The Dwelling Place of God with man - The Brazen Altar
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Text: Exodus 27:1-8
Intro: The brazen altar was a place of sacrifice for the sins of the people. Ex. 30:28 calls it the altar of burnt offering. It was placed in the court between the gate of the court and the tabernacle tent.
And he put the altar of burnt offering by the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation, and offered upon it the burnt offering and the meat offering; as the Lord commanded Moses.
But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the priest shall burn all on the altar, to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord.
The burnt offering was a _______________ savour offering unto the Lord.
Read: Ephesians 5:2, what does the Bible declare about our Lords sacrifice on the cross? _______________________________________________________.
When we look at the cross we must not only see it as an instrument of Roman capital punishment but as the divinely ordained and appointed altar of sacrifice that would meet all of the requirements of God’s perfect law. Remember the brazen altar was made by the hands of men but that it was according to the pattern and purpose of God which He gave to Moses on the mount. The sacrificial lamb was brought by sinful men, and the sacrifice was slain sinful men. It was by the hands of men that our Lord was led outside of the gate of Jerusalem and nailed to that Roman cross. However His death was not in the hands of men but was according to the purpose and plan of God.
Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
Yet he opened not his mouth:
He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter,
And as a sheep before her shearers is dumb,
So he openeth not his mouth.
The prophet Isaiah said “he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter”. (Is. 53:7) We remember that when they came to arrest Him that , “As soon then as he had said unto them, I am he, they went backward, and fell to the ground.” (John 18:6) Just think of the reservation the Our Lord used when He could of appealed to their fear and showed Himself mighty but instead He submitted to the Father and in doing so, He submitted to these sinful men. They led Him away like a sheep to the slaughter and before His accusers He was silent. (Is. 53:7) In being silent He submitted Himself to the testimony of the false accusers. He gave Himself up as a criminal that had committed the most heinous crime.
And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
When we think of power of God it is most often in the form of creating something out of nothing or maybe in defeating a great foe. As I read my Bible and study the cross, I see these events as the greatest display of the power of God. He submitted Himself to the hands of men that He might through His omnipotent power surrender Himself as the burnt offering and sacrifice required of God and the Sin offering that God required for men.
For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: So Christ 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.
It was on the cross of Calvary that the obedience of the Second Man (Christ) was set over and against the disobedience of the first man (Adam).
It is because of His obedience to death, that salvation is offered but like the first offerings it is an individual offering.
If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the Lord.
And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and slay the sin offering in the place of the burnt offering.
This “he” was not the priest but the individual that had commited the sin against God… Unless the individual claimed the life of the victim that he had brought and laid on the altar as his own substitute then he would never be accepted nor pronounced “ceremonially” clean.
There is no possible way for men to approach God and be accepted of Him apart from the cross of Christ. It is only when an individual offers Him by faith as a sacrifice for their sins, and claims Him as their substitute that they are saved and accepted by God.
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.