Would you turn back to the book
of Leviticus, the ninth chapter. I've entitled this message, The
Lord Will Appear Unto You. Now, how strange would the Bible
be, particularly these Old Testament rites and sacrifices, if you
didn't know the gospel? You'd read about these sin sacrifices
and these burnt offerings and these meat offerings and these
peace offerings, and you'd think, what is the point? Well, there
is a point, as we shall see. And if I understand the gospel,
the Old Testament is going to come open to me. Not until I
understand the gospel. But when I understand the gospel,
the Old Testament, will come open. Now can you imagine how
excited they were in the last phrase of verse four, for today
the Lord will appear unto you. How exciting that must have been
to think about that. He says the Lord himself is going
to appear to you. That word appear is also translated
make to enjoy. He's going to make you enjoy
himself. Wouldn't that be glorious if
that's what takes place tonight? It's translated provide. God
will provide himself the sacrifice. That's the same word in the Hebrew. God will provide for you. It's translated regard. The God of glory is going to
have regard for you. And it's also translated respect. The Lord of glory is going to
have respect. Toward you, that's an awesome
thought, isn't it? That the God of glory could actually
have respect toward me. You know, the scripture says,
though the Lord be high, yet hath he respect to the lowly. But the proud he knoweth afar
off." The Lord is going to show himself to you. When Moses said,
show me your glory, this is the same word. Let your glory, what
you see as your glory, let that appear Now can you imagine how
excited you would be right now, put yourself in the place of
these people, when Moses says the Lord is going to appear to
you today. But before that appearing, something
had to take place. Verse 1, And it came to pass
on the eighth day, that Moses called Aaron and his sons, and
the elders of Israel. Remember, Aaron was the priest.
And remember, Aaron was a man. He was a sinful man, just like
you and I. And in order for him to offer
up a sacrifice on the behalf of somebody else, something's
going to have to be done about his sin. So sacrifice first had
to be offered for his sin before he could offer a sacrifice for
the sin of the children of Israel. Verse 2, and he said unto Aaron,
Take thee a young cat for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt
offering, without blemish, and offer them before the Lord, representing
the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ. He was without blemish.
He never sinned. Now, these animal sacrifices
never put away a sin, you know that. It's what they represent.
They represent the coming sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now,
once Aaron is fit to offer up this sacrifice, we read in verse
3, and under the children of Israel, thou shalt speak. Moses is speaking to Aaron, and
this is what he's to say, saying, take a kid of the goats for a
sin offering, and a calf and a lamb, both of the first year,
without blemish, for a burnt offering, and a bullock and a
ram for peace offerings to sacrifice before the Lord. and a meat offering
mingled with oil. Those things must take place
first before the Lord will appear to you. Now, we read of four sacrifices
that had to take place before the Lord would appear. First,
there had to be a sin offering. Next, there had to be a burnt
offering. Next, there had to be a peace
offering. And next, there had to be a meat
offering. And every one of these offerings
give us some different aspect of the sacrifice of the Lord
Jesus Christ, what must take place before God can appear unto
me. Now, first, he speaks of the
sin offering. Now, for the Lord to appear to
me, something has to be done about my sin. God is holy and
he cannot have fellowship with me. He's holy. Something must
first be done about my sin. And there's not a thing I can
do about my sin. I can't make it go away. I can't
cause it not to be. I can't make it less than it
is. I can't do anything about my sin. Something has to be done
for me. Now, I will not have his favor,
apart from something being done about my sin. Now look over in
Leviticus chapter 4. This is about this sin offering.
This will make us understand what the sin offering was. Verse
14. Leviticus chapter 4, verses 14
and 15, and this is what is going to tell us what was going on
on the cross. In verse 14 of Leviticus chapter 4, this is
other instruction concerning the sin offering, when the sin
which they have sinned against, it is known, then the congregation
shall offer a young bullock for the sin, and bring him before
the tabernacle of the congregation, and the elders of the congregation
shall lay their hands upon the head of the bullock before the
Lord, and the bullock shall be killed before the Lord." Now,
what took place? They bring the bullock Before
the priest, the priest puts his hands on the head of that bullock. And what do they do then? They
kill it. Now, why? This represents, this
typifies, this tells us what was going on on the cross. Sin
was transferred to the bullock symbolically in this, but it
wasn't transferred symbolically to the Lord Jesus Christ. He
was actually made sin. The sins of his people. This
is why he died. There's only one reason for death.
