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On a gold one, that silver line
I've got a mansion, just over the hilltop
In that bright land where we'll never grow old
And someday yonder, we will never more wander
But walk the streets that are purest gold
Though often tempted, tormented and tested
And like the prophet, my pillow's stone
And though I find here no permanent dwelling
I know he'll give me a mansion my own
I've got a mansion just over the hilltop
In that bright land where we'll never grow old
And someday yonder, we will never more wander
But walk the streets that are purest gold
Don't think me poor or deserted or lonely
I'm not discouraged, I'm heaven bound
I'm just a pilgrim in search of a city
I want a mansion, a harp and a crown
I've got a mansion just over the hilltop
In that bright land where we'll never grow old
And someday yonder, we will never more wander
But walk the streets that are purest gold
Amen. Good scene. Brother Joe, could you help us with a word of prayer?
Amen. Our second song will be our new song again. Song 499, Keep on the Firing Line.
Song number 499.
Keep on the Firing Line. Song 499. Let's sing it together on the first.
If you're in the battle for the Lord and right
Keep on the firing line
If you win, my brother, surely you must fight
Keep on the firing line
There are many dangers that we all must face
If we die of fighting, it is no disgrace
A coward in the service group will find no place
So keep on the firing line
Oh, you must fight, be brave against all evil
Never run or even lag behind
If you would win for God and the right
Just keep on the firing line
God will only use the soldier he can trust
Keep on the firing line
If you wear a crown then bear the cross you must
Keep on the firing line
Life is but to labor for the master dear
Help to banish evil and to spread good cheer
Pray you'll be rewarded for your service here
So keep on the firing line
Oh, you must fight, be brave against all evil
Never run or even lag behind
If you would win for God and the right
Just keep on the firing line
When we get to heaven, brother, we'll be glad
Keep on the firing line
I will praise the Savior for the call we had
Keep on the firing line
When we see the souls that we have helped to win
Leading them to Jesus from the paths of sin
With a shout of welcome we will all march in
So keep on the firing line
Oh, you must fight, be brave against all evil
Never run or even lag behind
If you would win for God and the right
Just keep on the firing line
Let's see, we have the verse of the week on the front page there
If you need a bulletin, you didn't get one earlier, just raise your hand and one of the ushers will bring you a bulletin
On the front page we have the verse of the week, it says
I will both lay me down in peace and sleep
For thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety
Safeties of the Lord, Amen
Psalm chapter 4 verse 8
And our service times are 1030 a.m. for our morning service
And Sunday evening is 3.30 p.m. we'll be in Exodus chapter 30 tonight
And Thursday Bible study we are in the book of Ezra
And that is chapter number 2 that we're going to be on this coming Thursday
And let's see, we do have a baptism tonight
So I just want to make sure we have people ready to take pictures
And I know the baptismal is working on getting ready
And so I just want to let everybody know that after the service we're going to sing a song
And then Ezra's going to, or not Ezra, Nick is going to get, I don't know why I was thinking Ezra
But, because I just said, I was preaching out of the book of Ezra
Anyway, sorry about that, Nick's getting baptized tonight
So anyway, we also have so many times there to choose from
And we did go so many today, it was a little rough, we got the police called on us
But we got done before, you know, they came
So apparently it was not as big of an emergency as the security people thought it was
So, you know, all those people committing crimes out there
And, you know, we're out there inviting people to church, trying to get people saved
So, you know, whatever
But did anybody get a salvation? I know there's people in different areas
So did anybody get a soul out there? Anybody?
Alright, well, that's okay
At least we tried, so, and our job is to go out there and give the gospel
And at that point we're off the hook, right? So we did our best
Alright, our praise report, you can look down and see the salvations, baptisms, and attendance totals from the week before last
And then our upcoming events and things that we have going on
We're getting close to the end of the challenge, I can't believe it's already, what is the date? The 21st? Good night
This month's almost already over, but we've got still another 10 days to finish the challenge
And I hope you're on task on that, and there'll be a nice prize at the end
Remember to email the church if you complete the challenge
When you've completed, just email the church
And then February 3rd and 4th is the launch of the Indianapolis church
And that'll be Saturday, February 3rd
There'll be a 10am preaching service, an 11.30am to 1pm lunch and fellowship
And a 1pm to 3.30pm soul winning, that'll be on the Saturday of the 3rd
And then the 4th is gonna be the regular Sunday morning service, starts at 11am and 4pm for the pm service
And then brother Justin Zong is the boots on the ground leader
If you wouldn't mind, if you have YouTube, if you wouldn't mind subscribing to the YouTube channel
It's just SFBC Indie is the handle there, and just subscribing to the channel, so that'd be great
And then February 10th is the homeschool Valentine's party here at the church building
There'll be pizza provided, and games
So that'll start here at 10am at the church building, sign up through the homeschool group, or see Ms. Sherry
And then February 16th is the sweetheart banquet, married couple's sweetheart banquet
So if you're going to that, we're gonna have the sign up sheet in there soon
I'm gonna get the menu, you'll have choices on the menu
And hopefully you can get along about what you're choosing to get
And we'll get all that information in there, so RSVPing for this is very important
So it's so important that if you don't do it, that you won't have any food
So you don't want to show up to a Valentine's banquet and then have no food, your wife's gonna be really mad at you
So now he did say something, I forgot to mention this in the morning service
That dietary things and substitutions on some of the things are okay
And some of the roles, he said like, there's certain roles that they could maybe do like four or five of them
But if everybody's picking that specific role it might be a little difficult
Just cause they don't have a big kitchen
So there's just a few specific things that if it's too much total to get onto a certain one
We might have to have you choose a different option
But for the most part, you can either order two roles, like sushi roles or whatever
Or you have an option of three different bento dinners or whatever
So they have various different things
So that's what I'm choosing, just going with that right now
But anyway, it's a pretty good sushi place
But that's kind of what we're doing, it's a Japanese theme
So Pastor Jones will be preaching for us and it'll be a marriage challenge for us
And he's also preaching for us that Sunday
So don't be sad that you don't get to hear him on Saturday
Because Sunday he'll be preaching for us on the night service
That will make people have to come for the PM service
So if you want to hear Pastor Jones preach that is
And I want to, so I'll be here
But anyway, April 8th and 9th is the Next Generation Youth Conference
And you've seen that January is already almost gone
So if you're going to have your teen go to that
Please just get them signed up as quick as you can
So Pastor Mendez can count how many people are going
And look at the rules, you know the rules
Kind of went over some of the rules
They're beautiful rules, no I'm just joking
That was a bad Donald Trump impression
Anyway, ties and offerings that have come in so far
And then we already sang Happy Birthday to everybody
