Revelation 1 16 Talk about the
key keeper tonight the key keeper And he had in his right hand
seven stars and out of his mouth when a sharp two-edged sword
and His countenance was as the Sun shanath in his strength We
know from verse 20 the end of this chapter What these seven
stars are? They're God's preachers. We're
not left to our imagination. We're told exactly what they
are. They're the angels, or the word is messengers, of the seven
churches, the ones in God's churches who deliver the message of God. And often in the scriptures,
you've seen with me how that, of course scripture sheds light
on scripture but a lot of times the light that sheds is right
around the verse that you're looking at it's all around it
in the text itself in this image of God's preachers and remember
this is a spiritual picture the Lord doesn't really look like
physically like he doesn't have a sword coming out of his mouth
and things like that this is a spiritual picture very powerful
image of spiritual truth but this thing of him having these
seven stars in his right hand. And there's a reason it's his
right hand that always signifies something in the word of God.
But what comes right before and right after this phrase sheds
light on this. It's vital to understanding what
the Lord is doing with seven stars in his right hand. He's
got us in his hand, but what's he doing? Well, look at verse
15, the very last part, the part
right before our text, right before verse 16, his voice is
as the sound of many waters. And then right after the stars
out of his mouth, we see that sharp two-edged sword. So the Lord Jesus Christ is speaking
And we learn different things about him speaking. And as he's
speaking, he's got seven stars in his right hand. That tells
us a little bit of something about what these seven stars
have to do with. First of all, think about what
stars are. Why does it say stars? Well,
stars are a bright, shining light. We see them every night, just
about. If you look up, you're gonna see them, unless it's cloudy.
You're gonna see stars. It's a bright light, very bright,
but in a sea of blackness. shining lights in a sea of darkness
and stars at that time were used to navigate that's how they navigated
great distances especially on the ocean, on the sea, if they
were sailing, they would navigate by the stars. And that metaphor,
I guess it is, is used in the scripture because those who are
anti-Christ are called wandering stars. In other words, they're
stars that you can't guide yourself by. You're not going to find,
you're not going to get where you go and look into those stars.
that hate the Lord Jesus Christ and preach a false gospel. So
we see that metaphor in scripture. So we know what's being taught
here. If a certain star moves at all, then somebody that's
depending on that star to guide them, they're gonna be lost.
And so Christ, his messengers are stars. They're a bright light. He said to his disciples, you're
the light of the world. Of course, we reflect his light,
we shine forth his light, but the properties of a star are
instructive regarding how God uses his preachers. Not what
they are by nature, there's nothing bright about me or anybody else
by nature, we know that, but how he uses them, what he does
with them, that's what we're learning here. Fixed, reliable. You can name them and you can
find them, can't you? You can find specific ones. Bright
shining lights in a world of darkness. But look again at the
language before and after that. His voice like water, his mouth
has the sword coming out of it. Boy. Then as he is speaking,
as he is speaking, he's holding those stars in the right hand. Do you know what the right hand
signifies? His power. The gospel is the power of God
unto salvation. Those messengers are in his right
hand because this is all about his power, his voice, his mouth,
his sword. That's where the power comes
from. That's why it's powerful. And seven being the number of
completion or fullness or wholeness, he holds everybody that speaks
for him. These seven churches represent
all of his churches, the seven stars, all of his messengers. And he holds everybody that speaks
for him in the right hand of his power. Remember this passage
now. We see this, this is what John's
looking at, but we knew this already. Listen to what the Lord
said in Matthew 28, 18. Jesus came and spake unto them,
he's about to leave this earth, he's speaking to his disciples,
he's teaching them, and he says this to them. Jesus came and
spake unto them saying, all power is given unto me in heaven and
in earth, go ye therefore. He didn't say all power is given
to you, so you go. It's given to me, it's his right
hand, but you go, you shine, you teach, teaching all nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and
of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever
I have commanded you. Say what I said, tell them what
I told you, And lo, I'm with you always, even unto the end
of the world. Amen. That's the Lord Jesus Christ
with the seven stars in his right hand. All power is mine and I'm
sending you. I'm using you. I'm gonna shine
by you. That's where John saw him. That's
where they still were. All power is still his and we're
still in his hand. to do with what he will, to wield
as he will, to send where he will. And that's where John saw us.
