Good morning. Let's open this
morning's service with hymn number 70 from your hardback hymnal,
number 70, Holy, Holy, Holy. Let's all stand together. ? Holy, holy ? Lord God almighty
? Early in the morning ? Our song shall rise to thee ? Holy,
holy, holy ? Merciful and mighty ? Brought in three persons ?
Blessed Trinity ? Holy, holy, holy ? All the saints adore thee
? Casting down their golden crowns ? Around the glassy sea Sarah, Bim and Seraphim falling
down before thee, which wert and art and evermore shall Holy, holy, holy, though the
darkness hide thee, though the eye of sinful man thy glory may
not see. There is none beside Thee Perfect
in power, in love and purity. Holy, holy, holy Lord God Almighty
All thy works shall praise thy name In earth and sky and sea
Holy, holy, holy ? Merciful and mighty ? God in three persons
? Blessed Trinity Please be seated. Good morning. We're gonna be
in John chapter one again this morning Turn to me there in your
Bibles, the first chapter of the Gospel of John. As we were
singing that hymn, I was thinking about what the Lord tells us
in the 12th chapter of John, that the one that Isaiah saw
high and lifted up in Isaiah chapter six was none other than
the Lord Jesus. And he is the one who is holy,
holy, holy. And yet, at the same time, he
cannot be separated from his Father or from God the Holy Spirit. The three are one. And as we
just sang in that hymn, when we ascribe holiness to the Lord
Jesus, we are ascribing holiness to the Father and to the Holy
Spirit. So next Sunday we're going to
have lunch after service and there's a sign up sheet on the
back table. If you haven't looked at that
yet, you might want to check that out Hugo has preached at a Spanish
Reformed church in Lakeland a couple of times. And he's back there. The pastor has asked him to come
back this morning and preach again. And so I told him that
we would remember him in prayer this morning as he preaches the
gospel in that church. So let's pray together. Our merciful, gracious, glorious,
and holy Heavenly Father, what great hope we have in knowing
that we are holy, even as He is holy, that Thy dear Son stands
in our stead before Thee. and presents himself as all of
our righteousness before thy holy throne. And that we are
able to come with boldness before the throne of grace to find help
in our time of need. Father, there is no time that
we're more needy and in need of more help than when we gather
together for worship. Lord, we depend upon your Holy
Spirit to come and enlighten the eyes of our understanding,
to set our affections on things above where Christ is seated
at thy right hand. Lord, we confess to you that
our thoughts and our sight and our affections have been much
too often of the things of this earth. Lord, in this hour, we
pray that you would cause us to worship thee. Enable us, Lord,
to see things as they truly are, and forgive us, Lord, of our
many sins, and cause us, Lord, to find hope and rest in Christ. Lord, we pray for our brother
Hugo, ask that you'd give him liberty and clarity and freedom
to preach Christ and Lord, that you would call your lost sheep
out and perhaps Lord, that you'd be pleased to bring a gospel
witness in the Spanish language in that city of Lakeland. We
pray it in Christ's name. Amen. I've titled this message, When
Heaven is Opened. When Heaven is Opened. And our
hope and prayer always is that the Lord would rend the heavens
and come down, particularly when we gather together for worship,
that he would open the windows of heaven and that he would cause
the light of the gospel and the person of his son to shine in
our hearts and reveal Christ to us. And the Lord speaks of
the opening of heaven here in these last two verses of John
chapter 1. You remember now Nathanael has
been declared as an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile. And Nathanael asked the Lord,
how do you know me? And the Lord said, when you were
under the fig tree, I saw thee. And in verse 49 of John chapter
one, Nathanael, when he hears our Lord say this of him, Nathanael
says unto him, rabbi, thou art the son of God, thou art the
king of Israel. The Lord had revealed himself
to Nathanael's heart. in showing him that he was the
one that he spoke to there under that fig tree. And Nathaniel
has come to believe that this Jesus of Nazareth, remember what
Nathaniel said, what good thing can come out of Nazareth? Well,
the best thing came out. The only good thing that there
is in this world came out of Nazareth. And now Nathaniel has
been has had him revealed to his heart. And in verse 50, Jesus answered
and said unto him, because I said unto thee, I saw thee under the
fig tree, believest thou, thou shalt see greater things than
these. And he saith unto him, verily,
verily, I say unto you, hereafter, beginning now, that's what that
word hereafter means, beginning now, You shall see heaven opened
and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of
Man. Now the Lord is obviously referring
back to that experience that Jacob had when he was fleeing
after having deceived his father and stolen the birthright from
his brother Esau He's now fleeing in fear of his life and the first
place he stops, the scripture says that he makes a pillow from
a rock and the significance of that is that the Lord Jesus Christ
is the rock of ages and we rest all the hope of our salvation
in him. The only reason why a man would
make a pillow out of a rock when certainly there were softer things
there And yet, you know, just as a rock would be uncomfortable
to the flesh to rest one's head on, so the Lord Jesus as the
rock upon whom which we build our lives, which our lives are
built, is uncomfortable to the flesh, is contrary to everything
that this flesh finds as its comfort in this world. But Jacob
nevertheless lies down, takes a rock, makes it as his pillow
and falls asleep. And in his sleep, he has a vision.
