Address—Gordon Hayhoe
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9th chapter.
The 22nd verse An arrow lifted up his hand toward the people, and blessed them. He came down from offering of the sin offering, and the burnt offerings and the peace offerings. And Moses and Aaron went into the Tabernacle of the congregation, and came out, and blessed the people. And the glory of the Lord appeared unto all the people. And there came a fire out from before the Lord, and consumed upon the altar.
The bird offering, and the fact which when all the people saw, they shouted and fell on their faces, and made-up and abide you the sons of Aaron, took either of them their censor, and put fire there in, and put in the sense they're on, and offered strange fire before the Lord, that you commanded them not. And there were no fire from the Lord, and devoured them, and they died before the Lord. Then Moses said unto Aaron.
This is it, that the Lord's face saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh unto come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace. And Moses called Michelin Halifax, and the sons of Alveoli uncle of Aaron, and said unto them, Come here, carry your brethren from before the sanctuary out of the camp. So they went near, and carried them in their coast of the camp, as Moses had said.
Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eliezer, and unto Isamar his son.
Uncover. Knock your head, neither range your clothes, lest she's eyes. Let us wrath come upon all the people, but let your brethren, the whole House of Israel, be wailed, a burning which the Lord hath kindled.
He shall not blow out from the door of the Tabernacle of the congregation, lest he die, for the anointing oil of the Lord is upon you. And they did according to the word of Moses, No Lord spake unto Aaron, saying, Do not drink wine or strong drink.
1000 Or thy sons with thee, when you go into the Tabernacle of the convocation, lest she die, she'll be a statue forever throughout your generations, And that she may put difference between holy and unholy, between unclean and clean, And that he may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the Lord has sent unto them by the hand of Moses. Moses spake unto Aaron, and unto Eliezer, and unto Islamar.
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Is sons that were left, uh, take the meat off. For that remain about the offerings of the Lord made by fire. And I need it without leaven beside the older, or it is most holy, and ye shall eat it in the holy place, because it is thy view, and thy sends you and the sacrifices of the Lord made by fire. For so I am commanded, and the wave breast and heave shoulder shall eat in a clean place. Now thy son thy daughter's with me.
The ladies I do, and my sons do, which are given out of the sacrifices of peace offerings of the children of Israel, the heaved shoulder, and the waved breath shall they bring with the offering made by fire of the fast to wait for a wave offering before the Lord, and it shall be 9 And thy sons with thee by a statue forever, as the Lord hath commanded, and move us diligently, thought the goal of the thin offering, and behold, it was burnt.
And he was angry with Eliezer Nipamar, the sons of Aaron, which were left alive, saying her friend he not eaten the sin offering in the holy place, seeing it is most holy. And God hath given that you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the Lord. Behold, the blood of it was not brought in within the holy place. He should indeed have eaten it in the Holy Place as I commanded.
And Aaron said unto Moses, beholdeth day, have they offered their sin offering, and their burnt offering before the Lord? And such things have befallen me. And if I had eaten the thin offering today, it had been accepted in the sight of the Lord. And when Moses heard that, he was content.
Well, I think we all know there's a wonderful order in the word of God, and it's very beautiful. We find constantly through the scripture that purpose comes before responsibility. And so we see in the opening chapters of Leviticus the different offerings and all the details connected with them brought before us. And then when we come to the 9th chapter, we see a picture of the Day of Glory that's coming for that nation.
Isn't that wonderful presence? No. That all the promises of God in him are ye and in him Amen to the glory of God by us. That God has provided a way that full of blessing is going to come to every redeemed one here. We know it's Israel, but we can identify ourselves as brought into blessing, not by the sacrifices of animals or birds. With Israel bought by the precious blood of Christ, what a place of blessing has been purposed for us.
Is anything that man has done any failure going to hinder the fulfillment of that? We lost Silicon to the day when the church shall be presented A glorious church, not having spots or wrinkles or any such thing, and God gives us a little picture, our brother said briefly this morning. A little of these things that we have brought before us in these different sacrifices. There were five different ones that he mentioned.
First of all we have the burnt offering, but the work of Christ is to the heart of God, and then we have the meat offering. Speaking of the Lord's perfect humanity, he became a man in order that he might fulfill and accomplish the purposes of God. And then the last two are the trespass offering and the sin offering. And then in between those five in the middle we have the peace offering could be called.