So his power, his voice, his waters, and remember what that
means, it won't return into him void. The many waters, Isaiah
55 11, my word will be like the rain that falls from heaven,
it won't return into me void, it'll cause the tender herb to
spring up. It'll give life like I told it
to. It'll do exactly what I sent it. And as a trumpet, clear and
sharp and unmistakable. And it's a call to arms, isn't
it? The trumpet is. Listen to 1 Corinthians
14, eight. I tried to quote this, I think
last Wednesday. And I think I might've quoted it, but here it is. 1 Corinthians 14, eight. If the
trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to
the battle? So his voice is like a trumpet. It does inspire, doesn't it? His gospel inspires. It rallies
us. It brings us together and causes
us to want to be in on it, whatever he's doing, to be in on it and
to give ourselves to the battle. and a sharp two-edged sword coming
out of his mouth. As he wields in power those seven
stars, there's a sword coming out of his mouth. Again, a picture,
a spiritual picture, but what a powerful one. Hebrews 4.12,
the word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any
two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul
and spirit. and of the joints and marrow
and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Why
does it look like, why did John see a sword coming out of his
mouth? Right there. His word is piercing and sharp
and it exposes. It wounds, doesn't it, and heals. And listen, another thing about
a star, we still talk about the star. He had those stars in his
right hand. What a picture. Another thing about a star is
it's completely silent. It has no voice of its own. Wait
a minute, Chris, you just said his stars are messengers. They
speak, they have something to say. Yeah, but we have no voice
of our own. We have nothing to say. He does. And so God's preachers speak,
but it's not their message. It's not their light. It's not
their sword. It's not their power. It's not
about them at all. It's not at all about them. Listen
to Matthew 2.9, and if you want to turn to these, please do. I won't be long. Matthew 2.9.
Remember this star, what a picture a star is of a messenger, somebody
that, Shines forth the light of the
Lord and is a navigational guide. To where? Matthew 2, 9. When
they had heard the king, they departed and lo, the star which
they saw in the east went before them till it came and stood over
where the young child was. Unto you this day in the city
of David is born a Savior. which is Christ the Lord. And
that star went and stood over where that child was. And when
they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding joy. But they
didn't stand there gazing at the star, they went in the house. They rejoiced when they saw the
star, but it wasn't because of the
star. It was because of what the star, where the star brought
them. They went into the house, and they saw the young child
with Mary, his mother, and fell down and worshiped him. They didn't worship the star.
They forgot the star, and they worshiped the Son of God. That's
what every star wants, every one of them. If they don't, they're not a
star. And when they had opened their
treasures, they presented unto him gifts, gold and frankincense
and myrrh. The star was not the destination. The star was not the object of
worship. Once they saw the one whom they
worshiped, the star is never mentioned again. Never given another thought,
they found him. And that's what happens now. His right hand, his power, his
voice, his sword, his glory, his word, his light, everything. It's all about him. And look
at the last phrase in verse 16 back in our text. And his countenance
was as the sun shineth in his strength. This just reiterates exactly what
we just said. What happens when the sun comes
out? What happens to the stars? They're still there, but you
don't notice them anymore. His countenance was as the sun
shineth in his strength. When the sun comes out, you don't see the star anymore.
And that's how it is when Christ in power speaks through his preachers,
brightness of his countenance is all you're gonna see. That's
all you're gonna wanna see. He's all you need to see. And
I guarantee you the one telling you about him, that's all he
wants you to see too. How do we talk and think about
the brightness of the glory of Christ? We know that when Christ appeared
to Saul of Tarsus on the road to Damascus, it speaks this way.
At midday, O king, this is Saul, Paul, now given testimony of
his encounter with the Lord Jesus. He said, I saw in the way a light
from heaven above the brightness of the sun shining round about
me and them which journeyed with me. And when we were all fallen
to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me and saying in
the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? The sun is so bright, you can't
even look at it. You can't look at it, can you?
You can glance at it for a little while. I don't recommend looking
at it long. It'll hurt you, won't it? It's so bright. And Paul
said, This was way brighter than that. And what was that light? What
was that light? What was the point of that light?
It took the probably one of the proudest, haughtiest rebels on
this earth. And he said, we saw that light.
