Well, good evening, everyone.
If you would open your Bibles with me to Hebrews chapter 9,
and as you're turning, I'll make this announcement. I've been
trying to keep this under wraps, but I suppose it's time to let
everybody know that tomorrow morning, I'm going to have a
bladder biopsy. They think that something has
happened. They think it's because of the
radiation for the prostate cancer that I did have, and so There's
an issue, and they're gonna biopsy that tomorrow. So now you know
what's going on, and I would covet your prayers on that for
tomorrow. All right, Hebrews chapter nine.
We'll read the first 13 verses. Then verily the first covenant
had also ordinances, a divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.
For there was a tabernacle made, the first, wherein was the candlestick,
and the table, and the showbread, which is called the sanctuary.
And after the second veil, a tabernacle, which is called the holiest of
all, which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid
round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna,
and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant.
And over it the cherubims of glory, overshadowing the mercy
seat, of which we cannot now speak particularly. Now, when
these things were thus ordained, the priest went always into the
first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God. But into
the second went the high priest alone, once every year, not without
blood, which he offered for himself and for the heirs of the people.
The Holy Ghost, this signifying that the way into the holiest
of all was not yet made manifest, whilst the first tabernacle was
yet standing, which was a figure for the time then present. in
which were offered both gifts and sacrifices that could not
make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the
conscience, which stood only in meats and drinks and diverse
washings and carnal ordinances imposed on them until the time
of reformation. But Christ, being come in a high
priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect
tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say not of this building,
neither by the blood of goats and calves, But by his own blood,
he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal
redemption for us. And we'll end, I said verse 13,
we'll read through verse 12. We'll end our reading there.
All right, Sean. If you would turn in your hymnals
to song number 225, 225, I heard the voice of Jesus say. I heard the voice of Jesus say,
come unto me and rest. Lay down, thou weary one, lay
down thy head upon my breast. I came to Jesus as I was weary
and worn and sad. I found in him a resting place,
and he has made me glad. I heard the voice of Jesus say,
behold, I freely give. The living water, thirsty one,
stoop down and drink and live. I came to Jesus and I drank of
that life-giving stream. My thirst was quenched, my soul
revived, and now I live in Him. I heard the voice of Jesus say,
I am this dark world's light. Look unto me, thy morn shall
rise, and all thy day be bright. I looked to Jesus, and I found
in Him my star, my sun. And in that light of life I'll
walk till traveling days are done. Okay, if you would now
turn to song number 50, Fairest Lord Jesus. Fairest Lord Jesus, ruler of
all nature, O Thou of God and man the Son, Will I cherish thee? Will I honor thou my soul's glory,
joy, and crown? Fair are the meadows, fairer
still the woodlands, robed in the blooming garb of spring. Jesus is pure, who makes the
woeful heart to sing. Fair is the sunshine, fairer
still the moonlight, and all the twinkling starry host. Jesus shines brighter Jesus shines
purer than all the angels heaven can boast. Beautiful Savior, Lord of the
nations, Son of God and Son of Man. All right, let's open our Bibles
now to Exodus chapter 26. Exodus chapter 26, we'll begin
our reading in verse 31. And thou shalt make a veil of blue
and purple and scarlet and fine twine linen of cunning work with
cherubims shall it be made. And thou shalt hang it upon four
pillars of shitum wood overlaid with gold. Their hooks shall
be of gold upon the four sockets of silver. And thou shalt hang
up the veil under the thatches that thou mayest bring in thither
within the veil the ark of the testimony. And the veil shall
divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy. And
thou shalt put the mercy seat upon the ark of the testimony
in the most holy place. And thou shalt set the table
without the veil and the candlestick over against the table on the
side of the tabernacle toward the south. And thou shalt put
the table on the north side And thou shalt make a hang, or I'm
sorry, I don't wanna go on there. We'll end there, verse 35, the
instructions for the veil. All right, before we go on, let's
bow together in prayer. Our Father, we're so thankful
for this evening that you've given to us to meet together
