The Atonement

Q: What does the Bible say about the holiness of God?

The holiness of God is emphasized throughout Scripture, highlighting His perfection and separation from sin, as seen in Isaiah 59 and Leviticus 10. The Bible consistently emphasizes God's holiness, depicting Him as entirely pure and separate from all that is sinful. Isaiah 59:1-2 illustrates how our iniquities create a barrier between us and God, affirming that His hand is not too short to save but that our sins hide His face from us. This understanding of divine purity drives home the message that sinful humanity cannot approach a holy God apart from a prescribed means of salvation. Likewise, Leviticus 10 recounts the story of Nadab and Abihu, whose unauthorized offerings resulted in divine judgment, showcasing the seriousness of approaching God without acknowledging His holiness.

Q: How do we know the atonement is fulfilled in Christ?

The atonement is fulfilled in Christ as He is the ultimate sacrifice who reconciles us to God, as fulfilled by His death on the cross. The atonement is fulfilled in Christ through His sacrificial death, which satisfies God's justice and reconciles humanity to Him. Leviticus 16 outlines the Day of Atonement, where Aaron, as high priest, would make sacrifices to atone for sin. This foreshadows Christ, who is our greater high priest, offering Himself as our sin offering and scapegoat (Hebrews 9). Romans 5 explains that through Christ we have received reconciliation, demonstrating how His death removes the enmity between God and humanity, fulfilling the requirements of the law and offering a pathway to divine fellowship.

Q: Why is the concept of atonement important for Christians?

The concept of atonement is vital for Christians because it signifies reconciliation with God, essential for salvation and fellowship. For Christians, the concept of atonement holds paramount importance as it embodies the means by which sinners can be reconciled to a holy God. Through the atonement, believers are restored to a state of peace with God, recognizing that without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sins (Hebrews 9:22). Understanding atonement deepens the appreciation for Christ's work on the cross, which fulfills the Old Testament sacrificial system, such as the Day of Atonement depicted in Leviticus 16. Moreover, this doctrine emphasizes the necessity of approaching God in the prescribed way - through faith in Christ, who is the way, the truth, and the life (John 14:6).

Q: What is the role of the high priest in the Day of Atonement?

The high priest plays a critical role in the Day of Atonement by offering sacrifices to atone for the sins of the people before God. On the Day of Atonement, the high priest had the pivotal responsibility of entering the Holy of Holies to offer sacrifices for the sins of the people. Leviticus 16 outlines that the priest must first atone for his own sins before representing the people. This act of sacrifice signifies the importance of mediation and the transfer of sin. The blood of goats and the ritual of the scapegoat represent crucial elements of this atonement process, highlighting how the high priest's actions are foreshadowing Christ's ultimate sacrifice. Hebrews 9 further clarifies that Christ, as our great high priest, fulfilled this role perfectly by entering once for all into the heavenly places, offering His own blood for our redemption.

