to Numbers, the book of Numbers. Numbers chapter 9, Numbers chapter 9, beginning
in verse 1, And the Lord spake unto Moses in the wilderness
of Sinai in the first month of the second year after they were
come out of the land of Egypt, saying, Let the children of Israel
also keep the Passover at his appointed season. In the fourteenth
day of this month, at even, you shall keep it in his appointed
season according to all the rites of it and according to all the
ceremonies thereof. Shall you keep it?" And Moses
spake unto the children of Israel that they should keep the Passover. The subject of these verses is
keeping the Passover. The redemption of the firstborn
which resulted in the deliverance of Israel out of Egypt, that
redemption shows three truths about the Lord Jesus Christ's
redemption of his people. Three things that we see when
we think about the redemption of Israel. out of Egypt. First of all, redemption is accomplished
by the shedding of blood. If you will look back, keep your
places here, but look back to Exodus chapter 12. That's the
first thing that we see in this redemption of Israel
that features to us the redemption of God's people. Redemption is
accomplished by the shedding of blood. In Exodus 12, verses
12 and 13, God said, For I will pass through the land of Egypt
this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of
Egypt, both man and beast. And against all the gods of Egypt
I will execute judgment, I am the Lord. And the blood shall
be to you for a token upon the houses where you are. And when
I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall
not be upon you to destroy you when I smite the land of Egypt."
It was the blood of this Passover lamb applied to the lintel and
the side post of the door, and that meant that God would pass
over that house and the firstborn there would not be slain. And
we know that all through the Scriptures, beginning in the
very beginning, and running all through the Word of God, we see
this over and over again, that the redemption of God's people
is by blood. For in Genesis chapter 3, when
God Almighty clothed Adam and Eve with coats of skins, there
must have been blood shed in order to obtain those skins. And then Abel's lamb, of course,
was the lamb that was slain, and all through the Word of God.
In fact, in Leviticus we read, For the life of the flesh is
in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar to make
an atonement for your souls. And in the New Testament, the
Scripture says, Without shedding of blood is no remission. And then the apostle Peter, of
course, said, You were not redeemed with corruptible things, such
as silver and gold, from your vein. conversation received by
tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of
Christ. So redemption is pictured first
of all here as redemption by blood. But notice, if you will,
turn back to Numbers. Redemption is accomplished by
the substitution of another. I want us to see these three
things here in the redemption of Israel, which is also true
and shows forth the redemption of God's elect. It is, first
of all, by blood. Don't speak to me and don't speak
to anyone about the Word of God if you deny that redemption is
by blood. There is no other redemption
except that which is by blood, and it is the blood of the Lord
Jesus Christ. It is the church of God which
he has purchased with his own blood. Secondly, we see that
redemption is accomplished by the substitution of another.
So we see that here in Numbers chapter 3. Remember this was the firstborn,
redemption It was the firstborn in that house that was going
to be slain if there was no blood applied to the doorpost. It was
the firstborn. And we know that we have come
to Mount Zion, that this church, that is the church of the Lord
Jesus Christ, is the church of the firstborn. This redemption
that is accomplished by blood, it is also accomplished by the
substitution of another. And we see this here in Leviticus
chapter 3 and beginning in verse 40. And the Lord said unto Moses,
Number all the firstborn of the males of the children of Israel
from a month old and upward, and take the number of their
names. And thou shalt take the Levites for me, I am the Lord,
instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel,
and the cattle of the Levites, instead of all the firstlings
among the cattle of the children of Israel. And Moses numbered,
as the Lord commanded him, all the firstborn among the children
of Israel, and all the firstborn males by the number of names
from a month old and upward of those that were numbered of them
were twenty and two thousand, two hundred and three score and
thirteen. And the Lord spake unto Moses,
saying, Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the
children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their
