Oh, okay. All right. Y'all been hearing about Miss
Ingalls. Her situation's not improved. They have found a clot and they
put in a catheter on her. And she goes tomorrow to what? Cancer doctor. Okay. and also
been told perry shales cancers come back soon for all i have on that subject list
beginner worship service might work and one hundred Man of sorrows, what a name for
the Son of God who came, ruined sinners to reclaim. Hallelujah, what a Savior. Bearing shame and scoffing rude,
In my place condemned he stood, Sealed my pardon with his blood,
Alleluia! What a Savior! Guilty, vile, and helpless we,
this Lamb of God was He. Full atonement can it be, hallelujah,
what a Savior. Lifted up was he to die, it is
finished was his cry. Now in heaven exalted high, Hallelujah,
what a Savior. When He comes, our glorious King,
All His ransomed home to bring, Then anew this song we'll sing,
Hallelujah, what a Savior! Hymn number 51, Praise the Savior.
51. Praise the Savior, ye who know
him, who can tell how much we owe him. Gladly let us render
to him all we are and have. Jesus is a name that charms us. He for conflict fits and arms
us. Nothing moves and nothing harms
us while we trust in him. Trust in him, ye saints forever. changing never, neither forced
nor, as ever, those he loves from him. Keep us, Lord, oh,
keep us cleaving to thyself and still believing, till the hour
of our receiving promise joys with thee. Then we shall be where
we would be. Then we shall be what we should
be. Things that are not, now nor
could be, soon shall be our own. If you have your Bibles, turn with me
to Exodus chapter 34. We're reading verses 22 through
28. And thou shalt observe the feast
of weeps, of the first fruits of the wheat harvest, and the
feast of ingathering at the year's end. Thrice in the year shall
all your men and children appear before the Lord God, the God
of Israel. For I will cast out nations before
thee, and enlarge thy borders. Neither shall any man desire
thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before me. Thy God,
the Lord thy God, thrice in a year. Thou shalt not offer blood of
my sacrifice with leaven, neither shall the sacrifice of the feast
of the Passover be left to the morning. Of the firstfruits of thy land
thou shalt bring to the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt
not see the kid in his mother's milk. The Lord said to Moses, Write
thou these words, For after the tenor of these words, I have
made a covenant with thee and with Israel. And he was there
with the Lord forty days and forty nights. He did neither
eat bread nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables
the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments. Let us pray. Our Father in Heaven, most blessed
Lord and Savior, our great King and Sovereign, we are thankful
that you reign in this world. That you move and manipulate
all things for the glory of your name's sake and for the good
of your people. Father, we pray for those who are sick. Remember
especially Mary Ingle as she's beginning her cancer treatment. Pray for others who are beginning
their cancer treatment. Pray for Brother Perry as he's
At the recurrence of this cancer, pray you'd be with him. Watch
over him. For the others who are sick and
going through trials and troubles, in heart and mind and body, we
pray that you'd be with them. Comfort them and strengthen them.
Pray for Brother Stoniker as he's recovering from this stroke.
Larry Brown as he's recovering from the stroke. We know, Father,
that your children are made for trials and tribulations in this
world and they come their way for the sole purpose of bringing
us to the feet of the Lord Jesus Christ. We know that no trial
and no chastisement sent our way is joyful in the process,
but it does yield the fruit of righteousness. Father, help us
tonight to worship you as we consider the things that were
before us help us to remember who this word is about. It is
about the word, the Lord Jesus Christ. Help us to worship him
in spirit and in truth as we gather, we pray in Christ's name,
amen. This passage addresses God's
commandment for the people to observe three specific feasts
during the year. You find that in verse 22 when
he said this, and thou shalt observe the Feast of Weeks, that's
one of them, and the Feast of the Fruits of the Wheat Harvest,
that's another feast, and the Feast of In-Gathering of the
Year's End, that's the third feast, and he says, thrice in
the year, three times in the year, thou shalt all your young
children appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel. Now these three feasts were in
one sense feasts observed in remembrance of their deliverance
from Egypt and the providence of God that supplied all their
needs up to this point and will for the next 40 years in the
wilderness. Now the Feast of Weeks is the
Feast of Pentecost. They call it the Feast of Weeks
because it's seven Sabbaths involved. Find that over in Leviticus chapter
23 verse 15 and 16 and it says, And ye shall count unto you from
the morrow after the Sabbath, from the day that ye brought
the sheaf of the wave offering, seven Sabbaths shall ye complete.
