It is the Holy Spirit who can shower blessings from heaven. We pray He may bring them now. As we look at your Word, may the spirit of light give us light, the spirit of truth teach us truth, the spirit of wisdom give us wisdom, and the Spirit of holiness make us holy. Quicken my mind, and give all who are here ears to hear and hearts to embrace the truths we learn today.
We know there are billions of not only worlds, but even galaxies outside of us, so vast that no man has, forget about traveling there, been able to see them fully with the most advanced telescope. How many objects are flying there? In that vast space, sometimes a big rock, cruising through vast space for thousands of light years, crossing the sun, stars, galaxies, planets, air, and fire, crosses earth’s atmosphere and comes and falls on land. It is called a meteorite. When such a thing happens, immediately, scientists and researchers and government officials hurry to the site and eagerly study the celestial sample or specimen in order to discover answers to the mysteries of the universe. Through that rock, in a way, heaven has come down and touched the earth.
In the same way, thousands of years ago, an exact sample of the highest heaven fell on earth in the form of the tabernacle in the desert of Sinai, because the God of heaven had come down to dwell with sinners. Profoundly, heaven has come down and touched the earth. We see the sample here in Leviticus. If we are to understand heaven’s secrets and prepare ourselves to go to that heaven, we are to be like those scientists, eagerly and carefully studying this celestial specimen of the tabernacle in order to understand heavenly mysteries.
We’ve seen the first section of the book about the five major offerings. What a wonderful blessing it has been in my own life to draw closer to God. We could all recite by memory that the first approach to God is the burnt offering, the expression of our gratitude is the grain offering, the peace offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering. We saw these from chapters 1-6:7.
If you read from 6:8 onwards until the end of chapter 7, it is another repeat cycle through the five offerings, with more ritualistic instructions for each of these offerings. In a way, 1-6:7 is the first cycle of five offerings, where we find the common Israelite’s instruction for each of the five offerings. And then in the second cycle, sweeping through each of the five offerings in 6:7 through the end of chapter 7, this is minute instructions given for the priests so they will know the specific ritual that needs to take place. You can actually read them; it is all again about the five offerings, with minute details from the priest’s side. Therefore, we are going to leap over verses 6:8 through chapter 7 and begin expounding here at chapter 8 and verse 1.
If there is one lesson we should remember, it shows how careful the Lord is about His worship, repeatedly saying, “just as the Lord commanded.” You cannot play with the worship of the Lord; He orders every detail of His worship. We must follow His method for acceptable worship. So we’ve already looked at the five sacrifices in the first major section of Leviticus.
Now, we will go to the second section of Leviticus, starting at 8:1 through chapter 11. We come to the second major section. What is it about? Remember the goal of the book: God is in the process of making man, damaged by sin, whole and perfect again as He created us and to be reconciled to God. Only God knows how to do that. For that, our first great need is a substitute sacrifice which meets the basic needs of our human life for love by the burnt offering, for joy by the grain offering, for peace by the peace offering, for forgiveness before God by the sin offering, and for the restoration of relationship with our fellow man by the guilt offering. That is what the five sacrifices of Leviticus 1-7 have taught us.
But all those sacrifices cover the sin problem from our side, but that is only half of the story. For us to be reconciled to God, we not only need an atoning sacrifice, we need someone who can take these sacrifices and represent us before God. Sin has caused so much damage in us, and we dare not go before Him with our guilt and plead for ourselves. We need someone’s help for this.
We need help with the emotional and intellectual problems aroused by the sin and struggle in his life. In our own conscience, isn’t there a voice which says, “Oh, I cannot do it myself. I fail so often, I repeatedly fail.” Repeated failure doesn’t give any confidence to go to God. “I need help. My prayer is not enough, it is so poor. My worship is not perfect. My godly life is not great. I don’t understand myself. I do what I don’t want, I cannot do what I want. Sometimes I don’t feel God’s presence. I also wonder whether I love Him. There seems even some hatred against God and holiness.” How can I come to God in an acceptable manner? We feel so inadequate with our guilt and sin.
Don’t just tell me how holy and strict God is and how sinful I am like a prophet, but I need someone who can understand my problems, understands me and my weaknesses with sympathy, with whom I can openly share all my struggles, who can sympathize with my state and problems. When I am tempted, I need his sympathetic help, and who can represent me in heaven and get grace to help me in my situation. Your heart is crying out for its great need, which is the need of a priestly ministry. You need a priest who will meet all your spiritual needs. God knew all this. He knows that we don’t understand ourselves. So He has supplied us with an anointed priesthood to meet all those needs.