So that's all I got for announcements
Let's go ahead and sing another song, we'll receive the offering
And hey, any guys, I brought some extra tie clips that I had
I don't know why I brought this
But if you want one, they're up here
You can run up and grab one whenever you want
Alright, that's all I got
Alright, our next song will be song number 392
It is Well With My Soul
And just a reminder for the chorus
The ladies sing that first part, It Is Well
And the men do the echo, It Is Well
It'll make more sense when we sing it
Song 392, It Is Well, let's see it on the first
When peace like a river
Attendeth my way
When sorrows like sea billows roll
Whatever my lot
Thou hast taught me to say
It is well, it is well with my soul
Ladies on this first part
It is well with my soul
It is well, it is well with my soul
Great singing, keep it up on the second
Though Satan should buffet
Though trials should come
Let this blessed assurance control
That Christ hath regarded
My helpless sustain
And has shed his own blood
For my soul
It is well with my soul
It is well, it is well with my soul
My sin, oh the bliss of this glorious thought
My sin not in part
But the whole is nailed to the cross
And I bear it no more
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, oh my soul
It is well with my soul
It is well, it is well with my soul
On the last and Lord hasteth a day
When my faith shall be signed
The clouds be rolled back as a scroll
The trump shall resound
And the Lord shall be sent
Even so, it is well with my soul
It is well with my soul
It is well, it is well with my soul
It is well with my soul
Exodus 30
Exodus 30 the Bible reads
And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon
Of Shittim wood, shall thou make it
A cubit shall be the length thereof
And a cubit the breadth thereof
Four squares shall it be
And two cubits shall be the height thereof
The horns thereof shall be of the same
And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold
The top thereof, and the sides thereof round about
And the horns thereof, and thou shalt make unto it
A crown of gold round about
And two golden rings shalt thou make to it
Under the crown of it
By the two corners thereof
Upon the two sides of it
Shall thou make it
And they shall be for places
For the staves to bear it withal
And thou shalt make the staves of Shittim wood
And overlay them with gold
And thou shalt put it before the veil
That is by the ark of the testimony
Before the mercy seat that is over the testimony
Where I will meet with thee
And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning
When he dresseth the lamps
He shall burn incense upon it
And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even
He shall burn incense upon it
A perpetual incense before the Lord
Throughout your generations
Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon
Nor burn sacrifice, nor meet offering
Neither shall ye pour drink offering thereon
And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it
Once in a year with the blood
Of the sin offering of atonement
Once in a year shall he make atonement upon it
Throughout your generation
It is most holy unto the Lord
And the Lord spake unto Moses saying
When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel
After their number
Then shall they give every man a ransom
For his soul unto the Lord
When thou number'st them
That there be no plague among them
When thou number'st them
This they shall give every one that passeth
Among them that are numbered
Half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary
A shekel is twenty geras
And half shekel shall be the offering of the Lord
Every one that passeth among them
That are numbered from twenty years old and above
Shall give an offering unto the Lord
The rich shall not give more
And the poor shall not give less
Than half a shekel
When they give an offering unto the Lord
To make an atonement for your souls
And thou shalt take the atonement money
Of the children of Israel
And shall appoint it for the service
Of the tabernacle of the congregation
That it may be a memorial unto the children of Israel
Before the Lord
To make an atonement for your souls
And the Lord spake unto Moses saying
Thou shalt also make a labor of brass
And his foot also of brass
To wash withal
And thou shalt put it between the tabernacle
Of the congregation and the altar
And thou shalt put water therein
For Aaron and his son shall wash their hands
And their feet thereat
When they go into the tabernacle of the congregation
They shall wash with water
That they die not
Or when they come near to the altar
To minister to burn offering made by fire
Unto the Lord
So they shall wash their hands and their feet
That they die not
And it shall be a statue forever to them
Even to him and to his seed
Throughout their generations
Moreover the Lord spake unto Moses saying
Thou shalt also unto the principal
Excuse me
Take thou also unto the principal spices
Of pure myrrh 500 shekels
And of sweet cinnamon half so much
Even 250 shekels
And of sweet calmus 250 shekels
And of cassia 500 shekels
After the shekel of the sanctuary
And of oil olive and hen
And thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment
An ointment compound after the art of the apothecary
And it shall be in holy anointing oil
And thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the congregation
Therewith
And the ark of the testimony
And the table and all his vessels
And the candlestick and his vessels
And the altar of incense
And the altar of burn offerings
With all his vessels
And the laver and his foot
And thou shalt sanctify them
That they may be most holy
Whatsoever toucheth them
Shall be holy
And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons
And consecrate them
That they may minister unto me
In the priest's office
And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel saying
This shall be in holy anointing oil
And to me throughout your generations
Upon man's flesh
Shall it not be poured
Neither shall ye make any other like it
After the composition of it
It is holy
And it shall be holy unto you
Whosoever compoundeth any like it
Or whosoever putteth any of it
Upon a stranger
Shall even be cut off from his people
And the Lord said unto Aaron
And the Lord said unto Moses
Take unto these sweet spices
Stacked in anacha
Anacha and galbanum
These sweet spices
With pure frankincense of each shall
There be a light weight
Like weight
And shall make
It a perfume
A confection after the yard of the apothecary
Tempered together pure and holy
And thou shalt beat some
Some of it very small
And put of it before the testimony
Of the tabernacle of the congregation
Where I will meet with thee
It shall be unto you most holy
And as for the perfume which thou shalt make
Ye shall not make to yourselves
According to the composition thereof
It shall be unto thee holy
For the Lord
Whosoever shall make like unto that
To smell thereto
Shall even be cut off from his people
Brother Jesse, would you pray for us?
Lord, thank you for the reading of your word
this afternoon.
So I see the fellow pastor
with the little spirit
and the message
is apparently here.
Amen.
Alright, well it's been a while since we've been in Exodus.
We had a little snow days
off there.
Were you turning up the heat or turning down the heat?
Off? Okay.
No.
The hot flashes went.
Just kidding.
So basically the topic tonight
so we're still, Moses is still
being instructed by the Lord here.
And I don't know if I necessarily have a
title to this sermon but
the topics tonight are basically
the incense altar
which is the first
topic and then the census tax
I guess you would call it.
The laver of brass
which is like that water
there's like a
brass thing that they have to
wash your hands and feet in.
The anointing oil
and also the
recipes of the anointing oil
and how they put that together
well this sounds pretty boring.
All this stuff
has a spiritual meaning for us in the
New Testament and so
I like to try to make application
to what does this stuff
represent for us in the New Testament.
Why? Because God just doesn't do this stuff
or have all this stuff in place for no reason.