and to worship your precious name. And Father, I pray that
you would send your spirit upon us and give us the spirit of
worship. Father, if you don't meet with
us, we'll have met here in vain. But enable us to worship thee
tonight in spirit and in truth. Let us see with the eye of faith
more the glory, the beauty of Christ our Savior, the awesome
work that he accomplished to provide a full and free salvation
for your people. Father, we're so thankful for
many things, the blessings of this life that you've given to
us, our homes, our families, our jobs. But father, chiefly
beyond compare, how we thank you for our Lord Jesus Christ,
how we thank you for your purpose of redemption that you purposed
in your mercy and grace to centers, to, to provide a savior who would
completely and utterly save his people from their sins. who would
redeem them completely by the blood of his sacrifice. Father,
let us hold up his name tonight, his person, his glorious finished
work, and let us see him, and from the heart, worship. Father,
I thank you for a place that you've given to us where we can
meet together and worship in peace and harmony. And Father,
I pray that you'd bless each home Bless each of us, Father,
with your presence and with your leadership, and above all, with
your mercy and your grace. And Father, for those that you've
brought in at the time of trouble and trial, we pray a special
blessing for them. Father, we are thankful for the
good report we've had in our brother Gary Holback and Father,
pray that you continue to be with him, heal him, and strengthen
him, and restore him to full strength soon. We pray for Novi
as she's getting ready to go through this surgery, that you
would be with her and her family in a special way. Be with the
doctors and nurses that treat her. Give them skill and understanding
to give her some relief from these problems she's suffered
with for so long. And others, Father, need you
especially, those we know of and those we don't. We're thankful
to be able to hold them up to thee. The God of heaven and earth
who does all things well, who do all things right with his
children. And Father, we pray for the faith to leave these
cares at thy feet. It's in Christ's name. For his
sake and his glory, we pray. Now tonight we're going to look
at the veil in the temple, the veil that separated the holy
place from the holy of holies. And this veil is a glorious picture
of Christ and him crucified. And that's what I've titled the
message, The Veil, Christ and Him Crucified. Now hold your
finger there in Exodus and look over at Hebrews chapter 10. The
writer to the Hebrews leaves it so there can be no doubt what
this veil is a picture of. It's a picture of our Lord Jesus
Christ come into flesh. Hebrews 10 verse 19. Having therefore brethren boldness
to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new
and living way which he consecrated for us through the veil, that
is to say his flesh. So this veil is a picture of
Christ in the flesh and what he accomplished when he came
in the flesh for his people. And the Lord will enable us to
see this. This is going to thrill your
soul, how this veil is such a glorious picture of Christ our Savior. Now the first thing about this
veil, it hung here between the Holy of Ways and the Holy of
Holies. And just like the coverings that
went over the that form the ceiling of the tabernacle had these glorious
colors in it. And these colors tell us who
Christ is. This tells us about his person. In verse 31 of Exodus 26, and
thou shall make a veil of blue and purple and scarlet and fine
twined linen. Now we've been through these
colors before and I don't want to just give you a dry rehearsal
of what these colors mean. When we look at these colors,
I would like for us to be utterly amazed at who the Lord Jesus
Christ is, at who it is that came to save his people from
their sin. First, there's blue. And you know that blue is the
color of heaven. And here's the amazing thing
about this blue. You think about this. The Son
of God, now our Savior, this is what the blue is telling us,
is coming from heaven. The Son of God came all the way from
heaven in order to save sinful men and women like you and me.
Now, I don't know how long of a trip that is, but let me tell
you, it's far. I mean, the distance between
earth and heaven is far. It's a distance that no man can
cross, but God the son did it. When he became flesh, he came
all the way from heaven to earth to save his people from their
sin. And the next color, is purple. Purple is the color of royalty,
telling us that the one who's coming, this one who's coming
to save his people is Christ the King. And I love the kingship
of Christ. I love to think about how he's
sovereign over everything, that he's king over everything, that
nothing can happen without his express will and permission.