cattle, and the Levites shall be mine, I am the Lord." So it
was counting all of these firstborn and then taking the Levites instead. You notice those two words two
times in those texts, instead of, in verse 41 and verse 45. And thou shalt take the Levites
for me instead of all the firstborn." And in verse 45, take the Levites
instead of all the firstborn. So redemption is accomplished
by the substitution of another person in the stead of, or as
we most often say, in the room or stead of another, that Jesus
Christ substituted himself in the room or instead of another,
that is, his people, those who believe in him. Christ was taken
instead of every believer. And we see a wonderful picture
of this in the Gospels concerning Barabbas. In Matthew chapter
27, when our Lord was brought before Pilate, the Scripture
there says that they had a notable prisoner, Barabbas, and he was
in chains. and Pilate, wishing to release
Christ, presented the choice to the people, shall I release
unto you Barabbas, a notable prisoner, the Scripture says,
or Christ. And you know they chose to release
Barabbas. What a wonderful picture of every
one of us, because we too are notable, notable for our sin,
notable for our rebellion. notable for the evil which we
have committed, each and every one of us, there's no difference,
for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. But
Christ was taken in the stead of, in the place of the guilty. The innocent substituted himself
in place of the guilty. Someone one time said that the
gospel may be summed up in that one word, substitution. And that does tell us, the gospel
does tell us, that Christ substituted himself in the stead, in the
place of his people. And that's what we see here in
Leviticus 3. And then there was another way
that redemption was pictured concerning the firstborn. And
that is, redemption is accomplished by ransom price paid. And you see that also in Numbers
chapter 3. in verse 46, because when they
numbered the firstborn and they numbered the Levites, the Levites
were taken instead of the firstborn, but there were more firstborn
than there were Levites. There was a surplus. It was one
for one, one Levite for every firstborn, but there were more
firstborn than there were Levites, so God told Moses in verse 46,
And for those that are to be redeemed of the two hundred and
threescore and thirteen of the firstborn of the children of
Israel, which are more than the Levites, thou shalt even take
five shekels apiece by the pole, after the shekel of the sanctuary
shalt thou take them." and thou shalt give the money wherewith
the odd number of them is to be redeemed unto Aaron and to
his sons. And Moses took the redemption
money of them that were over and above them that were redeemed
by the Levites of the firstborn of the children of Israel, took
ye the money, a thousand, three hundred, and threescore and five
shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary. Christ, as our
surety He paid the price. There was a redemption price
paid for our ransom. Just as Paul writing to Philemon
concerning Onesimus, that runaway slave, and all of us, we had
rebelled against our master, we had run away from God in our
father Adam, we had come under the flag of Satan himself, the
god of this world. And so the Lord Jesus Christ
came into this world to purchase, to pay a redemption price to
redeem his people from slavery, from the slavery of sin. You know, we don't use the word
redeem that often in our everyday business, in our conversation
in this world. But there's one place where that
word is still used, and that is with a pawn shop. Everyone
knows what a pawn shop is, I'm sure. I remember when I was in
the Air Force a number of years ago, there was outside the gate
there of the base, there was a row of pawn shops. And in my
opinion, that was legalized robbery. I hope there's no one here that
owns a pawn shop. legalized robbery. But what you
would do, you would take something of value down to the pawn shop.
And he would look at it, and he would give you a certain amount
of cash for that article. And he would, of course, give
you a whole lot less than what the article was really worth.
And then after so many days, you would come back. He'd give
you a ticket. You'd come back. That was your redemption ticket.
And you would hand him the money. and a ticket and you would receive
your article back. Now technically it was yours
even though it was in the pawn shop. But there was a price that
had to be paid. It had to be redeemed for you
to obtain that article yourself once again. Now Christ's sheep,
his people, we know that we were his first of all by creation. It is He who hath made us and
not we ourselves. He has created all things that
are. All men and women are created
by Him, so that includes all of His elect, all of His sheep.
