 Good morning, everyone, and welcome back to class on Christology. How are all of you doing? How are our in-person students and the online students doing? How is Antony, Nina, and Jack in? Thank you for joining class this morning and also Sri Radha. How are all of you doing? Good. Anyone sleepy this morning? No. Okay. I will begin with the word of prayer. So can I ask Sri Radha, can you lead us in prayer please? Yes, pastor. Can you hear me? Yes, very clearly. Okay. Father God, we thank you for this time. Please bless us and we thank you for you have given us a new day, a new morning. And we submit this day in your hand, God, you guide us, you lead us. You give us wisdom and knowledge that we can understand your word. We can understand your teaching God and by Holy Spirit, you guide us. Everything we surrender in your hand, God, in Jesus' name we pray, amen. Amen. Thank you, Sri Radha. Last week we, since we lost connection when I was talking about, just give me a second please. Last week when we were talking about, you know, what does it mean when we say that Jesus sat on the right hand of the Father and we were looking at it in the notes. So I explained that and at that time realized that I got disconnected. And so I have posted the content on the stream page for you all to read so you all can read. And since it's so important and even we had one question from Rin who asked us, what does it mean when Jesus sat at the right hand of Father? Sorry. Yes. When Jesus sat at the right hand of the Father, what does it mean? And also we were looking at our notes towards the end of chapter 7 when we were looking at, you know, the point where we were talking about the divine exchange and we looked at 2 Corinthians chapter 8, verse 9. And the first point said that, you know, Christ came to our level to lift us up to this level at the right hand of God. So what does it mean? And at that time we got disconnected and so you all online students missed out on what I had said. So I have posted that contents in the stream page. You can read it after class. Okay. Any questions on chapter 7 and chapter 8? What we studied last week? We began looking at chapter 8 as well. The Virginia conception. Anyone has any questions? No. Anyone from our in-person students have any questions or online students? Okay. There are no questions. We'll move on to chapter 9 where we'll be talking about Jesus who is the sinless lamb who became the sinless lamb. Okay. So we're going to basically consider this title or role of Jesus Christ which we see both in the Old Testament and in the New Testament. So Jesus is given this title as the Lamb of God, the sinless lamb and what was his role as that sinless lamb as the Lamb of God. Now the word lamb is presented over 30 times in the New Testament. Okay. And if you look at John chapter 1 verse 29, can one of you please read that? John chapter 1 verse 29. John verse 129. The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. Okay. So we've already studied this verse before. We looked at it before. We know that Jesus came as a Lamb of God. And why does the Apostle John use the word lamb there? Why didn't he just say that, you know, Jesus the Son of God or the word that became flesh who came from the Father full of grace and truth. He took the sins of the world. Okay. Why didn't he not phrase it that way? But why does he say Jesus came as the Lamb of God to take away the sins of the world? To let the people of Israel know that. Okay. Okay. Yes. This is Jesus who is going to make the sacrifice because Lamb was a very, you know, so much part of the Israelite community because of the rituals they used to, you know, have such a centerpiece of their life, part of their life, part of their whole, you know, spiritual journey with God or the rituals or what they did on a day to day basis. Okay. So every day there was a lamb that was sacrificed. We study about it, a lamb that was sacrificed in the morning and in the evening. It was not just the lamb that was sacrificed one day in the year on the day of atonement, but it was the lamb that was sacrificed every day in the morning. Morning sacrifice, evening sacrifice, and even when people committed any sins, they, you know, there was sins that need to be atoned for or covered for, which they made the sacrifice using a lamb. So, you know, lamb was so much part of their whole understanding, their thinking, their whole concept of what, you know, their relationship with God. Everything also, you know, was kind of centered around the rituals, but the lamb had so much of significance in the lives of the Israelite. So there was only one way that, you know, sin could be atoned for, and that was by making the sacrifice, by cutting the lamb and shedding the blood. And the blood that was shed of this lamb, which had to be spotless, which had to be without any blemish, which had to be healthy and, you know, a male lamb one year or less than a year old, which had to be sacrificed. And so we see that Jesus was referred to as the lamb of God. Why? Because he was the, he was the one who perfectly