Now, what we're going to have
this morning, the title of the message is, No More Offering
for Sin. No More Offering for Sin. And
what we're going to have here in this two-part message is a
clear declaration, as clear, as plain as it can be made in
the Scripture and, I hope, by the preacher. of the gospel of
Christ, the saving, redeeming gospel of Christ, both revealed in the Old Testament
and the New. Now, chapter 9 of Hebrews says,
"...then verily the first covenant..." This is the Old Testament days.
This is the first covenant. This is the covenant given to
Moses and Israel. This is the way they worshiped
God in Old Testament days in the wilderness before our Lord
Jesus came into the world. And that first covenant had also
ceremonies of divine service and had a earthly sanctuary. There was a tabernacle out in
the wilderness and later a temple in Jerusalem. And verse 2 says,
there was a tabernacle made That tabernacle was made of skin,
the skin of animals. There were four layers on that
tabernacle. The tabernacle was 15 feet wide
and 15 feet high and 45 feet long. And the first layer was
white, pure white linen that covered the tabernacle and was
seen from the inside. The second layer was ram skin
dyed red. And the third layer was goat
skin, the fourth layer was badger skin. Just old common badger
skin. And inside that tabernacle was
two compartments. There was a holy place and the
holy of holies. Now that's what we're reading
about here. There was a tabernacle and the first compartment we're
in was the candlestick. There was seven candles. That's the only light in the
tabernacle. was there on the side with candlesticks. And there was a table and to
show bread. There were twelve loaves of bread,
one for each tribe of Israel. And that was called the holy
place. And then after the second veil, there was a veil in this
tabernacle, and that veil separated this holy place from the holy
of holies. And after the second veil, the
tabernacle, which is called the Holy of Holies, the holiest of
all. And in that compartment, in that Holy of Holies, it had
the golden censer on which the high priest would put the incense
and burn it. And the Ark of the Covenant,
there was the Ark, which was about two and a half or three
feet long by two feet wide, two feet high, something like that.
And the ark, inside that ark, but first of all, overlaid round
about with gold. That was the mercy seat over
the top of the ark. And inside the ark was the golden
pot that had manna. There was a pot of the manna
that was preserved and kept manna in the wilderness that God, with
which God fed Israel. Aaron's rod that budded, it was
in there. You remember when there was a
There was a division among the people about who should be the
high priest. Moses was the prophet, and God selected Aaron as the
high priest, but there were some questions about who would be
the prophet and the priest, because some of the people were ambitious
for those offices. And God told the men to get together,
and each one take his shepherd rod and cast it down, and the
rod that budded, that's the high priest, and Aaron's rod budded.
It grew. And they put that in the ark.
And also the tables of the covenant. Inside that ark was the bread,
Abram's rod that budded, and the tables of law, the Ten Commandments
that God gave to Israel. The two tables of stone on which
God wrote the Ten Commandments and gave to Moses. And over this
ark, was that with cherubims of glory shattering the mercy
seat of which we cannot now speak particularly. In other words,
let me show you this. Now here's the art, here's the
tabernacle out in the wilderness. There's a place where God, the
cloud would be over that tabernacle in the daytime and the pillar
of fire at night. The presence of God was in this
tabernacle. And that was the place of worship.
That's where the people came to worship. That's where the
divine ordinances were carried on. That's where the sacrifices
were carried on. And there was the holy place
out here, the first compartment, and then the burial. And behind
that burial was the Ark of the Covenant. And in that Ark was
the broken law, the law which God gave to Israel and the law
which Israel had broken. But over that ark was a mercy
seat. Mercy seat means propitiation.
It means to make atonement, to expiatory, expiate, to put away,
to cover the mercy seat. There's mercy for sinners. There's
mercy covering that law. And then the cherubims on either
side of the mercy seat facing one another, wings toward one
another, and God said in Exodus, He said, I'll meet you at the
mercy seat. I'll commune with you at the
mercy seat. Now, there's the tabernacle. Now, here's the sacrifices. Now, verse 6, when these things
were thus ordained, the priests, that's plural, there were many
priests, They went always into the first tabernacle, the first
compartment called the holy place accomplishing the services of
God. In other words, that light, those candles were kept burning
365 days a year, 24 hours a day. That fresh bread, the bread,
Christ is the bread of life, Christ is the light of the world.
