One of my favorites, Exodus 30. Exodus 30. Since all you girls
are here, you reckon I get you sang today? Not all the girls anymore, but
that's all the way I know how to dress you. Yeah, grandmas. Oh my, still
the girls. Still the girls. Boring sisters. Oh boy, what a blessing they've
been for, well, as long as I can about remember. As long as I
can about remember. Love them so much. Let's start
reading here in verse 11 and read down through verse 16. This
is going to be where my message is from today. And the Lord spake unto Moses,
saying, When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel
after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom
for his soul unto the Lord, when thou numbers them, that there
shall be no plague among them when thou numbers them. This
they shall give everyone that passes among them that are numbered
half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary. A shekel is
20 giras and half shekel shall be the offering of the Lord.
Everyone that passes among them that are numbered from 20 years
old and above shall give an offering unto the Lord. The rich shall
not give more and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel.
when they shall give an offering unto the Lord to make an atonement
for your souls. And thou shalt take the atonement
money of the children of Israel, and shalt appoint it for the
service of the tabernacle of the congregation, that it may
be a memorial unto the children of Israel before the Lord to
make an atonement for your souls. Our Father, O Abba Father, holy,
righteous, infinite, eternal, glorious in being, mighty
in power. Lord, we are so thankful in our
hearts that you know us. You know us better than we know
ourselves. And what we know of ourselves is bad enough. But what you know of us, you
knew of us before the world ever began. You chose us. You chose to love us. You chose
to redeem us. You chose to call us. You chose
to save us. And you chose us to spend eternity
with you and enjoy your blessed presence forever and ever. Oh,
what thanksgiving. what peace, what comfort, what
assurance we have in your blessed gospel. And Lord, all because
you will to do it, it pleased you to do it. And Lord, I ask
that it please you today to be with us as we preach and as the
saints here, as we've gathered out to worship the true and living
God. And if it would please you also, Lord, to send the gospel,
send conviction, send trouble, send burden, to send the weight
of sin upon the unconverted, especially upon those that we
love, our children, our grandchildren. Lord, they'll never know, never
have any interest unless you go after them. They'll never
come after you. You have to go after them. And
I ask if you'd please you that you'd do that. Bring glory to
yourself today in this service. Honor your blessed son. It's
in his name we pray. Amen. With me here in Exodus 30. Let me read these verses to you
again and the reason being to make my introduction. The
Lord spake unto Moses. It's God speaking now. He's talking to Moses. Very few
people God spoke to in his scriptures. He called Abraham his friend
and he spoke with Moses as with a friend. And when thou takest
the sum of the children of Israel after their number, Then shall
they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the Lord when
thou numbers them that there be no plague among them when
thou numbers them. This they shall give everyone
that passes among them that are number half a shekel after the
shekel of the sanctuary. A shekel is 20 giras. and half
shekel shall be the offering of the Lord. And every one that
passes among them that are numbered from twenty years old and above
shall give an offering unto the Lord. The rich shall not give
more and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel when
they give an offering to the Lord to make an atonement for
your souls. And thou shalt take the atonement
money of the children of Israel and shalt appoint it for the
service of the tabernacle of the congregation that it may
be a memorial unto the children of Israel before the Lord to
make an atonement for your souls. Atonement money, redemption money. To talk about money and redemption money and atonement
in the same breath seems like a contradiction, seems like a
synomaly to talk about money and redemption. Especially when the scripture
says we were not redeemed with such corruptible things as silver
and gold, but with the precious blood of Christ as the Lamb slain
without spot and without blemish. And know you not that you're
bought with the price with the precious blood of Christ. But
here it is. I read it to you. It's in black
and white. It's the Lord telling Moses what
to do. It's there. It's called atonement
money. Atonement money, making atonement for your souls. God
told Moses to number the children of Israel. That's why there's
a book called Numbers right after Leviticus and that's what it's
about. It's about numbering the children
of Israel. Everybody that's 20 years old and upward to 50, they
numbered them. They took a poll out of every
tribe. And every one of those that was
numbered, every one of them that passed under the rod, every one
of them, there was 600 and something thousand of them. They counted
that for their army. And they, every one that was
over 20 years old must pay a half a shekel as redemption money. And when they brought that redemption
money, There's three things that the four things that they understood
by this bringing their redemption money. And bringing their atonement
money, they confess three things. First of all, they confess that
they deserve to die. You don't need an atonement,
you don't need redemption if you're not in need. If you're
not in need. And I'll tell you the second
thing that it tells us this is that they understood that they
was in debt to God. that they owed God a debt. And in bringing their half shekel,
their third thing is they confessed that they were in need of redemption.
