I can't begin to tell you how
often, when reading books, articles, sermons, or especially when listening
to sermons, after listening to fellows sometimes, it appears,
run around the world to try to get around the corner, I think
to myself, I sure wish they'd get to the main point and leave
the other stuff alone. We often confuse things by trying
to prove things, when in reality we ought to just state them,
state them plainly, state them boldly, and move on. Now tonight
I want to do what I know I ought to always do. I want to get to
the main point right away. In fact, that's the title of
my message, the main point. Turn to Hebrews chapter 8, if
you will. Hebrews chapter 8 and verse 1. Now we're going to connect
chapters 7 and 8, because the chapter division here is really
unfortunate, as it often is in our translation of scriptures,
but the passage in chapter 8 is simply a continuation of what
the apostle has been discussing in the 7th chapter. He says in
verse 1, Now of the things which we have spoken, this is the sum. Now those words, this is the
sum, would better be translated literally, this is the main thing. This is the main point. This
is the primary thing. Here the Holy Spirit is telling
us that what is before us in this passage, is the main primary
focus of importance, the thing for us to know and understand
in all the book of Hebrews. We have such an high priest,
one just like I've been talking about. who is set on the right
hand of the throne of the majesty in the heavens. Now in the last
five verses of chapter 7, the Holy Spirit gave us a marvelous
display of Christ's superiority over the priests of the Old Testament,
both of the Levitical and Aaronic orders. The writer wants us to
marvel at the superiority of Christ's priesthood. Let me show
you these five points of superiority. First, in verse 26, our Lord
Jesus is described as a sinless priest. He's the only one who
ever lived who is without sin. He's the only man who ever lived
and died upon this earth who never knew sin except when he
was made to be sin as our substitute. Look at verse 26. For such a
high priest became us. who is holy, harmless, undefiled,
separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens. No other priest could ever say
that. They were all sinful men like you and me, but not Christ. He was tempted in all points
like as we are, yet he never once yielded to sin and had no
inclination towards sin. Now look at verse 27. Here's
the second thing. Because he was sinless, our great
high priest did not need to make atonement for himself. who needeth
not daily as those high priests to offer up sacrifice first for
his own sins and then for the people's. For this he did once
when he offered up himself. Our Lord Jesus Christ, because
he had no sin, did not need to offer sacrifice for sin for himself. But rather the sacrifice he offered
was in the womb instead of his people for our sins to put away
our sins, and he did it one time. Now in the Old Testament, no
Old Testament priest ever imagined, he would never have imagined,
not in a million years, that what he was doing could take
away sins. They knew better, they were instructed in better
truth than that. Only idolatrous fools imagine
that anything offered that is of the earth and earthly, no
matter how good, No matter how precisely it is done, no matter
how accurate it is, nothing done by man can put away sin. But the Lord Jesus Christ was
radically different from all other priests. He, by the sacrifice
of himself, has put away our sins. He changed everything radically. He needed nothing to offer for
himself, but everything he offered was for his people. And that
leads us to this third point of superiority. Our Lord's sacrifice
of himself was once for all. Do you see that in verse 27?
