Aug. 16, 2026 -- Exodus 27

[00:00:01] Speaker A: If you got your Bible, you can turn to Exodus 20:7. As I was thinking about this text, I just was thinking about just the reality of how do we wake up every morning, which I know there's some [00:00:13] Speaker B: of y' all that are morning people. How many are my morning people in here? [00:00:16] Speaker A: Y', all, like, come out of bed [00:00:18] Speaker B: and you're, like, ready to go. [00:00:20] Speaker A: My wife's one of y'. [00:00:21] Speaker B: All. She has, like, 10,000 words she wants to use in the first 10 minutes. I have two. Good morning, then I need some time, right? [00:00:32] Speaker A: Like, God just puts those types of people together, I think some for the amusement of it. It's like, man, that's just awesome to watch. But really, at some point in your day, whether it's the first 10 minutes or whether it's the first, when you immediately wake up, whether you consciously or subconsciously think this, what you believe about God and what you believe about your relationship to God will dictate how you spend the rest of your day. I say, whether you think of that consciously or subconsciously, that there's some people that live their life subconsciously, not even thinking about God, because they are the God of their own life. I rule my life. I do what I want. [00:01:16] Speaker B: I do it when I want. I do it how I want. [00:01:18] Speaker A: And they make all those decisions, not ever thinking about how they relate to a holy, sovereign, authoritative God who created all things and who sustains all things and has authority over all things. And so they live their life basically just forgetting about Him. There's other people that live their life, and they will go about their business throughout the day constantly trying to be good enough and be acceptable and earn acceptance and fight against guilt and shame which they carry within, to say, well, maybe God will be pleased with me if I do enough today to make him happy. There's another group that are constantly consciously or subconsciously motivated by trying to be [00:02:02] Speaker B: enough for God to love them, accept them, and have relationship with them. [00:02:09] Speaker A: There's another group, though, that I believe the scripture points us to, that there's a group of people who can live their life knowing that they are fully accepted, knowing that they have confidence to live their life in service to God, that everything I do, whether I eat or drink or whatever, I do, that as I go about my day, it's not to earn God's approval. It's because I'm already approved by him. And so therefore my life can be lived for him in worship, that everything I do can be for Him. Those are three pretty radically different looks. But the Scripture today is going to point us to the reality of how do we get to a place where knowing that we've sinned and knowing that our sin separates us from a holy God? How can we get to that place [00:03:01] Speaker B: where I can live in confidence that God loves me and has accepted me [00:03:09] Speaker A: and sings over me, as the scripture would say, that is pleased in me not just because of what I do, but because of who I am, [00:03:18] Speaker B: that my life would look radically different and that then I might live that out in front of other people so that they might say, how do I get what you've got? [00:03:30] Speaker A: That's where I hope to go this morning. [00:03:32] Speaker B: If you would, I'd just like to [00:03:34] Speaker A: pray and ask God to bless our time. [00:03:35] Speaker B: Would you bow with me, Lord? We're desperately dependent on your holy spirit this morning, Lord, to work in our hearts, to give us ears to hear and eyes to see, Lord, and that we would have a heart that would believe what is true, Lord, that we [00:03:57] Speaker A: might live out what you've called us [00:03:59] Speaker B: to in the places where you've called us for your glory based off of what is true and what we see from your word. That we would take you at your word and that we might live our life according to that. We ask it in Jesus name. Amen. [00:04:17] Speaker A: Well, we've been in the book of Exodus and we're walking through that. So let me just remind us where we're at. God has promised to a people group, Israel. Hey, I'm going to make you into a great nation. And I'm going to take you into a place, a land, and I'm going to make you a blessing to many nations. So that's the promise God has given. We found this people Israel in slavery in Egypt, not in this promised land. And sure, they were building lots of pyramids, but they weren't exactly. That's not the blessing to many nations was the slavery. That's not what God had promised. And so God has rescued them by his mighty hand. He's rescued them out of slavery. But he didn't just rescue them so that they could be free. He rescued them so that they could worship him. And so God has brought them on this journey and now he's got them to a place called Mount Sinai. And they're on this mountain. And Moses, their leader, has gone up on the mountain and God is speaking to Moses. 