You can be turning to Leviticus chapter 17. Leviticus 17. The tabernacle, like the gospel, had many different parts that make up the whole. any different part. Every single part in it was ordained by God and vitally important for the worship of God and for the atonement. Nothing could be left out. Nothing. For instance, there were seven pieces of furniture within the the court within the tabernacle, involved in the tabernacle. If you want to count the mercy seat as a separate piece from the ark underneath it, or the tabernacle itself as a separate piece. At any rate, that would make seven pieces of furniture. And every piece played an important part and gave a very clear picture of the atonement. It was necessary. God ordained it and it was necessary. Nothing could be left out. Nothing. And Christ said this about his work on this earth. He said it behooved him to fulfill all righteousness. Every part. His person, his work contained many just as there are many sides to a beautiful diamond, and all of them make up the whole. But Christ's person and work, every part of it was important, and everything, every point of the law must be fulfilled under the danger of the curse. The scripture in Galatians says, those that continue not in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do with every single point. And like the gospel, the tabernacle had one all-important piece of furniture, one all-important piece of furniture which everything else centered around and pointed to. Which one do you think it is? Now don't anybody answer. I know what you're thinking right off. I did too at first. But there was one piece of furniture which everything revolves around and pointed to. Right there. The altar. I know you were thinking of the ark and the mercy seat. But it was pointless without the altar. He started right there. That was where the sacrifice was made. That's where the sacrifice was laid. Everything else related to that sacrifice. Everything in that place pertained to the sacrifice that was laid upon that altar. The whole purpose of the tabernacle and everything in it was to typify or picture the atonement, the atonement, or the putting away of sins. That's what the word atonement means, the covering, the putting away of sins. And God said it from the very beginning. He said, without the shedding of blood, there's no remission. It says that here in Leviticus 17, verse 11, look at it. The life of the flesh—this is God speaking—the life of the flesh is in the blood. The life of the flesh is in the blood, and I've given it to you upon the altar. That's where the blood is shed, to make an atonement for your souls. For it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. It's the blood. It does not matter, at least to me, it is of no consequence what some people say about this bloody religion. It's necessarily so. Blood. Because God said so, first of all. Because God said so, right here in Leviticus 17, 11. But let me ask you a good question. Why was bloodshed necessary? Why bloodshed? Why not some other way? Why bloodshed? Well, in the garden, when God gave those express orders to Adam and to Eve, He said, now you can have everything but that one tree. The day you eat of that tree, you will die. Right? You will die. The thing which typifies or the thing which shows death more clearly than anything else is bloodshed, right? Anytime your blood is spilled and poured out, the life of the flesh is in the blood, you're going to die. And sin brought death. The wages of sin is death. And then God started the bloodshed. It wasn't Abel. God started it. by killing those innocent animals to shed, to cover the nakedness of that man and woman. God started the killing by killing innocent animals. Those animals didn't have any part in the transgression, right? That's a picture of Christ. And what appeared to be cruel, God killing those poor little animals, was really mercy. It was a picture of the gospel. what appeared to be hard and cruel and unfair for the animals. They didn't have anything to do with it. No, but if Adam and Eve are going to be covered, if the gospel is going to be proclaimed, I've got to do this. Blood's got to be shed. And that's a picture of Christ, isn't it? Christ had no part in the transgression. He was innocent. Yet if we're going to live, If our sins are going to be covered before the holy eye of God, the innocent lamb of God must be sacrificed and thus covered in that robe of his righteousness. God started it and God finished it. God started the killing, the shedding of blood, and God finished it by himself coming down here and putting away sin by the sacrifice of himself. Lest we think it unfair for God to kill these animals or whatever. Although God warned us, he warned man of the consequences. You eat, you're going to die. So lest we think it unfair, he did warn us, get God in mercy. But God came down here and shed his own precious blood. So you don't have to shed yours. So you don't have to die. He came