All right, Leviticus chapter
16, verses 1 and 2, where we'll start. Brady, would you read verses
1 and 2 for us? I know you want to volunteer
for that. Thank you. Now Aaron's sons died because
they did not approach God the way God told them to come before
him. They made up their own incense,
not the incense, the recipe that God had given them, and they
offered that incense. They defiled the picture of Christ
in that incense, and God killed them for it. It's serious business. You know,
it's a joy when we all come here. You know, I don't want you to
feel all like, it's a joy. I mean, I look forward to seeing
y'all in the Sunday mornings and Wednesday nights. We enjoy
seeing each other, greeting our friends, and that's something
that we ought to enjoy. Nothing wrong with that. But
the reason that we're here is to worship. This is not a social
event. It's to worship. And along with
that worship, we worship together. We enjoy being with our friends
and things, but worshiping God is serious business. Now, we
don't trifle with God's Son. We don't trifle with the gospel. It's serious business. God killed
the sons of Aaron for trifling with the picture of his sons.
That's why he killed them. And then after those boys died,
God told Aaron, don't you come into the Holy of Holies anytime
you want to. Apparently, up to this point, Moses and Aaron went
into the Holy of Holies anytime they wanted to. They would pray,
they would commune with God, whatever. But now, God told them,
don't you come in there anytime you want to. Because of this
sin, because these boys died, now there's a separation between
God and men. It didn't used to be there. Well,
now here's what we wonder. Can it ever be brought back together?
There's a separation. Is there a way that that separation
can be mended and men can come to God again? That's what the
Day of Atonement is all about. There is a way. And that way
is the Lord Jesus Christ. And that's what's given to us
in this picture of the Day of Atonement. All through this day
is a picture of how sinners like us can come back to God through
the Atonement that's in our Lord Jesus Christ. Now, if you're
here at Bible School, you remember one of the days we talked about
atonement. What atonement means. And the
definition of atonement is in the word itself. At-one-ment. At-one-ment. Remember I had the
poster board and I tore it in two? I said, now how can that
be made back together? Well, it can't be put back together,
can it? God creates a new way in the
Lord Jesus Christ. There's a new way made through
Christ. Sinners can be brought back.
to God through the atonement that's in our Lord Jesus Christ,
and that's what the Day of Atonement's all about. Now, verse 3. Do I volunteer to read verse
3? I can read verse 3 for us. Now, the Day of Atonement, this
is the holiest day of the year. They call it the Day of Covering,
because this is a picture of how sins are covered in the blood
of Christ. And the Day of Atonement's a
bloody day. It's a very bloody day. It's
a day of sacrifice for sin. On the Day of Atonement, 15 animals
were sacrificed. Their blood was shed before the
brazen altar out here. He killed the animals, all of
them out there, before that brazen altar. Their blood, 15 animals.
And that happened for two reasons, to show us two things. First,
all that blood was shed to show us sin requires death. Either the sinner's going to
die or the sinner's substitute's going to die, but sin requires
death. And second, all that blood was
shed, all those animals were sacrificed to show us this. God
can only be worshipped through the blood of Christ. Now there's
a way back to God, but there's just one way. It's through the
blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, and that's what the animals that
Aaron begins selecting here, that's what they're going to
be used for, sacrifice and shed their blood. Now verse 4, do
I have a volunteer to read verse 4? Lucy, you want to read verse
4 for us? Okay. Good, thank you. Now, the high
priest on the Day of Atonement, remember those last week we looked
at all those glorious clothes that he wore, all the colorful
and had those golden threads wove through them? Well, on the
Day of Atonement, he takes off all those glorious garments.
And he puts on just the regular garments that all the other priests
wore every day. He wore the linen pants and coat
and girdle and miter. It was all the same garments
that the other priests wore all the time. And all those clothes
are white, which are a picture of the holiness of Christ. And
he wore these white clothes, but also the Day of Atonement
at least five times. The high priest washed himself.
And he did that as a picture of Christ. Aaron's a sinner. He's defiled with sin. So if
he's going to be a picture of Christ who knew no sin, he's
got to constantly be washing. And he's constantly reminding
himself and other people there's one coming who's holy and pure,
who doesn't need to wash because he's pure and holy in himself.
