Everyone on earth has sinned and deserves eternal separation from God. We all face a gaping chasm we are unable to bridge on our own—the chasm between a holy God and a sinful human. In the Old Testament, two goats and a “fit man” were needed to provide temporary forgiveness of sin. What was the role of the fit man? What does the fit man mean to us today? When you understand the fit man, your life changes forever…
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his name shall be called Jesus for he
shall save his people from their sin the
penalty of sin the bondage of sin the
addiction of sin the old things have
passed away and I am a new creation
because Jesus made me CrossFit Leviticus
the sixteenth chapter verse eight then
Aaron shall cast lots for two goats one
lot for the Lord and the other for the
scapegoat
I’ll stop there for the sake of time and
then go over to verse 21 and Aaron shall
lay hands on the hurt on the head of the
live goat everybody say the live goat
and confess over the iniquities of the
children of Israel and all the
transgressions concerning their sins
putting them on the head of the goat and
shall send it away into the wilderness
by the hand of a fit man the King James
says a fit man or the translation I was
reading says it’s suitable I like the
wording of the King James a fit a fit
man the fitness industry is a twenty
seven billion dollar industry I shared
this little information during the fast
but I want to now apply it to a message
to lean in for a moment but 80% of those
who join at the beginning of a new year
a fitness center will quit by the second
week of February February though dropout
fitness centers sell memberships on the
expectation this is pretty remarkable
that only eighteen percent will continue
to use them beyond February and if
everybody showed up who has memberships
they would not be able to contain the
people but they know they just know
statistically people get excited about
the idea of being fit but it just
doesn’t last only one percent lasts a
year in a fitness center only one in
five
we’ll go longer than a month so you buy
it and you sign up and you’re in and
you’re excited for a max of about three
to four weeks listen to this those who
sign up and join a fitness center but
never go are a fitness centers best
customer the elaborate machinery the
sleek sexy TV commercials that if you
buy this piece of equipment or you join
this fitness club you’ll get that
sculpted body that’ll make you the envy
of everybody around you and yet most
people if we told the truth are in love
with the idea of being fit but we lack
the discipline that it takes and I’m
saying we so smile we lack the
discipline that it takes to really be
fit only 18 percent will use that
Fitness membership more than a couple of
months and then they just fall away it’s
a good idea we think to be a fit man but
we lack the discipline in this scripture
something amazing is taking place there
is a search going on for a fit or
suitable man for a certain task that is
critically critically important it means
blessing or curse it means life or death
it means incredible good things
happening to families are bad bad things
happening to families under the Old
Covenant it’s the day of atonement
atonement means to appease to forgive to
pardon to purge to cancel out at 1 min
is how atonement is spelled that that
somehow there’s something that’s going
to be done on this day that will make
people who are far from God at 1 meant
with God again get God back to man he
said you are to take two goats the high
priest is to take two goats on the day
of atonement and offer
a sin-offering it took two goats one was
not sufficient it was one offering but
it required two goats and I’m going to
tell you why the first goat was called
the Lord’s goat everybody say the Lord’s
go the reason it was called the Lord’s
goat is it was offered as a sacrifice
for sin it had to meet the price of the
justice of God and God had said the soul
that sins must die secondly without the
shedding of blood there is no remission
of sins so the first goat had to die it
had to die it’s blood had to be shed and
so they would kill it and it represented
taking an offering sin offering and and
forgiveness of sin for every sin that
was committed then there was the second
goat that was called the scape goat as
sca PE we would call it the escape the
escape goat and this is an interesting
scene and I want you to picture it in
your mind the high priest would get with
every family and it would take sometimes
weeks and weeks and months leading up to
the big day of atonement when the animal
one would die and one would be set free
and and what he would do with the living
goat is the families would come one by
one and present themselves to the high
priest and they would confess out loud
every sin they had committed over the
past 12 months the children the parents
the grandparents you can imagine this
confession service where all the people
were standing around it produced a
certain amount of anxiety and I’m sure
embarrassment among the people imagine
how husband’s were looking at wives you
did what and wise we’re looking at
husbands and taking wedding bands off
and and children were looking at their
parents you did what what kind of
parents are you and then children were
confessing out loud while that was
happening why was that necessary let’s
say
this is the goat the escape goat the
high priest would lay his hands on the
head of that goat transferring
everything they were confessing out of
their mouth through his hands into that
goat that goat was taking every sin that
family had committed and they would
stand there until they had completely
confessed to him every sin they could
think of and I’m sure that there were
tears and I’m sure that there were
sorrows and I’m sure that there was
weeping the priest would lay his hands
on that goat transferring the sins into
that goat and then the goat would be
taken by a fit man he had not just any
man he had to be a fit man because of
the task the task was very very not any
man would do not any man could handle it
not any man not not any man could just
survive the wilderness experience
because he had to take it so far away