down here in mercy and did that. So, in between those first animals that were sacrificed, in between those first animals and when Christ came down and shed his own precious blood, there were rivers of blood. Rivers of blood. And all of it was shed upon an altar. The altar was where the blood was shed, the sacrifice was made. And right here in this tabernacle, Now before the tabernacle was made, men, there were altars of earth, there were altars of stone. God gave express orders, though, not to put your tool on the stone. You find some stones out there in the field, and you make an altar with oak. And that's a picture of Christ. But nevertheless, finally, God gave this plan of the most elegant or beautiful or the clearest and most glorious altar ever. It had to be a beautiful type and a perfect picture of that one great altar who was to come and be our altar, the Lord Jesus Christ, where that great and final sacrifice was to be made. And that's the reason God made this one. He made this one. He architected and commanded the construction of this one to be a perfect picture of Christ who was to come. Now we're going to see this in a moment. The first thing I want you to know about this altar. When you come in that, in this eastern gate right here, the first thing, what's the first thing you see? The altar. And you can look at the size of that thing. And when you first come in that gate, the first thing you see is this great big altar, this huge altar. It was large. It loomed over you when you came in that way, that gate, into the court. That large altar would loom over you. It was a glorious thing of brass, and it was captivating. It captivated your attention. Your eye was riveted on that altar. everything about it. It was the most wonderful thing you'd seen up to that point, until you got into the Holy of Holies. But it was big, it was brass, it was bloodstained, and all the things that were going on around this altar, everything was, all the work was going on around this altar. There were priests all over the place, clothed in white And there was smoke and fire and blood everywhere, all over the altar. You've got, if you've got your thing with you, there's a picture of the altar in there. But when you first walked in this, in this doa, in this gate, it's the first thing you saw, first thing you saw. And the first thing we see when we come to worship God. is the cross of Christ. We see Christ and him crucified. The first thing you must know to come to God, the first thing you must see when you come to worship God is a crucified Christ. You must see a substitute. You can't get to God, you can't get into the Holy of Holies without blood, without blood, without the shedding of blood. He said there's no remission of sin. And if you ever get a glimpse of it, if you ever do come to God, if you ever desire and seek God, to know God with all your heart, and come to Christ the door, the first thing you'll see is Christ crucified. And it'll captivate your attention. You'll see it as being large and looming over everything else. It'll captivate you, it'll rivet your attention before anything else. Christ crucified. Paul said it, God forbid that I should glory in anything else but the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ. God forbid that I should be taken up with and enamored with any defense or anything else when this glorious and beautiful cross and crucified Christ is before me. And the cross of Christ In the cross of Christ we see the wisdom, the power, the glory of God. We see the holiness, justice, the love, the mercy, the grace of God. We see everything in the cross of Christ. Christ crucified. We see everything. And that which pertains to it. Everything which pertains to it. Everything else pertains to the sacrifice of Christ on the cross. Everything. Now when you walked into this This court, this outer court here, like I said, you'd see these priests, these common priests ministering about this altar. They were taken up with and ministering about and busy about the things of this altar. They were wholly taken up with it. The atonement depended upon it. Everything depended upon it. They ministered about this altar. They sacrificed upon it. They took care of it. They took the ashes out, they prepared the animals for it, they attended the fire in it, and more importantly than anything, they gathered the blood from it. They gathered the blood from that. Because everything else now was useless until that sacrifice was slain, and that precious basin of blood was gathered from that slain sacrifice. And then they carefully got that blood. He gave it to the high priest and he went on in. But everything about that altar, they were totally taken up with it, the blood. And this is where we've got to start. This is the starting point of true worship and seeing God's glory. It's the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ, the blood shed on the altar, the blood. And every true, like those common priests of