Exodus chapter 25, did our Lord
preach on the tabernacle on that road to Emmaus? Quite possibly. Hebrews, the whole book of Hebrews
deals extensively with all of this. Jehovah is the God of Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob. Jehovah. You probably didn't
notice, I didn't point it out to you, but in Genesis chapter
1 and 2, it says God, just the name God. And then chapter 2,
after man's created, he starts calling himself the Lord God.
From then on it's the Lord God, the Lord God, Jehovah God. because He's the God of His people.
He said, I'm the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, Jehovah. And the Lord God, Jehovah, revealed
to Israel, to His people, the way, and there's only one, to
worship Him. The way. You've got to have a
tabernacle. You've got to have a high priest.
And you've got to have a sacrifice, a burnt offering, a blood atonement,
don't you? And these three, you know, are
one. They're all the Lord Jesus Christ. Look at chapter 25, look at verse,
and I was so pleased with the response of so many of you that
asked if you wanted the outline. But the problem with that is,
is I keep studying and And there are more things than you didn't
get them. Verse 8 and 9 is vital. Let them make me a sanctuary
that I may dwell among them, according to all that I show
thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle. The pattern of the
instrument. It's a pattern. The Lord is going
to give the blueprint. Pattern of all things. And these things, a pattern,
as you men that have done some building, you know, that's the
blueprint. You've got to follow the blueprint of the building.
It can't just wing it, can it? And if it's made up, the blueprint,
by an expert, an architect, it's done well, the whole building
will fit perfectly on it. It starts with a foundation and
so on. But there's a pattern, there's
a blueprint. And our Lord said this, see that you make all things
according to the pattern. Look at verse 40. Look that thou
make them after the pattern. Don't change a thing. God says
this is it, right here. Every jot and tittle is ordered
in all things, I'm sure. These things are types, they
typify someone. They are symbols, they are Shadows,
the scripture said, of the truth. Christ is the truth. A pattern. When Christ came, this is how
you're going to know He's the Christ, because He fits the pattern
perfectly. Perfectly. These things are the
shadow of the truth. When you were young, did you
ever have one of those silhouettes made of your face? When we were
in art class, we did that. What we did was we took a light
and cast a shadow on a piece of paper and then traced it.
Okay? And then you made this silhouette. You did that. And if you look at, that's the
person. That is them. But it's just a
shadow. I mean, it's a likeness. It's not this person. But that's
how you know. And you look at that shadow and
say, yeah, that's him. From the shadow. So when Christ
came, he fit everyone in. It's vital. God doesn't change. Hebrews 13.8 says Christ is the
same yesterday, today, and forever. Religion has God changing from
the Old Testament, doesn't it? And they've pretty much thrown
out the Old Testament. And they've made—man's the one
that changes, not God. Man has changed the truth of
God into a lie, has changed the glory of God, and on and on it
goes. God hasn't changed. And the way
God is to be worshipped is one. It's still the same. a high priest, and a blood atonement,
and these three are one person, because Christ is all, and in
all of these things. And he's in all of his people.
He's the way, the truth, and the life, and all of God's people
know that. True Jews know. True Israel knows that Christ
is all. He's the only way to worship
God, alright? This tabernacle, and I was going
to, you know, Leviticus 26 says, I will tabernacle among you. I will walk among you. Christ's
tabernacle among them. And the church is his tabernacle
too, where he dwells. Alright, the first thing, verse
10, look at it. The principal piece of furniture. The very first thing in this
tabernacle that he mentions. was, verse 10, the Ark. The Ark. The Ark of the Covenant. And
all the way through the Scriptures it talks about the Ark of the
Covenant of the Lord. It never just says the Ark. It
does here when he's telling about it, but then after it's done,
it's the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord. The Ark of the Covenant
of the Lord. It's not just any old box or
receptacle. This is the Ark of the Covenant
of the Lord. All right? An ark is, the name
means box. In the Old Testament, the ark
means casket, coffin. Isn't that fitting? When Noah
went into that ark, he was, as it were, buried, wasn't he? And we are buried with Christ,
crucified with Christ. Christ came to die. We died in
Him. Everything was in this ark. Everything. Hebrews 9. Go over to Hebrews
9 and leave it open there because we'll go back and forth. Brethren,
we're going to try to cover the whole ark in 30 minutes. I mean
the whole tabernacle. Hebrews 9. He sums it up. John read this in a study last
Wednesday. Chapter 9 says the first covenant
had ordinances of divine service and a worldly sanctuary, that
