The language in the book of Revelation
is mysterious language. It's strange sounding. But the
first thing I guess that I wanna do is just state the obvious.
There aren't animals covered with eyes flying around in heaven
tonight. This is again spiritual language
representing something. The word beasts means living
beings. It's not animals, it's living
beings. Many believe these are angels,
surprisingly, because it's clear that they're not from the scripture. Some of the similarity of the
language in Isaiah chapter six, I think, maybe leads some to
believe that. In Isaiah six one, it says, in
the year that King Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord sitting upon
a throne, high and lifted up, sitting on a throne, the Lord's
on the throne, and His train filled the temple, and above
it stood these seraphim. So where they are, each one had
six wings, just like we read in our text. And with Twain,
he covered his face, with Twain, he covered his feet, and with
Twain, he did fly. And one cried unto another and
said, holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts, The whole earth
is full of his glory, so what they said is similar too. And
so, some do say that, but these are not angels. They can't be
angels. If you look at Revelation 5,
8, it's one page over, I think. Listen to that. And when he had
taken the book, the Lord had taken the book, the four beasts
and the four and 20 elders fell down before the Lamb. So here's
these four living beings, And the four elders fell down before
the lamb, having every one of them harps and golden vows full
of orders, which are the prayers of saints. They had the prayers
of the saints. And they sung a new song, saying,
thou art worthy to take the book and to open the seals thereof,
for thou was slain and has redeemed us to God. So these living beings
are saying, you redeemed us to God by your blood. Out of every
kindred and tongue and people and nation. So our Lord took
not on him the nature of angels, we know that. He took on him
the nature of Abraham, the nature of us. Angels don't sing the
song of the redeemed. The Lord Jesus Christ only redeemed
men, so they have to be men. That's all he's ever redeemed
was mankind. But why do they look like that
then? Why do they look so strange? Why do they appear so strange?
Why are they described in spiritual terms the way that they're described?
What's the significance of these? Well, think about this for a
second. There are men who are also angels. Not by nature. Angels have a different nature
than we do. But the word angel, in that it means messenger, There
are men who are messengers, they're angels in that sense, messengers
of God. And these words from Isaiah,
where we read in chapter six of Isaiah that correspond with
the language of our text that apply to angels there in Isaiah
six, but these same words also apply to God's preachers. And
we'll see that as we look through our text. Prophets, preachers, teachers
whom God calls to proclaim his word. These things are applicable
to them too, as a different type of angel, different type of messenger.
And why are they called living beings? That seems like maybe
a strange thing, and I honestly don't know. And I wanna always
be honest about that. But here's what I do know. I
always say what I know for sure, what we know from the scriptures.
We've never lived yet. They, in his presence, and from
his perspective, remember, come up here, John, I gotta show you
something from up here. From the perspective of glory.
Living beings. We don't really know what life
is yet, but we're alive in Christ. And we're dying creatures here.
We're dying every moment a little bit. We haven't ever lived in
the sense that we will live when we're in the presence of God.
But he sees us that way already, and we know that we soon will.
In the truest sense of the word, these are living beings. So that's
how much I know. I'm not sure why they're called
that here, but I know that. There are four of them because
God has sent his messengers into this world in every direction
into the four corners of the earth And that's something that's
mentioned in scripture Quite a bit actually I want to read
you one passage of scripture, but north south east and west
listen for those four words And this is the lord speaking to
his elect He's speaking to the elders In uh, isaiah 43 4 Since
thou was precious in my sight, thou hast been honorable, and
I have loved thee. Therefore will I give men for
thee and people for thy life. Fear not, for I am with thee,
and I will bring thy seed from the east and gather thee from
the west. I will say to the north, give
them up. And to the south, keep not back.
