see it explored or see what's
down in there let's get him on turn him number two hundred and
twenty six my say I am not skilled to understand
what God hath willed, what God hath planned. I only know that
His right hand is one who is my Savior. I take Him at His
word indeed. Christ died for sinners, this
I read. For in my heart I find a need
of Him to be my Savior. that he should leave his place
on high and come for sinful man to die. You counted strange,
so once did I, before I knew my Savior. And o'er that ethereal
hill may see the travel of His soul in me, and with His Word
contented be, as I with my dear Savior. ? Yea, living, dying,
let me bring my strength, my solace ? From this spring that
he who lives to be my king ? Once died to be my savior Give number
517 on Miss Jordan's Starry Banks. Oh, don't un-storm me, baby. cast a wishful eye to gain a
spare and happy land where my possessions lie. I am bound for the promised land. I am bound for the promised land. Oh, who will come and go with
me? I am bound for the promised land. Oh, Lord, those wide-extended
plain shies one eternal day. There God the sun forever rains
and scatters night away. I am bound for the promised land. I am bound for the promised land. Oh, who will come and go with
me? I am bound for the promised land. No chilling winds, no poisonous
breath can reach that hell-full shore. Sickness and sorrow, pain
and death are built and built no more. I am bound for the promised
land. I am bound for the promised land. Oh, who will come and go with
me? I am bound for the promised land. When shall I reach that happy
place and be forever blessed? When shall I see my father's
face I am bound for the promised land. Oh, who will come and go with
me? I am bound for the promised land. If you have your Bibles, turn with me
please to the 29th chapter of Exodus. We'll begin reading from
verse 29 and read through the end of the chapter. Exodus 29, 29, and the holy garments
of Aaron shall be his sons after him to be anointed therein and
to be consecrated in them. And that son that is priest in
his stead shall put them on seven days when he cometh into the
tabernacle of the congregation to minister in the holy place. And I shall take the ram of the
consecration and seethe his flesh in the holy place. And Aaron
and his son shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that
is in the basket by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
And they shall eat those things wherewith the atonement was made,
to consecrate and to sanctify them. But a stranger shall not
eat thereof, because they are holy. And if all to the flesh
of the consecration or of the bread remain unto the morning,
then thou shalt burn the remainder with fire. It shall not be eaten,
because it is holy. And thus shalt thou do unto Aaron
and to his sons according to all things which I have commanded
thee. Seven days shalt thou consecrate them. Thou shalt offer every day a
bullock for a sin offering for atonement. Thou shalt cleanse
the altar when thou hast made the atonement for it, and thou
shalt anoint it to sanctify it. Seven days thou shalt make an
atonement for the altar and sanctify it, and it shall be an altar
most holy, and whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy. Now
this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar, two lambs
of the first year, day by day continually. One lamb shalt thou
offer in the morning, the other lamb thou shalt offer at evening.
And with one lamb a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth
part of the hen of beaten oil, the fourth part of a hen of wine
for a drink offering. And the other lamb thou shalt
offer it even, and thou shalt do there according to the meal
offering of the morning, and according to the drink offering
thereof for a sweet savor, an offering made by fire unto the
Lord. This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your
generations at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation
before the Lord, where I will meet with you to speak there
unto thee. And there I will meet with the
children of Israel. The tabernacle shall be sanctified
by my glory. And I will sanctify the tabernacle
of the congregation and the altar. And I will sanctify also both
Aaron and his sons to minister to me in the priest's office.
And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and I will be their
God. And they shall know that I am the Lord their God that
brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell
among them. I am the Lord their God. Let us pray. Our Father, we bless
you and thank you for continuous mercy every day. We thank you
for the shed blood of Jesus Christ that cleanses us from all transgressions. We thank you that we can approach
under your throne and speak to you, that blessed throne of grace, to make our petitions known,
for we know that you know what we ought to pray before we pray
it. We can say what David we found in our heart to pray, and
we know who put it in our heart to pray. We praise you, Lord, for your
goodness and mercy and grace towards your children. We pray
for those who are sick and going through trials and troubles.
