The Burnt Offering.-It Was Called Such Because It Was All Burned up. This Is Not the Sin Offering, but an Offering of Sweet Savor Unto God, Though the Value of All Applies to Us. the Man " Shall Put His Hand on the Head of the Burnt Offering and It Shall Be Accepted for Him to Make Atonement for Him." It Is a Picture of Christ As a Burnt Offering, As One Entirely and Thoroughly Given up on the Cross. Heb. 10 Says, " Lo, I Come to Do Thy Will, O God; " Then We Have, " by the Which Will We Are Sanctified Through the Offering of the Body of Jesus Christ Once." It Is a Picture of Christ's Sacrifice so Often Overlooked. He Has Given Himself up As a Sweet Savor Unto God. in Gen. 6 We Read, " It Repented the Lord That He Had Made Man, and It Grieved Him at His Heart." a Chapter or Two Farther on We Read That Noah Offered a Burnt Sacrifice, and It Ascended to Heaven, and the Lord Smelt It, and Said in His Heart, That Same Heart That Was Grieved, " I Will No More Curse the Ground for Man's Sake." and He Gave the Rainbow As a Pledge. God Has Nothing in His Heart for the Believer but Grace and Peace, and All This by the Sacrifice of Christ

Verse 5. The priest did not kill the bullock, but he sprinkled the blood; his work commenced after the blood was shed. Christ is a priest; when did His work commence? It never commenced until He had shed His blood. He is now before God as a priest, but not to make atonement for my sins, but to watch over me, shepherd me, cleanse me, and look after my interest up there, so that I may bring all my wants to the throne of grace, but as to my sins, they were all borne by Him on the cross. Verses 6-9. Why was the offering cut into pieces and washed in water? Just for this reason: the word of God cuts; " it is sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of the soul and spirit." You can take up any part of Christ's life and test it, as the Son of man or Son of God. Test any part of Christ's life, and you will see it will stand the test of the word of God. Not so with us. And then his inwards and his legs were washed in water-a picture of Christ. Not that He had anything to be cleansed from, but you can wash a clean thing as well as an unclean thing. Take a clean thing and a foul thing: I put the clean thing in the water and I prove it by washing it in the water that it had no need of washing at all.
Christ was down here thirty-three years, and it is proved that He knew no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth. He was tried, tempted, put to the test, and all that, and yet without sin, because there was no sin there to be tempted. There were three forms of the sacrifice: first, the bullock; then the sacrifice of the flock; and then the sacrifice of the two birds. This is a three-fold aspect of Christ as the burnt offering-it signifies Christ doing His Father's will, Christ laying down His life of His own will, and through the Eternal Spirit offering Himself without spot to God. These are all a type of Christ as a sweet savor unto God. Every soul who trusts in the blood of Christ is a sanctified soul, the blood of Christ sanctifies him. Every soul whose con science has been reached by the blood of Christ is sanctified, set apart to. God. Now, a word or two from the law of the burnt offering.
Read Lev. 6:8, etc. We see in this chapter that the fire of the burnt offering never went out. Now, the fire of the sin offering went out, and it is a grand thing for us that it did. The sin offering was taken outside and all burnt up. Any one that came along could see that only the ashes remained, the fire had gone out, there was nothing more left to burn. There is no more fire, no more judgment left for any sinner that trusts in Christ; it has all gone out and been burned up for him; Christ suffered on Calvary and bore all the judgment of the sinner. The blessed thing here is that the fire did not go out. It was renewed every morning and evening. It shall be burning upon the altar all night. All Israel have gone to their tents and are fast asleep, not thinking of Him, or serving Him, but lying in repose. But His eye is cast down there and He sees that offering burning all night long. That burnt offering burning all the time for them secured God's grace towards them at all times. Applying that to ourselves and the work of Christ, we can see that it is a picture of its perpetual sweetness to God for us. Heb. 10:14: " By one offering He hath perfected forever them that are sanctified." Do you believe the written word of God? There is perpetual perfection for every soul who trusts in Christ. God has Christ always before Him. I may be fast asleep or my mind occupied with other things, but if I am a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ I am perpetually perfected before God. It is a perfection that does not hinge on our feelings or walk, but it hinges upon his perfect offering. Believe what God says. It is not my opinion but what He says. "By one offering He hath perfected forever them that are sanctified." Every Christian is perfected forever by that wonderfully perfect sacrifice of Christ. I was glad when I saw that text in the Bible. I would like to put it around this room in big letters. God puts over to my credit all that Christ has done. Thus we are sanctified to God, in all the perfectness of the work of Christ.