In the midst of that candlestick,
as we just read, one likened to the son of man. You remember when Shadrach, Meshach,
and Abednego wouldn't bow to the false gods, they were cast
into the fiery furnace. They said, we cast three men
in there, but now we see four. and one of them looks like the
son of God. This is the same one that John
saw in our text. When he says here, he looks like the son of man. I want to remind us Tonight first
that this narrative that we've read it doesn't say When he turned
and looked he saw one like under the Son of Man says he saw a
candlestick in the midst of that He saw one like unto the Son
of Man and so emphasized here in this vision is the fact that
the Son of Man and he's the one we're seeing and He's the one
we're looking at. He's the one that gets our attention. He was the one that was speaking. But we don't see him apart from
his church. We don't see him separately from
his people. Remember where we read in First
Kings 1911, I wanna read this to you again because I want us
to think about this. as we begin to look at this description
of our Lord tonight. In 1 Kings 19 11, you remember
Elijah was running for his life and he was all alone and the
Lord spoke to him and said in verse 11 of 1 Kings 19, go forth
and stand upon the mount before the Lord and behold, the Lord
passed by. And a great and strong wind rent
the mountains, and break in pieces the rocks before the Lord, but
the Lord was not in the wind. And after the wind an earthquake,
but the Lord was not in the earthquake. And after the earthquake a fire,
but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire a still small
voice. And if you read the story there
of Elijah, once the Lord spoke to him then, then he had direction.
He knew what to do after that. Consider this. It isn't that
it wasn't the Lord that sent that great wind to Elijah. Of course he did. He rides upon
the wind. The winds and the waves obey whose will? What manner
of man is this that the winds and the waves obey his will?
We know that they do, and it isn't that the Lord didn't send
the earthquake and the fire, he did. If not him, then who
did? But those things, as impressive
as they were, and I'm sure they were quite distracting, I'm sure
Elijah couldn't just stand there without being impressed by the
fact that that wind, it even blew over rocks and broke them
and things, it was so great. But if you're gonna hear from
God, and understand the things of God. If you want to meet with
God and know his will, he's got to
speak to you. He's got to speak to you with
his voice. And that's like our text. John
heard a great voice and he turned and he looked and what did he
see? A candlestick. and somebody in the middle of
it. And there are a lot of things going on in this world that are
impressive to the flesh and can be distracting, but if you're
gonna hear from God and understand the things of God, you wanna
meet with God? If you care what God says about
things, you're not gonna see him in this world. He's not in
the world now, though he runs it. He sent the earthquake, but
he wasn't in the earthquake. Elijah didn't get anything out
of the earthquake. It didn't help him at all, but
God sent it. He's not in this world in that
sense. You're not gonna see him in this world. You're not gonna
find God in this world. His church in this world is small
and insignificant, isn't it? Kind of like a still small house. But do you want to hear it though?
Do you want to hear God speak? You're not going to run into
him in this world. Though he controls everything
in this world. John sees God, he sees the Lord
Jesus Christ. The one being revealed in the
book of Revelation in two places predominantly in this book. And
then remember, this is a revelation of Jesus Christ. Where is he?
He's on the throne and he's in his church. You see that all
through this book now. We're gonna see that and we see
that in our text. And so I wanted to stress that
again. He's in the midst of the candlestick
and he's like unto the son of man. He's like unto the son of man.
