Exodus 24-25 — Leonard Ravenhill

Bible Teaching Requires Humility

A preacher made a comment about another preacher, and he said this, this man is a big wheel in Bible teaching. Well, I don't believe there are any big wheels in Bible teaching, I don't believe there are any big wheel preachers.

The most that a man can hope to be is a stork in that wheel, because no man has a monotony of knowledge, apart from you personally, but there's a lot of land there to be possessed for all of us, no question about this at all.

Mr. Spurgeon was once asked which was the best commentary on the Bible, and he said the Bible. And a hymn writer says God is his own interpreter. Sometimes in England I used to sit and listen to Dr. G. Campbell Morgan, Wilbur Smith said he was the greatest Bible expositor ever heard.

It seemed when he walked out of the office, just to the desk, he changed the atmosphere by the way he walked in. He looked as though he'd come from another world. And I heard him say on one occasion, with no mock modesty at all, didn't have his tongue in his cheek, wasn't apologetic, but I remember he said I know so little about the Bible.

He'd written 51 books on it, I think I've read about 40 of them, but he said I don't know much about the Bible. The fellow who knows most about the Bible graduated last June, and he's looking for a church worthy of him, and who knows him, I didn't find it.

But the man who knows the most knows the least. I knew a lot more about everything 30 years ago than I know now. So, as somebody said, the Bible is like a crystal stream where a lamb can splash its feet, and it's like an ocean where an elephant can swim.

It's still true for all of us, however much we know, however much we've studied, that we still see through a glass dartly. There's limited knowledge, and there's progressive revelation. There is a book, you'll hardly find it now, I looked for it for 30 years and got it not too long ago.

There's an abridged volume, but I managed to get an abridged volume. It was written by a man, he's a very good writer. And the title is The Possibilities of Grace, written by Lowry. I think the title is very wonderful, The Possibilities of Grace.

I wonder how many of us want to explore them really to the full. I said last night I want to at least try to deal with a subject which is, I think, more difficult to deal with, and it's something we know less about even than the tremendous life of prayer.

A Pastor Encounters the Meaning of Worship

Last year I was privileged to talk to about 100 pastors and a few deacons back in the swamps, away there in Florida. They just told me that you'll be preaching to preachers, and then they told me just where it was, gave me a kind of map and located it, and strangely enough, these preachers were meeting in a camp for the rehabilitation of alcoholics.

I don't know what the connection was, but that's where we preachers met. And the Lord just slew those men one night. I didn't get through preaching, I quit preaching, started praying, and heard a chair scatter and looked, and most of the preachers were lying prostrate on the floor.

One of them said, will you come to my church Sunday morning on your way home and preach? And I said, well, okay, I'm not going anywhere, I'll be happy to do this. The night before we went to the church to preach, we went to dinner at the pastor's house.

He's a big man, very, very attractive man, a man of scholarship, has a number of degrees, and a wonderful personality, a great organizer, has a fabulous church. I'll never forget the way he looked over the dining, dinner table, and he said, wait a minute, look, and his eyes were filled with tears.

He said, you mentioned something the other night I can't get away from, and I was at Bible school, and I was at seminary, and though I preach so much, I don't know the first thing about what you mentioned, and that was worship.

I never heard a sermon on worship, I don't have a book on worship, nobody taught me to worship. Now I'm convinced, disagree if you like, but I'm convinced, again, that most of our people do not, NLT, do not come to church to meet God.

They come to church to hear a sermon about God. And if God the Holy Ghost descended on us, some of them would run for the door as quickly as they could make it. I preached in a conference of Pentecostal preachers, isn't that awful?

And I said, you're all Pentecostal preachers, yes, and they raised their hands, and I said, well, I hope you do have a Pentecostal church. They went to church every day, they prayed every day, they broke bread every day, and people ran into the Lord every day.

Do you have a church like that? Raise your hand. There wasn't a hand raised. You can't prove, I don't think, from the New Testament, that people went to church to get saved. They went to church because they were saved.

Through the aggressive testimony of those who went out everywhere. Church was so pregnant with the Holy Ghost that no man dared join the church. Now if you feel a bit bored Sunday morning, tired of saying, we'll sing hymn number one, sit down, and pray, hymn number two, stand up, hymn number three, sit down, stand up, sit down, take the offering, stand up, sit down, everybody knows what's coming.