There's reasons why
He has these
had them do all this stuff and
if you remember
last time we were in Exodus chapter 29
it's just like
all this cleansing, all this washing
all these different things that they had to do
and sprinkling blood all over everything
and there's a purpose
behind it and it's just
to me what I got out of that
chapter is that
the terrible price that Jesus
had to pay for us
to even
come close, which it doesn't come
close to Christ's righteousness
of the blood that He shed for us
all the scrubbing, all the
they're having to wash things
and burn things in fire and kill
all these animals and just this is
how clean, this is what it takes to
clean something up and that wasn't
even good enough. That the blood of
Christ, you know the blood of bulls and
goats could not cleanse us
from our sins. It's just a picture
and it made
a temporary kind of atonement
but in reality if
Jesus didn't come and die for everybody's sins
and raised from the dead
then we would die in our sins
and so
here we are in chapter number 30
and now He's going to describe the other things that Moses
so Moses being told these are
the things that have to be made and then he also
says these are the things you have to do
and the other thing that I wanted to bring up
is that remember Moses is being told
you have to do these things
and so he has to
put their clothes on him, he has to kill
you know he was being told that he has to do
all these things and that is a picture
of you know because Christ is not just
our God but
He also is our high priest
and He also is our King
He's the King of Kings and Lord of Lords
He's the high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek
so when you kind of
put all that picture together
you know
Moses pictures in that chapter
that you know he's doing
all that stuff for them first
and then the priests have to
continue to do those things
and continue to cleanse themselves
and we kind of see a lot of that in this chapter here
so let's start off in verse number 1
and we're going to look at the altar of incense
and what it is
and kind of what it represents
so look at verse number 1 it says
so this altar of incense
I believe
is placed before
the holiest place
outside of it
I think it maybe
explains that but anyway
it says
so remember this is a
tabernacle and all the stuff in it is stuff
that they had to carry from place to place
for 40 years while they
wandered in the desert and so this is a
mobile worship place
a mobile tabernacle
and so they can't just pick it up and carry it
with their hands they can't just put it on a cart
and let animals drag it they have to
carry it in specific ways
and that's why they have to build it these ways
anyway it says
Aaron shall put it before the veil
that is by the ark of the testimony
before the mercy seat that is over the testimony
where I will meet with thee
so I was right yeah so
they put it before the veil
that is by the ark
of the testimony
and Aaron shall burn
thereon sweet incense
every morning
when he dresseth the lamps
he shall burn incense thereon
so you know the first thing he does
in the morning is when he lights
the lamps you know the high priest
is doing this that he
burns this sweet specific
incense on there
and so we're going to find out kind of what that incense
represents and
he shall burn the incense upon it verse 8
and when Aaron lighteth the lamps
that even he shall burn incense
upon it a perpetual
incense before the Lord throughout your generations
he shall offer no strange
incense thereon no burnt
sacrifice nor meat offering
neither shall you pour drink offering
thereon so this altar
is not for burning sacrifice
for animal sacrifices or for drink
offerings it's specifically just for
the incense burning okay
and it says and Aaron shall make an atonement
upon the horns of it
once in a year so remember
the actual
altar they had to clean that
every day
which probably would have been a chore
I mean if you've ever cleaned a barbecue
before after just one day of your
family eating on a barbecue and sometimes
it can get pretty ugly if you let it
build up it gets even worse but
you know cleaning a Traeger is not fun after you haven't
cleaned it for a while or just whatever
but this thing only has to
be atoned for once in a year
whereas
you know the other stuff more often
why well because it doesn't get as dirty it doesn't
get as gummed up
it says so once a year
with the blood of the sin offering
of atonements once in the year
shall he make atonement
upon it throughout your generations
it is most holy
unto the Lord so what is this picture what is
this altar of incense
for well I believe
that you know the scriptures
teach that it's a picture of
prayer to the Lord
the incense being offered up
goes up and it's being
offered unto the Lord
as a sweet smell
because incense if anybody's ever lit incense
before in whatever capacity
you've done it it smells
doesn't it and it's
not designed to stink and
bother you it's designed to
make your house smell nice
but a lot of people use it in religious
reasons it's used in
witchcraft it's used in
Buddhist temples it's used probably I think
in Catholic churches it's used in a lot of different
it's used
in religious practices a lot
but in this
case it represents something
turn to Luke chapter 1
Luke chapter number 1
and
we'll see that
there is specific
you know obviously I'm just going to
prove to you and show you that this is
basically what it
represents in the New Testament anyway
it says in Luke 1
5 it says there was
in the days of Herod the king of Judea
a certain priest
named Zechariah
of the course of Abia
and his wife was
of the daughters of Aaron
and her name was Elizabeth
and they were both righteous
before God walking in all the commandments and
ordinances of the Lord blameless
and they had no child because
that Elizabeth was barren and they both
were now well stricken in years and it came
to pass that while
he executed the priest's office
before God and the order
of his course
so what it tells you
he's a priest of the Lord
he's ordained in the office
of the priesthood and we've kind of gone over that
before what all that entails but
his specific course
it says in the order of his course
according to the custom of the priest's office
his lot was to burn
incense when he went into
the Lord's temple so
this guy is specifically
this is John the Baptist's dad
he specifically his job
was to do the
burning of the incense
like it's describing in our text
tonight according to the custom
of the priest's office his lot was to burn the incense
when he went into the temple of the Lord
and the whole multitude of the people
were praying without
at the time of incense so
you can see that it's connected with prayer isn't it
so he lights the incense and everybody
without is praying
to the Lord so this is
like you know kind of a
praying you know God's house
is supposed to be a house of prayer and so
there at the time of the
lighting of the incense this is when the people prayed
and it says and there appeared
unto him an angel of the Lord standing upon the right side
of the altar of incense
and when Zechariah
saw him he was troubled
and fear fell upon him so
you have here connected with
this prayer you know
with this incense you know
this prayer that's being offered without
also and then the angel of the Lord appears
next to the altar of incense
now turn to
John 17 John chapter 17
now of course Jesus Christ
is our high priest
and you know he
remember a lot I mean
when I talked about this last
you know obviously
Jesus is our high
priest of the order of Melchizedek
and he prays this prayer
in the Garden of Gethsemane
and a lot of people call this the high priest prayer
where he's praying for people
not only he's not only praying for
the disciples at that time but he's also
praying into the future
and for us ourselves here
look at what he says in verse 17
he says sanctify them through thy
truth thy word is
truth so how are
we sanctified in the New Testament?
through the word of God his truth
we're set apart
because of the word of God
you know we get saved
by the word of God we get cleansed
from the word of God and it says
as thou hast sent me into the
world even so have I also sent
them into the world and for their
sakes I sanctify myself
that they also might be sanctified
through the truth
neither pray I for these alone
but for them also which shall
believe on me through their word
so you know I mean this is
Jesus praying for them but
he's saying for the people that are saved through
their word so here we
are a couple thousand years
later a bunch of saved people
reading the words of Jesus where he's praying
for us specifically
he loves us I mean he
he loves us and prays for us
specifically he makes intercession
for us but that
sanctification he says he sanctifies us
or himself so that he can
sanctify us and
you know he is our high priest and makes
intercession for us
turn to Romans chapter 8 Romans
chapter number 8
trying to get through all this pretty quickly
but there is a lot of verses to go through so if you just
get like we're just numb
just listen try to keep
your eyes open or whatever Romans
chapter 8 verse 34 who is he
that condemneth it is Christ that died
yea rather that is risen again
who is even at the right
hand of God who also maketh
intercession
for us Hebrews chapter
4 Hebrews chapter 4 so
Jesus Christ is the high
priest he makes intercession
for us and
that
altar of incense
who's the one that lights the altar of incense
what does it say
in Exodus chapter 30
who was supposed to do it
was it Aaron and what was Aaron
he was the high priest
but then you see
Zacharias doing it and the lot felt to him
did it say he was the high priest
or did it say he was doing it in the
priest's office so
you know obviously
Christ did everything before for us
so that we could become
also we also could become
priests and kings like he is
but obviously we're like
the little kings we're like the little priests
right in the same picture
that we see as Christ
is the high priest
or you know the high priest in the Old Testament
was Aaron and his sons
were also you know they
weren't the high priest but they were also priests working
for God but all that sanctification
process had to happen
so that they actually could even serve
God in the first place look at Hebrews
4 14 it says
seeing then we have a great high priest
that is passed into the heavens
Jesus the son of God let us hold
fast our profession
for we have not an high priest that cannot be touched
with the feeling of our infirmities
but was in all points tempted like as we
are yet without sin
let us therefore come boldly
unto the throne of grace
that we may obtain and find grace
to help in time of need
so we can come
boldly because of what Christ has already done
for us I mean that is the big
that is a big main difference
between the Old Testament and the New Testament
the Old Testament I mean we've seen
all the stuff that just the priests have to do
to even come close to speaking
with God and they really can't do it
Aaron can only go into the holiest place
one time a year and it's not like he's
necessarily talking with him
he's just you know making that atonement
or whatever but
Jesus made it to where we could just
boldly come to the throne
that is a huge difference in the New Testament
it's a huge blessing for us
look at Hebrews chapter 7
verse 19
Hebrews chapter 7 verse 19
but this
this priestly duty is it is connected
to this altar of
incense I know kind of drifting away
from that a little bit but I'll get back to it here
in a second Hebrews chapter 7 verse 19
for the law made nothing
perfect but the bringing in of a better
hope did by the which we
draw nigh unto God
and as much as
not without an oath he was
made a priest
for those priests which were made without an oath
but this with an oath
by him that said unto him
the Lord swear and will not repent
thou art a priest forever
after the order of Melchizedek
by so much was Jesus made
a surety of
a better testament
and they truly were many priests
because they were not suffered to continue
by reason of death
but this man because he continued
with forever hath an unchangeable
priesthood
so like all these Jews that are saying that
you know they're waiting for their Messiah
and everything he's already come
he's already been here
and we're not going back
to the Old Testament in any way
shape or form this is a better testament
it's going to continue forever
and it's unchangeable
we have an unchangeable priesthood
we have an unchangeable high priest
we have an unchangeable king
and you know someday soon
we're going to be able to enjoy that kingdom
and you know life eternal
but it says wherefore he is able to
save them to the uttermost that
come unto God by him
seeing that he
ever liveth to make
intercession for them
for such an high priest
became us who is
holy, harmless, undefiled
separate from sinners and made
higher than the heavens
who needeth not daily as those
high priests to offer up
sacrifice first for his own sins
see Aaron had to sacrifice for his own sins but Jesus
didn't because he didn't have any
and then for the peoples for this
he did once when he offered
up himself
for the law maketh men high priests
which have infirmity
but the word of the oath which was
since the law maketh the son
who is consecrated forevermore
so again all that consecration that we talked
about the last time we were in
Exodus chapter 29
and all the consecration you're going to see from the rest
of this book
you know Jesus Christ just did it all
and now we
you know he just basically made it
to where we don't have to worry about those things
anymore we really got in on
a really good testament
or in the best testament
I mean we are blessed beyond measure
now turn to Revelation 5 7
I'll show you where it connects with
the altar
that it's talked about in heaven because
obviously the tabernacle is made after
remember it's made after the pattern of the things
that are already in heaven
and he showed Moses
these patterns and he said make sure that you make these things
after the pattern that I showed
you right? So
while you're turning to Revelation chapter 5
I'm going to read 1 John 2 1
it says in 1 John 2 1
I mean the Bible is real clear
you know Jesus Christ is the high priest
forever after the order of
Melchizedek and
now you're in Revelation chapter 5
verse 7 it says
the four beasts and the four and twenty elders
fell down before the Lamb having every one of them
harps and golden
vials full of
odors which are the prayers
of saints
so here you have a connection with the prayers
of the saints
with these golden
vials full of odors
now you know incense
is what? it's odors that you
burn and it smells good right?
