1 00:00:02,080 --> 00:00:03,640 Amen. If you're here today, you're 2 00:00:03,640 --> 00:00:05,880 blessed to be here. Amen. 3 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:10,000 In the House of the Lord is telling in leadership prayer. 4 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:13,800 From what I could count up, there was about 12 households 5 00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:18,880 this week that have been influenced by sickness here out 6 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:22,040 of the church. And so a prayer revival started 7 00:00:22,040 --> 00:00:24,440 out like like attendance like this. 8 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:29,000 And by Friday it was like this and we had family game night, 9 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:33,840 which when it first started, it was literally that my family, 10 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:36,440 the Masons family, it was family game night. 11 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:40,680 And so but sister Sam end up showing up with Xavier and we 12 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:43,240 had two guests, actually 2 guests. 13 00:00:43,440 --> 00:00:45,160 He meant for family game that as well. 14 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:49,280 So we just kind of felt like, you know, the last survivors, 15 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:53,400 the last the Mohicans, whatever. I don't know, but such, So we're 16 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:56,440 thankful that God is touching people in their homes and that 17 00:00:56,440 --> 00:01:00,160 they're getting better and some of them that had been impacted 18 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:01,840 are here today. Amen. 19 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:03,880 We're grateful for that. I told Brother Malone I was 20 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:07,080 going to all blame it on him because last Sunday afternoon he 21 00:01:07,080 --> 00:01:09,160 told me got it from nap. He wasn't feeling good. 22 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:12,480 And that was the first, that's the first call I think I got of 23 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:14,800 anybody being sick. So everybody can thank Brother 24 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:19,840 Malone for no, I'm just joking, Amen, Amen. 25 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:23,720 No, you, you could, it's everywhere. 26 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:26,120 So you pick this up anywhere. Amen. 27 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:31,000 Going to turn to Exodus chapter 27 this morning, Exodus chapter 28 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:34,480 27. And I want to read just a few 29 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:37,960 verses of Scripture in Exodus 27, and then I want to turn a 30 00:01:37,960 --> 00:01:42,040 few chapters over into the 30th chapter, the same book. 31 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:45,800 Amen. Today, Exodus 27, I'm going to 32 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:50,880 begin with verse #1. And thou shalt make an altar. 33 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:57,360 Everybody say altar shine and wood 5 cubits long and five 34 00:01:57,360 --> 00:02:01,160 cubits broad. The altar shall be 4 square, and 35 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:04,600 the height thereof shall be 3 cubits. 36 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:09,120 Thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof. 37 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:12,880 This his rather his horn shall be of the same. 38 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:16,040 And thou shalt overlay it with brass. 39 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:20,440 Going to chapter #30 here within the same book I want to start 40 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:24,800 reading with verse #1 And thou shalt make an altar. 41 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:29,840 If I say altar to burn incense upon of item wood shalt thou 42 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:32,160 make it. A cubit shall be the link 43 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:34,600 thereof, and a cubit the breath thereof. 44 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:37,240 So we understand this is a different altar, don't we? 45 00:02:37,720 --> 00:02:40,800 Four square shall it be, and two cubits shall be the height 46 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:43,360 thereof, the horns thereof shall be of the same. 47 00:02:43,640 --> 00:02:47,880 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof and 48 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:50,800 the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof. 49 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:56,360 And thou shall make unto it a crown of gold round about, 50 00:02:56,360 --> 00:03:00,040 skipping to verse #6 And thou shalt put it before the veil, 51 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:03,440 that is, by the ark of the testimony before the mercy seat, 52 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:07,080 that is over the testimony where I will meet with thee. 53 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:10,600 And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning when 54 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:14,640 he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it when Aaron 55 00:03:14,640 --> 00:03:17,800 lighteth the lamps. And even he shall burn incense 56 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:20,400 upon a perpetual incense before the Lord. 57 00:03:20,640 --> 00:03:24,120 Throughout your generations. You shall offer no strange 58 00:03:24,160 --> 00:03:28,520 incense thereon, nor burnt offerings, nor meat offerings, 59 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:32,680 neither shall ye pour drink offering thereon. 60 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:35,160 We're talking about a couple pieces of furniture. 61 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:37,840 Amen. Out of the Tabernacle in the Old 62 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:42,600 Testament that God had prescribed for Moses to to build 63 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:45,240 and to construct. And just real quickly, the 64 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:47,280 Tabernacle had all these different furnishings. 65 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:49,160 It's very important. We'll talk about that here in a 66 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:50,960 minute. The Tabernacle had all these 67 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:54,840 different furnishings, but within the Tabernacle it speaks 68 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:57,760 of this altar that was in the outer core and the altar that 69 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:00,360 was in the Holy place. And so for a little while, I 70 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:05,640 want to minister this living between two altars, living 71 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:10,120 between two altars, Amen. Let's pray today. 72 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:13,600 Father, we thank you Jesus for God the privilege and the 73 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:17,079 opportunity to be in your house. I pray, oh God don't want to 74 00:04:17,079 --> 00:04:19,959 take it lightly and light. Lord of all the sickness, God 75 00:04:19,959 --> 00:04:21,600 that has surrounded us this week. 76 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:24,600 We counted a privilege and honored to be here God and with 77 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:27,800 grateful hearts we pray continue Lord to move up on those still 78 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:29,880 yet sick. But God touches in this moment 79 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:33,240 today as we gather. Lord help us God to understand 80 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:36,280 and process the Lord the meanings of your words in the 81 00:04:36,280 --> 00:04:40,480 name of Jesus Christ that I pray and the church say Amen. 82 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:43,680 You may be seated this morning in Jesus name. 83 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:52,560 Among among the elements of the Old Testament that the writer in 84 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:57,960 the New Testament of Hebrews describes as a shadow of good 85 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:02,200 things to come is the Tabernacle that was in the wilderness, 86 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:05,840 applying, if you will, the law. There's a law in like biblical 87 00:05:05,840 --> 00:05:10,000 interpretation called the Law of volume or the law of proportion. 88 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:12,880 And basically what it means is this is that whenever you see 89 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:16,680 that there is a lot of a lot of scripture that is dedicated to a 90 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:19,840 particular subject and that means that subject must hold 91 00:05:19,840 --> 00:05:22,680 some type of importance. I'm trying to get this thought 92 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:27,280 back, take two hands that there's a lot of importance 93 00:05:27,280 --> 00:05:30,480 concerning that subject, that a lot of proportion of Scripture 94 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:34,560 has been contributed to that. And so with that being said, 95 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:37,960 then the Tabernacle in the wilderness must play a very 96 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:42,120 important role in the mind of God for the Old Testament. 