And when we fell to the ground, that's what it was. And I'll
tell you what else it was for Saul. It was salvation. It was
salvation. The result of that was salvation
for Saul. When Peter, James, and John saw
him at the Mount of Transfiguration, it says this, Matthew 17, one,
after six days, Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John, his brother,
and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart, and was transfigured
before them. And his face did shine as the
sun. And his raiment was white as
the light. What did the light do there?
What was the end result of that shining, that brightness of the
face of Christ? Verse eight, when they lifted
up their eyes, they saw no man save Jesus only. That was the
result. Everything else fades in the
brightness of his glory. That's what this is. Now, this
is the glory of Christ. And again, how do you describe
it? I'm just reading you scriptures where people saw it, other people
saw it, and how it's described there. I don't know what else
to say about it. I just know that he doesn't reveal
himself to everybody like this. He doesn't show himself like
that to everybody in a physical sense, but also in a spiritual
sense. He doesn't reveal his glory to
everybody. Most sinners will ever only see
the object of scorn and pity and ridicule that we saw, that
they saw in our Luke study at Calvary. That's all that most
people will ever see. But here now, here is what his
people see. This passage I'm about to read,
it's what we see and it's how. 2 Corinthians 4-5. You should have this memorized
by now as much as we quote this. For we don't preach ourselves.
We preach not ourselves. We preach Christ Jesus, the Lord,
and ourselves, your servants. Isn't that what we're talking
about from Revelation? The stars are in his hand, but
they're hidden. It's the brightness of his glory
that's being shown. By them, through them, sure,
he's using them, he's holding them as a workman would hold
a tool of some kind or a sword, a warrior, a sword. But he's
the warrior, he's the one that wins the victory now. And that's
what Paul is saying here. We don't preach ourselves, we
preach Christ. And ourselves, your servants
for Jesus' sake, for his sake, for his glory. for the furtherance
of his cause and purpose in saving sinners, not ours. For God, who
commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in
our hearts to give the light of the knowledge
of the glory of God. And when God turns the light
on, what do you see? The face of Jesus Christ, his
son. That's what, you see what John
saw. That's what you see. When God commanded the light
to shine out of darkness, when he, in the beginning, Genesis
chapter one, let there be light. There was no light before that.
Incidentally, he said that before he ever made a son. I'm sure
you've noticed that. He don't need the son. He uses
the son, but he don't need it. There was light before there
was a son. Because he said, when there was
all, darkness was upon the face of the deep. Imagine that, it's
frightening, isn't it? The ocean scares me during the
day. At night, I don't even, I don't even wanna think about
it at night. It's scary. Darkness was on the
face of the deep, and God said, let there be light. and there was light, and that's
how it was in my heart. That's what Paul would say, that's
how it was. It was only darkness, deep, utter blackness, inky blackness. There wasn't a spark down in
there somewhere that needed to be fanned into a flame like religion.
There was no spark. Where would that spark have come
from? There was only darkness, the blackness of darkness in
my heart, until he said by his gospel, let there be light. And what was that light for?
What did it do? That's how we learn in these other instances.
Why did God do that? Why did he show himself? Look
at the result, and that's why he did it. Why did he shine his light in
my heart? So that I could see his glory. so that I could see his son,
the face of his son, and see him as he is, and see in his
face, in his countenance, the glory of God, something that
I could never, ever, ever see unless he says, let there be
light. He did it so I could see what
John saw, the brightness of the glory of
God. In the face of his son, I saw the Lord Jesus Christ as
he is, as much as mortal can, by faith. By faith. By faith. Faith is the evidence
of things not seen. The substance of things hoped
for. And I'll tell you this, faith is a lot more sure than
this sight. These eyes will deceive you.
True faith never will. You might be full of unbelief,
and I am too, Todd, but faith won't deceive you. Your own heart
will, but not the faith he gives. And we see him by faith the way
John did. He was in the spirit on the Lord's
day, wasn't he? That's how he saw what he saw.