Even unto the morrow after the seventh shall ye number fifty
days and you shall offer a meat offering unto the Lord." So it's
50 to Pentecost. Pentecost means 50 days. We know that that was where the
disciples were, the 11 disciples, or the 12 actually, the 11 and
one that had been voted for by the church, Matthias, was with
them in the temple, or hiding, because the Lord had descended
into glory and they were waiting for the Holy Spirit to come.
and on Pentecost the Holy Spirit came and Peter began to speak
boldly and his words were in the Hebrew language but they
were heard in the language of every man that was there regardless
of what language he spoke. He heard the gospel in his own
language and the Spirit of God moved and the disciples were
then sent out into the world to preach the gospel to Jerusalem,
Samaria, and the outermost parts of the earth. So that feast was
a very particular feast of the Lord. The feast of the first
fruits of the wheat harvest was a wave offering, where baked
loaves of the best wheat or the best wheat flour were waved before
the Lord. It was waved to honor Him, saying,
You have supplied us with these things. That is also in Leviticus
chapter 23 and verse 17. He says, You shall bring out
of your habitation two wave loaves of two-tenths deals, they shall
be fine flour, they shall be bacon with leaven, they are the
firstfruits of the Lord." Those were actually baked with leaven
so they would rise up and make loaves. So that was the Feast
of the Wheat. The Feast of the Ingathering
is the Feast of the Tabernacles and that was a yearly observance
The tabernacles are tents. They call it also the Feast of
the Tents. And here it's called the Feast of the Ingathering.
What it means is the last of the season when the great harvest
is made and the new year begins, then they bring forth these feasts
and bring the first fruits to the Lord. Now these three feasts
will be observed before the Lord every year. These all, actually
there were eight that were, but these three are mentioned here.
And each of these feasts had reference to the first fruit
that belonged to the Lord. Each one of these, whether it
be the first fruits of the wheat and the fine flour, or whether
it be the first fruits of Pentecost, or whether it be the first fruits
at the end of the year. Now each of these feasts had
reference to that, and this pictured Christ. This pictured Christ
and His church, or His people, the people He died for. because
he was the firstborn and the only begotten of God and his
elect were born of his word. That's how the children of God
are born. They're born through the preaching
of the word of God. Now, it's not the preacher or even the
preaching, but it's the preaching of the word of God that brings
men to life. There's no way anybody can understand
how that works save God Himself. But God said of His own will,
begat he us, birthed us with the word of truth. When the truth
is preached, God's elect will hear it, and the sheep will follow
his voice. In 1 Peter chapter 1 it says, We are born not of
corruptible seed, but incorruptible seed, even the word of God. We
are born again by the word of God, which liveth and abideth
forever. and this word which by the gospel
is preached unto you, and these belong to God according to His
covenant. He says here that this is a covenant
I make with the people. Now, it's not a new covenant.
It's the same covenant that He made with Moses, or gave to Moses
on the first trip up the mountain. When Moses came down and saw
them with the golden calf, and Moses broke those tables. This is the same covenant reinstated
by the Lord. But it's a covenant, and he says,
after the tenor of this covenant, I will speak to the people. They
belong to God. These first fruits belong to
God. They're His. They don't belong to anybody
else. They're brought to the Lord God. This pictures the fact
that his sheep, his church, all belong to him. They're his to
start with. They've always been his from
all eternity. In Ezekiel chapter 16 verse 18,
you'll be familiar with the story of the young girl that was cast
aside and left for death, and the Lord found her and brought
her to himself, picturing the church of the living God. He
says this in chapter 16 of Ezekiel in verse 8, he says now when i passed by
the looked upon the behold that time was the time of love and
i spread my skirt over the covered that make in this year that's
where the internet into a couple of days at the lord and now became
a smile became a smile this is the first fruits belong for more
numbers twenty four back in our text is a guarantee to the people
they will be able to observe these feasts safely in this new
land that they're going to possess. The Lord says in verse 24, For
I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders.
Neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go
up to appear before the Lord thy God three times in a year,
or thrice in a year. So the Lord will rout out the
enemies that might prevent them when they reach the promised
land to observe these feasts. Now he's already said he's going
to rout them out. In verse 11 of the same chapter
it says, Observe thou that which I command thee this day, behold
I drive out before thee the Amorite, the Cainite, the Hittite, the
Pezzorite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. These are enemies and
they're going to be driven out. But the Lord said He will enlarge
their borders. In other words, as they go into the promised
land they will spread out. Each tribe will have its own
section and we know that two and a half tribes stayed back
on the side of Jordan. On the Canaan side of Jordan,
or on the wilderness side of Jordan, didn't go into Canaan.
