Seeking for the help of the Lord,
I direct your prayer for attention to the psalm we read, Psalm 34,
and reading from our text, verse 5. Verse 5. Particularly the first clause.
They looked unto him and were lightened, and their faces were
not ashamed. Psalm 34 and verse 5. We are told at the beginning
of this psalm that this was penned at a particular time in David's
life and the experience that went with this psalm. And truly David's life was in
tremendous danger. We read of this in 1 Samuel. and chapter 21. And we read in
verse 10 that David arose and fled that day for fear of Saul. But he went then to Achish the
king of Gath. And being that it was not that
long after that he had killed Goliath, and that he's going
there with actually Goliath's sword in his hand, It's not surprising
that he was recognized and then greatly feared for his life.
The servants of Achis said unto him, Is not this David the king
of the land? Well, he's not yet the king,
but They was viewed that way by the enemies and viewed that
way by some of Israel as well. Did they not sing one to another
of him in dances, saying, Saul hath slain his thousands and
David his ten thousands? Neither David laid up these words
in his heart and was sore afraid of Achish, the king of Gath. And he changed his behaviour
before him, found himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled
on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon
his beard. And the result was that Achias
said, see, the man is mad, and wherefore then have you brought
him to me? And so we read the following
chapter that David then departed thence and escaped to the cave. of a dullum, but he must have
truly been in fear of his life at that time, and though not
recorded in the outward account, yet this poor man, as we read
in this psalm, this poor man cried, and the Lord heard him
and saved him out of all his troubles. And I know we have
said many times here how the psalms, they speak of the inward
exercise of a soul that happens at the same time as things that
are happening outwardly. And in our lives, many people
may see what we go through outwardly, but unless we were to pen a psalm
like this, they wouldn't know how it is working for us inwardly,
what is going on. between our soul and the Lord,
and that is the difference. The life of God in his people,
there will be those dealings, those exercises between that
soul and God in all the things that they pass through. The wicked,
God is not in all their thoughts, and if at all he comes into their
thoughts in times of trouble, than it is a quick light prayer
or it is to blame him for those troubles. But here we have very
different, a crying and calling unto the Lord. And when the Lord
had pleased to answer him and deliver him, then he would recommend
this path and show this path to others as well. Oh, magnify
the Lord with me and let us exalt his name. Together I sought the
Lord and he heard me. and delivered me from all my
fears. It's a very good thing that when
the Lord has done something for us, then we are able to bring
others and gather others and show forth his praise with them
as well. Well, not only does this passage
here speak of David, but it speaks of our Lord and Saviour. Also,
we have at the end of the psalm, many are the afflictions of the
righteous, but the Lord delivereth him out of them all. He keepeth
all his bones, not one of them is broken. And this is what was
fulfilled in our Lord upon Calvary. When they came to break his bones,
to hasten his death, they found that he was dead already. He
had yielded up his spirit to the Lord. So they broke the bones
of the thieves each side of him, and the soldier with a spear
pierced his side. So that again fulfilled, they
shall look upon him whom they have pierced. We read also that
there are none righteous, no, not one. And so many of the afflictions
of the righteous, yes, God's people in Christ are viewed or
termed the righteous, but in themselves, they have no righteousness. And especially in a psalm like
this, it is pointing to Christ, the one righteous man. and also
we number him amongst those that are described here. This poor
man, Christ, Though he was rich, yet became poor, that ye through
his poverty might be made rich. And Psalm 22 describes his cry,
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? And this poor man
cried, we read in Hebrews, that he was heard in that he feared. And the path of our Lord Jesus
Christ we have recorded in the gospel accounts as those that
were looking on, what they heard, what they saw. But here in the
Psalms, it breathes the language of our Lord through the psalmist. And so whenever we come to a
passage like this, there is a blending together of the lives of the
people of God and the lives of life of Christ. fellowship with