Oh, the glory of God. I saw his glory in being just
and yet justifying sinners like me. I saw the glory of his redemptive
love for the worst wretches that crawled on his earth. That's what you see now. It's
called a light. I saw his glory in perfect, distinguishing,
electing, almighty love. I saw his glory in the saving
of sinners, in the accomplished salvation of sinners. I saw his glory when God showed
me. And look at verse 17 in our text. And when I saw him, I fell at
his feet as dead. Oh boy. That's a common theme throughout
the scripture. And he laid his right hand upon
me. He laid his right hand upon me
saying unto me, fear not. I am the first and the last. Isaiah said in chapter six that when he saw the Lord high
and lifted up in verse five of chapter six in Isaiah, he said
this, woe is me. Then when I saw the Lord as he
is, I got a glimpse of him on his throne and I said, Woe is
me for I am undone. That word means ceased, cut off,
destroyed. You see how John's experience
was similar to Isaiah's? I'm cut off. I'm a goner. I saw him. Because I'm a man of unclean
lips. And I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips,
for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts, a sinner laid
eyes on the holy God of heaven and earth. And he said, I'm a
goner, I'm a goner. But the Lord spoke and said,
you're not a goner, I'm gonna use you to preach my gospel. Oh, that's what he said to Saul.
Saul's in the dust now, he saw that light. Brighter than the
noonday sun, he's in the dust. The Lord lifted him up. Job said
in Job 42 five, I've heard of you by the hearing of the ear,
but now my eyes seeth thee, wherefore I hate myself. I abhor, I abhor,
I despise myself. And repent in dust and ashes. And John said here in our text,
all of the strength just went out of me. He said, I fell. I
didn't bow, I fell. That's different, isn't it? I
fell. All the strength just went completely
out of me. And this is interesting. What
it means in a physical sense, of course, is that he just collapsed.
He collapsed at Christ's feet and he laid there like a dead
man. It's not an unclear picture, that's pretty plain. But the
word fall there means to descend from a higher place to a lower
place. And there's some spiritual truth
there, isn't there? It wasn't just a physical collapse. When you see the Lord Jesus Christ,
you say with John the Baptist, he must increase and I must decrease. I'm gonna get as low as I can
get. Because that's where I belong. That's where I belong. Have you fallen at his feet as
dead? Boy, that's a rare experience, isn't
it, in this world? People talk about sweet Jesus
and all this stuff, and thank you, Jesus, and Jesus is my best
friend, and he's the man upstairs and all this stuff. If you ever
get a glimpse of him. Phil at his feet is dead. And
in a sense, when we see him, we are dead, aren't we? He's
our life now. He's our strength now. Without
him as a believer, what are you gonna do? You're gonna lay there
like a dead man. That's what you're gonna do, spiritually. He's our life, he's our strength,
he's our vigor, our inspiration, everything that
moves us. It's Christ. And the more we see him in the
gospel, the more that way it is, the more true that is, the
more we experience it now. It's completely true now. But
we experience it, don't we? We're still decreasing, and he's
still increasing. But listen now, hating ourselves,
being as dead before Him, taking our place in the dust before
Him, He lays His right hand on us. What a beautiful picture
this is. He actually touches a sinner,
a leper, and says, fear not. And I want you to notice something
now important. Verse 17, look at the part, the
second sentence there. And he laid his right hand upon
me saying unto me, fear not. And he doesn't say fear not you
are. He doesn't say fear not you are
not as bad as you think you are. He doesn't say fear not, you're
not going to hell like you think you are. You don't deserve hell
like you think. It's not fear not you are, it's
fear not I am. That's all the difference in
the world now. You do deserve hell as much as you think you
do, only a whole lot more. You are as bad as you think you
are, only a lot worse. But it's fear not I am. Here is that blessed voice that
sounds like rain, a rain shower. fallen, that we hear in the gospel
when the Lord holds his stars in his right hand and speaks
to us and says, don't be afraid. But when I tell you what now,
listen, children of God, if you know
the Lord Jesus Christ, if you're his, if you believe on him, if
you're a child of God, you have nothing. No thing, no reason
to be afraid of anything or anybody. Absolutely none. And the reason
you don't is because of who he is. Fear not, I am. Boy, if we forget everything
else tonight, let's go to bed thinking about that. Fear not,
I am. Now we've already seen in verse
eight and verse 11 this same truth. He said, I'm the alpha
and the omega. Alpha, first letter of the Greek
alphabet, omega, the last. In other words, start to finish,
I'm everything. He said, I'm the beginning and
the ending. And he said, I'm the first and the last. He's
already said all that, but here he's not saying I'm the first
and the last. He's saying I'm the first and the last, fear
not. Here it's given as a reason for
rest, for peace, for consolation. This is not just, we see this
as an attribute of his. This is experiencing something. Because of who he is, I can rest. I can be at peace. I don't have to be scared of
anything or anybody because of who he is. And listen, that blessed hand
that touched that leper, he said, Lord, if you will, you
can make me clean. And as he reached out and touched
him and said, I will be thou clean. That's the hand he puts
on us. that glorious almighty hand that
caught Simon before he could sink beneath the waves. That's
the hand we're talking about. That precious hand that took
hold of the hand of that little girl, that little dead girl,
and said, damsel, I say unto thee, arise. He lays his hand on us. And I
want to reiterate this, who Christ is, it's not just a matter of
doctrine with his people. Although, look, what he did and
what he said is our doctrine. That's what our doctrine is.
