Address—C. Hendricks
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This was John Step 2.
There's one, my little children, these things right, right unto you, that you sin not.
And if any man's sin, we have an advocate with the Father.
Jesus Christ the Righteous.
And here is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also.
For the sins of the whole world.
And then a verse in the 1St chapter of first John.
Verse 9.
If we confess our sins.
He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins.
And to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Then a verse in Luke 22.
Some verses.
Verse 31.
Luke 2231 and the Lord said Simon. Simon.
Behold, Satan hath desired to have you.
That he may sift you as wheat.
But I have prayed for thee that thy faith fail not.
And when thou art converted, strengthen.
Thy brethren.
And he said unto him, Lord, I am ready to go with thee, both into prison and to death.
And he said, I tell thee, Peter, the **** shall not crow this day.
Before that thou shalt thrice deny.
That thou knowest me.
And then later in the chapter.
Verse 60.
And Peter said man.
I know not what thou sayest.
And immediately, while he yet spake.
The cock crew.
And the Lord turned.
And looked upon Peter.
And Peter remembered the word of the Lord.
How he had said unto him before the **** crow.
Thou shalt deny me thrice.
And Peter went out.
And wept.
Bitterly.
And then in the 24th chapter of Luke.
Verse 33.
And they rose up the same hour and returned to Jerusalem.
And found the 11 gathered together, and them that were with them, saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon.
And a verse in one Corinthians 15.
Verse 3.
For I delivered unto you, first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures.
And that he was buried. And that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures.
And that he was seen of Cephas.
There's one other passage that I'll just refer to. I won't read it. I know it's familiar to all of us.
And that's John 13.
Now what I'd like to talk about tonight.
Is called in the New Testament the advocacy of Christ.
That work of Christ which he's carrying on at the right hand of God to restore.
US who?
Get out of fellowship with himself by allowing the world.
The flesh in one of its many forms.
And I've read these verses about Peter.
Because we'll be referring to them as we go through the 19th chapter.
Of numbers, please turn with me.
Numbers, Chapter 19.
Before I read this chapter, I wanted to read those passages.
In the New Testament.
Which answer to what we have here in the Old Testament?
Numbers is the wilderness book.
And each one of the first four books of Moses.
We have a, you might say, a central chapter.
In the book of Genesis, the central chapter is the 22nd chapter, where you have the Father.
Abraham offering his son Isaac on the altar and it's a picture of the death.
And resurrection of Christ.
In Exodus, the central chapter, you might say the central theme of that chapter, which is the book of redemption, is the 12TH chapter where you have the Passover lamb and other beautiful picture of the death of Christ and the precious blood which shelters us from the judgment of God.
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In Leviticus, the central chapter is the 16th chapter where you have the Day of Atonement.
And there you have the blood carried in by the High Priest once a year into the Holy of Holies, sprinkled 7 times before the mercy seat and one time upon it, as the basis for God maintaining the relationship of Himself with His people. How could God, a holy God, dwell in the midst of a sinful people? Well, it's only through the work of Christ.
The propitiatory work of Christ.
That's the central chapter in Leviticus. And then in Numbers we have a central chapter which again speaks of the death of Christ and it's the ordinance of the red heifer. And that's what we're going to read tonight. It's the wilderness book and the the theme that we have before us here.
Is here was a sin offering the red heifer. It's not mentioned in Leviticus when the sin offerings are mentioned.
It's here in this chapter, set right in the midst of this wilderness book, and it's the provision of God for restoring to communion those that had gotten out of fellowship by contact with death in one form or another in this world. Death, a picture of sin for the wages of sin, is death. So the outworking of sin.
Results in death and contact.
By an Israelite as they walk through the wilderness with death in one form or another. Is a picture of what happens to the Christian in this day when we dabble with the world, a scene of death, and we become defiled and we lose fellowship. And God has made beautiful provision for restoring us into fellowship with himself, and it's all here.
So here in this central chapter of Numbers we have God's provision in the wilderness when an Israelite became defiled and had to be put outside the camp for restoring that soul and putting him back in his place in the camp, in the assembly, and that God has made full provision. What answers to it in the New Testament is the feet washing of the Lord Jesus.
How he would remove the defilements of this scene that we might have part with him?
As the man in the glory carrying on his advocacy with the Father to bring us back into fellowship. And to me that's such a precious thought that the Lord of glory himself desires your fellowship and mine, and he's made full provision that we might be kept in fellowship and if we allow that which.