him in his sufferings. It's a better thing if our lives
and the things that the Lord causes us to pass through brings
us to have some fellowship, to realise something of what the
Lord endured and went through. Really, for David here, what
he is telling us is a message of salvation. how he was delivered
from death, how his life was restored to him again. Our salvation flows from what
Christ experienced and what he went through at Calvary. And then also, our calling is
bound up with what we experience in this life. He which hath begun
a good work in you will perform it unto the day of Jesus Christ. And as well as recording how
Christ was delivered from death and raised again, the people
of God will also be able to record how he delivered them from being
dead in trespasses and sins and raised them up again to life
in him. Because the Lord says, I live,
ye shall live also. He rose, we rose with him, buried
with him in baptism, risen again in newness of life. So the picture here of deliverance from
death, of a looking to the Lord, crying to the Lord, David, he
would have those humble ones, the humble shall hear thereof
and be glad. In verse two, he'd have them
to magnify the Lord with him. And I believe it's them also
he's referring to in our text. They looked unto him and were
lightened and their faces were not ashamed. Now it is in this
way I want to look at two points. Firstly, to consider those who
have gone before us and who looked unto Christ. They looked unto
him. They looked unto him and were
lightened and their faces were not ashamed. And then I want
to let us, in a gospel day, join with them and look unto him. But firstly I want to look at
five characters in the Old Testament, those that looked and received
this blessing that is spoken of here in our text. And the first one that I'd bring
before you is that of Hagar In Genesis chapter 16, remember
that Abraham could not have children and therefore his wife Sarai,
she suggested that he take her maid Hagar and have children
by her. But when Hagar then conceived,
then Her mistress, Sarai, was despised in her eyes. And she, then Sarai spoke to
Abram concerning this and he says to Sarai that she was in
his hand, do behold thy maid is in thine hand, that's chapter
16 verse 6, do to her as it pleases thee. When Sarai dealt hardly
with her, she fled from her face. Let me read this. The angel of
the Lord found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by
the fountain in the way to Shur. He said, Hagar, Sarai's maid,
whence camest thou? Whither wilt thou go? She told
him, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai. The angel
of the Lord, I believe it's one of these times, the pre-incarnation
times of the Lord Jesus Christ appearing in this way. Return
to thy mistress and submit thyself unto her hands. The angel of
the Lord said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly,
that it shall not be numbered for multitude. And then he speaks
of the son that shall be born, Ishmael, and about him, about
his life. And then we read this in verse
13. And she, that is Hagar, called
the name of the Lord that spake unto her, thou God seest me. Thou God seest me. For she said,
have I also here looked after him that seeth me? God had looked on her. He'd seen
her condition, her distress, and you'll find that this is
common with all of these cases. David was in distress in this
psalm, and he looked unto the Lord, and the Lord delivered
him. Hagar is in distress. We might be in distress, in a
situation that we want to run away from. We might be in a situation
that we are not submissive to the Lord's will. We'd rather
depart from it. And here, the Lord meets with
Hagar. He knows her. He knows her case. He bids her submit, to return,
to put herself under. Sarai, and she does so. What a blessed thing, if by looking
unto the Lord, seeing him that also sees us and knows us, we're
brought into submission and to bow before the Lord's hand. This is the path here with Hagar. How often the Lord used this
way while on earth. He used it with the woman of
Samaria. He knew all about her. He knew all about Zacchaeus.
He knew all about Nathanael under the fig tree. And those that have realized
that, as Hagar did here, they looked unto him. Come see a man
that told me all things that ever I did. Is not this the Christ? It's one of those ways that the
Lord's people are brought to know him, that he knows them.
Not only is it true that we love him because he first loved us,
but we know him because he first knew us. And so, Hagar, I also
have looked after him. You can turn this around for
another blessing. Poor soul, if you are a soul
that is looking after Christ, it is because that he sees you. We've said it many times regarding
Peter. The Lord said, love us thou me.