God, man. And this is integral to our hope
now. We see him likened to the son
of man and we rejoice because we understand. Didn't he just
say, I'm God almighty in this same chapter? And yet you look
at him, he looks like a man. That's our hope. God just strictly
as God, If he never takes on human flesh, he took not on him
the nature of angels. And when the third part of the
angels fell, they had no hope. When we fell, what was it? The Lord preached the gospel
to Adam and Eve, told them of Christ. There is hope for man,
and this is why. Because he looks like us, which
is just the reverse of we look like him. I believe when it says
we're made in the image of God, it wasn't that he was made in
our image, we were made in his image. But then now he looks
like us because we see him. that way, he's revealed himself
that way. We haven't physically seen him,
but you know what I'm saying. So this is integral to our hope,
to the way that we see him here. He took on our nature. Now I'm
talking about those he represent, he took on the nature of man,
yet without sin, but that's important to his people because he's our
forerunner. He is our forerunner. Consider
this verse when you read our text that we just read In the
midst of the candlestick one like the son of man Like the
son of man. He had a great voice And he spoke
to me. I was in the spirit on the Lord's
Day and the Lord spoke to me And here he is now But think
about this verse When you think of that truth that he's like
the son of man. I Hebrews 9, 24, for Christ is
not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the
figures of the true, but into heaven itself now to appear in
the presence of God for us. For who? Man, sinners. He wasn't a sinner, but he represented
sinners. He took on him our nature and
he appears as our forerunner, as our representative in that
holy place, not made with hands. And that's where John saw him.
That's where John saw him. Now we get a description of the
one revealed to John here. And it says that
he's clothed with a garment down to the foot. Clothed with a garment. down to the foot. Now, we've
seen already in the scriptures in this same
study how that the garment represents our standing before God. We remember
why there's a need for garments, because there was a problem,
and garments are the solution to that problem. It represents
our standing before God. If you didn't have on the wedding
garment in that parable, our Lord told the king of heavens,
like unto a king that made a marriage for his son. But if you're at
that marriage feast without a wedding garment, you're cast out, and
there's weeping and gnashing of teeth. The prodigal was given
the best robe, and that signified his acceptance with the father
now, his standing now, he was in good standing in the house
of his father, in spite of his sin, in spite of his wretchedness. The original symbol of our sinfulness
before God in the Garden of Eden was that they realized they were
naked. It wasn't that they became naked, they just realized they
were. They couldn't hide their shame. before God, having sinned,
no clothing, no covering, nothing to hide. And so God then clothed
them. And so our Lord is pictured as
being clothed with a garment all the way to the ground. And
we need to understand this, and I think I've mentioned this already
in this study, as God, as God Almighty, He didn't need a garment.
God doesn't wear clothes. He has no shame. He doesn't have
anything to cover up. But as man, though he had no
sin of his own to cover, he must present himself to God as a man
in a perfect human righteousness. He had to do always those things
that please the father. That's the road. He said, I must
be about my father's business. That's the road. Hearing does my father love me
because I laid down my life everything he did is his righteousness in
action And this is why the Lord Jesus Christ is pictured with
a garment though he himself had no sin he he That's his garment
that he puts on us And think about this now When
he was doing everything that he did, he was going about to
establish righteousness, wasn't he? We're forbidden to do that.
In Romans chapter 10, Paul said the Jews need to be saved. Why?
Because they're going about to establish their own righteousness.
You can't do that. You're forbidden to do that because
everything you do to establish a righteousness is sin. But the
Lord Jesus Christ established righteousness, not for himself,
though he, it's his robe, but for his people. He's wearing
that robe for me. He's my high priest. And we'll
talk about that in a minute. And the high priest had on that
robe and that breastplate. His righteousness was his nature,
but he also had to live it as a representative. as a high priest. And the garment is important
in another sense, his garment, and that simply is, as I mentioned
already, it's also what we wear. We wear his garment. We're clothed
in his righteousness. Remember Exodus 16, he said,
your beauty was perfect through my comeliness, which I had, remember
the next part, which I had put upon you. Exodus chapter 16 and then it
says he was gird about the paps. That's the chest It was a golden
breast. He had a golden breastplate on
And if you read Exodus chapter 28, I think it is You'll see
that a lot of detail is given there and I'm pretty sure it's
Exodus 28 regarding how that the high priest, and you remember
the high priest, there was no fellowship with God, there was
no communion with God, there was no presence of God, there
was no acceptance of God, without a sacrifice. And not just everybody
could bring a sacrifice. On the day of atonement, when
there's gonna be at-one-ment with God, when there's gonna
be fellowship, favor, acceptance with God, the high priest alone
went into that most holy place, not without blood. And he was
clothed in a robe and a breastplate. It talks about that in some detail
in Exodus chapter 28. I'm pretty sure it is. And this
picture's the righteousness, the glory. It was a beautiful,
he was in beautiful array. His fitness, it pictures his
fitness. He didn't go in there without
it. He didn't present himself before God without this. It was
his qualification. And it's all of those things,
it's Christ's righteousness, glory, beauty, qualification,
his fitness as our high priest. And so he's seen in this character,
Christ is seen by John with that robe and with that breastplate.
