We're going to start in Exodus 27, we will end up in Hebrews 13. The title of the message, WE HAVE AN ALTAR. WE HAVE AN ALTAR. I've been asked before, I've been asked this more than once, do you all give an altar call every time the gospel is preached? called to Christ. The call goes out, come to me, look unto me and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth. Yeah, we have an altar and we have an altar call. It's Jesus Christ. It's the Lord Jesus Christ.

Now, what I intend to do, Lord willing, is as I come to these different pieces that make up this tabernacle and all the worship service that goes on, like the altar, then you have the laver that's filled with water, and then you go in, you have the showbread, you have the candlestick, then you go into the last, you have the ark, and we'll come back to the ark last. But I want to take each of these and then take them as they're given in the Old Testament and then reference them over into the New. Christ said, I'm the light, I'm the bread. He's the fulfillment of all these types. So here in Exodus 27 starts with the altar. Its construction is given to us here in this chapter, these first eight verses.

You know, when one entered the courtyard, and nobody entered a courtyard that was not coming into the courtyard with a sacrifice. You just didn't go in there and lollygag around. This was a place of worship. This is a place where the sacrifice was offered, and this is where God was, His presence was, and this is where the sinners meet God. So if anyone entered that courtyard, the first thing they saw was the altar. You couldn't go in there without seeing this altar, it was the first thing they met. There was no going around it.

The Lord God had a PROCESS and He shows us this process And all of this process is met in and by the Lord Jesus Christ, by one person. We're given these different things. You know, Christ, there's many beautiful things about the Lord Jesus Christ. You know, we can talk about His intercession. We can talk about Him being the bread. We can talk about Him being the water. We can talk about the water of life. We can talk about Him being the substitute.

I mean, there's just so many things to talk about. And we'll do that as we go through this. Now this altar here was the first thing they met with. I want to take my time this morning and get this across. It's been such a blessing to me to study. It was the place, this altar being the first thing met with, it was the place of sacrifice. That's the first thing that had to happen.

It was the place where the blood was shed. THE BLOOD HAD TO BE SHED BEFORE IT COULD BE APPLIED TO THE ARK, TO THE MERCY SEAT. THERE HAD TO BE THE SHEDDING OF BLOOD, AND IT STARTS RIGHT HERE AT THE ALTAR. IT WAS A PLACE OF SACRIFICE, IT WAS A PLACE OF JUDGEMENT. IT WAS A PLACE OF JUDGEMENT. THAT ANIMAL HAD TO DIE, THERE HAD TO BE A DEATH. BLOOD WAS SHED. REMEMBER IT SAYS IN HEBREWS, WITHOUT THE SHEDDING OF BLOOD, There is no remission of sins.

I'm not and you're not forgiven of sin just because we ask. Now listen to me, we're forgiven of our sins for Christ's sake. Yes, we do ask, we do. We ask the Lord to forgive us our sins and He does so. He does so. He does so because He's able to do so. Does that make sense? HIS LAW HAS BEEN SATISFIED. JUSTICE HAS BEEN SATISFIED. THEREFORE, GOD CAN FORGIVE ME. HE CAN FORGIVE ME ON THE BASIS OF A SATISFIED JUSTICE.

You see, the blood, and this is so important, the blood answers for the sins I ask forgiveness for. LORD FORGIVE ME OF MY SINS. It may be a particular sin. Forgive me of this sin that I've done, like David with Bathsheba. Forgive me of this sin. Well, the blood answers for that sin. There's the judgment for that sin. There's the death for that sin. Christ died for my sins.

Boy, do you really realize what that means? When you say, Lord, forgive me of this sin, how can He do that? THERE'S BLOOD THAT WAS SHED FOR THAT SIN THAT YOU'RE ASKING FORGIVENESS FOR. JUDGMENT'S ALREADY FALLEN. IT'S ALREADY TAKEN PLACE. JUSTICE IS SATISFIED. THAT'S SO CLEAR. THAT'S SO CLEAR. THAT'S THE GOSPEL. THAT'S THE GOSPEL OF SUBSTITUTION. IT'S THE GOSPEL OF SUBSTITUTION. YOU SEE, IT ALL STARTS HERE.

IF GOD AND SINNERS ARE GOING TO BE RECONCILED, THERE'S GOT TO BE BLOOD SHED. they're going to be reconciled, it's got to be a bloodshed, it's got to be a death. And God has made it very clear that He cannot be approached. God cannot be approached without sin being atoned for. All my sins have been atoned for.