Breaks the communion. There is full provision made.
To restore us now, with all that is introductory, let's read numbers 19.
And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke.
And ye shall give her unto Eliezer the priest, that he may bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face.
And Eliezer the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle of her blood directly.
Before the Tabernacle of the congregation 7 times, and one shall burn the heifer in his sight, her skin and her flesh and her blood, with her Dong shall he burn.
And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.
Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh and water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priests shall be unclean until the even.
And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.
And a man who 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 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.
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Unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them for a statute forever. He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean. 7 days. He shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on the 7th day he should be clean. But if he purify not himself the third day, then the 7th day he shall not be clean.
Whosoever catcheth the 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 from Israel. Because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him. He shall be unclean. His uncleanness is yet upon him. This is the law. When a man dieth in a tent, 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 upon it is unclean.
And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with the sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean 7 days. And for an unclean person they shall take of the ashes of the bird heifer of purification. For sin. And running water shall be put thereto in a vessel, And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the.
That were there and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave.
And the clean 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 cleaned even.
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 hath not been sprinkled upon him. He is unclean, and it shall be a perpetual statute unto them that he that sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his clothes.
And he that toucheth the water of separation shall be unclean until even.
And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean, and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean, until even.
I believe we could write over this chapter.
That association with evil defiles.
Just the just the contact with death was defiling and rendered 1 unclean. Even those that had to do with the cleansing of the defiled one were unclean until the even.
Turn back with me to the 5th chapter of Numbers for a verse or two.
Verse 2.
Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp.
Every.
Now that's Leviticus 13 and 14.
The chapters on leprosy.
And everyone that hath an issue.
That's Leviticus 15.
And whosoever is defiled by the dead, that's numbers 19.
So the man who is defiled by the dead finds himself outside the camp with the leper and with the man with the running issue.
You might say, well, I think it's far more serious. Leprosy is far more serious than just.
The man that's defiled by contact with death. And I fully agree with that.
Because the man with leprosy that represents a deep seated constitutional bent in the person.
Yeah, he is leprous before God.
And then the one with the running issue, something from within the uncleanness of the flesh coming out.
But they're all free classes outside the camp.
The one.
That was defiled by the dead in Leviticus in Numbers 19.
Was outside the camp for seven days. Says in verse 3 here of Numbers 5, both male and female shall ye put out without the cap? Shall ye put them?
That they defile, not their camps in the midst.
Whereof I dwell.
Now going back to numbers 19.
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He has the wonderful provision of God for defilement contracted in the wilderness.
It may be totally unawares.
A man may be walking in the wilderness, and he may stumble over a.
Dead carcass or a dead body?
And.
I shouldn't say carcass, I should say body because it's the, it's the death of the, it's the contact with a man, dead man.
That is defiling here.
And he may not even be aware that he's defiled. He may not even be aware he may have walked over a grave.
He may not even be aware of it, but all of these things have a meaning.
And with the Lord's help, we look at them.
So let's go through the chapter verse 2, Numbers 19.
This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord hath commanded, saying.
Speak under the children of Israel that they bring the red heifer. Now that was a female.
Without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke.
Why a female? Well, I would suggest that because.
It brings before us the affections of Christ.
The Haddish people who are redeemed in fellowship with himself.
So it's a provision of God.
To restore us when that communion has been interrupted by.
Are are getting out of communion with himself by contact with death, by allowing the flesh, by entertaining the world.
In one of its many forms, as we are so apartment to do, we're going through a defiling scene, just like Israel walking through a wilderness where death was lying around them.
They could easily have.
Gotten in touch with it in one form or another, and they were thus defiled.
We're going through a world which is a scene of death.
There's no water here.
The Lord has made us, some of us, very keenly to feel the true wilderness character of things down here of late.
This is a dry and thirsty land where no water is. There's nothing to feed the Newman here.
And it's all a scene of defilement and the measure in which we entertain these things in our lives.
Is the measure in which we render ourselves really unfit for fellowship?
But he's made beautiful provision for us. He desires your fellowship and mine.
And this is such a precious thought to my own soul.
That He, the Lord of glory, He didn't just come down here to save us from an eternal hell, but He came down here that once He saved us, we might walk hand in hand.
With himself in sweet communion.
And the scene through which we're passing.
