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July 25, 2022

Join the congregation of Ascension Presbyterian Church for our livestream of this week's worship service. This week, Pastor Christopher Brenyo is preaching on Leviticus 1. Visit us: https://www.ascensionpresbyterian.com/ Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AscensionPre... Follow us on Gab: https://gab.com/ascensionchurchlongwood

04:25: Test, test. Test, test, test, test.
05:01: Test, test. 12, 12.
05:52: Check, check. Test, test, test.
07:46: Grace and peace to you. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, welcome to the corporate worship of our
07:53: God. Please stand. Now, all the people gather together as one man in the open square that was in front of the water gate.
08:08: And they told Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded
08:14: Israel. So Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly of men and women and all who could hear with understanding on the first day of the seventh month.
08:25: Then he read from it in the open square that was there in front of the water gate from morning until midday before the men and women and those who could understand.
08:35: In the ears of all the people were attentive to the book of the law. So Ezra the scribe stood on a platform of wood, which they had made for the purpose.
08:46: And beside him at his right hand stood Mattithiah, Shema, Ananiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Messiah.
08:55: And at his left were Petidiah, Mishael, Malchijah, Hashim, Hashpadana, Zechariah, and Meshulam.
09:04: And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people, for he was standing above all the people.
09:10: And when he opened it, all the people stood up. And Ezra blessed the Lord, the great
09:16: God, and all the people answered amen, amen, while lifting up their hands.
09:22: And they bowed their heads and worshiped the Lord with their faces to the ground.
09:27: Come now, let us, the gathered people of God, come now, let us worship him.
09:34: Please pray with me. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, it is our greatest joy to be called your people.
09:46: We thank you that you have provided a way back to you through your
09:53: Son. We who have been estranged by sin, our lack of righteousness, you have supplied in the glorious virtue and merits of the
10:05: Lord Jesus Christ. So we come boldly, oh God, to your throne of grace, knowing that Christ has made an acceptable path and entrance into your presence.
10:16: And we ask that you be glorified in all these things today. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Please kneel if you're able for the confession of sin.
10:29: Let us join together with one voice in the corporate confession of sin. Most holy and merciful
10:38: Father, we confess to you and to one another that we have sinned against you by what we have done and by what we have not undone.
10:50: We have not loved you with our whole heart and mind and strength. We have not fully loved our neighbors as ourselves.
11:00: We have not always had in us the mind of Christ. You alone know how often we have grieved you by wasting your gifts, by wandering from your ways.
11:13: Forgive us, we pray, most merciful Father, and free us from our sin.
11:19: Renew in us the grace and strength of your Holy Spirit, for the sake of Jesus Christ, your
11:26: Son, our Savior. Amen. Please stand. Repent, therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the
11:46: Lord. Oh, people of God, be assured in this. If you are in Christ, your sins are forgiven.
11:56: Please take up the hymnal and turn to number 55. To God be the glory.
12:01: Number 55. From my youth up, may
15:16: Israel say, Psalm 129. I'm gonna ask Alyssa to play through it one time for us, please.
18:03: Standing for the reading of the word from Jeremiah chapter 23. Jeremiah 23.
18:21: Hear now the word of the Lord. The burden against Tyre. Wail, you ships from Tarshish, for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no harbor from the land of Cyprus.
18:34: It is revealed to them. Be still, you inhabitants of the coastland. Is this?
18:46: I did Isaiah 23. Okay, we're starting over. Jeremiah 23.
18:55: Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture, says the Lord. Therefore, thus says the
19:02: Lord God of Israel, against the shepherds who feed my people. You have scattered my flock, driven them away, and not attended to them.
19:11: Behold, I will attend to you for the evil of your doings, says the Lord. But I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries who have driven them and bring them back to their folds and they shall be fruitful and increase.
19:25: I will set up shepherds over them who will feed them and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, nor shall they be lacking, says the
19:35: Lord. Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, that I will raise to David a branch of righteousness.
19:42: A king shall reign and prosper and execute judgment and righteousness in the earth. In his days,
19:48: Judah will be saved and Israel will dwell safely. Now this is his name by which he will be called, the
19:54: Lord our righteousness. Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, that they shall no longer say, as the
20:01: Lord lives, who brought up the children of Israel from the land of Egypt, but as the
20:07: Lord lives, who brought up and led the descendants of the house of Israel from the north country and from all the countries where I had driven them, and they shall dwell in their own land.
20:17: My heart within me is broken because of the prophets. All my bones shake. I am like a drunken man.
20:25: And like a man whom wine has overcome because of the Lord and because of his holy words.
20:32: For the land is full of adulterers. For because of a curse, the land mourns. The pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up.
20:40: Their course of life is evil and their might is not right. For both prophet and priest are profane.
20:47: Yes, in my house, I have found their wickedness, says the Lord. Therefore, their way shall be to them like slippery ways.
20:54: In the darkness, they shall be driven on and fall in them. For I will bring disaster on them, the year of their punishment, says the
21:02: Lord. I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria. They prophesied by Baal and caused my people
21:10: Israel to err. And I have seen a horrible thing in the prophets of Jerusalem. They commit adultery and walk in lies.
21:17: They also strengthen the hands of the evildoer so that no one turns back from his wickedness.
21:24: All of them are like Sodom to me and their inhabitants like Gomorrah. Therefore, thus says the
21:29: Lord of hosts concerning the prophets. Behold, I will feed them with wormwood and make them drink the water of Gaul.
21:37: For from the prophets of Jerusalem, profaneness has gone out into all the land.
21:43: Thus says the Lord of hosts. Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesied to you.
21:49: They make you worthless. They speak a vision of their own heart, not from the mouth of the Lord.
21:54: They continually say to those who despise me, the Lord has said, you shall have peace.
22:00: And to everyone who walks according to the dictates of his own heart, they say, no evil shall come upon you.
22:07: For who has stood in the counsel of the Lord and who has perceived and heard his word? Who has marked his word and heard it?
22:15: Behold, a whirlwind of the Lord has gone forth in fury. A violent whirlwind, it will fall violently on the head of the wicked.
22:24: And the anger of the Lord will not turn back until he has executed and performed the thoughts of his heart.
