My sin, oh the bliss of this
glorious thought, is nailed to the cross and I bear it no more. Now hear the result. It is well
with my soul. Open your Bibles with me to Exodus
chapter 30. Exodus chapter 30. Beginning back in chapter 24
of the book of Exodus, God called Moses up into the mount and showed
him a pattern. Now let me tell you what the
pattern was. The pattern was a person, the
God speaking to him. Jesus Christ our Redeemer was
revealed to Moses as our savior, our redeemer, that one by whom
alone salvation must be accomplished and showed him how it would be
accomplished. And he said, now you make the
tabernacle. all of its furnishings, all of
its services, all of its garments, all of its sacrifices, all the
coverings, make the tabernacle according to this pattern. I
want you to build a tabernacle and carry it through the wilderness
with the children of Israel and wherever the children of Israel
camp, set up this tabernacle. And in this tabernacle, I'm going
to show you how redemption and salvation is accomplished by
my son. And everything in the tabernacle
was built according to the pattern. And when you get to the end of
the book of Exodus, you'll realize that this tabernacle, we think
of it in all of its details, and this is astonishing when
you think about it. It was so designed by God that
one man alone could set it up in one day. One man, by himself,
could set it up in one day. And that one man who accomplished
redemption in one day, by which he put away sin, is Jesus Christ
our Lord. Now here in Exodus 30, Moses
is given instruction concerning specific things about the tabernacle. First, in verses 1 through 10,
you have the altar of incense. And then in verses 11-16 he speaks
to us about atonement money. And then in verses 17-21 a labor
of brass where you had to be cleansed to go into the tabernacle.
And then in verses 22-33 you have the holy anointing oil. And then in the end of the chapter,
verses 34 to 38, Moses is given instruction concerning the incense,
the sweet perfume to be made for the offerings at the tabernacle.
Now let's look today at verses 11 through 16. Here we're given
God's law concerning the numbering of the children of Israel and
the atonement money they pay. so that no plague would come
upon them. They were numbered, they had
to all pay a certain atonement money, and the result was there
would be no plague among them. The title of my message, if you're
taking notes, and I always encourage folks to take notes, a certain
number, a certain price, a certain result. A certain number, a certain
price, a certain result. And here we have a marvelously
instructed picture of the redemption and ransom of our souls by the
precious blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. Let's read the text together. Exodus 30 verse 11. And the Lord
spake unto Moses, saying, When thou takest the sum of the children
of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man
a ransom for his soul unto the Lord, when thou numberest them,
that there be no plague among them when thou numberest them. This they shall give, everyone
that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after
the shekel of the sanctuary. A shekel is 20 giras, and half
a shekel shall be the offering of the Lord. Everyone that passeth
among them that are numbered from 20 years old and above shall
give an offering unto the Lord. The rich shall not give more,
and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel when they
give an offering unto the Lord to make atonement for your souls.
And thou shalt take the atonement money of the children of Israel,
and shalt appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of
the congregation, that it may be a memorial unto the children
of Israel before the Lord to make an atonement for your souls. Now listen carefully. We believe,
we rejoice in, and we preach without the least apology the
glorious gospel doctrine of particular effectual redemption, limited
atonement. To be specific and clear, limited
atonement. I know I've been told all of
my life as a preacher you ought not use those words limited atonement,
that's confusing. It's not at all confusing. The
reason I use it is because it's not confusing. Whether that offends
people, that's the reason I use it. I'm not at all bashful to
offend folks who are offended with God. The scriptures teach,
and we preach without the least apology or embarrassment, but
rather with fullness of joy, that Jesus Christ our Lord, when
he died at Calvary, died for his elect. all his elect and
only his elect, and having died for them, he accomplished the
ransom, the redemption, the free forgiveness of sin for our souls
by his blood atonement. I defy anyone I defy anyone to
find any place in the book of God that even hints at the possibility
that Christ shed his blood for all men without exception. That
Christ died to redeem those who perish under the wrath of God
in hell just as he did for those who are saved by the power of
his blood and the power of his grace. Where does the word of
God proclaim an atonement that doesn't atone? A deliverance
that doesn't deliver? A redemption that doesn't redeem? A ransom that doesn't set free?
