Gospel—M. Hayes
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Father, we certainly are dependent upon Thee this evening for a word from Thyself, and we pray that Thou mightest provide it a word which would speak to every heart and the ears here, that the ears might be unstopped, and that they might receive a word from Thy soul at the hearts might be tender, and that the consciences might remain sensitive. We would ask for help then, and pray in the precious name of our Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.
Let's read that verse again in Second Corinthians. It was read this morning, Second Corinthians chapter 5.
And verse 21.
For he God.
Hath made him Christ.
To be a sin or to be sin for us, literally.
A sin offering for us.
Who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
And read a verse in Leviticus chapter 6.
Leviticus, chapter 6.
And read in verse 25.
Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin offering. In the place where the burnt offering is killed. Shall the sin offering be killed before the Lord? It is most holy, literally the Holy of Holies.
We've had before us over the last several days the Tabernacle and its types, what it speaks to us of and how it presents Christ and his glories and how it speaks to us of his humanity and the work which he did on Calvary's cross.
A work which brings one thing to us.
And that is salvation.
And seeing that offering there on that brazen altar, we can proceed forward, as it were, to that labor and consider the cleansing from the dust, from the contaminants of this world. And proceeding forward from there, we go into the holies, and we have there the altar of incense.
And there we find that intercession is made for the people of God, for one who committed a sin of ignorance.
We find there also that that incense continues going upward towards God.
And we considered and proceeded from there in reverse order, pass that veil into the Holy of Holies, and there to find that ark with the mercy seat above it, and the cherubims overspread over that mercy seat.
It's a lot to consider.
So I thought this evening what we would do is take up a little bit of what we considered with the Tabernacle as well as with Romans 12.
From perhaps a little bit of a practical perspective.
Perhaps we could consider some examples in the scripture of how this worked out.
And as we begin, it's important to consider that sin offering.
Christ himself.
Became that sin offering for us?
And he there was laid upon that burnt offering himself also two different aspects of the same sacrifice 1.
We consider very much in the Gospel of John the presentation of the Son of God.
And there the Son of God offered up is that sweet smelling incense to his Father. Perfect obedience and path and walk, and saw it indeed.
As well as him becoming that servant as we had this morning.
That would take his place there in obedience to do a work, the sin offering.
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We were considering Exodus beginning around chapter 25. I would like to turn us a little bit before that. Let's look at Exodus Chapter 9.
And a verse there.
Exodus Chapter 9 and verse 27.
And Pharaoh sent.
And called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto them, I have sinned this time the Lord is righteous, and I and my people are wicked, and treat the Lord for it is enough.
In chapter 10.
And reading in verse 16.
Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste, and he said, I have sinned against the Lord your God and against you.
Turn a little bit forward in the Scriptures. We're going to look at the Book of Numbers, Numbers in chapter 22.
Seven specific individuals before me that would portray, I believe the.
Raise an altar and what takes place there?
And as well the altar of incense and what takes place there. Numbers chapter 22 and reading in verse 34.
And Balaam said unto the Angel of the Lord.
I have sinned, for I knew not that thou stoodest in the way against me now. Therefore, if it displeased thee, I will get me back again.
Turn a few books forward into the book of Joshua. Joshua Chapter 7.
Joshua Chapter 7 and verse 20.
And Aiken answered Joshua, and said, Indeed, I have sinned against the Lord God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done. When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and 200 shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of 50 shekels weight, then I coveted them and took them.
And behold their head in the earth, in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.
The Book of First Samuel.
First Samuel, chapter 15.
First Samuel chapter 15 and verse 24.
And soul said unto Samuel.
I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and thy words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.
Let's look at an example from David's life, Second Samuel, chapter 12.
Second Samuel chapter 12 and we'll read verse 13.
And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord.
And Nathan said unto David, The Lord also hath put away thy sin, thou shalt not die.
Turning to the New Testament, to the book of Luke. Luke in chapter 15.
The well known story of the Prodigal son.
Luke chapter 15 and we'll read verse 18 and a few verses.
After.
The prodigal speaking, I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son. Make me as one of thy hired servants.
