The Levitical Offerings

My exercise today is to look at Leviticus chapter 1. We're reading Leviticus chapter 1. I want to look at the altar. Her brother was telling us about the altar. I was thinking, Brother Frank, when you were speaking you'd never make a priest because you don't know directions.

The priest said to know what's east and west and north and south. I can see you're getting in real trouble. You'd be looking for the labor out the gate.

Anyway, her brother likened the altar to the place of the name, to the house of God, to the local assembly. But the altar I want to speak about should be associated with house of God. It's the brazen altar.

We'll read in Leviticus chapter 1. And the Lord called unto Moses and speak unto him out of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying, speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them, if any man of you bring an offering unto the Lord, you shall bring your offering of the cattle, even of the herd and of the flock. If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, that's the thought of an ascending offering, let him offer a meal without blemish and he shall offer it of his own voluntary will or for his acceptance at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the Lord. And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

That's the thought of acceptance again. And he shall bring, he shall kill the bullock before the Lord and the priests, Aaron's sons shall bring the blood and sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar that is by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. And he shall flay the burnt offering and cut it into his pieces.

And the sons of Aaron, the priests shall put fire upon the altar and lay the wood in order upon the fire. And the priests, Aaron's sons shall lay the parts, the head and the fat in order upon the wood that is on the fire, which is upon the altar. But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water and the priest shall burn all on the altar to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire of a sweet savor unto the Lord.

And if his offering be of the flocks, namely of the sheep or of the goats for a burnt sacrifice, he shall bring it a meal without blemish and he shall kill it on the side of the altar northward before the Lord. And the priests, Aaron's sons shall sprinkle his blood round about upon the altar and he shall cut it into his pieces with his head and his fat. And the priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on the fire, which is upon the altar.

And he shall wash the inwards and the legs with water and the priest shall bring it all and burn it upon the altar. It is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire of a sweet savor unto the Lord. And if the burnt sacrifice for his offering to the Lord be of foals, then shall he bring his offering of turtle doves or of young pigeons.

And the priest shall bring it upon the altar unto the altar and ring off his head and burn it on the altar. And the blood thereof shall be wrung out at the side of the altar and he shall pluck away his crop with his feathers and cast it beside the altar on the east part by the place of the ashes. And he shall cleave it with the wings thereof, but shall not divide it asunder.

And the priest shall burn it upon the altar, upon the wood that is upon the fire. It is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire of a sweet savor unto the Lord. Chapter six, please.

Associated with all the offerings, you will find the first five offerings are in the first five chapters. Then in six and seven, you will find the law of the offerings, which gives you some more information as to the function of the offerings. Verse eight.

And the Lord speak unto Moses saying, command Aaron and his son saying, this is a law of the burnt offering. It is the burnt offering because of the burning upon the altar all night until the morning and the fire of the altar shall be burning in it. And the priest shall put on his linen garment and his linen breeches shall he put upon his flesh and take up the ashes, which the fire hath consumed with the burnt offering on the altar.

And you shall put them beside the altar and he shall put off his garments and put on other garments and carry forth the ashes without the camp and to a clean place. And the fire upon the altar shall be burning in it, shall not be put out. And the priest shall burn wood on it every morning and lay the burnt offering and order upon it.

And he shall burn there on the fat of the peace offerings. The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar. It shall never go out.

And, uh, we should look at verse a chapter seven, maybe a verse in chapter seven, verse, verse eight. Although in verse seven, we're looking at the law of the trespass offering. This particular verse is important.

And the priest that offereth any man's burnt offering, even the priest shall have to himself the skin of the burnt offering, which he hath offered. Now we trust God will bless to us the reading of his precious word. In order to understand something of the teaching of Leviticus, it's good to understand the setting of the Pentateuch, of the books of Moses.

To understand the relationship of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. And the Lord did that in Luke chapter 24, as our brother mentioned the night speaking of the meeting last night, as he, with the two on the road to Emmaus, he went over the Moses teaching and he went over the prophecies. But when he came to the disciples in the room, he included the Psalms.

And he says, I taught you all the time I was with you. And it was in relation to himself. And when we come to Hebrews chapter nine, we find the links of the tabernacle to the person of Christ.

So we've every right. When we turn to the book of Leviticus to see Christ and his offerings in Genesis, we have the thought of Abraham coming out, but then we have the thought of Abraham going down. And it seems to be a continual going down, down, down to Egypt.

