Leviticus chapter 8 is found on page 118 in the Pew Bible. Leviticus chapter 8. Leviticus 8, page 118 in the Pew Bible. And when you have found that in your copy of God's Word, would you stand with me for the reading of God's Word. Leviticus chapter 8. Follow along with me as I read the chapter in its entirety, and this is what Holy Scripture says. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, the anointing oil, a bull as the sin offering, two rams, and a basket of unleavened bread. And gather all the congregation together at the door of the tabernacle of meeting. So Moses did as the Lord commanded him, and the congregation was gathered together at the door of the tabernacle of meeting. And Moses said to the congregation, This is what the Lord commanded to be done. Then Moses brought Aaron and his sons and washed them with water. And he put the tunic on him, girded him with the sash, clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod on him. And he girded him with the intricately woven band of the ephod, and with it tied the ephod on him. Then he put the breastplate on him, and he put the urim and thumim in the breastplate, Also, He put the turban on His head. Also, on the turban, on its front, He put the golden plate, the holy crown, as the Lord had commanded Moses. Also Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle, and all that was in it, and consecrated them. He sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times, anointed the altar and all its utensils, and the labor and its base, to consecrate them. And he poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron's head, and anointed him to consecrate him. Then Moses brought Aaron's sons and put tunics on them, girded them with sashes, and put hats on them, as the Lord had commanded Moses. And he brought the bull for the sin offering. Then Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull for the sin offering, and Moses killed it. Then he took the blood and put some on the horns of the altar, all around with his finger, and purified the altar. And he poured the blood at the base of the altar and consecrated it to make atonement for it. Then he took all the fat that was on the entrails, the fatty lobe attached to the liver, and the two kidneys with their fat, and Moses burned them on the altar. But the bull, its hide, its flesh, and its offal he burned with fire outside the camp, as the Lord had commanded Moses. Then he brought the ram as the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram, and Moses killed it. Then he sprinkled the blood all around on the altar. And he cut the ram into pieces, and Moses burned the head, the pieces, and the fat. Then he washed the entrails and the legs in water. And Moses burned the whole ram on the altar. It was a burnt sacrifice for a sweet aroma, an offering made by fire to the Lord as the Lord had commanded Moses. And he brought the second ram, the ram of consecration. Then Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram, and Moses killed it. Also he took some of its blood and put it on the tip of Aaron's right ear, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot. Then he brought Aaron's sons, and Moses put some of the blood on the tips of their right ears, on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet. And Moses sprinkled the blood all around on the altar. Then He took the fat and the fat tail, and the fat that was on the entrails, the fatty lobe attached to the liver, the two kidneys, and their fat, and the right thigh. And from the basket of unleavened bread that was before the Lord, He took one unleavened cake, a cake of bread anointed with oil, and one wafer, and put them on the fat and on the right thigh. And He put all these in Aaron's hands, and in his son's hands, and waved them as a wave offering before the Lord. Then Moses took them from their hands and burned them on the altar on the burnt offering. They were consecration offerings for a sweet aroma. That was an offering made by fire to the Lord. And Moses took the breast and waved it as a wave offering before the Lord. It was Moses part of the ram of consecration as the Lord had commanded Moses. And Moses took some of the anointing oil and some of the blood which was on the altar and sprinkled it on Aaron, on his garments, on his sons, and on the garments of his sons with him. And he consecrated Aaron, his garments, his sons, and the garments of his sons with him. And Moses said to Aaron and his sons, boil the flesh at the door of the tabernacle of meeting, and eat it there with the bread that is in the basket of consecration offerings, as I commanded, saying, Aaron and his sons shall eat it. What remains of the flesh and of the bread you shall burn with fire, and you shall not go outside the door of the tabernacle of meeting for seven days until the days of your consecration are ended. For seven days he shall consecrate you. As He has done this day, so the Lord has commanded to do, to make atonement for you. Therefore you shall stay at the door of the tabernacle of meeting, day and night, for seven days, and keep the charge of the Lord, so that you may not die, for so I have been commanded." So Aaron and his sons did all the things that the Lord had commanded by the hand of Moses. And this is the Word of the Lord. Thank you. You may be seated. Well, growing up in the circle of churches that I was in, there was