Well, just to turn again to the
40th Psalm. We were considering something
of the Psalm last Lord's Day evening. Turning again then to
Psalm 40. And our text is found at verse
5. Many are, Lord my God, are thy wonderful works which thou
hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us, Lord, they cannot
be reckoned up in order unto thee. If I would declare and
speak of them, they are more than can be numbered. In Psalm 40 and verse 5, last
Lord's Day, in the evening we were considering more particularly
the opening verse of this Psalm. where David says, I waited patiently
for the Lord, or as we see from the margin, the Hebrew literally
says, in waiting, I waited for the Lord, and He inclined unto
me and heard my cry. And I want us to continue, as
I say, in the psalm and beg your forgiveness if there is any undue
repetition in what I want to say this morning. But thinking
of those words in Isaiah 28 where the Prophet says the precept
must be upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line,
line upon line, here a little and there a little. how these
things need to be repeated, then underlined, marked, and then
marked again and again. And we remember how that God
in his goodness has indeed granted us much repetition when we think
of that fourfold gospel that we have concerning the life and
the ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ. Turning then to these
words in verse 5, and the particular theme that we see here is that
of God's wonderful works. Many, O LORD, my gods, are thy
wonderful works which thou hast done. And it is a theme that
is taken up time and again here in the book of Psalms, in those
two Psalms that we read, for example, There in Psalm 77 and
verse 11, Asaph says, I will remember the works of the Lord,
surely I will remember thy wonders of old. I will meditate also
of all thy work and talk of thy doings. And then again, in the
111th Psalm. And there at verse 2, The works
of the Lord are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure
therein. His work is honourable and glorious,
and His righteousness endureth for ever. He hath made His wonderful
works to be remembered. The Lord is gracious and full
of compassion. Again at verse 6, He hath showed
His people the power of His works, that He may give them the heritage
of the heathen. The works of His hands are verity
and judgment. All His commandments are sure. Time and again then we are reminded
of the remarkable works of God, His marvellous works, or as we
have it here in our text this morning, the wonderful works
which God hath done. Now, all of these works of God
are rooted and grounded in His thoughts. We can think of His
thoughts in terms of that great eternal purpose. those counsels
that are from all eternity. He says, my counsel shall stand
and I will do all my pleasure, all that God's planned, all that
God purposed from eternity is what God is able to excuse in
the fullness of time, that time that He himself has foreordained. And here in the text, of course,
we do read something of his thoughts as well as of his works. Thy thoughts, which are to us
what? They cannot be reckoned up in
order unto this is David, if I would declare and speak of
them. They are more than can be numbered. These are those
thoughts that lie behind his works. And as we remarked only
last Lord's Day, with regards to these thoughts that God has
towards his children, remember how that they are so personal,
as he says here, they are to us all. And then again, at the
end of the psalm he says, the Lord thinketh upon me. Oh, they're
so personal. God thinks of individuals. Our God has written the names
of all the election of grace in that Lamb's Book of Life from
the foundation of the world. And when the disciples come back
to the Lord Jesus so excited that they've been able to perform
remarkable works themselves, He simply says, Rejoice because
your names are written in heaven. Oh, that is the great thing.
that God has eternal thoughts of mercy and of peace towards
the sinner. Now He has foreknown His people.
that foreknowledge of which the Apostle speaks in Romans chapter
8, whom he did foreknow. Then he also did pedestinate
to be conformed to the image of his Son. It's not the Arminian
understanding of foreknowledge that we have there. When the
Arminian speaks of that foreknowledge, he is really denying the sovereignty
of God. He said, oh well, God has chosen
those whom he foreknew would believe. the basis of their election
is their own faith, their own believing. And God foresees it,
God foreknows it. But that's not what Paul is saying
there in that great passage in Romans chapter 8, whom he did
foreknow. Those are the ones that God has
had eternal thoughts towards. Those are the ones that he has
known in the intimacy of his sovereign love, he has set his
love upon them. and as he thus knows them, so
he has predestinated them. He has made choice of them. They
are to be conformed to the image of his Son. They are those who
must be signed. Oh, how personal these thoughts
of God are. But as we said also last Lord's
Day evening, these thoughts are preeminent thoughts when we think
of God's thoughts. They are so much greater than
our thoughts. We can have good thoughts of
God when we meditate upon His works, when we reflect upon His
dealings with us, the wonders of His providential ways. Remember
the language that we have at the end of the 107th Psalm, that
Psalm that says so much about God's works in providence. Whoso
is wise and will observe these things, even they shall understand
the loving kindness of the Lord. Oh, it is good to think upon
God and His works in providence. But not only that, to think upon
His works in grace, that He should have favoured us with the gospel
of His grace, that He should have so ordered our lives from
all eternity, that we are those who are privileged may be born
into a believing family, or at least in God's dealings brought
under the sound of His truth. What a great favour, what a blessing.