First of all, to Isaiah 59, Isaiah
59. A few days ago, we heard a message
from this pulpit on the subject, What God Hath
Wrought. Now, if you'll turn to Isaiah
59, I'm going to read some scripture here from this chapter in Isaiah
and show you what man hath wrought. one extreme to the other. God's
infinite holiness and our indescribable wickedness. Here in Isaiah 59,
listen. Verse 1, Behold, the Lord's hand
is not shortened, that it cannot save, neither his ear heavy,
that it cannot hear. But your iniquities have separated
between you and your God. Your sins have hid his face from
you, and he will not hear. Pause there just a moment. Very
few people in this world have any clear understanding at all
of these three things. One, the holiness, majesty, glory,
and power of God. Very few people understand the
infinite holiness of God. Can't even conceive of it. How
can we? Secondly, I think very, very, very few people have the
slightest understanding of the wickedness of the human heart,
our own heart. Actually, the prophet said the
heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked.
Who can know it? Who can know? We've got a little
understanding of it, and as we learn and get a little older,
we get a better understanding of it, but who can know the wickedness
of the human heart? And the third that so few people
know anything about, is the separation resulting from God's holiness
in our sinfulness. The impossibility of us having
any relationship or fellowship with him in his holiness. I talked about this the other
night. And people, I wish they wouldn't
do it, but every once in a while somebody's got to try to say
something cute. But it reveals, again, the depravity
of this human heart, especially in things pertaining to God. While many people in the service
the other night rejoiced in the message, and like one man said,
I don't understand everything you said, but I believe it. I
don't understand it, but I believe it. And that's the way, I don't
understand it either, but I believe it. But someone else came out
and he said, laughed and said, well, that's too deep for me.
And I was talking along this line, that's too deep for me.
And if he'd stopped there, it'd been all right, but he has to
ask, you know, he says, said, my theology is that I got two
dogs in me, one white and one black, fighting. And the one
that wins is the one that I say sick them to most, you know.
That's man's conception, and it's pitiful. And this is what
this is pointing out, the holiness of God, the wickedness of the
human heart, and the separation that's resulting therefrom. Listen,
verse 3, "...your hands are defiled with blood, your fingers with
iniquity." Your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered
perverseness. None calleth for justice, nor
any pleadeth for truth. They trust in vanity, they speak
lies, they conceive mischief, they bring forth iniquity. Isn't
that true? They hatch adder's eggs, weave
the spider's web. He that eateth of their eggs
dieth, that which is crushed break it out into a viper. Their
webs shall not become garments. You can't weave your garment
to hide your sin. Neither shall they cover themselves
with their works, because their works are works of iniquity.
And the act of violence is in their hands. They run, their
feet run to evil. They make haste to shed innocent
blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Wasting and destruction
are in their paths. The way of peace they know not.
This is talking about the natural man. This is sons of Adam. There's
no judgment in their goings. They have made them crooked paths.
Whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace. Therefore is
judgment far from us. Neither does justice overtake
us. We wait for light, but behold obscurity. For brightness, but
we walk in darkness. Watch this now. We grope for
the wall like the blind. We grope as if we had no eyes.
We stumble at noondays in the night. This is condemnation. Light's
coming to this world. Men love darkness rather than
light because their deeds are evil. Grope for the wall like
a blind man. Stumble at noondays in the night.
We're in desolate places as dead men. That's our preachers of
today. We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves. We
look for judgment, but there is none, for salvation, but it's
far off from us. For our transgressions have multiplied
before thee, and our sins testify against us. For our transgressions
are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them. In transgressing
and lying against the Lord, in departing away from our God,
speaking oppression and revoke, conceiving and uttering from
the heart words of falsehood, and judgment is turned away backward,
and justice standeth afar, for truth is fallen in the streets,
and equity cannot enter it. Now, one thing is clear. There is
no fellowship between this and God. There's no relationship
between God and men. And there's no way known to a
natural man that would admit him into the presence of God.
Paul wrote to Timothy, he dwelleth in a light to which no man can
approach, to which no man has seen. But all these different ways
that men are trying, I want you to turn to Leviticus 10. These
