Thank you, Ray, for these studies on the server, Lord Jesus. I think that I can say that my few studies on the tabernacle will be probably a walk through the picture gallery type of thing. But I do hope that Ray will carry with us as we walk through the gallery. This is the kind of picture I think that he probably can understand better. and the other. If he's talking about modern art, I can understand what he means. I heard of a painting that was put into a contest in Sweden, and it won first place, and the man that sent it in had gotten this picture as a result of a monkey dabbling with blue paint and smearing it on a piece of canvas that was submitted more or less of a jolt when it was awarded first prize. And the men that had made the judgment that said, well, we have to recognize quality where we see it. The only thing that we're a little bit wondering about is why did he use all blue paint? And the man said, well, because it tastes better than the other color. So if that's a picture of modern art today, we can understand why Ray wants to keep on going through. But We're going to look at the tabernacle, and this will be very brief as we were saying yesterday morning we're going to have to cut on all three lot of corners. I think Moses will be very, very provoked with me that I should spend so little time on this, but there's no way out. Tomorrow I'll be with the young people, and then we'll have Wednesday and Friday, just two more times, and then of course we'll try to cover at least one of the pieces of furniture in the Holy Place. And I would like to speak last of all about the story of the war itself. And I don't know which of these three that we'll look at on Wednesday. I haven't decided yet, but there'll be one of those three. And yesterday morning we were looking at the story that the course of all the war. This morning we'll be looking at it from my story. I'm bringing two together. story of the brazen altar and the brazen laser. I'm sorry I have such a big pointer. I saw one of the lady sprints as I walked up with it. I only used these at Bible camps to keep order. I hope I don't have to use it here. So I'll use it for a make sure pointer down there. I was thinking, seeing that we can't really go into a lot of detail on the study of tabernacle, I would like to accomplish at least a couple of things. One of them is to create, with the help of the Lord, an interest in the typical study of the Old Testament scriptures. If this would whet your appetite to further your probing into the beautiful truths of Christian life and living that are contained in the Old Testament type, symbols, figures, then I think we will have accomplished something. Also, at the same time, in a rather brief way, we'll try to familiarize ourselves with some of the more visible truths connected with the tabernacle. So with that in mind, I'm going to kind of pinpoint certain things and try to express them home as best as I can. When we think about the tabernacle, I'd like you to associate with it one word, and that is the word dwelling. When you think of the tabernacle, think of dwelling, because that's the whole story right in a nutshell, dwelling. We saw yesterday morning that there are five recorded places in Scripture where God dwelt among His people. Now He indwells individual believers. by the Spirit of God, but when it comes to a collective type of dwelling, we find there are four or five places recorded in Scripture. First one was in Eden. Second, we have the one in the wilderness, the tabernacle. We have the Lord Jesus Christ, John one, verse fourteen, where he says the word was made flesh and tabernacles among us. And we beheld his glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. So there we have the third dwelling, and that is God's dwelling among people in the person of his Son. Ephesians chapter two tells us that the church is a habitation of God by the Spirit of God. And then in Revelation chapter twenty-one we have the last reference, and that is in paradise. The tabernacle of God is with men. he shall dwell among them. And this is the eternal state. It has always been God's desire to dwell with his people. It's just amazing that there have been so few opportunities for God to really be at home with his people. Because you see, Satan and sin have really caused tremendous amount of havoc in this regard, and God has been able only on limited occasions to dwell thus. But he has always been able to mingle with his own at one time or another on the earth, from the very beginning creation till we get home to heaven. But we think of the grounds of his dwelling. In the creation, of course, it was the perfection of his own work. In the tabernacle, we see it's on the ground of redemption. He can't dwell with anybody else, with anybody except on the ground of redemption. In the case of the Lord Jesus, it's incarnation. And in the case of the church, it's his matchless grace. and of course in Revelation twenty-one the eternal state it's glorification and we have perfection eternal now by way of a additional thought to the study of the fourth law and I tried to bring out yesterday morning that as he is so are we in this world showing that the beautiful linen hanging that went all the way around this cabernacle, first of all, typified the Lord Jesus. Secondly, they typified the responsibility of the people in this