If you want to turn to a verse of Scripture, you can be turning to Exodus chapter 27. Exodus chapter 27. You'd be praying from silently right now for me as I try to bring this study to you. I was greatly blessed in the preparation of it, but it didn't always come out. in this place like it does to me personally. It doesn't always. Sometimes I believe it's just for me. But I've already been blessed by this and I hope the Lord will help us look into these things tonight. Now last week, last week we took a little closer look at the tabernacle and we gave some general descriptions of that tabernacle. And there were two things basically that we dwelled upon. concerning it. Two things. First thing that I wanted us to see in last week's study was that this tabernacle was the only way to God Almighty. This was the only way to know and to worship God Almighty. The only way. And secondly, The reason that being, and secondly, is because God was the master architect of it. He's the one that instituted, that created this type of cry. Now in review, in short review, let me go over a few things with you, so important. This tabernacle, back then, was the only way to know and to worship God Almighty. No matter how plain this may appear to the naked No matter how ordinary, no matter how exotic or dogmatic that may sound, it was the only way to know and worship God. The only way. There was no other way. The only way to obtain the blessings, the favors, and the presence of God Almighty was in that little place there, that little sanctuary. The Jews knew that. The Jews knew that. Why? Because God told them so. They wouldn't have known it had it not been revealed to them. And he was the one that brought this to them. Nobody else. He brought it to them. And there were allowances made for some Gentiles, but it all pertained to that. If there were any Gentiles who sought to know and to worship the Lord, they still had to come by this tabernacle. If they couldn't get to it in person, they had to pray toward it. They had to think about it. They had to be looking in that direction if they couldn't get to it personally. Now, this is a perfect picture of the Lord Jesus Christ, who is the only way to know and worship God Almighty. There is no other way. No other way. Christ said, neither is there salvation in any other. For there's none other name under heaven, not Buddha, Not Krishna, not Mohammed, none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved, but the name of Jesus Christ, only through him. Christ said this, he said, no man, I don't care how sincere he is, no man, no woman, cometh unto the Father, but how? By me, Christ said. I'm the only way, I am the way, the way. to God Almighty. He said, no man knoweth the Father. Nobody could even know anything about God, save through this tabernacle. And nobody can know anything about this thrice-holy God, save the Son, who's in the bosom of the Father, who comes down here to heaven and reveals Him. Right? That's what Christ said. In Christ dwells all the fullness of the Godhead in a body. In Jesus Christ dwells all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, all the fullness of God. Nobody can know worship, come to God, except they know worship and come to Jesus Christ. Such a clear picture right there. And God can only be known by what Christ says and what Christ reveals. The only way to obtain the blessings and the favor and the presence of God is for Christ to come down here and give us those blessings and those favors and be with us. Immanuel. It means God with us. God had to come to us. He didn't cry. The elect know that, just like the Jews knew that. Why did the Jews know that? Because God told them. How does anybody know that Christ is the only way? Why are we not pursuing God in some other way, by our prayers, by our works, by a Buddhist sitting over there in a monastery or whatever? Why is that, that we come to God by Christ alone? Why? How do we know this? God tells us something through this right here, this right here. That's the first work of God Almighty, saving work in everybody's heart, whom he reveals himself to, is to show us, you can't get to me, but one way, one way. Christ said in John 6, 45, they shall all be taught of the Father, of God. And everyone that hath heard and learned of the Father, what do they hear? Cometh to the Son. They hear that Christ, the Son, has revealed the Father. And you don't get to God but by the Son revealing Him to you. Okay. Now, that's the only way. Because God said so. I ain't going to argue it. I love it. I love the Word of God. That's the first sign and evidence of the true child of God. They bow to the Word of God. Whatever it says, they bow to it. Whether it says God's sovereign, they bow to it. Whether it says God elected a people before the foundation of the world, they bow to it. They clearly see that if he hadn't, nobody would have been saved anyway. Everything, they agree with God, okay? Secondly, God was the master architect of this thing. The master architect. He was the planner. He's the one that thought this thing up. And it wasn't an afterthought. It wasn't an afterthought. Christ is called the lamb slain before when? Before the foundation of the world. Before there was a sinner. Before man fell, there was