Shadows to Substance Conference 2023 with Pastor Greg Moering Jr.

Right. Yeah, especially with all this noise here. So normally we do a show intro and stuff, but we'll just get right into it. All right. I think it's pretty cool that. This is the first time ever. I think I've had anyone on my podcast.

It's just a couple letters off from from it. So I'm a Greg Moore jr. Yeah, and you're gonna introduce yourself to the listeners. Yeah, so my name is Greg mooring.

And you've also got two O's. Yeah, so you're you're you're m-o-o-r-e, right? Yeah. Yeah, and I'm m-o-e-r-i-n-g. There you go. Yeah.

I'm gonna turn you up a little bit. Does that sound okay? Yeah, it sounds good. Okay. All right, cool. So we're at the shadows to substance conference. Yep, Tullahoma, Tennessee. Yeah, I just met you.

Leviticus 16 and the Day of Atonement as a Shadow of Christ

Yeah, we just got out of the first session. Yep, and it was absolutely amazing. We were in Leviticus 16. Give us a little summary about that shadow that we see in Leviticus. Yeah, so Leviticus 16 is man.

You know, I of course just got got done preaching it and I love this I love this text because what we see here is, you know, this is the Day of Atonement. This is the moment when The Lord Jesus or we have the high priest of is under the Old Covenant Yeah was given this responsibility once a year to go into the Holy of Holies that he's the only man That is able to go into the very presence of God on earth.

And he could only do it one time a year. Yeah, like if he if he went the day before or the day after he's dead. He's like you said he's murked. He's murked. So, you know guys, you know we see with Aaron it's it's it's actually Leviticus 16 1 and 2 starts with the reminds us of day dab at a by who and how.

You know, it's like hey Aaron. Remember what I did to your sons. Yeah, the ones that you couldn't mourn for that. I told you don't cry about it. Hmm. Remember that yeah, you can only go once a year and do and you have to do it in exactly this way and so we see and just through a Plurality of things that every bit, you know down to even, you know, the wardrobe change.

Actually points to the Lord Jesus Christ. Yeah, the shadow of that was really great to what they had to wear and it is commanded in Exodus Versus what we're seeing them change into. Can you talk about that a little bit.

How that's a shadow of Christ?

The High Priest's Garments and Christ's Incarnation

Yeah, so what we see in you know in next is 28. You've got the description of the high priests Clothing it's and if you look at the color colors and how it is is there's gold there's purple. There's blue like all of this stuff.

It's a very ornate very beautiful Glorious even royal attire. Yeah in which you know pointed to the fact that of course that you know God's people were to be a kingdom of priests. It's so what you see there is then on the Day of Atonement.

When the high priest was to go and make the Atonement he was not to wear that at all. Yeah, he was supposed to wear this Clean humble white linen stuff sure and then after he's made the Atonement He was then to return to his his glorious vestment.

Well. It's again as I said there that it sounds strangely familiar that what we have you have the king of glory himself. The Lord Jesus Christ who I mean what is more Glorious than being God. Yeah, you know what other you know, then the Shekinah itself, you know being you know.

Having that that glory that he shared with the father at that time. What's more glorious than that? Well, nothing and what's more kingly than that? Well when you're when you're the high king of heaven, there's nothing more kingly than being the high king of heaven yeah, and yeah here you have in in just this wardrobe change the the point the picture.

Painted of Jesus's incarnation of how he would step down himself from heaven and he would robe himself in human flesh and Just as the high priest was to his his clothing was supposed to be clean. Yeah, what.

Jesus's flesh is clean. He was always clean. He was never unclean. You know, he was he was so clean that he could touch a leper and not be defiled. He could touch a corpse and not be defiled. He could touch a woman who was you know Was hemorrhaging and had been hemorrhaging for 12 years and not be defiled every single one of those things would defile the high priest.