The communion offering. So the first two really present to us, God side, the other two our side and isn't wonderful. We've been reconciled to God by the death of his Son so that we can enjoy communion because God has been fully glorified and our need has been fully met through the work of the Lord Jesus. You know, men may look at the Bible just as a recording of ancient customs, but for us it's a precious book.
That reveals to us the heart of God, his purposes of blessing. And then even when failure comes in, we'll notice how he still wanted to bless the people and brother. Not what the things are hard because we have a tendency to sort of give up and we see the breakdown of what is committed to man. But what will enable us to go on is the confidence that God's purposes are going to be fulfilled, and they want you and I to be in the channel of his thoughts.
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So that we can enter into and enjoy all these precious things. The word offering comes first, and some may have heard me use this little illustration again, but I hope I'll bear repeating because we often speak of how our worship is in the bird offering character. It's wonderful to know that our debt has been paid, pictured, and has been offering in the trespass offering, but it's a blessing to know that the heart of God is told out in the way it has been done.
I sometimes use this simple illustration, supposing that I owe a great debt and I'm not able to pay it. I don't like to meet my creditor because it bothers me knowing that this debt is outstanding and it's not paid.
Well, someone comes along and says I'll pay it for you. Gordon. Give me the bills and I'll pay it. So he pays it for me. I get a receipt, Mark paid in full. But I still haven't learned anything about my creditor. Does he like me or does he not?
Does he love me? Does he care about me? I know he's satisfied because the full payment has been made, but there's more than that present than the full payment was made. Who was it that made the payment? So I suppose that.
Our creditor has a son and he turns to his son and says I love that man, I love that Gordon Hagel.
Would you be willing to sell your house? We'll raise the money so we can.
Take this debt off our books, and if you do that, I'll send them a receipt in the mail and I'll mark it paid in full through the kindness of my son. How do I feel when I get a receipt like that? Isn't that more than knowing that my debt is paid and learning to know my creditor? I learned to know his son that he was willing to do this in order to tell his father's love and his own love to me rather than you and I will never really appreciate.
The work of calibre unless we see how the heart of God is told them he's going to, he's finding his engine of joy. In Zephaniah, brother was mentioning about Zephaniah and I think it's very lovely. In Zephaniah it says that the Lord in the midst of thee is mighty and then it says heal joy over thee. Was thinking he'll rest into love. It's true he brought evil to life in that same chapter.
But he's going to rest in his love because it was all his own love.
Never need the Father sent the Son be the Savior of the world. If we just rejoice that our debt is paid, that's a great delivery. But God wants more than that. He wants us to know His heart. So we see the heart of God told out in the burnt offering. We see Him at a cost. The Lord Jesus, He became a man and through all that something that we remembered this morning, that we might know his heart.
It's true, our sins and trespasses were all met at the cross, but to bring those two together, the peace offering, we have joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom he had now received the reconciliation, or what a place we've been brought into. Well, this is brought before us in the opening chapters a little bit, he said. And then if we were to read the whole 9th chapter, we would see that the sons of Aaron presents the blood and the holy ground of blessing for Israel has laid.
And then the glory appears to all people. What was the day coming for Israel when they're going to see the heart of God in their blessings and a wonderful way, and the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord? Is the waters cover the sea? There's a tremendous day of blessing. How do I get to apply it to ourselves? God has purposes of blessing, brethren. Everyone of us who are believers love.
Here we see a few of us here.
It will be a glory of dead. It might be today, when the whole living company will be around him entering in to inform us what we now only know in part. And God gives the whole picture the ground of our blessing, a vision of coming glory. Because it says where no vision is, the people perish, and if you ride lose a vision of that glory of awaits us. We're going to get the Spirit, because this chapter presents to us what would really discourage us after all this unfolding.
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Of what was in the heart of God for Israel.
As soon as responsibility comes down, it breaks down. Man breaks down. He's a failure and everything committed to him from the very beginning. And the Church is no different. Those gathered through the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Wonderful privilege of Bernoulli, We fail.
