The Minneapolis journal., 1901-05-25

and one man by whom-the sinner might
come before him and find mercy.
This was more fully set forth. however, by
the services of the Tabernacle, than by its
structure, or position. For the chief figure
in these services was the high priest. He
was the one, only, man In all Israel, VINO
went always into the first tabernacle, accom-
plishing the service Of God. But into the sec
ond went the high priest alone once every
year" ". 6-7) y was on the great DAY
2-34, kill I'D Then he went, not as an
individual man, but as the representative. or
substitute for all Israel. But being in him
rihce, hrst for his own sins, and then for the
peoples" (vii., I'D Having offered ''the
bullock for the sin offering, which is for him
self (Lev. xvii; III, he killed ''the goat of the
sin Offering that is for the people" Qeg.
xvi, 49, With the blood of this goat, as with
that OF the bullock he entered within the
and before the mercy seat" where God had
his dwelling place Thus he made an atone
ment for the people.
hands upon the head Of the live goat" he
confessed over it "all the iniquities of the
children of Israel, and all their transgres-
sions in ali their SINS putting them upon the
head of the goat" This Escape goat was
then sent away .'by the hand of a fit man
into the Wilderness, bearing "all their in
EQUITIES into a land not inhabited Qev.
XVII 20-22) Thus the sins of the people
But it was not because of anything that
they did, individually or collectively 1t was
entirely because of what their representative
and substitute, the high priest, did. When
he brought the blood OF the appointed sacri-
tice before the throne of God, and God saw
the blood, the evidence that one who was
innocent had died for the guilty, he accepted
him and his offering on behalf of the people,
and he forgaye them their sins.
But now Christ is not entered into the holy
place made with hands which are figures of
the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear
in the presence Of God for US" Verse 24)
Being come an high priest Of good things to
come (yerse III, he needeth not to ''offer
himself often, as the high priest entereth into
the holy place once every year with the blood
of others, but now, once in the end of the
the sacrifice Of aRnnif himself, " Verse eS 1855
He was thus the antetype of both ''the high
priest" and 1.-The sacrifice" Of the Tabernacle
service When he ascended into heaven, ''by
his own blood he entered at once into the
holy place, having obtained eternal redemp-
tion for us" ". 49, For he was once
offered to bear the sins of many; and unto
them that look for him shall he appear the
second time without sin unto salvation" ".
PSI
Thus as "the Tabernacle in itself set forth
that no sinner can find acceptance with God
anywhere but in Christ, 4" 50 by its services
it also declared that no one can find accept
anee with him but by. and through, the vica-
rious atonement ''of Christ"
When JeSuS-our divine high priest-dfed
upon the cross, however, 1.-The veil (Which
separated 'the holy place" from the HoH-
est of ALL where God dwelt-twas rent in
twain from the top to the bottom. Matt.
H:51.) Then every repentant and believing
sinner was made priest unto God. (Rev.
1863 But as every priest in the tabernacle
service was accepted at the mercy seat, not
because of any holy service which he rem
dered, but only because of what the high
priest did on his behalf, and on behalf of
all Israel, so every penitent and believing
sinner finds acceptance only because of what
his divine substitute and Redeemer has done
for him. When the believer would draw
nigh to God, therefore, he must always come
through the one Door which is Christ.
He must come by the one Sacrifice which
is Christ. He must be clensed by the blood
of Christ and the renewing of the Holy
Ghost. Then-like the priests of old-he is
prepared TO enter into the holy place of SER
vice for God
But it is again by the one door" Enter
ing by that one door" he is nourshed and
he walks in 1.-The light" of Christ, and he
presents 1.-The incense" of his prayers through
Christ, his intercessor. When he comes thus
before God, clothed in the righteousness OF
| Christ. he finds him not upon a throne of
| judgment, but on 1.-The mercy seat" There
he looks down upon his own holy law" and
all of its demands are hidden from his sight,
for they have been met and satisfied by his
own son. @
| So the guilty, but repentant and believing
sinner standing before God in Christ, is pre-
sented .'faultless before the presence of his
/ glory with exceeding JOY" dude 24) This
is the gospel of 1.-THE tabernacle" which Paul
! preached.
Bryn Mawr, Pa.