If the king has come to save us, brother, we're saved. He
can't fail to save us. Isn't that thrilling? And to
think that the king of kings and the Lord of lords humbled
himself to come to earth, to come down in the gutter where
we are to save a sinful people from their sin. You won't find
an earthly king anywhere that would do that. But the king of
kings did. But then purple's also a mixture
of red and blue. You mix red and blue, you get
purple. Blue, the color of heaven, and red, the color of man. This
one who's coming is the God-man. He's as much God as if he were
not man, and as much man as if he were not God. God became a
man. Now, there's a mystery, isn't
it? I mean, what a, God actually
became a man. so that he could make his sinful
people the righteousness of God in him. He came in the flesh
as the second Adam. Now we all know what the first
Adam did. He took everybody he represented and made him guilty,
made them unrighteous by his disobedience. So Christ came
in the flesh as the second Adam and everybody he represented,
he made absolutely righteous. Because he's our representative,
just like we did what Adam did when we were in Adam our representative.
God's elect did what Christ did. So when he obeyed the law, his
people did too. When he was righteous and he
was holy, his people were too. When he died to justice, his
people did too. When he was raised again, his
people were raised again too, to new life. And when he ascended
back to glory, his people did too. Even though we're sitting
here tonight, every believer is seated in heavenly places
in Christ Jesus. And you think, now this is the
king. The humility of the king and
the love of the king for his people, that he came so far and
humbled himself so much, so deeply, in order to save the likes of
us. Isn't that thrilling? Doesn't that make you want to
worship him? Doesn't that make you want to thank him? And then
there's Scarlet. Scarlet is the color of man. I can't explain this, and nobody
else can either, but the son of God became a real man. He was a real man. He experienced the weakness of
the flesh, being hungry and tired and thirsty. He had emotions. He did it all without sin, but
he's a real man. And as a man, he had blood. That's the other thing this red
represents, his blood, the precious blood of Christ. That sinless
blood is so precious. It paid the redemption price
for all of God's elect by just one sacrifice. He just had to
shed his blood once. Now you think how amazing it
is that God would shed his blood to redeem a sinner like you and
me. And someone would say, now wait a minute, that's the blood
of a man. Well, it is the blood of a man,
but it's also the blood of God. Remember what Paul told the Ephesian
elders as he was leaving them in Acts 20 verse 28? He said,
you feed the church of God, which he purchased with his own blood. Yes, it was the blood of man,
but the blood of Jesus Christ is the blood of God that God
shed to redeem his sinful people from their sin. Now, if that don't get you, something's
wrong, isn't it? And then all of this was woven
together in fine twined linen. And that white linen is a picture
of the holiness of Christ. And I love how scriptures always,
the Lord had given Moses these instructions was always so particular
to say fine twined linen. You get the best fine twined.
Because this linen is a picture of the holiness of Christ. His
inward and outward holiness, it's fine twined. It's the best
God has. That's what he sent to redeem
his people. That's the holiness that he gives his people. It's
the best that God has. And that perfection of Christ
is not just his personal perfection. It's the perfection of his people
because he came as our representative. You think about being perfect
in Christ. Now, you won't find a believer
anywhere that will tell you they're perfect. In any way, in anything
that they've ever done, there's not one thing I've ever done
that's perfect. Everything I have ever done,
everything I've ever thought, everything I've ever said is
full of sin. But yet I'm perfect in Christ. The Father is always
except his people because we're perfect, without spot, without
blemish in the Lord Jesus Christ. This is who he is. This is what
he's going to make his people when he comes. But here's the
second thing about this veil. There's never been another one
like it. There's never been another man like the Lord Jesus Christ.
Verse 31 says, this is a cunning work. You know, the Lord gave
somebody special ability to be able to, to, to put all this
together and make this tapestry. The old timers say, It was all
woven together in one piece and it was a hand breadth thick.
This was a very thick and lush and beautiful veil. Well, that's
Jesus Christ, isn't he? I mean, he is a cunning work. He is so magnificent. He is so
wonderful, so beautiful. Only the father could make him.
And that's what our savior said, a body has thou prepared me.