Our second great need to come to God is a priest. Even though the sacrifice is provided, we cannot even take that to God’s presence. We need the help of a priest. This is the next great human need. In the Old Testament, no Israelite could offer a sacrifice by himself. He needs a priest for that. When people had emotional problems, guilt, or worries, they always went to priests. Priests were skilled at handling problems of guilt, fear, and anxiety, and man’s heart’s hostility towards God, and all the traumas and neuroses and psychoses which can arise out of these. We need a priest even today.
That is what we are going to study in our next Leviticus section. We focus on the past ministry of Christ, his suffering and death for our salvation on the earth, but we don’t realize what marvelous priestly ministry He is doing even now for us in heaven as a priest. These passages will open the window of heaven and show us that. They will make us realize how much we need that ministry.
In this chapter 8, we see first the anointing and ordination of Aaron and his sons. First, we will do a rapid survey of the 8th chapter. And here we find seven major components in this ordination of Aaron and his sons.
Firstly, the first of the seven is the assembled congregation in verses 1 through 5. The assembled congregation. We find, as I read, that the whole congregation was instructed by God, through Moses, to meet at the doorway of the tabernacle. Maybe a vast group of hundreds of thousands of people, the whole nation there, was gathered and assembled before the tabernacle to see something, as they filled the vast field in front of the east side of the tabernacle. We find that Aaron and his sons are paraded by Moses to the doorway of the tabernacle, just as Jehovah has commanded. We see that Aaron and his sons were not appointed by Moses, nor were they appointed by the common suffrage of the vast community of the people of God. This was not democratic in their appointment. We find that they are appointed by Jehovah Himself; this is a divine appointment. So that is the assembled congregation in verses 1 through 5.
The second major component is the uniform of Aaron in verses 6 through 9. Aaron himself needed to be washed (verse 6), and verse 7, “he put on him the tunic, and girded him with the sash, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod on him; and he girded him with the skillfully woven band of the ephod.” He was wearing a beautiful robe. Very beautiful. Verse 8, “And he put the breastplate on him, and he put in the breastplate the Urim and the Thummim.” He also had a breastplate. On it were gemstones signifying each of the twelve tribes. Tucked into the breastplate was the Urim and the Thummim, two stones like dice. These were lots of sorts. When men wanted to know guidance from God, a certain way that the lots or the dice came up would indicate God’s direction in a certain manner. Verse 9, “And he put the turban on his head; also on the turban, on its front, he put the golden plate, the holy crown.” Also, Aaron had a turban placed on his head as part of his uniform, and a holy crown. Just imagine after Aaron is dressed like this. Imagine you looking at him. Now make no mistake, if we would have been there, we would have beheld a man of striking majesty in appearance, once he had placed upon himself the high priestly uniform. He was made a peculiar sight, filling the eyes of the onlookers with wonder. “Wow!” You should think of him as a watchman in a five-star hotel or Nandhana hotel. They are nothing. This was all grand. It is all gold, with gold threads, an ephod, and a breastplate. Blue, purple, and scarlet yarn: these colors were derived from rare and costly dyes, further adding to the expense of the garments. The 12 stones were rare and incredibly valuable. You can see more details of how wonderful this dress is in Exodus.
The third major component then is the anointing of Aaron in verses 10 to 13. The anointing of Aaron. We find that costly anointing oil is brought for the purpose of consecration. Verse 10, “Also Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and consecrated them.” Verse 11, “He sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times, anointed the altar and all its utensils, and the laver and its base, to consecrate them.” Oil is sprinkled on everything in the tabernacle to consecrate them. Then the oil is poured upon the head of Aaron. Then we find that not only was it Aaron who was given a glorious uniform to wear, but also his sons were girded with striking but more modest apparel, though they indeed had a wonderful appearance.