He so little realize it. I speak to my own conscience and heart. We so little realize how we are affected by the very atmosphere of things that exist around us down here.
Everything that we have to do with as we walk through this scene puts the world into our hearts and robs it of that part that He wants us to have with Himself as the man in the glory.
This red heifer had to be without spot because it pictures Christ.
There is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke. He never had the yoke of sin. He was that holy One of God, that one without blemish and without spot.
He's the one that answered to what we have here.
With all the affections of his heart.
To restore us if something's come in.
If clouds, as we were just singing, have dimmed our sight.
And I'm so glad that the brother that wrote that him and we, I think you know who it was.
The one who wrote it. No infants changing pleasure is like my wandering mind. Oh, I'm so glad for that hymn.
Because that's the way I find my heart.
And I need to be restored.
And you do, I'm sure.
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And God has made provision for it.
Verse 3 And you shall give her unto Eliezer the priest, that he may bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face.
And Eliezer the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle of her blood directly before the Tabernacle of the congregation.
Seven times.
It's very important that the place here where the blood was sprinkled.
Is the place of communion, because that's the whole subject in Numbers 19. Turn back with me to Exodus 29.
Exodus 29.
Verse 42.
This shall be a continual burnt 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.
And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and the Tabernacle shall be sanctified by my glory. There I will meet with the children of Israel. Well, that's the very place where the blood here from the red heifer was sprinkled 7 times.
Again, verse 4 of chapter 19, sprinkle of her blood directly before the Tabernacle of the congregation 7 times. It's the place of communion. And the seven full sprinkling shows that we have a perfect title to stand to, to have fellowship with himself.
The ground of communion is the precious blood of Christ. A perfect title to be there in the place where the Lord says that He will meet with his people.
And one shall burn the heifer in his sight, Her skin and her flesh and her blood with her dung shall he burn.
And as I look upon the burning of that heifer, I see that sin offering with all my sins laid upon it.
And I see it now being consumed by the flames of God's holy judgment against sin.
And as I see that heifer consumed, I see all my sins consumed in the death of Christ, and they're gone. Wonderful truth, that in the death of Christ, that which would keep me from communion with God for all eternity has been consumed and reduced to ashes.
But there's something else that was consumed in the burning of the heifer, verse 6.
And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.
What is the cedar wood and the hyssop and the scarlet speak of?
Turn with me to 1St Kings 4 and I believe we have a passage there that will help us.
First Kings chapter 4.
Verse 29.
And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding, exceeding much in largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the seashore.
And Solomons wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the E country.
And all the wisdom of Egypt, For he was wiser than all men, than Ethan the Ezra Height, and Heman, and Calcol, and Darda the sons of Mahal. And his fame was in all nations round about. And he spake 3000 Proverbs. And his songs were 1005. Now notice this next verse. And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon, even unto the Hyssop.
That springeth out of the wall.
He spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes, and so on.
The Wisdom of Solomon, and when it describes the range of all that he spoke.
In nature, it says, he spake of trees, from the stately cedar, the most majestic of trees in God's creation, to the lowly hyssop that springs out of the wall.
All the wisdom of this world.
All the wisdom of man, represented here by the.
His sip the cedar wood and the hyssop, and then the scarlet, representing all the glory of this world, all the majesty of this world.
As I see that red heifer consumed by the flames, I see all my sins which have been charged upon it. For it was a sin offering reduced to ashes in the death of Christ. But I see more. I see all the glory of this world, and all the wisdom of this world brought to naughty in the death of Christ.
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And so Paul says to the Corinthian Saints, For after that, in the wisdom of God, it pleased God by the foolishness of the preaching to save them that believe.
The wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.
When the world by wisdom knew not God.
It pleased God by the foolishness of the preaching to save them that believe.
All the wisdom of this world, which centers in the first man.
And which exalts and magnifies the first man.
Man's philosophy and wisdom centers around that man.
And the infinite distance and difference between all the philosophy of men.
And Christianity is the philosophy of men revolves around and centers in the first man. Christianity sets that man aside and exalts and magnifies Christ.
The second man and the last Adam.
So as we look at the burning of the heifer, we see our sins consumed, we see the world judged. And Paul could say to the Galatians, God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world, and by which the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world, I see the judgment pronounced upon all that is of this world.
What folly then, What folly for us to go to the world for wisdom?
What folly, then, for us to draw upon the world's resources for the wisdom that is to govern us in our pathway through this world. It's a path which the.
