WEBVTT 00:00:00.560 --> 00:00:02.000 I know that you are excited. 00:00:02.160 --> 00:00:08.800 Like I said, you survive spring break, or as I like to refer to it, break 972 of the school year. 00:00:09.439 --> 00:00:15.359 You know, I've I told the first crowd, I honestly do believe we that teachers should make more money than they do. 00:00:15.439 --> 00:00:18.239 They should we should double all teachers' salaries. 00:00:18.399 --> 00:00:19.679 Oh, somebody was clapping about that. 00:00:19.760 --> 00:00:20.399 That's nice. 00:00:20.559 --> 00:00:22.160 We should double your salaries. 00:00:22.239 --> 00:00:25.199 And I think we should do that by cutting all the breaks. 00:00:25.600 --> 00:00:27.199 Like that's that's what we're gonna do. 00:00:27.679 --> 00:00:30.239 We'll double your salary, you get no breaks, okay? 00:00:30.399 --> 00:00:34.240 Like you got to take my kids and you just they're yours for a year, okay? 00:00:34.399 --> 00:00:37.200 Send them back at the end of the year, they better be smarter, okay? 00:00:37.359 --> 00:00:38.479 That's that's all I'm saying. 00:00:38.719 --> 00:00:49.840 But I know that uh you survived spring break, you came to church today, you were so excited, and then a guy stands up here that you're probably not real fond of, and then on top of that, he says, let's talk about Leviticus 8. 00:00:50.399 --> 00:00:58.240 And you're like, Yes, I came back for Leviticus, you know, like this is great. 00:00:58.640 --> 00:01:01.119 It's not as bad as you think it's gonna be. 00:01:01.200 --> 00:01:02.079 Well, it might be, I don't know. 00:01:02.159 --> 00:01:13.760 You can talk about that at lunch after you leave here, but it's not as bad as you think it's gonna be because what Leviticus chapter 8 is doing is setting the tone for something in the future, and the tone has been set previously for this uh Leviticus chapter 8. 00:01:13.840 --> 00:01:21.840 And we'll explain all that in a minute, but uh we understand that a little bit because in our lives we're constant, the tone is constantly being set, right, for something. 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:26.239 Maybe you are a parent of children and you set the tone for them babies, right? 00:01:26.319 --> 00:01:29.840 Like, and they're perfect and wonderful, and they listen to every word that you say, don't they? 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:31.840 And do everything exactly like you tell them. 00:01:31.920 --> 00:01:33.280 That's just how it goes, right? 00:01:33.439 --> 00:01:38.239 Or maybe, you know, you're a business owner or something like that, and you have to set the tone with employees, right? 00:01:38.400 --> 00:01:41.120 They gotta know how this works, and some of you are good, some of you are bad. 00:01:41.280 --> 00:01:42.719 If you're like me, you're not very good at it. 00:01:42.799 --> 00:01:45.760 But um, you know, you set the tone with that, right? 00:01:45.920 --> 00:01:51.120 We're and then on top of that, the tone is constantly being set for us in other ways, and I have a great example of this. 00:01:51.280 --> 00:02:00.480 I don't know if any of you have noticed this, but one great example that the tone is being set is is in every, seems like every place I go now, self-checkout. 00:02:00.719 --> 00:02:01.840 Does anybody notice that? 00:02:02.079 --> 00:02:04.959 Everywhere you go is gone complete self-checkout. 00:02:05.120 --> 00:02:08.240 Now, full disclosure, I'm a self-checkout guy. 00:02:08.479 --> 00:02:09.199 I love it. 00:02:09.360 --> 00:02:11.840 I think it's the greatest thing that's ever happened. 00:02:12.080 --> 00:02:13.520 I love self-checkout. 00:02:13.599 --> 00:02:14.400 You want to know why? 00:02:14.639 --> 00:02:16.400 Because I know what I'm doing. 00:02:16.639 --> 00:02:17.680 That's why. 00:02:18.000 --> 00:02:19.280 I can do this. 00:02:19.520 --> 00:02:24.719 I can scan the items, I can get out the door, I can do self-checkout. 00:02:24.800 --> 00:02:26.400 I'm great with self-checkout. 