A savior who doesn't save? Nowhere will you find such nonsense
in the book of God. The fact is, everywhere in this
book, in every place, in every chapter, in every verse, in every
prophecy, in every picture, in every type, which speaks of the
redeeming work of our Lord Jesus Christ at Calvary. Every portion
that has any reference to the death of Christ and his accomplishments
at Calvary, it is limited to a specific people who receive
the benefit of his death. Everywhere in the book of God,
there is not a hint that Christ died for folks who were not saved
by his blood. In our text, the ransom money
for atonement was paid for a certain number. We read the sum of the
children of Israel. A certain price was paid for
those specific people. The price for their ransom was
a half shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary. And a certain
result followed. Those who were redeemed according
to the requirement of God's law had no plague among them. Now let's see what the scriptures
teaches here. I want to make five statements drawn directly
from these verses of scripture in Exodus 30. Five statements
that are so obvious, so plainly revealed that no one can fail
to see them except those who refuse to see. Are your eyes
open? Read the word of God with me.
Here's the first statement. None were redeemed except God's
chosen, the children of Israel. All the children of Israel, but
none except the children of Israel were redeemed. The children of
Israel were numbered with the adult males of the nation from
20 years old and upward who had left Egypt. And they made up
a specific number for whom this atonement money was paid. We'll
look in chapter 38 in a little bit, but there Moses tells us
that there were 603,550 men. That's a pretty specific number.
600, 3,550 men were numbered and for those
600, 3,550 men a shekel was given for their atonement. The children
of Israel were a chosen people. They represented God's elect
in this world who are called the Israel of God. Now when you
read the Old Testament, and you read the Old Testament types
given with regard to the nation of Israel, and the laws given
with regard to the nation of Israel, and the promises given
with regard to the nation of Israel, and the covenants made
with regard to the nation of Israel, Don't pay too much attention
to folks who are telling you to look across the water to those
folks over there in the far east in that little place called Israel.
That's not what it's talking about at all. That's not what
it's talking about at all. Those people existed only as
a representation of those who are called the Israel of God,
the whole church of God's elect in both the Old Testament and
the New, Jew and Gentile, all the way back to Genesis chapter
7. The Lord God spoke of Shem. and Japheth, and Japheth shall
possess the tent of Shem. It has always been God's purpose
that Israel of the Old Testament typified and all the promises
made to them represented promises God has made in covenant mercy
to His Israel, all the body of His elect. That's who God's Israel
is. how we ought to rejoice in God's
electing love. Listen to how the Lord describes
it for us in Deuteronomy chapter seven. Don't turn there for just
a minute, Deuteronomy chapter seven. Election, what a blessed, blessed
word, election. Deuteronomy 7.1, when the Lord
thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to
possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the
Hittites, and Girgashites, and Amorites, and Canaanites, and
the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations
greater and mightier than thou. Look down at verse six. For thou
art an holy people unto the Lord thy God. separated by God from
everybody else. That's what that word holy means.
Distinctly pulled apart from all other people. Distinctly
identified as a separate people from all others. The Lord thy
God hath chosen thee. That's the reason for it. He's
chosen thee to be a special people unto himself. Now I used to apologize,
folks, you folks believe in elections, y'all just believe you're a special
people. Oh, no, no, no, no. Well, yeah, that's what I mean. special
to God, God's special objects of love and favor and grace above
all people that are upon the face of the earth. Verse seven,
the Lord did not set his love upon you nor choose you because
there was something in you, because you were more in number than
any people. For you were the fewest of all people. He didn't
have anything gained by you, but because the Lord loved you,
And because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto
your fathers, hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand, and
redeemed you out of the house of bondage of the bondman from
the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Know therefore that the Lord
thy God, he is God. Who? This God of free election. This God of mighty redemption. This God who makes worthless
sons and daughters of Adam to be his own holy sons and daughters. He is God, the faithful God. which keepeth covenant and mercy
with them that love him, and keep his commandments to a thousand
generations." God's election is just this. In eternal love,
God chose us in his son. He chose us before the world
was made. having chosen us in Christ. The Lord God, the triune Jehovah,
heaped upon his chosen all the blessings of his grace and all
the glory that we yet anticipate in everlasting life. Imagine
that. Before the world was, Cheryl, God chose you and gave you everything
God can or will give to a man. for time and eternity, all spiritual
blessings heaped upon us once and for all with finality in
Jesus Christ the Lord before the world began. Now listen to
me. Election, according to this book,
is the source, the fountain of all blessedness. Blessed, blessed
is the Lord God Almighty, for he has blessed the man whom thou
choosest and causes to approach unto thee, that he may dwell
in thy courts. We shall be satisfied with the
goodness of thy house, even thy holy temple. That's God's election. That's God's grace. Accomplished
and given us in Christ before the world began, the lamb slain
from the foundation of the world, in whom we have redemption through
his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches
of his grace. This is God's salvation. This
is God's work. This is God's gift. This atonement
money, back here in Exodus chapter 30, was paid for the sum, that
is for the total number of the children of Israel. And Christ
Jesus, our Redeemer, made atonement for and redeemed all his elect. only his elect and all his elect,
the sum, the total number of the Israel of God. It is written
in the scriptures, for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
Our Lord Jesus said, I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd
giveth his life for the sheep. That's the first thing. Now here's
the second thing. This ransom price was determined by divine
measure. Those who were redeemed were
redeemed with a half shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary.
