The sermon discusses the role of Aaron and his descendants in making atonement for Israel through offerings, contrasting this with the permanent priesthood of Jesus Christ, who made atonement for his elect once and for all. It emphasizes gratitude for Christ's sacrifice, ensuring eternal redemption for believers, and highlights the significance of names written in the Book of Life. The sermon concludes with a call to confess sins and trust in God's grace for salvation, urging believers to share the good news of Jesus' death and resurrection.

1. Making Atonement
for Israel
Sermon adapted from,
Discovering Christ Day by Day, David Fortner
May 3
Today’s Reading: 1 Chronicles 6-7

2. 1 Chronicles 6:49 NIV But Aaron and his
descendants were the ones who presented
offerings on the altar of burnt offering and on
the altar of incense in connection with all that
was done in the Most Holy Place, making
atonement for Israel, in accordance with all that
Moses the servant of God had commanded.

3. 1 Chronicles 6 gives us the genealogy of Levi.
How defective and fluctuating that legal
priesthood of Israel was.

4. Hebrews 7:23 NIV Now there have been many of
those priests, since death prevented them from
continuing in office; 24 but because Jesus lives
forever, he has a permanent priesthood.

5. Reading of that priesthood that is no more, that
priesthood that could never put away sin by all
their countless sacrifices, how we ought to
rejoice and give thanks to our God for Him who
continues forever an unchangeable Priest over
the house of God, our Lord Jesus Christ, who is
able to save to the uttermost all who come to
God by Him.

6. 1 Chronicles 6:31 NIV These are the men David
put in charge of the music in the house of the
LORD after the ark came to rest there.
David appointed specific men to lead singing in
the house of God, “after that the ark had rest;”
and their singing was all about God’s greatness,
God’s glory, and God’s salvation, everything
looking to the mercy-seat and the atonement
blood on the mercy-seat. So it should be in all
our solemn assemblies.
Temple Singers

7. Ephesians 5:19 NIV speaking to one another
with psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit.
Sing and make music from your heart to the
Lord, 20 always giving thanks to God the Father
for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ.
Colossians 3:16 NIV Let the message of Christ
dwell among you richly as you teach and
admonish one another with all wisdom through
psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit,
singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.

8. Let every song be filled with Jehovah’s praise,
giving thanks to God for His great salvation
through the blood and righteousness of His
dear Son, our great Savior, the Lord Jesus
Christ.

9. As we behold the sons of Levi and remember
their sacrifices to the Lord, Spirit of God, give
us grace to remember our great Savior, who
made His soul an offering for sin that we might
be made the righteousness of God in Him, and
lift our hearts with joy to Him in songs of praise
and thanksgiving.
Sons of Levi

10. How thankful we ought to be to and for the Lord
Jesus, typified by these men, who wears a
vesture dipped in blood and ever lives to make
intercession for us by the will of God! He is our
almighty, effectual, saving Priest of a better
covenant, established upon better promises.

11. The law made men priests which had infirmities;
but Christ is our perfect, holy Priest,
consecrated with an oath by Him that swore and
will not repent.
Psalms 110:4 NIV The LORD has sworn and will
not change his mind: "You are a priest forever,
in the order of Melchizedek."
Hebrews 5:6 NIV And he says in another place,
"You are a priest forever, in the order of
Melchizedek.”

12. He takes our cause, our persons, our poor
offerings, all that we have, and all that we are
into His nail-pierced hands, and perpetually
presents us an offering
acceptable and well-pleasing to God,
acceptable and well-pleasing to God by the
merits of His blood and righteousness,
acceptable and well-pleasing to God in union
with Himself!