This he did once. The word once there does not
simply mean one time, nor does it mean simply once with finality,
but rather it means this he did one time conclusively forever. In other words, the Lord Jesus,
by his one great sacrifice for sin, becomes and is forever the
center of all things. He is that one of whom all the
Old Testament spoke, and he has offered one sacrifice with finality,
conclusively, putting an end to all that represented him and
was typical of him in the Old Testament. Every work of grace
in history before the sacrifice of Christ looked forward to it
as the foundation for all that was done. In other words, when
Abel offered his sacrifice to God, that sacrifice looked forward
to Christ as the foundation of his being accepted of God and
the Lord accepted him. When Aaron went in and offered
sacrifice on the Day of Atonement, when the priest went in every
morning and every evening and offered sacrifice, when the people
offered sacrifices for various reasons given in the Scriptures,
they were all looking forward to and pointing to, in one way
or another, the accomplishment of redemption, the putting away
of sin, by the Lord Jesus Christ. And every work of God's grace
since the sacrifice of Christ. In other words, God receiving
you and receiving me. God speaking peace to our hearts
through the blood of Christ. Looks back to Christ's sacrifice
and there is the foundation of all our hope. So Christ is the
center of the world's history. In fact, our Lord said in John
12, Now is the judgment of this world. And that word judgment
is variously translated in the scriptures. It might be translated
now is the judgment in the sense that judgment is now finished,
for Christ has put away sin. That's accurate. But it is also
translated crisis. It is the turning point. The
Lord Jesus comes now to his death at Calvary and says this is the
turning point. This is the hinge of the world's
history. This is the hinge. This is the
center of everything. Christ's death at Calvary is
the center of world history, the center of Bible history,
the center of God's works of grace in all things. Our Lord
God planned our salvation from eternity. His purpose of grace
and predestination is certainly given plainly in the New Testament
as well as in the Old Testament. But God's plan and purpose of
grace, God's predestination is centered in the Lord Jesus Christ. You remember what Paul said in
2 Timothy 1.9? God has given us grace in Christ before the
worlds were made, but only in Christ. He has loved us with
everlasting love, but only in Christ. He has blessed us with
all spiritual blessings in heavenly places, but only in Christ. He
chose us as the objects of His mercy, but only in Christ. He has accepted us from eternity,
but only in Christ. So that everything God has ever
done, it has been His purpose from eternity, that it's all
found in, revealed in, and accomplished by His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Alright, look at verse 28. Hebrews
7, 28. The fourth superiority of Christ
over all other priests is that they were appointed by the law
in their weaknesses. But he was appointed by the very
oath of God himself as the perfect son. For the law maketh men high
priest, which have infirmity, weaknesses. But the word of the
oath, which was since the law, maketh the son who is consecrated
forevermore. Now we read earlier Psalm 110.
This is the oath spoken of here. The Lord hath sworn and will
not repent. Thou art a priest forever after
the order of Melchizedek. The oath came after the law was
given, but it pointed to the end of the law. And thus David
spoke even before the law was ended and declared that there's
coming a time when the law shall end. He declares to us in verse
1, the Lord God said unto my Lord, the Messiah, sit thou at
my right hand. And thus in this 110th Psalm,
David spoke by inspiration and said, he who comes as the final
priest, he who comes as the last priest, he is the one who is
the Messiah, the King, who is the end of the law. The Lord
Jesus Christ is that one of whom the scripture spoke alone as
the priest upon his throne. There was never any other priest
who sat upon the throne as a king. He's the only one who ever fulfilled
those words. And as a priest upon the throne,
on the basis of the fact that he has accomplished redemption,
on the basis of the fact that he has put away our sins by the
sacrifice of himself, and now sits upon the throne of glory,
ruling all things by the word of his power. He gives eternal
life to as many as the Father gave him, and he says, Thy people
Because you're the king and you're the priest. Thy people shall
without question be willing in the day of thy power. In other
words, it is the finished work of Christ and he being exalted
as the king of glory that's the basis of our assurance that God's
elect, every one of them, shall be saved. Alright, now look at
verse 28. Here's the fifth superiority
of Christ over all other priests. in the last part of the 28th
verse. The oath makes the son a priest who is consecrated forever. A priest consecrated forever. The Lord Jesus Christ, our great
high priest, is a priest who shall never die. He shall never
be replaced. He is a priest by an indestructible
life. He will outlive all his foes
and all ours. He will be there long after everyone
we have depended upon is dead. He's a priest forever. I remember
as a child, this is so, and I know your children have indicated
it in one way or another. Children often fret mommy and
daddy might not live to take care of them. They get a little
sick. I remember when Shelby was in the hospital, the first
time she had any serious illness, Faith was real fretful. She was
just a little girl. What's going to happen to my
mother? What's going to happen to my mother? And we as parents
often fret that we will not live long enough to raise our children
and care for them. That's why this truth is so precious.
The priesthood of Christ, that one who prays for us, as we saw
last week, that one who is sympathetic with us in all things, as we
saw in Hebrews 4.15, has been perfected forever. not for a
decade, not for a century, not even for a millennium, but forever. This is what that means. It is
to Him we must look when we think about how uncertain everything
in this world is. Look to Him, He's certain. Look
to Him, He's sure. Look to Him, He's steadfast.