Now in verse 1, we have the materials used and you'll notice here it says SHIT-EM-WOOD. This altar is going to be made out of the same wood that everything else is made out of, and all the other things that are made out of, except for those that are made out of pure gold, like the mercy seat, it was pure gold. You have those made out of bronze, like the utensils being used here, and those things made out of silver. But everything was made out of a sheet of wood.

And then gold was covered in. Gold covered in, except This is important, except the altar. Gold did not cover the altar. I'll get to that in a minute, why? Give you something to think about. But it's made out of shenum wood, the same wood used for everything else. And it was five by five cubits. Five cubits long, five cubits wide. It was square. It wasn't rectangle, it was square. It was square.

I read where five often represents grace in the scriptures. Without this altar, God can have no mercy or grace on you. Without the altar, He can't do it. Can't do it. Without these things that represent Christ, there is no grace coming our way. There's no mercy coming our way.

Now it was said to be square. You know, the Lord is the same. And I thought about these things because I don't want to just throw things out. But it was the same on all sides. The Lord Jesus Christ is the same to all the earth. North, south, east, and west. He's the same. He's the same Savior.

He's the same God. sinners are saved the same way He's the same and it was four and a half feet tall four and a half feet tall high enough that the sacrifice had to be lifted up in order to lay it on the altar Christ said if I be lifted up they didn't just drag it over and drop it in they had to actually lift it up and let it put it over in there The Lord Jesus Christ said, If I be lifted up, I'll draw all men to Me. That is, all sorts of men and women to Me. I'll draw all sorts to Me.

Now in verse 2 it says, There were four horns, one on each corner pointing outward. There were four horns. Horns represent POWER in the Scriptures. Horns represent POWER. The POWER OF CHRIST TO SAVE. That's what they represent. THE POWER OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST TO SAVE, AND THE BLOOD THAT WAS PUT ON THE HORNS, DID YOU KNOW THAT WHEN THEY SHED THE BLOOD THEY TOOK THE FINGERS AND THEY PUT IT ON EACH ONE OF THE HORNS? THE BLOOD WAS PUT ON THE HORNS TO REPRESENT THE POWER OF THE ATONING BLOOD OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. YOU SEE, HIS POWER WITHOUT BLOOD MEANS TROUBLE FOR US. But oh, the blood, the blood, the blood, the blood is put on those horns, is put on those horns. And there's four horns, one on each side. This is the power of Christ's blood reaches to the four corners of the earth. That's what that represents. It reaches to the four corners of the earth, the power of His blood does.

You know the altar was a sort of refuge for those who had committed some crime, and they'd go and lay hold of the horns of the altar until they could get a fair trial. It's not that God appointed it that way, but it became a custom, because here's what they knew. They knew that if any other blood was shed there, it would violate the altar.

Over in 1 Kings 1.15, chapter 1 verse 50.

And Adonijah, you know who that was? That was the brother, half-brother to Solomon. That was David's son. He made himself king, God didn't. God made Solomon king, but Adonijah tried to make himself king first. And then when Solomon became king, he took off to the Tabernacle there and you know what he did He laid hold of the horns in the altar of the altar and they went to get him and he wouldn't let go He wouldn't let go not until Solomon Solomon sent a message to him and said I'm not gonna kill you Then he let go and went and went to Solomon but and then Joab did that Joab went and laid hold of the horns of the altar, but that time Joab was not going to let go. He said, I'm not going to let go. He said, if you're going to kill me, you're going to do it right here. And then Solomon said, go kill him. Go and kill him. But it has a representation of a refuge. And Christ is our refuge because this altar represents the Lord Jesus Christ.

But a false profession is not going to give you a refuge. A false profession is not going to save you. It's not going to save anybody. Even a false profession of accepting what we call Calvinism is not going to save anybody. Accepting the doctrines of grace is not going to save you.

It's bowing to the Lord Jesus Christ. I know this, if the Lord saves a sinner, that sinner is going to believe the right doctrine. I know he is. He's not going to believe a wrong doctrine. He's not going to believe a false doctrine. If the Lord saves a sinner, that sinner is going to believe the right doctrine.

Because God said this, All thy children shall be taught of God. He's not going to teach you falsely. God's going to take every one of His children and He's going to instruct them in the gospel. He's going to instruct them out of His Word. They're going to learn the truth. The Lord said the Holy Spirit will come and He'll take of mine and show it to you. He will guide you into all truth. All truth.