They're all coming. bring my sons from far and my
daughters from the ends of the earth. So you see why there are
four, because here's what we are pretty sure about. I'll tell
you this, when you're pretty sure about something in the word
of God, it's not that important for you to know, or you'd know,
right? God reveals clearly what's vital. But we believe these are the
preachers. These are God's messengers because of what they're doing
and they're men. But so he sends his messengers
to the four corners of the earth and they proclaim his message
and so his elect are brought. They're brought to his throne
of grace as we see them, these 24 elders, 24 seats and 24 elders. Everybody he calls is going to
be there Everybody he loves and chose
and redeemed is going to be there. There's not an empty seat They're
in the midst of the throne and round about it these four living
beings because that's where they get their message from They go
to the very throne of God's grace and they get a message from God
from his words Their message is of the sovereign almighty
savior who's sitting on that throne. That's why we preach
him the way we do, because we've been to his throne. Like the prophet said, I've been
to the potter's house. I went down to the potter's house
and I saw that he does what he pleases with his own. And we've
been to his sovereign throne for a message from him. And so
we come preaching him as such. from the sovereign almighty savior
of sinners. They're full of eyes, which is
what Paul is describing in 1 Corinthians 2.9. They see everything. Paul said in 1 Corinthians 2.9,
but as it is written, I hath not seen nor ear heard, neither
have entered into the heart of man the things which God hath
prepared for them that love him. The things that God has accomplished
and prepared for his elect whom he chose in love, no eye has
seen nor ear heard, and it's not entered into the heart of
any man, but God hath revealed them unto us." We see that, we
see them. We see the love of God toward
his elect. We've seen what he's done for
his people. We know what happened at Calvary,
the world doesn't. Most of the preachers in this
world have no idea what happened at the cross but we see by God's
grace we've got to see we've got to experience the truth or
we can't preach it we've got to with the eye of faith these
are eyes of faith that they're covered in and listen to the rest of this
this is all God hath revealed them unto us
by his Spirit, for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the
deep things of God. Now, 1 Corinthians 2.13, this
is just further down in that same chapter. Which things also
we speak. You see what they're doing with
all those eyes all over them? They're talking, they have a
message to speak. Not in the words which man's
wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth, comparing
spiritual things with spiritual, But the natural man receiveth
not the things of the Spirit of God. For their foolishness
unto him, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually
discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth
all things." That means discerneth. That word is discerneth, all
things. Yet he himself is discerned or
understood of no man. For who hath known the mind of
the Lord that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of
Christ. We see, he's got to reveal all
of the truth. Paul said, I haven't kept back
anything from the word of God from you, the whole counsel of
God. How did he know the whole counsel of God? God gave him
eyes. He's covered in them, behind
and before, and on the inside. And we'll talk about that one
in a minute, Lord willing, but we're not all knowing, that's
not what it's picturing, that we don't know everything. Far
from that, but we know him that is all. God gives discernment. That's what these eyes are. And
also we're able to preach him who is all because we see God's
messengers are described also now as watchmen standing on the
tower, standing on the castle wall to watch over his people. to give warning and to watch
for enemies, for danger. He's got to give us eyes if we're
gonna do that successfully. He's got to. And notice they
have eyes before and behind. These are likely to watch for
enemies, wolves, to protect the flock. We have that all in the
New Testament as well and in the Old Testament too. What pastors
do in that regard. They also have eyes within in
verse eight. And that's a little different.
That's likely the eye of faith and discernment that shows us
within, within our hearts, we see, we know with our hearts,
with our faith, we believe with our hearts. And so we have inside
eyes. Because notice there in verse
eight, that the eyes on the inside are mentioned in connection with
the message that they preach, which we'll talk about in a little
bit. Now notice that God's messengers do not have an elevated position
over the elders, which we saw were just the elect of God. They
represent God's people, all of God's people sitting before his
throne. We're all around about his throne together, wanting to worship him, looking
to him, trusting him. Remember that the number four
here just has to do with sending them to the whole world. Go ye into all the world and
preach the gospel from the east, west, north, give them up, south,
hold not back. Here they come, they're coming
because I'm gonna send my messengers to them. So the number four just
signifies that. So when these four look different,
it's not that there's four of them and there's one that looks
like this and another one looks like that. No, these four are
all of God's messengers and they all, have these characteristics,
these four characteristics that we see in these images of them,
these spiritual images of them in the text, the four traits
that his messengers always have, which is another reason to believe
that that's what these are. They're his preachers, his prophets,
preachers, teachers throughout the ages. One of them looked
like a lion, and everybody knows about a lion. A lion is bold
and a lion is strong. Lions aren't afraid of anything.
He's the king of the jungle. He's not afraid of anything.