We need redeeming. We need atonement. We need atonement.
And the atonement money was typical of that great redemption price
that would be paid for the souls of sinners by He that should
come. It's a picture of that. It's
typical of that. Of that great atonement that
our Lord Jesus Christ would make when he came to take our place
on the cross. And we're also taught the fourth
thing is this, that God's people are redeemed people. Psalm 107
verse 2 says this, Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, them whom
the Lord has redeemed. And I also know this, I know
this, that if men reject the redemption that God ordained,
this is something God ordained, this is something God taught,
this is something God spoke to do. If men reject the redemption
that God ordains, then that's evidence, proof that they're
not His people. Proof that they're not His people.
And I know that the true believer, God's people, those who have
been numbered, have been numbered, who can be numbered, have been
redeemed from sin by the blood of the Lamb. I know that. I know
that those whom God has numbered, there's a number that He says
is a number that no man can count, a number that's without, He said
a number that's without Numberless you can't count the number. He
said out the redeemed Those that around the throne a multitude
that no man can number And but God has them all numbered. He
knows every one of them there is And I know that those that
God has numbered and counted among his people Have been redeemed
from their sin by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ the Lamb
of God And also know this about the believers, those that God
has numbered, whether they know it yet or not. See, there was a time these folks
hadn't been numbered. When God said number them, then
He says they're going to be redeemed. But also know that those who
have personally been numbered have received the ransom that
the Lord provides knowing that God only accepts what he himself
provides he only accepts what he provides and if he don't provide
what we need then he won't accept us everything that he requires
of us he gave us so everything he gives us that's the only thing
that he'll accept if he don't give us the blood then he won't
accept If He don't call us, He won't accept us. If we ain't
been redeemed, He won't accept us. If we don't believe His truth,
He won't accept us. And I know that those, beloved,
who the Lord provides that ransom, and He only accepts what He provides. Instead of taking redemption
money in their hands, they bring the Lord Jesus Christ They bring
the Lord Jesus Christ to be theirs. And they say, Lord, here's my
only hope. Here's my only plea. Here's my only acceptance before
you as your blessed Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. That's my
only acceptance before you. In my hand, no price I bring,
simply to the Lord Jesus Christ I claim. And the only ones numbered,
now listen to this, the only ones numbered were the redeemed.
The only ones numbered were the redeemed. Men count heads, but
God looks on the heart of those who have received His blessed
Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Now let me give you a few things
about this, this redemption money and show it as a picture of our
Lord Jesus Christ and our salvation by Him. First, this redemption
was personal and for every individual. What does it say in verse 12? He says in the middle of the
verse, Then shall they give every man a ransom
for his soul unto the Lord. Every man shall give a ransom
for his soul. Every single person, every man.
He didn't say not a nation. He didn't say every family. But
every man. Every man. I'll tell you a personal
individual, his position had nothing to do with it. His birth
had nothing to do with it. His wealth had nothing to do
with it. All was alike before God. Every man has to offer to
the Lord for his soul. You keep Exodus 30 and look in
Psalm 49. Every man, it doesn't, their
position, their power, their wealth. There were princes in
Israel, but even those princes that were numbered, they had
to do this too. Everyone, even the priest's son,
all of them is over from 20 to 50. Psalm 49, look over here
with me for a moment. It's in verse 6, Psalm 49, 6. Oh, the position, birth, wealth,
everybody's alike before God. Look what he says here. They
that trust in their wealth and boast themselves in the multitude
of their riches. And boy, there's lots of folks
who do that. Trust in their wealth. Boast
themselves in the multitude of their riches. None of them. None of them. can by any means
redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him. Why
can't he? For the redemption of their soul
is precious. And once this redemption is accomplished,
this redemption is done, it ceases forever. It don't have to be
done again. That's what he says, for the
redemption of their soul is precious. If a man could pay God And I
tell you what, he would do it, but here's the thing, he says
that every man, and it's a personal redemption, every man has to
give the Lord a ransom for his soul. And it's personal. Paul says, I am crucified with
Christ. Nevertheless, I live. Yet not
I, but Christ liveth in me, and the life I now live, I live it
by who? The faith of the Son of God,
listen to it, who loved me and gave himself for me. So it's
individual, it's personal, and everybody's got to face this
for themselves. It's a personal redemption. I'd
love for God to save my children, but if Christ has paid for them,
believe me, they will someday. And if He hasn't, they won't.