00:02:26.639 --> 00:02:27.360 I love it. 00:02:27.520 --> 00:02:28.800 I love everything about it. 00:02:28.960 --> 00:02:29.840 Here's why. 00:02:30.080 --> 00:02:45.280 Because if you are part of a business that says we're going to self-checkout and we're gonna install all self-checkout from here on out, what you are setting the tone for with me is that you are going to leave me alone. 00:02:45.919 --> 00:02:46.960 Do you understand? 00:02:47.120 --> 00:02:52.719 Like, if we're gonna do self-checkout, which I'm all for, that means go away. 00:02:54.159 --> 00:02:55.680 Don't bother me. 00:02:55.919 --> 00:02:57.599 I will take care of this. 00:02:58.000 --> 00:02:59.680 But no, that's not the case. 00:02:59.759 --> 00:03:00.800 I give you a perfect example. 00:03:00.879 --> 00:03:03.120 I had to set the tone with a complete stranger this week. 00:03:03.199 --> 00:03:04.000 You want to know how I did it? 00:03:04.080 --> 00:03:05.439 I hit him with my car. 00:03:07.439 --> 00:03:08.879 He's fine. 00:03:09.520 --> 00:03:10.960 He deserved it. 00:03:11.520 --> 00:03:12.719 You want to know why I deserved it? 00:03:12.800 --> 00:03:14.159 Because I pull up to the car wash. 00:03:14.240 --> 00:03:17.280 There's a giant stone pillar at the car wash. 00:03:17.439 --> 00:03:23.199 Inside that pillar is a touch screen that a toddler could choose a car wash on. 00:03:23.439 --> 00:03:26.240 It is color-coded with the prices. 00:03:26.400 --> 00:03:29.919 My five-year-old could pay for a car wash if she wanted to. 00:03:30.080 --> 00:03:33.919 And I pull up to use that touch screen, and what happens? 00:03:34.159 --> 00:03:34.400 Mr. 00:03:34.639 --> 00:03:40.800 Car wash employee pops out from behind the pillar and is like, let me help you with that, sir. 00:03:40.960 --> 00:03:43.280 To which I wanted to be like, no. 00:03:44.479 --> 00:03:47.599 You put this in so that I don't need you. 00:03:48.159 --> 00:03:49.039 Go away. 00:03:49.280 --> 00:03:50.639 Of course, I didn't do that. 00:03:50.879 --> 00:03:53.439 I hit him with the mirror of my car. 00:03:53.840 --> 00:03:55.759 Because he jumped out of nowhere. 00:03:56.400 --> 00:04:01.520 And to his response was, whoa, you got a little close. 00:04:05.120 --> 00:04:06.639 No, no pudding. 00:04:07.360 --> 00:04:13.280 I got close enough to use the touch screen that you installed for me to use. 00:04:13.439 --> 00:04:14.960 He's like, let me help you with that. 00:04:15.039 --> 00:04:20.399 Now he's reaching over my mirror and trying to touch the screen for me. 00:04:21.120 --> 00:04:22.720 He hits the wrong button. 00:04:22.959 --> 00:04:24.000 Guess what that means? 00:04:24.160 --> 00:04:25.360 Gotta start over. 00:04:25.680 --> 00:04:27.040 Start it all over again. 00:04:27.199 --> 00:04:33.199 And then we finally get to the part as I'm holding my card in disgust to pay for this car wash. 00:04:33.519 --> 00:04:36.800 He reaches and grabs the card out of my hand. 00:04:37.040 --> 00:04:40.000 Only problem is, card reader's way over here. 00:04:40.319 --> 00:04:41.439 He's way over here. 00:04:41.680 --> 00:04:46.720 He begins to reach across the mirror to try to install the card to which he cannot reach. 00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:53.199 So he hands me my card back and says, Can you insert your card? 00:04:53.759 --> 00:04:55.439 Yeah, sure can. 00:04:55.680 --> 00:04:59.199 Could have done this whole thing without you, but here we are. 00:04:59.439 --> 00:05:02.480 So I go to insert my card just before the card gets in there. 00:05:02.560 --> 00:05:11.040 He asks my very favorite question, which the tone has been set for this already, and that question is, would you like to leave a tip? 00:05:13.199 --> 00:05:16.480 Now I don't know about you, but y'all are great people. 00:05:16.639 --> 00:05:17.920 I know you're great people. 00:05:19.120 --> 00:05:20.000 I'm not. 00:05:21.439 --> 00:05:26.560 I'm bringing back the word no in this world. 00:05:26.720 --> 00:05:29.759 I'm on a mission to bring no back. 00:05:30.240 --> 00:05:31.439 Kids ask for something? 