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Let's also look at the Gospel of Matthew in chapter 27.
Matthew chapter 27. We'll read a few verses, beginning with verse one.
When the morning was come, and all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death, and when they had bound him, they led him away and delivered him to Pontius Pilate, the governor.
Than Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw he that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the 30 pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, saying, I have sinned.
In that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, what is that to us? See thou to that.
And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
And the chief priests took the silver pieces and said it is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.
And they took counsel and bought with them the Potter's field to bury strangers. End.
Wherefore that field was called the field of blood unto this day.
There is a need in each person's life.
To be concerned with the consequences of sin.
And to recognize it.
But there is a difference in these individuals, and maybe some of you picked up on it. Some of these individuals were more concerned with the results of sin and the consequences of it than the horror of the sin itself.
I'd send.
And I've done things that I deeply regret doing, and I've had to bear the consequences of that.
What impressed me was the horror of the sin itself and the ugliness of that sin.
And we look at the example of Pharaoh.
His land was being stripped and destroyed. He saw the consequences of his ways and he would say I have sinned.
But did he come before God?
From an honest heart, recognizing the horror of what he'd done.
And seeking, as it were, to bring in that offering, and to lay his hand on it, so that the priest could slay that offering, and so that it could be presented there and type upon that brazen altar.
A picture of Christ suffering and dying there on Calvary's cross. Indeed not. He wanted no part with the God of Israel. We saw that in Exodus chapter 10 when he would say thy God.
No desire to own God as his God.
He would not come to God on God's terms, and God's terms, as we know, is that offering which was presented there on Calvary's tree, foreshadowed there in the Tabernacle, foreshadowed there somewhat in the temple of thinking of the future.
And definitely seen in person in the life.
And the sufferings and the death of Christ on Calvary when he was lifted up.
Where all men could look upon him.
And Pharaoh bore the consequences of that.
I believe if you read carefully in the account.
Of Moses crossing through the Red Sea, that Pharaoh got to watch and observe his armies be absolutely destroyed.
It does not appear was with his army, but observing likely from one of the two mountains where the children of Israel would go down into that valley, and from there the waters would be parted and the armies would cross after them. Pharaoh watched not only his land be destroyed, but his very source of strength itself.
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In his armies, the protection for his people gone.
In a moment I have sinned. He would not own the horror of what he had done in offending God. He owned the consequences of it.
We look at Balaam next and Balaam example there in the book of Numbers as we read Balaam had inquired of God, shall I go up? He was asked to go and prophecy against the children of Israel and God spoke to him as it were and he said do not go up.
He met with Balaam at night.
We read that account in Numbers chapter 22. I'm sorry for paraphrasing it more accurately. I'll read it there in verse 9. Numbers chapter 22, verse nine. And God came unto Balaam and said, What men are these with thee? And Balaam said unto God, Balak, the son of Zipporah, king of Moab, has sent unto me, saying, Behold, there is a people come out of Egypt which covers the face of the earth. Come now.
Me them peradventure I shall be able to overcome them and drive them out.
And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them. Thou shalt not curse this people, for they are blessed.
Balaam had his answer from God himself. Don't.
Go, don't curse this people, they are blessed.
Verse 19.
Balak sent some more people to come to Balaam, interceding and saying please come up and curse his people. Verse 19 Balaam is speaking to the messengers that are sent again by Balak the the king and the Princess of Moab.
And he says, Now, therefore I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what the Lord will say unto me.
And God came unto Balaam at night, and said unto him, If the men come to call thee, rise up and go with them. But yet the word which I shall say unto thee, thou shalt, that shalt thou do.
And Balaam rose up in the morning and saddled his *** and went with the Princess of Moab.
An Angel of God met Balaam on the way with a sword to destroy him, and if not for the patient service of his donkey, his ***.
Balaam would have been slain on the road on that path.
When he recognized what he had done, he recognized that he was in a position where he was ready to be slain. Any moment a wrong word comes out of his mouth and that judgment comes and falls upon him.
And he would say I have sinned.
Did he recognize the horror of what he'd done and hearing directly a word from God, God coming to him and saying don't do this, do not go with these ones?