world. Now, there are six pillars in all that support it. These hangings. And if you're interested in numbers and what they teach, and I am, but I don't overdo it like some. I've had some men who have just gone to seed on numbers, and they even count the steps they take to get into their automobile. I don't go that far. But there are some lovely lessons taught with numbers. Sixty pillars is a combination of ten times six. And ten in Scripture is always associated with responsibility. I've got ten fingers and I'm responsible with ease to serve God. I've got ten toes responsible to walk for God. There were ten commandments given, man's responsibility in this world. So ten is always associated with responsibility. The number six. is associated with man, that's his number, created on the sixth day. So we take ten and six. We see that man's responsibility is seen in this respect that he, among all things, preeminent things, is to uphold the character and the testimony of the Lord Jesus. As I was saying yesterday morning, that is our main calling as believers in this world. Everything else is incidental. And it's always a tragedy in the life of a Christian when the incidentals become major issues, and we find that the one thing that we're set into the world to do has been set aside as a minority, as a minor, rather than a major. That's the one thing that I'm left here in your lecture to do, and that is to uphold the character of our Lord Jesus Christ. Then again, there were all together a few hundred and eighty He was white hanging with him all the way around his entire course, and that's a combination of figures, forty times seven. Now, forty in Scripture is a number of testes. You know, Goliath appeared before the armies of Israel for forty days, and we find there were forty centuries before Christ came. He was tempted forty days and forty-night. Forty is always linked up with testes. Seven, of course, we're more familiar with. That's the number of perfection of completeness. So we see that we have perfection in testing. Christ was tested in all points, like as we, yet without sin. They could not find one possible flaw in him, forty times seven. And then when we come to the beautiful gate, we find that it consists of... one, two, three, four, four sections of five units. That's, we have twenty. And that would be a combination of five times four. Now, four in Scripture is always linked up with universality. We have the four seasons of the year, the four points of the compass, and the four living creatures and it's always linked up with universality five of course is a number of weakness also a number of grace so we find that this picture is the grace of God universal that door speaking of the Lord Jesus is wide enough great enough to allow any and all sinners to come in four times five universal grace marvelous when you see how these numbers our link together. Now, we can't say very much about the brazen altar, but you'll find that scripture is dealing with this in the twenty-seven chapter of Exodus from verses one through eight. Thou shalt make an altar of shittim wood or acacia wood five cubits long, five cubits broad, the altar shall be four square, and the height thereof shall be three cubits. Now, this altar was perfectly square. It was five cubits square. Now, the height of the wall was five cubits. That's about eight feet high or a little better. Nobody could scale the wall. In fact, if they were to come up and touch this wall, they would be put to death. But what man could not scale by nature, man could measure by the grace of God, because we find the five cubits now are laid out for its five cubits. four-fold, four-square in the story of redemption, the work of our Lord Jesus Christ on the cross. What I get as meaning by nature or natural ability or standing or achievement, God supplies for me at Calvary Cross. Isn't that a nice, beautiful truth? If there's one here this morning and you've been trying your best to meet the approval of God, don't stand looking at bossless linen hanging that speak of the character of our Lord Jesus. If that was the only thing we saw here, we'd be of all men most miserable. I want you to look at that brazen altar because there God meets the measurement in grace in substitutionary work. The altar was three feet of tithes and three in Scripture is always linked up with manifestations. It's perfect manifestation. And that's why we speak of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit's perfect manifestation of the personality and the person of God. And then, understand that the center section of the altar, the grave, was put in there at a cubit and a half high, one and a half cubit high. Interesting to notice in Scripture that the table of children was also a cubit and a half high. And we find the ark of the company. So you could draw a line from the altar to the table to the ark. All be on the same level. And how does God deal with this? My salvation at the cross of Calvary puts me on a level with fellowship with others before God and brings me into the presence of God. From the beginning to the end, a cubit and a half. Now, of course, in the Old Testament scriptures you find many times that things are listed in fractions, and I think one of the reasons for that is because it indicates that what we had in the Old Testament type in pictures, which were in fractions, indicates