We don't maintain that which is for God's glory and for the blessing of his people. The God failed. Does he say he can't have a portion just because the church has failed? No happens. He wants us to be in the enjoyment of what is in his heart, even lower breath and broken because not only of the failure that's come in, but of our own partner in this world city. Well, how lovely it is to see this brought out in this chapter. So I just mentioned that at the end of the ninth chapter we have.
The coming Day of Glory in picture for April.
But then the sense chapter begins with responsibility. And here are two men in a wonderful place of privilege, sons of Aaron given a great place and brethren, as we had in the previous meetings, What a place is village brother brought before us. How the man buried the piece of water brought them to the place that the Lord had chosen, and our daughter brought before us to.
Well, let's, uh, those beautiful thoughts in connection with one of them committed to us and the privilege of carrying them here, so to speak, in an enemy's land to the day that they're brought to the heavenly Jerusalem. How is we going before us? And so when we see here that these two privileged people, they haven't allowed you, they offered strange fire before the Lord. Perhaps some might wonder just what this means.
Strange fire. Well, God had a special message to Israel that when they burned the incense, they were to be careful that the fire came from the altar of burned offering. Oh, you might say. Well, wouldn't make any difference today in sense of smell. The same no matter where the fire came from. Well, perhaps man might have distinguished any difference, but it was very different to the heart of God. And then she would put it this way.
It is how well we can sing. It isn't how well we can express ourselves, but it's whether what we enjoy, what we sing is because we have entered into in some little measure, what was accomplished at the Cross of Calvary for our blessing. No, we could introduce brand music here. We could bring in all of your trained singers and people. That's right. Oh, I just love to listen to that, but.
Unless the melody comes from your heart and mine produced by the Spirit of God, it has no value in the sight of God. No heart but of the spirit of thought makes no disease. So strange fire was that they got the fire for this incense from other than where God had intended Christmas. Full of all this because it's very nice to have trained singers and all kinds of.
Instruments and everything, but it says we are the Circumcision which worship God by the Spirit.
And rejoice in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh. And it's the measure in which you and I were rejoicing in Christ Jesus. And how about we could express ourselves, or how well we could sing. But whether our hearts were rising up in praise and Thanksgiving as we do those animals on the table and spoke to us of our precious Savior giving His body.
Gap shedding his legs, we might be black.
Oh, how beautiful it is. Well, they offered strange fire. A fire went out from the Lord and they died. I say again, failure came in now and this was was it all over for Israel? Was it? Was it ended because they say, well, what's been committed to us, we have failed in Now God has a way of showing blessing to his people in spite of all that we are. And here we were.
This morning, because your brother mentioned to me the right now shall be very small and feeble, huge song, but holy delight, the mass which goes on, which seeks to give him his rightful place. So in the third verse Moses said unto Aaron's.
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This is that the Lord's faith, saying, I will be sanctified in them and come nigh me, and before all the people will I be glorified. And Aaron held his feet. He recognized that when we come together, it isn't for human glory, it's for his glory.
For that we always have before us that think we mentioned a little bit of it yesterday. Now the truth of God always gives glory to Christ and puts out in our true place.
And so it says, I'll be sanctified and those that come near under me. Brilliant. It's a great privilege to be gathered to the name of the Lord Jesus, but it's a great responsibility too. It's a great responsibility. And we must never forget that the lion who is in the village is holy and true.
Some of HMMD. I believe it was yesterday, too. What is it that often keeps numbers small? It's discipline when we seek to maintain anything, that's for God's glory. The enemy is going to put all the difficulties in the way that he can. And so the Lord said to Moses said to her, Lord said, I'll be sanctified and then come nine to be for all people, I'd be glorified. And Aaron held his face. He just, He didn't say anything. Here we see.
If he's dying to him.
No, our natural hearts don't like submission, but it's the way of blasting. It's the way of blasting, Brethren. Even in believing the gospel, it says for obedience to the faith among all nations, God requires the submission of my mind to His truth. And when we receive the truth of God, we find we have to submit our minds to what God has said. We say, well, it doesn't seem to work.
On either of a large Christian group, when he heard the truth ministered about the ground of gathering, he said that it's all very nice, but it would never work. No, it won't work in men's planning because it doesn't give man any play. But God will be glorified, and you and I must be the master who we submit our minds casting down reasons and every high thought that exalts itself against the knowledge of God.
And bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. And I want to say that verse comes in, in connection with discipline. In the Corinthian assembly, some might have said, we don't like to do that, We don't like to carry our discipline on that man because we're not any better than he did. But we had to submit without going, God said not because we're better, brethren, but because the holiness of the one who is in the past.
Demands it. They ever get to think we're better in the Lord Left to show us we're not Peter, who is the one who thought he was better than the rest. He really said to the Lord, Lord, I'm the best. Recycle you have the others. Might all deny thee, but not me.
Let him think of these standards. Take heed. Let's see. We can't keep ourselves. Only the Lord we keep us in our daily prayers should be preserved. Me, O God for individual, I put my trust.
But then we find here that.
In the sixth verse, and Moses underwear in the nonduelizer and Isamar his son, and cover not your heads with either rend your clothes, lest you die.
Let's Rev. Come upon all the people. But let your bread in the whole House of Israel bewail the burning which the Lord hath handled. Ye shall not follow you from the door of the Tabernacle of the congregation, lest he died to the anointing. Look, oil of the Lord is upon you. And they did.
According to the word of Moses, I think there's a little word here, and I think we all feel it. At a time when difficulty comes in, we just feel so discouraged that become more of the morning and we feel so. I just can't open my mouth and pray to the Lord. I'm slow down over all things that have happened and there was a danger of Moses and Aaron, whom God had given this wonderful place that we have in our chapter. Now every believer is a priest.
Every believer is a priest. Should you and I allow the difficulties that come in among us, that have come in among us to hinder our joy and going on in the presence of the Lord gathering, The Lord hasn't changed. Brethren can't give him praise. Can't we open our mouths and Thanksgiving and praise to him? There's a great danger of wanting to just give up because all the difficulties that have come in and come in.
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And I believe that's one of the things the enemy wants. He wants to hinder our communion with the Lord. We want you to hinder our joy in the Lord. And so if he can do that and get us discouraged, she's really accomplished something. And another thing too, I think that if you can hinder our joy, then he hinders the outgoing of the gospel. I have felt very much that what is coming among us of ways, the enemy is using it to keep us from having.
Happy meetings where we are enjoying the Lord's presence and in our personal lives, walking in communion with Him, getting occupied with all the difficulties. And we are occupied with that to the extent that we cannot enjoy the Lord like we should. And then secondly, to get the philosophy we use our joy and testifying to others around about us, because as Mr. Darby said, that our testimony to the world is our joy in the Lord.
And when we speak to sinners and we don't let them see that we have found happiness and joy in the Lord, where they they're going to say, well, I don't know whether I want that, but if they see that it's brought teeth and happiness to us and they make you realize that God has a portion. When we believe the gospel of Phil, hearts fill, the hearts overflowing.
Need to believe upon me is the scripture has fed out of his belly.
Shall fall rivers of living water. How does belly mean that? And we're enjoying it ourselves. And now it's flowing out and blessing to others. So I didn't like to drop this little word for myself as well As for others. Here. Are we allowing the difficulty India assembly to end your praise as we gather on Lord's Day morning. Are we hinder? Are we allowing these difficulties to go dull our spirits that we can't Hardly.
Speak to centers because we're not enjoying the Lord. So he said, don't stop here. Don't put off your garment. You have a responsibility before the Lord and He's one of us. Have a responsibility as well as a privilege. When we come into His presence, every one of you have to stop and have a hand on the bathroom. Everyone. Another verse in the Old Testament says none shall appear before me empty.
None shall appear before me empty. We ought to be filled with Thanksgiving, and perhaps even a failure has given us to understand in a deeper way that the Lord loves us in spite of all the arms. So let us not allow the difficulties would come in among the people of God.
To rob us of the precious privilege of going in that says he shall not gloat them from the door of the Tabernacle of the congregation.
I've seen quite a few ones that I love and they say, oh, there's so much trouble, they just stopped coming or they fit quiet, there's no praise in their hearts. All the enemy has taken the victory on that takes place.
And then it says, May 1St. And the Lord spake unto mole, Aaron, saying, Do not drink wine, or strong drink down, or thy sons with thee. When you go into the Tabernacle of the congregation, lest he die, she'll be fat you forever throughout your generation. I believe the spring is before us, the thought that things that excite nature, how the meetings get a little bit dull.
