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Now can we move to the next one? We've looked at consecration, identification, the application of the blood, and now the appreciation, the appreciation of the sacrifice. If you look down, we're in verse number 25, it says that Moses took the fat and the rump, that's the second thing, and all the fat that was upon the inwards, and the call above the liver, that's number four, and the two kidneys and their fat, number five, and the right shoulder, number six, and if you look down, verse 29, Moses took the breast, that was his portion, number seven.
And so there's an appreciation now of the sacrifice that they'd never had before. Would any of our brethren like to give us some help on what we can learn from those seven things? It's an appreciation that they shared with God, because these are wave offerings, and they are waved for the eye of God, and for God to appreciate, so one of the things that happens to us, or should happen to us, which we should be marked by as believers, is finding pleasure in that which brings pleasure to God, preeminently finding pleasure in his son as he does.
Very good, I think that that's the whole point, this is pleasure found in the person of the Lord Jesus. God has found pleasure in his son, and now God is calling upon us that we also should find pleasure in the person of the Savior.
If you look at the seven things, you'll notice, if you look at the fat, that's the supremacy of Christ, the fat was always what was best, what burned with zeal, speaks of the supremacy of the Lord Jesus.
And then the rump, that's the tailbone, the thing that was fixed, speaks of the steadfastness of the Lord Jesus. If you look at the fat upon the inwards, it's the sufficiency of the Lord Jesus. Remember Paul says, he says, I know that in me, in my flesh dwelleth no good thing.
That could never be spoken about the Lord Jesus. Everything, whether it was exterior or interior, it was always perfect, the sufficiency of Christ. And then you've got the call above the liver. Now this is difficult, but it may speak of the sorrows of the Lord Jesus that he experienced in his life.
And you look then at the kidneys, the kidneys is the word translated reigns or will, Psalm number 16, and that's the singleness of the Lord Jesus. The right shoulder is the strength of the Lord Jesus.
And then you've got the breast, verse number 29, and that speaks of intimacy or the sensitivity of the Lord Jesus. And we're getting a lovely portrayal, seven things of the person of the Savior right here in these verses.
Under wave before the Lord. Sure. So it's our appreciation of Christ, for example, Lord's Day morning, breaking up bread as we remember him. We have an opportunity in an assembly capacity of waving the person of Christ, appreciating that in our souls.
God's appreciating it, too. And there's a fellowship with divine person.
Very good. Can we say that our our appreciation then for the Lord Jesus will actually enhance the service that we perform for him? Very good. That's a very practical point.
One of the things that we should identify is what our brother William has just mentioned there. And that is that we should come and there should be something that we have ready to present to the Lord to wave before tomorrow morning.
And I realize that it's not every Lord's Day morning that a brother can take part, maybe just for logistical reasons. There's numbers in the assembly, but come prepared to take part. You younger brethren come prepared to give thanks to God for his son.
And there should be a development. You might you might feel, well, I'm not sure that I could present the breast, the sensitivity of Christ. Well, maybe study some of those passages that speak of the breast.
Maybe you look at John's gospel, the only begotten son that is in the bosom of the father. And look at John, who's leaning on the breast of the Lord Jesus. And you'll be able to develop things in scripture and bring those and present them back to the father.
Mark, it was on their hands. It was laid on their hands and their hands were full. So if we're to do that, then we have to fill our hands with Christ. Good. And there was there would have been hands of different sizes, perhaps, but they were all filled.
And I think it's important. You would have we've been applying it practically to a Lord's Day morning. And of course, it's much wider than that. All our service should be governed and motivated by our appreciation of Christ.
But isn't it good when in our worship on a Lord's Day morning, there is that variety and we're not all tracing the same path and covering the same material? Because we're speaking of an infinite person and we're remembering an infinite work.
And it's a sad thing if if either personally, we're just week by week covering the same material or if within the gathering, there isn't that variety of appreciation. There's a fullness in him and we can fill our hands and present that to the father.
And one of the things I meant to pick up on what you had said earlier is this. For these men to have their hands filled, they had to relinquish other things. And so never forget, and it's pertinent to us all, that there are things in this world that we would like to grasp and hold on to, but they are not compatible with the person of the Lord Jesus.
And they're not compatible with waving something in the presence of God when it comes to his son. And sometimes we have to challenge our own hearts and sometimes we have to relinquish things so that we can come back to the scriptures and find Christ and present them to the father.