That bread was kept fresh every day. In front of this veil was
an altar of incense. And that incense was kept fresh
and burning every day, 24 hours a day. But even outside of this
art was the labor of water, where the priest would wash his hands
and feet before coming into the tabernacle. And outside that
was the altar where the sacrifices, there was a noon sacrifice, a
morning sacrifice, an evening sacrifice. Each individual had
certain sacrifices they came to the priest and offered. A
woman who gave birth to a child offered a sacrifice. If one of
the people got married, they offered a sacrifice. Upon a certain
day, there were all types of sacrifices. And out here in this
holy place, those things went on all the time. But, verse 7,
into the second, now here's, this is so important, this is
what we're talking about today, the atonement. Into the second
place, the Holy of Holies. Went the high priest one man
alone, once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself
and for the sins of the people." You see what he's saying? Once
a year. And the whole Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy,
those books are dealing with this. The many sacrifices, but
there's one, the Day of Atonement. Passover lamb, the day when the
sacrifice was made, the sacrifice, and the lamb was slain out there
on the altar, his body burned, his blood caught in the basin
on the day of atonement. The high priest would cross the
yard, come to the laver, there he'd wash his hands, wash his
feet. He was in pure white linen, had
a mitre on his head, holiness to the Lord. The high priest
He would come into the holy place, cross that 30 feet in the holy
place, come to the altar of incense. And on that golden censer, he'd
put that incense. He had the blood and the hyssop
and the incense. And then he'd go under that veil
into the presence of God. And there he would sprinkle that
smoke, that incense would fill that room, that compartment. That incense is the prayers of
Christ, intercession of Christ. And with that hyssop, he dipped
it in the blood and sprinkled the mercy seed. Seven times. Sprinkled the mercy seed. The
blood on the mercy seed. That's the atonement. And that's
what this is talking about here. Which he offered for himself
and for the sins of the people. Now, verse 8, the Holy Ghost
this signified. that the way into the holiest
of all was not yet made manifest while that first tabernacle was
yet standing. In other words, everybody didn't
do this. The high priest did it for them
every year. King Uzziah tried to do this
and God made him into a leper. God killed him. He tried to offer
a sacrifice. And this, verse 9, is a figure. What's a figure? It's a figurative.
It's a picture. It's a pattern. For the time
then present, for the 2,000 years between Moses and Christ, there
were sacrifices before Moses, but the high priest wasn't involved.
Abel offered a sacrifice. Abraham offered a sacrifice.
All of these people did, but then God set up the tabernacle
to more perfectly reveal to us the ministry and work of our
high priest, our Lord Jesus Christ. And this is a figure for the
time then present in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices. Many gifts, many sacrifices,
many offerings, much bloodshed that could not make him that
did the service perfect. as pertained to the conscious.
These sacrifices couldn't put away sin. They were offered every
year because they couldn't put away sin. They were pictures,
they were figures of Christ's sacrifice, of our great high
priest who would sacrifice his blood on Calvary for our sins
once for all. And these things, verse 10, they
stood only in meats and drinks. and different washings, baptisms,
and ordinances, ceremonies imposed on them, instructed of God they
were until the time of reformation, until the time of the coming
of the Lamb of God, until the time of the coming of the Son
of God. But, verse 11, Christ being come,
a high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more
perfect tabernacle, not this tabernacle here, not made with
hands, that is to say, not this building, neither by the blood of goats
and calves, but by his own blood he entered once, not every year,
but once into the holy place. What holy place? Heaven itself. And having obtained eternal redemption
for us, for if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a
heifer sprinkled in the unclean, sanctified to the purifying of
the flesh." In other words, if this tabernacle service did hold
back the wrath of God, hold back the judgment of God, even for
the times, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who
through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot. See, a while ago, we read whether
how a priest made atonement for his sins and the people, but
Christ was without spot to God. Purge your conscience from dead
works to serve the living God. For this cause, he's the mediator
of the new covenant. The word testament is covenant.
