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I want you to take your Bible and turn with me to the book of Exodus chapter 29. chapter 29, Exodus 29, we have a word that’s used in the Old Testament, many, many places, the word sprinkle, the word sprinkle. But we don’t find the word sprinkle in the New Testament, but we do have the word sprinkling in the New Testament. Imagine four times Old Testament, sprinkle, New Testament sprinkling. And the one is not found in the old and the other was not found in the new.

It’s amazing how that works. And we know that whenever you studied the book of 1 Peter, which we often make comments to, or references to, in the book of Hebrews, both of those books has a Jewish flavor to them. In other words, it kind of like addresses some of the Hebrew Christians, the Jewish people. And so because of that, you’ll find that the only place in the New Testament, the word sprinkling is used, it’s four times, three times in Hebrews, one time in the book of 1 Peter.

Just a coincidence, I don’t think so, because the Jewish people will understand a little bit more what was meant by the word sprinkling. You see, it’s one thing for Christ down the cross, paid for all the sins of the world, but nobody saved just because he died on the cross, paid for all the sins of the world, came back from the dead. There has to be an application. You have to apply what he did to your life, to yourself.

He paid for the sins, but when you believe he did it for you, that payment is then put to your account. So by faith and faith alone in Christ alone, he gives you the free gift of everlasting life when you trust a measure of Savior. But if you don’t trust them, it’s not applied. But a payment’s been made. So in the Old Testament, they may have slain an animal, but just because they slayed the animal and they drained its blood didn’t mean that they were saved.

Didn’t mean that they had the protection. This is why over and over and over again, they were told, especially the tribe of Levi had the honors of being the high priest, the family of Aaron. Aaron’s priesthood, and so that was their responsibility to do the priestly work of the temple. And that was the tribe of Levi. So here in the book of Exodus in chapter 29, I want you to notice there in verse 16. 29 and verse 16. And it makes this statement, we’ll just start during verse 14.

He said, but the flesh of the bullet and his skin and his dumb shall now burn with fire. Without the camp it is a sin offering. This is why we believe when Jesus Christ became the sin offering, he was taken outside the city walls and that’s what he did. In verse 15, thou shall also take one ram and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram and thou shalt slay the ram and shall take his blood and sprinkle it round about upon the altar.

Thou shalt cut the ram in pieces and wash the inwards of him and his legs and blah blah blah and he goes on and keeps talking about this and he’s telling them what they are supposed to do concerning the sacrifices that were to be made. Now as mentioned in many places about the sprinkling, in other words that was for the purpose of applying the blood in some time they would put it around the altar. And then sometimes it talks about they would have to go behind the veil and the high priest was to sprinkle it upon the mercy seat.

That’s the application. So the high priest had to do this and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat for his own sins and also for the sins of the people. In other words, it had to be applied. Now take your Bible look there in the book of Exodus in chapter 12. Exodus chapter 12, and I want you to see this. Most of you know that are familiar with it, but it won’t hurt to look at it one more time. In Exodus in chapter 12, look there in verse 12.

Exodus 12 verse 12, for I will pass through the land of Egypt this night and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt. Both man and beast and against all the gods of Egypt, I will execute judgment. I am Jehovah. I am the Lord.” He says, and the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you. And the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you when I smite the land of Egypt.”

In other words, they were told to take the lamb or whatever animal, slay it, and then take the blood. And they were to take a little hyssop, which is a little small bush, like, and you dip it into the blood, and then they were to put it upon the the lennel that goes across the door and the door post. So both sides and across the top. So it wasn’t just a kill the animal, and there’s the blood, the blood had to be applied.

And he says, when I see the blood, what will I do? Pass over you. And talking about all the first born, whether it’s cattle or people, servants, slaves, captivity. All of them, the firstborn was going to die unless they applied the blood. Now, this is why when Jesus Christ was born, you’ll find it mentioned several times. He is the firstborn, the firstborn, because the firstborn is the one that God’s dealing with here. And Jesus, when he comes, is the firstborn that takes all the sin of all the world upon himself and he dies, sheds his blood and then the Bible makes the statement in the book of Hebrews that he is applied the blood on the mercy seat in heaven.