We can have pleasant thoughts of God, and yet ultimately we
have to recognize that God's thoughts are so much greater.
My thoughts, he says, are not your thoughts. Neither are your
ways my ways. For as the heaven is higher than
the earth, so are my ways and your ways, and my thoughts and
your thoughts. All those glorious thoughts that
God thinks towards those whom he has set his love upon. And
now also those thoughts of God are purposeful. As I said, it
is the thought that lies behind His eternal purpose. His counsel
is to be executed in the fullness of the time. And so he says to
the children of Israel, I know the thoughts that I think towards
you, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you unexpected
end. Oh God had those thoughts towards
his people of old, even when they were about to go into exile,
even through all the 70 years in which they were languishing
in Babylon. thoughts of peace and not of
evil, to give them an expected end, there would be a deliverance.
For the Lord knows the end from the beginning. And how different
this to the thoughts of men. The Lord knoweth the thoughts
of man, that they are vain. We read here in Psalm 94. God saw that the wickedness of
man was great in all the earth, and that every imagination of
the thought of his heart was evil continually. All the vanity
of men and the thoughts of the ungodly. The man who has no thought
of God. God is not in all of his thoughts.
His thoughts are full of vain things. There are many devices
in a man's heart, says the wise man. nevertheless the counsel
of the Lord that shall stand." God's thoughts are purposeful.
He is that God who is sovereign. He says in Isaiah, I will work
and you shall let it. For none can prevent God executing
His eternal decree. Coming then to these words, of
our text this morning. Many, O Lord my God, are thy
wonderful works which thou hast done. And I want to divide the
subject into two parts. First of all, to say something
with regards to that great work of redemption. And then secondly,
to consider the work of regeneration. This two-fold division then as
we come to the text. We sang just now in our opening
praise that lovely hymn of Gadsby. In his highest work, redemption,
see his glory in a blaze, nor can angels ever mention aught
that more of God displays. For there is the greatest of
all the works of God of God, greater than the work of creation,
greater than the work of providence, that work that was committed
into the hands of His Only Begotten and His well Beloved Son. A great
work of redemption. Now, remember that this 40th
Psalm really speaks to us of the Lord Jesus Christ. In fact,
we say that this Psalm primarily speaks to us of the Lord Jesus
Christ. It is a messianic psalm. The language that we have here
in verses 6, 7 and 8 is taken up in the New Testament. In Hebrews
chapter 10 the Apostle makes specific reference to these verses
and he does so as he is speaking of the Lord Jesus Christ. These
words have their fulfilment in Christ. There in Hebrews 10 verse
5, Wherefore when he cometh into the world, this is the Lord Jesus,
the One who has come in the fullness of the time. When he cometh into
the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not,
but a body hast thou prepared me in burnt offerings, and sacrifice
is for sin, thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I
come. In the volume of the book it
is written of me, that is the eternal book of God's decree. To do thy will, O God, above
when he said, Sacrifice, and offering, and burnt offerings,
and offering for sin thou wouldst not neither have pleasure therein
which are offered by the Lord. Then said He, Lo, I come to do
thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that
He may establish the second, by the which will we are sanctified
through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. For the Lord Jesus said, Is that
one that we have set before us in the psalm. The man that is spoken of here
in verse 4, blessed is that man that maketh the Lord his trust
and respecteth not the proud nor such as turn aside to lies. Oh, this is the man. This is
the last Adam. The one of whom we were singing
just now in our second prayer. This is the man from heaven,
that one who has come to honour and to magnify all God's holy
law. He's spoken of so often in the
Psalms. We have him there in the 24th
Psalm, "...who shall ascend into the hill of God, who shall stand
in his holy presence, either that clean hands and a pure heart,
who have not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitful
This is the man you see, the blessed man, the Lord Jesus Christ. And now we see him here spoken
of in the psalm. What does he say? In verse 8,
I delight to do thy will, O my God. Yea, thy law is within my
heart. He is that one who when he came
was made of a woman, he comes in fulfillment of that ancient
promise that we have even in Genesis chapter 3 and verse 15
the seed of the woman who has come to bruise the head of Satan
to destroy all the works of the devil made of a woman made under
the law and this is what he is saying he comes to do all the
will of God because God's law is within his heart and how He