40 days that God speaks to Moses and he gives him this incredible instruction that then Moses is supposed to bring back down the mountain and tell the people. This is what God told me to do. God wants to dwell with us, and so we need to build him a sanctuary. That's what he says in Exodus 25. We need to build him a sanctuary that he might dwell with us. It's incredible that a holy God wants to dwell with his people. And so we've looked at that. And how is he going to do that? He's going to specifically do that for the people of Israel at this time through a tabernacle, a tent. To tabernacle means to dwell, and so he's going to dwell with them. And so we looked last week at this instruction about this tabernacle. Now, in this tabernacle, there was an inner part which was called the holy of Holies. It's about a 15 by 15 room. Okay, so not huge. Inside that room would have been the Ark of the Covenant. This is something you may have seen in some different movies, right? That this is a golden box. And inside this golden box, then there's some three different things. There's the ten Commandments, which God gives to Moses. And then there's this jar of manna, which is the bread that God feeds his people with and sustains them. And then there's. There's actually this staff that's gonna go in that ark, the staff of Aaron, which buds. It's a stick that God miraculously causes to bud, to grow, that God causes life to come out of death. [00:06:50] Speaker B: We see that in this. [00:06:52] Speaker A: All of these things are testimonies about who God is and his character that goes into the Holy of Holies. On top of this box is two angels. That's called the Mercy seat. They're fashioned out of gold. It's very precious. They're facing in this mercy seat, which is this place where God would show mercy to his. You go out from that holy of holies to a place that's called the Holy place. And so this is probably a 15 by 30 room. So you got an inner kind of tent room. And then you've got an external tent room. And inside this room there's a lampstand and there's a table with some bread on it. And so the priests would come in and they would minister there. And so they're in this holy place. Well, then what we get today is we get, okay, outside of that, outside of these two rooms, outside of that, there's actually this courtyard. And so one of the sections, Starting in verse nine, all the way through verse 19, is instruction about a courtyard. So this courtyard would have been about 150ft by about 75ft. [00:08:02] Speaker B: So you think about the length of this room and not quite its width. [00:08:08] Speaker A: This isn't something huge, but in this courtyard, in order to mark out this courtyard, there would have actually been these seven and a half foot tall curtains that were made. And there's specific ways and lengths that they're supposed to be made. And there's specific things of how they're supposed to be attached. And we get incredibly clear, detailed instruction from God about this courtyard. One of the things I want us to see is as we read this stuff, then it's like, how do I make application of this? Like, what should I do with this? And one of the things, as you read then the Old Testament, what it does is it shows us, it lifts [00:08:46] Speaker B: up the character of God. [00:08:48] Speaker A: And so in looking at the detail of this tabernacle and the courtyard, we begin to see the character of God. So what is God telling us with this courtyard? Well, I believe what he's telling us is that, that there is a separation between us and God. This tabernacle courtyard would have been in the vicinity of where all the people would have camped. And so they would have woke up every morning and they would have walked out of their tent and they would have seen this rectangle which is marked off by this curtain. And they would have been reminded God's presence dwells there. [00:09:35] Speaker B: But there's a barrier. [00:09:39] Speaker A: There's a barrier. There's separation. We know that this separation began actually in the garden. In Genesis chapter 3, sin enters into the world and it causes separation between God and mankind. We talked a little bit about last week that the tabernacle is this partial fulfillment of that God has been. And mankind have been separated, and yet [00:10:02] Speaker B: God wants to dwell with his people. He's made a way to be near [00:10:06] Speaker A: his people and to be with them. And yet this curtain still reminds them that there is a separation. They couldn't have just come to God. But actually this curtain is for their protection. We saw this as they go up the mountain, this Mount Sinai that we've seen that Moses goes up. God says, no, you can't come up the mountain because I'm a holy God [00:10:33] Speaker B: and you have sin. [00:10:36] Speaker A: And so this separation protects them. They can't come to the holy of holies. Only one person once a year, it was a high priest could go into the holy of holies. And that was after he had. He had offered sacrifice for himself