00:05:31.759 --> 00:05:32.079 No. 00:05:32.720 --> 00:05:33.120 You know? 00:05:33.279 --> 00:05:34.000 Can we go here? 00:05:34.240 --> 00:05:34.639 Nope. 00:05:34.879 --> 00:05:36.319 Can we do something for spring break? 00:05:36.399 --> 00:05:37.199 Not a chance. 00:05:37.519 --> 00:05:38.560 Like, no. 00:05:39.199 --> 00:05:40.800 I say no. 00:05:41.120 --> 00:05:52.240 And my favorite thing to do now in this ridiculous tipping culture that we live in is to look you in your eyes and stare into your soul and say, no. 00:05:53.600 --> 00:05:55.360 I don't want to leave a tip. 00:05:55.519 --> 00:06:03.360 You're a server at a restaurant, pizza guy, I haven't tipped a barber in a long time, obviously, but those traditional tipping places, 20%'s my floor. 00:06:03.519 --> 00:06:04.639 Sky's the limit from there. 00:06:04.800 --> 00:06:07.279 All those traditional things where you should tip, I'm the tipper. 00:06:07.360 --> 00:06:07.759 I love it. 00:06:07.839 --> 00:06:09.040 I love doing that. 00:06:09.839 --> 00:06:18.399 But if you're in the way, if you're in the way, the answer is no. 00:06:19.680 --> 00:06:21.360 Where's the no button? 00:06:21.519 --> 00:06:28.800 I'm gonna set the tone from here on out with this ridiculous tipping culture that the word no is perfectly acceptable. 00:06:28.959 --> 00:06:34.399 So all of you should at least leave here today knowing that you are free to tell people no. 00:06:35.120 --> 00:06:36.639 I'm not gonna tip you. 00:06:36.959 --> 00:06:38.240 But the tone has been set. 00:06:38.319 --> 00:06:41.519 We did that during COVID where we thought everybody deserved a tip, right? 00:06:41.759 --> 00:06:42.560 You don't. 00:06:42.959 --> 00:06:43.920 You don't deserve it. 00:06:44.079 --> 00:06:44.720 Some people do. 00:06:44.879 --> 00:06:45.839 You probably don't. 00:06:46.079 --> 00:06:48.240 You don't deserve a tip for everything that you do. 00:06:48.399 --> 00:06:51.519 The tone has been set, though, so now we have to walk through this. 00:06:51.759 --> 00:06:55.680 The very same thing is happening in Leviticus chapter 8. 00:06:55.759 --> 00:06:56.480 The tone has been set. 00:06:56.560 --> 00:06:57.279 You want to know how we know? 00:06:57.360 --> 00:06:58.240 Well, it's real simple. 00:06:58.399 --> 00:07:07.519 Because all of this in Leviticus chapter 8, the weird stuff we just read a minute ago, and the weirder stuff that we're gonna read in just a few minutes, has already been said. 00:07:07.920 --> 00:07:11.439 It was said in Exodus chapter 28 and 29. 00:07:11.519 --> 00:07:18.079 When Moses goes up on Mount Sinai, he receives the Ten Commandments and all the commandments of God, he's gonna take it back down to the people of Israel. 00:07:18.399 --> 00:07:23.439 God tells Moses every single bit of this that is in Leviticus 8. 00:07:23.600 --> 00:07:26.160 He did it in Exodus 28 and 29. 00:07:26.639 --> 00:07:34.079 This, Leviticus 8, is Moses doing exactly what the Lord God told him to do. 00:07:34.800 --> 00:07:37.600 It's almost word for word as we walk through it. 00:07:37.759 --> 00:07:45.360 But what we have to understand for us is that what we're truly looking at is we're looking at the process. 00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:54.000 The reason we're looking at the process is because this process will set the tone for something in the future. 00:07:54.319 --> 00:07:55.759 That's what we have to know. 00:07:55.839 --> 00:07:56.720 So let's look at it. 00:07:56.879 --> 00:07:58.000 It's gonna get weird. 00:07:58.240 --> 00:07:59.920 Prepare yourselves, okay? 00:08:00.160 --> 00:08:01.279 It's Leviticus. 00:08:01.439 --> 00:08:02.720 It's gonna be weird. 00:08:03.279 --> 00:08:04.959 Couple things I want you to notice, though. 00:08:05.040 --> 00:08:05.920 Here's the process. 00:08:06.079 --> 00:08:08.319 First thing, they were washed. 00:08:08.480 --> 00:08:11.360 Look at Leviticus chapter 8, verse 5 and 6. 