We're in the book of Revelation
tonight, chapter 4. And the reason I mention that
is when in question about anything in the book of Revelation, and
I could say this and should say this about any passage of scripture,
when in question about any passage of scripture, read Revelation
1.1. Let's read that together tonight.
I was in my study about to pull my hair out. and it just struck
me, read Revelation 1.1. This is the key to the book.
This is the key to the book of Revelation. This is the key to
the 65 books that precede the book of Revelation. This verse
of scripture straightens up a lot of thinking. Now, the religious
world and the world have a lot to think about God and about
Christ and about his word, but this is the key right here. Revelation 1.1, the revelation,
the revealing, the opening up. As we mentioned when we started
this book, that verse of scripture has the word revelation, and
so often that word is as posed as a problem word, apocalypse,
end of the world, war, and all that stuff, and yet that word
is translated in one place, a light to lighten. the Gentiles. And so it has nothing to do with
the end of the world. It has nothing to do with wars
and rumors of wars. It has nothing to do with conflicts.
It has everything to do with the revelation of Jesus Christ,
the light to lighten. The only lighten that we'll ever
get is the light the Lord Jesus Christ. That's the spiritual
things. We may learn a lot in school. I appreciate what a preacher
told me. Go to college and learn who discovered
America and get into a church and learn about Christ. Because
you're not going to learn that in college. You're going to find
out how to do all sorts of things, teach and practice medicine and
all sorts of things. But you'll never learn Christ
in a college. This is the revelation of Jesus
Christ. Now turn with me to our scripture reading over in the
fourth chapter tonight as we look at this passage of scripture
and we see this great sea of glass, clear as crystal. I'll never forget an experiment
in chemistry. This teacher in high school brought
out a vial a test tube full of clear material. Now, I couldn't
tell you what it is. And he took an eyedropper of
this red material, and he dropped the eyedropper of red material
into this clear material, and the clear material absorbed the
red, and it was all clear. Now, I says, whoa, that is interesting. Now this crystal, this sea of
glass, clear as crystal, has a wonderful picture with regard
to a fountain. that is prepared for the sins
of God's people and this fountain is not made contaminated by the
sins of God's people, it continues to be clean and clear because
our sins are put away as far as the east is from the west.
It doesn't contaminate. It is paid for in full, complete. There is no reminder anymore
of the sins of God's people. And read with me here in Revelation
chapter 4, beginning with verse 6. This statement is made about
this fountain, this sea of glass. It says in verse 6, and before
the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal. It is see-through. It is the
pier of the pier. Whenever we're talking about
God, we're talking about the holy of the holies. It's no wonder
he had that place named in the tabernacle and in the temple,
the holy of holies. It's the highest holy. Here we
see about our God that in every aspect, he is the holy of the
holies. We may have holiness, but it
is only because of His holiness we have any. And He said, be
ye holy as I am holy. Now, we don't have that on ourselves.
We don't have it on our own. We can't approach that holiness,
but He appropriates His holiness to us through the blood of the
Lord Jesus Christ, and we become pure and holy in the eyes of
Almighty God. This crystal clean, pure sea
of glass, as clear as crystal, has absorbed and taken care of
and paid for and continually taken care of all the wretched
sins of all God's people. Yet you look into it and it is
still just as clear as crystal. There's no reminder. There's
nothing there but continuous clear crystal. Now, turn with
me if you would back to the book of First Kings Chapter 7. So
we think about this. There's a sea mentioned here
in the Old Testament in First Kings Chapter 7. As Solomon,
king of Israel, came to power upon the death of his father,
And it was such a tremendous reign. During his reign, there
was not one enemy that attacked the borders of Israel. Now that's
significant. That shares a whole lot about
the reign of the Lord Jesus Christ. When he is reigning, not one
enemy can strike the borders of his kingdom. We are in complete
protection of this great king. Now, he was authorized to build
the temple, and he did, and he used many, many talented people
that God gave the ability to build that temple. Now there
was something outside of that temple and in the book of Chronicles
it tells about Babylon coming down and breaking this up and
hauling it back to Babylon. That's this great brazen sea. It was huge and it balanced upon
four three in every direction, excuse
me, 12 cattle, oxen, balanced on their backs. And the width
of that at the top was the hand breadth. And it's just huge. It's 15 feet across and 5 feet
deep. And it says it held 2,000 baths
of water. I've tried to find out what a
bath means, and there's a lot of assumption about what it means. But some people say it's between
8,000 and 14,000 gallons. Huge. Lots of water. And this
brazen sea represents, let's read this first and then we'll
go on. First Kings chapter seven. This sea is, this is a picture
of that sea we saw in the book of Revelation, a fountain, it's
typical. And it pictures Christ, he's
the revelation, everything is the revelation of Jesus Christ.
