Turn with me this morning to Leviticus chapter 6. Leviticus chapter 6. If you've been with us for any considerable length of time, you know by now that we are in the midst of a discussion of the various offerings that were to be made to the Lord by the Israelites. And thus far in our study, we've looked at the law concerning burnt offerings. primarily in Chapter 1. In Chapter 2, we looked at the law of grain offerings. Chapter 3, the law of peace offerings. Chapter 4, the law of sin offerings. And most recently, we've looked at the law concerning guilt offerings in Chapter 5. Here in Chapter 6, we continue looking at the law concerning guilt offerings, and we read this beginning at verse 1. Read it with me. Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, When a person sins and acts unfaithfully against the Lord and deceives his companion in regard to a deposit or security entrusted to him, or through robbery, or if he has extorted from his companion, or has found what was lost and lied about it and sworn falsely, so that he sins in regard to any one of the things a man may do, then it shall be, When he sins and becomes guilty, he shall restore what he took by robbery or what he got by extortion or the deposit which was entrusted to him or the lost thing which he found or anything about which he swore falsely. He shall make restitution for it in full and add to it one fifth more. He shall give it to the one to whom it belongs on the day he presents his guilt offering. Then he shall bring to the priest his guilt offering to the Lord, a ram without defect from the flock, according to your valuation for a guilt offering. And the priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord, and he will be forgiven for any one of the things which he may have done to incur Guilt. In the scenario that's described here, we actually learn of a really important principle that David more formally introduces to us in Psalm 51. There in verse 4, you'll recall David acknowledging against you and you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight? Notice very carefully that when the Lord speaks to Moses here, He makes the point that any sin involving the deception of one's fellow man, first and foremost, is a sin of unfaithfulness to the Lord. I've remarked on this before in previous messages. I think we would all be well reminded to understand that any sin that we commit, although it does have ripple effects in the here and now, although it does affect those around us, first and foremost, it's a sin against God Himself. And I think this would be a much greater deterrent than simply the consideration of one's feelings or the ripple effect that might be felt among us personally. Once again, we need to look at life more in the vertical fashion than in the horizontal fashion. Why? Because the moment we begin looking at all of life in a more vertical fashion, that is between us and God, the horizontal things will take care of themselves. It's just, it's true. The more we're focused on obeying God, the more we're focused on doing what He prescribes for us in His Word relative to our behavior, the better off we will be interpersonally. Again, that's just axiomatic throughout Scripture. Let me just also say this. What we've looked at thus far is fairly self-explanatory. This passage is kind of confusing, though, because the things that are described here seem to be willful sins. And remember what we've said before about the sacrifices that were available to be offered for willful or intentional sins. There were none. And so we have to answer the question, why is it in this case that we have these seemingly willful sins and there is a sacrificial remedy for them? We're going to talk about that more in just a minute. But before we do that, let's take a minute to talk about each of these particular sins in more detail. First, we have this keeping back or withholding of a deposit. Most of you have rented before, and you know what it means to pay a deposit. If you've not rented, you've paid deposits on other things, but you give someone a sum of money so that in the event that the thing that you are renting, the thing that you are leasing, in the event that that becomes damaged in any way, part of the deposit money will go toward paying that back. Now most deposits have a limit set on them, and they are intended to cover any and all damage that might be done. We have laws against adding to what the deposit is allegedly supposed to cover. And so it was not uncommon, and it's not uncommon today in the realm of landlords, It's not uncommon when you leave a place that you've made a deposit on, they'll do everything in their power to keep as much of that deposit as they can, right? It's just part of the unscrupulosity of some landlords. They will find something that's just normal wear and tear, and they'll try to charge you for that, even though the law prevents them from doing that. This is what is being discussed here. If you owe someone a deposit that they've paid to you, pay it back. Give it back. You have no right to hold back that deposit for what would be really silly reasons or reasons that are intended just to gouge the person who has paid the deposit. What about robbery? That really doesn't need a whole lot of clarification. Robbery is simply one's taking from someone that which does not belong to him. I don't know that any of you have committed robbery to your own mind, but as we'll see in just a minute, you probably have. and you don't even know it, don't even realize it, maybe not even care about it, but more on that in just a minute. What about extortion? Extortion