Address—C. Hendricks
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Numbers 19 beginning at verse one, and the Lord speaking to Moses and unto Aaron saying this is the ordinance of the law.
It's the Lord have commanded, saying, speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring the red Heather.
Without spot wherein his noblemation, upon which never came milk.
And ye shall give her until engaged to the priest, that he may bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face.
And here he aged. The priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle of her blood directly before the Tabernacle of the convocation 7 times.
And one shall burn the heifer in his sight. Her skin and her flesh and her blood with her tongue shall be burning.
And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.
Maybe she'll wash his clothes and he should bathe his flesh and water and afterwards he should come to the camp.
And the priest should be unclean until he even and he that burneth perish, shall wash his clothes in water and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the evening.
The man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for Oahu's separation. It is a purification for sin.
And either gather at the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even, and it shall be under the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them for a statute forever.
Even touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean 7 days. You shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on the 7th day he shall be clean. But if you purify not himself the third day than the 7th day he shall not be clean.
Whosoever toucheth a dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the Tabernacle of the Lord.
And that soul shall be cut off in Israel, because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him.
He shall be unclean. His uncleanness is Yadakania.
This is the law. When a man died in a tent, all would come into the tent, and all that is in the tent shall be unclean. 7 days.
And every open vessel which has no covering bound upon it is unclean.
And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bolt of a man.
Or a grave shall the unclean 7 days.
And for an unclean person, that's the thick of the ashes of the bird heifer of purification for sin. And running water should be put there too, in the.
And a cleaning person shall take hyssop and dip it in the water.
Sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave.
And the cleaning person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day, and on the 7th day, and on the 7th day he shall purify himself, and wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean and even.
But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself and soul, shall be cut out from the one of the congregation, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the Lord. The water of separation have not been sprinkled upon him. He is unclean.
And it shouldn't be a perpetual statute unto them that he that sprinkled the water of separation shall wash his clothes, and he didn't touch it, the water of separation, she'll be unclean until even.
And what's going to be unclean person touch it shall be unclean.
So intention it shall be unclean until we.
We noticed in reading this chapter.
That just having to do with even with the cleansing of one who.
A contracted defilement by contact with death in the wilderness.
Rendered 1 unclean, and justice having to do with the cleansing of such a 1. Rendered 1 unclean until we eat them.
And so we see this chapter teaches very clearly and.
And right on the surface of it, that association with evil does defile.
And having to do with even with the purifying of one who has become unclean renders 1 unclean for a time. And what we learn from that is that.
Everyone of us having a sinful nature if we deal with evil in another.
We have a nature which responds to that ourselves.
So it will render us unclean.
For a short time I would like to read. Before commenting on this chapter, I would like to read the the New Testament passages which.
Might say correspond.
With the teaching that we have of numbers 19, turn to John 13.
John 13 where you have the Lord Jesus washing the disciples feet.
John 13, verse 3.
Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he has come from God and went to God.
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He riseth from supper, and lay aside his garments, and took a towel, and girded himself.
After that he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples feet and to wipe them with the towel, wherewith he was greeted.
And kind of be the Simon Peter and Peter. Sam comes like the Lord dust. I'll wash my feet. Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do now knowest not now, but thou shalt know hereafter.
Peter saith unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me.
Signing Peter, saying unto him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head.
Jesus said to him, He that is washed.
That word there means bathed, washed all over.
Not saved to wash his feet. That's a different word.
Just becomes in the field.
But is clean and required and ye are cleaned but not all.
Where he knew we should betray him. Therefore, said he, you're not all clean.
All right, now just a few comments of John 13.
The Lord was about to return to the Father.
Says in verse 3, Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, that he was come from God and went to God. He rises from supper, lay besides his garments, came to power, drives himself, pours water into the basin, and washes the disciples feet. Peter immediately says glory.
I'm going to wash my teeth. He felt that.
The Lord, being who He was, was altogether beneath His dignity to get at Peters feet.
Wash his feet well.
The Lord says to Peter.
Verse 7. What I do thou knowest not now, but thou shalt know hereafter.
That is, Peter did not understand, and neither did any of the disciples at the time when the Lord Jesus washed their feet, the significance of what he was doing. They didn't understand it then.
They would understand it at a later date, and that later date was the day when the Spirit of God was given lead us into all the truth.
The Lord was about to return to the Father. Sit down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
In the consciousness of this, the Lord Jesus carries on a work.
Significant of what he's now doing in glory as man.
Is removing the defilements that we contract.
In our feet as we walk through a defining world.