And that's sin. There are no other reasons. The
only reason for death is sin. The sins of God's elect were
placed upon the Lord Jesus Christ. And look back in Leviticus chapter
9. Verse 8. And Aaron went unto the altar,
and slew the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself.
And the sons of Aaron brought the blood unto him, and he dipped
his finger in the blood, and put it upon the horns of the
altar, and poured out the blood at the bottom of the altar. But
the fat, and the kidneys, and the call above the liver of the
sin offering, he burnt upon the altar, as the Lord commanded
Moses. And the flesh, and the hide, he burnt with fire without
the camp." Now this sin offering, It was taken after they killed
it, after they put the blood down. They took the body, they
took the carcass outside of the camp, and it was considered a
polluted thing. That's why it was taken without
the camp, and it was burned not as a sacrifice, but it was burned
as a polluted thing. a vile thing. As a matter of
fact, the one who burned it had to be washed and cleansed before
he could enter back within the camp. And this tells us what
was going on when our Lord was on the cross. I want you to imagine,
not even imagine, think about the most guilty and shamed you've
ever been about your sin. I want you to think of how shameful
and evil and vile you feel with regard to sin that you've committed,
and it's all your fault. And you think of the feelings
that are associated with that. The Lord Jesus Christ felt all
of that much more acutely than you and I can experience that.
When my sin became his sin, he felt all the horror of that Now,
there are two things that came about from this sin offering. Look in Leviticus, chapter four,
once again. Verse 20. And he shall do with the bullock
as he did with the bullock for a sin offering, so shall he do
with this, and the priest shall make an atonement for them, and
it shall be forgiven them. That sin is It's forgiven. Forgiven by God
Himself. Now you know the blood of that
animal didn't cause this forgiveness. But the blood of the Lord Jesus
Christ causes the complete forgiveness of sins. Isn't that wonderful? Not only Does this blood cause
forgiveness? This blood causes cleansing. Look in Leviticus chapter 16,
the great day of atonement, the sin offering. Verse 30. For on that day shall the priest
make an atonement for you to cleanse you that you may be clean
from all your sins before the Lord. Now this is what the blood
of the Lord Jesus Christ has done. It has made everybody he
died for clean, cleansed, holy, and pure. Somebody says, I don't
feel that way. I don't care whether you feel
that way or not. If Christ died for your sins,
you are cleansed. You are holy and you are pure
before God. That's what the sin offering
accomplished. It accomplished the forgiveness
of sins and it accomplished cleansing to where I am actually right
now because of the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, I am clean
before God. It takes faith to believe that,
doesn't it? Because you sure don't feel it. It takes faith
to believe that. But I believe that right now
I am clean without fault, without sin before God, because of the
sin offering of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, here's what the sin offering
of Christ did. It caused our sins to be forgiven,
and it made us clean and holy, as Paul said in Colossians 1.22,
holy and unblameable and unreprovable in God's sight. Now, first, the
sin offering. Second, the burn offering. Now, what took place with the
burn offering? Well, look in verse 24 of Leviticus
chapter 9. Verse 22, And Aaron lifted up
his hand toward the people, and blessed them, and came down from
offering the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace
offerings. And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of the
congregation, and came out, and blessed the people. And the glory
of the Lord appeared unto all the people, and there came a
fire out from before the Lord, and consumed upon the altar the
burnt offering. Now can you imagine them seeing
that? They witnessed this fire came down from heaven and consumed
that burnt offering. And what that speaks of is God's
satisfaction, God's acceptance of the sacrifice of the Lord
Jesus Christ. He was consumed because he accepted
what he did. Now, when we talk about the shed
offering, This is talking about the suffering of our Lord on
account of sin. But when we talk about the burnt
offering, we're talking about the satisfaction of our Lord
Jesus Christ, how he actually satisfied God. I turn over for
a moment to First Kings, Chapter 18. We read here of two burnt
offerings. One was accepted and one wasn't. Verse 17, First Kings, Chapter
18. And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said
unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel? And he answered, I have
no trouble with Israel, but thou and thy father's house, in that
ye have forsaken the commandments of the Lord, and thou hast followed
Balaam. Now therefore send and gather
to me all Israel into Mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four
hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, which
eat at Jezebel's table. So Ahab sent unto all the children
of Israel, and gathered the prophets together into Mount Carmel. Elijah
came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between
two opinions? How long are you going to straddle
the fence? How long are you going to have
a foot in both camps? If the Lord be God, follow him. But if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not
a word. Then said Elijah unto the people,
I, even I, only remain a prophet of the Lord, but Baal's prophets
are 450 men. Let them therefore give us two
bullocks. Now here's the two sacrifices.