22:30: In the latter days, you will understand it perfectly. I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran.
22:37: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied. But if they had stood in my counsel and caused my people to hear my words, then they would have turned them from their evil way and from the evil of their doings.
22:50: Am I a God near at hand, says the Lord, and not a God afar off? Can anyone hide himself in the secret places, so I shall not see him, says the
22:59: Lord? Do I not fill the heaven and the earth, says the Lord? I have heard what the prophets have said, who prophesy lies in my name, saying,
23:08: I have dreamed, I have dreamed. How long will this be in the hearts of the prophets who prophesy lies?
23:15: Indeed, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart, who try to make people forget my name by their dreams, which everyone tells his neighbor, as their fathers forgot my name for Baal.
23:27: The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream. And he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully.
23:34: What is the shaft to the wheat, says the Lord? Is not my word like fire, says the Lord, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?
23:42: Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, says the Lord, who steal my words, everyone from his neighbor.
23:49: Behold, I am against the prophets, says the Lord, who use their tongues and say, he says. Behold, I am against those who prophesy false dreams, says the
23:58: Lord, and tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies and by their recklessness.
24:05: Yet I did not send them or command them. Therefore, they shall not profit this people at all, says the
24:11: Lord. When these people, so when these people or the prophet or the priest ask you, saying, what is the oracle of the
24:19: Lord? You shall say to them, what oracle? I will even forsake you, says the
24:24: Lord. And as for the prophet and the priest and the people who say the oracle of the Lord, I will even punish that man and his house.
24:32: Thus, every one of you shall say to his neighbor and everyone to his brother, what has the
24:38: Lord answered? And what has the Lord spoken? The oracle of the
24:43: Lord you shall mention no more, for every man's word will be his oracle, for you have perverted the words of the living
24:50: God. The Lord of hosts are God. Thus, you shall say to the prophet, what has the
24:57: Lord answered you? And what has the Lord spoken? But since you say the oracle of the Lord, therefore, thus says the
25:04: Lord, because you say this word, the oracle of the Lord, and I have sent to you, saying, do not say the oracle of the
25:10: Lord. Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you and forsake you and the city that I gave you and your fathers and will cast you out of my presence.
25:21: And I will bring an everlasting reproach on you and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.
25:28: This is the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. Let us now confess our faith in the singing of the
25:42: Apostles' Creed. ♪ The forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of God.
27:28: ♪ Please take the 600.
27:45: Pray together now in unison.
32:20: Oh God, and all just works, give to us your servants that peace which the world cannot give, that our hearts may be set to obey your commandments, and also that we be defended from the fear of our enemies, may live in peace and quietness through the merits of Jesus Christ, our
32:49: Savior, who lives and reigns with you in the Holy Spirit, God forever, amen.
32:58: For the church of Jesus Christ, that it may be filled with truth and love and be found without fault at the day of your coming, we pray to you, oh
33:08: Lord. Lord, hear our prayers. For all ministers, missionaries, and the mission of the church, that in faithful witness the gospel may be preached, we pray to you, oh
33:42: Lord. Lord, hear our prayers. With us this day as your people gather to worship you and to give you praise, you are the
33:58: God who saved, sent out a people to advance your kingdom, your gospel, that many people may be saved throughout the world.
34:18: We pray, Father, for all those whom you have saved, some of the circumstances that they may be facing, let them all say to you what we mean.
34:43: For those in positions of public trust, that they may serve justice and promote the dignity and freedom of every person, we pray to you, oh
34:52: Lord. Lord, hear our prayers. Your servants that are serving in the civil sphere who are all holding offices to serve the people where they are placed at,
35:12: I pray that you would bring repentance to these people who are rebelling against their role, against their responsibilities that are defined and given by you.
35:23: I pray that you would, by your grace, enact true justice on those who break your law, commit crimes.
35:33: I pray, God, that you would also enable them to loosen their grips on their people so they would promote dignity and freedom and liberty, that we may worship and move about freely.
35:47: And I pray that you would, by your grace, grant the church courage and bravery to be a prophetic voice, to preach the gospel to them, and your sons and daughters, amen.
36:02: For the poor, the persecuted, the sick, and all who suffer, for refugees, prisoners, and all who are in danger, that they may be relieved and protected, we pray to you, oh
36:14: Lord. Lord, hear our prayers. Blessed are you, oh great stone, blessed are every man who is sick and who suffers.
36:46: Would I pray that you would, you first.
37:41: This congregation, for those who are present and for those who are absent, that they may be delivered from hardness of heart and show forth your glory in all that we do, we pray to you, oh
37:52: Lord. Lord, hear our prayers. It starts with the house of God, and we know,
38:01: Lord, that we're prone to wander, and we feel it, the hardness of heart.
38:09: So, would you please, by your grace, provoke us in a love and good works today, and would you please enable us to turn from sin, that we may go forth in the name of Jesus.
38:22: Everyone that is here and is absent, we especially pray for the
38:28: Zeno family. Amen, please stand and take up the insert for Psalm 124, our
38:51: Psalm of the Month. Ask that you turn in your
41:26: Bibles to the book of Leviticus, and chapter one,
41:34: Leviticus chapter one. This is
41:41: God's holy and infallible word. Now the
41:50: Lord called to Moses and spoke to him from the tabernacle of meeting, saying, speak to the children of Israel and say to them, when any one of you brings an offering to the
42:03: Lord, you shall bring your offering of the livestock, of the herd, and of the flock.
42:10: If his offering is a burnt offering, a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish, and he shall offer it of his own free will at the door of the tabernacle of meeting before the
42:25: Lord. Then he shall put his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it will be accepted on his behalf to make atonement for him.
42:35: He shall kill the bull before the Lord, and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall bring the blood and sprinkle the blood all around on the altar that is by the door of the tabernacle of meeting.
42:47: And he shall skin the burnt offering and cut it into its pieces. The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall put fire on the altar and lay the wood in order on the fire.
43:01: The priests, Aaron's sons, shall lay the parts, the head and the fat in order on the wood that is upon the fire of the altar.
43:11: But he shall wash its entrails and its legs with water, and the priests shall burn all on the altar as a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the
43:23: Lord. If his offering is of the flocks or of the sheep or of the goats as a burnt sacrifice, he shall bring a male without blemish.