Now this world is a wilderness wide we sing that many times we have nothing to see there to choose. We have no thought in the waste to abide, we not to regret, nor to lose. And as we go through this world which has become to the Christian a wilderness.
It's no longer the scene of delights as it used to be.
But it's a it's a wilderness. There's nothing here that's to the renewed heart.
Nothing. There's There's a lot of defilement in this scene.
And as we walk through it and we pick up the habits, the ways.
The language, the jokes.
The mannerisms of the people of the land.
They're defiling everything that rubs off on a Christian.
It comes from the world is a defilement. There is one thing down here as we're passing through this scene about one thing down here, the streets that were left, Nothing, absolutely nothing.
They're going to waste Hollywood. It's just like Israel in the Book of Numbers was a redeemed people had been redeemed from the House of ******* Egypt.
Brought to God in the wilderness and the book of Numbers presents that people that redeemed people going through the wilderness on the way to Canaan, a picture of heaven for us on the way to the promised land. And right in the middle of that book, the 19th chapter, we have the ordinance of the red heifer.
And that presents God's provision for the cleansing of the Israelites from the defilements which they were apartment to contract as they walked through the wilderness. And so here you have in the book of John, the Gospel of John, we have the Lord Jesus taking up now a new position in glory.
Jesus knowing that he had come from God and was going to God. The first verse says when Jesus knew that his hour was come, that He should be part out of this world unto the Father. And this is what characterizes all these chapters from John 13 through 17. Jesus is about to be part out of this world to the Father, now having in tight, or you might say in picture form here, having entered the glory.
He desires our fellowship. Notice what he says.
In verse 8 Peter says I shall never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou has no part with me. He doesn't say no part in me, but no part with me.
What does that mean? With me means communion.
And to me, it is so precious that the Lord Jesus did.
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Desires fellowship with us. He desires our communion. That's why He saved us. He saved us that we might be His partners for all eternity.
To be with Him for all eternity, we're going to share the glory with Him. We're going to be like Him there. And the desire of every renewed heart is to be like you here. Well, what makes us unlike Him is the fact that we're going through a scene which is defiling.
And we have a nature which.
Is hateful to Him, and which desires the things of the world, and which delights in the things that the world has to offer. We have a new nature which finds no delight in those things, but only delights in the things of God.
And the problem with the Christian is that he he has to deal with that conflict between.
2 natures.
And the college like between the flesh and the Spirit, every one of us is involved with the Spirit of God. And as we go through this defining world, we have an advocate with the Father, the Lord Jesus on high to remove the defilements of the way. He uses the washing of water by the Word, He uses the Word of God.
Well.
The Lord says to Peter, when he says I shall never wash my feet, He says, if I don't wash your feet, you have no part with me. And then she had those to the other extreme. He says not my feet only, but also my hands and my head. And the Lord has to instruct Peter. But once we're bathed, once we have that which speaks of the new birth, once we've been washed all over, Remember in Exodus 28 and 29 when the priests were consecrated?
They were bathed. The consecration of the priests, they were bathed, and that's figurative of the new birth. They were born again figuratively. And then there was the labor and as they carried on the priestly work.
And they got dirty, they washed their hands and they washed their feet in the labor. Well, in the New Testament we have nothing about washing the hands. And the reason for that, I believe, is because the work which.
The hands speak of doing something. The work is finished on the cross, so there's nothing for us to do. The gospel doesn't bring a work to do, but a word to believe about a work already done. Christ has done the work, and so you don't have in the New Testament this picture of the Lord's washing. You don't have the hands being washed, you just have the feet. We do contract to file it as we.
We go.
Filing world, and that renders us unfit for fellowship with himself. Whatever ways of the world, whatever mannerisms, whatever habits, whatever language of the world that we pick up is defilement and renders us really unfit for fellowship with himself in the new position which he's taken up as a glorified man at the right hand of God.
And it's the Christian is a heavenly man. He's one who's united to the man in the glory and in order to have fellowship with us, with him where he is.
He has to remove the defilements of earth. He has to remove the defilements of his.
And I believe that's the significance of John 13. Now Numbers 19 give us many, many details by the Spirit of God of how that defilement is removed and how we get defiled as we go through this world. That's why I chose to read Numbers 19. I want to read you one more passage in First John chapter 2. First Epistle of John chapter 2.
Which corresponds to what we've read in numbers 19 as well as John 13.
First John chapter 2, verse one.
My little children, these things right I unto you, that ye sin not.