When we come to the book of Exodus, but now they're, they're coming on, they're coming out. And whereas Genesis seemed to be a book of difficulties, there was darkness and difficulties in the book of Genesis. When we come to the book of Exodus, it's a redemption from the bondage of Egypt.

It's a book of going out. And Moses made clear to Pharaoh that they had to go three days journey. And you can take many things from that, but certainly the world, the flesh and the devil have to be left behind.

And we've been hearing that, that we might have something to offer to our God. And so we have the people of God and they're enjoying the blessedness of redemption. Then we come to the book of Leviticus and we have the going in.

And it's in relation to the altar. It's in relation to priesthood. It's in relation to worship.

It's in relation to offering something for God. When we come to the book of Numbers, we're going, we're going on through, we're going through, we're pilgrims in the pathway. We're serving God in the wilderness.

They have their difficulties. They have their moments. When we come to the book of Deuteronomy, we're looking for the inheritance.

We're going to enter in, we're going to cross the Jordan in Jersia, but we're going to be taught things with regard to our inheritance. And we're going to have that promise. And let me say this, the Lord will never accept worship from an unsaved man or woman.

Do you agree with that now? You say, oh, what about Luke 7? What about that woman that was a sinful woman that came in and worshiped him in Luke 7? Well, if I understand my Bible correctly, that woman was trusting in the Lord Jesus long before she came in. The tense would tell me that her sins were already forgiven her. What about the man in John 9? We're speaking of that to a brother today already.

The blind man in John chapter 9. What about him? Because he worshiped the Lord Jesus. This is what he says. Who is he Lord? Who is he Lord? He wanted to worship him.

The Lord revealed himself to him. And I believe it was a man who was trusting in the Lord Jesus. He was a man that was subject to prophecy.

Did you know that? John 9 prophecy. Listen to Psalm 27. When father and mother forsake me, the Lord will take me up.

Isn't that wonderful? They spoke to his parents and they asked them about him. And they said, he's off age. Let him speak for himself.

And he was cast out of the synagogue. And listen, when Jesus heard that, he went and found him. When father and mother forsake me, the Lord will take me up.

Child of God, there's no need for you to feel forsaken, to feel out of the way, because in moments of distress of loneliness, the Lord will take you up. Nice line through your New Testament. I'm not going to do it.

Where the Lord moved amongst his own. And it's just like when we finish up the book of the Ezekiel. The name of the city shall be called Jehovah Shammah.

The Lord is there. And that's where we are now in Leviticus chapter 1. We've just finished off in Exodus chapter 40. And we have the light, the lamps are lit in the tabernacle.

The glory of the Lord is upon it. Now it's a nice thing to see light in your Old Testament. And just for a brief moment, if we go to 2 Corinthians chapter 4, the light has shined in our hearts and it's bringing our knowledge of the Lord Jesus.

If we go to Exodus chapter 10, only Israel had light in their dwelling. But in Psalm chapter 5, the path of the righteous is as a shining light that shineth more and more until the day dawn. And in Exodus chapter 40, we have light in the house of God.

You start off, dear friend, if you're unsaved, you need Christ in your heart. You'll have Christ in the pathway. You'll have Christ in your home.

It's sad if it should be like the church in Revelation, where the Lord was at the door with Christ in the house of God. And so, Moses is going to be spoken to from the door of the tabernacle, the place of glory. Remember, the psalmist tells us that God sits between the cherubim.

It's the throne of God. Wonderful thing that God is there. In Exodus chapter 3, God called to Moses out of the bush.

And that was with regard to service, that they might walk for him and serve him, come out from Egypt and go and serve him. Unfortunately, the 11 days that he should have took through disobedience took 40 years. He called him in Exodus chapter 19.

He called him out of the mountain and it was to teach him and the people of Israel with respect to holiness. Now, he's calling him and it's with respect to worship. And he called him out of the door of the tabernacle, the place of glory.

And he says, I want you, if any man, bring an offering unto the Lord. It's the thought of an approach offering, if any man. So, this is not like the sin offering or where there might be a distinction in the offerers.

This is if any man. Now, I know you'll pick up some books and they'll tell you that Mr. Dunsire brings his bullock and Mr. Jones brings his sheep and Mr. so-and-so. And you go down the line, this young brother just saved, he brings his pigeon.

I trust when I'm finished, you won't think that way anymore. I want to see the Lord Jesus and the lovely character of his person in each of those things. The thought is an approach offering.

It's worship. There's no sin involved in Leviticus chapter one. There are three offerings that are sweet savor offerings, unto the Lord.

