Genesis chapter 5. I titled the
message this evening, Noah, a type of Christ. I know everybody here
is very familiar with the story of Noah and the ark. I'm very
confident that everybody's very well aware of the picture of
Christ in that ark, that it's a picture of Christ and salvation
in him. We'll probably, I'm going to
try not to hurry through this story of the ark, spend a few
weeks looking at the ark in some detail. Before we do that, get
looking at the pictures of Christ in the Ark itself, it struck
me as I began reading and studying this this week, I wanted to look
at Noah as a type of Christ, not just the Ark as a type of
Christ, but Noah. I don't know if you've ever considered
Noah as a type of Christ. I probably really haven't. I
usually spend so much time thinking about the Ark and all of its
details and what a glorious picture of Christ that is. I'm afraid
I've forgotten to look at Noah, who built the Ark. He's a picture
of Christ, too. And I want to give you seven
ways that Noah is a type of Christ. I believe it'll be a blessing.
It was a blessing to me as I studied. Now, the first thing is this.
Noah's name is a picture of Christ. In verse 28 of Genesis 5, Lamech
lived 180 and two years and begat a son and called his name Noah,
saying this same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil
of our hands because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed. Now
the Lord must have given Lamech some foresight here, how he's
going, the Lord's gonna use his son Noah. The name Noah means
rest, or it means comfort or a resting place. And Lamech was
talking about through Noah somewhere, we're gonna get some comfort
concerning the work of our hands. And I don't think Lamech was
talking about the work and how difficult it was growing crops
from the cursed ground. I'm sure that Lamech was talking
about a spiritual rest. Because that's what Lamech and
every believer is searching for, is spiritual rest. It'd be nice
to have rest from all of our hard work, you know, in the world
with our jobs and so forth. But I tell you what we have to
have. We have to have rest. We need rest. This is what anybody
who's seeking the Lord is seeking. Rest from all of our hard work
and trying to keep the law and constantly failing to do it.
I mean, you talk about, this is not just hard work. We fail
at it. There's complete failure trying
to keep the law. It's just never enough that we
can stop. And Lamech knew somehow the Lord was gonna give a picture
of rest through what the Lord was gonna do with Noah. And that
name of Noah, his name meaning a place of rest, that's a picture
of what Christ came to provide for his people. Christ came to
give his people rest. Rest from the curse of the law
because he would be made a curse for them. To give them rest from
the law in every way. Believers have rest from all
of the requirements of God's law. And not because God set
the law aside, not because he said, well, I'm not gonna make
the law apply to you. That's not why. Believers have
rest from all the requirements of God's law because Christ kept
it all. Because he satisfied every requirement
of the law. He obeyed it perfectly, and then
he died to satisfy the law's demand that there has to be death
for sin. He kept the law for us. Adam
disobeyed God's law. And when he did that, he made
all of us sinners. But Christ obeyed the law for
his people. He satisfied every requirement of the law. And when
he did that, he made all of his people righteous. So we have
rest from keeping the law. That means that the believer
has absolutely no relationship with the law whatsoever. None.
You don't even have to look to the law to find out how to make
God happy with you. I mean, you think what rest that
is. If we had to look to the law to find out how to make God
happy with us, we'd be constantly depressed. There's no rest in
that. We rest in Christ because he's
already made God happy with us. He's already done everything
God requires for his people. We don't even have to look to
the law to see how to live in this world. I mean, think how
that would just drag you down. We already know we can't keep
the law. Why do you want to look to the law to see how to live?
You're just going to fail. The believer doesn't look to the
law. We look to Christ to see how to live. We look to Christ
and follow him. We don't follow the deadness
of the letter of the law. We follow Christ. Complete rest
from the law. And that's a glorious rest. What
a glorious rest Christ has provided for his people. And that's why
when the Savior came, he stood and cried, all you who are laboring,
all you who are weary, you're so weary because you're trying
to keep the law and you can't get the job done, come unto me. And what did he say when you
come unto me? I'll give you rest. I'll give you what you're looking
for, rest from the law. And Isaiah said, Isaiah 11, verse
10, his rest shall be glorious. What a glorious rest from the
law that we have in Christ. Rest from fear, rest from worry,
rest from any consequences, condemnation of the law, complete rest in
Christ. And Noah's name also means comfort.