And instead waiting and coming to God again and saying, have you changed your mind? God had made it very clear, do not.
And yet God allowed Balaam to go on that path.
Balaam would say I have sinned.
The results of that sin were stirring him in the face, but again, he was one who was not struck with the horror of what he had done before, a just and a righteous God who would appear to him personally and speak with him clearly in a way that he would hear and understand. He knew a word from God.
And he rejected that word from God.
The consequences of that were before him, and he shuddered to think of death itself.
But he did not repent for the horror of sinning against a righteous and a holy God.
We look at Aiken and the example of Aiken there in the book of Joshua, and the story is well known. I believe most everyone here in this room has grown up either coming to meetings or hearing the sound of the gospel many times over. So these stories are ones that many of us have grown up with and know well. So I won't repeat the story of what Aiken had done, except to say the other day the children were watching the walls of Jericho fall down. I don't know whether it was Tuesday.
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School, Wednesday school, Thursday school, Friday school or Saturday school. But one of those nights, the children of Israel had a little skit play out in front of them with a trumpet or maybe a trombone plane, and the walls of Jericho come tumbling down. Once that takes place, the children of Israel, part of them, are going up to go war against this little town, just a small town of AI.
And they lose badly. And then the inquiry is made of God. Why?
God said in effect there is sin in the midst, there is sin in the midst of the people. Who is it?
Aiken had every opportunity from that moment and even before, to come forward before his brethren.
Including the families of those that had been deeply affected by what he had done, who lost a dad or a brother, perhaps a son.
But rather than standing there and acknowledging the horror of what his son had done for the people and for himself.
He remained quiet.
And the numbering of the people takes place and we can read that account in Joshua Chapter 7 and finally is brought down to that very family. And we read in verse 18 and he brought his household.
That's Zabdi, man by man, and Aiken, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zahra of the tribe of Judah, was taken.
And Joshua sat under Akin. My son, give, I pray thee glory to the Lord God of Israel, and make confession unto him. And tell me now what thou hast done. Hide it not from me.
Aiken came clean.
It was too late. The consequences of his sin and what that would do for himself and the entire family were there before him, and the people had to watch Aiken face that judgment with his family and be stoned to death.
We might ask ourselves, pausing here. Well, if that's the case, what is to be done?
How do we come into the presence of God, as it were? And I'm not speaking for a moment looking at the Tabernacle, but I'm just speaking on a very personal level.
I'm thinking of the example in Luke chapter 18.
And if you will, you could see this coming into the presence of God, not knowing perhaps exactly what to do.
But finding the horror of what you'd done?
And God recognizing that work that had been done on the behalf of one and the person and work of his Son, and salvation being brought to this man, that little word, salvation. And Luke chapter 18, just reading one verse, verse 13 and the publican.
The tax gatherer. A tax collector.
Standing afar off would not so much, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a Sinner. God be merciful to me a Sinner.
He was recognizing that he had sinned against God.
And he owned it personally and came into the presence of God.
Humbly.
Pleading with God for mercy.
Do we not see that as we were considering the Tabernacle when one would take?
Perhaps one of the flock?
Or another of the animals, as the Lord had instructed.
Particularly, I'm thinking of one of the flaw for the sin offering.
And bring that there to that Tabernacle and have to pass through that gate.
And there see the representation of Christ himself and his many glories as king, as servant, as a Son of man, and as a Son of God. And they're recognizing the error of his way to come to that priest and to take his hand and to put it there on the head of that offering.
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And to recognize his son has taken there in that offering.
The literal wording I believe there in verse 13 of Matthew of Luke 18 is be propitious to me on the ground of reconciliation made, be propitious to me on the ground of reconciliation made. Doesn't that bring before us Hebrews chapter 2 and verse 17? And if we think about what this center is doing, He is coming and appealing on the behalf of.
Some himself.
Someone and he's coming before God. And if you read with me in Hebrews chapter 2 and verse 17, we read this. Wherefore in all things it behooved him, that is Jesus Christ the Son of God. It behooved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest.