will honor and magnify all that law of God. Here upon the earth
He says, My meat is to do the will of Him that sent me and
to finish His work. He must be about that business
that His Father has given to Him in the eternal covenant. And as He is under the law, so
He stands in that law place for His people. and in that law place
he will fulfill all righteousness, he will obey every commandment
that's how he magnifies the law of God by a life of obedience
by a life in which he is weaving that glorious robe of righteousness
with which he clothes his people and so here he goes on in verse
9, I have preached righteousness in the great congregation No,
I have not refrained my lips, O Lord, Thou knowest. I have
not hid Thy righteousness within my heart. There's no contradiction
there with what he says in verse 8, where the Lord is within his
heart. But he comes to proclaim this law. How he preaches this
law. How we see that in his preaching
in the Sermon on the Mount. He preaches all the vigor of
the righteous, holy and just Lord of God. He makes men to
see that this law doesn't only have to do with the actions of
men but also with their thoughts and the intent of their heart.
He exposes the true spiritual nature of the law. How that if
a man is full of hatred, he's a murderer. If a man is full
of wanton thoughts, he's an adulterer. I have not hid thy righteousness
within my heart, I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation. I have not concealed thy lovingkindness
and thy truth from the great congregation." Oh, he is that
one then of whom we read, who has come to fulfill all righteousness. by that life of complete and
full and perfect obedience to every commandment of God. David,
who is the author of this psalm, is trusting in that righteousness
himself. As we said last week, even when
David comes to the end of his days, remember the language that
we have there in the 71st Psalm, Verse 18, David says, Now also
when I am old and grey-headed, O God, forsake me not, until
I have showed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power
to every one that is to come. Thy righteousness also, O God,
is very high. Who has done great things, O
God? Who is like unto thee? He says, My mouth shall show
forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day. For I
know not the numbers thereof, I will go in the strength of
the Lord God. I will make mention of thy righteousness,
even of thine own. In my tongue also shall talk
of thy righteousness, all the day long. Oh, are we those, friends,
who would glory in the righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ. We
know that we have no righteousness of our own, or to be found in
him, says Paul, not having mine own righteousness which is of
the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ." The righteousness
which is of God by faith. That is the justifying righteousness. That is that that makes the sinner
acceptable. Though in himself a sinner, yet
he is righteous in the person and the work of the Lord Jesus. But then here in the psalm, we
see not only the righteousness of the Lord Jesus, but we also
see his death, that death that he dies, that substitutionary
death, how this righteous man is the one who is made sin. Remember that language that we
have in verse 12, I said this verse also applies to Christ
the psalmist messianic. How Christ has identified with
the sinner, innumerable evils have compassed me about. Mine
iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to
look up, thou more than the hairs of my head, therefore my heart
faileth me. How could the Lord Jesus Christ
utter such words, if he was one who perfectly obeyed the law
of God, who never sinned, Well, it is that remarkable truth of
imputation. We read of God sending His own
Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin. He hath made Him to be sin for
us who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of
God in Him. Oh, the Lord Jesus, He comes
to die. as a substitute in the place
of His people. How He has taken all their sin
upon Himself, all that sin reckoned to His account, and then in exchange
how all His righteousness is imputed to His people. Oh, the
glorious exchange that we have in the Gospel. Christ is that
one who has made the great sin atoning sacrifice. And this is
that wonderful work of God. Many, O Lord my God, are thy
wonderful works which thou hast done. All these thoughts that
God has towards sinners, to save them in the person and the work
of his only begotten Son. but then turning in the second
place to another of the works. You'll observe that he doesn't
just speak of work in the singular, there are many works. And they're
all wonderful works. Yes, redemption is a great work
of God. As I say, the greatest of all
the works of God. But that work must be made real
in the soul of the sinner. And how is that great work brought
home? How we need to recognize the
ministry of the Holy Spirit. He is the one you see who must
come and he must awaken sinners. Why? The sinner must be born
again. He must be born from above. In
his very nature he is dead in trespasses and in sin. is in
that condition where he's alienated from God and an enemy to God?