You know, there is comfort of heart from resting in Christ. I left the hospital this afternoon. I was there talking to Joy. She's
going to have open-heart surgery tomorrow. And bypass surgery has almost
gotten to be just like a, it's just so common. You just don't
think it's just almost like an outpatient kind of thing. This
is a big deal. They're going to open her, I
mean, open-heart surgery. And she said, I'm not worried
a bit. One way or another, I'm going to be fine tomorrow. That's
rest. What a comfort it is to be able
to rest in Christ. I don't know how this thing's
going to turn out, but it's going to be all right. I can rest in
Him. What a comfort. And you know
how Christ gives comfort to His people? There's several ways.
He gives comfort to his people by taking the curse of the law
away from us. There's no need for the believer
to worry about suffering the curse of the law. No need. You don't have to worry God's
going to get you because you're not keeping the law. Now, if
you trust Christ, you don't. Because Christ already took that
away for his people. He was made a curse for his people
and he suffered it for them. So they never will. Now hold
your finger there, look over to Isaiah chapter 40. Here's
the second way. Christ comforts his people. It's
by telling them about the sacrifice of Christ. Isaiah chapter 40. Comfort ye, comfort ye my people,
saith your God. Speaking comfortably, speak to
the heart to comfort the hearts of my people, to Jerusalem. And
here's what you cry to comfort the hearts of my people. Crying
to her that her warfare is accomplished. Tell her her iniquity is pardoned,
for she hath received of the Lord's hand double for all of
her sins. When you want to comfort the
people of God, Tell them about the sacrifice of Christ. Tell
them that since Christ died, the war's over. Christ won the
war. He won the war over sin. He won
the war over death and hell. He won the war. Comfort God's
people by telling them the curse of law is gone. You don't have
to worry about the law. Christ died for you. He satisfied
that. And you've received of the Lord's
hand double. Double for all of your sin. And
what's he talking about there? Double. He means this. God's
people in Christ are forgiven of their sin and they're made
holy. They're forgiven of their sin.
Their sin is washed away and they're given a holy nature so
they can never sin again. So that righteousness cannot
be marred. You've received of the Lord's
hand double. He's taking care of this thing
so sin cannot harm you. What a comfort. There's no spiritual
worries. I know we worry about things
in this life, but there are no spiritual worries when we trust
and rest in Christ. He came to give his people rest.
All right, number two, Noah is a type of Christ in the grace
that he found. Look back at Genesis six, verse
eight. But Noah found grace in the eyes
of the Lord. Now y'all, everybody here already
knows this story. Noah and his family were spared
from drowning in the flood. And here's why. Because God was
gracious to them. God was gracious. It wasn't because
they were better than anybody else, because they weren't. They
were spared purely by God's grace. Something that they couldn't
do anything to deserve. That's grace. And they were spared
by God's grace, not because they deserved it. And that's the way
every believer is saved. Everybody God saves is saved
purely by grace. Without any of our works, without
any of our merits, without any of our personal morality, without
any of our personal righteousness, God's people are all saved purely
by undeserved free grace. But here's the thing that's pictured
in the art. God can only be gracious when His justice and His holiness
are satisfied. God can't be gracious and ignore
sin. He can only be gracious when sin is punished, when sin
is dealt with. God can never be gracious at
the expense of His holiness or His justice. God can never take
one of His attributes and put it at the expense of the other
one. So God can only be gracious. He cannot give somebody the condemnation
that they deserve if he gives somebody else the condemnation
and the death that they deserve. And that's what's pictured in
the Ark. When God's wrath and his condemnation fell on the
sin of the world, that rain that fell, God's wrath and his condemnation
against Noah's sin fell too. The difference between everybody
else and Noah is this, God's wrath for Noah's sin fell on
the ark. It still fell, it was still poured out, but it fell
on the ark instead of Noah, and that's why Noah could live. God
was gracious to Noah because the ark took the wrath for Noah's
sin for him. And if God's gonna save you and
me, he's gonna do it the same way. He'll be gracious to us
by taking his wrath out for our sin on Christ our substitute.
See, Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. And when Christ
came, this is what John said about him. Grace and truth, grace
and truth came by Jesus Christ. Noah and every other believer,
their soul is spared. in grace and truth that's in
Christ Jesus. And that's pictured in the ark.
Because remember, God can only be gracious when his holy justice
is satisfied. Well, that ark was a picture
of that. Christ came and did it literally. He came and did
it in person. He came to be the substitute
for the sin of his people. He was made sin for his people. And the wrath of God against
all of the sin of all of his elect fell on Christ our substitute,
all in one place, all at one time, and Christ bore it all. He took all of that wrath and
he suffered until that wrath was gone, until God's holy wrath
against sin was gone. And you know why God's wrath
stopped? Because sin was gone. The sacrifice of Christ put it
away. Now God can be gracious to his
people in justice because the substitute put their sin away.