verse 3 and another angel
came and stood at the altar
having a golden
censer what did the priest have to use?
a censer to light
to use to light the
incense
and there was given unto
him much incense
that he should offer it
with the prayers of the saints
upon the golden altar which
was before the throne
so before the throne in heaven
there is a literal
what was patterned
in the Old Testament
it was patterned after what's in
reality in heaven
and obviously
the one here was real too but
it was patterned after what's in heaven
and so
you see how it's connected with the prayers
of the saints though and
these vials up there
are offered
with the prayers of the saints so
it is connected
and the picture of it is to show us that
that is a connection with the prayer
the prayers that we would offer
up and a picture of
prayers being offered up unto
God and it smells good
to God, God likes the fact
that we pray to him and he
wants to hear from us
and it says
with the prayers of the saints upon the golden
altar which was before the throne
verse 4 and the smoke of the incense
which came with the prayers of the saints
ascended up before God out of
the angel's hand and the angel
took the censer and filled it with fire
of the altar and cast it to the
earth where there were voices and
thunderings and lightnings
and an earthquake
so I mean
really you see the big picture
right there is that this altar
of incense in Exodus
chapter number 30 connects
with the one in heaven
in Revelation chapter 5
so now let's look
so we looked at that
so obviously the connection is
with the altar of incense the New Testament connection
is that high
priest offering you know he offers
up those prayers
and then you know obviously he's
sanctified and then he makes
us kings and priests and
we our prayers mean something
to God he collects
he collects those prayers and then
they don't just go away
so every prayer that we pray to God
means something to him it's not
just frivolous you're not just
praying you know obviously if you're not praying
you know if you're just like
just going through the motions and it doesn't really matter
to you I'm sure that he knows the difference
but it says that there's
a big amount
that go up but how many
are going out from you
that's a good question to ask there's some application
for us like how much are we
actually praying or any
of those ones going to be
offered from you
is brother Bill
I'm sorry I'm just calling
you out here but are you going to have
some up there that are going to go up on the altar I mean
it's a good question to ask because
the more you pray
you know God is hearing your prayers it's not like
he just doesn't hear he hears your prayers
and so I think that
it's probably a good motivation it's like hey you don't
want to be the only one that prayers weren't
offered on the altar there
you know they're actually going to be offered up
at some point and he
captures those and puts them
you know there's something
awesome that happens in heaven with them
anyway so number two
tonight we're going to look at
this census tax ok
so verse number eleven
the Bible says back in our text it says
and the Lord spake unto Moses saying
when thou takest the sum of the
children of Israel so this is
talking about you're counting how many
people there are right and it's not
just this
is not just counting every you know
we have a census every so often in the United States
right where they pester you
and tell you give them how many people are in your household
and all that stuff right but
this is a sum so it
says the sum of the children of Israel
after their number then
shall they give every man
a ransom for his soul unto the Lord
so this is somehow connected
to
a ransom for your soul and don't
don't we say like Jesus paid the ransom
for us I
mean there's a direct connection with that you know
he's redeemed us
and so money is
usually counted in that redemption right
so this is
this is a redemption that you have to give
for this
counting it's like well they count
me and I have to pay how does that work out
well I mean I don't know that's just how God
wants it done but it says when thou numbest
them that there be no plague
among them when thou numbest
them so
the ransom has to be given if
they're counted when they're numbered
that there be no plague among
them now that's very
important because there's a
Bible a couple chapters in the Bible
where it deals with this specifically about
David counting the people
and being tempted to count the people when he shouldn't
have done it so this is
you know this is really about
you know kind of
counting when you're about to go to war
when it's some kind of
wartime situation and this
is you know they're about to go and be
counted to go into the promised
land to fight these
wars and whatever and
this is why God specifically asked
them to be counted
this isn't what he's doing now he's just saying
when you do it when I tell you to do it this
is how it's supposed to be done
so verse 13
this they shall give everyone that
passeth among them that are numbered
half a shekel
after the shekel of the sanctuary
a shekel is 20
geras and half
shekel shall be the offering
of the Lord so they have
to give an offering of the
shekel of the sanctuary
it's like their
monetary
number of
whatever what is a shekel
that's why I said I need you
what is a shekel like
in American dollars or how would that compute
it's probably like a dollar or something right
or kind of our equivalent
to a dollar I didn't look
I'm sorry
sorry brother Bill I told you to be ready
in an hour what you think not
you know Pastor Thompson is going to call
on you so
he's our coin guy he just failed
I'm just kidding I'm kidding
sorry brother Bill
I'm picking on you tonight for some reason
it's because he's sitting right there that's why
but no so anyway they have
so I don't think this is an exorbitant amount
of money obviously it's a half
a shekel you know there's some Jews today
that would be upset about a half shekel right now but
I don't think this is like some big
giant amount of money but I mean
it might have been fairly significant
but not it's you know
when you're talking about millions of people
half a shekel you know
it's probably not a big deal
but notice that it's only the men that have
to give it so it didn't say
every man woman and child has to give
it it's the man that's responsible
for taking care of the household which is the way it should
be but
and every man
that was over the age of 20 is the one that had
to give of this so
because they were the ones that were counted
as to be soldiers for war
so but
notice what it says it says in verse 15
the rich shall not give more the poor
shall not give less than half
a shekel when
they give an offering unto the Lord to make an
atonement for your souls so notice that this is
talking about making an atonement for your souls
and it's also
fair for everybody
it's not you know
the rich don't get taxed more
and the poor don't get taxed less
this is the different this is different
from the economic situation that we live in
right tax the rich
to give to the poor and really
the poor aren't really they're not talking about
giving to the poor they're talking about giving to the people that don't want
to work in most cases nowadays
I mean
drive around the back of the church and see
what they're giving it to and it's just
awful I mean just leaving trash and
garbage everywhere that's not
where I want my tax dollars to go
personally but I'm not rich
by any stretch of the imagination either so
um but
anyway so this is just talking
about you know if you think about the fact
that Jesus ransomed
us he paid for us he bought us
back basically if you think of it that
way he
you know we are lost
but he found us and he
he paid for us in every way you could possibly
think of but
if you think of it in the fact that he bought us back
monetarily he
paid for us and
you know he's not he he doesn't
do more for other people he
the the the baseline's
the same it's I
died for you you can be saved
everybody's saved the same way
everybody gets the same thing for being
saved the rewards
are something different the rewards are
what you get for serving him
but everybody gets the same thing
and you know we don't have
to pay for our salvation
he's paying it for us
and so when he redeems us
it's all the same you know he paid
the price for everybody
and nobody gets it you know
it's it's nothing more nothing less
we don't have like the poor people don't have to do
more to get saved than the rich people do
and vice versa if
you think of it like that so
and it says and thou shall take the atonement
money of the children of Israel
and shall appoint it for the service of the
tabernacle of the congregation that it may
be a memorial unto the children of Israel before the
Lord to make an atonement
for your souls so what did they use
the money for? for the service
of the tabernacle of the congregation