And yet, isn't it very, very precious and very helpful to see that the positive way that it's put here. So there's the emphasis is not on what is let go. Sure. And we are very good at thinking about it.
I have to let that go out. That's really dear to me. But if we properly appreciated what we were going to lay hold on, we wouldn't mind letting go so much. That's exactly right. These men didn't mind letting go because they understood we'd have the value of this sacrifice filling our hands.
Anything else on the ram and the appreciation here of the ram? We haven't mentioned the bread with any of our brethren. There were three aspects of the bread as well. If you look down, verse number 29, he waved it.
Sorry, it's not verse number 29. 26. Thank you. Out of the basket of unleavened bread, he took one unleavened cake, one cake of oil bread and one wafer. That is, the cake of oil bread is that which has been anointed and one wafer and he puts it on the fat and upon the right shoulder.
What are we learning from that? Again, it's the person of the Lord Jesus. Could I suggest to you that when it's the unleavened bread, we're learning something of the faultless life of Christ. And then the oil bread is that which has been mingled with the oil.
And that's the fullness of the life of Christ. And then you look at the one wafer and we're learning there something of the fellowship. The oil was actually sprinkled on that one. Something of the fellowship of the life of Christ.
A man that always lived a faultless life before his God. But now our brother William's verse that he quoted comes in. He giveth not the spirit by measure unto him. And we see that that speaks of the holy life of the Lord Jesus.
And there were aspects that were never seen by men. They were out of sight. We our brother William touched the Leviticus 2 here one year. And we learned that there were things about the life of Christ that only the father appreciated.
And here are men and they're able to touch and take and handle and appreciate something of the Lord Jesus.
And Aaron and his sons, did they consume any of this? And why not? Well, there's the answer. Help us with that. Go ahead and develop that. No, I'm wondering the significance of why they would have offered all of it upon the altar and not had any of it for themselves as it relates to consecration.
Because it speaks of the person of the Lord Jesus. Everything was placed upon the altar. That's an interesting expression, isn't it? In that connection in verse 28, they were consecrations or there were fillings.
Yes, for a sweet savor. Sure. So so that that continues through this chapter. It's the realm of consecrations. It's a basket of consecrations. Verse number 33. It's the days of consecrations. Verse number 28.
It's the consecrations of a sweet savor right through the chapter. That's what it's all about. This this plural expression of things which are being filled, filling the hands. An offering made by fire unto the Lord.
That's a technical term, right? Sure. And what do you mean by that? Well, it's the the fire is causing the offering to go up. Sure. And smoke is a pleasant aroma to God. So the sweet savor is the aroma that God received from this being offered on the brazen altar.
Right. Now, can we touch the next one? Verse number 30. And we look at it's not your appreciation of the person of the Lord Jesus or the sacrifice. But now it's sanctification. Moses took of the anointing oil and of the blood which was upon the altar and sprinkled it upon Aaron and upon his garments and upon his sons and upon his son's garments with him and sanctified Aaron and his garments and his sons and his son's garments with him.
What about this sprinkling? There's two words for sprinkling in the chapter. Isn't that correct? One of those words, if you look at verse number 19, it says Moses sprinkled. Look at verse number 24. Moses sprinkled.
That's the word to scatter abundantly with the hand. And so he's taking the blood and he's scattering, sprinkling the blood abundantly. This is not the word for scattering abundantly. This is the word for dipping the finger in and splattering.
And so Moses takes the oil and the blood and he dips his finger in it and he splatters them with the oil and the blood. Now, if you're in Exodus 29, the order is reversed in Exodus 29. The emphasis is upon the blood and then the oil is brought in here.
The emphasis upon the oil and then the blood. Is there a difference or why the distinction to answer that? I think it's what our brother introduced for. Sorry, go ahead. No, go ahead. No, no. You were going to tell me.
So I was going to listen. OK, I think it's what we've already dealt with in the Bible reading. Sometimes there's an emphasis given to show us that there is there's no time delay from the reception of the spirit.
And so we're learning here. The spirit is emphasized. The oil is emphasized and then the blood. But in Exodus 29, it's the sacrifice. It's the blood and then the spirit. So, again, this is another of these these terms that we don't use every day.
Sanctification. And I think it's always helpful to make sure that we just know exactly what we mean by this. And this. Sorry, you don't know. I'm sorry. I thought I thought you were going to tell us. No.
So so sanctification, it means to be set apart and it means to be set apart for the service of God. And so there's at least three aspects in the New Testament. We've got positional sanctification that took place at the moment of conversion.