We were also His by gift, because the Father chose us in eternal
election before the foundation of the world. and gave us unto
the Lord Jesus Christ. He is a good shepherd who received
from the hands of his Father his sheep. We were given unto
him. We were created by him. We were
given by him. But, as I've already said, we
had sold ourselves into slavery, so he came into the slave market. And that's the picture the Word
conveys. He came into the slave market
and saw us there on the slave block being auctioned off, and
he bought us out of the slave market. And that word tells us
that he purchased us, he redeemed us in such a way that we can
never be returned there again. That's one reason we believe
in accomplished a particular redemption. Everyone that the
Lord Jesus Christ redeemed cannot possibly be put back into the
slave market. Now, all of us are familiar with
the Passover, when they applied that blood the first time to
the doorposts and the lentils of their houses, and God passed
over. the nation of Egypt, and did
not slave the firstborn in that house. But at that same time
when God gave that law, he told them, this day shall be unto
you for a memorial, and you shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout
your generations. You shall keep it a feast by
an ordinance forever. Here in our passage tonight in
Numbers chapter 9, The Lord repeats the command here in the first
month of the second year after they had come out of Egypt. This
feast was to be observed by the nation of Israel until the reality
that is the real Lamb of God, this Passover Lamb, was merely
a picture, it was a type, and they were to observe this feast
every year until the Lamb of God came into this world. Now
only the first time were they to apply the blood to the doorpost
and the lintel of the house. Only that first time. And only
the first time were they to eat that feast with their shoes on
their feet and their staff in their hand ready for a journey. From then on they worked each
year to keep this feast a memorial feast. That is, they were to
take a lamb of the first year. It still had to be without blemish,
because it was a picture of Jesus Christ, God's Lamb, who had no
sin, who knew no sin, who did no sin. There's no blemish in
Christ. They were to kill that lamb and
roast it, and they were all to eat that lamb that night, and
none of it was to be left to the next day. That was typical. That was a picture. And then
John the Baptist one day saw the Lord Jesus Christ walking
by the banks of Jordan, and he pointed out, our Savior, behold,
the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world. In other
words, that type now had come to its conclusion, to its ending,
because the reality, the real Lamb of God was come. The reason that blood was only
applied that first time, that first Passover night down in
Egypt, I'm sure, is because it is typical. And you remember
when our Lord was washing His disciples' feet, He came to Peter. And Peter, of course, he didn't
wish the Lord to wash his feet. And our Lord said, If I do not
wash your feet, you have no part with Me. And Peter said, Well,
then wash me all over. And the Lord said, No. He that
is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every
whit." The blood, the picture there of applying the blood,
the blood only is applied one time. We are washed in his blood,
who loved us and washed us from our sins with his own blood,
the Apostle John says. And once we are washed, we are
clean everywhere. Yes, as we go through this world,
we do need cleansing, we do need forgiveness in the sense that
our feet need to be washed. But the point I wish to call
our attention to at this time is that under that old dispensation,
like this feast, there were many rites and ceremonies. Notice
that in verse 3. and the fourteenth day of this
month, and even you shall keep it in his appointed season, according
to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof,
shall you keep it." There were many rites and ceremonies connected
with this memorial feast of the Passover, but that whole dispensation
was nothing more than rites and ceremonies. The writer of Hebrews
tells us that that old dispensation, that old covenant with all of
its rites and ceremonies, he said, stood only in meats and
drinks and divers washings and carnal ordinances imposed on
them until the time of reformation. The time of reformation was the
coming of Christ when he fulfilled all of those types. You say,
well, would it be wrong to have a great day of atonement today?
Sure it would be wrong. Would it be wrong to observe
the Passover Supper today? Sure it would be wrong. Why?
Because all of those things serve for a purpose, for a time. But when the Reformation, when
the Lord Jesus Christ came into this world, all of those burdensome,
and that's what they were, burdensome rites and ceremonies, they were
all The old covenant dispensation was carnal, and it abounded with
these rites and ceremonies. The new covenant dispensation
is spiritual. Therefore, everything in our
worship is more simple. The more spiritual, the more
simple. That's always the case. Our Lord gave us the ordinance
of the Lord's Supper, the Lord's Table. It's a very simple ordinance,
and it's meant to be that, because it is a picture of us having
eternal life by being in union with our Savior, eating his flesh
and drinking his blood by faith, not in the act of the Lord's
Table, no. That bread and that wine remains
bread and wine, it just pictures the body that was broken for
us and the blood that was shed for us. The less truth people have, now
listen, listen to this, the less truth people have, the more they
crave rites and ceremonies. Now that's always the case. And
what people believe, what people may think is that these rites
and ceremonies, if we will incorporate them, if we will bring them into
our worship services, that somehow these things will help us to
worship God. The opposite is true. Always
true. Yes, always true. The less truth
people have, the more they crave rites and ceremonies. Our worship
is to be spiritual. It's not carnal. It's not in
these rites and ceremonies. I'd like to mention a few tonight,
a few things that I see that men try to bring in to the worship
service. And I remember what a pastor
told me years ago, and I haven't forgotten this, and I believe
it was very good advice. He said it is easier to bring
something into a worship service, it's easier to begin something
in a worship service, than it is to take something out. Because
you do it one time and people like it, you do it two times,
you do it three times, and it becomes a tradition. And then
if you try to remove it, people are wedded to that tradition.