You mimeographed it last Wednesday. But in a meeting where the Spirit operates, you don't, you get some awful surprises. And if you've never tried this, try it. When some of the old hypocrites come in and say, before we sing the second verse, Brother John, did you do so-and-so?

He says, Hi, Pastor Jack, I did it. You lied to the Holy Ghost. You deacons, carry him out. That's a good start, and I can prove to you that when they went to church, they didn't go for an hour and turn the Holy Ghost off at twelve o 'clock, like we impudent people do, because it says his wife went to church three hours later, and the meeting was still on.

Our people couldn't sit in church three hours. They can sit on the bleachers. If you're short of money, I'll tell you what to do. You invent a church pew as soft as the bleachers, and you'll have it made.

Because those church booth pews are awfully hard. But the bleachers never get hard. They can sit there till they're bleached. And do you know what? They're still happy, and they'll take more. Oh, Sister Sapphira comes in.

Hey, Sister, did you do so-and-so? Yes. You lied to the Holy Ghost. Not me. Get out of here. And they carried her out. Now, if you've never started a service by killing two of your members, you've never had a thread in your life, really.

But be very careful what you name them, because if you raise your hand and say you're liars, you perish. You could have no congregation left. But he just pointed them out, you see. And he said, you liar, and you liar.

You lied to the Holy Ghost. Now, listen, that's as apostolic as speaking in tongues or doing all the other miracles. Do you want anybody running for church where a brother had the gift of discerning like that?

Not on your life. But that's apostolic Christianity. And if they didn't die, in some of the great meetings of Finley and Wesley, people were so prostrated under the Holy Ghost that they keeled over at ten o 'clock at night, and Mr. Wesley said they were still there at two and three o 'clock in the morning.

That's when the Holy Ghost led the convicting, instead of the preacher trying to do it. The good book says, and the good book proves, that God's ways are not our ways, and his thoughts are not our thoughts.

God’s Glory and the Pattern of the Tabernacle

Do you know what God did when he wanted to describe how he made the world? He took one chapter here in Genesis, just one chapter, with thirty-one verses. But when he wanted to explain how he made the camp of Israel, he took seven chapters and two hundred and forty-three verses.

Now, wouldn't you think that God would take two hundred and forty-three verses to tell us how he made the world, rather than I made a little patch in the middle of it? That God's ways are not our ways, and his thoughts are not our thoughts.

And do you know the first thing God did, before ever he gave specifications as to the size of that camp, do you know what he did? Let me read some exciting scripture to you in the twenty-fourth chapter of the book of Exodus.

It says in verse nine, verse nine, twenty-four of Exodus,. Then went up Moses, Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu in the seven seas of Israel. Listen, and they saw the God of Israel, and there was under his feet, as it were, a paved work and a sapphire stone, and as it were, the body of heaven in its clearness.

And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hands, also they saw God, and would eat and drink. Now preacher, there's a great text for you to struggle with next Sunday morning. It says they sat down and ate and drank with God.

I'll leave you to work that out. Then go further in the chapter, verse ten. The glory of the Lord abode upon them on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days, and the seventh day he called Moses out of the midst of the cloud.

And the sight of the glory of the Lord was like a devouring fire in the top of the mountain, in the eyes of the children of Israel. Go down to verse eight in the next chapter. Let them make me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them.

Verse seventeen. And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold, two cubits and a half shall be the length of it, and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of it. Verse twenty. The cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one toward another.

Toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be. And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the earth, and the ark thou shalt put in the testimony that I shall give thee. And there will I meet with thee, and will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims, which are upon the ark, and the testimony of all things, which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.

Now the first thing that God was concerned about was not here the dimensions of this wonderful camp, or even the tabernacle itself. The first thing he said is the place that I will meet with thee. I wonder how often we really do meet with God when we come to the house of God.

Not just hear a sermon about him, or have a brilliant juggling act we do with citrus, but when suddenly you realize that one of them that's walked in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks is walking in your midst, and you are breathless.

You don't have a word to say to anybody. I was in a meeting not long ago, about a year ago, or something like that, and it was a big church, it was crowded, it's wealthy, I looked at the millionaires and others there, and there was a bit of blessing around, but you know before we got over the front step one fellow said, Hey Jack, you think the dolphins will do it this afternoon?