We ask, Lord, you to be with them. Those who are facing operations
and doctor visits, we ask, Lord, you to be with the doctors as
they minister to them. For those who are suffering with
diseases, we ask, Lord, you to be with them. Help us, Lord,
now to worship you in spirit and in truth. Teach us your word,
teach us your way, and point us to our Savior, the Lord Jesus
Christ. who is worthy of all praise and
honor for what he has accomplished in his perfect work on Calvary's
tree wherein he satisfied you in your justice and your law
and you made him to be our righteousness. Thank you that we as poor, wretched
sinners can even think and say such things is a wonder beyond
understanding. Help us now, we pray in Christ's
name, amen. Now the remainder of this chapter
continues with the commands concerning the hallowing of the priesthood
or making the priesthood holy or sanctifying it, consecrating
it. The entirety of these preparatory
commands are yet to take place. This is all still the Lord telling
Moses what to do concerning what is to be done. But the commands
are precise and specific and are to be followed without alteration,
addition, or subtraction. And we know that in the days
of Isaiah and Jeremiah and Amos, the priesthood had been bastardized
and had been sold to the highest bidder or simply turned over
to pagans. But the Lord makes it clear in this passage that
these precepts are to be meticulously followed on pain of death. The first thing addressed here
in this passage is the lineage and preparation of the high priest
in verse twenty-nine and thirty. It says, And the holy garments
of Aaron shall be his sons, after him to be anointed therein, to
be consecrated in them. And that son that is priest in
his stead shall put on seven days, put him on seven days when
he cometh into the tabernacle of the congregation to minister
in the holy place. This was the, first of all, this
was the span of time that a priest served. He got seven days. Each
priest served seven days and got some time off and then served
another seven days. Now the first thing addressed
is, as I said, the preparation of the lineage. of the high priest. This command is not given to
the sons of Levi in general, for they were all part of the
priesthood, but is given to Aaron and his sons, or his direct lineage. Only the descendants of Aaron
could hold the office of high priest, nor the Levite, though
a part of the priesthood, could hold that office. The lineage
was in this singular line of Aaron and that singularity of
descendancy pointed to the Lord Jesus Christ who was the only
begotten of God and the great high priest. At the present time,
or the present time this was written, this consisted of Aaron's
two sons. His two sons were Eliezer and
Ethemar. The lot would fall to Eliezer
when Aaron died. Eliezer would take over the job
or the office of the high priest for he was the son of Aaron.
The seven days mentioned had to do with the training and preparation
of the sacrifices, the various offerings, and proper knotting
of the high priest's garb and attire. And verses 31 through
35 addresses further instruction concerning the seven-day training
period of Aaron's sons. Now the portion of the ram of
consecration that was to be eaten it was to be seethed, or cooked,
in the holy place, that's what it says. Now this is not the
holy place adjacent to the Holy of Holies, since there was no
altar or implement in that area that contained a cooking device,
or nothing was ever said to be cooked in that area. You had
the court, wherein was the brazen altar, the big altar, the brazen
labor. was in that court. It was a large
area. Then you had the holy place,
which was a 15 by 45, and then you had the most holy place,
which was 15 by 15 foot square. When he talks about the holy
place here, he's using the tabernacle as the whole thing, especially
the outer court, where the brazen altar was, where things could
be cooked upon. This is after the wave and heave
offerings were accomplished, the breast and the shoulder of
the ram and the bread was cooked and what was cooked was eaten
by the priests. And he's talking still to Aaron
and his sons at this time. At this time. This picture is
Christ and him crucified. It is called the things wherewith
the atonement was made. That's how you can eat of the
things wherewith the atonement was made. This reveals an antitype
of the Lord Jesus Christ. Aaron and his sons were sinners
and in need of an atonement for their sins. So they could eat
but their sins had to be atoned for. If you read the book of
Hebrews you will find that the old priesthood had to wash themselves
and had to make atonement for themselves before they entered
into the Holy of Holies because they were yet sinners and they
would eventually die. but that was not so with the
Lord Jesus Christ. He is the meat and the bread
of the believer, realized in hearing and receiving and studying
God's word. This command, however, was given
with a caveat. It said, no stranger is to be
partaker of this food. McCulloch did it wholly. It's
wholly food. It's set apart by God for Aaron
and his lineage. It's wholly food. the stranger
here does not refer to the pagan or someone outside the Jewish
community or one who was not born into the Jewish community,
but it's anybody other than Abram and his sons. So no Levitical
priest. could partake of this particular
offer, only Averin and his sons. This was for those who were high
priests or would be high priests. If there were leftovers, they
were to be burned with fire, completely destroyed. Now, knowing
the nature of men, the leftovers may have been considered sacred.