God's preachers preach boldly. Not because we have confidence
in ourselves, but because we have confidence in Him. We have
confidence in the gospel. Y'all know me personally. I'm
not dogmatic about much in life. I'm pretty easygoing. about things. I don't always have a strong
opinion one way or the other on a lot of different things,
but when it comes to the gospel, I'm open to other opinions and
ideas and things in this world, but we don't even want to debate
the gospel. We've got no reason to. Why would
we? God's revealed himself to us.
He's revealed his gospel to us. We know that Christ saves whom
he pleases and that whoever he shed his blood for is perfectly
redeemed. And we're not willing to argue
about it. We just want to proclaim it. And we do that boldly. He gives us what Paul needed. God gives all of his preachers
what Paul prayed for or asked them to pray for him for. In
Ephesians 6.18, praying always with all prayer and supplication
in the spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication
for all saints and for me." He's telling you, pray for everybody
and pray for me. Don't forget to pray for me.
That utterance may be given unto me that I may open my mouth boldly,
that I might be a lion in the preaching of the gospel and to
make known the mystery of the gospel for which I am an ambassador
in bonds He was in bonds because he was a lion. He wasn't afraid
to tell the truth even though everybody hated it. And he had
to suffer for it, much, much suffering. But he said, I count
not my life dear unto myself. That's a lie. You can kill me
if you want to. You'll find me over here preaching
the gospel if you want to find me. That's Paul. He was bold
now. That therein I may speak boldly
as I ought to speak. Bold and strong. Strong. Are you saying you're strong,
Chris? Yeah, here's what I'm saying. The Lord is my light
and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? The Lord is
the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid? That's
how lions think. One is like a calf, and that's
a little bit deceiving. A calf is a little small baby
Baby animal, this means a young bullock. But not young in the
sense of it being a baby. It's in the strength of its youth. Because this represents service
and labor. That's what bullocks are for
at this time. They're used for service. Paul
often introduced himself as Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ. A
bullock is trained to do whatever its master wants him to do. If
it's out plowing the field, we got some fields to plow today,
alright, that's what it's going to do. If it's carrying barrels
of water or maybe sheaves from the harvest on its back, it's
a beast of burden. That's what it's going to do
that day. If the master wants that, needs that, requires that
of him, that's what he's going to do. Remember what Paul said
to the Lord in Acts 9, 6, he trembling and astonished, said,
Lord, what wilt thou have me do? He wasn't much interested
in that before until the Lord turned the light on. And the
Lord said unto him, arise and go into the city and it shall
be told thee what thou must do. Must do, I'll tell you what you
gotta do. By his grace, he gives us the
strength. It was what he had for him to do was to preach the
gospel to the Gentiles. And that's still what he has
for us to do, to preach the gospel to every creature and remember
that the Lord is our strength. One looked like a man because
that's what we are. And it reminds us that we're
sinners. You remember when, I forget what message it was, but very
recently in the last couple of messages, you remember when the
Lord upbraided the disciples for their unbelief? And then
a couple of verses later, he said, now go preach my gospel.
That seems a little strange, doesn't it? We're just men. We're
just men. We have this treasure in earthen
vessels. That's God's choice. That's God's
design. That's God's. Purpose and so
he sends out men sinners But the Lord he's chosen now to deliver
his message of himself and salvation in him by these means Remember
what the Ethiopian eunuch said in Acts 8 30 Philip ran thither
to him and heard him read the prophet Isaiah and said do you
understand what you're reading? And that Ethiopian eunuch said,
how can I except some man should guide me? That's how God does
it. Just some man. That's why one
of them looked like a man. And he desired Philip that he
would come up and sit with him. And Philip opened to that same
scripture where he was reading and preached unto him Jesus and
the Lord saved that man. That's how that happens. As pathetic
as we are, God has chosen men to preach the glorious gospel
of the blessed God. Pathetic. Pathetic. And yet, who better to preach
redemption through the precious blood of Christ than someone
who's been redeemed by that blood? Who better to preach to a sinner
Another sinner who's been saved by God's sovereign grace and
can sympathize. I Know where a lost person is
because I've been there. I know what they need They need
a who they need somebody One thing needful and I know I understand
that and I can preach by God's grace I can proclaim to them
with with a humble heart, with a sympathetic
heart. He said, be kind and tender hearted
to preach that way. In Acts chapter 10, Cornelius
had been praying apparently for a message from God. Because when
the angel came, an angel appeared to him and said, God answered
your prayer. And the ultimate result was that Simon came and
preached the gospel to them. So he said, the Lord's heard
your prayer. Your prayer has gone up as a
memorial before the Lord. And so here comes a preacher.