suited the whole concept of the lamb that was sacrificed because he was sinless. He was without any blame. He was spotless without any blemish, and he was righteous and holy. Okay. So we also see that Jesus came to die not only for the sins of Israelite race, but he came to die for the sins of the whole world. He paid for the sins of the whole world by making the full sufficient and perfect sacrifice. Okay. Jesus Christ is also this, you know, is mentioned as the Passover lamb or the Paschal lamb. Okay. Why is he mentioned as the Passover lamb? We look at that. Okay. So can one of you please clearly read for us Exodus chapter 12 verses one to 14 Exodus chapter 12 verses one to 14. Is there in your notes? Can one of you please read. So this 12 one to 14. Now the Lord spoke to Moses and our own in the land of Egypt saying this month shall be your beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you speak to all the congregation of Israel saying on the 10th of this month, every man shall take for himself if himself a lamb according to those house of his father a lamb for a household. And if the household is too small for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house. Take it according to the number of the prison persons according to each man's need. You shall make you count make your count for the lamb. The lamb shall be without blemish a male of the first year. You may take it from the sheep of or from the goats. Now you shall keep it until the 14th day of the same month. Then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at polite. And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two drops drop posts and on the lintel of the house where they eat it. Then they shall eat the flesh. Then they shall eat the flesh legs and its itinerals. Do not eat raw nor boiled at all with water but roasted in fire its head with its legs and its entrails. You shall let none of it remain until morning and what remains of it until morning you shall burn with fire. And thus you shall eat it with a belt on your waist your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. So you shall eat it in haste in the it is the Lord's Passover for I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night I will strike all the first one in the land of Egypt both men and beast and against all the gods of Egypt. I will exclude judgment I am the Lord now the blood shall be assigned for you on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood I will pass over you and the plague shall not be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt. So this day shall be to you a memorial and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord throughout your generations. You shall keep it as feast by an everlasting ordinance. Amen. Thank you. So here we see that God is preparing the people of Israel to move out of Egypt. Okay, from slavery out of Egypt into the promised land into freedom. He's leading them to the land of promise that is Canaan. Okay, and this time he is it's the 10th play that he's going to bring about on the land of Egypt. And that will, you know, kind of seal their going out of Egypt that will give them away when they can exit out of Egypt. And here we see that, you know, God's telling them that whatever I have asked you to do on this day, you need to do it throughout your generations. Okay, should keep this feast as a last thing or an everlasting ordinance everlasting means what it lasts for ever and ever for eternity everlasting ordinance. But why don't we celebrate the Feast of the Passover? Why don't we celebrate the Feast of the Passover, even though it says here that it should be an everlasting ordinance. We are celebrating Jesus, yes, because, you know, he has become the Passover lamb. He has made the food sufficient for sacrifice and we don't have to offer any more sacrifice. But we just celebrate by remembering what he has done and one of them is, you know, when you partake in the Lord's table. Okay, so here we see that, you know, this Passover festival was supposed to be, God tells them it's the first month of the Jewish calendar, which is the month of March and April. Okay, so we see that the Passover actually spoke or it pointed out to the redemptive work of Jesus. What is the meaning of redemptive work? Redemption means what? When you redeem something means what? When you buy back, yes, you know, when people don't have money, you know, they go and pledge their home or their house or their car or, you know, their gold ornaments or gold or whatever they have, whatever bonds they have, they pledge it so that they can get cash. But if they want to get back what they have pledged, they have to repay the debt. They have to repay the money that they have taken it. And of course, you have to repay it with interest. So when we see that when we say that Jesus, you know, became the Passover lamb, which and by, you know, he pointed out to his redemptive work. The Passover, the whole ritual of Passover, why God wanted them to do it is not because God was interested in rituals, right? Like other religions