Now let's return to the book
of Micah, chapter seven. As we close out this book of
prophecy, the question that Micah, the
prophet, who prophesied by inspiration of the spirit of God, prophesying
the word of God, the question that that he is concerned with
for the people to whom he preached, and the question that I'm concerned
with, with you to whom I preach, and for myself too, is this question. Do we know God? Do we truly, really know God? Now everybody thinks they do.
That's not what I'm talking about. Everybody would claim to know
God. But the question we have to understand then is this, or
the issue we have to understand is this, is how can a sinner
know God? And the Bible's very clear on
this. The only way that we can know God, know Him savingly,
know Him as Father. We say our Father. People pray
what they call the Lord's Prayer, the model prayer. our Father
who art in heaven. The only way we can truly and
really know God in this way is by revelation. The title of this
message is A Saving Revelation of God. God must be revealed. You can't find God within yourself. I know the Lord said, the kingdom
of heaven is within you, but he was talking to his people
to whom God had already revealed himself, in whom the spirit of
Christ indwells. You can't find God in philosophy,
man-made religion, science. In other words, as one old writer
said one time, you can't reason, you can't find God by reasoning
from the ground up. It has to come from heaven down. by revelation. And then the scripture
goes further because, you know, a lot of people read the Bible
and come out not knowing any more than when they first went
in. Come out confused, especially when you consider the differences
in the opinions of men and that's not what we're after. But it
says this, the only way we can know God is by revelation and
that comes, that revelation of God comes to us through the Lord
Jesus Christ as He is revealed, as He is identified and distinguished
in the Word by the power of the Holy Spirit. Now Micah, the prophet
here, had just described the sad, sad state and condition
of Judah and Jerusalem. And the problem with these people
is even though that many of them, even most of them you might say,
were religious, they still did not know God. Now they thought
they did. They would tell you they knew
God. They were sure in their hearts
and in their minds and in their feelings that they knew God. But they didn't. Look at verse
four. Go back to this. He says the
best of them is as a briar. Even the best of them. The best
that their society has to offer. The most religious, the most
moral. They're as a briar and the issue
there is they'll hurt you. A briar will hurt you. You'll
get stuck. That's what he's talking about. It's like poison on the
end of a point. And even the best of them. The
Bible says man at his best state is altogether what? Vanity. So
when you consider the best that man can offer, and then he goes
on, the most upright. Now you know what an upright
man in the scripture is. Truly upright is a justified
sinner, but now he's talking about those who consider themselves
by their own judgment and by their own works to be upright.
And he says the most upright among men who can attain the
highest that men can attain is sharper than a thorn hedge. And
I made the comment on that last time that that briar and the
thorn hedge, remember, you remember when the Lord was pronouncing
the curse on the man in Genesis chapter three, remember he pronounced
three curses there after the fall, one on the serpent, one
on the woman, and one on the man, and when he pronounced the
curse on the man, talking about how he's gonna have to earn his
living by the sweat of his brow, the hard labor, He said he was
going to curse the ground. Briars and thorns would come
up. So it wouldn't be an enjoyable
labor, but it'd be a hard labor. And so what he's saying is the
best of men and the most upright of men that men can attain is
still cursed. Now that's so in the eyes of
God. And see, this is part of knowing God. We come to find
out in the Bible how God views things, not how we view things.
We're limited. You know, Christ knew the hearts
of men. We don't. We're so limited. Our standard of righteousness
and sin is always lower than God's. Always. That's why there'll be many,
many in that day of judgment who'll be shocked and ashamed
because they'll find out that they'll be judged by that man
whom the Lord hath ordained in the way of righteousness, true
righteousness, not what we think is righteous, not what we have
an opinion of righteousness, but by true righteousness according
to the law of God. And that's why there's no hope
of salvation. no hope of righteousness, no
hope of forgiveness in ourselves, only in Christ. He goes on, he
says, the day of thy watchmen, now the watchmen there are the
prophets. They were to be the watchmen of the society, of the
people, like pastors and elders and evangelists today, who watch
over the flock. who tell the truth, who warn
the people that danger is coming, who guide the people in the ways
of God from the Word of God. And what he's talking about there
is the day that the prophets of God have prophesied of, that
day of judgment, that day of destruction. And the visitation,
that's God visiting Judah and Jerusalem in judgment. That's
a visit that you don't want. He said it cometh. What God has
spoken through Micah, through Isaiah, through other prophets
like Hosea, earlier Amos, that day's coming. Mark it down. And he said, now shall be their
perplexity. When that day comes, they'll
be confused. And the reason they'll be confused
is they're like those false preachers in Matthew 7 who stand before
the Lord claiming Now we've prophesied in your name, we've cast out
demons, we've done many wonderful works, only to hear him say,
depart from me ye that work in iniquity, I never knew you. What a perplexity that would
be. What a confusion. What a shock. And so he tells
them in verse five, don't trust in a friend, put you not confidence
in a guide, keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth
in thy bosom. That's talking about your wife.