You know salvation is not going from being what we call an Armenian to a Calvinist, that's not salvation. Salvation is when you come to Jesus Christ, the Christ of this Bible. Paul said they'll come preaching another Jesus, not when you come to another Jesus, but the Lord Jesus, the Lord Jesus. Now the altar and the horns We're covered with, it says here brass or bronze, that's what it is, but not gold this time. Everything else is gold. This one's brass. Here's the reason why. Brass represents judgment in the scriptures. You remember the brazen serpent? What was it made of? Brass, hanging on a pole.

John in Revelation 1.15 says this, when he saw the Lord, and His feet were like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace. They did. They did.

It represents judgment. And in verses 3 and 5, ALL THE UTENSILS USED HERE AT THE ALTAR WERE MADE OF BRASS. EVERYTHING THERE AT THE ALTAR SPOKE OF JUDGEMENT. IT ALL SPOKE OF JUDGEMENT. THE ALTAR WAS A PLACE OF JUDGEMENT. EVERY ASPECT OF THE ALTAR SPEAKS OF JUDGEMENT. That's what it was, it was a place of judgment. Then in verse 6, THE STAVES WHICH WERE USED TO CARRY THE ALTAR WHEN THEY MOVED WERE MADE OF SHIDDAMWOOD, and what? Brass. Not overlaid with gold. Not overlaid with gold, overlaid with brass. THE PRIESTS WHO CARRIED THEM WERE LIKE THE PREACHERS. WHO CARRIED THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST CRUCIFIED. IS THAT NOT WHERE WE START? IS THAT NOT WHERE WE START? WITH CHRIST AND HIM CRUCIFIED?

SEE, THE OTHER SLAVES WERE MADE OF SHIDDAM WOOD AND GOLD. AND HERE'S WHAT I SEE. WE PREACH CHRIST IN ALL HIS GLORIOUS CHARACTER, DON'T WE? WE PREACH HIM IN ALL HIS GLORIOUS CHARACTER, WE PREACH HIM AS THE GOD-MAN, GOD-INCARNATE, BUT WE ALSO PREACH HIM AS THE SUBSTITUTE, THE ONE WHO DIED IN OUR PLACE. JUDGMENT WAS PASSED ON HIM THAT WE MIGHT GO FREE.

Now all these things here in chapter 27, those first eight verses speak of this ALTAR But now if you really want it to come together, if you really want to understand the altar, the sacrifices, everything, everything about that altar, you have to turn to Hebrews 13. Now turn over to Hebrews 13. This is why I did not bring the message Thursday. I wanted to tie it in with the altar.

GOD GAVE ISRAEL THIS ALTAR, THIS BRAZEN ALTAR, WHERE THE SACRIFICE, WHEN THEY CAME IN, THEY CAME INTO ONE GATE, THEY CAME TO THIS ALTAR, THE PRIEST TOOK AND SLIT THE THROAT OF THE ANIMAL, CAPTURED ITS BLOOD, AND HE PUT IT ON THE HORNS, AND HE'D TAKE IT AND HE'D GO INTO THAT HOLY OF HOLIES, AND HE WOULD SPRINKLE IT ON THE MERCY SEAT. Now the picture is going to develop. We used to have a camera where you take a picture and you could watch it develop. And that's what I'm trying to do, I'm trying to make it so that you and I can watch it develop.

Now Hebrews 13, the writer, I'm going to say Paul, he wrote this, We have an altar whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle. FOR THE BODIES OF THOSE BEASTS WHOSE BLOOD IS BROUGHT INTO THE SANCTUARY BY THE HIGH PRIEST FOR SIN ARE BURNED WITHOUT THE CAMP. WHEREFORE JESUS ALSO THAT HE MIGHT SANCTIFY THE PEOPLE WITH HIS OWN BLOOD SUFFERED WITHOUT THE GATE. LET US GO FORTH THEREFORE UNTO HIM WITHOUT THE CAMP, BEARING HIS REPROACH. FOR HERE WE HAVE NO CONTINUING CITY. but we seek one to come.

By him, therefore, let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name. But to do good and to communicate, forget not, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased." Now, let's look at this, let's look at this. Our Lord came into this world And He fulfilled all the types that was given to Israel. He fulfilled all these types of the Old Testament.