is the taking from someone something that you need or you want, and you do that under duress, under threat of harm. I'm not getting political here, but this country's system of taxation is extortion. It really is. I mean, this country spends your money and mine in all kinds of ways that we simply don't agree with. We'll never agree with those things, but we still pay our taxes. Number one, because Jesus says, render unto Caesar, whatever is Caesar's, right? But we pay those things also under duress. If we don't pay our taxes, what happens? We go to jail. Unless you're rich and famous, at which point you can probably hire enough tax attorneys to keep you out of jail until your life's over. But that's rare, right? If you have the right last name, the right pedigree, you might be able to get away with not paying your taxes. But by and large, all of us pay taxes under duress. That's extortion. Whenever we make demands on people to do things for us or to supply things to us and there's a threat involved, that's extortion. And we're told here that the Lord looks very unfavorably on extortion of any kind. Finally, we have the category of sin involving one who finds something that was lost by another and lies about finding it. Most of us remember as children that convenient little ditty, right? Finders, keepers, losers, weepers. And as if that somehow justifies us keeping something that we find. I mean, even as adults, I've seen adults who should know better use that same logic. Now, let me just ask you, and I'm not going to ask you to raise hands because I don't want you to rat yourself out as being guilty here, but let's say you're driving down the highway in a remote part of the country and there's no one around and you see a bag laying on the side of the road and it's got Brinks written on it. See where I'm going? It just bounced off the back of an armored car and, you know, you come up on this bag and you see the bag and it's labeled $250,000. Nobody's around. You can easily just empty the bag out into your trunk, throw the bag aside, be on your way. What do you do? Honestly. What do you do? $250,000 could change, I would dare say, all of our lives. The question is not what would you do, but what should you do? And the correct response is, you call the number for Brinks and you tell them, I have found your $100,000. No, I have found your $250,000 and I'd like to give it back. This is what honors the Lord more than your keeping. Now, again, I know most of us, even the most sanctified among us, that would give us pause, would it not? Let's be honest about these things. I mean, honesty is always the best policy, and honesty is one of the things that will help grow us more effectively. Be honest with yourself. Don't take this posture that, oh no, I would call it immediately. I would call it, and I would sit there, and I would wait on them, and I would guard it with my life. Look. You know, the time for all this superficial posturing is over. Be honest with yourself. Be honest and admit there might be a struggle there. But in the struggle, you have an opportunity to grow in Christ likeness. And this would be a great opportunity to grow in Christ likeness. Now, at this point, you might be thinking again, well, these these sure sound like like intentional sins. You know, not paying back a deposit that you know you owe, robbery from someone, extortion. The keeping of that which doesn't belong to you. These really do sound like willful sins, but are they really at least in the Hebrew mind? Often you'll hear me refer to the Hebrew mind or at least the Hebrew language and how the Hebrew language is not really that much like our language and the Hebrew mind is not at all like the Western mind. That's something that we need to, you know, that's part of our hermeneutical approach to the scriptures. We don't interpret the scriptures, especially those which speak of other cultures, other times. We need to interpret the scriptures in light of the people to whom they were written, the time frame in which they were written, and the various figures of speech and understandings that those people would have shared. In this case, The difference between intentional and unintentional sins was unknown to the Hebrews. The Hebrews thought in terms much simpler. They would have categorized sin as that which was committed with a high hand and that which was not committed with a high hand. Now what does that mean? Well it means that you could commit a sin intentionally either not knowing that there could be harm done or not necessarily intending to do harm in a high-handed way. There was no malice aforethought. It was just like, well, I found something that doesn't belong to me. I'm going to keep it. I mean, what can happen? Who's going to be hurt by this? And especially with brinks, you're like, they have all the money, you know, and what is money really? It's just, you know, paper and printing and you can rationalize it any way you want. But in the Hebrew mind, a sin was either high-handed or not high-handed. And this helps us kind of understand the sins that are being mentioned here can fall into the category of not being with a high hand. Now, how so? Well, again, let's look at these individually and see if there might be a slight gray area. What about the sin of not returning a deposit? Well, you might be a landlord who is especially picky, nitpicky. You might be a landlord who doesn't really understand the law relative to deposits, and you might be a landlord who, by the way, comes from a long line of landlords in the family, and you've always simply kept the deposit, and that's