a slaver. He didn't search for the halls of glory after Adam fell, and God thought, oh no, what am I going to do now? Tried the law, or tried his own personal righteousness, and that wouldn't do. What am I going to do now? What am I going to do? And then the law, he sent the law, we'll live by that, and then you'll make it. And that didn't work. They couldn't keep the law. Oh, what am I going to do now? Search, search. There's a song out there somewhere that says that. He searched the halls of heaven looking for a Savior, and he found one. No. He was already the Savior, the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world, already prepared. Why? According to His good pleasure, according to His wisdom, according to His glory, according to that infinitely wise and eternal plan, Christ was the Lamb slain. Okay? But God was the master architect of it. He was the one that decided to visit man. He was the one. He that is our God is the God of salvation, and to God the Lord belong the issues from death," Psalm 68 said. Not us. We didn't decide. We didn't up inside and say, hey, we need God. No, God decided, hey, you need me. Right? We didn't call upon him first. He called upon us. We didn't choose him first. He chose us. And he sent his Son down here, too. Okay? Salvation is of the Lord. The gospel was planned by God in the beginning. Christ was the land slain before the foundation of the world. God loved the people, God chose the people, God planned the way of salvation, and God sent Christ to tabernacle among us, as Scripture says. Go down there and be a man, and live according to my holy law, to perfection as a man. and be approved, be accepted by me, become the tabernacle of God among men, that holy, righteous way to the Father. And then go to that cross and take all the sins and the punishment of those people that I chose, because I'm a just God, but I'm a Savior too. And take those sins upon yourself and bear them for my people and give them that righteousness that you established. Then come back to me and then I'll bring them all home someday. and they'll worship you. God, like God was in that little tabernacle in the wilderness, that little brown tent. God was in Christ, reconciling the world. Not just Jews. That means not just Jews. It doesn't mean every single human being. It means not only Jews, but people out of every tribe, kindred, nation, and tongue under heaven. The world, reconciling the world unto himself. Okay? That was God's plan, wasn't it? God was the planner, the master architect. All right, now let's get into today's study. That was leading into this. Because God was the master architect and the planner of this thing, because God did this thing, everything in it had to be perfect. I mean perfect. Like Leviticus 22 says, it must, it shall be perfect to be accepted. That's the reason to offend in one point of the law is to be guilty of it all. That's the reason the law must be kept in thought even. Not just word and deed, but in thought. To perfection. To perfection. But all have sinned and come short of that joy. Short of that perfection. Because God was the architect, the planner, everything in that tabernacle right there had to be absolutely perfect. And it was. It was. It's a beautiful and a functional arise type of the Lord Jesus Christ to show God's glory, to show, and it was heard as the place of worship to lead his people all the way to the promised land. This tabernacle was with them all the way to the promised land. And then a permanent temple was built. That's a picture of Christ. All right. There's a couple of things I want you to notice before we get into tonight's, to the main part of this, the courts, the courts. As I said, everything in this tabernacle is significant, everything in it. The number of the pillars all the way around it, the number of the pillars, the weight, the size of each one of them, the material used in them. But time wouldn't allow, it wouldn't suffice for us to go into the weights and measures and so forth. But I'm going to give you a brief mention of some of these things. But there were three places. As I said last week, there's three places. There was this outer court, that is, within the fence itself. There was this outer court, and then on the inside of the tabernacle itself there was an inner court, right in the first part there. And then the last little room, a perfect cubicle, 15 by 15 by 15, was the Holy of Holies. It's called the Holy of Holies, where the Ark of the Covenant was. These things typify, and we'll get into these things later on, I just want to give you a brief description. These three things typify many things. They typify God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. Three. They typify us the three in one. This whole thing is considered the tabernacle, the way to God. It's the three in one. These three bear witness of the way to God. All of it prefigures Christ. All of these things prefigure Christ. God the Father, God the Son, and the Holy Spirit are all revealed in one person. Right? One person. This also typifies the church. This can be believers. The church. Body, soul, and spirit. Believers. And the different works and the ordinances that took place in each court, whether it be the outer, the inner, or the