Boy, aren't they going strong. The preacher was standing a few yards from him, and if I'd been the preacher I would have been disgusted, maybe resigned on the spot. But he'd been in the holy place of God so-called, and he still hadn't got detached from a sports game and a program.

God says, I want you to make a tabernacle. There will I meet with thee. And after he gives the dimensions of the camp of Israel, he gives the dimensions of the tabernacle itself. It was 150 cubits, you remember, by what?

Do you remember what it was? 100 by 50, alright? That was the camp if you like. And then there was right in the midst of it the holy place. This holy place was only 20 cubits by 10 cubits, which left still, since the other was 30 by 10, it left 10 cubits for the holy of holies.

That was 10 cubits by 10 cubits by 10 cubits. Now God laid down the specifications and he said, the people who camp nearest to the tabernacle itself are to be the sons of Aaron, those who minister in the most holy place.

And next to them are the Levites, and they minister to the public, do the general things for the public, and further off still you have the warriors. Very interesting to me at least, that I read in Numbers chapter 1 and verse 3, Numbers 1 verse 3 says, from 20 years old and upward, all they that are able to go forth to war in Israel.

So then you had to be 20 years of age before you could go to war. It says in chapter 8 and verse 24, and this is it that belongs to the Levites, from 25 years old. It says in the fourth chapter, verse 3, from 30 years old and upward, even until 50 years old, shall they enter into the holiest place of all.

You see you've got the warriors, and then you've got the workers, and then you've got the worshippers. Isn't it interesting that a man could not go into the holy of holies until he was 30 years of age?

Don't ask me why, I don't know. But I do know this, that John the Baptist didn't preach until he was 30, and I know Jesus didn't preach until he was 30, and Joshua didn't preach until he was 30, and the wonderful life of Joseph didn't begin until he was 30.

And if you trace, you'll discover in the Old Testament, because the word of God said, a man cannot go into the holiest place of all. Now he can be a warrior when he's 20, because you don't need brains to kill anybody.

And so you can be a warrior outside. He cannot be a Levite until he is 25 years of age, ministering in the outer courts. He cannot enter into the holiest place of all until he is 30 years of age. That suggests to me that not until you get up in your spiritual life do you really know how to worship.

You see, in that outer camp, there was a gorgeous sunlight. When you went into the holy place, there was no sunlight. You know, there were no steps going into that tabernacle, so you didn't trip up. There were no locks on the door, so nobody could lock you out.

But there were no windows to let in the daylight. And the only illumination was a seven-branched candlestick. But when you went into the holiest place of all, there was no seven-branched candlestick.

You were dependent upon one thing. Unless the Shekinah glory of God came, it was total darkness. You know why we get through so many of our services? Because we light the seven-branched candlestick of our own brilliance and our own ability and our own cleverness to handle the word of God.

But seven do we say the blinding light of God's holiness. We're satisfied with a seven-branched candlestick. Again, I remind you that it's easy to be a Levite because they ministered to the people. Most of our preachers get weary ministering to the people.

I don't believe you have any right running to hospitals. I don't believe you have any right burying the dead. You know what it says in the New Testament? Well, it didn't have a system like that. They had such a system that even though they were anointed with the Holy Ghost and had miraculous ministry, they said, you know, it's a full-time occupation waiting on God.

The sixth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles says of a preacher, he not to run here and run there and be dispensing widows' tithes and looking after the poor and all the other things. The church may do that, but not the man of God.

He's to stay in the holy place where the Shekinah comes and saturates his spirit and comes as a dying man to dying men with the glory of God in his eyes, with the anointing of God on his spirit. And he comes a fearsome man.

People don't fear the men of God anymore. And do you know what? The more we lose the Shekinah glory, the more trimmings and fillings you have to put in the church. You've got to rob the choir. You've got to have to stain glass windows.

You've got to have Jimmy Jones and his quartet come and give you the latest selection of Mickey Mouse. You've got to find a guy who can play a trumpet with his ears. Or somebody who can stand on his head.

Or some other guy that comes with some silly paraphernalia. Or will you come to church because there's a dollar bill under the bus seat? A fellow gave me a leaflet not long ago, and it said if you come to church Sunday morning on our bus, you'll get an ice cream cone going out with a blob of ice cream.