And this sea is a wonderful picture of it. And here we have Solomon
commissioning the casting of this great Great, huge labor. See, it's 45 feet around the
top of it, and it's 15 feet across. It's five feet deep, and it's
just, it's gargantuous. In fact, when they hauled it
off, it says it was brass without measure. That's how the Babylonians
termed it. It's brass without measure. Tons
of brass used in the casting of this. Now here in 1 Kings
7, verse 23, the scriptures share this about this great sea. It
says, 1 Kings 7, verse 23, and he made a molten sea, 10 cubits
from one brim to the other, and it was round all about, and its
height was 5 cubits, and the line of 30 cubits did compass
it round about. Excuse me, it's 7 1�2 feet high,
so the 5 feet is 5 cubits. And it's 30 cubits around. And
under the brim of it, round about, there were knops compassing it,
10 in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. And the knops
were cast in two rows when it was cast. And it stood upon 11,
excuse me, 12 oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking
toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking
toward the east. And the sea was set upon them,
and all their hinder parts were inward. And it was a handbreadth
thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like a brim of a cup,
with flowers of lilies, and it contained two thousand baths."
And over in the book of First Chronicles, it says that it contained
three thousand, and one of them is close to the top, and the
other one is brimming full. Huge sea. Now this is a representation
of a fountain that God provides to wash the sins of his people. It's just one typical statement
about it. And we find that it was a brass,
and the judgment of God had to pass upon his son in order for
this fountain to be open for use. God's judgment upon his
son opened a fountain, and if we sing about there is a fountain,
filled with blood, drawn from Emmanuel's veins, and plunged
beneath that, the sinner loses all his guilty stains. Now, this
is a picture. Now, turn with me, if you would,
over to the book of Zechariah. Book of Zechariah, pictures throughout
the Old Testament, places of washing, places of cleansing,
brazen labors, this huge sea of brass that was made. And I
think it's interesting that these oxen that support it, all the
directions of the compass, and this is open to every kindred,
people, and tongue out of all the world. It was appropriated
to them through the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. And
yet we find in the book of Revelation, it's out, kindred, out of, out
of. Didn't say he's gonna save them
all, he's gonna save out of every kindred nation, people, and tongue.
Now here in the book of Zechariah chapter 13, Zechariah chapter
13, we find this is looked at in a spiritual sense. Zechariah
was used to ride of a fountain. And it's opened, Zechariah chapter
13. Zechariah 13, verse 1. We read
about this. An amazing part about it is,
he washed all his lost sheep, and there's not a stain left.
You can't look over. Now you and I, I've come home. and showered and had to kick
the water so it would go down the drain. It's been dirty, depending
on what I've been doing. But all of this great sea, this
sea of glass, clear as crystal, this fountain that we're going
to read about here, it says in verse 1, that day there should
be a fountain open to the house of David and to the inhabitants
of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanliness. There is a fountain
filled with blood and it is no dirtier for use than it was before
it was ever used. the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ
before eternity began and the promise of the coming of the
Messiah. That blood was as pure before
as after washing us from our sins and loosing us from our
sins in his own blood. It is such an agent. that it takes care of our sin
completely, and you can look through that fountain and see
no spot of sin. There's not even a scum around
the edge. It's just as clear as glass. I like it when I find out things
about how much God took care of my sin in the redemptive work
of the Lord Jesus Christ and that I will not stand before
God and give answer for sin. If we have to answer for one
sin, we're going to be damned there because we have no way
of taking care of just one sin, one lie sin, one white lie sin,
one just teasing white lie sin. We have no way of taking care
of that. Not alone all the great ones, so the blood of Jesus Christ. There's a fountain. There's a
fountain open to the house of David and to the inhabitants
of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanliness. Now, this washing
is mentioned throughout the scriptures in a spiritual sense. Back up
with me to the Psalms, if you would. Psalm 51, we find David
is praying to God. In this Psalm, Psalm 51, he mentions
being washed and cleansed and how valuable this is. This fountain,