Let them choose one bullock for themselves and cut it in pieces,
lay it on wood, put no fire under it, and I'll dress the other
bullock and lay it on the wood and put no fire under it. And
you call on the name of your gods and I'll call on the name
of the Lord. And the God that answereth by fire, just like
we read about fire coming down from heaven and consuming the
sacrifice. Let him be God. And all the people
answered and said, it's well-spoken. And Elijah said unto the prophets
of Baal, choose you one bullet for yourselves and dress it first
for your many and call on the name of your God, but put no
fire under it. And they took the bullock which was given them,
and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning
until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor
any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar
which was made in pagan ritual. And it came to pass at noon that
Elijah mocked them. Wouldn't you have loved to have
heard that? He mocked them. He made fun of
them. We're not supposed to make fun
of other people's religion. Elijah did. He made fun of them,
didn't he? He said, cry aloud, for he's
a god. Either he's talking, or he's
pursuing, or he's on a journey, or prevention. He sleepeth and
must be awaked. And they cried aloud and cut
themselves after the manor with knives. and lances to the blood
gushed out upon them, and it came to pass when midday was
passed, and they prophesied unto the time of the offering of the
evening sacrifice, there was neither voice, nor any answer,
nor any that regarded. Such was the first sacrifice.
No fire came down from heaven. And Elijah said unto the people,
Come near unto me. And all the people came near
unto him, and he repaired the altar of the Lord that was broken
down. And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number
of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of
the Lord came, saying, Israel shall be thy name. And with the
stones, he built an altar in the name of the Lord. And he
made a trench about the altar as great as would contain two
measures of seed. And he put the wood in order
and cut the bullock in pieces and laid him on the wood and
said, fill four barrels with water and poured on the burnt
sacrifice and on the wood. And he said, do it the second
time. And they did it the second time. And he said, do it the
third time. It was doused with water. And they did it the third
time. And as the water round about the altar, and filled the
trench also with water, and it came to pass at the time of the
offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came
near and said, Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it
be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am
thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy
word. Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that the people may know that
thou art the Lord God, and that thou hast turned their heart
back again. Then the fire of the Lord fell,
and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones,
and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces, and
they said, ìThe Lord, He is the God!î The Lord, He is the God. Acceptance. Acceptance. As I said, the first offering
had to do with suffering for sin, and the second offering
speaks of satisfaction, and that is why God can accept me. Because Christ satisfied God
for me. Now, what do I mean by God being
satisfied? What's that a reference to? Well,
if I've got sin on me, God can't be satisfied with me. He's God. He cares. He's holy. Something
has to be done about my sin. Well, that was accomplished in
the sin sacrifice. And the burnt offering says God
is satisfied with what Christ did. He doesn't require anything
else out of me. He has full satisfaction by what
Christ did. And let me tell you this. What
God is satisfied with, I'm satisfied with, too. Are you satisfied
with what Christ did? God is. God requires nothing
else. If there was something else,
what could you provide? If you know your own self, you know
there's nothing you could provide. But he is satisfied. He's completely satisfied with
the sacrifice of his son. I need no other argument. I need
no other plea. It is enough. It is enough. It is enough. that Jesus died
and that he died for me. He that spared not his own son,
Romans 8.32, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not
with him also freely? And did you hear that word? Freely.
