Let us turn to God's Word and
I want us this morning to turn for the third time over these
recent weeks to those words that we've looked at previously in
Zechariah chapter 4 and verses 9 and 10. Zechariah chapter 4
verses 9 and 10, The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation
of this house. His hands shall also finish it. and thou shalt know that the
Lord of hosts hath sent me unto you for who hath despised the
day of small things for they shall rejoice and shall see the
plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven they are the
eyes of the Lord which run to and throw through the whole earth
remember how that Zechariah together with the prophet Haggai was one
called to minister to those who returned to Jerusalem after the
70 years of exile in Babylon. And so, the historic books that
deal with the period of the ministry of these men, Zechariah and Haggai,
are to be found in the book of Ezra. and also in some part in
the book of Nehemiah. But particularly there, in the
book of Ezra, we see something of the historical context in
which this prophet's ministry is set. And if we just turn to
what's written there, particularly in the third chapter of that
book of Ezra we find mention of the prophets and that that
he was engaged in as he sought to encourage those who were rebuilding
the temple of the Lord. In Ezra chapter 3 then and verse
8 we're told now in the second year of their coming unto the
house of God at Jerusalem in the second month began Zerubbabel
the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedach, and the
remnant of their brethren, the priests and the Levites, and
all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem,
and appointed the Levites from twenty years old and upwards
to set forward the work of the house of the Lord. Here they
are engaged in the rebuilding of the temple, and at the end
of that chapter we see what rejoicing there was as the work was undertaken. They sang together by cause,
we're told, in praising and giving thanks unto the Lord, because
He is good, for His mercy endureth forever toward Israel. And all
the people shouted with a great shout when they praised the Lord,
because the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid. And
then we have that striking twelfth verse. But many of the priests
and Levites and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men,
they were old men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation
of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud
voice, and many shouted aloud for joy. It was mixed emotion
that was being manifested. There was a great shout for joy
as the temple's foundations were being laid, but these old men,
they remembered the glories that belonged to the temple of Solomon. so the people could not discern
the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping
of the people for the people shouted with a loud voice and
the noise was heard far off and it's in this context that Zachariah
is there as God's prophet ministering the word of the Lord does he
not in a sense address himself onto those older men who were
mindful of the glories that belong unto Solomon's temple, and how
despicable did this new work appear in comparison. And so
we have the words here in verse 10, who hath despised the day
of small things. Or the day of small things. It's
not to be despised. There was a glory that would
belong to this particular building, this temple that could never
belong to Solomon's temple. As Haggai says there in chapter
2 and verse 9, the glory of this latter house shall be greater
than the former. And in this place will I give
peace, saith the Lord. Now what was the glory that belonged
to this particular temple. It was, of course, the fact that
Christ himself would come and he would minister in that very
temple, although it had been improved and enlarged during
the days of King Herod. It was, in principle, the same
temple that had been rebuilt there in the days of Ezra. That was the glory that would
belong to the latter house. Christ himself. Christ himself. would stand and minister within
the precincts of that temple that was being built, who have
despised the day of small things. Here is Zerubbabel, who is engaged
in the work. And we've spoken of how Zerubbabel
is a remarkable type of the Lord Jesus Christ. We know that he
is one of Christ's ancestors. We've seen previously how he
is spoken of there in the opening chapter of the New Testament,
in that genealogy that we find in Matthew chapter 1. We have
his name mentioned there, and he is one of those principal
antecedents of the Lord Jesus Christ. Is this man the rubbable?
His very name is a typical name. What does the rubbable mean?
It means a shoot of Babylon. a shoot out of Babylon. And as a shoot, is he not a type
of Christ? We see Christ here spoken of
in the book as the Lord's servant, the Lord's branch, in chapter
3, and there at verse 8, I will bring forth my servant, the branch. Historically, my servant, the
branch, is this man's irrevocable. But there is a greater than Zerubbabel
here. It is the Lord Jesus, I say.
In chapter 6 and verse 12, thus speaketh the Lord of Hosts, saying,
Behold the man whose name is the branch, and he shall grow
up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the Lord. That one who is spoken of as
the branch then, spiritually is the Lord Jesus Christ Himself.