It's not a list of things that we believe that's sitting on
the wall. It's this right here. It's Christ revealed in his work.
That's our doctrine now. But listen, this is not just
a collection of facts that people like to argue about. Who He is
is salvation to us. It's the experience of salvation.
It's the realization of the almighty power of His saving love. We see Him as He is, and again,
it's not just cold facts. He's everything to us. And that's
what John is, He laid his hand on him. The one whose power raises
the dead and saves dead sinners from their sins, laid his hand
on him and said, don't be afraid. I have no reason to fear. The
reason I don't have any reason to fear is I am. I don't fear the wrath that I
so richly deserve. Why? Because I am. He's the one that washed us from
our sins that John already talked about in his own blood. I don't
fear any enemy. I don't fear death. And listen,
and I'm not like, I'm not different than anybody else. We have apprehension
about death, but look, it's mysterious, isn't it? We don't want to die
tonight necessarily, but if the Lord takes us, we have no reason
to fear, none whatsoever. And boy, here's maybe most important,
I'm not afraid of God. I'm not afraid of God, not in
the sense of dread and despair. Why not? Because God is the one
that said, don't be afraid. If my problem is with God and
you say, don't be afraid, well, you know, we'll just take that
for what it's worth. But if my problem with God is, it is with
God, and he says you've got nothing to worry about, then what have I got to worry
about? And my problem is with God and
yours is too by nature. And pretty much only with him.
All your other problems are because of that, your sin before God. But he said, don't be afraid. Oh, unto him that loved us and
washed us from our sins in his own blood. And then John heard
something and looked around and there he was, there's the one
that did that for him. Telling him not to fear. Listen
to all the reasons we should not be afraid now.
And they're all in this text, who he is, he describes. But
understand that though there are several reasons here, all
of them are him, they're all qualities of him. So when we
look at it, keep that in mind. He said, I'm the beginning, I'm
the start and the finish of everything. First to last, I'm everything. And that's who says, fear not.
If you're scared of something, and I say, don't be afraid, That's
fine. If I have good hope that you're
a believer in Christ, I can comfort you with the gospel. I can say,
look, the Lord holds you, not this world. The Lord keeps you. The Lord is the one that watches
over you. You've got nothing. I can say that, but only on his
authority. If I, you know, I might be, I
can just say that to anybody, right? But what real right do
I have to say that? If I say, don't be afraid, here's
the problem with me saying it, just me, without any basis for
it, is I don't know anything. I can say, don't be afraid. You
may have a whole lot to be afraid of. You don't know either. That's what you're scared of.
Maybe you're, well, I can't, I don't know any more than you
do. So how can I, but he does. You see what this is? And here's the thing about it.
If I say, don't be afraid, I don't know any better than you do.
Everything may completely, the sky may fall on us tomorrow.
I don't know, and you don't either. And the other thing is, I can't
do anything about it. I don't know anything, and I
can't do anything. But he knows everything, and
he can do anything. And he says, you have nothing
to worry about. Here's the one who does know
about it. And here's the one who can do something about it
and who has done something about it. And he says to his children,
fear not. Why not? Verse 18, I'm he that
liveth and was dead. Now, who can say, think about
this, who can say, I was dead? I was dead, past tense. Well, if you're saying it in
the past tense, then you've got to be alive, right? But if you
were dead, then how are you alive? He is because he said, I've got
power to lay my life down. I've got power to take it again.