We come now to the fourth component, and that is the sin offering in verses 14 through 17. The sin offering. You remember our discussions in the sin offering. The sin offering was for unintentional sins, and here we find a sin offering is offered up for the unintentional sin of a high priest, a man of high prominence. Therefore, what kind of a beast should be brought? Well, we know that it should be a bull that is brought. Because he is the man of supreme position, he is the man who needs the supreme sacrifice to be offered up. Verse 14, “Then Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull for the sin offering.” Verse 15, “And Moses killed it. Then he took the blood, and put some on the horns of the altar. And he poured the blood at the base of the altar.” Verse 16, “Then he took all the fat that was on the entrails, the fatty lobe attached to the liver, and the two kidneys with their fat, and Moses burned them on the altar.” Verse 17, “But the bull, its hide, its flesh, and its offal, he burned with fire outside the camp, as the Lord had commanded Moses.” After part of the bull is offered up, the other part is taken where? Outside of the camp, indicating the sin and the uncleanness that God will not tolerate in His presence.
Then fifthly, we come to the burnt offering in 18 through 21. This is the fifth component of our survey. Here it is, a ram that is offered up for a secondary burnt offering, and then we see that this is for the conscious awareness of not only known sins that the priest himself knows that he has committed in his own life, but his person as a defiled person unfit to come to God, and this burnt offering atones for his sins by a substitute. We find that that ram suffers a brutal death. Why? Because the worshipper himself, the priest, deserves that brutal death, and the ram, we find, dies in his stead.
Sixthly, then, we come to the peace offering in 22 through 30. The peace offering in 22 through 30. There we find the second ram is offered up for a peace offering. Remember we talked about the peace offering that involved occasions of great thanksgiving, an answer to prayer, a blessing of God. And certainly at this occasion of the high priestly ordination, there was a great blessing coming from God that man is going to be allowed to fellowship with Jehovah. What a blessing! And therefore there is this celebration of peace offerings. Notice verse 23, “and Moses he took some of its blood and put it on the tip of Aaron’s right ear, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.” He does this even for his sons. Then he does a wave offering with parts of that animal.
We come to the seventh component, and that is the final instructions in verses 30 through 36. There we read about more anointing with oil, more sprinkling with blood, and more complex rituals happening. Verse 31, “And Moses said to Aaron and his sons, ‘Boil the flesh at the door of the tabernacle of meeting, and eat it there with the bread.'” Verse 32, “‘What remains of the flesh and of the bread you shall burn with fire.'” Verse 33, “‘And you shall not go outside the door of the tabernacle of meeting for seven days, until the days of your consecration are ended. For seven days he shall consecrate you.'” Moses warns about how in their feasting, as they are to stay there in the doorway of the tabernacle, they are to feast with great precision, not violating any of the Lord’s commandments. And then, having finished the sacrifices and the cleansings of the first day, they were quarantined in the doorway of the tabernacle for seven days until the ordination period was finished. And what do you think they did for those seven days being quarantined in the doorway of the tabernacle? They didn’t lie idle. They redid, each of the seven days, the cleansings that they engaged in on the first day.
Look what it says in verse 34, speaking about there being seven days in the doorway of the tent of meeting. Verse 34, “As he has done this day, so the Lord has commanded to do, to make atonement for you.” And then, notice in the finale, they are warned not to depart from any of the Lord’s commandments, but to keep the charge of Jehovah that they might not die. Verse 35, “Therefore you shall stay at the door of the tabernacle of meeting day and night for seven days, and keep the charge of the Lord, so that you may not die; for so I have been commanded.” It says in verse 35, there is danger hanging over their head: “if you fail to do anything different and leave the tent, you will die.” “Thus Aaron and his sons did all the things which the Lord had commanded through Moses.” So there is our rapid survey over the seven major components of the ordination of Aaron and his sons. I would encourage you to go home and read it again and again with this outline.
What is all this for us today?
We learn there are so many wonderful lessons in this passage for us. I cannot cover everything today. There will be part 2 of this chapter. I want to bring three important truths. We’re going to look at, first of all, truths about God that we see in this passage. Secondly, truths about Christ that we see in this passage. And thirdly, truths about believers that we see in this passage. Let me see if I can finish lessons about God today.
Come with me, first of all, to truths about God that we find here. I have three truths I want to bring to you. First of all, we see God’s burning holiness. We see His requirement for purity is striking, shocking, and relentless. Now we know that a fundamental attribute of Jehovah is that He is holy. Holy, holy, holy is the Lord our God. Archangels every second for all eternity cry in his presence, “Holy, Holy, Holy.” Habakkuk 1:13 says, “Thine eyes are too pure to see any evil.” God’s eyes cannot behold sin and have the object survive. His sight itself will destroy it. So we see in this passage, the reality of God’s holiness and His attribute of moral purity is trumpeted loudly.