In Isaiah chapter 11 we see him a rod out of the stem of Jesse
and a branch that grows out of Jesse's roots. The roots and
the offspring of David is the way in which the Lord Jesus is
spoken of in Revelation chapter 22 and there at verse 16. The
roots of David. and also the offspring of David. And he is that one who throughout
this day of grace is engaged in that great work of calling
out his people and building his church. And we're not therefore
to despise the day, even the day in which we're living. We're not to say that the former
days were better days. Look at that word that we have
back in the book of Ecclesiastes. And there in Ecclesiastes chapter
7 and verse 10, we have a word that sometimes comes as a real
rebuke, when we are guilty of despising the day, feeling it
to be such a day of confusion, such a day of smorthing. There, in that verse, Ecclesiastes
7.10, say not thou, what is the cause that the former days were
better than these? For thou dost not inquire wisely
concerning this. Even in such a day as we are
living in, is not the Lord Jesus Christ accomplishing his own
eternal purpose, saving us many? as God ever intended to save
in our day and our generation. We're not to despise the day
of small things. As we saw last time, the plummet
is yet in the hand of the robber. And he is engaged in that work
The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house.
His hand shall also finish it. The work will be accomplished.
Christ will build his church. The gates of hell shall not prevail
against it." Well, these are some of those things that we've
spoken of on previous occasions. Not to despise a day of small
things, but to observe how that the plummet is ever in Zerubbabel's
hands, how he is measuring his people, how he is calling his
people, establishing his church, and building it to the glory
of God. And the day will come when he
will present unto the Father that church that is complete
without spot or wrinkle or any blemish, complete in all its
parts. Well, I want us to conclude a
short consideration of the these verses in Zechariah chapter 4
by concentrating your attention for a while this morning on what
we read at the end of verse 10. We have the plummet in the hand
of Zerubbabel. It says, With those seven they
are the eyes of the lords which run to and throw through the
whole earth. Those seven They are the eyes
of the Lord which run to and through throughout the whole
earth. Seeking then to understand what
is meant by this reference to those seven. First of all, the
reference here I say is to the ministry of God the Holy Ghost. Besides referring to the Son
of God, in this particular passage, in which we see Christ, of course,
in the type of Zerubbabel, we also here have a reference to
God the Holy Ghost. In Revelation chapter 5 and verse
6, we read of the seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of
God. And surely there John is mindful
of these words back in Zechariah chapter 4. Much of the imagery
that we have there in the book of the Revelation is of course
taken from the Old Testament Scriptures. And certainly that
is the case with regards to the mention there of the seven eyes,
the seven spirits of God. Those seven They are the eyes
of the Lord which run to and through the whole earth. Now, John, when he writes in
the Revelation, begins, of course, by sending his word of greeting
to those seven churches, as he is directed by the Lord Jesus
Christ. He sends greetings to the seven
churches in verse Verse 4 there in Revelation chapter 1, John,
to the seven churches which are in Asia, Grace be unto you, and
peace from him which is, and which was, and which is to come,
and from the seven spirits which are before his throne, and from
Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten
of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. It's
a Trinitarian greeting, as is so often the case with these
apostles. He sends greetings then to the
seven churches in the name of God the Father, which is, and
which was, and which is to come. He sends greetings from God the
Son, and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness and the
first begotten of the dead. And he sends greetings in the
name of God the Holy Ghost, and from the seven Spirits, which
are before Israel, not literally seven spirits, of course. There
is but one Holy Spirit. But seven there, in that highly
symbolic book, indicates the perfection of the work of God,
the Holy Spirit. And so it is also here, back
in Zechariah, those seven, they are the eyes of the Lord, which
run to and through the whole Here then we are to understand
that the Prophet is speaking of that ministry of the Holy
Ghost that is associated with the Lord Jesus Christ. We see
Zerubbabel, the type. Zerubbabel with those seven,
it says. And what do we read there in
Revelation chapter 5 and verse 6? a word that we've already made
some reference to, Revelation 5 verse 6, we have a lamb having
seven eyes. The lamb having seven eyes, it's
the same as Zerubbabel with those seven. We're reminded of the
ministry of the Holy Ghost. And how the ministry of the Holy
Ghost is associated so much with the ministry of the Lord Jesus
Christ. in John chapter 7 when we see
Christ there ministering in this temple of the Lord, and we have
the record of what he said on that particular occasion, and
he speaks of the Holy Ghost, but what does John say there
in verse 39 of John chapter 7? The Holy Ghost was not yet given
because Jesus was not yet glorified. And just recently we looked at
that great sermon that Peter preached on the day of Pentecost
to mark that glorious donation of the Spirit of God as the Spirit
descended upon those apostles. Peter is emboldened and he preaches