a powerful pressure placed by some on young men to enter the pastoral ministry. I actually remember attending a youth conference, and one of the speakers, the main speakers at this youth conference, basically said that any young man in the churches represented at that youth conference ought to go into full-time pastoral ministry. Of course, this was problematic in many ways, But one of those ways in which it was problematic is that we ended up seeing people who had no business behind a pulpit that would speak yearly at a conference at my church in a preaching contest. I can remember one year in particular where there was a man who had not been at the church for some time, several months. And it was fairly widely known that this man was out living in the world. But at some point in his life he had apparently made some kind of a vow of commitment to full-time ministry, being pressured by some pastor, and so his boss, who was a member of the church, actually went and got this guy from his home and said, listen, you have to be in this preaching contest. So he brings this guy to the church, to this preaching contest, and this guy stands up, having not attended church for several months, possibly almost a year. And having had a testimony that was terrible living in the world, he stands behind the pulpit, and I remember that he preached from Ecclesiastes 11 verse 1, which in the memorable words of the old King James says, cast thy bread upon the waters, and it shall return unto thee after many days. And after having read his text, I kid you not, hear this guy, who had not darkened the door of the church for months, and had been living in the world, the very next words out of his mouth after reading that text were, Oh, how I love to preach the Word of God. And I remember in that moment, I wasn't sure about all the ins and outs of what it meant to be called into the ministry. I didn't understand how God worked in a person's heart to put them in that position. But there was one thing I knew for sure. That man had no business standing behind the pulpit and preaching God's Word. That was crystal clear to me. The passage before us in Leviticus chapter 8 describes the consecration ceremony, that ceremony which set apart Aaron and his sons for the priestly ministry. It sets before us a very powerful principle, and I want us to kind of see this principle and apply it in a couple of different ways. But it sets forth this important principle that God's workers must be consecrated appropriately to serve acceptably. God's workers must be consecrated appropriately to serve acceptably. I pray that this message will encourage those who are involved in leadership ministry to evaluate our own lives. And I know that perhaps this hits and targets, first and foremost, me and Ryan. And I am willing to bear that burden because that is what God's Word does. It puts us in the crosshairs. Not just people in the pews, but people who stand behind the pulpit. And so we should also submit to the Word of God. But it should also, I hope we will see, encourage all of us as God's holy priests. But finally, I hope that this will encourage us to look to the only perfect priest, that priest after the Order of Melchizedek, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. But here is our point. God's workers must be consecrated appropriately to serve acceptably. Let me first apply it to God's ministers, and say it this way, God's ministers must be consecrated appropriately to serve acceptably. Walk through the text with me. There are, I think, seven things that we should note in this passage. First, God's ministers must be publicly recognized and received. God's ministers must be publicly recognized and received. This ceremony was not Moses' idea. It was God's idea. And every element of this consecration ceremony is Moses acting in obedience to what God had told him to do. But it is notable that this was a public service. This was not just a service among the tribe of the Levites. This was not just a service that was visible only to those people who might be involved in some area of service. This was actually a ceremony in which, verse 3, all the congregation was gathered together at the door of meeting. It was God's intention that these priests be recognized as priests and received by the people. That these people would see these are the priests who will minister on God's behalf for us and on our behalf to God, and that they would note them and receive them as such. And thus we see in the first five verses that this is a public ceremony. There is, of course, a New Testament counterpart, the ordination of pastors and elders in the church. There is a laying on of hands. Laying on of hands of eldership. And of course, as we look in scripture, this public act had a similar ceremony with the appointment of the deacons in Acts chapter 6. God's ministers must be publicly recognized and received. Which brings us, I think, to relevant applications. First, the church must recognize those who labor as ministers over them. In 1 Thessalonians chapter 5 verses 12 and 13 it says, And we urge you, brethren, to recognize those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you, and to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And be at peace among yourselves. I don't bring this to you as some kind of self-promotion, but rather that we all might order ourselves according to God's