In the holy place, one of the courts or rooms of the tabernacle, the people sacrificed various animals on a golden altar. When they entered the holy place, they were to “enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise.”

Christians are living stones being built into a modern dwelling place for God. “You also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit” (Ephesians 2:22). God uses feeble human beings. By fitting them together He builds a spiritual house, His church. “You also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ” (1 Peter 2:5).

When God’s people gather, they “offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that give thanks to His name” (Hebrews 13:15). They “enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise.”

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