That's just the way it is. One of the, I can say like Paul,
I'm crucified with Christ. Where was I crucified at? When
He died. My salvation and the salvation
of these people that we're talking about. That, our redemption,
our salvation and the payment for our sins was made 2,000 years
ago. It wasn't made, my redemption
didn't become possible for me and good for me and I wasn't
redeemed when I believed. I was redeemed, that's why I
did believe. I was redeemed from the foundation
of the world. I was numbered from the foundation
of the world. Was you? Oh listen, there's not a general
or universal redemption, that don't give anybody any comfort.
This idea, and it's an awful idea, it's an awful message that
people are preaching. A horrible message. That God
loves everybody. If God really loved everybody,
there'd be not one soul that would perish. And if Christ died
for every man, there'd be not one person that would ever face
the judgment because Christ either died for him or he died in vain. If anybody's in hell whom Christ
died for, then Christ's death is in vain. Is that not right? And if God loves you, there never
was a time He didn't love you and there'll never be a time
He'll cease to love you. It's the most wonderful thing.
Shirley is talking about today. She says she's thinking this
morning about how infinite God is. That He knows me, He sees
me and understands me. He knows me better than anyone.
He knows me! He knows what I think, He knows
what I feel, He knows what I experience. He knows the thoughts and intents
of our hearts. And I tell you this, when a man
learns that by God, the first thing he'll do, he'll turn to
God. When he realizes that God knows him intimately and knows
his thoughts and intents of his heart, you know what that soul
will do? He'll call on God that quick. And I tell you, and let me tell
you something else about this redemption back over here in
Exodus 30. The ransom price was fixed by
God Himself. Look what it says in verse 13.
This they shall give everyone that passes the number among
them half a shekel. This is what it says. After the
shekel of the sanctuary. God Himself fixed the price. You know what a shekel, a shekel,
I'll look this up. In today's money it's 32 cents. A shekel is worth 32 cents. They
measured their money back then by weight. And a half a shekel
would be 16 cents. 16 cents. If you're talking about
shekel, but it's the shekel after the sanctuary. God himself fixed
the price of the salvation of a sinner. No more, no less. Man doesn't decide or fix the
price of what he's gonna give for his salvation. He doesn't
fix the price of what he's gonna do for his salvation. He doesn't
fix the... His free will can't will to have
it. He's not waiting for his chance. He can't come and say, well,
I'm gonna offer my prayers. My prayers gotta count for something.
My work's got to count for something. My sincerity's got to count for
something. My good living's got to count
for something. My being good to somebody's got
to count for something. God says that I fixed the price,
nothing more, nothing less. I made the price and you're going
to go by my price or you ain't getting it. I'll tell you somebody
that offered a the price that he thought was right. Two men
went up to worship the Lord. Two men, Cain and Abel. Abel,
he brought a lamb. And he shed the blood of that
lamb. And he offered that lamb unto
God, speaking of the Lamb of God that would come. And his
offering was a blood sacrifice. His offering was the innocent
dying for the guilty. Abel said, I am a sinner. I'm
without hope, I'm without God, and I'm without Christ. And God
showed me that if I come to Him, I've got to come with blood.
Somebody else has got to die in my stead, or I'm going to
have to die. Well, he had a brother. And this brother was older than
him and you know what, he understood, he knew the same God, he said
he knew the same God, going to worship the same God. You know
what he brought to worship with? You know what he brought as an
offering? He brought some corn, he brought
some beans, he brought some tomatoes. He brought of the fruit of the
ground and the sweat of His own labor. And He brought what He
Himself had worked out and provided for Himself. And He brought the
works of His hands before God. And you know what God said? I
ain't gonna have it. And it made Cain so angry, so
angry, with God since he couldn't get to God because God fixed
the price that he himself says, I'm so mad at God I can't get
to God so I tell you I'll get to the next best thing, I'll
get to my brother and I'll kill him. And that's what he did. And Cain offered a more excellent
sacrifice and God himself testified of it. I mean Abel, Abel offered,
not Cain. Abel offered a more excellent
sacrifice. Thank you, Gary. I didn't even know I'd said it
till you shook your head. Oh, you're right. Yeah. And God
said, I found a ransom. I found a ransom. When Job was
being taken down into the pit, God says, bring him up out of
the pit. How's it come? I found a ransom. Deliver him from going down to
the pit. And where did he find that ransom?