But those that went into Canaan, he enlarged their borders. He
kept enlarging them. He did that because they overcame
their enemies by God's grace and God fought for them. This will occur because God will
drive out the enemies. So as he drives out enemies,
they take over the land. and take over the land. And there's
a very interesting phrase in this passage that I thought was
very interesting. He says this, where I will cast
out nations for thee and enlarge thy borders, neither shall any
man desire thy land. Now, think about it. They're
going into this land. It's a foreign land already occupied
by people who own the land. It's their land, but God says,
no, it's not your land. It's my children's land. I'm
going to drive you out. and it says that even though
he drives them out that they won't desire the land. That to
me is a strange thing. The Lord says the enemies won't
desire it, won't want the land. This has been their land. They
have been driven from it and they have not surrendered it
willfully or sold it for profit. Knowing what we know of the spirit
of man and what men feel about their own possessions, how can
it be that they would not desire that which had been ripped from
their hands. Herein lies the greatness of
God's sovereignty. Think about it. These were enemies.
They were driven out by force. Other people are now living on
their property. They're eating crops they didn't plant, living
in houses they didn't build. This is all the Lord said. He
said, I'm not doing this because you're righteous. I'm doing it
because that's what I'm designed to do. they're living in their
houses, farming their land, taking care of their enemies' cattle,
all that stuff. And it says the enemies won't
desire their land. God is indeed sovereign. He alone
knows the heart of men and can by His power manipulate the enemy's
heart so that they come to terms with losing and become satisfied
with the result of that. I don't know how that works except
God is in charge of the whole thing, He must be. You see, changing
heart is hearts are part of God's business. Remember in the crucifixion
of the Lord Jesus Christ the soldiers mocked Him and laughed
at Him and said if you be the King of the Jews come down from
the cross, if you be the Savior come down from the cross and
mocked Him. Then later after the Lord said it is finished
they had a change of heart. Their heart was changed. What
happened? They said this man is truly the Son of God. before
moments before they were mocked three hours he came out on the
other side He changes hearts. Our Lord said
in Ezekiel, I'll take away that stony heart and give you a new
heart. That's what happened to you if
you were a child of God. He gave you a new heart. That old heart
is still vile and wicked and undone, but the new heart is
bent toward the Lord Jesus Christ. Proverbs 21 and 1 says, The heart
of the king is in the hand of the Lord, and he turneth it whithersoever
he will. your heart's in God's hands and
he turns it however he wants to turn it. Everybody's heart
is owned by God. And verse 25 concerns the Passover
feast back in our text. It says, Thou shalt not offer
the blood of my sacrifice with leaven, neither shall the sacrifice
of the feast of the Passover be left until the morning. Now
this speaks of the night that our Lord came through Egypt and
killed the firstborn of every house. And he did, he got the
firstborn of every house, not only the house of the Egyptians,
he got the firstborn in the house of the Israelites in type and
in shadow. The blood of the Paschal Lamb,
which picture of the Lord Jesus Christ was swiped on the doorpost
and the lentils of the house of the Israelites, and it served
as a type and picture of the blood of God's firstborn. his
only begotten son so when he come through Egypt that night
he said I'm gonna get blood at every house and kill every firstborn
in Egypt and he did he killed, truly killed the physical firstborn
of the Egyptians and killed his own firstborn by the blood of
the lamb. He said, when I see the blood,
I will pass over you. He says there would be no leaven
in the house that would taint the blood of the sacrifice. We
read last week how he said there's no leaven in the house. Sweep
your house. Get all the leaven out of the
house. None of this happened. Not in the Passover feast. They
eat unleavened bread. They eat unleavened bread. This
speaks of the singularity of the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus
Christ. It is nothing but the sacrifice
that is offered to God. It is the only suitable and acceptable
offering that would answer God's law and God's justice. Nothing
else would do the trick. This tells the believer that
Christ alone is salvation and no leaven of man's righteousness
or man's doing or man's works enter into the great work of
the Lord Jesus Christ. It is a finished thing. It's
a report we have. We're telling people something
that's already taken place. So no matter who they are in
history, whether it be before or after the crucifixion, they
had nothing to do with it. This was something that was between
God and His Son. He offered Himself to God, and
God accepted it, and there ain't no leaven of us in it, no leaven
of any human being. also the command was that no
part of the sacrifice of the sacrificial lamb if you read
Exodus chapter 12 no part of the sacrificial lamb was left
until the morning so inside that house that night they cooked
that lamb that paschal lamb after they had cut his throat and put
the blood on the door post and they took that lamb inside and
they cooked him they cooked him over fire didn't boil him they
cooked him over fire and they ate him the bones and fat and
what was left over. If there was anything left over
that they couldn't eat, they burned. In other words, that
lamb was totally consumed. It was gone. There was nothing
left of that lamb. That's a picture of the sacrifice
of the Lord Jesus Christ. He was utterly consumed in His
sacrifice, even unto death. He gave His all. He gave Himself
on the cross of Calvary. Christ gave Himself for His sheep.