is, a tabernacle made with hand. There was a candlestick, a table,
a showbread, which is called the sanctuary. After that, the
second veil, holiest of all, verse 4, golden censer, an ark
of the covenant, overlaid round about with gold. It was made
of wood covered with gold. That's Christ's humanity and
his divinity. God was manifest in effect. In that ark, here it is, verse
4, was the golden pot that had manna. Christ is our bread. Aaron's
rod that budded. Moses reigned and ruled over
the children of Israel and made all of his decrees and divided
the Red Sea with that rod. And that's Christ. He is the
sovereign rod or hand of God that budded his fruit unto the
Lord. And the tables of the covenant,
the law was in that ark. People broke the law while the
law was being written. Remember? At the very time the
law was being written. And before that, they were breaking
the law. And when Moses came down, he
dashed those stones, those laws, on the ground and symbolized
it. You've broken every one of them. But God had him make two
more tables intact. And they took those two tables
of the law, those ten commandments, and put them in that ark. They
will not be broken. They're kept, completely kept,
in that ark. That's Christ, our law keeper. He kept the law for us. This
ark, you know what this ark was all about. The whole ark, everything
about it, it was a vessel of mercy. Because what covered that
ark, look at verse 17, make a mercy seat, pure gold. Oh, the gold inside of our Lord
God. A mercy seat. This was the covering
of the ark, pure gold. This art was all about mercy. This is where the blood was going
to be shed, the blood of sacrifice. That blood would be poured over
that mercy seat, covering the Lord, sealing it all up. You know this ark, they've never
washed that ark, the blood off of it. They just kept pouring
it over there. Kept pouring it on until finally it just looked
covered. It was gold, but it was covered
with this dry blood, brown. We're going to see that badger
skin in a moment. But oh, it's gold. It covers. It just covers. And it kept pouring
over that. And look at verse 20. The cherubims, he had them make
two cherubims with their wings facing each other and their faces
looking one to another toward the mercy seat. And that 1 Peter
1.12 says these are the things that angels desire to look into. And so do all of his people.
We're someday going to be as the angels of God, aren't we?
And we're all going to be looking at one another and looking at
him. It's what it's all about. Verse 21, he said, Put the mercy
seat above the ark, and in the ark that thou shalt put the testimony
I give thee, and there I will meet with thee, I will commune
with thee from above the mercy seat. This is where God meets
the sinners, the mercy seat. We're going to sing that song,
aren't we? It's the mercy seat. Christ is
the mercy seat. There was a table of showbread. Look at verse 23. Again, it was
made of wood and covered with gold. That's a table. Verse 30. Thou shalt set upon the table
showbreads before men." Always before men. The table of showbread. I wondered why it's called showbread. Never thought about that. It
was a table where the bread was baked fresh every morning. It
wasn't stale bread. Oh no, you don't offer the Lord
stale bread like that manner of old. You don't keep it over
until you need new bread the next day. It's like new grace.
But our Lord Jesus Christ is the bread and His mercies are
new every morning. We're to gather from Him and
feed upon Him daily. Yesterday's grace is not sufficient
for today. We need new bread. But show bread
means it was always on display. Show means nice. That bread on display. Is there anything like bread?
Is there any food on earth like bread? Nothing like it. Nothing
like it. The look of it. The smell of
it. If you weren't hungry, if you
smell bread, you will be. Oh, the taste of it. Oh my, just
to see it, the look of it, what goes into making bread is amazing. What does it start with? Seed. That's what grain is. Seed. Separated. Winner from the chaff. What seed is it? The grain, that
grain of wheat that fell into the ground and died and came
forth, the bread of life. And that bread is beaten, I mean
that seed is beaten in it. We're going to see the oil was
beaten, the gold was beaten, that seed was beaten by hand. To make this bread, you have
to knead it by hand, don't you? You have to lay your hands on
it. God laid his hand on Christ,
and the hand of God fell on a crack, didn't it? Oh, dough, dough wonderful, it
almost feels like skin, doesn't it? Feels like a little ball
of dough, feels like a baby's body. Doesn't it? And it's warm,
it's just beautiful, isn't it? God did this. And then what do
you do with it? Put it in the fire. Put it in the oven. And then
when it comes out, the bread of life. That's Christ in it. Showbread. And it's on display
all the time. On display. Christ, the table of showbread. Look at verse 31. There was a
candlestick of pure gold at seven, six branches, one main reservoir. It all came. All of it got its
light from that main reservoir. That's Christ. He said, I'm the
vine, you're the branches. Christ is the light, isn't it?