43:34: He shall kill it on the north side of the altar before the Lord, and the priests,
43:40: Aaron's sons, shall sprinkle its blood all around on the altar. He shall cut it into its pieces with its head and its fat, and the priests shall lay them in order on the wood that is on the fire upon the altar.
43:56: But he shall wash the entrails and the legs with water, and the priests shall bring it all and burn it on the altar.
44:03: It is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the
44:11: Lord. And if the burnt sacrifice of the Lord is of birds, then he shall bring his offering of turtle doves or young pigeons.
44:20: The priest shall bring it to the altar, wring off its head, and burn it on the altar.
44:27: Its blood shall be drained out at the side of the altar, and he shall remove its crop with its feathers and cast it beside the altar on the east side into the place for ashes.
44:39: Then he shall split it at its wings, but shall not divide it completely, and the priest shall burn it on the altar on the wood that is on fire.
44:49: It is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the
44:57: Lord. May the Lord be pleased with our study of his most holy word today.
45:03: Please pray with me. O Lord, we come because of the offering of Christ.
45:15: We pray that we would lay hold of these sweet promises that you have drawn near to us, and now we draw near to you in the efficacy of Christ's perfection and sacrifice.
45:31: O Lord, let us see Christ in Leviticus today. I ask all these things in the name above all names, the
45:40: Lord Jesus Christ's name, amen. Please be seated. Leviticus is one of the least popular books in the
45:56: Bible. In modern evangelicalism, it is treated as mere history of the old economy.
46:07: But every jot and tittle of this word and this law will not pass away until all things are fulfilled.
46:17: And I would offer to you today that the structure, the bones, the foundation of the redemption of Christ is found in a place like Leviticus chapter one.
46:31: In context, Moses had just completed the assembly of the tabernacle in Exodus 40.
46:38: Look over one page in your Bibles. I'm gonna begin reading in verse 18 just to give you the flavor because this follows really right after this in Exodus.
46:49: So Moses raised up the tabernacle, fastened its sockets, set up its boards, put in its bars, and raised up its pillars.
47:03: And he spread out the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent on top of it as the
47:09: Lord had commanded Moses. He took the testimony and put it into the ark, inserted the poles through the rings of the ark and put the mercy seat on top of the ark.
47:22: And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, hung up the veil of the covering and partitioned off the ark of the testimony as the
47:32: Lord had commanded Moses. He put the table in the tabernacle of meeting.
47:39: On the north side of the tabernacle outside the veil and he set the bread in order upon it before the
47:45: Lord as the Lord had commanded Moses. He put the land stand in the tabernacle of meeting across from the table on the south side of the tabernacle.
47:56: And he lit the lamps before the Lord as the Lord had commanded Moses. He put the gold altar in the tabernacle of meeting in front of the veil and he burned sweet incense on it as the
48:08: Lord had commanded Moses. He hung up the screen at the door of the tabernacle and he put the altar of burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.
48:21: That's particularly important because that's where this offering is offered that we're referring to. And he offered upon it the burnt offering, the grain offering as the
48:30: Lord had commanded Moses. And he set the labor between the tabernacle of meeting and the altar and put water there for washing.
48:39: And Moses, Aaron and his sons would wash their hands and their feet with water from it.
48:44: Whenever they went into the tabernacle of meeting, whenever they came near the altar, they washed as the Lord had commanded
48:50: Moses. And he raised up the court all around the tabernacle and the altar and hung up the screen of the court gate.
48:59: So Moses finished the work. Now I want you to listen very carefully. The terrors of Sinai had been replaced with the gentle presence and power of God.
49:14: The people are now not sending Moses up to the mountain. They are hearkened to bring an offering into the presence of God.
49:24: It's a monumental thing that's happened here. Once you hear the context, this section is very important.
49:30: Children, listen carefully. Verse 34, then the cloud covered the tabernacle of meeting.
49:38: Can you imagine this picture? And the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.
49:46: And Moses was not able to enter the tabernacle of meeting because the cloud rested above it.
49:52: And the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. Wherever the cloud was taken up from above the tabernacle, the children of Israel would go onward in all their journeys.
50:05: But if the cloud was not taken up, then they did not journey till day that it was taken up.
50:11: For the cloud of the Lord was above the tabernacle by day and fire was over it by night in the sight of all the house of Israel throughout all their journeys.
50:22: Think of all of the colossal failures of the people in Exodus. Idolatry, unbelief, every form of wickedness.
50:34: The Lord will not relent in pursuing and capturing his people to commune with them, to bring them into his presence.
50:46: Here we see something that is really astonishing. We see
50:52: God high, exalted, holy, lifted up.
50:59: We see God drawing near to his people. His cloud covers the tabernacle.
51:06: The glory of the Lord fills it. In our text today, we learn about how man responds to the love and mercy of God and draws near.
51:21: Since the fall, man's proximity and nearness to God had been altered. Sin has devastating consequences.
51:32: Adam and Eve had an original clothing and it was their own naked skin.
51:38: It was their first garment and that skin became defiled.
51:46: Their new sin -stained nakedness had been exposed.
51:52: So they sewed fig leaves together to make a covering for their now defiled bodies.
52:03: In one of the saddest verses of scripture, let's turn there really quickly, Genesis chapter three,
52:10: Genesis three, just a few pages back, please turn there. This is after the fall.
52:29: We're gonna rehearse all those details. You're very well acquainted with it. Verse eight, they heard the sound of the
52:38: Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. Adam, Eve created to commune personally, face -to -face with God.
52:50: They cannot bear to be in his presence now. They're naked and exposed.
52:56: Their skin, their clothing, their first garment has been defiled.
53:04: What a dramatic change. They hear the sound of the
53:13: Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the
53:21: Lord God among the trees of the garden. The essence of who they were has now been corrupted.
53:30: They were created to dwell in the presence of the Lord. They're hiding themselves in shame.
53:42: And the Lord God called out to Adam and said to him, where are you? And he said,
53:47: I heard your voice in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked and I hid myself.
53:58: And he said, who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree at which
54:06: I commanded you that you should not eat? And the man said, the woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree and I ate.