with such a gracious unction of the Holy Ghost upon his ministry. there is the glorious coming
in state of the Spirit. And what does Peter say concerning
Christ therefore being by the right hand of God exalted? He
has shed forth this which ye now see and hear. There's a rubber book with those
seven. He comes as the Spirit of Christ. He is the
donation of the glorified Christ. He is that blessed gift that
Christ has bestowed upon His Church. And to whom is the Spirit given? For whom has Christ received
this blessed gift? Is it not for sinners? Is it
not for sinners? Psalm 68 and verse 18, Thou hast
descended on high, Thou hast received gifts for men, Yea,
for the rebellious also, that the Lord God may dwell among
them. How does the Lord God come today
and dwell among His people? Is it not by that blessed ministry
of the Holy Spirit Himself? And you remember how Paul takes
up the words of Psalm 68 there in Ephesians 4. and makes it
plain that this is the gift of the glorified Christ. Now what
are the marks of the Spirit's ministry? What are the marks,
as we look to ourselves, as we examine ourselves, to see whether
we know anything of this blessed ministry that is spoken of here?
The rubble with those seven, They are the eyes of the Lord
which run to and through the whole earth. And let me mention
some of the marks of that that is an evidence that we know the
ministry of the Holy Ghost in our own hearts. First of all,
of course, we see Him as that One who is the Spirit of prayer. In that chapter that we read,
chapter 12, we have the Familiar words there at verse 10, the
promise, And I will pour upon the house of David and upon the
inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and of supplications. Friends, where there is the ministry
of the Holy Ghost, there will be prayer. There will be prayer. And we see it, of course, in
the New Testament. We see it in the experience of
a man like Paul, He was once all the self-righteous Pharisee
and doubtless he performed his round of duties.
He attended the various hours of prayer as a Pharisee and yet
in a sense he knew nothing of prayer. It's only when the Lord
meets with him and deals with him in this act gracious ministry
of the Holy Ghost in his soul that he really prays. This is
the assurance, is it not, that's given to Ananias there in Acts
chapter 9 when he is told to go to the street called Straight
to the house of one where he will find this man who has come
as the great persecutor of the church. What a strange command
was given to Ananias. Dareth the Lord God assure him
Well, he is told concerning this man who saw the persecutor, behold
he prayeth. Many times he would have said
prayers and yet in a sense he had never really prayed but now
he's praying. He is the Mark Prince, that gracious
Mark that we really know God the Holy Ghost and there we feel
to lead it. Oh, it is a great promise, is
it not, that we find in Romans chapter 8 concerning him? Likewise
the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities, for we know not what to pray
for as we ought, but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for
us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Now let us not be
put off by that reference to the Spirit itself. That doesn't
mean that he's not a person. The reason why itself only indicates
to us the accuracy of the authorized version is simply the fact that
the noun for spirit in the Greek is a neuter noun, but a masculine
noun, and therefore it rightly renders the word itself and not
himself. But he is a person. He is a person. We speak of Him as God, the Holy
Ghost, the Third Person in the Blessed Trinity. And how He has
given us, He's given to help our infirmities. And He makes
intercession, all to know that ministry. How we are those who
need that gracious enabling prayers that are truly indicted by the
Spirit. So often we have that fear that
when we come to God, what do our prayers amount to? It seems
sometimes they're only a multitude of words. We want more than words. We want something real, some
real pleading, some earnest crying and calling upon God. And He
helps you. And it's with those groanings
that cannot be uttered, those sighs and those cries where we
can hardly find words that are adequate to give vent to what
we're feeling in our own souls. You see, we're not to despise
a day of small things. We're not to despise those prayers
that are only sighs and groans. Who hath despised the day of
small things. The beginning might be a very
small beginning. When we look to ourselves and
examine ourselves, we're not to despise it. It might
be small, but is it real? Is it the work of the Spirit
that we know? Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end
shall greatly increase." We read back in Job chapter 8 and verse
7. Don't despise small beginnings,
some little evidence of a gracious ministry of the Holy Ghost. Or to pray, you see, to pray
in faith, that faith that comes by His gracious operation. To
know that when we cry to God, He will hear our cry. Though
our prayer seems such a poor prayer, the Lord says, if you
have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say to this mountain,
Remove to yonder place, and it shall remove, and nothing shall
be impossible to you. That is, faith is a grain of
mustard seed. A very small faith is that, then,
if the mustard seed is the least of all seeds. What is a grain
of a mustard seed? It's ministry. And yet, if you
have such faith, says the Lord Jesus. Oh, look at the words
here in verse 7. Who art thou? O great mountain,
before the rubbable thou shalt become a plain. It's not by might,
nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord. Do we know Him?