He didn't say to Peter, I love you, Peter. And we love him because he first
loved us. And so here a poor sinner looking
unto Christ, looking unto the Lord in their trouble. They looked
unto him. Why? Because the Lord first has
looked upon them. Then we have the case a few chapters
later with Abraham. And we read regarding Abraham,
our Lord said, Abraham saw my day and rejoiced at it. In Genesis 22, we have the time
when now Isaac is born and God would try, Abraham told him to
go and to a mountain, the land of Moriah, and to the mount that
I'll tell thee of. And he rose up to go, but as
they're going up the mountain, then Isaac, he speaks to his
father, and he said, Behold the fire and the wood, but where
is the lamb for a burnt offering? And Abraham said, my son, God
will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering. And I believe
Abraham here, he is one of those that according to our text, they
looked unto him. My son, God will provide. And by faith, they went on. And by faith, Abraham then was
brought to as we're told in Hebrews, in effect receive Isaac from
the dead. There was the provision of the
ram caught in the thicket. There was that which was provided
in the stead of his son. But in that which he went through,
he went through in a way that he looked upon the Lord. They looked unto him. And Abraham
did at that time. The effect here. And were lightened, their faces
were not ashamed. You think of when Abraham is
going up that mount. This is the son of promise. I
am told to slay him. What a dark day as it were. Faithless. As if we were looking through
that dark cloud. But how different when they were
coming down that mount. How different it was. He'd got
the type, he'd had the blessing. Because thou hast not withheld
thy son, thy only son, from thee, in blessing I will bless thee,
and in thee, and in thy seed, that is Christ, shall all nations
be blessed. They looked unto him. Abraham
looked unto him. Dear Job looked unto him. In
the book of Job we read of the solemn path that Job went through
and how that he lost not only his goods, his friends, his health,
his strength. What a dark, dark valley that
he walked into. And as he's in this dark valley,
yet he's able to speak in these ways. And he says as those things
that he's going through, and especially the trouble that he's
having from his own friends. They originally came to sympathize
with him. But now they persecute him. He says, have pity on verse 21
in chapter 19. Have pity upon me, have pity
upon me, O ye my friends, for the hand of God hath touched
me. But then he looks, and he looks
beyond that which he is going through. And he says, for I know
that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter
day upon the earth. And though after my skin worms
destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God, whom I
shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another,
though my reins be consumed within me. And he looks from this dark
valley, and he sees his Redeemer to stand upon this earth. and that he himself shall be
raised up and know what it was in the resurrection. And you
know Job, even though he speaks these precious truths, he's looking
through and past these things he's going through to Christ, yet he's still this valley to
look through. And his one concern and his burden
is to find his God. We have in chapter 23, Then Job
answered and said, even today is my complaint bitter. My stroke
is heavier than my groaning. Oh, that I knew where I might
find him, that I might come even to his seed. You might tonight,
you think, how can I find? Where can I find the Lord? All
is dark. And I have such a dark valley
to walk through. Oh, that I knew where I might
find him. But in the very inquiry, there
is a looking unto him. You know, we can look unto or
look for someone's coming. We can't see them, but it doesn't
mean we're not looking for them, is it? Do you know the servant with
Elijah when he's looking for the answer of prayer on Mount
Carmel, he kept going again and again, go again seven times looking
towards the sea and each time he says there's nothing, just
because he didn't see anything doesn't mean to say he wasn't
looking, does it? They looked unto him. And in
due time that servant did see. And in due time those that are
looking For Christ, and looking unto Him, they will see Him. Unto them that look for Him shall
He appear the second time without sin unto salvation. So dear Job is numbered amongst
them here. They looked unto him. But what about dear Jacob going
back to Genesis now? And Jacob, he has Esau coming
against him in Genesis 32. He had had the Lord's word to
go back to his kindred. He'd had the Lord's promise and
expectation it would be well with him that then his brother
is coming with 400 men And Jacob is greatly distressed. And we
read in verse 24, that after he'd put those of his wives and
his women's servants, his sons, over the brook, that he was left
alone, and there wrestled a man with him. That word is one of
the first ones, the Lord's so blessed to me in the Scriptures
of truth, as I read this verse, there wrestled a man with him.
