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Jesus Christ had to come, had to die, and fulfill scripture. But he even told the tribe of Levi. Now Moses was used by God to write the first five books of the Bible. And it says here in verse 1, and remember he says, beginning at Moses, well, we’re not beginning at the beginning in the first five books, but this is just one little thing I thought I would just throw at you. He says in verse 1, and the Lord spake unto Moses and say it, this shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing.

Now, a person, Julie, who got leprosy didn’t get healed from leprosy. Take a miracle. But he says, he shall be brought unto the priest. And the priest shall go forth out of the camp. And the priest shall look and behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper, then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean and cedar wood and scarlet and hissom. And the priests shall command that one of the birds be killed.

Now how in the Old Testament would you show the death, the barrel, and the resurrection of Christ as a substitute for the sins of the people? Get two birds. Get two live birds. And so So in the illustration it will teach the death, the burial, and the resurrection. That’s what Christ did. He had to die to pay for our sins, shed his blood, come back from the dead in order to save us. Now look what he says. He says, take two birds alive.

And in verse 5, and the pre-shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water. As for the living bird, he shall take it and the cedar wood and the scarlet and the hyssum and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water. And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times and shall pronounce him clean and shall let the living bird loose into to the open field.

So it was a picture of the death, the burial, and the resurrection. Somebody innocent dying for somebody that’s guilty, substitution, so that the payment that was made for the person would cause them to live. And so we have the two birds, not one bird, call one bird won’t demonstrate it. But God says there’s all these stories and types and so forth in the Old Testament. But would it have been neat to have Jesus explain this scripture better than what I can do?

But it’s in here. Look there in chapter 16 of Leviticus, Leviticus in chapter 16. Look in verse 1, and the Lord, Dellowardee caps, refers to the Lord Jehovah, speak unto Moses after the death of two sons of Aaron, when they offered before the Lord and died, and the Lord said unto Moses, speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place, within the veil, before the mercy seed, which is upon the ark that he die not.

For I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat. Now there’s the outer court, there’s a holy place and there is the holy of holies. In the holy place they had the table to show bread. The candlestick, the Alber, the Alber, and you’re talking about this is where they could go into, but there was a veil, and you can’t go into that room. And behind that veil, there’s the Ark of the Covenant. And the only one who got to go in there was the High Priest once a year to offer a sacrifice for himself and for the sins of the people.

And they usually would tie a rope around their leg in case he didn’t accept the payment they could pull them out of there because nobody else wanted to go in there. Because that’s where God would meet with His people. And the Shekana glory would come above the mercy seed. But that’s where the blood was to be sprinkled upon there. So He says here in verse 3, Thus shall Aaron come unto the holy, with a young bullock, for a sin offering, and a ram for a burn offering.

put on the Holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen britches upon his flesh, and shall be girdled with a linen girdle, and with a linen miter shall he be attired. These are holy garments, therefore shall he wash his flesh and water, and so put them on. And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats, two goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burn offering. And Aaron shall offer his bullet of the sin offering, which is for himself and make an atonement for himself and for his house.

And he shall take the two goats, present them before the Lord at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats, one lot for the goat and the other lot for the scapegoat. And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the Lord’s lot fell and offer him for a sin offering. But the goat on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the Lord. So one was to live and one was to die.

And the one that lived is called the scapegoat. Someone who has paid for sin and still lives. When Jesus Christ came and he hung on the cross, it says that He bore our sins in His body on the tree and His body was torn for us. And then the veil in the temple was ripped from the top to the bottom, not the bottom to the top. God tore the veil as the body of Jesus Christ was torn for you and for I.

Jesus Christ made a way for you and I to enter into the very presence of the Lord. And when Jesus died on the cross, I believe when he told her, says, look, don’t touch me I have not yet ascended unto my Father and later they could touch him. Even told, Thomas, put forth your hand and feel my scars in my hand and in my side. But he had took the blood into heaven and offered it upon the altar. I believe the tabernacle in the Old Testament was simply made after the pattern of one that is in heaven.

There’s a real one there. And you don’t have have to worry about the raiders of the lost are inclined in it. There’s one up there. So here we find that God, yes, had to use two birds to illustrate it. But every year they had to do these things and never understood why. Now they could have. There’s other scriptures that explains lots of these things. But Christ told them, He says, oh fools, and slow of heart to believe. Did you know that when my father-in-law sit down with me when I was eighteen years old, I didn’t understand all this stuff.