different ways that men are trying, the way of Cain, the way of Uzziah,
the way of King Saul, the way of Uzzah, all these ways that
men try to get to God, it brings nothing but the judgment and
wrath of God upon them. Look here at Leviticus 10. These are sons of the high priest. Sons of the high priest. And
Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his
censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereof, and
offered strange fire before the Lord, which he commanded them
not." In other words, they're hunting a way to God, like Cain.
Not God's way, not God's approved way, but their way. Strange fire. Verse 2 said, "...and there went
out fire from the Lord, and devoured them, and they died before the
Lord." Now listen, then Moses said to
Abram, Abram, in other words there when God just opened heaven
and sent fire down he devoured these two boys, sons of Abram,
coming before the Lord in an act of religion or worship with
strange fire. And Moses said to Abram, now
this is that the Lord spake saying, I will be sanctified. in them that come nigh me. I
will be regarded as holy. I will be looked upon as just,
and holy, and righteous. And before all the people I'll
be glorified." And Avon held his peace, kept his mouth shut. Is there a way to God? Is there
a way for sinners to come before God? Is there a way for folks
like us to come to God and fellowship with him and know him and walk
with him in a way by which he will be sanctified. In a way
in keeping with his holiness. You know what we're talking about
here? In a way keeping with his holiness. Why don't you turn
to Numbers. Numbers 20. This is what he said
to Moses. Numbers chapter 20. And you know Cain and Abel, here are two brothers
brought up by the same father and taught in the things of God. Abel brought that lamb which
pictured Christ in Christ's blood. Evidently he had been instructed
by his father to do that, he had been taught that, that That
without the shedding of blood, there's no remission. That the
Lamb is a picture of Christ, the Lamb we read about when the
service began. It's death for sin, it's sacrifice,
it's blood to cleanse. Well, Abel was taught that way
to God. that would sanctify God, that
would recognize that we're sinners and worthy of death and that
God's justice and righteousness and holiness demanded our death.
And his law must be honored, his justice satisfied. Abel King,
that we've been taught. Well, Cain had been taught that
too. They were raised by the same daddy, went to the same
church. Church in the home of Adam. But he went another route. And
God made a vagabond out of him. He said, My punishment is greater
than I can bear. All right. But if you don't come
God's way, you've got to suffer God's wrath. And even Moses. Now, we think about Cain. We think about Uzziah, who went
into the holy place. God made a leper out of him.
Think about King Saul, whom God killed because he brought a sacrifice. And Samuel said it's better to
obey than to sacrifice. who touched the ark, even Moses
when he smote the rock the second time. Listen here. Verse 10 of Numbers 20, And Moses took
the rod from before the Lord as he commanded him, Moses and
Abram gathered the congregation together before the rock, and
he said, Here now, you rebels, must we fetch you water out of
the rock? That's Moses' whole character that's different, isn't
it? He didn't fetch water. God gave the water. But here
this man, in a foolish moment, left to
himself, I suppose. And Moses lifted his hand with
his rod. He smoked that rock twice, and
the water came out, and the congregation drank, and their beast also.
And the Lord spake to Moses and Aaron, Because you believe me
not to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore
you shall not bring this congregation into the land I have given thee.
What did he say? To Nadab and Abihu, to their
father after he killed them, I will be sanctified in the eyes
of all that come before me. And if you and I, if you and
I are going to come before God tonight, if we're going to approach
God for mercy, for grace, for salvation, for forgiveness, for
fellowship, for relationship, for our home and glory, whatever,
we're going to come in such a way that is pleasing with Him, ordered
by Him, provided by and it will sanctify him, magnify his name. Now, are we going to come that
way, or are we going to die like Nadab and Abihu? That's so. And he's provided that way. And
I want you to turn to Leviticus chapter 16. Leviticus 16. Now, he provided
that way, and long before our Lord Jesus, who is the way, He
said, I'm the way, the truth, and the light. No man cometh
to the Father but by me. Hebrews 10 said, He's opened
for us through the veil a new and living way. That is to say,
His flesh. Let us come boldly before the
throne of grace to find mercy and grace to help. He's opened
the way. It says in Romans 5, By Christ we have received the
atonement. What is atonement? At-one-ment. Reconciliation. That's what atonement
is. It's reconciliation. It's enemies
made friends. It's the enmity removed. It's uniting God and us. Reconciliation. By Christ we
receive the atonement. Now long before Christ came and
