<TITLE>07. Par 26-28</TITLE>L-26 Now, to think tonight that you and I... Won't--don't want to think this, but we were actually natured after the world, say like pigs, and tonight have become saints. Something had to be done. Now, we couldn't go into heaven as pigs; we'd have to go into heaven as saints. So a preparation had to be made for this. And God gave it so beautifully in the Old Testament, back in the Book of Numbers, about the 20th chapter; and over in Exodus about 36--32.
And we find out that on the day of atonement, God in the types, foreshowing what He would do in the Antitype when He come, which was Christ. The high priest was commanded to take two goats, little goats, and take them in for atonement, a offering, and a bullock for his own family. And many of you readers here and studiers of the Bible, know just how that the atonements was.

L-27 But then, one goat... There had to be a lot cast. And the lot fell on one goat; it died. And then the blood of this goat was placed upon the other goat, with the hands of the high priest, confessing the sins of the people, upon the living goat. And then a man who was worthy, taken the living goat under his arm and went way into the wilderness, where the goat would have to perish and go into an isolated, out of the way place, never no more in that state to come back into the family of his own again, but to be isolated forever, bearing the sins of the people away.

L-28 Now, I know many scholars perhaps, are setting here, and especially the Adventist, they--they say that one goat was Christ and the other one was the devil. Now, brethren, I have to different a little on that. We can't sacrifice to the devil. Both goats represented Christ. Both of them was Christ; Christ is, or He bled for our sins, and He bore them Hisself away. Devil can't bear my sins; Christ is our sin-bearer. Get it straight, then you're faith won't move. Christ is our sin-bearer, and the sins of the world. Christ was the dying animal at the cross (Listen.), the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
And only the types, we were drawing dividends, knowing that the Antitype would come someday. Why was He slain from the foundation of the world? 'Cause God perceived in His mind how them things would be, and what the Church would be, and what everything would be, and He spoke the Word. And when God speaks the Word, it's as good as done right then. So He was slain from the foundation of the world. You see it?
When you get down to that now, and let your faith rest solemnly, not upon man, not upon theologies of man, not upon church denominations, as good they are, as good as man is, let your faith rest alone in Christ's finished work at Calvary for both sin and salvation. You see it?


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