that everything was not yet complete. When our Lord Jesus comes, we have everything incomplete, but not until he came. And this was four squares. It was also hollow, and some have said, this I don't know, because there are some of these things we don't even know the dimensions for, but it has been said that all of these pieces of furniture could be put within the confines of the graven altar. And that's a very beautiful picture, because it's nice to think that our fellowship, our testimony, and everything else is all contained in what Christ accomplished on the cross account. But like I said, we don't know the dimensions of a couple of these items. I don't know what the dimension of the last Dan was. I haven't any idea. There's no dimension given for the great new lady. So it's a nice thought that's the same. And I'm sure that Moses would not mind if he said that and probably the Lord wouldn't need it. All right. Would you turn now to Exodus chapter thirty? And we'll see the verses that deal with the labor, beginning in verse seventeen, Exodus chapter thirty, verse seventeen. And the Lord spake in the Moses saying, Thou shalt also make a labor of grass, his foot also of grass, to wash with all. Thou shalt put it between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, and thou shalt put water therein. For Aaron and his son shall wash their hands and their feet thereat. When they go into the tabernacle of the congregation, they shall wash with water. Notice this, that they die not. Or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn offering made by fire unto the Lord, so they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they die not. And it shall be a statute forever to them, even to him as we see throughout their generations. You can see they were coming to something which was exceedingly important, tremendously important. Now, it would be quite a study if you were to go through your Bible and pick out the places in reference to the tabernacle where God indicates that there would be death on certain cases. understand it would be dead, but if one were to come up and try to tear down that wall and have to lay his hands on, he would be smitten in death. The next time we have death, then he is in connection with Savior who washed at the labor. So you can see it's exceedingly important that we understand what the labor means. Laying hold of this wall out here would have to be the hand of an unbeliever, the enemy of God. Here would have to be the savior of a redeemed person to function as God would have him function. Now, what is the story of the gate? What's the story of the grace and all this? What's the story of the grace and labor? I think that the story of the gate is decision. Access. But I would say decision. The story of the graven altar is justification or propitiation. That's a bigger word. I'll say justification, made righteous God. And the story of the graven labor is sanctification. So as we think of the graven labor this morning, what I want to do is to compare it and contrast it with the graven altar. Generally, I would take one whole session on the graven altar alone and then another session on raising labor, but for a sake of time, I'm simply going to have to combine these two and hopefully be able to make some points of contrast. The tabernacle, remember, speaks of dwelling. There have been only five recorded places in Scripture where God was able and will be able to dwell with men. We find also that this tabernacle speaks of a person in the work of the Lord Jesus Christ. It also speaks of a people. And if you look at the gate, remember it speaks of decision. You see, nobody is ever going to appreciate the cross work of Christ unless he comes to that point of decision in his life. And then when we get past the work of Christ for us here at the altar, the vision of the cross work of the Lord, he comes to the brazen labor. So we have at the brazen altar justification at the brazen labor, it's scientification. At the grazen altar, it's a matter of being right with God. What's the story at the grazen labor then? Where's the water? What's going to wash their hands and their feet? It's a matter of keeping right with God. One is positional. You think it's here where I get my right to enter heaven. This is positional. But this is experimental. This is what Christ accounted for me, and this is what God is attempting to work out in me, you see, after I'm saved. So let's compare these things by contrast again. When you look at the brazen altar, it reminds us of Christ's finished work on the cross. When you look at the brazen labor, it reminds us of Christ's unfinished work. He finished their work for me when Christ died on the cross, but there is an unfinished work that is yet being carried on, and this is the story that the labor tells us. The altar tells us of the work of Christ that was accomplished by blood, the price of my redemption. But the labor tells me of the word of Christ, and this is accomplished by the water, the water of his work. At the brazen altar, the sinner gets his title, the mansions in the sky, but it's at the brazen labor where the saints get his fitness. I have my title clear at the brazen altar, but I get fitness at the brazen labor. I can say as I look at the brazen altar, Christ has made us clean. As I look at the brazen labor, Christ is keeping me clean. When