died on that cross, And by his obedience and by his death, sanctified
the Father. Almighty God showed us that way. So many different ways in the
Scripture, but this Day of Atonement, oh my, Day of Atonement. Leviticus
16, let's look at it. Don't miss this now. Don't miss
this. The Day of Atonement. Don't take
this for granted. This is crucial, crucial territory. This is a crucial lesson. This right here. And the Lord
spake unto Moses after the death of the two sons of Abel, when
they offered before the Lord and died. My God, this is something
here, and you stay with me. The Lord's judgment had fallen
on these boys. They had played religion, like
so many are doing. There are a lot of naydabs in
the Bayou today. Matthew 7 talks about them. They said, Lord,
we did many wonderful works in your name, cast out devils. I
never knew you. Paul said about the Jews, he
said, I bear them record. They have a zeal for God, but
not according to knowledge, for they, being ignorant of the righteousness
of God, have tried to come to God by their own righteousness. There's a lot of nedabs in the
Bible for you, and I don't want to be one, do you? So the Lord
spoke to Moses after the death of these two boys when they offered
before the Lord and died, and the Lord said to Moses, now you
speak to Abel and your brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place
within the veil. Don't do it. You know, preachers
say, just come to God any way you can. You better not. You better not. Don't you tell
him not to come into the holy place within the veil before
the mercy seat, which is upon the ark, that he die not, for
I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat. Now, there's
a way to come. You tell Alan, don't you come
yet. Don't you concoct some way to
come to God. Don't you do it. What is the
Holy of Holies? I want to stop right here just
a minute. I went in the kitchen this morning, I was working on
this message, and I asked Doris, I said, what is the significance
of the Holy of Holies? We know the Holy of Holies is
a symbol. It's a symbol of the throne room.
Here in this cubicle, 15 by 15 by 15, in that tabernacle, in
the wilderness. It's called the Holy of Holies.
And the Shekinah glory, the majestic glory of God dwelt in that place. Isn't that right? In the Holy
of Holies. God said, I will dwell on the mercy seat between the
cherubims. I'll dwell there. And his glory
was there. And he told them, he said, don't
you come in there, don't you do it until I tell you how to
come to the presence of God. Well, what is the significance?
of the Holy of Holies. All right? I tell you, here it
is. Listen. First of all, it says that God is holy, harmless,
undefiled, separate from sinners. You know where it says first,
Tom? Don't you come where God dwells. The presence, the glory,
the fiery pillar hung over that place at night, and the cloud
by day, and the presence of God, and nobody went inside. It not only says God is holy,
but it says God, the Holy God, is mindful of us. Because that
Holy of Holies is down here where we are. He's mindful of us. His throne
room is in glory, isn't it? But He puts a place down here,
symbolic, representatively, of that throne room down here among
us in a tabernacle. So he's mindful of us. When I
consider the heavens, what is man that art mindful of? How
do you know he is? That's where he goes, right here
in our midst. I know he's mindful. Art thirdly.
He ain't going to show mercy to somebody. He didn't do that
for nothing. Everything God does, he does
on purpose, and he put that place here. And that way into his presence
here to show, he's going to show mercy to somebody. I will be
merciful to whom I will be merciful. Fourthly, he has provided a way
of approach. We're going to read here in a
moment how Ava and Ken come in there. And coming in there, he
can come as a representative of the people waiting out there. But fifthly, he can only come
when God says, and how God says. Okay? That's what that Holy of
Holies, that symbol stands for. It's the holiness of God, God
being mindful of us, God determining to show mercy to us, God having
a way for us to come, but wait, learn the way before you run. Don't get this white dog and
black dog foolishness now. It's what seems right to you.
Find out No matter how deep it is, look at it. Look at verse
3. Thus shall Aaron come into the
holy place, this way, with a young bullet for a sin offering and
a ram for a burnt offering. We're going to see in a moment
that Aaron's going to go in that place three times on that day
of Atonement. Three times. He's going to go
in there first with the incense. that covers the mercy seat, the
prayers of Christ. He's going to go out and get
the blood of the bullock, the ram, and come in and make an
atonement for himself and for his people, for himself and his
family, because he's an imperfect high priest. Then he's going
to leave, he's going to go out there in the courtyard and slay
this particular goat as a sin offering and an atonement and
come back in there and put the blood on that mercy seat for
those people out there. That's the only way. That don't sound reasonable.