The Lord's so shone on that, that that man was our Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ, before he was made manifest in the flesh. It is clearly said here in verse
28, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel, for
as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed. the blessed God-man, and he blessed
him there. Why, Jacob had asked him, tell
me, I pray thee, thy name. Well, that name, the name of
Jesus, was not to be revealed until we have it there in the
gospel according to Matthew. He said, wherefore is it that
thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there. Dear Jacob, he so wrestled. Well, later on we read that when
he came to his brother, there was peace made. He says to Esau,
I have seen thy face as the face of an angel. He saw it as an
answer to prayer, the wrestling, and God had given him that and
given him the peace with his brother. So Jacob as well, in
his deep distress, in his trial, and you might be the same, in
the matter you're going through, I will not let thee go, except
thou bless me." You know, Esau wasn't going to go away. He might
say, what I'm going through is not going to go away. I've got
to meet with this, I've got to deal with this, I've got to face
this. But as Jacob wrestled, and the proof of that answer
was when he met Esau and there was peace. God works at both
ends. He's not Jacob saying, I've had
the blessing. I've had the word from the Lord,
the Lord's blessed me, and then he gets to Esau, and Esau knows
nothing about that blessing, and Esau attacks him, destroys
him anyway. The Lord works on both sides. Then we have one last one, and
that is dear Jonah. In the account of Jonah, of course,
Jonah was running away from the Lord. And the Lord then sent
a wind into the sea, storm, and even those skilled mariners were
fearful and afraid. And Jonah had to own up that
he was the cause of all of that trouble. At first, he was asleep. He wasn't looking unto the Lord
at all. And they were all crying unto
their gods, and they exhorted him to arise and to call upon
the name of his God. And he knew that he was the cause,
and he said to them to throw him into the sea. And the Lord
had prepared that fish for him that swallowed him up, and Jonah
was then in that fish three days and three nights. And what went
on in his soul in that time Naturally speaking, he would never have
known we'd ever come out of that place. We read in the second
chapter of Jonah, his cry unto the Lord and his prayer unto
the Lord. Cast out of his sight, the billows
wrapped about mine head, going down to the depths of the sea.
But he comes to the end of that and he says, salvation is of
the Lord. What had he said before that?
Yet will I look again toward thine holy temple, even though
in this low, low place and so cast out of the sight of the
Lord, yet will I look again. And when he looks again, and
of course, our Lord Jesus Christ is the great anti-type of that
temple. When Solomon dedicated the temple
and that beautiful prayer, he instances all of the places that
the children of Israel should go and if they would look toward
this place and pray toward this place, then hear thou in heaven
thy dwelling place and when thou hearest, forgive. Well Jonah,
he looked and then he says, salvation is of the Lord and the Lord spake
unto the fish and he delivered him and vomited him out upon
the dry land. Jonah was one of those. I sought
the Lord, and he heard me. They looked unto him. I will
look again toward the holy temple, where light and their faces were
not ashamed. He was truly delivered, and then
he did the Lord's bidding. Though still remaining very much
of his own spirit and very much angry with the Lord and the Lord's
dealings. Puzzling case, Jonah. But you
know, there's many of us can sympathise with him. Struggling,
struggling with what the Lord permits and the Lord's dealings
and how he blesses with Jonah. He tells us what his case was.
The Lord has sent him to be a messenger to bring repentance to the Assyrians
who were the bitter enemy of Israel. Meanwhile, Israel were
being left in their sin and the Lord bypasses to a heathen nation. Do you know when the Lord spoke
about Blessing of the Tyrant Sidon of those that not of Israel
or blessing the Samaritans, how the Jews raised up against that. And later on as well, when the
Apostle Paul, when the other apostles spoke about going from
the Jews to the Gentiles, or that Lord should bless the Gentiles,
they rose up against that very idea. And Jonah, he struggled
with that. as well but the Lord used him
and blessed him and in his deep trouble he looked unto him and
he was delivered. So we have these characters and
there are many others and that deliverance is tied up, is bound
up with our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. It'd be a sad thing
if we came to the Word of God and we thought, well, there's
a few occasions in the Word of God that the people of God were
delivered in looking to Christ and He that should come, but
there are many that are delivered from some other way. But it is
Christ in all the Scriptures. There's no deliverance in any
other but in the Lord. And those that walked by faith,
they died in faith, and they looked unto him, the Lord Jesus
Christ, the promised seed that should come. And all the time
you get these little glimpses of it, like we had with Job,
like we have with Solomon. But will God in very deed dwell
upon the earth? It was not far from those Old
Testament saints to have thinking, and in their minds, the coming.