We've got practical sanctification that takes place in our daily walk with the Lord. And we've got prospective sanctification. We are looking forward to the moment when we will ultimately be sanctified in his presence.
You want to develop that further? No, I take it that it is the positional sanctification that we have here. And again, emphasizing, as we have been doing, it's it's it's the application of the blood and it's the application of the oil.
And you couldn't have one without the other, as we've been saying. So it's salvation and indwelling with the Holy Spirit. Simultaneous events. And at that point, God set us apart for himself. He sealed us, didn't he?
He sealed us. That's Ephesians chapter one. OK, and this procedure went on for seven days. Yes, that's right. And they were to eat of it there. I'm not jumping ahead, am I? We're still on. That's fine.
They boil the flesh. They were to eat it with the bread in the basket. And so they were to feed upon this. Sure. And it's over a period of time. Sure. So speaking to us of a lifelong commitment of sanctification and enjoying Christ and being nourished by him.
Very true. So the seven days always indicates to us a complete period, a complete cycle, a complete period of time in the mind of God. And that's what we're learning here. God just hasn't saved us so we can go to heaven whatever way we want.
God has saved us so that we live holy lives for the complete duration of the journey down here.
Do you think this took seven days to perform?
No, David, I didn't think I thought it was a repeated. I think Exodus 29.
So then the next day, you seem to think day two. Yes, sure. Does numbers help us with what else was happening on that day? Go ahead. I'm just that's an honest question.
Yeah. No, you'll have to. Do you have the reference in the book of Numbers?
No, not yet. Okay.
Then we have the eighth day when we get to chapter nine.
So they're doing exactly the same thing every day. Every day.
Sure. So there's the enjoyment of what they've been brought into every day for the whole of the seven days, this complete period. This eating is very important. We've thought about the filling of the hands, but this is taking it a step further.
And that's what sustains us in our service. It's feeding upon Christ. Very good. And there is sufficient nourishment in him to sustain us for the duration of our service for him. Good. That's exactly right.
We don't have to feed on other things, Mark. Frequently, and I'm as guilty as anyone that we can feed on Facebook or we can feed Instagram or I don't want to. I don't have Facebook just in case you're wondering, but there are a multitude of things that we could feed on.
And the problem is that we're not feeding on the person of the Lord Jesus. Here were these men and continually and constantly they were feeding upon Christ. Is it all right if you write a post about the Lord Jesus and put it on Facebook?
Do you do that from time to time? Oh, that's okay. And your wife does too. She says to me, could you give me that? No, she doesn't. And practically, again, so we have the filling of our hands and we have the feeding on Christ.
How do we do that? Good. Where do we find the sustenance of the person of the Lord Jesus? We find that sustenance in the word of God. And these men physically had a sacrifice and they had the bread before them.
There is one who is the bread of God and there is the one who was the one sacrifice that we feed upon. And it's the feeding upon Christ and assimilating our souls. These men were assimilating and accepting and taking this sacrifice for themselves, enjoying it and feeding upon it.
We need to feed on him daily then. Sure. So that when we do come together to remember the Lord, it shouldn't be too difficult to do something publicly that we've already been doing private. Privately.
Good. Does it not also help in your daily service, not only for the Lord, but in your walk, speaking to those in loss as well?
So that will be an outcome of that, Josh. Sure. By all means. If a person is feeding on the Lord Jesus, then they'll want to tell their neighbors and friends about what God has brought them into.
But that doesn't qualify as service in this context.
Well, we can apply it whatever way, Josh. This is the filling of the hands. Our brother Mark, I think, has widened it more than just our worship. I think that that's a priestly service. That's an aspect of our worship.
I think that's actually very helpful. And I was thinking of it a bit more widely because I think there is a danger that we have too narrow an idea of worship. Sure. And we've been thinking, we were thinking this morning, minister as a priest and the range, and we'll be thinking tomorrow about the range of activity that is involved.
So there's there's more to to priestly ministry than getting up on the Lord's Day morning and giving thanks. Sure. Where would we get that in the New Testament, Mark? Help us with that. Well, I don't want to steal.
I don't want to steal the brother. I go to Hebrews chapter 13 and start there, perhaps, you know, where you have quite a number of it would be unfair to. But if we kept it in the realm of consecration, you could go to Romans 12.
I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, wholly acceptable unto God, which is your religious service. And in that context, it's expressed in the exercise of gift and it's expressed obedience to the government.
Sure. It's a very wide thing. Yes. So from that point in the epistle to the Romans, Paul starts to widen it out and to show very practically how these men should serve.