54:16: And the Lord said to the woman, what is this you have done? And the woman says, the serpent deceived me and I ate.
54:27: Skip down to verse 17. And Adam said to Adam, he said, because you have heeded the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which
54:37: I commanded you, saying you shall not eat of it, cursed is the ground for your sake and toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life by both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you and you shall eat the herb of the field and the sweat of your face you shall eat bread and till you return to the ground for out of it you were taken and for dust you are and to dust you shall return.
55:09: Adam heard the voice of the Lord and was afraid. Adam's natural clothing has been soiled for the first time in his existence, he was dirty with sin.
55:28: He could not enter into the presence of the Lord without fear. And now we have here the first introduction for us and it's very subtle, it's very understated that the first understanding of sacrifice, verse 20 says,
55:46: Adam called his wife's name Eve because she was the mother of all living. Also for Adam and his wife, listen, the
55:55: Lord God made tunics of skin and clothed them. God sacrificed animals to clothe the nakedness of Adam and Eve.
56:14: He had to provide a better covering than the fig leaves. This garden of paradise is now different.
56:24: It's King Adam had transgressed the bounds of God's command. Adam is now covered in sacrificial skin that the
56:38: Lord provided. There's a lot of trauma for Adam and Eve.
56:45: Blissful paradise, they're fallen to sin, suddenly nakedness, they're conscious of the defilement of their own flesh.
56:58: These animals that they had been given dominion over, which must have been like pets to them, now they are squealing in anguish as the
57:07: Lord slaughters them that he might skin them and clothe Adam and Eve. Surely the weight of the fall has come upon them and they understand the gravity of it all.
57:19: But notice, in spite of this colossal failure of Adam, the
57:26: Lord continues to pursue him, continues to provide for him.
57:32: He made tunics of skin, he sacrificed animals, he skinned them to clothe
57:39: Adam and his wife. There's another part of this that is really sad to me.
57:49: The Lord says, behold, verse 22, the man has become like one of us to no good and evil.
57:55: And now, lest he put out his hand and take also the tree of life and eat and live forever, therefore the
58:02: Lord God sends him out of the garden Eden to till the ground from which he was taken.
58:07: And that's where this toilsome labor is going to happen, outside the garden, outside the gates, outside the fiery sword and the cherubim.
58:18: That's where he's going to be sent. And to further add insult to it, it's almost as if it escalates.
58:28: In verse 24, it says, so he drove out the man. It'd be like a parent asking their children to leave the room.
58:41: Then immediately following that up with grabbing the scruff of their neck and pushing them out the door.
58:49: Very real consequences of the fall. Adam, I don't know how far removed he was from that gate and those cherubim, but Adam, all the days of his life,
59:01: I believe, he wanted to be back in that garden. He wanted to be back where it was before all of this happened.
59:13: He drove him out of the garden. What an amazing picture, created for communion, intimacy, fellowship, now being driven out of the garden.
59:25: In chapter four, we won't go into this in detail, but we learn more about sacrifice and what is pleasing to God.
59:34: Cain and Abel brought offerings to the Lord. Cain, fruit of the ground.
59:41: Abel, brought of the firstborn of the flock. Cain's failure,
59:49: I have to believe, in part is obviously a lack of faith and belief.
59:54: I believe he was fully instructed that what the Lord required from his father,
59:59: Adam, was an animal sacrifice. And I believe in his pride, he could not trade with his brother his goods for a lamb.
01:00:11: He wants to approach God on his terms, like every sinful person in the world. Not on God's terms.
01:00:18: You have to approach him on his terms alone. And Abel brings the choicest of his lambs as a sacrifice, following God's pattern, following,
01:00:34: I believe, the instruction of Adam. Of course, it also typifies and prefigures very powerfully the sacrifice of Christ, who is the firstborn of both creation and of the flock of man.
01:00:51: He is the choicest of lambs. Man, created in the image of God, longs to return to God's presence in the garden.
01:01:08: In fact, that same force drives wicked men in their pursuit of pleasure.
01:01:13: They want to go back to communion with God, and they have no idea how to do it. Almost forgotten, turn over a couple of chapters, please, really quickly, to chapter eight of Genesis.
01:01:28: This is almost completely forgotten. In the account of the flood is the post -flood account of Noah's offering.
01:01:40: Did you remember that? Does that come to mind recently? I'll begin reading in verse 13, just to provide a little context,
01:01:49: Genesis 8, 13. And it came to pass in the 601st year, in the first month, the first day of the month, that the waters were dried up from the earth.
01:02:04: And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and indeed the surface of the ground was dry.
01:02:12: And in the second month of the 27th day of the month, the earth was dried.
01:02:19: Then God spoke to Noah, saying, go out of the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons' wives with you.
01:02:26: Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you, birds and cattle, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, so that they may abound on the earth and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.
01:02:40: That sounds a lot like early Genesis. Could this be a return to a garden paradise?
01:02:47: So communion with God. So Noah went out with his sons and his wife and his son's wife with him.
01:02:58: Every animal, every creeping thing, every bird, whatever creeps on the earth, according to their families, went out of the ark.
01:03:06: Noah and his family have been delivered. The world has been judged.
01:03:12: They're the only people living, eight persons. What does
01:03:19: Noah do? He's already experienced the deliverance. God's favor is upon him singularly like no one else.
01:03:29: We never hear of the righteousness of Noah's children at this point. The righteousness of Noah is the salvation of the family as their head.
01:03:40: What does he do? Look at verse 20. Noah built an altar to the
01:03:48: Lord. He knows that to approach
01:03:55: God, even as the redeemed, as the beloved, has to come with blood.
01:04:04: There has to be an acceptable sacrifice. He builds the altar and he takes of every clean animal and every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
01:04:19: The Lord really loves for sacrificial animals to be consumed with fire because that savor, that smell is pleasing in his nostrils.
01:04:32: And all of this helps us understand who Christ is. Remember the language in Exodus we just read, repeated a number of times, verse 21, and this is
01:04:42: Noah's sacrifice. And the Lord smelled a soothing aroma.
01:04:50: I was talking with my wife last evening. I was smoking a nice cigar to the glory of God.