And one of the types that we are going to deal with this morning is the ALTAR. The place where the sacrifices were offered, the blood was shed, and applied on the mercy seat. And what He tells us here in verse 10, we have a distinct ALTAR. No doubt the Hebrews who believed not Question the validity of the Christian faith for lack of these types not realizing that Jesus Christ was the fulfillment of it You know the Hebrews that did not believe would say to the Hebrew brethren that believed where's the altar you're gonna have an altar So the Apostle writing to the Hebrew says you tell him we have an altar Well, we do have an altar Jesus Christ HIMSELF is the ALTAR. His humanity was offered upon the ALTAR of His DEITY. He's the ALTAR. His humanity was offered upon the ALTAR of His DEITY.

The CROSS is not the ALTAR. The LORD'S TABLE is not the ALTAR. Jesus Christ HIMSELF is our ALTAR. We don't have a bench up here in front, we call it an altar. You say, do y'all have an altar in your church? Absolutely! But it's not made of wood. It's the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God. He's our altar. And the fire from the altar represented the fire of God's wrath which fell on Christ.

You know the fire on the altar was to never go out? I want you to get this. Now back, well at the end of Exodus, last chapter of Exodus, the fire of God comes down and consumes the sacrifice, lights that fire and consumes the sacrifice, and He said, don't you ever let this fire go out. That's why He told them, don't you ever let this fire go out. You keep it burning. And they did, they never let it go out, except when it was in captivity. But they didn't let it go out. He said not to. It's out now. It's out now.

It burns no more on sinners saved by Christ. He consumed the fire without perishing. All other sacrifices were consumed by the fire. This one consumed the fire. Our Lord, He's the ALTAR and He's the SACRIFICE. He's the SACRIFICE. Let me point this out here. There were five offerings offered on the ALTAR. There were five offerings. The BURN OFFERING. The SIN OFFERING, which is offered for the DAY OF ATONEMENT. And PEACE OFFERINGS. He's our PEACE OFFERING. the grain offering, and the trespass offering. The Lord Jesus Christ is every one of those offerings. He answers every one of those offerings. Now notice here, He says here, let me go back, He says, We have an altar whereof they have no right to eat, WHICH SERVED THE TABERNACLE. THEY HAVE NO RIGHT TO EAT OF THIS.

THE PRIESTS, IF YOU STUDY THIS, LOOK AT THIS, THE PRIESTS WERE ALLOWED TO EAT OF SOME OF THE SACRIFICES THAT WERE BROUGHT. THEY'D TAKE A FLESH HOOK IN AND THEY'D BRING SO MUCH OUT. THEY WERE ALLOWED SO MUCH, A PORTION OF THE SACRIFICES, BUT THEY WERE NOT ALLOWED TO EAT THE SIN OFFERING. THEY WERE NOT ALLOWED TO EAT THAT. its blood was shed and it wasn't put on the altar it was taken outside the camp to a clean place and it burned it was burned there that's the one sacrifice they were not allowed to eat of this is beautiful and he's saying here those who serve the tabernacle They know, if that's what they believe, if that's what they believe, they're not allowed to eat at this altar we have.

And here's the beauty of it, you and I are allowed. He that eats my flesh and drinks my blood, he hath eternal life. If you go back and look, they were not allowed to eat that, but we are. And He's saying those who serve the tabernacle, the Law of Moses, They're not allowed to eat of this tabernacle, this altar I mean. They're not allowed to eat of this altar.

They're not allowed to eat of Christ because you can't mix the two. It's either one or the other. It's either one or the other. Those who were still serving the old mosaic economy had no right to feast on Christ. You had to leave it. You had to leave it. You can't mix them.

But we have the right to feast on that sin offering. The Lord has given us the right to feast on Him. He that eats my flesh and drinks my blood, talking about my faith. Now look here in verse 11. For the bodies of those beasts whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest were sin. are burned without the camp. They're not burned on that altar. They're burned without the camp. The animals who were used for a sin offering, their blood used for atonement, their bodies, it says their bodies, their skin, their flesh, and their dung was taken without the camp.

And I thought about taking that without the camp. Israel at that time was probably at least two million strong. I mean even before they went into Jerusalem or built the temple and had all that while they were in the wilderness. Do you realize what a journey it was to take them outside the camp? See they camped all the way around that tabernacle. Raleigh is a million people. To kind of give you some perspective, Raleigh is a million people. Well, there was about two million people, twice the size of Raleigh. So they had to take this animal, the skin, the body, and all of it, and they had to go way out there, way out there, and then burn it, burn it outside the camp.

