1447 - "Introduction to the Crimson River in Exodus & Leviticus"

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Welcome to On the Way. This is Tony Crisp, and this is Podcast 1447. Today we're going to continue our journey through the story of the Crimson River that runs from Genesis to Revelation. And it runs deep, very deep in sacrifice and understanding of God's plan of how to deal with sin in the Bible. And as we go through this together, I pray that your heart will be encouraged. We're going to be in the book of Exodus. And I want you along with the book of Exodus to keep very close at hand the book of Hebrews in the New Testament. The book of Exodus and Deuteronomy especially are quoted extensively throughout the New Testament. But I want you to have Hebrews chapter nine and ten with you as we go through the next couple of weeks. And also chapter eleven and chapter twelve of Hebrews because those chapters deal with the great hall of fame of faith, those who have trusted God and His provision for salvation, for redemption, for forgiveness, and all that goes with that. And chapter twelve will tell you about the results of that. Since we are children of God, since we are part of His family, there are obligations and responsibilities. There are warnings to us and cautions about how to live godly and in a way that would be pleasing to him. And remember Hebrews chapter eleven and verse six. Without trust, without faith it is impossible to please God. And I want to remind us of what we're going to be studying at the outset, and it's not how to be saved. Oh no. Because we are saved by grace through faith. There is no exception to that throughout the Bible. There is no sacrifice that can be made by human effort, either our good works, by keeping the laws of God, by outwardly being blameless before a world that doesn't see the whole picture, or whether it has to do with sacrifices and us bringing certain things to God to make us favorable to Him. There is no way under heaven that man can merit God's salvation. It is only by the grace of God, by the mercy of God that we have favor with Him. Grace is all that God does for us that we do not deserve. And mercy is all that we deserve that God withholds from us. And all of this is because, yes, grace, but it is because of the finished work of Jesus to pay for our sins and to bring us to God, to reconcile us. And so we will talk about that in the days and weeks ahead. But I want us to go to the book of Exodus, and as you open the book of Exodus, the story of the Crimson River brings us face to face with Moses, the great man of God that was the Redeemer in a sense that he brought God's people, was used by God. He was the tool that God used for leadership to bring the people of Israel back into the promised land. Now it's amazing that he was not allowed to bring the people into the land, but we will deal with that at another time. But his protege Joshua sure was. And we'll follow those stories in the weeks and months ahead. But what I want you to do is focus in on the worship and the way we can approach God because this is what is opened up for us in living color, in 3D and 4D, because we can see so much of what God has done for us in the book of Exodus as we study the great worship center, the tabernacle, the tent of meeting in the wilderness. And so as we do this, I want you to have your Bibles opened if at all possible. If you're listening to this on the way to work or you're coming home from work, I pray that as soon as you can find a study time, open your Bible, follow these scriptures as we read through, and may God help you. We encounter blood very soon in the Scriptures. When we come to the book of Exodus, chapter twelve, we have the story of the shedding of blood of the Passover Lamb. And if you want more information on that, I have recorded many podcasts, have written on that, and I'll be happy to give you that material that you can use. I have written a Passover Seder that we have used with thousands of people across America and around the world, as we have done these great satyrs in Kingsport, Tennessee, and simulcast them and recorded them so that people could listen to these and watch and participate actually while it was going on. And so you have plenty of material from other people. This is just what I have done. But there have been volumes written on the blood of the Passover Lamb. So I just want you to understand that the Crimson River is more plain in some places in Scripture than others. But in the book of Exodus and Leviticus, it is no more plain anywhere in the Scriptures. And so as we walk through these lessons together, I pray that the Spirit of God will work in your heart and draw you close to him as we go through these together. And so when you come to the wilderness and Mount Sinai, it was miraculous that God got them to Sinai. As you know, there was the story of the Passover itself, the journey through the Red Sea, walking through the Red Sea on dry ground, the miracles of the provision of food, the miracles of the provision of water, all of those things are in those early chapters. But I want us to center in on what happens in chapters twenty five through forty. It's interesting because when we come to chapter twenty and the gray commandments were given on Mount Sinai, we forget sometimes that that is all summed up in just a few verses of Scripture. As a matter of fact, the Ten Commandments are called the Decalogue. Decah is the Greek word for ten, and then the number ten, that is, and then the log part of that decalogue is the word logos. So it's ten words. All of that is summed up in chapter twenty in just a few sentences. So when God gave the moral law as it is called, it only took just a few sentences. When God wanted to prepare the people to approach him and how to worship him, and to explain this great system that God gave to man to help us to understand when Messiah would come, what all he would do and how important it was, he used twenty-five chapters. And so I want you to understand that the law is important, but understanding how to approach God will help you to understand that the law was a podigos. That's what the book of Galatians, chapter three says. It was a child conductor. And a podigogos was one who led a child to the teacher, to the master, to the one who would guide and direct. And so the child conductor, the pottygogos of the book of Galatians in the New Testament, chapter three, the Bible says it was to bring us to the master teacher, to the one who would guide us through life, the one who would be our master. And so what happens with the law and the Ten Commandments and all of the other rituals and ceremonial laws, all of those were to help us. They were instructors to get us to the master. And so you never need to forget that as you're studying the Old Testament scriptures, because they were not an end in themselves, all of these routines and rituals and religious things, and the Bible is a religious book. Now you might not like hearing that with all the clutter and noise that's going on today. Religion is not bad in itself, it's a certain aspect and emphasis, and many religions are wicked and evil, but not those religious routines and activities of the Word of God. It is what man has done with those that makes them abhorrent to God, a means by where someone is made right with God. That's never the case. But we don't need to throw out the baby with the bathwater. We need to understand that God has given us rules, regulations, routines, rituals, religious activities to promote righteousness and righteous living and godly living in our lives. And I pray that you'll understand that better as we go through these days in the coming months. Because when we come to chapter 25, God begins to reveal what is going on in heaven that He wants to go on in earth. So in tomorrow's podcast, I want to introduce you to the great worship center that will show us Messiah Jesus, our Savior, the Christ Jesus, as clear as anything that we could ever imagine, and we'll study it together as we walk on the way. This is Tony Crisp.

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