Not to me, not to mom or dad or husband or wife. Look to Him. He's forever and forever indestructible
in His priesthood. Now the great point of this text
at the end of chapter 7 and the beginning of chapter 8 is that
we have a great high priest, Jesus Christ, who came into the
world as the Son of God, lived a perfectly righteous life, offered
himself as a perfect sin-atoning sacrifice for the sins of his
people, rose to everlasting life, sat down on the right hand of
the majesty on high, and there he who loves us with a distinguishing
everlasting love prays for us and bids us draw near to God
through Him. Let us therefore come boldly
unto the throne of grace that we maintain mercy and find grace
to help in every time of need through this great High Priest.
This is the main point. The Lord Jesus Christ did not
come into this world to fit into the old system of priestly sacrifices
given in the Old Testament. He came to fulfill them put an
end to them and replace them. He's the reality. He's the reality. You understand what I'm saying?
They were just types and pictures and shadows. He's the reality.
You have so many ways you can understand this, but if you see
It's just a picture. The picture's nice. You have
a picture of your wife, a picture of your children, you look at
them. But that could have been gone for a while. If you have
opportunity to get near your wife or get near your kids, man,
you're a fool to hug the pictures. The reality standing in front
of you, you push the picture aside. And our Lord Jesus Christ
is that one of whom all the law and all the ceremonies and all
the sacrifices and all the priesthood and all the commandments were
but shadows. He's the reality. He's the real
thing. Look at Hebrews 8 and verse 5. These things, these priests,
serve unto the example and shadows of heavenly things, of spiritual
things. As Moses was admonished of God
when he was about to make the tabernacle, for see, saith he,
that is, see this the Lord God said to Moses, that thou make
all things according to the pattern shown to thee in the mount. Now those words in Hebrews 8.5
are a direct quotation from Exodus chapter 25 and verse 40. God spoke these words to Moses. And the point being made in our
text is this. All the furnishings and all the
services of the tabernacle The tabernacle itself, the priesthood,
the altar, the label, the mercy seat, the table of showbread,
the showbread, the veil, everything concerning the Old Testament
worship was to be made according to a set pattern. Now, you will
get some folks who are crazy trying to interpret scriptures
in a literal sense. I can't tell you how many times
I've heard preachers terribly erroneously say that when Moses
made the tabernacle and he built that altar, God showed him some
blueprints of the real thing in heaven as though the real
thing were a real ark. A real mercy seat, a real tabernacle,
a real candlestick. No, no, no, no. All those things
were made after the pattern, Jesus Christ the Lord, the pattern
of redemption, purposed of God from eternity in Him. And there
were to be types, shadows, pictures of heavenly or of spiritual things. They served no other purpose. They absolutely served no other
purpose. The tabernacle was holy on the
end that it represented him who is holy. The mercy seat was holy
on the end that it represented him who was holy, or who is holy. You perhaps have seen some of
those, is it Indiana Jones, that fellow, and the Ark of the Covenant. And I saw the tail end of the
thing one time. That's all I saw of it. Folks
treated it superstitiously. This holy thing. If you could
find it, burn it. It's done now. It's done now. God fixed it so nobody will ever
find it, because men would be fools to worship it just like
that. It pictured Christ the Lord. That was its only purpose. The sacrifices made on that mercy
seat, the blood sprinkled on that mercy seat, never atone
for a sinful thought, much less a sinful deed. It never put away
any man's sins. It never made any man holy. It
only pointed to Him who is our wisdom, righteousness, sanctification,
and redemption. The whole point of the book of
Hebrews is just this. The Lord Jesus Christ, God's
Son, has not come here to fit into earthly, carnal, Old Testament
worship. He has not come here to fit into
the Old Testament, carnal rudiments of worship. But rather, the Lord
Jesus came here to fulfill and forever abolish the whole mosaic
system of legal worship and turn our eyes to God, looking to Him
and Him alone. The Old Testament tabernacle
and the priest, the sacrifices and the garments of the priest,
the mercy seat, the Ark of the Covenant, the commandments, all
of it were only shadows. Now, the real thing's here. That's the message of our text.