97 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:45,720 And because of all the space and, and the chapters and the 98 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:49,640 verses that are dedicated to it. And thus as a result of that, it 99 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:53,280 it also highlights the importance of some New Testament 100 00:05:53,280 --> 00:05:57,240 concepts because it was just a shadow of of other things that 101 00:05:57,240 --> 00:06:00,040 was to come. So for instance, in Exodus 102 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:05,280 alone, 13 chapters are directly related to the Tabernacle. 10 103 00:06:05,280 --> 00:06:08,000 chapters in the book of Leviticus focus on the 104 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:11,160 Tabernacle and its worship in the priesthood. 105 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:15,400 While also there are 10 chapters that are dedicated to it in the 106 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:19,720 book of Numbers that pertain to how it was to be set up and the 107 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:23,560 function of the different furnishings and the transporting 108 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:25,960 of the Tabernacle. So all of that being said, 109 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:30,360 Sister Cox, there's at least 33 chapters of the Bible that are 110 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:32,920 dedicated to the tabernacles design. 111 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:36,440 It's construction. It's, it's means and mode of 112 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:40,240 worship and, and function. And so the Tabernacle then is 113 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:43,360 very much so central to God's plan. 114 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:47,480 But it wasn't just a tent like someone might envision it just 115 00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:50,960 out in the desert. It, it was the dwelling place as 116 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:55,080 the Old Testament relates to us, the dwelling place of God's 117 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:57,640 presence. He would come down and meet with 118 00:06:57,640 --> 00:07:01,400 that high priest there in the holies of holies upon the ark of 119 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:03,280 the covenant between the two cherubim. 120 00:07:03,280 --> 00:07:06,600 We would see the Bible says oftimes that there would be a 121 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:12,120 cloud or a pillar of fire that was above that ark, above rather 122 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:14,080 that Tabernacle. And whenever it moved, the 123 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:18,480 people would move and it it in essence, the Tabernacle would 124 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:22,920 foreshadow the the work of Christ and it would be a emblem, 125 00:07:22,920 --> 00:07:25,720 if you will, even of the church. And not only that, the 126 00:07:25,720 --> 00:07:30,160 Tabernacle is a good plan or pattern that that depicts the 127 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:33,280 growth, growth of a Christian, the growth of a Christian. 128 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:37,120 Without going into detail, much detail this morning, Christ 129 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:40,200 fulfilled the entirety of the Tabernacle system. 130 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:44,160 He is the sacrifice that is at the brazen altar. 131 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:48,120 He is the water, might I say, even living water that's at the 132 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:50,920 brazen labor. He's the bread of life at the 133 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:54,360 table of showbread. He's the light of the world at 134 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:57,560 the Candlestick and our intercessor at the altar of 135 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:00,080 incense. He is also, if you will, the 136 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:03,320 High priest functioning amid the holiest of holies. 137 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:06,000 Amen. Where God's ark and that mercy 138 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:08,960 seat was. And because of him, we have 139 00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:12,000 access to all of this. Additionally, though the 140 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:17,120 Tabernacle also symbolizes the modern church, the modern day 141 00:08:17,120 --> 00:08:22,000 church in the Old Testament, God's presence dwelt among his 142 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:27,240 people in the Tabernacle and today the church serves as God's 143 00:08:27,240 --> 00:08:30,960 dwelling place where those that are filled with the Spirit of 144 00:08:30,960 --> 00:08:33,520 God have experienced the power of God. 145 00:08:34,559 --> 00:08:38,120 Witness, give witness to his Spirit moving among His body, 146 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:42,280 his his members. This is God's manifestation in 147 00:08:42,280 --> 00:08:45,840 the world through his church. And so various aspects of the 148 00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:50,200 Tabernacle illustrate what should happen in the life of the 149 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:53,080 Church. Again, the altar and the labor 150 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:57,400 in the outer court symbolize repentance and sacrifice and 151 00:08:57,400 --> 00:09:01,600 baptism and cleansing. And in the Holy Place there is a 152 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:05,200 more intimate relationship with God, represented by the golden 153 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:08,120 Candlestick, which is illustrative of the 154 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:12,120 Enlightenment of the Holy Ghost and the light of revelation in 155 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:14,400 our lives. The table of shoe bread, where 156 00:09:14,560 --> 00:09:18,400 there is continual communion of nourishment with the bread of 157 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:21,000 life. The word of God, Amen. 158 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:24,280 And then you go into that altar of incense that represents a 159 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:28,200 place of prayer and worship and bridging the gap between 160 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:32,360 humanity and God until finally, again, the holiest of holies, we 161 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:35,800 find the ark of the covenant where God's presence dwells. 162 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:38,680 It's, it's enveloped, if you will, by a cloud. 163 00:09:38,680 --> 00:09:42,560 There's a veil that separates it from the other places that are 164 00:09:42,560 --> 00:09:45,520 there in the Tabernacle. But we know according to the 165 00:09:45,520 --> 00:09:48,120 Scripture, that that veil is no longer there. 166 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:51,200 It's been pierced. It's been and twain from top and 167 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:54,800 bottom because of the work of Calvary, of Christ Jesus. 168 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:58,680 And so this is characteristic of what the church should embody, 169 00:09:58,920 --> 00:10:02,520 repentance and baptism and and nourishment from the word. 170 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:05,480 All these things are depicted in the Tabernacle. 171 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:09,840 And yet, among all of these things also the Tabernacle is a 172 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:15,320 picture of a Christian's life. It depicts in many regards the 173 00:10:15,320 --> 00:10:20,680 journey or the trajectory of spiritual growth for you and I 174 00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:25,760 or a Christian, what we should experience again, because just 175 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:29,720 pair with me in the outer court. We come to the brazen alter and 176 00:10:29,720 --> 00:10:31,720 as a Christian, we surrender there. 177 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:35,720 We surrender there. We go to the Laver and we're 178 00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:38,520 baptized. It's a place of renewal, a 179 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:43,280 remitting, if you will, of sins, the holy place, right, because 180 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:45,920 then you go there and you go to that table of shoebread and 181 00:10:45,920 --> 00:10:47,600 you're feeding on the word of God. 182 00:10:47,920 --> 00:10:51,600 The Bible, the New Testament apostle even said it's the word. 183 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:55,520 Thereby we grow and so we get nourishment there and we we go 184 00:10:55,520 --> 00:10:59,000 to the Candlestick and it's our guiding light, if you will, It's 185 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:02,760 the the instruction. And we can see clearly because 186 00:11:02,760 --> 00:11:04,880 of that light. And we go then to the altar of 187 00:11:04,880 --> 00:11:06,920 incense as we have this past week. 188 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:11,040 And we are offering a prayers and supplications and 189 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:15,000 Thanksgiving and intercessions and then the holies of holies 190 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:18,520 experiencing, if you will, the presence of God and having 191 00:11:18,520 --> 00:11:21,960 spiritual authority with God and communion with him being the 192 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:25,080 apex of our journey. So Sister Sheila, in many ways 193 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:30,080 it is a progression of the spiritual life of a Christian. 