are so ritualistic minded. God is not a God who is, you know, focused on keeping rituals. But he is asking them to do these rituals because all of these rituals, all of these sacrifices, all of what they celebrated actually was a type and shadow, which means it was pointing out to the Messiah. It was pointing out to Jesus Christ. So every ritual they had to do, every sacrifice, everything that they had to celebrate, everything they had to follow during the Passover was not something that was just do it as a ritual, you know, just as, you know, just to please God. But it was all pointing to the coming of the Messiah. It was pointing out to the work and the role of the Messiah. It was pointing out to Jesus, who was the lamb of God. So in Jesus, we see all of these rituals, all of these sacrifices, everything having its meaning in the person and the work of Jesus. Isn't that so beautiful? So actually the Israelites, you know, the rituals became such a burden for them, you know, they were not enjoying what they were doing. It was becoming very burdensome. And that's why even when they were offering it, they were not offering it in the way that God wanted them to do. And they felt so burdened by it. But actually God did not give them those rituals to burden them. Right. The rituals that God gives us is not to burden us, but actually it is something that we can enjoy in the work of, the finished work of Jesus on the cross. But for us now it is to enjoy the finished work of Jesus on the cross. But for the Old Testament people, it was actually a type and shadow, which means it was something pointing out, pointing further or pointing to the Son of God who would come and would fulfill all of these, you know, rituals, the sacrifices would be fulfilled in his work in what he did on the cross. Okay. So redemptive work means, you know, Jesus on the cross, he, when he died, he paid the redemption price to redeem us from sin, death and Satan. Okay. So there was, there is a price, right, for our sin. What is the price for our sin? What's the price for our sin? Death. Yes. Death, not just, you know, physical death, but also eternal death. But when Jesus came, what did he do? You know, he redeemed us from sin, death and slavery to Satan by paying the price. Who did he pay the price to? Satan? No, he had to pay the price to God, not to Satan, because Satan was not somebody who we went against. It was, we went against God. We broke his laws. We broke his commandments. We went against his standards. We fell short of the glory of God. Okay. Romans chapter three. So here, if you look at 1 Corinthians chapter five was seven. Can one of you please read 1 Corinthians chapter five was seven, please. Give it to him. He's ready. 1 Corinthians chapter five was seven. Therefore, project the old 11 that you may be a new lump. Since you truly are unleavened, unleavened for indeed Christ, our Passover was sacrificed for us. Thank you. So here, Iman, it says, you know, therefore purge out the old leaving. Okay. What is the meaning of the word purge means purify, cleanse, remove. Okay. So here this fall is telling the church at Corinth. Therefore purge means therefore purify, cleanse, clean, remove. So what is he saying to purify cleanse, clean and remove? The old leaving. Okay. So that you may be a new lump since you are truly are unleavened for indeed Christ, our Passover was sacrificed for us. Now, what is the meaning of this? Why does Paul use leaving older and new lump? You're truly uneven. It's because he's talking to Jewish believers. Okay. Judaism, you know, Jewish Christians, and they know what is the meaning of leaving even though we don't understand enough. In our context, they knew what is the meaning of leaving or leaving new lump, unleavened. They knew everything about it because this leaving was connected to the Passover. So what is leaving? It's, you know, the leaving mentioned isn't merely East. You know what is East, right? You know, people put East to make the bun and bread fluffy and nice and puffed up and biscuits and all that. They put little East. Okay. Even when you make dosa neatly, people put little East so that the dow rises up and it's really nice and fluffy and soft. Okay. So here it's the leaving is not actually East. It's actually the dow. That is, you know, the Israelites used to make like we make chapati, but they used to make bread and, you know, so the doubt they use what they used to do. The Israelites is they used to keep a little of the old dow and they would put that old dow in the new dow. So the old dow was actually fermented because it is fermented. It will ferment the new dow. So it acts like an East. Okay. So it is this, this old dow, which is all leaving, which is, you know, it's a sour dow, which kind of, you know, leave ends up the. New dow. So this is, you know, how bread was commonly made in the, in the ancient world. And the bread was commonly, you know, even in the ancient world by using a little pinch of the older putting it into the new lump. And that is how the new lump would just rise up and, you know, would