I would think if we had a little music and something like that, like we'll make the meeting more interesting and that's what we see constantly all around us. These kind of things creep in. Why? Because we're not enjoying the Lord like we should. So we think we've got to bring in something that really excites nature. I might just say someone might ask, well, why did God give that in the Old Testament? Well, because he was testing them.
Would a fine building make man a worshiper? God gave instructions for the groundless building that was ever built.
In this world for worship? And did it change the heart of man?
When the when the temple is dedicated, it was just one instrument. There were 120 priests down in the trumpets besides other instruments. Surely it was a grand, glorious occasion to change the heart of the people.
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Man was under trial and God gave all that to men under the law to show that the very best law, the very grandest building, the beautiful Rd. the sweet smelling incense music didn't change the heart of man. The God has started over again. In Christianity the true worshippers worship the Father in spirit and in truth.
Now we have the privilege of coming with hearts overflowing.
And that's what so our God is so they were not in. We find that any Christian who started out in very simple worship brought in one thing and another in order to excite nature to fill in for what is lacking. President, let's get back into the Lord's presence. Heavenly God, plenty to enjoy and himself. My wife said I can't enjoy your love, you know, unless you get me a Hammond organ, I'd say. Well, I guess it's a Hammond organ, not the.
Love that you really enjoy.
And develop and trouble with us when our lung gets down, we think we've got to have something to bolster it. And that says that you may put difference between holy and unholy, between clean and unclean. Those things that bring in that tend to lessen our exercise about what pleases the Lord, what pleases the Lord. That's the thing. That's not the plan.
Lord, when, uh, the Lord met Saul of Tarsus on the roads of Damascus, he said, Lord, thought, will thou have me to do? And the Lord said, it shall be shown me what thou must do. Is this your daily prayer of mine, or would we have some standards of our own that we would like to introduce? Or we really asking in every situation, what does the Lord want me to do? I believe that's very important.
Because those things that bring in nature in a place for that always less than our appreciation of the holiness that becomes God's house. So it tells us here that you may put the difference and that in the 11 first, and then she may teach the children of Israel.
All the statutes which the Lord has spoken unto them by the hand of Moses, well, this also is in keeping with what our brother brought before us.
By the truth and tell it not, for they to change the things and floor it down, because failure has come in and say, well, we've got to lower it down a little bit, because we're all sailing things at best. Now you were to teach all the statues which the Lord has spoken. May the Lord say unto you, and I will seek to do the will of God. And what do you have shown us in His word?
He'll be what directs our paths and all. I waved. Acknowledge him.
And he shall direct thy path. I believe, brethren, that there's instruction for everything in our lives in this lesson book. It says, His divine power has given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness. And there isn't anything in your life and mine where we need direction, that we won't find direction in the word of God for our pathway. And those who took the place, shall I say, a leadership, and the people of God were too.
Instruct those the shoulders of Israel.
They could easily said. Well, failure has come in. You can't be too interesting upon those things. Or some little statues we'll have to let slip. Now. God bears with our failure, as I say, but he never lowers his standard. He makes provision for our Father, but he never lowers his standards When he brought Joshua into the land and he said that they would obey, oh, those things that the Lord had given.
Oh, may we?
Maybe we do do this in our lives. And I've often said, and it's a joy in my own heart too, that there's one thing that God has asked us to do but the new man doesn't want, doesn't want to do. I always used to take courage. If I ever brought before any Christian the path of God had marked up in his word and knew that inside of him there was a heart that was saying I want to do it.
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There's the old man there that resists the truth of God.
And the flight even in the Christian will resist the truth of God. But there is in the heart of every young person and every older one here a heart which responds to the Lords claim the Lord Jesus found his delight in doing the will of God. And you and I have that within us.
I believe Paul referred to that in Second Corinthians chapter 3 when he said and such trust have we through Christ to Godward. That is, he was comparing the law written on tables of stone to the claims of Christ written upon the heart when you ask a question.
To do something to please the Lord. You're not counting that on the tablespoon you're you're seeking to bring before him what touches his heart, and the heart responds to love somebody.