Now, there is a sweet savor in chapter four and chapter five tells us as the sin offering, so is the trespass offering. So, I would judge that there's a sweet savor in the trespass offering. And that's the parts of the animal that were placed on the brazen altar.

Did you know something? The ashes from beside the brazen altar were taken outside the camp to that clean place. And where the ashes were placed outside the camp, the sin offering was burned. In everything, whether it's the sweet savor arising to heaven in a burnt offering, whether it's the meal offering and it's being offered, bloodless offering, speaking of the perfections and beauties of the Lord Jesus, or whether it's a peace offering, speaking of that relationship that we have with God, there's a sweet savor to heaven.

But even in the darkness of an offering for sin, as God looked upon him, there was a delight in the offering of his son as an offering for sin. So, the man brings his offering. And if you bring it unto the Lord, you'll bring off your cattle, even off the herd.

Now, we're going to move on rather quick. I'll keep an eye on the clock. Brother Terry offered... I was looking to see if you had a clock in the building.

And beloved Brother Terry, he offered me his calendar. I don't know what he meant, but he's going home tonight. We've enjoyed fellowship with Brother Terry all week.

And I've had this kind of thing all week. It's okay. We've had a great time.

Anyway, I asked Joel to go throat cut when I go over the time. So, I'm watching you, Brother Joel. I know these Scottish people, there's something about them.

They just keep talking. And I hope it will be profitable to you. Let's go on.

So, he's going to bring it, and he's got various options to bring, of the herd, or of the flock, or of the birds. And off the herd, he can bring a bullock, and it has to be a male. Off the flock, he can bring a goat or a sheep.

And off the birds, he can bring turtle doves, or he can bring pigeon. And there's quite a difference between a little pigeon and a bullock. We went for Chinese food once after my son was married, and there's some Chinese relatives on one side of the family, and he ordered this Chinese fellow, and they had a pigeon, and all they'd taken a blow lamp and burnt the feathers off, and taken a saw and cut it in half long ways.

And here's this pigeon, not much meat on it, cut right in half. It's different. Not much in it at all.

And then you think of a nice, big, juicy Texas steak. There's no comparison. But there's something of Christ in all of this that's of value for God.

So what's this now? If his offering be a burnt sacrifice, off the herd let him offer a male without blemish. First, it had to be a male. When you think of the male in the Bible, you think of the one who's dependent, who's independent, the one who's characterized with strength, contrast to the female who's under subjection.

So the male speaks of the independence of the Lord Jesus, and yet he was the dependent one. He didn't do his own works. The works that his father gave him, that's what he did.

John 5, says, My teaching is not mine, but the Father which sent me. He says, I came not to do mine own will, but the will of the Father which sent me. And all in the life of the Lord Jesus, there was a desire to please his Father.

You know, that lovely rendering of Mr. Newbery's margin, I think I mentioned it another day, but I'll mention it again in Psalm 40. And I know some people don't go for Mr. Newbery, but I just put in a plug for Mr. Newbery's Bible. If you can get one and you've got a couple of hundred dollars to spare, you can forego hamburgers for a week and get a Newbery Bible.

And his marginal notes are worth the money. And his grammar is very good as well. But here's what the Psalmist says, Lo, I come in the volume of the book it is written of me.

I delight to do thy will, is your authorized version, O my God. But Mr. Newbery in his margin, he says, I delight to do thy pleasure. You hear the Lord in John 8? The Father which sent me is with me.

I do always those things that please him. Now, when you get Psalm 40 quoted in Hebrews 10, Bible student, you'll notice this, that the word delight is not quoted in Hebrews 10. Why would the word delight appear in Psalm 40 and not appear in Hebrews chapter 10? Can I suggest this? And it's light of what I'm trying to teach.

In Psalm 40, the emphasis on the burnt offering, that which delighted the Father in the person of the Lord Jesus. In Hebrews chapter 10, he's an offering for sin. It's a sin offering.

And the Lord Jesus has died to meet the righteous claims of God. And that's what Hebrews 10 is teaching us. It's a meal without blemish.

Let me say this because the world, men in the world are saying different. I have heard that the Lord Jesus did not sin, but could sin. You've heard that? Terrible.

I have heard that the Lord Jesus did not know that he could not sin. My Bible teaches me that he never sinned. We've got his head, we've got his inward parts, and we've got his legs.

Paul says that he knew no sin. Listen to what the Psalmist says, who shall ascend unto the hill of the Lord? He that hath clean hands and a pure heart, and hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. That's the Lord Jesus.