Do we long to experience Him as that One who is the Spirit
of grace and the Spirit of supplications, who helps our infirmities? and
when we know not how to pray, yet we look to Him and we want
to know something of those groanings that cannot be uttered. We want
to give then to what we're feeling in our souls. He is, I say, the
Spirit of supplication. But He's also
there in that verse, chapter 12 and verse 10, seen to be the
Spirit of penitence. Now does the prophet continue,
I will put upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants
of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of supplications and they
shall look upon me whom they have pierced and they shall mourn
for him as one mourners for his only son and shall be in bitterness
for him as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. Oh, it's the spirit of penitence.
He causes those to whom he comes to feel sin, to mourn over their
sins. He fivers them with that spirit
of real repentance. Sin is such a great, grievous
burden. This is the ministry of the Holy
Spirit, is it not? How does the Lord speak of him?
When he has come, says Christ, he will reprove the world or,
as the margin says, convince the world of sin and of righteousness
and of judgment. That is his office. He is the
spirit of conviction. He shows the sinner himself.
He makes the sinner sad when he sees what he is. as one who
is an offender before God, a transgressor of God's law, one who is falling
short of God's glory. How the Spirit makes sin a dreadful
reality in the soul of those that He comes to. And He doesn't
just minister what is sometimes called legal conviction, it's
more than that. He doesn't just show sin in the
light of God's holy law, dreadful as it is to behold what we are
when we consider God's law, God's law which is holy and His commandment
which is holy and just and good and we have fallen short of that
law but when He shows sin in the light of the sufferings of
Christ and of course that's what we have there in that verse in
chapter 12 they shall look upon me whom they have pierced it
says and mourn for him and shall be in bitterness for him. Oh, Lord, and terrors do but
harden all the while they work alone, but a sense of blood would
pardon. So dissolves the heart of stone. Oh, when he causes the sinner
to see the terror of sin in the sufferings of Christ and all
that Christ had to endure, not only the contradiction of sinners
but when he bore in his own soul all that wrath of God that was
due to the sins of his people and so as he is the spirit of
penitence he is really the spirit of Christ is he not? he is the
spirit of Christ go back to chapter 3 and there in verse 9 it says upon one stone shall be seven
eyes." Very striking expression, upon one stone shall be seven
eyes. Now here, we have those seven,
they are the eyes of the Lord, which run to and through the
whole earth. And so there, in chapter 3 and
verse 7, upon one stone shall be seven
eyes. It's the Holy Spirit himself
fixed upon one stone. Now what of this stone? The stone which the builders
disallowed, says Peter. The sign is become the headstone
of the quarter. The stone which the builders
disallowed, the headstone of the quarter. That's the Lord
Jesus, is it not? Jesus Christ himself being the
chief cornerstone, we're told in Ephesians chapter 2 and verse
7. It is the Lord Jesus who is the
foundation, the chief cornerstone. He is the headstone. Also here
in chapter 4 and verse 7, He shall bring forth a headstone
thereof, with shouting, saying, Grace! Grace! Unto Whatever the
stone is, it is the Lord Jesus Christ. And how the Holy Spirit
you see is that One who constantly directs to the Lord Jesus Christ. He fixes His eye upon Christ. Upon one stone shall be seven
eyes. When He comes, Christ speaks
of His coming, remember there, in those chapters in John, in
chapters 14 and 15 and 16, that is the great theme of those chapters. He speaks of going away and sending
the Holy Spirit, and when He has come, He doesn't just come
as that Spirit who will work conviction in the soul. He doesn't
just come to reprove the world of sin. Does He not also come
as that One who, as the Spirit of Christ, reveals Christ? He comes to make Christ known. We have to see Christ not only
here on the page of Holy Scripture, we don't only see Christ here
in the Bible, but we need to know that gracious revelation
in our souls as the Spirit takes of the Word that He has inspired
and brings it home to our souls. Here is His ministry. Howbeit,
says Christ, when He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will guide