this sea of like glass, clear as crystal, with all the sins
of all his people taken care of by his precious blood, it
is no worse for the wearer. Still holy, holy, holy. Still clean as a crystal. How well he has taken care of
what he promised he would take care of. How well he has taken
care of the sins of his people. He came out of that bath still
the Son of God. He came out of that bath still
the Lord God Almighty. He came out of that bath still
the one that could sit down beside the right hand of the Father
in glory and be accepted completely and totally as the one that left
in the covenant of grace and came born of a virgin and lived
those 33 and a half years upon this earth and laid down his
life for ransom for many and came out of that tomb victorious
over sin, death, hell, and the grave and could sit down. He
went to the bath and came out just as pure and holy as he went
in. And as he went in, he took the
sins of all his people with him, and it came out as clear as glass. It was completely the sin of
God's people, was completely taken care of, and you can peer
into this sea of glass, you can peer into this great sea, this
blood-filled sea, and you'll not see sin. All you'll see is
the very person of Christ Jesus the Lord and his success in dealing
with the problem that came as a result of Adam's fall in the
Garden of Eden. And we stand complete. Notice
here in the book of Psalms, Psalm 51 verse 2, Psalm 51 and verse
2, this great prayer of David and the great prayer of the church
This is our prayer. Well, he's not the only one that
ever sinned. Great prayer of the church. He says here, wash
me thoroughly from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. plunge
me, take me down. That baptism that God has, the
ordinance of baptism, it's a picture, it's a picture. We don't gain
any grace, it's not meritorious in any way, but it is a picture
of being plunged in a fountain. taken completely under and washed
thoroughly. This is what Christ does as he
says here in Psalm 51 and there in verse 2, wash me thoroughly.
Then in verse 7, it says, purge me with hyssop and I shall be
clean. Wash me and I shall be whiter
than snow. What happened to the contamination
that was on us and in us? when He washed us, absorbed in
the blood of the Lamb, victorious, every sin, every wit of sin,
every smell of sin taken care of in the blood of the Lamb.
And now gaze upon this before the throne of grace, Jesus Christ
sitting on His throne, this great sea sitting out in front of Him
says, look, Not one sin can be seen. It's all taken care of. And the church is going to bow
down and say, Lord God Almighty. That's what those 420 elders
are going to do in just a moment. Oh, praise him for a clean sea. Praise him for a sea as clear
as crystal, because he's taken care of all our sin. The preachers
that get up in the pulpits on Sunday and say, you're going
to have to answer for that sin are making a mockery of the fountain
of the living God. You're going to have to answer
for that. You're going to have to answer
for what you did last night. You're going to have to answer
for that what you did. My goodness, the blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth
us from all sin. And when it's finished, we'll
be able to look and see it's clear as crystal. No, no, see it. Not even hiding along the edges
where the fish are. It's just clear as crystal. Isaiah 118, turn with me to Isaiah,
Isaiah chapter one, verse 18. Look at this verse of scripture
with me as we think about this sea, great sea, clear as crystal. It's there before the throne
of grace. It's for the church's benefit. Doesn't have to be for
God's benefit. He knew what he was going to
do. It's for our benefit. Come up and look in. Come and
look at Christ. See how effectually he took care
of the issue. Look how greatly he overcame
sin. Gaze upon the sea. It's clear
as crystal. I've washed you thoroughly. I've
taken you down. I've scrubbed you in the blood.
I've loosed you from all sin in the blood of the lamb. That's
what we read in Revelation chapter one. And here it is. Just as
clear as we hear people say, oh, you ought to have been down
on those islands. You could see 400 feet down. This is clearer than
that. You can see the bottom. There's
nothing to inhibit looking to the bottom of this fountain,
because there's nothing in it to stop our sight. Nothing. Everything is taken care of.
All right. Isaiah 118. Scriptures share
this. Come now and let us reason together,
saith the Lord. Though your sins be as scarlet,
they shall be white as snow. Though they be red like crimson,
they shall be as wool. That's a promise God made to
the church by the prophet Isaiah. He just got through saying, you
guys, from the top of your head to the bottom of your feet. And
now he says, let's talk about Christ. Let's talk about him. Let's get to the important things.