As time would go on, only a minority of the of the Levites would be serving in the tabernacle at any one given point in time. The rest of them were out in the villages and towns and the end of our Sheba doing what instructing the people in the word of God.
So they go from the tabernacle out and sometimes back in again as the cycle continues.
So these priests, brother, if I can pick that up, these priests had actually a teaching ministry. In fact, the value of these priests are. I don't know if David's going to touch. I don't want to move into your turf again tomorrow.
But these priests, they were doctors and they were veterinarians and they looked at various things. But one of the things that God insisted that these priests do, it was to teach his people. They were teaching priests and they were to instruct the people in the law of the Lord.
And so here we are. And we're widening it out again to show that there's a teaching ministry that comes into service. That brings us back to the going in and the going out. Good. That's right. Now, is there anything else when it comes to this continuation?
Seven days. God is showing us that this is the fullness of a life. What is expected in a believer's life? It's to feed on the riches of the person of the Lord Jesus, to assimilate Christ, to accept Christ from the scriptures and to enjoy the person of the Savior.
Let me ask you now, just practically, what about your own enjoyment of the scriptures? Do you spend time in the presence of the Lord? Is it every day or is it with fits and starts, the pilgrim darts? I hope not.
I hope for all of us there's a dedicated time at some point in the day when we're enjoying something of the person of the Lord Jesus. It may have been.
It may have been, too, that any of them could have thought, well, we've done this now a day and another day and another. Can we not just get at this business of serving? Right. And of course, there's the principles of being prepared and also the principle of waiting times of waiting before opportunities for service will good will begin.
So these men had to learn God and had to learn something of the value of the sacrifice before they would ever move out and serve the people. And it's lovely that it says there at the end of verse 33, for seven days shall he consecrate you.
So this was, in a sense, something that was being done for them. They were being filled. And it's a precious thing when our hands are filled by our great high priest. And you know yourself, Mark, when it comes to restoration and when it comes to enjoying the Lord Jesus, frequently we come back and we feel empty and we feel barren.
And the Lord frequently does something for us that we can't do for him for ourselves. There's a divine work and he feeds us with bread from the scriptures. Now, can we move? We do have 15 minutes that we can spend on the last section.
We're moving now into chapter nine and we're going to look at consecration, its offerings and its outcomes. There are eight sacrifices which are detailed. We touch the eighth day in a moment. But for Aaron, there was a calf for a sin offering.
And there was a ram for a burnt offering. For the people, there was a goat for the sin offering, a calf and a lamb for a burnt offering. There was a cereal offering and there was an ox and a ram for a peace offering.
There is no trespass offering. I wonder the reason for that. And I'm sure our brethren will want to touch some of the other things about these sacrifices. So the eighth day and then the sacrifices. Eight was a new beginning.
Sure. Noah, the eighth person began to repopulate the earth. Circumcision was on the eighth day for infant males entering into the good of the covenant. And here we have on the eighth day, Aaron is going to begin his priesthood.
And there's a link between covenant and priesthood, too, as we'll see later. Good. That link comes out in with the Lord Jesus also in resurrection, because the day that Christ was raised from the dead is called the first day.
It's called the third day. And it's also called the eighth day in scripture. And so when it's the first day, it's the day of divine priority. When it's the third day, it's the day and divine purpose. And here, when it's the eighth day, it's the day.
I forgot my P, the day of divine pattern. It's the eighth day. And God has established a pattern. Did you say P doesn't count? Was that what you said earlier? Well, I said that was sort of beginners. And I thought, oh, sure.
So you've heard the beginners alliteration and now haven't heard our brother, Mark. I'll try and step it up a little bit. I think you're doing fine. And would you add the day of Pentecost to your list of eight days?
So what our brother is telling us is that Pentecost, it was an eighth day. It came after a period of seven times seven. And it was the 50th day, which was an eighth day. It's involved the elders of Israel.
Good. Moses called Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel. So it's accountability. So it wasn't just all the congregation. That is true. Verse number five. But the elders were there as well. And I take it that the elders are brought forth so they could see this is something that God is going to ratify.
And if we're into the offerings. Is it OK to go into the offering? That's fine by me. So the first offering would be quite significant, wouldn't it? In verse two, that it would be a young calf or a bull calf.
And it's not just significant in that it's unique, but it's the one who's offering it. Would Aaron have remembered?