194 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:34,480 And so since the Tabernacle resents all of these elements 195 00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:37,520 and everything in it seems to comprise that comprises it 196 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:40,800 pertains to the church, our Christian growth pattern. 197 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:44,440 It's important, I think also to note that there's only one 198 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:47,640 entrance into the outer court. There's only one entrance into 199 00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:50,320 the Holy place. There's only one entrance into 200 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:54,280 the holies of Holies. There's only one Laver, There's 201 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:57,960 only one table of shoe bread, There's only one Candlestick. 202 00:11:58,120 --> 00:12:04,920 There's only one ark of God. However, there are two altars, 203 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:11,760 the brazen altar and the golden altar, the altar of burnt 204 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:15,160 offerings and the altar of incense. 205 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:18,640 That would mean that if this is the pattern for the Church, if 206 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:21,280 this is the pattern for spiritual growth, it would 207 00:12:21,280 --> 00:12:25,920 indicate that the life of a Christian or the life that has a 208 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:31,640 pattern of spiritual growth must have two altars in their life. 209 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:38,720 Essential, non negotiable 2 altars in their life that we 210 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:42,280 already seen that Jesus even fulfilled in his own life. 211 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:46,520 I know someone here is already feeling a little nervous because 212 00:12:46,520 --> 00:12:49,520 to realize that our Christian life should include two altars 213 00:12:49,520 --> 00:12:52,080 may begin to overwhelm us just a little bit rather than alone 214 00:12:52,680 --> 00:12:55,440 because we understand. I have a hard time maintaining 215 00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:58,560 an A altar. I have a hard time maintaining 1 216 00:12:58,560 --> 00:13:01,440 altar in my life, let alone 2 altars. 217 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:05,440 You know I did just to get to 1 altar daily is is difficult 218 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:09,520 enough without the added burden of attending to two altars. 219 00:13:09,520 --> 00:13:14,360 But these altars are distinct. These altars differ. 220 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:16,840 They they, they maintain. We're going to see in a little 221 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:19,280 bit. They maintain a connection one 222 00:13:19,280 --> 00:13:23,080 between the other. One altar actually relies upon 223 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:25,880 the other altar. You you, though, cannot replace 224 00:13:25,880 --> 00:13:27,240 one of the altars with the other. 225 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:30,200 You, you can't say insuffice to say well I have the altar burn 226 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:31,800 offering that does well then for both. 227 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:34,520 No, it don't work like that. You can't do one or the other. 228 00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:37,760 Both hold significance. Both are essential to the 229 00:13:37,760 --> 00:13:40,800 Tabernacle and therefore the Christian life for that matter. 230 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:44,760 If God believed He could suffice with just one altar in the 231 00:13:44,760 --> 00:13:48,000 Tabernacle, he would have instructed Moses just to build 232 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:51,680 one of them. But that wasn't the design nor 233 00:13:51,680 --> 00:13:54,800 the plan of God. He says I need 2 altars within 234 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:57,840 this building that's going to be a representation of my church 235 00:13:58,040 --> 00:14:00,520 and the Christian life. I need 2. 236 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:04,760 So he invited, he invited Moses to a place where he provided a 237 00:14:04,760 --> 00:14:08,920 plan for these two essential, distinct altars in the 238 00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:12,520 Tabernacle to be completed. Someone say man. 239 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:15,400 So with that Bishop, I begin to understand. 240 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:17,440 Then my life needs these two altars. 241 00:14:17,680 --> 00:14:19,760 It's necessary. It's imperative. 242 00:14:19,760 --> 00:14:22,880 I I can't. I can't emphasize 1 and neglect 243 00:14:22,880 --> 00:14:26,640 the other or vice versa. Both are essential for my life 244 00:14:26,640 --> 00:14:30,000 to be in alignment according to God's plan. 245 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:35,200 Someone say man. So when we look at the brazen 246 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:38,520 altar, also known as the altar of burnt offerings, it's the 247 00:14:38,520 --> 00:14:41,080 first piece of furniture that a person would come to. 248 00:14:41,400 --> 00:14:43,280 When are they entered into the Tabernacle? 249 00:14:43,280 --> 00:14:45,200 When are they entered into that outer court? 250 00:14:45,520 --> 00:14:47,880 It would be the first piece of furniture, but more 251 00:14:47,880 --> 00:14:51,560 particularly, it would be the first altar that one would come 252 00:14:51,560 --> 00:14:54,880 to. Sacrifices were made there. 253 00:14:56,200 --> 00:15:00,600 Blood for the atoning work would happen there. 254 00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:04,600 As a matter of fact, no priest could ever go into the presence 255 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:07,600 of God without blood. The scripture said so it was 256 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:10,680 important because the bloodshed there was going to address the 257 00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:12,280 sin problem. Amen. 258 00:15:12,280 --> 00:15:14,440 Of the nation of the people of the world. 259 00:15:14,640 --> 00:15:18,240 And one thing is for sure, we we observed that there's even blood 260 00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:21,240 at the at the Laver where the water and the blood for the 261 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:24,640 washing and we see blood other pieces of furniture. 262 00:15:24,920 --> 00:15:27,640 Amen. All along the journey, no one 263 00:15:27,640 --> 00:15:30,120 again has access to the holiest of holies. 264 00:15:30,520 --> 00:15:34,720 Amen, The ark of God without blood, without some sacrifice, 265 00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:37,720 without some animal offering itself in its life. 266 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:40,040 And all of this, of course, points to Christ. 267 00:15:40,040 --> 00:15:44,240 All this points to him as being that once and for all sacrifice 268 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:47,240 for humanity. Shedding his life's blood is a 269 00:15:47,240 --> 00:15:49,240 willing offering. No one took. 270 00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:52,040 The Bible says no one took his life, though that's the way it 271 00:15:52,040 --> 00:15:54,360 may appear in our stories. Amen. 272 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:57,040 No one took his life. He laid down his life. 273 00:15:57,040 --> 00:16:00,880 He said I have power to lay it down and I have power to take it 274 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:01,760 up. Amen. 275 00:16:01,760 --> 00:16:05,880 It was a willing sacrifice. If I'm say like this, it was a 276 00:16:05,920 --> 00:16:10,560 surrender. What he did was a surrender, 277 00:16:10,560 --> 00:16:12,560 right? A surrendering to the Father's 278 00:16:12,560 --> 00:16:14,160 will. You remember his prayer in the 279 00:16:14,160 --> 00:16:16,920 garden. Father, if this cup can pass 280 00:16:16,920 --> 00:16:19,960 from me, then so be it. But nevertheless, not my will, 281 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:21,520 but thine be done. What was that? 282 00:16:21,520 --> 00:16:23,880 That? That was a sacrificing of self. 283 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:28,040 That was a surrendering of self. And so at the brazen altar, 284 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:31,640 surrender takes place. Surrender took place for God. 285 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:34,760 Surrender, if you will, of a life took place there. 