just look very nice and puffy and good to eat. So in this way, the work of the leaving, you know, was taught to illustrate the work of sin and pride. Okay. So what he's saying here is rule out the old leaving means, you know, leave out your old sinful ways. Okay. Don't even bring in a little sinful nature because you are now a new creation, which means you're not uneven. That is why God tells in the Passover, at the Passover feast that they had to remove all leaving from that house. No, leaving was supposed to be in their house. Nothing but leaving had to be eaten for the whole week. Okay. So what Paul is basically saying is remove, you know, everything in the, in the church or everything in your midst as believers as, you know, as saints. Everyone who is unrepentant sinners and everyone who is notorious, everyone who's a life of sin moves them away from the church. Okay. Have nothing to do with them. Okay. So that, you know, you who are created now as a new page Christ Jesus, you know, by grace to faith in Christ Jesus, you know, you would be without that leaving, which will cause you to sin. So if you look at it in our context for our day to day, there's no, we are all made uneven, which means we are all a new creation. Okay. And don't use any of your being in your old sinful nature, which means don't feel your own sinful nature. Okay. Or don't give into your old sinful nature, because that old sinful nature that can be why it can be pride and be anger. Jealousy can be hatred. You know, it can be wrong thoughts. It can be what we are watching. You know, it can, that can be our own sinful nature, but we can continue to indulge in one of those. And that when it comes, you know, when, as when we are born again, when that continues, we continue to live in that old sinful nature. It's going even are the new creation that we are now. Okay. So, you know, the Bible says, don't give a foothold to Satan. You know, in your anger, do not sin. Okay. Do not give foothold to Satan. That means deal with your anger that day itself. Why? Because you just give a foothold to Satan, a little entrance, he will come in and he will destroy your entire life. Why? Because his, his whole role is, you know, to steal, kill and to destroy. That is what he knows. That is what he will do. Don't give him room. So we need to be very careful that even as we have been created now as people who are unleavened, you know, we cannot indulge in our little, little old sinful nature. We need to deal with that old sinful nature. You know, every day look at it. Otherwise it's going to corrupt our, you know, our new man, our new creation that we are in Christ Jesus. So the beautiful example is, you know, you can say, how can my old sinful nature corrupt my new nature? You know, the example is here, just a little lump of the old leaving can actually make the whole new leaving, the whole new lump fluffy and, you know, puff up and the dove to rice. So the old sinful nature, just one is enough to destroy us being a new creator, a new man that is created in utter righteousness and holiness, you know, being justified before God. Okay. So Paul is writing this to the church, to the Jews and they understand all of this. And that is why he's saying, but in our context, we need, we can look at it as, you know, old nature, new nature and don't feed your old carnal nature. Always, you know, keep feeding your spirit man. So we see that this was some Passover, which got told them to do this as an everlasting ordinance of generations to generation. It was because it was a type and shadow of the redemptive work of Christ in the New Testament. Now, what does it mean, meaning of the word type and shadow? You've heard this before, right? Jesus Christ is the type and shadow of the Old Testament. Or, you know, the type and shadow that we see in Noah or Moses is fulfilled in Jesus Christ. So the meaning of this word type and shadow. Okay. Now the New Testament, the Greek word for type is typos, which means example, or it can be a pattern, a model, you know, pattern, model, form, print, fashion, figure, manner. So here basically it's talking about that, you know, when it says that this ritual was a type and shadow of the redemptive work of Jesus, or type and shadow of Jesus is basically meaning this ritual, or this person, what he did, what God asked him to do is basically an example of what is going to follow. Okay. It's a pattern of what is, was done in the Old Testament is actually fulfilled in the life and ministry of Jesus Christ. Did you understand? Yes. So all of the rituals are type and shadow of the work of Jesus Christ, which means everything in the Old Testament was a pattern in the Old Testament that was followed was fulfilled in the life and ministry of Jesus Christ. Now what is the meaning of shadow? We saw type, type means pattern, model, fashion, it's a print exactly. So whatever was done in the Old Testament, it was actually fulfilled in the work and the person of Jesus Christ. What is the meaning of shadow? Now we know that shadow has no substance on its own, right? Yes