That by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions
that were under the first covenant. He died for their sins too. They
which are called, called of God, might receive the promise of
eternal inheritance. Now look down at verse 24. For
Christ is not entered into the holy place made with hands. That's
what we're going to talk about in a moment. This tabernacle
in the wilderness, this temple in Jerusalem, And these preachers
are talking about rebuilding that temple? Nonsense. Nonsense. This is all done. This is a picture. This is a figure. This is a type
that's been fulfilled and installed. Christ didn't enter the holy
place made with hands, which is a figure of the truth, but
into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us,
then and now. Nor yet that he should offer
himself often, as the high priest entered into the holy place every
year with the blood of others. If that be so, then he must often
have suffered since the foundation of the world, because he's the
lamb slain from the foundation of the world. But now once, in
the end of the world, last days, hath he appeared in the flesh
to put away sin with the sacrifice of himself. And as it is appointed
unto men once to die, and after this the judgment, so Christ
died once, offered once to bear the sin of many. And to them
that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto
salvation. All right. Now open your Bibles
again to Hebrews 10. And in these first several verses
of Hebrews 10, we're going to see three things. This law, that
is, the ceremonial law. Now, the word law in the Bible
sometimes means the moral law. Sometimes it means all the Word
of God. Sometimes it means the Levitical
or ceremonial law, and here that's what it means. the ceremonial
law. And we're going to see this law
and the sinner. We're going to see this law and
the Father. We're going to see this law,
ceremonial law, and the Savior. Now look at verse 1 of chapter
10. By the law, this ceremonial law,
this law of ordinances, this law of ceremonies, having a shadow
of good things to come. What is this law talking about?
What are these ceremonies talking about? What is this tabernacle
for? What is this high priest coming into the tabernacle with
the blood of a lamb under the veil with the incense? The holy
moral law written by the finger of God on tablets of stone, broken
by the people in that art, with a mercy seat over it, and with
the glory of God and the cherubims of God overshadowing that mercy
seat, the Shekinah holy glory of God upon that mercy seat,
and once a year the blood sprinkled on that seat. What's this all
about? It's talking about good things to come. What good things? Justification, forgiveness of
sin, sanctification, cleansing, Eternal life, glory, that's what
this is talking about. And this tabernacle and this
priesthood and these sacrifices were not given to perfect us
or to bring us those good things. These ordinances and pictures
are to show us the good things. See, read that verse, the law
having a shadow of good things to come and not the very image
of the things. not the things themselves, can
never, with these sacrifices which they offered year by year
continually, make their comings thereunto perfect. These ordinances
did not and could not save, forgive sin, or give peace, or justify,
or give acceptance with God. They're pictures. And here in
verse 2, If these sacrifices could put away sin, two things
would be true. If they could put away sin, then
the question is asked, would they not have ceased to be offered? In other words, if there's an
offering made that pays the debt, then you don't keep paying it,
you don't keep bringing offerings. A debt paid is a debt paid. And
when Abram the high priest slew an animal and took its blood
and went into the mercy seat and sprinkled the blood over
the broken law, if this could really justify, put away sin,
then he'd never have to do it again. Because the second thing,
the worshipers, once purged, would have no more conscience
of sin. If I owe a debt and you go down and pay it, then you
don't have to keep paying it. And I don't have to keep worrying
about it. That's what he's saying. I don't have to be concerned
about it. It's pain. You see that? So, if these sacrifices could
put away sin, number one, they would cease to be offered. Number
two, the people for whom they were offered would have no more
conscience of sin, no more concern. But, verse three, now watch this.
But in those sacrifices, the very fact that they were offered
continually, in those sacrifices, is a remembrance made of sin
every year. Every time the high priest slew
an animal, brought its blood and put it on the mercy seat,
there's a remembrance. That sacrifice itself is saying,
it's still there, it's still there, it's still there, it's
still there. Let me show you a beautiful picture
over here in Leviticus chapter 16. Leviticus chapter 16. You need to turn over there and
see this. You see, Aaron really would bring two sacrifices. There was two goats or two bullocks. One he would kill and burn its
body, roast it with fire, catch its blood and sprinkle it on
the mercy seat. That's a picture of Christ, our sin offering,
our sacrifice, shedding His blood. But He take that other goat,
now watch this, verse 19 of Leviticus 16, and He shall sprinkle of
the blood upon the altar with His finger seven times and cleanse
it and hallow it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel. And
when he had made an end of reconciling the holy place and the tabernacle
of the congregation and the altar, he'll bring the live goat. I
told you there were two of them. He'll bring the live goat. And
Aaron shall lay both his hands on 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. You see the picture? I'm going
to read some more in a moment. But he takes this live goat,
he's already slain one, shed his blood, made an atonement. Now, he takes the live goat,
all the people are about, and here the high priest, representing
the people, himself and the people, put his hands on the head of
the goat, confessed their sin, all their sin. And then he'd
take the goat and send him away by the hand of a fit man unto
the wilderness. That man would take that goat,
they'd have a rope around his neck or his horns, and that man
would lead that goat through all the people, and they'd all
stand there silently. This was an awesome, solemn ceremony. This is the Day of Atonement.