There's nothing to prevent him from freely giving you all things
because of the sacrifice of his son. complete satisfaction. Now, the third offering was the
peace offering. God is now at peace with me. Because of the sacrifice of His
Son, because of the satisfaction of His Son, God was satisfied
with what he did. Now the living God of glory right
now has no reason to be mad at me. You know why? Because there's nothing to be
mad about. Because my sin has been put away, and I have no
sin. He was manifested to take away
our sins, and it is no sin. God is at peace with me. He has no reason for anger. And you know what? When I see
that He's at peace with me, I'm at peace with Him, too. I surely
am. I don't have that slavish dread
and fear of Him. He's pleased with me. He's at
peace. Christ accomplished my peace, and the peace I experienced
was my peace. I have peace. Let me tell you
where that peace comes from. The peace I have. I've got peace,
a little peace in my heart. And let me tell you the only
reason why I have that peace is because what Christ did is all
God requires of me. It's not the minimum. It's the
maximum, the minimum, and everything else. And I derive peace. Peace from what He did. All that God requires of me,
I have. in the Lord Jesus Christ. What peace there is in him, the
joy and peace of believing, the peace from the burnt offering.
Now, it's interesting. There were three types of peace
offerings in the book of Leviticus. There was the Thanksgiving offering,
which was a peace offering. There was the offering of a vow,
and there was what is called the freewill offering. All of
these were under the branch of a peace offering. Now, the first
peace offering is the offering of Thanksgiving. You know what?
I'm very thankful. I am very thankful that the Lord
Jesus is my peace and that I need nothing else. I'm very thankful. That's the thank offering. And
I vow this, by the grace of God, I'm not looking anywhere else
but Christ as my peace. I promise you this, the only
peace I have is the Lord Jesus Christ. And you know what? This is my free will offering.
What's that mean? That means How do you want to
be saved? What do you want? If you have
your will, how do you want to be saved? I want to be saved
wholly by Him, in a way where He gets all the glory and none
goes to me, and He does it all. That's what I want. That's the
peace offering. I'm thankful. I promise this.
This is how I want to be saved, and this is what I choose by
the grace of God. And then the last offering, had
to take place was the meat offering. This was unleavened bread mingled
with oil. And we, when they would give
this meat offering, what they would, they would do, they would
return a portion of that which the Lord had given them. And
they were saying it came from you. Turn to First Chronicles
chapter 29. This gives us some idea of what
this meat offering was. First Chronicles 29. Verse nine, then the people rejoiced
for that they offered willingly. You and the Lord enables you
to do something willingly, it makes you rejoice, doesn't it?
Aren't you thankful? You know, he's the one who caused
you to do it. You know enough about your perverted will to
know you'd never do that. And it's a work of his grace. Then the people rejoice. I love
that scripture. Thy people should be willing
in the day of thy power. They rejoiced that they offered
willingly, because with a perfect heart they offered willingly
to the Lord. And David the king also rejoiced with great joy.
Wherefore, David blessed the Lord before all the congregation,
and David said, Blessed be thou, Lord God of Israel, our Father,
forever and ever. Thine, O Lord, is the greatness
and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty,
for all that is in the heaven and the earth is Thine. Thine
is the kingdom, O Lord. Thou art exalted as head above
all, both riches and honor come of Thee. And thou reignest over
all, and in thy hand is power and might, and in thy hand it
is to make great, and to give strength unto all. Now therefore,
our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name. But who am
I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so
willingly after this sort? For all things come of thee,
and of thy own hand have we given thee. We are only giving you
what you gave to us, and caused us to return to you." Now, here's
the point. In this meat offering, there's
a conscious understanding that whatever it is I am enabled to
offer up to the Lord, it's because he gave me that which I offer,
and he's the one who caused me to do it. There's an understanding
of this. You see, we understand that whatever we have is of the
Lord. Turn with me to Genesis chapter
22. Verse 1, And it came to pass,
after these things that God did to him to Abraham, and said unto
him, Abraham, and he said, Behold, here I am. And he said, Take
now thy son, thy only son Isaac. Ishmael was not regarded as a
son. Whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah,
and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains,
which I will tell thee of. And Abraham rose up early in
the morning and saddled his ass and took two of his young men
with him and Isaac his son and claimed the wood for the burnt
offering and rose up and went into the place which God had
told him. Then on the third day, Abraham lifted up his eyes and
saw the place afar off. Don't you reckon his heart was
breaking? There's where I'm going to go
kill my boy. I can't even imagine what he
was thinking at this time. And Abraham said unto his young
men, abide ye here with the ash, and I and the lad will go yonder
and worship and come again to you. Now, this lets us know God
had promised that seed was going to come. The Messiah was going
to come through this boy. And so he knew, well, even though
I kill him, God's going to raise him from the dead. He says, we'll
come back to you. That was the faith of Abraham.