His church is called the candlestick because we're not the light. John said, I'm not the light.
Christ is that light. But the light he gives us, we
bear witness unto him. We go forth with this light.
He said, you're the light of it. Well, who is? He is. So the
light we give is his light. We try to show men that he is
the light. And this candlestick was lit
with oil and it was beaten, pure, virgin. Why is everybody so keen on virgin,
extra virgin? Because it represents Jesus Christ. Oil, oil, beaten oil, beaten
work. The candlestick was made with
verse 36, beaten work of pure gold. Again, our Lord Jesus Christ
was literally beaten by his stripes. Did they have to hit him like
that? Why did God allow them to beat him up like that? Because
he fits the pattern. You see that? This is amazing. Who could have written this but
God? Is that your Christ? See, this is your Christ. The
world doesn't know these things. They don't care. What's the point? Christ has got to fit the pattern. If he doesn't, he's not the Christ.
If he's changed at all, he can't save you. So these things can't
save you. Hebrews makes many points about
these things can never save, but they're a pattern, they're
a type, a shadow of the truth, who by his one offering, Sanctified
his people, redeemed his people, paid for their sins forever. Alright, the tabernacle itself,
chapter 26. Thou shalt make a tabernacle
with curtains. And all of these curtains were
of one cloth, linen, which is flax. A very common plant, flaxwood,
oh, but so useful. Flax, he used every part of it.
That's Christy. It should grow up as a tender
plant, as a root out of dry grass. And you get everything from him
you need. Food and rain. But this linen was what the priests
wore. Underneath the high priest, all
of his garments, elaborate garments, was the foundation, the girdle,
the ephod, was linen. Even his sons wore these, you
see, Father Lennon. This is the garment of our high
priest and his people. And over in Revelation 19 it
says, verse 8, the white robes that all of his people wear is
the righteousness of saints. It's a robe that Christ wove
with his own hands, the work of his hands. The king's daughter
brought to him in royal apparel. Who made this royal apparel?
They didn't make it. He made it. The prodigal son,
the father, had the best robe waiting on him. When old Bartimaeus
threw away that rag, those rags he would wear, who clothed him?
Christ did. In Revelation 19, it says this,
the righteousness of saints. Remember our Lord talked about
the wedding garment and how one man came in without one arm.
Who provides the bridesmaids clothing? Do they just go out
and pick anything they want to? Huh? No. The groomsmen. Who does that? Huh? The parents of the bride. I like this better. You're not
coming in. You're not going to stand by
the groom. You're not going to stand by the bride if you don't wear
what's provided for you. I'm not splitting hairs here,
but the truth is at stake. In the New King James Version
of the Bible, it says, it reads this way. Their robe is the righteous
acts of the saints. That's what it says. Look it
up. Throw that book in the trash can. Brother Allen Jellett was
here one time years ago and he was using that and I said, Brother
Allen, do you realize what this book says? And I showed him and
he said, and he did, he threw that book in the trash can. He
said, I'll never use that again. Thank you for showing me. Now
that man's forgotten more than I'll ever learn. But like a little
child, he saw that. That's a complete denial of the
gospel, right there. The righteousness we wear, the
robe we wear, is not something we weave or make. It's not by
works of righteousness which we have done. It's His work of
righteousness. Is that important? You don't
know God if you don't know that. You don't have salvation if you
don't know that. So he said, alright, now these
curtains Now there were boards, down in verse 15, to make boards
for the tabernacle. This building, this temporary
tabernacle, not the temple, but this temporary tabernacle, this
tent, it was mobile, you know, because it had to go with them
everywhere they went. But there was boards, and each
board, a shed of wood, Impervious to decay, insects, nothing could
touch it, just like our locusts. But these boards had two feet. Every board had two feet. And they were stuck down in the
ground in a foundation of silver sockets. That's the price of
redemption. Silver has always been. Our Lord
was sold for 30 pieces of silver. And all our salvation hangs on
the feet and the redemption and the price that our Lord Jesus
Christ made. As a man, like that should have
been. It's covered with these curtains, all these curtains.