If you bring a visitor, there'll be two blobs of ice cream. If you bring three, you'll get three blobs of ice cream. And the man said to me, look at that. That's the way to get them to church. What do you think?

I said a church depending on ice cream isn't worth a lick. In all ways than one. Do you know, sir, do you know what I believe? That even when you advertise in the newspaper, you're putting a shingle out that the glory of God is not in the mix.

You never have to advertise a fire. And the symbol of the church in Jesus Christ is not even the old rugged cross. The symbol of the apostolic church, the New Testament church, was a can of fire. Our God is a consuming fire.

And people say sometimes, you know, the fire falls on the altar. The fire doesn't fall on the altar. You can't prove that from Scripture. I'll tell you where the fire falls. It falls on the sacrifice.

And God doesn't have to anoint your brilliance or Bible knowledge that you and I may have. God's fire falls on the sacrifice. Now again you can minister me out of the court and work yourself to death and be a popular nice kind of a guy.

And not worship God. Worship, I'm convinced, is the least known exercise in the church of the living God. I've been in bookshop after bookshop after bookshop and said to them, do you have a book on worship?

And they say, I don't know, I'll ask the manager. And I know before they come back that they don't have a book on worship. Verse 43 of the 19th chapter of Exodus says, There will I meet with thee, with the children of Israel, and the tabernacle shall be sanctified, shall be holy.

You know I can take the course of the church five minutes after I enter it, two minutes after I enter it. You know why? That if you walk in most churches and close your eyes, you'll think you're in a supermarket.

I was in a church not long ago and the woman behind said, oh you should see my husband with his dentures out. Oh he's a sight. She laughed and laughed away. And then she talks another joke and I thought, listen, are you preparing the way for the preacher and for the Holy Ghost to descend?

It's an awesome thing when the glory of God fills the temple. There's no room for anything else or anybody else. I think again and again, I don't have a message on this, I'd like to get one, that Moses said, show me thy glory.

Boy, if I'd divided the Red Sea and done all the things that he'd done, I'd think I'd seen it. If I did everything the apostle Paul did, that out of his inmost being had flowed streams of living water, so he'd established churches in rotten corrupt cities like Corinth and elsewhere, I'd think I'd seen everything.

If I could raise the dead and do the miraculous, and do you know what he says? I forget the things that are behind. And usually we say, you know, all those bad things and all the failures. I don't believe he meant that.

He means forget your successes, otherwise you'll get satisfied with them. Forget everything. And he says when he's a ripe and a wonderful preacher and a profound theologian and a miracle worker and everything else that God had invested in, he says that still thou may know him and the power of his resurrection.

In other words, there's still more and more and more in the boundless power and revelation of God. Did you notice that in the progressive demands of God, again, a soldier, 20, a Levite, 25, and a priest in the holy place, 30 years of age, they're all in fives, aren't they?

All the dimensions of the tabernacle, if you read it carefully, they were all in fives. The outer court was 100 feet by 50. The other place was, what, 30 cubits by 10. Multiples, again, of five. Do you know that when they consecrated the priests, they took five rare herbs, beautiful, costly herbs, and they pounded them to powder, that's four, and then they mixed them with oil, that makes five, and they anointed him.

And do you know what it says? That the anointing oil could have no imitation. I like that. Listen, you can do all the fireworks you like and gesticulate and learn how to use your voice, what we call histrionics.

Do you know many of our people don't know the difference between liberty and eloquence and anointing? But I'd rather you don't sit there long after God, the Holy Ghost, and you know what's in the flesh, and the man that's strutting and making the platform a show place for his brilliance.

But there is no substitute for the anointing. God says there should be no imitation of this holy oil. And I don't know how you pray, but sometimes I say, thank you, Lord, for the incorruptible Holy Ghost.

I'm glad you can't buy him with your money. I'm glad you can't say, well, did you ever notice all my certificates on the wall? You know, I've got all those diplomas. I've even been to New College Edinburgh, and I got my Ph .D. there.

I got mine recently, and I'm very happy about it. Got my Ph .D., preaching holiness doctrine. But you know our brilliance won't disturb the devil, and it won't give us any more favor with God. Or if you want to covet one thing from God, covet that mysterious, indefinable, that which belongs to Almighty God, and he'll give it, nobody else can give it.

