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The Price of Satisfaction
Guest welcome - We are so very happy that you are here today to worship at Branches Church.
It is my hope that you leave encouraged having experienced the presence of God.
With the desire to come again.
At the conclusion of many of my sermons it is our churches custom to gather to the front as a group.
Taking time to allow the Spirit of God to minister as He wills, and to encourage one another with prayer.
On my mom’s side of the family we have a large family tree.
My grandparents had eight children.
Six girls and two boys.
Each of my aunts and uncles had a pretty good number of cousins for my brother and I to play with.
One of the hallmarks of the family were these large family reunions at my grandparents home.
They loved to have us all there.
Their home was small.
A two bedroom house with a front room that was both the kitchen and living room.
A larger room was usually set up with folding tables as a dining area.
Their home was way too small for all of us to be inside there moving around but they had this large piece of farmland.
Majority of the men would end up standing around outside in the warm Louisiana tree shade.
For the longest time I only had one cousin who was a girl.
So the guys would go out and throw a football or baseball.
We only had one real rule.
Stay away from the big road.
The big road was the Louisiana state highway that the home was located on.
I had heard so many stories of people being hit by speeding cars.
Almost every time we played we would end up moving from the back of the house to the drive of the house on the side.
Then to the front of the house near the big road.
Paying little attention to the cars, trucks and tractor trailers that would zip by us with a whoosh.
Before long one of the adults would be standing at the front door yelling at us - “You boys get away from the big road!
We told you!
We don’t want to tell you again!”
If we were going there today for a family meal.
At some point I would be one of the adults that would stand in the door and yell to my son.
“You boys get away from the big road!
We told you!
We don’t want to tell you again!”.
The adults had a perspective, experience, and insight that we did not always understand what the big deal was.
But they were right in their judgement.
Righteousness of God
God has a perspective, experience, and insight that we do not always understand.
In His judgement He is perfect.
It is part of His nature to be righteous.
We us phrases like “God is righteous.”
Or “God in His righteousness”.
The word righteous in its lowest form means right.
Right in all actions, decisions, thoughts, perceptions.
God is just right.
In His righteousness He has a perspective on everything.
A view that at this time we can never have.
We cannot see as He sees.
We cannot think as He thinks.
We are limited.
But He is perfect.
Perfect Knowledge
Perfect Works
Perfect Law
Law
The law of the Lord is perfect.
Even with some of its head scratching rules that we ask why was this so important to be place in your law Lord?
Laws like not celebrating one of the national holidays would result in being excommunicated from the nation.
If you are going to kill and eat a goat, you cannot cook it in its mothers milk.
Rebellious teenagers of which almost all of us were ones, could be stoned by the people of the city or town where they lived.
And a number of other laws that cause us to pause and say what?
God’s law was perfect.
The judgement and execution of punishment for those laws was perfect, because they came from God.
Nature of Sin
Humanity has a nature of sin.
The nature of sin is to rebel against God’s righteous judgement.
Have you ever considered why it was that the serpent found Eve near the one tree they were forbidden to eat?
We want to live as close to what we are not supposed to have as we can.
What we entertain - we fall prey too.
Judgement
God’s perfect nature.
His righteousness in judgement when faced with sin requires satisfaction.
Sin could never be passed over it must be satisfied with judgement.
Blood - life was required for satisfaction.
Flesh of the animal ripped from its body.
A bloody skin wrapped around Adam and Eve.
The blood and life of the animal satisfied judgement.
This was God’s provision for sin.
Passover
I will pass through, and execute judgement.
God cannot pass over sin without satisfying that sin with judgement.
Blood and life.
The blood had to be applied to the door posts.
No blood there would be judgement.
God gave provision for sin through the substitution of animal sacrifice.
In the tabernacle - God designed a way of approaching.
The day of atonement.
The altar - animal would be sacrificed, blood running over the altar.
The wash basin or laver of water - the priest would ceremonially wash himself, cleanse himself from the blood of the sacrifice and from the sinfulness of his humanity.
The Ark of Covenant - The priest would approach the Ark and would sprinkle the blood upon the mercy seat.
If there was no blood, there would be no satisfaction for judgement.
Above the mercy seat is where the Spirit of the Lord dwelt between two angel cherubs.
Inside the Ark contained the law as given to Moses, Aaron’s budded rod, and the pot of manna from the wilderness.
When God looked down at the covenant.
What he saw were reminders of mans sinfulness.
Law - broken by Israel.
Budded rod - sign from God of authority, which Israel rejected.
Pot of Manna - God’s provision that Israel complained against.
We break God’s law.
We reject God’s authority.
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