Word. And God's Word, in the New Testament counterpart, has this important practical point of God's people need to recognize God's leaders in the Church, and esteem them highly in love for their work's sake. I think as well as we consider this, God's ministers must be publicly recognized and received. I think that the minister, there is another point for the minister, and that is the minister must not labor where he is not recognized or received. The minister must not labor where he is not recognized or received. Sometimes, this failure to be recognized and received is a sign that that minister was never actually consecrated for that ministry. Put it this way, there are a lot of people that, as it were, call themselves into the ministry. They think that the ministry might be an easy path, and so they kind of promote themselves. Rather than their giftedness being recognized by the church, and the Spirit's work in them being evident among the church, they kind of vaunt themselves. And in that case, where a church which is spiritual does not recognize that minister, that may be a sign that they were not so appointed by God. But there's another side to that, and that is, there are times when a minister faithfully ministers before the Lord in the midst of a congregation, and seeks to discharge all that God commands, and yet, the people of that ministry do not recognize Him, and do not receive Him. And it takes a lot of wisdom for a pastor to recognize what's going on there. But there is a time when a minister must move on. If the church does not recognize the ministry and labor of that minister, it may be time for that minister to move on. Think, for example, of Jesus' words when He sent out His disciples. And I know that there is a specific context to that, but he talked about how if they go into this town and that town would not receive them, rather than beating their heads against the wall, shake the dust off your sandals and move on. And sometimes that is what the minister must do if the congregation does not recognize and receive them as ministers. There's a reason why we have in our constitution a certain percentage that must accept the pastor as pastor in a vote. And if that percentage is not met, the pastor, potential pastor, is not received. And I think that it is wise as well that if a pastor sees a percentage of the congregation turning against him and turning the rest of the congregation against them, and they cannot salvage that work, it may be time for the minister to move on. I'm thankful that you have received me and recognized me. This is not me putting you in the crosshairs here, but God's ministers must be recognized and received. But let me move on here. Second, and more specifically hard hitting to me and Ryan and those in leadership, God's ministers must be pure. Verse six, Moses brought Aaron and his sons and washed them with water. This washing of water, this washing with water, was an external act with internal significance. The priest had to be clean physically as he went about his duties as a priest, but even more importantly, that priest was called to be pure and clean internally. God's ministers must be pure in heart. Guard your heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life." We as ministers must be pure. Over and over again, sadly, we hear of ministers who have disqualified themselves. who have not been pure in heart, who have not guarded their hearts, and have not been wise in their relationships, and have made allowances that led to greater sins and eventually great falls. We must be pure in heart. And I say this, we primarily, first of all, to me and Brother Ryan. We must be pure in heart. But we must also move on here. God's ministers must be recognized and received. God's ministers must be pure. Third, God's ministers must be properly equipped for their ministry. In chapter 8, verses 7 to 9, you see that Moses clothes Aaron with the garments of the high priest. Moses brought Aaron and his sons and washed them with water, and he put the tunic on him, girded him with a sash, clothed him with a robe, put the ephod on him, girded him with the intricately woven band of the ephod, and with it tied the ephod on him. He put the breastplate on him, put the urim and the thumim in the breastplate, put the turban on his head, also the turban on its front, the golden plate, the holy crown, as the Lord had commanded Moses." Earlier in this series we noted that the garments which the priests were to wear were to be holy. They were to be holy. They did not have the right to dress in just any way that they wanted to. The priest did not have the right to get up one day and say, you know what, it's a little bit warm today and all these robes and so forth, I think I'm going to wear shorts and flip flops. That was not His right. Those garments were garments that they had to wear continually. As they served and sacrificed, those were the garments. And those garments, which were holy garments, were, again, to be an external sign of the internal reality. They were to be properly equipped internally. But not only were the priests to be properly equipped spiritually, they were to be properly equipped physically. And we won't go into all of it, but the garments were not only symbolic, but they were functional. And just one example of that, think of the Urim and Thummim. Those stones that the priests would use in particular