THE SIN OFFERING AND THE BURNT OFFERING

THE SIN OFFERING AND THE BURNT OFFERING

I quite go with your letter. Christ is not the object of faith at all with ————. The sacrifice is with him the one thing, and all the rest he makes condition. The more I dwell on the system, for system it is, the more I see the mischief of it. How could the blessed God justify me until He had removed from His own eye in absolute judgment the old man that was under judgment. This is the sin offering, and if the old man be judicially annulled it cannot exist before God, and the believer cannot be in it, he must be in Christ, the burnt offering, entirely to the pleasure and delight of God’s heart, blessed be His name! ... God could not justify me if the old man had not been crucified, judicially terminated and surely I cannot have deliverance if it be not annulled, for if not it still exists before God.

I cannot tell you how I regret that earnest, valiant men should be wasting their strength on the leaves of the Upas tree, instead of grappling in one united action against the root and source of all the evil at ————. I remember a line of dear J.N.D.’s: The more you are in God’s righteousness, the higher order will be your own practical righteousness, or words to this effect. A soul that is not in God’s righteousness (and who can measure it?) must be more or less in man’s righteousness. I have written a paper for The Voice on ‘Christian Standing’ — very much a gospel sermon. I believe great good is coming to souls through this unhappy assault of the enemy. The Lord is raising up a standard against it, though the effect on any spiritual reader of ———— will be the reverse of approval. It was an awful thing when the priests offered strange fire. This necessitated the day of atonement. It is very interesting to see how much more the blessed God expressed ^[p. 163] Himself in types by the burnt offerings and peace offerings, types of His own approach to man, than by the sin offering which was necessary for man’s salvation.