And if any man's sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous, and He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
Now I believe that John 13 presents to us the Lord Jesus as our advocate with the Father, and he's there on high. We have an advocate on high. The word that's translated advocate in John first, John 2 is exactly the same word in the original Greek that's translated comforter and applies to the Holy Spirit. So we have an advocate on earth in the comforter, the Holy Spirit, and we have an advocate and the Lord Jesus, the man of the glory.
High in heaven and He's there pleading our 'cause we have one other area. So it allows us the Spirit of God and we have one in the glory. And here we have the Lord Jesus presented as I just want to look before going back to #17 that first one of first John 2. It doesn't say if we sin, we have an advocate with the Father.
That would suppose the error that we all must sin as Christians. Sometimes you hear it said even amongst believers. Well, well, the human, you know, we have to fail.
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Now that's a denial of Christianity.
That's a denial of Christianity.
Nor does it say if any man sin, he has an advocate with the Father. That would imply that the advocacy of Christ begins to function when an individual Christian sins.
That isn't true.
It says if any man's sin, we have an advocate.
And I think that's beautiful, the precision of Scripture.
It doesn't say if we sin so that we can get the idea that we must sin, which would really deny the truth of Christianity.
It's as if any man sinned. That's the exceptional case that John was talking about. He's looking upon a Christian sinning as being the exceptional case. But he says if one of us does sin.
We all Christians have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. And the advocacy of Christ doesn't begin upon one of us sinning. It's always functioning. He's always there pleading our cause. He's always there on our behalf. We have an advocate with the Father always, at all times, and if anyone sin, he can rest in the comfort if there's one on high pleading for him. And the effect of the word of Christ on high as our advocate pleading for us.
Restore us to communion according to the first chapter, the ninth verse, if we confess our sins, He is faithful and justice against our sins and the cleanses from unrighteousness. So the advocacy of Christ.
Waiting for us on high with the Father. The work of the Spirit within is to lead us.
To the point of confession and judging the sin we've allowed, anyone of us is allowed. And then being cleansed from it and brought back into communion and into fellowship. To me, it is so precious.
That the Lord Jesus to just get a hold of the thought.
Lord Jesus has saved us not just to deliver us from hell and from the consequences of our sins, but He wants our community and He wants our fellowship, and so He has made every provision in His Word to keep us clean.
Should one of us fail to keep us clean and to restore us if we have faith. Now let's turn back with that as an introduction. And I know it's a long introduction, but let's turn back to numbers 19 because I believe. I believe.
We must always be careful when we speak upon an Old Testament passage like this to show from the New Testament.
That the truths that are there in the Old Testament are in the New Testament.
Here we have details brought out in the Old Testament which helped us and we realized that.
If we do sin, if one of us fight fails and sins and allows the world in one form or another, that indulges the carnal nature that we have the flesh and we all have it.
That there is there is a work.
By the Spirit of God in the soul, answering to the advocacy of Christ on high that.
Exercises the conscience so that the soul that has allowed the flesh the soul that has.
Gone out after something that's in this world and we have three enemies we have.
Flesh will save them.
And we have three that are forests, the Father in contrast with the world, the Spirit in contrast with the flesh, and Christ.
In contrast with.
Now let's look quickly at the teaching of numbers 19.
Verse 2 This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring the red heifer without spot. Now this was a sin offering. It's not mentioned in Leviticus in any of the offerings, but it was a special sin offering, and it's found right in the center of the Book of Numbers, which is the book given the wilderness earnings of the children of Israel.
The wilderness journeys. It's interesting that everyone of the first four books of Moses, I think of the first floor especially, has a central theme, you might say a central chapter. And each one of those central chapters speaks of the work of Christ. Genesis 22 speaks of the Father sacrificing his son Isaac, the work of Christ the Lord Jesus as the Son of the Father going to the cross.
To bear our sins. Exodus 12, you might say, is the central chapter, the book of Exodus.
You have the password reliable, the precious bloody **** to shelter the people of God from the judgment of the destroying Angel and will you have the basis for their redemption out of Egypt. And then he gets the center chapter is Leviticus 16, where you have a great day of the tongue, that which speaks of the work of Christ to to establish and maintain the people of God as his people. And then Numbers 19 is the central chapter in the book of Numbers, which is the wilderness book, the people of God.
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As a redeemed people going through a wilderness, that's what the world is to us where there is no water for us. And so this is that was a female offer animal and I believe it's.
I believe the reason it is that way. At least this is the thought I have.
Is that this brings out especially the affections of Christ and the desire of His heart to have us in fellowship with Himself. And here is a sacrifice that is the basis for restoring communion once that communion has been interrupted by sin.