The father prepared his son, a human body. a body that he
could come and sacrifice for the sin of his people. The whole
reason that Christ came incarnate was to be sacrificed for that
hour of hours. And when Christ came to save,
he came with the power to save. That's what these cherubims,
this is with the cherubims shall it be made. Now this veil had
pictures of cherubims woven into it. I don't exactly know what
a cherubim looks like. I do know this for a fact. It's
not a chubby little child that has wings attached to it. I know
it's not that. These are powerful, fearsome
beings, and they represent judicial authority and power. Remember
when God cast Adam out of the garden, he put cherubim with
that sword that turns every which way to keep Adam from coming
back to the tree of life. These chairmans represent power. Woven into this, which remember
is a picture of Christ in the flesh. Christ came with power,
with all power. Of course he has the power to
save because of who he is, but also he said the Father has given
him power, given him authority in heaven and earth to give eternal
life to as many as the Father has given him. This one who's
coming to save, is the sovereign savior. And he cannot fail to
save everyone that he came to save. And to think that before
he came to save anybody, his father chose a people to save. And they're the worst of the
worst. They'll tell you they are. Every one of them will tell
you they're the worst. And this sovereign savior, who is in need
of nothing, humbled himself to come and save sinners like you
and me. Now that's amazing grace, isn't
it? It's amazing grace. Everything about our Savior is
amazing, including his grace, isn't it? Amazing grace. Well,
now here's the purpose of the veil. The purpose of this veil
was to be a divider, a separator. Verse 32, and thou shalt hang
it upon four pillars of shiddom wood, overlaid with gold. The
hook shall be of gold upon the four sockets of silver, and thou
shalt hang up the veil under the tatches that thou mayest
bring in thither within the veil, the Ark of the Testimony. And
the veil shall divide unto you between the holy place and the
most holy. And thou shalt put the mercy
seat upon the Ark of the Testimony in the most holy place. And thou
shalt set the table without the veil and the candlestick over
against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the
south. And thou shalt put the table on the north side. Now
this, the purpose of the veil was to divide. On this side of
the tabernacle, there's the mercy seat, the Ark of the Covenant.
On the other side, the table of showbread and the candlestick
and the altar of incense. It was a divider. There was a
clear division between the holy place and the holy of holies.
The veil separated it. The high priest couldn't come
into the tabernacle and just walk right straight up to the
Ark of the Covenant in the mercy seat. There was a veil stopping
them. There was a veil hung there that divided them. And here's
the picture. Sinners like you and me just
can't stroll into the presence of God anytime we want. We can't
come to God like we are in ourselves because we're too sinful. We're
so sinful, the holy presence of God would just disintegrate
us. There's a separation made between God and men, and man
cannot cross it. The veil hanging there says stop. All the while that this tabernacle,
and then later on the temple was in use, that veil always
was saying stop. The priest would go in and they
would do the service in the tabernacle. They'd put the oil in the lamp
stand. They'd change out the The show
bread, they put the coals and the incense on the altar of incense,
but that veil was always right there. Tell them, stop, don't
you go any further. You stop right here. Look at
Hebrews chapter nine. Hebrews chapter nine. Verse six. Now when these things were thus
ordained, the priest went always into the first tabernacle, into
the holy place, accomplishing the service of God. But into
the second went the high priest alone, once every year, not without
blood, which he offered for himself and for the heirs of the people.
The Holy Ghost, this signifying that the way into the holiest
of all was not yet made manifest, whilst the first tabernacle was
yet standing, which was a figure, for the time then present, in
which were offered both gifts and sacrifices that could not
make him that did the service perfect as pertaining to the
conscience, which stood only in meats and drinks and diverse
washings and carnal ordinances imposed on them until the time
of reformation. All that time that that veil
was there was saying, stop, unless you're the high priest on the
day of atonement and you're bringing blood, Don't you cross this veil? Don't you come to the other side
of this veil? Now the veil did tell us someday
God's going to provide a way. But this isn't it. This veil
isn't it. And animal blood being sprinkled
on the mercy seat is not it. This is just a picture, a type,
a shadow. The way to come to God accepted
is not yet made manifest. We don't know what it is yet
because this veil was blocking the entrance to God. If you were
not the high priest on the day of atonement and you tried to
come around that veil, God would kill you. You'd just be dead
as a doornail. But here's a hint of God's mercy.