And they want us to do something. They say, oh, it'll be a pleasure to do it for that person. He's done so much for me, so breathing. What did the Lord do for us himself? He gave our poor heart to win with every love, Lord like thine. And so it says here that they were to teach all these statues. And then it's kind of 12Th verse. Moses take unto Aaron and unto Eliezer and Embezzamar his sons that were last. Take the media offering the remaineth of the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and even without leaven beside the altar.
For it is most holy, and ye shall eat it in the holy place, because it is I do and thy Son do a false of the sacrifices of the Lord made by fire. For so am I commanded when we speak about feeding on Christ. And as we mentioned, the meat offering is the Lord perfect humanity. It actually was a meal offering, as I think many of us know, And it says it was a fine flower.
Someone has had no lungs in it. In other words, every grace in the Lord Jesus was equal with some people. You say only a very generous person, not the very thoughtful person, not the very kind person. We think of some outstanding virtue, and it's nice to see that in our brethren too. But in the Lord Jesus, everyone was perfect. There was an evenness about him if faithfulness was required.
How faithfully could speak if love was required for how loving he could speak.
The tenderness, like the grave of Lazarus, would require it to leak there at the grave of Lazarus.
You and I need a perfect pattern. We, perhaps many of us, might excel in one thing and fail badly among others. Let's feed on today and He'll give us grace, he say. It's a hard situation. I could overlook it if it wasn't this and that. But every grade was equal in the Lord's evil and I think it's beautiful. Are you and I feeding on him as we need? Offering. He left us an example that we should follow His steps.
He walked through this world, and because of this it says he's a merciful and faithful high priest. I like to think of that, that when you come and talk to somebody who's never been in your circumstance, you may say, well, it doesn't understand. He was never in this situation that I'm in. But when we go to the Lord Jacob, he passed through everything that a righteous man could go through. He was hungry, He was thirsty. He was rejected.
He was wounded by people that he loved, all those things he went through, and he looks down on us and when we asked him for help, he says, I know what you're going through. I was through the thing. And he glorified his Father in every situation. Let's not compare ourselves with others. If we do, we'll go wrong because we all failed at best for four failing things. But are you and I feeding them from the media offering on the Lord Jesus?
And when those kind of situations arise in our lives until we say, well, the Lord will give grace for this, He's living up there for me. So being reconciled, we're saved by his leg. That is, we have been reconciled through the death of God's Son, but He reconciled were saved by his life. That is, He's up there. And now how could we ever get through the wilderness in our own strength?
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Only the person living for us up there.
The right hand of God, our great High Priest, and our application. And so he invites us to come boldly to the throne of grace. We often say, I can't do it. I take it enough. But the Lord Jesus is up there, and he says I'll supply the grace that you need. If you fail and restore it, he restore us to my soul. He leadeth me in the path of righteousness for his namesake. Now the 14th verse, it says.
And the wave breast and the heaved shoulders shall eat in a clean place Thou thy sons, and thy daughters with thee, for they be thy view, and thy sons do but you're good about the sacrifices of peace offerings of the children of Israel. I think this is very wealthy, brother.
He spoke about how Aaron must have been crushed when his two sons offered strange fire and he was smitten dead.
Cross felt like giving up and the Lord said don't give up, just go on in your service for the people of God. And then he tells us in these verses I believe what is what's the thing though? The wave grass is the affections of Christ and the heaved shoulder is his strength to carry us through. He said. I can't do it another day. I can't send it to his shoulder or to be their portion. And it says if I do.
And my son and my daughter and I say to your sisters, you don't realize what an influence you have upon the brothers. You don't realize.
It's very interesting in the in the very fifth song we have. Well, in the 44th song we have a complete breakdown instead of people were sold for not with a complete breakdown on the 44th song. A little vision of coming glory in the 45th Psalm.
My heart is inviting a good manner. I speak of the things which I have made touching a king. A little view of the time when the Israel as the earthly people with gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought and enter into the King's palace. And the 46th song is a unique song according to some of the early writers. I don't understand how to read some Hebrew, but according to some of the early writers it has a unique title and it says.
Uh.
46 on says.