you into all truth. For He shall not speak of Himself,
but whatsoever He shall hear, that shall He speak, and He will
show you things to come. He shall glorify Me, for He shall
receive of Mine, and shall show it unto you. And again, previously,
the end of chapter 15, there in John, Christ says, When the Comforter is come, whom
I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth,
which proceedeth from the Father, He shall testify of me." What
an amazing ministry! He is God! He is God the Holy
Ghost! He is equal with the Father,
He is equal with the Son, He is to be worshipped, And yet
here in the Gospel we see his ministry to be such a self-effacing
ministry. He does not speak of himself. He doesn't speak of himself.
He comes to speak of Christ. He comes as that one who will
reveal the Lord Jesus Christ. And he will direct sinners, you
see, to look upon Christ, upon one stone shall be seven eyes."
John, in the Gospel, as he recounts Christ's ministry, as he speaks
of Christ's death, there in chapter 19, what does he say again? Another
scripture says, they shall look on him whom they pierce. He's
referring, of course, to those words here in chapter 12 and
verse 10. "...or when the Spirit comes,
He will direct us to look upon Christ, the One whom we have
pierced, and to mourn for Him, as one mourneth for his only
Son, to be in bitterness for Him, as one that is in bitterness
for his firstborn." This is the ministry of the Spirit, friends.
What do we know of that? Are we made to consider Christ
as we come to the Word of God? And it is the Holy Ghost, of
course, who inspired the Scriptures. Those holy men, they spoke as
they were moved by Him. All Scripture is given by inspiration
of God. well as we come are we those
who desire to behold Christ we want the spirit himself to come
and to take these words and to apply them to us to make them
real to us here we have the Holy Ghost Isa the Rabbah were we
those seven they are the eyes of the Lord which run to and
through through the whole earth but then as we are to consider
here God the Holy Ghost and His ministry and we sought to say
something of that. Let us in the second place and
briefly just say something with regards to the figure that is
used, the eyes of the Lords. They are, it says, the eyes of
the Lords which run to and through the whole earth. It's a figure
of course. God is a spirit. says Christ
God does not possess an eye and yet language is used of course
in scripture in which we have mentioned not only of God's eye
but also God's hand or God's arm and so on it's God's graciously
condescending to speak of himself in these human terms that we
might understand but he does not have a literal eye But it
speaks to us, does it not, the eye of the fact that God sees. They are the eyes of the Lord
which run to and throw through the whole earth. In Proverbs
15 and verse 3 we find something similar. The eyes of the Lord,
says the wise man, are in every place beholding the evil and
the good. or there is no escaping, you
see. God's eye runs through the whole earth. Of course, the psalmist
is very, very mindful of that in the 139th Psalm, that Psalm
clearly celebrates the fact of God's omniscience, that God is
in all places, and that there's no escaping from His presence. Whither shall I go from my spirit,
says David? Whither shall I flee from my
presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there. If I
make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I take the
wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the
sea, even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall
hold me. If I say, Surely the darkness
shall cover me, even the night shall be light about me. Yea,
the darkness hideth not from thee, but the night shineth as
the day. The darkness and light are both
alike to them. he is celebrating the fact that
God's eye is everywhere that God is omniscient and that there's
no escaping from his presence and the godly man the godly man delights in that
how does he conclude the psalm, search me oh God and know my
heart, try me and know my thoughts and see if there be any wicked
way in me and lead me in the way everlasting." Oh, he wants
to be examined by God. God's all-seeing and God's all-searching
eye. It is a mark, it's another one
of the marks of the godly man, is it not? Yes, he knows that
ministry of the Spirit, as we've said, he knows the Spirit himself
as the Spirit of supplication, as the Spirit of penitence as
the Spirit of Christ principle. But here is another Marcus, the