Listen to Hebrews 8.1. Now of the things which we've
spoken, This is the Son. And you read Hebrews one through
seven, chapters one through seven, and you talk about glorious language.
He's talking about how Christ is exalted above all men, all
angels, all, under which of the angels did he say unto him, thy throne, O God, is exalted
above the heavens. And so he's talking about how
how preeminent and glorious Christ is. And here's what he said,
this is the son. This is what all of that adds
up to. We have such a high priest who is set on the right hand
of the throne of the majesty in the heaven. That's what John
was looking at. John saw him there. John saw
him in his glory. John got a revelation of things
that we can't see right now. And that's him. He's at the right
hand of the throne of the majesty in the heavens, and he's our
high priest there. A minister of the sanctuary and
of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched and not man. It's not a tent covered with
badger skins. Now you can look at that tent
and say, well, somebody not very important lives in there, just
old ugly badger skin. That's what they said when they
saw the Lord Jesus Christ walking around. They're nothing to him. The glory of God is all. The
glory of God. But he don't even look like that
now. You see him now. His glory is not hidden anymore.
It's not hidden. And John saw him like that, and
we're gonna get a description of it. We're gonna only have
time to look at about half of it tonight. It's so glorious
now. which the Lord for every high
priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices. That's how we
have access to God, is by blood. Wherefore it is of necessity
that this man, the one John saw also have somewhat to offer.
So you see the character in which he saw him as our high priest,
the one that gave himself for us. Didn't he just get through
saying unto him that loved us and washed us from our sins in
his own blood. He did that as our high priest
before God. And John's getting a sight of
that. And think of this now. Now, the
two things, I want us to understand what this signifies even better,
but I also want us to find some comfort in this. So consider
two passages of scripture. This will help us understand
the significance of this. Isaiah 22, 20. It shall come
to pass in that day that I will call my servant Eliakim. Look that word, I got some homework
for you, because I didn't put it in my notes, but I think I
remember what it means, but it's something really good. It tells
you who this is. My servant Eliakim, you know,
the Lord Jesus has called several things in the scriptures. Melchizedek,
who do you think that was? Without beginning of days or
end of days? And sacrifice was offered unto
him. And I will clothe him with thy
robe. Oh, I missed one. Let's look,
let's look at, listen to verse 20. I will call my servant Eliakim,
the son of Hilkiah. Look that name up too, Strong's
Concordance. Everybody gotta have that. If
you don't have that, let me know. Gotta have that. And I will clothe
him with thy robe. Strengthen him with that girdle
and I will commit that government into his hand and He shall be
a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem to the house of Judah
and that ain't talking about the earthly nation of Israel
That's spiritual Judah spiritual Israel God's people He's gonna
be a father and he's gonna be a priest. And listen, and the
key of the house of David will I lay on his shoulder, so he
shall open and none shall shut. We see that concerning Christ
in the book of Revelation. We're gonna see that pretty soon.