But not our high priest. Yes, which also leads me into I love the fact that you mentioned Hebrews 10. Our church right now is going through Hebrews in our small groups on Sunday evenings and Christ sitting down in the significance of that you made you made mention up there during your session.

There is no seat in the temple or you know in the Holy of Holies. Because their work was never done yet. Christ is his work is finished and he is sitting right. Is even that a shadow and how he the writer of Hebrews reflects back to even your passage in Leviticus about The continual work of the priest.

Talk about that a little bit. How that's a shadow as well.

Hebrews 10 and the Finality of Christ's Atoning Work

Yeah, so what you see is that each and you know eat every year. It was appointed one once once a year that the high priest was supposed to go and make atonement and The writer of Hebrews in Hebrews 10 actually makes the argument goes guys, you know, basically he gets yes.

Let's let's think about this for a second. Do you think it actually would have a tone for sin because if it did. Wouldn't there have been wouldn't they have been cleaned and it would have been done with yeah.

Well, yeah. So therefore because it was happening every year year in and year out. There was no actual atonement for sin. Yes, there is in some way shape or form. There is something happening, but it was received by faith.

Yes, which is the whole point, you know, which is the point even now is that it's received by faith essentially not final. There was perpetuity there. Yeah, there was a perpetuity there because. It was pointing to the yes.

And the thing is is that because it didn't happen every single day. But it happened at a point of time once a year if there was in some sense a shadow of finality. But because it happened to have had to happen in perpetuity.

It was in itself not the final sacrifice. Yeah, but because it was an appointed day once a year it pointed that there would come a day. Yeah a single day a man, you know, unlike the Catholic Mass. What that there was a single day when Jesus Christ when the high priest of glory himself would step down and he would bear Our sin.

Yeah fully and finally then that everything that we that we are due for eternity. In hell not just for us but for all of God's people for all of the elect that all of that that we again as I had said that you know.

We could be a billion years in hell and as Spurgeon had said that you know. You would look up above the doors of hell and it was saying shall be damned. Nothing, you know, not one bit of that would have been squelch.

But Jesus fulfills not just for myself, but all of his people and doesn't in three hours.

Amen, and then you had one more here we'll touch on which I really thought interesting and I don't hear taken up too often, but just the the Of the work of the priest and how he was not only sacrificing for the people for himself He was possibly doing that throughout the whole day how the whole weight of the atonement was on his shoulders.

Yeah, and I think you tease that language out a little bit to show the The shadow of Christ and how how the weight was on his shoulders. Yeah, and you don't really think about that. But that that priest for that day He was taking the weight of Israel the weight of the people on his shoulders and yet that's another shadow to Christ, correct.

Absolutely, and so that you see here that you know, as you're saying there that Everything like he's the scriptures expressly command that he's to do this alone. Yeah every bit of it by himself. That you know so that where we can say, you know Christ alone.

This is solus Christus right here. Yeah that it is pointing that there's only one height. There's one high priest who can who who is set aside to do the work. And that he was appointed by God to do this that he would that there was only It was this man and only this man who could do all of this.

Yeah, and that all of the stuff that was required each and every day. Apparently it seems that he was he was supposed to be you know that the daily sacrifices. He was supposed to do that. He was doing everything that you know He said the full weight of the responsibility to make atonement into to do.

What would wouldn't put God's people back in a right standing with him? Was solely upon the high priest yeah on this day of atonement and that what we see is That points us to how Jesus how our Lord Jesus on that day Was taking the full weight yeah of the wrath of God upon himself and that we see that you know Here's one who is who's hope, you know, holy and undefiled.

Yeah, and that he is then He's never made a sinner. But he becomes in a sense the very embodiment of all sin of all God's people for all time. Yeah, and that we then all that righteous living that he did for those 33 years is then accounted to us.

Yeah, like so good. It's like, you know. You know, you know, I'm a reformed Baptist that that makes me want to shout.