so who did that go to? it went to
the Levites and you know the
priests or whatever to make
and probably for repairs
whatever you know it went to the service
of the tabernacle so
this is something that everybody had to do
when they counted the sum
of the people and who did they
count? the men
you know it was 20 years old
and upwards so let's look at that
Numbers chapter 1
verse number 1
the Bible says
and the Lord spake unto
Moses in the wilderness in Sinai
in the tabernacle of the congregation on the first
day of the second month and the
second year after they were come out
of the land of Egypt saying
take ye the sum of all the
congregation of the children of Israel after their
families so here he is commanding them
to do it now
with the number of their names
every male
by their poles
from 20 years old and upward
all are
able to go
all that are able to go forth
to war in Israel
thou and Aaron shall number them
by their armies
so you see how it's counted
for by their armies for this purpose
so
and that it's 20 years old
and upward so they're responsible
you know people talk about this age
of accountability who's ever heard about age of
accountability well when you're
talking about age of accountability you know
just when you turn 20 years old that doesn't
necessarily make you a man
automatically but what it does make you
is responsible to
pay for yourself financially
according to what this
is saying it makes you responsible
to pay for the half
shekel for the temple
for the congregation
and it makes you responsible
to be able to go to war
so is 18
I mean obviously in this country it's 18
and we've had people in this country
you know when all the
World War I and II
were going on people were like 15, 16
trying to get in and
and lie about their age so
they could go and fight and I know that it happened
I'm sure it did
but biblically
God didn't want people under 20 years old
fighting in the battles
so that's just the way it is
but that's what the Bible says so
and then they're responsible
for you know there's also
a lot of other rules like if they just
got married God didn't want them
to fight in an army
if they just got married he wants them to
comfort their wife and get
to know them and comfort them
because they need a lot of comfort
you know in that first year and
you know so that's
that's kind of you know
this is God's way of you know
making sure that things are paid for
and up kept but also
you know I was talking about the age of accountability
well who knows what that is
there is no age in the Bible
but people will say well
I've heard people say that 20 years old
people aren't responsible for their sins until
they're 20 and that's just I don't believe that at all
I think that's just ridiculous
like people know
I think people know way earlier
you know but everybody's
you know accountability
is probably different depending on
where they're at mentally
or where they're at you know even just
probably a lot of factors go
into that a lot of
factors go into that what is their
exposure to
the gospel what is their exposure
to church I think that
God probably takes all that into consideration
that's probably why there isn't like you know
here's the age of accountability at seven years old
you know this is when you're responsible
like it varies
I think that there's kids
that are you know from
four or five years old that
are wise enough to understand
salvation to get saved
probably under those ages I would say probably
can't quite grasp it yet
I don't know that I've ever seen a
four year old understand it yet
but I know that there are people
that say that they were saved at four years
old but you know I mean
and you don't remember much from those years
a lot of people don't remember much but
um I
I remember at three years old knowing
it was wrong to stick things in my pocket that
weren't mine I've told the
shoplifting story before
being three years old three or four years old and
stuffing toys in my pocket that I
my grandma said I couldn't get and so
I put them in my pocket and
then when I was trying to mess around
later and she was like what do you got in your hand
there I was like nothing you know
she caught me made me
call the store and say I was sorry I think she
maybe I think she took me back there and
they probably had security scare me or something
I don't know it was Kmart
but why do I remember that when I was three years old
I mean you know why
because I knew it was wrong
I knew it was wrong when I did
I remember looking both ways
and going
and I got away with it I was that slick
but you know
was I accountable
at that point I don't know
and so people ask this well what do you think the age of accountability is
I don't know I really
honestly don't know
but do I think babies go to hell
if they die in a car
accident or something no I don't think that
I don't think little children go to hell
I don't you know
and again I'm not sure what the age of
accountability is but I don't think it's
20 I think you're accountable for
you know paying taxes
probably and all that stuff but again
we live in a country where it's 18
18 you're a man or 18 you're an
adult and it's like I know a lot of 18 year olds that aren't
ready for society yet
but
you know that's just
but what does God say they're responsible
at what age they're responsible
for being you know you can be
drafted into war at age
20 doesn't say 18 doesn't
say 17 doesn't say 19
so now
look at verse 16 it says
let's see
okay I'm sorry where did I
end at there
verse 3 from 20 years old and upward
all that are able to go forth
to war in Israel
thou and Aaron shall number them by their
armies and with you
there shall be a man of every tribe
everyone head of the house of his fathers
now skip down to verse 16 these
were the renowned of the congregation
princes of the tribes
their fathers heads of thousands
in Israel and Moses
and Aaron took these men which are
expressed by their names and they
assembled all the congregation together
on the first day of the second
month and they declared
their pedigrees after their families
by the house of their fathers according to the number of
the names from 20 years old upward
by the poles and the
Lord as the Lord commanded Moses
so he numbered them in the wilderness
of Sinai so I'm
reading all that because
there's that story that I'm talking about
is in 1 Chronicles chapter 21
and for the sake of time I'm not going to
read all that but
let's go there and we'll look at some of the verses
here 1 Chronicles chapter 21
verse number 1
so there's a famous story of course
and I mentioned it already but
where Satan
provokes David
to count and number the people
so remember
God is the one that told
Moses to do this
and why is because he wanted
to see where the numbers
were because if you're a
military general it's
pretty important to know how many soldiers
you have in your army before you go to battle
but here's the thing
God was on their side and
God was the one
that is obviously
the power behind their army
because all those nations were
more powerful and more mighty than they are
the Bible is very clear about that
and most of the time
the children of Israel had some great warriors
obviously David and his mighty men were
obviously some of them were killing
Samson killed a thousand men
with the jawbone of an ass but that's
because he had the power of God on his side
David's mighty men are killing
800 people at a time and things like that
but God is the one
that has the power and so
what David's problem
is what David's sin is here is that
he wants to see how
powerful he is in his army
and I think it's pride because Satan
always tempts you to be proud
and that's why we got to be careful
not to get
once we start having pride in our looks
or our intellect
or how well we do things
pride does want
to creep up in our lives
and tempts us to sin
in lots of different
ways but look at 1 Chronicles 21
it says and Satan stood up against
Israel and provoked David to number
Israel so
just that verse right there just tells you
he stood up against Israel so
he's trying to do something to
topple Israel the nation right
and how did he do that well he
provoked David to number Israel
so he's provoking him to do what
he's provoking him to sin
so that he can accuse him before God
now I think in the
account of 1 Kings or
I think it's in 1 Kings
it says God had him
but God allowed Satan to tempt him
so people will say there's a contradiction there
but I'm not going to go into that
but obviously
you know from Job that Satan
has to go before God to allow
him for God to allow him to
do anything to anybody
but it says and David said to Joab
and to the rulers of the people go number Israel
from Beersheba even to Dan
and bring the number of them to me that I may
know it so he wants to know
how many soldiers do I have
and Joab answered
the Lord made his people a hundred
times so many
more as they be but my Lord
the King are they not all