Peter says he was without spot or blemish. And as they took the lamb in the book of Exodus, and they had to check it, they would look at the outside. And they would look to see if there was a spot.

They would look to see if there was anything that would deface it. Then when they went to kill it, and they opened it up, they'd look on the inside and thank God there was no blemish. We're going to look at the bullock here.

We're going to see it flayed. We're going to see it cut in its pieces. And the Lord Jesus in all of his going, he not only did not sin, he never thought sin.

So his head, he knew no sin. But he will learn that in him was no sin. There, as we look at the inward parts, there's no blemish.

There's no spot nor stain. And we'll learn that he did no sin. And we'll look at the legs.

And in the walk of the Lord Jesus, we heard about places we go, places we don't go. You know, it's probably better if you have a doubt, don't go. The Lord Jesus, in all of his walk, he never sinned.

We were talking the other morning about Hebrews 7 and 26. The Lord Jesus was holy. The thought of his absolute holiness, his sinlessness, he was guileless, harmless.

He was undefiled, absolutely incorruptible. The Lord Jesus was pure within and without. Listen to what he says in John chapter 8. Which of you convinces me of sin? And child of God, if one spot or stain could have been found in the sinless son of God, he would have never been a fit sacrifice to bear our sins in his own body on the tree.

He was the one who was the propitiation, the covering for our sins. And says John, not for ours only, but for the whole world. Oh, the magnitude and the value of the death of the sinless man, the son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ.

He was a male without blemish. And he shall offer it of his own voluntary will. He shall offer it, the thought is, for his acceptance.

And then he goes on to say, and I'm going to deal with the two, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the Lord, he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him. So if his own will that it might be accepted for him, there's nothing in me that I can come before the Lord. My acceptance before God is all in Christ.

And Paul says, we're accepted in the beloved. As Paul approached to the throne, he knew there was only one way he could come. And it was through the one who was beloved.

I used to hear the story illustrated in Scotland and, uh, I was in Ireland for a while and Harold Paisley maintains I got my teaching in Ireland. Don't believe him. I got it in Scotland, but I've been more, most of my life here.

So I got all of my teaching here and I hope I got it from the scriptures and, uh, the, the, the word of God. No, it's just went from my mind, I shouldn't deviate what's in my mind because it's just slipped me. We'll move on.

It's going to be accepted for him. And, and he comes and he brings his offering and it's the value of the offering. So the word atonement is not the Leviticus 16 atonement.

It's not that at all. It's not a question of sin. It's the question of, he lays his hands on the head of the offering and the value of the offering is imputed upon the offerer.

Now, when you come to Leviticus 16, it's something entirely different. And the priest puts his hands on the head of the live goat. You remember there's two goats taken and the one is going to be slain and the other, the, the sins of the people are going to be imputed upon the head of the live goat.

And it's going to be led by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness, into a land not inhabited. For the wonder of it, he bear our sins and his own body on the tree. And there eternally God is satisfied in the death of his son.

The Lord Jesus went out into the darkness of divine abundant meant that we might bring you and I into eternal fellowship, into the light and glory of heaven itself for the wonder of salvation. And the goat was taken out in chapter four for the sin offering, which would be the same for chapter five for the trespass offering. The priest again would lay his hands on the head of the animal and the, or the offerer would, and his sins would be imputed into the animal.

But here it's the reverse, I believe. And may I suggest that the righteousness of the, of the sacrifice is imputed into the offerer. The offerer is accepted on the ground of the value of the sacrifice.

In chapter four, the sins of the offerer are imputed into the animal, into the sacrifice and just a complete reversal of what is happening on the offerer. He's made righteous. And that's what the scripture teaches.

We don't have a righteous of ourselves. Any righteousness we have is imputed in relation to the Lord Jesus. He put his hand upon the head of the offering and is accepted for him.

Now we've got the Bullock and I've got to move on quickly. We've got the Bullock. I want to talk about the Bullock.

I'm not going to go into all the details. Time doesn't permit us. What does the Bullock speak off? The Bullock speaks of strength.

The Bullock speaks of unflagging service. And that was the life of the Lord Jesus. He was the one who, you know, you pick up your Bible and read Mark's gospel and you'll find you get the expression now and again the same day.

And you look at some of the busy days in the life of the Lord Jesus, you get the expression rising early in the morning and there's the wonder of the servant. You get the words in Mark immediately, straightway, forthwith. And that's the life of the Lord Jesus.