A song upon Alamos. That's the only one of the whole 150 that it has that heading. And according to one of the early writers who I believe knew about these things, he said those are probably women's places because it really means soprano. And he says there were women singers and it's lovely. That's beautiful song. It says God is our refuge and strength.
Therefore will not be fail, while the earth can be removed, while the mountains be cast into the midst of the sea. And it paints a picture of everything seeming to go to pieces. And here are women singers. They're singing Gods are wreckage and strength. I think that's why that's brought in. Here it's not only the not only the priest, but their sons and my sons do.
Practice brings in family life too.
How can we talk about our family? Who are you? Rejoice in the fact that the Lord is our strength, that He's going to see us through all these problems that we're having to face.
These may be thy view and thy son of ours, isn't it? What? What do you and I enjoy? There's power carries up on his shoulders of strength on his heart of blood. He'll see us through brethren, as we often sing. He'll bring us home at length.
We'll be announced glory of things. I want to encourage you how, dear sisters, that you can say a little word of encouragement. What brothers will ever say, that hasn't been from sister, that several words that spoke a word of encouragement instead of discouragement. And so maybe I do something that's given to us and it says here.
In the 15th verse, so he's breath, and the waves shoulder shall they bring with the offerings made by fire to wave it for a wave often before the Lord, and it shall be thine, and thy sons with thee.
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By a statute forever, all those things get worse than more depressing and down it's a statue forever. The Lord Jesus will never change. Does he have strength to meet us in all our difficulties that we face? We break down. We say handle these problems too much for us, but there's a huge shoulder and there's a wave rest that he ever speaks to love, having loved his own, which were in the world.
He loved him under the end. The New Testament in the 13th chapter of John that says, having lost his own in the world, he loved him unto the end. And then the other verse in the 31St of Deuteronomy. I have loved even everlasting love. Therefore with loving kindness have I drawn me. This is our view. We're entitled to enjoy this always say how, Cathy, when everything goes to pieces of course hasn't changed. I am the Lord, I change not.
Therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. So here this was given to them. I want you to notice these things. You want them to give up his priestly service. He wasn't to resort to something else to find relief in his trouble. Let's what's all this sorrow? Was jealous of David. And so he got somebody to play harp, to get sort of these thoughts out of his mind. But you and I have a different resource. Our resource is in the Lord, in Him. And so here there are as I do and thy sons do.
So now I'd like to know if these uh last verses here and mold moles of diligently sought to go to the sin offering and behold it was burned. And he was angry with Eliezer and Isamar, the sons of Aaron that were led which were left alive staying forever. He not eaten the thin offering in the whole place. He is most holy, and God has given it to you to bear the iniquity of the congregation and to make a film before them before the Lord.
I believe we have the first failure of Aaron's son in the fact that they, these two men made-up in a Bayou, offered strange fire. But here are the ones that were left They didn't eat the sin offering. You know, there's a danger of us in this, getting occupied with ourselves and thinking that we're the faithfulness, but we need to take our plate. And so it tells us that when they offered the thin offering.
Uh, they were to eat the thin offering in the holy place. In other words, we're no better than anybody else.
I remember reading in Mr. Darby won the great divisions of place among the people of God. He said it was because the Saints were lifted up, and brethren, maybe we have them. We should be thankful for the position the Lord has given to us, the great privilege of being gathered to His name. But if we begin to think for anybody the Lord has to land. The Lord has to make us realize.
That were nothing. And unless we do that, there's many things that many other Christian has done that you or I'm not capable of doing. We have the seed of every evil in our own heart. And so whenever the Lord has had to deal with something in our midst, we need to eat a thin offering. And it tells us here that Moses was angry because he hadn't done it. He wasn't pleased. Perhaps they didn't realize that they could have done the same themselves.
Only the grace of God that had preserved the other two.
They could easily have done it, or perhaps you know better.
And someone said, and discipline takes place in your family, said, Imagine senators judging things. Why didn't we do it? Because we were better. Because we wouldn't do it, you know, because the Lord in the midst is coming, not because we're any better. And if we are, that's why it says, I didn't think of these families, say heed lest he falls. The Lord has dealt with them. He has dealt with us, dealt with us. And if we begin to get some complacent here, feeling that we have remained faithful, Lord will have to show us everything.