Let's read it together. Hebrews chapter 8, verse 1. Now
of the things which we have spoken, this is the sub, this is the
main point. We have, what a word, We have
every sinner who looks to God by faith in Christ. Every sinner
who comes to God believing on his son. We have such an high
priest who is set on the right hand of the throne of the majesty
in the heavens. A minister of the sanctuary and
of the true tabernacle which the Lord pitched and not man. For every high priest is ordained
to offer gifts and sacrifices, wherefore it is of necessity
that this man have somewhat also to offer. For if he were on earth,
he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer
gifts according to the law. That is, at the time of this
writing there were still priests over in Israel offering gifts
according to the law, who serve unto the example and shadow They
serve to be types and pictures of heavenly things. As Moses
was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle,
for see, saith he, that thou make all things according to
the pattern showed thee in the mount. The Lord Jesus Christ
is precisely the kind of priest spoken of and typified in the
Old Testament scriptures. And let me show you this in these
verses. Number one. He is a priest in heaven, seated
upon his royal throne as God in human flesh. Now of the things
which we have written, this is the sum. We have such an high
priest who is set on the right hand of the throne of the majesty
in the heavens. Don't you love the way the inspired
writers seem to stretch their imagination, looking for words
sufficient to speak of God Almighty in His glory. The Lord Jesus
is our priest who, having finished His work, is set. He is set. Not just seated, but He is set
forever! on the right hand of the throne
of the majesty in the heavens. He's finished his work. We have
a priest who is now forever in the holy place. You remember
when Aaron went in on the day of atonement with the blood of
the animal sacrifice, the blood of the Paschal Lamb ordained
of God, that Lamb poured into the Lamb of God, slain from the
foundation of the world? He went in to the holy place
and sprinkled the mercy seed and there made atonement, but
he never set out. He never set out because when
he went out he had to come back next year. Got to do the same
thing all over again, but Christ, he went in once and never came
out. Having obtained eternal redemption
for us. Look at verse 2. His body is
that true tabernacle which the Lord pitched, and not man. Do
you see that? Let's get down to chapter 9 for
a minute. Look at verse 6. Now when these things were thus
ordained, The priest went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing
the service of God, but into the second went the high priest
alone once every year, not without blood, he didn't dare, which
he offered first for himself and then for the errors of the
people. Verse 8, the Holy Ghost this signifying, that is by those
sacrifices the Holy Ghost was saying constantly that the way
into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest as long as
that tent was still standing, while as the first tabernacle
was yet standing. Verse 9, which was a figure, a type, a shadow,
a picture, for the time then present in which were offered
both gifts and sacrifices, look at it now, that could not make
him that did the service perfect as pertaining to the conscience.
It could never give a thought of peace with God. which stood
only in meats and drinks and divers, washings and carnal ordinances
imposed on them until the time of reformation." And that wasn't
talking about the time when Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to
the church door in Wittenberg. That's talking about the time
when Christ Jesus nailed the law to the cross and put away
sin, having satisfied the law. But Christ, being come an high
priest of good things to come, by a greater, more perfect tabernacle,
not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building,
neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood,
he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal
redemption for us. I'll have more to say about that
tabernacle in a moment. But look at this third thing. Hebrews
8, verses 3 and 4. Our Lord Jesus Christ, as a priest,
must have something to offer as a sacrifice to God, otherwise
as a useless priest. For every high priest is ordained
to offer gifts and sacrifices. Wherefore, it is of necessity
that this man have somewhat also to offer. For if he were on earth,
he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer
gifts according to the law. In other words, if the priesthood
were continuing, then our Lord Jesus would not be a priest.