He said, we'll be back. We'll be back. God cannot lie. And
Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it upon
Isaac, his son, and he took the fire in his hand and a knife,
and they both went up together. The imagery is so striking. Who
else carried the wood for his own crucifixion up a mountain?
The Lord Jesus Christ. This is so clearly a type of
the Lord Jesus Christ. And Isaac spake unto Abraham,
his father, and said, My father, And he said, Here am I, my son.
And he said, Behold the fire and the wood. We have the fire. We have the wood. But where is
the lamb for a burnt offering? You know, with regard to every
sermon we hear, every sermon we hear, this is the question. Where's the lamb? And look at Abraham's answer. And Abraham said, My son, God
will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering. And remember,
that meat offering is understanding that whatever we have is of God's
provision. And here he says, God, you can't
provide anything that God would accept. You understand that? There's nothing that you could
provide that God would accept. I've heard preachers say, give
Jesus your heart. What would he want with it? What
would he want with it? God is the one who provides the
lamb. All that he requires, he provides. And God will provide for Himself
this land. You see, for God to do something
for me or you, He first had to do something for Himself. He
had to satisfy His own justice. He had to make a way for Him
to love and accept me. For God to do something for me,
He had to first do something for Himself. And God Himself
is the Lamb. The Lord Jesus Christ is the
Lamb of God's providing. God will provide Himself a land. for a burnt offering. Go back to Leviticus chapter
9. Verse 5. And they brought that which Moses
commanded them before the tabernacle of the congregation, all the
materials of the four different sacrifices. And all the congregation
grew near and stood before the Lord. And Moses said, this is
the thing which the Lord commanded that you should do. And the glory
of the Lord shall appear unto you. The glory. You see, if the
Lord appears unto you, the glory of the Lord will appear to you. And Moses said unto Aaron, Go
into the altar, verse 7, and offer thy sin offering, and thy
burnt offering, and make an atonement for thyself and for the people,
and offer the offering of the people, and make an atonement
for them as the Lord commanded. Now, here's what is going on
in this offering atonement. Atonement. Now, what does atonement
mean? The first time the word is used
is With reference to Noah's Ark. The word pitch. Remember what
it says after he made the Ark, you were to pitch it with in
and out with pitch. Outside it was to be covered with this black
tarry substance called pitch. Within it was coated with pitch. This is what kept the judgment
of God out. The pitch. Without the pitch,
water would have got through and they would have all drowned.
The boat would have sank. Pitch it on the outside with
pitch, and what keeps us on the inside? What is it that causes
us to continually come to the Lord Jesus Christ? The atonement
of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, this word atonement is translated
by eight other words in the Old Testament, all of which give
us some idea of what the blood of Christ has done for our sins,
the sacrifice that makes it the word God can appear to us in
his glory. It's translated appease. He's
no longer angry. How often do you think the Lord's
mad at you? Well, he's not, if you're in
Christ. It's translated cleanse. Washing
away and making us clean and holy before God, that's what
his blood does, makes me cleansed, cleansed me. And I like this
word, it's translated disannulled. You know what happens like if
a, I don't know how this works, but somehow some kind of marriage
instead of getting a divorce, they get it disannulled instead
of divorce. That means it never happened
before the law. It never happened. Now, because
of the blood of Christ, my sin never happened. It's translated forgive. There's
forgiveness with thee that thou mayest be feared, be merciful,
pacify, pardon, purge, put off, make reconciliation. That's what
his blood does. Turn with me to Romans 5. Hold
your finger there in Leviticus 9 and turn to Romans 5. I'd like
you to see this. For if, when we were enemies, when we were enemies, we were
reconciled to God by the death of His Son, much more, being
reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. And not only so,
but we also join God through our Lord Jesus Christ by whom
we've now received the atonement, the reconciliation. When did
this take place? When we were enemies. When Christ
died, I was reconciled. Not when I turned things around.
