Every good and perfect gift comes from up above. The sweetest gift is the change that comes within when you accept what He has done, what He finished on the cross. When our Savior came and paid for our sin, Jesus the same yesterday, today, and forever. Trusting Him from sin, He set you free. Jesus the same yesterday, today, and forever. He said that I will never leave Thee, nor forsake Thee. Our Lord is full of mercy, His compassions never fail. It's in Him we hope, and for Him we quietly wait. He is the creator, the beginning, and the end, author and finisher of faith. Jesus the same yesterday, today, and forever. Trusting Him from sin, He set you free. Jesus the same yesterday, today, and forever. He said that I will never leave Thee, nor forsake Thee. He said that I will never leave Thee, nor forsake Thee.

Thank you, Ray, for that song. I kind of sprung that on Ray yesterday afternoon, and he said, I don't know if I remember the words. Well, you did a great job, Ray. That was good. Thank you for being willing to do that. That fits so well with the message today, and what we're going to talk about as we get to the end of Hebrews 13. The message today, and one more message, and then we're going to move on to 1 Timothy, is my plan.

So, Hebrews 13 this morning, and verses 8 to 16, and we have a very interesting passage to study. It's a bit difficult to work through some of these words, but the main message and meaning is so tremendous, and it again, here at the very end of the book, calls on those who were still tangled up in Judaism to come to faith in Christ and enter the new covenant of grace, leaving the old covenant of law behind. This has been a central theme, primarily espoused in the warning passages that have been interspersed with all of the amazing doctrine concerning the greatness of the new covenant high priest and his one-time all-sufficient sacrifice for our sins.

The main message of the epistle, as we've said from the beginning, is that Jesus is better. He is the consummation, the fulfillment of all that the old covenant pictured and foretold. He is the promise. He's the fulfillment of the plan of God to bring salvation by grace through faith to all who will turn from their own righteousness, their religion, their works, and turn to faith alone in Jesus Christ and what He did. That's the plea of our text again this morning, as the author makes a clear distinction, such an important distinction, between the old covenant and the new, between law and grace, and his exhortation is this: it is good to be established by grace.

Let's look at our text together in Hebrews 13:8-16. "Let us go forth to him outside the camp, bearing his reproach. For here we have no continuing city, but we seek the one to come. Therefore, by him, let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to his name. But do not forget to do good and to share, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased."

I've given you four points on your outline. First, we're going to look at carried about. Second, established by grace. Third, bearing his reproach. And fourth, giving thanks to his name. Well, the first verse of our text this morning is so encouraging, as Ray just sang about that. Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He never changes, my brothers and sisters. He is consistent, and his promises never fail. His love never wanes. We can trust him and know that as the world spins seemingly out of control, and up is down, and everything that was real and true and solid goes away with the wisdom and practice and the norms of men, Jesus is the same.

That's why I believe we should be wary of something new. Men are always looking for something new. And in these last days, these days of amazing and unbelievable technological advances, communication and information, things seem to be changing at an almost constant rate. I've been amazed to see how marketing and sales have changed in the course of our business in the last few years. We've kind of talked about this before, but I want to illustrate how much things are changing and how quickly.

It wasn't long ago that people shopped for their meat and their food in a local butcher shop, or they got it on a farm, or even grew it themselves. In Irwin Township, where I live, in 1960, there were 35 farms and two local creameries. People largely grew their own food or got it from their neighbor. Today, those farms are all gone, and there's no local butcher shop, no mom-and-pop place where you can find pasture-raised local meat. That went away years ago. 

And people started buying their meat at the supermarket, something that did not exist in most of our country until the late 50s and early 60s. We were a long time coming to that point. But in the last few years, people who want local healthy food began to source their food from local farms. Farmers' markets began to spring up across the country. But then people didn't want to go to the market because it was inconvenient. So farms began to do community-supported agriculture, where you would buy into a share and then they would drop it at a point, and you could pick it up for your convenience. 