What is the man's mind by nature? He's enmity. The carnal mind,
says Paul, is enmity against God. It is not subject to the
law of God. Neither, indeed, can be. He is man in his natural condition.
The natural man he receives are not the things of the Spirit
of God. They are foolishness to him. Neither can he know them
because they are spiritually discerned. The great work is
done. And the Lord Jesus Christ has accomplished that work. But
how it must be made a reality in the soul of the sinner. It
must be brought home to him. and this is the great work of
the Spirit his work in regeneration, the new birth that awakening
in the soul and remember how Paul speaks of it in Ephesians
chapter 1 the exceeding greatness of his power to Oswald according
to the working of his mighty power he says all his great work
to Oswald, his thoughts are to Oswald But there Paul is speaking
of his work, the exceeding greatness of his power to us who do believe,
according to the working of his mighty power. And what is this work? This work
of the Spirit of God in applying the salvation that has been accomplished
by the Lord Jesus. Well, there are those two aspects
to it. There must be the conviction of sin in the first place. It
is the Spirit who convinces of sin. This is His office in terms
of the eternal covenant when the Lord Jesus begins to to speak
of the Spirit there in those chapters in John's Gospel and
the Lord in those three chapters 14, 15, and 16 is unfolding that
work that He will accomplish and Christ must go away and as
he goes he will send the Spirit and when he has come oh then
he will be fulfilling his office in the covenant when he has come
he will reprove the world of sin and of righteousness and
of judgment of sin because they believe not on me of righteousness
because I go to the Father and you see me no more of judgment
because the Prince of this world is judged It is the Spirit who comes to
work that conviction in the soul. I was struck only this last week
by a sentence that I read in some writings of one of those
old Scots ministers. Strange sometimes we read and
something seems to just hit one between the eyes almost. I've
not been able to get away from this statement. It's a short
sentence, and this is what it says. Sin itself is of the creature,
but the sense of sin is of God. Sin itself is of the creature. but the sense of sin is of God
and this minister goes on to say how this is an important
distinction that we must always remember sin is of the creature
sin is of man but the sense of sin is of God and we sang it
just now really in the hymn it's good is it not to sing hymns
that have got real doctrine in, to sing experimental theology
when we sing the praises of God. And I'm thinking of that third
verse in our second hymn, to understand these things are right,
this grand distinction should be known, though all are sinners
in God's sight, there are but few so in their own. And he goes on in the next verse
where we have that remarkable little couplet, a sinner is a
sacred thing the Holy Ghost hath made him so, you see the sense
of sin and there are, alas, few sensible sinners but David David, the man after God's own
heart David had a sense of his sin Lord David had a sense of
his sin, we see it time and again He knew it. He confesses it there
in the great 51st Psalm, that Psalm of Penitence, after the
awful sins that he'd been guilty of. Sins of adultery, sins of
murder. And yet, though others were implicated
in his sin, he says, to God against thee, the only vice sin, and
on this evil in thy sight. Here in Psalm 38, the Psalm of
David to bring to remembrance, where he there speaks of sin
as that that clings and cleaves to his very flesh. There is no
soundness in my flesh because of thine anger, neither is there
any rest in my bones because of my sin. For mine iniquities
are gone over mine head as an heavy burden, they are too heavy
for me. My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
I am trouble and so forth. David, the man after God's own
heart. We understand that distinction,
you see. Yes, sin itself is of the creature, but the sense of
sin, it comes from God. It's the work of God. It's the
work of God's Spirit convincing the sinner. And we have it, of
course, here in this psalm as we observed only last week. That
twelfth verse, "...for innumerable evils encompass me about, my
iniquities have taken hold upon me so that I am not able to look
up, they are more than the hairs of mine head, therefore my heart
tireth me." how he was so encompassed by sin, how it was all about
him. We remarked last time on how
in some ways that was Jonah's experience when he rebelled against
God and God dealt with him and he finds himself in the depths
of the sea enclosed in the fish's belly and there how he's so encompassed
on every house. There's no way of escape. God
has found him out. Here is the consequence of his
sin. I thought a little more of that. It's also the experience
in some measure of Job, is he not? Job says concerning God's
dealings with him, his troops come together and rise up their
way against me and then camp round about my tabernacle. the strange dealings of God with
Job, and all those awful trials and troubles that came upon him.