And when the high priest changed his clothes, He took off all
those glorious clothes. He put on just the regular plain
clothes of the regular priest. He gave us a picture of the humiliation
of Christ. How Christ humbled himself to
become a man. Now Christ came to earth to be
a high priest. A high priest for his people.
But when he came, he didn't come in his glory as the Son of God,
did he? He came as a man. He stripped himself. of all His
glory as the Son of God, and He clothed Himself. He covered
Himself in human flesh, flesh just like ours. He looked just
like you and me. He came into this earth as a
baby, a helpless baby. Somebody had to do everything
for Him because He's helpless. There's no glory in that, is
there? Now, if He had come as the Son of God with all power,
people would have seen glory in that. But He didn't come that
way. He humbled himself to come into
this earth the exact same way you and me came into this earth.
We came as a helpless baby. So did he. He came with the weakness
of human flesh, just like we have. There was nothing special
about the flesh, the body of the Lord Jesus that made people
think when they saw him, there's the Messiah. You know, there
wasn't this glow around him. You know, there's that baby sitting
there. There wasn't a glow around that manger. It's just a regular
baby laying there. There's nothing about his flesh
that made people think, there's the Son of God. And our Lord
did that to humble himself, because when you lay in a cradle, your
mother and father brought you home from the hospital. They
thought you were the best thing since sliced bread. But there
wasn't no glow around you. There wasn't around our Lord
either. He came as a baby, just like he humbled himself. to become
just like us. And that's what the high priest
gave us a picture of when he took off all those glorious robes. And at the end of the day, look
over verse 23, at the end of the day, someone want to volunteer
to read verse 23 for us? After he read, after he took
off his, wore these white robes all day, and look what happened
in verse 23. Do I have a volunteer? Okay, Isaac read verse 23 for
us. He took off those clothes. He
put his beautiful garments back on. He took those white robes
off, the robes of the regular priest. He took them off. And
he left them there. And the Jews say he never wore
them again. When it came time for the next
day of atonement, they made new linen clothes for him. But those
he took off, he laid them aside, and he never used them again.
And then he went back out in his glorious robes of the high
priest. That's a picture of Christ. Our
Lord Jesus was a man for a while. He was a man, humbled himself
for a while. He lived, he died, he was buried,
and he rose again. And when he rose again, he came
out of that tomb in glorified flesh. And he ascended back to
the Father. to sit on the throne at the Father's
right hand with all glory and honor. Never again will Christ
be humiliated to be seen in the weakness of flesh like we are.
He's in glorified flesh, and when we see him again, we'll
see him in glorified flesh with all the glory that belongs to
him. We're not going to see him as the humble servant ever again. The next time we see him, we'll
see him as he is, in all his glory, and God. So that's what happened with
those robes. When the priest put them on,
he gave us a picture of Christ humbling himself. But when his
work's done, he took them off and dressed himself in his glorious
robes of the high priest again. Now, back to verse 5, Leviticus
16. Verse 5, And he shall take of
the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats
for a sin offering. one ram for a burnt offering,
and Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin offering, which is
for himself, and make atonement for himself and for his house."
Now, when the high priest took these animals to be sacrificed,
he was offering sacrifices for the children of Israel. He wasn't
offering sacrifices for the Philistines or the Amalekites or the Amorites.
He was offering sacrifices for Israel. So when it came time
to get these animals, if they would sacrifice, they didn't
save their animals and go out and find a wild goat or a wild
bullet. They didn't go steal one from
the Philistines. They took what belonged to them,
what cost them, and they gave it to the high priest to be sacrificed. The sacrifice was for Israel.
So the sacrifice must come, must belong to Israel, must come from
Israel. That's a picture of Christ. Where
did he come from? He came from Israel. He came
to this earth as a Jew and he's going to sacrifice himself for
spiritual Israel. The high priest offered those
animals for Israel, not those other nations. When Christ offered
himself as a sacrifice to God, he didn't offer himself for just
everybody. He offered himself for a specific
people, his elect, spiritual Israel. Christ didn't come to
make Himself a sacrifice for angels. The angels fell just
like Adam did. But Christ didn't come to save
the angels. He didn't take on Him the form of an angel. He
took on Him the form of a man, because He's going to save sinful
men out of Adam's fallen race. And Christ didn't come to make
a sacrifice for every human being that ever lived, to see if maybe
they decide someday to accept Him. He offered His sacrifice
to the Father for the sins of His elect. And the first thing
Aaron had to do was offer a bullock. He offered his bullock, he slew
the bullock, and he offered that bullock as a sacrifice for his
sins and the sins of his family. Before he did anything else,
offered a sacrifice for anybody else, he offered a sacrifice
for his sins and the sins of his family. Now that's different
than Christ did. Christ had no sin of his own.