or no? A shadow has no substance on its own. It can only cause something that is substantial. Okay. So the stable is substantial. You can see the legs, right? The table is casting the shadow. Now this mic stand is substantial. You can see the shadow, right? The speaker is substantial. You can see the shadow of that speaker. So even when you go and stand out in the sun, you can see your shadow because you are substantial. But shadow is not something that is substantial. It has no substance. So the physical form, so when we say shadow, you know, Jesus Christ is the shadow of this ritual or shadow of this person. It basically means a physical form of a spiritual reality. So when Jesus or when God brought about these rituals or these sacrifices, it was something that was done in our physical world, but had something that had a heavenly reality. Okay. We read this in Hebrews chapter 8, verse 5 and 10, verse 1. So all of the Jewish ceremonies, all of the Jewish rituals, everything that they did in the tabernacle, in the temple, all of those rituals, all of those ceremonies were actually a shadow cast by heavenly realities, which means it was pointing out to Christ's life and the work and the kingdom reality. Okay. What is in God's kingdom? What is the reality in God's kingdom? So the Old Testament is basically the Old Testament Passover is a type and shadow of Jesus Christ. What do we mean by type and shadow of Jesus Christ? Basically, type and shadow is that Jesus Christ is going to be that Passover lamb. Okay. The male lamb, which, and it had to be the perfect male lamb. And Jesus also was that male lamb who made, because he was perfect. He was sinless. He was righteous, utterly holy. He was that perfect Passover lamb. And the work of Jesus Christ also seen in the Passover lamb. Okay. The Passover lamb was, you know, the lamb was killed. The blood was dead and that blood was put on the doorposts. Okay. Of the house in which the sacrifice was made. And the angel of death passed over because of that blood. So when Jesus died on the cross, okay. His blood purchased our sins are, you know, and gave us freedom from death and from slavery. And so those who, you know, believe in the shed blood of Jesus and the work what Jesus did on the cross. You know, now they are covered by the blood of the lamb, which means that Satan has no power or authority over us because we have been purchased by the blood. Okay. And sin has no power over us because the blood of the lamb has a tone for our sins, which means has covered our sins. So even as we are standing today, it's actually, we are actually covered by the blood of the lamb. If you just can picture it, we covered by the blood of the lamb. So when Satan looks at you, he's actually scared of you because you have the blood of the lamb over you. Okay. But many times we are so scared of Satan that he terrorizes us and he thinks he makes us think that he's more powerful, but that is why it's so important to declare the blood of the lamb. And what the blood of the lamb has done for us, the blood of the lamb has made the sacrifice for our sins, delivered us from the power of sin. So we are dead to sin. The blood of the lamb has given us freedom from death. Okay. The fear of death and eternal death, the blood of the lamb also has given us freedom over Satan, the power of Satan. Because when Jesus died on the cross, remember we studied last week, Colossians chapter 2 was 15, that Jesus, when he died on the cross, the blood was shed. He disarmed every principalities and powers and made a public spectacle of them. And we also saw in Hebrews chapter 2 was 10 or I think was 5 that he's a captain of our salvation. And because of what he did, we celebrate, you know, we also have received the victory what Jesus had done on the cross. Okay. So the Passover feast actually pointed out the true lamb, Jesus Christ pointed out to how the true lamb would be. And what the true lamb would accomplish. Okay. So that is why, you know, the Passover lamb was a type or the Passover feast or the Passover festival was a type and shadow of the person and the work of Jesus Christ. Okay. So there's some important characteristic of the Passover lamb. The first thing is we read in Exodus chapter 12 was 5, the lamb had to be without blemish. Okay. And Jesus as the Passover lamb was a lamb without sin was holy and was. Okay. And that is why he could make the perfect complete sacrifice because he was perfect. He was complete. He was spotless. He was whole. And that is what first Peter chapter one was 19 says. Can one of you please read that first Peter chapter one was 19. But with the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. Jesus Christ the lamb of God without blemish or without spot. Okay. The second one is second reference is one John chapter three was five. Can somebody read that? You know that he appeared in order to take away sins and in him there is no sin. He manifested to take away our sin. What does the meaning of manifested? He became real. He showed himself. He became a reality to take away the sin. Take