The vulture's eye hasn't seen.
It's a path which.
Unseen by the natural eye, even the keenest eye.
It's only the path of faith.
That can proceed. It's only the eye of faith that can perceive that path.
Well, I believe that in the cedar wood, the hyssop and the scarlet, we see all the wisdom and all the glory and all the majesty of this world reduced to ashes in the death of Christ. We lose our sins, but we're delivered from the very scene through which we're passing. It's a judged scene now.
And that's wonderful to see that.
Now I think of that poem.
And yet outside the camp.
It was there my Savior died. It was the world that cast him forth and saw him crucified.
Can I take part with those that nailed him to the tree?
And where his name is never praised, Is there the place for me? Nay, world, I turn away, though thou seem fair and good.
That friendly outstretched hand of thine is stained with Jesus blood. If in thy least device I stoop to take apart all unawares, thy influence steals God's presence from my heart.
Beautiful words of truth.
And that's what we have here.
That in whatever measure we stoop to take apart in that which is under the judgment of God. And I see that in the death of Christ.
I render myself unfit.
For that sweet fellowship.
That he saved me for.
Verse 7.
Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the even.
And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.
And the man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, now the ashes of the heifer.
Contained the residue of that red heifer reduced to ashes.
The cedar wood, the hyssop, and the scarlet reduced to ashes, so the ashes speak of.
What he suffered.
To put my sins away, what he suffered to deliver me from this present evil world in all its glory and wisdom and majesty. That's what the ashes speak of.
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Says in verse 9 again, a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, lay them up 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.
In order to understand when he speaks of the water of separation there, let's read verse 17.
It says, For an unclean person they shall take of the ashes of the burnt heifer, of purification for sin and running water.
Shall be put there to in the vessel, so the ashes are kept up in a clean place outside the camp, but then when they are to be applied running waters mixed with the ashes and sprinkled upon the one who was unclean.
Sprinkled on the third day and on the 7th day.
Verse 11.
He that touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean. 7 days.
Contact with death for an Israelite.
Rendered him ceremonially unclean and he had to be put outside the camp. 7 days.
He's outside the camp with the leper and with the one with the running issue.
And then it says He shall purify himself with it, that is, with the water of purification and with the ashes of purification on the third day, and on the 7th day he should be clean.
But if you purify not himself the third day, then the 7th day he shall not be clean.
That's peculiarly solemn to my soul.
That God having made full provision for the cleansing of one that contracted defilement in the wilderness, if he neglects.
To use the water purification, if he neglects to avail himself of the cleansing that God is provided for him, that he might be brought back into the camp.
What does it say?
Says he shall not be clean.
And it says verse 20.
Even stronger.
The man that shall be unclean.
And shall not purify himself.
That soul shall be cut off.
From among the congregation.
Because he has defiled the sanctuary of the Lord, the water of separation has not been sprinkled upon him.
He is unclean.
In the most asylum team when we think of how that the Lord Jesus is on high.
As a great high priest.
To maintain it.
In relationship with God and as our advocate to restore us should communion have been interrupted.
Restore us to fellowship with the Father.
Not to avail ourselves of the provision that he's made.
Places are in the most solemn position indeed.
As unclean and defiling the Tabernacle of the Lord.
Oh, how this brings before us the importance of keeping short accounts.
And we read that verse in the 1St chapter, the ninth verse of First John. If we confess our sin, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
That's the way back. That's the way to cleanse him.
But then there is these cheap sprinklings.
Those 17.
Verse 18. Excuse me.
That a clean person should take hits up and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the trench, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched the bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave.
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 it. Even so there are these two sprinklings.
You might say it's very easy to get out of communion.
That we have on these two sprinklings, the third day sprinkling and the 7th day sprinkling.
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The way back.
The third day sprinkling brings before us self judgment.
Remember I read that passage in Luke 22.
So the Lord turned, and he looked at Peter.
And Peter saw that look.
The Lord had said, Peter, you are going to deny me Christ before the Costco.
And Peter denied that, he said. I won't deny you.
Very good.
He said he changed.
He went forward in the self-confidence of the flanks and found out how weak it was.
And the Lord turned, and he looked at Peter, and I believe that answers to the third day sprinkling.
He brought that look.
Of the blessed Lord Jesus brought home the Peters conscience.
The sin which he had committed that he said he would never commit. And I've talked to young men.