There is no imitation for the anointing oil that has five parts to it. And you know, there's not only no imitation, thank God there's no limitation either. There's no limitation. Five again is the number of grace, isn't it?

That's why this is all in dimensions of five. This is why right in the center of the camp of Israel you have the tabernacle again outlined for us, or the holy place. You know why? Because it's typical of Christ, and Christ must be in the midst.

He is the center and circumference. He is the light and the life. He is the Alpha and the Omega, but he must be there right down, dead deep in the center himself. Number five, number four, is the number of creation.

Four corners of the earth, four seasons of the year, four quarters, think of all the fours that there are. Men have laughed, you know, and said, you know, the Bible's silly. Talks about the four corners of the earth, and we've had pictures from the astronauts showing us that the world is round, it's a sphere.

But you know what they did? When they took a camera shot up in the sky there, they found the earth had four corners to it. They actually have a picture of the earth with four corners. That doesn't prove the Bible, the Bible just proves they're right.

Some people think God is looking for sponsors, forget it. He isn't looking for scientific wisdom, he isn't looking for sponsors. It's hard to believe, isn't it, that if you die the kingdom will hold together tomorrow.

That's, I mean, you know, I mean with your knowledge and your ability. But God will somehow still carry on if you and I get out of the picture. Maybe he'll carry on a bit quicker if some of us get out, but there you are.

All the dimensions of the tabernacle, the holy place and the tabernacle are dimensions of five. Five is the number of grace. We, we need that. And you know, when that little guy, oh I, I, I like the good old book.

Grace, Faithfulness, and the Battle Against Goliath

You know, there's a big man standing around and all the big shots were there. The king was there and the prince was there and some stately men, six brothers were there all in their shining armor and they had their helmets on and they were very wonderful men.

They'd all graduated at West Point with honors. But every day a fellow came out when he walked the very earth shook and when he talked he was like a cloud of thunder. And a little boy came up one day and said, hey brother, there's your lunch, your bread and your teas.

And he said, by the way, daddy was saying you've been away a long while, when are you coming home? When is this battle, what are you here for? Oh, we're here to do battle. I would have said, why don't you do it and get home?

But we're here to do battle. With whom? Oh, with whom? Boy, if you saw him you'd be terrified. He's nearly ten feet high and he's a terrible man to look at. Well, why don't you kill him? What do you mean, why don't you kill him?

Even Saul is the tallest man in the world apart from him, he can't tackle him. And his brilliant son can't do it and the officers can't do it and the men can't do it. And the little fellow said, well, I've got to get back to my sheep.

Do you mind if I kill him just before I go home? What do you mean if you kill him just before you go home? Think you can do what nobody else can do? He said, well, I'd like to try. I could kill him and somebody was taping his conversation.

And so they said, let's replay this a minute. Nothing missing on this tape. Well, what did that little guy say? He said, I could get rid of that giant. Tell the king that the men can take our embarrassment away.

And the king says, come here, son. Do you think you could really do the job? He says, oh, I no doubt, I can do it. What makes you think so? Well, one night I was looking after the sheep and there came a lion.

So I called a committee meeting and I sent for a crowd of people and said, say, would you help me track this lion down and get rid of him? Do you have an atom bomb in your pocket, something that could shatter him?

No, he says, there came a lion. I said, this is what I'm here for. I'm a good shepherd. The lion is a type of the devil that goes about roaring, but he didn't worry about that. The little fellow went up and he took the lion and he slew him and tossed him away.

And another night he said, I was there and a bear came along. And I got him and punched him on the nose, said, you come back, I'll kill you. Now, if I can slay those people when there's nobody there to applaud, you see, a lot of us want so much applause for what we do.

He that is faithful in that which is least will be faithful in much. If God has been with you in secret, he will be with you openly. And he said, listen, time's running out. Do you mind if I get rid of this giant?

I've got to get back to my sheep. And the king says, all right. Here, sir, let me tell you something. I want you to put my helmet on. He put the helmet on and it came down on his shoulders. He said, I can't see where I'm going.