Now, three curtains. Look at verse 14. Verse 7. Verse 7. Make the curtains, first thing,
on the inside, what you'd see on the inside is goat's hair.
It was white. Right? Not ring-straight speckled
her body. It's white. And wasn't that a
good study? Ring-straight speckled his body.
That's wonderful, isn't it? But it was goat's hair on the
inside. You go on the inside of that
tabernacle and what you'd see is white. The next covering over there,
verse 14, was Ram's skin dyed red. Christ is the scapegoat. We're
going to look at that, Lord, on Wednesday night in Leviticus.
He's the holiness, our holiness unto the Lord. And his blood,
that's that Ram's skin. Ram is a male sheep. And that,
who is this that cometh from Bosworth, his garments dyed red,
his eye mighty to save, walk the winepress alone. And then covered over that, this
is amazing. This is like I've never seen
it before. We haven't. Then on the outside of that was
a brown covering, badger skin, badger's tough, isn't it? Badger's
just an old common animal, don't mess with it. But it's brown,
okay? So it's brown on the outside,
red in the middle, white on the inside. That's our Lord. Never think about Him. Holiness
unto the Lord on the inside. His blood shed for the remission
of our sins. And He was just a plain man. A common-looking man. You couldn't distinguish Him
from any other man on the outside. And the Hivites and the Hittites
and the Perizzites and all the other ites would ride by and
they'd see that brown tent and all these people around it and
all that and everybody so excited and everybody milling around
this brown tent. I know, you know what they all
said, what did they see in that? They saw no beauty in that. That
no comeliness in no that brown tent. No, no. You've got to be
one of his chosen, one of his called, and you're going to have
to come on the inside. If you come with me on the inside,
that's where you'll see the ship climb up, glory to God. Oh, we
see Jesus in a plain brown-skinned man, made a little lower than
the angels. Why? For the suffering of death.
Oh, but now he's on the inside, the holiest of holies, high and
lifted up, and you can't paint a picture of what he really looks
like now. You can't paint Revelation 1. You can't paint the sun. Nobody has. That Thomas Kincaid,
he's a liar. He can't paint light. You can't look at the sun in
the flesh. That's Christ's sin. So these
three coverings. Then verse 31. I can't do it
in 30 minutes. Sorry, you'll have to hang around.
Verse 31, make a veil. Chapter 26, verse 31. A veil of blue, purple, and scarlet.
Fine twine. Linen, again. Chair beams all
over it. This veil, as we looked at before,
blue, that's the sky. That's where he came from. Purple,
that's royalty. Scarlet, that's his humanity,
his sacrifice. You know, the four Gospels give
those four aspects of Christ. Three and four aspects. Chapter
26, verse 31. The veil. Now, and the chair
beams were all over it. And it was very thick. This fine
twine linen had all this embroidery work all over it. You know, if
you take a, if you do a tapestry, can you tear a tapestry at hand?
Just one layer? Well, about three layers. It
was as much as four to six inches thick, this veil. This veil,
as you know, you know this thing. We love the Talmud, you know.
This veil separated the holiest of all, where the Ark was, the
Ark of the Covenant, from the inner court. Then you had the
outer court outside the Tabernacle, but the inner court where the
candlestick, the showbread was, and the laver, and the incense.
And on the inside was the ark. And in this veil, between the
holiest of all, where only one man, Hebrews 9 says, one man
could go in there, not without blood. And I'm not going to deal,
well I am going to deal with it. He had a garment, on his
garments were bells, And they said, you need to hear those
bells ringing. They put bells on the hem of
his garment. That woman said, I just touched
the hem. Why did somebody name it the
hem? Because it's him. But anyway,
he had these bells on his hem of his garment. And while the
high priest was in there, everybody needed to hear those bells. Because
if the bells quit ringing, God killed him. God's angry. God's not accepting the sacrifice
on our behalf. This man went in with this blood
of a substitute on behalf of the people. They can't go in.
He has to go in. One man, alone, under the veil,
into the holiest of all, with these bells on it, and they're
hoping, people are hoping that the bells keep ringing. And then
when By the grace of God, he'd come out from under that veil
with a smile on his face. And the people believed, and
God accepted the sacrifice. But he had to keep doing it,
and keep doing it. And nobody could go in there but him. When
our Lord died on Calvary Street, what he said, it's finished.
All these types and symbols and shadows and ceremonies and pictures,
oh Christ finished it all. He fulfilled it all. Perfectly. He fit the pattern perfectly.