And yet God is in all of these things. God is teaching him something
about himself. He acknowledges that at the end
of the book. I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear,
but now mine eye seeth thee, wherefore I abhor myself and
repent in dust and ashes. Oh, you see, he was one who was
encompassed, God's troops coming together, rising up their way
and camping round about his tabernacle, round about his brother. And
David knew it. David experienced it, innumerable
evils have encompassed me about, he says. My iniquities have taken
hold upon me. And he was seized by his sin. And we remark now that when God
comes to deliver His people, He also seizes them, He lays
hold of them, just as He did with the Apostle. There at the
very gates of Damascus, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? Who art thou, Lord? I am Jesus,
whom thou persecutest. For there He was breeding out
His threats, breeding out slaughter to all those who were disciples
of the Lord Jesus. Those disciples, the body of
Christ. And Christ touched with the feeling
of all their infirmities. In all their afflictions He was
afflicted. I am Jesus, He says, whom thou
persecutest. that how the Lord was laying
hold upon him he confesses it later in Philippians chapter
3 I am apprehended he says of Christ Jesus and the word literally
means to lay hold of ceased yes David was in the very grip of
sin and yet the Lord is in it the Lord is taking hold of him
also there's deliverance you see there's this real sense of
sin and this feeling that one cannot escape there's no way
of escaping but the Lord is that one who
is mightier than all the machinations of the devil mightier than all
the sin that's in our hearts he is able to save and able to
save to the Ottomans And then David, he goes on and he says,
remember, I am not able to look up. Here in verse 12, the language
is so full of meaning. Encompassed by sins. Seized by
sins. Bow down now, we cannot look
up. But what a blessed place to be in! It's that place that
we find the publican in, of whom the Lord speaks in Luke 18. The publican, standing afar off,
could not lift up his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast,
saying, God, be merciful to me, the sinner. How burdened! How
downcast! How ashamed! As he comes before
God, how can you look up He has such a sense of his sin. This
is the public and this is David. And I say again, it's the man
after God's own heart. And then he says, My heart, Philo,
the margin as the word forsaketh. My heart forsaketh me. I have no heart. I referred just
now to how in the 38th Psalm to bring to remembrance he is
confessing again so much of his sin and what does he say there
in verse 10? My heart panteth, my strength
faileth me. Oh, there is no strength, there
is no ability in this man. Why? He is all weakness. He can
do nothing to help himself. The Lord must deliver him. He
is in a horrible pit. He prays. He prays out of that
pit in another of the Psalms. In the 69th Psalm, we read something
of his prayer there at verses 14 and 15. He says, Deliver me
out of the mire, let me not sink. Let me be delivered from them
that hate me, and out of the deep waters. Let not the water
flood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up. and let
not the pit shut her mouth upon you." Or God says, before they
call, I will hear. Before they call, I will answer.