286 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:37,760 And for our Christian lives at the brazen altar is where 287 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:41,280 surrender happens for us. It's it's that place of 288 00:16:41,280 --> 00:16:44,880 repentance that says I'm I'm turning away from what I once 289 00:16:44,880 --> 00:16:48,480 known to something different. It is a surrendering of a former 290 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:50,520 life. It's the surrendering of a 291 00:16:50,520 --> 00:16:52,800 former way. It's a dying to self. 292 00:16:52,800 --> 00:16:57,240 It is the sight of surrender. And you cannot skip that altar 293 00:16:57,240 --> 00:17:00,840 in your approach to God. You cannot skip that altar on 294 00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:03,320 your way to God. You can't bypass it, for that 295 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:07,599 matter, in this episode, you can't get to the next altar. 296 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:13,280 You can't get to the next altar without having the altar of 297 00:17:13,280 --> 00:17:16,920 surrender in your life. Someone say man. 298 00:17:18,119 --> 00:17:21,440 Then the second altar that we come to in this Tabernacle plan 299 00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:24,960 is the altar of incense. It's called sometimes the golden 300 00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:27,800 altar. It's situated in that next place 301 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:30,360 from outer court to the Holy place. 302 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:35,320 It is nearer the Ark of the Covenant than the other altar in 303 00:17:35,320 --> 00:17:38,320 its positioning. There's incense that that is 304 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:41,680 burned upon that altar of incense, and the smoke in the 305 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:46,000 incense arises up to God, which is one reason why we call it the 306 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:49,320 altar of incense. But we see in Scripture that 307 00:17:49,320 --> 00:17:51,640 this incense symbolizes something. 308 00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:55,400 We have directives in Scripture that tells us exactly what that 309 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:57,560 embolizes. And we'll look at a few of them 310 00:17:57,560 --> 00:18:01,480 here in a moment, that that incense symbolizes prayer. 311 00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:04,240 So reason why another reason, sometimes it's not just called 312 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:07,520 the altar of incense, but even modern day people call it the 313 00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:12,400 altar of prayer. David mentioned in Psalms 121 in 314 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:17,840 verse 2, he spake these words that he desired that his prayer 315 00:18:18,120 --> 00:18:22,320 would be set before the Lord like incense. 316 00:18:22,720 --> 00:18:24,560 Amen. And so that again gives us some 317 00:18:24,560 --> 00:18:27,280 port of the idea of incense representing prayer. 318 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:29,480 But when you get in the New Testament Scripture, you 319 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:33,440 remember a priest by the name of Zechariah who was the father of 320 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:36,160 John the Baptist. And the Bible says in Luke 321 00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:40,640 chapter #1 that Zechariah was in the temple fulfilling his 322 00:18:40,760 --> 00:18:45,360 office, and his office at that time was to to burn incense at 323 00:18:45,360 --> 00:18:49,320 the altar of incense. And the Bible says in verse #10 324 00:18:49,320 --> 00:18:53,480 of that chapter that while Zechariah was offering his 325 00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:57,160 incense, that the people without were praying. 326 00:18:57,400 --> 00:18:59,280 Then we might think, well, that what's the big deal? 327 00:18:59,280 --> 00:19:00,920 He's offering it, but they're praying. 328 00:19:01,120 --> 00:19:03,640 But he it wasn't just that they were praying. 329 00:19:03,840 --> 00:19:06,560 The Bible says whether the Angel, the Lord, showed up to 330 00:19:06,560 --> 00:19:10,200 tell Zechariah about he and his wife going to have a child. 331 00:19:10,360 --> 00:19:14,920 He basically tells him that he understood that Zechariah, his 332 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:18,520 prayer, had been heard also. So Zechariah is offering up 333 00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:21,720 incense at the altar of incense praying and the people are 334 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:24,640 outside praying. He's really acting almost as a 335 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:27,080 intercessor. He is praying about what the 336 00:19:27,080 --> 00:19:29,840 people are praying about and for his own needs. 337 00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:33,560 And the Angel said, thy prayer is heard. 338 00:19:33,800 --> 00:19:37,560 And so again, here's a man functioning at the incense altar 339 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:41,880 and it's coupled with pray. But there's another example. 340 00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:44,440 If you go to the Book of Revelation and you read 341 00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:48,920 Revelation chapters 5 and eight, one passage explicitly states 342 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:52,240 this, that the incense represents the prayers. 343 00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:57,480 In Revelation 5/8, the Bible says golden vials full of odors, 344 00:19:57,480 --> 00:20:01,040 which are the prayers of the Saints. 345 00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:04,760 In another instance, the Bible says that an Angel comes and 346 00:20:04,760 --> 00:20:09,720 he's offering up incense along with the prayers of the Saints. 347 00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:12,440 And so it's. It's clear that the altar of 348 00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:16,720 incenses function is a function of an altar of prayer. 349 00:20:16,880 --> 00:20:20,600 It's where prayer takes place. It's where intercession takes 350 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:22,720 place. And the fragrance from that 351 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:27,880 altar arises and pleases God and it that closes a gap, if you 352 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:30,960 will. It shows a intimate relationship 353 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:34,720 with the Lord Jesus Christ. Everybody doing OK? 354 00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:37,440 I'm just like building a case. That's all I'm doing, OK, 355 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:41,600 according to Exodus 30 and six that I read in your hearing this 356 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:44,480 morning, the Bible even says the placement of the altar of 357 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:47,200 incense is very instructive. Look at it with me again. 358 00:20:47,560 --> 00:20:52,280 And thou shalt put it before the veil that is by the ark of 359 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:56,040 testimony, all otherwise known as the ark of the covenant or 360 00:20:56,040 --> 00:20:58,440 the ark of God. I shall put it before the veil, 361 00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:01,000 that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy 362 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:05,400 seat, that is over the testimony where I will meet with Thee. 363 00:21:07,360 --> 00:21:09,760 What interesting about that is when you walk into that holy 364 00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:12,880 place, on one side you have the golden Candlestick. 365 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:16,240 Over here on the other side you have the golden, the golden 366 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:18,880 table of shoe bread. But right there in the middle, 367 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:23,600 right before the veil of where one would go from holy to most 368 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:27,480 holy, from where the Ark of the Covenant was, it to where the 369 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:31,080 Ark of the Covenant was, where God said He would meet with 370 00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:36,080 them, stood that golden altar of incense. 371 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:40,400 What that means is this, if we realize it or not, that when a 372 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:45,520 man stood at the altar of incense, when a man stood at the 373 00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:52,240 altar of prayer, he was as close as possible to the ark of God in 374 00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:56,800 the presence of God that he could be without being the high 375 00:21:56,800 --> 00:22:00,240 priest. When he stood at the altar of 376 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:05,640 prayer, he was as close as he could be without being the high 377 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:10,040 priest himself, as he engaged in prayer. 378 00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:18,600 I like that as he engaged in prayer, he was as close as he 379 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:22,040 could be without being the high priest himself. 380 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:26,080 So it's essential to convey then this morning that this altars 381 00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:33,440 function, though the altar of incenses function, depended upon 382 00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:38,080 what they carried over from the first altar. 