of the Just One, the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. Well,
let us now join with them in our second point in looking unto
the Lord. We, of course, have the Gospel,
the New Testament, the witness accounts of those
that saw our Lord, that saw his life and witness miracles and
all that he did. And we look unto him through
their word, the word of God. And there's five points here
as well. We read that our Lord was made
flesh and dwelt among us, a heavenly boas. Ruth was told by Naomi that he
is a near kinsman unto us, a kinsman redeemer, one that is able to
redeem. Our Lord Jesus Christ was made
under the law and made of a woman that he might redeem them that
are under the law. Born into this world, truly God,
truly man, having a body as we have, and a soul as we have,
to redeem both and to save both. And we look unto him in that
way, that he is a near kinsman, that he is bone of our bone and
flesh of our flesh. Going back to dear Job, in looking
forward and looking to him, he says, how can A clean thing come
out of an unclean. The puzzle in this that it should
be the seed of the woman, but all of those born into this world
are all stained and died with sin. How can it be a spotless
one? He knew if there's to be redemption,
it must be a spotless, pure redeemer. And so when we look unto him,
And we see those blessed accounts in the Gospels of how our Lord
was born and the overshadowing of the Holy Spirit, wherefore
that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called
the Son of God. They looked unto him, may we
look unto him as Simeon did, and he lifted him up, the babe
in his arms. Lord thou, lettest thou thy servant
depart in peace according to thy word. Mine eyes have seen
thy salvation. I have looked, I had an expectation. He was told he wouldn't die before
he'd seen the Lord's Christ. And there he did. May we join
with him and look unto him as made flesh. and dwelling among
us. The second, looking unto him
as in the eyes of John Baptist, when he saw our Lord walking
in the time when our Lord began his ministry, and he said, Behold
the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. But It is that behold, behold
Him, behold the Lamb of God, the Jews would have known exactly
what He was meaning. All that was typified in the
Paschal Lamb, in the sacrifices, the morning, the evening sacrifices,
here was the Lamb of God. Not the types anymore, but the
anti-type of the Lamb of God. And in looking unto Him in that
way, we look unto Him in His spotlessness. You cannot read
the Old Testament directions concerning those sacrifices and
not have it so clear. It must be pure. It must be without
blemish. It must be spotless. Otherwise
it was of no value. In all of our sin, in all of
our violence and our uncleanness, in all of our inability to redeem
ourselves because of that sinfulness. They looked unto him. May we
look unto him and see him the spotless one, the pure one, the
holy one, the one in whom the Father delighted and saw no blemish
and no spot. There is no spot in thee at all. The third is this, to look up
to him whom we have pierced. The prophecy was this, they shall
look upon him in whom they have pierced. And the Lord says, and
I, if I be lifted up above the earth, will draw all men unto
me. It is in the Lord Jesus Christ
and his sacrifice at Calvary that there's to be the hope for
sinners. It is Jesus in the sinner's place
to see him suffering instead of us. What must Isaac have felt
when he was unbound and taken off the altar and he sees his
father take that ram caught by the horns, not by his his fleece
that would have made it impure, but by his horns, and have that
ram slain, and to see the blood flow, remember the knife had
been raised over Isaac, and then to see it laid on that same altar
where he had laid, and then the fire consume it that would have
consumed him, how clear that was for him, that that was in
his place, And for the people of God, they shall look upon
Christ. They shall look upon him. They
looked unto him. And there is no other place that
sin is put away but at Calvary. And there's no other one that
shall put it away but the Lord Jesus Christ. And there's no
other way that we can know that our sins were laid upon him and
put away than that we also are brought to look unto him. where
there is salvation in none other but in the Lord Jesus Christ. That's a beautiful token of being
interested in and that the Lord actually died for us, that we
are brought to look upon him and to see him and to see what
he endured. You know, the Lord won't leave
a heart hardened in that look. They shall mourn for him. They
shall be in bitterness for him. Yes. They looked unto him. They looked unto him whom they
pierced. Have we bought that? Walked that
path? Could it be said of us here? They looked unto him that was
born of a virgin born into this world. They looked unto Him,
the Lamb of God, they looked unto Him whose blood flowed for
them, who suffered for them. The fourth is the risen Saviour. What a blessed day that was and
I often No, I refer to it and to think when we gather together
on the Lord's Day, it is the day when the Lord arose, and
especially these, our evening services. I think of that evening
of that day, the two on the way to Emmaus, they said, the day
is far spent. They constrained him, he went
into them. And following that journey of
which their heart burned within them, while he taught with them
by the way, they opened up the scriptures concerning himself.