And in that vision, he sees a ladder that's placed upon the earth
and extended all the way up into heaven. And the angels are descending
and ascending on that ladder. And he wakes up from his dream
and he takes that rock that he had made a pillow from, and he
pours oil on it. Oh, in the dream, God renews
the covenant with Jacob that he had made with his father,
Isaac, and with his father, Abraham. So the covenant to bless Abraham
was passed on to Isaac, and now, as the scripture tells us in
the book of Romans, it's not all the seed of Abraham, it's
Isaac. Not Ishmael. And it's not all
the seed of Israel. Of Isaac, I'm sorry. It's Jacob,
not Esau. And so the promised covenant
of salvation, the coming of Christ, the saving of God's people, is
now confirmed to Jacob. And he makes a sacrifice and
an altar and pours oil and calls the place Bethel. And Beth is the word for house
and El is the word for God and the word Bethel, he says, for
surely this is none other than the house of God. This is where
God has come down and God has met with me. The heavens have
been opened. And so now the Lord is using that story, that experience
that Jacob had to identify himself as that ladder. And he is the
one who has come down from heaven and he is the one on whom the
angels descend and ascend in order for in order for his people
to have the windows of heaven opened and access to God. There is one God and one mediator
between God and man, the man, Jesus Christ. So the Lord, you
see in our text, he refers to himself as the son of man. So
he's, the Lord is often referred to as a son of God and he's referred
to as a son of man. He had two natures, didn't he?
And he's referring to here of his incarnation as man, as the
one who gives access into the very presence of God. Apart from
him, we have no hope. of having heaven opened. Nathanael, you're going to see
heaven open and you're going to see the angels ascending and descending on the
Son of Man. The end of that story in Genesis
chapter 28, Jacob makes this prayer to God. He says, when I come again to
my father's house in peace, Jacob is believing that God has spoke
to him and God has made a promise and Jacob is gonna go to Laban's
house. He's gonna be there for 20 years.
20 years he's gonna be at Laban's. He's gonna come back with his
wives and his children and he's gonna return to his father's
house. And so Jacob says, when I come again to my father's house
in peace, Jehovah shall be my God. So what a prophetic statement
that the Lord Jesus Christ who came into this world on whom
the angels descended and ascended and through whom The windows
of heaven are opened and we have access to God in the person of
Christ. He said, when I return to my
father's house in peace, Jehovah shall be my God. When the Lord
Jesus ascended back into glory, he returned to his father's house.
He was here for 33 years, but he returned to his father's house
in peace, having made peace by his blood. We have peace with
God through the Lord Jesus Christ. And he sat down at the right
hand of God. And the father was pleased with
the work that he had accomplished. And he takes his rightful place
now as our substitute, as our surety, as our sin bearer, As
our advocate before God, we have one who has returned to his father's
house and God the Father has declared his approval of all
that he accomplished in order that heaven might be open. Otherwise, heaven's not open
apart from the Lord Jesus Christ. I am the way. I am the truth
and I am the life. No man can come to the Father
except by me. He is the one mediator between
God and man, the God-man, the Lord Jesus. And he says to Nathanael,
he said, Nathanael, you're gonna see greater things than this.