The Scapegoat, the Wilderness, and the East-to-West Pattern

Absolutely, so as we finish up here too, and we didn't touch on this I don't think too much you kind of teased it out in your session, but the scapegoat and going into the wilderness. Do we see any shadows there?

Because I do know Christ being referred to as a scapegoat I do know he spent some time in the wilderness. Is there a shadow there that we could explore?

Yeah, I would say that you know in when he when he talks about in some sense when he goes my god my god. Why have you forsaken me? He's not only just.

He's not just referring back to Psalm 22, yeah, but I also. I also. You better not tell James White that when he gets here Dr. James what he loves saying that it's Psalm 22. Well, it totally is.

I'm saying it's not just okay more to it than that. It's you know, it's I'm saying it's more to it than that I think that you know when he is saying when he's saying that there in a sense that there is an abandonment that you Mean the scapegoat would have all the sins of God's people confessed upon him.

And then would be cast out into the wilderness and forsaken. And that at this moment, he's going why have you forsaken me? Yeah, I mean and so in some sense I think that that there that there is that yeah that he that and we see how.

We you know in Adam we were cast outside of the God of God's presence and we were cast to the east yeah, and the whole the whole picture. Through it all from the way that the children of Israel entered into the promised land.

The way that the high priest was entering into the tabernacle, you know into the Holy of Holies that everything had this it was directed in front going from the east to the west and I will even say I've kind of teased this out a little bit when talking with Braden that.

What if again? This is a big what if sure what if? The way that the Sun rises and sets is there to point us to the fact that we we had been that it's the Son.

Of God who would take us from the east to the west. Mmm. I like that.

Yeah, so, you know that I would say that all that all of this it points to Jesus Christ. Amen.

Pastoring, Reformed Baptist Identity, and Social Media

Yeah, so as we did you take us out here? Tell us where you're pastoring at what you got going on how people can. Get a hold of you on socials if you got it.

Okay, so I'm like kind of a hermit when it comes to social media like I like As I said at the beginning of the sermon that I don't know how I got here. Other than I've you know, I friends with Braden and they found you.

Yeah, like it's just weird connections. So I currently am actually a member at First Baptist Church of Coleman with my wife. Where's that at in Coleman, Florida? Okay, so we are one of the few unicorns that exist in Florida.

We are a reformed Baptist Church. So hold it down for Florida. I like right before Baptist. So, you know, we you know, hashtag that 1689. That so, you know, we're one of the few. And. So that's where members I currently do not pastor anywhere.

But I am way available to pastor. So if anybody knows of anything, I'm happy to you know, at least be considered. So that you know, I used to pastor at Valley Baptist Church in Hagerman, Idaho. Done church planning.

I've been a youth pastor, but awesome. Can't do youth pastoring again. I'm a Age integrationist, so how about.

So, how about social media stuff. You stay quiet there? You got a. I've just got my own personal Facebook page.

It's all personal Facebook. Yeah, so you could. I I'm happy. Yeah, Greg mooring jr. But there you go. You won't eat. Like it was funny is when I went on Iron sharpens iron Chris Arnson had to pull up a picture from like six years ago because even my profile I don't even use my own face.

That's funny. So I'm like totally like ninja. Yeah, we love Chris.

He was on a few months ago and I'm going on the show there in a couple months, but he's a good guy cool. Well, Greg, it was so nice to meet you. It's so good to have a the Greg and Greg show going on here.

Guys, make sure you check out his stuff. And I think we're gonna be getting some video of this conference that Jeff is going to be putting up pastor Jeff and we'll get it out to you guys as well as we continue the series here Live at the shadows to substance conference, but thanks for being on.

Amen bus Lord. Yeah, and guys as always remember chief end of man is the glorified God enjoy him forever. God bless him in. Be sure to follow us on Facebook and Instagram at dead men walking podcast for full video podcast Episodes and clips or email us at dead men walking podcast at gmail .com.