Now everything is done online. You can order what you like and have it dropped off at a place where it's convenient for you to pick it up. But now in the last few years, that's become too inconvenient. And in an Amazon one-click world, people order their food online and then it's delivered to their door and they never have to talk to anyone, they never have to interact with anyone, they never even have to get out of their pajamas. It's a far cry from going down to Sam the Butcher to pick out your fresh cuts for dinner.

The point is change. Things are always changing. Men are always looking for something new and technology has fostered that change at an ever-increasing pace. More and more as time goes on, quicker and quicker every day, it's overwhelming to even think about it. And business and service industries must keep up with that change in order to be successful. Unfortunately, the evangelical church has been caught up in this as well. 

I read a little book a few years ago called "This Little Church Went to Market." The church has been swallowed up in the marketing trends of our modern world in so many cases. And pastors and leaders are always looking for something new to draw in and entertain the people. The problem is this: God's salvation plan is not dependent on slick marketing campaigns. God's means and design for bringing men to Christ at its core does not change because Jesus does not change. 

And if we get caught up in the ever-shifting wisdom of the world and of men and begin to place our faith in the methods and the strategies for reaching the world, then it's easy to be carried about, taken off track. My friends, the message is the method. I'm not saying there's some specific structure or system that can never change. What I'm saying is that the preaching of the gospel, the expounding of the Word of God, and dependence on His power and grace must always be at the center of whatever we do. Because Jesus never changes. Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

I heard a pastor say in a message on a Sunday morning one time, it's no longer good enough to just preach the gospel. Yet Paul wrote in Romans 1 that it's the gospel that is the power of God unto salvation. He said, we preach Christ crucified. He said, woe is me. Necessity is laid upon me. Woe is me if I do not preach the gospel. We must keep the plain things the main things and not put our faith in the packaging or the presentation, but rather in the power of God through the gospel preached to bring men to faith in Jesus.

The first admonition in our text in verse 9 is this: in the Greek, it literally says, stop being carried about with various and strange doctrines. Really, strange doctrines are any doctrines that are not according to Christ. Romans 16:17, Paul said, I urge you, brethren, note those, mark them out publicly by name, note those who cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and avoid them. For those who are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ but their own belly, and by smooth words and flattering speech deceive the hearts of the simple. 

Colossians 2:8, Paul said, beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ. Various and strange doctrines change. They come and go. There are a myriad of heresies in religion in the world, but Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever. 

For these Jews who were considering going back to the Old Covenant, the dietary restrictions, the sacrifices, all of these things were strange doctrines, false ways of salvation not according to Christ, to the gospel, to grace. They were contrary to what they had professed to believe in Christ, and the author is saying, don't change. Stay with Jesus. Abide in Him. Hold fast your confession. 

For it's good that the heart be established by grace, not with foods which have not profited those who have been occupied with them. Vance Havner said, we do not need something new. We need something so old it would be new if someone tried it. With all the new and improved ways of doing church in America, with all the marketing, entertainment, emotional manipulation, and powerful persuasive speaking, if a man would just stand up and preach the Word, it would be astounding what God would do through the church.

It's good that the heart be established by grace, not with foods. That was the hang-up for these Hebrews. If I eat this or I don't eat that, the genealogies, the ceremonies, the sacrifices, all these things they were occupied with. Handle, eat this, don't eat that. This is what defined their religious lives. But the author says grace, this is the key. Jesus, the gospel, the new covenant, we must be established in these things, and that is his point in this text. 

To again draw a clear distinction between the old covenant and the new, between self-effort, religion, systems of men, and the grace that only comes through faith in Jesus and his death in my place for my sins. So how can our hearts be established by grace? The word translated established literally means to stabilize, to confirm or strengthen. How can our hearts be settled? Jesus said, let not your heart be troubled. The troubling world, all kinds of trouble. How can our hearts be settled? How can we stand firm, stable in this world with all that comes at us? 