just what you've been taught, and that's what you intend to do. It's become a cultural norm for landlords to keep the deposit, so I'm just going to keep the deposit. I don't mean any harm by it. This is just the way things are. We can see where that might be the case, right? What about extortion? Well, again, tax collectors, many men during this time made their living as tax collectors, and it was their custom. It was very well known and accepted that tax collectors also used extortion techniques. Pay up or else. Why? Because their livelihood depended on whether or not you paid your taxes. I would say that most investigative IRS agents are in the same boat. Those people who have to come down and threaten you with an inch of your life, audit you. If you don't pay up, you're going to lose everything. I don't know that any of them are doing that in a high-handed way. Some of them, yes, without a doubt. But I don't know that this applies to all of them. And so you might have a case where a tax collector, like Matthew, for example, Matthew had to learn that a lot of what he was doing was just not allowed by the Lord. But he was so entrenched in tradition and in all the things that went on with his job, it was just part of his Part of his job. What about robbery? Have you ever borrowed a book that you never gave back? Right? Have you ever borrowed anything? How many of you have ever been cleaning your house and you find something that has been in your house for any number of months, years, and you're like, oh, this doesn't belong to me? Anybody ever find a library book? that you never returned? You're guilty of robbery. And you didn't mean that to be a high-handed sin. You didn't mean to rob someone. But you're still guilty of robbery. What about adultery? Remember how Jesus refined the sin of adultery? All the men there, when he was teaching during his Sermon on the Mount, all of the men there would have sworn up and down, no, I've never committed adultery until Jesus said, yeah, you have. If you've ever looked at a woman with lust in your heart, you've done the thing. Murder? Anyone who has a word of anger spoken to his friend is guilty of murder. Right? So we're all guilty of these things. The question is whether we intend those things to be high-handed sins or truly intentional sins or whether or not they're just things that have happened and we really don't mean any harm by those things. What about finders, keepers, losers, weepers? Anybody ever kept something that you found? Absolutely. Absolutely. The same thing applies In this case, these are examples of the kinds of things that, strictly speaking, could be said to be unintentional. They're not committed with a high hand. The key, though, and here's where I'm really thankful once again for the detail that we're provided throughout the Word of God is, and especially here, the key to understanding this is actually in verse four. The Lord goes through all each of these sins and then he says, then it shall be when he sends and becomes guilty. Or as the ESV has it, which is more correct and true to the original language in this case, when he has sinned and has realized his guilt. proving that his sin was not with a high hand. Only when he's realized his guilt, he shall restore what he took by robbery, or what he got by extortion, or the deposit which was entrusted to him, or the lost thing which he found, or anything about which he swore falsely, he shall make restitution for it in full, and add to it one-fifth," that's 20 percent, he shall give it to the one to whom it belongs on the day he presents his guilt offering. Now, I want you to think really seriously about what's being portrayed here. Remember when we started this Old Testament survey, I mentioned the fact that as we get into the Old Testament, farther and farther into it, we're going to see even more types and foreshadowings and symbolic language that is intended to point to something even greater. That's the case here. I don't know if you've picked up on this, but in this passage, we have a beautiful foreshadowing or picturing of the regenerative power of the Holy Spirit. You might be thinking, okay, Pastor, you've slipped off the rails. I don't see that anywhere in here. Well, what does it mean when one becomes aware? What does it mean when one comes to the conclusion that he or she is guilty? That's regeneration. I've said this before and it certainly applies in this context. When we think about the realization or this, we call it an epiphany. We just, the light bulb goes off, and we're like, oh, I did that, I'm guilty. Have you ever stopped to consider who's in control of the light switch? Because the natural man doesn't think in those terms. The natural man says, I'm gonna get what I can get, I'm gonna get it as fast as I can get it, I'm gonna hold on to it as long as I can, and whoever it affects, then so be it, they just need to be stronger. That's the carnal mind. The mind that is controlled by Christ has all kinds of these light-bulb moments. The mind that is controlled by Christ through the indwelling of His Holy Spirit will afford us opportunity after opportunity after opportunity to be enlightened, to come to an awareness. This is part of sanctification. It's the realization that what I am doing, what I have been doing, is sinful and I need to correct that. The Holy Spirit alone has the power to convict us and it begins with that initial conviction called regeneration. I've told you before that there are a lot of people out there, not Reformed people, who believe that faith precedes regeneration. that a person exercises his or her faith