that he could never find its way back it
would bring a tremendous curse on the
people if the goat that all of the sins
of the camp had been transferred onto
somehow came back it would be the
tragedy of tragedies so catch it the
first goat had to shed its blood and die
and it was used for forgiveness of sin
but the second goat was used for the
removal of sin freedom from sin the
release from sin separation from sin it
was taken away I just need to preach
that it’s not enough to come to Jesus
and get your sins forgiven there is that
this is why the death and resurrection
of Jesus Christ is so powerful because
it took two animals one had to die and
one had to live you had to have the
blood of the sacrifice er and you had to
have the life of the liberator to take
the sin away and look at look at my
Jesus he dies as the sacrifice er but
three days later he rises back to life
as the liberator
and says I can take you I can take this
out of your
you don’t have to be bound to see it I’m
glad you got forgiveness of sin but you
can be free from addiction free from
condemnation free from shame and guilt
free from alcoholism somebody’s watching
me by television and you’ve almost
wanted to put a gun to your brain
because the enemy’s told you you can
never be free but Jesus cannot only
forgive your sin he whom the Sun sets
free is free indeed he can liberate you
from sin somebody give God praise if you
believe it’s the truth let me give you
an illustration of what I’m talking
about see I could back up in the parking
lot and I could hit your car and mess
your car up and you could say to me if
you were a nice person pastor it’s okay
I forgive you I have a bad dent in my
fender but I forgive you you don’t have
to pay for it you are forgiven that’s
what the first goat did but the dent is
still there but if there was some way
that I could not only be forgiven of it
but somehow the dent could be taken out
and taken away how awesome would that be
this is what Jesus did for you when he
died and rose from the grave when you
get to heaven they’ll open the books and
there will be no proof nothing there but
the blood of Jesus that has cleanse you
from all your sins and the proof is gold
the death is gone
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the first goat was to forgive you for it
the second goat was to separate you from
it I’m glad you gave your heart to the
Lord but if you went right back to what
you were doing living just like you were
living you have not experienced the
Savior in his fullness when you really
get saved there is separation there are
things that leave your life if you
didn’t if you didn’t lose nothing you
didn’t you didn’t get nothing if you
didn’t leave nothing you didn’t get
nothing you don’t get saved to stay in
the field that you were rescued out of
that separation matters and so there’s a
search trying to find a fit man who can
escort the goat so far into the
wilderness fit man who who nobody will
would never told the name of a fit man
even though this ceremony happened once
a year so you have to decide if you’re
gonna be fit or famous sometimes you
can’t be famous and popular and be a fit
man sometimes you can’t be a fit father
and be famous with your kids because
sometimes you know a higher good and
because you know a higher good that
their youth and inexperience doesn’t
know you have to be willing to be
perceived as a bad father but really
you’re being a good father because you
know the higher good sometimes God is
perceived as being a bad God but but but
he who knows everything sees a higher
good he’s working and even when when it
looks like he’s a bad god he’s really a
good God cause he knows where
everything’s gonna end up in the end
and and so and so they’re looking we’ve
got to find a fit man not a famous man
not a player
we need a fit man we need a man who is
fit he won’t get any praise he won’t get
any honor his name will never be
mentioned but he will be he will be fit
the word fit means suited for the task
proper and decent capable of surviving
the environment ready and willing to
sacrifice morally mentally physically
sound headed into the wilderness with a
goat that carried all the sins of the
people and the whole thing was upon him
to get that goat so lost that it could
never with its instinct find its way
back to where it bent it had been so
well taken care of
he’s going into a lonely land
he’s not going to be famous he’s going
to be lonely he’s going into a land of
thirst and hunger and fatigue it’s
wearisome it’s a wilderness experience
and God says that’s the kind of man that
I need I don’t need a famous man I don’t
need any man any man won’t do I gotta
have some fit men we need some fit men
we need some fit fathers we need some
fit mothers we need some fit preachers
we need some fit people who who are
willing to walk through the wilderness
and willing to do things that other
people aren’t willing to do because they
want to please the Lord
a man who would find his way back home
after he got the goat lost because if
you’re not careful it’s possible to lose
yourself while you’re trying to help
somebody else he’s got to bear the goat
and take it so far away and why are you
trying to help everybody else with their
stuff you’re losing yourself a man who
could get the sin bearing goat lost
without getting himself lost in the
process how important the great
of Horus would be a fat goat and
that sin made its way back to that
family to that camp the chief concern
for a fit man was his family was his
children was his home was his people all
of the blood of atonement would be
wasted if it comes back and so many
times we ask God for forgiveness of sin
and his shed blood and death has paid
for that forgiveness of sin but then
there comes this thing of being filled
enough with the Holy Spirit that we get
liberated from sin and we puts in a
separate way from us this little thing
of just praying a prayer and then live
in any way you want to folks that is not
Bible salvation salvation requires
separation from iniquity and wickedness
and evil and known sin and transgression
the fit man really needed to love God he
had to be trusted he didn’t need to be
unfit meaning not morally and mentally
suitable lacking good judgment couldn’t