Well, it says that red heifer was without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke.
This recent course of Christ, He was the one who was without spot. He was the one that had no defect. There was no blemish in him and He.
He was the one that never knew the yoke of sin. He could say to the Jews, Which of you convinced me of sin?
So we have this, this offering, this sacrifice, a picture of the Lord Jesus.
Shall giver of the Ilias of the priests, that he may bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face. And Eliezer the priest shall take up her blood with his finger, and sprinkle of her blood directly. Now notice where the blood is sprinkled.
The blood is sprinkled here, not on the altar, not at the bottom of the altar and other places where the blood was sprinkled, but here it's directly before the Tabernacle of the congregation, 7 Times Now. What is the significance of that? You'll turn back to Exodus 29.
I believe you'll see that that was a place that spoke of communion.
And that's the whole point of numbers 19. It is.
This ordinance of the red heifer is the provision God has made to restore into communion once, and has been interrupted. Numbers. Excuse me. Exodus 2942. This shall be a continual very offering throughout your generations, at the door of the Tabernacle of the congregation before the Lord, where I will meet you to speak there unto thee.
Now notice them there, right?
The error at the door of the Tabernacle of the congregation there I will meet with the children of Israel, and the tabernacles shall be sanctified by my glory. That's when his blood was sprinkled. If you go back to.
Numbers 19, verse four, it was to sprinkle her blood directly before the Tabernacle of the congregation 7 times. So there was a 7th testimony, so to speak. It's a number of perfection, that is.
Place where the Lord was to meet with the children of Israel.
Was the place where the blood was sprinkled 7 times. That is, they had a perfect testimony that they had titled to fellowship with Jehovah at that place. And that's what the precious blood speaks of. It's that which gives us title to communion. We could never, never, never speak of having fellowship with the Lord if we weren't sheltered by the precious blood of Christ, if we weren't cleansed by the precious blood of Christ, if the place where God was to meet the people.
Didn't have the testimony of the blood. Well, it was Frenkel 7 times.
Directly before the Tabernacle of the congregation.
And one shall burn the heifer in his sight, Her skin and her flesh and her blunt with her dumb shall he burn.
There you see the whole sin offering, which is what the red heifer was consumed.
In the flames of the fire, and as we see this aspect of the work of Christ.
The sin offering of course, presents the Lord Jesus bearing our sins and having to paying the penalty for our sins on the cross. And here you see the flames of the altar consuming.
The the the offering.
One show burning the hacker inside her skin and her flesh and her blood with her tongue shall be forever. Well, I see my sins all gone in the death of Christ. I see that they've all been paid for that, everything that I have ever done.
Which was contrary to the will of God, in which has displeased him, has been borne by the Lord Jesus as my sin offering on the cross.
So I see my sins consumed with the cross.
In the flames that consume that sin offering, I see that all my sins laid upon him.
And when that sin offering was consumed, my sins were consumed with God as far as the east is from the West, so far as he removed our transgressions from precious thing to get a hold of that our sins are gone, consumed in the death of Christ, in the judgment which fell upon him. But there's far more. Verse 6 says, and the priest shall take sealwood and hyssop and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the hammer. Not only do I see my sins.
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At the cross but whatever the cedar wood and the hyssop and the scarlet speak of, I see that consumed in the in the cross of Christ and what does it speak of? The cedar wood, the hyssop and the scarlet turn to 1St Kings chapter 4 and going rather rapidly because.
I do want to get through this chapter and.
A good amount of time on the.
Interesting question. First Kings 4 verse 29 and.
God gave Solomon and wisdom and understanding exceeding much.
The largeness of hardening the sadness on the seashore and Solomons wisdom excel the wisdom of all the children of the E country, and all the wisdom of Egypt, where he was wiser than all men. And Ethan, Ezra, Height and Heman, and Calcol and daughter of the sons of Mahal. And his fame was in all nations round about him. And he spent 3000 Proverbs and his songs were 1005 I notice. And he stayed of trees from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon, even under the official spirit out of the wall.
It's a lot of the east of the farm of Creek and fishes. And they came of all people that hear the wisdom of Solomon from all kings of the earth which had heard of his wisdom. So here when he spoke of of the trees, when he spoke of nature, he spoke of all of the trees from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon under the little lowly hyssop that springs out of the wall. And here's the wisdom of Solomon. What does it speak of? That was the cedar wood and the hyssop that was cast into the midst of the burning of the heifer.