That's talking about the spouse. And what do you mean? Does that
mean you can't trust anybody? No, it's not what it's saying.
He's saying don't trust in a friend. Don't put your confidence in
a guide. or in your wife, or you wives
in your husband, they cannot save you. That's what he's saying. There's one Savior. There's one
God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.
He is our Savior. There is no other Savior. And
as much as your friends or your guides or your spouses will be
faithful to you and tell you the truth, they are still not
your savior. John the Baptist knew that well.
He told them. Christ called him the greatest
of the prophets and he said, but I'm not your savior. He said,
now I can baptize you in water. And you know, I can do that.
I can baptize you in water, but I can't baptize you with the
Holy Spirit. I can't birth you again. I can't
bring about the new birth. I can tell you who Christ is,
but I can't make you trust him. I can't make you love him and
follow him. I can tell you what righteousness is, but I can't
make you righteous. Only God can. I can tell you
where to find forgiveness in the blood of Christ, but I can't
make you trust Him for that forgiveness. You see what I'm saying? I'm
not your Savior. God help me and I'll tell you
the truth. And the truth of it is this, I'm not your Savior,
Christ is. And any man that stands up behind
this pulpit that tells you the same thing is telling you the
truth. And you ought to rejoice in it. We all ought to. He says in verse 6, he says,
"...the son dishonoreth the father, the daughter riseth up against
her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, a
man's enemies are those of his own household." Do you remember
Christ quoted that in Matthew chapter 10 verse 36? It's recorded when he was telling
his disciples they were going out in the world. He said, I'm
sending you out as sheep amongst wolves. You're going to face
opposition. And that opposition and that
friction As one of our brothers said in the study when he spoke
to his mother and father about the true gospel He said it was
like a wall then came between them And that's the way it is and
I'll tell you something if you you husbands who believe the
gospel if you have a believing wife and You wives who believe
the gospel if you have a believing husband Or if you have a believing
mother or father, or you have believing children, you ought
to thank God every day. Because that's rare. It's very
rare. I believe this is one of the
hardest trials that every believer in every generation goes through,
and that's facing opposition from their unbelieving family
members. That's what he's talking about right there. This gospel,
this message of grace in Christ, of how God saves a sinner, And
upon what ground he'll do so in the person and finished work
of the Lord Jesus Christ will divide families. That's why he says, that's one
of the reasons he says don't put your confidence in a friend
or a guide or in your spouse. So verse seven, now here's the
key. Now if you want to know God, here's where it begins.
Therefore I will look unto the Lord. That's Jehovah, God, our
Savior. And hold on to that thought.
I want to elaborate on that at the end of the message, at the
end of the chapter. He said, I will wait for the
God of my salvation. Micah's looking forward to the
coming of Christ. That's what he means. I'll wait
for the God of my salvation. God, the Lord, Jehovah, my Savior,
He's sending a Savior. He's sending a Messiah. He's
going to come out of Bethlehem, Ephratah Micah wrote about in
Micah chapter 5. He's going to be ruler in Israel.
He's got a people out of every tribe, kindred, tongue, and nation.
He's going to say, this is how you know God. Now here's the
issue of Micah 7. Here's how he closes out his
last message to his kinsmen, people of Judah and Jerusalem.