You've come to believe because you heard me say that I saw you
under the fig tree, but you just wait and see. And Nathanael was
from Cana, which is chapter two, we're
gonna be in shortly, where the Lord performs his first miracle
in turning the water into wine and all the glorious significance
of that miracle. And the miracle ends with this.
No one knew where the wine came from. But look with me at verse
11 of chapter two, the last part, well, this beginning of miracles
did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, Nathanael's hometown, and manifested
forth his glory. He manifested forth his glory
and his disciples believed on him. His disciples saw that miracle. They saw the angels ascending
and descending on the son of God. And as a result of that,
they believed on him. Now, Nathaniel, Nathan, but here by
the name of Nathan, Nathan's name translated means gift. And
again, El is the name for God, and so Nathanael is the gift
of God. And we know that by grace we're
saved through faith, and that and out of ourselves, it is the
gift of God. And the gift of God is eternal life
through the Lord Jesus Christ. And so what I want us to see
this morning is ourselves in Nathanael, because if God is
pleased to give us the gift of eternal life in the person of
his son, then we have the promise that he gave to Nathanael. You're
going to see heaven opened and you're going to see the angels
of God ascending and descending on the son of man. You're going
to have access to my Heavenly Father. You're going to be able
to come before the very throne of grace with boldness and confidence
knowing that I have opened heaven. So here's our hope that we will
be recipients of God's gift. A man can receive nothing except
to be given to him from heaven and so Nathaniel sees, as we already
saw in chapter 2, the glory of Christ in the miracle that he
performed. He's going to see deaf men hear. He's going to see blind men to
see. He's going to see, over the next
three years, lame men walk. He's going to see lepers cleansed. He's going to see men raised
from the dead and most importantly he's going to see the resurrection
and the ascension of the Lord Jesus Christ and that's what
the Lord's saying to Nathanael. Nathanael, what you're going
to see hereafter, beginning now and throughout forever, you're
going to see heaven open and you're going to see the angels
of God. ascending and descending on the
Son of Man. Not only would Nathanael see,
but Nathanael would hear some things that he'd never heard
before. He, like all the Jews, could say, well, what the Lord
said when he said, you have heard that it was said of your fathers,
you shall not, and all the things that the Lord would say in reference
to the things that they had heard from their fathers. But I say
unto them, I say unto thee, when the Lord speaks, he doesn't refer
back to what the fathers said. He takes that position himself
and he speaks with authority. Never a man spake like this man.
When they sent the police to have him arrested, they came
back and they said, we couldn't touch him. He didn't
speak like the scribes and the Pharisees. He didn't say with
the religious leaders, well, you know, this is what they said. No, he said, I say unto thee. Even the prophets who spoke the
truth had to say, thus saith the Lord. But the Lord Jesus
doesn't say that. He says, I say unto thee. And he said, I am, I am the bread
of life. You've heard of that bread that
came down from heaven? I'm that bread. The water of
life, I am the water of life. The way, the truth and the life,
I am that. The resurrection and the life,
I am. Nathaniel, you're going to see
and hear things that you've never seen and heard before. And as a result of what you see
and what you hear, heaven's gonna be opened. You're gonna have access into
the very presence of God. Now if you'll turn with me to
Revelation chapter three, Revelation chapter three, here's our hope. Brethren, that the Lord will
do for us what he did for Nathanael, that he'll open heaven and that
we'll see things and hear things that Nathanael saw and heard.
And before we go any further, yes, Nathanael actually saw them
with his physical eyes and heard them with his physical ears.
But there is a seeing and a hearing that is more convincing than
that. I love the passage where Peter speaks of the transfiguration
of the Lord Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration when Peter,
James, and John saw the veil of his humanity removed and the
radiance of his deity and glory shine forth as the noonday sun
and Peter, James, and John were forced to the ground. The radiant
glory of Christ was so magnificent. I mean, of all mountaintop experiences,
that would have been one. And yet when Peter refers back
to that experience and he says of that experience, we did not
bring you cunningly devised fables, we handled the word of God. We're
telling you of those experiences that we had. They're undeniable
experiences. And then the next verse, I love
it, he says, yet we have a more sure word of prophecy. You see, those experiences are
always to some degree subjective just like our experiences are.
We have to be careful with our experiences because know, they
can be subjective. There's always a degree of subjectivity
in our experiences, isn't there? Our feelings, our perspective,
what do they say? Eyewitnesses are not always reliable.