So it has to not just be shed, it has to be applied. Now when it comes to you and I understand this, now look in verse 14, and this day shall be unto you for a memorial and you shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations. Though this is what you’re supposed to do. Now look in verse 21, then Moses called for all the elders of Israel instead of them, draw out, take you a lamb according to your families and kill the Passover.

Passover, when I see the blood I’ll pass over you. Now notice what he says in verse 22, and you shall take a bunch of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin and strike the little and two side posts with the blood that is in the basin, and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning. For the Lord will pass through to smite the Egyptians, and when he sift the blood upon the little and the two side posts, the Lord will pass over the door and will not suffer or permit the destroyer to come in into your house to smite you.

And this is what they were supposed to do. And he says in verse 20, and when it comes to pass, when your children shall say unto you, what mean ye by this service? Then ye shall say, it is the sacrifice of the Lord’s Passover. So it meant something. There was a purpose for it. So the Passover, oh, there was a keep, but it was about this. How that if it had not been for an innocent animal, Blood was shed and it was put upon the lennel and the door post, when he saw that, he would pass over that one and they would not die.

And if they did not apply the blood, then they were to die. Now take your Bible and turn all the way over to the book of Hebrews, to the book of Hebrews. And you’ll notice that it’s just amazing that the only place you’ll find sprinkling in the New Testament, now it’s also mentioned book of Isaiah chapter 52 about the springtime, but we won’t go there right now. But into the book of Hebrews in chapter 9, look in chapter 9.

And you’ll notice that in verse 11, But Christ, being come and high priest of good things to come by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building. Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. The reason he says this over and over again is because the high priest of that day had to always do this year after year after year.

But it was only a picture of the day when the Lamb, the Son of God, the firstborn would come and be the sacrifice. And when that happens, his will be an internal redemption. In other words, He will pay the sin dead. The other only covered the sins until the payment was made. So Christ comes and He makes the payment for the sins of all the world, once and for all. So that means it was one payment, once and for all, never has to be done again.

And so that’s why He says, He entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. number 13, for if the blood of bulls and of goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctified to the purifying of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ? So it had to be applied. They were to do these things and apply the blood. When Jesus Christ came and died on the cross, paid for all the sins of the world.

That doesn’t mean everybody in the world is saved. Everybody’s going to heaven because they paid for all their sins. No, it is applied by faith and faith alone. And this is why all this is so important. Look there also in chapter 11 Hebrews in chapter 11 Hebrews chapter 11 and notice in verse 28. Now in reference to Moses and all the things that Moses did he came to years and refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter. He chose rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.

He knew that what he was doing, he esteemed the riches of Christ, greater riches, greater treasures than all the treasures of Egypt. And so God greatly used him. In verse 27, by faith he foresaw Egypt not fearing the wrath of the King, for he endured at seeing him who is invisible. Through faith, he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, the application, not just the shedding of blood, but the sprinkling of blood. Now see, Hebrews is written to the Jewish people.

So the Jewish people will understand more about the temple and what they did and the purpose of it because they did it in the Old Testament. They knew about the high priests and what he had to do when they offered their second and they had the lamb, they would have put their hand upon the head also and then when they cut the throat that was the person transferring his sins to this innocent animal and this innocent animal dying for him.

And then they took the blood and they were supposed to do it seven times and they put blood upon the ear lobe of the priest and the right thumb and also the big toe on the right foot because a man was to be holy and thought and word and indeed and so on. And that’s how they sanctify certain things and be clear. This is holy. This is set apart, this belongs to the Lord and this is what they do.

Now also there’s one more here that I want you to see. Look in chapter 12 and verse 24. Chapter 12 and verse 24. And you’ll notice what he says here. In verse 24 and to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better things than that of Abel. See, Abel made sacrifices, but that sacrifice did not pay for his sin. It only covered his sin. When Christ came and died on the cross, he paid for the sin that were passed and also for the sins that were future.

That’s in Romans in chapter 3. And so we have this word meaning applied. Now I want you to take your Bible and just look at this very quickly. Look there in the book of 1 Peter and chapter 1 and you’ll notice in verse 2, the address is to the Jewish people from various countries and it’s the same thing that you find in other places where even on the day of Pentecost. When they celebrated the people that came from different countries, and I believe this is a reference also to some Jewish believers.