I want to mention some things tonight. The first is the lighting
of candles in worship. The lighting of candles in worship.
Now, under the old dispensation, this was important. If you look
to Numbers chapter 8. Numbers chapter 8. The Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Speak unto Aaron, and say unto him, When thou lightest the lamps,
the seven lamps shall give light over against the candlestick."
Now, I want to read on, but let me stop here and say this. The word here reads candlestick,
but it was not a candle holder. It was a lamp. It was a lamp
with seven lamps. It wasn't a candlestick holder,
even though that's the way it is translated here. And Aaron
did so. He lighted the lamps thereof
over against the candlestick as the Lord commanded Moses.
And this work of the candlestick was a beaten gold unto the shaft
thereof and unto the fliers thereof was beaten work according unto
the pattern which the Lord had showed Moses. So he made the
candlestick. God gave instructions to Moses. And Moses to the workman who
fashioned this candlestick, this lamp. And I noticed that it was
made out of beaten gold. Now, it was all typical of Christ. It all, in some way, every piece
of furniture connected with that tabernacle, it all pictured Christ. If it was the labor, the brazen
altar, the table of showbread, golden altar of incense, the
mercy seat, it all pictured Christ in some way. We may not be able
to bring out all of the meaning, and that's not my purpose tonight,
but I do notice that it was made out of beaten gold. They would
take a piece of gold, they'd take that hammer and start beating
it and beating it and thinning it, making it thinner and thinner.
And I cannot help but think when I read that word, beaten, of
our Savior, who was beaten, who was beaten, the Scripture says,
for us. Isaiah chapter 52, the prophet
said that his visage was so marred more than any man. It was made of pure gold. There
was no alloys mixed with it, showing the deity of Christ. And it was to burn pure olive
oil. There was only one kind of oil
that was to be burned in that lamp. You say, is God so precise
in His worship? Yes, absolutely. Absolutely He is. And the priests were to attend
to it every day. Every morning they were to go
in, and every evening they were to attend to this lamp. And God
said that the light burn always. The light never was to go out
inside that compartment. Now you know how the tabernacle
was arranged. It had two compartments and one
part was called the Holy of Holies. And there was a veil that separated
the holy from the Holy of Holies. And in the Holy of Holies was
the Ark of the Covenant with the Mercy Seat. And in there,
the priest only went once a year. Only one day. But in this first
compartment, the holy place, the priests were in there every
day in their worship and service of God. And the thought that
comes to my mind is that there was only one light. There was
no artificial light. There was no light from outside
coming into that tabernacle. That lampstand gave all the light
in the worship and the service of God. The Lord Jesus Christ
is the true light, and no one approaches God or
serves Him apart from Jesus our Christ, Jesus the true light. Now, a flashlight is a useful
tool. It's a useful article. I see
Jeffrey here. He sent me a flashlight one time,
and I still have, and it's still a good one. In our building,
we don't have any windows, and if the lights go out in there,
I mean, it's dark. So I keep that flashlight Jeffrey
sent me right under the pulpit here. Flashlight is a good tool,
isn't it? And children love to play with
flashlights. Our grandchildren, they love
to turn that thing on at a certain age. And my wife, she just lets
them do it, you know. And then when we need it, the
batteries are down. But that's all right. That's
the reason they're called grandchildren. But you know, I've noticed this
about our children and our grandchildren, they outgrow that. They outgrow
that desire to want to play with a flashlight. It's good, it's
fun when a person is a small person, a child. But we outgrow
that. And the Apostle Paul said, when
I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought
as a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things. the candlestick, that lampstand,
and those lamps was good for Israel in their non-age, as the
Apostle Paul calls it in Galatians. In that old carnal dispensation,
it served a purpose. It had a place. But today, it
has no purpose. It serves nothing in our worship
to God. It would be like taking a flashlight
out at noon with the sun just as bright as it ever is and using
that flashlight. You don't need a flashlight when
the sun is shining and we don't need candles in our worship service
when we worship Jesus Christ, the true light of the world.