holy of holy, there's just too many to describe right now, but you can you can call these three works and different court justification, sanctification, glorification. It's just so it's just so deep all the way through there. OK, there's the three court. Now. Surrounding this place. This is what we're going to dwell on. Surrounding this whole tabernacle in the courtyard and so forth was a fence. See it there, white fence. Let's read about it. Look at Exodus 27, beginning with verse 9. Exodus 27, verse 9. He describes his court and his fence. God says, God shall make the court of the tabernacle. For the south side, southward, there shall be hangings for the cord of fine twine linen of a hundred cubits lines for one side, and the 20 pillars thereof and their 20 sockets shall be of brass." That's these posts that these hangings were attached to. These pillars, 20 pillars, and 20 sockets shall be of brass. And the hooks, which ropes and things were attached to, which the linen was attached and their fillets or their rings or their rods shall be of silver. And likewise for the north side in the length there shall be hangings of a hundred cubits, that's I think a hundred and fifty feet long, and twenty pillars and twenty sockets of brass and the hooks of the pillar and their fillets of silver. And for the breadth of the court on the west side, that's behind the tabernacle there on the west side, shall be hangings of fifty cubits, seventy-five feet wide, and their pillars ten, ten of these posts and their sockets ten. And the breadth of the court on the east side, okay that's this side right here that you're facing, this east side, the breadth of the court on the east side, eastward, shall be fifty cubits, seventy-five feet. The hangings of one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits, this is fifteen, and over here fifteen, and the gate itself The gate itself of the court shall be twenty cubits. Verse sixteen. For the gate of the court there shall be a hanging of twenty cubits of blue and purple and scarlet and fine twine linen wrought with needlework and their pillar shall be four. Four posts that this gate is attached to and sockets four. Verse seventeen. All the pillars round about the court shall be filleted with silver, and their hooks shall be of silver, and their sockets of brass." Okay? He describes this fence that goes all the way around this thing. Now surrounding this whole thing, like he says here, is this fence. What this fence served to do was to bar entrance into this place. That's what fences are for. You know, fences keep people out. That's what it's for. It barred the way into the outer The inner and the holy place. It was a fence. It was a high, white fence. And it was well fortified. That is, well attached. Now stay with me. This is going to be a blessing to you. Stay with me. It was high. It was seven and a half feet high. It was about as high as the bottom of that casing, that top casing right there. Seven and a half feet high. Huge fence. It was out of white linen. It's a beautifully wrought, beautifully wrought or skillfully made. And it was fastened and it was fortified with hooks, rods, pins, fillets. It was bolted down. It was attached. You couldn't move this thing. What this represents is the law of God Almighty. The law of God that separates us from God Almighty. We can't get to God by the law. It's too high. You can't climb Mount Sinai. It's too high. You can't get up there. You can't reach perfection. It's too holy. The law of God is too great. It's too holy. We can't get to God by keeping the law. Can't do it. By the deeds of the law shall no flesh be justified or accepted or granted interest in the God. It's too high, right? It's too white. It's too pure. It's too spotless. No imperfections allowed. None whatsoever. It must be perfect. It shall be perfect to be accepted. And it's fortified. It's fortified. It's fastened down with various things. It's unmoved. It's eternal. The law of God is eternal. Christ didn't do away with the law when he came to this earth. He fulfilled it. The law of God is an expression and revelation of His person. It can't be done away with. Forever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven. But Christ fulfilled it. He didn't do away with it. He did away with it as a means of us getting to God. But He fulfilled it. He fulfilled it. He said, you can't keep that law to get to God. It's too high. It's too holy. It's too perfect. You can't get there. But I did. I fulfilled that law perfectly. Now, you've got to come to me, and we'll get to that in a minute. You know this thing, look at verse 19. He says, "...all of the vessels of the tabernacle, and all the service thereof, and all the pins thereof." There's a little layer, I don't think you can see them, but there's little pins or stakes driven into ropes that fortified these pillars, and there were pins holding this thing together, brass, everything made out of brass. Now, that's getting down to what you call brass tacks. God, concerning his law, everything in it, got down to brass tacks. You can't even pick up sticks on a stick. Anybody want to go—anybody want to get—try to get to God by the law? Be my guest, but you ain't going to get there. If you would—Paul said, tell me you