Pertaining to God to make reconciliation, propitiation or expiation for the sins of the people.
That center there that publican attacks gatherer owned that for himself, and God was merciful.
He had come, as it were, to that brazen altar, and that offering was given there for him and the person and work of Christ.
I won't go into how that works out with Romans, but there's a thought there that that blood was shed for him.
Have you owned that that blood was shed for you?
Our song, the one that we just sang, said, All who in his name believe everlasting life, receive, Lord of all is Jesus. Now every knee to him must bow. That blood was shed. And this morning we had that verse from Psalms and here we find it a little different. But God is light and God is love.
Coming before this one who shed his blood and owning that work and binding the knee before him.
Allows us to move forward and own something further.
David, there was the next example I believe we had before us. And no, we had Saul. I'm sorry.
Saul was pretty simple. He had been given specific instructions and he decided to offer a sacrifice of his own own will, and he'd also save back.
Part of the the spoils, if you will, from the war and had not completely destroyed them and tried to paint a good picture on it and then tried to pass blame off on other people and saying I've sent.
But it's really the people that caused me to send.
Doesn't work that way. The soul was severely judged for it.
We could read a little later in Saul's life as well, of where he would own his sin again, and this time with regards to David, and we read that account.
In the book there of first Samuel in chapter 26 Saul is speaking with David and he says this.
First Samuel chapter 26 and verse 21.
Then, Saul said.
I have sinned. Return my son David, for I will no more do thee harm. Because my soul was precious in thine eyes this day. Because I have played the fool and have erred exceedingly. He recognized that he had sinned, but it wasn't a work of the heart. He didn't own the horror of what he had done.
Instead, he recognized that his life was on the line, had been spared by this one, and would acknowledge the error of his way.
How different from David. Saul would not come on the grounds of that offering. There was no thought there that he was one that needed to lay his head, hand on the the head of that that one from the flock.
Rather, he would acknowledge, thank you for sparing my life. I didn't do the right thing there, did I? So come back and spend time at my table and in my house once again.
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He would not own the horror of what he'd almost done and having David's life.
Taken by his men or by himself, he was seeking David's life.
David, though, he sent with Bashir and was a horrible sin, and he sent even more with regards to Uriah. He was a murderer and he was an adulterer, a fornicator. He had sent before God and there were consequences for that. He lost a little child in the process of that.
He paid a steep price for his sin.
But when confronted with that sin, he would speak there to Nathan the prophet, and say, I have sinned.
Did he need to bring that one once again to that brazen altar to have that offering offer there again? No, no, not this time. He's speaking with Nathan, and Nathan made intercession for him. Or as it were, Nathan as a mouthpiece of God could say there is forgiveness there. Only in two of these accounts do you find forgiveness of these seven different ones that we read.
And this is one of them.
If you will, that altar of incense is used here, that altar of intercession.
In a sense, the priest would take the blood of that offering, that one who was the Lord's own David who served as king and priest, that one who is so special, the sweet psalmist of Israel who knew the Lord personally.
And would own the horror of what he had done. That priest, in a sense, would take the blood of that offering and apply it there to the four horns of that altar of incense. Intercession is made for this one. And God was merciful to David.
God was merciful to David.
We find a similar thought, don't we, with the prodigal son?
He recognized he's no longer worthy to be called his father's son.
He had sent grievously, and it was more than squandering everything that he had, his inheritance ruining his life. In many ways, it was more than that.
He came to that place where he recognized that he was no more worthy to be called the son of his father.
He didn't come on the basis of sonship. He didn't come on the basis of worthiness. He came simply appealing to his father for mercy.
He owned the horror of what he had done.
And mercy was extended to him.
How gracious God is.
We also read the account there of Judas, and Judas would come back before the priests, and he would say, I have sinned.
But how would he speak of the Lord? Here He is coming back before the priest, the chief priests, and the elders of the people.
And would he say I have betrayed my Lord and my Savior?
I have sinned against this righteous one, against the Son of God, against the Son of man.
Now he would simply say, I have sinned. I have betrayed the innocent blood.
