All right, JT. Go back this morning to the book of Hebrews, the 13th chapter, once again. Before JT gets started, I'd like to tell you that Dave will not be here today. He's got some test subjects. It's a lot of talking bits. There's any doubt the book of Hebrews was written by the Holy Spirit. I've come back here again this week looking at some of the things. This book of Hebrews seems like an exceptional book when it comes to the Lord Jesus Christ. He set forth many things in here. I don't guess you could ever completely use this book up not until the very end. Go back to verse 8 again. It says, Jesus Christ is same yesterday and today and forever. He's always been the same with Jesus. Ever any different, he was always set forth as the preeminence of all things. He's always saved man by the same means, by the shedding of blood upon the house, upon the altar, upon all the vessels, upon the altar, and especially upon the mercy seat. Then it said, and he sprinkled the blood upon all the people. He sanctified the whole thing unto himself. He said, be not carried about with diverse and strange doctrines. For it's a good thing that the heart be established with grace, not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein. Talking about the earthly sacrifices that was given, the offering up of the animals upon the brazen altar. And I looked this week, there's so many things that could be said about these things until you don't hardly know where to begin. Verse 10, he said, we have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle or work in it. Those that are offering up those meat sacrifices. Well, we've come to a time until it's not profitable. It's not good for the people of God, because it takes their attention away from Jesus Christ, who is preeminent over all things. Go back to chapter 1, verse 1. Read a few verses. Here it said, God, through its sundry times and diverse manners, faking past in the past unto the fathers by the prophets. He said of hath in these last days spoken to us by his son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things. He's preeminent. By whom also he made the worlds. Well, he wasn't left out in anything, was he? Something I was looking at on my phone, I just run across commentary last night. I told Betty, I said, man, it's awful how stupid some people can be about the scripture. The comment was that Jesus Christ laid down his life that he might be God. So I had to turn that fella off pretty quick. get rid of that, he's always been God. By whom also he made the world, he's always been far superior to everything else. He said, who being the brightness of his glory and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power. When he had by himself purged our sins, it's already done. He said here that he hath done it. That's an amazing thing, isn't it? And sat down on the right hand of the majesty on high. And he's far superior, I said, being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. He was superior to a man that he had a better name. Jesus Christ, the anointed one, given of the Father to secure and purchase the church always. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. He purchased it the same way from the beginning to the very end. He said, for unto which of the angels saith he at any time? dark my son. This day have I begotten thee. And again, I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. So he's far superior. There isn't anything that he isn't on. from the very beginning, even the creation of all things, it was by Him. On down in verse 8, He said, Thou hast put all things in subjection under His feet. For in that He put all in subjection under Him, He left nothing that is not put under Him. But now we see We see not yet all things put under him, but we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angel for the suffering of death. That kind of seems contrary to what we just read. But no, it was always that certainty. that he was going to overcome death and be preeminent over everything and everybody, even unto the angels. He was always above them. But he was made that he might suffer death and crowned with glory and honor that by the grace of God should taste death. for every man. For it became him for whom all things and by whom are all things in bringing many souls unto glory to make the captain of their salvation perfect through suffering. For both he that sanctified and they who are sanctified are all of one made one in Christ Jesus, for which cause he's not ashamed to call them brethren. But both he that sanctify and they who are sanctified are all of one. He sanctified the gift and sanctified the temple and the altar upon which the gift was given. So he's talking here always when he's talking about the altar that we have. He's talking about the Lord Jesus Christ, who is that perfect, altar, we go to him. He is our perfect sacrifice. In the book of Exodus, the 29th chapter, Chapter 37, he said, seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar and sanctify it. And it shall be an altar most holy. Well, now that old brazen altar, it was holy, but it wasn't nothing as holy as the Lord himself. He said, whatsoever touches the altar shall be holy. Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar, two lambs, one in the morning, one in the evening, we'll skip on them. Verse 40, and with one lamb a teal, tenth teal of flour mingled with flour, four parts of an hen, of beaten oil, and the fourth part of an hen of wine for a drink offering. And then in the afternoon, you'll offer the other lamb. And then verse 42 said, this shall be a continual burnt offering. It's not going to cease. The offering is the same. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Same offering. It'll be a continual burnt offering throughout your generation. at the door of the tabernacle and of the congregation before the Lord, where I will meet you to speak there unto you. And in these last times he has come to speak unto us. And there I will meet with the children of Israel and be the tabernacle and the tabernacle shall be sanctified by my glory. And I will sanctify the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar. And I will sanctify also both Aaron and his sons to minister to me in the priest's office. And I will dwell among the children of Israel and will be their God. and they shall know that I am Lord their God that brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them. I am the Lord their God." That's where he's going to meet with them, at the altar. Always. And it isn't any different today. In the 27th chapter of Exodus, same book, there's something here that I come across this week. I believe it has significance here. And he said, thou shalt make an altar of chitin wood five cubits long, five cubits broad, and the altar shall be four square. And the height thereof shall be three cubits, which is kind of immaterial, it seems like. But he said, make it exactly