Then he revealed himself to them. A beautiful testimony for a child
of God. What was done in the way and
how Jesus revealed himself unto them. And so they looked unto
him and they did. Those that came to the tomb at
first, they were looking for him. They thought they were only
looking for a dead Christ. But the angels say he's not here,
he's risen. And by the end of that day, they
say the Lord is risen indeed. And the Lord came to them in
the upper room and they saw him, they looked upon him. And the
Lord showed with those infallible truths that he was indeed. risen
again from the dead. Then were the disciples glad
when they saw the Lord." How vital that there is that aspect,
that we don't just look upon a dead Christ, don't just look
upon the sacrifice, don't just look upon when he went into prison
or when he went to suffer for us, but when he was released
from prison, when death could hold him no more, when he rose
again from the dead, proving that the price is fully paid,
that God is satisfied, and see our release then. If we had someone
that took our place in going into prison, when would we rejoice? Would it be when they went in
and we knew that they'd got several days or months or years to spend
in prison? Or would it be when they came
out of prison? We realised that that debt had
been paid. The law wasn't going to come
after us and say, to prison you must go because this person has
already paid that debt. They've already done it for us.
In a natural sense, if we buy anything, if we've got any debt
and someone else pays that for us, the firm that we owe that
debt to, they can't chase us for it if it's been paid and
satisfied. And so when we see the empty
tomb, we see the satisfaction of God, the dead paid. They looked unto him. And then
there's the last one, the ascended saviour. What if he'd just risen
from the dead and remained here below? Well, that was not in
the plan of God. The Lord said, I must needs go
away. If I go not away, the Holy Ghost
will not come unto you. The Lord must be in heaven, and
our eyes and our expectation and our hopes must always be
in heaven. And yet the Lord says, I am with
you always, even unto the end of the world. I will pray the
Father, he will give you another spirit that shall abide with
you forever. And the Holy Spirit was given
on the day of Pentecost, the witness that his intercession
availed, and the Holy Spirit was given. and the mystery of
the Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. But we know that
the very flesh and bones of our Lord that hung upon the cross
are now glorified in heaven. But he is with his people by
his Spirit. And in that plan and ordering
of it in that way, we look unto him who is ascended up on high,
greatly exalted, far above all principalities and power, but
also above all of the things of this world. If the Lord should
say to his people, fear not them which kill the body and after
that there's nothing more they can do, then he say to his people,
you look unto me, I have triumphed and through death, I am exalted
at my father's right hand. and make intercession there on
your behalf to appear in the presence of God for us. There's so much in looking unto
him that is ascended up into heaven. We see our great sympathising
high priest. We find him that knew the path
that David walked, that walked that path here below, and that
can sympathise with his people in their troubles, their sorrows
and their distresses. And he is the firstfruits the
first begotten from the dead. And you can't have firstfruits
without there being those that follow after. A beautiful assurance,
there shall be those that follow after. Who shall they be that
follow after? Those that look unto him, that
trace him as it were from, we may say from eternity, but from
the time that he came to this world. the time that he ascended
up on high. Really in the thinking of the
plan of salvation, if we would confine to see what is vitally
important is what the Lord did from the time he came to this
world and the time he ascended up on high and what he accomplishes
there. And you know in the way of grace,
however much we might mourn over the state of the world, the iniquities
of our heart. And as grandparents, we might
say, well, our grandchildren, our children brought into this
world, what will they see? What will they endure? Well,
there's no second birth without a first birth. And the Lord has
seen fit that in this world of sorrow, in this world of sin,
he works the greatest miracle and blessing that ever could
be wrought, that a sinner could be brought from death unto life,
brought from hating the Lord at enmity with God to be brought
to be one with Him and to look unto Him as their whole salvation
and to be with Him forever. Are we numbered amongst those?
Could then this word be said of us? They looked unto Him. Be a blessed thing for us as
a company here this evening, as a church and people, that
it were said, By those round about, they looked unto Him.
That would mark us out as a people that were looking unto Christ,
not unto man, not unto our own works, but unto Christ. They looked unto Him and were
lightened. Their faces were not ashamed,
and no poor sinner shall ever be ashamed, that waits for the
Lord and looks for him, they shall at last see him face to
face, see him in heaven. May the Lord add his blessing.