Is it by always looking for the new thing? Seeking some better way to win people to Christ? Or is it by rites and rituals, getting all caught up, carried away with foods that we eat, ceremonies we attend, the way we dress or look, the things we will do or won't do, the externals of this life? Does that settle our heart? Do these things bring stability, confidence, steadfastness? The author says the way to be steadfast, standing on the rock, is to be established by grace. 

My heart must be established by grace. My confidence and hope must be centered on the person and work, the promise of Jesus Christ, because Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He never changes. I don't need something new. I don't need something additional, systems or sacrifices or sacraments or anything else. I have Jesus, and He is enough. This is grace. This is the new covenant. This is the internal change where my heart is established. 

Speaking of this new covenant time and promise, Ezekiel the prophet wrote, I will give you a new heart. I'll put a new spirit within you. I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you will keep my judgments and do them. My brothers and sisters, the author is imploring us to stop being carried about by various and strange doctrines. Stop looking for the next new thing, the spiritual high, the experience. 

Stop trying to establish your heart with religious exercises, rituals, and rites. Stop looking anywhere but to Jesus, to His grace and truth bound up in the new covenant gospel of grace. Do not look beyond Jesus, for He is the fulfillment of all things, the consummation of God's plan, the sufficiency of our salvation in our life today and tomorrow and for eternity. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. And if my faith is in Him and in Him alone, then my heart will be established, steadfast, never wavering, abiding in Him, His words abiding in me. I'll be established, stabilized, firm in grace.

So we see carried about and we see established by grace, but we must know in this world that there will be resistance. There will be a price to be paid, there will be that which will seek to draw us away. We must be willing and ready also to bear His reproach. Look at verse 10 of our text. "We have an altar from which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat, for the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin are burned outside the camp. Therefore Jesus also that He might sanctify the people with His own blood suffered outside the gate. Therefore let us go forth to Him outside the camp bearing His reproach."

Well here we have some really interesting words, a bit difficult to sort out, but let's work through them together. We have an altar from which those who serve in the tabernacle have no right to eat. Now I've kind of... I'm not sure exactly what the author is getting at here. I've thought he's talking about the physical altar, and he says we could be talking about the Jews, but I've come to this position for now on what he means by the altar. 

I don't think the author's intent here is to speak of a literal physical altar. He's moving toward an illustration in the next verses, that's the important part to see. It's not a sacrificial altar in the New Covenant Church, not representative of communion or Christ, I do not believe. But the point is that we have, by faith in Jesus and His death, burial, and resurrection, in the body of believers, the church, an exclusive fellowship with Him and with one another. The altar represents fellowship, communion between people.

Paul alluded to this in 1st Corinthians 10 at verse 18; he said, "And the Old Covenant, the priest would offer a sacrifice on the altar and he would eat of the meat, and the people would, and the sacrifice would be offered to God, and some of the meat would be burned up, and the blood would be sprinkled." This was communion. It was fellowship in worship, identification together. The author, I believe, is saying, in the New Covenant, in our fellowship in the church, we have communion with Christ and with each other. 

We have fellowship, but those who are of the Old Covenant have no right to eat with us, to participate in the New Covenant blessings. He's highlighting the exclusive nature of the two covenants. They are not able to be intertwined or mixed. They are mutually exclusive, and if you want to establish your own righteousness through the law covenant, if you want to establish your heart with foods and restrictions and rituals, then you have no right to partake of the covenant of grace. 

We sometimes see people, religions, trying to do this today, a mixing of the old and the new. I have a friend who's a Seventh Day Adventist, a fervent man, and he came to see me recently, and he was telling me about Old Covenant tithing, and how if I would bring my tithe into the storehouse, God would prosper me and drive away the devourer. He was quoting from Malachi 3:10 where it says, "Bring all the tithes into the storehouse that there may be food in my house and try me now, this is their big point, test God. Try me now and see if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you such blessing that there will not be enough room to receive it." 