Did he find it in Job? Did he find it in his goodness?
Did he find it in his worth? No, God found the ransom in his
own blessed son. Look in Matthew 20. Matthew 20. Matthew 20. Look here at this. Matthew 20, 28. You know, God found the ransom
in His own blessed Son. The scripture says that it pleased
the Lord to bruise Him. To make His soul an offering
for sin. And He shall see of the travail
of His soul and shall be satisfied. Look here in verse 28. Even as the Son of Man came not
to be ministered unto, but to minister, and listen to this,
and to give his life a ransom, for who? For many. Who is the
many? The numbered. And I tell you what, the price,
God fixed the price before the foundation of the world. That's
why Christ stood as the Lamb slain from the foundation of
the world. Now back over again here in verse 13 of Exodus 30. And this redemption, this atonement
is the only one that met God's holy demands. And he says a half
a shekel, in verse 13, a half a shekel after the shekel of
the sanctuary. Now what does that mean, after
the sanctuary? It must be according to what
God had laid up in the tabernacle. a shekel according to His weight,
according to His standard. Not the standard of the world,
not the standard of commerce. It had to be the same weight,
it had to be the same type, it had to be everything, you see,
it had to be. It must be according to the,
put up in the holy place according to God's standard. Not the shekel
of commerce, you know, that's wore out. wore down, not tarnished, it
had to be after the shekel of the sanctuary. And our atonement,
our atonement must meet the requirements of God, the requirements of His
holiness. We got to have atonement to meet
God's holiness. God dwells in holiness, you know. He dwells in the beauty of holiness.
We must have an atonement that meets the requirements of His
holy law. And when we talk about the law,
we're talking about the moral law. We're not talking about
all the things that God told Israel to do. We're talking about
love God and love your neighbors yourself. And where can we find
this perfect weight? Where can we find this standard
according to God's standard? Where can we find someone that
God put in the balances and found him weighing Perfect. Where is that person at? Only
in our Lord Jesus Christ. Only in His blood. Only in His
righteousness. That is what we can and must
bring. He is the one that met God's holiness. He is the one
who kept God's holy law. He is the one who was put in
the balances and weighed. He's the one whose only righteousness
that we can have and we can come to God with. And I tell you his
ransom was perfect. Our Lord Jesus Christ's ransom
was perfect. He paid the full price. He paid
what God's holiness, what God's justice and broken law demanded. And I am certainly, certainly
thankful for that. There's people who honestly think
they are holy. I was talking to a man yesterday
and he talked about he certainly was grateful for the grace of
God. And he goes to a Methodist church and me and him and I was
talking. We've talked a couple of times and he said, I'm thankful
for God's grace, he said, because I'm such a sinner. That's what
he said. And I said, yeah, I am too. Because
I tell you, I think you're going to get better as you get older
and you come to find out you get worse. God says, be ye holy as
I am holy. Some people take that to understand
that they have to live some kind of a life. Dress a certain way,
act a certain way, go certain places and not go to certain
places. But where are we going to get a holiness at that makes
us equal to God's holiness? Where are we going to get that
at? And you know, holiness is a state of being. Was God any
more holy at one time than He is another? Was our Lord Jesus
Christ any more holy than He was at another? And if God says,
Be ye holy as I am holy, where are we going to get this holiness
at? Huh? He hath perfected forever them
that are sanctified by Him. And God made Christ unto us righteousness,
sanctification. That's what holiness is. He's
our sanctification. Our holiness is in Christ. That's
where our holiness is at. And what about God's justice?
Oh my. Everybody talks about God's a
just God. And He is. He really is. And He dealt with us in justice.
He dealt with us in justice. Where did he deal with us in
justice at? Where did he deal with us in justice and punish
us for our sins? Punish us for our foolishness
and our iniquities and our transgressions and our trespasses and our hatred
and our enmity and our loathemness and all the corruption, all the
things that's wrong with who paid for our, who satisfied justice
for us? The Lord Jesus Christ did. Where was God's justice satisfied?