away our sins because in him there is no sin. So somebody asked you show me from the Bible where it says Jesus had no sin. One John chapter three verse five. Okay. So he was a lamb without blemish, which means he was perfect. He was pure and he was sinless. And that is why Jesus is called as the Passover lamb or the Pascal lamb. It's not just because he was spotless and blameless or without blemish. But also it points to the work what he was the Passover lamb did. It pointed out to what the lamb of God would do and accomplish for our sins. Okay. Any questions so far online students? Any questions? Yeah. Can you give them the mic please? In Exodus we see God giving them instructions, right? How they have to do the Passover, like the lamb. And it mentioned like do not eat it raw. Do not eat it boiled but only roast it. Fire with all its legs and intestines and everything. So is there like why only roast and why not boil? Is there any significance for it? There should be some significance roasted in the fire and boil. There could be some significance or I don't know why God just told them but also when you talk about fire, when you see sacrifices that were made in the Old Testament, when God made the first covenant promise to Abraham, remember he tells him to cut those so that the bird and that lamb and that lamb and keep it there on the altar. And then he falls asleep and then God sends the fire that passes through. So every sacrifice that was made even in the temple was fired. The fire that basically burned up. So it's basically talking about that sin is totally removed, is purified, is cleansing through the fire. Could be one meaning or significance that is there because that is how they used to do the son and not boiling. It was just to fire because like we're going to look at the sacrifice. It is also the sacrifice that God told them to make in the Old Testament was not just for the atonement of their sin, which means to cover their sin but also was consecration. Consecrating themselves to be holy and pure. So we know that anything that we need to make holy and pure is sent through the fire. Whether it's gold or any metal, anything is put into fire because it is made pure, it's purified. So that could be one of the significance why he required them to use fire and also fire was there in the temple which they used for burning sacrifices and the fire on the altar was there. Yes, good question. Anyone else has any questions? Okay, another sacrifice that we can look at talking about the Lamb and Jesus being the Lamb of God and also he being the type and shadow. So we are going to look at various ritual sacrifices in the Old Testament which is talking about the Lamb, a sinless Lamb and how Jesus was that type and also how the rituals and these sacrifices, how it was a shadow of what Jesus would do, his work, what he would do. Another thing that we can see is the Lamb of the morning and evening sacrifice. So Exodus chapter 29 was 38 to 42. Ken, one of you please read that. Now this is what you shall offer on the altar. Two lamps of the first year day by day continually. One lamp you shall offer in the morning and the other lamp you shall offer at twilight. With the one lamp shall be one-tenth of and its power of floor mixed with one-fourth of a hint of placed oil and one-fourth of a hint of wine as a drink offering and the other lamp you shall offer it twilight and you shall offer with it the grain offering and the drink offering as in the morning for a sweet aroma and offering made by first fire to the Lord. This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generation at the door of the tabernacle of meeting before the Lord where I will meet you to speak with you. So every day this morning and evening sacrifice had to be made and why was the sacrifice required? It was and it said that it's supposed to be made throughout the generations but why did God require the sacrifice? Look at Exodus chapter 29, it says what we just read. Why is it required? A sweet aroma because he says this is where I will meet with you and speak with you. So if God has to meet his people and speak to them every day then you know they had to make sacrifice. Why did they have to make sacrifice morning and evening? If God had to speak to them why did they have to make the sacrifice? Why did they have to make the sacrifice if God had to meet them? Sorry? Yes, to purify themselves so that this holy God can meet the simplest sinful people and he can meet them because his sin was atoned for. Now God, you know, he just can't relate to us because of our sin. He can't come near or relate to us because of our sin. So the sacrifices had to be made. So this daily sacrifice actually spoke of, you know, yes. Thank you, Nina, John. She said because of sin so that God will meet us. This daily sacrifices spoke of daily atonement and daily consecration. What is atonement? What is the meaning of atonement? I mentioned it three times in the last 43 minutes. Hello class, what is atonement? What does atonement mean? Wakey, wakey. What is atonement? I mentioned it