01:04:57: And she said, does the smoke always rise? And I puffed billows of smoke to the air and the smoke rose.
01:05:10: God knows the condition of Noah's heart. He's a sinner, he's a redeemed sinner. Noah understands though he's been redeemed and rescued and saved and delivered, he has to bring an offering to the
01:05:22: Lord. The Lord in his kindness and his condescension to us accepts this substitutionary offering from Noah.
01:05:36: And the Lord says in his heart, he responds, I will never again curse the ground for man's sake.
01:05:43: Even though the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth, nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done.
01:05:51: While the earth remains, see time and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer and day and night and shall not cease.
01:06:01: Then he kind of gives again the dominion mandate. God blesses
01:06:06: Noah and his sons and says to them, be fruitful and multiply the earth in full and fill it.
01:06:19: Adam should have been killed for his sin. That's a death penalty offense.
01:06:30: Not heeding the command of the Lord, but instead the
01:06:35: Lord killed a lamb or lambs and clothed him. Abel gets it right.
01:06:44: He learns the lesson from his father and in faith offers the choicest of his lambs and a pleasing sacrifice to the
01:06:51: Lord. Remember a few weeks ago, Abraham when tested the offering of Isaac had
01:07:00: God graciously provided to him on the mount that the
01:07:05: Lord will provide a substitute. That ram caught in the thicket. After the time of our context, we've already had the nation
01:07:15: Israel experience the Passover and the Lord accepts their sacrifice.
01:07:22: Those blood spattered doorways, the
01:07:29: Passover lambs. He approves this sacrifice for this purpose to be the salvation of all the firstborn in Israel, but not so for those to whom the blood covering did not exist.
01:07:43: The sons of Egypt, they all die. A pattern that stretches back to Eden and all the way forward to glory reveals the need for sacrifice and substitutionary atonement.
01:07:59: In every figure and type that we read about here, more and more of the glory of Christ is unveiled.
01:08:09: Come back to our text now, Leviticus one. In context,
01:08:15: God has made his presence conspicuous and this is amazing to me.
01:08:23: When you try to read this again with fresh eyes and not just blow through your reading plan, it's astounding how the
01:08:29: Lord again and again and again forgives his people and brings them back and embraces them, draws them near to himself.
01:08:38: In fact, this whole concept is Hebraically the drawing near, the near gathering of God's people.
01:08:49: How can they approach him? How can they, when they gaze upon the holiness of the
01:08:57: Lord and see evidences of that holiness and the glory filling of the tabernacle, how do they approach?
01:09:09: They're sinful. Well, they can do it because he appoints and approves a sacrifice that makes it possible for them.
01:09:20: The first thing he does in our text is he speaks directly to Moses and this itself is a remarkable thing.
01:09:28: Out of the glory, his own glory filled tabernacle from the holy of holies, he speaks to Moses.
01:09:36: What mercy and grace are being showered and lavished upon Moses and the people as their representative, he is, he speaks to them and says, this is what you should do that you might come back into my presence.
01:09:53: In spite of his rebellion, he calls them to draw near to him.
01:10:01: We have to acknowledge again the vast, incomprehensible, unrelenting, expansive love of God.
01:10:13: Just Leviticus 1, who would have thought it, speaks to this unbelievable kind of love, undeserved love for God to his people.
01:10:26: We might call it grace. He says to Moses as the representative of the people, have the people draw near to me in the manner
01:10:37: I have prescribed. The given here is there's an offering, there's church history, there's instruction in the law of God already, they know there has to be an offering.
01:10:54: God says, when the people approach me, they must bring an acceptable offering. As we often say,
01:11:03: God explicitly declares and prescribes how he is to be worshiped and this is a warning to all of us.
01:11:11: We need to worship him in the manner he has prescribed. This condescension,
01:11:19: God has come near and he in turn says and calls them to draw near in worship.
01:11:27: I would argue, and you may not know this, our liturgy is based on Leviticus.
01:11:34: The name of our church is based on Leviticus. We're about this, this is what we're about, seeing all of it realized in Christ.
01:11:48: God, can you fathom when he says, you're sinful, you're defiled, your flesh is tainted, you're not clothed properly, your skin needs to be stripped.
01:11:59: I have a way for you to come and approach me in anticipation of the realization of my son coming to make fellowship restored between us.
01:12:12: Our corporate worship, the corporate worship of the Christian church has its foundations in Leviticus.
01:12:19: Not an obsolete book. How do we draw near?
01:12:25: How is it realized? Quickly turn you to Hebrews. I would maybe normally, if I had more time, do a different path, maybe have us get there in a roundabout way.
01:12:36: I'm going to jump to Hebrews to tell you what it looks like and none of this makes sense without Leviticus and the law in Exodus.
01:12:49: None of it makes any sense. Hebrews 10, 16 says, this is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the
01:13:01: Lord. I will put my laws into their hearts and in their minds I will write them.
01:13:07: And he says, their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.
01:13:13: God's economy has a provision to wipe away our sin. It's astounding.
01:13:20: He's a God of precision, of perfect holiness. And he has made a way for our sin to be wiped away, that we might approach him acceptably.
01:13:36: Their sins, their lawless deeds, I will remember no more. Can our hearts cry out with thanksgiving?
01:13:42: All of your wretched sin can be forgiven in Christ. Washed away, wiped away, covered in the skin of righteous
01:13:51: Christ. And he says, think of the timidity of the priestly service going into the
01:14:01: Holy of Holies, rope tied around the high priest's foot. He calls the rank and file people of God, even dirty
01:14:10: Gentiles like us. And he says, come with boldness. The place out of which
01:14:17: God speaks to Moses, Moses cannot approach all the way in there. He says, you come in here and you dwell with me, commune with me forever.
01:14:29: We now have boldness to enter the holiest. How? Children, look at the text and see if you can answer the question.
01:14:38: Hebrews 10, 19. How can we draw near to God? You have to understand how impossible this seems on the surface, to know anything of God's holy character, his precision, your sinfulness, your heart, your condition, his holiness.
01:14:58: It doesn't work. He's consecrated a new and living way.
01:15:15: We go through the veil into the Holy of Holies. And that veil, that skin is
01:15:25: Christ's skin, his flesh. We are incorporated, that language of body, our sinful bodies are incorporated into the righteous corpus, body of Christ.