that desire to be under the law. Don't you hear it? He said, evidently, these people who desire to get to God by the law, they don't hear it. It's too holy. It's too high. You can't even pick up sticks on the side of it to light you a fire. Ah, it's perfect. Brass tacks. Every point. Cursed is every man that continues not in all points, which is not the best he can do, every single jot and tittle to perfection. You want to go that route? Not me, buddy. Not me. Brass pillars, these brass pillars all the way around that it was attached to, that represents the judgment of God. The white linen, that represents the righteousness, the holiness of God. These things bar us, the justice of God. They bar the way to God Almighty. Can't get there by that. And brass tacks, fine particular details concerning God's law. Now anybody, listen, anybody trying to get in, say somebody did come along. And they tried, they wanted to get in there, and they tried to get in over that fence. Now it's seven and a half feet high, and it's well-routed. I don't see how they're going to get over it anyway. But say they did try. You know what they'd be considered? A thief and a robber. Isn't that what Christ said? Any man try to get in any other way is a thief and a robber. Isn't it? There in John 10. Any other way. Why? If they try to get over the fence or under the fence or sneak, evidently they're trying to steal something. They don't want to be seen, right? They don't want to be seen. And anybody trying to get around over or under the law of God is a robber of God's glory. A robber. I don't care how holy and how righteous and how pious you think you are and how religious. You've broken God's holy law, and you rob him of his glory. If you think you can get there any other way than what he has provided, you rob him of his glory. You say, his law is not that holy. I can do it. That's exactly what men are saying by trying to get to God by the law. It's not that hard. I can do it. It costs the blood of God's Son. It took the Son of God thirty-three and a third years to fulfill the law of God. Every joy, every move, every gesture, every word, fulfill every jot and tell of the script, thirty-three and a half years for Him to do it. That's robbing God of His glory. You say, if Christ can do it, I can do it too. No, no, no. It's too high. There's only one way to get in this place. Only one way. You'll get to it in a minute. Now some people say that this fence, it was made out of linen. Now linen, if you ever had any linen clothing, you know that linen's real lightweight. And it's, this is linen, and you can see through it a little bit. Linen is, some people say it was made out of a kind of a mesh material, linen. Strong, but transparent. You can see through it. That's because it was so high, The people all stood—nobody was allowed inside there except the priest. Okay? And the people stood all the way around this place watching what was going on. Well, how are they going to see what's going on with this fence in front of them? It's clear. They could see through it. They could see through it. They could at least see the sacrifice right there, see the washing. And what does that tell us? That tells me that even the law points to Christ. Even the law shows us Christ. All the types, the pictures, all of the ceremonies, they all show us Christ. The sacrifices, they show us Christ, but they won't let you in. You can see Christ, but you can't get in by the law. The law won't let you in by the deeds of it. No flesh will be justified. Okay? You can see a man looking, a man near, all a man has to do, really and truthfully, God's given us this work. As you look all the way through the Old Testament Scriptures, you'll see sacrifices, you'll see blood, you'll see that without shedding of blood there's no remission. You'll see that nobody can come to God except by blood, right? You can see that. But they can't understand it. They can't enter into it by faith unless what? Unless they go in. Right? Okay. Alright, now we need to get a close-up view. We need to get a close-up view. If you came up to this place, if you looked at this thing from a distance, remember when I had it way back here and looked at it from a distance? If you looked at it, you might have thought, oh, that's fancy. That doesn't look so high. Right? Just a casual glance at it, and this little model, you know, it's not as high as you think. I can jump that. But the closer you get to it, The higher it gets, you know? The closer you get up there and take a look, the more impossible it seems to get in by that. Now listen, suppose you went up this, suppose you were interested in getting in this place. Like I said, I don't want to make this like we're one of the old Jews or Gentile or whatever, trying to worship God by this tabernacle. Suppose you went up on this north side. No. South side. The south side, okay? You walked up real close. What would you say? You see some things going on in there, you're interested, you're trying to get a closer look and you want to know what's going on in there, you're really interested in it. But you see a fence. You see this, the law, you see it, you can't get in. And you look down, say you start at this corner, you look down the road, what do you see? Line upon