Christ and him. Crucified. He is the mercy, see.
He is the life. He is the bread. His body broken
for that. He is the lamb slain. And when
He said it's finished, what happened? When He said it's finished, He
took away the first, established the second. It's finished. What
did God do? Lift the veil from the top to
the bottom. What does that mean? Then He
would come, everybody, all you common priests, All you commoners
come right on in with boldness in the very holiest of all, where
God is. You're accepted in the beloved. This veil separated. And Christ,
God tore that veil when God tore His body. Alright, there was
a door, verse 36, chapter 26, verse 36. A hanging for THE door. There was one door. There was
one way into that tabernacle, right? There was one door in
the Ark of the Covenant. There was one door in the tabernacle.
There was one door in the temple. What did Christ say about the
way? He said, I am the door. By me, any man enter in. There's
no other way. Fair claim to that, I said. And
again, that door was blue and purple and scarlet. Our Lord. These three are one in His glorious
person. Alright? Where am I? The door. And then you have the outline. Tell me. The altar. Chapter 27. Look at verses 1
and 2. It was an altar of shit of wood.
It had horns. Verse 2. Horns all around it.
What were the horns for? To lay hold of. Horns. What were the horns of? Ram. The animal was killed to make
that altar. What was that altar all about? Go to Hebrews 13. You need to look at that. Hebrews 13. That altar was where
the sacrifice was made, wasn't it? It was slain and put on that
altar. What kind of altar was it? Wood,
and he burnt wood and he burnt a lamb on it. A burnt altar. Remember, Isaac said, here's
the fire, here's the wood, where's me? It's all about burning a
lamb on that altar. That's all it was about. Okay? Christ is the altar. Christ is
the lamb. Christ is the high priest. Christ
is the tabernacle. Christ is the door. Christ is
the table of shelter. Christ is the candlestick. Christ
is all. Christ is the veil through his own flesh. into the Holy
of Holies. Christ gives this altar in religion,
and some of you all came up through Baptists or Methodists, whatever
it is, and what did they have down front? An altar, didn't
it? A mourner's bench. Anybody remember
the mourner's bench? What in the world is that? We
have a mourner's bench, and it's the mercy seat, and it's not
a thing, it's a person. Look at Hebrews 13, verse 10.
We have an altar where they have no right to eat which serve the
tabernacle. That is, if people are coming
down to a thing, they've missed Christ. There is no altar down
here. We have an altar down here. It's
a person, and he's in heaven itself. I remember my dad and
Scott and all of them saying, come to Christ, but don't move
a muscle. Don't come down front, he's not down here. Come to him
right now, he's in heaven itself. He is our altar, he said. He is the one we sacrifice. He is the Lamb slain. So, see,
Christ is all of this. Go back to the text. Exodus 30. Go over to Exodus 30. There was
a laver, a basin of water to wash in. Chapter 30, verse 18. You have it. Make a laver of brass. And Aaron and his sons, verse
19. This is, you're going to put this between the tabernacle
and the altar. After the sacrifice was made,
he would wash his hands and go into the holy place. And Aaron
and his son shall wash their hands and their feet thereat. And they go into the tabernacle.
They shall wash with water that they die not. You have to wash
in this water or you'll die. You're not going to come in unclean. You're going to wash in this
water. Christ is the labor. Christ is the water. What did
our Lord do right before he went into the holiest of all with
his own precious blood? He washed his disciples in John 13. And having loved
his own, he loved them to the end. And then he took a basin
of water. He took off his garments, took
a towel, girded himself, poured water in a basin, a laver, and
he stooped down and washed their feet. And Simon Peter said, no,
don't do that. He said, if I don't wash you,
you won't be clean. You have no part in it. You can't
come to God and, I don't wash you. After he did, he said, do
you understand what I've done? They didn't really, but we did.
And as Peter said, wash me all over then. Wash me all over.
He said, I have, and you're clean. Save your feet. So Christ is the water. Christ
is the labor. Okay, go back to the text again.
In Exodus 27, I think. I need to look at your alphabet. Verse 9, here it is. Yeah. There's
an outer court. The court. You have the inner
court and the holiest of all, and then an outer court. See
that? Verse 9, outer court. And I gave
you Revelation 1, I think it's 6. Did I give you Revelation
1, 6? Did I? Weren't you looking at
John? No, I'm kidding. I'd rather you
looked at me. I looked at the Word. But that
verse, I think it says, that thou hast made us kings and priests
unto our God. Doesn't it? Okay. The outer court was where
all the common priests would gather. All of Aaron's sons would gather.