He never committed any sins. So he didn't have to offer a
sacrifice for himself first. That's what made him the sacrifice
that would atone for sin, that would pay for sin, because he
was already perfect. But Aaron, if he's going to be
a picture of Christ our High Priest, he's got to offer a sacrifice
for himself first, for his own sins. That way he can appear
to be the picture of Christ. Look over in Hebrews chapter
7. Once Aaron offered that bullet
for his own sins, Now he can appear to be a picture of Christ
who didn't have any sin of his own. Hebrews 7, verse 26. For such a high priest became
us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, made higher
than the heavens, who needeth not daily as those high priests
to offer up sacrifice first for his own sins, and then for the
people's. But this he did once when he offered up himself. Christ
didn't have to offer a sacrifice for his own sins, because he
didn't have any. And he didn't have to keep offering, like these
priests did, sacrifices over and over and over and over again.
It just took one sacrifice of Christ to atone for the sins
of his people. All those other sacrifices are
just pictures. Now this bullock that Aaron offered
was a bull. I mean, have you ever seen a
bull in real life? I mean, they're huge. They're
enormous. They're so powerful. You know
why the Lord told Aaron to offer a bullet? Because that's a picture
of Christ who's mighty to save. And that bullet Aaron offered
for his family. That's who Christ, who's mighty
to save, he died for his family. He died for his loved ones, the
ones that he's loved from all of eternity. So Aaron killed
that bullet. caught its blood, and the Jews
say he gave that basin of blood to one of the other priests who
stood there stirring it so that blood wouldn't congeal while
the high priest was doing all of his other activities. So there's
somebody standing there stirring that blood. Now look at verse
11 in Leviticus 16. And Aaron shall bring the bullock
of the sin offering which is for himself, and shall make atonement
for himself and for his house, and shall kill the bullock of
the sin offering which is for himself. He shall take a censer
full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the
Lord, and his hands full of sweet incense, beaten small, and he
will bring it within the veil. And he shall put the incense
upon the fire before the Lord, that the cloud of the incense
may cover the mercy seat, which is upon the testimony, that he
die not. Then he shall take of the blood
of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy
seat eastward. And before the mercy seats, he
sprinkled the blood with his finger seven times." Now, while
one of those other priests is standing there stirring that
blood so it doesn't thicken up, Aaron took burning coals from
off the altar, the brazen altar out there, and he put them in,
they had some sort of a special golden pot that they put those
coals in. And he took two handfuls full
of incense and he went behind the veil. Now there's some speculation
about this business of the high priest going behind the veil.
Henry always said he crawled under the veil. And he may have. He may have crawled under the
veil because here's the thing. The high priest, when he goes
in to the Holy of Holies, he can't look upon that ark. He
can't look upon that mercy seat because the Shekinah glory of
God dwells there. If he looks there, God's going
to kill him. So he may have crawled under there so he wouldn't see
it. He may have crawled under and put that pot or whatever it was full of
the coals, and then he may have put the incense on there so smoke
would fill the room. Then he couldn't see the mercy
seat. I don't know, maybe he did crawl under. The Jews seem
to think that he went through sideways, like he put his face
toward this wall and he kind of scooted in with his back to
the mercy seat, and he put that pot down and put the incense
on there so the smoke would fill the room. I don't know. However,
he came in, he came in so that he wouldn't see the mercy seat.