Did you notice the elaborate, long, and complex purification rituals these men are involved in? What is happening here? All this for what? So that a man who is selected by God is anointed. For what? To go to heaven? No, to get to the outer court of this heaven-sample tabernacle. All these purification ceremonies that we read about, these men are to be servants whose feet are to tread the outer court in the house of God. How can they qualify to even have their feet touch the dirt in the tabernacle? It’s only after running through a veritable maze of washings and cleansings, rituals, and anointing. See, on one side, the holiness of God is declared loudly and gloriously, and in that same context, there is that contrasting man’s pervasiveness of sin. Unworthiness and defilement are emphasized. Man is natively fully, from head to toe, unfit even to cross the threshold and enter even the outer court of this heaven-sample house, let alone commune with the living God, because man is totally depraved and God is totally holy.
Look at the rituals. The whole nation has to see this. Verse 6: there had to be that washing with water, and then Aaron had to be girded with the white linen, sash, robe, ephod, and Urim and Thummim in elaborate dressing. And then the anointing of the oil on all the temple items, and then Aaron and his sons. He had to put his hands on the bull for one sacrifice, and there had to be blood splattered upon the horns of the altar. Then there had to be the hands of the high priest placed upon the ram, and more blood on the altar. Then we find that blood was placed on his right earlobe and on his right thumb and on his right big toe, and then it was sprinkled on his garments. Isn’t this relentless? It is shocking, unyielding, and detailed.
After all these preliminaries, is one day over? No. And then all of this stuff had to take place seven days over again of repetition. They had still to undergo a week’s probation in the court of the tabernacle before they obtained permission to enter the outer court of the sacred building. See, all of this was just so they could get to the doorway. During the whole of that period, the same sacrificial rites were observed as on the first day, and they were expressly admonished that the smallest breach of any of the appointed observances would lead to the certain forfeiture of their lives. Verse 35, “Therefore you shall stay at the door of the tabernacle of meeting day and night for seven days, and keep the charge of the Lord, so that you may not die; for so I have been commanded.” It says in verse 35, there is danger hanging over their head: “if you fail to do anything different and leave the tent, you will die.” “Thus Aaron and his sons did all the things which the Lord had commanded through Moses.” So there is our rapid survey over the seven major components of the ordination of Aaron and his sons.
We’re going to read in a chapter ahead about two men who did not keep the charge of the Lord precisely, and fire came down from heaven, and they were consumed, and they did die. What is God saying by all this? “Remember, remember, remember, I am a holy, holy, holy God. You are an unclean sinner, a defiled sinner, a condemned sinner.” We said this tabernacle is a sample or specimen come down from heaven through all the galaxies. As you try to go slowly and touch this, it is so hot it bursts and throws you one mile away. “Don’t play with me; I am fire. I am holy.” Do you feel the heat of God’s holiness rising from this specimen passage? All these rituals are intended to give us that feeling. Do you sense heat here? God is a consuming fire and too holy for us to even come near Him. We are full of impurity, like cotton, which will immediately burn to ashes when it comes near this holy fire.
Not only do we see God’s burning holiness, but we also see God’s infinite love. His love for the elect is vigorous and amazingly enterprising. On one side, we ought to be amazed about how man’s sinful defilement is displayed here. Man is so far from God, totally depraved from head to toe. But in a profound sense, much more we ought to be amazed at the complex enterprise that Jehovah had invented or contrived to remedy man’s plight. Man was caught in a big, complex trouble, sinning against an eternal and holy God, but look at what was devised by their God Jehovah to remedy their situation.
Man has fallen in a horrible pit in 1001 ways, and it is universally impossible for him to come to God. The mind of the gracious Father has devised and appointed an astounding ministry that will lift sinful man from his deep pit and bring him closest to the heart of his God. The name of that ministry is the high priestly ministry.
Did you notice the detailed regulations that are present in this passage? There’s a great complexity that is found here, interweaving the divine principles of the various burnt offerings to deal with the reality of man’s defilement and man’s depravity, and on the other side, satisfying the wonder of God’s holiness. All of these things are complexly woven together in this passage. All this shows that God’s love for the elect is vigorous, strong, and enterprising. It is very creative. The Creator became very, very creative in saving man. Oh, what do I tell you about this ministry? A ministry that will meet every problem of this fallen and completely damaged man.