He was struck with the consequences of his sin. The results of that. I don't believe there's any indication that Judas believed that it would go this far. The Lord previously would take himself from the midst and and not allow himself to be taken when when ones caught to seek his life. But here Judas is confronted that this time the Lord had been taken and the Lord had been held before that secretive council at night. The Lord had been sent now and and condemned to death, as it were by.
Council of the elders and the chief priests there in that first council of daylight, when they would ask him that question, that question that was so poignant. Art thou the Christ?
And he would respond to them. We find the account in Luke's gospel that I am the Son of Man.
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And they would condemn him because they would say He made himself the Son of God, complete rejection there in that council of him as Christ, a Son of man and Son of God. And now Judas sees that, observes that his.
One that he had been following for so long has been taken.
And yet he would have betrayed the innocent blood.
He was not horrified at what he had done before God. Humbling himself before God, He sought to undo the consequences of what he had done, but not go back to that place of departure. And that was sin against God himself.
Judas went out and hanged himself.
He was horrified with the consequences that not horrified with his sin against God.
Much different a few verses earlier with Peter.
Here is Peter and when the Lord looks at Peter, we read that also in in Matthew chapter 26 and verse 75 we read the last part it says and he went out. Judas went out as well. He went out, Peter did and wept bitterly.
There Peter, in a sense, found mercy at the altar of incense.
Recognized the horror of what he had done and denying his Lord and cursing if you will. And we considered it recently.
Some of the thoughts there in that night in which the Lord was betrayed. While the Lord was praying, Peter was sleeping. While the Lord was submitting himself to the will of his father and his God, Peter would take up a sword and seek in the flesh to fight, to resist that which would be done by man.
Either operating in the flesh rather than in the spirit.
Instead of recognizing his own weakness and owning the dependency upon God would act out in the flesh and then a little bit later when.
Christ would be suffering.
Is a lamb.
As the one who is being offered.
In our place, and the one who would bear our iniquities upon himself, Peter would be out there cursing and swearing. Peter's steps were downward progressively, and there, when he went out and wept bitterly, he owned that.
He had started out with sleeping.
He'd moved on to smiting, striking with a sword, cutting off.
A man's ear.
He proceeded to following afar off rather than at the side of his Lord. He had moved on to sitting.
Among Christ's persecutors, taking his place in the company of those who are persecuting Christ that night.
And finally, denying Christ himself.
And when confronted with that, he owned the horror of his way.
We talk sometimes, and we talk about salvation in three tenses. Salvation from the.
Penalty of sin.
That publican found that that brazen altar.
We talk about salvation from the presence of sin. We had that brought out before us last night. I believe in Hebrews Chapter 7 where it's really the, the I'm, I'm sorry, the power of sin in Hebrews Chapter 7 where there is a a priest that is making intercession for us.
He's desiring that we not go on in a pathway of sin and He is the one that is making that intercession. We also had that just a few moments ago from first John chapter 2. But if any man send, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is that one who would take that blood and apply it to the four horns of the altar of incense, that golden altar.
In a sense drawing us back to the place where He is presented in his glories, with that gold in front of us and us designing to worship Him and fall in our faces.
Horrified by what we have done, we find there again His blood, and the mercy of that extended to us an intercession, the intercessory work of Christ for his own.
Yet we stuck just the tiniest bit further.
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And we think of one more example.
And that salvation from the presence of sin and the Tabernacle doesn't really take this up, does it? Because it's what's yet to come. What happens at the end of the wilderness journey? Where to from there? And I was contemplating this more recently, and I was struck with the example there in Acts, the book of Acts Chapter 7 here is a servant of God who is serving God faithfully.
Who is bearing witness for God? And he would speak of the person and work of Jesus Christ.
And there ones would take him and pick up those stones to stone him to death. And in Acts Chapter 7 we read of Stephen in verse 54. When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth. But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, and said, Behold, I see the heavens open, and the Son of Man standing.
On the right hand of God. And they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord, and cast him out of the city, and stoned him. And the witnesses lay down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul. And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my Spirit. And he kneeled down and cried with a loud voice. Lordly not the sin to their charge.
When he had said this, he fell asleep.