Can I ask you, David, how many times did they offer a cough in the sacrificial system? As far as we know? Was there any other time? I don't think there was any other time. So what we're learning is this was a unique experience.
Frequently, it was a book. But this time it's a cough. Now, our brother is saying, why a cough? We're not explicitly told, but I wonder if it doesn't link us back to Exodus 32. And you will remember in Exodus 32.
Aaron says, he says, I put some gold into the fire. And he says, I pop this car. I'm not making that up now. Just in case you think that's what he that's what he told Moses. And now the Lord is he's reminding Aaron.
Now, listen for the sin. And for your sin, there has to be an offering of a sin offering. And it's a cough. Anything else on the offerings before we move down to the end of the chapter? Anything that our brethren would like to to add?
And the cereal offering. We haven't dealt with that. This sin offering always comes first. Good. Because sin must be dealt with first before there can be devotion. Good to God. So so the sin offering is mentioned.
I'll repeat it again. Forgiveness from sin. They then we got the burnt offering. And we're learning something of the favor into which we're we've been brought. The cereal offering is the fragrance of the life of the Lord Jesus.
And we've moved down and the peace offering, the fellowship we enjoy. Give us some help on the expression there at the end of verse four. For today, the Lord will appear. Sure, that's a lovely expression, isn't it?
And it bookends this chapter, as our brother Mark knows. And so these people, the elders and the congregation, they were told that the Lord is going to appear onto you. And if you look down the chapter, it says in verse number 33, and the glory of the Lord appeared onto all the people.
So now are we going back in time, Mark? You remember Exodus 40, the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. Do you think that we're going back in time? And that's the point that we have reached here.
Or was that a different when the tabernacle was erected? I have maybe thought it was different, but I wouldn't be dogmatic. Sure. Yeah, I mean, Leviticus one starts with the Lord calling from inside. He's already taken residence within the tabernacle.
So for those who may not know, the book of Leviticus basically takes place or is given to us over the period of a month. Isn't the first day of the first month of the second year. That's the end of the book of Exodus.
The first day of the second month of the second year is the beginning of the book of Numbers. And we have a complete month that deals. That's the book of Leviticus. I have wondered if it wasn't a separate thing here as well.
And as you've been stressing, and this is to do with the validation, with the ratification of something new. So it's a confirmation of that. But sure, the glory of the Lord appears. Now, let's move down to the end of the chapter, because verse number 22 and Aaron lifted up his hand towards the people.
This is after the sacrifices. He's coming down and he lift up his hand. And again, the hand is mentioned here toward the people. And he blessed them. And he came down. Must have been quite a thing for these people as the sacrificial system, not only the priesthood now, but the whole sacrificial system has been inaugurated.
And they look at this priest and there's blessing. But they know there's blessing for them. Isn't it a wonderful thing that for us, there's a high priest. And through him, there's blessing for us. Verse 21, I know we're going to 22, but verse 21, he waved the wave off before the Lord, as the Lord, as Moses commanded.
And then he lifted up those same hands toward the people. So he's blessing God, as it were, then blessing man. Good. So God gets his portion first. And then the people are blessed. Then. Sorry, Mark. So we've seen in this chapter or this section of the hand must be emptied.
Yes. And then we've seen how the hand is filled. And that's there's there's there's something for God and there's something for the individual. But at the end of the chapter, there's a hand and there's blessing for others.
Very good. That's that's that's the moral order, isn't it? Sure. I had linked it to Luke's gospel. He lifted up his hands and he blessed them. And a cloud received him out of out of their sight.
So just a practical question, then, what did the people observing receive as a blessing, as a consequence of the priest raising his hands? They would not have received otherwise in the normal course of their spiritual walk.
Sure.
I wonder if it wasn't what we find in the book of Numbers chapter six. If it's not now, this is the physical of it. But Numbers chapter six gives us the priestly blessing. The Lord bless thee and keep thee.
The Lord make his face to shine upon thee and give thee peace. And these people are looking now and now they're saying to themselves, we have peace. There's a sacrifice. There's a high priest. There's something we've been brought into.
Look at the blessing we have now. We're just in the abundant blessing of what this high priest has brought us into. All because God was in the midst of that camp. Those people would be blessed. And that is true today, where the presence of God is known in the midst of his people, that people are blessed.
And at the beginning of the chapter, with that promise that the Lord would appear, that's really the motivation for the sacrifice. That's the need to be in a fit condition for him to appear. By the end of the chapter, when he does appear, it's not a fearsome thing.