And he's going from early morning until evening. And he's dealing with the people and he's healing. And there's many miracles that he did that are not recorded.

John says, if we'd recorded everything there was about the Lord Jesus, the world couldn't contain the books. And there he moves with unflagging, unwearied strength. Listen to him in John chapter four.

Jesus being wearied with his journey sat thus on the well. He's tired. He's been walking in the heat of the day.

They've had nothing to drink. But there comes along a woman. You know, the Lord never got the water from the well.

There was a refreshment. There was a delight in his heart. The weariness was gone as he spoke to this woman about the living water, that if you drink of me, you'll have living water and you'll never thirst again.

The unflagging service, the unflagging devotion of the Lord Jesus Christ. He came not to do his own will, but the will of the father which sent him. And the purposes of the father ever lay before him, that he might complete his will, that he might complete the work that he gave him to do.

But we'll look at the flock and we have the goat and we have the sheep. Now, I'm going to have to turn to it because I don't think I could code it. The Proverbs, I think it will be around chapter 30.

Look at this. It's something of interest. Yeah, here it is.

Verse 29. There be three things which go well, ye four are comely in going. Now, the new English translation, it's called the net.

I loved what it said, shall be magnificent in their going. Now watch. A lion, which is strongest among beasts and turneth not away for a greyhound, and he goat also.

Here's the goat. It's magnificent in its going. We were going, traveling in B.C. once, and we came upon a vegetable stand.

It was a big place and they had goats and they built a bridge for them. I really won't forget it. It stood in my mind because this is what appeals to me.

And there was this goat standing on this bridge and it was a fawny white color and it looked magnificent. A goat is known for its agility. If you have a goat, you don't want to have your car close to it.

It's hard to build a fence to keep it in. They like to jump and go. They're known for their agility.

They're also known, they can be a bit fierce sometimes and the character of the goat. But I want to think of the goat as comely. The goat is magnificent.

And this speaks of the Lord Jesus. And you think of his agility. You think of the way he was able to handle the word of God.

They brought up to him the question of a tribute. And he says, show me a penny. Whose inscription is on the penny? I'd never have thought of that.

The Lord did. And he says, you render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's and unto God the things that are God's. And so the Lord Jesus, he moved through the scene.

You go through Mark again. I think about Mark chapter five, you get about five conflict scenes in Mark chapter five, where neither they're trying to trip the Lord Jesus up or his disciples. And they did this time and time again.

After Satan leaves him in the wilderness, the spirit of God says this, and Satan left him for a while. He came back again. But the Lord with his ability, with his agility to move and his magnificence of his person, he was able to deal with all that Satan threw against him.

You know, brother, I am convinced. I've talked to some of my brethren about it and not too many disagree that Luke chapter eight was an attack of Satan against the Lord Jesus Christ. Remember the storm? Remember the Lord Jesus sleeping in the boat? Now the disciples were men of the sea, men of Tiberias.

They had been in all kinds of storms. They were afraid for their life. Don't you care that we're perishing? They thought the end had come.

They'd be plunged down to the bottom of the lake. The Lord was sleeping. Child of God, can I encourage you? When I'm in my distress and my trouble, the Lord knows the end.

The Lord knows what's happening. He's quite well aware of it. Listen to what he says in John 10.

You're held in my father's hand. And here's a double negative in your Bible. He will never, never let you go.

We're held in the father's hand. We better move on. Time is going.

We have the sheep. Now we well know what the sheep speaks of. The sheep speaks of the meekness and gentleness of Christ.

That's what Paul does in 2 Corinthians 10. He speaks of the meekness and gentleness of Christ. A meek man is someone who doesn't get flustered, doesn't get upset as circumstances change.

You and I, if you're like me a bit, you know if things are going bad, you get a little bit upset, you get worried. If things are going well, you get happy and cheerful. And then you suddenly hit a roadblock and down again.

The Lord was never like that. There was an equanimity about him in his life as he came into conflict with the Pharisees, as he came into difficulties with the crowds, as he came into the home at Bethany, as he sat with his own on the mountain. There was a joy, there was a delight in the life of the Lord Jesus.

As he dealt with the children, there was a gentleness about him. Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. And I was talking the other day about John chapter 8, where we see the Lord Jesus dealing with the woman taken in adultery.

We see how he deals in truth. And he says, where are your accusers? I don't know where they are. He says, neither do I condemn thee.

That's his grace. He knew what had happened. Then he says, go and sin no more.

And he applies that wondrous balance in his life of grace and truth. And we see the meekness of the sheep. He is the lamb and he's the sheep.

