In the Wilderness: Exodus 27:1-8
The altar: Exodus 7:1-8
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As God intended the tabernacle to manifest his presence among his people, so there they were to pay their devotions to him, not in the tabernacle itself (into that only the priests entered as God’s domestic servants), but in the court before the tabernacle, where, as common subjects, they attended. There an altar was ordered to be set up, to which they must bring their sacrifices, and on which their priests must offer them to God: and this altar was to sanctify their gifts.
–Matthew Henry, Matthew Henry’s Commentary on the Whole Bible (emphasis added)
…and this altar was to sanctify their gifts.
This altar with fire below. Burning. Purifying. The gifts brought before God.
And I think about all we bring. Our prayers. Our presence. Our gifts. Our service. Our witness. All need be sanctified by His altar of grace.
Jesus made the ultimate sacrifice of Himself to make our gifts, our lives, our service, acceptable before the Father. We cannot bring our gifts apart from His grace and expect to be received.
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