01:15:42: We're clothed in Christ. We have a high priest over the house of God, and here's our explicit reference, this idea of drawing near, verse 22.
01:15:59: Let us therefore draw near with a true heart and full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water,
01:16:13: Leviticus chapter one. But the heavenly tabernacle, the heavenly temple is where Christ's blood is splattered.
01:16:26: And real washing takes place. There's something else
01:16:37: I'd like us to consider. Turn back to Leviticus chapter one. When you bring an offering, offering is assumed, it's fully now ingrained in Hebrew consciousness.
01:17:03: They understand it by example, by tradition. They've seen their own deliverance in Passover and Exodus.
01:17:14: You shall bring your offering of the livestock of the herd. What is an acceptable sacrifice?
01:17:21: We learned that Cain's sacrifice was not, it was not accepted. It says in verse three, if the offering is a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish,
01:17:37: Christ in Leviticus chapter one. The male par excellence without blemish will be offered.
01:17:49: Therefore we have this, to instruct us to take away the veil of our understanding of who
01:17:55: Messiah would be, we begin to unravel and unearth and unfurl more and more and more of the glory of Christ.
01:18:04: It's just the slaughter of animals. It's just some weird history in Leviticus.
01:18:10: No, it's the glory of Christ. Male without blemish, what kind of sacrifice is acceptable?
01:18:20: You can't bring your blind lamb or ox. Can't bring your lame livestock.
01:18:32: You have to bring like Abel, the choicest of your herd. Your sacrifice has to cost you something because it costs
01:18:42: God his son. You do this not with compulsion.
01:18:50: You do it willingly of your own free will. You appear there at the door of the tabernacle of meeting of the
01:18:55: Lord with your sacrifice. There was a promise in Genesis three
01:19:08: I didn't talk about. I always talk about it. The promised seed of the woman, of course, Christ. Genesis four,
01:19:15: Abel's spotless lamb. The Passover, lamb without blemish.
01:19:23: Exodus, Leviticus one, three, offer a male without blemish.
01:19:31: And this is where things really begin to get interesting. Look at verse four.
01:19:39: It says, referring to the worshiper, the one who's offering sacrifice.
01:19:46: Then he shall put his hand on the head of the burnt offering.
01:19:57: And what this does is it represents the conferring of the sinfulness like Adam, who needed to die in the garden for his sin, but God provided a covering.
01:20:10: The worshiper comes and says, I lay all of my sins on this animal because God has prescribed it.
01:20:18: And he actually, in the language of the text, leans on the animal, presses his weight into the animal to show the transference of his guilt upon the sacrifice.
01:20:30: He's leaning with his weight and saying, oh God, accept this sacrifice for my sin.
01:20:43: And here, can you imagine the man offering the sacrifice and that beast's throat being cut and the convulsion of hanging onto life, the squirming, the flailing, the sounds that that animal would make.
01:21:11: And the priests are catching with bowls the blood to catch it, to put it on the altar.
01:21:22: It's a very weighty thing. And the thing that's so helpful about this is helps us in our creatureliness to see what the sights and the sounds and the smells of death.
01:21:39: Verse five, I should say, I'm gonna stop here. I almost passed over the very important part of all this.
01:21:46: God in this economy, looking forward to Christ, obviously, he says, you bringing this animal in the way that I prescribe, you putting your hand, you leaning your weight on the animal, your sacrifice, your transference of your guilt represented here in the sacrifice of this animal.
01:22:07: This is going to be offered on your behalf and it will make atonement for you.
01:22:19: Five, it says, he shall kill the bull before the Lord, the priests and Aaron's sons and shall bring the blood and sprinkle the blood all around the altar that is by the door of the tabernacle of meeting.
01:22:37: The worshiper comes, lays his hands on the sacrifice and ceremonially transfers his guilt to the sacrifice.
01:22:48: The sinner conscious of his own guilt, knowing as he leans on him with his weight, he presses the weight of his sin and his guilt and confers it upon the animal.
01:23:03: Because of time, I'm gonna read a text really quickly. I'm not gonna have you turn there with me. Romans chapter five, for when we were still without strength in due time,
01:23:22: Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die, yet perhaps for a good man, someone would even dare to die, but God demonstrates his own love toward us in that while we were still sinners,
01:23:40: Christ died for us, substitutionary atonement. Much more than having now been justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
01:23:57: If when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his son, much more having now been reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
01:24:08: And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
01:24:18: God has created and ordained and painstakingly with beautiful, bloody, groaning pictures, a redemptive economy whereby sinners receive atonement through the blood sacrifice of another.
01:24:44: The sacrificial system, it's hard for you to, you hold your nose as you read it.
01:24:49: The sacrificial system preaches Christ and his gospel to us.
01:25:03: Am I going exceptionally long? Really super long? What time is it?
01:25:13: What time? One of seven. One of seven, okay. I'll try to go quicker. Fourth thing
01:25:22: I'd like us to consider once you look at verse six.
01:25:35: And this was what was capturing my thinking a couple of weeks ago in part.
01:25:43: You and I need to be skinned and cut to pieces. Verse six, he shall skin the burnt offering and cut it to pieces.
01:26:06: Coming out of Theopolis several years ago, I was really intrigued by a number of these.
01:26:11: There's a lot of material on this that they've done. Lightheart and Jordan, I think they're right.
01:26:17: There's cautious things with those guys. You have to be careful. Not everything is perfect in their theology in my estimation.
01:26:25: But this is a good synthesis of what I hope to communicate today. This is from Lightheart, but drawing heavily from Jordan and Baruch Levine.
01:26:35: All of the offerings picture, referring to this Leviticus section, all the offerings picture the ascension or glorification of the animal as it goes up into the clouds of God's presence.
01:26:52: The ascension offering, since the language should be instead of the burnt offering, it should say ascension in our text.
01:26:59: This burnt offering, this ascension offering, pictures this more dramatically than all of the others since the whole animal ascends.
01:27:13: Because the burning is highlighted in this offering, it is preeminently the ascension offering.
01:27:22: In this context, Lightheart says, quoting directly now, the rites of the ascension offering, and especially the unique elements of the rite, point to the conditions for ascension into God's glorious presence.