Whilst they are yet speaking, I will hear, He says. and so
it is because here in the 40th psalm in verse 2 he says he brought
me up also out of an horrible pit out of the miry cloud and
set my feet upon a rock and established my goings although David is confessing
his sin David is so sensible of that sin he feels it so clean
Yet he can speak of deliverance as something that is so sure
and so certain as if it's already accomplished. He brought me up. He set my feet upon a rock, that
rock which is the Lord Jesus Christ himself. This is the man that is in the
Lord Jesus Christ, David. He knows the conviction of his
sin, Lord, we had that work of God in his soul, a sense of what
he was as a sinner. But then, speaking of that great
work of the Spirit, when he awakens the soul, what's the evidence
of that mighty work? Where there's a communication
of new life, of spiritual life, there's not only the conviction
of sin. It's not enough, friends, to have a sense of our sin. We
need that. But we need also to know what
it is to be trusting in Christ. We're not to come short of that
or let none of us come short of that. To be satisfied with
a sense of sin and not know that salvation, that blessed salvation. The blessed man, we're told in
verse 4, is that man that maketh the Lord his trust. are with
those this morning whose trust is in the Lord." And look at
the name. Why? It's the covenant name. LORD. LORD spelled with capital letters. The God of the covenant. I am
the Lord, He says. I change not. Therefore ye sons
of Jacob are not conserved. Is this the God that we're trusting
in? The blessed man make of the Lord his trust and respecteth
not the proud nor such as turn aside to lies." There's no pride
here with this man. There's nothing of self-righteousness
in this man, nothing of creature strength. If he sought to say
he has such a sense of his sinnership, he's all weakness in and of himself. He refuses the lies of those
who would come and speak in terms of offered grace and duty fight. He cannot of himself believe.
He can do nothing for himself. God is dealing with him. How
does God deal with a man? He brings him to the end of himself.
Moses says in Psalm 90, Thou turnest man to destruction. and
say us return, you children of men, or God will destroy all
our self-righteousness, any thought of our own ability. He'll make
us see that we can do nothing for ourselves. As Heman says
in Psalm 88, I am shut up and I cannot come forth. When God
deals with us by His Spirit, when God brings His law to us
and makes us to see what the real ministry of the Lord is
all about, It's that ministry of condemnation. Before faith came, Paul says,
we were kept under the law, shut up, so the faith which should
after would be revealed. All that law, you see, it's the
schoolmaster to bring the sinner to the Lord Jesus Christ. In
himself, he's nothing, nothing but weakness. What can this man
do? He waits. This is how the psalm
begins. Where we were last Lord's Day
evening, I waited patiently. Oh, in waiting, I waited for
the Lord and He inclined unto me and heard my cry. He hears us when we cry to Him. If we have that sense of our
sin and we call out and cry for mercy, why? He will incline his
ear, he will hear the prayer of those who are truly seeking
after him. And this waiting, as we said
last time, it's not something passive, it's not something that's
all together without any activity, it's not fatalism, it's not waiting
in unbelief, no, it's waiting in faith, it's waiting in hope,
it's coming before God with that spirit of expectancy, This is
how David was waiting, how he cries out to God later in the
psalm. In verse 13 he says, Be pleased,
O Lord, to deliver me, O Lord, make haste to help me. Again at verse 17 he says, But
I am poor and needy, yet the Lord tinketh upon me. Thou art
my help and my deliverer. Make no tarrying, Oh my God,
that's how the Psalm ends. He wants God to come and he wants
God to come with all speed. He wants to partake of that salvation. He wants God's work to appear
in his own soul. Again, the language of Moses
in Psalm 90. And there at the end he says,
let thy work appear unto thy servants. Or do we want God's
work to appear and to appear in our own hearts? when we meditate upon God's wonderful
works, or when we come to consider these great works of God, that
wonderful work of redemption, that salvation that has actually
been accomplished by the Lord Jesus. He has died, and He has
died to save His people. He has not just made salvation
a possibility, it's sure, it's certain. for those that the Father
had given to Him in the eternal covenant or do we want to know
that we have an interest in it we want God's wonderful works
to appear in our souls and we want God to do that to die we
want Him to come by His Spirit or we want to know that we are
those who have been quickened by His Spirit and so live that
life of faith and hope O the Lord grant then that we might
be brought to truly consider these works of our God. Many, O Lord my God, are thy
wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which
are to us. For they cannot be reckoned up
in order unto thee, if I would declare and speak of them. There
are more than can be numbered. May the Lord bless His word to
us. Amen. of God displayed to all the world
abroad, immensely great, immensely small, yet one strange work exceeds
them all. Number 88.