So, I don't know what you want to think about that, but there
you have it. But the point of all this is this. That smoke
filled the Holy of Holies. And that smoke is a picture of
the prayers of Christ, the intercession of Christ, the prayers of Christ
for his people. Now, the intercession of Christ,
the prayers of Christ for his people. are always based upon
his sacrifice. Always. Christ never asks something
for his people that he doesn't deserve. It's always based upon
his sacrifice. Those coals that he used, he
put in there in the Holy of Holies to make this smoke, where'd those
coals come from? They came from the brazen altar,
which is a place of sacrifice. We looked, that's one of the
first things we looked at in our study. It's a place of sacrifice
that pictures Christ's sacrifice for his people. And then what
did he put on those coals? Two handfuls. Talking about the
richness of God's mercy and grace. He didn't put one handful. He
put two. Just like David said, my cup
overflows. He put two handfuls of that incense
on those coals. Well, that incense was beaten
small. And when we looked at the incense
earlier in our study, that incense beaten small is a picture of
Christ being beaten and punished for the sins of his people. And
those things that picture the sacrifice of Christ made that
smoke, which is a picture of his prayers. And his prayers
to his Father, when he asked his Father, forgive their sins,
forgive the sins of my people. He's not asking for a favor.
He's not asking the Father, well just ignore their sin, pretend
it didn't happen. He's asking his Father, forgive
their sin, because my sacrifice paid for it. And the Father always
grants that prayer. Always. The intercession of Christ
is always answered. So once the Holy of Holies is
filled with that smoke, Aaron went back out, and he got the
blood of that bully, and he went back behind the veil, and he
sprinkled with his finger seven times that blood on the mercy
seat. And that blood's important. The
blood on the mercy seat is so important. This is a picture
of how Christ paid for the sins of his people. God's not going
to save anyone by mercy alone. He's not going to say, well,
just have mercy on them and overlook their sin. No. Salvation comes
through mercy and truth. Mercy and truth always together.
Mercy and the blood of the sacrifice. Mercy and blood always go together. And that blood that Aaron sprinkled
upon that mercy seat gave us a picture of the blood of Christ.
And in the blood of Christ, you know why God forgives that sin?
Because in the blood of Christ, that sin is gone. Look in Jeremiah chapter 50. That sin, it's gone. I mean, you think of how powerful
the blood of Christ is. It's gone. Jeremiah 50 verse 20. Would I
have a volunteer to read that verse 20 for me? Now, you all are supposed to
follow my trick. I thanked you. Sam, you got it? You want to
read it? Go ahead. You can do it. Good, thank you. You're going
to look for those sins and there shall be none. You look for the
sins of Judah and they won't be found. They won't be found
because they're gone. They don't exist. The blood of
Christ put them away. Scripture says without the shedding
of blood there's no remission of sins. That's why the Day of
Atonement was such a bloody day. And we know God's going to be
merciful. God's going to be gracious to
his people, but it's always going to be through the blood. And
the only reason God won't give a sinner what they deserve is
because he gave Christ what they deserve. It's always based upon
the blood. The only way God can be just
and holy and still show mercy to a sinner is through the blood
of Christ. That's why this Day of Atonement
is so bloody. Well, now Aaron's offered the
bullock for himself. He's sprinkled the blood upon
the mercy seat for his sins and the sin of his family. Now he
can be a picture of Christ who had no sin, who offered sacrifice
for sin for his people. Now look in verse 7, Leviticus
16, verse 7. And he should take the two goats,
those two goats that they chose out, he's going to take two goats
and present them before the Lord. at the door of the tabernacle
of the congregation. And Aaron shall cast lots upon
the two goats, one lot for the Lord, and the other lot for the
scapegoat. And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the Lord's
lot fell, and offer him for a sin offering. But the goat on which
the lot fell to be the scapegoat shall be presented alive before
the Lord, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for
a scapegoat into the wilderness." Now look at verse 15. So he selected
these two goats, he chose lots for them. One's going to be the
sin offering, one's going to be the scapegoat. Verse 15, Then
shall he kill the goat of the sin offering that is for the
people, and bring his blood within the veil, and do with that blood
as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon
the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat. Now those two goats
that they chose are a picture of the two natures of Christ.
One of those goats is going to die as a sin offering. That's
a picture of the humanity of Christ. He died in his humanity. The man Christ Jesus actually
died. They took a dead body down from
the cross and put a dead body in that tomb. The humanity of
Christ. He died. But the second goat
that's going to be the scapegoat, he's going to live. And that's
a picture of the deity of Christ who ever lives making intercession
for his people. Now look at Proverbs chapter
16. This is kind of interesting to me, that they cast lots for those two goats to decide
which one's going to be the scapegoat and which one's going to be the
sin offer. And they cast lots for them. Does this sound like chance?
Was it just chance? Which one was the scapegoat?
Which one was the sin offer? I mean, does it really matter?