I look at the brazen altar, I can say that God's judgment passed upon Christ my substitute. But when I stand at the brazen labor, it's my judgment on myself as I look into the Word of God. It's self-judgment. At the brazen altar, it's God's acting in judgment on my behalf. But at the brazen labor, I'm acting in judgment on myself as a priest, as a believer priest. We might say that the brazen altar tells us that its story is for all, but the brazen labor is for priests only. Another thing, the brazen altar had measurements. There are no measurements given for the brazen labor. You know why? Why aren't there any measurements given for the brazen labor? I'm sure that Moses must have had measurements given to him, but he never recorded it. Was that just an accident? No, I don't think so. I believe that God purposely, by the Spirit of God, prevented this from being recorded because there is a wonderful lesson in the fact that there were no measurements given for the laborers. The reason that there is a measurement for the altar is because there was a specific need, and Christ met it. He met it to the last letter. He met it completely, and therefore there were measurements given. But when we come to the laborers, We have a picture of the action of the word of God. Can anyone say that he has ever completely measured the word of God? Is there a Christian here today that will say, well, brother, you're looking at somebody that has completely measured up to the word of God. I have completely carried it out. I am a perfect servant. No, we don't have that sort of thing. That's why there's no measurement to the label. We'll never get through. looking into the word of God and seeking to keep it. I think that the brazen altar tells us of the foundation of life, and that is without the shedding of blood, there's no remission, and the story of the labor has got to be the foundation of holiness, without which no man will prove God. And one has to do would make me a son of God, bringing me into relation, and never had to do with my service. We might say, then briefly, that this yields the salvation, this yields the service for God. Now, I don't know whether those things are confusing or not, but I hope that they will help you to understand the difference between the work of Christ and these two sects. If you can remember at least one of these concepts, they will be helpful. that he can remember that he did for the finished work, that he did for his own finished work, the work that he did for me, and the work that he did in me. Here he judged me. Here Christ was judged for me. Here I judge myself. Here's the action of the fire on my substitute. Here's the action of the Word of God on me. And that's why we can't have any measurements because we never really measure up to the Word of God. Because Christ measures our needs once and for all. in that night, never have to have another sacrifice, never need another challenge. Well, brethren, we can't say we don't need the labor to do it. In fact, understand that when the altar was carried, the raven altar was carried, and it was covered. But the labor was covered. So remind us that as we journey along day by day, we need not this cleanse over one of these days I'll get a nice little light pointer here the next time as well when they close I've done one of his revenue he was hanging up the chart and he says I don't know I may give my son then what I says well it'll be a test where you've got to write the religion that way look over to Exodus chapter... Well, you can turn to Exodus thirty-eight, and I'm going to turn over to Numbers chapter sixteen. This way we'll save a little time. Where did they get the brass for the brazen altar? Where did they get the brass for the top before the brazen laser? I think the very source of these materials that were used for both the altar and the labor are very significant. If you were to go over to the sixteenth chapter of Numbers, some of these times you will read that there was a rebellion instigated against Moses and his order by Torah. And the entire chapter deals with it. It's a very interesting chapter to say the least. It's one of the most graphic pictures and we come down to verse thirty one when these two hundred and fifty priests came out with these so-called priests came out with their censors and they were made out of brass and they were smoking and it's quite an imposing site and the contest was God was going to decide whether these men were really in the place that Korah said they were or whether the God had appointed merely Moses and his contingent to their respective places and so the contest was on and we read in verse thirty one it came to pass as he had made an end speaking all these words that the ground slave asunder that was under them and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up and their houses and all the men that have appertained them to Korah and all their goods and they and all that are appertained unto them went down alive into the pit and the earth flows upon them and they perish from among the congregation mind you it was men Women and children. And I've often thought, isn't it a tragedy that our children are affected by the sins of their elders? You know, if there's not another reason in the world why a mother and a daddy ought to be really consecrated and thoroughly dedicated to God, it ought to be because