Here's a hint of something that's coming. When God made this, told
Moses to make this divider, the separator between the holy of
holies and the holy place, he didn't tell him, get those masons
and build you a brick wall. He said, hang a veil, hang a
veil, a veil that can be removed, a veil that can be taken down.
There's someone, this veil says someone's coming to do what Aaron
cannot do with that animal blood. Someone's coming to actually
atone for the sin of his people. And for 1,000, 1,500 years, this
veil hung there in the tabernacle and later on in the temple as
a divider. Look at Leviticus chapter 16. Leviticus chapter 16. The command
of this veil was come not, come not. Leviticus 16 verse one. The Lord spake unto Moses after
the death of the two sons of Aaron when they offered before
the Lord and died. And the Lord said unto Moses,
speak unto Aaron, thy brother, that he come not at all times
into the holy place within the veil before the mercy seat, which
is upon the ark, that he die not. For I will appear in the
cloud above the mercy seat. Don't you come directly into
my presence without blood or you'll die. The command was Aaron,
come not, come not, come not. And there's this beautiful veil. I mean, this thing was stunning
in its beauty and it's just, I mean, just what a genius work
of art it was. But it was hanging there as a
divider for all that time. And I know that that veil must
have been beautiful. But you know when the veil was
the most beautiful? You're ahead of me, aren't you?
When it was torn in two. When Christ gave up the ghost,
what happened? This veil was rent in two from
top to bottom. Look at it in Matthew chapter
27. Matthew 27, verse 50. Jesus, when he cried again with
a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And behold, the veil of
the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom. And
the earth did quake and the rocks rent and the graves were opened.
And many bodies of the saints which slept arose and came out
of the graves after his resurrection and went into the holy city and
appeared unto many. This veil being rent in twain,
Christ giving up the ghost, has something to do with life, doesn't
it? The dead rose from their graves
when Christ died, when he gave up the ghost, and if he gave
up the ghost, this veil, and God had to do it, tore this thing
from top to bottom. And as I understand this veil,
this is something only God could do. Remember, they say that this
veil is a hand-bred fit. And the old Jews, if you put
any stock in what they say, say if you tied two pair of oxen
to this veil and had them pull in opposite directions, the veil
would not be torn. So if it's torn from top to bottom,
God had to do it, didn't he? God did this. And there's a connection
to this. This happened when Christ gave
up the ghost. Christ's death was an act of
God too. This is an act of God's justice that satisfied God's
justice. And God did it. The Father did
it. Now when Christ died, and this veil was reigning too, I
mean, I don't know, but I would imagine that this is the weekend
of the Passover. They're preparing for the Passover.
It would not surprise me to learn that there are priests in that
holy place going about their work. Can you imagine how scared
they were when they saw that thing torn from top to bottom? They weren't supposed to even
be looking into the holy place, you know? Now, this is another
thing, this is what they say. that the veil was torn in two
and everybody would be afraid to look on the ark and the mercy
seat. The ark and the mercy seat weren't even there. It had been
plundered long ago. When they came back and rebuilt
the temple, those priests were just pretending all those years
to go in and sprinkle the blood on the mercy seat. It just shows
how empty that their religion was. There was nothing to that.
There's no atonement there. There's no life there. When Christ
died, there was life, wasn't there? People came out of the
graves. But when this veil was rent in two, that's why I say
this is why the veil is the most beautiful when it's torn. Because
now the way to God is wide open. As long as you come in the Lord
Jesus Christ. The veil is not separating God
and his people anymore. And you know why? Because Christ
was separated from the Father for his people. And his death
made them perfect so they can come into the presence of God
anytime they want. Here's why the veil is the most
beautiful when it's been torn in two. Because this that has
stood as a barrier for 1,500 years is now a gateway. Come straight to God and be accepted
through the Lord Jesus Christ. And I love that the veil was
torn from top to bottom. That shows us God is open through
the death of Christ. He's opened the way for the worst
of sinners to come to God. He didn't tear a little hole
at the bottom that just little sinners could get through. Or
he didn't put a hole in it that just little sinners could get
through. He didn't tear it horizontally across where short sinners could
get through it. He tore it from top to bottom.