godly man, wants God to examine him and to examine his religion. Is that our relationship with
Christ? Again, remember those words in Revelation 5 and verse
6, a lamb having seven eyes. and the seven, how significant
it is as a number of perfection, that all seeing that perfect
eye. Nothing can escape His eye. He sees all things. We have Him
there in the vision that John was favoured with on Patmos as
he tells us in the opening chapter of the Revelation. He sees the
glorified Christ, remember, He hears that voice behind and
he turns to see the voice that spoke to him. And he sees the
seven candlesticks, the seven churches. And there is Christ
in the midst of the seven churches. And what does he say? His head
and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow. And his
eyes were as a flame of fire. He's in the church. If we're
a true church of the Lord Jesus Christ, is He not in the midst,
and His eye is a flame of fire? All that eye, all seeing, all
searching, isn't this what the Lord does as He comes by His
Spirit in His Word? He comes to see us, and to show
us what we are. And as He searches us, so He
also shifts us. Oh, how he sifts! We read of
him, John the Baptist, his great forerunner, speaks of his ministry,
whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his
floor. The fan there, of course, has
to do with the work of the one who is winnowing the coir, separating
the chaff from the wheat. Taking his fan, the reference
seems to be to some great shovel-like instrument with which he can
take the mixed heap there in the floor and toss it in the
air and the wind will blow the chaff away and the pure grain
will fall agrain to the ground. His fan is in his hand. He throughly
purges his floor, says John the Baptist. The ministry of Christ,
a sifting ministry. the searching ministry, how He
comes to examine us. Or do we delight in that? Is
that what we want? We want the Lord to deal with
us because we want to know that what we have in our hearts is
something real, that we're not self-made Christians, that we're
those who really know the Lord, who know that gracious ministry
of the Spirit. And we want Him to reassure us.
that ours is a true and a living faith. But you see, as His eye
comes to examine His people, so we have to recognize this,
that the Lord is also watching over His Word. When we come together,
He watches over His Word, does He not? And why does He watch
over His Word? Because He will fulfill His Word.
He watches over it to fulfill it. all those exceeding great
and precious promises that Peter speaks of all those promises which are
yea and amen in the Lord Jesus Christ he watches over them in
order that they might be fulfilled that they might have their accomplishment
in us what a comfort that is friends he watches over his words
to fulfill it When He says you see, ask and it shall be given
you. Seek and you shall find. Knock
and it shall be opened unto you. He watches over that. You ask.
You ask Him to save you. If you do, He watches over that.
He'll hear that prayer. He'll answer that prayer. He
delights you see, to fulfill all His promises. and he doesn't
only watch over his work with that all-seeing and that all-searching
eye does he not also watch over his work? all that work that
he is accomplishing in the souls of his children he watches over
it and why does he watch over it? because he's going to perfect
it he's going to complete it we have the assurance here in
verse 9 the hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this
house his hands shall also finish it his works are not abortive
works what he begins he finishes, he accomplishes and so Paul says
to the Philippians being confident of this very thing that he which
hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day
of Jesus Christ. All those seven, remember seven
here, and all that it suggests of the perfect work of God. In six days God created the heavens
and the earth, the seventh day He rested, His work was finished. That's where we get the idea
of perfection in the number seven, you see. The Lord perfects His
work, or that God would come and perfect that work in us today,
in you and in me, that perfect work of His grace. Bringing forth the headstone
with shoutings, crying grace, grace unto it, the rubble. With those seven, they are the
eyes of the Lord, which run to and through, through the whole
earth. The Lord bless his word to us. As you hear this number 888,
and the Trinity Saint Anatholos, number 555. No wit or will of man or learning
he may boast, nor power or reason can draw sinners unto Christ. So foreign is nature, such a
flaw none