They fallen into spin at one time to another.
And they said to me, I, I, I never thought I would do such a thing.
I always said I would never do such a thing.
Well, they did it.
He said he would never do such a thing, but he did it.
Does that mean he's hopeless?
No, the Lord looked at Peter and he remembered the word of the Lord. There was the Spirit of God pictured the running water applying the sufferings of Christ and all that He underwent to put away the very sin which I may have allowed in my life. That breaks the communion, doesn't break the relationship, never can, but it breaks the fellowship, and He wants that so much.
The Lord looked at Peter and that looked restored. That looked brought him into self judgment and says He says when he fought Iran he went out and he wept literally.
When one is under discipline.
When one is away from the Lord, there has to be the third day sprinkling.
There has to be that self judgment.
Connection with Davidson. We have two songs.
The 32nd Psalm and the 51St Psalm.
I believe the 32nd Psalm answers to the third day sprinkling.
And the 51St.
To the 7th day thinking.
But you know.
I haven't talked about the 7th day sinking.
It says in both.
12 He said, Purify himself with it on the third day, and 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 king.
The 7th day was when he was restored.
Into communion and brought back into his place in the camp.
And.
Brought back into community again.
But that cannot be until there's your third day sprinkling first.
In other words, until there is that thorough self judgment.
Still, in the presence of grace that has put the sin away. That is, I come to the conscious sense in my soul that I sinned against the grace. It has put that sin away. I have allowed the very string that caused my blessed Savior such agony and sufferings on the cross.
Self judgement.
We do no one a service. He has gotten away from the Lord.
By trying to bring them back.
Until thereones banned the third day strengthen.
Until they send the third judgment of the flesh.
Until they've done a thorough self judgment.
Until that person has had that eye contact with the blessed Lord like Simon did, and he went out and as he stopped, go on, he wept digitally.
And this spirit of God got Henry conscience.
They also need.
Of the sin that he had committed.
But then it wouldnonet be good for us to remain. In that case, Ioneve talked to stores that they havenit taken their place at the Lords Table.
And they they are, they satisfy their heads.
And they say I'm not worthy, I'm such a Sinner and they're so occupied with how bad they are, which is a healthy thing to apply.
But to remain there is most damaging and not the thought and mind of God.
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Now there has to be another application of that water purification by the Spirit of God. And the second time we have great.
In the presence of sin.
Places that we are saying in the as as the reason man says he appeared to Simon.
And that look before the Lord went to the sky.
Redmond brought the spin that Peter had committed Henry's conscience and he thought they on, and he wept bitterly. That's the third day sprinkling, he judged himself.
But the Lord didn't leave him now. As soon as he was from the dead, he appeared to sign him.
And all.
You've built long enough now upon your skin, and you've judged it now.
Not at 10. I put it away.
For all that I suffered for you on the cross, now I wanted to enjoy my love.
And that's the 7th day thinking. That's great. In the presence of sin it's good to judge ourselves. And without that there can be no restoration of soul. But to remain there and not to come out of that into the sunshine of his life.
Into the conscious sense of the grace that is not at all, and put it away is to fall short in the show and never restored until that takes place. Not that we have in these two beautiful.
Simply on the 3rd and the 7th day.
But to try to bring one down as though they've gone through the 3rd day sprinkling and they're at the 7th day point before they've really judged themselves.
Is a dreadful mistake and the soul may never get restored.
Until he goes back and clearly judges himself.
Hey.
Now let's talk in the remaining 2 minutes about what it is that defiles us.
In this world.
Is 15 verse 11 he that touches the dead body of any man?
Shall be young teen 7 days.
Then verse 14.
Here we have the details.
This is the.
When a man dies in his tent.
All that come into the tent.
And all that is in the tent shall be unclean. 7 days.
In every open vessel which has no covering bound upon it is unclean.
And whosoever touches one that is slain with the sword in the open field.
Or a dead body.
Or the bone of a man.
They are great for the unclean.
Seven days. You'll notice in verse 16 it's the open field.
The four things you mentioned.
One that's playing with the steroids, one that's just dead out there.
The born of a man and then going over a grave.
Four different forms of death.
But it's out in the open field that speaks to the world.
But in verse 14 and 15, it's the 10th. And what was the 10th? Well, that's where the Israelites dwelt. That was their home. They were going through a wilderness.
They were dwelling in 10.