and they are rewarded with regeneration. They're brought from death in trespasses and sins to newness of life in Christ because they've exercised their faith. Folks, that's just not true. No man on planet Earth would ever exercise faith of any kind until he's been given the faith to exercise. This impartation of faith by God's grace alone is the primary operation of the Holy Spirit in regeneration. Go back to what I've said before about the person who doesn't believe this. Find your nearest Arminian. Right? Somebody who believes that they are saved because they raised their hand, they walked an aisle, they said the prayer. They're saved because they decided that they would be saved. Find any of them that you care to find and ask them this one question. Why did you decide? Did you always have this feeling that you're a sinner in need of a Savior and that Savior is Christ alone? Well, no. Okay, then what was the tipping point? Well, I heard a particularly stirring sermon, and it was at that very moment that I felt the weight of my sin, and I realized that I need a Savior. How did you come to that realization? Had you never heard the gospel before? Oh, yeah, I'd heard the gospel before, but I was always rejecting the gospel. It was only on this day that I accepted the gospel. Why? Why that day and not the day before? Why that day and not a year later? These are questions they're simply not trained to answer. We know the answer. The answer comes to us first and foremost in John 3. People are very prone to tell John 3, 16, for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him, that is whoever of their own free will decides to believe in Him, should not perish but have everlasting life. Folks, that's not what that passage teaches. I've said before, if you'll read it from the beginning, you'll find out that Jesus is talking about the operation of the Holy Spirit. He's saying, you see the results of the wind. The wind blows where it wishes, and you just see the effects of it. So it is with the Holy Spirit, he says. The Holy Spirit comes into our lives and says, you, up, believe. And we believe. Any attempt to attribute our salvation to something that we did, first and foremost, that's a work. And how many times throughout the New Testament are we told that salvation is not a work? It's nothing that you can work for. And yet the Holy Spirit awakens us from death in trespasses and sins to newness of life in Christ. He plucks us as it were from that miry clay and puts us on the solid rock that is Jesus Christ. That's all his work. That's all his doing. And the same is true here. When the Israelite realized For that initial time, wait a minute, what I've done is a sin. Now, granted, this is just a type or a foreshadowing. This is not to say that every person who offered a sacrifice because they realized they had sinned would be saved. It's a picture. This is done by, really, kind of by force. God says, do this or else. You obey my covenant or else. You know, there's a threat. There's a foreboding over one's not doing this because, you know, God says, okay, if you've done this, this is a sin. It's a sin against me. It's a sin against the people that you've sinned against. And here's the remedy for it. It differs from regeneration itself because again, this is very, Very much in the material realm, this is very much in the actual realm as opposed to the spiritual realm where the Holy Spirit does His work in us. And again, you ask anybody, why do you believe? They'll have to conclude, at least if they're being even the slightest bit biblical, they have to conclude, God must have done something in me. God must have done something to awaken me from my previous position thinking that these things were okay. As long as no one got hurt, God awakened me and now I see the truth. And the truth is I'm a sinner. I need a Savior and that Savior is Christ Himself. Now, you may recall at the very beginning of this Old Testament study that I said, there would come a time when we would accelerate in order to get through some of the places that were largely repetitive in terms of what we've already looked at. That time has come. Why? Well, because here in verses 8 through 30 of this sixth chapter, as well as the entire seventh chapter, We actually find all of the requirements for the priest's handling of the various offerings that we've looked at up to this point. So I'm not going to go over all of that again this morning. Read it on your own. I encourage you to do that. But what you're going to find there is simply repetition after repetition describing the process that the priest would go through relative to each particular scenario. And we've already covered that. We've already talked about that. I think it would be counterproductive, really, for me to stand up here and just rehearse all the things that we've already gone over in some depth. In chapter 8 we have the Lord's instructions concerning the consecration of Aaron and his sons for the priesthood. And if that sounds familiar, it should because we already did a fairly extensive study on the ceremony during our studies of Exodus 29, 4 through 37. Again, it's just a rehearsing of everything that was involved in the consecration of Aaron and his sons to the priesthood. In chapter 9, we have pretty much the same thing. In verses 1 through 6, we're reminded of the precept or the reason for the offering. This is actually summed up in verse 6, where Moses says that the offering must be made so that the glory of the Lord may appear to you. Now, remember, up to this point, everything we have been reading about God's instructions