So I suspect that's what he was praying for. God, send us a message. Send us someone to preach to
us. And so that angel appeared. It seemed strange to me years
ago when I read that. There's an angel that just came
from the throne of God down with a message. And said your prayers
been answered, but the angel didn't preach a message to him
He's a messenger too But he can't preach what they need to hear
that angel said go find Simon Go to Joppa and look for one
Simon whose surname is Peter and tell him to come and and
he did and Simon preached to Cornelius and everybody that
Cornelius knew and They all came to Cornelius' house that day,
and God saved them. A man, one of them looked like
a man, didn't he? Because we're just men, maybe
we can heed this exhortation from Romans 12, 15. Rejoice with
them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep. Be of the
same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend
to men of low estate. I can do that because I am a
man of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits. A man, and then an eagle. An
eagle represents a swift messenger with one purpose. Eagles fly
around looking for food. It looks to me like that's all
they do is eat. But the Lord describes himself
in Malachi 3 as a swift witness against those that oppose him.
And he sends us to be swift witnesses of himself. These messengers
have six wings. It's the next thing that's mentioned
after a flying eagle. Notice it's not an eagle just
sitting on a perch, so it's a flying eagle. Because we're swift with
the message that God has sent us with. But these messengers
are mentioned next to have six wings. And you know, I just suspect,
and here again, I don't know for sure, but I think they were
probably doing with them what those seraphims in Isaiah six
were doing with them, that also had six wings. With two, they
were covering their eyes. You know why? Because God is
awesome. This is a position of godly fear
and reverence. And with two, they covered their
feet. That's a position of humility. And with two, they did fly. That's
their swiftness to do the bidding of the Lord. And look what they
were saying. This is the important part. Whether
they're preachers, prophets, not angel, they're men. And I
suspect they're God's messengers. And all of us, in a sense, are
messengers for God. I understand that. But listen
to this, you know what matters when it comes to a messenger?
Their message. That's what matters. What matters
is who sent them and what have they got to say. If somebody
comes to you with a vital, vital message, life and death, absolutely
vital message, what really matters is who sent them and what the
message is. We don't have to speculate at all about that.
Not a bit. We know who sent them. And they
rest not day or night because the message is vital. Because
it is life and death. They don't rest. They don't stop. They don't stop preaching. There's nothing more urgent.
That's what that simply signifies. There's just simply nothing more
urgent. than the message that we have. And the message is who
God is, which is revealed by preaching the Lord Jesus Christ. Holy, holy, holy. Only the preaching of the cross
reveals the holiness of God. You can't say God is holy without
preaching the cross. What does that even mean? How
are you going to define that? How would you define God's holiness
any other way than by preaching Christ crucified? You would try in vain. And so
that's what this simply is. All of God's attributes are revealed
and glorified at Calvary, and his chief attribute is his holiness. God's love is holy love. His
power is holy power. His justice is holy justice.
All of his other attributes are defined by his holiness. That's
why I say it's his chief attribute. And when we preach the cross,
we're telling you who God is. And when you see him, only then
will you see your need of him. Only by seeing something of his
holiness do we know what sinful wretches we are. We learn that
by saying, holy, holy, holy. It means nothing without Christ
crucified. And when we're saying that, and
you see that, you'll see what you are before God. Job said
in Job 42, five, I've heard of you by the hearing of the ear,
but now mine eyes seeth thee. And the spiritual equivalent
to that is faith. God gives us faith in his son.