and he had cleansed and all these different things. And so the people are reminded, God's with us, but there's still a separation. Second thing that we see in this is actually a bronze altar. [00:11:04] Speaker B: I want to read verse one, if [00:11:07] Speaker A: you'll look at that with me. Verse one of chapter 27 tells us about this bronze altar. God says this. You shall make a bronze. You shall make an altar of acacia wood, five cubits long, five cubits broad. The altar shall be square, its height shall be three cubits. And you shall make horns for it on its four corners. Its horns shall be of one piece with it. And you shall overlay it with bronze. You shall make pots for it to receive its ashes and shovels and basins and forks and fire pans. You shall make all its utensils of bronze. You shall also make for it a grating, a network of bronze. And on the net, you shall make four bronze rings at its four corners. And you shall set it under the ledge of the altar so that the net extends halfway down the altar. And you shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood and overlay them with bronze. And on the poles you shall put through the rings so that the poles are on the two sides of the altar when it's carried. And you shall make it hollow with boards as it has been shown to you on the mountain, so it shall be made. So we get this instruction about this bronze altar, 7 1/2ft wide by 7 1/2ft long. [00:12:26] Speaker B: It's 4 1/2ft tall. [00:12:28] Speaker A: It's the biggest structure in the tabernacle. Now, this bronze altar, we don't get a whole lot of instruction here. But as you begin the book of Leviticus, there's instruction about this altar that the people would have walked in and they would have come through this curtain gate, this exterior curtain. Seven and a half foot tall curtains. They would have come in this entrance, and right in front of them would have been this massive altar. You can get past it. That on this altar would have been where burnt offerings were offered. So sometimes I like to just imagine some of these things. You got a kid. I've got four kids at home. You got a kid that wakes up in the morning, it's like, dad, what [00:13:12] Speaker B: goes on inside there? Right? [00:13:14] Speaker A: Like, they wake up, they see that tent every day, they're like, what goes on inside there? Can I go play in there? [00:13:19] Speaker B: It's like, no, you can't play in there. That's where God's presence dwells with us. [00:13:25] Speaker A: Well, can I go near? [00:13:27] Speaker B: No. There's a barrier because of our sin. You know how you and your brother and sister, y' all all fight? [00:13:32] Speaker A: That's called Sin? [00:13:33] Speaker B: Yeah. Big people fight, too. [00:13:35] Speaker A: That's called sin as well. [00:13:36] Speaker B: When we disobey God, when we fight [00:13:37] Speaker A: and quarrel among us, when we grumble and complain, like, because of our sin for doing what we want rather than what God wants and obeying him and what's good and right for us, it's a separation. It separates us from a holy God. [00:13:53] Speaker B: And so we can't go in there just whenever we want. We can't go in there just to play. [00:13:59] Speaker A: Dad, can I ever go in there? [00:14:01] Speaker B: Yeah, we'll go in there. When do we get to go in there? Well, I'll take you in there. [00:14:07] Speaker A: And so the dad would have grabbed a lamb from his flock, and this was some of the ceremonial things that they had to do this every so often that dad would have grabbed a lamb, an unblemished male lamb, from his flock, and he would have brought the lamb with him. And you can just imagine the child's like, hey, dad, what are we doing with the lamb? [00:14:27] Speaker B: He's like, you'll see in a little bit. I'll explain some more about that as it happens. [00:14:34] Speaker A: Dad, are we going into the tabernacle? [00:14:37] Speaker B: Yeah, we're going to go into the tabernacle. [00:14:40] Speaker A: So dad leads his family into the [00:14:42] Speaker B: tabernacle, and they walk in and he [00:14:45] Speaker A: sees this massive bronze altar. [00:14:47] Speaker B: He's like, dad, what's that for? Just watch, son. They'll be okay. Like, we'll see. [00:14:53] Speaker A: We walk up there. The priest then comes and begins to have an exchange of some ceremonial words. And the dad lays his hand on the head of this lamb. And as the priest communicates, then it's representative that this lamb is taking the place for me and my family, that we have sinned against a holy God, and we are therefore separated. And yet this lamb is going to pay the penalty. It's going to be the atonement for our sin before a holy God so that we can dwell in his midst. [00:15:29] Speaker B: So he lays his hand on the head of the lamb, and then the lamb is slaughtered. Dad, why did that have to happen? Dad, why did. Why did the lamb have to die? Because God is holy and we are not. And God is just. [00:15:49] Speaker A: And so he can't just look over sin. He can't just pretend like sin doesn't exist, that he's just. And so