This man was telling me that if I wanted to prosper in this new year, the key was to test God by an Old Covenant tithe. The next verse in that passage says, "and I will rebuke the devourer for your sake so that he will not destroy the fruit of your ground, nor shall the vine fail to bear fruit for you in the field, says the Lord of hosts." My friend is quite fervent in his faith; he proselytizes often; he believes what he's telling me. He also grows and sells some blueberries. He has beautiful blueberry bushes, but I hadn't been to his place in a long time, so I asked him about his blueberries. 

He was kind of walking away to his car and said, "Hey, how's your blueberries doing?" He turned around he said, "You know, three years ago we had the best crop ever, but the last two years we've had bugs and disease and winter kill and we've lost plants and we haven't had any blueberries." Then he sort of shook his head and he looked down and this is what he said, "I have brought the tithe into the storehouse. I don't understand why God has not driven away the devourer so that I might have fruit on my blueberry bushes." Think about that for a minute, my friends. We have an altar from which my seventh-day Adventist friend has no right to eat. 

Why? Because his heart is not established with grace. He's trying to mix the old covenant law with new covenant grace to please God, in fact, to test God by bringing his tithe and letting the blessings flow from heaven. The point, the message here is that the two covenants are mutually exclusive; they cannot be mixed. Romans 11:6 says, "And if by grace then it is no longer of works, otherwise grace is no longer grace, but if it is of works it is no longer grace, otherwise work is no longer work." My brothers and sisters, listen, you cannot try to establish your heart by works, by law, by something you do, by putting any faith in yourself, and at the same time experience the peace and joy and steadfastness of heart that comes with grace in the new covenant with total dependence on Jesus Christ. 

We have no promise of blueberries in the new covenant, tithe or no tithe. It's a sad thing if you think about it. A man is fervent and he's trying and he's doing what he thinks is best and he's discouraged all the time. He told me if I'd keep the law I'd be blessed. I said, "How's that going for you?" I mean, seriously. In fact, we have a promise in the new covenant, not of abundance in fruit necessarily, not physical fruit. We have a promise of reproach, of persecution, of hatred from the world because of our identification with Christ. 

Jesus said in Luke 22, referring back to Matthew 10 where He sent out the twelve disciples to the lost sheep of the house of Israel, He said, "Don't go to Gentiles, don't go to Samaritans, go only to Israel and preach saying what? The kingdom of heaven is at hand." He was offering the kingdom to the Jews. Referring to that time in Luke 22, right before His crucifixion, He said to His disciples, "When I sent you with money bag, knapsack, and sandals, did you lack anything?" They said, "No, nothing." And then in verse 36 He made this stunning contrast. This is so important for us to understand. 

"But now, but now," he who has a money bag, let him take it. And likewise a knapsack. And he who has no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one. For I say to you, that this which is written must still be accomplished in me. And he was numbered with the transgressors, for the things concerning me have an end. As Jesus looks toward the cross and the institution of the new covenant, He says things are going to be different. 

The age of this church on the earth is not like the time of the kingdom for the Jews. It's not even like the time in the wilderness where God provided for them every day, and their sandals didn't wear out, and they didn't need a plan, and all these kind of things. We have no promise of blessing concerning material, carnal things, my friends. Health, wealth, and prosperity. I often wonder when these preachers say, if you have enough faith, God's going to give you Cadillacs and mansions. What about those Christians in China and Iran? What about the Apostle Paul? Did he not have enough faith? Because he got his head cut off.

We have been called, Peter says, to suffer for his sake. Luke says we were appointed to suffer. Paul says to Timothy, all who desire to live godly in this ungodly age will suffer persecution. We will be reproached, persecuted, hated, because of our identification with Jesus. But in all this, Paul said, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. As the tremendous blessing of this new covenant is that our hearts are established, confirmed, grounded in grace in the promises. 

Look at our text again in verse 10. "We have an altar from which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat, for the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin are burned outside the camp. Therefore Jesus also that he might sanctify the people with his own blood suffered outside the gate. Therefore let us go forth to him outside the camp bearing his reproach."