All I knew is I am a sinner. I a center. And I knew I’m going to be judged. And I didn’t like the outcome. It did not look pretty for me that as it was, I knew somehow in my mind without knowing the Bible, I knew that God was just and righteous and holy. And I knew that I was not. And that That bothered me. That’s why for all those years, even up till the time I was 18 years old, and I wasn’t raised in church.

But I never took a drink. I never smoked a cigarette. I never swore a cuss word. I was afraid if I did any bad stuff, I was going to go to hell and I didn’t want to go to hell. And I did not know that all my trying to be good was not going to help me get to heaven. I didn’t know that Christ had paid for my sins. I didn’t understand that. But that one night when my fall will all sit down with me.

And he told me the best news I ever heard. You see, I always thought that Jesus Christ was a swear word. It’s only time I ever heard it. Jesus Christ to me was a swear word, and I didn’t want to curse it. So I did everything I could to block that name out of my mind because I didn’t want to use profanity. Now, isn’t that a shame? And so when he explained it to me, I sat there that night and I balled like a baby.

I’d never seen anybody get saved. I didn’t know what the rules were. Didn’t know what you did. Didn’t do. All I know is what He said is true. I’m going to hell. And I want to have eternal life and I want to go to heaven when I die. And I understood that the only way I could get there is I must believe that Jesus was the substitute for my sins. That when He died, He died for me. And He paid for my sins.

And therefore I don’t have to pay for them. He did it and would put that death payment to my account. And God would be satisfied. It means I don’t have to go to hell and I don’t have to pay for any sin because God was satisfied with the payment Christ made. And I don’t have to pay it. And I don’t have to earn it. I don’t have to deserve it. God simply put that payment to my account. Just like in the Old Testament in the book of Exodus and Ron chapter 12, 12, when they were told that they were going to have to get out of there and get out of there quickly, they were told to take a lamb and slay the lamb and take hissep, which is a little branch, a little bush, and dip it in the blood and go outside of your house and

put it upon the, the lennel and the door post and says, when I see the blood, I’ll pass over you. In other words, you’re safe as long as I can see the blood, but you better apply the blood. And so when God looks at me, 49 years ago, His is a type of faith that I believe that what Christ did for me and by faith I took that blood and I put it upon the linole and up on the door post.

And God says, when I see the blood, I’ll pass over you. You see, that’s what we call the Passover. Jesus was the Passover Lamb. You see, then they had to get a lamb for different families. See, the world don’t have to get a lamb because like when John the The Baptist saw him, he says, behold, the Lamb of God. And everyone who takes that little hissop and that faith and believes that that’s the Lamb of God and puts their faith in what Christ did.

And that blood is applied to you. And when God looks at me, he don’t see Yankee Arnold, he don’t see my sins, he sees the blood. And when he sees the blood, the wrath of God does not abide upon me. But every individual who does not accept Christ as their Savior, the wrath of God abides upon you. He that believeth on me hath everlasting life, and he that believeth not shall not see life. But the wrath of God abides upon you.

God is not looking for your church, and I’ll pass over you. I’m not looking for your good works. I’ll pass over you. I’m not looking for your money. I’m not looking for your intentions. I’m looking for the blood. Do you believe that when Jesus died, He died for you? It is the only way for you to go to heaven. There is no other way. Your church can’t get you there. Your good deeds can’t get you there. Only when He says, I see the blood, I will pass over you.

But if not, it’s all she wrote. There is no other hope. There’s no way to save yourself. So I trusted Christ as my Savior, and I know that I have eternal life. But take your Bible very quickly and turn there to the book of 1 Corinthians in chapter 15, 1 Corinthians and chapter 15. And look there in verse 1. This is on page 1225 in a church Bible or one that’s in the rack in front of you if you was to borrow that.

Remember I said borrow that from you. I mean who wants to be guilty of stealing the Bible? By the way we have cameras back there that takes pictures of everybody walks out with the Bible. Not really. 1. Moreover brethren I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you. Which also you have received and where in your stand by which also you are saved. If you keep in memory what I preached unto you unless you have believed in vain.