Now I'm not going to turn to it, but in First Corinthians one, the pastor is within the death of Christ, we see that God has set aside.
And condemn all our wisdom of this world. And I believe that's what's spoken of and that's what's referred to in the cedar wood and the hyssop. Here you have all Solomon's wisdom, and it's summed up as as all his wisdom as he spoke from the cedar tree to the lowly hyssop. It includes all the wisdom of this world.
And then it speaks of the scarlet as well. And we know we don't have to turn the scriptures on that. I'm sure you're all familiar with scriptures that speak of scarlet as the glory of this world. They arrive, the Lord Jesus in scarlet.
And they marked him.
They gave them a purple robe in John I believe, and in the Synoptic Gospels it was scarlet, and it speaks of him as the king of Israel. And so here you have in type.
You have in the burning of the heifer our sins consumed. Thrown in them with that was the cedar wood and the hyssop. All the wisdom of this world has been judged in the death of Christ, and then the scarlet. All the glory of this world has been judged in the death of Christ. Now what is it that defiles us as Christians? What is it that renders us unfit and unsuitable for communion and fellowship with the Lord in His new position on high, as we see him in John 13?
As the risen, glorified man at the right hand of God, it's going out after the things of this world.
It's being enamored by and defiled by the things of this world. That's what defiles us. That's what renders us unfavorable chameleon, and it renders us insensible to what is due to the Lord.
And the Lord sometimes has to speak very strongly to us, to bring us to Himself, and to bring us back. But the whole point of these verses is that He loves us with an everlasting love. It says in John 13.
Having loved his own, which were in the world, he loved them.
To the end.
And so his work on high, having loved us even to death, and that the death of the cross, he now takes up a new work in the glory as our advocate with the Father to keep us well. The priesthood is to maintenance and chameleon, and if the communion has been interrupted by sin, the advocacy needs to restore us into fellowship with himself. Well, here we see.
Our sins consumed in the death of Christ. As I look at the cross, I see not only the judgment of God against my sins executed, but I see the judgment of God against the world executed. All the glory of this world, all the wisdom of this world, all that is attractive out there in this world system.
And I have a nature and you have a nature, everyone of us which is attracted by these things. It's the old nature, it's the nature which was condemned at the cross.
Condemned with the cross, and if I allow it, I have sinned against the grace that has made me guess, and he wants me.
To be in fellowship with yourself. And so he's made this wonderful provision. Well, let's go on. There's so much more in this chapter. Verse 7 says then the priest shall wash his clothes and he shall bathe his flesh and water and afterward he shall come into the camp and appreciate the unclean until the evening and the.
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Burneth her flesh.
Burberry shall wash his clothes in water and bathe his flesh in water shall be unclean until the even.
Man that is clean shall gather. I was by nature has come under the judgment of God.
At the cross, that's what's in the ashes.
Well, that's what it says in verse 17. And for an ugly person, they shall take of the ashes of their purification for sin.
And running water shall be put thereto in a vessel. A running, I believe, speaks of the Spirit of God.
You have water in Scripture in two ways. You have it as Stillwater. There I believe it speaks of the word of God.
Where would all show young men cleanse his way? By taking heed thereto, according to thy word. But when you get the running water, the living water is the Spirit of God, the Spirit of God. Now the ashes of the heifer were mixed with running water. How does God restart us?
If we fail, if we sin, if we have allowed the flesh, he uses.
The Spirit of God takes thee with members of the sacrifice of Christ and the sufferings of Christ which you have in the ashes.
And that all the glory of this word and all the wisdom of this word, and all that is in this work has been.
Judged in the death of Christ, that's what I've allowed, if I've allowed the flesh to have.
And he applies that to my conscience, to your conscience.
And the Spirit of God uses that to bring to our remembrance that the Lord Jesus suffered.
The infinite sufferings of the Cross to put away the very sin which we've indulged in.
And allowed the sin which comes from this world system. And that's how God restores us.
Well, let's read up.
So I think verse 9. And a man that is clean should gather up the ashes of the heifer, laid them off without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of separation. It is a purification for sin.
And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even, And it shall be under the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them for a statute forever.
Now how does 1 become unclean?
Verse 11 He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean. 7 days you'll notice that those that gathered the ashes and those that.
Or the heifer. We're only unclean for one day.
That is having to do with.
Even the restoring of an erring brother or sister.
Is defiling because we have to bring before them.
The sin that they didn't.
And we have a nature that can respond to it ourselves. So let's define to us but here the one that had actually touched death.
Was unclean for seven days, and where was the person put?