He opens and nobody can shut. I'll tell you what else, and
he shall shut and nobody can open. and I will fasten him as
a nail in a sure place. You ever heard anybody preach
on the nail in a sure place? That's Christ. And he shall be
for a glorious throne to his father's house. You see him pictured
there in that robe, in that girdle. For covering, think about this
just for a second. To cover yourself before God,
all you need's a garment. He killed some animals. Well, it could have been sheep,
but it could have been anything. It was either maybe more than one sheep. It
doesn't say enough to cover them, or maybe just to cover just what
was necessary. But that's all you need. A garment's
all you need. You don't need a girdle. You know what you need
a girdle for? You're about to do something important. You're
fixing to do something, and you need to get ready. You need to prepare. It signifies strengthening for a
task about to be performed. And that's why he's got that
girdle on. The Lord gird himself for this task, accomplishing
salvation for us. That's what the high priest was
all about. Atonement, acceptance with God. And he had that girdle
on. And he got it done, got it done. Now think of this for comfort,
for comfort. Hebrews 4.14, seeing then that
we have a great high priest that is passed into the heavens. And
remember, this is where John, where is he? Where's our high
priest? He wasn't just a high priest
here and then he's not anymore. He's passed into the heavens
as our high priest. And John saw him in that character.
That's how he washed us from our sins, in his blood. Because
as high priest, he offered his own precious blood before God
as our atonement, as our sacrifice. That is passed into the heavens.
Jesus, the son of God, let us hold fast our profession. Let's
be steadfast. Let's be, let's glorify Him in
everything. Let's don't let anybody see us
doubting and fearful, and look, we have all that in us, right?
It's not that we're always confident and strong and bold in the Lord
and all that. But we need to honor Him, don't
we? We need to honor Him in this world. God give us grace and
strength to honor him. Hold fast your profession, no
matter what happens. Why? Because we have a great
high priest, that's why. It doesn't matter what else is
happening. For we have not an high priest
which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities.
He knows exactly what's going on, you know why? Because he's
why it's going on. but was at all points tempted
like as we are. You know what's coming next?
Yet without sin. He's just like we are. Experienced
things just like we are. Yet without sin. That's why he's our hope. Tonight,
just like he was yesterday and the day before that. Because
he's us without sin. Let us therefore come boldly
unto the throne of grace. That we may obtain mercy. You
know why we obtain mercy? Not just because we ask for it,
yet without sin. Therefore, let us therefore,
why? Because he is the precious, sinless,
spotless lamb of God, and he's our representative before God.
He's our high priest. He offered himself as sacrifice
for our sins. Now, let's go to the throne of
grace without fear. Not without respect not without
reverence But with confidence in him That we may obtain mercy it's
ours it's ours Because of him who gave himself
for us and found grace to help in time of need Do you need any
grace tonight? John said his head and his hairs
were white. Verse 14, his head and his hairs
were white, like wool as white as snow. You remember, I just
thought of this just now. Come now. and let us reason together,
saith the Lord. Though your sins be as scarlet,
they shall be as wool. Though they shall be as white
as snow, though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
What's the problem? Sin. What's the goal? To be like him. It's not just
his hair that's white, by the way. A lot of people miss that,
his head and his hair. It's not just his hair. It's
two different things now. He is white. His body is white. His countenance is white and
his hair too. That's the point. That's the
point of coming to him, to be like him. I want to be white
too. I want to be white as snow. And that's how it happens. He
washes us from our sins. He represents us as our high
priest. before God. Now we know a couple
of things about white in the scriptures. There's always purity.
It's always purity. It's holiness. We've washed our
robes and made them white in the blood of the lamb. When you're
washed in the blood of the lamb, you're white as snow. You're
white like wool. We're pictured as wearing white
robes because our righteousness is Christ's comeliness, which
he has put upon us. Christ's head is white. It's
not just his hair now, his person. Whiteness, purity, and holiness
are his very nature. Now listen, we wear a robe that's
white, and it's his. He just is white. He wears a robe because he is
the righteousness of God. As the God man, he wears it. But he's white. He's white. He wears the robe as my high
priest. But he is the righteousness of
God. And his hair too. And this, of course, signifies
age. As you get older, your hair is going to start getting white.