I'm not trying to be reasonable. I'm trying to show you what God
said. And there it is. All right, let's
go on, let's read it. Now, verse 3 said, Aaron shall
come. Nobody else but Aaron. Let me
read this to you. Please, you just hold right there
and let me turn over here and read something to you. In Hebrews
9, it says, into the Holy of Holies the second went the high
priest alone, once every year, not without blood, which he offered
for himself and for the heirs of his people. The Holy Ghost
thus signifying that the way into the Holy of Holies was not
yet made manifest, while that Tabernacle was standing, which
is a figure, a symbol, for the time then present, in which were
offered gifts and sacrifices that could not make him that
did the service perfect, pertaining to the conscience. They stood
in meats and drinks and baptisms and ordinances imposed on them
till the time of Christ. And Christ being a high priest
of good things to come, by a greater, more perfect tabernacle, not
made with hands, as to say, not this building, but by the blood
of goats and calves," not by the blood of goats and calves,
but by his own blood. All right, let's look at it here
now. Verse 4, Aaron shall put on the holy linen coat, shall
have the linen breeches upon his shall be girded with a linen
girdle, with a linen miter, shall he be attired? These are holy
garments, therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, and
so put them on. If you read Exodus 30 sometime,
he washed and washed and washed and washed. He washed and washed. He put on those humble, white,
snow-white, linen, humble clothes. and washed again. And there was
a brass laver outside that tabernacle in which he washed every time
he came that way, showing the holiness of Christ, the sinlessness
of our high priest. He knew no sin. He had no sin.
Everything Aaron did is a picture of Christ. All right, let's read
on. Verse 5, And he shall take of the congregation of the children
of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering, and one ram
for a burnt offering. Now listen to me. That ram is
for his own sins. Those two goats, one is to sacrifice
and put on the mercy seat, the other is to send out as a scapegoat. These three right here, there
are three animals here. One is the ram, and then the
two kids, goats. All right. And Aaron shall offer
his bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself. and make
an atonement for himself and for his house. And he shall take
the two goats and present them before the door for the Lord
at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. And Aaron
shall cast lots upon the two goats, one lot for the Lord,
one lot for the atonement, blood sacrifice, the other for the
scapegoat. And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the Lord's
lot fell, and offer him for a sin offering. But the goat on which
the lot fell to be the scapegoat shall be presented alive before
the Lord, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for
a scapegoat into the wilderness. Now watch this. And Haman shall
bring the bullock of the sin offering which is for himself,
shall make an atonement for himself and for his house, and shall
kill the bullock of the sin offering which is for himself. Now here's
the order in which it was done. Here's the Holy of Holies. is
a high priest. He's washed and bathed and cleansed
himself, has on the white linen. He comes first of all, and when
it says he enters once into the holy place, it means one time,
not one act. There are three acts in the one,
but one day, one event, one designated time. That's what it's talking
about. Now watch this. He'll take a censer. full of burning
clothes of fire from off the altar before the Lord, and his
hands full of sweet incense, beaten small, bring it within
the veil." Now, within the veil, there's the Ark of the Covenant. There's the mercy seat. There's
the cherubim. The mercy seat covers the broken
law in that Ark of the Covenant. And he comes in with this censer.
And the coals are taken off the fire. That represents the sufferings
of Christ. And this incense, beaten small,
is put on those hot coals, and it just sends all of the smoke. It's only 15 feet wide, 15 feet
high, and 15 feet wide, and it just fills that place. So that
Aaron is not gazing on that mercy seat. It's the presence of God. It's the awesome presence of
God. And that place is full of the
intercession, prayers of our Lord, our Mediator. That's what
that sweet smell is, the prayers of Christ. He ever lived it to
make intercession for us. His prayers are born of his sufferings. When the incense, beaten small,
is sprinkled on those hot, cold, it sends out smoke all over that
place. And Averin is standing there
waving that censer and just fills the place. Then he goes out.
goes out. It says in verse 13, He shall
put the incense upon the fire before the Lord, that the cloud
of the incense may cover the mercy seat, that is, upon the
testimony that he die not. Now verse 14, And he shall take
of the blood of the bullet, and sprinkle it with his finger upon
the mercy seat eastward, and before the mercy seat shall he
sprinkle the blood with his finger seven times. He's He's had the