It's connected with blessing. And in fact, it's the capstone on the blessing. Sure. And so at this point, then Moses and Aaron, after Aaron has blessed the people, they go into the tabernacle. You can almost see what the people think.
They're waiting and they're wondering what's going to happen now. And suddenly from that tabernacle, those two men come out. The apostle and the high priest. I think we might find that. I don't know if that'll be handled later.
But the apostle and the high priest come out and the second time he appears. You see, Aaron has been brought into focus. Then their sons who are linked to Aaron, they have been brought into focus. Now, Israel is being brought into blessing through this high priest.
Now, as we are sitting here today, we are linked with the Lord Jesus. We have been linked with this great high priest. And as sons of God, we've been brought into blessing. But we're waiting a day when Israel will be brought into blessing when he appears the second time.
So can I ask a question at the end of the chapter? There came a fire out from before the Lord and consumed upon the altar. And the burnt offering and the fat and all the people saw they fell on their faces and so on.
Well, we have already been discussing how that there were offerings made for seven days. And they were burned upon the altar. So there was fire already on the altar. There were already sacrifices on the altar.
So how come now there's a need for fire to appear to burn upon the altar? I think this comes back to what our brother Mark has already said. This was the validation of God. The glory of the Lord appeared.
And suddenly there was this majestic appearance of fire from heaven. And that ratified everything that had taken place. And it showed this is God's divine sanction on everything that has been done.
But did this fire do something different than the fire had been doing for seven days?
I think it devoured everything that was there. Yeah, and in that there was a picture because I mean, there's tremendous number of animals to be burned. And burning an animal with physical fire, it takes a while to do that.
And I think it was a demonstration of the inadequacy of what has just been inaugurated. That even this, it requires a further act from God to consume. So the fire on that brazen altar was a slow burning fire.
This, it consumed it immediately in all of its fullness. This is one of the instances, in fact, this is placed in the book of Leviticus. With chapter 10 is the next chapter to show us the fire coming out from God twice.
There's men moved into the sanctuary that should never have been there with strange fire and fire come out from the Lord and consume them. They should never have taken that strange fire in in the censers and they have a bite.
You are consumed. Here is the validation of God. Yes, it's God is demonstrating his holiness has been upheld. Good. By all these procedures that he required and obedience that have been carried out. And then his holiness will be held again by the same fire.
Brother David will be touching on that. So this, this, this, this occurrence and the fire and so on, that reminds us that this is a big deal. But this is an important thing. This is not a sort of a marginal subject that we're considering this weekend.
This matters to God. It mattered to God in the in the old economy. And it matters to God in the dispensation of grace.
Very good. And it tells us as well that he's that he's pleased with every single detail of obedience. Good.
Those are very pertinent remarks our brethren are making. And the times that you get fire coming out from the Lord or fire coming down from the Lord is something to note in scripture. You'll remember it was Elijah when he was on Mount Carmel and the fire came down and consumed the sacrifice.
Elijah again, second Kings chapter two, the fire came down and consumed the soldiers. And you can move right through the scriptures and find instances when the fire come down. And you think of Solomon and instances like that.
And it shows us that this is something that the Lord has ratified. But this is something that shows us that we should be very careful. You know, when it comes to service for the Lord, brethren, and when it comes to the assembly, we need we need to be very careful how we approach the Lord.
And we need to remember that we serve the most high God. And we need to do it with reverence and godly fear.
And yet there's the balance there, too, isn't it? That's right. They shouted. That's right. I think that shouts of joy is that there's a godly fear, but a joy in being able.
So why did they shout, David, if I could ask you that? Have you any thought why? Why express it in that way? Yes.
I have five children. That's usually how they express their joy.
No, no. I think that at this point they shouted because they knew the Lord has done this and brought this priesthood into operation for our benefit. This is something that will bring us into the very presence of God.
We've got a representative now in the presence of the Almighty. In a sense, that is not to contrast it with that experience in Israel when the foundations of the temple were laid. And there was a shout then, but it was mixed by those who were weeping.
So there would have been quite a history of failure and of declension from what we have. But on this occasion, there's no mixture. I agree. It's a shout of joy. Sure. Very good. Now, anything to conclude?
We're just about out of time. Just about a minute there. Any concluding remarks? We have tried to show that this is as practical as possible. Are we replicating his conduct? That's the thing that we need to keep in mind.
Are we replicating the conduct of the high priest? That's the person of the Lord Jesus. And what about these sons of Aaron? Are we filling or having our hands filled? So that...