But this man, the Lord Jesus Christ, had something to offer
God. He had something no one ever had to offer God. Perfect
humanity. Perfect righteousness. Perfect
obedience. A perfect, perfect sacrifice
of infinite value because he is that one who has a body prepared
of God for him to come and make sacrifice for sin. This is what
we read in chapter 10. Look at it please. Hebrews chapter
10 verse 1. For the law, having a shadow,
see how often those words are used? Having a shadow, just a
shadow, of good things to come and not the very image or substance
of those things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered
year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
For then would they not have ceased to be offered? Well, of
course they would. Once you've made perfect, no need to make
any more sacrifice. Because that the worshippers
once purged should have had no more conscience of sin. But in
those sacrifices there is a remembrance, a reminder again, made of sins
every year. For it is not possible that the
blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. Wherefore, look
at it, when he cometh into the world, the Lord Jesus Christ
said, sacrifice an offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast
thou prepared me. The Holy Spirit formed his holy
humanity in the womb of the virgin to be that tabernacle in which
God himself would come into the world and dwell among men and
make a sacrifice for men. All right, now here's the fifth
thing in verse five. All the law and services of the Old Testament
were but pictures of the true heavenly spiritual worship. Look
at verse 5 again. These priests, these sacrifices,
this tabernacle, serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly
things, spiritual things. Now again, this is the main point
in all that has been said in this passage. We have such a
high priest who has taken his seat on the right hand of the
throne of the majesty in the heavens, a minister in the sanctuary,
in the true tabernacle which the Lord pitched, and not man. Now this is the point. That priest
who stands in our stead before God is not an ordinary, weak,
dying priest like Aaron and Levi, but he's a priest forever seated
upon the throne of glory. He is the real faith of whom
all the types and shadows were but pictures and shadows, nothing
more. Pastor, what is the implication
of this? It means, in essence, that the
entire worship life of the Old Testament has been radically
refocused into Jesus Christ himself. The entire thing. The entire
thing. It has become a radically spiritual thing as opposed to
an external thing. In the Old Testament, there was
an appointed day of worship. There was an appointed place
of worship. There was an appointed priest to them. The priest had
to wear certain kind of clothes. They had to give themselves to
a certain manner of singing, singing the psalms that were
given for the purpose of worship. They had to come with a certain
censer, with certain incense mixed in exactly the precise
way into the holy place, exactly as God required, with a specific
sacrifice. But today, all worship is spiritual
in its essence. What does our Lord tell us? God
is spirit. They that worship him must worship
him in spirit and in truth. We are the circumcision, Paul
says, which worship God in spirit and in truth and have no confidence
in the flesh and rejoice in Christ Jesus. The apostle says, present
your bodies as living sacrifices unto God, which is just your
reasonable service. He says, whether therefore you
eat or drink whatsoever you do, do all to the glory of God. When
the Philippians had sent their gifts to the Apostle Paul, he
spoke of their carnal gifts. Now, I don't have any idea what
they sent him. I kind of doubt that they sent him even any money.
I suspect they sent him some cake and cookies. He was in prison. Money wouldn't have done him
much good. They sent their gifts out of their necessity to help
him. And Paul said, your gifts to me. or sacrifice of a sweet-smelling
savor to God. That's the kind of language used
talking about sacrifices in the Old Testament. So that that which
is done for God in Christ, in the totality of the life of the
believer, is worship. We talk about this place of worship,
and we have come together here for an hour of worship. We'll
meet together again Sunday morning, Sunday night for time of worship.
But we really do a disservice talking about it that way. Because
the believer's life is worshipped. Can you get a hold of that? Our
lives before God are to be lives of consecration and worship to
Him. So that whatever we do, we do it for the glory of God.
Whatever it is. It's a terrible mistake to try
to separate various aspects of our lives into spiritual activity
and carnal activity. Our lives are lives before God
in the Spirit. So that whether we're involved
in recreation, or involved in work, or involved in preaching,
or involved in resting, our lives are lives consecrated to God.
Whether we're sitting down eating a meal, or whether we're just
driving down the road listening to radio, our lives are lives
of worship unto God. Everything in the worship of
God is primarily spiritual. Now that doesn't mean that we
ignore the carnal aspects. What a horrible way to talk about
it, but I don't know any other way to speak of it. That doesn't
mean we ignore the external things. We read the Word, but when we
read, let's read in the Spirit. We pray. But when we pray, let
us pray in the Spirit. We preach, but when we preach,
let us preach in the Spirit. We hear, but when we hear, let
us hear in the Spirit. Let us never neglect the assembly
of God's saints. That's a carnal thing, and yet
it's a spiritual thing. But the essence of the assembly
of the saints is not our gathering here, looking one another in
the face. No, no, no, no, no, no. The essence of it is that
we have come to the General Assembly and to the Church of the Firstborn,
whose names are written in heaven. And if we are enabled right now
to worship God, Skip, Sandy Gladfelter, Donna Shelby Thornton, and all
the rest of us, we are gathered around the throne of God with
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, with innumerable company of just men
made perfect, the spirits of just men made perfect, and with
the angels of God. Our worship is spiritual. It's
spiritual. Otherwise, it's not worship.