Just to give an illustration to grasp this love. Imagine a husband and wife. They lived for a few years, and the wife had all kinds of diseases in her body, not one part was okay. Then she also met with a terrible car crash and lives with a difficult problem in every part of her body. On their 25th anniversary, the husband has secretly designed and had built a new home for his dear wife. He carries her and crosses the door threshold. She sees the hall, every item in the hall. Her eyes filled with tears, because, “This is the kind of big hall I always wanted and told you about for years. This is exactly the shelf and this is exactly the color I need.” She looks at the bedroom and wardrobe and space, she looks at her husband. “That is the very thing I’ve been longing for all the 25 years that I have been married to you.” He has designed everything knowing each of her health problems. She cannot climb stairs because of hip pain, so no steps in the house; all ground floor. She can sit in the hall on one sofa and control the fan, TV, and AC, all in one place. She cannot stand for long, so in the kitchen she can sit and cook. The cabinets will automatically come to her hand every time she presses a button, with no movement needed. She has arthritis, so the bathroom is designed with a whirlpool hot bath for her to relax. Every tap has hot water for her. A design for her neck pain, a design for shoulder pain, hand pain, and leg pain. Beholding all of these things, his love for her is displayed by his vigorous and enterprising project. It is very creative. It is complex, showing much forethought. It was tailor-made for her every need. She hugs her husband and kisses him and says, “You are a lovely husband.”
And so too, brethren, as we look at the intricate details of the ministry of priesthood for depraved sinners like you and me, we see the masterful forethought of the living God and His enterprising love for sinners. We will see He matches each and every one of the sinful diseases, guilt, shame, and needs. When we see all this, our eyes should be full of grateful tears as we look at the Father who masterminded all of this on our behalf.
See, as dirty, filthy, guilty sinners, we were created to live in the love of God. We lost that love and are staggering. Here is the burnt offering to feel my acceptance and love. We lost the joy of God and being grateful. Here is the grain offering to feel that joy. Oh, how we lost the peace of God and what a tossing of a tsunami in each of our hearts all our lives. Here is a peace offering to experience God’s peace. Oh, what do I do, I sinned and I continue to sin. Here is a sin offering for your continual sins. Oh, what do I do about this terrible crushing guilt? Here is a guilt offering designed to deliver you from guilt.
But God, all my offerings are so flawed and sinful. Here is a Priest who can sanctify all that and represent you before me. God, I feel guilty. I don’t have the confidence to come to you. I cannot pray as I should, worship as I should, or thank as I should. Don’t worry, I have appointed a perfect priest for you. Here is God’s shadow of that priest, appointing Aaron. He is a type, and is fulfilled in the Lord Jesus Christ. We need washing, our reputation washed. We need an anointed priest. There it is. We need robes of perfect righteousness. It is a wonderful dress here. There they are, right in the passage. And brethren, every detail is by God’s appointment, because it says repeatedly, I believe it’s 12 times in the eighth chapter of Leviticus, it says, “just as the Lord commanded Moses.” Who was it who with such vigorous and enterprising forethought devised all of these things on our behalf, matching our every need? It was the Lord, our God, who commanded Moses, who devised this priesthood to redeem His people.
And brethren, we ought to be filled with wonder and with love as we move through this shadowy blueprint. But even more so, as we move from the blueprint of the Levitical priesthood to the reality that is found in the Lord Jesus Christ, which we will see next time. And it’s interesting, too, how none of Christ’s priestly service was of His own innovation. It was all designed by the love of the Father. Remember how Jesus said in John 6:38, “I came down from heaven not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.”
But sometimes there are individuals who have the notion that God the Father is the member of the Trinity who is the one who brings wrath. And somehow it is the Son who is the one who somehow protects us from the wrath of the head of the Trinity, the Father. This is not true. Who was it who devised all of these provisions of this priesthood in the house of God, which was a tabernacle? It was the Father. The high priest comes and says, “This is not of my innovation. I am merely doing the will of the Father.” Do you sense the love of God in all this complexity? What intense, enterprising love. We see God’s holiness and God’s love.
The final lesson under what we are learning about God, we see the height of God’s grace to sinners. Yes, God is going to send His perfect son to fulfill this great priestly ministry. But this passage shows what kind of sinners He has loved and chosen to save them through this complex, marvelous ministry.