Will you take that off? Well, at least put my breastplate. He said, I can't move. It's crippling my knee. Do you know what he's saying? He says, king, I want to tell you something. The weapons of our warfare are not carnal.

Do you know what it says concerning the big guy that was coming along? It says he had a shield bearer. Ah, you say, David didn't have a shield bearer. Oh, wait a minute. He wrote it in the psalm, didn't he?

He says, the Lord is a son and he's my shield. Not that he makes a shield. He is the shield. And how do you think you're going to get by God with your omnipotence? He wasn't really sure, was he? The giant thought he was after David.

He's after David for omnipotence. How can you blast omnipotence? And they're all looking around the edge of the tent. Did you hear what he says? Come on, sonny. I'll break you on my knee and feed the birds with you.

And David says, well, I was just thinking I'd do that with you. Hold it a minute. And he goes to the brook and he picks up four stones. Wasn't it? What's it for? It was five, the number of grace. Boy, you need all the grace you can get when you're going to meet a giant that size, you know.

And he picked up five stones. And this guy had armor plate here and there and everywhere. And the only place he'd left unprotected was his mind. That's like a lot of preachers. They've got all the armor everywhere except here, and the old devil gets it.

And little David just says, well, here we go. And up went the stone and went right in there. You know, such a thing had never entered his head before. It went straight in and down he goes. Well, why did he have four other stones?

For the simple reason Goliath had four other brothers. And he was hoping when Goliath went down, the others would come up and he'd say, that's number two. Come on, number three, number four, number five.

Got rid of you all. More than counters, a super abundance of what we need. When David was going to blast Goliath, he took five stones. But there was somebody bigger than Goliath. There was a person called the devil.

And Jesus was alone in a battle. He didn't have a committee meeting, many disciples. And when he met Satan, what did Jesus do? He threw the fifth stone at him. How do you know? Because Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy.

And every time he hit the devil, he hit him out of the fifth book in the Bible. It is written, it is written, it is written. The number of grace. Boundless, wonderful grace of Jesus we sing sometimes in a hymn, don't we?

Worship as Devotion Rather Than Blessing

Let's say two things about this place. God has ordained a holy place. You see, prayer is preoccupation with our needs. Praise is preoccupation with our blessings. Worth it is preoccupation with God. Are you grown up enough?

Some of you are anyhow. To understand what I mean when I say I'm not concerned whether God blesses me or not. Not a bit. When you pray bless me, bless me, bless me, you're still a junior or an infant spiritually.

But when you pray make me a blessing, you've grown up. Because I'm not looking that he'll just help me and do something. I'm looking to be in that place where if he makes me broken bread and poured out wine, as long as he uses me somehow and makes me a blessing to himself, not just makes him a blessing to me, but I'm so usable and available to God that I don't pray Lord make and bless me, make me a blessing.

Let's just divide this into sections. I know you like three, but I'll make it two this morning. Let's first for a minute talk about the prize of worship. The prize of worship. What was the thing that Satan coveted most when he met Jesus there?

What did he say to Jesus? Look, your father is going to cast me into the bottomless pit. Now, will you plead with him to take me back in the kingdom and restore my glory? There was a time when I had every precious stone for my covering.

There was a time when I walked in the midst of fire and now I'm going to hellfire. Would you ask your father to restore me? Even if he makes me a little less than Gabriel and a little less than Michael.

Just restore me back to my place in eternity. Would you do that? Or will you give me some wisdom now to choose a little government of mine? He didn't say that. He says, if thou will worship me, because worship means you're acknowledging you're inferior to somebody else, that they deserve your homage, that they deserve every precious thing that you have.

And Satan says, I just want one thing from you, Jesus, and I'll give you the kingdoms of this world. And Jesus didn't say, you're a liar, they're not yours to give, because they are his to give temporarily.

There are only two kingdoms in this world, the kingdom of God and the kingdom of the devil, and you can't ride them both. And Satan says, if thou will fall down and worship me. There's the prize. What about the prize?

Well, there were some men came, and they carried some treasures with them. Gold, frankincense, and myrrh. And as smart as they were, they went to the wrong place. They said, well, if he's a king, he'll be in the palace of the king and in the citadel of the king.

And they went to the king, and he said, I don't know what you're talking about, but if you should find the one you're talking about, will you bring me news that I may go and worship him also? Now, what did they bring?