so that grand sinners, great sinners of any size, shape, or
color could come straight to God through the Lord Jesus Christ
and be accepted. I love how the death of Christ
satisfied God's justice. It's not just an act of mercy
where God overlooks the sin of his people. The cross is an act
of justice. that since Christ put away the
sin of his people, God's people aren't coming to him through
a loophole in the law. We're not coming in the back
door somebody left unlocked. We come right through the front
door, fully accepted in the Lord Jesus Christ. We read that in
Leviticus, the commandment of the law. What this veil said
for 1,500 years was come not. Now Christ has died. Now we have
the fulfillment of this veil, what he accomplished in his flesh.
And now the command is not, come not. Now the command is come. I want you to look at two places.
First John chapter seven. And I want to state this very
plainly. This is not an invitation. You
know, if I tell you coming over to my house, that's an invitation. When God says this, it's a totally
different thing. This is a commandment, come to
Christ. John 37, verse 37. In that last
day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying,
if any man thirst, let him come. Come unto me and drink. He that
believeth on me, as the scripture has said, out of his belly shall
flow rivers of living water. Now that's a commandment, but
if you're thirsty, And remember, you only feel thirst when your
body, thirst is your body's way of telling you, you need something
you don't have. If you hunger and thirst for righteousness,
if you hunger and thirst for the forgiveness of your sins,
if you hunger after Christ, if you're thirsty, this sure sounds
like a sweet invitation, doesn't it? Come, and whether, I'm coming. If I'm thirsty, I'm coming to
Christ. Now this was the cry of Christ
in the flesh. On that last day of the feast,
he stood and cried saying, come. Now look at Revelation chapter
22. That was the cry of our savior from earth. Let's look at the
cry of both his people and the spirit in heaven. Revelation
22 verse 17. And the spirit and the bride
say, come. And let him that heareth say,
come. And let him that is a thirst come. And whosoever will, let
him come and take of the water of life freely. Let me tell you
one more time. Sinner, come. Come to Christ. And coming to
Christ is just believing. Come to Christ. There's nothing
stopping you from coming to Christ. Christ has opened the way for
sinners to come to him by his sacrifice. And if you look at
Hebrews chapter 10, come to Christ confidently. Hebrews 10 verse 19, having therefore
brethren boldness, to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus. That word boldness is liberty. It's the confidence to come to
Christ knowing I'll be accepted. I can come to God knowing, confident
that I'll be accepted because the blood of Christ has washed
me from all my sin. His blood has redeemed me and
paid for all of my sin. I don't owe a debt to God's justice
anymore. The blood of Christ paid it,
and I can come confidently. You know, I want us to always,
it's very important to me, that we're reverent. In our worship
service, in our prayers, as we talk together about the Lord,
to be reverent. And we ought to be reverent.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Be reverent. But now,
don't act like, I mean, I don't know what you call this, but
this is something twisted to say, well, you know, I'm afraid
to come to God. And come to God just like, you
know, just thinking He's gonna just strike you down at any moment. That's not faith. If the Father
struck Christ for you, He's not gonna strike you too. Come confident
that I'll be accepted in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ
by his sacrifice. The commandment of the law was
come not. The commandment of the gospel
that we preach is come and come confidently. You know, the high
priest on the day of atonement, I mean, I don't really read about
his emotions and things, but I'm very confident the man was
scared to death. I mean, if you do something wrong
and you come into the holy of holies, into the presence of
God, the Shekinah glory of God over that mercy seat, you're
going to die. And the Lord and his instructions
to the Jews on the high priest garments on the day of atonement
had bells on the bottom of it. And those Jews would listen close. They're afraid. What if he does
something wrong? And as long as they heard those
bells ringing, they know he's still moving around. God hadn't
killed him. If God accepts that sacrifice, I'll be accepted too. That's fear. And that's what