Well, our feelings are not always reliable. Feelings come and feelings
go. Feelings can be deceiving. Our
only warrant is the Word of God, there's none else worth believing.
And that's what Peter's saying. We have a more sure word of prophecy. We have an objective declaration
of God's glory and God's truth whereby he opens the windows
of heaven and the angels ascend and descend upon the Son of God.
And I love it when the Lord warms my heart with his presence and
I'm able to, but I, I can't rely upon that. I mean, I've had,
and you have too. I mean, I can listen to the National
Anthem and get goosebumps, you know? I can crank up Led Zeppelin on
my radio in the car and listen to Stairway to Heaven and get
goosebumps, you know? I mean, you see my point. We have to be careful, don't
we? We have the objective word of God whereby he opens for us
through the eyes of faith and the ears of faith as a gift to all the Nathaniels
so that heaven's opened. That's our hope and that's our
prayer. And only he can do that. You
have your Bibles open to Revelation 3. Look at verse 7 of Revelation
3. And only two of the seven churches
the Lord did not rebuke. Philadelphia, the city of brotherly
love, and Smyrna, which we have a town right here. Some of you
live in New Smyrna. I don't know of any other cities
that are called Laodicea or Thyatira or Ephesus. God rebuked those cities, but
he did not rebuke Philadelphia. And here's what he says of Philadelphia. And to the angel, verse 7 of
Revelation chapter 3. to the angel of the church in
Philadelphia write, these things saith he that is holy and he
that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth
and no man shutteth and shutteth and no man openeth. I know thy
works. Behold, I have set before thee
an open door and no man can shut it, for thou hast a little strength
and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name." Philadelphia
and Smyrna were the only two churches that had not allowed
false prophets to come in and deny Christ. They had not allowed,
they had not tolerated open rebellion against God. and the Lord commends
them and He said, I've opened a door for you that no man can
shut. What God opens, no man can shut and what God shuts,
no man can open. So here's our hope, Lord, if
the windows of heaven is going to be open, you're going to have
to open them. If your Word is going to be opened, you're going
to have to open it. If my heart's going to be open,
You're going to have to open it. And I know, Lord, that if
you open it, no man can shut it. No man can shut it. So that always our hope, brethren,
that the Lord would would do for us and answer for us the
promise that he made to Nathaniel. The gift of God would be eternal
life in Jesus Christ, our Lord, and we would see heaven open
and the angels ascending and descending on the Son of God. Though faith always needs to
be new, it needs to be fresh, only as God gives daily bread,
we can't live off of yesterday's faith or yesterday's truth, we
have to come daily before the Lord and sing the new song. And it's
not new in its content, it's new in its freshness, in its
experience. And that's how we're always hoping
that when we hear the gospel, it'll be as if we, first time
we ever heard it. Lord, make it so. And that having
been true, we're not looking for something new. We're looking for more of The
Lord Jesus who has already been revealed as the Son of Man who
came down to open the windows of heaven. Lord, I'm not looking
for a new truth or a new revelation or for something different. Looking for more of you. Lord,
would you open the windows of heaven? You see, faith looks
back and rest its hope in that which
has been revealed in God's Word. Faith comes by hearing and hearing
comes by the Word of God. So let us be cautious about looking
for something different or something, some new truth and let us seek to know him. Paul said,
oh, that I might know him. And when Paul wrote that in Philippians,
he was long into his pilgrimage of faith. He said, I've not yet
apprehended that which has apprehended me, but there's one thing I do.
I forget those things which are behind, and I press towards the
mark for the prize of the high calling in Christ Jesus. I just
want to know him, the fellowship of his suffering. When he suffered
on Calvary's cross, I was in him. And the punishment that
he received, God credited to my account. My sins were put
away by his suffering and by his death on Calvary's cross
so that I was crucified with him, that I might know the fellowship
of his suffering and the power of his resurrection. that when he was raised from
the dead by the power of God that I was raised from the dead
and brought to new life. That's what baptism is a picture
of, buried with Christ in baptism and raised to walk a new life
in Christ Jesus. Lord, would you open the windows
of heaven for me? Would you give me the gift as
you gave to Nathanael? Would you reveal yourself to
me? If he does, it'll be by his word. Very quickly, when were the times
in our Lord's earthly life that the angels of heaven came down? Well, the first one was at his
incarnation, wasn't it? When those angels came and spoke
to the shepherds. And there's something significant
about that. because God uses the foolishness of preaching.