my Lord's servants why then
doth my Lord require this thing
why will he be a cause
of trespass in Israel
nevertheless the King's word prevailed
against Joab wherefore
Joab departed and went throughout
all Israel and came to Jerusalem
and Joab gave the sum of the number of the people
unto David and all they
of Israel were a thousand thousand
and a hundred thousand men
that drew sword and Judah
was four hundred
threescore and ten thousand men
that drew sword but
Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them
for the King's word was abominable
to Joab so here's like
one time where Joab is actually
the good guy in the story
I mean this is a rare moment so
pay attention but this is actually
one time you know it's like people say well
was Joab saved this
actually kind of makes me
think well maybe Joab was saved I mean
he's talking spiritual here so
I mean obviously he's a
murderer there's no doubt about that but
anyway
he's really upset because David's doing something
wrong here what's he doing wrong well he's being prideful
he's like how big's my army
Joab go find out and then
he doesn't even count some of the people because he's so upset
and it says and God was
displeased with this thing therefore he smote
Israel why did God
smite Israel why
because they didn't
pay the half shekel that they were supposed to
pay because when you count the sum of the number
then you have
to pay the fee
right the half shekel
or what's going to happen the plague
is going to burst out upon you so when
David gets the three choices
to fall into his I think it's to
fall into his enemy's hands
the Lord's hand
or I forget what the other one is but
it's in here somewhere
but anyway he chooses to fall in the hands of the Lord
because the Lord is merciful and what's
the Lord do he plagues the people
he does exactly what
is said in the word
of God so some people are
confused by this story so I just kind of want to explain that
that's why God did this
and people are like well it's David's
fault why didn't he you know and even David
says well like why are you punishing them I'm the one
that did it but you know sometimes
the people pay for what the leaders do
and so it's important as leaders
that we do the
right thing because the people can
pay for what they do so
and you know some more
application is you know again
obviously the application for
us as far as the
ransom is that Jesus did it for everybody
so um
and also that you know
in church life
you know when we have when we start
counting numbers and being proud
of the numbers that we have
that can be a prideful thing
too and I'm talking about like so many numbers
or you know even just like
you know people I'm sure
churches get all proud about their church
their church attendance numbers and things like
that and I just think that you know
numbers are good there's a book called
Numbers we were just in it and
there's nothing wrong with counting things but I
think that we need to do things with the right spirit
and the right purpose so
you know just a little application for us
that you know just have the
right reason and the right spirit for doing
things because if it's about
you know a
thing of pride like it was for David
he didn't care
he didn't care it wasn't a thing about
it wasn't a righteous reason
for counting the numbers it was an unrighteous
reason wasn't it he was provoked
to do it out of pride and
you know it cost him dearly
because he was doing it for
the wrong reason so now let's look at the
laver of brass
the laver of brass in verse number 17
back in our text
and brass remember
kind of represents judgment
and it also represents
justification but judgment
is a big
thing because obviously
you know you have the altar that's made out of brass
the sacrifices are
done in the brass
in the brazen altar
and then
so verse 17
it says in the Lord speaking of Moses saying
thou shalt also make a laver
of brass and his foot
also of brass
to wash with all
and thou shalt put it
between the tabernacle of the
congregation and the altar
and thou shalt
put water therein
so I should have brought the tabernacle out
so there's the tabernacle you know the tent
thing and then there's
the laver and then
the altar so between the altar
and the tabernacle there's the
laver so to wash
therein it says for Aaron and his son
shall wash their hands and their feet
thereat when they go into
the tabernacle of the congregation they shall wash
with water
that they die not
so this is a make or break situation
here you know
in the New Testament you see
the Pharisees and Sadducees
are always mad at Jesus because he's not washing his hands
and his disciples are not washing their hands
because they're not
obeying the traditions of the fathers
okay but this is not
that this is a command
to wash your hands and wash your feet
but
this is a different situation
Jesus wasn't offering sacrifices
this is a command
to wash but it's not
to wash your hands before supper okay
so this is something
the priest had to do it's a ceremonial thing
but it says that they wash with water
that they die not or
when they come near to the altar to minister
to burn offering
to burn offering made by
fire onto the Lord
so shall so they shall
wash their hands and their feet that they
die not and it shall be a statute
forever to them even
to him and to his seed
throughout their generation so
apparently
before and
after or whatever each thing that they have to
not only wash their hands but they have
to wash their feet so it immediately
made me think of John chapter
I guess John chapter 16 where
after they get done with the Lord's Supper
Jesus puts that what wraps
that towel around him and he gets down
and he washes the disciples feet
and he says you have no part with me
you know because Peter like gives him a
he's like well you'll never wash my feet
Lord and he's like if you don't
if I don't wash your feet you have no part with me
and so like he
you know as again as the high priest
he gets down and washes their feet
and that must
have been really weird
for the disciples to have their
Lord wash their feet obviously that's
a picture of servant leadership
and servitude and saying hey like
I did that's what I want you guys
to do so true leadership
is going to serve
the people that they lead that's
Jesus' example
but obviously this is
you know symbolic of just
being clean when you're doing
the work of the Lord
so but
there's
there's two washings that kind of
we've looked at here in the last
couple chapters so
the first washing of the priest
so ceremoniously the
priests have to wash right
the first washing of the priest was to
hallow them to minister unto the lords
of the priests office
and you know we see the children of Israel
you know
we know they've been you know as we as
God's children have been made priests and kings
in order
that we can offer up spiritual sacrifices
unto God right
in Exodus 29 4 you don't have to
turn back there but you can if you want you're right there
anyway it says in Aaron and his sons
thou shalt bring unto the
door of the tabernacle of the congregation and
shall wash them with water
so Moses was supposed to wash them right
with water now in this
chapter they have to put that
laver there and they have to wash
their hands they have to wash their hands and feet
doesn't say that Moses has to wash
their hands and feet so the first washing
is what Moses washes
their hands and feet and then
they wash their hands right or it
doesn't say their hands and their feet in verse
in Exodus
29 4 it says thou shalt
wash them with water
so now
I might
just I might not
have you turn to every verse but I'm going to read some
verses for you and have you turn to some of them so
revelation chapter
one verse five revelation chapter
one verse five and
so the first
washing the priest did remember
Moses washed them the
second one they washed themselves
so let's look at some verses
revelation chapter one verse five
it says and from Jesus Christ who is
the faithful witness and the first
begotten of the dead and the prince of the kings
of the earth unto him that loved us
and washed us from our
sins with his own blood and
hath made us kings and priests unto
God and his father
to him be glory and dominion
forever and ever amen so
he first washed us
right so again
you get the picture the first washing
Moses washed them he pictures
Jesus right and then the second washing
they're they're they're kind
of washing themselves so
Jesus washed us with his
own blood and then he makes
us kings and priests right
now look at first Peter
chapter two verse five first Peter chapter
two verse five this is you know
this is great stuff here
if you're lost if you're tired
if you're
need to go back and look at some of this stuff then
do it later
but this is the stuff I like
first Peter two five says
he also has lively stones
are built up a spiritual house
and holy priesthood
to offer up spiritual
sacrifices acceptable to
God by who?