concerning these offerings, everything has been instructive. It's not been realized yet. If you'll just go back through all that we've read up to this point, go back through chapters one through eight, and what you'll find repeatedly is the word shall, shall, shall. What does that mean? That means that when the time comes for the priests to receive these offerings, when the time comes for you to make these offerings, you shall do them in this prescribed manner. So none of that's happened yet. It's a big misnomer. You know, a lot of times we read through the first eight chapters of Leviticus and we think, okay, this is happening in real time. It's not. These are all God's instructions for when these things actually begin. Now, how do we know that? Because we're told in verse 1, now it came about on the eighth day that Moses called Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel. He was calling them to commence, finally, with the sacrificial system that they had been meticulously instructed on in the previous passages. Okay, I've given you the instruction. Now here it is, the eighth day. Now it's time to begin putting these things into play. Kind of helps us in our chronology to understand, okay, everything up to this point has just been kind of preparatory. for them to finally begin. Now, what's this 8th day? Is this the 8th day of the month? No, because, and here's another explanatory fact. What's going on here, this 8th day is a reference to the day after the final preparations and consecrations of the priesthood. So that tells us right there, they couldn't have done any of these things. They hadn't yet been consecrated. The consecration process took seven days. And so here on the eighth day, they're finally ready. They've graduated. They're ready to embark on their career as priests. So on the eighth day, Moses called Aaron and his sons along with the elders of Israel. Anyway, the sacrifices are offered as instructed. Again, we're not going to get bogged down in that again. They're offered in the very same way that God had given them instructions to offer them. So, again, if you want to read that on your own, I would encourage you to do that. But this brings us to verse 22. Verse 22, this is something relatively new. at least in their experience, we read this. Then Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and blessed them. and stepped down after making the sin offering and the burn offering and the peace offerings, Moses and Aaron went into the tent of meeting. When they came out and blessed the people, the glory of the Lord appeared to all the people. Then fire came out from the Lord and consumed the burn offering and the portions of fat on the altar. And when all the people saw it, they shouted and fell on their faces." As I thought about this, I couldn't help but think of a couple of parallels. What happened on the day of Pentecost? Tongues of fire came into the room where they were worshiping and waiting, and the tongues of fire touched every man, and every man began to speak in each other's dialect, and they began to be able to understand one another in their own dialects, and so on and so forth. The miracle arrival of the Holy Spirit had finally come. But even beyond that, I actually see a foreshadowing of the ascension of Christ. Right? The ascension of Christ. Here, when Aaron lifts up his hands and blesses his people, the glory of the Lord was made evident to them. This is no different, really, than Jesus raising His own hands and blessing the people prior to His ascension into heaven. Look at Luke chapter 24. Luke chapter 24. In verse 50. Luke 24, 50. Luke says, and he led them, that is Christ, he led them out as far as Bethany and he lifted up his hands and blessed them. And it came about that while he was blessing them, he parted from them." Notice carefully how the sacrifices offered by Aaron were consumed by the Lord in fire, something that would have struck terror in the hearts of those who were watching. And these same sacrifices would be offered year after year, century by century, in an attempt to appease the wrath of a thrice holy God. Now, by contrast, Notice the work of the final sacrifice, the only suitable sacrifice. He raised his hands and blessed the people, and he was automatically taken up into heaven. And what was the reaction among those who were watching? Remember what we're told? They're dumbfounded. They're standing there gazing up into heaven, jaws on the ground, probably trembling in their sandals, wondering what in the world just happened. Of course, they had to be told, stop looking up. He's going to come back in the same way that he went. Go about your business. But they would have remembered that. Can you imagine being among the 500 on that day? who saw Jesus ascend into heaven. Can you imagine what kind of impact that would make on your life? I tell you what kind of impact it would make on your life. It would make the same impact that you and I have felt centuries later with our own reception of the gospel. That so emboldened Jesus' followers that they would be willing to die in great numbers for the privilege of telling the truth about what happened. This is not something that men would die for if it hadn't happened. Understand that. That's one of the most credible proofs that we have for the reality of the resurrection and ascension of Christ. It's one of the greatest proofs we have. No man, it's been proven throughout history, no man will die for a lie, at least not in mass quantities. And there's even been theories posited about what must have happened. This must be a case, the skeptic says, this