And God has called men to prepare messages and prepare his word
and study his word. And when God opens the windows
of heaven, he does it through the means of the preaching of
the gospel in a shepherd. And he's brought to his church
under shepherds so that they're able to say to the sheep, Follow
me as I follow Christ. This is the message that God
has given and how humbling it is. I've made this point before.
I'm not exalting myself. The means by which God opens
the windows of heaven and reveals himself to his people is humbling
to everybody. It's humbling to you. because
it doesn't ask you for your input. Faith comes by hearing. You're
sitting there, you're not being asked questions, you're not being
asked for your opinion. We don't have a question and answer session
after a message like the reformed people do, where everybody gets
to pool their ignorance and put in their two cents worth. No,
it's humbling. You don't have anything to say,
you're just listening. Brethren, take my word for it.
If you've ever gotten up here and tried to speak for God before,
It is most humbling for the man that has to stand up here and
try to speak the truth to God's people. And that's the purpose of it,
that's the reason why the Lord uses preaching because everybody's
humbled in the experience and God gets all the glory, he gets
all the praise. So these angels came and they
spoke to the shepherds and they said to the shepherds, unto you
is born this day in the city of David, a savior, which is
Christ the Lord. And they saw a star over the
manger and they followed. They found where the Lord was
by that star. And it's significant in the book
of Revelation, the pastors, we just read in Revelation chapter
3 about the pastor in Philadelphia, he's called a shepherd. And they're
also called the seven stars that the Lord holds. And so here's
biblical pictures of how the Lord, what means the Lord uses
to open the windows of heaven. We come together, let us pray
together and let us ask the Lord to use the preaching of Christ
to open that which no man can shut and to give us eyes of faith
and hearts of faith and ears of faith to hear and to see and
believe what we've never heard and seen and believed before. It might be fresh and true. And there was with the angel
a multitude of heavenly hosts praising God and saying, glory
to God in the highest. Glory to God in the highest.
May he get all the glory. And on earth, peace, goodwill
toward men. The Lord Jesus, the Prince of
Peace. And he's to be preached as that. And he's to be believed
on as that. He is Emmanuel, God with us. He is the fulfillment of the
not only Jacob's ladder in Genesis 28 but he's the fulfillment of
the very first prophecy that was made of him to Adam in the
garden when he said the seed of the woman shall crush the
head of the serpent. And that's why the Lord came
in the likeness of sinful flesh. Turn with me to that verse of
Romans chapter 8 Romans chapter 8, look at verse 3, for what the law
could not do in that it was weak through the flesh. Nothing wrong
with God's law. God's law is holy. God's law
is just. God's law is good. But because
of the weakness and sinfulness of our flesh, we can't satisfy
its demands. Nothing wrong with the law. It's
the weakness of our flesh. Therefore, God sending his own
son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin condemned sin
in the flesh that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled
in us who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit. The Lord Jesus was made in the
likeness of sinful flesh and yet he's without sin. He wasn't
born like you and I were of our father Adam. Mary was conceived
of the Holy Ghost. The Lord Jesus came into this
world without sin, lived a perfect sinless life, and is a perfect
sacrifice who satisfied the requirements of God's law by establishing
a perfect righteousness. He bore the sins of his people
upon his body, in his body on that tree and put them away once
and for all by the sacrifice. So he was made in the likeness
of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh. He
put that sin away. So when the Lord said to Nathanael,
you're going to see Jacob's ladder and you're going to see the angels
ascending and descending. Nathaniel, though he wasn't there
at the birth of Christ, we are. We are. May God, the Holy Spirit,
transport us in the Spirit to that time when the Lord Jesus
was manifested in the flesh, the mystery of godliness. Great
is the mystery of godliness, Paul said, for Christ was manifested
in the flesh. And there we We look for the
windows of heaven to be opened at the incarnation of the God-man,
the Lord Jesus, upon whom the angels ascended and descended. We see in the temptations of
the Lord Jesus, 40 days after his baptism, he went
into the wilderness and was tempted of the devil. and those temptations
that came upon him in his weakest hour represent for us what the
scripture says in 1 John about all that is in the world. The
lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life.