Jesus Christ okay
so we're a holy
priesthood in the New Testament
first Peter two nine says
but you're a chosen generation
a royal priesthood
that's a king priest right
and holy nation a peculiar
people that you should show forth
the praises of him who
hath called you out of darkness
through his marvelous light
Titus three five
I'm just going to keep reading you can turn to him if you want
Titus three five not by
works of righteousness which we have done but according
to his mercy he saved us by
the washing of regeneration
and renewing of the
Holy Ghost
so we are washed by
the regeneration when we are
saved and the renewing of the Holy
Ghost first Peter chapter one
verse two elect according to the
foreknowledge of God the father through
sanctification of the spirit
unto obedience and sprinkling
of the blood of Jesus Christ
grace unto you and peace be multiplied
Hebrews chapter
10 verse 22 let us draw
near with a true heart in full assurance
of faith having our hearts
sprinkled from an evil conscience
our bodies washed
with pure water so I mean
none of that is just said for no
reason it is picturing the
things that we have been looking at in these
chapters you can't deny that
Jesus washing us
you know being washed by pure water
sprinkled with blood
I mean all the things that Moses had
to do he had to I mean you remember he is sprinkling
the people with blood he is sprinkling
all the sprinkling all the stuff he is washing
with water all these different things
now the second washing again
so the first washing
Moses washed them
and we get washed by Jesus Christ
by his blood okay
and you know in that picture
the Holy Spirit coming
into us that is the washing of the water
baptized by the Holy Spirit
right that is you know
isn't that what it is called the baptism
of the Holy Spirit when we get saved
sealed by the Holy Spirit
now the second washing of the
priest was performed by the priest on
themselves and they were
to wash themselves how does that
apply to us today well let's look
at some verses real quick
2 Corinthians chapter 7 verse number 1
2 Corinthians chapter 7
verse number 1 if you are not going to turn there I don't hear
anybody turn in there if you are on your smart phones
go fast or whatever
2 Corinthians 7 says
having therefore these promises dearly beloved
let us cleanse ourselves
from all filthiness
of the flesh and spirit
perfecting holiness in the fear
of God so are we supposed to
cleanse ourselves yes we are
supposed to we are supposed to
work on our sin problems folks
but yeah we have God's you know
obviously God has forgiven us and cleans
us from all unrighteousness and all that
but yet we still sin while we are in our
bodies while we are here on this earth
and look it is a fight it is a
dog fight every single day
to get sin out of our lives but it is a
continual cleansing why do the
priests have to keep going back and cleansing
at that wash that labor that
breeze and labor because every
day it is something that we have to continuously
do and it is several times a day probably
we just have to just
try to get right and try to do our best
to cleanse ourselves from
all the filthiness and stuff that we have to endure
in this world and
not only that our own bodies betraying us
all the time because our body
wants to sin
it just always wants to escape
and do what is wrong and look at what is not right
and feel
what is wrong and just be in
places that are wrong and
and hear things that are wrong I mean
it is a fight
James 4-8 says
draw nigh to God and he will draw
nigh to you cleanse
your hands you sinners
and purify your hearts you
double minded so are we supposed
to how are we supposed to draw
not how does God how do we get God
to draw nigh to us well he
says to cleanse your hands how do you do
that I mean
it's obviously it's a spiritual thing
but he's picture what is it
picturing that brazen
labor I mean
cleansing your hands right
so this act of cleansing
is often just referred to
as the individual sanctifying
himself to the service of
God so let's look at
another one 2 Timothy chapter 2
verse 21 2 Timothy chapter 2 verse 21
if a man therefore purge
himself from these
he shall be a vessel
unto honor sanctified
meat for the
master's use that means fitting for the master's use
and prepared unto
every good work you see
this is what the priest we're supposed to this is
the picture of the priest that we're
going to also you know
he sanctified himself
first then
he sanctified them
us you know picturing us
so that we can actually be
useful to God
because without being saved without being
cleansed from all these things
we're kind of worthless
you know and
obviously we can't
do this on our own Jesus has to help
us but we do have a personal
responsibility to try
to you know be useful
to God and cleanse ourself
from this filthiness of the flesh
and of the spirit not just of the
flesh but the spirit also
so the order of washing
in the Old Testament was
that the priests were first washed
and then later they were continually
washing themselves
and likewise the order of
washing that takes place in life
of you know a child of God is that
they're washed first washed by the
Holy Spirit in the new birth
then having been born
of the spirit of God they are continually cleansed
themselves from ungodly living
and ungodly practices
this is done because they have been justified
by the blood of Christ
so
that's a pretty good picture of the
labor right? So you have the first cleansing
chapter 29
then you have the second cleansing
so
let's see how much time do I got here
a few more minutes
I don't know if I have time to do it all
though here
I'm gonna pickle and make you guys mad
already hosed you well we had
like two weeks off
oh
man I don't know
this is risky
alright
so the anointing oil
number four the anointing
oil and incense so
they had to make it a specific way
okay verse 22
in our text moreover the Lord spake
unto Moses saying take thou also
unto the three
unto the principal
spices of pure myrrh
500 shekels and of sweet
cinnamon half so much
even 250
shekels and of sweet calamus
250 shekels
and of cassia 500
shekels after the shekel
of the sanctuary and of
oil olive and hen
so this combination is what they're
taken right? and thou shalt
make it an oil
of holy ointment
an ointment compound after the art
of the apothecary and it shall be
a holy anointing oil
so back then they had this specific
compound that was used
specifically for the anointing
of things not just
things you know
I mean I'm just gonna skip past all this
but if you were paying attention to the Bible reading
it's like everything is anointed
with this oil all the
vessels all the
burnt offering vessels
the candlesticks
the altars
everything and then the people
and their clothes so
everything has to have all
these things on it
and now let's look down at verse
let's skip down to verse 33
or verse 32
it says upon man's flesh
shall it not be poured neither
shall ye make any other
like it after the composition
of it it is holy and it shall be
holy unto you whosoever
compoundeth any like it
or whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger
shall be cut off from his people
so I mean it's a pretty big deal
to not remake it and make it
and call it obsession cologne or something
and sell it outside and have
other people use it this is a special thing
that God uses specifically
for the anointing
of things okay what is the
anointing oil represent does anybody know
the
Holy Spirit yes
so when the oil is poured
on something it represents the
anointing of the Holy Spirit correct
so now
let's look at verse let's see
37 and it says and as for the
perfume which thou shalt make
you shall not make it to yourselves according
to the composition thereof it shall
be unto thee holy
for the Lord
whosoever shall make like unto it
to smell thereto shall
even be cut off from his people
so it probably smelled pretty good it's probably smelled
really appealing you know
it's probably smelled better than petroleum oil
that hippie you know
stink covering stuff that they make right
but
you know I would just say just thinking about
the fact that it's a unique thing that nobody
else can
you know it's a it represents something
that's holy unto the Lord it represents the Holy Spirit
well
you know no other there's
no other spirit like
the Holy Spirit and so
you don't want to have any other
spirit besides the Holy Spirit
there's no other saving regenerating
thing like the Holy Spirit
and so why would God you know
this picture is like this is you know because
the Bible talks about how you know test the
spirits whether they're of God and
talks about there's many there's all these different types
of spirits out in the world and there's
demonic spirits but they
but the Holy Spirit is totally different
and set apart and
is called the Holy Spirit for a reason
and so
it's not like you know
anything else so that's why God's like don't make
anything like this because
this is you know unique
this is the Holy Spirit of God
is what it's representing so
I mentioned that that colon obsession
right in the 90s
colon and stuff like that
and I grew up in the 90s
a little bit 80s 90s
and colon was a big deal
when I was in high school who
went to yeah
what was the ones what was your favorite
brother Joe
see
ok
Ramon
I liked obsession
anybody else
want to weigh in
Axe body spray
there you go this is when
things start to go downhill
Old Spice
Brute
no but like
there's ones like Cool Water Cologne
Eternity Drakkar those were really
popular CK
Polo Nautica