And what does he say?
This is the law when a man dies in his tent, not his dust in his tent.
All that came into the tent.
In all that is in the tent for the young king, 7 days.
Not next day to have contact here, it's just in the.
The world in one of its many forms, because that's what Jeff is the world is a scene of death has been brought into the tent.
And everyone within the tent is on plane.
Actually put outside the tent.
Just as much as the one that actually cuts the dead body.
Out there in the world as he went through the weather.
Just in the tent and then it says in verse 15 and every open vessel which has no covering bound upon it is untamed. Why is that mentioned?
Why was that singled out? It already said in verse 14 that all that is in the camp is unclean. 7 days. That includes the open justice.
I believe the open vessel is mentioned because it is particularly susceptible to define it. It's an open vessel.
Everything that brings define it into the tent that's exactly defiled the opens up. And what's the open justice?
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I believe it takes children.
They're taking everything.
They were injustice.
No covering bound upon.
Whatever mother and father allow.
They went to the camp.
It affects them all over the defilement of the world. It defiantly them.
Heavy, open death.
We have no covering bound upon it.
Debbie and King.
Changes me to Leviticus 19 for a vote.
This 19.
You can keep my statutes. I should not let my cattle gender with a divorce kind.
Thou should not show thy fields with lingered seed.
Neither sell a diamond mingled of leaning and willing come upon the.
God hate mixtures.
We had in one vote.
Solemn principles of truth.
Thou shalt not show thy spirit with mingled peace.
Christian Parents.
Fathers and mothers.
You have a field.
The precious one.
He is remarking to one just recently. When we leave this world, we don't take anything with us.
But our children?
As he was allergic with it.
The resident of the Dark Hill.
Thou shalt not throw thy field with mingled peace.
Give them Christ.
And then give him the word.
Give them the entertainment.
Give them the attractions of the world.
Hit beyond the Lord Jesus Christ.
And there's no provision for the flesh to fulfill the left thereof.
It is death in the.
Everything in the test is defiled and is closely.
He opened up.
It has no covering.
By and deployment.
Thou shalt not throw thy fields with mingled teeth.
Those of us that have done this.
And I'm guilty.
Have had to pay a price.
May God give us grace.
And help it.
To have that restrainment and that wisdom.
And that moral code?
To say no.
I will not.
Will win the world.
Went to my camp.
And if we've done it?
May God give us grace.
Put it away, I remember.
At $2.00 where I worked for almost 30 years.
When they had on the bulletin board, they had a newspaper clipping. I think it was the 50th anniversary of the advent of radio.
And the newspaper headline, I remember it to this day very vividly said.
Now you can bring the world.
Into your home.
We've gone far beyond that.
Today.
There are defilements today.
That sadly to say.
Had entered the tent.
And this chapter 19 of Numbers.
Says that all that is in the thing.
Shall be unclean 7 days.
Some of these things just Robin of spiritual discernment.
The intoxicant of this world I've preached for years.
In Chicago on Skid Row, and I've dealt with those that are reeling under the effect of alcohol.
I can almost say that I would rather speak to one in that kind of a stupor.
Than one who has been immersed in the.
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Entertainment.
Of modern means of communication.
That has rendered.
Completely taken away their appetite.
Completely taken away their appetite.
For the things.
We cannot.
Play fast and loose with divine principles.
With impunity.
Thou shalt not.
So thye thief.
With mingled feet. Ministerings of the flash 1 moment.
And then expecting our children after they've been.
Engage with something which is nothing but all for the place, and then sit down. We're gonna have the Bible study now, and we're gonna read the scripture.
16 numbers, 19 time is almost run out.
And whosoever touches one that is flame with the sword, that's violent.
Playing with the swords.
In the open field or a dead body.
That corruption.
And this world is filled with violence and corruption.
One might be walking. An Israelite might be walking in the wilderness and stumbled across a dead body and his faith has been killed by another.
Violently put to death.
Might stumble across another body that just died out there and it's turning into corruption.
These are the 2 great principles that characterize the world. Characterize the world before Noah's Flood.
Violence and corruption.
Or a bone of a man.
What would that speak of?
But turn with me to Job 20.
And I'm going to submit this to you.
The thought I've had on it.
The bone of the man.
Now all the flesh has been eaten off by the birds and the animals out there in the field.
But there's just the bone of a man, you might say. Well, that certainly isn't defiling.