Arise, O sword, and smite my shepherd. He saw the travail of his soul
and was satisfied. And that broken law. That's why
I don't want the Ten Commandments. Everybody is upset because they
take the Ten Commandments here and take them down there and
they don't like them here and they don't like them there. Listen,
you go to Exodus 20 and you read the Ten Commandments, and if
you found yourself keeping any one of them, you're lost as a
white goose in a snowstorm. If you could face God's law,
and the first thing is, thou shalt have no other gods before
me. That's the first one, thou shalt have no other gods before
me. And Paul says that covetousness
is idolatry. Covet fame. Covet recognition. Covet honor. Covet to be recognized. Covet to a greater position. Covet money. Covet anything. And Paul said that's idolatry. And the next one is, don't make
no image. Don't make no image. And how many people runs around
with an image of Jesus on the back of their car with crowns
of thorns around their head. And God said, don't you make
no image of me. And the first four commandments
has to do with just Him. The next six has to do with how
we treat one another. Christ is the end of the law
for righteousness to whom them that believe. And let me ask
you this, if he didn't fulfill every law, if there's not a law
he didn't fulfill and didn't come to the end of it, what would
it be? What would it be? And all that He is, and all that
law that He fulfilled, He magnified it and made it honorable. And I tell you what, He's the
end of the law for righteousness. If you're going to be saved by
law, you've got to keep it all of it, the whole Ten Commandments.
Well, our Lord Jesus Christ did. He magnified it and made it honorable.
And when we believe Him and come to Him, That righteousness that
the law was fulfilled becomes ours as if we ourselves had kept
it ourselves. Now, ain't that right? Huh? Oh,
he was weighed in the balance of God's sanctuary. And I tell
you, he's a perfect weight. And I tell you what, they tried
him. He was tried. Isaiah 28, 16 says he was the
tried stone, precious cornerstone. He was tried in every way. Like
that half a shekel. He was laid up in the sanctuary
and he was accepted. He's weighed by the law. He was
made a curse. He put the curse away from him.
Tried by man. They said, we find no fault in
this man. He said, which of you convinces
me of sin? Tried by Satan. In every single way. and he had
no part in the Lord Jesus Christ. Tried by his father. Gave him
a work to do and he says, Father, I finished the work that you
gave me to do. Now, give me the glory I had with you before the
world was. And he's tried by death as a
corn of wheat falls into the ground and abideth alone. But if it died, It bringeth forth
much fruit. And our Lord Jesus Christ brought
much forth fruit. He came up to the standard set
in the sanctuary. And let me show you something
else about this. Here in verse 15 of Exodus 30. The ransom was
alike for every single one of them. Look what he says. The
rich shall not give more and the poor shall not give less.
When they make an offering to the Lord atonement for their
sins. The rich shall not give more and the poor shall not give
less. And that means every man requires
redemption. It's the same for all. It's the
same for every soul. If you as a king, whether you
as a prince or you as poor as a church mouse, you had to pay
the same. Whether you as a philosopher
or you as a peasant, whether you as the preacher or whether
you as a prostitute out on the street. All men, no matter of
their position, no matter of how high they were or how low
down they were, whether they were rich, whether they were
poor, whether they were educated or uneducated, it absolutely
made no difference. The rich could not give any more
and the poor didn't have to give any less. And you know this is
the greatest offense of the gospel? This offends people in the gospel
more than anything else. You ladies and you men, you may
not be a drunk, may never had been one. May not been a drug
addict, may never been one. There's a lot of things you ain't
done, and there's a lot of people you look down on, but I'll tell
you this, that if you are redeemed, It takes the same price to save
the fella who's sittin' on the throne as it does the fella who's
livin' in a little old bitty shack. It takes the same redemption
to save the best mother that the children think's the best
mother that ever lived and a prostitute out here on the street. And God
sees them all exactly alike. One may be worse in the eyes
of men than the other. But here's the thing about men
all being alike in the sight of God. Every man's depraved. Depravity means that man's got
a fallen nature. Now everybody's not as bad as
everybody else can be. But everybody in the sight of
God is as bad off as they can be. You have a child, drug addict. Get up every day, all they think
about is what I can get. They get up in the morning, where
am I going to get my dope at for the day? And you got another
one over here, you got another child. Works hard. Makes an exceptionally good living.
Moral. Loved, liked, admired. Loves his family. Provides for
his family. Both out of the same family.
Both of them lost. Is it going to take any more
to save this one than it is this one? We make a difference, God doesn't.
We look down on people, God says they're all in the same shape.