You know, it may not look white because you might do something
about it because, you know, we just like to do that. That's
fine. That's fine. Nothing wrong with that. But
listen, listen to Daniel 7, 9, I'll be held till the thrones
were cast down. Boy, I like that part to the
thrones of this world have the have some horrible people sitting
on nothing They're gonna be cast down And you know what what's
gonna happen in and the Ancient of Days did sit now He's he's
thrown is the only one there is the Ancient of Days That's
what we're talking about he's it's age it's it's Whose garment
was white as snow and the hair of his head like the pure wool. So he's pictured way back in
Daniel. His throne was like the fiery flame and his wheels as
a burning fire. Now if you read Daniel 7 though,
If you read that chapter, you'll see that that's referring to
God the Father, because it talks about the Christ coming before
the Ancient of Days in that chapter, so it's referring to God the
Father as the Ancient of Days, with hair like wool and a white
robe and all that. But here's what we learn here.
We see what the white hair signifies, the Ancient of Days, he's the
eternal God. But also now we see in Revelation
the Lord Jesus Christ pictured the same way. With white hair,
you know why? Because he is co-eternal with
the Father. Though he's a man, he's always
been. Without beginning of days, without
end of days, a high priest after the order of Melchizedek. Hmm co-eternal with the Father
Christ is even called the everlasting Father as you well know in Isaiah
chapter 9 Remember how he described himself in verse 8 of our chapter
the context of our I am Alpha and Omega the beginning in the
ending Which is which was and which
is to come the Almighty See why his hair is white? Not just his
hair, but his hair is white too. And his eyes were as a flame
of fire. Now this is interesting. We can't know everything that
this signifies, but we know what fire is, don't we? It's not really
complicated. We know what fire is. Why are
his eyes like that? But let's consider this first.
The Lord's eyes are also described in the Song of Solomon, chapter
5, verse 12. His eyes are as the eyes of doves
by the rivers of waters washed with milk in a fitly set. That's
nothing like fire, is it? You see fire coming out of somebody's
head. That's kind of, that's a little
bit startling, isn't it? But doves, have you ever looked
at dove's eyes? Is there anything so innocent
and tender and kind looking? Harmless as doves, the Lord said. Be you wise as serpent and harmless
as doves. That's the character of a dove.
So Christ's eyes don't just look one way. There's no single metaphor
that can describe anything about him is there. You see it all,
all different things in the scripture. He's the lion of the tribe of
Judah, but he's the lamb of God, the lamb. And so that's like
his eyes, like the eyes of doves. John
Gill said, not like an eagle's eyes, an eagle's eyes are intense,
aren't they? They're kind of scary looking. He looks like
he's looking for something to kill, but not a dove. Not a dove. Loving and kind and innocent.
And listen to Habakkuk 113. Thou art of purer eyes than to
behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity. That's his eyes
too. And yet he looks on us. And he sees no sin in his people. Those eyes as flames of fire,
they look on his loved ones. And he says to them, don't be
afraid. Don't be afraid. He has said
in Revelation 5, 6 to have seven eyes. That's interesting, isn't
it? He didn't have seven eyes when
he walked around on this earth. And this is figurative language. He doesn't miss anything. The
eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and
the good. His eyes are everywhere. That's
why it mentions the seven spirits around the throne, because his
spirit is everywhere, always. Fire, think about this. Now,
fire is the only source of light. And you're sitting there thinking,
Chris, you crazy. I can think of a bunch of, think about it.