Now here's where the picture really starts to develop. Verse 12, Wherefore Jesus also, THAT HE MIGHT SANCTIFY THE PEOPLE WITH HIS OWN BLOOD, SUFFERED WITHOUT THE GATE." He suffered without the gate. Christ was led outside of Jerusalem. They took Him. He's the sacrifice. Isn't this beautiful? They're doing exactly what the type says. He's fulfilling the type. They don't even realize it. They're standing there saying, Crucify Him! Crucify Him! Put Him to death! Get rid of Him! And they let Him outside of the gate. Outside of the city. Just like they did in the Old Testament.

They took that animal that was offered for the atonement and they took it outside the camp. the Lord Jesus they led him outside the city they led him outside the city and out there they crucified him and out there the wrath of God fell on him God's wrath burned burned on the sacrifice outside the camp he took his blood and his body was burned outside the camp he was crucified outside the camp the Jews rejected him then he took his blood the Lord took his blood and went into heaven itself went into heaven itself to appear before God to make atonement for our souls just like that high priest And Christ being our high priest, we'll get to that in a little while in Exodus. It's like that high priest, he took that blood and he went into the Holy of Holies and sprinkled it on the mercy seat. And the God of heaven and earth is giving us a pattern of what our Lord did in heaven. He went into heaven itself with his own blood. It says in Hebrews, he entered heaven itself with his own blood and made atonement. for our souls.

Boy, what a beautiful picture. Christ crucified is superior to all other sacrifices. They can never make the comers thereunto perfect, but He did. He did. He makes everything we do accepted. I read this this morning, this thought came to me, this scripture came to me. Christ said to the Pharisees, ye fools and blind, which is greater, the gift or the altar that sanctifies the gift? Christ is the ALTAR. He's the ALTAR, He's the God-man. And being who He is makes what He did effectual.

And since we offer up our prayers, we offer up thanksgiving, we offer up songs of praise upon the altar of the Lord Jesus Christ. And He sanctifies our singing, our prayers, our praise, our thanksgiving, He sanctifies, He makes them holy because you know that everything we do is still full of sin. Our prayers are full of sin, but it's through the ALTAR that our prayers, our singing, our praise is sanctified. Do you see that? If we understand that, then we can really understand when we pray that the Lord makes our prayer accepted. Pray according to God's will, He makes our prayer accepted without sin, without sin. Now this being so, the Lord Jesus Christ is our ALTAR. He's our SACRIFICE. HIS BLOOD IS THE BLOOD OF ATONEMENT. He says in verse 13, there is a REQUIRED SEPARATION on our part, for us.

Listen, LET US GO FORTH THEREFORE UNTO HIM WITHOUT THE CAMP. You've got to leave Judaism, that's what He's telling us. You've got to leave organized religion. You've got to leave it. Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp bearing his reproach. We must leave all religious systems and go to Jesus Christ alone. Judaism could not save, that's what he's telling them. You have to leave that. You can't mix and mingle with it. You can't make any part of it a part of your salvation. You must identify with Christ and Christ and Christ only. And don't miss this, it says, Let us go forth therefore unto Him. That's very important. We go to the Son of God for our salvation. We do not leave one system and go to another system.

GOD DID NOT SAVE YOU UNDER A FALSE GOSPEL, THEN YOU LEARNED THE GOSPEL, THEN YOU LEARNED THE TRUTH. NO! GOD DIDN'T SAVE YOU UNDER ARMINIANISM. ARMINIANISM IS THIS, EVERY RELIGION IS AN ARMINIAN RELIGION. YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS? WORKS. IT'S JUST A WORKS RELIGION.

GOD DID NOT SAVE YOU UNDER A FALSE GOSPEL and THEN you learn the TRUTH! No you didn't! God saved you when you HEARD the TRUTH! When you HEARD the TRUTH! That's when God saved you, when you HEARD the TRUTH and you BELIEVED on the Lord Jesus Christ, the one THIS BIBLE sets FORTH!

And that's why He says we've got to go forth out of the camp to Him. Do you know what? They understood what He meant. They understood He meant that you've got to leave Judaism. You've got to leave your family, those that don't believe. You've got to leave them. And you've got to go to Him without the camp.