And he'd lead that goat, all the sins put on the head of that
goat. And he'd lead him out into the wilderness. Verse 22, "...and
the goat shall bear upon him all the iniquities unto a land
not inhabited." This man takes this goat and he keeps walking
and everybody keeps watching until on the horizon there's
just two little dots, a man and a goat. And he's still going. "...unto an uninhabited land,
unto a desert." And he'll let him go in the wilderness. That's called the scapegoat.
But you know something? They had to do it the next year.
They had to do it the next year. And when they did the same, they
came together all over again on this same day the next year.
Take the goat, sacrifice its blood, put it on the mercy seat,
and then go through this same thing again. What's this saying?
The sins are still there. You feel that? Verse 4 says, 4, it's not possible. It's not possible that the blood
of bulls and goats take away sin. You know, when folks say,
well, since the Calvary, we've been saved by Christ, before
Calvary, we're saved by the law, nonsense. There are several reasons
why the blood of an animal cannot put away sin. One, sin is a transgression
of the moral law. This is a ceremonial law. Sin
is a transgression of the moral law of God. Sin is not a ritual. It doesn't belong to the ceremonial
law. Secondly, the blood of these
sacrifices is animal blood. It's not the same blood. The
one who died, the animal who died, is not of the same nature
of the man who sinned. The reason Christ can put away
our sins, He's of the same nature. He offered not animal blood,
but His blood. You see what I'm saying? And
thirdly, sin deals with the mind and the conscience and the soul
with which an animal cannot relate. Animal doesn't have any consciousness
of sin. Our Lord Jesus Christ made his
soul an offering for sin. You see that? There's three reasons
why the blood of bulls and goats cannot put away sin. One, sin
has to do with the moral law of God, not ceremonies. This
always amazed me about people going through these rituals today.
I was watching a man on television recently, and he had on all these
uniforms, And all the candles were burning, and the choir was
robed, and they were going through all the ceremonies. And I said
to Doris, I said, why are they doing these things? Reconciliation
and sin doesn't have anything to do with this flesh. And that's
what he's saying here. These ceremonies cannot put away
sin. Turn to Galatians chapter 4 a
moment. Don't be taken up in these, somebody
says, but the services are so beautiful. Sin is not beautiful. Sacrifice is not beautiful. Atonement
is not beautiful. The cross isn't beautiful. It's
God atoning for our sins. Galatians 4, listen to this.
Galatians 4, verse 9. But now, after you've known God,
Galatians 4 and 9, or rather, known of God, how turn you again
to the weak and beggarly elements, rudiments, ceremonies, whereunto
you desire again to be in bondage? You want to go back to these
days of ceremony, sacrifice? You observe days and months and
times and years. Paul said, I'm afraid of you.
Lest I bestow it upon you, laboring in vain." Don't be taken up with
the outward. Sin is a transgression of the
moral law. Animal blood is not the same
nature as the people who sin. Their sin is a soul matter, a
mind matter. And our Lord Jesus Christ dealt
with sin in that area. His body, I know, went through
great agony and pain in the shedding of his blood, just like that
animal had to die to shed its blood. But the main sacrifice
of Calvary was the soul of Christ was made an offering for sin.
Always remember that. So, in these first four verses,
you have the law in the center, the ceremony law. It can't justify
us. It can't give us peace. It can't
put away sin. All right, let's look at the
Law and the Father in verse 5, the Law and the Father. Wherefore
when he cometh into the world, Christ, when Jesus Christ, God's
Son, came into the world, he said, sacrifices and offerings,
ceremonies, thou wouldest not. What's he saying? These sacrifices
and offerings, God Almighty, the Heavenly Father, would not
have continued. They were given as a type, as
a picture, as a figure, pattern. They ceased with the coming of
Christ. For a body hast thou prepared me," a real human body,
a real human nature, a body to dwell in, to do your will, to
redeem your people. I'm the tabernacle. I'm the place of worship. I'm
the temple. He said, destroy this temple.