We've improved on the candle a little bit. There's still fire
there, isn't there? There's still fire. That's the only light there is. How does the sun light the earth? How does a light bulb work? They had nothing but candlelight
then, but we still. They're just really one physical
source of light. There's a little different forms
of it. His eyes are all seeing and all
knowing. You see that? To know anything,
listen, to know anything at all is to know what he knows. If
you know something, you just figure it out what he knows. A little bit of it. He knows
everything. He sees everything. He understands
everything. He is everything. To truly see anything is to see
what he sees. If you haven't seen what he sees,
you haven't seen anything yet. You've missed it. If you see something that he
don't see, it don't exist. It's a mirage. It's a fantasy. And it's to see, not only to
see what he sees, but to see it how he sees it. You don't
see it if you don't see it how he sees it. So that's his, isn't
that interesting? His eyes are like a flame of
fire. And of course we could talk about that with regard to
judgment too, wrath. Oh my, all he got to do is look
at you, doesn't he? If he looks at you in mercy,
you're fine. Everything will be fine. But
if he looks at you in wrath and justice and condemnation, you're a goner.
And his feet, they're like fine brass, verse 15, as if they burned
in a furnace. Hmm. Now, the feet signify, of
course, the walk. You've got to think, and it's
not complicated. We know what feet are all through
the scripture. The first thing you think of
is how are these things used in the scripture? Your word is
a lamp under my feet. What does that mean? The Bible
is a lamp under my feet. What does that mean? That means
I know how to walk. I know where to walk because
of the word of God, right? Well, all through the scripture,
the feet, it talks about your walk. It has to do with that. Your business in this life, carry
it out. And brass, all through the scripture, signifies strength
and maybe judgment, but remember the brazen altar? That's where
the fire consumed the sacrifice. And so some say it has to do
with judgment. But always strength, you know,
if you want it like the load bearing parts of things concerning
the temple and the tabernacle were made of brass, sockets of
brass, right? Because if you make the sockets
out of gold, they're not going to hold anything, it's softer.
So it has to do with strength, doesn't it? But also, It's like
it burned in a furnace, bright. And that's interesting here because
this is not exactly the same word as brass elsewhere in the
New Testament. Brass is not mentioned in the
New Testament a whole lot, but where it is, it's probably talking
about copper. It talks about brass coins. We
still have copper coins. And that color, it's also a color,
copper. But this is described in Strong's
Concordance. This is a different word. than
that brass in the same language. And this is interesting because
it's not real clear what it is, but here's what it, in Strong's
Concordance, the Greek definition of this word is, some metal like
gold, if not more precious. That's word for word. It's a
little bit vague. but some metal like gold, if
not more precious. And the word signifies whiteness
or brightness. Hence the looks like it's burning
in a furnace. Bright, his feet were bright
and strong, powerful. And we know, and look, this correspond,
we know what Christ's walk in this world was, don't we? He
said, I must always do those things. I've got to be about
my father's bid. I do always those things that
please my father. That's his strength. The strength
of his wonderful God. He had nothing to be ashamed
of. And we could talk a lot about
all of these, couldn't we? A sermon on every one of them.
The characteristics of Christ. John saw them in a physical vision,
but these are spiritual truths. And I just want to close with
this one. His voice was as the sound of many waters. Now again, no single metaphor
can describe any aspect of our Lord. We just saw in this same
chapter, his voice was like a trumpet, didn't we? A trumpet don't sound
anything like water falling. But his voice was like both.
A trumpet is a piercing sound, and it's piercing, it gets your
attention. The scripture says if the trumpet
makes an uncertain sound, then nobody's gonna get ready for
battle. It was the trumpet that prepared men. It was the signal
that, look, it's on, let's get ready, let's go. And so piercing
and attention-getting, but also as many waters. It sounded
like a rain shower. That's what it's saying here.