That might be why they were destroyed. And they may have been, knowing
what men think and often think, if something is used in such
a manner, It might be endued with some kind of spiritual power
and a thing to be desired. So it is to be destroyed. And
it is to be destroyed because it belongs to God. It is holy
and separated by God. These were, however, wholly separated
to God and His high priest. The personal use was prohibited
and thus they were to be burned. This was for the consecration
of Aaron and his sons. That is what it says in verse
35. Now during this seven-day period, And seven is a number
of perfection. We know that. A bullock was to
be offered as a sin offering to atone and sanctify the altar. This was done seven days in a
row, each day of the training. A bullock was offered as a sin
offering on the altar. It was also anointed with holy
anointing oil and cleansed with it, and the altar was inanimate. The offering was made for the
altar. It says the bullock was offered for the altar, but the
altar has no sin. has no sin, it's an inanimate
object made of brass, and it could not sin, so cleansing was
for what? For the same reason as hallowing,
for separation and sanctification. It was to be holy unto the Lord. That's what this offer is made
for. It being sanctified, every sacrifice offered upon it was
holy unto the Lord. That's what it says in verse
36 and 37. It says, Thou shalt offer every day a bullet for
a sin offering for atonement. Thou shalt cleanse the altar,
and Thou shalt make an atonement for it. And Thou shalt anoint
it, and Thou shalt sanctify it. Seven days shalt Thou make an
atonement for the altar sanctified. It shall be an altar most holy.
and whatsoever or whosoever touches the altar shall be holy. So this is also a picture of
the Lord Jesus Christ. This picture's imputation, this
picture's substitution, and the application of Christ works by
the Holy Spirit through the word. Christ is the altar of the believer.
He's the last and the final altar. And like the altar, this brazen
altar, he had no sin. He had no sin, yet the sin of
His elect was laid upon Him, and by His sacrifice all who
touch Him are made holy. All who touch Him are made holy.
This is the language that's used here. Like the woman with the
issue of blood knew that but the touch of His garment would
make her whole. This is the heart of every believer.
Every believer lays hold of Christ, and touching that perfect altar,
he's made holy. he's made holy. The next offering
address is not merely for the seven day training period. It
is to be a continual offering, spoken of in verses 38 through
44. Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon that altar,
the altar that has been cleansed and has been atoned for. It says,
now this is what thou shalt offer upon the altar, two lambs of
the first year, day by day continually. So two lambs were offered every
day in the history of Israel from this day forward, from the
day that started. two lands every morning and evening land think
of the number each year daily basis it would be seven hundred
the different beasts and and shabbos were given to them in
Leviticus which were eight different shabbos more beasts were offered
the Feast of Tabernacles alone in one eight day period close
to a thousand I think it was 809 or 980, something like that,
lambs were slain in that one week, period. So think of the
number. And the Lord said, this is continual,
this is continual. It says, The one lamb thou shalt
offer, verse 39, in the morning, and the other lamb thou shalt
offer in the evening. And with the lamb a tenth deal of flour
mingled with the fourth part of a hen of beaten oil, and that
was to make bread, and the fourth part of a hen of wine for a drink
offering. And the other lamb shalt thou
offer it even, and thou shalt do there according to the meat
offering of the morning, so the elements that went with it are
the same, and according to the drink offering thereof for a
sweet smelling or a sweet savor, an offering made by fire unto
the Lord. This shall be a continual burnt
offering, throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle
of the congregation before the Lord, where I will meet with
you and speak with you there. And there I will meet the children
of Israel, and the tabernacle shall be sanctified by my glory,
by his shekinah glory, by his presence. And I will sanctify
the tabernacle of the congregation, the altar, and I will sanctify
also Aaron and his sons to minister unto me. So this was a continual
offering. It was a morning and an evening