383 00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:42,760 Watch me here. Because the second altar, in 384 00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:48,000 order for the incense to burn, the Bible would call it that it 385 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:53,360 needed fire or coal. You can take incense that's 386 00:22:53,360 --> 00:22:56,080 pulverized and throw it up on that altar every day of the 387 00:22:56,080 --> 00:23:02,000 week, But if there's nothing to cause the incense to rise, if 388 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:05,520 there's nothing to 'cause that incense to rise, then it is just 389 00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:08,080 pulverized spices on a dead altar. 390 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:17,400 The coals in the fire that was at the altar of the incense came 391 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:22,400 from the altar that was brazen in the outer court from the 392 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:25,680 sacrifice that they offered there in the fire that they had 393 00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:27,640 there in the wood that they made there. 394 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:32,760 They would take a portion of that and bring it into the holy 395 00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:37,320 place and have them codes that they could put those old dried 396 00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:40,360 up spices that are pulverized on it. 397 00:23:40,360 --> 00:23:45,040 And because of the codes of the previous altar, they could have 398 00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:48,040 a lifting up of incense at the second altar. 399 00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:52,840 But if there was no attention paid to the first altar, it 400 00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:57,520 didn't matter how much incense you had, there was no arising of 401 00:23:57,520 --> 00:24:00,360 it at the second altar. We see this in the Book of 402 00:24:00,360 --> 00:24:05,120 Leviticus chapter #16 that it was needful and that it was 403 00:24:05,120 --> 00:24:07,880 necessary. And so with that, I'm telling 404 00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:11,720 you this morning, it is necessary for us as Christians 405 00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:16,560 to have both altars a part of our lives because they have a 406 00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:19,200 connection. There is a connection direction 407 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:28,080 between your surrender and your prayer that you read Scripture. 408 00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:31,040 The brazen altar is the largest piece of furniture in the whole 409 00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:33,400 Tabernacle and in all of the Tabernacle. 410 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:36,760 But while you see, the altar of incense is the tallest piece of 411 00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:38,840 furniture in all of the Tabernacle. 412 00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:41,800 Both of them are square in their work. 413 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:44,920 Their dimensions are different, but they are square in their 414 00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:47,440 work. Both of them have a horn at each 415 00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:49,800 of the four corners of that square. 416 00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:54,920 They're used at the same times, it would seem, of the day, in 417 00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:58,560 the morning and in the evening. There's going to be surrender 418 00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:01,360 out in the outer court and there's going to be prayer on 419 00:25:01,360 --> 00:25:07,080 the Holy Place morning, morning and evening. 420 00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:11,200 But the altar of incense relies on the brazen altar. 421 00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:13,560 That priest, he needs smoke to go up. 422 00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:16,920 He needs fragrance to feel the house, but that fragrance will 423 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:20,280 not permeate the whole house without a fire from the first 424 00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:23,000 alter, without toes from the first alter. 425 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:26,520 You want to put power back in your prayer, then go back to the 426 00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:29,360 place of surrender. You want to put the unction back 427 00:25:29,360 --> 00:25:33,000 in your function at the altar of the incense, Then go back to the 428 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:38,480 altar of surrender and and say, here am I God, every bit of me, 429 00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:42,280 every thought, every conversation, every way that I 430 00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:46,360 order my life, that will put fire in your prayer. 431 00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:56,480 It's essential. The privilege of the incense was 432 00:25:56,480 --> 00:26:01,000 contingent upon sacrifice. No. 433 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:06,360 In essence, then no incense would arise without surrender. 434 00:26:12,090 --> 00:26:20,930 Yet please understand, if we never get to a place of 435 00:26:20,930 --> 00:26:29,530 spiritual growth in prayer, if we never attend to the altar of 436 00:26:29,530 --> 00:26:37,200 incense, of spiritual growth, of prayer, then we're really 437 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:43,120 despising the sacrifice in the surrender at the first altar 438 00:26:44,120 --> 00:26:48,320 because in part, part of its purpose is to aid in what goes 439 00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:52,240 on at the second. Someone say Amen. 440 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:55,160 And when I say that I'm not just talking about your surrender, 441 00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:57,600 Brother Reese, but I'm talking about the surrender that took 442 00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:01,840 place on Calvary for you, that enables you the path. 443 00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:09,720 I don't want not to pray and despise that sacrifice and 444 00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:14,400 surrender that opened up the court for my feet to tread. 445 00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:19,160 You know, this was usually like a little niche thing. 446 00:27:19,360 --> 00:27:22,080 Only priest could do this. Only high priest could do this. 447 00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:24,520 Common man couldn't do this. It was like a niche. 448 00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:27,480 Not just anybody could do this, but whenever Christ did his 449 00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:30,680 sacrifice and surrender, it opened the door for whosoever 450 00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:33,440 will could boldly approach the throne room of God. 451 00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:36,840 And I'm not going to say, well, nobody in the other generation 452 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:39,160 could do this and so I'm not going to do it. 453 00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:42,360 No, there were people that wishing they could just get a 454 00:27:42,360 --> 00:27:45,680 glimpse, if you will, of a golden altar of incense. 455 00:27:45,920 --> 00:28:02,120 And now we have have the privilege, and we Amen without 456 00:28:02,120 --> 00:28:05,200 surrender. Those ancients, those ancients 457 00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:09,240 without sacrifice, they're those ancients and possess no power. 458 00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:14,200 Again, it's just dry incense going on a dead altar with no 459 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:17,400 way to get it to be lifted up or to rise. 460 00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:22,760 But surrender ignites the fire of what you do in your prayer. 461 00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:32,400 Someone say Amen, it's in Christ. 462 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:37,280 Yes, without him we have we have no power in prayer. 463 00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:42,720 Yes, we have that one time sacrifice there that we should 464 00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:44,600 be thankful for and appreciative of. 465 00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:49,640 But to follow him and emulate him and be a Christian, Christ's 466 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:55,280 life would be to walk in his footsteps as the Apostle Paul's 467 00:28:55,320 --> 00:29:02,680 did and said, I die daily. That's a reference to the brazen 468 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:07,560 altar. That's a reference to repenting 469 00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:09,600 there. I, I know I repented and I know 470 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:12,160 baptism took care of my sins, but I'm going to make some 471 00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:14,360 mistakes along the way. And I, I'm going to need some 472 00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:16,240 fresh repentance, you know, in my life. 473 00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:18,440 And I'm going to die. David, he's, what's he talking 474 00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:19,680 about? He's talking about a daily 475 00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:22,280 surrender. I know you made a choice to 476 00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:25,880 follow the Lord 10 years ago, but how do you choose today? 