They all couldn't go on the inside. High Priest alone. Right? But the other, the common, all
of his sons would gather in the outer court. What were they doing?
Washing pans and taking the ashes out and cleaning and sweeping
and taking care of things. What were they doing while they
were doing it? Talking. conversing, communing with each other. God had called them to be priests
and they were gathered together. What was it all about? The sacrifice. The high priest. They were servants
of His. It was all about this high priest
going in there and offering up His blood and all these sons
of His are all out there talking about it. And they just did this all the
time. Every day, day in and day out, for 40 years, they gathered
in the outer courts, commuting together. That's us. Here we are. This is the outer
court. This is the top right of God.
What a blessing to be made a priest unto our God. We don't offer
the blood. The high priest did it. But we talk about it, don't
we? Commune around it. And then there
was a gate, verse 16. Yeah, a gate. Once again, in
this outer court, there was one way in. And you know, all of
these gates, the door, the gate, the veil was facing where? Come
on, kid. Where's the sun come up? East. East. And that morning, they
did this early in the morning. He'd open that door, what happened?
The sun was rising, and that light flooded that place. He opened that gate into the
tabernacle, where light flooded it. And boy, when he tore the
temple down, it was light on the inside and light on the outside.
This whole place was full of light. Face of the East. So, that's the gate. That's the door. Christ, the
Son of Righteousness arose. And then, lastly, and it's not
lastly, but it's the last I'm going to deal with. Chapter 30,
there was an altar of incense. We're not even going to deal
with the high priest's garments. We're looking at the tabernacle
and all of the pieces of furniture. But chapter 30, verse 1, you
make an altar to burn incense upon. An altar of incense. And that was right before the
holiest of all, where the high priest of old would come with
that vessel of blood, having washed his hands, and come to
the veil right there. Before the veil was this incense
going up. Oh, sweet and the spices. We've
looked at all the spices before, how they represent His mercy
and His grace and His love and His righteousness. All these
principal spices. There are all these principal
spices, five of them. Anyway, this incense was burning
right before the veil. Always a sweet-smelling savor.
And the breads, inside that place was just glorious. So that incense, what's that?
What's this incense? That's the prayers of our Lord
Jesus Christ. What did he do right before he
offered himself as a burnt offering? Prayed. John 17. There's some
beautiful prayers in the scripture. Some wonderful prayers. Hannah's
prayer. Daniel's prayer. Ezra, Nehemiah, wonderful prayer.
Solomon's prayer at the temple. But none like our high priest,
the prayer of our Lord Jesus Christ in John 17. He said, Father,
I have glorified that name. I have glorified that name. And
he went on, I will that they be with me where I am. Where's
that? In the holiest of all. And his
prayers went up and God heard him. And you know what? Look,
I want you to listen to this. Our Lord is the only mediator
between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. He's the one through
whom we pray. He's the mediator. Not Mary,
not Saint Christopher or whoever, Jesus Christ. He's the only mediator.
The only one. His prayer, the effectual, fervent
prayer of that righteous man availed everything. Secured our
redemption. And Christ said, I didn't pray
for the world. I don't pray for the world, but
I pray for these that thou hast given me. For thine are mine,
and mine are thine. And I will that they be with
me." And that's the will of the Father. Everyone seeth the Son.
Have you seen the Son? Seeth your neighbor and believeth
on him. He said, I have every trust in
life and I'll raise him up. He's going to come in the holiest
of all with me. The doors are going to be wide
open to cry. And we're coming in with the
very holiest of all. And it says in Revelation, in
closing, Revelation 8, Verse 3 says, I saw another angel come
and stood at the altar having a golden censer, and it was given
unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers
of all saints. What does Romans 8 say? We know
not what things we should pray for, but we do pray for them.
Does God hear our prayer? Every one of them, in Christ,
through Christ. You see, it was the high priest
that took this incense in there. And he says, we don't know, but
the Spirit knows, and he makes intercession for us with groanings
that cannot be uttered. So the Spirit of God is that
angel that takes the prayers of Christ and his people and
goes unto God and is all accepted in the beloved. Let's look at
it again next week. We just touched the hem of this
garment.