The measurement of the silver by which atonement was made was
not man's measure. It is called specifically the
shekel of the sanctuary. In other words, God's demands
were measured out by God. God's demands were measured out
by God, and they were exacted by God. And they were paid to
God. God said, this is what it'll
take to make atonement. I take the atonement. And the
Lord God Almighty says, I take the atonement that I have paid. Here's the measurement of the
sanctuary. The precious blood Jesus Christ
our Lord God says this I will take I will take nothing else
except the precious blood of the spotless Lamb of God the
incarnate God man the infinite mediator our Savior Jesus Christ
and I pay the price The Lord Jesus was alone when he tread
the fierceness of the winepress of the wrath of God. But don't
ever imagine that God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy
Ghost were not together in this. Hereby perceive we the love of
God, because he laid down his life for us. Brother Todd read
it to us in 1 John. What is the very life of God? This is the life, Jesus Christ
the Lord. And God gave his life in the
person of his darling son for the ransom of his people. And
God accepted the life he gave. The redemption price was a redemption
price that met all that was demanded by the law. It met all that God
demanded. Not only did the Lord require
that they must each bring a half shekel, no more and no less,
but it was called the shekel of the sanctuary. Not the shekel
of commerce, which might be debased in quality or diminished by wear
and tear, but the coin must be according to the shekel standard
laid up in the holy place and determined by God himself. Verse
13, to make sure we knew the measure, we're told a shekel
is 20 givers. We bring to God the redemption
that God has appointed. The Lord Jesus Christ. His blood. Nothing more and nothing less. Bring less and you die. Bring more and you die. You bring
to God only the precious blood atonement of his son. The ransom
price is perfection. Perfect righteousness and perfect
atonement. Perfect obedience unto death. This is the righteousness of
the saints. From that price there can be
no varying. Would you be accepted of God?
Would you come to God and be found accepted of Him with God
looking upon you with approval, with approbation, with delight
forever? With God receiving you and accepting
you? Come to God with nothing but
Christ the Lord. His obedience unto death by which
he in one day put away the sin of all his Israel. The price
satisfies the demand of God and satisfies it to the full. And
the price appointed effectually redeemed all for whom the price
was made. Now there are multitudes who
blasphemously imagine and preach that the sacrifice Christ made
upon the cursed tree, he made for everybody, but really didn't
accomplish anything by it. He made the sacrifice for everybody,
but didn't really redeem anybody. He made the sacrifice for everybody,
but didn't really justify anybody. He made the sacrifice for everybody,
but didn't really sanctify anybody. He made the sacrifice for everybody,
but didn't really save anybody. And they trampled the blood of
God's darling son under their feet as a contemptible thing,
an unholy thing, a common worthless then for they declare that man
by his faith makes the blood effectual for himself and thus
declare that Jesus Christ is no God for he's a failure and
that man is his own Savior for the determining factor is man
and not God and not Christ. That's blasphemy. That's not
a variant form of the gospel. That's blasphemy. You may as
well worship a totem pole or worship yourself. That's what
it really is. It is man being set up in the
house of God, demanding the men worship him as God. It's called
antichrist. And that's what all Arminian
free will, will worship, works religion is. It is antichrist
and it's damning. You trust such a Christ, you'll
go to hell as surely as if you trusted in a postage stamp. He's
worthless. That is not the Christ of God,
nor the gospel of God. We preach that the particular
and effectual redemption of Christ was for God's own chosen, his
elect, exactly as it is revealed in the book of God. Nothing else
honors God. Nothing else sets forth God's
faithfulness and justice. Nothing else sets forth God's
mercy and his grace. Nothing else sets forth God's
righteousness and his truth. Only by the satisfaction of divine
justice through the merits of an infinite sacrifice, Jesus
Christ our Lord is God honored. And nothing else gives hope to
sinners who have nothing. I'm preaching to you who have
nothing. I mean all there is you've got
is your sin. That's all. And you've got nothing
to bring to God but your sin. Nothing! How can I come to God,
an empty-handed, naked, filthy, bankrupt, doomed, damned, worthless
sinner, pleading Christ alone? Ah, to hell! There's hope in
Him, and only in Him for sinners who have nothing to bring to
God. As long as you think you've got something to offer, you may
as well stay away. You're not welcome, and God will
send you to hell if you come some other way. All those for
whom the atonement money was paid were freed from the possibility
of plague when the children of Israel were numbered. All of
them. Now listen to me. I just caught
Daryl's eye. You've had a few bumps and bruises
along the way. Nothing's ever done you any injury.