I was reconciled to God. God was completely reconciled
to me when the Lord Jesus Christ died. His atonement made full
reconciliation. Now turn back to Leviticus chapter
9. Verse 8, And Aaron therefore
went unto the altar, and slew the calf of the sin offering,
which was for himself. And the sons of Aaron brought
the blood unto him, and he dipped the finger in the blood, and
put it upon the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at the
bottom of the altar. But the fat, and the kidneys, and the
call above the liver of the sin offering he burnt upon the altar,
as the Lord commanded Moses. And the flesh and the hide he
burnt with fire without the camp, And he slew the burnt offering,
and Aaron's sons presented unto him the blood which he sprinkled
round about the altar. And they presented the burnt
offering unto him, with the pieces thereof, and the head, and the
burnt, and he burnt them upon the altar. And he did wash the
inwards and the legs, and burnt them upon the burnt offer on
the altar. And he brought the people's offering, and took the
goat, which was the sin offering for the people, and slew it,
and offered it for sin as the first. And he brought the burnt
offering, and offered it according to the manner. And he brought
the meat offering, and took a handful thereof, and burnt it upon the
altar beside the burnt sacrifice of the morning. He slew also
the bullock of the ram for sacrifice of peace offerings, which was
for the people. And Aaron's sons presented unto
him the blood which he sprinkled upon the altar round about. And
the fat of the bullock and of the ram of the rump, that which
covereth the inwards and the kidneys and the gall above the
liver. And they put the fat upon the breast, and he burnt the
fat upon the altar. And the breast and the right shoulder, Aaron
waved for a wave offering before the Lord as Moses commanded.
And Aaron lifted up his hand toward the people after all these
sacrifices, and blessed them, and came down from offering the
sin offering and the burnt offering and peace offerings. And Moses
and Aaron went into the tabernacle of the congregation and came
out and blessed the people. And what happened? Just as God
said, the glory of the Lord appeared unto all the people. Now, how
did the glory of the Lord appear to all the people? What is it
that they saw? And there came a fire out from
before the Lord. and consumed upon the altar the
burnt offering and the fat, which when all the people saw, they
shouted, and that's generally translated, they shouted for
joy. They were happy. They were glad. And they fell
down on their faces. Now, God's glory, please, by
the grace of God, hear what I'm saying. No, don't hear what I'm
saying, hear what God says. I don't care what I say or not,
it doesn't matter. Is this the teaching of the scripture?
God's glory is seen in the acceptance of the sacrifice of his son. That's what they saw. God's glory
is seen in the acceptance of the sacrifice of his son. First,
that he gave his son to be sacrificed in the first place is glorious,
isn't it? That he gave himself. And then what that sacrifice
accomplished, he put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
And God is completely satisfied with what Christ did. Let me
ask you a question. Are you? Are you satisfied with what Christ
did? Or do you think you need something else? Or do you believe
this is all I need? The sacrifice of the Lord Jesus
Christ. You see, this accepted sacrifice tells
us who God is. And you and I will not know God
apart from the sacrifice of Christ. But the sacrifice of Christ,
in dying on the cross, it manifests every attribute of God. All that
God is, every one of His attributes, His holiness, His love, His grace,
His sovereignty, His justice, His wisdom, every attribute of
God is displayed in the cross. And His glory The glory of God
is seen in His acceptance of the sacrifice of Christ. And
you know what else I get out of that? Ephesians 1, 6 says,
He hath made us accepted in the Beloved. When He was satisfied
with the Lord Jesus Christ, He was satisfied with everybody
Christ represented. And He's satisfied with me. May God give us grace to believe. Let's pray. Lord, how we thank you for the
sacrifice of our Redeemer. And Lord, we ask in his blessed
name. That you would cause us In light of his sacrifice for
us, in light of your satisfaction with him and those in him, we
ask that you would draw us and cause us to give ourselves and
to present ourselves a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable
unto God, which is our reasonable service. Truly, Lord, anything
less is utterly unreasonable. How we thank you for the sacrifice
of our Redeemer. In Christ's blessed name we pray.
Amen.