And yet people become attracted to these things. A lady told
me, Several years ago, she said, we had a candlelight service
in our church. I said, you did? She said, yes.
She said, it was so wonderful. She said, they turned out all
the lights, and we all had a candle we were holding. And she said,
I felt so good. I'm sure you did. These things,
these feelings, these emotional feelings, fleshly, carnal feelings,
that many times have nothing to do with the worship of the
true and living God. He said, God is the Spirit, and
they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth. Here's a second thing. Our Lord
said, I am the light of the world. He that followeth me shall not
walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. We have the
light, don't we? We have Christ. Here's the second
thing, the burning of incense in worship. Now everything I've
said about the candlestick may be said about the altar of incense.
It had its place in that old dispensation as a pitcher, but
when the reality of it has come, it no longer serves. Look with
me in Exodus about this altar of incense, Exodus chapter 30. In Exodus 30, in verse 6, here
God is giving Moses instructions concerning the altar of incense.
He said, And thou shalt put it before the veil, that is, by
the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat, that is, over
the testimony, where I will meet with thee. Where would God meet
with men? At the mercy seat. He said, That's
the place, and that's the only place where I will meet with
you. And that's a picture of Christ. Where will God lead a
sinner? Where will God forgive a sinner?
Where will God reconcile a sinner? In Christ, and only in Christ. And so this altar of incense
was put there just before the veil, behind which was the mercy
seat. And Aaron shall burn thereon
sweet incense every morning when he dresseth the lamps, he shall
burn incense upon it. And when Aaron lighteth the lamps
at evening, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense
before the Lord throughout your generations." Now, it was a picture. And we know it was a picture,
this burning of incense, it was a picture of the intercession
of the Lord Jesus Christ. That incense was continually
going up there in that holy place, from that altar of incense. Incense
continually going up, showing us that our prayers, as it says
in Revelation chapter 8, that our prayers ascend up as they
are mixed with his incense. In other words, with his merit,
with his righteousness. That's the only way that God
hears our prayer, is through Christ. Whatsoever you shall
ask the Father in my name, that will he do for you. You know, the day they set this
tabernacle up, if my memory serves me right, The very first day,
Aaron had four sons, and two of those sons got it in their
mind on that day of dedication that they would take incense
into that tabernacle. And they took some strange fire.
He said, what was strange about it? Isn't fire fire? Not when
it comes to God. Now to you and me, fire is fire.
It's hot. It'll burn you. But let me tell
you something. That fire was strange fire because
it did not come from coals from the brazen altar. They were not
taken from that brazen altar. That fire came down from heaven
and consumed the sacrifice on that altar. They took some fire.
I don't know where they got the coals, but they took their censers
into that tabernacle with some fire, with some hot coals and
some incense, and God killed both of those young men. And Moses told his brother Aaron,
the high priest, he said, this is that which the Lord has said,
I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me. No fire isn't
fire. And any religion isn't good enough.
No, there's one way. There's one way to come to God.
And Jesus Christ, He's not a way, He is the way. And there's one
way that our prayers ascend unto the Father, and that is through
Jesus Christ, the Mediator. A third thing that I would mention
tonight is the display of symbols in worship. Now, I'm sure that
we have all seen religious processions when they hold up various things
for display. I attended the funeral service
of one of my uncles sometime back, and it was in an Episcopalian
church. And I'd never been to a funeral
service in one of those places before, but they had everything.
They had everything. They had the beautiful building.