Was it just chance? He reached in the bag, we don't
know for sure how he did it, he probably had that bag where
he drew out the Urim and the Thummim, and that's how he decided
which one was the scapegoat. Does that sound like chance?
Look at Proverbs 16, verse 33. The lot is cast into the lap,
but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord. And we think
it's just by lot, just by chance. But it's not. The whole disposing
of it is of the Lord. And the reason I made that point
is this. The death of Christ was not by chance. It wasn't
by chance at all. It was according to the eternal
will and purpose of God. Now wicked men got together and
they did exactly what their wicked hearts wanted to do. They wanted
to torture him. They wanted to kill him. They
hated him. They wanted to take out their
hatred upon our Lord, and God let them do it. They did exactly
what their wicked hearts wanted them to do. But when they did
what they wanted to do, it wasn't by chance. The whole disposing
of it was of the Lord. They did according to the eternal
will of God. They put God's Son to death to
accomplish God's eternal purpose, to save His people through the
sacrifice of His Son. So Aaron went out, the lot that
fell upon the goat to be chosen for the sin offering, He took
that goat and he killed it. That goat died as a sin offering
to pay for the sins of the people. Aaron took that blood. He went
back into the Holy of Holies. The smoke still filled the room.
He sprinkled that blood on the mercy seat seven times. At the
end of the day, the mercy seat's covered with blood, isn't it?
The mercy seat is the propitiation. It's the covering. We see this
over and over again. Mercy for sin. can only be found
through the blood of Christ. And then he went out and he sprinkled
blood on the whole tabernacle. Now, the tabernacle can't sin. It's wood and gold and brass. It can't sin. There's no sin
in any of that. So there's no fault with the
tabernacle. But he had to sprinkle blood
on it. He had to make an atonement for all the tabernacle because
in God's sight it was defiled. because all the people that lived
around it are full of sin. God's so holy, he even saw that
as polluted with sin. It had to be sprinkled with the
blood. Everything was purified with blood. Look in our text
again, verse 18. Leviticus 16, verse 18. And he
shall go out unto the altar that is before the Lord, and make
an atonement for And he shall take of the blood of the bullock
and the blood of the goat, he mixes the blood together and
puts it upon the horns of the altar round about. And he shall
sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger seven times and
cleanse it and hollow it from the uncleanness of the children
of Israel." Now this just shows us how holy that God is. Aaron took the blood of the goat
and the blood of the bullock, those two sin offerings, and
he put them on the horns of the altar. And he did that, remember
horns are a picture of power. He put that blood on those symbols
of power to show us there's power in the blood. Power in the blood
of Christ to cleanse from sin. When Christ died and he shed
his blood, he did that to put away the sin of his people. It
wasn't maybe he will, he did because there's power in the
blood of Christ. All this work has been going
on. And while all this was going on, especially while he was in
the tabernacle here, the high priest was alone. Look at verse
17. And there should be no man in
the tabernacle of the congregation, when he goeth in to make atonement
in the holy place, until he come out, and have made an atonement
for himself and for his household, for all the congregation of Israel.
Aaron was alone in that tabernacle, God. whole day. Now there were
probably other priests out here doing some things to help him
out here, but nobody came in the tabernacle because he was
going to do this job alone. And that is so important. That's
a picture of Christ accomplishing the salvation of his people.
He did it alone. Christ needed no help. He did
all of the work of salvation alone. When Christ hung on the
cross from about noon 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the middle
of the day, the earth went dark. It wasn't just some sort of an
eclipse. God shut the sun off. The world was covered in darkness.
Nobody could see what was going on. Just like nobody could see
the high priest, what he was doing in the tabernacle on the
day of atonement. At that time, Christ went into
heaven itself with his blood and offered it on the altar before
the Father. It was during those three hours
of darkness that the blood of Christ was accepted by the Father,
and the sin of his people was purged, and he went there alone. Christ accomplished that alone. Salvation doesn't require any
help from you or me. Christ did it alone. Now, the
scapegoat, verse 20. And when he hath made an end
of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle, and the congregation,
and the altar, he shall bring the live goat. And Aaron shall
lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess
over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all
their transgressions, and all their sins, putting them upon
the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of
a fit man into the wilderness. And the goat shall bear upon
him all their iniquities, unto a land not inhabited, a land
of separation. and he shall let go of the goat
in the wilderness. Now Aaron put his hands on the
head of that scapegoat, and he's supposed to confess all the sins
of the children of Israel. You reckon that took a while?