old, every true minister of the gospel and every priest. He calls us kings and priests to our God, doesn't he? Every one of us. We're not high priests. There's one high priest who goes into the very presence of God with his own precious blood. But we're priests. We're ministering about the things of the cross. Here in this life, we're ministering about the things of the cross. we're taken up with. Every believer is wholly taken up with, concerned with, ministering about the things of the gospel. Determined, like Paul said, not to know anything, but Christ in him crucified. These priests of old, their work never deviated from that altar. The common priests, they were always taken up with this Nobody could go into the holy of the court of the tabernacle except with. And they were taken up with this the altar that was their job they were taken up with the altar and there were never deviated from that altar ever except that was pertain to the. And at night time when they went to sleep so they woke up in the morning they were right back to tend to that altar and there were many people but the reason being because they were How many millions of you how many sacrifices sacrifices for cleansing and purging and various different sacrifices for different times and so how many sacrifices were to be made how many people were involved how much work was to be done as much blood to be shared many sacrifices to be made so they were always taken up with his own. It was their job. Can you imagine these men being sidelined by something. Can you imagine them, with all the people, with all the different sacrifices, all the work to be done, and all centering around this altar, can you imagine them stopping for a time and going over and fiddling around or playing around or wasting time or start dabbling with other things? No. Couldn't even imagine it. Their work was around that altar. And even so, God forbid that I should go where woe is unto me. Woe is unto me if I preach not Christ and Him crucified, the gospel. And we're all to be taken up with, wholly concerned with Christ and Him crucified. Nothing else. Not things of prophecy, because the testimony of Jesus is a spirit of prophecy. All the Bible speaks about the atonement. It all points to the atonement. And this is where we start, and this is what we're taken up with. And besides, someday, when we get to the throne of God himself, what is the first thing we're going to see on the throne? What's the first thing we're going to see on the throne? A lamb, as it had been slain. What we're going to see is the atonement. And we're going to be sitting around the throne talking about the atonement for eternity, singing about worthy is the lamb that was slain. So right now, Dare we be taken up in anything else? Anything? No. We minister about the things of the gospel. Those that minister about the altar of the sacred should be up. We read that back in the study. OK, the heart and the soul of the gospel is the cross of Christ, rather the Christ of the cross. I'm talking about a piece of wood now. When I talk about the cross, from here on out, when I talk about the cross, I'm not talking piece of wood. We're not talking about that at all. We're talking about the work of Christ. We're talking about the person and the work of Christ. We're not talking about the crop. There's no saving, benefit, or effect in that piece of wood. Do you remember the story of Hezekiah finding that, was it Hezekiah that found the serpent of brass on the pole? Was it Hezekiah? Remember when he, the people were worshiping that Serpent of brass that Moses lifted up, they were worshipping that. He grounded to powder what he found. Grounded to powder. He said it's nehushtan. Is that what he said? Nehushtan. A worthless piece of brass. If they found the very cross that Christ was crucified on today, we'd ought to burn it. Those men would worship it. The same is what they do with Mary, and Mary was just an instrument from which Christ came. They worship her. And they talk about the cross, all of these things. It's the Christ of the cross. The person and the work of Christ is what we're taking up with. It's the blood of God's Son that makes atonement for the soul, not that piece of wood. Besides, think about this. Did you ever think about this? That there could have been myriads of men crucified on that very same cross that Christ was. Could have been. Could have been a bunch before and a bunch after. And that thing, that was just an instrument of his death. It had no efficacy in it at all. He was the one hanging there. And what he did and who he was. Now, when you come into this Holy of Holy, the first thing you saw was that altar. And it was huge. Look at the size of that compared to everything else. You see the little laver here? Look at the size of that altar. It was huge. Big, looming thing. In other words, when you walked in there, there's no way around it. There's no way of getting around this thing. You couldn't hardly