See, that's how both grace and truth came by Christ. Grace and
justice satisfied in truth can only come in one place, in one
person, in the Lord Jesus Christ. Our ark, our sacrifice, And that's
what we have in picture, saving grace and truth in Noah and the
ark. The actual came in Christ when
he appeared. All right, third, Noah is a picture
of Christ and his character. Look at verse nine of chapter
six. These are the generations of
Noah. Noah was a just man and perfect to his generations. And
Noah walked with God. Now it says that Noah was a just
and a perfect man. And that word perfect means upright.
And I have absolutely no doubt Noah was an honest and an upright
man. And people he did business with,
he never cheated them. He was honest in all of his business
dealings. He was an upright man. He was
kind, he did the right thing. People knew Noah to be that kind
of man. But don't forget this, Noah was every bit as sinful
as you and me. He cut from the same cloth, Noah's every bit
as sinful as we are. That's why Noah needed to find
grace in the eyes of the Lord. If Noah was perfect in himself,
if he was just absolutely perfect and never sinned, he wasn't contaminated
with sin, he wouldn't need to be spared by grace, would he?
Noah needed to find grace in the eyes of the Lord, because
he was just as sinful as you and me. Yet, Noah was just. He was justified. He was justified
by faith in Christ. Noah was made just when the Lord
Jesus Christ kept the law for him. When Christ put his sin
away on Calvary Street, he was made just. Look at Hebrews chapter
11. You know, that's the only way
any sinner can be just with God. is if Christ comes, puts their
sin away by his sacrifice, and gives them a righteousness that
he earned for them. In Hebrews chapter 11, here's
the way Noah is described. Verse seven, by faith Noah, be
warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, preparing
an ark to the saving of his house, by which he condemned the world
and became heir of the righteousness, which is by faith." Now, Noah
didn't become an earner of righteousness. He became an heir of the righteousness,
which is by faith. Now, if you're an heir, you receive
something somebody else earned, somebody else had, and somebody
else gave to you freely. That's Noah. He became an heir
of righteousness. He became the heir of the righteousness
that Christ earned by his obedience to the law. And Noah was given
that righteousness by grace. And the same thing is true of
you and me. If we're ever going to be just
before God, it's going to be by grace because we're heirs,
because God gave us a free gift. Noah was justified in Christ
by the merits of Christ, by the merits of his obedience, by the
merits of his sacrifice. But now the Lord Jesus Christ,
when he came, he's so much better than the picture. I love, I just
absolutely love studying, looking at the Old Testament pictures
of Christ. And this is what's always playing when you study
those Old Testament pictures of Christ. The actual is always better than
the picture. The person is always better than the picture. The
Lord Jesus Christ is so much better than the picture. He's
righteous by his own nature. He's righteous by his own character,
by his own personal obedience to the law. He's perfect. He's uncontaminated with Adam's
sin. He was not shapen in iniquity.
He was not conceived in sin like you and me. He was conceived
by the Holy Ghost. So he has a holy nature. He's
not the seed of Adam, he's the seed of woman. And that meant
he's perfect. He's got a righteous, perfect
nature that would obey God's law perfectly. And sure enough,
he lived the life of a man, about 33 and a half years under the
law, and he kept the law perfectly. Never one time sinned, in deed
and thought and action and motive, never one time. Now that's amazing,
but here's the good news of that. The obedience of the Lord Jesus
Christ to the law is the obedience of his people. When he obeyed
the law, God's elect obeyed the law in him. and they're made
righteous in him by his obedience, the very same way we're made
sinners by Adam's disobedience, made righteous in Christ. Because
of the obedience of Christ, our representative and our federal
head, he made his people to be what he is, righteous, just. By fourth, Noah is a type of
Christ and that the Lord gave Noah an honorable work to do.
Back in chapter six of Genesis, verse 13, And God said unto Noah, the end
of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with
violence through them, and behold, I will destroy them with the
earth. Make thee an ark of gopher wood. Room shalt thou make in
the ark, and thou shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. And then he goes on to give him
the instructions for the ark. Now the Lord's gonna destroy
the earth with a flood, and God determined he's gonna be gracious
to Noah. And in his grace to Noah, he
told Noah what's coming. Flood's gonna come and destroy
everybody in the earth. And he said, Noah, in my grace,
I'm gonna spare you. And here's how I'm gonna do it.