If you're going to know God, then you need to know how God
saves sinners. Now you can go out and you can
survey creation. And you can find a lot of things
about God through creation. Psalm 19 speaks of it. The heavens
declare the glory of God. Romans chapter one speaks of
it, talking about his majesty and his power. All those things,
looking at creation. You can find something out about
God, a little bit out about God's justice in looking at these disasters
because they are God's judgments against sin. Not so that we can
look at somebody who goes through that and say, well, they deserve
it as if we didn't because we do. That's why Christ, the way,
how do you look at those judgments? Well, Christ said, look at it
this way, except you repent, you'll likewise perish. You deserve
the same thing. So you can find things about
God in looking at creation, looking, even, but if you want to know
God savingly, he must be revealed in and by the person and finished
work of the Lord Jesus Christ, how God saves sinners. And that's
what he's saying there in verse 7. I will wait for the God of
my salvation. Remember Simeon? When the Holy
Spirit revealed to him that he would see the Christ child before
he left this world and when Mary and Joseph brought the baby to
be circumcised on the eighth day, Simeon took the baby up
in his arms and he held him up and he said, I'm ready to go
for mine eyes have seen thy salvation. That's what it is. And he said,
my God will hear me. There's no doubt about that.
And the hearing there is acceptance. God will receive a sinner who
comes to Him through Christ. God will accept and bless any
sinner, every sinner, who comes to Him pleading the blood and
the righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ. He will not turn
them away. He will not turn them away. And
He cannot turn them away. And the reason He cannot is because
of His glory and His promise. He's faithful. Now the people
were turned aside to vanity here, to the vanity of materialism,
the vanity of religion, self-righteous works religion, but Micah's heart
and the heart of a small remnant of people out of Judah and Jerusalem,
their heart was fixed upon God's promised Redeemer, the Deliverer. And look at what he says. Look
at verse 8. He says, Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy.
When I fall, I shall rise. When I sit in darkness, the Lord
shall be a light unto me. You may see me at a time when
I fall. You may see me at a time when
I don't know which way is up or which way to go. There are
times in my life like that. I may look like to you that I'm
sitting in darkness, but the Lord shall be a light unto me. All who look to Christ rest in
him all who are washed in his blood and clothed in his righteousness
you will rise you will rise and He will be a light unto you now
verse 9. He says I will bear the indignation
of the Lord because I've sinned against him That's the same thing
that David said in Psalm 130 in verse 3 when he made this
statement He said, Lord, if thou, Lord,
shouldest mark iniquities, who would stand? In other words,
this is a statement of the prophet like Isaiah said in Isaiah chapter
six when he said, woe is me for I'm undone, I'm cut off, I'm
a man of unclean lips and I dwell amidst a people of unclean lips.
It's a statement that is a sinner who's convicted of his sin by
the Holy Spirit is taking sides with God against himself, saying
this, if God gave me what I deserved, I would be damned forever. If
God gave me what I've earned, I'd be damned forever. And that's
true of all of us. It's true of all of us. And even
believers. Now listen to me. Children of
God. God knows what's best for us
at all times. And there are times we may be
going through chastisement. And like the prophet Micah, we
could say, I bear the indignation of the Lord because I've sinned
against Him. If God is correcting me, you
know why He does it? Because I need correcting. Just
like your children need to be corrected sometimes. So if He's
correcting me, it's because I need it. And He knows better than
I do. But it says this, now look here, He says, until He plead
my cause, that's Christ our advocate. Christ our intercessor. Christ,
Jesus Christ the righteous, who stands in the place of His people
as our defense, you might say, as our advocate, pleading the
cause, the cause of the glory of God in our salvation. Christ
died for my sins, therefore my sins cannot be charged to me.