see the temple for it, or the tabernacle for this altar. No way around it. And the scripture states, in effect, what it did was barred the way to the tabernacle. You can't get to the tabernacle except if you come by this altar. Except if you stop right here and camp a while and take a look and smell and know what's going on. And you can't get to God now unless you see a sanctity, unless you see Christ crucified. It bars the way to God. No man comes unto the Father but by Christ's bloodshed for them. Now listen, some people begin with the cross, or at least say they do. They don't go in-depth into this thing of the redemption of Christ. Some people begin with a cross, they dabble with it, they touch on it, but they quickly get away from it. No. They quickly get around it and dwell on other things, such as the candlestick. Let's talk about the candlestick. Now that's something really interesting. That's blood. That's gory. We don't talk about blood. That's old-fashioned, you know, and dirty. Let's go in there and talk about the candlestick. Talk about what's the difference. I said seven means seven, you know, seven. But Paul said the preaching of the cross is to them to perish foolishness. If you want the bigger and better things, right? But he said, unto us which are being saved, us which are saved, it's the power, the glory of God and the power of God, right? We don't want to get around it. To the sinner, to sinners, it's vitally important and it's very interesting, the cross. God forbid that I go on to bigger and better things. What is bigger and better? Hmm? Than the putting away of my sins. What am I more concerned with than that? Putting away of my sins. Huh? To a dying leper. You know the rites in the Old Testament that were the rites and sacrifices that were made for the cleansing of a leper? We studied that one time when we were at the church. But that leper who came to this place, to the priest, covered with leprosy, he was dying. It was pretty important to him, wasn't it? I bet you he sat right down on the ground there and watched every movie that that priest made. Shedding of that blood. That blood, the cleansing rites of that high priest were all important to him. The shedding of that blood. And after the priest got through shedding the blood, he was a mess. He sprinkled that old boy. I mean, just covered, doused him in blood. You reckon he objected? No. He wanted to be clean. He wanted to be whole, right? Cover me with that blood. You say this blood is what's going to cleanse me? This blood is what's going to heal me of my leprosy? Cover me with the blood. Douse me with it. That's what old Peter said. Don't wash my feet, Lord. Wash me all over. He was vitally interested, and so is every sinner who is leprous, who feels himself to be wicked and vile before this holy God. He wants to be covered with the blood of Christ to make us whole. Paul said this. He said, many are enemies of the cross. He said that with a tear. He said, I say it now weeping. Many are enemies of the cross. And it's so today. Even though many people wear one around their neck, even though they wear them in their ears, you see all kind of fools wearing one in their ear. These athletes and all could give a flip about Christ and the gospel wearing one across their ear. The most vile people wear these crosses. It's not blasphemy. But even though they wear them in their ears, wear them around their neck, they have one on their steeple, they never preach it. They're not taken up with it. They don't talk about it. It's bloody religion. It looks good as an ornament, as a symbol, and it looks good as a sign through our ceremonies and so forth, but they don't preach it, what this cross is all about. What it's all about. There's no way around it, though. There's no way around this altar. No way around it. And I tell you what, like those common priests who have always taken up with this altar, until I shed this body, until I go into the very holy of holies itself, I'm just going to stay right here before the cross. All right? Anybody want to sit down with me? at the feet of Christ, like Mary at the foot of the cross, I wish you would. I'm not going to go on to anything else. We're going to sit right here at the cross and learn of Christ, and hear Him talk, and consider this atonement. So just stay right here, enjoy the sights and sounds, and smells, and smells. Scripture talks about a sacrifice. being a fragrance, a sweet-smelling savor to God Almighty. Remember reading that? A sweet-smelling savor to God. What's one of the most savory things known to man? Something that we all enjoy, I believe. When you're cooking something out, when you put a big old piece of steak on the grill, charcoal that thing, big ol' T-bone, ribeye or something. It'll smell good cooking, especially if you're hungry. If you're hungry, buddy, nothing smells any better. Nothing. And nothing will quite take care of your appetite than that, boy. Oh, my. Give me one of them. Two