times of consultation of knowing what God would have them to do. That was part of their garments. So as Moses clothes the priests, as Moses clothes Aaron in these priestly garments, he is symbolically, as it were, giving him what he needs to minister and to do what he has been called to do. And so, today, the minister must be equipped for the task that is before him. Though every minister may grow in his role, and ought to grow in his role, he must not enter that role without the proper giftings and abilities. These are both God-given and Spirit-enabled, and they are intentionally, corporately, and personally cultivated. God's ministers must be properly equipped for their ministry. Fourth, God's ministers must be Spirit-anointed. In verses 10-13, you have Moses taking the anointing oil, and you notice that he anoints the tabernacle and all that's around it. He anoints the altar seven times. He anoints the utensils, the laver. He consecrates those elements of the ministry, but then he takes that anointing oil and he pours some of it on Aaron's head, and anoints him, and consecrates him. The symbolism of oil in connection with the Spirit is one that is made abundantly clear elsewhere. For example, we went through the book of Zechariah, and some of you might remember the vision of the golden lamp stand in Zechariah chapter 4. Remember the Word of the Lord, as He said, that symbolism and that oil perpetually flowing through that, He said, what it means is, not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the Lord of hosts. We, as workers, ministers for God, must be Spirit anointed. We must be Spirit anointed. If we labor without the work of the Spirit, we labor in vain. Years ago, when I first came here, Mike got me this whiteboard in the shape of a Toronto Maple Leafs jersey. And I remember at one point, I used to use it to sketch out my sermons. Now I have the great big whiteboard that I sometimes do that on, but I remember at one point, I just wrote on that whiteboard that I had seated on a chair beside the desk, and what I put on that whiteboard was, if I have not prayed, I have not prepared. Some of you might remember in years past seeing that on the whiteboard, and there's that saying, if I have not prayed, I have not prepared. It's possible for a pastor, a minister, a preacher to put together a spectacular sermon. To have all the points lined up. To have everything just riveting for the congregation. And do the whole thing in the flesh without God's power. We must be Spirit anointed. And I say this to me and Ryan first and foremost. We must recognize this. The work of God cannot be done in our personality, cannot be done in our human strength. Nothing will happen apart from God the Holy Spirit. Nothing. So a question for me. Do I cry out for His grace and His power? Do I recognize my own need? As I think about my home church and my own pastor, God did an amazing work in establishing Heritage Baptist Church of Barrie. It was a work of God's Spirit. My pastor had pastored here in the city and felt a call of God to go to Barrie and pastor there. He actually had been very successful in the denomination that he was here in the city. The church doubled in a couple of years of his ministry. And he looked like he was on the rise, so to speak, within that denomination, but he felt this burden to go to Barrie, Ontario. And he tells of that night that he felt that burden on his heart. That he, what he did that night is he just drove out into the middle of nowhere. And he spent the whole night with God. Crying out for God's Spirit to do a work. He said that he went out there and he asked, first of all, Lord, by your Spirit, reveal to me any areas of sin that I need to confess and forsake. And then he spent time confessing and crying out to God for forgiveness of those things. And then he simply spent the rest of that night praying, God, use me in any way that you would. May your Spirit work through me. He moved to Barrie. He took a job going door to door selling sort of the promotional type materials where you can have your own name or your own company logo on a cup or on a pen. And he would work for, he worked for 40 hours a week doing that. But then he said, if If it takes 40 hours a week to work a regular job, I'm going to spend at least 40 hours a week trying to reach people. And he would spend, after working 40 hours a week going door to door as a salesman, he would then spend 40 hours on top of that, knocking on doors, telling about what he intended to do by God's grace. They began their first Sunday, and there were an incredible number of people there. Within just a couple of months, my pastor was able to take a full time salary. And many of those people that joined the church and got saved in those early days are still a part of that church, though some of them have gone to glory. It was a work of the Spirit of God. Yes, He worked hard. Yes, He knocked on doors until His knuckles bled. But He cried out to God, and God, by His Spirit, did a work that would not otherwise have been done. I'm not saying this so that we get in our eyes, oh, let me have a big ministry so I have prominence. No, let me have God's power so that I may be faithful. There's so much more I could say about that. There's an entire series in that point. But I need to move on. God's ministers must be received by God through sacrifice. In verses 14 to 21, the sin and