I remember when you didn't have to use that stick. Well, he's
got to walk with a cane now. No injury. No harm done. No harm
done. I've had cancer. I was born with
a bad defective heart valve and I walked, somebody said, you're
walking a little slower this morning. Yeah, pace is slowed down a little
bit. I don't spring up quite like I used to. No injury. No
harm. No harm. Listen to the scripture. Either that's true or God's not,
one of the two. Listen to what it says. There shall no evil
happen to the just. There shall no evil happen to
the just. Don't you think sickness and
pain and trials and troubles are evil? Oh, not for the just.
Not for the just. They only do us good. They only
do us good. And when we finally escape from
this world, this body of death, by breathing our last breath,
no evils happen to the just, only good. Listen to what our
Lord says. There shall no evil befall thee,
neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. No plague, come nigh thy dwelling. You see, my dwelling place is
not at 2734 Old Stanford Road, Danville, Kentucky, 40422. No,
no, no, no. I'm just staying there for a
little while until I get to my dwelling place. Our dwelling
place is in another land. Our dwelling place is in another
place. Our dwelling place is God our
Savior in heaven's everlasting glory. Now what was it that you
said was evil about this? What harm has ever come to this?
God's elect being ransomed according to the atonement money God requires
shall never know evil. Shall never know evil. We only read of the children
of Israel being numbered totaled up twice in the Old Testament
scripture. You're familiar with the passage
in 2 Samuel. Turn to Numbers chapter 1. You
go ahead and turn to Numbers 26. I'm going to read a couple
of verses in Numbers 1. The children of Israel were numbered
once as men commonly try to number them today, only being inspired
by pride without atonement without atonement money David being lifted
up with his pride had the children of Israel numbered without atonement
money and as a result God killed 70,000 of them but if you look
here at numbers you'll see the numbering of the children of
Israel again Let me read to you the first two verses of Numbers
1. That's what the book of Numbers is all about, this atonement,
this accomplishment of redemption. And the Lord spake unto Moses
in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation,
on the first day of the second month, in the second year, after
they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying, Take ye the
sum, that is, total up all the congregation of Israel, after
their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number
of their names, every male by their poles. Chapter 26, verse
2. Take the sum of all the congregation
of the children of Israel, from 20 years old and upward, throughout
their father's house, all that are able to go to war in Israel.
And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains
of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying, take the sum of the people
from 20 years old and upward, as the Lord commanded Moses and
the children of Israel went forth out of the land of Egypt. Now,
turn to Revelation chapter 7. I read of one more numbering
of the children of God, the Israel of God. A numbering made by atonement. A numbering, bless God, that
shall soon be performed. In Revelation 7, we see the children
of God, God's elect, God's Israel, numbered by atonement, saved
from every plague. Verse 4, I heard the number of
them which were sealed. and there were sealed in a hundred
and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children
of Israel. Multiplying the tribe by twelve,
it comes up with all the tribes a hundred and forty four thousand.
Now, back before they got to be a big cult, the Russellites
used to say they were just going to be a hundred and forty four
thousand saved all together. And now they've had to change
their doctrine a little bit to keep the money coming in, but that
a hundred and forty four thousand is not talking about a literal
number. Not a specific number. It's talking about the whole
body of Israel. All the tribes of the children
of Israel, gathered out of all the four corners of the earth,
out of every nation, kindred, tribe, and tongue. Let's see.
Verse 9. After this I beheld and lo, a great multitude, which
no man could number, of all nations and kindreds and people and tongues,
stood before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white
robes and palms in their hands, and cried with a loud voice,
saying, Salvation to our God, which sitteth upon the throne
and unto the Lamb. And all the angels stood round
about the throne, and about the elders, and the four beasts,
and fell down before the throne on their faces, and worshipped
God, saying, Amen, blessing, and glory, and wisdom, thanksgiving,
and honor, and power, and might be unto our God forever and ever. Amen. And one of the elders answered,
saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes?