My father gave me that as a man, as my representative. And I'll
tell you this, if you could ever say I was dead, it's because
of him. It's because he said it. It's
because he's the first begotten from the dead. The one who was
dead says, fear not. And look, and I'm alive forevermore. I'm not gonna be dead anymore. I'm not gonna be dead again.
Amen. And have the keys of hell and
of death. Not only has he vanquished death,
but he decides who dies and who don't. Again, not a complicated
picture. If you have the key, you have
access, right? You're the one that lets in and
lets out. He has the keys of hell and of
death. And he's able to say this by
the power and authority of that precious blood that he shed for
us when he died. That's how he's able to say that.
He says to his sheep, you don't have anything to worry about.
The one that knows everything and can do everything says you
have nothing to worry about. You know why? Because of what
he's done for you. washed you from your sins with
that precious blood. He redeemed us with that blood.
He purchased our liberty with that blood, liberty from death,
sin, hell, every enemy. And the doors of hell are shut
and locked to us, to his people, because he suffered and died
in our place, because he bore our hell. And we're not getting
in. We couldn't get in if we wanted
to. He's got the key. And he says, fear not. You see how powerful an argument
this is? Fear not, I am. I am the way,
I am the truth, I am the life. Fear not. If sinners have life,
they get it from me. Fear not. They get it because
I want them to have it, fear not. I am the door, I am access
to God. If any sinner is gonna come into
the presence of God and have favor with God, it's because
of me, fear not. He don't say that to everybody. He says that to those for whom
he is the door, the access to God. He said, I'm the one who decides
who lives and who dies. I'm the one who decides who goes
to hell and who doesn't. And I say unto you, fear not."
Can we rest in him tonight? Can we rest in that beautiful
truth? And if you can, thank God for
that. If you can, if you can lay down
your head tonight and say, because of who he is, If he says to me,
fear not, then what am I gonna be afraid of? If he's for me,
who can be against me? But you know why you're able
to say that? Look at verse 19. "'Cause God said to John, write
all this down." Thank God for that. Thank God. We're looking
at what he wrote. And the Lord said, write all
this down. Not only did John rejoice in what he saw, but now
we do too, because God wrote a book. Write the things which thou hast
seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be
hereafter. How grateful we ought to be for the word of God, and
how highly we ought to treasure His precious word. He's told
us these things that we might believe. There's two reasons
given in the scripture why God said, write it down. He said
it to John. He said it to Paul. He said it
to Matthew. He said it to his prophets of
old. Write it down, write it down. And there's two reasons
in the scripture given for that. You remember the one that I quote
all the time. These are written that you might believe. Jesus
Christ is the Son of God and that believing you might have
life through his name And there's another reason given Wherefore
comfort one another with these words Comfort one another with these
words John 15 15 think about this when you think about the
Lord saying John I You write all this down, write it down. Write down what you've seen,
write down what is and what's gonna be, write it down. Think
about this when you think about that. Our Lord said to his disciples
in John 15, 15, henceforth, I call you not servants. We call ourselves
his servants, don't we? Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ.
But listen, he said, I call you not servants for the servant
knoweth not what his Lord doeth. He didn't say to us, none of
your business. He said to John, write it down. I wanted to know
it. But I have called you friends
for all things that I have heard of my father have I made known
to you. Write it down, John, write it
down. And then verse 20, the mystery
of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand and the
seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels
or messengers of the seven churches and the seven candlesticks which
thou sawest are the seven churches. That's just a simple revelation
of what we saw in this vision, what John described. And all
of this has to do with Christ making himself known to his people. Write it down. The stars, what
for? To guide to him. So we can come
in the house and worship him like they did. The candlesticks
are the churches. What's the purpose of the church?
Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. Say to them what I've said to
you. That's what we read a while ago. It's all about that. There's
a candlestick and there's a messenger in College Grove, Tennessee.
Isn't that amazing? What grace. A candlestick, a messenger, and
the son of God himself said, where you gather in my name,
just a couple of you, just a couple of you, there I am in the midst
of you. Well, I pray we'll be able to rest
tonight easy because of who He is, what He's done for us. Let's pray.