In the sin offering of the old covenant, the carcass was taken outside the camp and burned. This was a picture of putting away sin from the people. The author says likewise Christ was taken out of the city and crucified. The city, Jerusalem, where the temple was, where the sacrifices and the work of the priests of the old covenant continued as the author penned these words to these Jewish people. He exhorts them to go outside the city, away from the temple and the sacrifices and Judaism and family and friends and community and all that was safe to them in the world, and he says you go out to Jesus. You go forth to him outside the camp and be willing to bear his reproach. 

This was the very thing they were afraid of. This is what was tempting them to forsake Christ and go back to the temple and some even had. The author says you must make a choice between the old and the new. You can't have both. You either forsake Jesus and go back to the temple, or you go outside the camp and go forth to Jesus and be willing to suffer the reproach of the world so that your heart may be established by grace. This is the decision that was facing these Hebrews, and this is the same decision that faces every man. Are we willing to go forth, to go outside the camp, to bear the reproach and experience the tremendous blessing of grace in the new covenant?

We see in our text carried about, established by grace, bearing his reproach, and last, giving thanks to his name. Look at verse 14. "For here we have no continuing city, but we seek the one to come. Therefore, by him, let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to his name. But do not forget to do good and to share, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased."

I was down to see Ralph and Harriet a couple of times this week, and as Pastor mentioned this morning, Harriet passed away. I was there Thursday afternoon, she passed away that night, Friday morning at about 2:15. I'm always so encouraged to spend time with Ralph and Harriet because of their laser focus on the promises and hope that we have in Jesus Christ. The last few times I visited with Harriet, like Pastor was saying, she talked continually about heaven, about how the very best day of her life would be when she steps from earth into heaven. 

Always so thankful, offering the sacrifice of praise to God, giving thanks to his name. Studying these verses made me think of her and Ralph because their hope is not here. They've been looking for that city to come. They've been looking forward, hoping, eagerly anticipating the time when they would go forever to be with Jesus. This week, this glorious time came for Harriet and she's now with her Lord. No more pain, no more tears, no more trouble hearing, seeing, no aches, no pains, no fear, no sin, no suffering at all. What an example she and Ralph are to us. What an encouragement.

The author writes, let us go out and be separate from this world. Let us go outside the city to Christ and be willing to bear his reproach. Let us sing praises to his name, glorify him, trust him, look to him. Because here, we have no continuing city. Here in this world, we have no assurance, no confidence, but we eagerly look for, we wait for the city to come. Turn over to Romans 8 with me, please. I read this to Harriet Thursday; it just made me think of her, Romans 8:18. 

"For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility not willingly, but because of him who subjected it in hope. Because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now. And not only that, but we also, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body. For we were saved in this hope. But hope that is seen is not hope, for why does one still hope for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance."

Paul says, we were saved in this hope, saved today, my brothers and sisters. Saved from fear and doubt and worry because we have complete confidence in Christ and no confidence in the flesh. Here again we see the distinction between the Old and the New Covenants, between law and grace. Our assurance, our hope is not in our religion, it's not in our ceremonies, our earthly, external, temporal circumstances. Our assurance is in Christ, His grace, His provision, His accomplished work on the cross, His burial, His resurrection, and His promise. 

And when we consider this amazing grace, when we understand and know and believe the New Covenant, what Jesus has done, who He is and what we have in Him by faith alone, there's only one way to live. There's only one way to respond. Therefore, by Him, let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name. The law says, obey and I will bless you. Grace in the New Covenant says, I have blessed you in Christ. You have been made accepted in the Beloved through faith. 

And now our response is this, the fruit of our lips, praise and thanksgiving because of His name. His name is all that He is and what He has done. His name is salvation, it's completion, it's fulfillment, it's consummation. His name is Savior, High Priest, Advocate, Intercessor, Friend, and Lord. His name is our hope, our anticipation, our joy, and assurance of salvation in heaven. He is our peace. 