they've got a family. I think God impresses it upon us. We can't be too steadfast in our own individual lives. And all Israel that were around about them fled at the cry of them, and they said, Bless the earth, swallow us up also. It must have been an awful scene, an awful sound coming from the pit as those people, men and women and children, disappeared into the crevice of the earth. And there came out of fire from the Lord and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense. And the Lord speaking to Moses saying, speaking to Elias, the son of Aaron, the priest, that he take up the censors out of the burning. Mind you, take up these censors out of the burning and scatter thou the fire yonder, for they are hallowed. The censors of these sinners against their own souls, what were they? They were hallowed. Here they were censors of rebellion. They were censors that indicated that these men were in complete rebellion against God's order, against God's way, against God's selection. And after the fire had consumed these two hundred and fifty men, the only thing that remained were the censors. And after they had gone through this fire of God, God says they're hell. Isn't that amazing? The very insignia of the rebellion and sin is become hell. Now let's see a little further. the censors of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar. For they offered them before the Lord. Therefore they are hallowed. They shall be assigned unto the children of Israel. And Eliezer the priest took the brazen censors, wherewith they were burnt and had offered, and they were made broad plates for a covering of the altar. of the altar, be a memorial under the children of Israel, that no stranger which is not of the seat of Aaron come near to offer incense before the Lord, that he be not as Korah and as his company, as the Lord said to him by the hand of Moses. And so these censors were then beaten into big broad plates, and these plates were fashioned to the size of that altar, and thus we have its signification as a grave and altar. It was a wooden altar covered with brass. The humanity of the Lord Jesus Christ. And we had the deity of Christ able to sustain judgment. And there they are to get. And so every time Israel looked at the brazen altar, what did they think? They thought of that rebellion, of those sinners against their own souls. And it says, oh, God, God comes down on sin and upon sinners. but then their obedience is a sacrifice. They're reminded of their sins. Say, when you look at Calvary, what do you think about? You think about your sin, don't you? I'll always remember that little Catholic girl that I dealt with in Lake Geneva a good number of years ago. She was concerned about her soul, and we sat out one of those big maple trees in front of the chapel building, and I had a little fright story that I used to tell the kids in order illustrate the gospel and I said honey I said did you know that if you were the only little girl in all the world that the Lord Jesus would have come down here and died for you so you could go to heaven if you were the only one and I told that to kids many a time and I get to see they were greatly impressed and she wasn't any exception she looked off across the camp ground and with a wistful look on her face and she nodded her head yeah He says, I can see. If I were the only little girl in the world, Jesus would have had to come to die for me if I would go to heaven. She says, I never thought of that before. And she says, I can. And I saw her looking out across those campgrounds, and I thought, just let that soak in. And as it was soaking in, she turned those wistful eyes and eyes. And she said, you know what? I was just thinking that if I was the only little girl in the world, Jesus would have had to go on to the cross and died for me so I could go to heaven just then. He says, I would have had to nail him on the cross and stuff. You know, I'm a seed, and I tell you, the seed down too emotional. But I couldn't tell that I was that pinballed. I guess you wondered why. But I never saw my sin in a perspective like that. I could see Christ dying for me. Yes. How that would ought to make any person ride and say, Lord, I want to. But when I could see as that little girl's head, it was my sin actually driving him there and tailing him on the cross. I saw Calvary in a different dimension than I ever did in all my life. I told that story in a few places and strangely enough, God has used it with the salvation of several castes. Sitting back in the meeting with you, never saw it before. Bob von Spiegel in Wichita in in fellowship supposedly and got saved after he told the story. He says, I've never struggled with myself and all my troubles and all the rottenness in my life. Well, I'm telling you, when I look at the very heart and it goes to the grave in a place, I'm reminded of my sins. Tell your friends, when I'm going to heaven, I'm not going to heaven because I'm better than you or you're better than I am. Because I was a sinner. But Christ died a sinner. That's the story of the graven altar. And I don't think they would ever look at the graven altar without having a thorough realization of what sin was. We tell them against what? Sinning against their own souls. But then on top of the altar where the fire burned, there was a sack of fire. Isn't that great? Now, the last one over