incense in his hands, not the blood, but the incense. Beaten,
puts it on there, goes in, prayers of our Lord. Then he goes out
and gets the basin of blood that he took from the bullock for
his sins and his family. He brings that in and sprinkles
it before the mercy seat. Now, verse 15. Then shall he
kill the goat. Remember when he took those two
goats? one for the Lord, one for the scapegoat. He shall kill
the goat of the sin offering that is for the people, and bring
his blood within the veil, and do with that blood, as he did
the blood of the bullock, sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before
the mercy seat. And he shall make an atonement,
reconciliation for the holy place, because of the uncleanness of
the children of Israel. because of their transgressions
in all their sins. And so shall he do for the tabernacle
of the congregation that remaineth among them in the midst of their
uncleanness. And watch this, and there shall
be no man in the tabernacle of the congregation when he goes
in to make an atonement in the holy place. Nobody else is in
that holy place, nobody else is in the holy tabernacle out
here and nobody's in the courtyard, only Aaron. Our Lord by himself
purged our sins. Our Lord Jesus Christ walked
the winepress of God's wrath alone. And as Aaron did this
on behalf of the people, it was a picture and symbol and type
of Christ doing this on our behalf. God's presence. Now, when our
Lord died on that cross, our sin offering, our lamb slain. God tore the veil from top to
bottom, and now all of us are kings and priests unto our God.
And we can come into his presence with sacrifices of praise and
prayer and thanksgiving. We can come before God now because
Christ, our great high priest, has made us holy. He read that
a while ago in that scripture. favored, and we are in Christ. See that? All right, let's look
at something else here before I close. Down here in verse 20,
and I remember there was another goat. And when he had made an end of
reconciling the holy place and the tabernacle of the congregation
and the altar, he shall bring the live goat. And Aaron shall lay both his
hands upon the head of the live and confess over him all the
iniquity of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions,
and all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and
shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness."
When he lays his hands on the head of that goat, it is a symbol
of transferring their sins to the goat. transferring their
sins, confessing their sins, their sins in type, in picture,
were transferred to that goat, as our sins were imputed on Christ.
Our sins were laid on Him. He bore our sins in His body
on the tree. Understand this, I don't, I know
it's so, but all our sins were laid on Christ. He was numbered
with the transgressors. He actually bore our sins in
his body just like Aaron put his hands on the head of that
goat and confessed all their sins. And it was transferred
to the goat. And then a man, says a fit man,
one who knew the way into the wilderness, a man, a trusted
man of experience, he took that goat Verse 22, And the goat shall
bear upon him all the iniquities unto a land not inhabited. And
he let the goat go in the wilderness, way out yonder somewhere, and come back without him. And
the goat was never seen or heard from ever again. And that's what
our Lord said, I've separated your sins from you as far as
the east is from the west, to remember them no more. Our scapegoat
has borne them away. Not only paid for them, satisfied
God's justice, but borne them away. Now this is what brought
God's judgment on Israel all the way through this Old Testament,
was when they diverted from this way. When they allowed the tabernacle
or the temple and the Day of Atonement and the Passover and
these things, these pictures of Christ to go unobserved. And when these fellows
brought the strange fire, God killed them. When Uzziah came
into the place to offer a sacrifice, God killed him. This is the way. Christ is the way. He's our sin
offering, and he's our scapegoat. Somebody wrote this poem years
ago. William Cowper wrote it. The
scapegoat on his head, the people's transgressions bore, and to the
desert he was led to be seen and heard from no more. And in
that time I hear my surety say, behold, I'll bear all your sins
away. That's the way to God. That's
the day of atonement. And our day of atonement is fulfilled
in Christ. And we believe on Him, trust
Him, look to Him. That's the way we come to God.
There's no other way. No other way. All right, let's
sing a closing hymn Number 125, Jesus paid it all. All to him
I owe. Sin left a crimson stain. He
washed it white as snow. Number 125.

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What is the role of the high priest in the Day of Atonement?

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The Atonement

What does the Bible say about the holiness of God?

How do we know the atonement is fulfilled in Christ?

Why is the concept of atonement important for Christians?

What is the role of the high priest in the Day of Atonement?

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