See the selection of the first man for Priesthood: Aaron. Let me ask you, what was the last big public appearance of Aaron before there was the tabernacle erection and the priestly ordination? What was his last big, high-profile public appearance? What did he do? This is the man who forged the golden calf. That’s the last time we saw a high-profile appearance of Aaron. His last formal sermon to the people of God was in these words in Exodus 32:4. After making the golden calf, pointing to a bull, “This is your God, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.” And he did it while Moses was up on a mountain and the people thought, “This man is gone. He’s not coming back. We want something that we can worship with our own eyes.” There was a great sin of insubordination and blasphemy. There was a mutiny that was idolatry that was initiated by Aaron. And when Moses finally came down and had broken the tablets, he asked Aaron, “What have you done?” His lame excuse in 32:24 was, “the people, they asked me to do this. They gave all the gold, and literally, I threw the gold into the fire and out came this calf. It was not my fault.” It’s not my fault! You see this man-fearing coward in this man named Aaron? It’s the last time we saw him. He led them into idolatry. He had done such a horrible sin. He should have been crushed with all those who went down under the earth and perished eternally in hell for his sin.
This unworthy man, the next time he appears in public, God has chosen him and ordained him to the highest spiritual office of the land. Wow! What is this? But behold the height of the grace of God towards sinners.
Isn’t there a profound truth to be found in this? Brethren, we see that with the washings and with the blood, sin offering, burnt, peace, and guilt offering, even such a wretched man and a scoundrel is able to enter into the very Holy of Holies, the presence of the living God.
It wasn’t only Aaron who was such a scoundrel. Isn’t it reminiscent of a Peter? “I shall never deny you.” And then the man-fearing coward, at the cackling of a little slave girl, three times, cusses and swears and makes vows and denies the Lord Jesus Christ. But for him, too, this cowardly sinner, there is a glorious reinstatement. As the Lord Jesus said up in Galilee, “Peter, do you love Me?” And then He said to him, “Feed My sheep.” In other words, he was installed as a leader among all of the twelve disciples. There’s a benefit for us, fellow man-fearing and weak-willed cowards.
It is not just Aaron and Peter. Isn’t this a wonderful sample of what God repeatedly does in saving people? Unworthy, the worst blasphemers, idolators, scoundrels, and wretches, are elected, washed, and welcomed into His presence and given the highest position. We ought to be amazed, brethren, at the kind of a man the living God chooses to serve as a priest in His house. Men just like you and me. Idolaters, scoundrels, and unclean. That’s the kind of a man the living God chooses to be a priest and a guest in His house. Can you believe it? 1 Peter 2:9 says, “we are a royal priesthood.” “But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.” We’re all priests in a new covenant church. We are all men of the cloth, as it were, a royal priesthood. And we remain in our lofty places. Like that beggar, Mephibosheth, sits in the royal palace of King David. We are chosen to sit with the King of Kings. We’ve been chosen to be in this lofty place by our merits? No, by the height of God’s grace, as a testimony of God’s grace.
Our only worth is that we are the worst sinners. God chooses weak-willed, sinful cowards and blasphemers. It’s God’s merciful appointment that makes us to be priests. After we become priests, do we walk like that? No sign. But it’s God’s long-suffering patience that keeps us as priests. We’re going to find Aaron is going to mount a mutiny with his sister Miriam against Moses in chapters ahead. But is he still a priest? Yes.
But is he blown out of the high priesthood? No, not at all. He remains because he’s been appointed by the grace of the living God.
This grace should melt your heart, make you repent, and come back to God today. You who have been idolatrous in your life, maybe even in this past week or past season of life, you’ve been forging mental golden calves, worshipping things of this world, worshipping something materialistic instead of worshipping the living God. You who have been slow to confess or have given all kinds of excuses for your sin, even like Aaron did, behold the grace of God; may it melt you into repentance. You are a royal priest. What are you doing in that gutter of the world?
Come back to the house of the living God, come back to the heavenly feast. He welcomes you, “welcome my priest,” as David says, “he prepares a table before me.”
So, there are three truths of God: God’s holiness, God’s love, and God’s grace.
Don’t miss Part 2 on this chapter; we will read marvelous lessons about the priestly ministry of our Lord Jesus.
Grace Reformed Baptist Church, Bangalore 