Now having said that, our text speaks of Christ, the true sanctuary.
In the Old Testament, there was the holy place and then the most
holy place. The first sanctuary, the first
tabernacle, and then the inner sanctuary. We don't have any
sanctuaries. This is not a sanctuary. It's
not a sanctuary. It is a piece of idolatry to
talk about this as a sanctuary. This is an auditorium where folks
come and gather. It's not a holy place. It is
used for holy purposes, but it's not a holy place. You understand
that? There's a huge difference. To call it a holy place, is to
venerate it. To call it a holy place is to
speak of it as somehow being a spiritual place, and it is
not that. This is not a holy desk, it's
just a piece of wood from which I lay my Bible and my notes and
preach to you the holy gospel, but the desk is just wood. It's
just wood. We don't, therefore, observe
or have or entertain any kind of religious symbols, pictures,
crosses, icons. Just don't. We just don't. And
wherever possible, we get rid of them. Recently I was preaching
in a church and they had one of them crosses hanging on their
back. And this is what I said to them.
And I'm dead serious. I am dead serious. You folks
around here will remember when that fellow up in Cincinnati,
that homosexual artist, called such
a stir because he had a crucifix and a jar of urine. That's exactly
what you ought to do with them. I despise his reason for doing
it, but that's exactly what you ought to do with it. All idolatry
is worth nothing but dung, and that's how it's to be treated.
All pieces of idolatry, no matter how dear they may be to you,
the dearer they are, the more important you get rid of them.
Get rid of them. Don't you cherish it. Don't you
use some kind of a religious symbol and talk about it being
spiritual. It isn't. It's just idolatry. Our Lord
Jesus Christ is our altar. Now I'm going to tell you something.
If you've got another altar, you don't worship at this altar.
That's exactly right. If you've got an altar down here
in front of the church, or you've got an altar in a confessional
booth, or you've got an altar out in the woods, you don't worship
at this altar. He is the true tabernacle. If
you've got another one, you don't worship in this one. He is the
true bread. If you eat some other bread in
a spiritual sense, you understand what I'm talking about, you don't
eat this bread. He is the real mercy sink. He's the real place of sacrifice. He's the real thing. He's the real lamb. He's the
real atonement. And the only way we can come
to God is by Him. Now one reason, and I'll give
you this and quit, one reason why this dangerously spiritual worship,
I use my words deliberately, it's dangerously spiritual because
men In ignorance, we'll hear this message, and they'll say,
now, you see there, it's not important that we go to church,
not important that we be part of a church, not important that
we give, not important that we read our Bible. I didn't say
that, and this book doesn't teach that. But one reason why everything
is spiritual, because in the Old Testament, worship was primarily
come and see. Come and see. Come here, we'll
show you. Come here, we'll show you. In
the New Testament, the worship of God is primarily a missionary
mandate. It's go and tell. We take the
gospel to the four corners of the earth and say, behold, the
Lamb of God. And it doesn't matter, you know,
we don't have any liturgy. We don't have any set time of
worship. Some of the churches down in Mexico we'll be visiting
in a couple of months. Some of them meet on Monday night,
can't meet on Sunday. Some of them meet on Saturday
morning, can't meet on Sunday. Some of them meet on Sunday.
Well, how come? Because they haven't got preacher
to meet with them then. They can go on the concert and have
time. Can't go all the time. Oh, you mean they don't worship
on Sunday? No. No. They worship in Christ. They
worship Him and we don't have a set time. I recall folks raising
an eyebrow when we first started meeting on Tuesday nights. Meet
on Tuesday? What kind of spooky stuff is
that? We've been meeting on Wednesdays for years. I'm not talking about
you, other folks. You meet on Tuesday night? Well,
how can you worship God on Tuesday night? Just like you do when
you go home at midnight, kiss your wife goodbye, and close
your eyes to worship God. It's spiritual. You understand
what I'm saying? God's spirit. And we worship him in spirit
and in truth, through Jesus Christ our High Priest, the true tabernacle,
the true sanctuary, the true altar, the true sacrifice, the
true everything. Amen.