line upon line. Precept upon precept. Here a pillar, there a pillar. Here a pillar, there a pillar. Okay, you walk your way down there. I'll try another way. And you go around to the west side. That's that far behind. I'll go and sneak in the back way. You go back there. What do you see? A fence. Another fence. Can't get in. The western, same thing. Line upon line. Precept upon precept. This is a picture of a man trying to get to God by the law. If he takes a close look, no matter how hard he tries to get there by the law, he'll see it's too much for him. Okay? No way in. You go to the west side, there's no way in. Can't get in. Okay, you work your way around to the north side. All right? And by this time, you're getting frustrated. Okay, so you're a Gentile, and now you come sneaking out of the mountain. You know you're not going to get in there. Only Jews are allowed. But you've got to know, you won't get in there. Right? You come sneaking down there, all you see is this south side. You can't get in. Go to the west side. You can't get in. And you're getting frustrated. I've got to get in. Surely there's a way in this place. You go around here to the north side, okay? And by then you think, it's hopeless. You look down through and it looks even worse and even harder, right? And that's the north side, that's where the cold wind starts blowing. And it's getting cold and more and more hopeless and helpless. You think, I'll never get in there. But if you diligently, if you really want to, if you seek with all your heart a way in there, If you're seeking me, searching for me, you'll find me. You search for me with all your heart. You suppose God gives you the grace to walk all the way down this fence line, another 150 feet, and you turn this corner. What do you see? A gate. A way in. A way in. It's called the Eastern Gate. It faces east. Why? It's where the sun comes in. You want to read another scripture over there? It's where the sun, the prince, comes in, in and out, in and out. The eastern gate, a way in, and Christ is the only way to God. The only way. The only door to eternal life. The only gate to glory. Now look back there at Luke chapter 13. Keep your place there in Exodus. Look back at Luke 13 that we looked at a while ago for a scripture reading. Luke 13. Christ said, I am the door. By me, if any man enter in, he shall be saved. Only through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ can anybody come to God. Only coming to Christ, by coming to Christ, by seeing Him as the way to God. But only man approved. Only by seeing Christ as the only accepted or acceptable man, that God won't accept the best you do, that he'll only accept the best he did, which was the best, perfect righteousness. And how that we are only accepted or allowed into the presence of God in the Beloved, in Him. Right? Only as seeing Christ our righteousness. Let me say it over, and I say, sure there's someone saying to me, in the Lord. Or is that 45? Surely somebody will say, in the Lord I have righteousness. Christ is my way. And see Him, Christ, as the blood sacrifice you need. Jesus Christ the Lord. The only way. The only one. Paul said they'll come preaching another Jesus who wants to let you in. He's knocking at your door. There ain't no handle on it. Poor Jesus. That sickens me. That's my stomach. You know, somebody said, you know what the hand of God would do to your heart's door if he knocked on it? My, so he breaks hearts, doesn't he? He doesn't knock on it. He breaks them. I'm coming in. Thank God he did that to me. My heart's hard as a rock. He breaks them and comes on in. Not another Jesus, but this one who is Lord of salvation and comes in. All right? Luke 13. But man is responsible. Man is responsible. He doesn't have the ability. He doesn't have the strength. He doesn't have the power within himself. God must give it. Nevertheless, he's accountable. He's responsible. God gives means. It means faith. It means hearing the Word. It means preaching the gospel. It means prayer, study, and so forth. He gives means. And we're not to deny these means. This is what Christ himself said. Look at verse 24. He says, "...strive to enter in at the straight gate." Nobody is going to come to Christ except those that come to Him with all the heart, that seek Him with all the heart. You know, you'll be standing there popping your gun and say, well, if I get in, I get in, you know. If I'm elect, I'm elect. That ain't the way it works. It's not the way God ordained it, like the so-called primitive Baptists would like for us to believe. If you're going to be saved, you're going to be saved. God elects. No, God is pleased God by the fruit of His preaching to save and to believe. Paul said, I thank God, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, you received it. It came to you not in word only, but with power. Power. The Holy Ghost and much assurance. And you followed. You became followers of me, Paul said, the Thessalonians. Now suppose, he says, scribe to enter in at this straight gate. Suppose, now listen, turn yourself back to that old fellow coming out of the mountain. Somebody told you. Somebody told me the gospel, right? A preacher, a faithful man. Suppose you were a poor, ragged, miserable stranger, a Gentile