according to the pattern. It has to be this way. And thou shalt make the horns of it up on the four corners thereof. and his horns shall be of the same. And what I want you to underscore here is his, as if it wasn't just a brazen ox, but it was his. And it is he. And thou shalt overlay it with brass, and thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels and his basins and his flesh hooks and his fire pan, all the vessels thereof shall make of brass. And it's all of his. And thou shalt make for it a grate. Now, this is the first time he's gone back to it. All the rest of it's his. But it also signifying that they made this grate, and then they would catch those ashes out of that grate when it's totally consumed and carry it out to a clean place, it said, and put it out with all the refuse and everything else. But when you get out there, you find a clean place to put this, because it is holy. It is of the Lord. He has sanctified it. It's his, and it is he, the altar. I believe is what it's saying here. In the book of Leviticus, I believe we'll go. The sixth chapter. Verse 14, he said, and this is the law. of the meat offering. The sons of Aaron shall offer it before the Lord, before the altar. And he shall take it of his handful, and he shall take of it his handful of flour of the meat offering, and of the oil thereof, and all the frankincense which is upon the meat offering, and shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savor, even the memorial It's going to be a continual offering. And a remainder thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat with unleavened bread, shall it be eaten in the holy place, in the court of the tabernacle. of the congregation, they shall eat it. It shall not be bacon with leaven. I have given it unto them for their portion of my offerings made by fire. It is most holy. As is the sin offering, as the trespass offering, And all the males among the children of Aaron shall eat of it. Now I think it's talking here about the bread of life. And it shall be a statue forever in your generations concerning the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and everyone that touches them shall be holy. So you do this exactly according to the pattern that I've given to you. And you're all to eat of it, because it has been sanctified by the Lord of glory. This is your portion. And that people of Lord, that's their portion, the bread of life and the offering of the Lord Jesus Christ upon that altar, which has become our altar. We have an altar that we can go to. But the rest, they can't come to it. It's not lost. They can't come to that same altar that we have. We have an altar which has been sanctified for us, that we might go and partake of it. that it might also cleanse us and sacrifice us, because it is holy. It's always a holy thing. And it's perpetual. It doesn't ever stop. The offering is complete in Him, down to the very last end. Back in Hebrews, the sixth chapter, I guess in verse 12, he said that you be not sloth, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. We have an altar as a promise. For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself. saying, surely blessing, I will bless thee, and multiplying, I will multiply thee. And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. For men barely swear by the greater, and an oath for confirming is to them an end of all strife. wherein God willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it, he confirmed it by an oath, that by two immutable things in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation because we have an altar, who have fled for refuse to lay hold upon the hope set before us, which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that within the veil, And that's what he done. He entered in through the veil. Give of himself. So he entered into the mercy seat, which was right in out beside the brazen ox. But when you come into the house, the first thing you're going to see is a brazen altar. Go back and read it and look. Why? Because it is the preeminence. It is Jesus Christ himself, that altar, who has offered himself upon that altar and then entered in through the veil. And we enter in through the veil, which is him, that altar. which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that within the veil, whither the forerunner is for us entered. Even Jesus, made an high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek, who has no beginning, and no end, and he's the same yesterday, today, and forever. And his arm is not shortened yet, that it cannot save, because he has entered into that most holy place. And through all his suffering, he has become the preeminent. made a little lower than the angels that he might suffer death, but it couldn't hold him. He was resurrected from that unto eternal life that we have in him because we still have that altar that we go to. And then he said, back in 13. For the bodies of those beasts whose blood is brought into the sanctuary in verse 11 by the high priest for sin are burned without count. Wherefore Jesus also that he might sanctify the people with his own blood suffered without the gate. Let us go forth, therefore, unto him without the count, bearing his reproach." So what do we do? We leave those old meat offerings, and we leave that old offering. But we go on unto the new, which is Jesus Christ himself. because he has sanctified all the vessels and all the people. And he is their God and they are his people. Not a material altar, is it? It's a spiritual altar. I was thinking as JT was reading this over in Leviticus, Verse 16, the remainder thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat, for the unleavened bread shall be eaten in the holy place, in the court of the congregation shall they eat it. That's the law of the meat offering, right? The sons of Aaron shall offer it before the Lord before the altar. seems that maybe this is what Christ was referring back to in the sixth chapter of John, when he told the people, you must eat of my body and drink of my blood. And the people, I think they understood that when they said, I mean, they weren't speaking out of ignorance, but they said, it's a hard saying, who can hear it? But those that are sanctified, but those have no right to eat this altar that serve the tabernacles. Amazing thing, isn't it? But Jesus came unto his own and his own received him not. Isn't that amazing? You just have to, you just can't quit marveling at that. Yeah, they followed him no more. And it was even to the extent that Jesus asked his special few, will ye go away also? But thank God for the answer. Unto whom shall we go? It's not on where shall we go, but unto whom shall we go? as the words of eternal life. There is an altar where all they that serve the tabernacle have no right to eat. Do you feel blessed to be able to eat at that altar that Those had no right to use it. Well, we ought to. We really ought to.