And he said, wherefore I abhor myself and repent. I'm sorry for what I am. I'm
sorry for everything I thought I knew. I repent in dust and
ashes. And when you see God in His holiness,
and you see your sinfulness, God doesn't just reveal His holiness
in the preaching of the cross, but also His grace. And it goes
together real well, doesn't it? To see His holiness, you better
see His grace if you're gonna see His holiness, or otherwise
it's nothing but despair. He doesn't reveal himself just
that way. He reveals his grace in the preaching
of the cross too. Hope is, for sinners is revealed. You see what a sinner you are
and you see what hope you have in that same cross, in that same
savior that died on Calvary. God's lamb is all of that hope. To see God's holiness also To
hear somebody say, holy, holy, holy, God is holy in all of his
persons, and to hear that, to see that from heavenly perspective, is to see your need of perfect
righteousness. Boy, you're gonna see it. You're
gonna see that if you see him in his holiness, and Christ is
that righteousness. To see God's holiness is to see
your need of a perfect sin offering. And Christ is that lamb. To see
God's holiness is to see your need of reconciliation with God,
that is, peace with God. And Christ has made peace by
the blood of His cross. And they said this, Lord God
Almighty, Lord Sovereign, God Almighty, omnipotent, all powerful. When you're on the throne of
the universe and you can do what you wanna do, that's God. You're God. When you have every right to
do anything you please and you have the ability to do anything
you please, that makes you God. And that's what they're saying
here. And that's what we preach. If you don't know the sovereign
God, you don't know God. It's just that simple. He's Lord,
that is, he rules all things, reigns on his eternal glorious
throne, ruling all things for the good of his sheep, and he's
almighty. This is what Job said in 42,
one of the book of Job. Then Job answered the Lord and
said, I know that thou canst do every thing. And that no thought can be withholding
from thee. Or if you look in the margin,
it says no thought of thine can be hindered. He's almighty to save. He saves
whom he will, when he will, according to his will. He said in Psalm
4610, be still and know that I'm God. His preachers know that
by his grace and everybody who hears are gonna hear that. I
will, listen to what he said next. A lot of times we just
quote that part. Listen to the rest of it. Be
still and know that I'm God. I will be exalted among the heathen.
You don't have a choice about that. I will be exalted. I will
be exalted in the earth. And one of the ways that happens,
I suppose the chief way that happens is his messengers, his
witnesses, which was and is and is to come, it says, the eternal,
immutable God. Not only was he and is he and
he is to come, in other words, he's eternal, but also who and
what he was, he is. And whatever he's doing and has
done is what he'll always do. He doesn't change, he doesn't
change his mind. He doesn't change his purpose. And you know, this is vital for
us. He said, I'm the Lord, I change not, therefore, you sons of Jacob,
you worms are not consumed. That's vital. Now look at verses nine and 10
together. And when those beasts give glory
and honor and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth
forever and ever, the four and 20 elders fall down before him
that sat on the throne and worship him. that liveth forever and
ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying," and I want
to stop right there for a minute and talk about that. Picture
this now. The living beings, God's messengers,
I mean, they're saying, holy, holy, holy. They're declaring
Him. They're talking about who God
is and how sinners are saved by His grace. And here's how
that's described in verse nine. They're given glory and honor
and thanks to him that sits on the throne. When God's preachers glorify
God, and there's only one message that glorifies God, the message
of free will religion glorifies man. There's just no disputing
that. The message of God's sovereign
grace in Christ. He chose whom he would, he redeemed whom he would, and he saves whom he will, he
gives life to whomsoever he will. And so when we give glory to
God, think about this, let me read some scripture about that.
You know how God gets glory? Revelation 21, 22, John wrote
there, And I saw no temple therein,
for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.
And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to
shine in it. For the glory of God did lighten
it, and the Lamb was the light thereof." The Lamb and the glory
of God are synonymous in that statement. The glory of God did
lighten it, and the Lamb is that light. He's the glory of God. Hebrews 1-2, you know, you could
probably quote it. Hath in these days, these last
days spoken unto us by his Son, God has, whom he hath appointed
heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds, who being
the brightness of his glory and the express image of his person,
upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by
himself purged our sins, Boy, there's the glory of God, see.
He sat down on the right hand of the majesty on high, that's
where He is. And we go to that throne, the
one who purged our sins, we find Him there, and we get a message
from Him, and we declare it by His grace. When Christ is exalted,
God gets glory. Listen to this. Philippians 2
9 wherefore God also hath highly exalted him and given him a name
which is above every name That at the name of Jesus every knee
should bow of things in heaven and things in earth and things
under the earth And that every tongue should confess When we
confess with our tongue that Jesus Christ is Lord Remember
the next part to the glory of God the father That's how God
gets glory when we give glory to him in the preaching of the
gospel. When the salvation of a sinner is declared to be all
of grace through faith, by grace alone, through faith alone, in
Christ alone, God alone gets all the glory when that happens.