Well, if you turn back quickly the numbers 5.
I just read 2 verses.
Verse 2.
Says command the children they put out of the camp. Every leopard now that's what I think is 13 and 14.
And everyone that has an issue, that's Leviticus 15.
And whosoever is defiled by the dead.
Where was that person put?
19 He was put outside the camp, where it was. Well, whose company was he in? He was in the company of the lepers.
Another one that had a running issue.
You might say, well, I don't think that just touching a good body is very serious sense.
And I proceed.
No one's going to say that it is.
What was going to say that the Parliament, by association with the things of the world, is as serious as what leprosy thesis?
But we're all free, the electorate, the one with the running issue.
Who touched his body? They're all put outside the.
They weren't fit for the fellowship of the camp.
It's not a question of what's the most serious of the evils, but not ever since there are there are things which that would speak of which is a settled disposition of the person.
The running issue might be some uncleanness that flows out of the person, such as fits of anger and rage. The person might not be able to control his temper. Christian might fly off the handle and say things that he doesn't need. Could be a running issue. The uncleanness from within for me now.
It could be that he has determined.
A course of evil, and he's going to follow it.
No one's going to change his mind. That's leprosy. That is, he has a subtle disposition of his solo.
Is to go on with something which is country.
And he knows it to the will of God. Well, that's far worse.
Far worse than just a man losing his temper and flying into a rage for retirement and being very sorry about it. It might be the right idea. I'm just giving you examples. And what about the one that just has fellowship with with self images? He looks at something that is.
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Dream he looks at he hears something that isn't.
You might listen to a joke that we should turn away from. He might. He might be defiled. He might even hear something that he's not.
Able to avoid and his defilement.
And he has to have his feet and blessed Lord's hands that be washed of that.
He needed the water separation fly through his soul. We need that. We need better.
Close accounts of the Lord. Well, now let's read this more carefully.
Says in verse 12 he said goodbye himself with it. That's a lot of purification, the ashes mixed with the running water.
On the third day and then on the 7th day he shall be clean, but if he purify not himself the third day, then the 7th day he shall not be clean.
It says in verse 19.
And the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day, and on the 7th day, and on the 7th day he should purify himself, and wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean either.
But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he hath defiled.
The sanctuary of the Lord, the water of separation has not been sprinkled upon him. He is ugly.
Solemn position to be in. God has made the Israelites here in the wilderness. He made every permission.
If one has contacted a dead body, death in one of the various forms and we'll again in a few moments.
Very constructive and how we we get unclean, but I touched that I know it. I love it clean for seven days.
But what if I neglect?
The sprinkling of the water purification on the third day and then finally on the 7th day if I don't.
Have it applied on the third day, whatever that speaks of typically.
I can't be clean on the 7th day.
Well, what is the third day application of the water of purification and the 7th day application speak of?
I believe.
And you notice it's not until the third day. I believe you get a picture of it in the failure of Peter.
The Lord told Peter he would deny him.
Peter says no one.
He says I love you too much, Laura.
And we know what happened. We know that Peter failed. He denied the Lord.
And it says the cut crew.
And it says in Luke, the Lord turned and he looked at Peter.
And that look.
That look met the eye of Peter.
And it says Peter remembered the word.
And then when he stopped around, he went out and he wept bitterly.
I believe that's the third day application.
That is sin in the presence of grace.
Peter.
Had sinned against the grace that had made him.
Dolores, he said he wouldn't. He was self confident. He meant it.
He was sincere, but he failed.
And so.
It takes a while after we've failed.
Doesn't mean it has to take a long time. It could be almost immediately. With Peter it was very soon.
When it says in another gospel, Peter.
Thought of the word of the Lord.
But I think it's in Luke that the Lord's gaze caught Peters.
And he looked at him.
And when he fought around, he wept.
Now when we realize that we've sinned.
When I realized that I've allowed the flesh.
I have gone out after the world.
That defiling scene through which I'm passing.
I've listened to the to the tempters voice.
And indulge the flesh. And there's so many ways I can do that.
It may take a while.
After I've done that before, the Spirit of God applies the water of separation to my soul.
When he does that, he brings home to my conscience that the very sin which I have indulged in.
The very thing that I've gone out after in this world.
To satisfy the flesh.
Is the very thing that Christ suffered for on the cross.
His suffering he suffered to deliver me from the world.
Wisdom, all its glory, all its attractions, all its allurements.
And that's the application of that of those ashes.
Applied by the running water the Spirit of God bring home to my conscience and to your conscience.
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The sin of entertaining the flesh.