He shall grow up before him, we read in Isaiah, as a tender plant. There's a tenderness about the life of the Lord Jesus. He was the sheep.

He was dumb before our shearers. He was the lamb that was slain. You know, Acts, Stephen turns it around.

He's quoting from the Septuagint, and it's the sheep that's slain and the lamb that's sheared. And I've often thought of it this way, that the sheep had never known death before, in your experience. The lamb had never been sheared before, in your experience.

This is what the Hebrew writer says, though he were a son, yet learned he obedience by the things that he suffered. Now that word learn gives the thought of learning by experience. The Lord Jesus had never needed to obey in eternity.

You ever thought of that? In the absolute harmony of divine persons, the absolute equality, the Lord could say in John 10, 30, I and my father are one. Says to Philip in John 14, if you'd known me, you would have known my father also. And there in the eternal past, in the divine attributes of the Godhead, was an absolute equality.

But then John tells us that the father sent the son. There's the obedience of the Lord Jesus to be the savior of the world. I've got to close in a minute.

We've got two birds. There's other things I'd like to say. I'm not going to say them, but we've got the turtle doves and we've got the young pigeons.

Now the turtle dove, it's, it's one who is recognized to be affectionate, close to its mate, but it's got a single eye. And here's the Lord Jesus. Someone was telling us the other day, I don't know who they were speaking, but if your eyes are right, they'll focus on a single point.

So we had a young brother in our meeting and it's something wrong with his eye. And I used to tease him about looking out his ear because when he looked at you, went this way, his eyes weren't single-eyed and he got them fixed. But that was a problem for a while.

And so the Lord Jesus was never like that. The Lord Jesus could focus his eye. You know, he even thought of the looks of the Lord Jesus.

Peter did. Remember he says, I don't know the man and they caught crew. The Lord turned and they looked on Peter.

Now your Bible uses different words for look. And I'm looking at you, but I'm not really looking at you. I'm not focusing on anybody, just on Terry, no one else.

And see, I love him. The Lord looked intently on Peter. Peter not only saw the Lord turning, but he felt his look and he went out and wept bitterly.

The look of the Lord Jesus. Listen to what the bride says in songs five, his eyes as are the rivers of water, washed in milk and fitly set. There was a clarity.

There was a purity. There was a single eye in the person of the Lord Jesus. Oh, but he's a pigeon.

What does the pigeon do? Pigeon's the homing bird. And the Lord had his eyes set towards his father in all of his life. Listen to what he says.

Father, I thank thee that thou hearest me always. And he moved in absolute harmony with his father. Now, let me say something and please don't get annoyed at me.

The father never, ever forsook the son. Now I believe that with all my heart. My Bible doesn't say it.

And it's interesting when you get the seven cries on the cross that the Lord addresses God in the middle. My God, my God, why is thou forsaken me? And in John chapter one, he's the only begotten son, which is in. And that would give the idea of his eternal dwelling place.

He was always in the bosom of the father. But as a bearer of sin, the typical picture we've talked about in Luke, in Leviticus chapter 16, he went out bearing, bearing our sin. But the pigeon, it's a bird that flies high.

It can let it go. I can bring a pigeon down from Winnipeg and probably be back home in Winnipeg before I got there. It's a homing bird.

Are we homing birds? Are we looking to go home? Are we longing to go home? To be with Christ, which is very far better. Just a little note you find at the end that the crop is taken and the feathers and it's laid beside the place of the ashes. Well, there's nothing about the Lord Jesus that's filthy.

There was parts of the animal that was washed that would speak to us about the defilement could be characterized in us. You know, there's men in the world today, if they could get the garments of the Lord Jesus, they'd bow and worship them. If they could find his sandals, they'd be worth millions of dollars and they'd hold them up as objects of worship.

If you could find a chair or a plow that the Lord made, you'd set it up in some museum and it'd be, it'd be, they'd come from all over the world to see it. But everything material about the life of the Lord Jesus has been set aside, it's disappeared. Men claim to have bits of his cross and hold them in veneration.

That which was off the earth, they took his garments and they left him naked upon a cross. As we are blessed, child of God, does our heart go out in worship towards the Son of God. In 1 Peter 2, Peter tells us that we're holy priests.

We're a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices. We're a royal priest to show forth, to proclaim forth the riches of him who hath called us out of darkness into his marvelous light. That's not Lord's day morning only, that's 24 seven.

We're occupied with him. Tell my father of all my glory in Egypt.