And which came they? And I said unto him, Sir, thou
knowest. And he said unto me, these are
they which came out of great tribulation. And they've washed their robes
and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. complete atonement
Christ has made, and to the utmost farthing paid whate'er his people
owed, how then can wrath on me take place? I'm sheltered in
his righteousness and sprinkled with his blood. If Christ has
my discharge procured, and freely in my room endured the whole
of wrath divine, payment God cannot first demand, first at
my bleeding, twice demand, first at my bleeding surety's hand
and then again at mine. Christ's atonement means that
no plague shall ever come nigh. but only grace and blessedness
and glory. Now here's the third thing, back
here in Exodus. Paul speaks in Romans 3.25 about
faith in his blood. Faith in the blood atoning sacrifice
of our Lord Jesus Christ, our substitute. So the third thing
I want you to see in our text is that all the chosen all for
whom atonement money was paid. They brought the atonement money
in their hands. They came and said, here's my hat shekel. They brought the
money to Moses, to the law, in the tabernacle of God at the
place of God's glory. Even so, God's elect, all of
them, must and shall come to God by faith in Christ, through
faith in the accomplished redemption of the Lord Jesus Christ. Whosoever
believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. Now, not many
folks in this world believe that. Not many do. Whosoever believeth
that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. We who are gods believe
that that man, Jesus of Nazareth, who lived better than 2000 years
ago in poverty, and that man who was scandalized and mocked
and derided and at last falsely accused of horrid crimes, and
nailed to a cursed tree, spit upon by men, forsaken of God,
and slain by the sword of justice, and then on the third day rose
from the dead, triumphant and victorious, that man accomplished
everything God and the prophets said that Christ would accomplish.
He left nothing undone. Redemption accomplished by Him. The atonement price had to be
personally accepted by the one who brought it. And we must come
to God only on God's terms. Trust in Christ alone as our
Redeemer. Him who is a price of infinite
worth. And yet a price that could be
obtained by the poorest men in Israel. But I don't have a half
a shekel. I don't have a half a shekel.
Where can I get a half a shekel? I've got to have a half a shekel.
Where can I get a half a shekel? That ain't like asking a fella
for a thousand dollars. A half a shekel? Brother Todd,
I'm busted. Would you lend me a half a shekel?
Why sure, Dodd. Even the poor can get it. All
you've got to do is beg. It's all you got to do is beg.
All you got to do is beg. Cast yourself, a poor, helpless,
bankrupt sinner before God. And God's going to do something
for you that's symbolized in the scriptures that men keep
trying to imitate and they can't do. It's called alms. It's called
alms. He'll give you a free gift. Free,
full salvation! through the gift he has given
you, the half-shackle of the atonement. Even the poor can
get it, and all who come have got to bring this in their hands.
The atonement money must be personally brought by the worshipper. How
can I speak to you as I should about this? Oh, Spirit of God,
help me to plainly, truthfully speak to your heart. You must
trust the Lord Jesus Christ, God's darling son, for yourself. You must do it. But preach, I've
tried and I've tried and I can't. I know you can't. I know you
can't, but you must. And if God calls you by his grace
this minute, You will suddenly find yourself gladly doing what
you could not otherwise do, believing on his son. You bring God the
atonement money. Bring him what God has provided. Bring him what God requires. Bring him what only God can give. You come to God by faith in his
sight or by faith in his son. Now listen to me. You come to
God by faith in his son and God himself who cannot lie cannot
turn you away. And if you come by faith in his
son bringing nothing else and nothing less, you come with,
listen to what scripture says, full assurance of faith. Full assurance of faith. But I don't have that. That's
because you're bringing something else. You're mixing something else with his
son. You're leaving something out. But you come with nothing
but Christ. God cannot turn you away. You
come with full assurance of faith. Do you imagine that Aaron was ever fearful on the day of
atonement of taking that blood that God required from that animal
that God required in the way that God required to the place
that God required through the veil into the holy place there
alone with God. Folks used to say, I've heard
them say it many times, they had on his robe veils and pomegranates
so that if he died in there somebody could know he's dead and God
hadn't accepted his sacrifice. He didn't even have those bells
and pomegranates on in there. He pulled them off before he went
in. He went in with the holy linen garments of the priesthood,
and he went in with full assurance of faith. I wouldn't have dared
gone in there without confidence, would you? Wouldn't have dared
do so, because he had what God required, what God provided in
the way God specified, and he came out and blessed the people
with full assurance of faith. But if you come some other way, I don't care what it is, you
come some other way without the shackle of the sanctuary, without
the atonement money, you'll go to hell. No matter what you mix
with it. That's what's declared to us
in Hebrews 10. Now here's the fourth thing. Oh, what a blessed thing it is
to see. Verse 15, the rich shall not give more and the poor shall
not give less than half shekel when they give an offering unto
the Lord to make an atonement for your souls. All Israel was
equally redeemed and all the Israel of God are equally redeemed. What does that mean, pastor?