477 00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:33,760 All right. You know, in your relationship, 478 00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:36,560 you just choose to love the same person each day or like the same 479 00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:39,080 person each day. You, you make a choice every day 480 00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:42,360 to continue the relationship. And Paul says, I'm going to the 481 00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:44,520 altar today. I'm going to the altar of 482 00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:46,080 sacrifice. I'm going to the altar of 483 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:48,400 surrender. I'm going to die here again. 484 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:52,080 I'm going to surrender here again for number one, I know my 485 00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:54,880 surrender here is going to do something else at the next 486 00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:56,800 altar. I, I'm, I was going to do 487 00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:59,760 something else at the next altar that I encounter. 488 00:29:59,880 --> 00:30:03,480 And so we got to recognize that our prayer life must be 489 00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:06,680 anchored, yes, in the complete work of Christ, but also our 490 00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:11,040 prayer life must rely on our daily choice and our daily 491 00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:14,000 surrender to the one who did die for us. 492 00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:21,520 Hey, man, write it. OK, here's the sad matter. 493 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:25,840 Sometimes people get stuck at either altar. 494 00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:34,280 Sometimes as Christians, we get stuck at the brazen altar in the 495 00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:40,400 outer court where we spend our time, and we never progress any 496 00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:45,440 further spiritually in growth. We feel some of us like the 497 00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:49,000 animal tethered to the horns of that altar right there. 498 00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:52,400 We remain there and we remain in the constant posture of just 499 00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:55,720 repenting, repenting, repenting, repenting, repenting, repenting 500 00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:58,560 and not accepting his forgiveness, His forgiveness, 501 00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:02,320 his. I've found people in my own 502 00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:05,560 life, they get stuck at the altar of surrender and they're 503 00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:07,880 pleading, they're asking for forgiveness. 504 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:10,920 They're even recounting their wrongs that Christ said, hey, I 505 00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:13,640 already took care of that. But they're just tethered to 506 00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:17,680 that altar of surrender and it seems like they'll never enter a 507 00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:21,240 deeper relationship with God because they can't get beyond 508 00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:25,880 that altar. Someone say Amen. 509 00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:30,120 They're not unable to move on because they just feel like they 510 00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:32,120 can't. They reach a point in their walk 511 00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:35,160 with God or their experience with God that they believe. 512 00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:37,400 You know what? Maybe I can't be forgiven for 513 00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:42,320 XYZ or or maybe I did something too terrible, Amen for that 514 00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:45,880 blood to cover or, or why in the world would someone like me 515 00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:50,880 deserve something so good when I've done such things so bad and 516 00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:54,040 they find themselves in a constant cycle of just 517 00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:58,000 repentance and just surrender. And yes, God is appreciative of 518 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:00,200 that, but he wants you to move beyond that. 519 00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:03,800 And yes, he believes that you should die daily, but it's not 520 00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:05,600 as though you should live there daily. 521 00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:08,880 You got another altar to visit. There's another altar. 522 00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:16,120 So let's say Amen. The idea, yes, the idea and the 523 00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:19,480 fact that sacrifice has already been made, yes, it has to 524 00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:24,520 resolve our reason for being at the altar of burnt offering. 525 00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:27,960 We need to embrace and we need to embrace what Christ has done 526 00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:31,200 for us. That even the the writer of 527 00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:35,160 Hebrews told him that they would leave the foundations of 528 00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:39,840 repentance and that they would go on, right, Because you're on 529 00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:42,880 a spiritual growth pattern. It is not Christ's will for your 530 00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:44,600 life. Just constant stay in the place 531 00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:47,240 of thinking that you've never been forgiven for what he's 532 00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:52,240 forgiven you for. There's a whole lot more road 533 00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:55,160 ahead of you to travel beyond that place. 534 00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:01,600 Never feel good, right? Never feel good about 535 00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:07,000 themselves. Don't feel like I could delve 536 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:08,720 any deeper in the relationship with God. 537 00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:11,000 To have communion with God outside of telling him I'm a 538 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:16,880 lowdown, no good dirty person center. 539 00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:20,760 I don't deserve a holy place. The outer court should just be 540 00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:23,880 the best that I get. Believing that if they reach 541 00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:26,880 that first stage, then that's achievement within itself. 542 00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:30,440 But can we just look again at scripture? 543 00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:35,600 In the Old Testament, we never see that the priest just stayed 544 00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:43,400 at that brazen altar all day. They didn't enter that place, do 545 00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:46,520 the sacrifice of surrender, and then just remain there all day. 546 00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:53,000 They moved on because if I could say it again, there was another 547 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:56,320 altar that needed to be visited in this day. 548 00:33:57,360 --> 00:34:00,320 See, there comes a time that we must move beyond mere just 549 00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:06,280 surrender in our life of prayer. More, more than just surrender, 550 00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:09,040 we got to move into intercession. 551 00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:11,800 We got to move into communion with God. 552 00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:14,880 I dare to say. Listen to me, tell me if I'm 553 00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:15,880 wrong. You don't have to verbally, 554 00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:19,719 unless you just really want to. But some people, some people 555 00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:23,920 struggle, struggle at the altar of incense because they don't 556 00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:26,320 feel worthy to approach God by prayer. 