And so our life now in this New Covenant in light of grace is this: thank You, Jesus. Thank You, Lord. And this is the basis of the last verse of our text, do not forget to do good and to share. For with such sacrifices God is well pleased. I was down to see Ralph and Harriet a couple of times this week. I was there Thursday afternoon; Harriet passed away that night, Friday morning at about 2:15. 

I'm always so encouraged to spend time with Ralph and Harriet because of their laser focus on the promises and hope that we have in Jesus Christ. The last few times I visited with Harriet, like Pastor was saying, she talked continually about heaven, about how the very best day of her life would be when she steps from earth into heaven. Always so thankful, offering the sacrifice of praise to God, giving thanks to his name. 

Studying these verses made me think of her and Ralph because their hope is not here. They've been looking for that city to come. They've been looking forward, hoping, eagerly anticipating the time when they would go forever to be with Jesus. 

Thank You, Lord. And this is the basis of the last verse of our text, do not forget to do good and to share, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. I was down to see Ralph and Harriet a couple of times this week, and as Pastor mentioned this morning, Harriet passed away. I was there Thursday afternoon, she passed away that night, Friday morning at about 2:15.

I'm always so encouraged to spend time with Ralph and Harriet because of their laser focus on the promises and hope that we have in Jesus Christ. Last few times I visited with Harriet, like Pastor was saying, she talked continually about heaven, about how the very best day of her life would be when she steps from earth into heaven. Always so thankful, offering the sacrifice of praise to God, giving thanks to his name. 

Studying these verses made me think of her and Ralph because their hope is not here. They've been looking for that city to come. They've been looking forward, hoping, eagerly anticipating the time when they would go forever to be with Jesus. 

This week, this glorious time came for Harriet and she's now with her Lord. No more pain, no more tears, no more trouble hearing, seeing, no aches, no pains, no fear, no sin, no suffering at all. What an example she and Ralph are to us. What an encouragement. 

The author writes, let us go out and be separate from this world. Let us go outside the city to Christ and be willing to bear his reproach. Let us sing praises to his name, glorify him, trust him, look to him. Because here, we have no continuing city. Here in this world, we have no assurance, no confidence, but we eagerly look for, we wait for the city to come. 

Turn over to Romans 8 with me, please. I read this to Harriet Thursday; it just made me think of her, Romans 8:18. 

"For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility not willingly, but because of him who subjected it in hope. Because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now. And not only that, but we also, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body. For we were saved in this hope. But hope that is seen is not hope, for why does one still hope for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance."

Paul says, we were saved in this hope, saved today, my brothers and sisters. Saved from fear and doubt and worry because we have complete confidence in Christ and no confidence in the flesh. 

Here again we see the distinction between the Old and the New Covenants, between law and grace. Our assurance, our hope is not in our religion, it's not in our ceremonies, our earthly, external, temporal circumstances. Our assurance is in Christ, His grace, His provision, His accomplished work on the cross, His burial, His resurrection, and His promise. 

And when we consider this amazing grace, when we understand and know and believe the New Covenant, what Jesus has done, who He is and what we have in Him by faith alone, there's only one way to live. There's only one way to respond. Therefore, by Him, let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name. The law says, obey and I will bless you. Grace in the New Covenant says, I have blessed you in Christ. You have been made accepted in the Beloved through faith. 

And now our response is this, the fruit of our lips, praise and thanksgiving because of His name. His name is all that He is and what He has done. His name is salvation, it's completion, it's fulfillment, it's consummation. His name is Savior, High Priest, Advocate, Intercessor, Friend, and Lord. His name is our hope, our anticipation, our joy, and assurance of salvation in heaven. He is our peace. 

And so our life now in this New Covenant in light of grace is this: thank You, Jesus. Thank You, Lord. And this is the basis of the last verse of our text, do not forget to do good and to share. For with such sacrifices God is well pleased.