Three days I'll raise it up. He spake of his body. The Scripture
said he tabernacled among us. Turn to Hebrews 2. It's very
important that you turn over here and look at this scripture
with me. Hebrews chapter 2, verse 14. Hebrews 2, verse 14. For as much
then as the children, children of God, are partakers of flesh
and blood, he also himself took part of the same, that through
death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that
is, the devil. and deliver them, who through fear of death were
all their lifetime subject to bondage. For verily, Jesus Christ
took not on him the nature of angels, but he took on him the
seed of Abraham. Wherefore, in all things it behooved
him, it was necessary for him to be made like unto his brethren,
that he might be a merciful, faithful, high priest in things
pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people."
He says here in our text, in Hebrews 5, verse 10, the Father
would not have these offerings and sacrifices and ceremonies
to continue. But a body hast thou prepared
me. Now look at verse 6. In these burnt offerings and
sacrifices for sin, thou hast no pleasure. Now listen, this
is the Son speaking to the Father. He says, these things thou wouldest
not have continued because you prepared me a body. I'll take
their place. And in these sacrifices and offerings,
you never have had any pleasure. Now listen to me. When these
sacrifices were enforced, when they were offered by true believers
in faith, in hope, looking to Christ, They were well-pleasing
to God because God had respect to Abel in his offering. But
God had respect to Abel in his offering. It was offered in faith,
not just as a ceremony, but offered in faith. And when they were
offered rightly, God had respect and God had pleasure in the one
who brought them and in the one of whom they spake. But they
could never satisfy his justice, they could never honor his law,
they could never put away the sin of his people, they could
never bring pleasure to God, not the pleasure he had when
he looked at his beloved son and said, this is my son in whom
I'm well pleased. Well pleased. See that? The law, this ceremonial law,
in reference to the sinner, couldn't justify us, couldn't put away
sin, couldn't save us, couldn't give peace. In reference to the
Father, He said, stop it. No longer continue it. Abide,
you prepared me. And besides, He said, you never
did have any pleasure in it. And verse 7, Then said I, Lo,
I come, He's still speaking to the Father, In the volume of
the book it's written of me, to do thy will, O God, I come
to do thy will, O God. It's the volume of the book it's
written of me. That's talking about this book
that you've got in your hand. Everything in the Old Testament
is concerning him. He died for our sins according
to the Scriptures. He was buried and rose again
according to the Scriptures. Above, when he said, sacrifice and offering
and offering for sin, burnt offerings, thou wouldest not, neither had
any pleasure thereof which were offered by the law. Let's see
now this ceremonial law in reference to our Savior. In reference to
us, it can't justify. It can't give peace. It can't
put away sin. It can't save. In reference to
the Father, he said, no more. No more. In reference to the
Father, he never had pleasure. In reference to the Father, it
was but a picture. He said, a body has thou prepared
me. I came to do your will. All right. Now, verse 9. Then said I, Lo, I come to do
thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that
he may establish the second. What is the first here? Well,
the first tabernacle. It's gone. It's taken away. It is no more. There's no reason
in the world for them to have another temple over there or
to restore the sacrifices. He takes away the person. He
takes it away because he fulfilled it all. Secondly, he takes away
the priesthood. There is no priesthood on this
earth now to represent us to God. Christ is our high priest.
And every believer is a priest under God to offer sacrifices
of praise and thanksgiving. He takes away the first mercy
seat. Turn to Romans 3.25. Romans 3.25. I told you that
mercy seat is propitiation, expiatory. That's which expiates, puts away
sin, covering. Who is our mercy seat? Where
is our mercy seat? It's Christ. in Romans 3, verse
25, whom God has set forth to be a propitiation. He's the mercy
seat. He's the covering. Through faith
in His blood, not the blood of an animal sprinkled on a mercy
seat, but His blood, to declare God's righteousness for the remission
of sins that have passed through the forbearance of God, to declare,
I say at this time, His righteousness. that he may be just and justifier
of him that believeth in Jesus. He takes away the first. He takes
away the first tabernacle, the first priesthood. He's our high
priest, the first mercy seat, and the first atonement. In Romans
5, you must see this too, Romans 5, verse 11, it says, Verse 10 says, if 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 also, we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus
Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement, the reconciliation,
the propitiation. He takes away the first and establishes
the second. But I'll tell you, this applies
to more than just that tabernacle. He takes away the first covenant,
we're under a new covenant. He takes away the first Adam,
he's the second Adam, the Lord from heaven. He takes away our
first nature, we have a new nature in Christ Jesus. He takes away
the first heaven, the first earth, there'll be a new heaven and
new earth. He makes all things new in Christ. Takes away the
first, establishes the second. Christ is all in all. That's
the reason our services are simple. That's the reason they're services
of praise, and prayer, and preaching, and worship, and fellowship.