You build an ark. I'm gonna give you instructions
to how to build it. You build an ark, and that ark is gonna
save your life. It's gonna save the life of your
family, your loved ones. It's gonna save the life of all
species of animals on the face of the earth. Now, building an
ark that's gonna save all those lives, That's an honorable work,
isn't it? An honorable work. And that work
of building an ark is a picture of the work of redemption that
the Father gave the Son to do. The Father determined in eternity,
I'm going to save a people. They all deserve to be destroyed
because of their sin, but I'm going to save a people. He chose
those people and he gave them to his son. And he told his son,
now you save these people. You do all the work that it takes
to justify them and bring them to glory. And the son said, I'll
do it. What an honorable work. That's
an honorable work because it honors all the attributes of
God. Nothing honors God more than
saving sinners that don't deserve it. Nothing honors God more than
saving sinners by his mercy and his grace. And the father gave
his son this work. You glorify me with this work
of redemption. And the son said, I'll do it.
And he did. He honored every attribute of
God. He honored everything about God.
You know, you and I look at the law of God and we see something
that condemns us, that damns us because it's something that
we cannot keep. We cannot obey. It's just so
far too much for us. Christ came and he took that
law of God in his hand. He honored it and he magnified
it. He lifted it up and magnified
it when he kept it, when he kept it perfectly. And he told his
people about the spirituality of the law. He showed us the
true glory of the law. He showed us that the purpose
of the law, the purpose of the law is given, not so you keep
and earn a righteousness for yourself. The purpose of the
law is say, You look at the law and say, I can't keep it. I'm
a sinner. I'm undone. I can't keep it.
The purpose of the law, Christ said, is you quit trying to keep
the law and you look away from the law and you look to me and
you trust me. That's the purpose of the law. The law is magnified
when we turn away from the law and the law drives us to Christ.
When the law is our schoolmaster that drives us to Christ. It's
glorious. It's glory. Christ's glory. We
never would have known that about the law if Christ hadn't come.
And he honored every attribute of God. Christ glorified at the
same time, God's wrath and his mercy. When he suffered all of
the wrath against all the sin of God's people, so that God
could be merciful to his people. In the same time and that same
sacrifice, he honored two seemingly opposing attributes, mercy and
wrath, love and wrath. Christ magnified the love of
the father. How is it we know God loves the
people? He gave his son to be the propitiation for their sin.
Christ honored the love of the father when he gave his blood
to be the propitiation against the sin of the people that God
gave him to save. What a glorious work. That glorious
work of redemption, it honors God in his every attribute. And
I'm telling you what, it saved sinners. And for this sinner,
that's a glorious work. What a glorious work that Christ
could come and save ruined, lost sinners and make us righteous,
make us righteous. His work is so glorious. He established
a righteousness that enables God to be both just and justifier. He made it right for God to have
mercy on his people because he made them righteous. And the work of righteousness,
We're so contaminated with sin, we just can't even imagine what
holiness, righteousness really is. That work is so great. It has so many details. We can't
even begin to imagine it. Christ did it all. He did all
of that work by himself, and he got the job done. He finished
it completely. Right before he went to the cross,
in his great high priestly prayer, what did he pray? Father, I finished
the work you gave me to do. This glorious, honorable work,
I finished it. I finished it. And as he died
on the cross, he died crying, it's finished. That cry that
echoes down through the ages, the honorable work of redemption
is finished. Now you look to him, you come
to him. All right, here's the fifth thing. Noah is a type of
Christ. I alluded to this just a second
ago. He did the work of the building of the ark alone. Now I say that,
and I'm quite sure of this. Noah's sons and his father, probably
his grandfather, his wife, his family, I'm sure they all pinched
in on building that ark. The building of that ark, it's
just impossible to imagine one man could finish all that work
by himself. But you know, scripture never
one time mentioned somebody helping Noah build the ark. Every time
it talks about the ark, it said Noah built it. Look in verse
22, Genesis 6. Thus did Noah, according to all
that God commanded him, so did he. Make it sound like Noah did
all the work, didn't he? Look in verse six of chapter
eight. And it came to pass at the end of 40 days that Noah
opened the window of the ark, which he had made. Now, like
I'm saying, I'm sure Noah had help building that ark, but scripture
only talks about Noah building the ark. And I'm pretty sure
I know the reason for that. Noah building the ark is a type
of Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ came and
he did the work of redemption by himself. And scripture doesn't
mention anybody helping him because he didn't have anybody. There
was nobody to help him. He did it all by himself. And
the work of redeeming a people, it's so great, it's so all encompassing,
there's just too many details to think about making sinners
perfect and justified. We can't even imagine all the
details of it. Yet the Lord Jesus Christ did
it all by himself. He needed no help. He needed
no help because he's God. Since he's God, he's the sufficient
savior. Look at Hebrews chapter one.