of them. It's a sweet-smelling savor, and I tell you what, to an old sinner who's hungry, who's thirsty, the sight of that bloody man hanging on that tree, is a sweet sight, brother. Precious sight. A sweet smelling savor. It's a savor of salvation, is what it is. You've got to see Christ crucified, taking away your sin. There you do. It's a wonderful sight, an old sinner. Now turn with me back to Exodus chapter 27. Exodus chapter 27. I want to show you some things about this altar. I'll make this short. Here's some things to note about this altar. Like I said, when you walked into that court, it's the first thing you saw. First thing. Large, looming. It captivated you. It took up your attention. You were riveted upon. You were taken up with it. You were wholly concerned with it. And there's no way around it. You couldn't get around it anyway, even if you wanted to. You were confronted with it. Confronted with it. And like we were confronted with that Leviticus 17 letter, blood, blood's got to be shed. Here's some things to note about this altar. Exodus 27, verse 1. God here gives the orders to make the altar. He says, You shall make an altar of shittom wood. Now, shittom wood was a very durable wood. It was an earthly material. It was made of wood, but it was enduring material, much like locusts, much like that acacia wood that we were talking about, that the tabernacle was made of. But it was an earthly material. God said, make this altar out of an earthly material. Christ became a man. He became the tabernacle among us. He put on flesh and blood. Earthly material. Earthly material. But it was enduring material, though. It endured through countless sacrifices all the way to the promised land. This thing held up. And I tell you what, there's still a man sitting up there. When he came, when he rose from the grave, he came to touch me, handle me. I'm not just a spirit, I'm a man. Flesh and bone. I'm a man. He's still tabernacling with us as a man. Enduring material. We read that over there in Hebrews 13, Jesus Christ. the same yesterday, today, and forever. It never changes. It never changes. It'll take us all the way in. And it was overlaid with brass. Verse 2 says that this thing was—you make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof, and the horns should be of the same—all overlaid with brass. This thing was made of wood, but it had to be covered with brass to endure the fire, to hold the fire. It had to be covered with brass on the end, lined with brass, or he'd burn up. Right? That's the deity of Christ. That's his Godhood. Christ had to be God in order to endure the trials and the fiery wrath and indignation of God against sin. A man would have been burned up, would have been consumed. But Christ is God and man. OK? And look at verse 1 again. It says it's five cubits long. And five cubits broad. That's seven and a half feet square. Seven and a half feet. That's how big this thing is. Huge thing. And it was three cubits high. The height thereof should be three cubits. That's four and a half feet high. That's right here. Four and a half feet high. Seven. Huge thing. Great big old thing. And I noticed this. It had this great thing around it so that the high priest could stand upon it. They could get up on that altar and go about their work, and they could lean on it. They could stand on it. They could stand on the altar. It was sturdy. It'd hold them up. It's huge. But 7 1⁄2 feet square. Do you remember how high I said this fence was? 7 1⁄2 feet, right? Now Christ, it was 4 1⁄2 feet tall, this tall. Now Christ was down here on our level, right? He's down here on our level as a man. Yet, if he stood up to his full length, he measured up to the law. He was stacked up in full stature to the very law of God himself. Seven and a half feet high. At any rate, it was solid. Picture this big thing. Four and a half feet high, seven and a half feet square. It was solid, square, and stout. Huge thing made of brass and heavy wood. It was able to bear heavy burdens. It was able to withstand many, many fires and many sacrifices that were made upon it. And Christ bore in His own body on that tree the sin, all the sins of all of God's people from the beginning. He's able. He's able. He's solid. He's stout. Thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof. His horns shall be of the same, and be overlaid with brass." There were four brass horns. Now, keep your place there and turn with me to 1 Kings 1. There were four brass horns. Now, what these horns were for, 1 Kings 1, was the sacrifice. The lamb was tied to it. It wasn't killed until it was put on that altar. And they had to tie it down, right? They had to tie it down, and they slit its throat and burn its body. He was tied to it. These four brass horns represent the four Gospels, which bear witness of Christ. And it also could represent his hands and his feet, many things it could represent. But it represents the four Gospels, which tie together and speak of the sacrifice, speak of Christ and his atonement. Now, over here in 1 Kings, this is interesting. 