The world.
Well, that's what we're really doing when we go out after these things that are out there in the work.
That's the third day application.
But what if Peter had just remained?
Under the.
Oh my Jesus, I do like you.
I denied you.
And what if he just remained under the sense of that?
And he was fully.
Repented, and he abhorred himself.
For what he'd done.
But that has done good for him to remain from then on out in that state.
7th day And there you have grace in the presence of sin.
And I believe that our system of the Lord Jesus fellas from the dead.
It says he appeared.
And all that appearance that was, what a meeting that was. It's something like the Lord saying to Peter, Peter, you remained long enough. Now under the sense that your failure is thoroughly judged yourself, you before of yourself are what you've done.
And I want you to dwell anymore upon your sin, Peter. I want you to dwell upon the grace that's put it away.
I want you to come out from under the self judgment that you've been exercising, which is also necessary. Third day sprinkling is absolutely essential and if they didn't, if the water isn't sprinkling, soil is not clean.
If there hasn't been judgment in your heart, in my heart of what I've allowed and gone out after, and I've indulged the flesh after the things of the world.
There can be no cleansing, there can be no restoration to fellowship, to communion.
But he doesn't want us to remain under the sense that we're nothing but heavier. Sometimes you meet a Christian and they're just always that they're always down because they, they say I'm so unworthy and I'm, I fail so much and they're, they're occupied. They're judging it well in life. Don't remain in there. There's the 7th day application. The Lord says, I want you to be happy. I want your fellowship. As long as you're abiding under the sense of your sin, you can't have fellowship with me. So there has to be another indication of the water. And that's how I'm doing today.
Raise your presence, he said. So let him, he said. Now I want you to think about your sin any longer. It's been put away. I want you to enjoy the sunshine of my love and grace. That's fellowship. That's fine.
And that's what you get on the 7th day. Experiment. Well, we have enough time.
For looking at how to get this out.
Verse 13 is a very solid verse. I don't want the dead body of any man that is dead and can't lie, not himself. That is, he neglects the provision that.
God has made whether it was an Israelite then or whether it is a Christian today, He neglects to your faith and being washed so that I have part with him and we might have fellowship with him, faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from our unrighteousness, to bring this Bible to communion.
He doesn't care about yourself. He cut off from Israel because the water is separation was not specified by him.
You know, I can say this just to deliver us from hell.
He say this one of our fellowship.
I think of Joseph's words to his Brice.
Joseph said come near to me.
Come near to me.
That's what he wants. He wants us near to him.
He wants us to be walking as well.
That's why you say this, that he might share his heart of love with us. All right, now look at verse 14. This is the law. When a man dies in a tent, What is the tent? Well, that's where they lived.
They were going through the wilderness. They didn't have houses.
Brick and stone and mortar. They have tents and they were passing through wilderness. That's where they live now. Here's death in the tent. A man died in the tent. What happens? It says all that come into the tent.
And always in the tent shall be unclean. 7 days. Now here you have the violent in the tent, death in the tent in our homes. Well, is there death in the tent?
Is there a gas in the tent?
Lord has to search our hearts, everyone of us. Have we brought the world into the tent?
Is the world in the?
The world is defining. That's how we get to file.
Is that exactly the tent? It says all that come into the tent.
And all that is in the tent shall be unclean. 7 days.
And every open vessel.
Which hath no covering bound to find is unclean. Why does it say that?
And then he had said everything that's in the tent is unclean.
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Why does it single out the open vessel?
I believe the open vessel is our children.
They're taking everything.
Everything that we see them.
Everything that they're susceptible to.
Everything that we bring into the tent, especially for the world.
The Christian home ought to be.
Sanctuary.
Be a place where we retire from the world will almost children come across?
And if there is death in the tent?
The open vessel.
Open vessel especially is mentioned.
Being unclear how song.
Well, I essentially fight a girl to his telephone.
And that's a constant exercise with me, as I heard of the house with every Christian father.
They want every Christian mother. We ought to look right up to our parents.
Death. Death is not in the text.
That will be allowed.
Is not the defilement of the world.
Because everything in that effect.
Is unclean and especially illustr.
I want to cover my open vessels. I want to shield them, I want to protect them.
But I see all this world of wisdom.
All his glory, all his Kingdom, and all his attractiveness.
And soon in the death of Christ.
I don't want to bring that into my home.
Especially if they're open vessels there.
Or there's other ways of being defiled, Verse 16 says.
Whosoever touches one that is slain with the sword in the open fields, now you're not in the home anymore, you're out in the open fields.