Don't spend your life concerned about being from the top of the
head to the bottom of the feet. Let's reason about this. Though
your sins be like that, they shall be white. They shall be
clean. And you will not see him in this
great fountain that God has provided to wash all his people in. There's
not going to be any dirt in it. My mother had a washing machine
and dad got her, it was a sud saver. You washed your least
dirty clothes. And then it put this water in
a tub and then it brought it back in and then you wash your
dirty clothes in it. Well, you're washing your clothes in dirty
water. That's not what Christ does. He didn't have a sud saver
on the washing machine. He washes us in his own blood
and it's just clear as crystal. without spot or without blemish.
Turn with me, if you would, to the book of Ezekiel 36. Ezekiel
36, as we look at this great sea, and it's just as clear as
a crystal. You can look right through it.
Pure, pure, pure. Nothing to inhibit. You buy binoculars and they say,
well, it will transmit 85% of light. Oh, you pay more. You get one
that transmits 90% light. You pay a lot more, and you can
get one that pays 97% light. Now, you're paying $1,000 for
some glass that will allow 97% of the light to pass through.
It's clear. Oh, my goodness. This is without
price. He washes us in his own blood,
and that without price. Doesn't cost us anything. We
couldn't pay if it did. All right, Isaiah, excuse me,
Ezekiel 36. Ezekiel 36, 25. It says, then
will I sprinkle clean water upon you and you shall be clean from
all your filthiness and from all your idols will I cleanse
you. Whoa. He's taking care of it. All our
filthiness and all our idols. I don't know how many times I
went to church and on the way, mom got a hold of my ear. Washed everything but the ears
and she had to take care of that on the way to church. Behind
the ear and in the ear. God doesn't have to take care
of us that way. He does it in one fell swoop
with his blood. Turn with me, if you would, over
to the book of 1 Corinthians chapter 6. 1 Corinthians chapter
6, as we look at this great theme found in the scriptures about
the efficacy of the blood of Christ. When someone says, you're
going to have to answer for that, they're putting just very little
value on the blood of Christ. Someone says you're going to
have to pay for your sin. Well, when they talk about having
to go to some place in between heaven and hell, and you have
to pay off, the efficacy of the blood of Christ is just barely. It's hardly any value. And God's people have said it's
all value because it has washed me from my sin and cleansed me
and made me presentable or I won't be presentable. It is all and
in all, it's everything. Here in the book of 1 Corinthians
chapter 6, 1 Corinthians chapter 6, find the Apostle Paul, a secretary,
writing to the saints at Corinth about an issue that's important
to them as well as it is to us. I was talking to Dwayne today,
had a great time, and he brought up about, we don't have any Jeremiah's
today like there was on that day. Now, I was thinking about
that. We do. We got Jeremiah. That's all we got. We don't have
no prophet like Jeremiah, but we got Jeremiah. He's saying
the same thing today as he was then. And Isaiah is too. We may not have a spokesman like
that in our country, but we got the word of God, and it's just
as powerful today as when he gave it, because his spirit makes
it so. Here it makes us as plicable
today as in the day of Jeremiah. All right, 1 Corinthians chapter
6, verse 9. We read these words, know you
not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Oh my goodness, I'm glad he didn't stop there. If he stopped there,
we might as well fold up. If he stopped there, we might
as well quit. But he didn't stop there. He says, but be not deceived,
neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate,
nor abusers with themselves of mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous,
nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners shall inherit
the kingdom of God. Has he left out anybody here? No. And he said, no one has that. He's going to make it. I'm glad
he didn't stop there. There's a fountain. There's a
fountain. He goes on to say here, and such
were some of you. But you are washed, but you are
sanctified, but you are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus
and by the spirit of our God. Oh, what a clean fountain. Totally
clean. He has washed his people from
their sins, loosed them from their sins in his own blood.
He took and plunged us deep into the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Spiritually, he took us and bowed us down into that blood of his
son and washed us and cleansed us. And when we came out, that
blood was still just as holy as it ever was. And it's represented
here in the book of Revelation by a sea as clear as glass, clear
as a crystal, and not one taint of humanity is left in it. He completely purged us and purged
it. It came out just as holy, just
as righteous, just as godly as when he laid it down on our behalf. Oh, he is the son of God and
he sits down at the right hand of the father and to us that
is a representation that the father was well pleased and accepted
the sacrifice and the fountain is clean. No dirt left behind. Paid for in full. Complete. Turn with me, if you would, to
the book of Ephesians, chapter 5. Ephesians 5, as we think about
this fountain, filled with blood, drawn from Immanuel's veins.