It sounded like a rain shower, which is one of the most comforting
sounds I've ever heard. We have those apps, you know,
you can make fake sounds. Maybe it's a real recording of
them in some cases, I don't know. But my favorite one is a rain
shower. Isn't that just so soothing? This is soothing, but there's
more to this than that. Many waters, the Lord has described
his word this way, and it corresponds with what John heard. Listen,
Isaiah 55.10, for as the rain cometh down and the snow from
heaven and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth. My word. And listen, it waters the earth,
it maketh it bring forth and bud, life springs up. Why? Because of the water that
came down. That it may give seed to the
sower and bread to the eater. It'll cause the wheat to grow
and you'll process that and make bread and eat it and there'll
be more seed. So you'll have bread later on
too. And we're still eating bread. God hadn't created any new seed. It's the same stuff, isn't it? It's the same things he created
in the garden are still just, they're perpetual and life-giving. That's his word. He hadn't said
nothing new. It's still the same word. It's
still giving life, still giving life. So shall my word be that
goeth forth out of my mouth. John heard, sounds like water.
It sounds like a rain shower. No wonder, that's what it is.
Only it's a spiritual one. So shall my word be that goeth
forth out of my mouth. It shall not return unto me void,
but it shall accomplish. I love that word, accomplish. Hmm. I'm a failure, but God's gospel
is not. Remember when Paul said, I may
be bound, but the word of God is not bound. And I'm bound by
my infirmities, by my limitations, by my sin, but his word is not,
his gospel is not. It shall accomplish that which
I please, not that which you decide. that which I please. If he wants to send his word
to save you tonight, that's what he'll do. It shall prosper in the thing
where into I sent it. So when you hear his voice by
faith, and it sounds like a rain shower, remember these two things,
it's life-giving. And remember that word, accomplishment. That's the two things about his
word as a shower of rain from heaven. It gives life and it
does exactly what he wants it to do. I can't wait to hear that voice. I want you to turn with me. We're
going to close with this one passage of scripture, Deuteronomy
32 one. Fifth book of the Bible, Deuteronomy
32.1. I just want to read it. If I can just read it and not
say anything, I will, but I don't know if I can or not, we'll see.
Deuteronomy 32.1. Give ear, O ye heavens, and I
will speak. And hear, O earth, the words
of my mouth. My doctrine shall drop as the
rain, life-giving and accomplishing. My speech shall distill as the
dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb." Oh, doesn't he,
he rains down gently, doesn't he? It was either Job or one
of his friends that said, he maketh small the drops of water. If he took all of the water,
that's in a good size rain that we get, and dropped it all at
once, it would kill us, just like that. It would kill everybody.
If he dropped every bit of it, just like that, it's over. But
he doesn't do that, does he? He maketh small the drops of
water. Just like you don't spray your
tomatoes with one of those hard spraying things. You get a watering
can and you water it gently. as the small rain upon the tender
herb and as the showers upon the grass. And look, now here's
why it's like that. Here's why it's life-giving and
why it accomplishes, because I'm gonna publish the name of
the Lord. That's what he does. You know what God says? God,
he just tells us who he is. The name of the Lord is his attributes,
it's his characteristics. It's all the things that he saw
in physical form but what they signify is who he is spiritually. And that's the word. That's what
God says. That's the reign. I'll publish
the name of the Lord. I'm gonna tell everybody who
God is. Ascribe you greatness to our God. And the only way
we're gonna do that is if he tells us who he is. We're gonna
say small things about him unless he tells us who he is. We're
not going to ascribe greatness. They're not going to ascribe
greatness down unto him, down where the gospel's not preached,
are they? They're going to think he's like us. But if he tells us who he is, we will ascribe greatness unto
him. He is the rock. He is the rock. His work is perfect. You see
why I wanted you to turn to this? I tried to just read it. I wanted
to just read it. He is the rock. His work is perfect. For all
his ways are judgment. A God of truth and without iniquity. Just and right is he. That's
how John's selling. And John knew when he saw the
fire and the brass and the whiteness, he knew what that was. And may
the Lord reveal to us who he is. And may we ascribe greatness
unto him tonight and from now on. Let's pray.