here, I had you turn over to Exodus thirty-eight. Moses didn't say, now look, save a couple of those censors. from those rebellious rascals. And I want my skilled craftsmen to fashion a labor out of the remaining copper. He didn't say that. How did he get the brass of the labor? Exodus thirty eight verse eight. And he made the labor of brass or copper in the foot of it of brass of the what? The looking glasses of the women assembling, which assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, they made the labor out of the women's looking glasses. Isn't that an interesting thing? And these ladies heard Moses' instructions and they gave up their looking glasses. They didn't have the nice, beautiful looking glasses that you ladies had to say we men. Because I get me staring at them as much as the women do when we close doors. That doesn't do any good, fellas. I mean, it doesn't help me. Anyhow, you see, these ladies gave up the pieces of polished copper, and they were so highly polished, you know, they could hold them up and see a reflection, a face. You know how it is when you stand in front of a mirror? Oh, you know, they look at themselves and they'll get a good picture of themselves and what they see they don't like. And so they're going to fix it up so that everybody will like them. Get arrested if you say something. One day Tom was lost. He was driving the car and he says, we've got to get directions. And we're going down some straight city and all. And I was sitting there next to Tom and Tom pulled the car to a halt right in front of a young woman. That was a summer day. We didn't have air conditioning. The women was down. It was pulled up there. And this woman stared at us. What I got to do, I said, did you come? And she said, ah! Tom told her. You got arrested? Well, you know, the women, they say most people. They look at them again. They must. You sure they'll fix themselves. That's what they're hungry for. They're concerned with what everybody thinks when they look at it. And so Moses said, well, we'll take these polished pieces of brass and we'll fashion them into a labor and we'll put water in the labor and what those looking glasses taught the woman who were to preach the priest as we come to serve our Lord. We've got to look into the Word of God. And when I look into the Word of God, I see things. Oh, that doesn't look so good now. And I see Ray looking in the Word of God, he goes, Oh, Lord, that doesn't look good. Help me, Lord. Something doesn't look good in my life. Something doesn't look good in my home. Something doesn't look good between my husband and myself. Oh, Lord. Now, mind you, they only had the brass. They only had the copper. But in the copper, there was water. You see, it's the twofold action of the Word of God. It reveals, it reveals my state. And the word of God also has a cleansing effect upon the believer. Oh, I don't know. Quick, would you say one for a year? We'll wind it up pretty quickly now. Could we take one little glance at John chapter thirteen? Oh, I do hope that when I see Moses that he won't scold me too much for passing. come of these good things by. John chapter thirteen and verse uh verse four concerning the Lord Jesus he rises from supper and laid aside his garments and he took a towel and girded himself and he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples feet and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded Then cometh he to Simon Peter, and Peter said to him, Lord, doth thou wash my feet? Adaboy, Peter. No, let the Lord do anything like that. I can just see Peter say, Lord, you're going to wash my feet? Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do, thou knowest not now. Now, that knocked out literal foot washing, by the way. If there's anybody here, you've got any ideas about literal foot washing, just kiss it goodbye, because if this was literal foot washing, that the Lord said, had in mind as a lesson for Peter Peter was not that stupid that he didn't know what the Lord was going to do with a basin of water and a towel in his hand but he says I've got something that you don't know about right now he says what I what I do thou knoweth not now but thou shalt know hereafter see he's got a spiritual lesson in mind here and When Peter heard that he, Peter said to him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. You're not going to wash my feet. Then he gets real strong. He says, You'll never wash my feet, Lord. No, no, not you. And then the Lord Jesus says unto him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part, not in me, but with, you see, I have part in Christ where? Here for here. Come on. Right. I have part with Christ here for here. Right. I have part in Christ here. This is my position. This is my relationship. But I have part with Christ here. This is sanctification. This is condition. This is experimental. And so he says, you're going to, if I don't wash it, you don't have any part with me. And when Peter heard that, good old Peter, he put her in reverse. And Peter says to him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands on my head. Let's get the job done good. Good old Peter. I like to quote you. There's something so good about Peter. I just love that man because all of the crummy things you ever did, I've done him. I just can't help but have an affinity for a man like Peter. And dear