1 Kings, chapter 1. There was a fellow named Adonijah, who was a son of David. You see these horns? This is pretty much what it looked like. There was a man named Adonijah, who was a son of David. Now, David had ordained Solomon his chosen one to be his king. It was up to David. David was the king, and the one who's going to be heir to his throne was of his choosing, and he chose Solomon. He said, no, Solomon is going to reign in my state. Okay? Abednego, though, was a son of God, a son of David, and he thought, I want to be king. I want to be king. So he got him a bunch of fellows together, a bunch of people who liked him and so forth, liked his ways, and he set himself up as king. And he tried to reign a little while. In his own mind, he was a legend in his own mind. He tried to reign as king, but Solomon was king. Solomon was David's chosen king, not Adonijah. This fellow was walking on thin ice, brother. And he found out later on that Solomon had been made king, and that Solomon was angry, and Solomon was going to come get him. So look at this. 1 Kings chapter 1. So you know what he did? 1 Kings chapter 1 verse 50. Adonijah, when he heard that Solomon had been made king, and that he had been trying to usurp the rightful king's throne, he arose, he feared because of Solomon, and arose and went and caught hold on the horn of Noah. He went up to this old altar here and grabbed ahold of one of the horns, and they just got And it was told Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonijah fears King Solomon, and he's caught hold on the horns of the altar, saying, Let King Solomon swear unto me this day he won't slay his servant in the sword. And Solomon said, Well, if he'll show himself a worthy man, that is, an obedient, worshipful servant, if he'll bow to me as king, He'll come to me, I won't touch your hair." And wickedness, he'll not die. So King Solomon sent and brought him down from the altar and he bowed himself to the king. You see the picture there? That's us. You and I, like natural men, like all natural men, despise the sovereign God, His reign and His rule, yet God has made Christ his king, he's chosen one, he's exalted one to be his heir to the throne, Christ, not us. We're not in charge of our own destiny. We're not middle gods. There's one Lord, one ruler, one master overall. And Christ gave that parable of the men saying, we'll not have this man reign over us. And that's what people say about this sovereignty we preach, this sovereign, reigning, ruling Christ who gives salvation to whom he will. And that was us, every one of us, by nature. We despised this gospel of God's sovereign grace, this reigning Lord and King who elects and chooses, who disposes of salvation as He will. We despised that. Yet one day, we heard somebody told us, now listen, bud, Christ does reign. Christ Jesus is Lord, and you're in His hands, and He's going to come slay you. He's going to come and slay you. So what do we do? What's our only hope? What's the only hope of any rebel? It's to run, grab hold of the horns we own. Go and grab hold of Christ and Him crucify. The very hem of His garment. Cling to the cross. Lay hold of Christ by faith. Say, Lord, you're just going to have to slay me. If you slay me, you're that person. Plead for mercy, plead for the blood shed for a guilty sinner. Lord, I got a hold of the altar now. The blood, he said, the blood makes remission for sin, atonement, propitiation, coverage, sin, a pardon. Lord, I got a hold of Christ. I believe Christ. Christ came to save me. I know I'm a rebel. I know I deserve to die, but please, let the blood be propitiation on the mercy of Jesus. What's it gonna say? Don't touch a hair of your head, boy. No condemnation to them that are hanging on the horns. All right, look at verse 3, back at Exodus chapter 27 again, verse 3, and I'll hurry. Exodus 27, verse 3 and 4, and he says, Thou shalt make pans to receive ashes, and shovels, and basins, and flesh hooks, firepans and all these things. All the vessels thereof shall be made of brass and make a great network of brass as for the blood to run down into. And the nets shall make four brazen rings in the four corners thereof. Everything about that altar, all the utensils pertaining to that altar, were gleaming brass. Some of you have brass things in your home. It's beautiful. It really adorns your home. Well, time would fail us. We're not going to go into every aspect of it, but time would fail to tell of the life, the death, the burial, the resurrection, the ascension, the glorification of Christ, his foreknowledge, all of his character, his foreknowledge, his predestinating power, his sanctifying power, his justifying power, his glorification, creation, his priesthood, his manhood, his deity, his lordship, all of the utensils, all of the character, all of the attributes of God are found in this one man, gleaming