00:08:11.519 --> 00:08:16.319 It says, and Moses said to the congregation, This is the thing that the Lord commanded to be done. 00:08:16.480 --> 00:08:21.920 And Moses brought Aaron and his sons and washed them with water. 00:08:22.079 --> 00:08:29.680 This is a ceremonial cleansing that is happening because Moses is getting ready to install Aaron and his sons. 00:08:29.839 --> 00:08:36.480 Aaron will be the high priest, his sons will be lower priest, and they are going to minister to the Israelites. 00:08:36.720 --> 00:08:40.080 Aaron will begin to fulfill the duties of the high priest. 00:08:40.159 --> 00:08:45.759 He will go into the Holy of Holies in the temple, and he will make sacrifices on their behalf. 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:48.159 That's what Aaron will do as the high priest. 00:08:48.320 --> 00:08:56.240 So, as the first part of the ceremony, he had to be washed ceremonially to be cleansed in front of the people. 00:08:56.480 --> 00:08:57.679 So he's washed. 00:08:57.840 --> 00:08:59.919 Look at the second thing that happens. 00:09:00.159 --> 00:09:01.360 They were clothed. 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:04.159 Look at Leviticus 8, 7 through 9. 00:09:04.240 --> 00:09:05.279 Here's what it says. 00:09:05.519 --> 00:09:30.559 It says, And he put the coat on him, tied the sash around his waist, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod on him, and tied the skillfully woven band of the ephod around him, binding it to him with the band, and he placed the breastplate on him, and in the breastplate he put the urium and the thurium, and he set the turban on his head. 00:09:30.720 --> 00:09:38.399 And on the turban in front, he set the golden plate, the holy crown, as the Lord commanded Moses. 00:09:39.279 --> 00:09:46.799 All of this, all of this strange clothing that now Aaron has to wear is all out of Leviticus 28 and 29. 00:09:47.360 --> 00:09:56.480 God even reveals to Moses in that time on Mount Sinai exactly how the clothing of the high priest has to be made. 00:09:56.720 --> 00:10:02.720 And here we are, seeing it come full circle to being placed on Aaron as the first high priest. 00:10:02.799 --> 00:10:05.360 So they were washed, they were clothed. 00:10:05.519 --> 00:10:06.399 Look at the second thing. 00:10:06.480 --> 00:10:07.279 Look at the third thing. 00:10:07.360 --> 00:10:08.399 They were anointed. 00:10:08.639 --> 00:10:09.919 Verses 10 through 12. 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:25.919 It says, Then Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and consecrated them, sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times, anointed the altar, all its utensils, and the basin and its stand to consecrate them. 00:10:26.159 --> 00:10:33.279 And he poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron's head and anointed him to consecrate him. 00:10:33.519 --> 00:10:42.639 So now here's Moses doing exactly what God told him to do back in Exodus, and he is setting apart Aaron and his sons for this priestly duty. 00:10:42.879 --> 00:10:45.360 They are going to become the priest. 00:10:45.919 --> 00:10:52.799 And this anointing is to set them apart to consecrate them for that very purpose. 00:10:52.960 --> 00:10:57.519 So they were washed, they were clothed, they were anointed. 00:10:58.080 --> 00:10:59.279 Look at the next thing. 00:10:59.440 --> 00:11:00.559 There was a sacrifice. 00:11:00.720 --> 00:11:01.919 This is where it gets weird. 00:11:02.159 --> 00:11:03.120 Prepare yourself. 00:11:03.279 --> 00:11:06.559 Look at verse 8, or chapter 8, verse 14 and 15. 00:11:06.799 --> 00:11:11.519 It says, Then he brought the bull of the sin offering. 00:11:11.759 --> 00:11:18.240 And Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull of the sin offering, and he killed it. 00:11:18.480 --> 00:11:33.840 And Moses took the blood, and with his finger put it on the horns of the altar around it, and purified the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar, and consecrated it to make atonement for it. 00:11:34.799 --> 00:11:36.000 Fun, right? 00:11:36.399 --> 00:11:37.440 Good times. 