dog. Like I said, somebody told you, hey, there's a way to God. And the Jews got it over there. Little Brown Ten, I don't believe it though. They say it's a little Brown Ten over in the wilderness. It's the only way you can worship God in there. Aren't they a bunch of prejudiced, dogmatic Jews? What do they think? They think they've got the only way to God. But this man, somebody, that spirit of the Lord arrested his attention. He thought, maybe there's something to this. I've tried every other way and I can't get to it. I'll try this. And you come down there. You're poor, you're miserable, you're ragged. You make the journey and you come to this tabernacle. And somehow, you know this is the only way you're going to get in. The only way you're going to be safe. And you come up close. Like I said, and you can't get in. Couldn't get in here. Couldn't get in over there. Couldn't get in here. And you come around, and you want in. By God's mercy and grace, you want in, and you see a gate! Oh, well, yeah. What you gonna do? Huh? What you gonna do? What? Right? Come in! Right? You want to what? Call! It don't mean nothing! Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. Gentile, dog, poor, ragged, miserable, naked sinner. Sinner to the uttermost, he's able to say. Call upon that. Knock! He said, whoever knocks, be up. And Christ himself is the one that answered. Christ himself is the one that answered. Every one of God's people that he saved called upon him. This is the means that he's ordained. I'll say that right in the face of these people. He's faithless and so forth. Lord, save me or I'll perish. Lord, if you will, you can make me whole. Lord, open my understanding. If anybody in here don't understand the gospel, you don't have to ask God to give you understanding. God have mercy to me, discern it. What if that old publican hadn't asked for mercy? He wouldn't have got it, would he? Now, we know that God ordained him from the foundation of the world, that he was going to receive mercy. Well, what was in that ordaining will and purpose of God? That he come, go, come, go, and ask for it. Come and hear the gospel and see himself. See the Word of God. Hear the Word of God. Prick his heart, and he calls on God. And the Scripture says, Whosoever shall call shall be saved. And like I said, Christ himself answers the door he says. The high priest comes to that door and he said. May I help you. Yes I want in. Come unto me. Oh you little laver. I'm a heavy lady. You want to know God? I'm right on in. Come right on in. Come on in, sonner, and behold the glory and the beauty of his tabernacle. Isn't that what David said? I'll be satisfied. One thing of our desire is the Lord, and that's what I'm going to seek after, to dwell in the courts, the tabernacle of the Lord, to inquire into his temple, and to behold the beauty of the Lord. David said it. Whenever David was out somewhere, he said, Oh, my soul has longed for that beautiful tabernacle. That's what he said. See, the temple wasn't built. Solomon built the temple. Wherever David was, his thought went back to that tabernacle. Oh, I'd like to be in there right now instead of fighting these battles. Isn't that what you say out on the job and so forth? Ah, boy. Now, look at this. Look back at Exodus 27 with me. Look at the materials, and I'll hurry. I forget when I started, but I'll hurry. Exodus 27, verse 16. Look at the materials and the colors of this gate. This is what we're going to dwell on right now, the gate. Verse 16. And for the gate of the courts, that eastern gate, shall be in hanging of twenty cubits. It was thirty feet wide. Like I said once before, Christ was how old when he started his earthly ministry? Thirty years old. Thirty feet wide, and it was a blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen. Now you couldn't see all that on the outside. All you could see was white. It was made out of white linen. White linen. Fine. See what he said there? Fine twined linen. Joe Christ is fine, isn't he? Finally twined, curiously wrought, gloriously made, in the expressed image of God himself. None like him. Never been. No man spake like this man. No man acted like this man. Finely twined, right? Wasn't it? Finely made. White, fine, white, and then the righteous one, the holy one of Israel. That's what he was, white. You know what Solomon said? My beloved, he's white. He's white. Blue. Look at this. It's made of blue, purple, and scarlet. Blue. Blue is a color that prefigures God. God. Deity. Christ is God himself. Deity. Purple. This is not what it looked like necessarily, but there were finely embroidered and so forth all over this, needlework all over this. And this is the works of Christ, his works of divinity, his works of humanity, his works of redemption, finely twined, wrought by him and him alone. He personally is the one that did this needlework, him personally. Blue, that's deity, God. Christ was none other than God in human flesh. Purple is royalty. Royalty. He's the king. He's the king on the throne. Open these gates, the everlasting doors, and the king of glory, the prince we read about, will come in. Scarlet, that represents sacrifice, blood, of course, blood. And that's Christ's perfect redemption, the purchase of blood. And then there