three times, three or four times, explained it over and over again. What is atonement? So it doesn't matter, try it in. Pay for it, that is redemption. Cover, yes, atonement means to cover our sin. Okay. So atonement is covering our sin. What is righteousness? What is the meaning of being righteous, made righteous, right standing with God. Okay. Before we did not have a right standing with God because we are sinful people. Now because of God, Christ's righteousness, God sees us as righteous people. What's the meaning of justification? How many of you attended church on Sunday? I caught you. What is justification? Last two Sundays made right. God looks at us just as if we never sinned. Okay. So atonement is when Jesus, you know, his blood covers our sin. Okay. So daily atonement and daily consecration. So this morning and evening sacrifices were to be offered every day. They were burnt offerings and sacrifices just completely burnt at the altar. Okay. So the fire just burnt up everything purified that sacrifice made it holy and pleasing to God. So God can relate with man. Okay. And we saw, you know, two weeks back we were talking last week and week before last we were talking about the day of atonement. Okay. The High Priest going into the Holy of Holies. What atone for his sins? What atone for the sins of the High Priest who went into the Holy of Holies? On the day of atonement, the High Priest went into the Holy of Holies. Okay. What atone for his sin? The blood of the Lamb, the blood that he sacrificed for himself, the blood with the sacrifice for the sins of the Holy Israelite community would take it and sprinkle it where? On the mercy seat of the Ark of the Covenant. That is where the presence of God would come and God would relate to man. God would speak to man. Why don't we have the tabernacle? Why don't we have the mercy seat? Why don't we offer these sacrifices and sprinkle all of that? Why don't we do it in our churches today? Jesus Christ already made the full, sufficient, perfect sacrifice. When he died, the veil of the curtain that separated the Holy place and the Holy of Holies was, you know, torn into two, which means it gave us the access. Aren't you all happy that you are not living in the Old Testament days? That you're living the New Testament time, you know, the New Covenant, but the blood of Jesus has done so much. Imagine the number of sacrifices we had to make, the amount of money we had to do so much living in fear when we would be struck by the wrath of God, but just the grace and the mercy of God that is upon us. Nina says, standing as if one has not sinned. You're talking, that is for justification or righteousness. I think that's for justification, right? Okay. So here we see that this morning and evening sacrifices had to be offered daily. They were burnt offerings, completely burnt on the altar. In addition to the lamb sacrifice, God tells them you also have to present in the morning an effer of mixed flower with a hint of breast oil or one fourth of a hint of wine as a drink offering. And then in the evening sacrifice, twilight means sunset. Okay. Evening when it talks about not just making the lamb as a sacrifice, but also offering a grain offering and a drink offering. Okay. So here we see that these grain offering or drink offering was also known as a meal offering which consisted of products and did not contain blood. Okay. So the burnt offering was primarily, you know, which made the atonement or the covering for the sins of the people. The lamb that was sacrificed was the substitute in the place of the person. Okay. The act of the Israelite community as a whole. The animal, the lamb was a substitute. Okay. And that took the place of an Israelite or it took the place of the entire Israelite community. In the same way Jesus made for the atonement for our sins, which means just like the lamb was in was a substitute. The animal was as a substitute in the same way Jesus was our substitute. We had to die, but he was in our place. He took our place and he made, you know, this possible for us. And this burnt offering spoke of complete consecration because the entire sacrifice was consumed with fire. Okay. When it is consumed with fire means it's a pleasing, holy, acceptable offering and a sacrifice to God. Okay. And God was pleased with that sacrifice. Remember Cain and Abel sacrifice, right? When Cain offered his sacrifice of fruit and grain, whatever he brought from the field and when Abel made his sacrifice, God sent fire that burned up, Abel's sacrifice. So fire again resembles that God is pleased with that sacrifice. Remember Elijah on the Mount Carmel when he makes that sacrifice, you know, God sends fire from above and burns up. Not only the animal, not only the firewood but even stones. Stones never burn in fire, right? But everything was utterly burned. So it just means that, you know, spoke of complete consecration as the entire sacrifice was consumed in fire. Okay. So we'll stop here. We'll go for our break and then we'll come back after the break and continue. Enjoy your break everyone.