00:11:37.759 --> 00:11:38.639 Killing bulls. 00:11:38.720 --> 00:11:41.120 But we're not done yet, because that's just the sin offering. 00:11:41.200 --> 00:11:42.240 Look at what's next. 00:11:42.480 --> 00:11:44.080 Verses 18 and 19. 00:11:44.320 --> 00:11:48.240 Then he presented the ram of the burnt offering. 00:11:48.399 --> 00:11:53.039 And Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram, and he killed it. 00:11:53.279 --> 00:11:57.519 And Moses threw the blood against the sides of the altar. 00:11:57.759 --> 00:12:02.879 He cut the ram into pieces, and Moses burned the head and pieces and the fat. 00:12:03.840 --> 00:12:04.639 Sweet. 00:12:04.799 --> 00:12:05.360 You know? 00:12:05.600 --> 00:12:06.320 Good times. 00:12:06.480 --> 00:12:08.000 Hey, not done yet, though. 00:12:08.080 --> 00:12:08.639 Hold on. 00:12:08.879 --> 00:12:10.080 Still got another one to go. 00:12:10.240 --> 00:12:12.799 Look at verses 22 and 23. 00:12:13.360 --> 00:12:17.759 It says, then he presented the other ram. 00:12:18.000 --> 00:12:19.919 Killed one, got to kill the second one, right? 00:12:20.080 --> 00:12:21.200 Presented the other ram. 00:12:21.360 --> 00:12:23.120 The ram of ordination. 00:12:23.279 --> 00:12:27.039 And Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the ram and he killed it. 00:12:27.200 --> 00:12:39.679 And Moses took some of its blood, put it on the lobe of Aaron's right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot. 00:12:42.159 --> 00:12:43.519 Yeah, buddy. 00:12:43.759 --> 00:12:45.919 Glad you came to church today, right? 00:12:46.879 --> 00:12:48.000 What in the world? 00:12:48.399 --> 00:12:49.840 I wish, listen to me. 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:54.639 I wish we had time for me to just stop and be like, here's why we had to do all of this. 00:12:54.720 --> 00:12:55.919 We don't have time, okay? 00:12:56.080 --> 00:12:56.720 We don't have time. 00:12:56.879 --> 00:13:01.600 Just know, all of this is being done because God said this is how it needs to be done. 00:13:01.759 --> 00:13:05.600 So now we got blood on people's earlobes and big toes and fingers. 00:13:05.759 --> 00:13:08.000 There's blood on altars, there's blood on the walls. 00:13:08.159 --> 00:13:09.360 I mean, it's everywhere, okay? 00:13:09.440 --> 00:13:11.120 Like we've we've done it all at this point. 00:13:11.279 --> 00:13:17.360 We poured it out as many places as we could possibly pour it out, and now some dude's got it all over his hands, his ears, and his big toe. 00:13:17.519 --> 00:13:18.639 That's what you need to know. 00:13:18.799 --> 00:13:20.960 And you go, sounds good to me. 00:13:21.200 --> 00:13:22.320 Nobody's questioning it. 00:13:22.480 --> 00:13:23.759 I'm just reading the words, man. 00:13:23.840 --> 00:13:24.159 You know? 00:13:24.320 --> 00:13:25.679 But there was a sacrifice. 00:13:25.759 --> 00:13:30.399 But then the very last thing you have to understand is that there was also a calling. 00:13:30.480 --> 00:13:32.960 Look at Leviticus chapter 8, 35 and 36. 00:13:33.039 --> 00:13:34.080 And here's what it says. 00:13:34.320 --> 00:13:37.600 It says, and as been, uh sorry, it started the wrong place. 00:13:37.759 --> 00:13:48.559 At the entrance of the tent of meeting, you shall remain day and night for seven days, performing what the Lord has charged, so that you do not die. 00:13:48.960 --> 00:13:50.320 For I have commanded. 00:13:50.480 --> 00:13:57.679 And Aaron and his sons did all the things that the Lord commanded by Moses. 00:13:58.720 --> 00:14:01.360 Can you imagine signing up for this job? 00:14:01.600 --> 00:14:03.039 Here's what you got to understand. 00:14:03.200 --> 00:14:09.919 From this point, Aaron being the first high priest until the temple is the second temple is destroyed by the Romans. 00:14:10.080 --> 00:14:16.960 You have to understand, scholars disagree, there's somewhere between 79 and 84 high priests that are installed. 00:14:17.120 --> 00:14:21.600 That means 79 to 84 times this process was put together. 