And that's what's so blessing about the gospel. That's what's
so wonderful about the gospel. You can't turn your hand for
the difference in any member of the human race because you
ain't done it. The only reason you didn't is
God kept it. The only reason you and I are
not a Muslim, killing people, is God made the difference. The
only reason we're not in some church this morning with some
priest giving us this hocus pocus and throwing water in our face
is because God made the difference. And that's the offense of the
gospel. You mean to tell me that God's going to regard me no different
than He regards anybody else on the face of this earth? That's
what I'm telling you. That's what I'm telling you.
And I love it like that. You know what? That gives hope.
Not only for me, but everybody that I love and care for and
I pray for. Oh, that gives me hope for. If God could save me, Who couldn't he save? Oh, listen. It was the like for
all. And that's the offense of the
gospel. It puts everybody exactly in
the same place. Don't it? And let me show you
this. The ransom was the only ground
of acceptance. The only ground of acceptance.
said this is what they'll give to the Lord to make an atonement
for the souls. Here all men are on common ground.
God's no respective persons. No merit, no wealth or poverty. Nothing is accepted except the
half a shekel. And you know what God said? To
as many as received Him, to them gave He the power to become the
sons of God which were born. Not of blood, not of the will
of the flesh, not of the will of men, but of God. But of God. And I tell you what, there is
only one salvation, one redemption that God will accept. And the
Lord Jesus is our Redeemer, the only ground of our acceptance.
Let me give you this over here just in a minute. Let me show
you in Romans 5. Look in Romans 5. Let me show you this, and I'll
be done here in just a minute. Look what it says in Romans 5.8.
There's only one ground of acceptance.
But God commendeth His love toward us, in that while we were yet
sinners, Christ died for us. since he died for us, much more
than, being now justified by his blood, right now justified,
cleared of all guilt before his blood, accepted of God, justified,
we shall be saved from wrath God's wrath will not fall on
us because it fell on Him. Justified by His blood, we shall
be saved from wrath through Him. For if, when we were enemies,
enemies of God, enemies of grace, enemies of righteousness, when we were enemies, we were
reconciled to God by the death of His Son. If that's how God
took the death of His Son and brought us together and made
us as one, Much more, see how much he does this, much more
being reconciled will be saved by his living, by his life shall
be saved because he lives. And not only so, not only just
that, but we also joy in God, boast in God, glory in God through
our Lord Jesus Christ, listen to it, by whom we have now received
The atonement. Oh, and it was accepted by the
Father. Accepted by the Father. Let me show you over in Exodus
38 and I'll be done. Look in Exodus 38 with me just
a moment. The redemption money went for the foundation of the
tabernacle. Verse 38 and verse 25. This redemption
money that they took was the foundation of the tabernacle. He said in verse 25, And the
silver of them that were numbered of the congregation was a hundred
talents, and a thousand seven hundred and three score and fifteen
shekels, a thousand and seventy-five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary,
a beaker for every man that is half a shekel after the shekel
of the sanctuary, that went to be numbered. 300 of the 550 men
of the 100 talents of silver were cast the sockets of the
sanctuary. The sockets of the veil, 100
sockets of the talents, a socket, a talent for a socket. And the tabernacle, they had
these boards and they took that silver and they melted it down
and they made, they made these things like this here and they
would, those sockets and they would have about that deep and
they set them down inside those silver sockets. They set those
boards inside those silver sockets. And so that tabernacle is what
they use that silver for. And the tabernacle literally
stood on the price of souls redemption. And the church, the house of
God, the pillar and ground of the truth, is built on a sure
foundation, the price of blood, our Lord Jesus Christ. Huh? We're built upon the foundation
of the apostles, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone.
And there was one exception. And I won't look at it. One exception. Right when you went into the...
Before you went into the sanctuary, where the brazen altar was, And
where the laver was, those pillars right there, they were established
on brass. They took brass to make those
in the front. Two big pillars, and you walk
in there. And then on those, they were
built on brass. You know why? The same reason
the blood was applied to the lintel and the threshold. You
don't walk across the blood. You don't walk across the blood.
And that's why the entrance into the tabernacle, it was built
on brass. Built on brass. Our blessed Father, in the name
of our Lord Jesus Christ, we thank you for the day. Thank
you for your great mercies. Thank you for pitying us, having
mercy upon us. Thank you for the gospel. Thank
you for the truth as it is in Christ. God bless the words of
the hearts and minds of those gathered here today as it pleases
you. In Christ's name I pray. Amen.