The world out in the open fields, and what is 1 slain with the soreness violence.
One that was killed with the sword is violence.
And there's plenty of violence in this world.
We meet with it at work.
You meet with it at school children.
Immediately at school.
We meet with it in the world by.
Or a dead body.
But here's a body that has just died. We don't know why it died. It doesn't say it died because it was slain by the soil with your parents, but it's just a dead body.
Someone died out there and the person was walking through the woods.
Meets with his dead body and he touches it.
Well, what is that speaker correction?
A lot of corrupting principles in the world.
You know you can cheat on a test at school.
You can.
You can follow an ethical business practices.
You can do things that are down at the level of the world corrupting principles.
And the world is filled with these things.
Another thing that can define.
These are things out the open field, out in the world, not that the tent now, not the Christian home, but but out there where we go out and meet with.
Businessmen, whatever it might be.
And then it says her own man.
Look at Job 20.
Joke 20 now.
You might have another thought, someone might have another thought on this, but I'm going to submit this thought as what a bone of a man might speak of.
In June 20, there's a verse.
These bottoms are hollow of the city, of this youth.
Put your life down leaving the house.
Not a margin.
In the new translation.
Says his bones are full of his secret sins.
Well.
I'm going to make this application.
That the bone of the man.
You don't see any of my bones. They're all covered with skin, flesh, muscles. Bones are concealed.
So.
I think that maybe the bone of a man is you're going through the there's an Israelite done today, but this one.
Just there corruption.
All languages.
Which is impulsive about that dead body is gone, but the bone of the man is enough to defile 1.
Well, is there a space that I think, you know, sometimes children, especially children, you think, well, if you don't do something but you just got an evil father, that's sacrifice.
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You know, we have that thought that if we just think it, but we don't do it, we're really not defiled by it, but we are.
But we are our very thoughts if we.
Engage the will.
In an evil thought.
And have a secret sin that no one knows anything else about, just us and the Lord that's.
They need a water purification.
To us that we might be restored in the community.
So and the last thing.
Or grave.
A grave shall be unclean 7 days.
What the great speaker turned to Luke 11 and we'll have to close. Time has run out.
Agree.
Verse 43.
Wall up to you Pharisees, for ye love the uppermost seats in the synagogues.
And greetings in the markets. Here's a Pharisee. He's pronouncing woes upon these Pharisees.
And verse 44 he was dragged in Pharisees cuppa cruise.
For ERS graves which appear.
Walk over them, are not aware of them.
I believe.
OK, walking out in the warehouse you can meet with whales with flashing.
Secret saves I will not worry about giving the Lord. Or you can walk over a grave, just passing over a grave as a man very there and you're not even aware of it.
File by it because there's definitely there. There's the file there.
And I believe that for those gathered to the Lord's name.
That we are.
Where? Well, it's true of every Christian, but especially I would apply it to those gathered to the Lord's name. We are probably less on our guard.
When we are in company with religious people.
Those that profess to believe in the Lord and those that.
Seem to have a nice Christian testimony and walk or whatever it might be religion in one form or another. Well, these Pharisees, they were externally the most righteous of all the Jews.
And they were very proud of their self righteousness. But religious hypocrisy?
Religious defilement.
Is a very subtle form of defilement.
And he had to be very careful.
As we recognize it as being defined.
I'm not saying we're not to have fellowship with other Christians. No misunderstanding. I'm not saying that.
But I'm saying that there are those out there that call themselves Christians.
That may not be true to the Lord and that the 1913 Parliament.
Have anything to do with them or having any fellowship with them?
In fact, in second John.
John tells this elect lady and her children that if anyone come on.
You bring up the doctrine of Paris to see you.
Him not into your house, neither greet him nor he did.
So.
All these different kinds of defiant and religious is probably one of the most serious kinds there is.
Because we're not even aware of it.
This man has walked over that grave, wasn't even aware of it, and the Lord likens the Pharisees the hypocrites.
Raves with a pure nut and then walking over them.
I'm not aware of that.
This chapter is very rich and full, and it's typical.
Teachings of how we get defiled.
And how we can have them defilement removed?
By the word of grace.
Spirit of God applying water separation. The ashes.
Speak of the death of Christ, his sufferings for us, our sins being put away.
Being judged and dealt with.
And if we allow any of those things in our lives.
We have.
We have become unseen and we need the application.
Of the water and purification. Because he wants our fellowship. How precious.
His desire to have us near to himself and he's made all the provision for us.
Upset to read that if one neglects.
He should be cut.