there has to be a penalty for the sin so that we can dwell in the holy presence of God. The priest then takes that lamb and some of the blood is put onto the horns of the altar that we read about. Then the lamb is butchered. And it's laid in the altar on top of the wood, and there's fire, and it's totally consumed. And there's a pan or a bowl that catches the ash. The priest takes the ashes outside of the tent, outside of the city to dispose of them. That it's completely devoted to destruction. Its life was given [00:16:37] Speaker B: and completely devoted to destruction because of the holiness of God, judged the sin that was laid on that lamb. [00:16:50] Speaker A: See, the bronze altar reminds us that [00:16:53] Speaker B: sin must be dealt with. [00:16:57] Speaker A: The curtain shows us that there's separation with God. But then as you come inside that curtain, there's this bronze altar that just tells us, you can't be in the presence of a holy God without dealing with your sin. [00:17:12] Speaker B: We have to deal with our sin. [00:17:14] Speaker A: So God had given a way for [00:17:16] Speaker B: the people to deal with their sin [00:17:19] Speaker A: that through the blood of bulls and goats. They would have offered this in faith, saying, God, I trust you at your word. I'm taking you at your word that you said, this is what had to happen in order for us to dwell in your presence. And so for generations, this bronze altar [00:17:40] Speaker B: would have been representative of dealing with their sin. [00:17:47] Speaker A: That there was a reminder that in order for me, a sinner, to be in the presence and to dwell in the presence to tabernacle with a holy [00:17:58] Speaker B: God, something had to die. And that lamb took my place. Thankfully, the tabernacle and the author of [00:18:14] Speaker A: Hebrews tells us that the tabernacle is a shadow. [00:18:17] Speaker B: And it's pointing forward to something. [00:18:19] Speaker A: It's pointing forward to when Jesus would show up in John chapter one, and [00:18:25] Speaker B: John the Baptist would say, behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. We go, whoa, wait a minute. The Lamb. [00:18:39] Speaker A: The lamb that upon him would be laid the sins of the world. [00:18:44] Speaker B: Yeah, the Lamb of God. [00:18:46] Speaker A: How could he take away the sins of the world? Because he lived a perfect life. He was spotless and unblemished. [00:18:52] Speaker B: And therefore he could give his life as a ransom for many. [00:18:59] Speaker A: That how could we move a people from. My sin has separated and my sin must be dealt with to a place of people that would wake up every morning and go, my sin has been dealt with and there's no separation. [00:19:17] Speaker B: That's a radical shift. How does it. [00:19:20] Speaker A: How does one move from that camp to this camp? That my sin has separated me and I must do something. Maybe I need to do more work. Maybe I need to be a little better, or maybe I need to try harder. That's not what the scripture says. [00:19:34] Speaker B: The scripture says, behold the Lamb of God, who gave his life to deal with our sin, that by faith all [00:19:44] Speaker A: who would put their faith in him [00:19:46] Speaker B: might experience salvation, the forgiveness of their sins, and be transformed into the camp that my sin has been dealt with. And therefore there is no separation with God. See, the writer of Corinthians, Paul talks about this. It's a little bit of the section [00:20:08] Speaker A: I read in beginning of the service, but I want to pick up a little bit more of that. If you've got a Bible, you can turn to Corinthians, chapter 5. And beginning in verse 18, Paul begins to articulate to the people. He says, this truth, this truth that you have been transferred from the kingdom of trying to cover your own sin to the kingdom of your sin having been covered by Jesus. When you transfer from those places, there's something that happens, that this is the most true thing about you, if you have experienced that. And look at what he says in verse 18. He says, all this is from God, who through Christ, he reconciled us to Himself and he gave us the ministry of reconciliation. There's so much there. But here's the thing he says, when I reconcile you back to myself, it's not just to set you free, just like the Israelites from Egypt. I didn't just free you from slavery so that you can say, I'm free. He says, I freed you from slavery, that I can put you into ministry, that now you become the mouthpiece to invite others and say, if he did it for me, he can do it for you. That he's given us this ministry of reconciliation. Look at verse 19. He gives us a little more explanation that is in Christ. So in Jesus, God was reconciling the world to himself. How was he doing that? Well, he was doing it in the only way that it was possible, that the tabernacle foreshadows, that there would have to be a payment, there would have to be blood that would pay the penalty of our sin, that God was reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them. How