is just a case of mass hallucination. Never mind the fact that in the annals of psychiatry and psychology, and really even before those became sciences back in antiquity, there's never been one documented case of so-called mass hallucination. Ever. What happened was real. And the effect was tremendous. And here's the thing. Living with the reality of that truth in our hearts and minds, our own reaction should be the same. When you think about the ascended Christ, when you think that even now He has ascended to sit at the right hand of the majesty on high forever to make intercession for you and me, when you think about that, does your heart not tremble? Most of you are saying, well, no. It should. Where has your connection to Christ been severed in that way? Where is your spirit if your spirit can't feel the awesomeness of the risen Christ? This is a serious question. You need to ask yourself, am I so calloused? Have I become so comfortable in my Christian belief, my Christian experience, that I can no longer feel the weight of His glory in my soul? I pray that that's never the case with you. I pray that when you contemplate what Christ did, in dying for you and then the victory that was his over death in the grave when he ascended to sit at the right hand of God most high. I pray that you seriously contemplate that and what that means to you and your brothers and your sisters and how that alone we're gonna be talking about that in the next hour that alone serves as the cement to hold us all together in perfect peace and unity. One of the reasons we see so much infighting out there in cyberspace and beyond, we see all of this bad blood between brethren who are commanded to love each other. One of the reasons we're seeing so much of this is because there are so many who have lost that connection if they ever had it at all. And now it's become more of an intellectual, doctrinal pursuit rather than a heartfelt, humble approach to the God of our salvation. There's not one person in this room who deserved to be saved. And yet we have entire gaggles of people out there today insisting not only Am I deserving of God's favor and salvation? But I'm deserving because of the color of my skin. I'm deserving because of my nationality, my ethnicity, my superior standing as a Homo sapiens in the eyes of God. No, you're still a wretch, like us all. I don't care whether your skin is inky black or snow white or anything in between, the amount of melanin you possess or don't possess, your traditions, your preferences, your opinions, your nationality, wherever you come from on this big blue ball makes no difference to God at all because He is an equal opportunity God. He has saved from all tribes, tongues, kindred, and nations. Don't buy into the lie. It's exactly what it is. The biggest lie Satan ever told was convincing Eve that what God has said was not true. And we see the same thing happening today. Reject that. Run from that. And if you're currently involved in discussion groups and online forums and podcasts and all these other things where you talk about this garbage. Stop. For the love of God and everything holy, stop. Much better to spend the remainder of your days in the Word of God, pleading with God, make me more like Christ. Amen? Enough of the nonsense. Once again, I have to ask, are you grateful that you live in a time when we can live without fear and dread? Again, all these things were just types and shadows, and that didn't remove the reality of the current situation. These people were like, oh man, if I mess up, I made my sacrifice, but if I mess up on my way out of here today, my sacrifice is null and void, and I'm going to have to come back tomorrow with the same sacrifice. I'm going to run out of animals. Lord, this is not working. At which point the Lord would say, I know it's not. Because you're looking at the shadows instead of the reality. Look to the reality. Remember Moses? We'll read about this a little later on. Remember Moses and the bronze serpent? The fiery serpents come into the camp of the Israelites. And they're biting people, and people are dying as a result. And Moses pleads with God, what's the solution here? Craft a bronze serpent, put it on a pole, lift it up in their midst. And all who look upon that will live. What is that? It's God showing them once again in types and shadows that the reality to come. And by the way, in the New Testament, Christ himself admits to being that serpent. That was me. In case you're not familiar with the doctrine of salvation, or as familiar as you should be, that was me. All who looked and lived understood. They didn't understand it all, but they understood that their only hope was Christ. I don't know His name, I don't know when He's coming, I don't know anything of the sort, but just like Abraham, whose faith was reckoned to him as righteousness, those who looked and lived had the faith that counted as righteousness. That's the nature of faith, is it? What's the definition of faith? Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Do you possess that kind of faith this morning? My prayer is that God might even now be causing all of us to be more grateful Not only for His Word, but for the Holy Spirit who teaches us His Word, who indwells us, who makes clear to us all these types and shadows and helps us to rejoice in the fulfillment of those things in Christ Himself. Well, Lord willing, next Lord's Day, we're going to resume at chapter 10. Just how seriously did God take obedience to His commands? Well, we're going to find out. We're going to find out in the account of the sin of Nadab and Abihu.