00:14:21.759 --> 00:14:26.000 However, towards the end, this process was not done. 00:14:26.080 --> 00:14:26.879 You want to know why? 00:14:27.039 --> 00:14:33.759 Because towards the end of high priests being installed, the government began installing them as opposed to following the word of God. 00:14:33.919 --> 00:14:36.159 We all know what happens when the government gets involved, right? 00:14:36.399 --> 00:14:37.200 I mean, that's it. 00:14:37.360 --> 00:14:38.480 I shouldn't have said that. 00:14:38.639 --> 00:14:41.039 I didn't say that, and I didn't say that in 915. 00:14:41.279 --> 00:14:42.399 Should have kept that to myself. 00:14:42.559 --> 00:14:43.440 Nah, who are we kidding? 00:14:43.519 --> 00:14:44.080 We should have said it. 00:14:44.159 --> 00:14:44.639 It's fine. 00:14:44.879 --> 00:14:46.159 So it's all good. 00:14:46.240 --> 00:14:47.279 I didn't say that. 00:14:47.600 --> 00:14:48.639 But think about it. 00:14:48.799 --> 00:14:53.840 All of these things would happen over and over and over again between 79 and 84 different times. 00:14:54.000 --> 00:14:56.320 You've got this process that has to go through. 00:14:56.480 --> 00:14:57.759 You've got all this stuff happening. 00:14:57.919 --> 00:14:58.240 Why? 00:14:58.480 --> 00:15:03.519 All because God told Moses in Exodus, this is the way it has to be. 00:15:03.679 --> 00:15:08.559 Now here we are sitting in Christ the Redeemer on a Sunday morning, and we go, great. 00:15:10.240 --> 00:15:12.559 We're not putting blood on our hearlobes. 00:15:12.960 --> 00:15:16.240 Nobody's dipping my big toe in some ram's blood. 00:15:17.360 --> 00:15:19.840 You know, what are we doing here? 00:15:20.080 --> 00:15:29.200 Well, remember that I told you in the beginning of this, what you have to understand is we're looking at the process of installing a high priest. 00:15:29.440 --> 00:15:30.879 We're looking at the process. 00:15:31.120 --> 00:15:32.480 The process is important. 00:15:32.639 --> 00:15:33.519 Do you want to know why? 00:15:33.759 --> 00:15:34.080 Good. 00:15:34.159 --> 00:15:35.360 I'm glad you asked. 00:15:35.679 --> 00:15:36.879 This is great. 00:15:37.440 --> 00:15:38.960 Because there's reasons why. 00:15:39.200 --> 00:15:44.799 The same reason that we just ran through all of those things, they all apply to believers today. 00:15:44.960 --> 00:15:45.440 Watch this. 00:15:45.600 --> 00:15:46.159 First thing. 00:15:46.399 --> 00:15:49.440 They were washed, believers are washed. 00:15:49.679 --> 00:15:52.559 Look at 1 Corinthians 6, 9 through 11. 00:15:52.720 --> 00:15:54.960 1 Corinthians 6, 9 through 11. 00:15:55.039 --> 00:15:56.080 Here's what it says. 00:15:56.399 --> 00:16:01.759 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? 00:16:01.919 --> 00:16:03.440 Do not be deceived. 00:16:03.600 --> 00:16:16.000 Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor the drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 00:16:16.080 --> 00:16:19.279 And we love to stop right there and go, ha, see, look at that. 00:16:19.440 --> 00:16:20.879 No, no, no, Putin. 00:16:21.200 --> 00:16:22.159 Keep reading. 00:16:22.320 --> 00:16:23.759 Look at verse 12. 00:16:23.919 --> 00:16:25.039 Look at what it says. 00:16:25.200 --> 00:16:26.799 Look at verse 11, I mean. 00:16:27.120 --> 00:16:31.200 And such were some of you. 00:16:33.360 --> 00:16:37.759 But thank God for commas, right? 00:16:38.960 --> 00:16:40.240 What does it say? 00:16:40.720 --> 00:16:43.519 You were washed. 00:16:45.919 --> 00:16:47.919 You were sanctified. 00:16:48.559 --> 00:16:57.600 You were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. 00:16:59.200 --> 00:17:05.039 Oh, we ceremonially ceremoniously washed those who were becoming the high priest. 00:17:06.400 --> 00:17:12.400 But believers are washed and justified by the blood of Jesus Christ. 00:17:13.359 --> 00:17:15.359 They were washed and so are believers. 00:17:15.599 --> 00:17:17.759 They were clothed and so are believers. 00:17:17.839 --> 00:17:19.920 Look at Isaiah 61, verse 10. 