True Christianity IS NOT A RELIGIOUS SYSTEM. IT IS THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND YOU GO FORTH UNTO HIM BEARING HIS REPROACH. THERE IS A CROSS TO BEAR FOR CHRIST'S SAKE. AND WE HAVE A CROSS TO BEAR FOR CHRIST'S SAKE. NOT A WOODEN CROSS. THERE IS A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF SUFFERING THAT EVERY CHILD OF GOD HAS TO DO FOR CHRIST'S SAKE. EVERY ONE OF THEM.

TRUE DISCIPLESHIP MEANS REJECTION BY THE WORLD and organized religion. That's what it is, that's what it means. The Hebrews were rejected by their brethren, their brethren. Their enemies were they of their own household and our Lord said that would be so. He said it would be so. And we should not be surprised if unbelieving family members hate us.

That's the truth. We shouldn't be surprised about it. Because after the Lord saves you, you smell different, you talk different, you act different, you are different. You are different. As my friend said to me, I wish the Lord hadn't saved you. That's what he told me. And he and I didn't run around together anymore after that.

And the reason, listen, the reason we go to Him bearing His reproaches is for this. In verse 14, For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come. We're looking for another country. We're looking for another city. Everything here is temporary. Everything is temporary. This is not home. My pastor would say, several times hold loosely to the things of this world not live loosely but hold loosely because when God takes him he won't hurt so much he won't hurt so much don't make it to where God has to break your hand to get it away from you believers seek a better country A better country. A country that has no sin in it. Can you imagine what this world would be like if there was no sin no more? We wouldn't need a news channel anymore, would we? If there was no more sin. Everybody would just love each other.

And love, it says, fulfills the law. WE SEEK A HEAVENLY COUNTRY, WE LOOK FOR ONE TO COME THAT GOD PROMISED! God promised this is coming. This is coming. Our eternal home prepared by God Himself. And I'm going to close here in verse 15, WE DO OFFER SACRIFICES. Their Hebrew brethren are saying, YOU DON'T OFFER SACRIFICES NO MORE! Yes, we do. WE OFFER SACRIFICES HERE THIS MORNING! WE ARE!

Verse 15, By Him, therefore, let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually. By Him, in His Name, in His Name, we offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His Name. Well I know what used to be the fruit of my lips, it was rotten fruit, it was dangerous fruit, bitter fruit, bitter. But praise replaces animal sacrifices. The sacrifice THAT WE GIVE NOW IS A WILLING SACRIFICE OF PRAISE AND THANKSGIVING, FROM THE HEART, FROM THE HEART, WILLING TO PRAISE AND THANK GOD FROM WHOM ALL BLESSINGS FLOW.

THIS WORLD DOESN'T THANK GOD. THEY DON'T WAKE UP IN THE MORNING AND THANK GOD FOR THE SUNSHINE. They don't wake up in the morning and thank God for their food. They don't thank God they have a job that they can go to and make money and pay the bills and take care of the family. THEY DON'T THANK GOD FOR THAT!

But you do. And you do it in the name of Christ. God said that's a sacrifice. That's a sacrifice. It's a sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving. I tell you this, an unthankful person is a lost person. Period. End of sentence. If you're unthankful, you're lost. You're lost. Because when God saves a sinner, that sinner is so thankful to the Lord. Thank you, Lord, for saving my soul. Thank you, Lord, for making me whole. Thank you.

THE FRUIT OF OUR LIPS, GIVING THANKS TO HIS NAME. I thought about this. The fruit of our lips. You know, fruit has a root. There's a root somewhere. If there's fruit, there's a root. When the Lord saves a sinner, He gives that sinner a new heart. And in that new heart, the Holy Spirit produces the fruit of the Spirit. Joy, peace, gladness, long-suffering, kindness. If that's missing, life is missing. Life is missing if that's missing. And here's another sacrifice and I end with this one, verse 16.

But to do good and to communicate, forget not, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. We praise Him, we thank Him, and we help one another. We look after one another. Christ said to look after one another is the same as looking after Him, the same.

We have an altar. Do y'all have an altar at your church? Well, it's not my church, it's the Lord's church. Yes, we do have an altar. It's the Lord Jesus Christ. It's not a piece of wood. It's Jesus Christ Himself. He's our altar. He's our altar. And let us go to Him. Just like they came to the altar and brought the sacrifice. Let us go to Him. and offer up praise and thanksgiving CONTINUALLY, continually. Yes, we do have an