In Psalm 39, 10, it says this, a strange word, it says, I am
consumed with the blow of thy hand. One man said it was like
God rolling up his sleeve and when Jesus Christ was made sin
for us, he just beat the Lord. I am consumed with the blow of
thy hand. Nothing be left of this sacrifice.
Why? Because this sacrifice must be the perfect sacrifice, and
this perfect sacrifice must not only pay for the sin debt of
his people, he must put away their sin, and the only way to
do that, to answer God's law and justice, is to die, totally
consumed. So this is a picture of the Passover
lamb. The Paschal lamb says in 1 Corinthians, Christ, our Passover,
our Paschal lamb, is slain for us. and back in our text in verse
twenty six relates to the feast of the end gathering of the uh...
or the feast of the tabernacles where the first fruits are brought
to the lord and this is a prohibition in verse twenty six it says this
now shall not see the kid in his mother's meal now shall not
boil that's what seethe means boil kid in his mother's milk. Seems like a strange thing to
say. You'll find it elsewhere mentioned
in Exodus also but here it says it's connected to these three
sacrifices or these three feasts. This means that a suckling kid
or lamb should not be boiled in its mother's milk. Now if
you look throughout Scripture this is said only twice. It's
said earlier in Exodus when God was giving the law and it's also
said here and there's no explanation of it anymore. There's no illumination
given of what this means, just that it wasn't to be done. Gil, John Gil quoted some Jewish
scholars on this stuff. Found some Jewish scholars that
wrote that they thought what it meant. They said it was a
custom of the heathens at the end gathering of their fruits.
harvest season to take a kid and see it in the milk of the
dam or the ewe and then in some magical way go about and sprinkle
all their trees and fields and gardens and orchards thinking
by this means they should make themselves fructify and bring
forth fruit again more abundantly the next year. So this was a
heathen practice. So you remember our Lord said
over and over again don't you join in what the heathen do,
what the heathen do. The Targum of Jonathan, which
is a Jewish tome, when speaking about this verse in Exodus 34-26,
says it seems to have respect to this, where having paraphrased
the words as is quoted here, the Targum of Jonathan adds these
words, he says, Now shall not see the kid in
his mother's milk, lest I should destroy the fruit of your trees
with the unripe grape and shoots and leaves together. And this
may be dependent upon, the law comes in very aptly, where after
the feast of ingathering and the bringing in of the first
fruits of the land of the house, this is a heathen practice not
to be done, because God says I supply. But if you do this, if the Targum of Jonathan is
right, if you do this, then I will destroy next year, the Lord said,
and to be together, if indeed that's what the Lord, that is
speculation. It's not explained in scripture.
Back in verse 27, it says, And the Lord said unto Moses, Write
these words, for after the tenor of these words I have made a
covenant with thee and with Israel. Now the Lord instructs Moses
to write these laws down as the voice. That's what the word tenor
here means. the voice of god right these down god himself
speaking to speak you speak speaking as the voice of god reinstating
the covenant richly stoned broken in verse twenty eighty stated
that moses had been on the mount forty days and forty nine this
was typical of the suffering three people suffered this way
moses it was a larger the lord jesus christ temptation satan
you think about this how long can a man go about ten how long
can go without that's about to extend that's what everybody
says you'll die if you don't have food and water.
Forty days and forty nights. This is some vast, but he was
with the Lord. That would be death unless he
was sovereignly sustained by the Lord. In Jeremiah 32, verse
17 and 27, the question is asked, is there anything too hard for
the Lord? And his answer, nothing is too hard for the Lord. He
was sustained these forty days and forty nights. we'll look
at next week he came down from that mountain and he was changed
in a way that the Israelites could not steadfastly look on
him. And that is explained in 2 Corinthians chapter 3. What
happened there is explained in 2 Corinthians chapter 3. That's
it for tonight.