Peter says, Lord, it's that important. I don't want to miss out part with you. Lord, you just wash me all over. And Jesus said to him, he that is washed or bathed or at the labor, you know, the bath of regeneration needs not stay to wash his feet. He's clean every week, but you're clean, but not all. You see, when they used to bathe in those days ago from the place, from the bath house and they'd get home, and their feet would be dusty. The servant didn't take and say them all over. He just washed their feet. You see, he's alluding to the fact that when you trust the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior, you're completely washed. It's completely cleansed. But as a believer, in our daily walk, we have to wash our feet. Now, it's interesting to notice that in the Old Testament, the priests washed their hands and their feet, but when we come to John XIII, it's only a reference to washing the feet. Now, most of you know the answer to this. You see, in the Old Testament, the priest had to take the offering and sacrifices, and they were doing very things with their hands. Therefore, they had to wash their hands as well as their feet. When we come to the New Testament, there's no need to wash their hands. Why? Because the sacrifice has already been applied. We don't have to do anything with our hands. That's all done. But we still have to walk. We're still walking into the final world, so we have to have a clean walk. And I think it's very important to see that if we don't wash that there's always a danger that God is going to have to come in very severely. As he said back there in Exodus, he said, if you wash not, thou shalt not. I really trust that all of us will have a very, very tender sense of appreciation and a conscience which is very, very tender before God when we look into the Word of God. And as Brother McGee used to say, when you go to the meeting, you take a rake. You're going to take a shovel. You heard him say it. You take a rake. You pull it to you. A shovel you go to. Boy, that's good for John Evans. That's good for Rake. That's good for Rake. That's good for Rake. That's good for Rake. Pat needs to say, if you take a race, we pull it to yourself. Pull it to yourself. Pull it in. And if we do that, it will be very helpful. The altar gives us our rights. That's our position. But the labor gets us fixed. And if there's anybody here that hasn't been able to understand what Moulton's work teaches typically, Let me just close with this little location. You know, we've had five children in our families. Four of them are married under old now. We had one boy's home. And I remember when the kids were quite small and child's bell would ring or whatever it was to be. The kid would come streaking in. And I see old Rob up at the table there with grass and hair, grass and his hair, mud on his cheek, fingers just covered with mud. You know, he used to go down the alley. I thought he was going to be a garbage man because I never saw a kid that was more attracted to garbage cans than robbers. I've actually seen him in the alley with just his teeth sticking out. And I knew good and well that the other end of those teeth would be my boy. And he brought stuff home and I didn't even have to hire guys all the way. I said, well, I can't, I just can't keep up with this garbage book. And he'd come in, he was just as filthy as a hog. And my wife would say, Robert, you get in there and you walk. And I mean you walk. Well, I'm not getting in there. You walk. Get in there. Or I'll do it for you. You come back and look him over. Is that the best you can do? Sometimes you go back with two rocks. And then he sits on the table and knocks. He had a right to sin it. mom and dad table. So with all that filth on him, we were pissed with him. So we had to go back and walk. Not to get a right to be there. He had that dirty or not. But he had to walk in order to be put. You see, you and I, and you come to the Lord's table, we got a right to be there. But brethren, are we always pissed at you there? Let's examine that. Let's give him the word of God. And with the rake folded, please. And then we'll be able to go. We've got him arrested tomorrow. and then Thursday or Wednesday we're going to go to the holy place and we'll look at one of those God we pray. Now our Father we ask thy blessing upon thy good word as we read the scripture this morning and we listen to thy word as it presented to us the perfect servant. Oh Lord when we think of service in this world it's good to know there was one who could meet every single qualification purposefully and nowhere did we see it the better profession and when he expires on the cross bearing the load of our sins. And then we come along as God to learn that we too are to represent him in this world. This is our work. This is our main work. Our main calling is to uphold the character of our Lord Jesus in our lives and that we might know what it is to have recourse to the labor day by day and moment by moment. or we might serve so he is safe. We have to be thankful for his name and faith. Well, today the subject is the reason why we believe in the three millennial pre-tribulation rapture of the church. It used to be in my young years that It was simply enough to say that we were premillennialists. This identified us to a great extent as being pre-credulation premillennial rapturous.