They had the icons, the images, and all of that around. And they
had the priest and his vestments. And they just had everything
except the truth. They had everything else. Everything
to please the flesh, they had, yes. But they didn't have the
truth. They didn't have the gospel,
evidently, because they didn't preach it. They didn't mention
it. I see these processions on television. I used to see them in Mexico
quite often. And they are carrying something
usually. Sometimes they're carrying a
cross. Sometimes they may have a picture of some saint. Sometimes
in Mexico they had those idols that they, the Virgin of Zapopan,
the Virgin of Guadalupe, the Virgin of wherever, you know,
they've got them all over, those idols. Procession, religious
processions, that's what they are. and they're displaying certain
objects. And sometimes you will see them,
they will hold up some books. I don't know if that's the Bible
they're holding up or not, but I do know this, if it is, they
would be better served reading the book and obeying what is
written in God's Word and displaying those things. People were so
deceived before the invention of the printing press, the translation
of the Word of God into the language of the people, the deceived trusted
in the help of relics, symbols, and images in worship. But my
friends, there's no excuse for that in this day. There's no
excuse. Before we built our building
in Houston, we were just starting off and we were interested in
building a building and I was with another pastor one day and
we were driving and we passed this building. It was a church
building and he said, let's stop and go in there and that's kind
of the type of building you're talking about and see how they
have that arranged in there. He knew the pastor. I said, OK.
Well, we stopped and went in. The pastor was very cordial and
he was very kind to show us the building. But he was so proud
of something that he had done. And he had to tell us about this.
He said, now, he said, as we went into what we would call
the auditorium, he said, you know, when I came here, the pulpit
was right there in the middle. But he said, I put that over
there on the side. And he said, I put a cross up
there now. He said, I put a cross up there now because People are
to look to the cross. Isn't that ignorance, my friend? It's not the symbol of the cross. It is the preaching of the cross.
That's one thing that happened in the Protestant Reformation
of the 1600s is they put the pulpit back in the middle of
the church. They took out that altar that
had been there before And they put the pulpit here in the middle,
recognizing and knowing that God uses the preaching of His
Word in saving His people. And it must have the place of
prominence in our worship service, the preaching of the gospel.
We're not going to relegate it to second place or third place
or something like that. And we're sure not going to set
up an image in its place, not to worship God. Not the seeing
of a cross, it is the preaching of the cross. God forbid that
I should glory, the Apostle Paul said, save in the cross of Jesus
Christ. That is, who died on that cross? Why was it necessary for him
to die that God might be just and justify the ungodly? What
did he accomplish on that cross? He effectually redeemed his people. He died on that cross, the just
for the unjust that he might bring us to God. It's not an
emblem, it's the preaching, it's the message of the cross. But
that old dispensation had a tabernacle, a temple, but they were only
pictures of the true sanctuary, the true temple of God is in
the heavens. And let me close with this last,
the wearing of vestments in worship, that is robes, you know, some
kind of attire, different from what everyone else wears. Now
I heard a preacher not long ago, he said, the Apostle Paul in
Philippians said, beware of dogs, and dogs usually wear collars. Of course, I was raised daring, beware of men that dress up like
mother and want you to call them father. Many of them, they have their
colorful costumes, but I want you to know that they cannot
rival the dress of Aaron. the high priest, and God told
Moses, you make that dress, that robe, it had several pieces,
you make it for beauty and for honor, because he was a type
of our high priest, the Lord Jesus Christ. There's only one robe, there's
only one vestment I'm really concerned about, and that is
that robe of His imputed righteousness. That's the one I want, don't
you? That's the one I want to be found in. When we come together
to worship God, by all means, we should dress decently, we
should dress modestly, and we should dress like we have come
to worship the one we have come to worship, that is, the King
of kings and Lord of lords. But we know it's not the outward
adorning of this body, but it is that robe that is washed in
the blood of Jesus Christ and made white. That's the robe,
that's the dress, that's the vestment that we desire to be
found in. And I'm in that robe tonight.
Are you? I'm in that robe. That robe of righteousness, that
best robe. The Father said, get the best
robe for the prodigal son when he came home. The best robe.
The robe of Christ's righteousness, his perfect obedience. That's
the robe. That righteousness is imputed
unto everyone that believeth. I pray the Lord will bless these
words to each of us tonight. Someone said, well, you're preaching
to the choir. I probably am. But there's some young people
here. Maybe someday some of you will remember. Because this world's
going further and further and further into these rites and
ceremonies. I mean, it's just going that way. That's all there
is to it. Maybe you'll remember. Maybe
God will bring this to your remembrance. There's something more to worship.
There's something more to coming unto God than these outward things.