That means the Lord Jesus Christ purchased all his people with
an equal price. The price of his own precious
blood. They are all valued alike by
God. All of us. All of us. God values
me as much as does Abraham. More than that. God values me
as much as he does his own dear son. So it is with you who believe. All are equally loved of God. All are redeemed to the same
inheritance. All are equally secure, bought
with the same price. And all are equally accepted
in the beloved. accepted in Christ so that God
Almighty in all the fullness of his glorious triune persons
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost in all the glory of his infinite
being looks on Israel all Israel all the time with
complete approbation and delight Did you ever notice when he speaks
of David and the horrible crime with Uriah the Hittite and Bathsheba?
The scripture says the thing that David did displeased the
Lord. The thing he did, not David. Because you see we're accepted
not by what we do but by what Christ is and he has done. Accepted in the beloved all the
time with no variation. Sometimes God hides his face
and appears to frown but even when he appears to frown he's
smiling on you This is atonement by the shackle of the sanctuary
by the blood of Christ One last thing turn back to Exodus 38
now Exodus 38 Everything in the worship of
God Everything in this thing called faith and salvation has
its basis and foundation in the sin atoning sacrifice of our
Lord Jesus Christ. You read the law of God given
in Exodus and in Numbers and then Leviticus and in Deuteronomy.
Did you ever stop to look at how many times in how many ways
with connection with how many sacrifices the word atonement
is used? Atonement. Atonement. Atonement.
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Atonement. Atonement. Atonement. Atonement. Atonement. Atonement. Atonement.
Atonement. Atonement. Atonement. Atonement. Atonement.
Atonement. Atonement. Atonement. Atonement. Atonement.
Atonement. Atonement. Atonement. Each board sitting when the tabernacle
was pitched in sockets of silver. Two boards in each socket. Each board fixed in two sockets
of silver. Those sockets of silver connected all the boards together
and formed the basis or the foundation of the tabernacle when it was
established. So the boards were put into place and all of them
joined together. And these sockets of silver were
like that one pole shot through all the boards, holding everything
together. That's Jesus Christ and Him crucified. Now here in Exodus 38, we find
out where the foundation came from. We find out where Moses
got the silver to make little sockets of silver. Verse 25 and
the silver of them which that were numbered of the congregation
was a hundred talents and a thousand seven hundred three score and
fifty shekels after the shekel of the sanctuary a becca for
every man that is half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary
for everyone that went to be numbered from twenty years old
and upward for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred
and fifty men All of the hundred talents of silver were cast the
sockets of silver of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the veil,
and hundred sockets of the hundred talents, a talent for a socket. What does all that mean? All
the foundation for the worship of Israel was redemption. The
dwelling place of their God was founded on atonement. The boards
of incorruptible wood and precious gold stood upon redemption money. And the curtains of fine linen
and the veil of matchless workmanship The whole structure of the tabernacle,
the whole structure of God's salvation, the whole structure
of the revelation of the person and the glory of God stood on
atonement made by the numbering of Israel. That's where the glory
of God is seen, in the face of Jesus Christ crucified. So that
in the house of God, in the worship of God, in the preaching of the
gospel, in understanding the book of God, redemption is everything. Atonement is everything. Everything. I see atonement there. I see
atonement over here. I see atonement there. I see
atonement there. I see atonement there. Atonement everywhere in
the house of God. What we bring to God is a half
shekel. according to the measure of the
sanctuary, by the command of God, the precious blood of God's
dear Son. And we come in and go out singing,
redeemed, how I love to proclaim it, redeemed by the blood of
the Lamb, redeemed through His infinite mercy. Redeemed is child
and forever I am. Oh, may God send you home today
singing redeemed. Redeemed by the blood of the
lamb. Amen.