Brother David read it in the study. Blessed is the man to
whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity. Who shall lay anything to the
charge of God's elect? It's God that justifies. Who
can condemn us? It's Christ that died. There's
therefore now no condemnation to them who are in Christ. Whatever
I'm going through now, whatever situation, he pleads my cause. He's my advocate. He's my propitiation. He's satisfied God's justice
on my behalf. The law demands no sentence of
punishment from me by way of payment because Christ paid it
all by His blood. And the law demands no righteousness,
no obedience from me in order to attain righteousness because
Christ is my righteousness. Now God demands obedience from
His children, don't get me wrong. But it's not a legalistic forced
slavery. It's not the obedience of a hireling. It's the obedience of love and
grace and gratitude. It's a debt of love. It's not
a debt of law. It's a debt of... It's a willing,
loving bond slave of Christ who serves his master not to pay
the debt but because the debt's already been paid and he serves
his master because he loves his master. And that's the difference. But He always pleads our cause,
the cause of His people, and executes judgment for me. Now
how does He execute judgment? He did that on the cross when
He died for my sins. He took my sins upon Himself
and He drank damnation dry. He satisfied it all and brought
righteousness for me. And He will bring me forth to
the light and look here, now you want to know God. Now here's
the saving revelation of God, and I shall behold His righteousness. How are you going to behold His
righteousness? You're going to behold Christ,
the Lord our righteousness. You're going to behold Christ
in the glory of His person as God and man in one person. God
in human flesh. who he is. You're going to behold
Christ as the obedient one who satisfied the law in every precept
and in its penalty on the cross. You're going to behold Christ
and Him crucified, and you're going to see every attribute
of God engaged in the salvation of a sinner through Christ. You're going to behold Christ
bearing the sins of His people, shedding His blood unto and bringing
forth an everlasting righteousness of infinite value, whereby God
is just to justify the ungodly. Look over at Isaiah 45 with me. Isaiah, the contemporary of Micah.
We read part of this last time, but listen to this. Knowing God. Look at Isaiah 45. And look at
verse 20. Listen to the words of this prophecy.
Isaiah calling the same people to whom Micah is preaching. He
says, assemble yourselves and come, draw near together you
that are escaped of the nations. They have no knowledge, they
set up the wood of their graven image and pray unto a God that
cannot save. Now let me say something right
here. Now certainly anyone who prays to a wooden idol or a metal
idol or something like that, some kind of an icon, doesn't
know God. But you don't have to carve out
a wooden idol or mold up a metal idol to pray into a God that
cannot save. Idolatry begins in the mind and
in the heart. And there are many people who
wouldn't dream of bowing down to a totem pole or some kind
of a wooden idol like that, but they still don't know God. They
still pray to a God that cannot save. They pray to a God that
will save only if you'll let Him, for example. That's common
today. It's like I heard a preacher a couple weeks ago on television
talking about how God is bound up until you release Him by your
prayers or your shouting or your faith. God's not bound up by
anything we do or don't do. You don't bind up God. God's
not at your beck and call. He's not a genie in a bottle.
This isn't Aladdin's lamp. It's salvation. This isn't a
myth or some kind of a children's fairy story. This is salvation. You say, well, it seems to me.
Well, who cares what it seems to you? To know God is by revelation,
not by what it seems to you or it seems to me. It's what God
says about Himself here. Don't pray into a God that cannot
save. Look at verse 21 of Isaiah 45. He says, Tell you and bring them
near. Yea, let them take counsel together. Who hath declared this
from ancient time? God declared it. He said, Who
hath told it from that time? Have not I, the Lord? Now again,
that name Lord there, that title Lord there is the covenant God
of grace, the God of salvation. And he says, there's no God else
beside me, a just God and a Savior, one who is both a righteous judge
as well as a merciful, loving Father. How can he be both? You
want to know God? Find out the answer to that question
in the Bible. How can God be just and justify? The answer is found all through
the Scriptures. It's by the blood of the Lord
Jesus Christ. It's at the cross of Calvary
that God put away sin in strict justice and shows mercy to sinners,
the mercy seat. That's what propitiation is about,
you see. You see that word used in the
New Testament. So he says, there's none beside me. Now Micah's going
to talk about that. Who is a God like our God? There
is no God like our God. He says in verse 22 of Isaiah
45, look unto me and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth. Now
this is not just for Israel, national Israel. But this is
for anyone who looks unto Him as a just God and a Savior. How
do you look at Him as a just God? Look to Christ and Him crucified,
the Lord our righteousness, His blood. He says, for I'm God,
there's none else. I've sworn by myself, that's
His glory right there. See, God has engaged himself.
