A Personal Altar

The Altar of the Heart.

“We have an altar, whereof they have no right…” ~ Heb. 13:10

It was objected by the legalistic religionists that the assemblies of the primitive Christians were destitute of an altar. Not true, says the writer of this “Him-Book.” “We have an altar,” says he, but it’s not a material, but spiritual one.

The author goes on to say that those who insist on the first are excluded from the second. To adhere to one is to deny the other. If you feed off the former, you cannot feast off the fat of the latter. Christ is both our Altar and Sacrifice.

The shadow of the Old Testament must now give way to the substance of the New. The altar is no longer to be found in the house of God, but in every heart of the people of God. This way God can give an “alter call” anytime, and need not wait for a preacher to do it on Sunday.

by an Old Saint

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