could a holy, just God not count trespasses against them? He can't just overcome, overlook them. [00:22:10] Speaker B: They had to be paid for. And the way that he cannot count them against them is because he counted them against Christ, because Jesus paid the penalty. But then he says, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation, that now [00:22:35] Speaker A: he's given us that message, that he then moves us from the camp and says, now you're my mouthpiece of what God has done. So go tell the world this is the good news. [00:22:47] Speaker B: You don't have to pay the penalty. Jesus has paid it for you. [00:22:52] Speaker A: Verse 20. [00:22:53] Speaker B: Look at this. [00:22:54] Speaker A: He says therefore, like, because of what Christ has done. Because you can wake up every morning knowing what Christ has done. Because this is true of you, that he no longer counts your sin against you, that you're holy and righteous and free. You're not guilty and to blame, that you don't have to live in shame and sorrow and guilt because of that. Therefore, as ambassadors for Christ, God makes His appeal through us. And so we implore you on behalf of Christ to be reconciled to God so you don't have to pay for it. [00:23:27] Speaker B: He paid for it. This is where it gets really good, though. How? [00:23:35] Speaker A: How? [00:23:37] Speaker B: For our sake, he made him to be sin. Jesus, sinless, was made to be sin. That the wrath of God might be poured out on him, devoted to destruction, hung on the cross, cried out, it is finished. He made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. So that that through him we might be declared holy and righteous. Not because of what we did, but because of what he did for us. [00:24:35] Speaker A: That our sin has been dealt with. And therefore there is no separation. [00:24:44] Speaker B: If you wake up tomorrow and you've put your faith in Jesus Christ, you're invited into the ministry of God with the identity that he's made you holy and righteous. You can live your life not trying to please people, not trying to earn [00:25:09] Speaker A: favor with God, not trying to climb a ladder so that God approves of you, but holy and righteous because Jesus paid the penalty. That's what the Bronze altar points us [00:25:20] Speaker B: to, is that Jesus did it on our behalf. Therefore, now we live. The author of Hebrews would say this. Now your sacrifice is the way you live. You don't have to bring bulls and goats. Now you just live your life to the glory of God. [00:25:44] Speaker A: Going to look at the Lord's Supper. [00:25:46] Speaker B: I'm going to ask the men to come down. [00:25:50] Speaker A: There's an incredible picture here that we see that Jesus, on the night when he was betrayed, then he went up in an upper room with his disciples and they ate a meal together. And during that meal, then he took this bread and he broke it. And he said, this is my body which is broken for you. That sinless lamb of God would be broken for us. He took the cup and he said, [00:26:25] Speaker B: this is the blood of my covenant, which is for you. [00:26:31] Speaker A: That his blood which was spilled, which was shed as a sacrifice in order that we might be declared Righteous. And so he said, do this in remembrance of me. [00:26:52] Speaker B: As we partake of this, there's some instruction that the scripture gives that. That if the Lord's convicting you, if His Holy Spirit's convicting you, that you [00:27:06] Speaker A: say that Jesus has paid for my [00:27:08] Speaker B: sins and yet you're continuing to live [00:27:09] Speaker A: in sin, then the scripture would say that that's problematic to say it lightly because on one hand we're saying Jesus paid for this and gave his life so that I could be set free. And yet I'm going to continue to [00:27:26] Speaker B: choose what put him on the cross. [00:27:30] Speaker A: I just encourage you. If the Lord's convicting you of that, you need to confess that to him [00:27:36] Speaker B: and you need to repent of that. That just is a churchy word for turning. You need to turn away from that. [00:27:44] Speaker A: That. If you've never put your faith in Jesus Christ, then I'd say don't take this, because this is a symbol of [00:27:52] Speaker B: what Christ has done for us, that [00:27:54] Speaker A: his body and his blood were broken for us, that he was the payment [00:27:58] Speaker B: so that we could be set free. I'd also say there's an invitation for you. If you've never trusted in Jesus and trusted in that gift which he gives [00:28:09] Speaker A: freely, then you can. You don't have to earn your way there. You don't have to pay a monetary value. [00:28:20] Speaker B: It's free, and yet it costs everything that you would lay your life down and say it's yours. [00:28:28] Speaker A: That's what the gospel is, that Jesus [00:28:30] Speaker B: did what we couldn't and he offers an exchange. Hey, I'll take your sin upon myself and I'll give you my righteousness. That's the good news. It's worth it. The exchange is worth it. It will cost