Well that sounds pretty powerful don’t it? If you keep in memory unless you believed in vain, you say, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. That confuses me. Well, it’s supposed to. You say, how can I believe in vain? What if I forget? This is what you’re supposed to remember. Look there in verse 3. For I delivered unto you, first of all, that which I also received, how that get this Christ died for our sins. According to what? The Scriptures. If Christ died for your sins, why should you have to die for your sins?

You see, I don’t have to go to hell and pay for one sin because Christ died for my sins. That’s why I cannot ever in the future ever go to hell and pay for my sins. So you don’t deserve that, I know. That’s why it’s called grace. Grace means it’s unmerited. You don’t deserve it. You see, but what if I do something really, really bad? Well, when Christ died on the cross, He paid for some really, really, really bad sins.

There isn’t one sin Christ did not pay for. He paid for all the sins of the world. All that you have to do is believe it. And when you believe it, God knows it. In a simple, if you believe it, yeah, God knows you believe it. When you believe that He did it for you, God knows you believe it. and he saves you from hell and puts that death payment to your account, and you get to go to heaven on what Jesus Christ did for you.

Well, how can it be in vain? Well, it can be in vain if Jesus Christ didn’t come back from the dead. You see there, look what he says in verse 12. Now, if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, I’ll say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead, but if there is no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen? And if Christ be not risen, then our preaching is vain, and your faith is also vain.

It would be ridiculous for me to trust Christ to take me to heaven when he’s still dead. If he can’t get himself out of the grave, He’s no help to me. But one of the greatest verses in the Bible, it says that when they went to the tomb and they looked and he says, he is not here, he is not here, he is risen. And he says that if Christ did not come back from the dead, then my preaching is in vain, Your faith is in vain, you’re believing in vain, and we are of all men most miserable.

But if he did come back from the dead, then my preaching is not in vain, and your faith is not in vain. You’re trusting him is not in vain, and our sins are paid for, and he is coming again. there in verse 58. Therefore, because of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord. For as much as you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

So the day I trusted Christ as my Savior, God saved me, He cannot cast me out. He cannot lose me. I cannot go to hell. It’s impossible because Christ died for my sins. People say they believe that, but they don’t believe it. Oh fools and slow of heart to believe it. Anyone who teaches that you can be saved a day and go to hell tomorrow. Don’t understand it. You don’t understand. You’ll never deserve it. You never have done anything to deserve it and you never will.

Salvation is the gift of God. It’s not of works lest any man should boast. I can’t stand up here and say, I’m going to heaven because I’m so good good because I’m so bad. I’m going to heaven because he is so good and he loved me and he showed me how much he loved me by paying for my sins. And given to me the free gift of eternal life, I’m glad that he loved me that much. See, a lot of people believe that Jesus is necessary.

They just don’t believe he’s enough. He is enough. He’s all I need. Now, if you’re here this morning and you’ve never trusted Christ as your Savior, do you think it’s about time? You say, well, I go to church every Sunday. I don’t care if you go every day of the week. I ain’t gonna get you a little pinkies one inch closer to the pearly gates. Okay, how much money you give? You’re not giving millions of dollars. Don’t mop the hillabings.

That has nothing to do with going to… You will, I live the best I can. That has nothing to do with going to heaven. It’s so difficult for people to understand that how you live has absolutely nothing to do with where you’re going when you die. I’m going to heaven because there was a time in my life. that I accepted Christ as my Savior. And if you’ve never trusted Him as your Savior, nothing else matters. Nothing else matters. If you reject Him, you have no hope.

So right now in the quietness of this moment, your own mind, why don’t you just say something like this to the Lord? Lord, I believe it. I believe. I believe He did it for me, and I’m going to trust him right now as my Savior. And God said, if you trust him right now, he would give you right now eternal life. And if it’s eternal life, it would last forever. And if it lasts forever, and all your sins are paid, then where would you go when you die?

To heaven. I’m just curious. With his. Up in his eyes, open, and you’re looking right at me. I’m not even know positively, but I’m sure if you die right now, you go to heaven. Let me see you in. I don’t want to embarrass somebody. I wanted you to see. There’s other nuts in here just like me. They’re not going to heaven because they’re better than someone else. You see, they have owned up to the fact that our sinners can’t save themselves.