That's what the stone being turned bread, that's what casting off
the pinnacle of the temple, and that's what being taken up on the mountain
and having all these, those three things. It goes all the way back
to Genesis when Eve saw that the fruit was pleasant to the
taste, pleasing to the eyes, and able to make one wise. Those
are the three temptations that Christ suffered in the wilderness. And at the end of those temptations,
the angels came and ministered unto him. And what is the Lord
telling us? What is he telling us? In this
world, you shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer. I have
overcome the world. What you are not able to do in
this world, because when the lust of the flesh and the lust
of the eyes and the pride of life come upon you, you sin in
your temptations. But I have, I have overcome the
world. And the angels descending upon
me at the end of those 40 days is God's testimony to say that
I am the one that opened up heaven. So that, so that in all of your
sin, you have a sinless savior who yes, was tried in all ways
that we are yet without sin, without sin, even in his temptations,
he never sinned. He rebuked the devil all three
of those times, didn't he? With scripture. When's the next time we see the
angels ascending and descending on the Son of God? Well, at his
resurrection. When Mary came to the tomb and
the angels were sitting there on the stone which had been rolled
away, What did they say? Why seek ye the living among
the dead? He's not here, he's risen, he's
alive, he's conquered death and his resurrection is the positive
proof that God has given to his people that everything he did
was pleasing to the Father and satisfied all of his demands
for the salvation of his people. You see, brethren, this is when
the windows of heaven are opened. This is when God gives, by His
Word and by the revelation of what the Lord Jesus did, the
angels ascending and descending upon the Son of God, we are given
faith to have the windows of heaven
opened and the Son of Man revealed to us. When is the next time
we see the angels? Well, at his ascension. There
they are at the Mount of Olives, Nathanael's with them. And the
Lord Jesus is caught up into the heavens, bodily ascended
into glory. And those disciples all standing
there gazing up into heaven and the angels came and the angels
said, men of Galilee, why stand you here gazing up into heaven?
The same Jesus which has been caught up from you is gonna come
again in like manner. And so we see that he received
his rightful place at the right hand of the majesty on high,
that God received him back into glory, that he's seated as our
advocate and as our surety. And by the eyes of faith, we
set our affections on things above where Christ is seated
at the right hand of God. This is the gift of God. This
is when heaven's opened. When do we see heaven open again?
at his second coming. The trump of God sounds and the
dead in Christ should be raised. Oh, and if the Lord tarries in
sending those angels to reap the earth and bring in the harvest,
the scriptures make it clear that for each one of his children,
just as he did for Lazarus, remember this parable of the rich man
and Lazarus? And there's some curiosity as
to whether or not that's really even a parable because in parables
men aren't given names, in parables. Lazarus is given a name and the
scripture says that he died and God sent his angels and brought
him into the bosom of Abraham. You see, this is what the eye
of faith does, it looks upon the Son of Man who bore our sins. What is the one time that we
might be tempted to think that the angels of God would ascend
and descend upon the Son of Man but they didn't? You know when
it was, is that His crucifixion? For the Lord said to his disciples,
I could call 12 legions, now legions over 6,000, I could call
12 legions of angels and they would come and deliver me. But
if I did, how would the scriptures be fulfilled? How would they be fulfilled? How many times in the Old Testament
we see God sending one angel to wipe out a whole nation, a
whole army, one angel. 12 legions of angels could have
come. And don't you know that the entire
heavenly host of angels had swords drawn and they were waiting,
breathless waiting for the command of their savior to come and deliver
him when they were watching what he was doing and going through. but he had to do it alone. Angels
couldn't minister to him, he had to do it all by himself in
order to bear our sins and put them away and make of himself
a sacrifice to his Heavenly Father. Nathanael, the gift of God. Faith is the gift of God. and
eyes to see the angels ascending and descending on the Son of
Man and not to be demanding an experience but to believe what
God has said and to be able to be transported by the Spirit
of God back into these times and not only believe and see
the importance of each one of these times when God sent his
angels in order that heaven might be opened. And it's open. And when God opens, no man can
shut. Oh, might we, might we in faith
walk through that gate now, now, that one day we might be able
to do it in sight. All right, let's take a break.