Listen to it. For by grace are you saved through
faith, and that's not of yourselves, It's the gift of God, not of
works, lest any man should boast. Nobody can boast in this salvation
but God. When Moses asked God, show me
your glory, you remember what God said? I'll have mercy on
whom I'll have mercy. Not only is the Lord Jesus Christ
shedding his precious blood on Calvary, the most glorious thing
that's, the most glorious display God and who he is and his love
for sinners that there is But also he said I'll have it on
whom I will He's sovereign God having mercy on sinners is Christ
in him crucified. That's what that is And it says
also in verse 9 that when not if I But when we give glory and
honor and thanks to him that sits on the throne and liveth
forever and ever, now verse 10, all of his redeemed fall down
before his throne and they worship him. Is that what we're doing
tonight? All of his redeemed. This is
what must come to pass. Remember, the Lord told John,
I'm gonna show you some things that must come to pass. He said,
come up here and I'll show you what must happen hereafter. So
what John is getting here is a vision of what is happening
now. Hereafter, when he was on the earth, on Patmos, he's getting
a vision of what's happening now on the earth. And ever since
then, I suppose, but from the perspective of heaven, from the
perspective of God, That's why these visions, these unusual
descriptions, he's seeing what is represented, who's represented,
and the things of God that are represented in these descriptions,
the glory of God. Now those crowns, we talked about
those last time, crowns of life and glory and righteousness they're
described as in the New Testament. And here they're cast down at
his feet. We have a crown of life. We're
living beings because of his grace. I have a crown of life. I actually live in the true sense
of the word. It says in the scripture, she
that liveth in sin is dead while she lives. And I suspect that
goes for a he too. Those that live in sin are dead
while they live. But we have life. He's given
us a crown Symbolic we don't have we don't have actual crowns
on our head. This is all symbolism it pictures The life that's ours
in Christ I'm crucified with Christ nevertheless I live But
the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith
of the Son of God not I but Christ And so that crown comes off and
it goes I cast it at his feet. That's what that signifies I'm
alive. I'm a living being because Christ
is my life crown of glory we got one of
them a crown of glory there just like him that's what that's
what it is to be glorified just like him because of him
and so And you might think, you know, somebody might say, well,
Chris, wait a minute now, we're not glorified yet, so how can
this be a vision of what's gonna happen on earth? Well, here's the thing, it's
from God's perspective. It's come up here and look down,
they're glorified. They have a crown of glory. Remember,
moreover whom he did predestinate them he also called. and whom
he called, them he also justified, and whom he justified, them he
also glorified. He did it already. That's what
he sees. And John saw that from up there. And by casting the crowns before
him, we acknowledge that the crown of glory that we wear is
attributable unto him. And what he did for us. Our corruptible
has put on incorruption. And it's him that put it on. And after the messengers say
what they say, to the glory of God in Christ, the people of
God respond. And they say something to him.
And I thought it was interesting. They don't say it to the preacher.
They don't say it to the messenger. I love it when somebody comes
up to me and says, boy, that message was a blessing. That
message sure was a blessing. Because I know if it was, it's
because God blessed it. And that's everything. That's
everything. So that means a lot to me. But
what's special here and precious is that what these hearers had
to say after they heard from the living beings, what they
had to say, they said it to God. They said it to God himself.
The messengers speak to the elect, and the elect hear, and the people
of God say something to God himself, in their hearts, if not with
their lips. What do they say to him? You're worthy. Let not
the wise man glory in his wisdom. Because God is worthy, not us. We're not wise, nor strong, nor
rich in ourselves. If you say you're rich, you're
poor, miserable, naked, and blind. You're worthy. Not unto us, O Lord, not unto
us, but unto thy name give glory. Remember why? for thy mercy and
for thy truth's sake. This is the whole point of having
an earth. The messengers glorify him and
the ones who hear it with ears to hear glorify him. That's the point of having an
earth. What does God need an earth for? He's God. The glory the glory of God in
Christ and him crucified. God has an earth because he has
a people. He has a people to glorify his
son. The kingdom of heaven is like
unto a king that made a marriage for his son. He has a people to glorify his
son. That's the point of it. You know
why I say that's the point of having an earth? Because that's
what they said. Thou has created all things,
and how come? For thy glory they are and were
created. Amen.