Now, the only reason you don’t trust Christ is Savior, it might be because you just don’t believe none of it all, or you believe you’re good enough. You’re not good enough. You have to be perfect. Look up here. This hand represents you and me. The wallet represents sin. Now we all have sin on us. It means that we have a sinful nature and we all do things wrong. That’s everybody I know. And God says to pay for that. See, God made a law.

The soul that sineth shall die. So since we all sin, we all die. That’s why eventually all of us are going to die. But God says He loves us, wants us to go to heaven. But to go to heaven, heaven’s a perfect place. And you have to be perfect to go there, and none of us are. Because we got sin, we got to pay for that. And that’s eternal separation from God in a literal fire burning hell. So how can I get to heaven when I got a debt to pay?

That’s why God says you cannot save yourself. in represent Jesus Christ. He’s the Lord God in the flesh. He was the lamb without spot and blemish. And whenever they would bring their lambs to the priest, they would inspect them, make sure that there’s no spot or blemish and keep them maybe three or four days, make sure everything is all right. For inspection, that’s what they did with Jesus. And then when And they found no fault in him. God the Father delivered him up.

And he put our sins upon him. So Christ did not pay for one sin of his. He had none. He paid for all of our sins. The lamb without what? No false, no flaws. And he paid for the payment info, came back again from the dead, and said, If we would believe that He would be our substitute for our debt, see, I don’t have to die and pay for my sins. He did it for me. So then I don’t have to pay for my sins.

I don’t have to go to hell to pay for my sins. He did it. And yet there’s multitudes of people all over this world going to be celebrating Easter and have no clue what it’s about. They’re going to reenact the crucifixion scene. and they’re going to carry crosses. And haven’t got a clue what they’re doing. They don’t understand that when Christ died, He paid for sins and came back from the dead. And if you trust Him, He’ll give you eternal life.

I hope I’m understood. Let’s pray, shall we? Every head bowed and every eye closed, no one looking around. I want to thank you for coming today when you could have gone so many places. And maybe somebody got you here today because they wanted you to hear what I had to say. Maybe it’s because they really love you. They care about you. Maybe they just don’t want you to go to hell. They love you so much. But their love can’t get you to heaven.

But they wanted you to hear about somebody else’s love. God’s love. See, God loves you so much that he was willing to give his only begotten son, and he died for you. Would you believe he did it for you? In the quietness of this moment in your own mind, why not just say something simple like his Lord? I don’t understand it all, but I believe Jesus Christ died for me, and I’m trusting him right now as my only hope of going to heaven.

Now friend, I’m not going to have you forward. I’m not going to embarrass you. I do it with heads by a nice clothes because I don’t want to put you on the spot. I don’t want somebody else looking at you. But I want to know what I said made sense. It means so much to me. And I want to know what I said made sense. And so I’m going to ask you, will you trust Christ as your Savior? And if you’ll do that, I want to know if you’ll just slip your hand very quickly and put her I’m going to rip back down.

Yes, God bless you, sir. Anyone, yes, God bless you, ma’am. Anyone else, just very quickly, just slip it up, put a rip back down. I’m not going to embarrass you. I’m not going to pin you against a wall or embarrass you in any way. I don’t want anything from you. Anyone else before we close? Yes, I’ll trust Christ as my Savior this morning. I want to be certain of going to heaven when I die. I believe He did it for me.

Anyone else before we close? Just slip it up where I can see it. It’s kind of hard to see all the way back in the back, anyone else. If you have trusted Christ as your Savior, your God’s child. God gives you eternal life as a free gift and you’ll go to heaven whenever you die. God loves you so much. As his child, look for him to come back again. Be steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord.

For as much as you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. Our Father, we thank You so much for these that indicated by an uplifted hand, that they would accept that payment that You made on the cross for them. And Father, by doing so, that blood has been applied. By doing so, that they become Your children, born into Your family. You’ll never cast them out, never lose them. We thank You so much for this time together to be able to honor you on this resurrection weekend.

Thank you so much for all you’ve done, of course. In Christ’s name we pray, amen. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll free 1-800-576-3771. That’s 1-800-576-3771. If you wish to hear today’s program again or would like to download a free MP3 of today’s or any previous Bibleline program, go to BibleLineMinistries.org and click on the spinning globe in the upper right corner of our homepage.

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So live today and every day, believing that the Lord is coming soon. And just keep looking up.