Here Steven was faithfully serving God, and at the end of his life, when he fell asleep, he was saved from the presence of these sinners and from the presence of sin itself, now in the presence of God.
We anticipate that salvation yet to come.
And my question to you tonight is, where are you in your life?
You may be a Pilgrim and stranger through this world, in a sense proceeding with your parents or others in the company, but not have ever bowed the knee before that one.
Not have ever owned the work of Christ there on Calvary's cross for you.
Not have had, as it were, that lamb laid there on that brazen altar on your behalf. Not have recognized the work that Christ did for you.
And in that day to come, very soon you will come to the end of the wilderness journey, and you will pass away from this scene and death.
And not let Caleb and Joshua be able to proceed forward into a land yet to come.
That's a horrifying thought for me.
Come to know this one who laid down his life for you.
Don't look at the consequences of sin and say I'm saying I did wrong and now I need to be punished for it, but coming to the presence of God.
As it were, David, appealing after the sin of Bathsheba, would plead with God, remove not thy Holy Spirit from me, if you will. I believe it's more correctly said, remove not the Spirit of thy holiness from me. He recognized that he had sent in the presence of God and that spirit of holiness was to be removed, and that was horrifying for him.
He needed God above anything else.
We've had a lot before us this week and I certainly hope, if we understand one thing, is that there is salvation extended to every person here.
Salvation at that brazen altar.
Salvation at that altar of incense.
From the power of sin in your life. And that power can be very strong indeed.
And salvation to be found for you soon to come, when the Lord gives that shout, and we rise to meet him in the air.
Perhaps in the Tabernacle, the only insight we have of the ascending is seen there in that cloud that descends during the day.
And there we think of how God would come down and reside there upon that Tabernacle. And there's different examples of where things were when that cloud would move. I think there's a very particular thought there. And here God would come down in that cloud, and therein the data come soon to be saved from that presence of sin. We will take that cloud, and we will ascend up into his presence.
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A beautiful picture of what's to come.
If you do not have this salvation, do not hesitate.
Hall last verse.
First Timothy, Chapter One.
And I hope when you consider the horror of sin before God and the offense sinning against Him.
That you could say the same thing that Paul says here. This is about him and what he would own.
First Timothy chapter one and verse 16. I'm sorry, verse 15. This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief, of whom I am chief, if you're that publican.
Recognize that.
If you've been saved by the grace of God.
And you have sinned again.
On this verse I am chief.
And recognize, come back into the presence of God on your face, as it were, having the blood put on the horns of the altar of incense, all four of them, and then poured out at the base of the brazen altar. That's for you.
And someday soon, no more to worry about sin itself in the presence of the Lord Himself.
Father, we certainly are grateful that Thou did send thy Son, and we're grateful that it is of Him that we could speak this evening, that He is the one that we could consider in the Tabernacle and in the wilderness journey, that we could consider ourselves in light of Him.
Once.
That are in need of salvation daily.
Ones that are in need of salvation.
Or eternity and ones that are so desirous of being in His presence, where there will be no more sin or sorrow.
We long for that day that is to come, when we will see this one coming down as a conqueror, our Lord, and for those that are there at His side, His own, to be able to rejoice, and seeing Him and His presentation before man in that day, the Lord Himself.
We recognize the soberness of that day for those that have not bowed to me now and are not saved now, we pray that there would not be a person here that would reject that message and even tonight that they might pause and consider their way and make sure.
Before thyself and in thy presence.
That they know thee is our Father.
Because they know thy son.
And not just the work that was done, but that they owned the work that was done on their behalf, and that they would come before him with those words. Lord, be merciful to me, a Sinner.
Father, tonight we have much to rejoice in. We've had the blessings of being here for this week. We've had the blessings of sitting under the teaching from Thy Word. We've had the blessing of being in company of others that we just enjoy and that we can get to know.
We pray that the thoughts that express this afternoon would continue on and that we would consider our walk.
And where it's taking us. And that we would own thee.
Father as the one who has supplied his only begotten Son.
Our Father, this evening we pray these things in the precious and worthy name of Thy Son, even our Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.