But one step further with me, my brethren. We are in Him, there; and
that is our place, too. The earthward trend of thought--the letting
slip our own precious truth--has introduced a "tongue" into Christendom
that ought to be foreign to the Saint of heaven. No "place of worship"
should the Christian know--nay, _can_ he really know--short of heaven
itself. For, listen: "Having, therefore, brethren, boldness to enter
_into the holiest_ by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way
which He hath consecrated for us through the vail,--that is to say, His
flesh,--and having a High Priest over the house of God, let us draw
near," etc. We too, then, beloved, are not upon earth as to our
worship, (let it be mixed with faith in us that hear). Israel's "place
of worship" was where her high priest stood, and our place of worship
is where our great High Priest sits. Jesus our Lord sowed the seed of
this precious truth when he answered the poor sinful woman of Samaria,
"The hour cometh when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at
Jerusalem, worship the Father. But the hour cometh, and now is, when
the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth,
for the Father seeketh such to worship Him."