were, see, these four pillars that the gate was attached to. That drawing I gave you is wrong. The way it's drawn in there is wrong. There's four pillars. There's ten on each. There's sixty pillars all together. Anyway, there's four pillars of brass. Four pillars of solid brass that held up this gate. You want to guess what those are? Those four pillars? What tells the story of the coming one? Four Gospels. Pillars. The Word is that pillar of truth, right? That holds up everything concerning Christ. Oh, you're going to love this. I shouted just about. We're not Pentecostal around here, but just about. Daniel chapter 10. Look at this. This thrilled me when I saw this. Look over at Daniel chapter 10. Now some say, let me tell you this, some people say that the four Gospels make up these four colors. Listen, this is good too. Matthew, and if you'll do a careful study of the book of Matthew, Matthew talks more about the king of Israel than anything. That's the blue gospel. He talks about Christ as the Messiah, the king, who rides in, the story of Christ riding in on a pole of an ass is Matthew, as the king. Hail to the king! Mark is the red gospel. It talks about the suffering servant. He deals with the crucifixion of Christ and so forth. Luke is the white gospel. He talks more about the perfect, righteous, spotless Lamb of God, the man, his humanity, his spotless perfection, humanity. John is, of course, the blue gospel. He talks about the deity of Christ more than the other three. Four pillars of brass. pillars of brass, the gospel. But look at this, this could be this too. Look at it. Phew, man. Daniel 10, look at verse 5. I lifted up my eyes, and looked, and behold, a certain man, clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold, and his body was like that of a bell, and his face as appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like polished grass, and the voice of his word like the voice of a multitude." His arms and his feet. You're not going to get in. but by the nail-scarred hands and feet of the crucified one." John said that over in Revelation, that his feet were as fine brass that burned in the furnace. You're not going to get in except by the four pillars. Christ picks you up in his arms and takes you in by his legs. His strength carries you. Oh, boy. Only through the crucified one. And look, once you come to this gate, once you come to the gate, as soon as you go through, what do you see? What's the first thing you see? Everybody see that? What is that? The first thing you see when you come to Christ is this crucified Savior, your substitute. Right? Rick, you're not going to come to God unless you see you need a substitute, unless you see you need a Savior, unless you see you need the blood. Right? You see the altar. The first thing you see is Christ, your sacrifice and substitute, because without the shedding of blood there's no one. Isaac said that, didn't he? Isaac knows more than... Isaac, when he was walking, a little boy, well, some say he was as old as 20 years old or so, but anyway, a young man walking up that mountain with his father Abraham, he knew this much. He knew more than most so-called gospel preachers today, didn't he? He said, Father, he's starting to, wait a minute. He said, Father, here's the fire. He had fire. in a bucket of coal or on a stick or whatever, I don't know. Now here's the fire. And I got the wood here. Where's the lamb? You gotta have the lamb. The door should go. You got to have blood, don't you, Joe? Without sweating the blood, we know that from the beginning, without sweating the blood, there's no remission of sin. And ain't that what this generation of preachers are saying? They got the fire, got the Holy Spirit, don't they? You got the Holy Spirit, whoo! You know. And they got the spirit of hurt, and they're preaching like it hurt. They got the spirit, they say. They got a spirit, all right. It's another spirit. The Holy Spirit takes the things of Christ and shows them to people. And they got the wood. They got them a cross, right? And they got dead wood in the pews. They got the fire and the wood, but where's the lamb? Who's talking about Christ? They got the laws, the rules, the regulations, the spirit and this and that. Where's Christ? You can't worship God without Christ, can you? That's the reason Paul, the chief apostle, and God used more than anybody else, said, I'm determined to know nothing among you, save Jesus Christ and Him crucified. Paul said, every time you hear me, I'm going to preach about Christ. I'm going to tell you how to get over the fence. I'm going to tell you that's right. You've got to get in the gate. And you've got to see the blood. When he sees the blood, he'll pass over. Right? Paul said, woe is unto me if I preach not the gospel. Right? And woe is unto that high priest who didn't go in there without blood, or with blood. Right? And next week, by God's mercy, you know what we're going to do? We're going to walk right in there. and take hold on the horns of that officer. There's some people who did that in the Old Testament. And we went in and took hold of those horns, the four horns on that officer. I grabbed the horns and said, you're just about to kill me. You're just about to kill me. Get me away from here.