13. 1 Chronicles 7 continues with genealogical
records. In the short span of these first seven
chapters thousands of men, their lives, and their
deaths are covered in a few short pages.
How insignificant man is!
What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a
little while and then vanishes. James 4:14bc NIV
Not even the memory of a man’s name commonly
survives a generation or two. How utterly
meaningless and insignificant is man!
Insignificant Man

14. Yet, the Son of God became one of us, that He
might save poor, worthless sinners like you and
me, that He might make of vanishing,
sinful mists, sons of God forever!
John 1:14 NIV The Word became flesh and made
his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory,
the glory of the one and only Son, who came
from the Father, full of grace and truth.

15. Carry from our reading today the words,
“making atonement for Israel.”
1 Chronicles 6:49 NIV But Aaron and his
descendants were the ones who presented
offerings on the altar of burnt offering and on
the altar of incense in connection with all that
was done in the Most Holy Place, making
atonement for Israel, in accordance with all that
Moses the servant of God had commanded.
Atonement

16. May God the Holy Spirit inscribe these words
upon our hearts and memories.
The atonement made by Aaron and his sons for
Israel pointed to the death of our Lord Jesus
Christ to make atonement for His elect,
the Israel of God.

17. The Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, died
upon the cross more than 2000 years ago.
Though He was crucified by the hands of wicked
men, He died according to the will and purpose
of God.
Acts 2:23 NIV This man was handed over to you
by God's deliberate plan and foreknowledge;
and you, with the help of wicked men, put him to
death by nailing him to the cross.

18. He died as a sin-atoning substitute for a specific
people.
Isaiah 53:8 NIV By oppression and judgment he
was taken away. Yet who of his generation
protested? For he was cut off from the land of
the living; for the transgression of my people he
was punished.

19. By His death upon the cursed tree, the Son of
God finished the work of atonement.
John 19:30 NIV When he had received the drink,
Jesus said, "It is finished." With that, he bowed
his head and gave up his spirit.

20. Brought in an everlasting righteousness.
Daniel 9:24 NIV "Seventy 'sevens' are decreed
for your people and your holy city to finish
transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for
wickedness, to bring in everlasting
righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy
and to anoint the Most Holy Place.

21. Obtained eternal redemption.
Hebrews 9:12 NIV He did not enter by means of
the blood of goats and calves; but he entered
the Most Holy Place once for all by his own
blood, thus obtaining eternal redemption.

22. Purchased an inheritance in heaven for
somebody.
Ephesians 1:11 NIV In him we were also chosen,
having been predestined according to the plan
of him who works out everything in conformity
with the purpose of his will,

23. Without question, all for whom He died shall be
saved by His blood and enter into heaven at
last, because, he will not falter or be
discouraged till he establishes justice on earth.
In his teaching the islands will put their hope.”
Isaiah 42:4 NIV

24. Isaiah 53:11 NIV After he has suffered, he will
see the light of life and be satisfied; by his
knowledge my righteous servant will justify
many, and he will bear their iniquities.
His blood was not shed in vain.
All for whom the Savior died must be saved!
But, for whom did He die?
Did the Lord Jesus Christ die for you?
He died for His sheep, for God’s elect.

25. John 10:11 NIV "I am the good shepherd. The
good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
Is it not absurd to imagine that He died for those
who were already in hell when he died? Christ
died for those for whom He makes intercession.
He makes intercession for some, but not for
others.

26. John 17:9 NIV I pray for them. I am not praying
for the world, but for those you have given me,
for they are yours… 20 "My prayer is not for
them alone. I pray also for those who will
believe in me through their message,

27. Do you not think it ridiculous to hear men
declare that the Son of God died for people for
whom He refused to pray?
The Lord Jesus Christ died and made
atonement for all who trust Him. If you believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ, He died for you.
Your faith in Him is both the gift of His grace
and the proof of His grace to you.
Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and
assurance about what we do not see.
Hebrews 11:1 NIV

28. So All Israel were
Listed
Sermon adapted from,
Discovering Christ Day by Day, David Fortner
May 4
Today’s Reading: 1 Chronicles 8-10

29. 1 Chronicles 9:1 NIV All Israel was listed in the
genealogies recorded in the book of the kings of
Israel and Judah. They were taken captive to
Babylon because of their unfaithfulness.