brass, beautiful, the riches, both of the wisdom, the depth, the height, the glory of the glory of God in Christ. All the riches, unsearchable, all the facets and things that pertain to cry, the riches of his glory. And note, did you notice there in verse four, it says, four brazen rings, four brass rings and four corners, four brass rings. Christ is called, he's made unto us, somebody want to quote it, wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. Four rings, four rings, necessary things that are tied to this The person and work of Christ, and it's all supported. Look at verse 6. And these rings are so that you could put staves through it. Make staves for the altar of shit and wood overlaid with brass. Two sticks, two big long poles overlaid with brass, running through these four rings so that you could hold it all up, support it all, carry it around. What's that? The wisdom, righteousness, Sanctification, redemption of Christ, these four things, are seen in the person and the work of Christ. It's all supported by the person and the work of Christ. All these four things, he's made them. And this will be it. Look at Psalm 118 with me. This will be a blessing to you. These spades, you know, were to carry the altar around. He tells us to take up his cross. person and work. Two stages. Take it up. And it balanced, too. There weren't three, there were four. Balance. Perfectly balance this thing. We need those four things for Christ to be made unto us. Psalm 118. I tell you what, believer, we have an altar. Oh, this is beautiful. I just jumped when I saw this. Psalm 118, look at verse 26. And this altar of ours is much more glorious than than that one in the wilderness. David, old David, was a man after God's own heart. He knew something about this place right here. He was always inquiring about it. He was taking us with him. He was always thinking about it. Many psalms were written about it. He said he envied those that were about the tabernacle. He said, oh, how long for the tabernacle. How angry about the tabernacle. How long for it. When he was out of town, away from this place? Oh, he told me. He said, let me look towards the tabernacle. Point me in the right direction. Let me think about it. And he prayed about it. He was taken up with the tabernacle. David knew something about Christ. He was a man after God's own heart. Look at this right here. He spoke of Christ. Verse 25, David says, Now save me, Lord, save me now, I beseech you. I beseech you, O Lord. O Lord, I beseech thee. Prosperity. Save me by the riches of your glory, by your grace. He got an answer right away. Look at verse 26. Blessed be he that comes in the name of the Lord. Here it comes. Save me, Lord. Here it comes. A man. Ah, here it comes. Look at this, verse 26. We've blessed you out of the house of the Lord. We've just been talking about you. See that joke? We've just been talking about you out of the house of the Lord. God is the Lord. Who's this coming? Who is this that enters into the kingdom? It's the king. Psalm 24. It's the king coming in. God is who it is. God is the Lord. He showed light. Lights come in the eastern gate, binding the sacrifice of the cold. Binding Christ crucified, even under the horn of death. You're my God. And I'm going to praise you forevermore for this great sacrifice. You're my God and I'll exalt thee. Oh, you thank the Son of the Lord. He's good. He has mercy unto us forever. He hath not left us without a sacrifice, without a Savior. Did you see where it says, bind the sacrifice with cords? Listen to this. You listen. God says in Hosea 11.4, I drew them with cords of a man, bands of love." I like that. Bind the sacrifice with cords, and then he says over there, I drew them with cords of a man. Christ hanging on that cross, bound with bands of love. He didn't have to. Because of that love, that great love wherewith he loved, he willingly bound himself. to that cross. And that's the reason we say with David, we're going to thank you forever, forever. And you're my God, and we'll exalt you, worthy as the Lamb of God, who redeemed us from our sin. The altar, the altar. There's a burst in a song. Come up here, Jeanette. We sing it all the time, and in light of that verse there in Psalm 118, I want you to look at this verse of this song. He says, Let your goodness like a fetter bind my wandering heart to thee. I'm prone to wander, Lord, I feel it, prone to leave the God I love. Here's my heart. And Solomon said over and over, he said, take these words and bind them to your heart, like cords around your neck. Let them not depart from you. Take and seal it, seal it for thy cords of love. The cords, bind my wandering heart. Cords of love, cords of a man. Let's stand and sing this. Let's just sing the last verse. Yes, I got there by my wandering heart to thee. Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it. Prone to live, God, God, I love. Here's my heart, I'll take and steal it. Steal it for thy courts above.