sacrifice offered every day. Every day. Blood upon blood upon
blood. Burnt offering. Remember the
burnt offering signified and pictured what Christ did on Calvary
Street. It was not offered to man. It
was an offering made to God. Christ offered Himself to the
Father to pay the sin debt of His people. And that's what,
it was totally consumed, it was not, the hands were laid upon
it to show identification, not to confess sin. No confession
of sin was made on the burnt offering. That was on the sin
offering, the confession was made. So no confession was made,
it was identification. And where they were saying by
putting their hands on the head of the lamb that was slain, this
is me being killed. This thing is dying in my room
and my stead. That's what was being said with
the burnt offering. It was a burnt offering, that picture, the perfect
sacrifice of Jesus Christ that propitiated God and in doing
so perfected His people. It was the sacrifice of two lambs
every day. They were offered thusly because
their blood continually offered for so many years, century upon
century, until everything fell apart in 70 A.D. and no more
priesthood and no more sacrifices, no more altar, no more temple.
All that was taken care of in A.D. 70. But it was continually
offered up to that point. And you think about that. Think
of the blood. It was a veritable river of blood flowing down through
the history. And you know what happened with
that blood? it never took away sin. All those beasts offered
over in Hebrews chapter 10, that is made clear by the Apostle
as he writes concerning Christ being the better sacrifice, the
one that actually put away sin in Hebrews chapter 10 verses
1 through 10. He says this, for the law having
a shadow of good things to come and not the very image of the
things can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year
continually make the comers there unto perfect they were offered
year by year but nobody was perfected he said for then if this perfection
had occurred for then would they not have ceased to be offered
because that worshipers once purged should have no more conscience
of sins now what did it say in chapter one of Hebrews that after
Christ had purged our sins He sat down. So if the sins are
purged, there's no more offering for sin. But in these sacrifices
there was a remembrance, a recollection, again, made of sins every year. For it is not possible that the
blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. Wherefore, when
he cometh into the world, he said, that is when Christ came
in, sacrifice an offering thou wouldest not, but a body thou
hast prepared for me. And he said that in Psalm 40.
Now, in burnt offerings and sacrifice for sin, thou hast no pleasure.
In other words, all those sacrifices did not please God. It forestalled
His judgment, if you will, for a year, on the Day of Atonement,
for a year. That's all it did. It operated
as a covering, not as a propitiation or expiation. In burnt offerings
and sacrifice for sin, thou hast no pleasure. Then said I, Christ
said, Lo, I come. in the volume of the book it
is written to me to testify of Christ to do thy will oh God
what is his will well it's been in type and shadow and what we're
looking at tonight these lambs slain every morning and every
evening in type and shadow as burnt offerings above when he
said sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and all for sin
thou wouldest not need it hast thou pleasure therein where which
are offered by the law then said he lo I come and to do thy will,
O God, he taketh away the first covenant and establishes the
second covenant, and by which will we are sanctified through
the offering of the body of Christ once for all. So those sacrifices,
he said, continually. He didn't say continually offer
up Christ one sacrifice for sins forever. He had perfected forever
by one sacrifice. But these were continually offered
because sins were never put away. The sins of people were covered
daily and once a year on the Day of Atonement. This daily
sacrifice morning and evening revealed that the people were
what? They were sinners. That's what Calvary reveals to
us, that we're sinners. You want to know the price of
sin? it took the very Son of God, the perfect Son of God,
to die in the room instead of His people to pay for our sins.
That's the magnitude of our sinfulness. But that offering of those lambs
every morning, these are burnt-off rings, showed that men are sinners
and they continue to be sinners. That's what Paul said in Romans
chapter 7, wasn't it? he said, everything I do is sin.