00:17:20.319 --> 00:17:22.079 Isaiah 61, verse 10. 00:17:22.319 --> 00:17:26.319 It says, I will greatly rejoice in the Lord. 00:17:26.559 --> 00:17:31.359 My soul shall exult in my God, for he has what? 00:17:32.000 --> 00:17:36.640 Cloth me with the garments of salvation. 00:17:36.960 --> 00:17:42.640 He has covered me with the robe of righteousness. 00:17:42.960 --> 00:17:52.480 As a bridegroom decks himself like a priest with a beautiful headdress, and as a bride adorns herself with jewels. 00:17:52.880 --> 00:17:57.519 We ceremoniously robe and clothe the high priest. 00:17:58.319 --> 00:18:02.400 But through Jesus Christ, we are clothed in what did Isaiah just say? 00:18:02.720 --> 00:18:03.839 Righteousness. 00:18:07.599 --> 00:18:09.599 They were anointed with oil. 00:18:10.880 --> 00:18:12.480 Believers are anointed. 00:18:12.720 --> 00:18:14.000 Look at 1 John. 00:18:15.200 --> 00:18:17.599 1 John 2, 19 through 21. 00:18:19.599 --> 00:18:23.599 It says, they went out from us, but they were not of us. 00:18:23.839 --> 00:18:34.799 For if they had been of us, they would have continued with us, but they were, but they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us. 00:18:34.960 --> 00:18:36.319 Look at verse 20. 00:18:36.640 --> 00:18:39.359 But you have been what? 00:18:40.160 --> 00:18:43.279 Anointed by the Holy One. 00:18:43.599 --> 00:18:46.480 And you all have knowledge. 00:18:46.720 --> 00:18:52.480 I write to you not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it. 00:18:52.799 --> 00:18:56.640 And because no lie is of the truth. 00:18:57.599 --> 00:19:07.599 We can anoint with oil in a physical way, but what has happened here is that believers are anointed with the truth of the word of God. 00:19:10.640 --> 00:19:12.559 There is a sacrifice. 00:19:13.920 --> 00:19:16.640 Believers have a great sacrifice. 00:19:16.720 --> 00:19:20.319 Look at Hebrews, verse, Hebrews chapter 10, verse 12 through 14. 00:19:20.559 --> 00:19:36.559 It says, But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet. 00:19:36.720 --> 00:19:38.160 For by a what? 00:19:38.720 --> 00:19:40.880 Single offering. 00:19:44.079 --> 00:19:47.279 Those who are being sanctified. 00:19:47.519 --> 00:19:50.799 Oh, we don't need a ram for a sin offering. 00:19:50.960 --> 00:19:54.000 We don't need a bull for an ordination offering. 00:19:54.079 --> 00:19:57.519 We don't have to sprinkle the blood on our right ears and big toes. 00:19:57.599 --> 00:19:58.400 Do you want to know why? 00:19:58.559 --> 00:20:06.799 Because a perfect, complete, final sacrifice has already been made in the form of Jesus Christ. 00:20:10.480 --> 00:20:12.079 There's a calling. 00:20:13.279 --> 00:20:14.319 Believers have a calling. 00:20:14.400 --> 00:20:16.319 Look at Romans chapter 8. 00:20:16.720 --> 00:20:19.519 Romans chapter 8, verse 28 through 30. 00:20:19.759 --> 00:20:27.599 It says, and we know for those who love God, all things work together for good. 00:20:28.799 --> 00:20:30.960 We like to stop there too, most of the time. 00:20:33.039 --> 00:20:34.000 There's more. 00:20:34.240 --> 00:20:35.759 Realize that as you leave today. 00:20:35.839 --> 00:20:36.160 There's more. 00:20:36.319 --> 00:20:37.279 Don't just quote that part. 00:20:37.359 --> 00:20:38.240 You ready? 00:20:39.119 --> 00:20:41.440 For those who are what? 00:20:42.319 --> 00:20:46.480 Called according to his purpose. 00:20:46.720 --> 00:20:58.880 For those whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. 00:20:59.119 --> 00:21:02.799 And those whom he predestined, he also called. 00:21:02.960 --> 00:21:10.480 And those whom he called, he also justified, and those who he justified, he also glorified. 00:21:11.839 --> 00:21:25.839 Oh, we have a great calling in the fact that the sacrifice of Jesus Christ for your sins, for my sins, for all of us is a calling to justification and righteousness. 00:21:28.240 --> 00:21:33.519 Do you see why we have to study Leviticus chapter 8? 