The word has gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not
return that unto me every knee shall bow and every tongue shall
swear. Surely shall one say, in the Lord have I righteousness
and strength. Even to him shall men come, and
all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed. In the
Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified and shall glory. There it is. Look back at Micah
7 now. Now all of this is the revelation
of God. Look at verse 10. It says, Then
she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover
her which said to me, Where is the Lord thy God? Mine eyes shall
behold her, now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the
street. See, all of this is showing how those who are incensed against
Him, who are in opposition to Him, who will not receive this
revelation, how they'll end up. Verse 11, in the day that thy
walls are to be built, in that day shall the decree be far removed. Now, what he's talking about
there is when God calls his people back out of captivity. You see,
Micah's telling Judah here. He says, you're gonna be destroyed
and you're gonna be brought into captivity. Later on, Jeremiah
prophesied of it and he said it's gonna be 70 years. They
were 70 years in captivity in Babylon. And then the Lord delivered
them providentially, brought them back into the land, gave
them back, they were able to rebuild the city of Jerusalem,
even though they were slack in doing that, and the temple, slack
in doing that. But they were able to do that.
And what he says here, in the days that thy walls are to be
built, in that day the decree shall the decree be far removed."
In that day, what he's saying here is that's the day that the
decree, the message, the purpose of God in the salvation of His
people is going to be far widespread. That's what it means. Far removed. It's going to go out. And it's
going to get out. In other words, the rebuilding
of Jerusalem and the Temple was a preparation for something much,
much greater and far, far wider. And that boundary was going to
be far extended. What's he talking about? He's
talking about the coming of Christ and the salvation of the Gentiles.
They're going to know God. God has a people out of every
tribe, kindred, tongue, and nation. Jew and Gentile, he's going to
reveal himself to those people. Not just limited to one group,
or to one nation, or to one area, but all over. Now aren't you
glad? Boy, I am. He says in verse 12,
He says, In that day also He shall come even to thee from
Assyria, and from the fortified cities, and from the fortress
even to the river, and from the sea to sea, and from mountain
to mountain. In other words, again, that's
representing God's elect out of every tribe, kindred, tongue,
and nation. And the reason He mentions Assyria specifically
is because they were such a great enemy of Israel. And you know
what he's saying there? He says, God, and only God has
this power. Now, when he reveals himself
in Christ, he's going to take those who are so naturally and
so entrenched as enemies, he's going to make them friends. And
I'll tell you proof of that, give you just one example of
the proof of that. Think about Saul of Tarsus, who
was a great enemy of the church. On his way, well, you think about
it, he held the coats of those who stoned Stephen. The scripture
says he made havoc of the church. His intent in his heart and mind
was to destroy the church and wipe the name of Jesus of Nazareth
off the face of the earth. And when he was on the road to
Damascus one day on his way to arrest believers, Christians,
what happened? What happened? God in almighty
power did something that no man has the power to do. Not even
Saul himself had that will or power to do it. He turned him into a friend. He brought him down into the
dust. Convicted him of sin and brought him to Christ. That's
what he's talking about. And He's going to do that all
over the place. From the river, from sea to sea,
from mountain to mountain. Look at verse 13. Notwithstanding,
the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein for
the fruit of their doings. That refers to God's judgment
on Israel for their rejection of Christ. John spoke of it in
John chapter 1 and verse 11 when it said, He came unto His own,
His own nation, and His own nation received Him not. And then that
nation would be desolate because of the fruit of their doings,
the fruit of their own works. What is the fruit of the works
of sinners? It's the fruit of death. You
see, the only fruit that grows unto eternal life is the fruit
of grace in Christ. So look at verse 14. He says
here, he says, feed thy people with thy rod. Thought about that,
you know, when you think about the rod of judgment, that's something
that sinners will despair of and despise. But here's the rod
of truth. Here's the rod of correction.
Here's the rod of guidance, the shepherd's rod. And he says,
you feed or rule, literally rule, thy people with thy rod. Thy
rod and thy staff, they comfort me. This is Christ, the great
shepherd, the good shepherd, the chief shepherd. The flock
of thine heritage, this is the heritage of the Lord. What is
the heritage of the Lord? It's his people, to whom he reveals
himself to. He said, my sheep hear my voice,
I know them, they know me. He said, this is life eternal
in John chapter 17, that they may know thee, the only true
God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent. This is the issue. In him dwelleth all the fullness
of the Godhead, and you're complete in him. And it says, which dwells
solitarily in the wood and in the midst of Carmel. Now these
places that he mentions are places that people had pleasant thoughts
of. Carmel, a wooded place of safety. Bashan, a place of fruitfulness. You've heard it in the Psalms,
you might hear the bulls of Bashan. Well, they were supposed to grow
the best. And then Gilead, you've heard of the Balm of Gilead.