He said, what I would not, that's what I do. What I would do, I
don't do. He said, there's a principle
or a law in me, a law of sin and death, that when I would
do good, evil is present with me. To will to do good is there
with me, but the power to dare of is not. Who shall deliver
me from the body of this death, oh wretched man that I am? Thank
God through Jesus Christ, he has delivered me. this is the
truth about us we need Christ's sacrifice because we are sinners
we are sinners Paul the apostle wrote to the young Timothy and
he talked about God calling him and putting him in the ministry
he said before he did that I was a persecutor of the church I
was a persecutor of the church he said I was a sinner before
God then he said but God showed mercy to me. He said this is
a faithful saint worthy of all acceptation that Christ came
into the world to save sinners of whom I am. Present tense. The Apostle Paul writing on the
inspiration of the Holy Spirit says I am. I was a persecutor. I am the chief of sinners. We never graduate from that place. We take up our headquarters in
the dusk because that's where we belong. We never graduate
from being a sinner because that's what we are. We're always in
need of the Lord Jesus Christ. The sacrifices were lambs without
spot and blood. You're not redeemed of corruptible
things like silver and gold in the tradition of your fathers,
but by the precious blood of the lamb, it says in 1 Peter
1. Along with the lambs were offered bread and oil and wine.
Christ is the bread of life. The wine is his blood and the
oil is his anointing spirit. The sweet savor in God's nostrils
speaks of him being pleased with the sacrifice. There where the
sacrifice was accepted, the Lord will meet with Moses. He said,
I'll meet with you. And then he said, I'll meet with
you and your people, my people. I'll meet at the door of the
congregation. The Lord will meet with Moses and meet with his
people. And that speaks of fellowship. fellowship between god and his
elect is where the sacrifice is accepted this is all tied
in with this burnt offering offered twice daily continually he says
there's where I'll meet you where the offering is made he said
basically the same thing about the holy of holies and the day
of atonement in exodus 25 he says I'll meet with you and commune
with you in exodus 25 21 and 22 over the mercy seat where that offering for sin was
made. You see, it's God who does all
this. It's God who sanctifies, it's God who consecrates, it's
God who hallows, and He does it for His glory. He says that
His sanctification is by my glory. It's by my glory. Finally, God
declares that the result of the sanctification, that He will
dwell with His people as their God. I'll dwell with them. What's the word dwell? In the
Greek, it's tabernacle. the tabernacle in the Hebrew
is dwell in the Greek. What does the Lord say? And the
word was made flesh, and dwelt a tabernacle among us, and we
beheld his glory as the only begotten Father, full of grace
and truth. And when he does this for his people, they have an
important knowledge and understanding. He said, I will dwell among the
children, in verse 45 of Israel, and I will be their God, and
they shall know I shall know that I am the Lord their God
who brought them out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among
them. I am the Lord their God. They shall know that the Lord
is God. That's the promise that was given
in Jeremiah concerning that new covenant that he spoke of in
Jeremiah 31. But he also spoke of it in Jeremiah
24. during my twenty-fourth verse
seven says and I will give them a heart to know me a heart to
know him that I am the Lord and they shall be my people and I
will be their God for they shall return to me with their whole
heart that's talking about the day of grace in Isaiah chapter
thirty one that great chapter that talks about the new covenant
that so much is spoken about in Hebrews chapter eight and
chapter ten it says in chapter 31 and verse
34, it says, And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor,
and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord, for they shall
all know me. They shall all know me from the
least of them to the greatest of them, saith the Lord. For
I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin.
They'll know me because because i forgive their sin they'll know
me because i remember their sins no more this is what all of this points
to the altar is christ the sacrifice is christ god's glory is in christ
we meet with god and we know who god is in christ that's the
only way you know who god is in christ cause that's how god
has revealed himself our lord said in john seventeen He said,
I came to declare the Father, to declare God in a new capacity,
not as Elohim, the Almighty, not as Jehovah, Almighty, all-powerful,
but as the Father, as the Father. He said to Thomas, he said, if
you've known me, if you've seen me, you've seen the Father. Why does God do this? So His
people will know Him. Father, bless us to understand
and pray in Christ's name. Amen. All right.