00:21:33.839 --> 00:21:40.880 The reason we have to study Leviticus chapter 8 is because it sets the tone for what happens in the future. 00:21:41.039 --> 00:21:47.440 And what happens in the future is Jesus Christ on the cross, Mark 15, if you want to look this up. 00:21:47.759 --> 00:21:51.839 He begins to breathe his last, but before he does, what does he say? 00:21:52.079 --> 00:21:55.279 Father, into thine hands I commit my spirit. 00:21:55.440 --> 00:21:57.119 And then he breathes his last. 00:21:57.200 --> 00:22:01.440 And at that moment, what happens when Jesus breathes his last. 00:22:01.599 --> 00:22:02.799 You want to know what happens? 00:22:03.119 --> 00:22:07.759 In the temple, the veil is torn from top to bottom. 00:22:08.000 --> 00:22:10.000 Do you want to know why the veil is torn? 00:22:10.400 --> 00:22:16.720 Because no longer do we need a high priest to go and make atonement for our sins. 00:22:16.960 --> 00:22:21.279 The final, perfect, complete sacrifice has been made. 00:22:21.440 --> 00:22:23.440 Your sins are atoned for. 00:22:23.680 --> 00:22:24.720 It is finished. 00:22:24.960 --> 00:22:25.839 It is done. 00:22:26.160 --> 00:22:29.200 No longer do we need the Holy of Holies. 00:22:31.920 --> 00:22:40.079 Jesus Christ fulfilled every single word of Leviticus chapter 8. 00:22:40.799 --> 00:22:52.400 And the veil was torn, giving access to you and me through Jesus Christ making intercession on our behalf to an Almighty God. 00:22:54.559 --> 00:22:58.960 No longer do we have to sit and wonder how do we get to God. 00:22:59.200 --> 00:23:01.759 Jesus gives us direct access. 00:23:01.839 --> 00:23:07.519 And if you don't believe me, at the very least, believe Hebrews chapter 7. 00:23:07.759 --> 00:23:10.400 Hebrews chapter 7, starting in verse 25. 00:23:10.640 --> 00:23:25.759 It says, consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them. 00:23:26.079 --> 00:23:38.640 For it was indeed fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, unstained, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens. 00:23:38.960 --> 00:23:54.160 He has no need, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices daily for his own sins and then for those of the people, since he did this once for all, when he offered up himself. 00:23:54.640 --> 00:23:57.599 For the law appoints what? 00:23:58.240 --> 00:24:02.720 Men in their weakness as high priest. 00:24:02.960 --> 00:24:15.599 But the word of the oath which came later than the law appoints a son who's been made perfect forever. 00:24:17.119 --> 00:24:18.720 Chapter 8, verse 1. 00:24:18.960 --> 00:24:23.119 Now the point in what we are saying is this. 00:24:24.480 --> 00:24:31.759 We have, don't miss this, such a high priest. 00:24:32.799 --> 00:24:48.319 One who is seated at the right hand of the throne of majesty in heaven, a minister in the holy places in the true tent that the Lord set up and not man. 00:24:51.839 --> 00:24:56.400 Folks, we have to have Leviticus chapter 8. 00:24:56.559 --> 00:24:59.920 The reason we have to have it is because the tone was set in Exodus. 00:25:00.079 --> 00:25:09.519 The tone is now being set in Leviticus, and here we are with Jesus fulfilling every single bit of it. 00:25:10.480 --> 00:25:20.480 The veil was torn, the access was given to you and me, and there's intercession on our behalf through an almighty God through Jesus Christ. 00:25:24.880 --> 00:25:29.599 We don't need a high priest of a mere man. 00:25:31.359 --> 00:25:38.160 We have the perfect, complete, final high priest in Jesus Christ. 00:25:41.599 --> 00:25:42.480 Father, we love you. 00:25:42.559 --> 00:25:43.839 We thank you for your word. 00:25:45.200 --> 00:25:49.039 We thank you that we can open your word, that we can hear from you. 00:25:50.079 --> 00:25:54.640 Father, that you can speak to us. 00:25:57.440 --> 00:26:03.519 Father, make it known in our hearts that you are our perfect high priest today. 00:26:04.079 --> 00:26:06.640 And that we are clothed in your righteousness. 00:26:07.359 --> 00:26:08.640 In Jesus' name. 00:26:08.880 --> 00:26:09.519 Amen.