30. What a succession of men and monarchies have
passed through the world whose names, whose
works, whose riches, whose momentary fame
no one knows! Yet, scattered among those vast
numbers of men spread over the face of the
earth is a people, poor and despised, unknown
among men, whose names are held in
everlasting remembrance, because they are the
Israel of God.

31. Rejoice, my soul, that your name is written in
heaven, written in the Lamb’s book!
Think of that great day soon to come when the
dead, both small and great, shall stand before
God in judgment.
Written in Heaven

32. Revelation 20:11 NIV Then I saw a great white
throne and him who was seated on it. The earth
and the heavens fled from his presence, and
there was no place for them. 12 And I saw the
dead, great and small, standing before the
throne, and books were opened. Another book
was opened, which is the book of life. The dead
were judged according to what they had done as
recorded in the books.

33. 13 The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and
death and Hades gave up the dead that were in
them, and each person was judged according to
what they had done. 14 Then death and Hades
were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire
is the second death. 15 Anyone whose name
was not found written in the book of life was
thrown into the lake of fire.

34. With every memory of everlastingly forgotten,
but everlastingly damned souls, blessed Lord
Jesus, give me grace to remember and give
thanks to You for Your great grace and Your
great salvation. You have delivered Your chosen
people from the wrath to come.

35. For that great deliverance by Your blood and
righteousness, by Your power and grace, by
Your love and mercy, I rejoice and give thanks
for the pleasing, glorious hope that my name,
worthless as it is, is written in heaven!

36. When the children of Israel returned from
Babylon, which is where 1 Chronicles 9:1
begins, the people returned to their beloved city,
finding Jerusalem and Zion as a plowed field.
How sad the picture! Jerusalem was ruined by
sin. Yet, how little we think of sin’s effect!
If God so punished Israel,
what security does any other nation have?
If God spared not the natural branches, what
must the nations of the Gentiles expect?
Heal Us

37. Let us this day, for ourselves and for our nation,
confess our sins to God and beg His mercy.
O Lord God, visit us again in mercy!
Come with grace to pardon, grace to sanctify,
grace to bless, grace to deliver, grace to renew,
grace to heal all our diseases.
Hosea 6:1 NIV "Come, let us return to the LORD.
He has torn us to pieces but he will heal us; he
has injured us but he will bind up our wounds.

38. 1 Chronicles 10:13 NIV Saul died because he
was unfaithful to the LORD; he did not keep the
word of the LORD and even consulted a medium
for guidance, 14 and did not inquire of the
LORD. So the LORD put him to death and turned
the kingdom over to David son of Jesse.
Saul’s Ruin

39. Such shall be the end of every rebel sinner
dying with his fists in God’s face, eternally
abandoned by every friend and eternally
abandoned by God in hell!
O precious, precious Lord Jesus, keep me, keep
me in Your hands, keep me in Your grip,
lest I depart from You at last!

40. HAVE YOU HEARD THE GOOD NEWS?

41. Jesus died on the cross for our sins.

42. He was buried and rose on the third day.

43. When He did this He solved 2
problems we all have.
He solved our sin
problem because
He nailed our sins
to the cross; &
He solved our grave
problem when He rose
from the dead because
it proved we could also
rise from the dead.

44. Jesus said, if we want to get in on of all
this we must . . .
BE BORN AGAIN.
FOLLOW HIM; &

45. ISN’T THAT GREAT NEWS?
WHO ARE YOU GOING TO SHARE
THE GOOD NEWS WITH TODAY?

46. Mark 16:15 NIV He said to them, "Go into all the
world and preach the gospel to all creation. 16
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved,
but whoever does not believe will be
condemned.
Numbers 6:24 NIV '"The LORD bless you and
keep you; 25 the LORD make his face shine on
you and be gracious to you; 26 the LORD turn
his face toward you and give you peace.“’