01:27:43: We say, I say, lift up your hearts. We say, we lift them up to the
01:27:51: Lord. We're talking about ascending into God's presence. That's what we're talking about.
01:27:58: This tells us, explains to us, the conditions whereby a sinner can enter into the kingdom of God.
01:28:07: This rite, as articulated in Leviticus, realized in Christ, Lightheart, again, the rite teaches us that sinners enter the kingdom only through a bloody substitutionary death.
01:28:20: Just as the animal is turned into smoke only if it is set apart by the laying on of hands, slaughtered, and its blood sprinkled around the altar, beyond this, however, the burnt offering was skinned, cut into pieces, and certain parts were washed.
01:28:40: You and I need to be skinned. We need to be cut into pieces.
01:28:48: Talk to Zach about this. This isn't a reckless chopping up of the animal into little pieces.
01:28:56: This is butchering the animal into its constituent parts.
01:29:03: This is the language of Leviticus 1. You have to pay attention. This is basically a transcription of the words of God from his mouth to Moses.
01:29:16: Here it reveals God's character and his plan for redemption. We have to understand something of the skinning of the animal.
01:29:29: There's a theology of skin, believe it or not. We've heard about it already in Genesis. The symbolic significance of the skinning of the animal tells us that things can be disqualified from service if they had unclean skin.
01:29:44: Think about all the regulations for leprosy, for example. The verb translated skin in Leviticus 1 is elsewhere used to refer to the stripping off of clothes,
01:29:56: Leviticus 16, 1 Samuel 19. And as our first parents learned, skin is our natural clothing and clothing is an additional layer of skin.
01:30:08: When Adam and Eve sinned, they realized that they were naked and they hid from God. Throughout the
01:30:15: Bible, of course, nakedness and shame are virtually synonymous. Both point to God's judgment against sin.
01:30:23: To be ashamed is to stand condemned before the judge. How can a worshiper approach
01:30:33: God? It's gotta be skinning. There's gotta be a cutting into pieces.
01:30:43: This is all made possible, of course, because Jesus, the perfect ascension offering, was stripped of his seamless garment skin and he was crucified and crucified naked.
01:30:58: I would like you to turn quickly to Hebrews 4. This is very important to my point.
01:31:06: Thank you for your patience. We started a bit late, so I'm taking solace in that.
01:31:15: If you don't like the length of my preaching, complain to Mark. Talk to Mark about it. Don't talk to me about it.
01:31:25: Do you think we need to be skinned? It's kind of strange, isn't it? I've never heard a sermon, anybody say that to me before?
01:31:33: I really believe it. You and I need to be cut up into pieces.
01:31:40: What are you talking about? Have you lost your mind? Let's look at verse 12 of chapter four of Hebrews and catch the language.
01:31:53: The word of God is living and powerful, you could quote this from memory, and sharper than any two -edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, joints and marrow.
01:32:08: It's a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. And there is no creature hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.
01:32:24: The natural clothing of the animal, he doesn't have outer garments like you and I have, he has a skin.
01:32:31: And when they skin that animal, all of him is exposed. The word of God read, meditated upon, preached, prayed through, cuts us apart.
01:32:46: It chops us into pieces, that part of me that's prideful or lustful or greedy, each part of me is exposed by the word of God and laid bare before the one to whom
01:33:01: I must give an account. I need to be clothed in a better skin, my skin is defiled, but I put on the righteous robes of Christ.
01:33:22: To ascend to God, to be translated into his kingdom, to become new glorified creatures, to gain an interest in the new garden creation, sinners must be first dismembered by the word of God and laid bare before him.
01:33:47: Our members must be flayed and put to death. Our sins generally and our sins particularly must be cut from our flesh and we must be incorporated into the sinless body of Christ.
01:34:12: Jordan says, it seems to me that the ritual of the ascension offering of Leviticus 1 portrays the sacrificial ritual as a way of moving from a fallen to a new creation.
01:34:36: The cutting of animals refers back to the covenant cutting rite of Genesis 15. Difference, Leviticus 1 pictures the flesh being taken up into the smoke, into the flames.
01:34:51: Leithart says, perhaps this points to the fact that God takes the curse upon himself.
01:34:59: Christ did, Christ took our curse upon himself. The language of this essay and these papers kind of synthesize here in this statement and I'll conclude here before a word of application.
01:35:14: Listen to this. Jesus Christ is the perfect ascension offering.
01:35:28: The carcass of the perfect victim is public testimony of the righteousness of God to the fact that God keeps his oath, even to his own hurt, even though it costs him his life.
01:35:46: Each time we celebrate the supper, God confirms his promise by giving us the signs of the dismembered victim.
01:35:57: We break that bread and then we eat it. We take
01:36:03: Christ into ourselves. He incorporates us into his body.
01:36:09: And in that image of the substitute back there in Leviticus, I believe that Christ grabs our hands and pulls them to himself and lays them upon his own head and says,
01:36:25: I am your sacrifice. Your sin is conferred to me.
01:36:31: The penalty due you has fallen to me. The righteousness you lack comes from me back to you.
01:36:38: You don't have the proper clothing. Be clothed in my skin and my righteousness.
01:36:44: Who would have thought talking about burning some animals on the altar would point to Christ and his glory?
01:37:00: A few words of application. First, let us draw near to the holiest of all and it makes me wonder why we're so slack in our joy and our eagerness to come into God's presence when all that had to be accomplished to make it happen.
01:37:17: Y 'all should not be late to church. God's gonna meet us here. You shouldn't neglect the word and sacrament.
01:37:27: This is the very provision of God for our salvation, our sanctification, our joy, our fellowship.
01:37:34: Let us draw near to the holiest of all by the virtue and blood of Christ, the perfect sacrifice.
01:37:43: You should be diligently reading, praying, meditating on the scripture, hanging on every word preached that you might be skinned and cut to pieces, that you might see your need and find your provision in Christ to be, have all those members be brought together in righteousness in him.
01:38:08: Also give attention to reading these portions of scripture, the whole counsel of God and watch more and more of Christ's glory be unveiled.
01:38:19: Amen? Amen. Let's prove it. Let's do it now in just a moment.