stand the pressure of a hostile
environment if you’re fit man you can
get in a hostile environment but it
doesn’t change who you are you can go to
the office party and everybody can be
doing whatever they’re doing and you go
in there and you do your thing because
you need to do it but it doesn’t change
who you are wherever you go you’re a fit
man you don’t want those goats to come
back because if they come back they’re
gonna find your children and it’s gonna
get greater than Amis bondage is gonna
get greater on that house you don’t want
that stuff back get get the goats away
from my family was the cry of the end of
the fit man Locke was an unfit man lot
would not separate himself from Sodom
and Gomorrah even though their sins
vexed him he would not put any distance
between he and his faith
from iniquity and the Bible said he lost
his wife and she turned into a pillar of
salt lost his two children he failed two
horrible sexual immorality all of that
because a man was unfit I’ve been
preaching all of that to get to where I
am right now the tragedy and the truth
is this in the Old Testament there was
never a fit man who was strong enough to
keep that goat away from the camp every
year it would come back or they would
have to do it all over again they could
never completely remove it all they
would do is go through the routine again
and it would come back and they would
send it out and it would come back and
they would send it out once a year once
a year once a year but something begins
to happen the Old Testament is a shadow
of better things to come and just as
they were searching for a fit man God
the Father sat on the throne and he
looked down and he said the priest can’t
fix it the blood of goats and lambs
can’t fix it Hebrew said the blood of
goats and lambs it’s not possible that
it can take away the sins of the people
I need me a fit man wonder can I find an
angel this worthy can’t find an angel
can I find Abraham no he lied can I find
David know he was an adulterer is there
anybody in heaven worthy is there any
fit men then Jeremiah takes the
telescope of prophecy and looks down and
he gives a prophecy says I see something
coming on the earth and in those days
sins shall be salt for but not found
he said there’s coming a day there’s
coming a day when their sins will be
taken so far away that it won’t keep
coming back and coming back and cursing
and cursing but there will be a fit man
who will show up on planet earth and he
will forever remove David got an insight
and he said let me tell you what this
fit man comings going to do he said as
far as the east is from the west so far
has he removed our transgressions from
us
if you’da said North Pole to South Pole
you could measure that but he said east
to west there’s no measuring that and he
said there’s somebody coming I don’t
know his name I don’t know who he is but
there’s gonna be such a fit man that
he’s not just gonna forgive the sin by
his death and by his blood but he’s
gonna by his life his resurrection take
the sin away and though men might seek
for it it will never be found again
guess who I’m preaching about I’m
preaching about your Jesus he’s gonna be
fit here’s the title of my little sermon
I’ve been so excited to give you this
time he’s CrossFit I’ll get happy over
that you know you
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that’s my Jesus his name shall be called
Jesus for he shall save his people from
their sin the penalty of sin the bondage
of sin the addiction of sin he’ll give
them the release of sin there’ll be new
creations the old things have passed
away that’s gone the old me is over and
I am a new creation because Jesus made
me CrossFit I got the fit man in me and
he makes me fit enough to say no to the
rome and yes to the right give God a big
praise if you believe it took two goats
in the Old Testament but it only took
one lamb in the New Testament John the
Baptist said behold the lamb of God that
takes away sins of the world I’m
preaching today a radical gospel I’m
telling you that when you truly get
CrossFit you’re not satisfied to just
ask for forgiveness and let the thing
come back and come back and come back
but there is something in you when the
fit man fills you with his glory and
with his power it says I want you Holy
Spirit to take this out of me take this
addiction out of me take this fear out
of me take this torment out of me take
this suicide spirit out of me and take
it away and I don’t ever want it to find
me again and Jesus you’ll never be fit
enough with willpower
you’ll never be strong enough with I’m
gonna try to be a good person again
you gotta get the few must be born again
you got to get the fit man
new then he’ll change you on the inside
there’s a king in the Bible by the name
of Ahaz and his father and his father’s
father wicked wicked wicked wicked
wicked the Bible said that they they
caused their children to pass through
the fire they burned children to demon
gods as human sacrifices and a has who
was a a child sacrifice idol worshiper
had a boy named Hezekiah and Hezekiah
had an encounter with his God and just
because your father was not a fit man or
your grandfather or your mother or your
grandmother just because they never did
right here’s the beauty of this thing
Hezekiah was raised in a family of demon
worshippers witchcraft sorcery offering
children’s blood is sacrificed to demons
gods but Hezekiah said just because they
weren’t fit doesn’t mean I can’t be fit
just because they couldn’t hold their
marriages together and all they had was
addiction in prison and bondage and
death and nobody wins and nobody’s happy
and nobody I am not under the curse I am
under the blessing and a blessing starts
here and now because I’m CrossFit I
surrender to Jesus I take up my cross
and he says I’ll bless you and the curse
can’t come back to your house those
goats are gone forever shout now if you
believe what I’m preaching
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expecting powerful wonderful things that
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you’re my deliverer you’re my king and I
give you my life in Jesus mighty name
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