everything, but it's worth it. Sam. I'll read the story of the crucifixion [00:30:05] Speaker A: as Christ, just to help us reflect [00:30:07] Speaker B: on what Christ did on our behalf. [00:30:14] Speaker A: And the soldiers, they led him away inside the palace, and they called together the whole battalion, and they clothed him [00:30:23] Speaker B: in a purple cloak. [00:30:25] Speaker A: Twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on him and they began to salute him. Hail, King of the Jews. And they were striking his head with a reed and spitting on him and kneeling down in homage to him. And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the purple cloak and they put his own clothes on him and they let him out to crucify him. They compelled a passerby, Simon of Cyrene, [00:30:50] Speaker B: who was coming from. [00:30:51] Speaker A: In from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his cross. And they brought him to the place called Golgotha, which means the place of the skull. And they offered him wine mixed with myrrh, but he did not take it. And they crucified him. And they divided his garments among them, casting lots for them to decide what each should take. It was the third hour when they crucified him. And the inscription of the charge against him read, king of the Jews. And with him they crucified two robbers, one on his right and one on his left. And those who passed by derided him, wagging their heads and saying, ah, you who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself and come down from the cross. So also the chief priests and the scribes, they mocked him to one another, saying, he saved others. He can't save himself. Let the Christ the King of Israel, come down now from the cross that we may see and believe. Those who were crucified with him also reviled him. And when the sixth hour had come and there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. And at the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice, eloi, eloi lama [00:32:13] Speaker B: sabachthani, which means, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? [00:32:21] Speaker A: And some of the bystanders, hearing it, said, behold, he's calling Elijah. And someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine and put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink, saying, wait, let's see whether Elijah will come to take him down. And Jesus uttered a cry and breathed his last. And the curtain of the temple was [00:32:42] Speaker B: torn in two from top to bottom. [00:32:46] Speaker A: And when the centurion who stood facing him saw that in this way he breathed his last, he said, truly this [00:32:54] Speaker B: man was the Son of God. Sam. Paul in 1st Corinthians 11 gives instruction to the church about the Lord's Supper. [00:33:38] Speaker A: So he says this. He says, for I received from the [00:33:41] Speaker B: Lord what I also deliver to you, [00:33:44] Speaker A: that the Lord Jesus, on the night when he was betrayed, he took bread. [00:33:47] Speaker B: And when he had given thanks, he [00:33:49] Speaker A: broke it and said, this is my [00:33:51] Speaker B: body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me. And together they ate. [00:34:16] Speaker A: And in the same way, he also took the cup after supper, saying, this cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this as often as you drink [00:34:26] Speaker B: it in remembrance of me. [00:34:29] Speaker A: For as often as you eat this [00:34:30] Speaker B: bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes again. And they drank. Pray with me, God. We're taking you at your word that you said in Christ our sin can [00:34:59] Speaker A: be dealt with not just in part, [00:35:02] Speaker B: but the full of it. [00:35:05] Speaker A: God, we're taking you at your word that you said you would cast our sin as far as the east is from the west. [00:35:16] Speaker B: God, we're taking you at your word [00:35:19] Speaker A: that you said that all who would [00:35:21] Speaker B: believe would be saved. [00:35:27] Speaker A: God, we're taking you at your word that you promise to adopt us into the family of God and call us children, sons and daughters of God. [00:35:40] Speaker B: God, we're taking you at your word that you have washed us white as snow. God, we're taking you at your word [00:35:51] Speaker A: that you have given us your spirit to dwell inside of us as the [00:35:57] Speaker B: first fruits of what is to come. God, we're taking you at your word [00:36:05] Speaker A: that just like Christ rose from the grave, we too will rise to dwell with you. [00:36:14] Speaker B: God, we're taking you at your word, [00:36:17] Speaker A: believing it's true, [00:36:20] Speaker B: trusting by faith to live our lives in obedience to what you called us to as our act of worship. Thank you for what Christ has accomplished for us. That the barrier is broken, [00:36:39] Speaker A: that our [00:36:39] Speaker B: sin has been dealt with and that we are accepted. It's in Christ's name we pray. Amen. You can stand and we'll sing.