it and handed it to his disciples. He said, take, eat, this is my body broken for you. As often as you do it, do it in remembrance of me. On the same night he took the cup. That's where the testament of the covenant resides, in his blood, in his death. He said, when you eat this bread and drink this cup, you do show forth my death until I come again.

Do this in remembrance of me. And they sang a hymn, and I went out that very night to do this. walking ahead of men with lanterns and weapons and swords. He said, who are we looking for? He said, the one I kiss. The one I kiss. That's the one we're looking for in Jesus' name.

And then he betrayed him. Our Lord went to the cross. My sin, oh, the bliss of this glorious love. My sin, not in part, but the whole, is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord, O my soul. It is well, it is well with my soul. It is well, it is well with my soul. I love them on each other.

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What does the Bible say about the role of the high priest?

Why is it significant that the high priest does not rend his garments?

How does Jesus fulfill the role of the high priest?

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