THE OBJECTIVE ASPECT OF LIFE--PART 4

The 2nd type of Christ as The Son of Man, to supply His People's need in our earthly pilgrimage was The Red Heifer Offering, typifying Christ as The Provision for our daily sins of the flesh--

Numbers 19;1-10-[TURN].
This Offering IS NOT MENTIONED, among the offerings, when The Tent of Meeting was first instituted.
Since The Wilderness was the place, where the true character of the flesh showed itself, The
Offering was God's Provision for The Wilderness.
Israel's Flesh desired human guidance;
it murmured, lusted, preferred Egypt's food, and rebelled against God's Authority.

BELIEVERS CANNOT SAY, that we have never come into moral contact, with what Paul calls,
''The body of this death'' [Romans 7;24].
Now the things of the flesh, demonstrated by Israel, show up in our lives as Christians.

As God provided The Red Heifer Offering for Israel's sins of the flesh, so He has made provision, in Christ's Offering, for the sins of the flesh in Christians.

Now, I want to say. very clearly that-When believers let fleshly motives and desires work in our lives, we have touched that wh1ch is dead.
Death is The Seal of God's Curse.

Nothing can affect Our Standing in Christ.
But, Our Day by Day condition [state] can be affected, by our sinning, so that, we lose our Daily Fellowship with God.
Our Position [Standing] is stationary, but our condition [state] fluctuates.

Since The Levitical System could not accomplish permanent purification, all Its Offerings were needed to fully describe, The One Perfect Offering, once for all.
In the one person of Christ is found the essential truth, that He fully revealed God, and fully redeemed The Elect of God.

As The Elect's Substitute, the judicial claim against us, has been removed by the satisfaction of God's Justice, in The Person of The Father's Eternal Son--
Hebrews 9;12-14-[Turn],
Hebrews 10;10-14-[Turn].

The Red Heifer Offering was different from the other Sacrifices, in that, when once offered, It did not need, to be repeated.
It was for A Redeemed People.

Its virtue remained, because the ashes were the memorial of an accepted sacrifice-
Numbers 19;9, 10, 17, 21-[Turn].

A female was used, because God's Redeemed are referred to, in the feminine order--
Nation of Israel-Wife of Jehovah in the OT-
The Church-The Bride of Christ, in the NT.

The Ashes represent The Power of a completed sacrifice.
The Running Water[Living Water, not Blood] represents The Spirit of Christ cleansing the unclean Christian-[Spirit uses Word, to reveal sin to Christian].

Both the unclean and clean persons, The one who had been contaminated by the dead, and the clean person, who sprinkled the water on the unclean, shall cleanse themselves.

The closer to Christ, believers get, the more we are afflicted with a sense of our uncleanness-
[The closer we get to Jesus, the further away from sin;
the more we love Christ, more hate our sins].

Now get this truth; THE NEW NATURE CANNOT RISE TO NEW HEIGHTS, WITHOUT THE CHRISTIAN MORTIFYING THE DEEDS OF THE OLD SIN NATURE.

PURIFYING IS NOT OPTIONAL;
IT'S FOR ALL OF GOD'S PEOPLE-
2 Corinthians 7;1--''Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh, and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.''