557 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:33,199 They'll stay at the altar of burnt offerings because I need 558 00:34:33,199 --> 00:34:36,320 to surrender more and sacrifice more and beat and poke my flesh 559 00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:38,960 more. I'm not worthy to go to the next 560 00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:45,639 altar. I, I, I know better than 561 00:34:45,639 --> 00:34:47,920 anybody, Sister Cox, what I've done in my passing. 562 00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:50,920 So I need to just stay right here. 563 00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:54,880 All of those burdens of yesteryear, preventing them from 564 00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:57,440 progressing forward. So I'm going to stay at the 565 00:34:57,440 --> 00:34:59,480 altar of sacrifice. And I'm, I'm going to 566 00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:02,200 continually repent. I'm going to continually cry day 567 00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:05,360 and night, night and day, weeks and weeks, months upon months. 568 00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:07,440 And I'm never going to accept the forgiveness. 569 00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:20,680 Someone say Amen. The Bible says in Exodus 30 and 570 00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:23,640 verse 9, if you can throw that back up there for me, for the 571 00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:31,840 Mason, it says ye shall offer no strange incense thereon. 572 00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:33,560 This is Speaking of the altar of incense. 573 00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:39,200 You should offer no strange incense thereon, nor look earth 574 00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:43,920 sacrifice short meat offering, neither shall you pour drink 575 00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:49,760 offering there on. God has given very particular 576 00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:52,240 instructions here. This is the altar of incense 577 00:35:52,240 --> 00:35:55,640 we're talking about. Yet he's talking about burnt 578 00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:58,920 sacrifices, meat offerings, and drink offerings. 579 00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:03,280 They're not to go on the altar of incense. 580 00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:11,080 Meat offerings, drink burnt, all of that pertains to the first 581 00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:14,640 altar. He says don't come to the second 582 00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:20,760 altar and attempt to put on it what you put on the 1st halter. 583 00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:26,360 He's giving clarification here. He said don't confuse the altar. 584 00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:31,560 Yes, there's an altar to surrender, but there's also 585 00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:33,760 altar to commune, to intercede, to pray. 586 00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:37,480 Don't put on this halter what you put on that altar. 587 00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:43,840 Don't confuse the altars. Amen. 588 00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:47,760 Someone say Amen, he said. Because this altar of incense is 589 00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:52,240 not intended for what the altar burnt offerings was intended 590 00:36:52,240 --> 00:36:54,160 for. Sacrifice. 591 00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:57,440 Surrender belongs here, but there should be power in your 592 00:36:57,440 --> 00:36:58,600 prayer and communion with me here. 593 00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:00,640 You're as close as you're ever going to be when you're right 594 00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:04,480 here. You don't come to the altar of 595 00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:07,080 incense and, and, and keep the sacrifices. 596 00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:10,280 No, no, no, no. You come here and you start to 597 00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:13,000 you start to make contact. You start to grow in 598 00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:17,160 relationship. You, you, you going on a journey 599 00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:21,040 right here. What you established back there 600 00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:23,600 is supporting what's offered right here. 601 00:37:27,240 --> 00:37:30,800 So basically what what's put on the brazen altar can't be on the 602 00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:34,160 altar of incense, and what's put on the altar of incense can't be 603 00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:38,000 put on the brazen altar. There must be clarity in the 604 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:41,440 altars. Let me say this this morning 605 00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:45,680 maybe someone needs to hear you cannot earn access to God 606 00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:51,160 through excessive surrender and sacrifice, but neither can we 607 00:37:51,160 --> 00:38:03,080 have power with God without it. So every believer, someone say 608 00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:07,720 that's me, must have two altars in your life. 609 00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:13,160 Our lives to have this spiritual growth or to mirror the pattern 610 00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:16,000 of the Tabernacle, then we need, Sister Cox, an altar of 611 00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:19,880 surrender and an altar for prayer. 612 00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:24,680 We must first come by the brazen altar daily, and we must 613 00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:28,440 surrender to the Lord every every morning or in that day. 614 00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:32,760 And then we must continue to follow him in giving our lives 615 00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:35,640 all right, for his sake and unto him, right. 616 00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:40,000 That's a daily act. That's a intentional act, but 617 00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:44,160 we're never meant to remain there in that day after we made 618 00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:47,040 that decision that we are surrendered to the Lord today. 619 00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:50,600 We got to move on to a place of communion of prayer with the 620 00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:53,400 Lord. We got to transition to the 621 00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:56,840 other altar and we got to OfferUp incense that will only 622 00:38:56,840 --> 00:39:00,800 go up because we have coals from our previous fire at the other 623 00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:03,840 altar. You remember the story of Nate 624 00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:10,320 dab in the by who sons of Aaron. We've been in line for being the 625 00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:11,920 next some of the next high priest. 626 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:16,360 The Bible says that they came in particularly the altar of 627 00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:19,440 incense. They offered strange fire. 628 00:39:22,720 --> 00:39:25,840 What's that mean? That means fire that came 629 00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:28,240 somewhere else than an altar of surrender. 630 00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:35,280 They wanted to try to get incense to arise off of coals 631 00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:37,520 and fire that didn't come from surrender. 632 00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:45,920 Life says that this was incorrect, that the Lord cut 633 00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:50,040 them off from Israel, literally cut them off from the earth for 634 00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:54,320 that matter, because they were trying to predicate a a, a 635 00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:59,640 relationship with God that didn't include serenity. 636 00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:06,000 So again, folks, I'm not trying to emphasize more one or over 637 00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:09,400 the other. I'm saying both are vital and 638 00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:13,640 both are important. I surrender to God and that puts 639 00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:16,680 power then in my prayer and intercession to God. 640 00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:20,840 It's just the way it works. We will frustrate ourselves if 641 00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:24,600 we try to live a life of prayer without a life of surrender. 642 00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:36,480 Some people's frustration in prayer if they not kept their 643 00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:44,920 surrender, David said. And this is for people that have 644 00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:47,240 no heart that's wanting to turn for God. 645 00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:52,560 But David said if I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord 646 00:40:52,560 --> 00:41:02,800 will not hear my why so? Because to regard iniquity is a 647 00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:11,520 surrender issue. Well, glory, but I want the 648 00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:15,480 smoking incense to go up. That only comes from one other 649 00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:19,760 altar. It comes from a place of 650 00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:21,760 surrender. Amen. 651 00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:25,240 So we got to embrace both altars, got to spend time with 652 00:41:25,240 --> 00:41:28,240 surrendering to Him, and I may need to move to a place of being 653 00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:30,680 fully aligned to communication, Amen. 654 00:41:30,680 --> 00:41:33,800 And power of interceding in His presence. 