Gilead was a place of healing. It was like a medical center
in that day. And what he's saying is that
everything that is pleasant and filling and security and healing,
it's gonna come to his people through Christ as in the days
of old. Who had told this from ancient
time? Verse 15, he says, according to the days of thy coming out
of the land of Egypt, and will I show unto him marvelous things.
Now he's comparing this future restoration that comes with the
coming of Christ to the glory and the majesty of God delivering
them out of Egypt. What a day. What a time that
was. You remember all that in Exodus,
how God dealt through Moses with Pharaoh and the opposition and
how he sent the plagues and how in the end we sang that song,
when I see the blood, I'll pass over you. What a glorious time. And when they came out, how he
gathered them all together in their tribes, and he brought
them out and brought them to the Red Sea, and Pharaoh's army
chased after him, and he had the pillar of fire by night and
the pillar of cloud by day, and how he parted the Red Sea. What
a beautiful, glorious time that was. Well, what he's saying is
this, that the future day of redemption in Christ is going
to be so much better and more glorious and majestic than that
ever could attain to. And I want to show you something
about that. I want you to look at Luke chapter 9. Now we call
that, when God brought him out of Egypt, we call that the Exodus,
don't we? That's the Exodus. The book of Exodus. What does
Exodus mean? It means going out of. What did
they go out of? They went out of bondage. They
went out of Egypt, the land of idolatry. We'll look at Luke
chapter 9. This is the account of the Mount
of Transfiguration. In verse 28, it says, and it
came to pass about an eight days after these sayings, Luke chapter
9 verse 28, Christ took Peter and John and James and went up
into a mountain to pray. And as he prayed, the fashion
of his countenance was altered, and his raiment was white and
glistering." This is a glorious vision. And, behold, there talked
with him two men which were Moses and Elijah. Moses representing
the law, Elijah representing the prophets. And it says, "...who
appeared in glory and spake of his decease." The subject of
this conference between the Lord of Glory, between Moses, the
Law, and Elijah, the Prophet, what did they talk about? They
spoke of his decease. What is a decease? That's his
death, which he should accomplish. They didn't speak of his decease
as being a defeat, but as an accomplishment. because it was
the redemption of his people, it was the putting away of sin,
it was the establishment of righteousness to be imputed to his people,
and he said, add Jerusalem. Now that word deceased there,
mark this down in your Bible, you know what it is in the original
language? It is the word exodus. In other words, his decease,
his death was an exodus. What did he do in his death?
He led his people out of the bondage of sin and Satan and
the curse of the law. He redeemed us. That deliverance from exodus
is called a redemption by power. Well, Christ redeemed us by his
blood. He led us out into safety, into
salvation. And God revealed himself. These
marvelous things. Look back at Micah 7. I'll close
here and pick up here next time. He says in verse 16, he says,
the nations shall see and be confounded at all their might.
They shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall
be deaf. All of these things, that describes
the events surrounding the Lord's earthly ministry up until His
death and resurrection. People were confounded, they
were astonished at His doctrine, you remember? They said, what,
whence hath this man this wisdom and these mighty works? They
couldn't understand how he could do the things that he did. They
said, never a man spoke like this. And yet they shut their
eyes and their ears unto his message. Matthew 13, he mentioned
that, how this people's heart is waxed gross, grown hard, and
they've shut their ears. And he says in verse 17, they
shall lick the dust like a serpent. They shall move out of their
holes like worms of the earth. They shall be afraid of the Lord
our God and shall fear because of these. You know what that
verse does? It identifies those who reject the Lord of glory
and who will not submit to him and his righteousness as the
only ground of salvation, that revelation from God. It identifies
them with Satan. They lick the dust like a serpent.
They move out of their holes like worms of the earth. Satan
is called Wormwood. They shall be afraid of the Lord
our God and shall fear because of thee. And it's not a godly
fear. You say, I want this revelation. Well, look to Christ. That's
where that revelation is. Look to Christ and him crucified
and risen again. Look to the one in whom God reveals
himself to his people. All right.