We don't go to a mountain that is belching smoke and lightning and thunder that cannot be touched

by human hands.

But we enter into the heavenly sanctuary, into the presence of the general assembly on high.

I preached in the church here in Orlando

several years ago and they had two services on

Sunday morning and at the second service they had about 800 people and the first

service they had about 30 people it was at 8 o'clock in the morning. So I came to the first

service in this huge big building and there's over a thousand chairs there and

only 30 of them are occupied. I'm a real draw for a Sunday morning preacher.

And I stood up there and I said to the folks who were gathered at 8 o'clock, I said I have to tell you any time I come to preach in front of such

a vast multitude of people, I'm intimidated. And they laughed. And I said, I'm not kidding.

I said, you know what's going on here this morning?

Do you know what the Bible says? Then when we come together in our assembly, we don't go to a mountain that is belching smoke

and lightning and thunder that cannot be touched by human hands.

But we enter into the heavenly sanctuary,

into the presence of the angels, of the archangels, of God, of Christ, of the spirits of just men made perfect and the general assembly on high. This is what we confess in the Apostles' Creed when we speak of the communion of Saints.

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