655 00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:40,480 Hallelujah. Someone say Amen and stay with 656 00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:42,280 me today. I'll hasten to a close. 657 00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:55,840 So yes, Christ, life, death, ultimate sacrifice was made 658 00:41:56,440 --> 00:42:00,920 because the sacrifice. We all have access to these 659 00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:04,040 altars. The veil on the temple rent in 660 00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:06,640 twain. Scripture says no longer 661 00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:10,320 standing now, no longer do we stand now outside of the holies 662 00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:12,040 of holies when we stand in prayer. 663 00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:15,280 If I can, if I can visually like this in my own eye, my own life, 664 00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:18,080 when I go to the altar of surrender and then go to the 665 00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:22,800 altar of prayer, when I stand there in prayer, I'm within just 666 00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:25,960 arms reach of his presence and his power. 667 00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:32,000 So the question you must ask yourself this morning is this. 668 00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:36,960 Are you lingering at the altar of sacrifice and surrender, 669 00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:42,440 pleading, going on as though nothing's happening there as far 670 00:42:42,440 --> 00:42:46,200 as in your surrender and his forgiveness and never moving 671 00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:49,360 forward? Or are you trying to burn 672 00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:54,040 incense at the altar of incense, maybe without the fresh coals 673 00:42:54,040 --> 00:42:59,160 and fire of a surrender? Because real spiritual life is 674 00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:06,320 really found living between the two alters a life of surrender 675 00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:10,880 and not war and a life of prayer. 676 00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:17,520 We can bow our heads today. I'm urging someone in this place 677 00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:23,480 this morning that it may be time for you, for you to move on. 678 00:43:23,480 --> 00:43:28,600 It may time be time for you to sacrifice and surrender on the 679 00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:33,240 1st altar and then ignite fire, if you will, upon the second 680 00:43:33,240 --> 00:43:35,840 altar. It might be time for you to move 681 00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:39,680 on and pray with some power and pray with some, some, some have 682 00:43:39,680 --> 00:43:43,600 some worship and some passion and and to fully live in between 683 00:43:43,600 --> 00:43:48,080 those two altars, if you will, to lay yourself down in one 684 00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:52,960 instance and then let the incense rise from your life in 685 00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:59,400 the other instance. Live in between two altars. 686 00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:08,240 I felt this week during prayer revival that I needed to go here 687 00:44:08,240 --> 00:44:11,080 after prayer revival. I know we talked about 688 00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:13,320 intercession before prayer revival. 689 00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:17,480 I feel like we needed to talk about these two, two altars 690 00:44:17,560 --> 00:44:23,480 after prayer revival because I, I don't want you frustrated in 691 00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:31,600 your prayer and I don't want you stuck just in surrender mode and 692 00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:38,880 never growing and maturing on to the next altar because you need 693 00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:42,760 to live between two altars. That's the pattern. 694 00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:47,200 That's, that's the design that God gave Moses. 695 00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:55,560 Those two folks. Again, it's a lot of other 696 00:44:55,560 --> 00:45:01,160 places we could go in Scripture, but they were attended to daily. 697 00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:08,840 Those altars were attended to daily, not just five days in a 698 00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:11,280 week. That just happened daily, 699 00:45:12,560 --> 00:45:15,280 morning and evening. Sacrifice of the lambs on the 700 00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:19,280 brazen altar. Incense burned morning and 701 00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:22,960 evening. The altar of incense got to 702 00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:31,520 live, live between two altars. That's the thing, live there. 703 00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:38,360 I say this in other regards of, of, of spiritual disciplines and 704 00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:45,800 things of that nature. You know, if a person read 1010 705 00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:48,360 books of the Bible one day and told me, I'm going to think 706 00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:51,560 that's great. But if they read 10 books of the 707 00:45:51,560 --> 00:45:54,640 Bible one day and then they don't read anymore for months, 708 00:45:56,240 --> 00:46:01,040 that's not living with the Word. You might tell me you had a 709 00:46:01,040 --> 00:46:02,920 three hour, 4 hour prayer session the other day. 710 00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:05,320 That's tremendous. But then if you go without 711 00:46:05,320 --> 00:46:10,000 prayer for the rest of the year, what are you saying? 712 00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:13,120 I'm saying I believe it's more pleasing to live between the 713 00:46:13,120 --> 00:46:18,200 altars than to get stuck at one one day and then not frequent it 714 00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:27,920 again for several days. The altar is open to Sporn. 715 00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:30,320 This is what we call the altar here. 716 00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:34,480 But maybe this altar today for some needs to be a place of 717 00:46:34,480 --> 00:46:38,280 surrender, but maybe for others it needs to be a place of prayer 718 00:46:38,280 --> 00:46:41,200 and intercession. You know which it needs to be. 719 00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:43,360 Maybe it needs to be both for you today. 720 00:46:44,040 --> 00:46:46,920 And I know we just finished a week of being at the church 721 00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:51,840 every night and praying. And that's OK, because we'll 722 00:46:51,840 --> 00:46:59,120 never, like exhaust the need to pray, will never exhaust the 723 00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:07,520 need to participate in these two altars. 724 00:47:07,520 --> 00:47:12,320 They're connected. One relies upon the other. 725 00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:18,960 Can someone begin to just talk to the Lord right now? 726 00:47:20,280 --> 00:47:23,240 You know where you are. You know your circumstance of 727 00:47:23,240 --> 00:47:27,240 life better than any. I only know what I can observe 728 00:47:27,240 --> 00:47:30,120 from the outside. But in the innermost places of 729 00:47:30,120 --> 00:47:33,000 your heart and mind and your life and the secrecy of your 730 00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:36,520 life, only you and the Lord really know the dynamics of all 731 00:47:36,520 --> 00:47:42,320 of that. But I'm challenging you today 732 00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:45,000 that if if you're feeling some frustration in the place at 733 00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:49,080 incense, maybe you need to go back to the brazen altar and 734 00:47:49,080 --> 00:47:58,840 surrender. And if you're not getting 735 00:47:58,840 --> 00:48:03,120 anywhere, you need to accept the forgiveness of the Lord. 736 00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:07,040 You need to accept the forgiveness of the Lord. 737 00:48:07,640 --> 00:48:10,480 You accept it for everybody else's life except your life. 738 00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:12,360 You knew, except the forgiveness of God. 739 00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:18,880 Allow Him to carry you on into a place of maturity where now it's 740 00:48:18,880 --> 00:48:23,800 not just getting me taken care of, but it's interceding and 741 00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:27,080 speaking on the behalf of others in circumstance, situations. 742 00:48:27,080 --> 00:48:30,880 Power in prayer. Hallelujah. 743 00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:36,520 Oh, let's talk to him today. I need the Lord.