the burnt offerings that are given here are given on behalf of the priests. As we've noted before, starting right at the beginning of Leviticus, there is this principle that man can enter into fellowship with God only on the basis of a bloody substitute sacrifice. There is, of course, one sacrifice for sins forever. And the minister must be covered by the blood of that sacrifice. What am I saying? God's ministers must be saved. God's ministers must be saved. There are people that go into the ministry as unbelievers. And we might say, why in the world would an unbeliever go into ministry? Well, sadly, there are all kinds of reasons why unbelievers go into ministry. And if you read the book of Jude and the book of 2 Peter, you see warnings about these kind of people. They go into ministry because they believe that it's a means to power. Or that it's a means of gain. Money. Stuff. Or, sadly, it's a means to pleasure. Or, sometimes, they may simply be lazy people and think that the idea of standing up and preaching once a week, hey, that sounds like a pretty good gig. If it is important for others to ask, am I saved? If it is important for the person in the pew to make their calling and election sure, it is vitally important that the minister of God make his calling and election sure. And so, it is good for us to examine ourselves and ask, are we washed in the blood of the Lamb? And then we see in this passage that God's ministers must be fully committed to the work of ministry. In verses 22-30, I will not go into all of the details, but have you ever wondered about this whole thing of applying blood? You see it in verse 23. Moses kills that ram of consecration. Put some of its blood on the tip of Aaron's ear, the thumb of his right hand, the big toe of his right foot. Have you ever wondered, what is that all about? That seems kind of weird. The idea is this. It has incredible significance. What they heard, what they did, and where they went were to be sanctified. Fully committed to the work of the ministry. The portion of the sacrifice is placed into their hands before being offered on the altar and it shows that they have received this ministry and they must commit themselves to it. Put it this way, the minister must minister. The minister must serve. The servant of God must serve. There are times when it is hard, for many reasons. But the minister of God must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 1 Timothy 2 verse 3. Another way of saying this is that the minister must accept all that God places upon him. Must not resent or resist some element of the ministry, but accept all that God places upon them. And then, God's ministers must fulfill their ministry. In chapter 8, verses 31 to 36, we see the priests begin their work of the ministry as instructed. They're instructed to stay at the door of the tabernacle of meeting for seven days until the days of their consecration are ended. And they shall keep the charge of the Lord. keep God's instructions. Their full commitment was actually revealed in the doing of it. There are many who enter the ministry and take whatever vows are appropriate to their denomination. But then when it comes to the doing of it, well that's another story. Full commitment is actually revealed in service. I think of Paul's words in Colossians chapter 4 verse 17. He's probably speaking to a man who has been ordained as an elder. And he says, say to Archippus, take heed to the ministry that you have received in the Lord, that you may fulfill it. Paul would say to Timothy in his final book that he wrote, before his death, he said to Timothy in 2 Timothy 4 verse 5, but you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry. And so God's ministers must be consecrated appropriately to serve acceptably. And so this is a direct appeal to myself and Brother Ryan and any other person who would aspire to ministry for the sake of the Lord. But let me move on and note that this passage is applicable not only to God's ministers that are in some kind of a paid or vocational type of service, because We are all a holy priesthood. All believers. That is one of the things that we believe that God's Word teaches us, that we are a holy priesthood. So not only God's ministers must be consecrated appropriately to serve acceptably, but God's people must be consecrated appropriately to serve acceptably. The work of the church is not just about watching the pastors do everything. Part of the preaching ministry and part of discipleship and part of growth and grace is learning to serve with the giftings that you have in ways that are helpful to the church. The pastor should not be the only one called on to do discipleship. It's not healthy. It's not healthy for more than one reason. One reason is that the pastor can't be everywhere at once. The pastor is not omnipresent. But it's also not healthy, if I can put it this way, because the pastor is a man and not a woman. And sometimes there are women that come to faith, and though the pastor should be willing to pastor female members of the congregation, to develop an ongoing, regular, one-on-one mentoring relationship with a woman is not wise or safe. This is where, as Paul would tell, Paul would tell Titus that the older women should teach the younger women. Furthermore, the pastor cannot always be available at times and in ways that other people in the congregation are available. So