01:38:26: Please pray with me. Oh Lord Jesus, we thank you for your provision.
01:38:34: We thank you that this offering brings us back into fellowship with God.
01:38:42: This causes us to pass the flaming sword and enter the garden again to commune with you.
01:38:50: Oh Lord, help us to never again trivialize or take lightly these holy and precious and wondrous things.
01:38:58: And we thank you for these tangible, instructive elements of your word that help us to see more and more of Christ and his glory.
01:39:08: We ask that the spirit of this would all be realized as we joyfully partake of the table together in just a few minutes.
01:39:16: And we ask all of these things in Jesus name. Well, let us continue our worship by the giving of our tithes and our offerings.
01:39:59: Please stand and let us pray. Heavenly father, thank you that you give the gift of abundant and eternal life.
01:40:13: That you have said that you are a good father who gives us good gifts for every good and perfect gift is from above.
01:40:23: Your generosity overflows to us and our cup overflows. Everything we have is a gift from you.
01:40:32: As we bring our offerings to you, we give back to you from the abundant blessings you have given us.
01:40:40: May our gifts be acceptable in your sight. Oh Lord, our God, blessing and glory, wisdom and thanksgiving, honor and power and strength be unto you, our
01:40:51: God forever and ever through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. Amen.
01:40:57: Let us join our voices together. Glorify God in the singing of the Gloria Patri. Lift up your hearts.
01:41:49: We lift them up to the Lord. Let us give thanks to the Lord. It is good and right so to do.
01:41:56: It is good, it is right and a good and joyful thing that we should at all times and in all places give thanks to you, oh holy
01:42:06: Lord, father almighty, everlasting God. Because you sent your beloved son to redeem us from sin and death and to make us heirs in him of everlasting life.
01:42:20: That when he shall come again in power and great triumph to judge the world, we may without shame or fear rejoice to behold his appearing.
01:42:31: Therefore, with angels and archangels and with all the company of heaven, we praise and magnify your glorious name, evermore praising you and singing.
01:44:08: Please be seated. Let us pray.
01:44:16: Oh God, the father of all mercies and God of all consolation, grant your gracious presence in the effectual working of your spirit in us.
01:44:29: And so to sanctify these elements, both of bread and wine, and to bless your own ordinance that we may receive by faith the body and blood of Jesus Christ, crucified for us.
01:44:47: And so to feed upon him that he may be one with us and we one with him, that he may live in us and we in him.
01:45:00: And for him who has loved us and has given himself for us.
01:45:06: Amen. The apostle Paul in his first letter to the
01:45:12: Corinthians wrote these instructions for us. He wrote, for I receive from the Lord that which
01:45:18: I give to you, that in the night in which he was betrayed, he took bread. And when he had given in thanks, he broke it, saying to his disciples, take, eat, this is my body, which is broken for you.
01:45:33: In the same manner, after supper, he took the cup and said, this cup is the new covenant in my blood.
01:45:44: Therefore do this as often as you drink it in remembrance of me. And as often as we partake of this bread and drink of this cup, we proclaim the
01:45:56: Lord's death until he comes. Therefore we proclaim the faith.
01:46:08: Christ will come again. Let us pray together this prayer of approach. We do not presume to come to this your table,
01:46:17: O merciful Lord, trusting in our own righteousness, but in your manifold and great mercies.
01:46:25: We are not worthy so much as to gather up the crumbs on your table, but you are the same
01:46:32: Lord who always shows mercy. Grant us therefore, gracious Lord, so to eat the flesh of your dear son,
01:46:40: Jesus Christ, and to drink of his blood, that our sinful bodies may be made clean by his body, and our souls washed through his most precious blood, and that we may evermore dwell in him, and he in us, amen.
01:46:57: Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us. Therefore let us keep the feasts, the gifts of God for the people of God.
01:47:06: Thanks be to the Lord. One note, our first communion hymn will be sung acapella.
01:47:12: ♪ And soar,
01:47:40: Jesus ready stands to save you ♪ ♪
01:47:47: Is he joined with power, he is able, he is able ♪ ♪
01:47:58: He is able, he is willing, he becometh us ♪ ♪
01:48:20: Repenting Lord, true belief and true repentance ♪ ♪
01:48:31: Every grace that brings you nigh ♪ ♪
01:48:37: Without money, without money, without money ♪ ♪
01:48:46: Come to Jesus Christ and buy, come to Jesus Christ and buy ♪ ♪
01:48:58: Come to Jesus Christ and buy, come to Jesus Christ and buy ♪ ♪
01:50:49: All to him
01:51:40: I freely give, in his presence daily live ♪ ♪
01:51:56: I surrender, humbly at his feet
01:52:31: I bow, I bow, I bow, I bow, I bow, I bow, I bow, I bow, I bow, I bow, I bow, I bow, I bow ♪ ♪ Again take me,
01:52:41: Jesus, take me now, I surrender all ♪ ♪
01:53:15: May me save your holy mind, may thy
01:53:22: Holy Spirit fill me ♪ ♪ May I know thy power divine,
01:53:41: I surrender all,
01:53:53: I surrender all, all, I surrender all, all ♪ Lord Jesus, I surrender,
01:54:01: Lord, I give myself to Thee.
01:54:07: Fill me with Thy love and power.
01:54:13: Let Thy blessings fall on me.
01:54:37: I surrender all in my heart.
01:57:57: Amen. Let us make this prayer of commitment together. Almighty and ever -living
01:58:04: God, we thank You for feeding us with the spiritual food of the most precious body and blood of Your Son, our
01:58:14: Savior, Jesus Christ, and for assuring us of these holy mysteries that we are the living members of the body of Your Son and heirs of Your eternal kingdom.
01:58:27: And, O Lord, grant us this other benefit, that You will never allow us to forget these things, but having them imprinted on our hearts, may we grow and increase daily in the faith which is at work in every good deed.
01:58:43: And now, Father, send us out to do the work You have given us to do, to love and serve
01:58:49: You as faithful witnesses of Christ our Lord. To Him, to You, and to the
01:58:55: Holy Spirit, be all honor and praise. Let us stand.
01:59:43: The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make His face to shine upon you and be gracious to you.