He needed no help because he's God. And God laid help on one
who's mighty. He laid help on the one who is
almighty. He had no problem finishing the
work by himself. And this is what the writer of
the Hebrews tells us in Hebrews one. Verse three, who being the brightness of his
glory and the express image of his person and upholding all
things by the word of his power, when he had by himself, by himself
purged our sins, he sat down on the right hand of the majesty
on high. Christ sat down because there
was no more work left to do. He finished it by himself. You
know, I'm sure there are many reasons that the disciples fled
and deserted the Lord that night that that mob came and took him,
did fulfill the scriptures as prophesied many years before
it happened. But here's another reason I know
that they all deserted him. So nobody can ever say Peter
had a hand in helping him. Nobody ever say John had a hand
in helping him. They deserted him and he completed the work,
this glorious work of redemption that the father gave him. by
himself. And I said that to say this,
I wish we could see this, what a glorious savior the Lord Jesus
Christ is. He's so mighty, he's so sufficient,
he's already finished the work of the redemption for the souls
of his people, and he finished it by himself. Now, I venture
to say, everybody here, many people who might listen to the
recording of this message have some interest in the saving of
your soul. What a blessed thought that the
Lord Jesus Christ is so mighty and so sufficient. He already
finished the work. It's done. Well, what's left
for you and me to do? Not one blessed thing, but trust
him. He's already finished the work.
He's proven he's trustworthy. Now you trust him and you won't
be disappointed. All right, number six. Noah is
a type of Christ in his success at building the ark. And Noah
built that ark. And Noah did such a good job
of boat building that every person and every animal that went into
that ark before the flood, every last one of them came off the
ark after the flood. Look in Genesis 8, verse 18. And Noah went forth, and his
sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him. That's every
human being that entered that ark. They all went forth from
the ark. And every beast, and every creeping thing, and every
fowl, whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds,
they all went forth out of the ark. Whoever it was that went
in that ark, came out of the ark when the flood was over.
Not one person died on that ark. Hebrews 11 verse seven says this.
Noah moved with fear and prepared an ark to the saving of his house. That ark was sufficient to save
everybody in Noah's house. Everybody that God intended to
save from those floodwaters, the floodwaters of his wrath,
everyone God intended to save was saved from that flood. The
ark that God prepared, that he provided. And that ark is a picture
of Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ came to
save his people from their sins. That's what the angel said. You
call his name Jesus. He shall save his people from
their sins. And that's just exactly what
he did. The Lord Jesus so fully established righteousness for
his people. It's so perfect. The Holy God cannot condemn them. He cannot. Who is he that condemneth? Christ that died. If Christ died
for you, you're righteous and you cannot be condemned. Cannot
be. Christ sacrificed so fully and
so completely, removed the sin of his people. There is therefore
now no condemnation. There's no possibility of condemnation.
The law is not looking to condemn. There is therefore now no condemnation
to them who are in Christ Jesus. Just like Noah was in that ark,
there's no condemnation to him. If you're in Christ Jesus, there's
no condemnation, none. The Lord Jesus Christ did such
a good job of building a salvation, establishing a salvation, that
he saved all of his people from all of their sins. And before
human time began, before God created anything, scripture says
the father took a people and put them in his son. Everyone,
everyone, the father put in his son is going to someday walk
into glory at the very moment the Lord wills it. Every last
one of them. And what a blessing to be enabled
by God's grace to trust a savior who cannot fail to save. Isn't that a blessing? What a
glorious blessing. And he's so confident in his
ability to save, he says in his word that he's able to save to
the uttermost all, all who come to God by him. Now, if you would
be saved, you come to Christ, believing on him, he's able,
and he'll do it. All right, here's the last thing. Noah's a type of Christ in the
covenant that God made with him. Look at chapter 9, verse 8. And
God spake unto Noah and to his sons with him, saying, And I
behold, I establish my covenant with you and with your seed after
you, and with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl,
of the cattle, of every beast of the earth with you, and all
that go out of the ark to every beast of the earth. and I will
establish my covenant with you, neither shall all flesh be cut
off any more by the waters of a flood, neither shall there
be any more be a flood to destroy the earth." And God says, this
is the token of the covenant between me and you and every
living creature that is with you for perpetual generations.