Clinique Happy
those are the girl ones but
Ralph Lauren Old Spice
I put Axe body spray in here because I knew
it was really popular with my boys but
you know they also sell fake brands
of that have you ever seen like
those those bootleg looking
they're like well it's like
Drakkar or it's like obsession
or whatever but you know
there's a there's a reason why is because there's
trademarks involved in making
cologne and perfume and you have
it's just like the Colonel's secret recipe
you know it's locked in a vault
and you're not supposed to you know Coca Cola
has its own secret recipe
and it's trademarked you can't
make any other thing like Coca Cola
so that's why Coca Cola has its own unique taste
or Pepsi or whatever else you want to talk about
but you know cologne
specifically has its own
smell and all that so like if you get
those bootleg Louis type stuff
or you know even Louis
Vuitton there's like fake Louis if you go to the
Philippines you're going to people are going to be trying to sell you all
kinds of fake Louis Vuitton
all this other stuff and when you get
back to America it falls apart but
so my point is
is that it
doesn't it's not like the original
you'll they'll say it's
like that but it's not really like that
because they don't really have the right recipe
but
you know there's nothing like the Holy
Spirit there's nothing like
that holy anointing oil
we're not supposed to make anything
like it obviously and
I don't even know if those components
even exist to be able to make it now anyway
but it doesn't really matter because we're in the New Testament
so the only time the New Testament talks
about putting anointing oil
on somebody is when you anoint someone
that's sick when you bring them to the elders
of the church and I and I personally
believe that that's talking about when someone's like
has some really
bad sickness that it's not just
every cold you know people are coming
up and I think it's a special
like occasion or
some special thing that people can't get over
something but I don't I'm not
gonna make this blend it's just gonna
be straight up extra virgin olive
oil and I'm gonna dump it on your head
I'm gonna pray it's not gonna be like
on you know I'm not just gonna go
you know see you later you know
but I have done that before
I've you know done it with other pastors before
and you know it's it's
but do I think that there's
something magical about that oil or
special about that oil
it no I think that it's doing
what God says by faith
that's what
that's what the Bible says to do
to you know anoint them with
oil calling upon
the name of the Lord
and you know the prayer of faith
shall save them it's the prayer of faith
that saves them and if
the Bible says we're supposed to put the oil on them
then we put the oil on them but
what is the purpose
behind doing it
well it's hallowing
those things so
to put the anointing
oil on to the priest
was what it was hallowing them
it was setting them apart it was
you know it was what is the picture
it pictures the Holy Spirit's
power upon that man's
life that's being ordained
you know the beard the oil ran
down Aaron's beard and
you know all the things that are you know
anointed with it it shows that it's holy
unto the Lord it's got the power
of God behind it the power of the
Holy Spirit so
so I mean
that's what the purpose of it is and
it'll talk about that more in Exodus chapter 40
but
in addition to the tabernacle
so the priests were
anointed with oil
the kings of Israel were anointed
with oil Samuel was anointed with
oil or excuse me David was
anointed with oil Saul was anointed
with oil Solomon was anointed
with oil you know and even
Elijah or Elisha
Elijah anointed the Syrian
kings with oil
and he anointed Elisha
to it with oil
people were anointed with oil in the
Old Testament now when
we're when we get the Holy
Spirit we don't pour
oil on people
when they get saved it's not like we get them
saved at the door and then we just pour a thing of oil on top
of them but
I mean because but that is the picture
the picture of the Holy Spirit being
poured upon them that is the picture of the oil
it just I think that people would probably be weirded
out if we just you know it's like
praise God you got saved just like
and run off like that what was that king
and like you know it's
Jehu is like he just
like cracked the oil and ran off
he's like
just run away don't talk to him
but you know in the New
Testament we have a better anointing
and you know
we have
again Jesus as our high priest
Hebrews 6 20
and him being the king of kings lord of lords
it's written on his thigh
it's written on his on his
breast the king of kings the lord of lords
revelation 1916
and you know so
he's he was
anointed well when do you remember
seeing Jesus being anointed with oil
in the New Testament
do you remember seeing that in the New Testament
you're doing the New Testament challenge
when was Jesus anointed
does anybody know
turn to Luke chapter
3 Luke chapter 3
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I
can't just preach a one page sermon later
on I just I gotta get it done alright
so
Luke 3 21
now when the people were baptized
it came to pass that
Jesus also being baptized and
praying the heaven was
opened and the Holy Ghost descended
in a bodily shape like a dove upon
him and a voice
came from heaven which said
thou art my beloved son and thee
I am well pleased
I mean is that the picture of him being anointed
I mean he's literally
the Holy Ghost literally comes down upon
him and rests upon him and
the Bible also talks about him being
filled by the spirit
filled with the spirit without measure
so Jesus Christ
was anointed and what
you know people say you know the Messiah
means the anointed one or whatever
they'll say you know that Jesus Christ is
the anointed one well
is he the anointed one yes he is
he's the anointed of God
and in Luke chapter 4 verse 18 it
says he says
after his baptism he says the spirit
of the Lord is upon me because he hath anointed
me to preach the gospel to
the poor and he has
sent me to heal the brokenhearted to preach deliverance
to the captives in recovering of sight to
the blind and to set at liberty then
that are bruised so Jesus
Christ here admits that he's anointed
doesn't he so when you know
when did Jesus's earthly ministry
start when
he got baptized right
when I mean I'm not saying that Jesus wasn't
spiritual before that he was I'm just
saying when was when do you see the clear
anointing in the Bible you see it in
the baptism and then
after that's when he started doing all the miracles
and the great mighty works right
Acts chapter 4 verse 27 says
for of a truth
again thy holy child
Jesus whom thou hast anointed
both Herod and Pontius Pilate
with the Gentiles and the people of Israel
were gathered together
Acts 10 38
how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth
with the Holy Ghost I mean there you
go right there I mean that really just clearly
says it how God anointed
Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost
and with power who went about
doing good and healing all that were
oppressed of the devil for God was with
him so the Holy Spirit did
the anointing and he
is the anointing oil
that the anointing oil represents
in this passage tonight
he's not like any other
and so
thus through the anointing of
God Jesus is both
our holy
high priest and holy
king so you know
that's just
I mean that just kind of
seals and ties everything together
in my mind it's like
well because God always
anointed priests he always
anointed kings and
you know his ultimate anointing was at his
baptism where he became
the high priest and
king of kings lord of lords I mean obviously
we know that Jesus is God and he's always
been and he's almighty and whatever but
but
we have an unction the Bible says
from the Holy One
and you know all things so
in conclusion the anointing of the Holy Spirit
is the miraculous work of the
new birth and it's made us saints
and enabling
us to minister in the offices of king
and priest and
you know
and Jesus Christ of course is our high priest
and our king of kings and lord
of lords that's it let's go let's
pray lord thank you so much
for this great chapter
and pray you just help us
lord it's a lot to to kind of
just take in but
pray that you'd help us lord to just
soak it all in and
that lord you give us a
better understanding of the old testament
what applies to us in the new testament
what it pictures and
lord I know it's a lot of details to think about
and to go over a lot of scripture but
I just pray that you'd
help us to understand
and that lord you take
care of us and keep us safe and bring us
back for the next service in Jesus name we pray
amen
oh that's okay
no worries
my
we're done
okay
song three nine nine let's each get on the
first
sup dude
i need
no other
argument
i need
information overload
i really like that
about the washington first and the second
jesus says
this ends my fear
and doubt
a simple soul
i come to
him he'll never
cast me out
i
need no other
argument
i need no other
plea
it
is enough
that jesus died
and that he died
for me
my heart
is leaning
on the word
the written word
of god
salvation
by my savior's
name
salvation through his
blood
i need no other
argument
i need no
other plea
it is enough
that jesus died
and that he
died for me
my
great physician
heals the sick
the lost he came
to save
for me his
precious blood
he shed for me
his life he
gave
i need no other
argument
i need no
other plea
it
is enough
that jesus died
and that he
died for me
you