But in verse two he says, elect. That means chosen according to the foreknowledge of God, the Father. Get this part now. How does God choose? He says, through sanctification of the Spirit. In other words, you were made pure and holy and set apart by the Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit. But look at the rest of it. Onto obedience and sprinkling. Here’s that word again. Sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. In other words, the word obedience is the same as you’ll find believing.

So hold your place right here and look there in chapter two. Chapter two, when he talks about, we know that he Christ was chosen by God. And it says here in verse 4, to home Christ coming as unto a living stone, disallowed or rejected indeed of men, but chosen of God and precious. Now you’ll also find that you and I have been called precious and we are chosen. Why? Because we are in Christ. When you’re in Christ, you are chosen and you are precious in God’s eyes.

That means because not only does He save you, but He has something else more important for us to do with our lives. It’s not just to save you and then let you sit there for the next 20, 30, 45 years. There’s a job God wants us to do. So that’s why He says in chapter 2, you are strangers and pilgrims. Strangers your way from home, pilgrim, you’re going home. But the children of Israel knew exactly what that’s like because they’ve been out of the land for so long.

They had been back and in persecution and now the temple gets destroyed and now they’re scattered again. But now notice what he says. He says in verse 5, he also has lively stones or living stones because Christ is the rock. When you trust the Christ as your Savior, you’re like a little rock on top of the big rock, and God is building a spiritual habitation for us to live, or for the Holy Spirit to live. It’s incredible. Belign in verse 5 again.

He says, Our built up a spiritual house, and holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. Therefore also it is contained in the scripture, oh testament behold I lay in Zion a chief corner stone, elect, precious. So when you read back there in chapter 1 you find those pretty much the same work. It’s in the elect in verse 2. Chosen by God because, and here’s the reason, look there in chapter 1 in verse 2, through sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Christ.

You see obedience means not that you have to obey some laws, but to obey the gospel means to believe the gospel. So when you and I believe the gospel the blood that was shed is sprinkled in a sense like on the doorpost and on the limb. And when I see the blood, I’ll pass over you. We have had the blood of Christ applied to us. So I have on me, in the eyes of God, the blood of Jesus Christ has been applied because by faith and faith alone in what Christ did.

Now look again there in chapter 2 and And you’ll notice what he says here in verse six. Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, behold I lay in Zion a chief corner stone, elect precious, and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded, means he will not be ashamed, will not come up short. And he says unto you therefore, which believe, he is what? He is precious to those who believe. Now look at the next part, but unto them which be disobedience.

So if believing is precious, what would disobedience be? Not believing. So when he says, because you have believed you are made pure and holy by the Holy Spirit and set apart, you belong to God. And that’s why he makes the statement here that you and I are precious in the eyes of God. And we are precious in the eyes of God. But notice what also he says there in chapter one in verse 19 when he says this, but with the precious blood of Christ.

As of a lamb without blemish and without spot. So Jesus Christ was that perfect, spotless lamb that all those Old Testament animals that were sacrificed was supposed to be a type of. They had to find a lamb that was without spot with no blemishes. And that’s why they were used to be the sacrifice because they represented the perfect Son of God. Now, go back there to the book of 1 Peter chapter 1. And you know that we covered the other night a word called grace.

We went through and talked about the word called grace. And then the other night we went through and we looked at the word call. What is it? Suffering, hey, y’all remember that. And now tonight I just want you to look at another word that kind of gives you a flow of what we’re talking about. the Lord gives us this idea. Suffering’s been glory. Look what He says there in verse 11. Look in verse 11. So we know that as a Christian in this life we’re not in heaven yet but we’re going to suffer in this life.

Just being in this body living in this world is a time of suffering. Now some people might suffer more than others, but everybody suffers. You can suffer all kinds of ways. But it says in verse 11, searching what talking about the Old Testament prophets or what manner of time the spirit of Christ, which was in them, did signify when it testified beforehand, get this the sufferance of Christ and the glory that should follow. So the Lord is using Christ is our example because it mentions that in chapter 2 also that Christ is our example.