I do set my bow in the cloud and it should be for a token
of the covenant between me and the earth. and it shall come
to pass when I bring a cloud over the earth." And can you
imagine the very first time Noah ever saw it rain, the earth flooded
and everybody died. Noah gets off the ark and You
gotta start a new life. I mean, he didn't save that ark
and keep it as a monument or whatever. Noah cut that ark up
for firewood. He cut that ark up to build houses
and all the things it needed to build. That ark had cut up.
There's a bunch of holes in it. It's not seaworthy anymore. And
it started clouding up and getting ready to rain. Can you imagine
what was going through Noah's mind? I remember what happened
last time I saw rain. You gotta put that rainbow in
the sky to remind him, I'm not gonna destroy the earth. And
it shall come to pass when I bring a cloud over the earth. Verse
14. And the bow shall be seen in the cloud and I'll remember. That's a good thing Noel, you
remember. Here's what's important. God says, I'll remember my covenant,
which is between me and you and every living creature of all
flesh and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy
all flesh. and the bow should be in the cloud. And I will look
upon it that I may remember the everlasting covenant between
God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the
earth. And God said unto Noah, this is the token of the covenant
which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon
the earth. God made a covenant with Noah.
He told Noah, I'm never going to destroy the earth with a flood
again. And he put that token in the sky to remind everybody,
the rainbow. God says, I see that rainbow.
It's a token of the covenant. I'll never destroy the earth
with a flood again. And he never asked. He never
will. He says he's going to destroy
the earth one more time with fire, but he'll never do it with the
flood. That's the covenant God made with Moses. He'll never
destroy the earth with water again. Well, God made an even
better covenant with his son. The covenant of grace is not
a covenant between God and us. It's a covenant between God and
God. It's a covenant between the Godhead, the Father, the
Son, and the Holy Spirit. God entered into a covenant with
God. And the Father promised he'll
always accept his elect in Christ. The father made this covenant,
he made his son the mediator. And he's the mediator of a better
covenant that's based on better promises. It's based upon God's
promise of grace. It's based upon the obedience
of Christ, not our obedience. And that covenant, the covenant,
just like God's covenant with Noah has a token. You know God's
covenant of grace has a token. Last scripture, Hebrews chapter
13. God's covenant of grace has a
token that God looks at, and it's the blood of Christ. Hebrews 13, verse 20. Now the God of peace, brought
again from the dead, our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of
the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working
in you that which is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ,
to whom be glory forever and ever. He's the shepherd of the
sheep through the blood of what? The everlasting covenant. The
blood of Christ is the token of God's covenant of grace. That's
what God's looking for. It's the blood. God sees when
he sees the blood of his son, you know what he sees? The covenant
is ratified. The covenant is sealed in the
blood of Christ. It was the blood of Christ that
washed away the sin of his people. It's the blood of Christ. It's
a token to the Father. His justice has been satisfied.
There's been death for sin, and I'll accept my people because
of that blood. It's the very same thing that happened the
night of the first Passover. God said, when I see the blood. When I see, not when I see your
obedience, not when I see your faith, not when I see you doing
the right thing, not when I see you eating the Passover lamb,
not when I see you with your shoes on your feet and your loins
gartened, your staff in your hand, because you're getting
ready to leave this place. God said, when I see the blood, I'll pass
over you. And whenever the father sees
the blood of Christ, he's always well pleased. And we sin and
we fail and we're shamed of ourselves. And we think, I certainly would
understand if God had cast me off and destroyed me. You know
why he doesn't? He sees the blood. He sees the
blood and he remembers not to destroy his people. Because the
blood tells him, I've already destroyed the substitute in their
place, so they go free. Now that's the rest that God's
people have in Christ. That's a good picture of Christ,
isn't it? I hope that's been a blessing to you like it was
for me when I studied it. Let's bow together. Our Father, how we thank you
for this glorious picture of Christ our Savior, and how much
more we thank you for the fulfillment of it, the fulfillment of every
type and prophecy and picture in our Lord Jesus Christ. Father,
I pray you'd bless your word as it's been preached. Bless
it to your glory. Bless it to the hearts of your
people that we might behold your glory, believe in and rest in
Christ our Savior. For it's in his precious name
we pray and give thanks. Amen. All right, Sean.