the law promotes and produces, is fear. The gospel promotes
confidence. Come to Christ confidently. not because of who you are, because
of who he is and what he accomplished in his flesh. Now, one thing
hadn't changed from the time this veil was in use. You still
come by blood. You come to God by blood, but
it's not animal blood, is it? It's the precious blood of Christ. And as long as we come in the
blood of Christ, as long as we come pleading the merits of Christ,
the weakest believer, can come to Christ just as boldly as the
apostles. I mean, you think of that. I
mean, we don't think of ourselves as anything, you know, like the
apostles, and we're not. But the weakest of sinner can
come to Christ just as confidently as the apostle Paul, as long
as you come in the blood of Christ. And I wanna show you one more
thing. Look at verse 20 here in Hebrews 10. By a new and living
way, which he hath consecrated for us through the veil, that
is to say his flesh. Now that phrase, a new and living
way, means a freshly slaughtered way. Now you know this does not
mean that Christ is sacrificed repeatedly. Christ is the lamb
slain from the foundation of the world. And his blood has
not grown stale ever since then. Then in the fullness of time,
Christ came and he had, I mean, he's a lamb slain from the foundation
of the world. That's the purpose of the father,
to redeem his people by the blood of his son. But there had to
come a moment in time when the blood was actually shed. A little
over 2,000 years ago. In 2,000 years, his blood hasn't
grown stale. In that time, millions of people
have come to Christ for cleansing. and his blood hasn't lost one
ounce of its power to save. The blood of Christ is just as
powerful as it's ever been. Dear dying lamb, thy precious
blood shall never lose its power. To all the ransomed church of
God, be saved to sin no more. It hasn't lost its power. This
is fresh blood, just as powerful today as ever. Now you come confident
because of this freshly slaughtered way We're not preaching leftovers
here. We're not preaching leftovers.
We're preaching the freshness of the blood of Christ. The gospel,
when we preach it today, is just as fresh and just as powerful
as it was the first time it was ever preached. And in our experience,
in the believer's experience, isn't the gospel just as fresh
as the first time you ever heard it? Just as powerful as the first
time that you ever heard it? The gospel of Christ Never go
stale. Never go stale. Even though you
hear the same story over and over and over again. Same story
from different texts. Sometimes you hear the same story
from the same text. Sunday night, Brother Roland
Browning preached on a text that many of us have heard preached
many times. It was like I'd never heard it
before. Just so fresh. That's because
the blood of Christ is just as fresh and just as powerful as
it has ever been. Doesn't that give you comfort
to come to Christ? His blood is fresh and powerful
enough to save even me. How about that? All right, let's
bow together. Our Father, how we thank you
for this precious picture. of our Lord Jesus Christ and
what he's accomplished for his people in the flesh. Father,
I pray that this would not just be a academic exercise to us,
but Father that you take this gospel of your dear son and apply
it to our hearts. Enable us to believe on the Lord
Jesus Christ. And Father, cause it to thrill
our hearts. Cause it to give us joy and peace and comfort
in believing. Father, it's in Christ's name,
for his sake and his glory, we pray, amen. All right, Sean. Okay, if you would turn in your hymnals
to song number 489 and stand as we sing glory to his name. Down at the cross where my Savior
died. Down where for cleansing from
sin I cried. There to my heart was the blood
applied. Glory to His name. Glory to His name. Glory to His name. There to my heart was the blood
applied. Glory to His name. I am so wondrously saved from
sin. Jesus so sweetly abides within. There at the cross where he took
me in. Glory to his name. Glory to His name. Glory to His name. There to my heart was the blood
applied. Glory to His name. O precious fountain that saves
from sin, I am so glad I have entered in. There Jesus saves me and keeps
me clean. Glory to His name. Glory to His name. Glory to His name. There to my heart was the blood
applied. Glory to His name. Come to this fountain so rich
and sweet. Cast thy poor soul at the Savior's
feet. Plunge in today and be made complete. Glory to His name. Glory to His name. Glory to His name. There to my heart was the blood
applied. Glory to His name.