And sinners plunge beneath that flood, lose all their guilty
stains. How glorious God has provided
for us. Not one thing is left out. We
have everything that we need. Everything that's required has
been provided. And he gives it to us in the
person of Christ Jesus. Ephesians 5. And there in verse
25, we read these words, Ephesians 5, in verse 25, the scriptures
share this about the Lord Jesus in a picture. He said, husbands,
love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church and gave
himself for it, that he might sanctify and cleanse it with
the washing of water by the word, that he might present it to himself
a glorious church. Not having spot or wrinkle or
any such thing. Can't get any better than that.
Without spot, without wrinkle. He's going to present his church
in that way or any such thing, but that it should be holy and
without blemish. That's what God does with his
people and for his people, and does it by the blood of the Lord
Jesus Christ. Cleanses us from all sin, makes
it spotless, makes us spotless, and the blood of Jesus Christ
is no worse off. for doing it. It's still holy
and without blame before Him in love. Turn with me if you
would to the book of Hebrews chapter 9. Hebrews chapter 9
verse 13. Hebrews 9, verse 13. Well, let's
back up to verse 12 there. That's such a good verse. Neither
by the blood of goats and calves. There's such a valuable verse
here. Old Testament people were never cleansed by the blood of
goats and calves. Now, if they had any goats in
or calves in, it might have, but it didn't take care of their
human sin. We needed a better representative. Neither by the blood of goats
and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy
place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. How could
he do that, obtain eternal redemption? He had to pay all the sin debt.
That's the only way he could obtain eternal redemption for
us. It wasn't a day or a month or
a year or 50 years. In the Old Testament, every 50
years, they had the year of Jubilee. This is better than that. All
the property reverted to the original owners. This is better
than that. It's better than 50 years. It's
eternal. This blood bought redemption
that we have in Christ. If, verse 13, forth the blood
of bulls and of goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling
the unclean, sanctifies to the purifying of the flesh, how much
more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit
offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience
from dead work to serve the living God? How much better is this?
My goodness, that was cleansing to the flesh. This is cleansing
to the soul. This is cleansing to every sin
that was an offense to God, and every sin is an offense to God. He is the offended party. We're
the offending party. And he said, by my blood, I'll
cleanse you from every sin. And the pool won't be any worse
for it. It will be clear as crystal when
we look upon it. And we're going to fall down
and worship the one that gave us the fountain over this. And then it tells us in 1st John,
1st John chapter 1, 1st John chapter 1, verse 7. Now I read one time this should
be since we walk in the light instead of but if. I'm sorry to say, those translators,
they just did not believe in eternal security. So they had
to add a little bit in here once in a while to make it up to us.
Well, that's not God's way. Since we walk in the light, as
he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another. In the blood
of Jesus Christ, his son, cleanseth us from all sin. You know what the church says
when those words are read out loud? Amen. I love it. It is joy to my soul to know
that this fountain was the fountain that cleanses us from all sin.
And turn with me if you would to the book of Revelation chapter
7. Jumping ahead just a little bit here in the book of Revelation,
Revelation chapter 7 and verse 13, we read these wonderful words
It says here, Revelation chapter 7 and verse 13. And one of the
elders answered, saying unto me, what are these which are
arrayed in white robes? And whence came they? And I said
unto him, sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, these are
they which came out of great tribulation. And pretty soon
someone's going to pop up and say, I told you there, Daniel
says it's going to be great tribulation. That's not what it's talking
about. This is talking about the tribulation of our Savior
on the cross. These have come through that
tribulation in Christ Jesus because it goes on to say it have washed
their robes and made them white in the blood of the lamb. This
is Christ's tribulation on our behalf. We were with him and
in him when he went through it. Every saint has come out of that
great tribulation and their garments and themselves are washed white
in the blood of the lamb. My goodness, tell people in Russia,
Christians in Russia, they're not in tribulation. They've been
in tribulation. People in America have been in tribulation. It's
all over. There's people in great tribulation,
but this is the great tribulation. My God, my God, why hast thou
forsaken me? That's the greatest tribulation
this world has ever heard, is the Son of God saying those words
from the cross. I'm thankful just prior to that,
he said, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.