This could have taken a long time. I don't want to duck. But
if you're going to confess all of our sins, that's going to
take a long time. And the point of that was him putting his head
on the head of that goat, confessing their sins. It's a picture of
him transferring the sin, the guilt of that sin to that scapegoat.
Now the scapegoat's got to bear the sin. He's got to bear the
punishment of the sin. What's his punishment? The other
scapegoat's already died. So what's his punishment? He
has to be separated from God. He's got to be separated from
the people. So they put that goat in the
hand of a fit man. This was a man who's fit for
the job. He's going to take that goat out in the wilderness and
leave it where it won't ever come back. Well, that fit man,
he has to know what has to be done. He's got to understand
goats if he's going to take that goat out there, doesn't he? He's
got to understand the wilderness. He's got to know the wilderness
so he can go out there, leave that goat in a place where it
can't come back, and he's got to be able to get back to the
camp. He's got to know the wilderness. He's also got to have the personality
and the patience for the job. I probably wouldn't be good with
that. I'd probably go over the hill and lose patience with this
job and, you know, leave the goat and come back. This man's
got to have patience for the job. That fit man is our Lord
Jesus Christ. He's the only fit man, the only
holy, perfect man to ever live. He knows what has to be done
to save his people from their sins. He knows His people. He's known them from all of eternity.
He knows His people better than this fit man knew goes. And He
knows His way around the wilderness. So He knows where His lost sheep
are out there in the wilderness. He goes and gets them. He knows
the way. He brings them back. And Christ
has the personality to make Him the fit man. He's got the love
and He's got the power to save His people from their sins. Nobody
can love sinners like us. and save us from our sins other
than Christ. And nobody's got the power to
put our sin away other than Christ. He's the fit man. But he's also
the scapegoat. The sins of God's people weren't
symbolically transferred to Christ like they were to that goat.
The sins of God's elect were literally and actually put upon
our Lord Jesus Christ. He became guilty. He was made
to be sin for us. And Christ bore those sins away. He put them away. He took them
to a land uninhabited. They're gone. It's not like they're
hidden out there somewhere. We looked at this earlier. They're
gone. You go look for them. You can't find them. Because
Christ put them away. Never to be seen again. Scripture
says He's taken our sins. far away from us as east is from
the west. And you'll note, Scripture doesn't
say, took them as far away as north is from the south. In the
Civil War, the gulf between the north and the south seemed insurmountable. But you go north long enough,
you'll eventually start going south. North and south meet at
the North Pole and the South Pole. But if you go east, no
matter how long you circle the globe going east, you'll never
go west. East and West never meet. That's how Christ has taken
away the sins of his people, so that we will never meet them
again. Now, the Day of Atonement started,
the chapter started with Aaron being told, don't come into the
presence of God any time you want to. Just one day a year. And on that Day of Atonement,
Aaron and every high priest after him was full of fear. He was
so afraid, I'm going to do something wrong. And if I do something
wrong, God's going to kill me. The Jews, they set up a special
tent or something for the high priest seven days before the
Day of Atonement. He didn't do anything other than
read over and over and over again for seven days the instructions,
what he was supposed to do on the Day of Atonement. Because
he didn't want to make a mistake. If he made a mistake, he was
full of fear. God's going to kill me. Just
like He did to the two sons of Aaron. All that fear is gone. All of
that is finished. Because Christ came and fulfilled
all this picture. Christ took the sins of His people.
As far away from us as east is from the west. So there's no
fear. There's no more fear. Now, every believer is told,
come boldly into the presence of God. Confidently. Boldly. Anytime you want. And you won't
be put to death, but you'll be accepted if you come in the person
of Christ. If you come pleading His blood
and His righteousness, you can come before the throne of grace
boldly, confidently, any time you want. You don't have to suffer
any of this fear the high priest felt on the day of atonement,
because Christ came and put the sins of His people away and made
atonement, made His people one with God again. Well, all right,
I hope that's been a, the study's been a blessing to you. And again,
I'm so delighted that our teachers had this idea of our children
being out here. And I hope you guys have enjoyed
this. And I've thoroughly enjoyed having you out here in my class.
All right.