Chapter 20, verse 11 of Job.
Talking about the wicked, and it says his bones are full of the sin of his youth.
Which will lie down with him in the dark.
And in the margin of the new translation, this reads.
His bones are full of his secret things.
Which shall lie down with him in the dust. Well, I suggest that the bone of a man might be our secret sin.
You don't see my bones, they're all covered with fingers and flesh.
And muscle fiber and all the bones are concealed.
And we generally don't don't think that our inward thought that with your secret, which only I know and you don't know what I'm thinking and I don't know what you're thinking, that these things don't defile us.
But the word of God says that a man thinketh in his heart. So is he.
So I would suggest that the bone of the man may be those things which.
Only God feeds our fellows don't see them.
They don't know what we're thinking.
If you know our thought life.
Our thought life can render us unfit for fellowship with the Lord.
God knows what our thought might be.
In 2 Corinthians 10, the apostle Paul says bringing captive every thought.
To the obedience of Christ.
Let's watch our thoughts.
But the guy be said once.
I can't stop the birds from flying over my head, but I can keep them from building a nest in my hair.
What did he mean?
He can't. He can't stop the thoughts that that come from time to time. But as long as I don't entertain those thoughts, and as long as my will doesn't actively delight in those sinful thoughts but recognize them for what they are and dismiss them as being the flesh and go on in the power of the Spirit, then I'm not defiled. But as soon as I entertain those thoughts and allow those birds to build a nest in my hair, then the will is engaged and I have sinned and I am.
And I need to have the water purification applied.
And then the last thing he mentions the grave. A grave.
Turn with me to Luke 11 for the grave.
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Luke 11.
Verse 44.
Woe unto you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye are as grave which appear not.
And the men that walk over them are not aware of them.
You could be walking and Israelite could be walking out in that wilderness and go right over a grave and not even realize that he was had passed over the grave. But the scripture says.
In numbers 1916 that to.
Do that rendered 1 unclean.
Seven days.
Just as much as touching a dead body.
Just to walk over the grave. And what is it? It's religious hypocrisy.
The Lord speaks so severely to these religious hypocrites.
The Pharisees.
And with interest, defilement is one of the worst times because we are unaware.
Of being defiled.
By religious system.
We must be ever so careful as we walk through this world that we avoid the grave, which are full of dead man's bones and of all uncleanness, and of those religious systems which would rob us of Christ and set up the first man.
They are defiling.
Just because something has a religious flavor, young people do not think it is safe.
One of the worst requirements is religious defilement.
So you have violent corruption, secret sins, religious defilement, death in the tent our homes.
Or to be a sanctuary, or to be a place where our children can retrieve from the influence of the world.
Ought to be a place where they can breathe pure.
Clear, clean air.
May God give us grace.
To avail ourselves.
Give us that moral power.
To reject and to refuse.
To put out the evil, I was looking recently at the.
And I we don't have time to look at it.
That you can look at it the last chapters of Ezra, whether returned remnant that's brought home.
To the Kanchi.
Of Ezra that the children of Israel had.
Than unfaithful in marrying screams wise.
And they had to do something that was the most painful thing. I can't conceive of anything more painful. Some of them even had children by their foreign wives and they agreed to put away.
The foreign why they had violated the law.
And they even put away.
The children that direct objects of their heart because it was forbidden of God. If we've done that.
If we entered into things which are not of God.
Deuteronomy 7 says.
And I'm going to read it just in closing, because it's an important principle.
Verse 25.
The graven images of their God shall ye burn with fire.
Thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein, for it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.
Neither shall thou bring an abomination into thine house.
Let thou be a cursed thing like it, but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it, for it is a cursed thing.
Well.
If we've done that.
In any measure, May God giveth grace.
Just like the Israelites in Ezra's day, even though it is most painful to us.
And requires the severe form of self judgment.
And dealing with what has been allowed that is not of God. God give us grace to be.
Done with it.
And to go on with him.
To avail ourselves of that water of purification.
To see the world in all its attractions and all its entertainment and all its.
Things which appeal and entertain the appeal to and entertain the flesh. To see that as a judge thing, see the death.
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A queen of defilement.
And God has called us to walk through it, separate from it.
And if we touch it, if we get defiled by it.
Had to go through this world and not get defiled by.
Then there's provision made in the water purification. We want our scholarship.
But how solemn not to avail ourselves.
Of that water purification.
When he.
For us.