Only he can keep up. Truly we need to say preserve the old gods and be do I put myself And so they hadn't kind of they failed in that and maybe how we should be recognizing this too. But now there's something very lovely that comes in here at the end.
That's here.
From the 19 first.
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Day have they offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before the Lord, And good things have befallen me, and if I had eaten the sin offering today, should it have been accepted in the sight of the Lord?
You know it's here that Moses was angry with Eliezer and Itamar, but who answered?
It was there on the back seat, Aaron, that answered.
This is to me, this is very lovely. They are an answer for them. And so we have a great high priest and we have an advocate. We have failed. We have them responded to the Lord's claims like we should. We haven't really identified ourselves with failure. And so when they have failed, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ. There is one there who is before God. He's there to supply grace to help and kind of need.
And when we failed, he said, if we have an advocate with the fire, Jesus Christ, the righteous, well, how how blessed this is? So Aaron answered for them, and it says to know the spirit. Yet he was content we never get through, but depended on U.S. President, but depends on the face of the lung who has called us and brought us into a place of blessing, not only saves our souls, but we can rejoice with the privilege of nearness.
That these people enjoyed an interim place of nearness that was unique as far as that they were concerned. Far more of them that Israel are spoken out of the people near to him. They had a place of privilege. And so we have gathered the Lords name our daughter brought before us the precious deposit of food simplified in what those different ones carried from Babylon up to Jerusalem and had them weighed in. And there's been something committed to us.
That we have failed in doing it so.
We have that one who's ever living to make intercession, to supply the grace to help. Do we feel our weakness? He invites us to come boldly and get the help we need. Have we failed? Yes, we have failed. Oh, he's our advocate too. And so we find here that when all the furthest he was content. Another thing I believe is brought out here. It says if I had eaten that sent off and today should have been accepted before the Lord.
That is kind of God wants reality tell us about King Saul, that he forced himself to offer a sacrifice. God doesn't want us to kind of work something out. He looks for truth in the inward parts of.
We could, we could call him for a humiliation, but unless there's real humiliation in our hearts and has no value in the side of God, he wants reality. And so here it says he said If we eat this today, that has been accepted. We could say nice words and repeat things, but God lifts on the heart and the Lord searches each one of our hearts.
Knows how truly we feel, these things, how truly we're identified with them. Well, let's let's not forget the president that.
Wave ground and his shoulder. The enemy would like to rob us of the enjoyment of Christ and occupation was what is necessary to glorify the Lords name reliable to lose the enjoyment of His love. And I believe it's most important how that is the result of these meetings. Together we will go away rejoicing in the Lord. We can't say that we're wonderful people or that we have done this or that.
But we can rejoice inhaling, and we can look upon others who have perhaps missed the path and say, I could have known you too. It's only the grace of God that's kept me. And I just want to take the humble place, identify myself with all the ruin that come in, and rejoice in the Lord Alway. And again I rejoice. Well, brethren, may keep up in these last days. It is important that we buy the truth and tell it nice, but it's also important that we.
Acknowledge these things that are very important before the Lord, counting upon His faithfulness. Because there is a day coming and I say at the end when the church will be presented, A glorious church without spot or recurring or anything. Let's look on to that day and while we're left here, maybe not to lose the joy the Lord and our souls, maybe not lose that energy that would reach out to those around us.
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And tell them the good news of God's salvation. Because the reason the Lord hasn't come as yet is because He's still going to gather him up, Still going to gather in others. I like that verse that says the Lord direct your heart into the love of God and into the patient waiting for Christ. Have a margin in your Bible. You notice that it reads the patient of the Christ. What? Who's more anxious?
To have his bride, we who are part of his bride or the Lord Jesus. She's more anxious than we are for the moment when the Father has come, he's more anxious. Why is he awaited? I'm glad he waited for me. Maybe he's waiting for someone in this very room.
You might be waiting for someone here to receive him a failure. And the Lord is saying, if I can wait patiently to have my bride almost 2000 years to be patient, but occupy till I come, hold fast and come Remember Me until I come. Be patient therefore, my brethren, under the coming of the Lord.
It's a good thing that 286 Soon now we'll come again, Jesus our Lord. We shall be happy, Jesus our Lord, and we thy faith shall see, and we shall lay thee then evermore with thee, Jesus our Lord.