And we don't have any rituals, or any processionals, or any
uniforms, or any candles, or any visual aids. We have an altar. Christ is our altar. We have
a high priest, Christ is our high priest, to whom we confess
our sins and through Him. We have an atonement, it's His
blood. We have a tabernacle, it's His body. We have a place
to meet God, it's in Christ. That's right. And when you go
back to these visual aids, uniforms, and processionals, and ceremonies,
and rituals, and Sabbath days, and tithes, and offerings, and
all these things. You're re-instituting the law. That's what you do, and it must
not be. It's gone. Takes away the first,
establishes the second. It's established. Listen to verse
10, "...by the witch will." He said, I come to do thy will.
It's not by our will, it's by God's will. By the witch will,
we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus
Christ once for all. It's finished, he said. It's
paid, the debt's paid. Read on. Every priest, there
were many of them, every priest standed daily. They never sat
down because their work was never done. He, by one offering, finished
and sat down. Daily ministering, offering oftentimes
the same sacrifices, which can never take away sin. But this
man, this God-man, after he'd offered one sacrifice for sin
forever, sat down at the right hand of God. It's finished. Debt's
paid. Sin's finished. Propitiation
made its over. from henceforth expecting till
his enemies be made his footstool. For by one offering, one sacrifice,
he hath perfected." For how long? Forever. Whom? Them that are sanctified, them
that come to God. Whereof the Holy Ghost is a witness
to us, for he said before, This is the covenant, this is the
new covenant, the everlasting covenant, I'll make with them
after those days, saith the Lord. I'll put my law in their hearts,
not on stone, not on hard stone. I'll write my law on their hearts,
so they'll love it. And I'll put my law in their
minds, so they'll think on it. I'm not going to put the law
on a wall somewhere or in an ark somewhere. or in the keeping
of some man. I'm going to write it on their
hearts. Love God with all your heart and your neighbor as yourself.
That's the summary of the whole law. And I'll write it on their
minds so that when they encounter decisions, they'll think on my
way, not their way. People say, well, I'll have the
Ten Commandments hanging in the school. No. No, not at all. We need it written on the heart. written on the heart. Don't go
back to the rituals. Don't go back to the orders and
duties. Worship God in spirit, in truth,
rejoicing in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in this flesh. And verse 17 said, "...and their
sins and iniquities will I remember no more," not even remember them,
no more. Now, where remission of these
is, There's no more offering for sin, no more masses, no more
sacrifices, no more jumbo-mumbo-jumbo, no more this, you know, putting
away, it's done. It's done. That goes for all the hand-holding
and everything else. Worship is from the higher, it's
a spiritual thing. I'm not being hard, not down
here at all, I'm trying to be truthful. I'm trying to say that
we're not going to move the throne of God by charging God in numbers.
Christ moves the throne of God. Christ moves the heart of God.
Christ brings us the grace of God. Christ is our substitute. And we worship Him in here, individually,
privately, in our closets, solemnly, sincerely. And having, verse
19, I'll quit, having therefore, Brethren, boldness, confidence
to enter into the holiest, the Holy of Holies by the blood of
Jesus. Oh, back down in that old Testament days, you wouldn't
have come in there. You wouldn't have come in there.
You wouldn't have. By the greatest stretch of your imagination,
you wouldn't have. In the glory of God over that
mercy seat, nobody, no one would come into that holy place The
Holy of Holies. My! Our priest came in once a year,
not without blood. But we have a new... When our
Lord Jesus died on the cross, what happened to that temple,
that veil in the temple? It was rent entwined from top
to bottom. Torn in two. Now the Spirit of God says, you
come. You're priests. You're saints. You're children of God. You come
on. You don't need to come in on the coattails of somebody
else. You come on in. Come on in. Having, therefore,
brethren, believers, boldness to enter into the very holiest
by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which he hath
consecrated for us, smack through the veil, that is to say, his
flesh, and having a high priest over the house of God, let's
draw near. Come on to God by faith. But I'm such a sinner. Come on
to God. But I'm so weak, come on to God,
in Christ. But I just don't understand all
these things, it's too deep for me, that's right, come on to
God. Christ is our high priest, come on to God. Lay hold of the
altar, Christ Jesus.