And he said just after that, Father, I commend my spirit into
thy hands. But there for that moment. He's
out of fellowship with the Father in greatest tribulation this
world has ever seen. In fact, we couldn't see it because
a great period of darkness came upon the earth, and every one
of God's people was in Christ on that cross in that same tribulation. And when we come out, oh, we
are clean. What's it say there? It says,
have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the
Lamb. And then Revelation 22, we're jumping over here. Look at this. Showed me a pure
river of water of life. Revelation chapter 22 verse 1.
Showed me a pure river of the water of life clear as crystal
proceeding out of the throne of God and of the land. What
a wonderful, wonderful river of life. The blood of Jesus Christ
and after washing all his people and the numbers of those people
are a number which no man can number. That's what the scriptures
tell us. Now he knows the number, but
no man can number. We don't know the number. I was
reading over there in Ezekiel tonight, and I was looking for
a passage of scripture. We went through that, or someone
read that about, he sent someone through town, he says, put a
mark on some people that mourn for their sins. And then he told
someone else, you go through and kill everybody in town, but
you leave those with the mark alone. I said, oh, what a beautiful
picture of God choosing out his people. They've got a mark God
can see, a number that no man can number. and all of them have
been washed in the blood of the Lamb, and that fountain is as
clean when all of them come out as when it started, because the
blood of Jesus Christ is so efficacious, so effectual, that nobody's sin
will be left behind that He took them through. Now a whole bunch
of people, they pass by this fountain, they don't want in
this fountain, they're not brought to this fountain, and their sins
are upon them. And when God says, depart from
me ye workers of iniquity, I never knew you, they've never been
taken down to the fountain of the blood of the Lamb of the
Lord Jesus Christ. Their sins are upon them and
they'll spend eternity without God, without hope, without salvation. And they'll deal with their own
sin for eternity. But all his saints have been
taken down, one at a time, and as a church, brought down to
this blood. Revelation 22-1 showed me a pure
river of water. Let's go back there to Revelation
chapter 4, verse 6. Before the throne was a, and
this is not for God's benefit, my goodness. This is for our
benefit. This is for us. This is for the
church. This is for Abel. This is for
Solomon. This is for David. This is for
Joshua and Caleb. This is for all the saints throughout
all time. This is the 24 elders, the church,
old economy and new economy, everlasting covenant economy.
This is for everyone that Christ has brought in. He said here,
look at this, a sea of glass like in the crystal in the midst
of the throne, sea of glass. No, it's not translucent. It's
not like that glass you have in the shower room. This is clear
glass. We think glass in a window is
clear. This is clear glass. Oh, this is clearer than any
water you've ever had. And every one of God's people
have been taken through this fountain, and they came out washed
and cleansed from their sin in his own blood. And that fountain
is still as clean as when he began it. You'd think someone like Saul
of Tarsus would tarnish this water. No. It's efficacious. It completely takes care of every
sin of all of God's people. And he says we'll stand before
him without spot and without wrinkle. There won't be a wrinkle
in the righteousness that we have and we'll not have a sin
upon us. Now I thought we'd have time
to go to the four living creatures, but we're not. So we'll stop. Four living creatures. It says
there in the latter part of verse six, it says, and round about
the throne were four beasts, four living creatures, full of
eyes before and behind. And we'll just say this about
them. They got 20-20 vision in every direction. That way and
that way. Now our vision is only that way.
We don't know what the next second's gonna bring out this way. But
they do. I look at these as just the gospel
of the Lord Jesus Christ declared in these picture forms. The gospel,
the Savior declared, the good news about our Savior. And it's
their business to declare it. Now I might say this. Open that
Bible one more time. chapter 4, and it says here in
verse 8, latter part of verse 8, this is what they say, holy,
holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was and is and is to come,
and when these creatures give glory and honor and thanks to
him that sat on the throne who liveth forever and ever, The
church, 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, thou art
worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power, for thou
hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and
were created. When the gospel praises God, so does the church. When God's Word praises God,
so does the Church. When the Word of God says, Lord
God Almighty, so says the Church. We agree. We're in total agreement. with the gospel, the good news,
and every bit of word of God. There is no conflict. There is
no Sassan God and saying, I don't believe that. We say, I may not
understand it, but I believe it. And if we miss rule number
one, read rule number two, and go back to rule number one, it
says, this is the revelation of Jesus Christ.