we all minister, though maybe not all of us have a title of ministry. So it's not only vocational ministers that must be pure, and equipped, and spirit anointed, and saved, and committed, and working. It's all of us. Every holy priest must be consecrated appropriately so that they may serve God acceptably. I think at the heart of this, and so many other things, is the fear of God. putting God in His place and us in ours, seeing God for who He is. Hebrews 12, 28 and 29, Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace that we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear, for our God is a consuming fire. So God's ministers must be consecrated appropriately to serve acceptably. God's people must be consecrated appropriately to serve acceptably. But let me look with you finally to Christ. God's people must set their hope on the only priest who has truly served acceptably. The Levitical priesthood failed. It failed. We keep on reading in chapter 9, the priestly ministry begins, and you have this wonderful scene where God puts his stamp of approval on the ministry of the priests and on that sacrifice. Fire falls from heaven. The people rejoice. Yes, it's a wonderful thing. Chapter 10, Nadab and Abihu offer strange fire. If that's not sad enough, Aaron, the High Priest, later, with Miriam, will fail. And we know that Aaron failed already, golden calf. But later, Aaron and Miriam are going to be like, well, you know, you take too much on yourself, Moses, and undermine His authority. Aaron, that High Priest, consecrated by God, He failed. And truthfully speaking, every minister has failed. We can be grateful that some ministers' failures have not been fatal to their ministries. Sadly, far too many have been. But every minister has failed. Every minister has at times leaned upon the arm of his own strength and flesh rather than upon the Spirit. Every minister has wandered at times and not lived in holiness and purity. Every minister has at times wavered in his commitment and his own work. Yes, every minister has failed. None are perfect. And we can say that every member of the holy priesthood has failed. Every believer has failed. There's not a single person in here that could lift their hand and say, I'm perfect, I've never sinned, I've never failed, I've never fallen. Yes, we have failed. There is only one priest that has truly served acceptably, and that is our Savior Jesus. Hebrews chapter 2 verses 17 and 18, Therefore in all things he had to be made like his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God. to make propitiation for the sins of the people. For in that He Himself has suffered being tempted, He is able to aid those who are tempted." Now, if Jesus had simply been tempted and failed like everyone else, what hope and help do we have in Him? He cannot help us in our time of need, nor can He save us from our sins, for He is a sinner Himself. But that's not Jesus. Yes, Jesus was, chapter 4 of Hebrews, in all points tempted, like as we are, yet without sin. He is the only perfect priest. And as the perfect priest, He has offered the perfect sacrifice Himself. Hebrews 10, 11-14, and every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices which can never take away sins. But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God. From that time waiting until His enemies are made His footstool, four by one offering, He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified. Brothers and sisters, we are called to be holy people. But what hope do we have in our failures? Our hope is in another. Our hope is in the perfect High Priest. That high priest who, Hebrews 2.17, made propitiations for the sins of the people. Or, if I could put it the way that John puts it. 1 John 2. My little children, I write these things to you, so that you do not sin. But if any man sins, we have an advocate with the Father. Jesus Christ the righteous. And He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but for the sins of the whole world. There is our hope. Our hope is not in our righteousness. The author does not, John does not say, if any man sins, Hope in your better performance tomorrow. He says, no, if anyone sins, you have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. It is His righteousness that we plead. Or if I could put it another way, as Paul said in the book of Romans, who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifies. Who is He that condemns? It is Christ that died. The very One that has the right to condemn us, died for us. Who is He that condemns? Well, at the end of history, people will stand before the judgment seat of Christ. They will stand and give an account to Him. Jesus Himself said that the Father judges no man, but has committed all judgment to the Son. Who is He that condemns? Well, the One that has that right to condemn is Jesus. But the One that has the right to condemn us died for us. Oh, brothers and sisters, look to Jesus. Look to Jesus in your time of temptation. Look to Jesus when you have sinned. Look to Him, the perfect priest. And may God be glorified as we follow in His steps. all the way to glory. So, brothers and sisters, yes, God's people must be consecrated appropriately to serve acceptably. But when we fail, we look to the only one who has served acceptably, our Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. Well friends, our final hymn is number 354.