What’s that? We suffer and then glory. Well, the way we would like to have it is glory and no suffering. Wouldn’t that be better? Nobody wants to hurt. Nobody wants to suffer. Everybody wants a good, quiet, peaceful life just to be happy and live a pleasurable life. But God says, no, no, it’s not going to be like that. But we all pretty much go through the same things. It’s just that at different times. And God knows exactly what each one of us need at a particular point in our life.

So, He makes a statement in verse 7 of chapter 1 that the trial of your faith been much more precious than of gold that perishes. So God says His blood was precious, He was precious. And so you have something else’s precious. The trials that you go through, remember we talked about that word a couple of weeks ago, is precious. The trials, the problems that we have are precious because of what they do for us. They help build us. They make us walk closer to the Lord.

Now remember this, problems in life can do one of two things. They can push you closer to the Lord or become like a wedge, it caused you to be separated further from the Lord. But whatever it does depends on your attitude. You can let the things in life be a stepping stone or a stumbling block. So when you read chapter two, you’ll find out they stumbled over that stone. They stumble over that rock. And that’s because they did not believe.

So if you’ll continue to grow in the Lord and believe what God says, you can become stronger in your faith. And everything that happens is just a stepping stone. Or you can wind and pan and moan and groan and stumble all over the place and never learn how to walk with the Lord. So you’ll notice in the last part of verse seven, he says, though it be tried with fire, might be found on the praise, honor, and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ.

So suffer now, and glory later. Look in chapter one in verse 11, where he makes that same statement, the sufferance of Christ and the glory later. Do what God wants you to do now, believing that down the road, when the time is right, God’s going to take his home and he’s going to give you all the glory you should have the glory in this world. If it’s given by man, can be taken away by man. Whatever man can give to you, man can take away.

But God says his glory will last forever. It’ll never stop. So notice what he says in verse 21. Verse 21 says, who by him do believe in God that raised him up from the dead and gave him glory. Now because of what God gave to his son because of what he did, the same principle is to be applied to you and I. Notice that your faith and hope might be in the Lord. did not Jesus when he came into this world, he says everything that he did, he did it to please his father.

He said, I did not come to do my own will, but the will of him that sent me. So he did everything that he did, all the miracles that he did, it says he did it by the power of the Holy Spirit. Jesus as a man had to depend upon the father and all the miracles that he did, he gave the credit to the Holy Spirit that did it for him and threw him. And this is why you’ll find out also if you’ll look there in chapter three, look in verse 18.

Chapter three and verse 18 of 1 Peter. He says, for Christ also hath once suffered for sin, here you’re suffering some more. Get this, why did he suffer? The just for the unjust. No, that don’t sound fair. Why should the just suffer for the unjust? because that showed love, it showed compassion, it showed forgiveness, it showed everything that God wants to show, to demonstrate it. You see, if all this wasn’t done, then God didn’t have a way to let you see how much He loved you.

So He says this, that He might bring us to God. Now why does God leave us here in this world? Why does God allow us to suffer here in this world? so that we can be used by God to bring people to God. But now instead of it just being one person like Christ was here, look how many children he has now scattered throughout the world. And God wants to use all of his children to bring people to God.

Look what he says here. Now we don’t have to do it to pay for sin. We don’t have to pay for anybody’s sin. We don’t have to die for it like that. All we want, he wants us to tell people about it. in verse 18, he said that he might bring us to God, been put to death in the flesh, quickened, made alive by the Holy Spirit. Now, this is what he did, but why is all this in here?

Because God says, the trial of your faith, if you can understand. Look at Christ, he even mentions this in Hebrews in chapter 12. He ran a race, despised the shame, and he says, now, glory. So you and I are to run our race and suffer along the way. And God doesn’t always eliminate all of our problems. He wants you to be faithful in the midst of your problems. But he says he always makes a way of escape that you may be able to bear it.

We pray that God take away all my problems, solve all my problems. God doesn’t want to solve your problem. He’s the one who gave it to you. He’s going to let you have them. Now, sometimes we have problems because we’ve made bad decisions. But then we always blame that on the devil, right? The devil’s made me do it. I didn’t want to do it. But he says, these things are going to happen in your life. So you’re understanding that, I’m understanding that.

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Believing that the Lord is coming soon, just keep looking up.